Argersinger fears changes in fee waiver
Ivy JOHN FISCHER
Staff Writer
Graduate teaching assistants have been hoping for a tuition fee waiver for 10 years, and now their dream might come true, but with a few changes they would rather not see.
William Angersinger, dean of the graduate school,
said yesterday he feared the fee waiver, currently
being considered by the Kansas House, might be amended.
Argersinger said that the House might reduce the fee waiver of approximately $240,000. Under the current proposal, these funds were to be distributed on a graduated scale that was determined by the number of hours a graduate assistant worked per week.
According to the proposal, a teacher's assistant who worked a nominal of 20 hours per week would receive a 60 percent cut in his tuition fees, whether the student was an out-of-state or in-state resident.
THE ORIGINAL PROPOSAL for the budget was
for a complete day course to those graduate
students worked 20 hours a week.
Argeringsher also said he feared the fee waiver might increase a lump sum, rather than on the based basis that the fee would
Argeringsian said that the University would then have to break down the funds proportionately on the university.
"We will need considerable ingenuity to divide it into equal shares among the graduate assistants," he wrote.
Graduate assistants currently receive a stipend for their work. Argersinger said that the average stipend for a graduate student who worked a nominal of 20 hours a week for 9 months was $2,000.
"Anything at all will be great," Argersinger said. "Right now we have zilch."
HOWEVER HEI said assistants would continue to pay a stipend if the fee waiver was approved
The graduate school has worked on the proposal for a
project that it was dropped from the KU budget by the Ransom.
Arsinger said it was about time graduate assistants received a fee waiver.
"We pay them enough to live on, and I don't go.
be toward that," he said. "But our current stipends don't do that."
"They are below the subsistence level," he said. Argsinger said he favored the fee waiver over an increase in stipends paid to assistants because the students would not have to pay taxes on the waiver.
Administrators say there are many benefits of the fee waiver—and among them the prospect of improving the graduate and undergraduate student programs.
JEANNETTE JOHNSON, assistant to the executive vice chancellor, said, "Sometimes we lose very good graduate students because they get a better offer elsewhere."
"In the long run, it could help our undergraduate studies," she said. "We could attract high collier students."
"They could do us a great service." she said.
Arsinger agreed, saying that the fee waiver would have a more favorable effect on morale.
"The students would have more of a feeling of being an important part of the faculty," he said.
Jerry Hutchison, associate vice chancellor of academic affairs, said that out of about 1,300 faculty members, approximately 350 are assistant instructors or teacher assistants.
HE SAID THE salary for a new position on the tacitum was about $16,500, more than four times as much.
PLEASANT
Johnson said that a graduate assistant could teach as many as 8 hours, which is sometimes the same amount of time that a professor does.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
Vol. 88, No.121
Tuesday April 4,1978
Committee ends budgeting talks
By TIM SHEEHY
Staff Writer
TOPEKA--The Kansas House Ways and Means Committee finished considerations yesterday on the budget for the six Kansas Board of Regents' schools after partially reinstating the governor's recommended increase for women's athletics.
The committee's action came several hours after 25 women athletes from the University of Kansas was a relay from Lawrence to the state house in Topeka to dramatize their support for women's athletics.
Gov. Robert F. Bennett proposed that funding for women's athletics at the Regents' schools be increased by $131,180. The legislature last week cut the funding to $46,883.
Under Bennett's proposal, women's athletics at KU would have received an increase of $85,115. Last year's budget was $157,546.
However, the Senate Ways and Means Committee recommended an increase of $10 billion for KY to help it.
An amendment, proposed by State Rep. Ruth Luzatt, D-Wichita, yesterday would
reinstate half of the governor's request for all six Rentals' schools $ o 155,590.
Funding for women's athletics at KU would be increased by $42,577 under
An earlier amendment by Luzzi that would have reinstated all of the governor's recommendation was defeated in a narrow vote by the committee.
Luzziated she proposed reinstating 50 percent of the governor's recommendation because she thought it had a better chance of getting by the Senate.
In the area of student employment, an amendment by State Rep. Mike Glover, D-Lawrence, that would have reinstated the governor's $15,000 recommendation for wage increases for student employees at a university was defeated 11-4 by the House committee.
The amendment would have restored $333,000 of the request made by Bennett in an effort to keep student wages in line with minimum wage increases through 1979.
The Senate Ways and Means Committee voted last week to increase student salaries.
See BUDGET back page
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Staff Writer
By KATHLEEN CONKEY
Athletes run 26 miles relaying budget plea
Each of the runners, who represented 10 sports, ran about a mile in the demonstration, but had to remain still.
a group of 25 University of Kansas women athletes ran on U.S. 40 yesterday on a 28-mile relay from Allen Field House to the Iowa State campus, using effort for the women's budget.
They passed along a baton containing a request for the reinstatement of KU's original budget proposal, which would have cost $985 million in 2016 for $893,115 over last year's budget of $187,546.
The Kansas Senate cut a proposed budget increase from $1,152 to $1,832 last month.
Anne Levinson, president of the Women's Council of Athletes, ran the final mile and presented the request to Gov. Robert F. Dwitcha, a Rep. Ruth Luzzi, D-Wichita, at 10 a.m.
"GOV. BENNETT said he was in support of us." Levinson said. "He wished us the best of luck. There's not much more he can do."
The House Ways and Means Committee last amended the proposal to allow
However, Luzzati made a proposal earlier to the House Days and Meals Committee to increase the budget increase after telling the runners she would do her best to see that the proposal
women's athletics to be increased by 50 per
percent of the governor's recommendation,
$4.75%
The bill will move to the full House tomorrow. If the proposal is adopted, the bill will return to the Senate for a vote of concession with the House's changes.
IF THE BUDGET is returned to its original amount in the house, it will be discussed in a conference committee between House and Senate Ways and Means committees.
Wire halts bridge razing
"We created an awareness in the House of our problem. Instead of them just reading about us in the papers they saw us taking constructive action," she said.
Levinson said the run helped the women's department get publicity.
Levinson said the department needed its original budget request so it would not have to cut teams and so the program could eventually become self-supporting.
The Massachusetts Street bridge, which for years withstood floods and traffic, is now being kept from destruction by only one wire.
"We WANTED TO speak to them ourselves but we had to get everybody back to class," Levinson said. "We hope our leaders will still have a positive influence on their vote."
A dispute over the removal of the wire, a high-voltage electrical cable running beneath the bridge, will delay razing for several days.
At the Capitol, the runners made copies of the proposal to pass out to the representatives.
Bob Thorn of Finney and Turnpike, the county's engineering consultants for the project, had said that demolition would begin right after the final inspection of the new Vermont Street bridge.
The new bridge was to be opened this morning.
"I just hope it did some good for the woman's athletic department."
Previously, the county offered to pay up to $4,500 for a temporary relocation of the line. But now the county says that Bowersock Mills should pay the total cost of the line's permanent removal because it is the only company affected.
THE DISPUTE IS BETWEEN the Bowersock Mills Power Co. and Douglas
Cars going either way on Vermont will be allowed to make only right turns on to Sixth Street. That pattern will continue in Sacramento's dassaubach street bridge is torn down.
It will probably take several days to negotiate a new contract so razing can begin.
County. The power company said that the county should pay for at least part of the line's removal.
MEANWHILE, TRAFFIC PATTERNS on Vermont Street will change.
Money run
In a last-ditch effort to save women's athletics department joggers from drastic cutbacks, 25 representatives of the KU women's athletics department jogged from Lawrence to Tampa yesterday on
Committee OKs trash fuel funds
Staff Photo by ELL REICKMAN
By CAROLINE TROWBRIDGE
U. S. 40 and presented the legislature with a petition that called for the reinstatement of the original budget proposal. The original budget would have given KU women's rights to college students.
Staff Writer
The Kansas House Ways and Means Committee approved $100,000 yesterday to help the University of Kansas plan the best way to burn trash.
The burning trash will be used in a solid-waste steam plant on the KU campus. Rising fuel prices and a scarcity of natural gas prompted KU to ask for the money to develop a different way of heating the campus.
The money was set aside to help cover planning costs associated with building such a complex.
Max Lucas, of facilities planning, said last week that an engineering firm had been chosen from among several firms to design the plant but the firm had not been notified.
An announcement of who the firm would be is expected sometime this week, Jacques Larson.
THE ENGINEERING FIRM will verify previous studies and decide if a study conducted in 1978 by Henningson, Durham and Richardson of Omaha is still valid.
The planning-costs funds, included in the k-plan, now go to the full House for equipment purchases.
Lacas said the earlier study outlined the possibility of modifying the current steam turbine.
The projected cost of building a new facility is $15,474.00. However, Lucas said new technical advances might lower the cost and be determined by the engineering firm.
A location on west campus is one area recommended by the Omaha firm's study.
If a new facility were built, the current steam plant which operates on natural gas would be able to operate.
A NEW PLANT would provide steam for air conditioning and heating on campus. It could also be used for irrigation.
Lawrence and surrounding communities to use soap wash more productively than
Three years ago, Lawrence and Douglas County officials gave tentative approval to plans providing free trash to KU for use in the new plant.
Lucas said the new facility would increase
une life of the Lawrence city landfill 10 times.
Earlier studies reported that the trash-burning plant would be made of three parts: a storage area for trash, a furnace where trash would be burned and a cleansing apparatus, which would remove odors and debris particles from plant waste.
THE PROPOSED plant's storage area, probably a large pit, would keep trash that is ready to be burned under negative air pressure, which would force odors and gases into the furnace, where they would be prevented from being released into the atmosphere.
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Park testifies to House
WASHINGTON - Tonganau Park, South Korean rice dealer, publicly testified before the House ethics committee yesterday that he gave more than $850,000 to selected numbers of Congress.
However, he denied that he was acting as an agent of the South Korean government when he made those contributions.
HOLLYWOOD—One of the most popular television broadcasts each year is the annual Academy Awards show. Films that won major awards at last night's 50th awards show were "Annie Hall," "Star Wars," and "Julia." Woody Allen took two awards and shared a third. See story page five.
Fiftieth Oscars presented
Locally...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found that Lawrence violates national air pollution standards. The city has yet to Jan. 1 to explain to the EPA why pollutant levels exceed the standards. is the city taking actions to reduce pollution, written Pat Allen. One city official says that Lawrence does not even have a pollution problem. See page four.
Carter
Carter completes seven-day tour
MONOVIA, Liberia - President Jimmy Carter received an enthusiastic greeting in Liberia yesterday and told South Africans that refusing to leave would result in the rule of black Namibia could mean serious trouble with the United States.
The stop in Liberia ended Carter's seven-day tour of Third World nations. Carter called the tour "a great trip." See story page two.
Israel withdrawing troops
Israel announced yesterday it had started a gradual withdrawal from southern Lebanon. Israeli soldiers are being replaced by U.N. peacekeeping troops. U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim reported that about 1,800 troops have been deployed. Three thousand are to be in place by next week. See story page two.
Weather . . .
Scattered cloudiness and showers will keep temperatures in the 60s and tomorrow. Laws tonight should be 60s to rid rubs 90s.