Argersinger fears changes in fee waiver
Jy JOHN FISCHER
stan 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 Argersinger, dean of the graduate school, said yesterday he feared the fee waiver, currently being considered by the Kansas House, might be amended.
Arngersinger 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
assisted by two teachers for those
assistants who worked on the war.
Argerstinger also said he be feared the fee waiver would cost him a million, rather than on the graduated bass that was promised.
Argeringser said that the University would then have to break down the funds proportionately on the basis of their respective capacities.
"We will need considerable ingenuity to divide it into equal shares among the graduate assistants," he said. "And I have a lot of time."
Graduate assistants currently receive a stipend for their work. Argerinsinger said that the average stipend for a graduate student who worked a nominal of 20 hours a week for 9 months was $3,000.
"Anything at all will be great," Argersinger said,
"Right now we have zilch."
HOWEVER HE said assistants would continue to be paid a stipend if the fee waiver proposal was approved.
The graduate school has worked on the proposal for 10 years. Each year it was dropped from the KU program.
Arsinger said it was about time graduate assistants received a fee waiver.
beyond that," he said. "But our current stipends don't do that."
"We pay them enough to live on, and I don't go
"They are below the subsistence level," he said.
"They are below the subsistence level," he said. Argersinger 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 caliber
"They could do us a great service." she said.
Arngersinger 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 1,000 faculty members, approximately 350 are assistant instructors or teacher assistants.
HE SAID THE TEA salary for a new position on the faculty was about $11,500, more than four times as much as the average college student.
Johnson said that a graduate assistant could teach as many as 6 hours, which is sometimes the same amount of time required for an instructor.
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Vol. 88, No.121
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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 ran 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 $131,000, which will allow the committee last week cut that 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 $1.8 billion to support the program.
An amendment, proposed by State Rep. Ruth Lazzah, D-Wichita, yesterday would
reinstate hall of the governor's request for all six Rewards' schools or $155.590.
Funding for women's athletics at KU would be increased by $42,577 under the
An earlier amendment by Lazzati that would have reinstated all of the governor's recommendation was defeated in a narrow vote by the committee.
Luzzati said 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 the university was defeated 1-9 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
only $277,000, or seven percent, for next
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Athletes run 26 miles relaying budget plea
By KATHLEEN CONKEY
Each of the runners, who represented 10 sports, ran about a mile in the demon-
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 football stadium, embarking effort for the women's athletic's budget.
They passed along a baton containing a request for the reinstatement of KU's original budget proposal, which would have cost $85,150 last year's budget of $17.546.
The Kansas Senate cut a proposed women's athletics budget increase from $85 million to $60 million.
Anne Levinson, president of the Women's Council of Athletes, ran the final mile and presented the request to Gov. Robert F. Dichita, for Rep. Ruth Lazzati, D-Wichita, at 10 a.m.
"GOV. BEENNETT said he was in support of us." Beennett said.
women's athletics to be increased by 50 percent of the governor's recommendation,
$8.25/boys
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 concurence 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.
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.
"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.
At the Capitol, the runners made copies of the proposal to pass out to the represeent
Money run
In a last-ditch effort to save women athletes from drastic cutbacks, 25 representatives of the KU women's athletics department jumped from Lawrence to Topeka yesterday on
Staff Photo by ELI REICHMAN
U. S. 40 and presented the legislature with a petition that called for the reinstatement of original budget proposals for a original budget would have given KU women's athletics the right to year-end participation.
Committee OKs trash fuel funds
By CAROLINE TROWBRIDGE
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-film waste plant on the KU campus. Rising fuel prices and a scarcity of natural resources may force companies to develop a different way of heating the
Lawrence and surrounding communities to use solid waste 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.
the 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.
Lucas said the new facility would increase
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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WASHINGTON—Tongus Park, South Korean rice dealer, publicly testified before the House ethics committee yesterday that he gave more than $850,000 to selected members of Congress.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found that Lawrence violates national air pollution standards. The city has until Jan. 1 to explain to the EPA why pollutants exceed the standards. Is the city taking action? Lawyers for the writer Pat Allen. One city official says that Lawrence does not even have a pollution problem. See page four.
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