KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
The University of Kansas
Vol. 88, No. 108 Wednesday, March 8, 1978
Lawrence, Kansas
Library funds get first approval
By DIRCK STEIMEL
Staff Writer
TOPEKA—The multi-million dollar renovation of Watson Library won preliminary approval in the Kansas Senate yesterday after a short debate.
The Senate will take a final vote on the renovation bill today. If the bill is approved, it then will be considered by the House Ways and Measures Committee to the House before reaching the governor.
The Watson renovation bill, which calls for $6.2 million for a complete remodeling of the library during the next three years, was sponsored by State Sen. Paul Hess, R-
Hess said the renovation money would n=
make possible the addition of floor space in Watson...
"I think the renovation route would be cheaper than building a whole new library or adding to the present structure," he said, "and it's almost certain KU will request money for more library space in the early 1980s."
HESS SAID that a new library at KU probably would cost about $35 million but the cost would be significantly reduced if its renovation renovation proposal was improved.
Hess said KU was entering a stage of remodeling rather than of construction of the house. The owner had not yet agreed.
"I REALIZE tht 6.2 million is a lot of
Janssen and State Sen. Bert Chaney, D-Hutchinson, opposed $550,000 for initial planning costs called for in the Watson renovation bill.
money, but it's not going to be spend just to paint a few walls and to install a few air conditioners," he said. "It will be a complete remodeling and it's going to save the state a lot of money when a new library is needed."
Only planning money for a Watson renovation was requested by KU in the fiscal 1979 budget. However, the governor's budget proposal for KU and the bill before the Legislature both called for the $6.2 million to be appropriated this session.
Hess said that the planning money was needed because of the magnitude of remodeling the entire Watson structure. He explained that the project would be included in the planning appropriations.
The renovation funding would not automatically be used after the planning money is spent, he said, if the planners decided the renovation was not practical.
Janssen said he thought the planning money could be used for better planning of the whole campus instead of just remodeling the library.
Before the measure passed by vote voice Hess reminded the Senate that the Watson renovation was the highest priority capital improvement of the 1978 session.
Campus parking fines to increase
Bv ALLEN HOLDER
Staff Writer
The cost of parking fines at the University of Kansas will be increased this fall, Andrew Torres, chairman of the Parking and Traffic Board, said yesterday.
Torres reported to members of the University Senate Executive Committee that fines would be increased in three of the nine cases outlined in RU parking regulations.
Unpaid faculty fines have created a major problem, he also reported, because faculty and staff cannot currently be forced to pay their fines, which resulted in $85,000 in unpaid parking fines.
The parking violations at KU fall into categories that range from parking in a designated area without a permit to forging a permit.
Each group of violations carries a separate fine. The increases for next year are: Groups I and II, from $10 to $15; Group IV, from $25; and Group IV, unchanged from $25.
Fines also will be increased from $1 to $2
for overtime parking at campus parking meters, Torres said.
The fine for meter violations once was $1,
which was unreasonable, he said, but the $1
was good.
Briefly, the group violations for parking on campus include:
- Group I -parking without a permit;
* Group II -parking with unauthorized or restricted parking.
- **Group II**-parking with a damaged or mutilated permit; placing a permit in the wrong place on the car or parking with an exposed permit.
- **Group III-blocking a legally parked car, driveway, road or traffic, parking in a zone reserved for the handicapped, parking in a fire lane, emergency vehicle lane or near a fire hydrant or parking for more than 48 hours in lot other than a residence hall**
- Group IV—the display of a forged or altered parking permit. Carry that violate laws to the nearest police station.
Parking in O-zone on Naismith Drive will be experimented with next year, according
Half of the lot will be equipped with parking meters next year. The other half can be used by persons with green permits. Twenty-five cents would buy four hours on the new meters, and the report said they should be set for eight or more hours at a time.
to Torres' report to SenEx. O-one is used by morsets with green pants and by bridges with red pants.
The cost for all-day parking in X-Zone near Memorial Stadium increased from 30 to $75.
The Parking and Traffic Board, Torres said, has recommended that the University Council support a means of forcing faculty members to pay parking fees.
Torres he thought Kansas State University deducted unpaid fines from the paychecks of its faculty. He also said he thought that method might be illegal.
"I was going to send a letter to those faculty who owe money explaining that they're robbing all of us, which they are," he said.
Dykes backs KU formula funding
Staff Writer
Rv ALLEN HOLDER
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes yesterday endorsed formula funding for Kansas Board
Dykes told members of the University Senate Executive Committee that the Regents probably would accept the new system for funding later this month. He said he would meet today with the Regents and the University Presidents to discuss the new plan.
Formula funding, developed by a Regents committee, calls for funding based on the actual costs of education, rather than on enrollment statistics.
State funding of Regents institutions now is based on the number of full-time teachers.
Unser the new plan, a drop in enrollment would not affect KU's legislative funding as severally as full-time equivalency funding because the funding would be based on
Olexes said he did not think formula funding was an accurate name for the new system because, the proposal would not have a standard formula for the funding of all Regents schools. Instead, funding would be based on funding of the school's peer institutions.
KU's peer institutions—the Universities of Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina, Oregon and Oklahoma—were chosen because of their academic goals and state income levels.
Ron Calgaard, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said funding under the new plan would be based on the costs of programs such as instruction, libraries, academic administration, student services, research and institutional support.
Although Dykes said the new plan had "a reasonably good chance" of being accepted by the Regents, he said the plan's timing was not good.
Dykes said that the new plan would help all Regents schools but that it would help KU particularly because of KU's large number of graduate and research programs.
If the Regents accept the plan, Dykes said, they probably would instruct the six universities to prepare their budgets for fiscal 1980 under the plan.
"It comes at a time when people are suspicious of our motives—a time when enrolments are stabilizing or going down," he said.
DYKES SAID the plan might have been better accepted three or four years ago when enrollment still was predicted to increase.
Budgets for fiscal 1980 are due in June.
Although the plan does not have to be approved in a bill by the Kansas Legislature, it must have the approval of Gov. Robert F. Bennett.
employee the federal minimum wage but did not receive money from the Legislature for that purpose, the number of students required would have to be cut by 18 to 20 percent.
DVKES AND Del Shankel, executive vice encoder, also discuss wages for student engravers.
Shankel said that if KU paid student
The Regents requested a supplemental allocation of $233,000 for fiscal 1978 and $715,000 for fiscal 1979 to pay the federal wage to students.
Shankel said the problem would be aggravated again next year when the temperature rises.
Bennett's recommendation for 1978,
and for 2000. His recommendation for
1978 was 821.000.
FEDERAL minimum wage now is $2.65
and January 1, 1979 it will increase to
$2.90 an hour
Shankel said KU sought the increase
simply to meet the minimum wage standard, not to hire more students.
He said the last increased allocation to hire more students was in 1968, even though the University's enrolment has risen from about 14,000 to 22,000 since then.
Shankel said that although KU paid minimum wage to its student employees, it was required to pay only 85 percent of the wages to students who work 20 hours or less.
It is very important, Dykes said, for
i students and faculty members to contact
He said that he still was optimistic about chances of bluff that dealt with KU but that they were not.
Dykes also was asked about higher education bills now before the Legislature.
Instead, he asked SenEx members for suggestions on how to solve the problem.
Torres also said that the Parking and Traffic Road had recommended that next year's board examine faculty parking assignments closely.
He said that one out of eight persons among the faculty and staff had parking permits that had been issued for medical reasons.
A report from the board to SenEx said, "As we find it difficult to believe that this University has such a high proportion of afflicted personnel, we recommend that next year's board re-examine each and every member of our staff, those who truly need most favorable parking from those whose minor afflictions may not justify special parking privileges."
Lobbyists increase Watson effort
Sandman
Staff Photo by TIM ASHNER
Thomas Bohanan, Facility Operations employee, threw sand on campus walks in yesterday's dreary weather to make trips across campus safer for students. The recent freezing rain has made transportation hazardous, covering streets and sidewalks with a coat of ice.
Staff Writer
Bv MARY-ANNE OLIVAR
A Student Senate joby group increased their efforts Monday night to get legislative backing for the improvement of Watson Library.
The campaign encourages students to write their legislators to ask for improvements in Watson. The campaign was concerned. Concerned Students for Higher Education.
CSHE has held meetings since January to inform students about Watson.
Staff Photo by TIM ASHNER
About 200 handouts and booklets describing the library situation were placed in front of Watson's check-out booth Monday night.
THE HANDOUTS encourage students to write to their hometown legislators and direct students to the reference desk on the second floor of Watson, where they can get names and addresses of their legislators. The Kansas legislators by district. There also is a sample letter and specific information about the library situation.
The booklet, published by the Friends of
Preliminaries
Before donating blood at the Kansas Union Ballroom yesterday, Diana Sullens, Overland Park junior, and Guy Grabau, Olathe junior, had to have their temperatures taken, one of the first steps in preparing for the donation. She took about 200 pints of blood yesterday, falling short of the 240-pint
goal that had been set, Randy O'Boyle, assistant chairman of the blood drive, said yesterday. Monday 154 units of blood were donated. Boyle said the low turnout was caused by the prevalence of colds in some living groups. Today is the last day of the blood drive.
the Library, gives details about the library condition, including the University of Kansas plans for the renovation of Watson.
JIM NELEEY, reference librarian,
worked at the desk from 9:30 to 11 a.m.
and from 2 to 3:30 p.m. and said nobody had
asked him for any addresses.
Although the handout had been picked up by 3 p.m. yesterday, librarians at the reference desk said nobody had asked them for the addresses of legislators.
list of legislators by districts, to help students write their legislators.
He was not aware that CSHE had put out a
"I don't know whether people will write," he said. "There are a lot of people using the computer."
"It isn't making a big splash," he said.
"Otherwise, I would know more about it."
Although the campaign will last until primetime, a number of possible problems, such as possible problems of CSW, were encountered.
However, it appears that SHE's efforts have already been rewarded.
See CSHE page nine
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Kansas unharmed by power cuts
KANAS CITY, Mo – Utility companies in Kansas have avoided severe power curtailments facing utilities in the eastern United States, but utilities in Missouri are awaiting a decision from the state Public Service Commission on standby power curtailment plans. Meanwhile, governors in coal country are making plans to avoid any violence that might occur if the mines reopen under provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act. See story page two.
Natural gas controls could be lifted
TOPEKA-The Kansas Corporation Commission yesterday denied $10.1 million of a $24.6 million dollar rate increase sought by Southern Western
Criminal charges confront Doyen
The increase is the first in either local exchange or long distance tariffs since 1972. Since 1974 Southwestern Bell has asked the KCC three times for multi-frequency service.
The KCC also refused to allow the utility to raise the price of its coin telephone service from a dime to 20 cents.
TOPEKA—The state yesterday filed criminal charges against Senate President Ross Doyen, R-Concordia, accusing him of withholding 1978 campaign contributions. Attorney General Curt Schneider charged Doyen with withholding nine campaign contributions from his campaign treasurer for more than five days, a violation of the state's campaign finance act. See story page two.
KCC cuts telephone rate increase
WASHINGTON — The three-month impasse on President Jimmy Carter's energy bill was broken yesterday by an informal agreement among Senate energy conferences to support a proposal to lift price controls from natural gas by Jan. 1, 1985. See story page two.
Weather . . .
Temperatures should be rising today and tomorrow as skies clear. Today's high will be in the upper 30s with lows tuning in the upper 20s. The high tomorrow will be in the 45 to 50 degree range.
Winds will be from the north at 10 to 15 m.p.h
Sooter
Locally . . .
Training in Olympic style weight lifting is no easy matter. However, a select group of weight lifters they have a chance to be members of the 1800 Olympic weight lifting team. To account for 15 hours of a week straining every muscle in their body to fully prepare themselves for the
international competition. For more story and pictures, see WEEKDAY page six.