THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
COMFORTABLE
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol.88,No.39
Friday October 21,1977
Lawrence, Kansas
Tentative funds overstep budget
Staff Writers
By ALLEN HOLDER and MELISSA THOMPSON
After debating for more than six hours last night and initially overstepping its target budget, members of the Student Senate Fall Budget Committee voted to meet Sunday to make final supplemental budget recommendations.
Sunday's meeting is meant iron out on the issue or to take steps to make more funds available.
Committee members have tentatively allocated $37,700.13 to 30 organizations; the amount that the Senate has set aside for the groups is $27,264.46.
To allocate more than the amount the Senate had set aside, the Budget Committee will have to ask StudExk to release comments on the proposed budget and obtain Senate approval of the release.
Committee recommendations will be presented to the full Senate for final api
AFTER DELIBERATING in the Walnut Room of the Kansas Union until the Union closed at 11 p.m. the committee adjourned and entered Hallship Hall and continued until 1 a.m.
In its third day of budget hearings, the committee made tentative budget amendments to the amount set aside for supplemental funding. Although the Senate can use part of the reserve Senate funds, some members last week approved a committee to stay within its budget optimal limits.
"I don't think that's the intent of the fund," he said.
Chris Caldwell, Senate treasurer, said he wanted the committee to reconsider its decisions before dipping into the reserve fund.
MIKAR TAKERBOULOUS, Student Services chairman, also called for the Senate to spend more time on its recommendations. Because of the late hour, he said that rash decisions might have been made if the Senate had continued its deliberations last night.
Women's Coalition was one of the groups last night tentatively given a major portion of their request. It was allocated $715 of its requested $765, in spite of the discussion at Tuesday's hearing about possible violations of the University's group recognition clauses.
Students recommend remodeling alternative
See SENATE FUNDING page seven
By MARY HOENK
Staff Writer
Student representatives to the KU Athletic Corporation (KUAC) last night discussed plans to challenge a proposed price increase on football tickets to finance a new stadium. Stadium and decided to investigate KUAC's budget to try to find an alternative proposal.
The increase, proposed two weeks ago by Clyde Walker, athletic director, would increase student tickets by 50 cents a game, raising season tickets from the present $20
Faculty tickets would increase up to 75 cents a game and public tickets would increase up to 100 cents a game.
All four student members and one faculty member, of the 13-member KUAC board,
The KUAC two weeks ago gave Walker permission to present the surcharge for the trip.
BIG EIGHT representatives unanimously approved KU's proposed price increase, but approval of the plan must have a final vote by the KUAC.
Student members decided last night that a price increase on football tickets was inevitable, but said they would favor an offer of other variations that would benefit students directly.
They suggested as an alternative that students take financial responsibility, at least in part, for plans calling for waterproofing the stadium, replacing the sympathetic seating on the roofrooms, public restrooms and concession rooms/renovations totaling $1.35 million.
However, they said they opposed student financing of a proposed expansion of the Victory Club, a game facility for Williams Educational Fund contributors, and the team's enclosed area of seats at all much larger prices. These renovations total $150,000.
STUDENT FINANCING of other parts of the renovation plan—a wall for the stadium's south end, a press box addition and a miscellaneous renovation fund—were questioned by the students. Those requests total $450.000.
The students resolved to obtain more information on the items before deciding whether students should finance those renovations.
KUAC student representatives said they would take steps to make the University and alumni aware of KUAC's recent proposal by presenting a resolution concerning the proposed increase to the University Council and the Student Senate.
The students question whether KUAC had enough funds in its current budget to cover parts of the renovation without an increase. The group decided to investigate KUAC's budget to find out whether part of the increase was needed.
We've leaped, student body president, said,
"With the plans we've made, I think we'll have a much better chance of getting parts of the alternative proposal approved."
Clyde Walker said yesterday that Leben and the other KUAC representatives would be able to present their proposal at the next KUAC board meeting.
Walker emphasized that the board had not yet given approval for the project or the plan.
"Let me say this again, there is nothing definite about it (the increase)," he said. "We have presented it to the athletic board as possible to finance the renovations."
Walker would not say whether any other proposals to finance the renovations were successful.
If the proposal is brought before the KUAC meeting next month and is not delayed by financial revisions, construction will be delayed only later after the KU-Missouri game next month.
Stuart Loten told his students to cover him with clay yesterday and ended up looking like something out of a grade-B science fiction movie. The unusual assignment was to paint an entire classroom in a material called plaster.
an hour after they started. Loten was completely covered with clay and sported such special features as a scar, chains and an extra head. Loten said that he wanted to show the students other uses for clay besides pots and bowls and that the exercise was a form of "group therapy."
Clay creation
Regents consider supplemental budget request
By SUSAN T. HALL
Staff Writer
The Kansas Board of Regents will vote
on a request from Kansas to request
to add a publication in the Kansas
register.
KU administrators asked the Regents Oct. 7 for authorization to request the additional funds, generated mostly from the grants, for new enrollment from the last three semesters.
If the additional funds are authorized by the Regents, the request will be sent to the state budget officer the governor and the Kansas Legislature for approval.
Keith Nitcher, KU director of business affairs, said yesterday that the request probably would not reach the legislature because the court action could come as late as March or April.
NITCHER SAID the additional funds were requested by the University to support the unanticipated increase in enrollment on the Lawrence campus.
KU's budget is based on projected enrollment figures.
A total of 25,446 students are enrolled this fall. Administrators had projected an enrollment of 30,000 students.
Nitcher said the additional funds would be used to hire additional faculty and students to complete his residency.
to catalogue books, maps and microfilm which are inaccessible to students now.
Proposed library improvements include additional shelving, lighting and equipment
Some of the university will cover costs incurred by the University in implementing the new federal minimum wage law passed in U.S. House of Representatives yesterday.
THE HOUSE USED 236-187 to increase the current $2.30 an hour wage, set in 1974, to $2.5 on Jan. 1, which will increase annually to $2.90 and $1.10, leaving at $2.35 on Jan. 1, 1981. The Senate approved the measure Wednesday.
About 3,000 students are employed at the University. The new minimum wage increase would affect about 75 per cent of those students.
Martin Jones, assistant director of business affairs, said nearly $450,000 of the request represented fee collections from this fall's increased enrollment and from this spring and summer's estimated enrollment increases.
Another part of the request is more than
$700,000 in excess student fees from last
LAST FALL, KU officials asked the legislature for $1.1 million in additional funds to account for an unexpected enrollment increase of about 800 students. They said that it was of that incorporating the remainder into the general operating budget. The $170,000
ATLANTA (UPI)—Bank robber suspect Thomas Michael Hannan, who hijacked an airliner in an effort to free from jail another suspect said to be his homosexual lover, released his hostages unharmed late Friday and shot himself to death rather than surrender.
Hostages released, hiiacker commits suicide
"He was in the back of the plane sitting down in one of the seats," James Dunn, agent in charge of the Atlanta FIRE office, said. "I'm there all the time. He just sat down and pulled the trigger."
Hannan had hijacked the Boeing 732 twin-engine jet at Grand Island, Neb., his hometown, yesterday morning and demanded the release from an Atlanta jail. He was charged with $3 million and two parachutes, apparently to be used in a daring in-flight escape.
Hannan, 29, ignored the pleas of his attorney, who went aboard the Frontier Airlines plane after the passengers left. Hannan shot himself once in the chest.
STEWART WAS being held on charges of robbing a National Bank of Georgia branch with Hannan, who had been released on bond. Sgt. James Gill of the Mobile, Ala., was arrested Monday and traveled the country together and "both admitted to having homosexual relations."
he released two stewardesses after the plane had been parked on an Atlanta runway about six hours. At that time he said he was ready to kill the hostages, Dunn said.
THE PILOT and copilot remained on board while Thompson, who represented Hannan and Stewart in the bank robbery tried to take Hannan into surrender.
But, after a plea from Stewart, who was flown by helicopter to the airport, and the personal effort of his attorney, J. Roger Thompson, who went aboard the plane,
stopped to refuel at Kansas City International Airport.
The plane initially carried 30 passengers and a crew of four, but Hannan released all of the women and children, as well as two men, one a heart patient, when the craft
Hannan's parents flee to Atlanta from their Nebraska home and his father urged him not to leave.
Hannan released the remaining 11 passengers unharmed.
KANSAS CITY. Mo. (UPI)-Fourteen hours of tension and fear ended with cries of joy last night when authorities announced to relatives of remaining hostages that airplane hijacker Thomas Michael Hann had freed all passengers in Atlanta.
Relatives cheer release
Teetze, police Maj. Jim Campbell, and a Frontier Airlines official ran down the hotel corridor pounding on the doors of rooms where the relatives waited.
FBI agent Ken Teetee took the call at the Marriot Airport Hotel, where some of the 19 passengers released earlier in the day were resting.
"The hostages have been released," Teetzen yelled.
The hijacking began about 7:30 a.m.
westerday at Grand Island, Neb.
said Hannan had given authorities until 5 p.m. to meet his demands, warning, "If you don't meet my deadline, a lot of people are likely to go the wrong route and continue after the deadline passed." However,
None of the hostages were injured.
Women and children ran from the rooms
Among those at the hotel were members of the David and Donald Jellinek families who made up more than one-third of the passenger list aboard Frontier Flight 101, which was commandeered in Grand Island, as well as an m. as it prepared to begin the day's route.
and, for the first time all day, they cried publicly.
Officials said Hannan pulled a sawd-off shotgun from a bag during a security check
"I knew this was going to happen, it just long time," said Sharon Jelinek, wife of Dede.
Ron Jenkelin, their 13-year-old son, said, "I don't care how long I live—I don't ever want to die."
The passengers described hijacker Haman as a good-looking, tall young man who chewed his fingernails and showed compassion.
Lyle Wurtz, a high school friend of Hannan who was aboard, talked Hannan into releasing the women and children after the plane landed at Kansas City. After releasing them, the hijacker, who also asked for two more girls, attended 11 minutes, still hold 11 passengers and a crew of four. Most of the hostages were from Nebraska.
An FBI negotiator tried to determine what the thacker would do if Stiffie refused to give him.
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"It's essential we know what your
name is, . . . many people have to
make the decision about Stewart's release.",
he told Hannan. "Until they get those
questions answered, they won't be able to
make those decisions."
The plane landed in Atlanta at 11:02 p.m. CDT and taxied to about a quarter-mile from a cargo terminal, where police had their headquarters.
carryover from what KU did not receive last year.
That began the negotiations which ended almost 10 hours later with the fatal shot.
Jones said KU originally had proposed to carry over $50,000 in general funds to the next fiscal year, but instead was requesting to send the mow mow.
The increases were proposed after a study by student members of the Association of University Residence Halls and the Adoption Program, which consists of students and housing staff.
Regents to increase the double room rates by $1,235 to $1,285, a $50 increase, and single room rates by $135, from $1,560 to $1,695.
This year's operating budgets are:
KU Medical Center and
$82,025 for the larger
medical center.
THE REGENTS will also consider proposed increase in single and double room rates at University residence halls for the 1978-79 school year. KU officials will ask the
Nitcher said the proposal would be voted on at the Regent's November meeting.
This fall 3,689 students live in double rooms and 504 students live in singles.
3 rock musicians die in plane crash
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
McCOMB, Miss.—At least six persons—including three members of rock group Lynydr Skynyrd—were killed last night when their plane ran out of fuel and crashed in a wooded area not far from a field where the pilot apparently intended to make an emergency landing.
Twenty-six persons were aboard the chartered twin-engine plane, flying to a concert scheduled for tonight at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. See
Korean confirms bribery payments
WASHINGTON - A former Korean CIA agent testified yesterday before a Congressional committee that he spent about $1 million in an alleged隐匿
He also said he had been told that a White House assistant to former President Gerald Ford and that a high official of Congress were involved with Tongsun Park, the Washington rice dealer who has been indicted in the scandal. See story page two.
Police hunt for Schlever's killers
BONN—West German and French police yesterday began an intensive manhunt for the murders of Hans-Martin Schleyer, kidnapped six weeks ago, by combing a region of eastern France near where his body was found Wednesday.
In Rome, police battled thousands of students protesting the deaths of three jesuit West German terrorists. Radicals throughout France and Italy continued to attack the university.
Berkowitz tapes tell of demons
NEW YORK—Courtroom observers yesterday heard tapes of conversations between accused "Son of Sam" killer Berkowitz and a psychiatrist, in which Berkowitz said he was possessed by demons and asked to be put away forever so he would not kill again.
the hearing was to determine whether he was competent to stand trial for the sixth and final murder.
Locally...
The Environmental Protection Agency is considering a ban on a locally used pesticide, toxaphene, which may cause cancer. Local agriculturalists warn that a ban can affect Lawrence consumers through higher grocery prices. The threatened ban on toxaphene used to combat culinary spills has caused local farmers to cancel the crackdown also has promoted enactment of a law, which goes into effect today, requiring farmers to be licensed before buying restricted pesticides. See story page nine.