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Regents concerned about bill Undete
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By Kristi Reimer
kreimer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Even as Gov. Bill Graves is preparing to sign into law a bill that will change dramatically the way college education in Kansas is governed, Board of Regents and University of Kansas officials have some concerns.
Graves will sign Senate Bill 345 at 1 p.m. Wednesday in a public ceremony at the Kansas Statehouse, said Mike Matson, his press secretary. The bill will take effect July 1.
"'The governor is pleased that after 25 years we have reached what can only be called a historic agreement on higher-education governance." Matson said.
But Tom Bryant, interim executive director of the Board of Regents, said staff and board members were somewhat apprehensive about the bill's implementation.
"Any time there's change, people are nervous." Bryant said.
He said a primary concern was that the bill contained only $20,000 to put the changes into effect.
"I'm really concerned about the additional resources needed to accommodate the coordination piece, which has to do with the tracking of students," Bryant said. "That's new ground."
The bill makes the new board, which will be divided into three commissions, responsible for overseeing community colleges, vocational and technical schools and Washburn University in addition to governing four-year universities, which it has always done. It also calls for coordinating all aspects of higher education.
A transition team led by Regents Chairman William Docking has begun meeting to help smooth the changeover, but Bryant said many decisions could not be made until the new board was in place.
"We don't want to make some decisions that would be abolished come the end of June," he said.
In the meantime, he said, the current board and staff were trying to keep focused on their responsibilities.
"We have board meetings in May and June," Bryant said. "We have certain things we have to get done, and everyone's trying to stay on task."
At the May meeting, Regents will vote on whether to approve a calendar that establishes a fall break at the University and a Regents-wide tuition increase.
Regines What Chancellor Robert Hemenway said an amendment to the bill that limits the number of members with undergraduate degrees from any particular university, introduced by Wichita legislators to correct what they saw as disproportionate KU influence on the board, could be a detriment.
"It introduces the representational notion to the appointment process and says something other than merit will be considered," he said. "It substitutes geography for merit."
He said the new board would be successful in direct proportion to the assumptions of the new members.
"If they look upon themselves as the representatives of particular sectors of higher, or as representatives of particular schools, the board will be unsuccessful." Hemenway said. "If they think of themselves nine members committed to quality, high-access and low-cost post-secondary education, then it will be successful."
The bill also contains a funding component that increases state funding to the six Regents institutions, 19 community col-
HIGHER EDUCATION BILL
Abolishes the Board of Regents and reestablishes a new nine-member board July 1
Divides board into three commissions: one to govern four year-universities; one to oversee community colleges; and technology institutes. Washburn and Washburn coordination issues.
- Increases funding to all higher-education institutions by about $80 million throughout four years
- Provides $26 million throughout four years for faculty salary increases at four-year universities
Changes basis of providing state aid for community colleges and Washburn to operating grants instead of credit-hour system, increasing state aid by $750 per student
Requires community colleges to use 80 percent of increased funding for property tax relief
ieges and Washburn by about $80 million over four years, beginning in July 2001. About $26 million of that would go to the universities for faculty salary increases.
-Edited by Jodi Smith
Weekend's music brings 'peace,' 'love'
By Ezra Sykes
"Sweet man, a butt holder."
by ELIZ Sykes
esykes@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Popper shows off a can of Coors Light that he has just carved up to be used for cigarette disposal. He wipes off the long kitchen knife and begins to prepare cheese sandwiches on a three-burner Coleman stove.
He constructs his sandwich with care, his only tools white bread, a bottle of squeezable butter, processed cheese and the knife. Brandon "Popper" Cale has been affectionately dubbed "The Cheese Sandwich King" by his friends.
"Two slices of cheese," he says, beckoning toward the sandwiches he just laid on the griddle.
Cale was one of the few hundred happy campers this weekend at the 1999 Omega Festival at Clinton State Park. Seventeen local bands and national act, Ominous Seapods, performed, providing a healthy dose of music that seemed to draw more and more campers to the stage as the day progressed.
Back at Cale's campsite the beat went on.
In the picture-perfect weather of Saturday afternoon, campers emerged from the tent labyrinth, bringing their drums while Cale prepared the sandwiches.
Grateful Dead tattoo near his ankle hit a large drum between his legs and stared into space, as if in a trance. A women in a bikini top slapped a small drum but had a hard time finding the rhythm. One woman with a tattoo that crept up her
One man with a sunburned face and shoulder-length dark curly hair strummed a guitar. Another man wearing a tie-dyed T-shirt and sporting a
As the pulsating rhythm grew heavier and more drummers entered the circle, Cale told some Omega stories.
back stood up and started shaking her bins and leaning back as if to limbo.
Jaime Tucker, lead vocalist for the Suga Daddies, sings at Omega '99. The Suga Daddies were one of several bands at the two-day festival at Clinton Lake last weekend. Photo by Jay Soldner/KANSAN
"I remember seeing my friends' older
brothers come home from Omega totally covered in mud and saying to myself, 'I don't want to go to that thing,'' he said.
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Undetected error led to embassy bombing
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A CIA error that was based on faulty information and then went undetected in subsequent checks led to the mistaken NATO targeting and bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, a U.S. official said yesterday
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the intended target, the Yugoslav Federal Directorate of Supply and Procurement, was chosen by the CIA. Other organizations, including NATO, the U.S. European Command and the Pentagon's Joint Staff, reviewed and approved it.
The Chinese Embassy is several hundred yards away from the Yugoslav government supply office.
Most of the target planning in the allied air campaign is done by NATO, the U.S. European Command and the Pentagon, with the CIA playing a smaller role, the official said. CIA officials still are reviewing their own published and clandestine sources to determine how they misidentified the embassy.
Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fla., chairman of the House intelligence committee, said the bombing showed that America's intelligence capabilities were stretched too thin and that such mistakes happened as a result.
The administration is seeking about $29 billion for intelligence programs in the 2000 budget, an increase of about 9 percent. But critics say the proposed increase comes after years in which intelligence spending has effectively declined. Only a small portion of that budget goes to the CIA; much is for sory satellites and military intelligence.
President Clinton apologized Saturday to the Chinese, and Defense Secretary William Cohen and CIA Director George Tenet issued a joint statement acknowledging that faulty information was behind the error. They said that a review of procedures convinced them such a mistake was unlikely to recover.
NATO Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Wesley Clark, said on ABC's This Week that there had been 18,000 bombing runs in the seven-week campaign but fewer than a dozen instances of hitting civilians or weapons going astray.
The embassy bombing has further strained already tense relations between the United States and China.
secretary of State Madeleine Albright met Saturday night with Li Zhaoxing, the Chinese Ambassador to the United States, to express regrets and seek assurances that U.S. embassy staff in Beijing, which has been under siege from thousands of Chinese demonstrators protesting the bombing, be protected. The State Department has issued an advisory cautioning Americans against travel in China.
How to get down the Hill without tripping
Nearly a year's worth of planning has gone into ensuring that this year's Commencement goes off without a hitch, said Jeff Weinberg, assistant to the chancellor.
Road, stadium construction could cause some problems
By Katie Burford
kburford@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
More than 4,000 graduates and 30,000 attendees are expected to be present at 2:30 p.m. May 23 in Memorial Stadium for the ceremony. Weinberg said stadium construction was not expected to affect that day's event.
"It was requirement during the stadium renovation planning
that it still be possible to hold Commencement there," Weinberg said.
He said concession stands would be open and restroom facilities would be available.
However road construction in Lawrence could slow incoming and outgoing graduation traffic.
The Massachusetts Street bridge over the Kansas River is reduced to one lane of traffic in each direction for street repairs. The project is expected to take 16 weeks to complete.
West Ninth Street, between Alabama and Kentucky streets, has one lane closed in both directions because of sanitary sewer
Graduation Walk
On May 23 more than 4,000 graduates and 30,000 attendees are expected to be present for commencement. Graduates should report at 2 p.n. to Memorial Drive to begin lining up for the ceremonies.
Professional students (Law, Journalism) should line up on the right side of the Campanile. The students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences should be on the left.
construction. Ninth Street between Vermont and Massachusetts streets is completely closed because of the same project.
navigate around construction zones, they probably will be looking for a place to park.
After students and visitors
Free parking will be available throughout campus and buses will make loops around campus
Handicap parking can be accessed from 11th and Maine streets on the stadium's west side. Because the stadium's elevator is not working, seating has been arranged on the on track for those with mobility problems. Handicap or Special Assistance signs will direct people to these areas.
from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 23.
Sgt. Troy Malen of the KU Public Safety Office said there would be extra officers on duty that day to provide assistance and directions to visitors.
Graduates should report at 2 p.m. to begin lining up on Memorial Drive for the procession down the Hill.
"We'll be on scene at Memorial Drive to help the graduates get to their designated spots."
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