THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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Vol. 90, No. 142
Spring football game tomorrow
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Legal aid society rejects funding
By KATHY KASE Staff Renorter
The Douglas County Legal Aid Society will not accept $1,300 in Student Senate funds, but it does accept because Legal Aid officials say it is not economically feasible to spend such a small amount.
But there was another reason the society rejected Senate furniture.
It takes a fair amount of paperwork to consider spending Student Senate money, Laurence Rose, director of the Society, said yesterday. "That's the reason we spend around $1,000 a year for a bookkeeper to manage university-restricted money, such as Senate钞."
In an April 25 letter to Matt Davis, student body vice president, Rose said that the Society's Board of Directors also considered the Student Senate's funding decision to be
Legal Aid requested $10,575 from the Senate Student Services Committee this year and received $1,900. Last year, the society received $3,600 of the $3,900 request.
In a letter to Davis, Dave justified the budget cuts and said Senate should not fund them. But when she was available to only a small percentage of KU students and that Senat was not supported, she said.
The Legal Aid Society is free of cost for only those who are poor or who otherwise have no access to a lawyer.
Davis said Legal Aid, which had been Senate-funded since 1971, continued to receive Senate allocations because of precedent.
"Every year when they've come up, they've never argued about why they
Shankel approves litigation proposal
Student Legal Services will now be able to provide some incourt representation for KU students, Steve Rudick, attorney for Legal Services, said yesterday.
The new service was approved by Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, who signed a Student Senate proposal supporting i-court representation this week.
Landlord-tenant disputes, consumer court cases and administrative hearings that affect a student's status at the University through legal Services. Hudkard test
"This is providing, of course, that in my professional opinion, the case warrants litigation," he said.
Earlier this semester, the administration asked the Senate to include in the litigation proposal a $1 user's fee a.1 to exclude criminal misdemeanors cases.
David Ambler, vice chancellor of student affairs, said no one should be surprised that the litigation proposal was approved by a commission that modified the administration requested.
Greg Schnecke, student body president,
lauded the approval and said it was
necessary now because the Douglas County
Legal Aid Society rejected $1,900 in
funding.
But according to Ambler, the signing of the proposal should not make any difference.
"It really depends on whether Douglas County Legal Aid refuses to serve students," he said.
deserve this funding," Davis said. "They've always said 'you've funded us in the past,' which is not an argument at all."
But Rose said the Senate should fund Legal Aid because Senate had a responsibility to the University community.
"I WOULD say that the Student Senate has a responsibility to the faculty and staff members in the University, as well as the University community," Rose said. "I examine what the University community finds that it is everyone in Lawrence."
However, Davis said the Senate was not responsible for Douglas County residents who were not students.
In his letter to Rose, Davis said the in student activity fee was not a welfare fund. He also said most of the University of Kansas' peer institutions did not have student government associations that were involved in legal aid and society, a student legal aid.
A SURVEY of KU's peer institutions—University of Colorado, University of Iowa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Oregon and University of Oklahoma—found that although all of KU's peer schools funded student legal services and government money, none of them tured county law and societies with that money.
Most student government officials said their policies were to fund only on-campus student organizations.
"The fact that they don't support funding in peer institutions may be that the funding is not being made." In a lot of areas, groups are funded through a federal legal services corporation.
"When funding is received, it has come from the law school, United Fund, the city and the county and Student Senate over the course of the years."
Rose said that when the Society was founded in 1909, officials had hoped to have a community legal aid society that also represented the students.
Now that Legal Aid has rejected Senate's funding, Davus said he was worried that students would be shlotted.
"I could see them cutting back on their service to students to make up for the loss of funds," Davis said.
THE ADMINISTRATION has already approved in-court representation for Legal Services, but Davis said Legal Services could not handle some types of litigation.
According to Stevid Huddick, Legal Services attorney, only landlord-tenant disputes, consumer court cases and hearings can be litigated by Local Services.
"Legal Aid can handle things we can't like, do侵扰, misdemeasure, name changes and bankruptcies. "Rudick said. "We can't do it in litigation that we can do."
"I think this is going to be the end ofinda County Court, Legal Aid's funding fromthe county," Ms. Singer said, "believe that someone who short on funds would say we give all our request, or we
ACCORDING TO Davis, the rejection of Senate's money means something else, too.
If service is cut back, students won't be the only ones affected. Rose said.
But Legal Aid will not ask for Senate funding again, Rose said.
"My present intent is not to ask Student Senate for any more support," he said.
City skit. The traveling comedy troupe performed zany skits to the sight of about 250 person last night in the Kansas Union. See www.cityskit.org.
Word buffs
John Kapelos and Michael Haggerty are two doctors getting their keys by looking on profane words in the dictionary in a Second Edition.
Student salaries outdo KU's peers
By SUSAN SCHOENMAKER
As declining student enrollment and inflation cut into student government budgets, salaries of the student body presidents and vice presidents have become an increasingly attractive target for the new school board institutions and the Bief光校 schools.
But KU's Student Senate has escaped the trend, ranking second among its peer institutions and third among the Big Eight schools surveyed. A KU peer institution is
comparable to KU in enrollment and program availability. We are enrolled at the University of Colorado, the University of Iowa, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Oklahoma, and UCF.
All of the student body officers surveyed agreed their presidents and vice presidents were underpaid and overworked.
Greg Schnacke, KU student body president, said Senate salaries fell far behind actual hours spent on the job.
nowhere near hourly minimum wage," Schnacke said. "You're doing it for yourself."
"The amount of time spent comes
The salaries for KU's student body and faculty are $7,000 per month and $200 per month. Schreiner is estimated to pay 40 hours a week in his position, and Matt Barnes is estimated to pay 30 hours a week.
Last year's student body president,
Margaret Berlin unsuccessfully attempted
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Neighborhoods decry Action 80 silence
Staff Reporter
The first public meeting planned by Action 80 will not be very public, two neighborhood presidents said yesterday.
Richard Spear, president of the Pinckney
Neighborhood Association, and Dick
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making it a viable meeting for considering all issues. "Socar said."
Dunhaub, president of the East Lawrence Improvement Association, said they were concerned with the mail developers' refusal to answer questions from the public at the campus.
The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Monday at Central Junior High School.
HE SAID some neighborhood residents were planning to ask questions to raise issues even though they would not be answered.
Warner Ribodes, president of Action 80, said the commissioners told him his group could make a presentation to the committee without fielding questions from the audience.
"It certainly reduces the possibility of
Commissioner Bob Schumm said he did not think the city should renge on its agreement with Action 80 by encouraging questions.
"But if it doesn't happen Monday night, " he press for an opportunity for neighborhoods to give some input at a later date," he said.
"It may well be that the people of have never had control over plans that have been used," Action 80, he said. "We hope not, but the deck is certainly stacked against the people."
Spear said he expected the three developers to use hard-sell tactics to convince the public to accept their proposal and to inure local residents' concerns.
"This will be the first time any of our members have even seen the members of Action 80," he said.
DUNHAUPT SAID ELIA members had been circulating flyers to encourage people to attend the meeting.
Spear said the Lawrence Neighborhood
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Board projects $50,000 deficit for KU union
By JUDITH LYNN HOWARD
Staff Renorter
The University of Kansas Memorial
University will pay for the completion of the Satellite Union, Kansas
Union repairs, dwindling cash resources for a $400,000 deficit for this fiscal year.
Although the deficient project will be incomplete until June 2014, the author of the Kansas Union, this year's deficit, which excluded the KSU, will be greater than last year's $83,000.
The corporation balance sheet reads: "It is very likely that the current fiscal year will result in a deficit. When we normally have good volume in April, May, and June, the trend toward a deficit is of such size that it can be reversed it can be reversed during this period."
"We are not doing as well as in the last year," Ferguson said.
"Our problem is not one of volume, of getting the income, but of covering the expenses," Frank Burge, director, said.
THE BOARD accepted a budget for the next fiscal year $17,077 increase. The accepted budget reflects the board's desire to keep expenditures down.
Fifty to 70 functions were held daily in the Union, Burge said, and 85 percent of those functions did not produce revenue.
"For years, we have a generous and appreciable policy of 50 percent of those attending a function were students, there would be no room charge," he said.
"With this tight economy, that policy is being closely scrutinized."
Difficulties are encountered in attempting to receive room charge payments from student groups, he said.
A As a result of not charging student groups for rooms, the burden of paying for the rooms was either placed on revenue producing functions or on the Union. Burge renting rooms is not allowed.
It takes $25 an hour to run the Kansas
Union on minimum staff, he said.
"Everyone seems to think it's a tremendous PR program for the University," Burge said.
To cut expenses, the Union has decreased operation hours during slow business periods and reduced its staff.
David Ambler, vice chancellor of student affairs, said the issue of salaries and wages should be considered by the corporation while cutting expenses.
"We can't afford to lose managerial labor and neeou." he said.
Amber said perhaps the Satellite Union would "match and catch up" with the Kansas Union so that salaries could be increased.
In the proposed budget of fiscal year 1980-81, the Satellite Union is expected to only break even. Ferguson estimated the satellite would not be self-supporting for another year.
Unsold textbooks also hurt the Union budget this year, Ferguson said. However, the bookstore makes up for this by its sales during enrollment periods.
To also boost poor cash flow, Ferguson said another bookstore expenditure of dividends for students to bring back bookstore sales receipts may be eliminated, depending on the economy's condition. But the impact on distribution of the program would be unfavorable.
"I would hate to see it go." she said
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Colored tape bypasses library renovation
By SHAWN MeKAY
Staff Reporter
Like Dorothy following the yellow brick road, students will be following red, yellow, black and orange lines to find their way around Watson Library during the first stages of renovation that begin today.
The similarity between the road to Emerald City and the paths around the library is easy to see. Library patrons are asked to follow a line of colored tape to different destinations. Red tape leads to a room with blue walls, black to the periodicals room and orange to the cart catalogue.
Other changes will occur as the first phase of the library renovation progresses. Demolition work began in the basement yesterday. Basement study areas were closed and moved to 104 Lincolnott Hall.
"The renovation project will be going full circle by the middle of May. A little work has started already," Jim Ranz, dean of May's architecture department.
THE ALTERNATIVE study areas should suffice and they can be expanded at any time during finals. Ranz said.
"As for using the stacks for finals, there will be an inconvenience," he said. "There's no way that you can live in a library and renovate it the way we are without substantial student and staff inconvenience."
Ranz said that he did not expect any loud work to be done during finals week
"Most of the noisy work will be done this summer when the library use is at a minimum." he said.
Carol Chittendon, associate reference librarian, who is responsible for handling renovation problems, said, "I don't think that it will cause any inconvenience for finals, but it will get pretty crowded when going late term papers and those attending summer classes."
Chittenden said students should be prepared for a lot of noise when using the library this summer.
MOST of the noise will come from demolishing the "Twilight Zone" stacks that provide an access between the west and center
The library staff is doing all it can to lessen any inconvenience for library users, according to Chittenden.
"Changing the stack access is the limit of major changes taking place this summer that should hinder public access to the library."
"The colored-tape system began this week and will make it a lot easier for people," she said. "Also, a big effort is being made to inform the staff so they can help students find things when they come in."
Patrons will not be the only ones inconvenienced by the renovation.
"We're doing everything we can for our workers, but it's going to mean about two and one-half bushels of trouble for the library."
EVERYONE HAS to approach the renovation project with a spirit of adventure, she said.
"We're planning a gala party to celebrate the opening of the new restrooms when that comes to pass," she said. "And there is no truth to the rumor that several deans have applied for occupation in the embassy in Iran rather than go through the renovation."
An employee who refused to be identified because she said she feared losing her job said the administration was understaffed.
"I don't think that the tape system is very effective," she said. The average person doesn't leave tape on the floor to get you dirty when you're doing it.
She said that she didn't think that the noise and confusion could be kept to a minimum.
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