THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
DREARY
KANSAN
Vol. 90, No. 122
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Hicks tosses no-hitter, loses
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Thursday, April 3, 1980
Budget hearings end; Consumer Affairs cut
Bv SUSAN SCHOENMAKER
and RATHY RASE
Staff Reporter
Charging duplication of services, the Senate Student Services Committee by a vote of 2-1 refused to fund the Consumer Affairs Association at Student Senate final budget deliberations last night.
Faced with budget requests well over its budget of $23,436, the committee either had to cut Consumer Afairs or fund other organizations' employee salaries for only seven months out of the year.
DESCRIBING THE SALARY cuts as "nickel and diming these people to death," committee members John Harkness and John Lamb called for removal of the staff. When they said the services were duplicated elsewhere.
Harkness said six other campus organizations combined to provide every service Consumer Affairs offered. Organizations named were: KU Information Center, KU Student Legal Services, Off-Campus Housing Board, Associated Students of Kansas, Office of Allied Programs and the Student Assistance Center.
Bren Abbott, Senate treasurer, said a decision on duplication of services had to be approved by the Senate Finance and Auditing Committee before Senate budget hearings next week. If Finance and Audit approves the committee's reasoning on duplication of services, it would also lead to the Senate without Consumer Affairs funding.
If the Student Services Committee decision is not approved by the Finance or the Auditing Committee, the Office of the Superintendent will
Committee member John Macchettio, Consumer Affairs' only voting proposition was to brought offrence of the
"The other services would not be able to handle what Consumer Affairs does now," he said.
COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN Tanya Ivory also opposed the charge of duplication, saying that other committees were better served by services. Although she did not vote on the decision, Ivory warned that lack of Senate funding would cause Concern.
Despite last minute mistake by Marcusio to contact
their teammate, the Celtics were in position,
Harkness and Lamb's were enough to
defeat.
With the Consumer Affairs' budget cut, the Services
Committee allocated $22,986 last night and left a surplus of about $450.
Budget requests and final recommendations were
Friends of Headquarters: 410.707.8520 or 8520-707-410
- Douglas County Rape Victim Support Service: $1,245.1005
- Black Student Union: $5,465.10; $3,062.61
- Douglas County Legal卫士, $10,975; $2,10
* Women's Coalition: $235; $396
- Douglas County Legal Aid; $10,575; $2,700
Washington County
- Commission on the Status of Women: $4,681.60; $1,934
- MECHA: $1.098.75: $610
MECHA $1,006.70, $10
* Campus Safety Services $1,115.91 - $532.91
Campus Learning Licenses. $1,782.00; $635
- Non-Traditional Students $2,300; $620
- KU-Y $2,221.07; $1,064.52
- Amnesty International: $521.56; $148
- Volunteer Clearing House: $1590; $290
BUT THE LARGER issue being raised by Green-
- Students Concerned With Disabilities: $1,350; $489.75
* UHU Enrollment: $1,919; $494
- KU Weather Service; $2,412.77; $5. The Academy; A Committee member $900 in bus ticket for last night a last hour. A Last hour student $300 at the Student Council for Recruiting Motivation and Achievement. MEBE members had crowded into the budget hearing, after learning that their Engineering Symposium budget request of $2,500 was eliminated in preliminary cuts last month.
- "I RECONCIZE you have serious budget problems here but you have to make your decision on the facts." Leon Brady, SCOMEBEE adviser told committee members that the value judgment on something you haven't researched."
- Alpha Phi Omega : $799.42; $94.35
Macy Card Company
After listening to $CGRMBELE pleas, the committee voted $1,700 to fund the symposium. The symposium, held in Crown Center in Kansas City, M. was designed to educate students with engineering industry representatives.
Later in the evening, as time and money began running, the short committee reversed its vote and cut the symposium requests to $1,100. In a last minute vote, the funding was cut further to $823.50
The committee heard nearly $40,000 in budget requests, but had only $13,631 to allocate.
The appeals court said Elwil was prejudiced against Greenberg and unfairly sentenced him.
SORMEBE members said that they sympathized with the pressure committee members were under to
See BUDGET page seven
Student wants Kansas high court to decide legality of accident law
Jeffrey Greenberg, Queens, N.Y., graduate student, wants the Kansas Supreme Court to review the legality of a law that requires motorists involved in car accidents to provide information to police.
The court could decide next week whether it will consider Greenberg's appeal of a lower court's contempt.
"He wanted double the fine to punish me for taking up the court's time with my trial," Greenberg said yesterday. "That in itself wasn't too unreasonable, but it is an attitude the appeal court could not condone."
Greenberg, a psychology graduate student, was convicted in February 1979 in Douglas County District Court of failure to insure his vehicle after a two-car accident in December 1978 at 9th and Kentuckey streets.
GREENBERG APPEALED the conviction to the Kansas Court of Appeals. His conviction was upheld, but the $100 fine imposed by Associate District Judge Mike Elwell was lowered to $50.
berg's petition questions the constitutionality of a state statute that requires motorists involved in an accident to provide police with names, addresses, insurance policy numbers and driver's license numbers.
DAVE KRAUSiKansan staff
"The legal issue being discussed has little to do with the car accident," Greenberg said. "The idea that I was asked a question and the answer to the question incriminated me is what needs to be reviewed.
Greenberg said his negative reply violated his right to be a witness against himself as specified in the Fifth Amendment.
The appeals court said the insurance statute was legally correct because it did not attempt to enforce corrosion claims.
GREENBERG SAID a police officer with the Lawrence Police Departmentasked him whether he had met his partner.
"Because of the Fifth Amendment I can be made to lead guilty to what another law says is a crime."
Greenberg, who is being represented by lawyers from the Douglas County Legal Aid Society, said the Supreme Court could review the appeals court ruling in May if a favorable decision to review the case is made.
testants performed a series of cheering and dancing routines for a panel of seven judges, a week of competition that the originally involved more than 120 testants.
Spirited splits
A last gem was the moment of truth for 22 women who competed for the 10 openings on the 1980-81 KU Spirit Squirt in Parrrot Athletic Center. **6**
Mystery funds buy phones
Bv JENNIFER ROBLEZ
Staff Reporter
Four more blue phones, two of them near women's residence halls, soon will be installed on campus to provide more emergency police assistance. LL Jeanne Longaker of the KU Police department said
Although the addition of more blue phones on campus may be a pleasant surprise to some it is a mysterious surprise to others because the source of funds to buy and install more phones is unknown.
Longaker said she didn't know where the funds had come from. She only knew that someone from facilities operations called her to say that the phones had been delivered as ordered.
"As soon as southwestern Bell and facilities operations complete their work orders, we will have them ready."
EIGHT BLUE PHONES are now scattered across campus. When a phone's receiver is lifted, direct contact is made with a KU police dispatcher, who immediately sends an officer to the phone's location.
Since the phones were installed four years ago some living groups on campus—particularly students from OTAP and Watkins and Miller scholarship halls—have said they thought phones should be installed at potential campuses.
KU administrators by hall security committees and campus groups including the Women's Coalition, the Commission on the Status of Women and the Emily Taylor Women's Resource and Career Center.
Parking lots and sidewalks near the halls that house women students needed more protection, some of which are not.
UNTIL RECENTLY, requests for more phones were denied for financial reasons.
The new phones will be installed at the north end of the GSP hall garage, behind Watkins and Miller halls by a bouncy near Pearson Place, west of the tennis court, at Wescoe Hospital and between Wescoe Drive and Malott Hall.
Carla Hanson, former president of Watkins Scholarship Hall, said she thought the addition of a blue phone near the hall was a step forward. But she wanted to know who was responsible for payment.
"TO WILD BE BE nice to know who's funding the phones because there are other needs we need," she said. "I don't want to spend in the wrong direction. But I'm sure they don't want to sap me, because they will ask for other things."
Dewey Allaire, associate director of facilities operations, said yesterday that the cost of the four major events will be around $120 million.
He said the phones were not purchased with state funds or student fees.
"I have instructions to send any bills to the
Affairs Affairs Office, which writes me a check for
the amount."
"THE PHONES ARE privately funded. That's all I
need."
See PHONES page seven
CATHY KREBS/Kansan staff
By GREGSACKUVICH
Caps calmed campus fuss
Staff Reporter
In the Roaring 20s every stylish dressed freshman wore is along with his coonskin coat.
It was a little green小草帽 with a button on top. Hanging from the button was an 18-inch crimson and blue ribbon. The color of the button depended on the student's major—white for liberal arts, yellow for engineering and red for medicine.
At some college it was called a beanie, a dink or a rat cap. To KU students it was merely the freshman cap.
Beginning in the 1880s, it became traditional for each class—freshman, sophomore, junior or senior—to band together in the name of class unity. But too often the unity turned into fights, and the freshmen often were the losers.
THE CAP WAS a tradition officially sanctioned by the KU Student Council in 1908 to stop the hazing of freshmen, a practice that continues today.
F. E. Melvin, professor of history, was quoted in 1929 as saying the hazing was "just a game." He described a fight in 1908 between freshmen and sophomores at a chapel session in old Fraser Hall as follows:
The sophomores began paddling the freshmen and soon a "near riad" began. People were thrown over stairwell banners, and some fell down a flight of stairs. Chancellor Frank Strong was on the ground, but Fulton's. Finally a fire hole was turned on the crowd and the police were called.
Malin recalled another instance when the erection of a traditional Mayole was scheduled. The freshmen were supposed to take an examination at school.
IN A SCENE reminiscent of the movie "Animal House," class leaders were kidnapped the night before the event, stripped and handcuffed to trees in below-freezing weather. Several cases of pneumonia were reported, he said.
In retaliation, the sophomores chased some freshmen into a chemistry lab. In self-defense the freshmen made stink bombs so powerful that several sophomores became ill when the bombs were thrown, Melvin said.
Later, another fight took place near of Fraser Hall. In the fight several people were thrown over a wall and were severely injured,
In the 1980 the freshmen began to wear the caps as identification. The violence was replaced by a set of rules, approved by the Student Council, that freshmen had to obey. Offenders of the rules could be held in Potter Lake or tossed in the air from a blanket held by 12 men.
ACCORDING TO the rules, freshmen must had to wear their caps on campus from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. could enter buildings only if they were wearing the appropriate cap and could not smoke. Their caps had to be tipped to the school flag, faculty members and seniors, who were identified by special arm.
These rules were strictly enforced, as Raymond Henze discovered in 1938 when some upper-class students to paddle him
He finally escaped to the chancellor's office in Strong Hall where he was cornered by his pursuers. Henze agreed to wear his cap if his pursuers promised only to throw him in Potter Lake, rather than paddle him.
To keep his padders away, Henze began swinging a two-foot piece of pipe. His pursuers chased him into Fraser Hall, where he eluded them by climbing out a window and jumping from ledge to ledge. The group tried to escape while a crowd below held its breath," a report of the incident said.
The freshman-cap tradition ended in 1944 because of World War II and lack of interest. The caps were sold in 181 to raise money for the war effort.
Senate passes bill to force fine payments
Staff Reporter
By SCOTT C. FAUST
The Kansas Senate gave unanimous approval yesterday to a bill that allows the Board of Regents to force payment of taxes. The state's lines by withholding employees wages.
AT KU, where the bill is getting a cautious reception, the administration's figures total $4,000 for outstanding parking fees, $12,000 for lost keys, $3,000 for fees, and $3,000 for outstanding library fines.
Introduced by the Senate Ways and Means Committee, the bill now moves to the House Ways and Means Committee.
The bill empowers the Regents to adopt policy for withholding all or part of faculty and staff salaries to obtain fine money
T. P. SRINIVASAN, president of the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors, said yesterday that he had mixed feelings about the bill.
"There is a need," he said, "and the need has been felt for some time, for an effective way to realize outstanding fines.
"I'm not sure the current bill is the best way to go about it."
He said the bill, which does not include any means of protesting wage withholding, could be improved by allowing for due payment of salaries before any final determination was made.
Such a due process provision could be included when the Regents adopted rules on wage withholdings, Srinivasan said.
He said that the bill could invite employee suits against the University and that it set Regents employees apart from other state employees.
"Payroll deduction is a very serious matter," he said. "It is almost a sanction on the employees."
Clark Bricker, chairman of the KU Parking and Traffic Board, took a similar position.
HE SAID HE disliked the idea of withholding salaries to obtain outstanding fees, but he questioned whether the bureau could get its fines without such a power.
"I think that it's pretty drastic action when you withhold fees," Bricker said. "But if you don't have any clutch, what are you going to do?"
The strongest methods currently available to force payment of employees are surrounding impounding orders for cars that are refusing to sell parking permits to those employees with uppaid fines—a sanction enforcement only—are been seriously enforced this semester.
HE SAID IT was unfair that students had their enrollment materials and transcripts held for unpaid fines while no similar hold was existed for obtaining employee fines.
Calling the administration figures conservative, he said the uncollected parking fines total approximately what would be needed to increase parked permit fees next year.
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