Committee OKs classified slots
By SCOTT FAUST
Staff Reporter
A Kansas House Ways and Means subcommittee yesterday recommended 6.5 more classified positions than the 10 allowance for in.gov John Carlin's nosedeed budget.
State Rep. Ralph Bussman, D-Moore and the other members of the Moorasea committee which reported to the House Way Commission Tuesday, said the extra positions were subtracted from the faculty positions.
An extra $100,000 was recommended by the subcommittee to pay for unclassified positions as yet unfilled by the University; Bussman said.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
said the extra unclassified positions had
been the highest KU priority.
He said the University had been criticized because of a lack of clerical and maintenance personnel.
"Those will certainly help," Shankel said of the extra positions. "Classified positions had been one of our very biggest needs for a long while."
THE RECOMMENDATION for the extra classified positions was the only one different from the other positions. The subcommittee's report was approved by the full House Ways and Means committee and will become part of the committee's budget legislation for Board of Directors.
The subcommittee did not recommend $25,000 for planning a $1 million reduction in the water rate replacement of a 24-year-old storm tunnel from Murphy Hall to Allen Field House. The committee also recommended a
Shankel said that he was not surprised by the lack of funds for the Strom Hall planning and that it was "not unreasonable." He added that his plan, "would make it much more another year."
Both projects had been requested by the Board of Regents.
Shankel said he was pleased that the subcommittee had recommended $747,500 for his own building, planning a $12 million addition to Haworth Hall and $120,000 for scholarship hall stair runs.
"The money for Haworth Hall meets a very urgent need," Shankel said. "I'm pleased they recognized the urgency of that request."
Subcommittee recommendation for equipment acquisition funds of half the $150.000 requested by the Regents and a
recommendation for $100,000 or $215,000
Regents request for maintenance and repair
expenditures were a step in the right
direction. Shankel said.
HE SAID the subcommittee's approval of Carin's recommendations showed "some recognition" of KU needs in these areas.
Shankel and the subcommittee's refusal back to Ragents request $80,314 and 1.5 million in reimbursement for the development and Development Center would severely damage KU contributions to the field of
"We've made a small start in energy research," Shankel said "but I think we could move much more rapidly with the extra funds."
Bussman said the subcommittee recognized the University's needs, but that many of the Regents requests for funds in the budget were not important enough for approval.
"We're running on a pretty tight budget this year," Bussman said, "and we have to go with the governor as much as we can."
Recommendations by a subcommittee on the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan., which were also approved by the full House Ways and Means Committee, approved $700,000 for rooms in the Center's hospital building.
THE SUBCOMMITTEE also recommended $10,000 for an energy conservation audit of the Med Center and $110,500 for handcrafted accessibility at its campus.
However, they refused a Regents request for $135,000 in planning funds to provide chilled water cooling in the older buildings.
The subcommittee also turned down the request to purchase an emergency room radiology suite, $10,290 to install air flow systems and a $4.6 million appropriation for construction of a medical imaging center.
State Rep. Phil Martin, D-Armenia, the Med Center subcommittee, said the recommendations were based on "the availability of funding right now."
Other medical subcommittee recommendations included a $910.11 reduction in Carlin's $116.14 recommendation for the health education program, a deletion of the $88.35 Carlin recommended for expansion of health education centers across the state, and a lid to hold undergraduate nursing school students than the 198 limit recommended by Carlin.
KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Wednesday, February 27, 1980
Vol. 90, No.101
JEFF HARRING/Kansan staff
Wintry warmup
Ron Giersch, Topek sonhomore, takes advantage of 40 degree temperatures to practice his backhand at the new handball courts west of Oliver Hall.
Two fire code violations found in Hashinger
w. JEFF KIOUS
Staff Renorter
Two major violations of the Kansas game code were found in Hushinger Hall yesterday, according to Fred Holin, a spokesman.
The violations found were an inadequate exit system in the theater on the first floor and the use of an improper type of material in the construction of transons above room doors. A transom is a small hinged window.
said, "Or the glass has to be replaced with glass containing wire mesh."
"The transoms have to be of the same material classification as the surrounding door and wall." Hobbin
The glass used now might break if a fire occurred on either side of it, he said. Flame retardant wall board or glass with wire mesh would not allow the fire to spread from one room to another.
Hobin said that the Hashing Hall theater had only one exit where two approved exits were required.
"An area with 3,000 or 4,000 square feet like the theater must have at least two exits," he said.
THERE I one approved exit in the theater now and another exit through a storage room. Hoblin said he would
recommend that a direct exit be constructed between the theater and the lobby through the storage area.
Hobin said many rooms in Hashinger did not have adequate exits because beds obstructed the doorways. He also said that the carpenter's shop was dirty and that the carpenters sitting on the floor should be stored in metal cabinets.
Another inspector, Stan Nichols, found minor violations in Corbin Hall. These included a broken handrail in one stairwell and a locked exit door in the basement. The exit should remain unlocked during building occupancy, he said.
Wilson to hear Stouffer queries from residents
Staff Reporter
Stouffer Place residents seeking replies to their questions about the University's Stouffer funding policy will hold a question-and-answer session of the district director of housing, in the Satellite Union.
By TOM TEDESCHI
After last month's Regents-approved 9.5 percent rent increase for fiscal 1980, the Stouflor plan is expected to have a three-man budget committee to look into Stoffler Place financial records to become familiar with how the Stoffler funding structure would affect the recent rent increase was usified.
ACCORDING TO committee chairman Allen Hebert, he have not been able to get the necessary job. University has been unwilling to give them firm answers on just what the Stoffer would like.
See STOUFFER page nine
"Mainly right now we need some answers from Mr. Wilson," he said, "Tim Sterling has asked some questions and he has had a hard time eeting some answers."
Sterling, a Stouffer resident, started looking into the Stoffer financial records with his wife Ladonna about six months ago. He said he had trouble getting information and records concerning the amounts of his pension benefits in repair-replacement reserves from Wilson.
Mirrored muscles
thinks will win the Arkansas Open Body Building Championship this week. See story page nine.
Keith Kephart, KU strength coach, observes the muscles he
JEFF HARRING/Kansen Staff
Joe's to close doors at end of semester
By BENJAMIN JONES
Staff Reporter
It was 3 a.m., and all the traffic lights, along Ninth Street were flashing amber, as if they were tired, blinking eyes trying to staw awake.
One light was constant - the orange neon sign at 61W. Ninth Street that says "open."
Joe's Bakery, which sat behind the sign, has been open "going on 28 years, now," according to its owner Joe Smith.
But one day this summer, as dawn peeks out on the end of finals week, Joe Smith will turn off his neon sign for the last time.
Joe's Bakery is selling out.
SMITH AND his wife, Riona, have run the bakery night and day every semester since December 1982, with only summers on Saturday and Sunday. They plan on making the vacation nermert.
They will retire to a small farm they own about 10 miles outside Lawrence.
"I have no plans other than just putter around on the farm. I've got a few head of cows," he said.
Smith said he and his wife began thinking that this year might be their last when school started in August, but "we made our final decision around Christmas time."
Smith said there were a couple of prospective local buyers and one out of town, but stressed that these were not franchises.
"I hope someone else will take it over," he
said. "Young people around campus have been really good to me the past few years. I know they'll be just as good to whoever takes it over.
"They're the greatest people to do business with - that age group."
Smith, 53, was about the same age as his student-patrons when he first got into the doughnut-making business.
"They've all stayed about the same, age 24," she said. "And I've been it for going on 28 years. Our family's all grown, so there's no reason for us to stay. We've gotten everything out of it."
"When you're younger you have the spirit to go on, but when you're older and life's been good to you well."
SMITT' STILL works from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. six aides is a week at the school the day shift, going from 6:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. The class meets on 6 a.m. on Saturday to 4 a.m. on Sunday.
Once the bakery was left unlocked after it closed Saturday evening. The police called him at home on the next day and he went to look over his store.
Smith said he found everything in order at the bakery. In fact, he said, there was a small pile of money on the counter, along with other items. Smith bought an empty store and "purchased" something by
See JOE'S page eight
Drinking bill passage would reflect national trend
By BLAKE GUMPRECHT
Staff Reporter
Editor's note: This is the first story in a three-part series examining the possibility of raising the 3.2 beer drinking age from 18 to 21 in Kansas.
Many just toss it aside as another government attempt to interfere in the private lives of citizens.
It'll never happen here, they say. The Kansas Legislature won't pass a bill that would raise the legal drinking age for 3.2 beer from 18 to 21.
They too scoffed at efforts to raise the drinking age—until the legislation was passed.
Expert, legislators and tavern operators insist that it is very possible that Kansas and several other states could raise the drinking age soon, if not this year.
But that's exactly what people in Michigan said-ditto for the college students in Illinois and the teen-agers in Massachusetts.
"I don't believe in legislating morality, but I think it will pass," predicted Terry Hagan, executive director of Michigan's College of the National Council on Alcoholism.
HAGAN IS considered a national
authority on the subject because of his previous studies.
citizens. When those two groups work together, they're hard to stop."
See related story page six
"There's still a prohibition of mind," he said. "I really believe that if they tried to raise the legal drinking age to 30, it would pass sooner or later."
"You get conservatives leading moves like this one. They impact highly on senior
MANY SAY that Kansas is ripe for a change in the drinking age because of a strong national move to increase the legal age. It also is an election year.
"I hope they can defeat it but I rather doubt it," said Phil Bailey, a bar owner in Illinois, where the legal age was raised from 19 to 21 in 1985. "I would assume they d pass it."
The bill would affect an estimated 183,000 18-19 and 20-year-olds in the state.
The Rev. Richard E. Taylor Jr. and Kansans for Life at Its Best, the state's dev
forces organization, are pushing the bill and have said it would be their top legislative priority this session.
"People under estimate the influence of Rev. Taylor," said State Sen. Edward Reilly Jr., R-Leavensword, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. "He is an extremely powerful man here."
"I wouldn't be surprised if the bill got through. It's an election year and a lot of legislators may support him in order to get ahead with good graces with their constituents."
THE KANAS proposal is one of more than 50 bills calling for the raising of the drinking age that are now under consideration in a dozen state legislatures.
In the early 1970s, 27 states lowered their drinking ages to 18 or 19 after 18-year-olds were given the right to vote in 1971.
The trend has recently done an about- face.
Eleven states have raised the drinking age in the last three years. All had lowered the legal age in the last decade.
Nebraska is the most recent state to raise the drinking age. Gov. Charles Thone last month signed into a law a bill that raises the state's minimum age to 20.
Furthermore, a 1979 Gallup poll showed that 56 percent of the people in states with a
drinking age of 18 or 19 favored raising the age limit in their state.
The trend is based on statistics showing that alcohol-related deaths and drunkenness were the most common injuries sharply in the last 10 years, particularly in states where the drinking age is under 21.
IN MASSACHUSETTS, for instance, traffic fatalities involving teenagers tripped after the age was lowered to 18 in 1973.
Persons between 18 and 25 years old make up 22 percent of the nation's drivers, but account for 30 percent of all fatal accidents.
The Department of Health, Education and Welfare reported in 1975 that the proportion of high school students who said they had taken at least 19 percent before 1964 to 19 percent in 1975.
In Kansas, teen-agers 14 to 19 years old were 11 percent of the state's licensed drivers, but accounted for 21 percent of those arrested for drunken driving last
During debate on a bill that raised the drinking age in Massachusetts to 20, several legislators said that they had "made a mistake" in the earlier vote that lowered the
Legislators have been flooded with similar statistics from police, school officials and concerned citizens. As a result, many lawmakers have reconsidered their
IN ILINOIS, Democratic State Rep. HARY Youellui, a co-sponsor of a bill that lowered the state's drinking age to 19 seven years ago, led the drive that resulted in
raising the minimum drinking age to 21 last year.
"I admitted my mistake," Yourell said.
"The thing I hadn't foreseen was that the 19-year-olds were jobbing it (beer and wine) to the 14, 15 and 16-year-olds.
The so-called "trickle-down effect," where persons of legal age buy alcohol for younger friends, is one of the major arguments of the bill's propositions.
They insist that by raising the legal age to 21, the state will help take beer out of the hands of many high school students.
Opponents, however, challenge that argument.
"Why should they penalize the entire population just because of a few idiosyncrasies that want to make a nickel a beer selling to underage students? Or why is 21, a university of Michigan senior said,
Mark Borainy, executive director of the Kansas Beer Wholesalers Association, said, "It's just another attempt to put restrictions on unfairity for problems created by a minority."
SOME CONTEND that legal age limits have no bearing on the amount of alcohol consumed. Reports have been inconclusive, however.
See BEER page nine
One study, conducted by the Catholic