Tuesday, February 5, 1980
State resident tuition bill stumbles
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By BLAKE GUMPRECHT
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA A bill that would shorten the residence requirement at Kansas Board of Regents schools suffered a significant reduction in house Ways and Means committee hearings.
Committee members expressed concern about the financial drawbacks of the House bill, which would shorten the residency requirements for Reqens' schools from a year to six months.
William Kauffman, staff attorney for the Regents, said in testimony before the committee that from $135,000 to $230,000 he would offer to shorten the residency requirement.
committee chairman John Hayden, R-Atwood, questioning how the Regents budget would be compensated for the money lost in fees.
"Where do you want us to cut?" asked.
Kauffman said later that he thought the financial drawbacks of shortening the residency requirement—previously not a big part of his plan—would the bill and a smaller Senate proposal.
THE SENATE BILL, sponsored by the Committee on Education, also calls for a shortening of the residency requirement at Regents schools to six months.
University Daily Kansan
The bill passed the Senate in 1979 and was expected to face a final vote Thursday in the House Ways and Means Committee.
"The financial aspect is a major concern we're going to have to look at," Kauffman
said. "It could severely hurt the chances of the bill."
The residency requirement at Regents schools was increased from six months to a year in 1975 in an attempt to slow soaring enrollments.
Proponents of the bill to shorten the requirement say now that enrollments are declining, the requirement should be changed.
AUFFMAN SAID the residency requirement at the state's community colleges and at Washburn University in Toecka was already six months.
in testing in favor of the bill, both Kauffman and Bob Bingaman, executive
director of Associated Students of Kansas,
requested that the House bill be amended to
include all adults—defined as anyone at
least 18 years old or married.
Under current wording of the bill, only persons more than 21 years old and the parents of students younger than 21 would be affected by a change. Thus, persons more than 21 years old would not without their parents would be required to live in Kansas a year to establish residency.
"It would, in effect, eliminate everyone except second semester seniors," Kauffman said.
The Senate bill designed to shorten the residency requirement is already worded to include adults.
The cause of a fire in an elevator at Nassimhall Hall early yesterday morning was a gas leak from the Lawrence fire chief. The blaze caused an estimated $71,000 damage and led to the evacuation of the building.
"We found several rolls of toilet paper in the elevator," McSain said. "We don't know what else, if anything, may also have been used to start it."
He said that the side elevator at Naismith Hall was gutted by flames when firemen arrived.
"Fuel inside the elevator contributed to the fire." McSwain said.
McSwain said he had no idea who was responsible for the fire.
"So many people have access to the building. It may be impossible to find who started it," he said.
Because Naisum Hall is privately owned, the University of Kansas Police Department and the Douglas County Arsenal Snail are not involved in the investigation.
Officials say arson cause of Naismith elevator fire
The fire caused smoke and water damage to the building, but no residents' rooms were damaged.
KU crews predict passable roads
KU maintenance crews are confident they can keep most campus streets passable in the snow, but some steep hills will stay closed to traffic until the weather clears, John Mullins, KU police captain, said yesterday.
The streets now closed are 11th, 12th and 13th streets east of campus and parts of 14th Street east of campus, he said.
"No matter how well sanded those streets are, they just aren't passable until the snow
is cleared down to the pavement," Mullins said.
Jim Mathes, assistant director of facilities operations, said KU had more than an adequate amount of sand and salt to put on the streets.
A new road grader and five snow blowers were purchased last fall to aid in snow removal, he said.
"I feel confident we can handle any snow we get this winter." Mathes said. "We handed the snow we got last winter, and that was an unusual amount."
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