Friday, February 9.1973
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Legislature Debates School Funds
University Daily Kansan
By PAT BREITENSTEIN
Karen Staff Writer
Confusion about the future of state aid to public education has left Carl Knox, Lawrence superintendent of schools, uncommitted to either of two educational finance proposals now before the Kansas Legislature.
Knox said Thursday that the district administration had not yet taken a strong position on the legislative dispute. The situation was still fluid and the administration had not applied either plan to take action, so we see what the consequences would be.
The two proposals before the legislature were the subject of hearings before the Senate Education Committee Monday and Tuesday. On Monday, the committee heard testimony for those supporting the finance plan proposed by a special senate interim
committee on school finance.
Docking has opposed any increase in the state income tax.
GOV. ROBERT DOCKING'S counterproposal was discussed before the committee on Tuesday. Four major areas of contention developed during the bearings.
The committee's proposal would eliminate the current 10-mill county tax and replace it with a uniform state-collected.1.5 per cent increase in income tax. The income tax would be administered to the local school districts by using a complex income wealth formula.
The Governor's proposal would retain funding through a state-collected eight-mill levy.
The Docking bill proposes to give schools an additional $40 million in state aid, while
By DAVID HEALY
Kansan Staff Writer
Colonialism Still in Africa, Field Speaker Says
European nations may still exercise a certain national control over their former African territories and African territories are politically independent, DuBois, a state member of the American South, is a leader.
DuBas spoke Thursday at a faculty forum in the Westminster School topic on leadership, “Myths or Truths,” Myth or Truth.
DuBis said that neo-colonialism was more reality than myth and that there were many ways in which former European states helped an important influence in Africa.
He said that the European population of the Ivory Coast had risen from 15,000 to 30,000 and that of Gabon from 6,000 to 12,000. Senegal was the only country he said, whose European population had declined. It dropped from 30,000 in 1960 to 28,000.
DuBds said that the European population in the Republic of Zaire (formerly the Belgian Congo) was 40,000, which is about one-fifth of the country was granted independence.
Europeans are very much in evidence in Africa, he said. In certain countries their number has increased since the colonies were granted independence.
A form of segregation still exists in Africa, he said, although it is more economic than racial. The cities have both European sections, which are the wealthiest areas, and African sections. In many instances the people who really run the banks and other businesses still tend to be European, he said.
Many European firms are trying to take on an African air by changing their European names to one containing the name of the country. For example, many Africans as tellers, typists and clerks.
Neco-colonialism is evident in a great many of the former European colonies,
People in Africa still feel a certain amount of relief in being able to speak English, will be able to
For many of these people their frame of reference still continues to be drawn from a European context. He said that African intellectuals, leaders and students are often viewed as part of an era of national colonialism that they were frequently finding it very hard to thwart.
"Colonialism, in its old form, was very visible, very obvious. There were colonial officials and institutions against which it was easy to get away. The sentiment. Neo-colonialism is much more
Health Care To Include Non-Students
The Student Services Committee of the Student Senate Thursday night agreed that office-call coverage for nonstudent spouses would be required. The student health insurance policy for next year.
The committee, meeting in the home of Dr. Raymond Schwegler, director of student health services, discussed complaints that have arisen this year because of a lack of coverage for such office calls to Watkins Hospital.
Students are covered for such visits by a campus privilege fee, but many policyholders thought it was their insurance that covered the costs and were surprised when their nonstudent spouses were charged for office calls at the hospital.
Committee member Kathy Allen, Topeka junior and student body vice president, said the reputations of the team — Blue-Blue Cross — were under the plan and Wadkins had been hurt by the misunderstandings.
The committee also decided to seek a two-year contract for next year's policy, because insurance companies would probably result in better service at lower rates.
Whether contraceptives should be covered by the new policy was discussed during the meeting. This type of coverage would be prohibited by the Kansas Insurance Code.
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elusive and therefore more difficult to combat. How does one liberate oneself from dependence on a European language; from experience with Arabic, which are Europeans rather than Africans?
"A fundamental difference between the French and the British colonial policies was that in the former British territories they often played a crucial role as parliamentarians and on occasion even as soldiers. In the latter poles impinging directly on their lives."
KNOX SAID that the committee plan might be more favorable to the Lawrence district because the committee proposal set a maximum yearly budget increase of five per cent. The governor's plan would allow a maximum yearly increase of only four per cent.
the committee plan would add about $133 million.
Knox said the committee plan would provide greater relief for those paying high property taxes but the some compromise reached between the two conflicting parties.
DuBois said that eventually neocolonialism would end as younger people rose to power. In order to combat neocolonialism there must be advanced Africanization of upper level jobs, of teachers in the universities and secondary schools and the introduction of joint ventures in investment, he said.
Harder and other Republican leaders said at a news conference Wednesday that apparently the governor had taken a hard line on compromising the school finance matter because he would not accept the 1.5 per cent income tax increase.
However, Sen. Joseph Harder, R-Mountridge and chairman of the Senate Education Committee and Senate majority leader, was less optimistic.
IN TESTIMONY Tuesday, Marvin Harder, who helped draft the Docking proposal, told the Education Committee that any increase in the income tax would be generally unacceptable to the Kansas electorate.
Sen. Harder said Wednesday that he hoped his Education Committee could make some recommendation to the Senate by early next week. His original decision was that a delay was caused by disputes which developed during this week's hearings.
In testimony Monday, Paul Fleener, research director for the Kansas Farm Bureau, said that income tax increase. He said he wished that the legislature would not stop at the 1.5 per cent increase but would seek to balance the taxes between property tax and income tax.
"I don't think the proposed increase in the committee bill is in any way negotiable," he said.
PAU SHERER, a school board member of the Burlington School District who said he represented a group called Schools for improvement, also endorsed the committee plan.
"There is one thing that we feel must not be compromised," Sheer said. "There should not be a statewide property tax levy to be used for power equalization."
Other groups that supported the committee finance plan at Monday's hearing were the Kansas Livestock Association, the Kansas Congress of Parents and Teachers, the Missouri State College, the Kansas-National Education Association and the Kansas Association of School Boards.
IN TUESDAY'S hearings, representatives of small school districts were asked to indicate which school called the "Grandfather clause," which declared that state aid to richer districts would be phased down within five years to meet the present aid received by the schools.
Marion McGhehey, representing the Kansas Association of School Boards, said the clause was politically motivated to be the largest number of oxen from being gored."
Sen. Jack Steiniger, D-Kansas City and Senate Democratic floor leader, said the "grandfather clause" was open to revision and could be written to completely phase out richer school districts after several years.
LARRY GELL, superintendent of the Flint Hills School District, told the committee that all property taxes raised by a district should remain in that district. He said that this would allow a source of flexibility for future improvement.
Steineger defended the governor's
proposed property tax.
"This levy is now collected for the county foundation funds. The governor proposes that the statewide and distributed through it to act as an equalizer." Steiner said.
THE BASIS for the present dispute was created last year when a Johnson County District Court judge ruled that the state's laws prohibit financing education was unconstitutional.
The court ruled that the present system raided too heavily on property taxes and that its educational opportunities were determined by the wealth of his school district.
Faculty Council Nominations Open
Nominations for membership on the Faculty Council and the Athletic Board are being accepted until Feb. 19 by Rick Von Eiland. Elections will take place in March.
Nomination takes place by a petition signed by at least five members of the Faculty Senate. All members of the Faculty Senate are eligible for nomination except those who do not disclose since the end of a previous term on the Faculty Council or Athletic Board.
Members of the Faculty Senate have been furnished with nominating petitions as well as the names of continuing Council and committee members, names of those ineligible for re-election.
Fourteen positions on the 39-member Faculty Council must be filled this spring. Council members serve three-year terms and are ineligible for re-election at the end of their terms unless they have served for less than two years.
The Athletic Board consists of six members of the Faculty Senate who are elected for three-year terms. Board members may serve two consecutive
One Athletic Board position, being vacated by Kenneth Anderson, professor of education, must be filled this spring. Anderson is eligible for re-election.
There must be at least twice as many nominees for each governing body as there are positions to be filled. If there is an insufficient number of nominations, the Faculty Executive Committee must make additional nominations.
The University secretary will notify each nominee of his candidacy. His name will be placed on the ballot unless he notifies the secretary of his refusal of the nomination.
The election will take place by mail ballot. Each voter may vote for 14 candidates for the Faculty Council and one candidate for the Athletic Board.
Election normally is in the descending order of the number of votes received. But since there must be at least one member from each school within the University and not more than one, the order representing a school that would not otherwise have a member on the Council, would displace the nominee lowest in the order who have been elected by the normal method. If that displacement causes a loss of the representation in the Council, displacement would occur at the lowest level possible and still have all schools represented. The Schools of Journalism and Law will not be represented by continuing members.
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