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Monday, June 29,1981 Vol.91,No.152 USPS 650-640
House cuts dismay KU profs
By TIM ELMER Staff Reporter
Dismayed by the House of Representatives' quick approval of President Reagan's entire budget-cutting bill Friday, several KU professors said Saturday that legislators had made a mistake by not discussing the provisions of the bill individually.
Acknowledging Reagan's impressive victory, the professors credited the hasty passage of the bill to Reagan's effective leadership and to the House's lack of it.
"I don't know how in the hell Garan got away with it," James Titus in the professor of political science, said Saturday. "With my knowledge of the United States, I can't figure out how they ever pulled that off."
WITH THE HELP of conservative southern Democrats, Reagan achieved a stunning legislative victory when the House approved his $3.3 billion package of 1982 spending cuts. Voting 217-211, the House approved budget cuts that affect more than 250 domestic programs.
"It am really developing somewhat of a shocked state of mind." Howard Baumgarteler, professor of psychology, said. "It is rather a complicated situation, the House passed the bill. I am astounded."
Anil Cigler, associate professor of political science, said that what worried him was that the United States is so dependent on Iran.
"Sometimes you get in trouble in the legislative process if you do things too fast," he said. "I think of the Totonkin Bay Resolution when it gets getting railroaded through the legislature."
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave President Lydon Johnson congressional endorsement to the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
CIGLER SAID THE problem he saw with the quick approval of Reagan's budget cuts was that he was not sure the American public endorsed the budget cuts.
"I don't think they endorsed what Jimmy Carter was doing, but whether that translates to his status as a businessman," she said.
clean, he said.
"I would have rather seen tobacco subsidies and other such programs cut than some of the social service agencies," he said.
programs, I am not sure. I don't think that is clear," he said.
ALTHOUGH THE PROFESSORS were unhappy with the hasty passage of the budget-cutting bill, they agreed that it demonstrated Reagan's influence over Congress.
"My opinion is that it was an impressive victory," Cigler said. "It certainly shows that Reagan has the upper hand now, particularly because he was it done, without a book of a list of thought."
Some professors said Reagan's outstanding leadership skills accounted for the rapid passage
Reagan has a good sense of how to get things done, which was something that his predecessor Donald J. Trump used to do.
JACKSON BAUR, PROFESSOR of sociology, said Reagan was simply determined to carry through his program using all the powers the president had to accomplish that end.
"It is not that this hasn't happened before," he said. "There have been strong presidents before who have dominated Congress and Reagan and others, so those methods to accomplish his programs."
John Bollard, assistant professor of political science, said that the effective, a president has to be a good leader.
Titus said he also thought Reagan was effective because he knew how to use the power of persuasion. Reagan is probably the best communicator since Franklin D. Roosevelt, he said.
He knows how to use the cameras and to use the media. When you get that combination, you can capture an entire scene.
Although some professors attributed much of Reagan's success to his capacity for effective
leadership, they also said it was partly due to the lack of leadership in the House.
"I think the most significant thing as a political observer," Cigler said, "is what appears to be the inability of the Democratic party to and any kind of unity on crucial questions.
Titus said that although Speaker of the House Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., D-Mass, had been the apparent leader of the Democrat-dominated House, he somehow had been caught flat-footed.
"Something weird happened," he said. "O'Neil has power, real power."
"I couldn't understand why he didn't have his
phone," she said, to the committees. "They would have killer
phones."
SOME PROFESSORS SAW the failure of the Democrats to protest the bill as an easy way out of the Republican government.
"Let's face it, the American Congress was looking for someone to bail them out," Giger said.
The problems of the country are such that Congress is willing to let the president take the credit, good or bad, for what is happening, he said.
Stephen Addiss, associate professor of art history, said that by voting for approval of the entire bill, legislators had escaped having to vote on issues that would have been hard to vote against.
`unmk they figured out that if they made a complicated enough bill, most people weren't going to look at the details and therefore not making an argument.'<sup>1</sup> Individually very objectionable. "Addis said."
Others said that some members of the House were simply too scared to vote against a president who seemed to have a public mandate behind him.
"There is no doubt that there is a widespread perception on the part of the general public being behind Reagan and his domestic policies," she said. "The influence on the decisions of the congressmen."
Titus said people in the House were afraid of beacon because he was so persuasive with the police.
See REAGAN page 8
ERA supporters rally in Lawrence
By CONNIE SCHALLAU
Staff Reporter
About 200 women joined by back-up troops of 100 men, marched down Massachusetts Street Saturday to battle for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.
The United States Supreme Court ruled Thursday that women cannot be drafted. The decision implies that women don't make good men and don't know how to fight, prominent feminists say.
THE DEADLINE for ratification is June 30.
The amendments are needed in order to ratify the amendment.
"To put it bluntly, we need to fight like hell." Landy Woods, Kansas National Organization of Landy Woods.
City Commissioner Tom Gleason addressed the group at City Hall.
The marchers, most of whom were dressed in the suffragette color of white, gathered at City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets, before they began the trek to South Park.
"The founders of the Constitution didn't make it easy to modify the Constitution," Gleason said. "And it's shouldn't be. But the time is for no discrimination on the basis of sex."
**animation on the basis of sex to be allowed.**
"We need the ERA now."
ARMED WITH SIGNS that read "ERA-NOW" and "Good Christian, good homemaker supports ERA," the group made its way to South Africa. The national states to ratify, was another slogan used.
Not everyone who witnessed the rally was in support of the ERA. however.
Lawrence police officer Peggy Love directed
traffic at Eighth and Massachusetts streets for the marchers.
"I're really not for the ERA," Love said. "I like things the way they are."
She also said that she had not faced any discrimination in the Lawrence Police Department.
At South Park, the speakers, who included
their own officials, addressed the crowd from the gazebo.
MAYOR MARCI FRANCISCO speak about women's involvement in Lawrence government.
She said that she was the third female mayor of Lawrence. She also said that there are now two women on the Lawrence City Commission and in the Lawrence Fire Department.
"But the ERA is not an accounting game," she said. "It doesn't have anything to do with it."
"It has to do with the rights that exist for each and every woman."
Lacy Smith, president of the Lawrence NOW chapter, then read a telegram from Senator Nancy Kassabeau, R-Kan. Kassabeau called the ERAa "matter of simple justice."
"I do think, however, that it can be said that Kansas has been relatively progressive concerning women's rights," she said. "At least that was true until the 1981 Kansas Legislature."
STATE Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said he elected official in Douglas County.
However, State Rep. Jesse Branson, D-Davenance, said there is 43 percent of the state's voters who have a vote.
He also said that 75 percent of the legislative seats in Lawrence were held by women.
She said thataid in Cairn to Dependent Children, family planning and Women, Infant and
Children programs would have the greatest impact on women, especially poor women.
LUCY SMITH then read a telegram from actor Alan Alda, an ERA activist.
"We cannot keep one-half of our population out of the Constitution," Alida's telegram said. "We are still in a crisis."
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence,
said that nationally, NOW have been processing
9,000 new memberships a month for the past six
months.
"The impetus behind this increased support, the motivation for it, has been the election of a new national administration and national policy to support the Equal Rights Amendment," she said.
She also said that many of those who have omitted the ERA have been women.
"We know that some of the worst enemies of the amendment have been women, uninformed women, who have faince insecure about losing their inferior status," Charlton said.
"There is some security in having inferior status. Slaves had it, too."
State Sen. Jane Eldridge, R-Lawrence, said those people who chose to be good homemakers.
Carrying an ERA NOW banner, City Commissioners Tom Gleason and Nancy Shontz lead a group of 300 people down Massachusetts Street in a march in support of theEqual Rights Amendment Saturday. The March went from City Hall to South Park.
"We're recognizing that we all want and need the opportunity for choice—for choice that is not based on our sex, for choice that to do with our abilities and our capabilities."
"But those people don't have to be women or limited to women. There are good homemakers
Linda Wooa said that many women who had been homeless were rewarded with poverty in their lives.
There are 13 million women who are 65 years
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WENDY NUGENT/Kansan Staff
Regents consider request for increased KU salaries
By MARTHA BRINK
Staff Reporter
Acting Chancellor Dei Shankel presented KU's budget requests to the Board of Regents' budget and finance committee Thursday.
Undaunted by the Kansas Legislature's large cuts in the 1982 budget, the University of Kansas is requesting a 17 percent increase in faculty salaries and fringe benefits for fiscal years.
AMONG OTHER REQUESTS the University is asking for an increase of 15 percent for unclassified salaries and 2 percent for fringe benefits.
geology. Other budget priorities are funds for operating expenses and increased enrollment costs. Shankel said.
KU is also requesting $64,500 in salary increases for faculty in high-demand academic programs. High-demand areas include computer science, engineering and geology.
Last spring the Kansas Legislature
sappored a bill that would salary
allow employees and other budget requests.
KU had asked for a 10 percent increase in faculty salaries. Gov. John Carlin recommended an 8 percent raise, and the college in April approved a 7 percent increase.
SHANKEL TOLD THE budget committee Thursday that faculty salaries are "truly the most critical area" for budget increases.
"There is a perception on the part of the
salaries to increase the commitment to higher
salaries is lacking," he said.
Shankel expressed concern that too many faculty members have left KU primarily because of higher salaries at other institutions and in the private sector. During this academic year, he said, 42 faculty members left KU, and 21 of them said inadequate salaries were their chief reason for leaving.
Nancelle-designate Gene Bdigg, present at the meeting, said that he agreed with the proposal.
"We are on the verge of having serious problems," he said. "The University in no way has overtated the problem."
KU IS ASKING for a total budget of $160,549,194, a 15.8 percent increase over the 1982 approved budget which goes into effect July 1.
Fiscal 1983 budget extends from July 1982 to June 1982.
KU requested an additional $157,207,783 for the University of Kansas Medical Center.
A CRITICAL SHORTAGE of equipment is affecting its ability to provide quality services.
Besides faculty salary increases, Shankel said a top priority was increased funding for other operating expenses. The bulk of the equipment would go to library acquisitions and equipments.
For instance, between 1979 and 1980 cost increases for chemicals and laboratory supplies in the chemistry department ranged from 106 to 38% per cent. However, during this period other operating expenses increased only 74 percent.
According to the budget report submitted to the committee, sharp reductions in laboratory supplies have discouraged many students from conducting experiments.
Budging also expressed concern about equipment shortages.
"One area I'd like to point to is the shortage of equipment and the impact on instructional programs," he told the committee. "Students are being disadvantaged. I am convinced of
The budget request calls for $900,000 for
equipment purchasing and maintenance.
KU is also requesting $500,000 for library acquisitions.
According to the budget report the library will be forced to cancel more than 3,000 serial subscriptions by 1985 if funding is not increased. The prices of many science periodicals, for instance, have increased more than 30 percent, the report said.
The library will also be unable to purchase
least 14,000 volume needed to keep co-*
nrol.
The library acquisitions' proposed budget (based twice the amount requested in fiscal 1982)
Shankel said another top priority was $1
involvement, because of unexpected
enrollment increase.
These increases are reflected in higher costs, including security services and campus security.
Among its other requests, KU asked for $78,474 for a new bachelor of science in toxicology program and $55,888 for a historical administration. Both programs were approved in March 1980 by the Board of Regents.
Tennis tourney shows that disabled are true winners
Staff Reporter
By MARC HERZFELD
The Lawrence High School tennis court is far removed from center court at Wimbledon, in distance and prestige, but Barbara K. was an applause as she waved her trophy triumphantly.
Moments such as last Saturday's tennis tournament victory are rare for McEldowney, 32, because she is one of the people society has labeled "mentally retarded."
TWO YEARS AGO, AGO she felt not very triumphant when the local raqet club kicked her out.
"They said I was too slow." McEldowney said.
"The they think they're better than I am."
not his mummy's father, Robert, wrote a letter to protest about the request club's action, and she is now defending her son.
Brent Glazier, director of the Kansas Association For Retarded Citizens, said that he had encountered resistance to a tennis tournament for the retarded.
"When I first started, people said tennis is the one sport that retarded people can't play because of the coordination it requires," Glazier said.
However, Glazier discovered that retarded people were capable of playing tennis, and playing it well, as McEidlow does.
MARTY ROTHWELL, special projects coordinator for KARC, said that only six players participated in match competition when the tennis program started three years ago. Now, more than 88 players across the state play in the advanced matches.
The players in the tournament were divided into three divisions, based on skill levels to separate novices from advanced players like them, who has had years of coaching from her father.
Glazier also included a division for physically handicapped players.
"We had a gun last year that participated from a stretcher, and he did pretty well." Glazier said.
The players accumulate points with a system based on accuracy and consistency. Each player has an id, name, score, and time.
Chris Hahn, special population coordinator for the tournament's sponsor, the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department, said that players were constantly improving.
"You're not really competing with anyone from your division, you're competing against yourself," Hahn said.
'ONE OF THE GOALS of the program is summed
up, and given as a prize—'
'Everybody wants to be a Star.'
Wait, there's a small 'M' in the second line.
Let's look at the very first line again.
'ONE OF THE GOALS of the program is summed
up, and given as a prize—'
'Everybody wants to be a Star.'
Each of the 55 players in Saturday's tournament received at least a ribbon to show their participation.
One player who won a trophy, Mike Makins,
came from Abilene to play.
Makins, who is confined to the wheelchair, and his mother, Virginia, shared the triumph.
"It's the first time he's ever rallied," she said. "He didn't sleep at all last night because of the
Not all the players in the tournament showed Makins' anticipation, but Hahn, Robwell and the other coaches provided shy players with necessary encouragement.
McEldowney's father said, "I try to get her to be aggressive, She's hard to motivate."
McEidowney showed no lack of motivation at the tournament, as she demolished a straight line between the top and bottom.
Gnazier said that the tennis program had that handicapped people have few limitations.
LAST YEAR, Glazier helped conduct the first national basketball radeo in Hays, with more than 1,000 participants.
See TENNIS page 8
Weather
It will be mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms today and tonight, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. The high today will be in the mid- to upper-80s with an overnight low in the mid-60s. Winds will be out of the south at 10 or 20 mph.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain. The high will be in the
mid-80s.
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