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The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Tuesday, April 28, 1981 Vol. 91, o. 141 UPS 650-60
Bell dismissed from team; disciplinary reasons given
Kerwin Bell
High football at Kansas, which began with high expectations, may have ended on a sour bourbon.
With just two workouts scheduled before the Varsity-Alumni game May 2, Head Coach Don Farmbrough announced yesterday that freshman tailback Kerwin Bell had been dismissed from the football team for disciplinary reasons.
"Kerwin has missed workouts and been dismissed from the team," he said. "The most important thing is our football program. There can be no one individual above this team or program here at the University of Kansas."
No one, however, is saying the dismissal is permanent.
"Kerwin Bell must prove to me that he wants an opportunity to get an education and to play football for the University of Kansas," Fambrough said.
Associated Press Big Eight first team running back and conference newcomer of the
The news may come as a shock to many Jayhawk fans, Bell, crowd pleaser and a fan of the NHL.
The Huntington Beach, Calif., native rushed in nine games last season for 1,089 yards on 220 carries. He finished the season ranked 10th among running backs across the country and second among freshman backs to Georgia's Herschell Walker.
Bell scored eight touchdowns in the Jayhawks 4-5-2 season and averaged 149.4 yards a game. The short, stocky tailback was a leader for Kansas State en route to a 38-19 victory.
"I didn't like it," he said, shaking his head.
"It was no fun. I have to be responsible for this football team. It comes above everything else.
The Jayhawks were definitely depending on Bell to contribute to more of those KU victories this season, and Fambrough was visibly shaken by his decision.
"I think the players understood why I did it.
I hope it makes a better out of him and of me."
Committee endorses fee hike
By GENE GEORGE Staff Reporter
The Senate Ways and Means Committee, banking on a tuition windfall of $2.6 million next year, yesterday endorsed the Board of Regents' recommendation to boost students fees by 22 percent.
But the committee's staff and State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, warned the committee that the sudden and tremendous toll on the Regents to the point of diminishing returns.
The committee went along with the Regents recommended 22 percent increase even though it
The Regents budget was part of the committee's debate on the catch-all omnibus appropriations bill, on which the Senate and House Committees began separate hearings yesterday.
THE FULL LEGISLATURE will consider the bill later this week. The legislators reconvene
If the Legislature endorses the Senate panel's action, KU students will pay $125 more in fees.
That same increase would be applied to the State University and Wichita State University.
Students at smaller Regents institutions would pay between $65 and $96 more.
The committee, which disagreed with the
regents decision not to raise tuition at the KU C
college, passed a resolution on Feb. 21.
LAWMAKERS PRESSURED the Regents to pass an across-the-board fee increase of 15 percent by cutting almost $6 million in state funding money from the board's 1982 budget.
percent increase for students on the Kansas City, Kan. campus.
The Regents instead passed the higher increase, and therefore needed legislative approval.
But the Legislative Research Department warned in its report to the committee that the 22 percent increase might only generate the additional funds on paper, and not in reality.
"The tuition increase, coupled with the possible decreases in federal student financial aid programs, could decrease enrollment from currently anticipated levels," the report said.
The research department pointed out another problem that could result in several Regents schools losing their share of the anticipated increase.
THE DEPARTMENT SAID that except for KU and Emporia State University, the Legislature had used old enrollment projections to determine how much money that would be generated from the increase.
But even if the Legislature's projections were off, the department said, KU still should receive about $1.1 million, the lion's share of the anticited tuition windfall.
Attempts by ASK and the Regents Student
Several student groups, including the Associated Students of Kansas, protested the Regents 22 percent hike because it might ieqardize enrollment.
Advisory Committee to get an attorney general ruling on the increase failed.
Branson, who expressified shock at some of the committee members' attitudes toward the tuition increase, said some students might leave their systems "to look to community colleges."
STATE SEN. Billy McCray, D-Wichita, one of two committee members who opposed the increase, said the Regents surprised the Legislature with the 22 percent hike, and was using that increase to get more money for operating expenses and student jobs.
"Don't you think this is a bold move in a chess game on the part of the Regents to put in a bush?"
Danaess Minority Leader Jack Stieinger, D- Kansas City, opposed the fee increase because
But State Sen. Frank Gaines, D-Augusta, said that students who really wanted an education can take classes in New York.
"I don't know of that great an increase in any segment of the economy nationwide," he said.
HE ADDED THAT the tuition increase was small compared to room and board costs, which he said were the largest expenses incurred by college students.
Branson said a tuition increase would not be needed if the Legislature passed the governor's proposed severance tax on the production of coal, natural gas and oil.
But the Republican-dominated Legislature opposed the tax and killed it.
Solbach says Regents increase legal
Rv BRADSTERTZ
Staff Reporter
State Rep. John Solbach said yesterday that he would not seek an attorney general's opinion on the legality of the Board of Regents 22 percent tuition hike for next year.
Following a meeting with student representatives and other Lawrence area legislators, Solbach, D-Lawrence, said that research into state law clearly showed that the Regents had the authority to make the 22 percent tuition increase that they approved in their last meeting.
Sobach said that he had decided not to ask for the opinion simply because the law was so exalted.
"We talked about whether or not it was appropriate to seek an attorney general's opinion on the tuition increase," Solbach said. "The consensus was that it was not appropriate."
STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT Bert Coleman, however, said that another query for Mr. Coleman was "to know if his name is
"The matter of whether or not they can set the high fees we decided not to seek an opinion on," Coleman said. "But we brought up the possibility of whether the Registers violated or should be
"In the Kansas Constitution, Article Six, Section six clearly gives the Legislature the authority to give the Regents the authority to make laws which rates at institutions under its supervision.
John Solbach
able to violate its own policy on having impact statements available on regulation changes."
"We left the meeting on the note of if I asked them to bring up the question, then they would put it in. The reply was: Yes."
Solbach held the meeting yesterday in his Lawrence law office. Also at the meeting were State Sen. Jane Eldredge, R-Lawrence; State Bet. Rep. Betty Charlton, D.Lawrence, and Bob
Bingaman, executive director of the Associated Students of Kansas. State Rep. Jessica Branson.
Solbach had arranged the 1½-hour meeting after Coleman contacted him last week about his intentions to pursue an attorney general's opinion on the increase.
"A lot of good things came out of the meeting," Coleman said, "and at its conclusion it was made clean that we have not quit pursuing the groundwork for the future, that we just laid the groundwork for the future."
SOLBACH ALSO SAID that the meeting was useful.
"I think that it was decided that the tuition increase, if there had to be an increase, was a responsible decision," Solbach said. "Twenty-two percent seems like a lot, but the Regents had no need to keep the institutions healthy, so they must increase to compensate for heavy legislative cuts."
Coleman, however, said he still thought that the increase was a "self-defeating" cause.
"There is some good to it if I suppose," Coleman effect for students to stay, then it defends itself."
Coleman said that if the increase eliminated a certain amount of incoming students, then the Regents would lose the money that they hoped to gain by the tuition increase.
"The Legislature has told the Regents that
See SOLBACH page 6
KU tuition low compared to conference schools
By DAN BOWERS
Staff Reporter
"The only schools with lower tuition costs are the Oklahoma schools," he said, "and they are also very, very low rated academically in comparison with the other schools."
Glee Smith, Larned Regent, said yesterday that even with the increase, KU would rank sixth among the Big Eight schools in the cost of education.
KU students, who are facing a 22 percent increase in tuition next year, will still be paying less for their education than students at most other Big Eight schools.
KU's Office of Institutional Research and
JOHN CONARD, executive officer for the Regents, said the Regents had a policy of increasing tuition no more than once every four years. That four-year cycle fell upon the Regents schools last year, and a 9.5 percent increase was imposed on the students.
The tuition fees go toward funding of the academic programs at the universities, including: faculty salaries, student services, supplies and library costs. Student activity fees and other special fees are added to the tuition base for the total enrollment day bill.
Planning released a report earlier this year that showed the University of Colorado was the most expensive school in the Big Eight with in-state tuition and fees totaling $995 for the 1980-81 academic year. Tuition costs alone at Boulder total $762 per year.
WITH THE 22 PERCENT INCREASE, KU's in-state tuition fees will increase by $124 a year to $864 a year, still $138 less than Colorado's fees this year.
State University and the University of Missouri each charged over $700 a year for in-station tuition.
That increase, Regents and University officials have maintained, was not sufficient to
Kansas State University, KU's Regent counterpart in the Big Eight, carries the same tuition of $500 a year for 1980-81, and it faces the same 22 percent increase for next year.
The cause of this year's increase is due, in part, to a Regent's policy that was designed to improve the effectiveness of the program.
This year, the University of Nebraska. Iowa
keeppace with rising costs and budget cuts in the operating expenses for the Regents schools. But because of former President Carter's Wage and Price guidelines last year, Conard said, the Regents were unable to raise the fees more than 9.5 percent to meet the rising costs.
He said the need for more funds, as well as legislative pressure, left the Regents no choice to continue.
"The Board's policy of not raising it more than every three or four years, and Carter's guidelines, caused the Regents to fall behind." Conard said. "We had gone three years without imposing an increase, and with Carter's help, we were only able to raise fees by 5.5 percent."
The Legislature took $6.3 million out of the
general fund for the Regents," he said. "They
would like to place that if you wish with the
10 percent increase."
"With the cut in OOE (other operating expenses) to a 5.5 percent increase from the 9 percent the Hedges requested, we really needed to raise it so that we could be able to raise it (the OOE budget) back up."
CONARD SAID that the future of only raising tuition once every four years was in jeopardy.
"I don't think that we can hold it for three or four years, given the unpredictable state of the economy," he said. "I am very hopeful that we can hold it for two years."
Conard said he was not aware of any other
Dick Wright, host of KANU's Saturday Morning "Jazz Scene," begins his day by getting his equipment ready and tuned for the day's programming.
See TUITION page 5
KANU broadcaster believes fifties jazz will outlive fads
By CORAL BEACH Staff Reporter
The barrel-chested tenor spoke to his radio audience with the clear-toned voice of an opera star. Many of the jazz tunes he played were from the mid-1960s, recorded during the same era that he and other KU music students battled to convince faculty and administration that jazz was a valid American art form that was here to stav.
Jazz has outlived acid rock, disco and punk—so has Dick Wright. host of KANU's Saturday show at The Music Hall.
"Musical fads will come and go, but jazz is still there," Wright said. "Disco, and the pounding beat that made it so popular, was just a new form of big band swing."
Between jazz platters, Wright promoted the live boardcast of the Metropolitan Opera that was to air after his show. Wright could have been singing in the Met's afternoon performance that
day. But, instead of exercising his diaphragm on the new York stage, he shared his jazzy favorites with the crowd.
FROM BACH TO BE-BOP. Mozart to Mangione, Wright has done it all. Trained as an operatic tenor since age 15, Wright is now the foremost jazz historian in the Midwest.
It is not unusual for big-name musicians to travel from Kansas City or farther for interviews on Wright's show. He said that he didn't have to come to the studio—they call him and volunteer.
Wright said he didn't think his family realized how well-known he was in the music world.
See WRIGHT page 5
"the last time Gap Mangione, Chuck's the station to talk," Wright said. "he be came by the station just to talk."
"Once I took my daughter to a Slan Kenon concert and the band played 'Happy Birthday' to me."
Weather
It will be partly cloudy today with a high in the mid to upper 70s, according to the KU Weather Service. Winds will be out of the north at 10 to 20 mph.
Tonight, skies will be clearing with a low of 49.
Tomorrow will be sunny with a high of 71.