University Daily Kansan, April 22, 1981
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on the decision was another factor that Carlin did not like.
"These are hard times for students," he said.
There should have been more considerations about the
Carlin
What students should be more aware of, Carolin said, is the fact that while the Legislature was in favor of raising tuition rates to raise more funding, it was intended to plow that money back into higher education.
When asked whether he was in favor of parimutuel betting or a lottery system to raise state funds, Carlin said that those types of revenue producers were good up to a point.
"Of course the whole decision requires a constitutional amendment and does not have a great deal to do with my office," Carlin said. But I would like to point out that parental battles or lotteries only work for a specific setting. They are only targeted to fund for one thing.
"With a severance tax, however, the money would be used for a variety of different expenditures. Those are alternatives with higher tax rates than income, but not for the general economy of the state."
ONE FACTOR about the severance tax that concerned some members of the crowd was exactly who would pay for the tax. They asked whether the tax would be favorable to a property tax increase.
"I vetoed the property tax increase earlier because Kansas already has one of the higher property tax rates in the Midwest," Carlin said. "With the property tax increase proposed some
"Now with the state tax, 80 percent of it would be paid out-of-state, but with the sales tax 80 percent would be paid for the farmers, and citizens of Kansas. That's the difference."
towns would have an increase of 27 mills and
that was too high. $1,000 of property I felt
that was too high.
on the severance tax, Carlin said that he had done all of the comorromaine that he would do.
"Complromise? I already have compromised on the tax," he said. "Under the amended tax the rate would have been 5 percent instead of 8 percent, with 2 percent instead of 8 percent for coal."
"I don't support the severance tax so that I can say that I passed one. It is just a viable alternative to raise money and what good would it do to you? I want tax if that will not produce the necessary revenues."
"My compromise is done and there. Those who want more compromise are playing politics. They are simply hurting the state of Kansas, the University of Kansas and the citizens of the state by not realizing how important the severance tax is."
CARLIN ALSO SAID that although the financial standing of the state was not critical yet, he could see problems brewing on the horizon.
"I do see an economic deterioration, but if there is appropriate action there will be no need to treat lemurians with like there was in Michigan and we said. We are an appropriate response—the severance tax."
Winn said that in the future, when universities specialize in certain areas, money from private sources might be needed.
Winn, the ranking minority member of the House Science and Technology Committee, said he would give the other members of the Kansas committee a vote on the report of the advisory committee's recommendations.
"We can't pay for everything we dream up," he said.
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Another meeting, to be held in six months, was
THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE also
releases a policy to government outline a
policy on land-energy terms.
tentatively set up to discuss the committee's impact on Congress.
"If we had an energy policy and made full use of our fossil fuels, then the crisis some perceive as a sign of technological decline."
He said that if the federal government dropped subsidies for alternative fuel sources, as the committee recommended, then the value of fuels "would rise and fall on their own merits."
have his father charged with something than have him "drift off into a wheat field."
The elder Winn said he had talked to his
attorney briefly yesterday, but was to call him
a month later.
have the option. He (the trooper) said, “Do you want to take it? I said, ‘Let me think about it for a while,’ while I was doing all the other things in the room and asked me again, and I said I’d rather not do it.”
"He's usually very careful about drinking at all when he's going to be driving back from Lawrence," Larry Winn III said. "It’s 35 miles where he was arrested) if he was that dawdler and sleepy."
The congressman's son said he would rather
of K-10 last night for a Sertoma Club meeting at Woodside Raquet Club in Westwood Kan., an
Dick Bond, an administrative assistant to Winn, said yesterday afternoon that Winn would be a new president.
Winn
WINN REPRESENTS the 3rd Congressional District of Kansas. The district is composed of Johnson and Douglas Counties and parts of Wyndotte County.
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are equipped with fire alarms and extinguishers, J. J. Wilson, director of housing, said.
"CAMPUS HAS A pretty safe record," mcswain said. "I'd been here almost, three weeks ago."
"We've been trying to accumulate the money to put in smoke detectors," he said. "They're working on the design now. It will improve protection."
A record check shows only two major residence hall fires in four years, both on upper floors. In November 1977, a fire caused $10,000 worth of damage to the eighth floor of McColum, and in March 1978, another fire struck the same hall, causing $22,000 worth of damage to the seventh floor. No injuries were reported in either fire.
Although firefighters are not overly concerned about a high-rise fire, they are concerned about the increasing number of false alarms, especially from the residence halls.
The police have caught one student this year through the reward system.
"Everything is in pretty good shape as far as campus is concerned," McSwin said. "The main thing that still worries us is the prank-type of small fires that occur."
"False alarms are expensive," he said. "It's expensive for citizens because it endangers lives, people and property. There's also wear and tear and fuel for the trucks."
The department responded to 193 false alarms in 1800, which is 18.8 percent of the total number of false alarms in 1800.
THE FREEP DEPARTMENT and housing office have worked together to try to eliminate false alarms in the halls. A 2020 reward is offered for people who report an alarm to people who pull or tamper with an alarm system.
About 1 a.m. yesterday, three units responded to a false alarm on the sixth floor of McColum Hall. After residents were evacuated, no fire was found.
"The fire department is really good about answering every call," Wilson said. "We know 99 percent of what happens is going to be false, but don't want to mess up on one that may be real."
"The real dilemma is false alarms," Wilson said. "False fire alarms are no joke. The problem is that they condition students not to respond."
"If there's a doubt, they'll come up and look. They don't get off at me. You did they? You did them?" They just come up and check.
"We think the Lawrence Fire Department does an excellent job."
IN ANOTHER EFFORT to stop false alarms, the housing office put a finger-staining, blue chemical dye on nail alarms to identify violators. However, no one has been caught by this method.
The number of false alarms has decreased this semester. McSain said.
"We've held programs on fire safety in all the halls to make the problem better known to living units," he said. "We were concerned about the rate and effect the false alarms were having on the total fire protection of the University and the city.
"Everything's been a lot better. We have a much, much improved alarm situation this
The fire department is responsible for fighting fires in the halls, but has no authority for fire inspections or code enforcement because the laws of the state are the duty of the Kansas Fire Marshal's office.
CAMPUS WAS LAST inspected in March 1980, Paul Markley, fire safety consultant for the Kansas Fire Marshal, said. KU's annual inspection will be in three weeks.
"Like all institutions, KU's got difficulties, but we don't think it's anything really serious," he said. "It's hard to bring the older buildings into 100 percent compliance, because of the cost. They can't rebuild a building everytime the code changes."
Markley said that common violations found at KU included a lack of fire alarms in some buildings, blocked fire doors and broken equipment.
"There has been a lot of improvement in the residence halls, scholarship halls and Greek houses," he said. "KU is comparable to the other Kansas schools in terms of fire safety."
Lawrence's 60-man, three-station fire department covers a 20 square mile area in the city, and Grant Township, which is north of the Kansas River.
ON A SCALE OF 10 to 1, Lawrence rates a five in terms of fire protection, according to the Insurance Services Office in Topeka, which assigns ratings to cities that help set insurance premiums. A rating of 10 is given to cities with an exception, while a rating of one is exceptional.
Last updated in October 1974, Lawrence's rating of five is above average for Kansas, E.A. Patterson, supervisor of pricing services, said. Topeka, Hutchinson and Wichita have the best Kansas ratings with "threes." Kansas City, Kan., is rated four.
Patterson said that the office surveyed the fire department, the water system and the means of receiving and dispensing fire alarms when assigning the ratings.
Archaeology and the Bible on Friday
7:30 PM
April 24th
Union Big 8 Room
Chris Bullard of Kansas City will give a lecture and a slide presentation on archaeology and the Bible.
Chris is an excellent speaker and an experienced traveler of the Holy Lands. His personal observations and studies will certainly provide us with a greater appreciation of the harmony between scientific investigation and the Word of God.
--with class card.
5.00 with out card
Refreshments will be provided.
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