The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Friday, April 17, 1981 Vol. 91. No. 135 USPS 650-640
The residence hall of Daisy Hill are silhouetted against the setting sun in the view from Oliver Hall.
Use of KPERS surplus fund debated
By KATHRYN KASE
Staff Reporter
The KU Classified Senate and Gov. John Carlin are challenging the funding base of a bill that would increase retirement benefits for those employees. Employees Retirement system began in 1962.
The prior service bill would be funded by a $20 million surplus that would be generated next year if civil service employees' retirement contributions are not reduced, Joe Collins, Senate Government Action Group chairman, said yesterday.
Arguing that the money belongs to all state employees who have contributed to KPCRS and other organizations is counterproductive.
Collins asked that employees' retirement benefits be reduced to absorb the KPERS
"We're not against the bill," he said. "We're just against the method of funding."
CARLIN APARENTLY agrees and has introduced a bill that would reduce state employee's retirement contributions from 4 to 2 percent. Locally, Carlin's bill would affect 1,000 KU classified employees, while the prior service bill would affect only 114, Collins said.
"To me, that's a stark difference," he said. "They should fund the prior service bill by taking the money out of the general fund rather than the retirement fund."
All KPERS asks is that the projected surplus be used for active, rather than retired, employee training.
KPERS deputy executive secretary, said. Because employers also contribute to the fund, KPERS prefers that the money not be used to invest the employer contribution, Crowther said.
"If the Legislature does nothing, the rates for employers will go down," Crowther said.
KPERS WOULD SANCTION the prior service
effort, said, because it would benefit
active employees.
In fact, the prior service bill has been introduced each year for many years, Crowther said. While the bill has been widely supported, the state could never fund it until this March, when KPERS discovered a $20 million surplus would be generated next year if retirement
See RETIREMENT page 5
Tuition expected to rise 15% or more, despite student lobbying efforts
BY DAN BOWERS and BRIAN LEVINSON
Staff Reporters
EMPORIA-Despite a squeeze between decreasing financial aid and increasing tuition, KU students can expect at least a 15 percent increase in fees, the Kansas Board of Regents said yesterday.
The Regents are expected to approve the tuition increase at their meeting today at Emerson.
The fee increase, which will affect all seven Regents schools, would be implemented so that students at Regents schools would pay for nearly 25 percent of the cost of their education.
"Educational costs have escalated so much that we can not be excluded from increasing," Facialling said.
Regents, chairman Bernard Franklin of Kentucky, who said increased infection was necessary to keep up with infiltration.
AT A SPECIAL meeting of the Regents Budget and Finance Committee yesterday, members of the Student Advisory Committee (comprised of Regents schools' student government leaders) warned that any increase would cause for many students, and listed their terms for accepting such an increase.
Jim Anderson, SAC chairman and Fort Hays State University's representative, said SAC would accept a 'reasonable' tuition increase if impremed the quality of education at Regents in the city.
Franklin questioned how "reasonable" would be defined.
A TUITION INCREASE would put a financial burden on many students, Anderson said. He told the Regents that next year 750,000 students would be out of college because of decreased financial aid.
Anderson said the SAC would provide the Regents with a definition of "reasonable" before this morning's meeting of the Budget and Finance Committee.
The 15 percent increase may be a conservative projection of the actual tuition increase in light
of discussions among the students, Regents and chief administrators at the Regents schools.
Robert Cobb, KU executive vice chancellor, said the higher fee increase would be necessary to keep afloat the budget for Other Operating and University's general fund for academic expenditures.
He said that it was difficult to determine the "trade off" between the higher tuition costs for students and the need to preserve high quality education.
"There is a strong disposition to keep student fees as low as you can," he said. "But it has to be done in a manner consistent with the quality academic program you purport to offer."
COBB SAID THE cost of that high quality education might be at the expense of students
"We are going to have to react or the quality of education available to the student is going to change."
Another justification for the 20 percent increase may be to prevent a developing trend of annual tuition increases. Members of the Council of Presidents pointed out that if the figure was increased enough, another increase might not be necessary next year.
"I don't want to come back every year and face the students with another increase." James Appleberry, Pittsburg State University president, said.
APPLEBERRY SUGGESTED that the Council of Presidents emphasized the importance of the quality of education in their recommendations to the Reegens.
"Whether it would be putting pressure on the Legislature to put more into the Regents system, raising student fees or efforts on the federal level, something needs to be done," he said.
Clark Anlberg, Wichita State University president, said the fee increase should be considered on the basis of its impact in determining future budgets.
"If they stay at 15 percent, they have a tremendous responsibility for fiscal year 1883." *Auctioneer*
KU training table different non-typical, manager says
See TUITION page 5
By KATHY MAAG Staff Reporter
Contrary to this stereotype, the athlete is a mild-mannered young man, who is proud of his athletic abilities. He has a strong, resilient spirit.
"We want people to know the true picture of
the truth." He's not a chowder, he'd a gifted mash-up.
"a chowder," he said.
The male athletes who eat at KU's training table are not chowhounds who are served unlimited platelets of steak seven days a week. Paul Sinclair, athletic training manager, said
"The athlete eats a little more than the man," he said, much as many everyone thinks. He takes pride in his body.
LOCATED IN THE basement of Jayhawk Tower B, the training table closely resembles a residence hall cafeteria, except for the Jayhawk-blue-and-walls and carpeting. A chalkboard used by basketball Coach Ted Owens for his pregame "chalk talks" stands in the corner.
"The table gives an athlete the opportunity to eat well-rounded meals," Sinclair said. "There's a good chance that if he cooked for himself, he'd live on hamburgers and french fries."
Sinclair and his 12-member staff serve the athletes "portion-controlled" meals, including barbecued chicken, roast beef, toasted sausage, sandwich salad, dessert and unlimited sunflowers of ice cream.
NCAA RULES prohibit anyone but the
athletes and coaches from eating in
the cafeteria (unless included).
"We serve steak only once a week," he said. "I use colonies, just try to provide well-balanced meals."
Ninety-five football players, 13 basketball, two track, nine baseball and 12 coaches eat on the training table. Also included are nine swimmers, who only eat there during practice sessions from August to March, and 21 partial scholarship athletes who pay the difference between a partial and full scholarship for training table privileges.
Sinclair said he had served the women's basketball team five pre-game meals this year. No other women's teams have requested to be served.
Training tables have been a part of athletics
A training table for women:
See story page 7
for a long time," Don Fambrough, head football coach at the University of Tennessee, served the team in the Union and another time at TCU.
THE TOWERS were built in 1968 and the table was set on there shortly afterward, he said.
Most of KU's male athletes currently live in apartments in all four Towers buildings, one of which is on the campus.
Serving food to 152 hungry men three times a day is not a problem. Sinclair said.
"The reciprocation of the players is absolutely great," he said. "They are always gentlemen and never engage in horseplay or smutty talk, that's the truth and I want people to know that."
ALL ATHLETES eating on the table are treated the same, he said, whether they are the starting quarterback or a player with little playing time.
"It's a big privilege to know the big names, but no one gets preferential treatment," Snailcar said.
See TABLE page 7
Jennie Hauser, an employee at the KU Animal Care Unit in Malotl Hall, examines a male sparrow hawk that was brought to the center last New Year's Eve. The hawk shattered bones in its left wing and right leg and had also apparently been poisoned. See related story page 8.
Weather
Carlin goes to citizens for severance tax support
Sunny skies and warmer temperature today will bring a high of 79, according to the KU Weather Service. Be out of the southeast at 10 to 15 mph.
Tonight's low will be near 50 under mostly clear skies. The summer-like weather will continue tomorrow with clear skies and a high around 80.
By BRAD STERTZ
At 8:40 a.m. yesterday Gov. John Carlin departed from Topeka to take the gospel of the mineral production severance tax into the dens of the opposition.
At 11:45 a.m. Carlin arrived in Eldorado, the oil-production hub of the state near the home of another strong opponent of the tax, State Sen. Frank Gaines.
At 9:15 a.m. Carlin's plane arrived in Concord,
at the lakeshop at Renton. President Ross
the landlord's shop at Renton.
Staff Reporter
At 2:15 p.m. Carlin arrived in Pittsburg, the center of another mineral-wealther area.
"It was a successful trip." a spokesman for the governor said, and Carlin returned to Topeka
FOR CARLIN, who was desperately seeking to revive the legislatively killed severance tax, the trip to the three Kansas towns had to be a success.
Carlin admitted that the journey was a "last ditch effort" to get the support needed to pass the severance tax during the "veto session" during April 29. That session will last about a week.
But while Carlin termed the trip a success, the recipients of Carlin's attention said that they were not so sure that Carlin's venture was such a success.
"Well, he had a nice turnout," Doyen said, "but I wouldn't say that his trip out here has changed my mind. In fact, I haven’t even felt any pressure from constituents so far.
"My phone hasn't rung once yet."
A T A OWN MEETING with Carlin, Doyen said, some local residents complained that the governor should have listened more to local news and added that he expected that kind of response.
"The problem with the issue of the tax is that a lot of the people in this area do not understand what it will do to them," Doyen said. "At the meeting they were listening to Gov. Carlin's
arguments and believing that without getting the other side of the story."
Doyen said Carlin only presented the argument that if the severance tax were not enacted, property taxes would dramatically decrease. And Carlin said Carlin overloaded was reduced state spending.
IF THE STATE continued to tax, he said, and
that it would then it would have to face a
day of racking up.
"He didn't talk about the other alternative, which is less spending," Doyen said. "His philosophy, I guess, is tax more and spend more, but that is what has gotten the federal government in trouble. I don't want that to happen to Kansas."
"Because this is not a mineral-producing area," Doyen said, "these folks don't realize that
"I don't care what kind of tax it is, whether it is a severance tax or a property tax, increased by $100 per month."
That point was one that Doyen said the
concordance into that into the Concordia
VEW Hall did not understand.
they are not getting a free ride with the severance tax.
"It is simply a subject that they have very little knowledge of."
In the in home towns of Doyen and Gaines, Cain stressed the image that legislators were pursuing the interests of oil and gas lobbies more than stressed the interests of the people in the district.
BY SHOWING HOW personal property taxes would rise without the severance tax, Carlin said that he hoped to put even more constituent pressure on the opposing legislators.
"It definitely is beginning to look like sentiment is growing for the severance tax," Carlin said. "There were some questions brought by people in Eldorado that indicated they were not in favor of the tax, but overall I would say that the mood has been positive."
Carlin termed his run-ins with oil and gas representatives in Eldorado as a "healthy exchange that provided a good contrast to what we are talking about."