University Daily Kansan, April 14, 1981 Page 6
Retirement
From page 1
Under the bill, that same professor, with a current salary of $30,775, would have his prior benefitCalculated on the basis of his final salary over the last five years of employment.
If that figure were $30,000, the professor would receive prior service benefits of $30,000 in his pay.
The prior service component is then added to a computation for participating service (the total number of years the individual has been employed). The total retirement benefits of the employee.
MARSHALL CROWTHER, deputy executive secretary for KPERS, said the bill was referred to the House Ways and Means Committee Thursday after the House Committee on Penalties adopted a bill that would allow public school teachers, and reduced the penalty for early retirement during a three-year period.
Crowther said the bill would help encourage early retirement in an era of declining enrollments when administrators were looking for ways to reduce their staffs.
Crowther said the bill had an excellent chance of passing this session.
HE SAID THAT Speaker of the House Wendell Lady, R-Overland Park, Senate President Ross Doyen, R-Concordia, and David Heineman, Rin 1976 was the last KU debate team to win the NDT.
Garden City, chairman of the Pensions and Investments Committee, had indicated that they would support the bill.
The bill would not cause any changes in the cost to the state of the program, Crowther said, because of the interest rates that the KPERS investments have capitalized on.
He said Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, chairman of the Ways and Means Commission, had indicted this committee would act quickly on the bill when the Legislature returned from its recess April 29.
ON THE KU CAMPUS, faculty members are
interested in interest as it progresses
through the L-LEluatex.
"A lot of us didn't know about the bill until late
year," Ambroise Saricis, professor of history,
at Harvard University.
"It seems to me to be quite an equitable thing to do. There is a great difference between 1969, 1980 and 1981 salaries under which the benefits are fairly figured, and the latest years' salaries."
James Drury, professor of political science, noted the importance of passing the bill year after year to create a framework for protecting children.
"I'm not retiring this year, but it is certainly important to those who are and have had prior experience."
The bill would affect only those employees who retired after it was enacted, making it very difficult to keep track of them.
KU debaters place fifth at nationals
Two KU debaters placed fifth last night at the National Debate Tournament at the University of California at Pomona. The top 60 in the nation in the nation competed in the tournament.
Mark Gidley, Houston sophomore, and Rodger Payne, Sand Springs, Okla., sophomore, accumulated a preliminary round win-loss record of 5-3, which advanced them to the elimination rounds where they won fifth place in the tournament.
Andrea Parson, wife of KU's Director of Forensics, Donnan Parson, said her husband told her he was very pleased with the team's performance and the NDT was a "power-match tournament."
Since 1970, KU debaters have placed in the top five at the national tournament 10 times. The team of Robin Rowland and Frank Cross
Rowland is nowa teaching assistant in the speech and drama department and helps
Another KU team, Zachary Grant, Manhattan junior, and Brian Wright, Paul sophomore, also participated in the NDT this fall. He did not qualify for the elimination rounds.
"Dom said that Zac and Brian particularly met extremely hard competition," Mrs. Parson said. "They met six teams who won first round at large bids to the tournaments, also met a team from Kentucky which was ranked as the top team in the tournament."
TOPEKA—Except for an occasional guard or a legislative researcher, the Kansas Statehouse is empty now.
Grant and Wright had a preliminary round win-loss record of 44. Names of the teams that took the top places in the tournament were not available at deadline.
Unresolved issues awaiting legislators
By BRAD STERTZ
Staff Reporter
The guided tours for constituents have ceased, the elevators are unmanned, the lobbyists have disappeared and the lawmakers have gone home. The public has been given a chance to deal with bills vetied by Gov. John Carlin.
Yet while the scene at the statehouse is one of desolation, there are many issues that cannot be deserted. Many questions still remain to be resolved before the legislators can go off to their jobs that range from attorneys to alfalfa dehydrators.
Foremost on the list of unresolved pieces of legislation are the issues of school finance and the mineral production severance tax.
IN A LAST-MINUTE move, Gov. John Carlin told legislators that he would veto the school to require that it ensure that includes increased property taxes, unless they passed his proposed mineral severance tax.
Simple blackmail was not his intention, John said. It was just that he could not justify raising the charge for revenue when an untapped source of revenue, was available from the mineral producers.
The severance tax would place a production tax on the mining of oil, natural gas, coal, salt and cement. Currently those producers do not have their removal of the minerals from the soil of Kansas.
Carlin wants to remedy that in order to bring relief, and at the same time, increase the demand for his services.
But the severance tax has not been a simple matter since the beginning of the session.
WHEN THE LEGISLATURE opened Jan. 12, the severance税 was already an issue. On Jan. 13, Carlin formally introduced the tax to the Legislature.
After the tax was prepared, public forums were held in counties across the state. Public concerns were echoed in the debates on the tax, with people from the mineral producing areas opposed to the tax would discourage the development of mining zones and were concerned that energy bills would increase.
Immediately, the issue of the tax divided rural Kansans from urban Kansans. It was not necessarily a split between Democrats and Republicans. It was a split between those in oilproducing areas and those in non-oil producing areas.
Senate President Ross O. Doyen, R-Concordia, and a strong opposement of the bill, placed the bill in two committees, an unusual move. When the first committee shot down the bill, the severance tax landed in the position where it rests today, with Carlin trying to breathe life into the issue.
Eventually the bill for the tax got through the House with the help of political maneuvering, but it was not quite enough to override.
HIS LATEST EFFORT will include frequent stops across the state which will put pressure on local legislators by showing the public how their actions would jump if the severance tax is not enacted.
While the severance tax was the across-the-board big issue in the 1981 session, several other issues also grabbed attention, including the issue of KU's tenure policy.
The seeming assault on KU's tenure policy
that day, State Rep Joseph J. Hoglund K
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Analysis
Overland Park, rose from his seat, and on a point of personal privilege, blasted the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare as a "seedbed of malcontents."
The reason for the blast, Hoagland told the full House, was pent-up emotions from the trips that KU faculty members Norman Forer and Clarence Dillingham made to Iran in 1799.
Hoagland received an immediate standing ovation for his speech and was given considerable support in his further efforts on the matter.
IN RAPID SUCCESSION, Hoagland announced that his House Judiciary Committee would hold hearings on tenure, specifically the case of former Forer was able to keep his job after the trips.
As the hearings on tenure lingered, Hoagland's support seemed to dry up. Representatives who had once whotheartedly supported Hoagland now need the need for legislative action on the tenure issue.
When the three proposed bills altering the tenure system were referred to the House Ways and Means Committee after introduction, many legislators speculated that Hoagland had begun looking for an easy way out of the controversy he had created.
After taking a look at the state Board of Regents plan to internally revise tenure, Hoagland called off all efforts to get the tenure bill pushed through the Legislature.
Hoagland said that he was satisfied that the Regents proposals were close to the changes in legislation.
STATE REP. John M. Solbach, D-Lawrence a concrete for House. Houghton, tenure a concrete for House. Bloonday, tenure a concrete for House.
overblow the similarity of the Board of Regents proposals to the tenure bills.
"I would say that it is reasonable that Hoagland found he could not win with the bills." Solbach said at the time. "He found he had run into a huge bill through and took this as an easy way out."
At the same time that Hoagland was pushing the tenure bills, two other incidents relating directly to KU captured the attention of the Legislature.
In response to the Kansas City Times' copyrighted series on recruiting violations and funding abuses at KU, Kansas State University and Wichita State University, State Rep. Mike Hayden, R-Atwood and House Ways and Means Committee chairman, announced plans for a legislative investigation into the schools' athletic programs.
In another KU-related issue several legislators, including Hayden and State Sen. Paul Hess, R-Wichita and chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, pulled a surprise visit on the University of Kansas Medical Center.
THE LEGISLATORS SAID that while touring the facility, they found several examples of poor management and maintenance and demanded an explanation from the University. They were told by the university's deplorable, telling of how they found a dirty surgical glove in the middle of a hospital floor.
The combination of Hoagland's attacks, Hayden's investigation and the surprise Med Center visit led many legislators to speculate that a group of politically ambitious legislators were banding together to use KU as a scapegoat for deep budgetary cuts.
By making KU look inefficient and overfunded, the legislators said that Hayden, Hess, Hoagland and Doyen were justifying their involvement in the questioning of their image as public-conscious officials.
The three issues that sparked that speculation ended rather quietly. Hoagland let the tenure bills die. Hayden found nothing to legislatively execute the universities' athletic programs with.
The Med Center problems were adequately resolved by the University, according to some of the legislators who visited the facility again. The Senate also worked with the House and Senate and went to Carlson's desk.
As a victim of a strong conservative element in the legislature this session, the Regents budget suffers.
AMONG THE DEEPER cuts was a Senate decision to slice the governor's proposed 8 percent increase in faculty per seat to 7 percent. The budget was an across-the-board increase in tuition.
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