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By GENE GEORGE Staff Reporter
After making final its approval of the $9 million cut from the Board of Regents proposed 1982 budget, the House yesterday launched a short-lived revolt against this year's deep cutting.
The House passed the conference committee report on the Regents budget, 97-28, and sent it to the Senate for its approval.
But the cut made in the university system was the last straw for many lawmakers, and a second bill funneled money to the school system was temporarily killed.
Meanwhile, the Senate passed a multi-year appropriations bill and sent it to Gov. John Carlin.
THAT BILL included $8 million for capital improvements at the KU College of Health Sciences' Kansas City, Kan., branch, the Wichita branch and a utility tunnel for the Lawrence campus.
The conference committee report on the Regents budget, if approved by the Senate, will be sent to the governor by the end of the week.
Rep. Betty Jo Charilton, D- Lawrence, said that the House decided to reverse its action on the vo-tech bill merely to send the bill back to conference committee for more work.
The changes the conference committee recommended for the Regents budget were:
- Eliminating the Senate's rider requiring university professors to teach at least three hours a week.
- Eliminating the House's amendment to give Kansas State University 17 more maintenance men.
- Reducing the House's extra funding for faculty pay at Fort Hays State University. The House wanted to give Fort Hays 5 percent more in faculty pay than the other universities because it said that the school
had lagged behind the other institutions in faculty pay for several years.
The conference committee recommended giving Fort Hays only 2percent more.
CHARLTON SAID the House thought that "the Senate members of the conference committees were tough on over the House members."
The committee was made up of three senators from the Senate Ways and Means Committee and three senators from the House Ways and Means Committee.
"At this point in the session," Charlton said, "it's mostly a rivalry between the two chambers."
If the Senate agrees to the conference committee report, the governor would be asked to sign into law:
- A reduced faculty pay raise cut from the governor's recommended 8 percent to 7 percent. This is a $1.7 million reduction. Because of the added funding, Fort Hays would receive a 9 percent pay increase.
- A reduced increase in the operating expense budget from the governor's recommended 6 percent this year. This is a $1 million reduction.
The Senate gave the KU College of Health Sciences and the Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine a 7 percent increase. The House did not challenge that increase.
In addition, the Regents bill precludes the universities from receiving additional money from the university. This would marginally increased or decreased
- A reduction in the enrollment adjustment money from the governor's recommended $1 million (p $600,000.
The bill also cuts $4.8 million in general fund money, replacing it with a 15 percent average increase intuition.
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By PAM HOWARD
Staff Reporter
One restaurant opens and another closes. Signs change. One thing that remains constant, restaurant managers say, is the competition.
"I think in Lawrence the competition is pretty heavy," said Ken Ollos, owner of Burger King, 130 W. 23rd St. and keep on top of things all the time."
Mark Huber, manager of Scholz-
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Karen Rosenberger, day shift supervisor of Pizza Hut, 804 Iowa St., said that because of the quality of their food, she did not suffer from the competition.
"Most people came back," Huber said. "They tend to get the late-night crowd."
“It’s quality food here and everyone knows it,” Rosenberger said. “Pizza Hut has been around long enough that we wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t good.”
Employees of only two restaurants, out of 10 questioned, said that their business had not been affected by competition.
Laurie Marienau, manager of Taco
John's, 1101 - W. 8th Sk., said that because of the quality of their food, their hours and their coupon specials, they had not been hurt by competition.
"The only thing that seems saturated to me is just the straight pizza place." Pash said. "When one opens, another closes."
The New Yorker, owned by Schumm,
was one of those that closed.
Coupons seem to be a favorite tool of restaurant owners to draw in new customers and bring old ones back.
"In this day and age coupons are a big deal, especially the way the economy is," Ollios said.
"People come in and they don't talk about other taco places," Marienau said.
of the restaurants if new ones did not begin opening at a rapid rate.
Bob Schumm, owner or Steuern
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promotional devices such as coupons
and weekend specials.
Uniqueness in product or service also keeps restaurants from drowning in a sea of competition.
"We have a really real product and I think that gives us a little bit of an edge," said John Isaen, manager of Sub n' Stuff, 1618 W. 23rd street. "We're open until 2 a.m. seven days a week. We notice quite a lot of business in the drive-through after midnight. Weekends are especially heavy."
"When we come across a price break in the market, we pass that along to our customers," Schumm said.
Sub n' Stuff, which opened in January, is the newest fast food restaurant in Lawrence.
Brien Hanson, manager of Domino's Pizza, 1445 W. 3rd St., said that they had an advantage over their competitors by offering a pizza place that delivered free and
guaranteed 30-minute delivery. He also said that they used a lot of coupons.
Variety is the secret for beating competition, according to Cliff Pash, manager of Julie's 3210 Iowa St.
"I'm sure if I had just pizza, I'd feel the competition a little more." Pash said. "There's still one pie for eating out and we're still dividing it up."
"The size of the town is growing at such a rapid rate that I don't think the fast food market will ever be saturated." Marienau said.
Lynn Herrington, manager of Border Bandido, 1528 W. 23rd St., said that there would be enough business for all
There may be only one pie for eating out, but restaurant owners and managers disagree on how much is left after they each take a slice.
Schumm said that demand for pizza had shrunk over the last few years because of the rising price of cheese and the availability of other spicy foods.
"I think the pizza market was saturated." Schumm said.
He said that he also thought that the total fast food market was saturated.
KU profs to study children's TV habits
"There was a need in the market place five to eight years ago, but that need was over-answered," he said.
American children, on the average, spend more time with the television than they do with their parents or teachers. In fact the only activity that up of more of their day is sleeping, KU researchers say.
The researchers, with help from 150 Topeka families, hope to find out what effect this extensive exposure to the small screen has on children.
Aletha Huston and John Wright, professors of human development, will study the viewing habits of 3- and 5-year-olds during the next two years in an attempt to determine how different children are exposed to commercial programming are associated with children's intellectual development.
"Some of our earlier studies suggest that there might be some developmental changes connected with their television vlogging." Hueston said.
"There is almost no information about children's viewing habits over a period of time. We hope to provide some answers to parents' questions about what kinds of early television viewing are helpful or harmful to children."
The parents of the Topeka children will keep a diary of their children's television viewing for one week every six months. Huston said that the children watch more TV than the spring and fall each year because previous studies in the field had shown
that most people's viewing habits were regular at those times of year.
At the end of the observational part of the study in 1983, the information from the viewing diaries will be compiled for each child. The children then will participate in various viewing exercises and, after that, exercisees will test the child's attention span and understanding of "high-quality children's programming."
Huston said they would be mainly concerned with the production techniques and formats of the programs.
"We are particularly interested in cartoons and what they do to kids," she said.
"my hunch," she said, "is that the kids who watched a lot of that type of programming very early in life will probably be hooked on it. But you could make just as strong a case for the saturation theory which suggests that they get their fill of it and become interested in different things."
No matter what the results of the research are, Huston said, she and Wright planned to publish the findings they would have national significance.
"We plan to publish along the way also, we will have much valuable information even before the study is completed," she said.
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