The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Tuesday, April 7, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 127 USPS 650-640
Activity fee gets approval by Chancellor
BOB GREENSPANIKansan staff
ByKAREN SCHLUETER StaffReporter
increasing gas prices don't seem to bother this Lawrence man, who found a perfect way to transport his family—a bicycle built for four.
After almost two months of wrangling, Student Senate leaders learned last night that the Chancellor would approve the $14.50 student activity fee they had recommended.
At last night's Student Senate executive committee meeting, Brent Abnett, student body vice president, said that David Ambler, vice president of the Senate, had agreed to the Senate's recommendation.
BUT YESTERDAY he said he was satisfied with the justifications the Senate presented for the full increase.
"Basically, even in my earlier recommendation of $14, it was not the 50 cents as much as it was the concern I had with the process," he added. "And that most of those concerns have been relalized."
In February, Amber told the Senate that the governor probably would recommend 41 to the Senate.
Acting Chancellor Del Shankel said yesterday he had insultations about the increase at first.
"I thought there were several areas where we needed more funding than was necessary," he said.
HE SAID that one example was increased funding for the Karsan, which will receive an additional dollar per student from the fee. Earlier, Starker said the Legal Group's 72 percent increase was excessive.
"Dr. Ambler and I visited with the student body president, vice president and the chairman of the Finance and Auditing Committee, and they presented additional data," Shankel said.
"On the basis of that additional information, we agreed that we would support the additional fee if Dr. Ambler thought it was desirable enourh."
"Chancellor Shankel was willing to go along with what I recommended, and the Regents also agreed," he said.
Ambler said that the Regents probably would approve the increase.
ABBOTT SAID that the chancellor had received letters from several student senators and student organizations requesting that he approve the increase.
"I think it really was a good campaign from
SFPNATE page 5."
See SENATE page 5
Candidate's identity remains unknown
By DALE WETZEL
Staff Reporter
Just as the five City Commission candidates near the election finish line, a new write-in contender has suddenly popped into their midst.
A cursory glance at his biography indicated that he is, at worst, a model citizen.
He's a native Kansan, a systems consultant, a city leisure lounge player, and a devotee of televised sports.
A formidable write-in opponent? Perhaps.
HE'S ALSO A SUCCESSFUL businessman.
He's never been arrested, never paid his bills late, never had a traffic ticket and has never passed a rubber check.
However, Martin L. Roberts couldn't vote for himself in the City Commission election today if he wanted. According to the Douglas County clerk, he's not a registered voter.
Roberts isn't a prolific contributor to Lawrence's tax base either. According to the county assesser, he's not on Lawrence's real estate or tax rolls, which makes it rather difficult to determine where Roberts' constituency is coming from.
ANOTHER NUMBER, obtained through directory assistance, obtained equally unsatisfactory results; a chair female voice assured the caller at 10 p.m. that Mr. Roberts was out "chasing down some support" and promised that he would call back. He never did.
He's listed in the Lawrence phone book, yet a quick dial of his number at Wood Creek Apartments yielded only the drone of a disconnected phone recording.
After all, the polls will be open in less than 24 hours.
Roberts' treasurer, listed as E. Brown in a quarter-paper. Roberts advertisement in *The New York Times* (Aug. 27)
Of four E. Brown listings in the Lawrence
City election today
Lawrence voters today must choose three CAs commissioners from a field of five candidates.
Weather
The commission candidates are : incumbent Barkley Clark, KU professor of law; Nancy Shontz, a "community volunteer"; incumbent Bob Schumm, a Lawrence restaurant owner; Nancy Hambleton, director of business development with Design Build Architects; and Tom Gleason, Lawrence attorney.
Polls opened at 7 a.m. for the election, which also includes the race for the Lawrence District #497 School Board. They will close at 7 p.m.
phone book, one number was disconnected, one was not in working order (according to Ma Bell), and one was not answered. The answer of one declared gruffy that "there's no Mr. Brown here, period!" and punctuated the statement by slamming the telephone receiver.
Roberts is no rookie at the game of City Commission write-in politics. He placed a similar ad in the April 2, 1979 Journal-World, prior to the 1979 election.
That ad pictured an official-looking Roberts,
Tonight will be clear with a low near 45. Winds will be out of the south at 8 to 13 degrees.
It will be warmer today with scattered cloudiness with a high near 70 degrees.
Tomorrow will be cooler with increasing cloudiness in the afternoon. The high temperature will be near 60 degrees.
clad in business suit and tie, laboring over desk papers. This year's advertisement pictures an out-of-focus Roberts, with a small, dark-haired child at his side.
Robert's' election platform reads like Mary Poppins. He's for expanded shopping, excellence in city services, only positive growth, sound business model, town-and-gown ties, follow-through and ecology.
TOO GOOD to be true, eh?
Funding problems threaten library
City Commissioner Marci Francisco won't say for sure, though.
"That whole thing got started in 1979 as a kind of joke," Francisco said. "I knew some people who worked for Roberts then, but I don't know who's behind him now."
By DAN BOWERS Staff Renorter
"All of my friends are directing their efforts this year toward serious candidates. I don't know why they're doing that, but it seems to me."
Whoever it is, it is money. Roberts's quarterpack Kansan ad cost him $55.05, according to Kansan records, and a similar-sized, and also ad also ran in the Journal-World the same day.
In 1979, a people even heeded Roberts' call; he received 71 votes, out of 645 cast.
"It's just a joke this time—I think," Francisco said.
Staff Reporter
KU officials cautiously are weighing library and departmental priorities to cope with a slim 5.5 percent increase in appropriations for Other Operating Expenses next year.
The Regents originally had requested a 7 percent increase in the OOE budget, which provides funds for university equipment, supplies and library acquisitions.
Near the top of the list of KU fiscal priorities is the acquisition budget for KU's library system, which is threatened by the small increase, to Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor.
HE SAID yesterday there might need to be some sacrifices within the University to supplement the OOE budget to preserve the library's quality.
When weighing the needs of the library and of the other academic programs, the University has a list of goals.
"It's a very thin distinction between what might be perceived as adequate library funding, without cutting to the bone, without doing damage in some other areas," he said.
Cobb pointed to the importance of maintaining adequate holdings in the library.
TED SHELDON, collection development librarian, estimated that prices of books and serials increased by 10-15 percent this year, because the OOE allocations made by the Legislature.
"We have the finest collection in these parts," he said. "Once that begins to slide—in our holdings, periodicals and collections—it's hard to recover.
"We need to use our collective tenures to fix issues without damaging the fabric of the institution."
In order to preserve the library, Cobb said, he would have to appreciate the scope of its financial resources.
"Everyone must see it as a general problem," he said, "and require some modest compromises on the power of the law."
SOME AREAS where funds could be diverted to the library include: additional cuts in the University telephone system; reducing the frequency or structure of the Curriculum-instruction surveys taken in classes at the end of each semester; bringing into the University's shrinkage resources.
Cobb explained shrinkage as a budgetary allowance that accounts for faculty members' expenses.
The University is allocated 88 percent of its salary budget, he said. The remaining two percent is withheld in anticipation of the replacement of faculty members with faculty hires at lower salaries.
Cobb said the process forced a department to "squeeze" to stay within the salary budget, a situation compounded when, for example, a faculty member goes on sabbatical. The staff will receive half of his salary, cutting into the funds available for a new faculty member.
ON THE OTHER HAND, a shrinkage surplus may result if no replacement is hired, or if an assistant professor is hired to replace an associate professor.
Cobb said that if departments were to
"squeeze even tighter," some funds could be made available for library and equipment expenditures. An example he offered was to not hire a replacement in a department where there was only a modest increase in that department's enrollment.
"All sectors of the budget will be subject to close scrutiny," Cobb said.
"The University's programs are not over-
loaded by any means. All of its sectors are under-
funded."
He added that the process would not be an easy one. "We are forced to resort to cutting and tightening in areas where we are under-funded already," he said.
COBB SAID that such shuffling of funds inside the University could provide only temporary solutions.
"We are engaging in a variety of make-do strategies," he said.
"If the library and equipment are viewed the two highest priorities, then the only long-range solution is to persuade the state to be more responsive to supporting the base budget."
Sheldon said his staff couldn't count on funds that may be distributed to the library from inside the University. He said the team believed碧梧 would provide the questions budget on the basis of the 5.5 percent increase in OOE.
"We can begin our planning on the basis of that he said," there are other sources in the book.
"Dollars are a very concrete thing, and right now we don't have them. It's better to prepare for the worst situation and work from there. You need to better your situation and find you have to cut back."
SHELDON SAID the consequences would be
cuts of a couple of years.
over a couple of years.
The condition becomes gradually worse through a series of years as you increase the cut-off value.
"You never can really recoup the loss and it creates the kind of shortage you just have to live with. The greatest danger is the mortgaging of the future that can occur."
Robert Hoffman, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said that it was difficult to determine where the instructional and academic environment would lie relative to the library's needs.
"Should we give the money to the library or use it to teach freshman composition?" he said.
"Not to say that it can't be done, but we would have, to give up something equally as important."
TEACHING LOADS are overburdened already in the College, he said, and finding places to cut would be difficult.
Dale Scannell, deed of education, said the library was part of a mynd of priorities facing the university.
"The School of Education would find it very important to have available current journals in the areas of pedagogy, curriculum, and assessment."
"On the other hand, it is very important that we have good competent faculty, funds available for travel for our students' programs, funds available for faculty members to attend national meetings that are important for professional development.
"The library's needs are mixed with a lot of priorities, all of which are very important to us."
Kansan job applications available
Applications for summer and fall 1981 Kansan editor and business manager are available at the office of student affairs in 214
Strong Hall, at the Student Senate office in 106B of the Kansas Union, and in 105 Fint Hall. Completed applications are due at 5 p.m. on April 21 in 105 Fint.
House approves paraphernalia bill
By BRADSTERTZ
Staff Reporter
The Kansas House yesterday unanimously approved a bill to outlaw the use, sale and manufacture of drug paraphernalia. It was the last step for the bill in the Legislature.
"With the resounding unanimous vote I guess we sent a message out to the doppers that we are serious about this," House Majority Leader Robert Freed said after the house vote.
"The governor proposed that something like this bill should be worked on this session," Frey said. "I don't know if this is what he had in mind, but I suspect he will sign the bill."
Frey, R-Liberal, and other representatives who voted for the bill, said they thought that now the issue had cleared the Legislature, there was no problem in obtaining Gov. John Carlin's approval.
CARLIN, in his budgetary and legislative speech at the beginning of the session, recommended doing something about paraphernalia.
it a crime to sell drug paraphernalia in premises open to minors.
in Ghede. Drug abuse as a "serious outgrowth of related moral standards" among young Kansans, Carlin charged the Legislature with the task of formulating "legislation that would make
Before the bill passed through the Legislature, the Senate made changes that expanded the second session.
Last year, Carlin vethed a drug paraphernalia bill because he thought its definition of what constituted drug paraphernalia was too vague. Carlin seemed to be more tightly worded and defined.
"To a lot of people it was a popular issue," she
told. "In some cases, the couple of other
fathers involved in the unnatural death."
While many of the representatives were trumpeting the virtues of the bill, State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said that she saw different motives behind the unanimous vote.
"Theatre was actually no problem with the Senate's changes," Frey said. "They were not substantial at all, in fact, they simply cleaned up the wording of the bill."
THE SENATE substitute bill's changes, any person found using, selling, mailing, advertising, distributing or manufacturing paraphernalia would be violating the law. The bill included in-state distributors and was not authorized to state interests shipping paraphernalia into Kansas.
"First, given the conservative nature of this session, the passage of a bill like this appeared extremely likely from the start. Also a lot of liberal legislators voted for this because they did not want the paraphernalia thing to become any more attractive to young people.
"The second thing that I think helped the bill get a unanimous vote was that the Legislature wanted to be able to say that it accomplished at least during this year. They saw this bill as an incentive."
BRANSON SAID that another factor that helped the bill was that it did not have a "fiscal one."
A fiscal note is an estimate of the costs of the legislation if it become law. Branson said that this year all bills without those notes attached had a better chance of getting through. She cited Mr. McKenzie's bill as another example of a bill that made it through successfully without a fiscal note.
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, said that she thought the idea behind the paraphernalia bill was a good one and that the charges that the Senate made did not hurt that idea.
"It is essentially the same," she said, "or else we would, not have passed it so over慧