University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
KANSAN
Wednesday, March 25, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 118 USPS 650-640
Senators kill attempt to restore $9 million to Regents '82 budget
Staff Reporter
By GENE GEORGE Staff Reporter
TOPEKA - The Senate leadership marshalled enough senators yesterday to quash efforts to restore money to next year's Board of Regents budget.
But the same majority that killed amendments to reinstate the money approved a rider to the Regents bill requiring all professors to hold at least three hours of class each week.
Yesterday's action was tentative. The official vote to approve the $9 million in cuts from the system-wide budget is expected today. The bill would then be sent to the House.
JOHN CONARD, executive director of the
regents, said the plan will be by State Sen.
Bob Johnson's office under a bill of deregulation.
“It’s an unwarranted intrusion into the universities by the body,” Conard said. “It probably won’t do any damage. The damage was not the accident of the Legislature setting Regents policy.”
Roltz, R-Pittsburgh, said the rider allowed professors to get permission from the chancellor to be excused from class if they needed to be absent.
State Sen. Frank Gaines, D-Augusta, who prompted Rizot to propose the rider, said he was upset by students' complaints about some professors being absent regularly.
CONARD SAID if the lawmasters wanted information on how many professors were doing research and who did not conduct regular research, he had contacted him. He said no one had asked him.
State Sen. Paul Hess, R-Wichita, said he had not expected the rider to be proposed.
Hess, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, did expect State Sen. Jane Eldredge, R-Lawrence, to take a stand against the deep budget cuts.
Last month, Eldredge accused the committee,
former State Sen. Arnold Berriman and former
Senator David Duncan of wrongdoing.
cuts to punish KU. She promised to fight to restore those cuts.
IN THREE HOURS of debate, the Senate
challenged Ridgeley's amendments to restore the full $1 million bill.
Ridgeley said: "We have to do something."
The upper house also killed subsequent amendments to restore only the faculty pay and the operating budgets and to eliminate the proposed 15 percent average tuition increase.
Conard said he was surprised that only 13 senators voted for the Eldredge amendment.
"If anything, I thought it would have had more support," he said.
THE REGENTS BILL was to have been debated last week, but it was postponed.
"During the delay," Conard said, "it was obvious that the Senate leader worked on
The bill as tentatively adopted yesterday would:
- Reduce the faculty pay increase from the governor's request a 8 percent to 7 percent. This is less than a 20 percent decrease in faculty pay.
- Reduce the operating budget increase from the governor's requested 6 percent to 5.5 percent. This is roughly a $1 million reduction. The Senate granted the full 7 percent increase requested by the Regents for the KU College of Health Sciences at Florida State University College of Veterinary Medicine.
- Reduce the enrollment adjustment money from the governor's request $1.5 million to demand that new voters pay a fee.
In addition, the Senate voted to ensure that the universities would not receive an additional legislative allocation if enrollment only marginally increased or decreased.
The Senate also voted to cut $5.8 million in general fund money from the Regents budget, replacing it with money from the 15 percent average tuition increase.
IN THE DERATE on the Regents bill,
Eldredge referred to a study that showed that
their bills are ineffective.
See BUDGET page 5
Tenure proposals not similar, Lawrence legislator asserts
Staff Reporter
By BRAD STERTZ
Solbach said that he had access to the same confidential proposals as Haogland and that Haogland had exaggerated their similarity to his changes.
State Rep. John Solbach yesterday said that State Rep. Joseph J. Hoagland's assertion that the Board of Regents plans to revise tenure policies consistent with his two tenure bills overbroad.
"I looked at the proposals made by the Regents," Solbach, D-Lawrence, said, "and all that was going to be done was a formalization of existential policy."
Hoagland, R-Overland Park, had said that the tenure policy changes proposed by the Regents were similar to those in his two tenure bills and that he would drop further efforts to push the bills through the Legislature. Hoagland was not available for comment last night.
Solbach he thought the Regents' action was simply a way for Hoagland to back out of the tenure bills without suffering a major political defeat.
"I would say that it is reasonable that Haogland found he could not win with the bills, found he had run out of options to push the bills and took this as an easy way out," he said.
Under Hoagland's bills, the Regents would
have been forced to allow anyone to file complaints against a tenured faculty member and to appoint the Regents as the final board in all tenure-granting decisions.
Those proposals, Solbach said, were simply making official what was already done on the ground.
"Their proposals were simply a way for the Regents to try to get rid of the legislation and at the same time to let everybody back off from the situation," Solbach said. "I know that they discussed this for a while because they talked to me about it three weeks ago."
"Now the Regents review 90 to 95 percent of all tenure cases because they are tied in with promotion decisions," Solbach said. "For fiscal reasons these decisions are already made and the changes that the Regents have planned will not change anything very much."
"It is a slightly different approach to what is done now, but not like what Hoagland had on it."
The changes that the Regents had decided upon, made nearly a mile up from the park, according to Solach.
"I don't like to see the Regents blackmailed and I don't think they were to a certain extent," Sobach said. "I am, however, glad that the state finally decided to drop this entire tearing."
Regents officials would not discuss the details of their proposals.
A fencing class takes advantage of the recent mild spring weather to get in some practice behind Watkins Memorial Hospital. According to the KU
DAVE KRAUSIKansan staff
Weather Service, warm temperatures should continue for the next few days, with only a slight chance of rain.
KBI investigates Med Center shootings
By BRIAN LEVINSON
Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Kan.—The Kansas Bureau of investigation has taken over the investigation of Friday's University of Kansas Medical Center shooting that left a doctor and a bystander dead.
The KBI took over the investigation late Monday, three days after the shooting. Confusion between KU police and Kansas City, Kan., police ended up in a charge of the investigation caused the delay.
agents, three state troopers have been assigned to the Med center by Gov. John Carlin.
Tom Kelly, KBI director, said yesterday that a supervisor and four KBI agents had been released after the shootings.
Only the police department in charge of an investigation can request KBI assistance. The KU police were originally in charge of the investigation and requested KBI assistance.
"The troopers will work in three shifts so we will have them on duty 24 hours a day." Med. of the Army said.
The additional security was highly visible yesterday. The entrance to the emergency room was locked and patients had to knock on the door to be let in by a state trooper.
Press requesting entrance into the emergency room had to be escorted by a member of the Med Facility staff.
To further tighten security at the sprawling 50-acre facility, workers hurried to install the finishing parts of the Med Center's $100,000 closed circuit television monitoring system. The system, which has taken more than nine months to install, will be completed in about two weeks. Jack Pearson, Med Center director of police, said.
New security procedures were also evident at the chaplain's office, where workers had installed new locks on doors that were always open before the shooting. Facilities Operations took stock working on the lock yesterday, after the chaplain was unable to get back into his office.
Even with tighter security, employees at the Med Center have been shaken by last week's slayings. Several employees, who asked not to be identified, said they thought they were vulnerable because of a lack of security and because the suspect was not in custody.
Police said yesterday that they had no new leads in the case. Earlier police had looked into the possibility that the suspect might have been a disgruntled medical student but later said the suspect had an alibi. The suspect's name was never released.
See SHOOTING page 5
Hunger strike closes with prayer service
Staff Reporter
By EDDIE WILLIAMS III
The KU hunger strike for El Salvadorne ended last night, but the suffering in that country continues. Jorge Valverde, Costa Rica graduate student, said.
After two-and-a-half days with no food and living in tents on front on Watson Library, the Latin American Solidarity group staged a raily to finish the strike. After the rally, about 20 protesters marched to St John's Catholic Church in New York City to march to Archibishop Oscar Romero, Salvadorean religious leader who was assassinated a year ago yesterday.
"The three days of hunger strike doesn't
compete with the one day in the lost EI
team. "Valyverd said at the rally.
AS RAIN FELL at the campisse, protesters held hands and told why they chose to strike.
Marian Sanchez, Puerto Rico senior, said it was her way of showing that she cared about the issues in their community.
Sanchez later said that it was her first time fasting for others.
"Others ways of showing support are fighting and struggling." she said. "But, in our case, we
"I had never fasted for so long but I think we accomplished a lot," she said. "Many people came by and learned for the first time that there is enough proof showing that the U.S. excuses for sending military aid to El Salvador are not valid."
RHONDA NEUGEBAUER, Lawrence
graduate student said for her, fasting was
"Giving up food is scary," she said. "I had to get ready for it. I haven't eaten since Saturday."
I thought about El Salvador a lot. Those people suffer from without food for days. People there suffer from it too.
Neugebauer said the first night was the worst.
"It was too cold to sleep," she said. "When you don't eat, your body freezes. We were on the windiest spot on campus and we were chilled to the bone."
The weather was not the only problem the strikers faced, Cindy Trestler, Hutchinson son.
"The crowd was generally friendly." "Treasurer said, but we did get a few hecklers. One car went by and a guy yelled and threw us an apple. It got too loud and I'm so calm that nothing really appealed me."
"Most of the strikers have had personal experience in Latin America and they understand how to deal."
TWENTY-FOUR PEOPLE chose to fast but only eight lived in the tents, Treasier said.
It's kinda hard for us to expect other North Americans to understand. The only information we can get is that the United States is a
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Leon Burke III
KU maintenance worker doubles as University Symphony conductor
By KAREN SCHLUETER Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The tall, lanky Facilities Operations maintenance man completed his morning mail run, swinging mailbags on the truck and joking with his fellow workers.
He was equally at ease a few hours later as he stepped up on the podium in front of the University Symphony Orchestra, still wearing soiled overalls and work boots, and led the orchestra through its spaces before a weekend concert.
Leon Burke III, assistant conductor and St. Louis graduate student, exemplifies confidence and skill whether he is driving the FO truck or conducting the Lawrence Chamber Players through an intricate string ensemble piece.
ALTHOUGH BURKE leaves an audience and an orchestra with the impression that conducting comes as naturally to him as
walking or breathing, he says he doesn't always feel that way.
"Some of the time when I conduct, I am nervous and sometimes even scared to death," he said. "But I take the stage fright and channel it back into concentration."
"When I'm most scared, I am also the most intense."
Most of his 11-year conducting experience has been with university or community groups. But there have been times, including 15 minutes with the Baltimore Symphony or two summerdirecting the Shenandoah Orchestra, where Barke had conducted professionals.
"If you have that you can conduct a youth orchestra, a university orchestra or professionals. It's all the same."
BURKE, who earned his undergraduate
See CONDUCTOR page 5
"It's all a matter of confidence in your
musicality, the music," the 26-year-old conductor said.
Weather
RAIN
It will be cloudy this morning with
showers, according to the KU Weather
Service. Skies will clear this afternoon
until 10 p.m. on Friday. Wetph. will be around
60. The wind will be around 80.
Tenight, skies will be mostly clear with winds from the southwest at 5 to 15 mph.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high in the lower 70s.