The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
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Tuesday, March 10, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 112 USPS 650-640
Senate committee continues to trim budget requests
By KAREN SCHLUETER Staff Reporter
The Student Senate Student Services Committee last night trimmed $9,700.70 from budget requests totaling $43,946.70 as budget deliberations continued.
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The committee, with five members present made final decisions on 11 groups.
Tentative cuts were made in three groups budgets.
THEREE OTHER GROUPS, KU Drug Information Group, Commission on the Status of Women and River City Women's Health Collective, failed to present their requests to the committee last week. Lisa Ashner, committee member, would be rescheduled for Wednesday night.
The Black Student Union's budget suffered the largest cuts, from $7,230.67 to $4,139.72. The committee made reductions in BSU's allocations during printing, film rental and office supplies.
Friends of Headquarters requested $13,088.75
After cuts, its budget was reduced to $10,918.75
The committee voted to reduce KU-Y's budget from $2,242.52 to $1,698.52, cutting money for the KU-Y school district.
THREE GROUPS ESCAPED the budget axe last night. They were Douglass County Rape Victim Support Service, requesting $434.40; the Youth Rescue Fund, $809.10; and the Men's Coalition, requesting $255.70.
Consumer Affairs Association's $11,348.88 request was tentatively approved, but the committee discussed the possibility of allocating only half the request. CAA would then have to apply for the rest of the money in fall supplemental hearings as it did last year.
CAA's Senate funding pays the director's salary. John Lamb, committee member, said that cutting this allocation would severely jeopardize the program.
The committee voted to completely cut the KU Solar Energy International Club's request. Ashner said that the committee decided the group was primarily an academic, rather than a service, group and should not be funded under the Student Services Committee.
Other cuts made were
- $450 for the Non-Traditional Students Organization's $175 request.
- 660 from KU on South Africa’s $28 request.
* 1,600 from Latin American Solidarity’s
$11,400.
THE COMMITTEE TENTATIVELY cut $303 for office rent from the Native American Alliance's $19 request. Ashner said that the group had not used its office space responsibly.
MECHA's request was tentatively cut from $1,355 to $890. Ashner said she would like the committee to investigate the group's use of its office space before making final decisions on its budget. MECHA is a hispanic students' organization.
Five committees will meet this week to formulate final recommendations to present to the Senate. Senate deliberations are scheduled for March 24 and 25.
Public radio threatened by funding cu.
By KARI ELLIOTT
Staff Reporter
The Reagan administration's proposed 25 cut in Corporation of Public Broadcasting funding would eliminate network programming for the White House, an NPR official in Washington said last week.
"Twenty-four percent of public broadcasting goes to national programming." Walda Roseman, national affairs and planning senior vice president, said. "That entire amount is the only source of NPR money. Without that money, NPR would shut down."
President Reagan has proposed cutting public broadcasting funding by $43 million, leaving $129 million in fiscal 1982 and $120 million in fiscal 1983.
In 1975 Congress authorized two-year advanced funding appropriations for the Corporation of Public Broadcasting.
ROSEMAN SAID public radio would have to cut into "soft" items, which are controllable
The proposed cuts would affect funds already appropriated to public broadcasting for fiscal reasons.
"The two areas we can cut are general grants to local stations and programming," she said. "We can't cut the fixed or uncontrollable cost of our station equipment, repayment of the satellite debt or copyrights."
The cuts could not be straight across the system because of the fixed costs, she said.
"That means more out of national programming and station grants."
One-fourth to one-third of the public radio stations might fail if they don't receive grants from NPR, Roseman said.
"Even if one cent was cut from the '82 or '83 funds, the insulation shield, the buffer between the federal government and noncommercial broadcasting would be lost.
"The insulation would be dramatically affected with any rescission."
THE PRESIDENT of the Kansas Public Radio Association, Howard Hill, said the real question
with the proposed funding cut was the repeal of appropriated money.
"Only the Corporation of Public Broadcasting has advanced funding," Hill, who is also general manager of KANU-KPXU at the University of Kansas that insulates CPB from undue political influence
"Without advance-year funding, you might as well put a politician in the control booth."
If there are 25 percent funding cut, KANU-
KFU would lose approximately **27,000**,刀。
"I could maintain most of the staff on money from CFB grants, but probably not the students," he said. "There would be no money to purchase audio equipment. Some records couldn't be purchased, so programming would be affected."
THE CORPORATION of Public Broadcasting is a quasi-principal organization that prepares its budget based on congressional and CPB staff decisions, Hill said.
Two Lawrence residents take a stroll down the alley between New Jersey and New York streets. Warm temperatures are expected for the remainder of the week, with temperatures expected to be in the mid to upper 50s.
The Office of Management and Budget has no
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Conard said the Regents received the list of the final five candidates for KU chancellor yesterday and planned to interview the candidates within the next 10 days.
Chancellor to be named soon
They may find a new chancellor, John Conard,
kansas Board of Negent executive officer, said Kane.
"The Board is hopeful that they will be able to select the new chancellor in time to announce it at their regular Board meeting on March 20." He said he just a matter of getting the interviews done.
KU students returning from spring break may in more at the University than their midterm finals.
The Regents are studying the candidates' dossiers this week, Conard said, and are planning to spend a half day interviewing each candidate.
chancellor by next week. Conard cautioned that the process may take longer.
"We have some excellent candidates," he said. "I have met all five of these candidates, but the Bengaluru team is ahead."
"But since we don't know it is yet, it depends on the individual's personal time set aside."
Conard said the Regents would probably request the chancellor-elect to be present when
The Regents expect the new chancellor to take office 1, when I del Shankar's term as acting governor.
"Having sat in on some of the search committee meetings, I know that one of the candidates can begin sooner than July 1," he said. "There could be the possibility of the new chancellor coming in and with Dr. Shankel as a sort of orientation period."
Dillingham enters guilty plea
Clarence L. Dillingham, Jr., former assistant instructor of social welfare, pleaded guilty yesterday in Douglas County District Court to three felony charges of selling illegal drugs.
"On Nov. 26 and Dec. 4, I did sell . . . cocaine and . . . marijuana to a person that I later discovered to be an agent of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation." Dilghamed told the court.
Dillingham admitted to making the drug sales.
An undercover agent for the KBI said earlier he brought out pieces of cosine and 14 pound napkins.
He said that the transactions occurred north of Lawrence, at the intersections of U.S. 40 and U.S. 38.
District Judge Ralph King set sentencing for April 3, after a pre-sentencing investigation was conducted to determine what sentencing was appropriate.
Dillingham faces a minimum of one to five years and a maximum of 10 to 20 years on each charge, as well as a fine of $1,000-$10,000 for each charge.
Douglas County District Attorney Mike Malone said he made one charge of selling cocaine in exchange for the guilty plea. He said he made no sentencing recommendation to the court.
Dillingham served as the University's acting director of affirmative action in 1978-79. In December 1979, he travelled to Iran with Norman MacDonald and was charged with an unofficial effort to mediate the hostage crisis.
Dillingham and Forer also are plaintiffs in a lawsuit against KU. They alleged that they were labeled by school officials, that their privacy was invaded and that they were denied due process during the University's considerations of disciplinary action that occurred after the trip.
Mineral tax bill to go up against political obstacles
By BRAD STERTZ Staff Reporter
Since the mineral severance tax passed the House yesterday, Senate supporters of the bill have begun in earnest to prepare to overcome threatening obstacles in their chamber.
Perhaps the earliest and most threatening obstacle to the bill's Senate passage is the plan to "double-reference" the tax into two Senate committees.
Although these efforts began when the bill was introduced early in the session, they were intensified after the House passed the tax on a 64-61 vote. As amended by the House, the severance law placed a 5 percent with head tax on oil and gas and a 2 percent mine tax on coal, salt and cement.
Another discouragement to the bill's supporters is that both of the committees are supported by political allies of Doyen's. Sen. Paul Hess of the Ways and Means Committee and Sen. Robert Cohen of the Doyen's Committee have been allies of Doyen's all session, according to several senators.
WHAT MAKES this move so potentially damaging is that it could be made by Senate President Ross Doyen before the bill ever reaches the Senate floor.
Doyen, an opponent of the bill, said over the weekend that he would probably assign the tax bill to both the Senate Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee. If that happened, it would ring a virtual death knell for the tax this session.
"We are not really sure what Sen. Burke will do," Senate Minority Leader Jack Steiniger said yesterday. "He is really stuck between voting with his Johnson County delegation and staying within the lines of Doyen's wishes. As for Sen. Burke, we are not looking for too much help from him."
HESS SAID that he did not think the tax would stand a chance in his committee. He said that he would not even hold hearings on the tax unless it was passed out of the Assessment and Taxation
"We really cannot afford to take off the time to work on this because of all the work we have on the appropriation bills," Hess said. "But if it does get past the other committee, then we will work on it and I don't think it has very good chances."
"I am confident that we will get the tax on the floor." Steiner said. "One way or another, we will either use it as an amendment or pull it out of committee through an extraordinary rule."
One way that he said to accomplish this was to tack on the tax as an amendment to a different piece of legislation. Another possibility that Steiner suggested was to call for an ex-
STINEGER SAID that he thought that kind of maneuvering would work because almost 28 out of the 50 senators favored the tax in principle. He said he bill to pass out of the Senate it needs 21 votes.
"There is no way that we can ward off the double reference," Steinger said. "But there is enough strength to get the vote on the floor before the session ends."
Gov. John Carlin said over the weekend that he would help the Senate supporters of the bill attach the tax to another bill. He said he would not do anything and arrested and something had to be done to counter it.
Carlin, however, said double referencing was acceptable to him until it became obvious the choice.
ASIDE FROM the political maneuvering, Steineger said that the Senate would have to look closely at how the bill was amended by the House.
"As it stands now, it does not look like it will go
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Weather
Skies will be clear today with light northwesterly winds and a high of 47, according to the KU Weather Service. Tonight will be cloudy with a low of 29 Tomorrow will be sunny and cooler, with a high in the mid to upper 40s.