The University Daily
KANSAN
Friday, March 6, 1981
Vol. 91. No. 110 USPS 650-640
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Stan Vandiveri reaches for another tool as he transfers a television cable from an old pole to the new one he has climbed. Vandiveri, a lineman for Sunflower Cablevision, climbs up to 90 poles a day as the team works on replacing broken cables and fixing other issues.
Senate fund misuse, criteria discussed at budget hearings
Staff Reporter
By KAREN SCHLUETER
Three committee head requests from 16 groups and made some preliminary budget cuts.
Questions about possible misuse of funds by the Iranian Student Association surfaced last night as Student Senate budget hearings continued.
The Iranian Student Association presented its respect for $75 to the Culture Committee. Last year,
Shahrok Azedi, association president, answered several questions following his budget presentation concerning the group's use of acronyms and the Senate's funding philosophy and regulations.
Loren Busby, Finance and Auditing Committee chairman, told Azeidi that he had heard the group was not open to all students.
AZEDI SAID THAT the 17-year-old organization was open to all Iranian students and later said that all KU students were eligible to join.
"Some students try to say we are communist and socialist," he said. "The important thing to remember is that the group doesn't have any tendency towards anything political."
But azen later told the committee that any Iranian cultural organization could not avoid touching on political issues because politics were an inherent part of Iranian culture.
"The majority of the Iranian people are involved in politics," he said. "Any association that wanted to be truly representative must touch on political issues."
Busby also asked Azied whether the group's New HEARINGS page 5
Debate on severance tax continues
Rv BRAD STERTZ
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-A a morning of meetings and an evening of compromise failed to get the proposed mineral severance tax off the House floor yesterday.
What has certainly been the most lengthy debate on any issue during this legislative session will continue today, despite many changes in the bill he would be on in his way to the Senate by now.
The House was able to decide yesterday on an amendment to the tax, which legislators say will give the bill an extremely good chance to pass today.
But now that those changes plus modifications for smaller producers have been added, final approval appears more likely than it did two days ago.
Although, the amendment to lower the percentage of the well-head mineral production tax from 8 percent to 5 percent for oil and gas, and 2 percent for coal, salt and cement narrowly passed. 64-61.
That was before Gov. John Carlin expressed his willingness to go along with a compromise
Opponents to the tax say that it would unfairly discriminate against the smaller mineral producer. The opposition, centering around Western Kansas Republicans, also has said that the tax would reduce gasoline sales to the gasoline pump. Supporters claim that the tax would lower property and sales taxes.
CARLIN PROPOSED the tax at the beginning of the session as a way to raise funds for secondary education and a way to increase highway renewal funds.
"Nothing is guaranteed at this point," State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said yesterday. "Right now, though, I would give the tax a high chance for passage."
amendment. Before Carlin made his statement, the bill appeared to be doomed.
Another Lawrence representative, Democrat Jessie Brannon, said that she and other long-time supporters of the tax were very pleased with the compromise and the bill's chances.
Branson said that if the amended bill was
See SEVERANCE NOTE 4.
Weather
It will be mostly sunny today with a high near 45, according to the KU Weather Service. The winds will be from the east at 10-12 mph.
Tonight's low will approach 27 under cloudy skies, with winds ranging from 10-28 mph.
Tomorrow's outlook calls for cloudy skies with a chance of snow. The high will be in the mid 30s.
Major issues facing the University of Kansas will be addressed at a University-wide convocation after spring break, Acting Chancellor Del Shankel said yesterday.
Staff Reporter
Bv KATHRYN KASE
Designated as the convocation's feature speaker, Shankel declined to say what issues would be addressed. He said that the convocation was suggested yesterday by KU's chapter of the American Association of University Professors executive board.
"The members of the AAPU executive board felt there were some major issues the University needed to address," he said. "They asked if I should convene an all-University meeting and I agreed."
The AAUP was not the first group to express
But he denied that the convocation would be held as an emergency measure.
concern about the issues facing KU. Shankel said various administrators talked to him as well.
"There are just a number of major issues that they wanted to address," he said.
However, the convocation was the AAUP's idea. Shankel said.
The approach Shankel had planned was to write the University, similar to the letter in the Krugler.
t letter discussed academic standards for athletes. These standards have been in question since the Kansas City Times published an article on the Kansas City academic standards were lowered for athletes.
Averse public reaction to the letter did not affect his decision to assemble the convocation,
issues
He said it was too early to tell about reaction to the letter.
Evelyn Swartz, AAUP president, lauded Ehvelyn's endorsement of the convocation.
Swartz would not reveal what the AAUP and Shankel thought were the major issues.
"We felt that this was the time to bring some of these issues out into the open," he said.
these issues out into the open," she said. Swartz would not reveal what the AAUP and
"I think I have to respect his confidence on that," she said.
Funds sought for Haworth addition
The place is also uncertain.
No specific date for the convocation has been set, Shankel said, but it will occur after spring break, which ends March 22. He said the date would be announced next week.
"It depends on whether I think there might be a field where it could be possible that Allen Field House can be filled out," thought.
Neither Shankel nor Swartz could remember the last time such a convocation was held.
BvGENE GEORGE
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-KU officials had written off the Haworth Hall addition as a lost cause in the 1982 budget—that is until Senate President Ross Dowen took an interest.
Doyen, who says that he has been looking for money for the project this past week, suggested at yesterday's Senate Ways and Means Committee meeting that the public television fund to the Haworth project.
Doyen's unexpected suggestion, made when the committee considered individual budget requests from the seven Board of Regents in response, was supported by his fellow committee members.
THE KU BUGETT subcommittee agreed with Gov. John Carlin's recommendation not to fund the Haworth addition next year, but added in its report that four were found, construction should be financed.
Doyen's proposal would take the $1.8 million that the Legislature cut from the Public Television Board and apply it toward the Haworth project.
If the proposal gets out of the Senate, it may not survive hearing in the House Ways and Measures.
The Haworth addition, expected to cost a total of $12 million, was started last year when the Legislature allocated about $500,000 for an architect's study. The University of Kansas asked the governor this year for $3.6 million to start construction next year.
House committee chairman Mike Hayden, M.P., advises the House rejection), but it does not sound good.
Richard Von Ende, KU executive secretary, said that he had not talked with Doyen, R-Corcanda, about his idea, and could not comment until he studied the subcommittee report.
THE ADDITION would allow the biology of the worm out of the clamped condition at Snow Hall.
The KU subcommittee's other recommendations followed the trend set last month when the full committee cut $3 million from the Regents system-wide budget.
The full committee is trying to cut $25 million from Carlo's promised $28 billion budget.
The subcommittee's recommendations were to delete:
$478.116 from the governor's faculty pay raise recommendation. That cuts the raye from 8
+$62,959 from the governor's operating budget recommendation. This cut increases the 6%
- The governor's recommendation of $338,569 to cover increases in enrollment this year.
*$2,363,109* from the governor's recommendation to cover projected enrollment next week.
The committee approved a 15 percent average tuition increase last month, and Chairman Paul Hess, R-Wichita, said KU should generate about 2.4 million from the increase next year.
The tuition increase was tied to a proviso that the universities not ask for additional money to cover enrollment increases unless the increase was greater than 1.5 percent for the larger universities and 1 percent for the smaller universities.
KU students, who now pay about 20 percent of the total cost of their education, would pay 23 percent next semester, according to the committee's researchers.
THE SUBCOMMITTEE also recommended that the almost $1 million requested to build a utility tunnel at Allen Field House be spread over the next two fiscal years, instead of just next year, and recommended allocating £70,000 for the re-roofing project at Murphy Hall.
In addition, the subcommittee asked the
governor to offer an amendment to his recommendations to put back the $188,005 to cover the University's expected deficit in its contributions to the employee retirement fund.
Both houses are facing a March 13 deadline to take action on their own bills, so that they can pay.
The KU subcommittee's stand on the Haworth addition drew the only debate yesterday.
Subcommittee chairman Ron Hein, R-Topke, said that Snow Hall was inadequate, unsuitable and overcrowded and that steps to alleviate the burden on the best interest of the University and the state.
"Maybe they are euphemisms for what we
are there. Hein said, referring to the language in
the report."
COMMITTEE MEMBER Jack Steininger, D- Kansas City, interrupted Heil and asked, "But what was he doing?"
"That's correct." Hein answered.
Steineger told the committee that this was an example of why the public criticized lawmakers.
"We in government can't figure out how to work things around," he said. "It would be more important to fix up conditions (at KU) than to put it into education) playing fields (at Wichita State)."
Hayden shared Steingener's feelings about the Legislature, but for a different reason.
He said the deep cuts were being made in Carlson's proposed budget to avoid a tax increase that
Hayden said it was not fair to ask some to
walk while others were told it was all right
go ahead.
Staff Reporter
*Taking from one area and putting it in another, do not mitigate the need for a tax break.
By KIRK TINDALL
El Salvador revolution has failed,prof says
The U.S. policy in El Salvador may be creating a Marxist revolution rather than preventing one, the latter of which is already occurring.
Charles Stansifer, professor of history, who visited El Salvador in August 1800, said that the emperor was a friend and a benefactor.
But the State Department announced on Monday that the United States was sending an
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additional 20 military advisers to El Salvador and increasing military aid to that country by $25 million. The additional 20 advisers will bring the total U.S. military presence in El Salvador to 56.
"To create a revolution you need three elements that are missing in El Salvador." Stansifer, whose area of study is Central America, said. "There has to be a consensus of ideology, a strong revolutionary figure to follow and enemy for the people to unite against."
Stansifer said that the revolution in El Salvador didn't have a unified ideology or a leader capable of inspiring the people. The revolution also lacked a readily identifiable oppressor for the revolutionaries to oppose, he said.
THE UNITED STATES, however, could provide a part of the revolutionary equation. Stamper said that the presence of U.S. advisers represented as imperialism by the revolutionaries.
U. S. imperialism has never been as large an American傲or as it has been in other Latin American countries.
"The U.S. has never had troops in El Salvador, as they did in Nicaragua, and the big American corporations like United Fruit haven't been there either." he said.
Salvadorans have already been to react to American policy in their country. Right-wing gunman rucked the U.S. Embassy on Wednesday with automatic rifle fire. On Nov. 20 leftist guerrilla members—masks-made rocket grenades at the building. There were no injuries in either incident.
Marxist revolution is not new to El Salvador. In 1832, 30,000 people were killed when government troops put down a peasant uprising supported by the military. The military has ruled the country since then.
But according to Foreign Affairs, a political science journal, the military juntas that have controlled El Salvador have done so with a small number of drivers who control most of the country's wealth.
IT HAS BEEN ESTIMATED that this group, known as the 14 families, which actually amounts to several thousand people, once received 50 percent of the national income. The farmland and not controlled the banking system along with most of the nation's industry.
The wealth and power of this oligarchy was reduced in 1979 when the banking system and the insurance industry were nationalized and the largest estates were broken up.
"The right didn't like an form of reform and the left said that it hadn't been enough." he said.
There were an estimated 13,000 people killed... El Salvador in 1980. Stanser said that it was impossible to determine which side, left or right, was doing most of the killing.
But both sides have accused each other of being involved in the political strife.
Stansifer said that he had been surprised to find that most of the people he talked with in El Salvador were more upset with the leftist terrorists than with those of the right.
Stanifer arrived in El Salvador in August 1983 and had called for a general strike against the government.
she said the strike was a failure. The govern-
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