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University Daily Kansan, February 27, 1981
Hess advocates15 percent tuition hike statewide
By KATHRYN KASE Staff Reporter
Kansas must curtail government services or raise taxes to balance the state budget, Paul Hesh, chairman of the House Armed Services Means Committee, said last night.
Speaking to University professors and local businessmen, Hess said that Gov. John Carlin's proposed mineral severance tax was not the answer to budget problems concerning the University.
"None of the money the governor has recommended to be raised at the wellhead goes to higher education," Hess, R-Wichita, said. "It goes to
primary and secondary education, but not to higher education."
HESS WAS SPEAKING on "Higher Education in the 1890's" at a public dinner co-sponsored by the KU chairman of the College of Engineering University Professors and the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce Executive Committee. State Rep. Fred Wueber, R-Baxter Springs, and Rep. John R-Alwood, also spoke on that topic.
State colleges face many problems, Hess said. Declining enrolments, rising tuition costs, raising equipment and faculty salaries are the major issues.
"Tutition is going to be one of the bigger issues," he said. "We're trying to make it tighter and
secondly, the agreement was reached with the Kansas Board of Regards back in the 1980s that students should pay 25 % the cost of their high education."
Defending the proposed 15 percent tuition increase, Hess said that statewide, students only paid an additional 18 percent of the cost of their education.
"And even if the 15 percent increase goes through, students will still only pay 20.27 percent of the cost of their education." That is that considerably below 25 percent.
But Weaver opposed increasing tuition.
"I was a poor boy," he said. "I always wanted to go to college and I couldn't. I had to work instead.
"And when people start talking about raising tuition, it concerns me because they're talking about keeping another boy from going to school."
ABOUT FACULTY SALARIES, Hess lamented his position as Waya and Means Committee chairman and said it was difficult to decide how much money Kansas needed, where the money would come from and how it would be spent.
"I believe if a tax is not raised that it will simply become a more difficult and acute problem that we have to deal with in the 1982 session," he said.
Although he opposes the severance tax, Hess said some tax must be instituted this year.
"Let me say that it is not a pleasant task to chair the Ways and Means office and make a decision about what people really receive in a paycheck," he said.
But Ernest Angino, professor of geology, took issue with Hess' opposition of the severance tax.
"There's no shortage of money out there in the oil industry," he said. "I
think the time has come for a severance tax in Kansas."
Future proceeds of the tax, Angola aid, show, is expected to increase in earnings as such higher education.
"I think that 8 percent is a good investment in the state of Kansas," he said.
Angino also challenged Hesa' stance on equipment and operating expenses. Legislature was allocating enough money for capital improvements at the University.
"It is our feeling that the capital improvements are here and need to be maintained," Hess said. "But money has gotten tighter and we expect the University to be able to manage with limited resources."
To Hayden, the question of adding Washburn University to the Regents institutions was an important one in the Legislature.
"To me, I don't think we need another
institution of higher education in the state of Kansas," he said. "I think that, because of political reasons, Washburn will only come into the state system."
The integration of Washburn into the state educational system will definitely have an impact on KU and Kansas State University. Hayden said.
"Washburn has a law school," he said. "Now that's going to be a problem, a major problem, as to how it will relate to the KU law school."
ON THE KU CAMPUS, everyone must remember to work together, Hayden said. He said that sometimes the Lawrence campus divorced itself from the University of Kansas Medical Center campus in Kansas City.
"When problems arise at the Medical Center, it doesn't behave us to divorce ourselves from our problems," he said. "It behooves us to work together."
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