The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Wednesday, February 18, 1981 Vol.91,No.98 USPS650-640
DAVE KRAUS/Kansan staff
The weather took a turn for the better in Lawrence yesterday, and Colin warm temperatures to play on the jungle gym in South Park. Forbes and Forbes (left) and Shahrad Hairdell took advantage of the sunny skies and Heidarf are in the class for four-year-olds at the Hilltop Care Center.
Kansas legislators debate speed limit bills
By GENE GEORGE Staff Reporter
The days of the 70-mph speed limit in Kansas are gone, but Kansas drivers may soon be able to exceed the current limit—legally.
Two state reps, Lee Hamm, D-Pratt, and Clifford Campbell, R-Beloit, have introduced bills that would increase the speed limit if the federal government decides to lift the national caplimph.
The Hamm and Campbell proposals are aimed at the lawmakers that state lawmakers have envoyed this session.
THE THIRD BILL, introduced by State Rep. Eliminate the 10-math grace limit now allowed due to
The House Transportation Committee unanimously killed the Charlton bill late Monday afternoon but had yet to consider the other two bills.
"There was no testimony against it (the bill) in the hearing," Charlton said yesterday. "It was supported by the Kansas Highway Patrol, the Office and the Department of Transportation."
"It was the committee members themselves. They called the bill a 'dog.' "
HAMM'S BILL would increase the speed limit to 60 mph, and Campbell's bill would increase
the limit to 65, both dependent on Congress taking action first.
Harris said he proposed his version of the bill in anticipation that President Reagan was going to fulfill a campaign promise to raise the speed limit.
"We've been hearing from the new ad-
ministration in Washington that he was going to
the national lion's nest."
Present state law allows the governor and the secretary of transportation to decide whether the limit in Kansas should be raised if the federal government lifts the ceiling, Hamm said.
HE SAID, however, that the Legislature also should have an opportunity to comment on the
Harmon did not know that Campbell had introduced a different version of the same bill.
"I see it (Campbell's bill) an attempt by the man to pill asid, his aside," Hamm said. Pipher held of the other bill.
"Sixty is the speed that the people of Kansas would buv."
Hamm said his bill was contingent on possible federal action to protect the federal highway funds Congress gives Kansas.
CAMPBELL WAS NOT available for comment yesterday.
Col. David Hornbaker, superintendent of the Kansas Highway Patrol, said that about 62 percent of Kansas drivers were complying with the 55-mm limit, a drastic increase over 1980.
Congress has threatened to cut federal funds to any state that does not comply with the 55-mph rule.
ACCORDING TO THE State Energy Office, 50 percent of Kansas drivers must follow the 55mph limit by this September, 60 percent by September 1882 and 70 percent by September
If Kansas does not comply, Congress will cut $2.4 million from its funding this year, and $4.8 million for each subsequent year that Kansas drivers exceed the limit.
Said Hamm, "Several states like Nebraska, Oklahoma and Wyoming have increased their funding for schools."
Oklahoma and Wyoming's new limits are 70 mh, and Nebraska's new limit is 65, he said.
CHARLTON SAID her bill, if it had survived, would have forced drivers to slow down.
One of the committee members asked me, 'Why did you sponsor that bill?' And I said, 'If not for safety, ultimately to decrease our dependence on imported oil,' she said.
The Charlton bill would have made driving above 55, but under 65, a moving violation.
Police now issue tickets to drivers who speed but don't exceed 16 mph. However, those tickets can be issued for traffic violations.
Only moving violations are recorded on driver's permanent records.
New KUAC ticket proposal could triple student prices
By REBECCA CHANEY Staff Reporter
Student ticket prices for football and basketball games could as much as triple next year if recommendations made by the KU board approval board ticket committee are approved today.
The KUAC board will meet at 3:30 p.m. in the Satellite Union to consider the recommendations. It also will consider proposals to move a KU-MU football game to Arrowhead Stadium and to sell beer in Memorial Stadium or whether KU women's teams will join the NCAA.
Steve Leeben, KUAC student board member,
said that ticket pricing in past years had been settled at board meetings to keep student ticket prices as low as possible.
THE RECOMMENDATIONS of the ticket committee would allow the board to set policy regarding pricing and let the athletic department work out specific costs.
The committee also has proposed a policy for the board to adopt requiring students to pay half the public price for both football and basketball tickets.
Leben said the proposed pricing policy was unjustified and drastic. Based on this year's public prices, $19 student tickets would cost $31 for a seven-game football season and $15 student tickets would cost $38.50 for a 14-game basketball season.
BASED ON NEXT year's prices, which have not been set officially, student tickets could cost $36 for football and $42 for basketball. Leben said
He said that he had met with athletic officials and student board members and that a compromise could be worked out before the board met this afternoon.
The ticket policy committee, headed by David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, will meet at 2:30 p.m. today, before the board meeting, to finalize its recommendations.
Leben said that he met with Bob Marcum, athletic director, yesterday, and that the two had
agreed to recommend to the committee at the 2:30 meeting that student football tickets be based on one-third the public cost rather than one-half.
"That would mean tickets would cost about $25," Leben said. "It's that it's out of line with the average price." The tickets were $2 two each.
AMBLER SAID the recommendations would be thoroughly discussed at both meetings today before any decision was made.
If adopted, the policy could be put into effect gradually over the next few years, Leban said.
"But phasing it in doesn't change the problem," he said. "It only lengthens the pain. Let's not accept something we don't think is fair or not going to take effect for two or three years."
He also said he believed some of the information used to back up the committee's recommendation was "unintentionally" misleading.
"When you talk about increases, students have to bear their fair share of the load," he said. "But a major reason that student income has declined is that we've paid off our debt that we agreed to finance (the east stadium addition of a 7,000-seat student section). Lo and behold, revenues did decrease, but they were supposed to."
Leben said the information did not include student contributions to women's athletics and distorted declining percentages of student contributions to the total athletic department budget.
He also said private contributions had increased to more than $1 million a year.
KU STUDENT FUNDING for athletics is comparable to other schools in the Big Eight Athletics.
"The athletic department is in a difficult
position, but it is not a desperate
situation, but it is serious."
Significant increases in funding of women's athletics have to be made, he said. Also, KU's football and basketball recruiting budgets are second to lowest in the Big Eight, and the capital improvements budget is the lowest in the Big Eight.
Staff Reporter
By KAREN SCHLUETER
Kansan spurs Senate debate
The Senate approved the Finance and Auditing Committee's recommendations for seven of 13 audits.
The University Daily Kansan's $1 student activity fee increase request provoked a two-hour Student Senate debate before it was approved last night.
It also deferred a decision on the recommendation to remove the School of Architecture and Urban Design Student Council from the code until tomorrow's meeting. Six remaining recommendations will be considered Thursday when it is taken on the entire recommendations bill.
If the Senate approves the bill, it will ask the governor to send a canal to increase the $11.00 utility fee to $14.82.
Three student senators voiced opposition to the Kansan's request. The Kansan receives $73,260 and requested that its total allocation be increased. The Kansan now receives $2 more from the activity fee.
Terri Fry, Kansan business manager, defended the fee increase before the Senate.
"We've done things in an effort to keep even with rising costs." Fry said, "but if we raise our rates to our advertisers any more, we'll no longer be competitive."
Fry also answered questions from Steve McMurry, Transportation Board chairman, concerning the Kansan's cash carry-forward account.
"The Kansan is a half-a-million-dollar business," Fry said. "Our costs vary from month to month. Cash carry-forward is to maintain our costs."
See REVENUE page 3
Legislators find Med Center has maintenance problems
From Staff and Wire Reports
Filth, garbage and strong odors are common conditions at the University of Kansas Medical Center, State Hospital, and said Monday, Kelly toured the last week. Bell Memorial Hospital last week.
Another group of Kansas legislators made its own surprise inspection of the facility three
"They came out absolutely appalled," Kelly said. "The most disconcerting thing is that a legislative panel four years ago studied the same problems and thought they were being fixed."
DAVID WAXMAN, executive vice chancellor for the Med Center, would not comment on the allegations. Mike Wood, director of facilities operations at the Med Center, also would not comment. Facilities operations is in charge of housekeeping at the Med Center.
Reilly said the new hospital had inherited problems from the old hospital.
"The halls and floors had stains on them," Hayden said. "Then, there was an absence of housekeeping employees. I expect people to be in the hall when cleaning them but I couldn't find them anywhere."
reduitly appalling," Reilly said. "I think if the
man's trying to stay on, I tell you, he've
told us outliving theirs."
REILLY SADT the problem was a civil service regulation that prevented easy replacement of unfit workers and created too much division of responsibility.
Rep. Mike Hayden, R-Atwood and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, also visited the Med Center, and said he found that it was not as clean as it should be.
"The odor was bad," he said. "The doors to the area weren't close completely, so the odor went out in the corridor. It looked to me as if it needed to be emptied out."
Havdaera also criticized the garbage area
Weather
Hayden said he thought the people who managed housekeeping were not inspecting properly. He said he had expressed his concerns to the Med Center administration.
See MEDCENTER page 5
Balmy temperatures will continue today, with a high in the mid to upper 60s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Skiles will be partly cloudy today, with winds out of the northwest at 10-15 mph.
Tenight's low will be in the upper 30s
under clear to partly cloudy skies.
Thursday's high will be around 60.
Chaplain, mission change with times
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Staff Reporter
Peter Caspian patiently watched with crossed eyes as smoke rings rose from his calabash pait. Sitting Indian style, he talked about his life and work, all the while looking like something out of the L.L. Bean Christmas catalog.
the topsliders, khaki pants and a wool vest made it almost impossible to see his white skin.
Casparian hasn't always been so mild.
Casparian Mission. House, the Episcopal Mission at KU, is Casparian's work. Its personality and his are imbued with the mellow afterschool of the 1960s.
THE OLD GREEN HOUSE at 1114 Louisiana
is, as a relic of that violent and radical time,
a historical site.
`;ms used to be the main crashing place in the Midwest, 'Caspian said between smoke rings. "It was written up in hippie books as a great case of crash when hitchhiking."
Bright flames remain painted on the basement walls where a "beatnik" coffee house used to operate. Alen Ginsberg recited poetry in that basement. On the wall, a quote from Carus revered to be able to love my country and still love justice."
"At that time there was a need for that sort of thing," Caspian said, reflecting on his past. "I was an angry young man, too. I went to Southwestern at Memphis (College) after the assassination of Martin Luther King, the Vietnam War and the garbage strikes."
See PRIEST page 5
SINCE THEN, Caspian has become an Episcopal priest and now is the chaplain at Canterbury House. After attending Episcopal school in England, he entered a seminary was a practical one. He had
Peter Casparian