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The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, February 18, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 98 USPS 650-640
RIT
DAVEKRAUSiKansan staff
The weather took a turn for the better in Lawrence yesterday, and Colin Forbes (left) and Shahrid Heldari took advantage of the sunny skies and Heldari are in the class for four-year-olds at the Hilltop Day Care Center.
Kansas legislators debate speed limit bills
ByGENE GEORGE Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The days of the 70-mph speed limit in Kansas are gone, but Kansas drivers may soon be able to drive faster.
Two state reps, Lee Hamm, D-Pratt, and Clifford Campbell, R-Belot, have introduced bills that would increase the speed limit if the federal government decides to lift the national
The Hamm and Campbell proposals are among a list of speed bills that state lawmakers
are consisting of the L-System.
THE THIRD BLLL, introduced by State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, would eliminate the 10-mm grace limit now allowed drivers.
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 memebers themselves. They called the bill a 'dog.'"
HAMM'S BLL will increase the speed limit to 60 mph, and Campbell's bill would increase
the limit to 65, both dependent on Congress taking action first.
Hamm said he proposed his version of the bill in anticipation that President Reagan was going to fulfil a campaign promise to raise the speed limit.
"We've been hearing from the new administration in Washington that he was going to do something," she said.
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
Hamm did not know that Campbell had introduced a different version of the same bill.
"I see it (Cambell's bill) as an attempt by the Republicans to show my bill insane," said Hannon. "I mean, they should be insane."
CAMBELL WAS NOT available for comment yesterday.
"Sixty is the speed that the people of Kansas would buy."
Harm said his bill was contingent on possible federal action to protect the federal highway Congress passed.
Col. David Hornbaker, superintendent of the Kansas Highway Patrol, said that about 62 percent of Kansas drivers were complying with the 55-mb limit, a drastic increase over 1980.
Congress has threatened to cut federal funds any state that does not comply with the 55-mph speed limit.
ACCORDING TO THE State Energy Office, 50 percent of Kansas drivers must follow the 85mph limit 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, Alabama have increased theiraska, of which White
Oklahoma and Wasky's new limit are 70 mob and Nabaska's new limit 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.
New KUAC ticket proposal could triple student prices
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 15 mph. However, those tickets can be ignored by the police.
By REBECCA CHANEY
Only moving violations are recorded on driver's semantic records.
Staff Reporter
Student ticket prices for football and basketball games could as much as triple next year if recommendations made by the KU Information board ticket committees are approved.
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 and sell beer in Memorial Bladium and will decide whether KU women's teams will join the NCAA.
Steve Leben, 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.
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.
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.
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 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, 'Lobes said. I don't think that's out of line."
AMBLEER SAID the recommendations would be thoroughly discussed at both meetings today before publication.
If adopted, the policy could be put into effect gradually over the next few years. Leben 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 just because it's not going to take effect for two."
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 Athletic Conference.
"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 University Daily Kansan's $1 student activity fee increase request provoked a two-hour Student Senate debate before it was approved last night.
The Senate approved the Finance and Auditing Committee's recommendations for seven of 13 committees.
It also deferred a decision on the recombination 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's vote is taken on the entire recommendations bill.
11 the Senate approves the bill, it will ask
Acting Chancellor Del Shanker to increase the
$11.10 activity fee to $14.52.
Three student senators voiced opposition to the Kansan's request. The Kansan receives $73,260 and requests its total allocation be indivisible to $109,898. The Kansan now receives $2 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 Kanas is a half-a-million-dollar business," Fry said. "Our costs vary from month to month. Cash carry-forward is to maintain our costs."
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By AMY S. COLLINS
Chaplain, mission change with times
Staff Reporter
Peter Caspian patiently watched with crossed eyes as smoke rings rose from his calabash pipe. Sitting indian style, he talked about his life and work, all the while looking like something out of the L.L. Bean Christmas catalog.
His topsiders, khaki pants and a wool vest made it almost impossible to see his white coat.
Casparian hasn't always been so mild.
Canterbury House, the Episcopal Mission at KU, is Caspian's work. Its personality and his are imbued with the mellow afterbirth of the 1960s.
THE OLD GREEN HOUSE at 1118 Louisiana St. is a驰放 of that man in the medical time of day, I think. He's in that way.
"This used to be the main crashing place in the Midwest," Casparian said between smoke rings. "It was written up in hippee books as a great place to crash when hitchhiking.
Bright flames remain painted on the basement walls where a "beatnik" coffee house used to operate. Allen Ginsberg recited poetry in that basement. On the wall, a queen-room staircase led up to the coffee house. "I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice."
"At that time there was a need for that sort of thing," Caspiarian 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."
SINCE THEN, Caspian has become an Episcopal priest and now is the chaplain at Anterbury House. After a long career in education, he said his decision to enter a seminary was a practical one. He had
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Peter Casparian