The University Daily KANSAN University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Tuesday, February 17, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 97 USPS 650-640 Battle to be waged over Regents funds By GENE GEORGE Staff Reporter Staff Reporter TOPEKA-The Senate Ways and Means Committee has launched a budget-cutting war with Gov. John Carlin, and the committee is pressing for more legislation of Regents and other agencies as amputation. If Hess's cuts are approved, it would mean would put parents' higher fees, and faculty members' lower fees. "People ask me, 'are you going to cut $100 million from the budget?' And I say, no." Hess Committee Chairman Paul Hess, R-Wichita, has issued a $100 million "hit list" of projects, including all the requests made by the Regents universities. HE SAID the last, which will be considered by a committee in hearings Feb. 25 and 36, had a death rate of 1.9%. One purpose was to give lawmakers an idea of where about $25 million could be cut and the effect. He said that the governor's position of using a severance tariff to find next year's budget was not useful and would be better off using it. The tax, which would place an 8 percent surcharge on the production of oil, natural gas and coal, would not be needed if the Legislature could make enough cuts. Hess said. He said that if the Legislature won, the governor would not be able to take credit for saving money when he launched his expected reelection bid next year. CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE of the fight is music education, social services and recreation programs. "It's a game of political chicken, like two cars speeding toward each other." Hess said. Two items in the governor's budget the Regents consider crucial are an 8 percent increase in pay for faculty members and a 6 percent increase in operating money. Another area Heas targeted is the almost 3 million requested to cover unexpected jumps in enrollment this year, and to cover projected increases next year. Hess said he had in mind making administrators at each university tend for themselves rather than constantly running to the Legislature with money requests. "KU's enrollment, for example, increased. 9 percent this year." Hess said. "We might take the fact that if enrollment increases or decreases you have to manage with what you get." HESS PROPOSED placing a rider on the appropriations bill to make the Regents charge all students 25 percent of the total cost of their education. Paul Conard, executive director of the Board of Regents, said that students at the three largest schools, the University of Kansas, Kansas State University and Wichita State University, now paid about 22 percent of the cost of their education. Conard said students at smaller Regents schools paid about 19 percent. If the rate is increased to 25 percent, Conard said, the universities would get an extra $1.9 million, which would fill the gap made by cutting the money for increased enrollment. The Regents policy on tuition is to set the rate at up to 25 percent, but to let it vary from university to university, depending on inflation and other costs. WHILE HESS said the pay increase for faculty would probably survive the committee's knife, he said he could not tell what would happen to the other items. Firemen investigate a burning expansion joint in a sidewalk on the east side of Wescoe Hall yesterday. See story page 7. The rate is generally changed every four years. Conard said. "We cannot leave out any sacred cows," he said. "We've cut public T.V. Higher education." Conard, who does not consider the Hess For NUBC Research See BUDGET page 5 Classified Senate asks for equal representation Staff Reporter Members of Classified Senate, hoping to enter the mainstream of University government, recently submitted proposals asking for equal representation. The Senate Executive committee will consider the proposals at this Friday's SenEx meeting. By DAN BOWERS Staff Reporter The proposals would make changes in the Senate Code to recognize Classified Senate on an equal basis with Faculty and University Councils. Suzanne Cupp, president of Classified Senate, said that classified's more than 1,800 employees were an important part of the University community and should have influence in governing the University equal to that of faculty and students. SHE NOTED that faculty representation began a long time ago. "Student representation began in the last decade and the role of classified employees in governance is just now being considered," she added. Cupp acknowledged, however, that recent classified employee appointments to the Parking and Traffic Board and the University Judiciary were signs that the administration was now recognizing classified employees' rights to participate in University governance. "The administration has been very responsive to these requests, and is represented on those committees. "Carmi said." Lewis Armstrong, a member of the Classified Senate, said that while there were members of the classified Code on some committees, "the Senate Code does not show the Classified Senate as a body from which those members are chosen." He said that the current proposals would establish the Classified Senate in the Senate Code, and that later additions would define the rules and regulations. WHILE MEMBERS of SenEx and Acting Chancellor Del Shankel said they supported the involvement of classified employees in their work, there are questions as to the extent of Classified's role. Shankel has said that classified employees deserved a role in University governance, but on If presented with a proposal for full in- ployment of compensation employees, he said "he impatiently pasado [passed] the "There are areas that are of legitimate concern to them and they have the right to be removed." last Friday. "Parking is one of these concerns they share with the faculty and students." Armstrong said classified employees would be interested in serving on committees that had an interest in the subject matter. "There are a couple of committees which we really don't have any business being on, where we have no need for Classified Senate representation," Armstrong conceded. he cited the Faculty Committee on Tenure and Related problems as one example. *Faculty and students are going to get their work done—homework, preparation for classes* By BRAD STERTZ Staff Reporter See CLASSIFIED page 5 Bills on tenure dismissal to hit House floor today Of the two bills, one giving the Kansas Board of Regents final tenure approved face only mild opposition, while the second and longer bill, which would place faculty dismissal solely in the Regents' hands, was nearly delayed in committee. A committee vote request by State Rep. John P. Woolfe to retain that second bill was defeated by 4,727 votes. The tenure balligan nearly went into extra innings yesterday, but after a close vote the House Judiciary Committee decided to send two tenure bills onto the House floor for introduction. Judiciary Committee members expected the bills to be introduced today. Sobach and State Rep. Joe Knopp-R Manhattan, led the charge against the second球 State Rep. Joseph J. Hoagland, R-Overland Pickard he was not worried about the future of Pikai "I think that the closeness of the vote on my proposals indicates that the bills will have a lot of trouble the rest of the way through," Solbach said after the meeting. "Before the meeting, I could not get the bills through the Judiciary Committee then he would find one where he could." Hoagland sparked the debate on tenure when he accused KU professor NormFone of hiding behind tenure to save his job after two trips to Iran in 1979. "I am still confident that the bills will get significant legislative backing." Hoagland said. "The reason is that the two bills are not particularly far reaching in the Reegents system. "The bills will simply fine tune the existing system. Everything else should remain pretty much the same on the university level with just an extra sten to final Reentals approval." Soltaib agreed that the bill giving the Regents final tenure approval was fairly innocuous, but added that he and other committee members would be more interested if the bill was too involved for immediate introduction. "It is very rare that a bill suggested by the chairman is not introduced," Solbach said, "but apparently several other legislators felt strongly against the second bill." Solbach said that even some of those who voted against the delay said they would not support the bill when it returned to the committee for a vote after being introduced. Hoagland said that be thought the bills would be up for hearings within the next week. Those hearings, Solbach were where strong lobbying against the bills would most likely come from. "When the hearings start up again in the committee, there are a couple of ways the operative team can proceed." "We can either make a lot of noise about the issue, or we can quietly let the issue die and let Rep. Hoagland out of the box he has gotten himself into without embarrassment." Sobach said that one way that the bills could be left to die was for the committee to avoid the fact that he was going to die. Regents chairman an 'overachiever' RvBRIAN LEVINSON Staff Reporter In March, Bernard Franklin will speak at Pittsburgh State University for Higher Education Day. That same weekend, he will speak at a conference. Last month he held a session in Wichita State. "It seems as if every student function that goes on, the first person they think of (as a speaker) is Bernard Franklin, because 'he is chairman of the Board of Regents and he is strong and I can relate to him.'11 Franklin said. At 27, the relaxed, self-assured former Kansas State University student body president is the youngest person to serve as chairman of the Board of Regents. When he BOB GREENSPAN/Kansan staff Bernard Franklin was appointed in 1787, he was the youngest person ever to be a Regent. FRANKLIN HAS a down-to-earth style that instantly puts those who meet him at ease. He takes no credit for his quick rise to one of the most powerful positions in Kansas. "Sometimes I don't know," said Franklin, who was featured in his K-State yearbook as The Overachiever. "Sometimes, I sit and wonder why I am doing what I am doing." "It is difficult sometimes to get people to realize that I am not actively pursuing a successful career," he said. "I know that it really weird, but many things just happen." Franklin said he did not believe in luck, so he couldn't say he was lucky. He strongly believes there is a supreme being who controls his life and knows what is best for him. FRANKLIN, a personnel officer for Committee, contributed most of his success to good fortune. When asked what pushed him to be such an achiever, there were several minutes of FRANKLIN DID just that during his four years at K-State. He was elected student body president in 1795, receiving 55 percent of the vote as a write-in candidate. "When things happen, I don't say no." Franklin said. "I go ahead and ask." "It was so absurd, I could not believe it when they came to me and told me I had taken the medicine." His resume is a long list of K-State leadership positions including K-State representative to the Associated Students of Kansas. It was ASK that three years later submitted Franklin's name as a candidate when a position on the Regents became vacant. Franklin said he turned down the offer, but that did not stop events from "just happening." Former Gov. Robert Bennett, who was See FRANKLIN page 5 Proposed bill may terminate medical scholarship program Future students at the University of Kansas Medical Center may have trouble finding money to pay for their education if a proposed State law provides exemption from the scholarship program passes the Legislature. Staff Reporter By BRIANLEVINSON The program, which started in 1978 as an incentive to keep medical school graduates in Kansas, has cost taxpayers $17 million, and Sen. Johnston, D-Parsons, says that is too much. Johnson is the sponsor of the bill, which now actions in the Senate Ways and Means "We have already spent too much in both time and resources," Johnston said. "It is a convenient way for students to pay for their education, but I am relatively sure that they could find other ways to finance their educations." CURRENTLY, 85 percent of the medical students are in the scholarship program. The program pays tuition and also provides $500 a month for expenses. In return, a student must practice in an underserved area of Kansas for five years. Sixty out of the 105 counties in Kansas are Students can get out of the program by paying back the loan with 10 percent interest. Johnston said many of the students were doing just that. However, Terry Wall, president of the medical assembly, said he thought most students would fulfill their obligations under the program. currently underserved, according to a report published by the Department of Health and Environment. Last year 70 counties in the state were underserved. "The continuation of the program is of vital interest to the medical students," Wall said. "The program really has not had a chance to prove itself yet." Wall said he thought cutting the program would affect minority and rural students the most. THE FIRST STUDENTS to go to medical school under the program will graduate in 1882. Last year, Johnston tried unsuccessfully to raise the interest rate on the tuition loans to 12 percent. The scholarship program required an additional $715,000 to finish this year. Johnston, who did not support the program when it was started, said he thought the program would be scaled down this year, if it is not totally eliminated. Any changes in the structure of the program would not affect students currently in it, he said. Weather It will be clear to partly cloudy today with a high in the upper 60s, according to the National Weather Service in Opeka. Tonight's low will be in the mid 30s. It will continue warm tomorrow with a high around 60. Winds will be from the south at 10-20 mph.