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University Daily Kansan, February 6, 1981
Washburn annexation given support
By BRAD STERTZ Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA- Everyone from concerned citizens to worried students told the Shawnee County legislative delegation last night that they would not want a lawsuit effort to put Washburn University in the Kansas Board of Regents system.
In a public meeting on the Washburn campus, interested parties were virtually unanimous in their approval of steps that would take Washburn "off the shoulders of Topeka and share the burden with the rest of the state."
The meeting was first between the Topeka area legislators and Washburn officials, faculty, students and Topeka citizens. The proposal was first announced two weeks ago by State Rep. Bill Bunten, R-Topeka as a measure to keep Washburn financially viable.
HUGH V. LEACH, representing the Washburn University faculty, said the faculty would support moving into a new campus and would be characteristic of Washburn were kept.
"We would encourage any efforts to place Washburn in the state system," Leach said, "but we would want it to remain an autonomous institution, the identity or name of Washburn would be kept, the law school would remain, the current programs would be continued and that Washburn would seek affiliation from the position of current president, giving the certain position of future weakness."
Statements made by the Washburn Board of Regents, the Washburn Alumni Association and the Washburn Law Alumni Association virtually repeated the concerns listed by the faculty.
ONE PROFESSOR said he wanted to see Washburn in the state Regents system so the term "university" could refer to the name Washburn University.
"Many have expressed concern for keeping the name of Washburn," the professor said, "but I am concerned about keeping the name University.
ASK BASED THERM decision on the fact that Washburn's financial future was uncertain and its financial present was overburdening, Snider said.
Mike Snider, Washburn's associated Students of Kansas lobbyist, said that ASK executive director Hob Bingmanump said that the state would for Washburn to enter the state system.
"In-state tuition fees at Washburn are the highest of any public university in Kansas," Snider mentioned, "and a four-year increase in the annual increase is planned for next year."
The only concern that Bingaman had, Snider said, was to assure that the addition of Waashun would not be necessary. He got allotments to other Regens schools.
"Student tuition fees at Washburn pay a larger percentage of the university's operating expense than at other public universities, and the university has the highest property taxes in the state because of the Washburn mill levy."
Although the state Board of Regents have been unofficially against putting Washburn under the state system, Regents attorney Bill Kauffman expressed, as a private citizen, his support of the measure.
"To extend the Washburn mill levy as proposed earlier," Kauffman told the Topkea legislators, "would be to simply buy time and put off a decision on financing Washburn until it would be too late. I would like to urge you as legislators to prompt your colleagues to move ahead."
JACK GREENWOOD, a former member of the Washburn Borgens, said he wanted to ensure that Washburn was brought up 'up' by a big bureaucratic agency.
He said he did not want to see Washburn become a part of the University of Kansas.
Moving Washburn under the "burrecuracial" state Regents also bothered Topeka resident Jack Pulliam.
"In past years there has seemed to be a trend of moving toward community-based programs," Pulliam said. "I just don't understand the legislature's
Bunten told the meeting that the original plan to put Washburn under the administration of KU was changed because the opposition be encountered to it.
"I found out that, although I thought the idea had some merit, it would not fly with Washburn under KU," Bunten said. "After listening to some of the conversations on the subject over the years, I wouldn't support it any more either."
desire to move a community-based college under the jurisdiction of a huge bureaucracy."
If Washburn were moved into the state system, a city commissioner indicated that Topeka's property taxes might be lowered.
"During 1800, a citizen in central Topeka paid the highest property taxes of anyone in the state." Jimm Clauseman sat, Washburn's tax levy were salaried, and the would be able to maintain property taxes and possibly reduce them."
ALSO SUPPORTING the move was Robert S. Johnson, president of the Washburn Student Council when he made a request to make Washburn a municipal university.
"I was very active in getting the students to vote to put Washburn on the tax roll," Johnson said, "but now I am a lawyer and have been going and now going into the state system."
State Rep. Ruth Wilkin, D-Topea, said the purpose of the meeting was to the Shawnee County delegation could get the opinions of the citizens.
"We decided not to introduce a bill
we've heard from the public."
"White House."
The next step for the legislators, Bunten said, would be for the Shawnee County delegation to get together and decide if the draft of the bill was worded correctly and to decide who would sponsor the bill.
He said the bill would then be introduced to the House or Senate either Tuesday or Wednesday of next week.
Although he did not know how much support the bill would get in the Legislature, Bunten said he was enn�ted to help support the plan got at the meeting.
Warmer temperatures caused some of the ice that had formed along the Kansas River to melt.
KU debate team argues way to top
Continuing a 62-year tradition of success, KU's debate squad last week weekend three teams in the top six. The tournament Debate Tournament's senior division.
By CORAL BEACH Staff Reporter
Members of the KU Debate Squad, formed in 1918, have placed in the top 10 in the national tournament seven out of the last 10 years. In 1976 and 1970 KU teams captured the first place award in the national contest.
At the competition in Waco, Texas, 1KU debaters took high honors, earning more honors than any of the 78 other teams involved.
"Since 1949 the University of Kansas has sent more teams to the national competition than any other school in the country," Parson said. "UCS and Purdue behind us for the nation behind us for the number of teams sent."
PARSON SAID THAT the national tournament was the "NCAA tournament of debate." Sixty teams were invited, and event, which will be April 7 this year.
KU TEAMS PLACED second, fourth and fifth out of 47 in the senior division of the competition. Three of the senior team members top 10 of the Individual Events category
Thirty-eight KU teams have competed in the national competition since 1949. All of the other schools in the Big Eight combined have sent 25 teams.
of the KU debaters because the squad had been nationally known for its superiority for quite some time.
Out of the 34 teams in the junior division KU teams placed second and fourth. One KU debater placed eighth in the CVC Events category of the junior division.
Donn Parson, debate coach, said he was not surprised with the performance
The national debate topic for this year concerns the increase of the United States' foreign policy commitments. Parson said that the topics were selected to represent pertinent questions of the times.
No matter what the topic, the debaters spend at least five to 10 hours a week researching and organizing encases. The KU debaters are enclosed within practicum count that they receive one hour of credit for each semester.
PARSON SAID he thought most of the students who participated in the program did so mainly for enjoyment.
Payne said, "I really enjoy the travel involved, and we get to meet people from all over the country."
The squad is now preparing for tournances at Northwestern University and at Michigan University of at at Ayetteville. Both tournances will be Feb. 13-15.
The KU squad is also making plans for the 25th Annual Heart of America Tournament, which the University will host March 7-9.
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