FRIDAY,APRIL 12,2002
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN - 3A
Kansas Regents protest budget cuts
The Associated Press
WICHITA— Sounding frustrated and desperate, the Kansas Board of Regents and university presidents launched a public relations effort yesterday to keep lawmakers from sacrificing higher education funding to close a $700 million budget gap.
"I believe this is the first time this has ever happened. That underscores the size of the opportunity and the magnitude of the threat—both of those are greater than they have ever been," said Kim Wilcox, president and chief executive officer for the Kansas Board of Regents.
Their campaign kicked off with a news conference in Wichita, attended by current and former board members, the presidents of the state's universities and community colleges and civic and business supporters.
budget proposal lawmakers have considered would get close to that.
Regents now plan to take the fight to communities across the state, with particular emphasis on pressing the editorial boards of Kansas newspapers to support their cause, he said.
In Topeka, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Kenny Wilk said he understands the frustration of higher education officials but said, "They join the chorus of entities," upset about the budget.
Clark told reporters that even if the upcoming budget funded post-secondary education at the same level as the current budget, it would still represent a $13 million cut — about 6 percent less — in actual available funds.
Regents urged the Legislature to approve the budget for higher education, but, as a board, offered no specifics on how to come up with those funds. That's the Legislature's problem, they said.
In 1999, the Legislature reorganized the higher education system and promised state universities, community colleges and technical schools more money. Higher ed was supposed to see a $45 million increase during the state's next fiscal year, but no
"I understand their priorities and we're going to do what we can with the resources that are identified for spending," said Wilk, R-Lansing.
Former regent Jordan Haines said universities are the strength of Kansas: "The future of Kansas and public higher education are inexorably one and the same."
That's because the schools have money tied up in previous obligations, such as annualized salary increases and rises in health insurance, Clark said.
Frank Meyer, chairman of the Kansas Chamber of Commerce, said a recent meeting attended by 17 of the state's largest chambers of commerce came up with the consensus that the final budget should "hold harmless" K-12 and higher education, as well as research at the universities.
While a number of tax items are "off the table" for increases, he said, others that the Kansas Chamber would support include enactment of slot machines, an increase in the state sales tax by 0.3 percent and doubling of the franchise fee.
"The quality of education is a business issue," Meyer said. "Healthy communities and work force needs demand educational excellence at all levels. Mediocrity is not an option."
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Two weeks ago, Proper said the United States was considering "unsigning" the treaty to stress that it will not be bound by its provisions. Although he said yesterday that no decision would be made in
Pierre-Richard Prosper, the U.S. ambassador for war crimes, restated President Bush's opposition to the treaty and refusal to ratify it. The United States fears American citizens would be subject to frivolous or politically motivated prosecutions. It is the only vocal opponent of the court.
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"We don't want to cause confusion or create expectations that we will be part of this process," Prosper said. "We do believe that if we are not a party to the treaty we are not under the jurisdiction of the treaty."
The court will fill a gap in the international justice system first recognized by the U.N. General Assembly in 1948 after the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials for World War II's German and Japanese war criminals.
Even though President Bill Clinton signed the Rome treaty, the U.S. seat in the crowded chamber was empty. The Bush administration boycotted the ceremony, just as it has not attended meetings preparing for the court's operations.
"It will be the court where the Saddam Husseins, Pol Pots and Agosto Pinochets of the future are held to account," said Richard
At a brief ceremony at U.N. headquarters, more than 500 supporters of the tribunal rose in a standing ovation after 10 nations deposited their ratifications, bringing the number of countries now legally bound to cooperate with the International Criminal Court to 66.
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Philippe Kirsch, chairman of the commission preparing for the court's operation and Canada's ambassador to Sweden, said he believed the United States will eventually cooperate with the court.
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UNITED NATIONS — The world's first permanent war crimes tribunal got the necessary international backing yesterday to come into force on July 1, a milestone hailed by human rights advocates and many nations but strongly opposed by the United States.
The court will step in only when countries are unwilling or unable to dispense justice themselves for the most serious crimes committed by individuals like genocide or war crimes.
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It will have jurisdiction only over crimes committed after the treaty enters into force. Washington has campaigned unsuccessfully to exempt U.S. soldiers and officials from its jurisdiction, arguing that the safeguards against political prosecutions are not sufficient.
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