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WEDNESDAY
July 3, 1985
Vol. 95, No. 151 (USPS 650-640)
The University Daily
Details, page 3
KANSAN
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Regents propose raising KU budget $11 million
By Sherry Gering Staff Recorder
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — The Board of Regents proposed a fiscal year 1987 budget of $121.3 million for the University of Pittsburgh during its second day of meetings.
The figure is a 10.3 percent increase from the fiscal 1986 budget, which was $109.9 million. The additional $11.4 million would go for salaries, operating expenses, new programs and program improvements and money to maintain new buildings.
The Regents also approved $147.2 million for the University of Kansas Medical Center.
"The Regents staff clearly recognizes the scope and the importance of the University of Kansas." Chancellor Gene A. Budig said in a prepared statement released Thursday.
The proposed budget increases for KU's Lawrence campus and Med Center are the largest of the seven Regents schools. The Regents proposed a $4.5 million budget increase for the seven Regents schools for fiscal 1987.
If the proposal is approved in the 1968 session of Kansas Legislature, they will become effective July 1.
State University, Wichita State University, Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University, Platte Valley Technical Institute and Technical Institute in Salina
Other Regents schools are Kansas
The Rogers approved $2.98 million for program improvements and new programs at KU. The University requested $7.5 million.
Keith Nitcher, University director of business affairs, said the difference between KU's request and the Regents proposal was not unusual. He said KU's requests were basic University's need and Regents proposed a more thought would have a chance to be passed by the Legislature.
In his statement, Budig said, "The Regents staff has honored many of
our budget priorities, especially in the all-important area of academic research.
The Regents approved $4.9 million for upgraded programs for the Med Care Center.
That represents a 7 percent increase over fiscal 1986 for both faculty salaries and operating expenses. Utility funds will increase by 5 per cent in retirement funds will increase by 1 percent under the proposed budget.
for the servicing of new buildings. The new buildings are the Haworth Hall addition, the Botany Research Building and the Ainsport Sports Pavilion.
The other Regents schools fiscal year 1986 budgets compared with 1987 budgets are Kansas State University $112.05 million for 1987 compared with $101.68 million for 1986; Kansas State University maternal health $9.96 million for 1987; $8.7 million for Wichita State University $33.1 million in 1987; $4.2 million in 1986; Emporia State University $21.6
The Regents also approved $211,925
Regents to review advising policies
See BUDGET. p. 5. col. 3
Staff Reporter
By Sherry Gering
When Scott Strange came to the University of Kansas he was assigned an academic adviser, just as all freshman are. But he encountered something strange. His adviser was on sabbatical.
"I was really upset when I found out my adviser was not here," Strange, Leavenworth junior, said. "Oneday, "I wasn't sure what to do."
Kurt Andrews, Omaha, Neb.
 junior, said he did not like his freshman advisor because he was in university. The teacher was visor was an art history professor,
"He didn't tell me what my prerequisites were to get in the journalism school," he said.
It was complaints like those that raised the Board of Regents' concern about its schools' advising procedures.
The seven Regents schools are KU, Kansas State University, Wichita State University, Pittsburgh State University, Fort Hays State University, Emuporta State University and Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
Sandra McMullen, chairman of the Regents academic advising committee, said the Regents heard several complaints last summer from students during the Regents program review of their schools.
Chief administrators of Regents schools were told Friday at a meeting of the Regents academy officials to discuss statements of their advising pro-
ceduras and evaluations of how they worked at the Regents' May 1986 meeting
McMullen said, "We have a vast array of ways that advising is carried out on our campuses. The overall goal is the improvement of the advising system on each campus."
Administrators at the Regents schools have debated whether the professor should have responsibility for advising and get in touch with the student or whether the student should have full responsibility.
John Montgomery, Regents member, said. "The faculty members ought to contact the students when they first arrive on the campus and then follow up and contact them later."
But Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, disagreed. She said it was the view of KU's faculty that a student in a large university ought to accept some of the responsibility.
She said it would be almost impossible at a large university for the professor to take the initiative because there would be so many students for which he would be responsible.
Tacha said freshmen and sophomores at KU are assigned advisers and must get their adviser's signature before enrolling. If a student indicates a preference in a program, an adviser will inform the adviser an adviser in that school) and in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, she said.
Alumni's magazine will be discontinued
By Gina Kellogg
Staff Reporter
In a cost-cutting measure, the Kansas Alumni Association's color magazine will be discontinued and may be replaced with a newsletter, the executive director and secretary of the association said Friday.
"There is currently a financial constraint," said Fred Williams, the director. "It's currently being handled by the magazine with a newsletter."
Kansas Alumni, the magazine, was produced in two forms, a tabloid and a color magazine. The tabloid is published six times a year and the magazine is published twice a year. The final issue of the color magazine last month. The tabloid will not undergo any changes, Williams said.
For the past three years, the tabloid has won a national championship award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, Dan Reeder, the editor of the publication, said Thursday.
Reeder said that in the past nine years, Kansas Alumni had won more than 100 regional and national awards. Reeder attributed most of the honors to the unique approach his staff had taken with the tablol.
"The alumni don't live their lives contingent upon what happens at the University," he said. "They are busy people involved in life. The alumni feel a soft spot in their hearts for the University. But if the University
feeds them schlock, then how long will it last?"
"It was a matter of looking at the economics, I think," he said. "The decision to terminate for a period and take a look at finances doesn't mean that by canceling we would be doing away with it forever."
Reeder declined to comment on the discontinuance of the magazine.
"We'll find out. We may receive a barrage of letters asking our decision or we may receive none. We will have to decide on our annual members, I hope not."
Chuck Marsh, former assistant editor, said he saw the magazine's demise coming.
"Are we doing the magazine just because it is something we always done," he said, "or are we doing it, it's something that's desired?"
John Stewart, the new president of the Alumni Association, said the decision was based on monetary considerations.
Williams said the decision to discontinue the magazine was based in part on some questions the boards of directors had to ask themselves.
Stewart said a committee had been appointed that would decide this
"I'm disappointed; it was fun to do. I think the alums will be disappointed. But the money's just not there to keep it in mind."
"I don't think it's a appreciated by the Alumni Association," he said. "It doesn't receive the funding it needs."
See MAGAZINE, p. 5, col. 3
Kenneth Stoner, KU's director of student housing, says a workshop with residence hall officers in August will help him establish a relationship with students.
KU housing brings native back as head
Bv J.P. Conrov
Staff Reporter
The call eventually has the Garden City native to return to Kansas to become KU's director of student housing after the retirement of J. J. Stoner, the vector for 31 years. Stoner started work Monday.
Life took an unexpected turn for Kenneth Stoner when he got out of college. He had intended to take a teaching position in Kansas when he received a call from Iowa State University.
"It was one of those old life experiences" Stoner said yesterday. "I really hadn't considered it."
Stoner, who graduated from Kansas State University in 1968 with a degree in education, was a residence hall assistant and had been elected to a campus office He also participated as an elective representative for student government activities at conventions, where Iowa State officials noticed him.
Stoner was asked after he graduated to take a position at Iowa State on its residence hall staff. He served as a professor of geography.
"I thought it would be an interesting thing to do," he said.
Soner said he kept up his teaching certification during his two years at Iowa State and pursued a master's degree in student personnel because he knew he would have a permanent career in housing.
After that, *Stoner* spent three months in an Army training program and then two years at the University of Southern Florida in Tampa on its housing staff. He then spent 12 years at the university where he was treasured in Knoxville, where he was associate director of housing immediately before coming to KU.
Jim Grubb, director of residence halls at the University of Tennessee, said, "Ken is a very dedicated person in terms of his profession. He is very hardworking, self and students have always found his door open."
Stoner said that after two days on the job, he wasn't familiar with all details of University housing but that he was familiar with the housing program and is likely ready to go to the program at the University of Tennessee.
"J.J. Wilson was able to rely on his own judgement because of his historical perspective." Stoner said. "I'll have to rely on the staff to par with and provide details of historical perspective."
He said his staff was setting shortterm and long-term goals. The short-term goals are to complete all University housing projects within the next six weeks for the fall semester, including installing locks at Jayhawker Towers and new fire alarm systems in the residence halls, hiring a full staff for food services and renovating the kitchen in Joseph R. Pearson Hall.
One long-range goal will be re-evaluation of KU housing policies from top to bottom, he said.
Users ecstatic about banned 'designer drug'
By Jill Ovens
Staff Reporter
Users are ecstatic about a trendy drug that has been sweeping some parts of the country, but their high costs may make it difficult for administration on Monday.
The drug, known on the streets as "ecstasy," became illegal Monday. The drug administration put it on a list of highly restricted drugs, joining LSD heroin and MDA. Ecstasy inhibits mood-meds MDA, an powerful stimulant
The classification is temporary, Robert鼎kfam, chief of public affairs for the administration in Washington, said Monday. The classification would not become permanent until hearings are conducted
in Kansas City, Mo. July 10 and 11,
and in Washington, D.C. at a date
Ecstasy, or methylenedioxymethamphetamine, is a drug with no known medical use. Feldkam said.
It is a 'designer drug', a class of substances whose actions are similar to banned drugs but chemically different, which allows them to escape the law.
MDA, cestasy's predecessor, has been found to cause brain damage in animals at doses equivalent to those used by humans. Scientists have said results also may apply to cestasy. Folks who suffer cestasy because of such evidence
Some psychiatrists, psychologists and other scientists say the drug has therapeutic value, and if they persuade the DEA of that, the classification could become less restrictive.
Linda Keeler, a psychiatrist at the Watkins Hospital mental health
But two area psychiatrists expressed skepticism about supposed therapeutic uses of the drug.
classification, manufacturers and sellers of the drug are subject to maximum fines of $125,000 and 15 year prison sentences. Feldkam said. Possession of the drug on a first offense could lead to a $13,000 fine and a maximum prison sentence of five years.
clinic, said she was not familiar with the drug at all
"Some ampetamines are used to treat attention-deficiency disorders in children, but this is not one of them," she said.
William Nathan, a psychiatrist at the Meninger Foundation in Topeka, said he did not know of any therapeutic use for the drug.
"My only knowledge of it is as a drug of abuse." Nathan said.
Nathan said the drug might have some experimental uses, but despite the fact that he had read extensively about the use of stimulant medications in the past, it was something in the medical literature that bothered us for this drug.
See ECSTASY, p. 5, col. 1