University Daily Kansan, April 29. 1985
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reliuctant to endorse the University Council divestment resolution because the Endowment Association could lose money.
"That's what they're afraid of," she said.
"They're afraid of losing dollars."
James Carothers, president of the University Council and associate professor of business, said: "I think the chancellor had a legitimate passion of opinion. I have no other comment."
Arno Knapper, chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee and professor of business, said, "I don't think the chancellor disagrees with the Council's resolution. The chancellor says that he feels that divestment isn't the answer.
"THIHN THE characler is right, that it's going to take Congress or the president of the United States to do something about apartheid," did not say our statement was wrong."
But Robert Jerry, chairman of the Human Relations Committee, which drafted a report on divestiture that was presented to the University Council, said he thought the chancellor's statements did seem to disagree with the University Council's resolution.
"If the University Council's resolution calls for total divestment, it would seem that Chancellor Budig does not agree with it," he said.
Jerry did agree with the chancellor's
statement that only actions by the U.S. Congress and the president would spark change in South Africa.
"I WOULD SAY the best way that we can affect conditions in South Africa is through actions of the federal government," Jerry said. "I would rather see members of the University community lobby Congress to pass the anti-apartheid act of 1985 rather than spend so much time worrying about the Endowment."
Edward Dutton, associate professor of social welfare, who had worked with the Committee on the issue of South Africa for several years, said he respected the chancellor's opinion but thought the chancellor should have used his position to mediate between the Endowment Association and the University.
"I AM SORRY the chancellor does not take a mediating role," he said. "Rather than to suggest 'I will not use my office for political purpose'."
Dutton said the chancellor might be able to initiate a dialogue between the University and the Endowment Association.
"The Endowment Association has taken a pretty stone wall position," he said.
"I see it as being somewhat arrogant. They see themselves as a separate entity and operate autonomously, but that doesn't negate the need for dialogue."
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ributions for the purchase of instructiona and research equipment.
The Legislature on Saturday also agreed to add about $185,000 to the catch all omnibus appropriations bill for KU approved before final adjournment.
Of this, $77,000 will go into the OEU fund to compensate for decreased enrollment in the School of Law: $78,000 will go for a research program at Parsons State Hospital and $30,000 will go for the renovation of the old section of Haworth Hall.
THE LEGISLATURE also approved a bill to provide a $30,000 scholarship at KU. The scholarship will be established in the memory of two KU students who were killed in the car crash and whose money will be appropriated through the Kansas University Endowment Association.
But the budget issues look a back seat session to the social issues, especially in urban areas.
Carlin on Saturday signed the bills in the package, including one that will raise the legal drinking age for 3.2 beer to 21. The liquor by the drink resolution does not require the governor's signature and goes to the voters in the 1986 general election
The bill signed by Carlin will raise the drinking age to 19 on July 1. Those who turn 19 on or after that date must wait until their
21st birthday before they can buy any alcoholic beverages.
PASSAGE OF THE drinking age bill was virtually assured because of a federal requirement that all states have a uniform age limit for use by a portion of their federal highway funds.
That bill and the others in the drinking package — including one to prohibit happy hours and other drinking promotions and one to toughen laws against drunken driving — became bargaining chips in the effort to get liquor by the drink placed on the ballot.
In January, Carlin named passage of the liquor resolution as one of his priorities for this legislative session. But the Legislature spent nearly the entire session trying to find a version of the resolution that would satisfy two-thirds of the House and the Senate.
ON THE LAST day of the regular session, both chambers finally found a formula for the resolution that enough lawmakers could support.
The resolution, if approved statewide in 1986, would limit liquor by the drink to establishments that received at least 30 percent of their revenue from the sale of food and to those counties that approved the measure.
But the measure gives counties that want to escape from the 30 percent food clause the
opportunity to vote at a later election to eliminate that provision.
Also, counties that wish to prohibit liquor sales entirely may conduct elections to do so. Besides liquor by the drink, the other issue that has stymied lawmakers for more than 10 years is the proposed property classification amendment.
THE PROPOSED constitutional amendment would establish three categories for taxing private property: homes would be taxed at 12 percent of their fair market value; farm land would be taxed at 30 percent of its use value, or the ability of the business to finance income; and businesses, industries and public utilities would be taxed at 30 percent.
Classification categorizes property for the purpose of taxation. The state constitution now requires that all property be appraised in own and equal* 30 percent of market value.
But over time, a complex set of property taxes (a tax bursement for residential and farm land)
Carlin and most lawmakers said classification was needed to prevent homeowners and farmers from facing dramatic property losses. The state had ordered a long-overdue, statewide reappraisal.
The last time property across the state was appraised was in the early 1960s.
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