University Daily Kansan, April 17, 1985
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THE COMMISSION was composed of 2,000 business executives appointed by President Reagan in 1981 to compare similar costs between the private and public sectors.
The commission reported that the federal government could save nearly $425 billion in spending over a three-year period, mainly by cutting out what Grace considered "wasteful and inefficient overspending."
The commission's report has drawn fire, however, from both government agencies and from federal workers.
"THE COMMENTS PEOPLE have been making are completely anime," Grace said. "They would like to point out exactly in the report that some of their observations. I would be happy to respond to them."
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Independent reviews of the commission's findings by the Congressional Budget Office and the General Accounting Office showed that the recommendations actually would be more cost-effective, given a review contended that many of the recommendations were either vague or exaggerated.
Federal workers have charged that the
Grace challenged anyone to point out any uncertainties in the report.
commission's findings were false and unfair to federal workers. The commission had suggested that the federal law allowing women to work in federal office at age 55 constituted inefficient spending.
In protest, federal employees from Kansas City, Mo., last night recommended that patronize the 28 franchised businesses that W.R. Grace & Co. owned in Kansas City
W. R. Grace & Co. was founded in Peru more than a century ago. It is an international company, with interests in chemical natural resources and consumer services.
"We DIDN'T RECOMMEND to cut back the number of federal jobs or even benefits as such," he said. "We merely suggested that things could be done more efficiently, such as contracting out to the private sector some small businesses." It's a well-known fact that the private sector is generally about 25 percent more efficient that the public sector."
Grace emphasized that the commission did not recommend throwing any civil or government employees out of their jobs.
As Grace got up to speak, some of the protesters in the audience began yelling questions. The Chancellor Chancellor Budd requested that the protestors be silent and allow Grace to speak.
Protesters carried pickets and handed out fists at the front and back entrances of the KKK.
After the speech, a question and answer period included questions from protesters. At one point, a shouting match developed between Grace and one of the protesters.
AS GRACE LEFT the stage, he was vigorously booed by protestors. Some audience members leaving the Union had to walk through the room with two lines of protesters bearing pickets.
Billie Doss, president of the Leavenworth branch of the American Federal Government Employees union, said protesters had come from the American Federation of American Employees, the Internal Revenue Service in the Kansas City area and the Veterans Administration from Kansas City, Mo., and Leavenworth.
tentative in Leavenworth, the National Treasurer's Employees Union and the National Federation of Federal Employees. Presented groups are members of the AFGE.
Representatives also came from among prison employees from the federal peni-
Phyllis Gable, vice president of the Leavenworth branch of the AFGE, said "They're not giving the true facts. Their figures were erroneous. They give out the idea that federal workers sleep on the job and don't earn their pay."
Reginald Huey, executive vice president of the Kansas City, Mo., branch of the AFGE, said the about 20 people rented a bus to come to KU to boycott Grace's speech.
"We want to make people aware that Grace is a sham," Huey said. "He basically wants to reduce the size of the entire government by two million employees by contracting out electric to private individuals — Boeing, General Electric, General Dynamics
high-tech officers. General dynamics
—they are already ripping off taxpayers.
We are already tipping on taxpayers. "This is unusual for federal employees to picket. We are usually the silent majority. The only thing we're trying to do is make the public aware of how they're trying to reduce the size of government by deeef."
asked the executive committee to consider developing a code stating the board's position in future situations in which a student athlete's conduct was questionable.
Some board members wanted the board to make an immediate statement on the matter. The board voted, however, to allow the executive committee to discuss the issue.
Sandwiched between the unscheduled discussions of athlete conduct was the top item on the board's agenda: approval of a policy to allow athletes to disobey the Chancellor G. A. Budig for his approval.
The budget includes the disputed activity fee increase, which the Board of Regents will consider at its meetings Thursday and Friday. Before the Senate descends the fee increase earlier this month, it will consider the fee increase, taking the decision out of the Senate's budget.
THE MONEY generated from the fee increase will go to non-revenue sports, which all sports except football and men's basketball. Under the proposal, the current $4.50 activity fee that students pay each semester with their tuition would be raised to $6.50.
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