University Daily Kansan, April 15, 1985
CAMPUS AND AREA
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NEWS BRIEFS
Humorist to speak tonight
Gahan Wilson, humorist and illustrator,
will speak at 6 tonight in the auditorium of
the Spencer Museum of Art. The speech is
part of the Hallmark Symposium Series
Wilson has written and illustrated short stories and children's books. Some of his work has appeared in such magazines as Playboy and Esquire
'Annie' auditions scheduled
Wilson bases his cartoons on fantasy and the occult, and his review column, "The Dark Corner," appears in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Auditions for the Kansas Summer Theatre production of "Annie" have been scheduled for Saturday, April 27 and Sunday, April 28.
The auditions are for children, company and community cast members. Girls from eight to 13 may audition from 1 to 5 p.m.
April 27 in 209 Murphy Hall. Adult auditions are from 1 to 5 p.m. April 28. Cast members of all ages are needed.
Jack Wright, professor of theatre and producer of Kansas Summer Theatre, said anyone from the University and the Lawrence community could audition. For more information about the auditions, call Wright at 864-3893 or the University Theatre at 864-3381.
Counseling director chosen
James W. Lichtenberg, associate professor of counseling psychology, has been appointed the new director of the University Counseling Center.
Lichtenberg, who replaced Richard Rundquist effective March 18 as counselor, will supervise 11 senior staff members, five graduate student staff members and clerical and undergraduate student staff. Rundquist retired in January.
The center provides counseling, testing consultation, research and career development services for students, faculty and staff.
Prof to speak on Middle East
A noted professor of political science from the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga is scheduled to speak about peace in the Middle East at 7 p.m. today in
Found Moughrabri, who has a doctorate in political science, plans to give a speech titled "Looking For Peace in the Middle East."
University Band to tour state
The General Union of Palestine Students is sponsoring the speech.
The University Band will tour the state April is and is performing in Clay, Kentucky. Visit us at www.universitiedband.com.
The University Band, a large, open admission band, is intended for non-music majors who want to perform at the college level. The band plays many types of music, including popular music, classical music and standard marches.
Performances are scheduled for 2 p.m.
April 18 at Riley Elementary School; 7:30
p.m. April 18 at Clay Center High School;
9 a.m. April 19 at Concordia High School;
and 1:30 p.m. April 19 at Junction City
Junior High School.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny with a high around 40 and southerly winds from 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be mostly clear with a low in the low to mid 40s. Tomorrow will be mostly sunny with the high in the mid to upper 70s.
Compiled from Kanson staff and United Press international reports.
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If you have a complaint or a problem, ask for Malt Dettalgan, editor, or Diane
To place an ad, call the Kansan business office at 864-4358.
Student has a close call as volunteer
By PEGGY HELSEL Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Keith Lunsford didn't know that washing cars for a day could be dangerous when he volunteered for the St. Lawrence Catholic Center's fund-raising project, Rent-Aor do unselfersives.
Lunsford, Easton junior, was sent to do some seemingly harmless chores when he had a brush with disaster.
The project provided student volunteers to do jobs for people at a price of $5 an hour. Students were sent to wash and wax cars, clean windows, rake leaves — any chore that the employers would rather pay to have done than do themselves.
Lunsford said that he had just finished washing and waxing a car, and was busy vacuuming the inside of it when the incident occurred.
"It was a really nice car, almost brand new," he said. "There was a contraption in the bucket between the seats, and I guess I must have hit it."
Lumsford said he thought it was the controls for the radar detector that was in the car until he looked up and saw the garage door descending, right over the hood of the car.
"It was about five inches above the hood, about to crush it, and I was slapping the control." he said. "The door went up and down, and finally went back up again.
"I probably would have died if it hit the car," he said.
Eighty-six students donated their time to project Saturday, which lasted from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Rent-A-Student raised approximately $1,670 for the center, just short of the $2,000 goal. Julia Saenz, coordinator of the event, said.
"It's a tangible way that students can feel a part of this place," he said.
The project drew 75 to 100 requests for student laborers, Saenz said, several of which had to be canceled because Friday's ground too muddy for gardening chores.
John Dvsorex, Lenexa sophomore, reaches to clean the top corner of a window at the house of Bill and Jan Bulren, 2810 Trail Road. Dvsorex cleaned windows at the house for three hours Saturday afternoon after cleaning a garage that morning. He was participating in the St. Lawrence Catholic Center Rent A Student fund-raiser.
Panel might review GLSOK petition
A petition calling for a campus vote on Student Senate financing of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas may be considered by a Senate committee tonight.
The petition, circulated last spring, has 2,578 signatures — more than the 10 percent
of the student body required to bring it to a campus vote.
Michael Foubert, member of the Student Senate Elections Committee, said yesterday he planned to address the issue at the University in the Regionalist room of the Kaupas Union.
The petition was invalidated last fall by the Elections Committee because it did not contain the exact wording of the legislation to be enacted, as required by Senate rules
Steve Imber, Lawrence senior and author of the petition, appealed the committee's decision to the University Judicial Board. The board's hearing panel ruled in January
that the Elections Committee had wrongly invalidated Imber's petition.
The Judicial Board's decision is not binding
Last fall's Elections Committee failed to appeal the board's decision, so the petition comes before the new Elections Committee.
If the committee accepts the Board's decision, it will have to verify the signatures on the petition.
Legislature gives budget to governor
By NANCY HANEY Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — The KU budget was approved by the Kansas House and Senate on Saturday afternoon without much opposition, during which the Legislature's first session of this year.
The budget, part of a package for all Board of Regents school, was passed in the Houses of Parliament on May 31, 2016.
The Legislature will re-convene on April 24 to take action on any bills that Carlin vetoes.
The Regents schools are the six state universities and the Kansas Technical Institute Sangi
A joint House and Senate conference committee approved the appropriations bill Thursday night. The bill is expected to be signed by Gov. John Carlin this week.
State Sen. August Bogina Jr., R-Leneca, chairman of the joint conference committee that worked on the budget, said KU might beional money after the Legislature returns.
ANY ADDITIONAL money would have to pass in an omnibus bill, a catchall bill for items that didn't pass during the first session.
"There is a chance that a request for money to fund a research project with Parsons State Hospital could be allotted in the omnibus bill." Botina said.
KU had requested the money when the Legislature visited the campus in February.
KU's budget for fiscal year 1986, worth about $170 million, includes a 5 percent share of classified staff. Unclassified staff comprises faculty and graduate teaching assistants.
Student employees also received a 5 percent increase in salaries.
GRADUATE TEACHING assistants received an increase in fee waivers from 60 percent to 75 percent. Fee waivers give teaching assistants a discount on tuition.
The off-campus work-study program at KU received a 43 percent increase from last year. The program received about $154,000 for fiscal year 1986.
The Other Operating Expenses portion of the KU budget received a 5 percent, or about $40,000, increase from fiscal 1985 The Governmental allocation of about $72 million for fiscal 1986
KU also received an additional $150,000 for a new fund called other OOE. The amount would be split between library acquisitions and purchases of instructional equipment.
The budget also included a provision for at least $200,000 in matching funds. For every dollar in private and federal funds KU will receive $500 per grant; will grant matching funds up to $200,000.
KU was the only Regents school to receive an allocation, about $260,000, for the addition of a new school.
Also included in the appropriations bill was a budget of about $165.6 million for fiscal year 1986 for the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Lawmakers approve pay plan compromise
Staff Reporter
By NANCY HANEY
TOPERA — The state employee pay plan kept Kansas legislators in session until late Saturday night, but lawmakers finally reached a compromise on the bill.
The bill passed in the Senate, 25-12, and then was sent to the House where it passed, 36-37.
The pay plan, which included salary raises for all state employees, including the governor and legislators, was the last item considered before it adjoined for 10 days.
The bill was approved after a House-Senate conference committee met late Saturday to work out differences in amendments that each chamber had tacked on to the bill.
All state employees, including classified employees at the University of Kansas.
would receive a 5.5 percent raise in salary if Gov John Carlin sign the bill this week.
Classified employees at KU include all
employees except faculty members, student
members, and outside consultants.
CHARLES DODSON, executive director of the Kansas Association of Public Employees, said Saturday he was happy with the outcome of the plan.
On Friday the Senate Ways and Means Committee added an amendment to the bill to compensate state employees who wouldn't receive a raise this year because their salaries had increased as much as the current pay scale allowed.
The amendment allows for a $204 bonus for these employees, which they would receive in two payments of $102 in fiscal year 1986. The employee and cost the state about $26-340.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said the bonas was needed to make sure all
state employees received something this year.
"IM REALLY PLEASED with the things we were able to do this year for state employees." Winter said. "In the last two years, we have just waited too long in the session to get anything accomplished for them."
Dodson said this payment was smaller than what he wanted, but it was compensation for employees who wouldn't receive a raise this year.
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said she was pleased with the raises that the executive branch and the legislators received.
THE SIAED SERVING in the Legislature required a lot of time. Even though it is considered a part-time job, working at a law firm as a representative or senator is difficult.
Branson supported an amendment added in the Senate Ways and Means committee on March 17.
Final action on the bill was stalled because of this amendment, which was proposed by State Sen Robert Frey R-Liberal The Amendment. Because it never removed the amendment from the bill.
THE AMENDMENT would have given the 23 lawmakers increases of $50 to $150 a month, depending on the size of the district.
The conference committee accepted other amendments to the bill that would increase lawmakers' monthly salaries from $400 and minority leaders pay from $2,340 to $7,474.
The committee also accepted pay increases for the executive branch. The governor's salary was increased from $49,500 to $65,000; the secretary of state's and state treasurer's from $30,250 to $50,000; the attorney general's from $44,000 to $57,500 and the insurance commissioner from $38,500 to $50,000.
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