University Daily Kansan, April 10, 1986
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CAMPUS AND AREA
NEWS BRIEFS
Speaker to trace Roman law
Peter Benochr, visiting professor of law,
will speak on the development of Roman
law at 11:45 a.m. today at the Ecumenical
Ministeries, 1204 Oread Ave.
Benoehr will trace Roman law from its beginnings in ancient Rome to its revival during the Middle Ages. Roman law was applied in Europe until the 19th century.
Slide show to help Nicaragua
The speech is this week's University Forum, sponsored by the Ecumenical Christian Ministries. A hot lunch will be served to those with reservations.
A Latin American Solidarity activist will give a slide presentation on a proposed Nicaraguan housing project at 6:15 p.m. at the Central Christian Ministries, 2042 Oread Ave.
Talmadge Wright, the activist, will present the show, "The Popular Housing Revolution in Nicaragua." Wright, a native Californian, is traveling across the country to raise money for the housing project, which would include 50 homes, one school and one clinic in Pancasan, Nicaragua.
The slide show will follow the weekly rice and beans dinner sponsored by Latin American Solidarity. The dinner costs $1.50. All proceeds from the dinner will be donated to the project.
Software conference Saturday
Instruction for educators seeking the right microcomputer software will be given at a conference Saturday at the Computer Center.
The program will begin at 10 a.m. and end at 3:30 p.m., said Barbara Kessler, extension assistant in the division of continuing education. The conference, which costs $60, is designed for educators, administrators and students at elementary, secondary and post-secondary levels.
The conference will examine ways to help educators find and evaluate computer software for their subjects and grade levels.
The conference also will feature a video link to a national teleconference broadcast live by satellite from the University of Oklahoma.
The conference is being sponsored by the Computer Center, the School of Education and division of continuing education and the Kansas Department of Education.
For information on registration, contact Kessler at 864-3284.
Weather
There will be a 20 percent chance of morning thundershowers today, becoming partly cloudy. The high will be in the mid-60s. Winds will be from the west to northwest at 10 to 15 mph. Tonight will be fair with a low in the low to mid 40s. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy and very mild, with a high in the low 70s.
Compiled from Kansas staff and United Press International reports.
Corrections
Because of a reporter's error, a story in Thursday's Kansan incorrectly reported the date that a student was arrested on charges of aggravated arson. Jon Patterson Gilchrist, St. Joseph, Mo., freshman, was arrested by KU police April 2
In the same story, a statement attributed to Gilchrist was taken out of context. Police said yesterday that Gilchrist told them he did not burn a door at Joseph R. Pearson Hall on April 1. Gilchrist's statement, "I'd just it to do it," referred to another incident, police said.
Because of a reporter's error, a story in Friday's Kansan incorrectly quoted James B. Carothers, president of the University Council.
Carothers should have been quoted as saying that a subcommittee drafting a measure to ask the Kansas University Endowment Association to divest from companies doing business in South Africa had rejected the argument that divestment should be requested only if it would have an effect on the South African government.
Approval for Regents budget delayed
By MICHAEL TOTTY Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — After meeting for more than four hours, negotiators from the Kansas House and Senate last night failed to reach a compromise on the Board of Regents financing bill for fiscal year 1866.
The joint conference committee tentatively agreed to almost all the issues in the budget for the seven Regents schools but reached a impasse over a proposed increase in funds for the schools' other operating expenses, or OOE.
GOE.
The Regents schools are the six state universities and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
institute in Santa
One of the negotiators for the House, Ways
and Means Committee. Chairman Bill
Bunten, R-Topeka, left the meeting when a
compromise could not be reached between
the House and Senate positions on OOE,
which pays for items such as library
acquisitions, building maintenance and
chalk.
SENATORS ON THE committee wanted a 5 percent increase in 00E and an additional $750,000 to be divided between library acquisitions and the purchase of instructional equipment.
House members offered to increase OOE by 5.3 percent, up from the House's original proposal of 4.3 percent, but they opposed the additional funds. About $430,000 separated the House and Senate positions on OOE.
the front of the building. Bunten said the higher Senate budget proposal would lower the state's balances and could not be financed without a tax increase. If the Legislature decides to raise taxes, he said, then more money for the Regents schools could be added at the end of the session.
But State Sen. Gus Bogina, R-Lenexa and chairman of the conference committee, said the money for the supplemental OEE request was needed to make up for past budget cuts
SENATE MEMBERS of the committee would not budge on the issue, and Bogina said they would be willing to wait until an agreement was reached.
"As far as I'm concerned, it can lay there," Bogina said.
Bogina said no further meetings were planned. The conference committee must agree on a Regents budget by the end of the session.
"I'm the chairman of this committee," Bogina said. "Whenever I see fit, I'll call the committee back in session."
the conference committee was formed yesterday to forge a compromise bill from the two chambers' original budget proposals after the House on Monday approved a $645 million Regents budget. The budget approved by the Senate last month was for $655 million.
THE HOUSE NAMED Bunten and State Reps. Rochelle Chronister, R-Neodesha, and Donald Mainey, D-Topeka, to the committee. The Senate appointed Bogina and State Sens. Frank Gaines, D-Augusta, and Merril Werts, R-Junction City.
Before the deadlock, conference committee members had tentatively agreed to compromises on the other statewide issues in the Regents budget.
Salary increases for unclassified and student employees were held to 5 percent, down from the 6 percent increase proposed in January by Gov. John Carlin. House members acceded to the Senate's proposed increase in the state's contribution to the unclassified employee' retirement fund from 5 percent to 6 percent.
Unclassified employees include faculty and graduate teaching assistors, or GTAs.
HOUSE MEMBERS also agreed to raise the fee waivers for GTAs to 75 percent of their tuition. The House originally approved a 65 percent fee waiver.
In an effort to erase office objections to the OOE increases, Senate members tentatively agreed to additional reductions in money allotted to individual Regents schools.
For the University of Kansas, senators approved the House's cuts in financing for a preventive maintenance program for automatic building equipment at some campus buildings.
ASK replies to criticism from Senate
they also agree to eliminate about $78,000 that the Senate had approved for a research program at Parsons State Hospital.
By JULIE MANGAN Staff Reporter
The Associated Students of Kansas could better lobby for student interests in the Kansas Legislature if communication were better between campus student governments and ASK directors, the ASK executive director told a Student Senate committee last night.
"The health of an organization depends on contact with its constituents," said Mark Tallman, the director. "The question is, what do you want us to do?"
or you want to address about 20 members of the Senate Student Rights Committee in response to allegations that ASK, a statewide student lobbying group, has not adequately represented student interests.
"All I can do is say 'Look at our testimony, look at what's happening.'" he said.
CHARGES THAT ASK has not represented student interests originated last month when a senator brought before the Senate a resolution condemning ASK's position on raising the legal drinking age.
raising the drinking water last year, ASK opposed any increase in the drinking age for 3.2 percent beer from 18 to 21.
But after Congress and President Reagan approved legislation last summer to deny federal highway funds to states not complying with the higher drinking age by 1986, ASK dropped its efforts and lobbed to allow 18-year-olds to continue to handle and serve alcoholic beverages and to raise the age gradually over several years.
Some senators saw the shift as a betrayal of student interests because, they said, most students want the age to remain at 18.
students who last night, Tallman defended ASK's actions and assured the Senate that ASK still didn't support the higher drinking age.
MEMBERS OF THE committee, acting as a subcommittee of the Student Senate Executive Committee, plan to meet at 8 p.m. Tuesday to draft a report on ASK to StudEx.
Tallman, who has been executive director of ASK for three years and was active in the University Hays State University campus chapter before that, told the committee that ASK and the Senate operated in much the same way.
Tim Bolzer, chairman of Rights Committee, said the subcommittee was supposed to recommend whether the Senate should continue to finance ASK. The Senate recently allocated more than $24,000 to ASK for each fiscal year 1986 and 1987
Tallman told committee members that it was appropriate for them to decide whether to finance ASK, but that it was important to understand that student government associations were members of ASK and had the ability to help change policies.
If the Senate wants ASK to change its procedure, Tallman said, it should take an administrative resolution before the next ASK state meeting for a vote.
Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum, R Kan., defends her recent vote against the MX missile during a speech to Lawrence High School honor students at the All Seasons Motel, 2309
Iowa St. Kassebaum spoke at Ottawa University yesterday afternoon before coming to Lawrence to talk to the students last night.
Senator defends vote against MX
Staff Reporter
By CINDY McCURRY
OTTWAWA — Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum, R-Kan., defended her vote against 21 additional MX missiles yesterday at a question-and-answer session at Ottawa University.
Kassebaum answered questions from an audience of about 300 following a speech at the University Chapel at the university, about 20 miles south of Lawrence. The speech was one of several speeches at the university in the Caroline E. Hewitt Trust for the Humanities series.
Kassebaum said it was not easy to vote against a program endorsed by President Reagan and the joint chiefs of staff, but she was concerned with the federal budget deficit.
"There is a longing for us to maintain assertiveness," the senator said. "There is also a longing to maintain a semblance of control over the ever-expanding nuclear program."
In March, Congress authorized $1.5 million to build 21 additional MX missiles
KASSEBAUM SADT that she did not support a nuclear freeze but thought that the United States should build a defense system balanced between conventional and nuclear weapons.
Kassebaum said, "If we are going to be fighting a war, it will be a war of conventional weapons, not nuclear.
"We are not going to out-gun the Soviets. We are armed to the teeth. We have to out-think them."
In her prepared comments, Kassebaum urged Ottawa University students, as future leaders, to seek a balance in the national character. She said the Vietnam War and Watergate were examples of flaws in the national character.
"Without democratic values, a goal itself is worthless," she said. "This is at the forefront of such issues as Central America and the Soviet Union. We must be assertive, not arrogant."
arganian.
"WE NEED TO maintain a balance between actions of the moment and cost in the future. Democracy without citizens who
nold democratic values is form without substance."
Kassebaum told the students that she didn't think financial aid to college students could be cut as drastically and as soon as Reagan had proposed in his fiscal year 1986 budget proposal to Congress.
budget proposal "We cannot pull out the rug from under places such as Ottawa that are dependent on support," she said. "It is incumbent upon universities and colleges to work with their own budgets to meet the criteria of changes."
Kassebau said she supported an across-the-board budget freeze.
"We have to judge each function of the budget on its own," she said. "It doesn't help to take it out of defense and add it on somewhere else.
sometimes else. "If we don't get the deficit under control, future generations will face far greater problems than they have with student loans."
Kassbeau also spoke last night at the Lawrence High School scholarship banquet at the All Seasons Motel, 2309 Iowa St.
Kassebaum plans to speak in Topeka and the Kansas City area during the next two weeks while she is away from Washington
GALA Week
(Gay and Lesbian Awareness Week)
Tonight: "Live and Let Live" — Gale Alcoholics Anonymous,
7:30 p.m., Regionalist Room, Kansas Union.
Thurs., April 11: An evening of music featuring the Lawrence Feminist Glee. 7:30 p.m., Big 8 Room, Kansas Union.
Thurs., April 11: An evening of music featuring the Lawrence
Epstein Clay, 7:30 p.m. Pc & B.
GALA Dance, 8:00 p.m., Kansas Room, Kansas Union. $2.50 Admission. Everyone welcome, bring a friend!!
Sat., April 13: "Health Care Approach to the Gay and Lesbian Community"—a presentation to the medical community by Dr. W. Wade. All interested persons are invited to attend, 2:00 p.m., Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union.
Sun., April 14: Worship services held by the Metropolitan Community Church of Kansas City. 11:00 a.m., Danforth Chapel.
—Many thanks to everyone who gave their time and support to make these events possible.—