University Daily Kansan, March 6, 1985
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NEWS BRIEFS
Man beaten up in robbery
An attendant at a local service station was beaten up Monday night during a strong-armed robbery, Lawrence police said yesterday.
A strong-armed robbery involves physical force, not weapons.
Police gave the following account of the incident:
The attendant was working alone about
125 p.m. at Quality 66 Service, 1540 W.
Street.
The car pulled into the driveway of the station, and two men jumped out of the car. The car was a 1965 or 1966 light brown hatchback paula with a Jefferson County license plate.
The men ran up to the attendant and started punching him in the mouth and kicked him.
One of the men then ran into the station and took more than $200 from the register, while the other stood guard over the attendant.
Both men were described as being about 20 years old, about 6 feet tall and 150 pounds. One man wore a green army jacket and jeans, and the other wore jeans and black army boots.
The attendant was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, where he was examined.
Man faces blackmail charges
A 31-year-old man was arrested Monday night on charges of attempted blackmail, Lawrence police said yesterday.
The man, Leslie Davis, 544 Arizona St., was arrested after he allegedly favored to extort money or sexual affairs from a 22-year-old woman.
The woman, a Tonganoxie patient, lost a white German shepherd on Feb. 28. She reported the dog lost or stolen to her employer, a $100 reward for the return of the dog.
Davis found out about the loss of the dog, police said, and old the woman he knew was dead.
The woman told him she was offering a $100 reward, but Davis said that was not what he wanted. He told her he wanted money, and he favors for the information, police said.
The woman reported the incident to police, and Davis was arrested Monday.
Davis was taken to the Douglas County Judicial Law Enforcement Building, where he was released on 1:15 a.m. yesterday on $2,000 bond, police said.
Indecent exposure reported
A preliminary hearing for Davis has issued a motion Tuesday in Douglas County District Court.
A case of indecent exposure was
reported on Monday morning, Law-
repeal police said.
A woman living in the 2400 block of Alabama Street told police that someone knocked on the door of her apartment about 1:30 a.m.
The woman said some guests had just left her apartment, and she thought they had forgotten something and had returned.
When the woman opened the door, a blond-haired man about 5 feet 6 inches tall exposed himself to her. The man had a denim jacket around his head, police said.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy and warmer, with a high near 50. Winds will be from the south at 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a low of 30 to 35. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high of 55 to 60.
Compiled from Kansan staff and United Press International reports.
Correction
Because of a reporter's error, a story in yesterday's Kansan incorrectly reported that a traffic accident involving three students had occurred late Saturday night at 11th and Mississippi streets. The accident happened late Friday night at 11th and Missouri streets. The three students were taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital after the accident and released early Saturday.
KJHK manager calls budget insufficient
By CINDY McCURRY
Staff Reporter
The proposed $23,000 Student Senate allocation to radio station JKH-FM for fiscal year 1986 is grossly insufficient, the station manager said earlier this week.
"We need more money or someday they are going to turn on the radio, and they're not going to hear anything," said Bill White, the manager and Springfield, Ill., senior. "I came up with a budget we could exist on and keep it. We like we are playing a game of high-leaf."
The money allocated for KJHK is $14,000 less than requested by the station. The Senate is scheduled to vote tonight on 28 August and 20 other large student organizations.
The station requested $41,990 for fiscal 1986 and the same amount for fiscal 1987. The money would cover the station's operating costs and new equipment with the station owned by White said.
THE SENATE FINANCE Committee recommended last month that KJHK receive $27,875 for each of the two years. The station received $20,879 in fiscal 1985.
Tim Henderson, chairman of the Finance Committee, said, "We just didn't have all the money they wanted. The money is allocated in a block sum. They can buy whatever they need."
White said the station used the $2,100 for operating costs, but needed the additional $100.
"We thought the $7,000 a year increase was sufficient," he said.
Mark Lipsitz, the station's program director and Memphis, Tenn., junior, said KJHK staff members were forced to work with terrible equipment. He said turntable needles, which run 24 hours a day, were replaced only once a semester. Also, cartridge players were missing tracks to guide tapes into the playing machine.
Despite the radio station's problems, White morale among the students workers is high.
THE STATION receives some money from the radio, television and film department, White said. For 1986, it will receive $2,500. The station also receives about $3,500 a year through a form of advertising by donors called underwriting.
Because KJIK is a public service station, the Federal Communications Commission prohibits it from advertising other than donated comments and public service announcements.
Today, tomorrow and Friday, the station is conducting an auction of merchandise donated by about 150 Lawrence businesses. The merchandise is donated in return for donor announcements and name placement on KJHK posters.
Bill McGuff, underwriting director, said the station had received $10,500 in merchandise. The merchandise is sold over the air to listeners who call in bids.
WHITE SAID THE station planned to make 50 to 70 percent of the retail value of the merchandise from the auction.
KJHK's production, news and advertising departments are in the Sudler Annex, a two-story building W. 11th St. The studio was originally a garage and guest house of the Sudler House.
White said the station desperately needed a studio transmitter link, called an STL, to carry the signal now to the radio tower. He said the signal now is carried through telephone lines to the tower.
"When you turn on KJHK it's kind of muffled," he said. "If we had this it would be in the realm of quality sound that you bear on commercial stations."
Sending the signal through the telephone damages the quality of sound that it transmits.
Sam Elliot, the station's adviser, said transmitting the signal through the telephone company cost about $800 a year. The budget for the transmitter included an $8,400 request for the transmitter.
White said, "Things like the STL pay for themselves. If they looked at this equipment as investments, they would realize that it pays for itself in the long run.
Bill White, station manager at KJHK-FM, talks on the phone in front of a panel of equipment at the station's studio. White said earlier this week that much of the station's equipment was outdated and needed to be replaced.
Reagan's policies have failed, activist says
Staff Reporter
By PATRICIA SKALLA
"To have a great fall, you have to go to great heights," said Michael Harrington, co-chairman of the Democratic Socialists of America. "That's what is happening."
Although President Reagan and the American public don't know it yet, Reagan has failed in his domestic and foreign policies. He also lost a first group said last night at the Kansas Union.
capitalist views of the Reagan administration.
Harrington spoke to a crowd of about 400 in the Union Ballroom as a part of the celebration.
Harrisoning, who has been active in liberal causes such as the anti-Vietnam War movement, said he didn't think the political parties were going to allow him thought it could offer some alternatives to the
FIRST, HARRINGTON said, the notion that the people shouldn't be taxed to raise money has to be forgone. The rich can't receive tax breaks, only to spend the money he invest it. Harrington said the wealth in the United States had to be redistributed.
"We have to the rich off welfare," said the 57-year-old political activist.
The American government also has to play a role in generating more and better jobs, Harrington said.
Harrington suggested the development of a publicly owned national railroad system as a
Harrington warned that changing technologies in the United States were eliminating blue-collar jobs and forcing a re-evaluation of the country's economic
structure. The United States is in the midst of a massive shift from an economy guided by the marketplace to one dominated by corporate monopolies, he said.
HARRINGTON GAVE examples to suggest that the U.S. technical revolution had just begun. General Motors Corp., he announced about a month ago that by 1988 it would have sold its cars — 74 percent reduction from the 80 hours it took 'he company to build a car in 1980.
"Through automation and robots, we are radically reducing the amount of labor hours," Harrington said. "Employers have to hire a lot more workers — robots and Third World workers."
The recent increase in industry in Third World countries also has hurt U.S. industry, Harrington said. These countries can export machinery and equipment and their booming industries are shrinking
U. S. markets, resulting in fewer jobs for American workers.
Another problem on the domestic front, Harrington said, is the increasing federal budget deficit. Corporations continue to escape bearing the burden of this deficit through tax breaks supported by the president, he said.
Harrington also discussed U.S. foreign policy, Internationally, he said, the Reagan administration is operating on the basis of "crackpot realism." He said our country was supporting dictators against revolutionaries in the name of anti-communism.
The government's support of right-wing movements in other countries often is so unpopular among the citizens that they are driven toward communism rather than away from it, he said.
Senate committee approves faculty salary rise
Staff Reporter
By MICHAEL TOTTY
TOPEKA — A 6 percent increase in faculty salaries at Board of Regents schools was endorsed yesterday by the Kansas Senate Ways and Means Committee.
The committee also approved Gov. John Carlin's recommended 1 percent increase in the state's contribution to the unclassified employees retirement plan.
- The committee looks at the items in the Regents budget line by line and then must approve the entire package before sending it to the full Senate for debate. Regents schools are the six state universities and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
proposal. All faculty, from full professors to instructors, are considered unclassified staff, as are administrators.
STATE SEN. WINT Winter Jr., R-Lawrence and a member of the committee, supported the 6 percent increase against a 5 percent recommendation only a 5.5 percent increase.
The University of Kansas would receive an additional $3.6 million for unclassified staff salaries in fiscal year 1986 under the
"The salaries are an important item," Winter said. "They make gains last year and the benefits keep up."
Winter told the committee that, because the House generally cut the amounts proposed by the Senate, the bill should leave a committee with the 6 percent increase intact.
Committee Chairman Gus Bogina, R. Lenexa, proposed holding the increase in unclassified salaries to 5.5 percent. The increase will decrease the increase at the level recommended by Carlin.
State Sen. Paul Feleciano Jr., D-Wichita, moved to keep the 6 percent increase.
"IT'S PRETTY clear what's coming down," Feleciano said. "If we're serious about higher education in this state, we need to begin acting responsibly."
After the vote, Winter said, "The committee expressed a position that quality higher education is a very important priority for the state of Kansas, even in these hard times."
Unclassified salaries are the largest item in the Regents budget, and faculty salaries make up the largest portion of unclassified salaries.
The increase in the contribution to the retirement program is a high priority with faculty. Bogina said The committee easily endorsed the financing for the provision, but it would require a change in the law
governing the retirement fund before it could go into effect.
Besides the salary and retirement issues, the committee approved an additional fee to be paid by all students at Regents schools that would replace special laboratory fees.
Students at the large state university
KU, Kansas State University and Wichita
State University — would pay a $12 fee in
addition to their tuition and other fees.
Students at the smaller Regents schools
would pay $6 in the special fees.
The Regents budget also includes classified salaries, student salaries, graduate teaching stipends and fee waivers and other operating expenses such as money for library acquisitions, academic computing facilities,ademas made by the schools except for utilities.
The committee is scheduled to continue with Regents issues Friday.