University Daily Kansan, February 28, 1985
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CAMPUS AND AREA
NEWS BRIEFS
Student satisfactory after fall
A student who fell from a second-story window early Sunday morning was listed in satisfactory condition yesterday at a hospital, a spokesman for the hospital said.
Tim McGivern, Topeka sophomore, suffered a head injury and a fractured right shoulder after he fell 15 to 18 feet from a second-floor window of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house, police said.
He was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital by ambulance. Later that day, police said, McGivern was transferred to the Vail Regional Medical Center in Topkaka.
He was admitted to the intensive care unit at the Topeka hospital in fair condition. He was removed from intensive care yesterday.
Kidnapper search continues
Investigations are continuing in the kidnapping and attempted sexual assault of a 19-year-old Lawrence woman on Wednesday. A Lawrence police official said yesterday.
Police reported that the victim was walking near 24th Street and Winterbrook Court about 8 p.m. when a woman wearing a mask entered the building around her and put a chain around her neck.
Detective Haller said police had no suspects but had several leads in the
The man dragged her into a field behind a child care building and then behind a motel, police said. He put the skim mask on her face and she sat in the car and attempted to sexually assault her.
The man then drove her near the area where he abducted her and released her, Ricardo.
Boys rescue woman from fire
KANSAS CITY, Kan. - A woman was rescued early哭痛 from a burning house by two 16-year-old boys on their newspaper route, officials said.
mute delivering papers shortly before dawn yesterday morning, the two Kansas City, Kan., boys observed smoke coming from a building on 13th Street, the Fire Department said.
One of the youths, John Morales, went to a neighbor to call the fire department while the second youth, Mike Lopez, was on vacation on the doors and windows of the house.
Lopez saw a woman, Janet Bressman, at a basement window, where she had gone to flee the fire. Lopez started knocking on boards across the window. He and Morales then pulled the woman through the window to safety.
Fire department officials, who attributed the fire to combustibles placed too close to a wood-burning stove, said the fire caused about $20,000 damage.
Volunteers needed for Relavs
Students are needed to volunteer to work as officials at the 60th annual Kansas Relays, scheduled for April 17-20 at Memorial Stadium.
Applications for student officials will be available through March 31 in the men's and women's hockey teams.
Weather
Today will be fair with a high in the mid to upper 50s. Winds will be from the southwest at 5 to 15 mph. Tonight and tomorrow will be clear to partly cloudy. The low tonight will be 30 to 35. The high tomorrow will be 50 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 stated the procedure for determining reporter's privilege in court. In Kansas, a judge must determine on a case-by-case basis whether a reporter can exercise reporter's privilege, which is refusing to identify confidential sources.
The story also incorrectly referred to reporter's privilege as qualified privilege. Qualified privilege requires reporting fairly and accurately on government proceedings.
Senate committee to discuss student salaries
By MICHAEL TOTTY
TOPEKA - Student salaries and graduate student issues come under the scrutiny of the legislative budget process today, as the Senate Ways and Means Committee meets to discuss issues in the Board of Regents budget.
Staff Reporter
After two days of briefings from the committee staff, the committee is ready to take action on Regents issues ranging from faculty salaries to graduate student fees
The committee plans to look at issues that affect all seven Regents schools.
Student groups and university officials are following the process closely, lobbying committee members to ensure that their concerns are addressed.
One of the most important concerns for students is student salaries, including regular salaries and the state work-study program.
GOV. JOHN CARLIN, in his budget message to the Legislature last month, asked for a 6 per cent increase in financing for the state university system. This was down from
The Regents requested a 7 percent increase in student salaries for fiscal year 1986. In addition, the Regents want money to permit schools to raise student wages above the minimum wage without cutting the number of jobs.
the 8.6 percent increase the Regents had requested.
Carlin recommended only a 6 percent increase with no provisions for raising student salaries above minimum wage.
For the University of Kansas, the Regents' request would amount to $138,000. The governor recommended $82,000 for the University.
HE SAID THAT, because of President Reagan's proposed cuts in federal student financial aid, more students may need jobs. He said he would pay money should be left to the schools, he said.
"The Legislature should stay out of the running of the university," he said.
The Associated Students of Kansas, a
statewide student lobbying group, is trying to get the highest increase possible for student wages, said Mark Tallman, ASK state director.
Tallman said he agreed with committee members that the Regents schools already had the authority to pay students more than the minimum wage.
Although more students would need student jobs because of the proposed financial aid cuts, he said, the $4,000 salary also would make salary increases important.
"The President's cuts make it all the more apparent that he must raise student numbers," Tallman said.
GRADUATE STUDENT ISSUES are also a part of the Regent's budget to be addressed today. Rosham Parris, executive coordinator of the KU Graduate Student Council, is scheduled to address the committee on graduate student concerns.
The budget proposals include raising graduate stipends and fee waivers for teaching and providing the funds to add 17 new graduate teaching positions at KU.
The Regents has asked for a $000,000 increase in graduate stipends. $455,000 of this amount could be used to pay for t
The governor recommended slightly more than half of the Regents request.
to the 7 percent increase included in the unclassified employees' salaries budget.
PARRIS SAID SHE also was worried about the effect of the cut in federal student aid.
"it becomes more imperative for the state to provide aid for university education," she sa
In addition to salaries for teaching, graduate students also receive a partial waiver of their student fees. The graduate student wanted a 100 percent waiver, Parris said.
The Regents and the governor have recommended increasing the waiver from 60 to 75 percent.
Winter said the committee was likely to support the fee waivers. The proposed increase adds only $160,747 to the budget.
The proposal to add 17 graduate teaching positions at KU is an attempt to compensate for the loss of positions as a result of budget cuts in 1983, she said. KU lost 21 positions at that time. The graduate council requested that all those positions be restored.
Most important, Parris said, was that the Legislature look at graduate student issues.
Residents of Joseph R. Pearson Hall cast long shadows across a basketball court as they enjoy a game beneath the bright afternoon sun. Yesterday's warm weather brought students out of hibernation. The good weather is expected to continue today, with temperatures in the upper 50s.
Medical consultants begin review of animal care unit
Two medical consultants yesterday began evaluating the animal care unit at the University of Kansas Medical Center to determine whether to recommend immediate changes, the vice chancellor of institute search and planning at the Med Center said.
Earlier this month, a U.S. Department of Agriculture report criticized the care unit for structural and equipment deficiencies. After publication of the report, the Board of Regents requested an evaluation of a 2-year-old renovation plan for the unit.
Roger Lamson, the vice chancellor, said
The federal report found unacceptable conditions, such as rusty cages and improper food storage, at the care unit. Med Center officials attributed the deficiencies to outdated equipment and buildings at the 23-year-old unit.
the consultants might suggest changes in the plan or the unit after touring it.
He said he did not know how much time the evaluation would take or any possible changes that might come from the evaluation.
The Regents approved a two-phase improvement plan for the care unit in 1983.
Tuition break sought for families of faculty
By NANCY HANEY Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Good faculty members at Board of Regents schools need to be persuaded to stay in Kansas, a state senator said yesterday. And a tuition discount for faculty families might provide the incentive.
State Sen. Joseph Norvell, D-Hays, asked the Senate Ways and Means Committee to support a bill that would give spouses and their spouses at Regents schools discounts on tuition.
The bill would allow the spouses or children to pay half the price of tuition charged at the school in which they were enrolled. Family members still would pay the full amount of any student activity fee charged by the institution.
The bill would allow the discount to be used at any Regents school, regardless of where the student is located.
THE SEVEN REGENTS schools are the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, Wichita State University, Fort Hays State University, Emporia State University, Pittsburgh State University and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
"This fringe benefit would provide an added incentive," Norvell said. "The state
would be able to keep and add good faculty members."
But the bill may not get much further. State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said he liked the bill, but he doubted that it would pass through the Legislature this year.
“It’s an excellent idea, because there is no direct cost to the state, but other legislators are reluctant to consider something like this,” he said.
Winter said the bill was not supported by the Regents, which was one reason most of the other senators didn't like the bill.
AUGUST BOGINA JR., LRENEXA and chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, said he opposed the bill. Bogina said his research into the bill showed the state could lose as much as $400,000 in the general fund if the discount was offered.
Norvell said Bogina's figure could be a high or low estimate. It depended, he said, on how many faculty members had spouses or brothers who wanted to attend a state university.
Increasing retirement benefits for state employees is more important for this session, Winter said. The state budget would not be able to handle both benefits.
Winter said he hoped the bill could be reintroduced next year to include the families of classified employees.
SenEx to schedule forum on S. African divestiture
By J. STROHMAIER Staff Reporter
Plans for a campus forum on whether the Kansas University Endowment Association should divest from companies doing business in South Africa are scheduled to be discussed at today's meeting of the University Senate Executive Committee.
The University Council, acting on a recommendation from the University Senate Human Relations Committee, voted Feb. 21 to give SenEx the responsibility for supervising the forum and setting a time, date and place for it.
SenEx is the executive group of the university Council which is the executive group of the university Board.
The recommendation was part of a report issued by the Human Relations Committee on the conditions in South Africa and whether they were appropriate to divest from companies doing business there.
SOUTH AFRICA OPERATES under a policy of racial segregation called apartheid.
The report recommends that the Endowment Association divest from companies doing business primarily in South Africa. The report also recommends divestiture from
Knapper said that he wasn't sure what format would be used for the forum but that SenEx would be responsible for conducting it.
businesses that have small interests in South Africa if they fail to adhere to ethical business practices.
"The University Council gave the responsibility for having the meeting to SenEx," he said. "Chances are pretty good that I will chair it."
Senex will report its findings from the meeting to the University Council with a recommendation on action the council should take concerning divestment.
Robert Jerry, chairman of the Human Relations Committee, said last week that the council had no authority to order the association, a private corporation, to divest.
If the council decides that the Endowment Association should divest, he said, the council could make only a recommendation.
Also at today's meeting, faculty members of SenEx are scheduled to choose nominees for Faculty Council elections. Faculty members must nominate 14 additional candidates to fill the 26-candidate field needed for elections.
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