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application for the funds is due by the end of June.
Melanie Branham, chairman of Student Senate Transportation Committee, said most members of the committee were in favor of the proposal.
"There's been a big push from students for the extension of service for a long time," Branham said. "But if KU on wheels is involved in the final proposal, we will have to have a better idea of our finances before we make a firm commitment."
"I KNOW THAT both the city and the Lawrence Bus Co. are somewhat uncertain on the deal. I think, though, that it would be very beneficial if it was successful."
Although KU on Wheels is currently operating within its budget, Branham said, the Transportation Committee fears that next year it may not be. The committee has suggested that the Senate and suggested that an increase in the price of bus passes might be necessary.
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Duane Ogle, general manager of the Lawrence Bus Co., said his company would be in favor of the arrangement only if it came without any stipulations.
"If we were allowed to expand service without any stringent arrangements as to where to go, I think it would be something we'd want to do." Ogle said. "I'm afraid though, if the arrangement is otherwise, it would be more trouble than it's worth."
One proposal the Planning Commission is studying is to use the federal funds to buy buses and lease them to the Lawrence Bus Co. Ogle said.
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THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION of Colleges report also charged that "The curriculum has given way to a marketplace philosophy; It is a supermarket where students are shoppers and professors are merchants of learning."
"Some students suffer from having poor educators in the classroom, which stems from the requirement that professors aren't required to be educators," she said.
"A deal whereby the city would lease us buses also has a certain amount of tentativeness," he said, "I know the reason they're moving so slowly on this deal is because they really don't want to get into the bus business. I think they're eager to get going, but just not quite sure how to at the present time."
Peter Lorenzi, associate professor of business, said it was acceptable for students to be shopers and educators to be merchants.
"I think students shop, homemakers shop,
"business people shop," he said. "Students do
Lorenzi, who is also a member of the University Core Curriculum Committee, said the undergraduate degree in business did include an intense study of the liberal arts.
shop and teachers do provide that service, but I don't think it is peculiar to this decade. That happened 300 years ago."
"We have very stringent requirements as far as students getting a basis of liberal arts," he said. "We are more a liberal arts curriculum than some of the higher education departments."
LORENZI SAID THAT he agreed with the charge by the Association of American Colleges that college students tended to take narrow, vocational courses.
Consumers to get refund from railroad settlement
By United Press International
TOPEKA — A $20 million out-of-court settlement between Burlington Northern Railroad and utilities that receive their electricity from Jeffrey Energy Center will mean $6 to $12 refund checks for consumers.
The agreement returns to consumers surcharges paid to Burlington Northern, which hauls coal to Jeffrey Energy Center.
The bulk of the refund. $12.8 million, will go to customers of Kansas Power and Light Co., majority owner and operator of St. Marys, the giant coal-fired power plant near St. Marys. About $4 million will be paid to customers of Kansas Gas & Electric Co., which owns 20 percent of the plant.
Sharing in the remainder will be
Shared with Cooperative Co. and Western
Power Division of Cox Energy.
UTILITY SPOKESMEN SAID the agreement also would allow reduced rates on future electric bills. The utilities also reached a new 28-year coal transportation contract with Burington Northern that agreed to contract increases for future shipments.
KPL spokesman Hal Hudson said Burlington Northern imposed a surcharge on its coal shipments to Jeffrey after passage of the federal Railroad Deregulation Act in 1980. KPL contended the surcharge violated provisions of its existing coal contract with Burlington Northern, which provides eight million
tons of coal a year from mines near Gillette. Wyo.
U. S. District Judge Dale Saffels of Kansas City, Kan., ruled against KPL's lawsuit opposing the surcharge. However, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver agreed with KPL. The settlement was reached while the case was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Hudson said.
Terms of our agreement call for BN to return half the money to us immediately, and the other half on Jan. 1, 1906," KrL board Chairman Wilman Wall said. "We will also provide a one-hour klowtow hours of electricity a month, this will amount to a refund of $12."
K&G&E officials said the refund to a similar customer of that utility would amount to $450.
The utilities are asking the Kansas Corporation Commission for permission to return the funds to most customers in the form of refund checks.
In addition, Wall estimated the elimination of surcharges from future coal shipments will mean a savings of about 70 cents a month on the typical residential utility bill. Koeperer estimated the saving to the typical KGE customer at 27 cents a month.
"Third, and most important, the settlement and contract remove the possibility of BN imposing any increases in the future, other than in accordance with the contract," Wall said. "This will mean a savings of hundreds of millions of dollars for our customers over the life of the contract, which expires in 2013."
Educator says teacher shortfall likely in future
By United Press International
TOPEKA — An Emperor State University professor said yesterday Kansas had an adequate supply of teachers, but a temporary shortage could develop as state-imposed requirements to become a teacher are toughened.
Jack Skillett, dean of Emporia State's College of Education, submitted his sixth annual survey on teacher supply and demand in public schools to the State Board of Education.
Skillett told the board at its monthly meeting that Kansas had a more plentiful supply of teachers in nearly all areas than it has had the past five years. Some fields — agriculture, foreign languages — are experiencing slight shortages of teachers. Skillett said.
Those areas, along with reading, music and special education in elementary grades and computer sciences, English and journalism in secondary grades, provide the greatest employment opportunities for prospective teachers, he said.
Though the number of candidates for teaching slots is adequate and looks better than in recent years, Skilllett said indications that the new temporary shortfall within two or three years.
A chief reason for the shortfall would be the increased emphasis placed on improving the quality of teachers through stringent college admission standards, pre-certification tests and teacher internship programs.
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