University Daily Kansan, February 13, 1985
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NEWS BRIEFS
Prof to give inaugural lecture
Karl Morrison, the Ahmanson-Murphy distinguished professor of history, will give his inaugural lecture on "The Phoenix and the Burning Bush" at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union
Morrison is the first to receive the professorship, which was established by the Kansas University Endowment Association through gifts from the Ahmanson Foundation and from former KU Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy.
Morrison received the professorship at the beginning of the school year after coming to KU from the University of Chicago, where he was professor of history and of New Testament and early Christian literature.
The KU office of academic affairs established the inaugural lecture series in 1980-81 to recognize distinguished professors.
Mercantile sponsoring concert
A Lawrence food store will be giving music lovers an opportunity to dance to the music.
The Community Mercantile, 709 Maine St., is sponsoring a concert at 8 p.m. at the Lawrence Opera House, 642 Massachusetts Riddim Band, which plays music engage
"We just wanted to give them some space to dance because there's no place to dance in this town," said Linda Gwaltry, an employee at the mercantile.
Tickets cost $4 at the door.
Clerk foils robbery attempt
A man attempted to rob the Bahmayer Retail Liquor store, 900 New Hampshire St., at 10:51 p.m. Monday, police said yesterday.
Police said a white male in his mid-20s to early 30s entered the store, showed a gun and demanded all the money in the register. When the clerk refused, the man put his gun back in his pocket and left the store. He was last seen going down the alley east of the building.
Drug investigation conducted
Lawrence police conducted a drug investigation at South Junior High School, 2734 Louisiana St., last Thursday, police said yesterday.
About 9 a.m., police said, the assistant principal was walking down a hallway in the school and saw a student passing a bag into the hallway. The principal took the bag and called the police.
Shyness workshop tomorrow
The police said they continued the investigation at the school until 1 p.m. The bag contained a substance that resembled green vegetation. One student was suspended in connection with the investigation.
The Student Assistance Center tomorrow will conduct a workshop called "Dealing with That Unasey Feeling," from 30 to 9 p.m. at 102 Numerak faculty.
The workshop is designed to help students cope with shyness and improve conversational skills.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy with a high of 30 to 35. Winds will be from the north at 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be cloudy with a low of 5 to 10. Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with a high of 25 to 30.
Where to call
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ask for Matt Detcala, editor, or Diane
To place an ad, call the Kansan business office at 864-4358.
Compiled from Kansan staff and United Press International reports.
Senate funds 5 groups,2 still debated
By JULIE MANGAN and NANCY STOETZER Staff Reporters
Staff Reporters
In the second night of revenue code budget deliberations, the Student Senate Finance Committee tentatively allocated funds for staff and student center groups and tabled decisions on two more.
After more than an hour of debate last night, the committee voted to tentatively allocate $4,521 to the University Dance department for revenue code group bad requested $1,590.388.
Last year, the group received $3,409.81 from non-revenue code student organization from non-revenue code student organization
THE COMMITTEE CUT a request from the group's budget for the purchase of lights for performances. University Diane had
Other items were trimmed from the University Dance budget until committee members reached a compromise on the tentative allocation.
rented lights in past years and the committee decided they could continue to do so for a few
The Finance Committee also voted to tentatively allocate the following amounts:
- Headquarters Inc. — $14,000. This is the first time Headquarters has been classified as a revenue code group. The organization requested $15,074 for fiscal year 1986.
- KU Bands - $34.51. The group required KU Bands - $44.51. Last year, KU Bands received KU Bonds - $44.51.
- Student Senate — $55,199. The group had voted $55,699 but the committee voted to increase the amount of votes to allow the governor to place monthly advertisements in the Kansas.
- Rape Victim Support Services — $1,345,
the amount requested by the group for fiscal
1986.
Discussion on financing of the University Daily Kansan and the Student Senate Transportation Board was postponed until tonight. The time and place of tonight's meeting had not been decided last night, Tim Henderson, committee chairman, said.
On Friday, the Finance Committee voted to request an audit of the Kansas.
Andrew Helms, Finance Committee member, said the committee requested the audit because in fiscal 1984 the Kanan's expense exceeded its revenue by about $7,000.
HENDERSON SAID HE would speak today with David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, about how to conduct the audit. Linda Beville, Ambler's assistant, said yesterday that the Student Senate would
have to approve the committee's decision to audit the Kansan.
Henderson said, however, that according to a Senate administrative secretary, the Finance Committee could request an audit without Senate approval. Henderson said he asked Gil Gregory, the secretary, for an extension of Senate rules and regulations.
The interpretation was requested, Henderson said, because the rules and regulations don't give specific guidelines for auditing student groups.
REVENUE CODE GROUPS are financed by the Senate for two years at a time but receive funds annually. They consistently exceed their budget, and are considered financially stable organizations.
The groups receive a portion of the student activity fee that students pay with their tuition. For the last two semesters, that fee has been $24 for each student.
Senators reject Carlin's plan for pay change
By TAD CLARKE
Staff Reporter
Classified senators last night voted not to support Gov. John Carlin's proposed plan for classified personnel in Kansas and instead voted to endorse an alternative plan.
A majority of about 20 senators at the meeting voted to support the Kansas Association of Public Employees' pay plan for Charles Dodson, director of the gsssion.
Claudia Orton, lobbyist for the Board of Regents Classified Council and a classified senator, said legislators had told her both Carlin's and the association's proposals were based on the same feature, and the only thing classified employees could expect was a cost of-living increase.
Neva Entrikin, president of Classified Senate, said the group had a three-part recommendation to take before the Legislature.
FIRST, ENTRIKIN SAID, Classified Senate would recommend rejecting the governor's pay plan. It would support the association's proposal "with moderate energy prices" (Birds, 2015) she said, the group will request a 7 percent cost of living increase as a last resort.
Entrikin said their reason for supporting the association was that other classified students were also enrolled.
"KAPE has developed some clout around the state." Entrivik said.
A primary objection to Carlin's plan, Orton said, was that it didn't reward workers for length of service as well as the association's plan would.
The association's plan also would drop customer fees to give $200 bonuses to certain employees.
Besides providing greater benefits to newer workers than to veterans, Carlin's plan links longevity rewards to satisfactory job performance ratings by employers.
David Lewin, director of KU personnel services, said that, under Carlin's plan, 20 percent of the employees at each state agency would receive $500 bonuses. Employers would choose which workers would receive the bonuses.
Phillip Hastings, 5, son of Ladd and Anne Hastings. 1808 Mississippi St., listens to a tape in the Museum of Natural
John Lechliter/KANSAN
History explain about animals in the northwestern United States. Phillip and his father visited the museum on Sunday.
Suspect powder leads to student's arrest
Rv KATHY FLANDERS
By KATHY FLANDERS
Staff Reporter
A 30-year-old student was arrested Monday on probable cause of possession of a controlled substance, Lawrence police said yesterday.
George Levon Lee, Kansas City, Kan., junior, was arrested after KU police found a white powdery substance and drug paraphernalia in his apartment in Jayhawker Towers, 109 W. 14th St. He was arrested on charges of possession of a controlled substance and one misdemeanor count for possession of drug paraphernalia, police said.
Webber was released yesterday afternoon pending laboratory analysis of the seized PB12.
division of the KU police department,
received information from a confidential
source that Webber might have some type of
information to offer of the KU police
department said yesterday.
About two weeks ago, the investigative
THE INVESTIGATIVE department acted on the information, Longaker said.
"The investigators talked with a lot of people to get enough information to be able to make an arrest," she said. "Through that information, they got what they needed to go over and make the arrest. I can't say now what that information is."
Sgts, Richard Rosenshein and Michael Riner of the KU police department went to Webber's apartment about 3:30 p.m. Monday.
The officers didn't have a search warrant, Longaker said, but Webber agreed to a consent search. A consent search is a verbal
request by police officers to search the premises, she said.
Margaret Lindeberg-Johnson, Douglas County assistant district attorney, said the officers found the evidence in a man's travel bag that contained an assignee assigned prosecuting attorneys for the case.
SHE SAID THE officers found a plastic medicine bottle containing an unidentified white powder. She said they also found a film canister containing an unidentified liquid, a hand-rolled cigarette containing leafy vegetation and assorted drug paraphernalia.
Webber was arrested about 4 p.m. Monday and taken to the Douglas County Judicial Law Enforcement Building. He was held on a County jail until about 4:30 p.m. yesterday.
The unidentified substances were taken for testing to the laboratory of the Kansas Botanical Garden.
KU students above average at repaying loans
Bv JEANINE HOWE
Staff Reporter
A lower percentage of KU students last year failed to pay back federal student loans than the national average, the Kansas Board of Regents reported last week.
Two other Regents institutions reported a lower average default rate for 1844 than that of the University of Kansas, according to Regents statistics
lowest default rate for a Regent school was 86 percent for Fort Hays State University
KU students' default rate on guaranteed student loans and national direct student loans was 4.3 percent, 5.2 percent lower than the national average of 9.5 percent. The
GENE KASPER, DIRECTOR of special projects at the Kansas Board of Regents, said, "When you talk about the percentage of default rates, you have to realize that the number of loans at KU is considerably larger than Havs."
Wichita State University reported a default rate of 2.6 percent. Default rate averages for the other Regents universities were: Kansas State University, 4.3 percent; Emporia State University, 4.4 percent; and Pittsburg State University, 5.9 percent.
Referring to the below average rates for Regents schools. Stanley Koplik, executive
director of the Kansas Board of Regents, said in a prepared statement, "We think that speaks to the integrity of our students and to the responsibility of our institutions."
Mildred Force, accountant for KU's National Direct Student Loan office, said, "Our students are very conscientious of their oblations of naving their loans back."
ACCORDING TO REPORTS compiled in June 1984, Force said about 660 students out of more than 12,000 were delinquent in loan payments at KU.
Students must begin student loan payments six months after they leave school, graduate or are no longer enrolled as at least halftime students. Foree said monthly
payments were required until the loan was
off. The minimum monthly payment is
$30.
Force said some payments were deferred because of health reasons or unemployment.
"THEERE ARE PEOPLE who are delinquent who have reasons," she said. "We try to work with them. You have to have a good, legitimate reason to substantiate it."
The National Direct Student Loan office follows federal guidelines in dealing with delinquent payments. The loan office contacts the borrower by mail and phone.
"People who don't pay, deprive other people of obtaining loans." Foree said.
The Mass. Street Deli
is currently accepting resumes for the manager's position. Our manager, Ms. Scheetz, will soon be leaving us for an appointment to study at the Culinary Institute of America in New York.
The position provides an excellent starting salary with a semi-annual salary review. Applicants must have 3 years general food service experience as well as 2 years of food service management experience. The Schumm Food Company offers an excellent benefit, holiday and vacation package.
Please send resumes to:
Schumm Foods
719 Massachusetts
Lawrence, KS 66044