THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.101.NO.120
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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Finney proposes $18 million for Hoch
By Greg Farmer
Kansan staff writer
Finney made the proposal as part of her announcement that Kansas would receive a one-time payment of $185 million in retroactive disproportionate share funds from the federal government.
"Because these one-time funds are assured," Finney said in a prepared statement, "equivalent state general funds can now be utilized to meet other pressing, one-time expenditures."
Disproportionate share money is Medicaid
money the state receives to compensate for care of patients in state mental hospitals. Finney recently learned that Kansas would be a million for care given between 1977 and 1989.
Representatives of the University of Kansas and Lawrence lawmakers said the governor's willingness to use the money to rebuild Hoch Auditorium was great news.
The Board of Regents requested $1 million for planning this year. The request was approved by the House of Representatives last week and was sent to the Senate for consideration.
Under KU's plan for Hoch, the Board of Regents would request $8 million in fiscal year 1995 to rebuild the 64-year-old auditorium, which was gutted by fire June 15. The new Hoch would include space for three large classrooms and several smaller classrooms, library space and an overhead walkway connecting Hoch to Anschutz Science Library.
"But I don't think any of us really believed it," she said. "The fact that the state has $185 million appear out of nowhere during these bad budget times is great. But it's even better that $18 million that money could go to Hoch. The Legislature must approve the governor's recommendation, but things look good on the House side."
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said to Topea that he expected the Senate to support the governor's recommendation on the Hoch issue.
State Rep. Sandy Praeger, R-Lawrence,
from Tooeka that lawmakers had heard
for several weeks that the state might receive a large windfall.
"I am eestatic," he said. "I think that the chances of having the Senate support this proposal are very good. The way the rebuilding of Hoch would occur from this proposal is almost as bizarre and sudden as the lightning bolt that destroyed it."
Winter said he received tentative support for the Hoch proposal yesterday afternoon from Sen. Gus Bogina, R-Shawnee, who has opposed rebuilding Hoch because of budget constraints.
But Bogina said last night that he would analyze the Hoch project along with all other projects before setting priorities.
"If it's the No. 1 priority, that's fine," he said. "But I want to first review the projects we have before us and then establish priorities."
Stephen Pingrey /Special to the KANSAN
Connie Ehrlich, Lawrence graduate student, paints nonstop in preparation for her review board process, which will determine whether she can move on to do her thesis work. Ehrlich uses the ordinary objects that people usually ignore for her paintings. She will paint as much as possible from now until her review, which is in a week and a half.
Frantic painting
Seven candidates contend for executive vice chancellor
By Greg Farmer
Kansan staff writer
The names of seven people still in consideration for executive vice chancellor at the University of Kansas have been confirmed.
Angela Cervantes, one of two student members on the committee conducting the search for a permanent office at the university, celebrated yesterday the names of candidates.
Cervantes said the candidates were:
Robert Altenkirch, dean of engineering at Mississippi State University.
Del Brinkman, KU vice chancellor for academic affairs.
Samuel Conti, vice chancellor for research and dean of the graduate school at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
- Edward Meyen, KU dean of education
Del Shankel, KU interim executive vice chancellor.
Dave Shulenburger, KU associate vice chancellor for academic affairs.
- Kenneth Tolo, professor of public affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.
Other committee members refused to comment on the candidates.
"... We are hoping to finish our discussions this weekend."
Frances Ingemann search committee head
"The committee has agreed that no names will be released and any comment on the committee's activities will be made by Frances," said Jack Gaumnitz, professor of business and a committee member.
Frances Ingemann, professor of linguistics, is the committee head.
But Cervantes said the names already were out and the time for secrecy had ended.
The Lawrence Journal World published the candidates' names Tuesday but attributed the information to anonymous sources.
"It seems to me that once the names are published there is no need to keep
quiet any longer," she said.
Ingemann would not comment on the candidates but said the committee's deliberations probably would conclude this weekend.
"We have been charged with recommending three candidates to the chancellor, and we are hoping to finish our discussions this weekend," she said. "We hope to have the names to the chancellor by Monday."
Ingemann said Chancellor Gene Budig would control the pace of the search once the committee made its recommendations to him.
"I expect he will conduct interviews and have the candidates meet with campus groups, but all that will be up to him," she said.
Ingemann said Budig wanted the position filled by July.
Budig said Wednesday that the committee had guaranteed the candidates confidentiality.
"We should not put the search at risk through disclosure of names," he said. "It would be unprofessional to do so. First-class universities 'respect confidentiality.'"
When the seven candidates for the position were contacted Wednesday, they said they did not wish to discuss the search.
Tyson sentenced to six years, but could be released in three
The Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS—Mike Tyson was sentenced yesterday to six years in prison for raping a Miss Black America contest, and the judge said she thought he might rape again.
Marion Superior Court Judge Patricia Gifford refused to let the former heavyweight-boxing champion remain free on bail while his conviction was appealed, and within two hours he was behind bars.
"Something needs to be done about the attitude you displayed here," the therapist said.
Tyson, impassive after the sentence was read, slipped off his watch and tie pin, handed them to his lawyer and hugged 81-year-old Camille Ewald, the upstate New York woman who raised him from his teen-age years as a promising boxer.
"Iam not guilty of this crime," Tyson said during a 10-minute plea for leniency. He apologized for his crass behavior during the 1991 pageant but said he never harmed his accuser, 19-year-old Desiree Washington of Coventry, R.I.
"I didn't rape anyone," he said. "I didn't hurt them—no black eyes, no
broken ribs.
"When I'm in the ring, I break their ribs, I break their jaws. To me, that's hurting someone."
Harvard law professor Alan Der尚showitz, who is representing Tyson in his appeal, dashed from the courtroom to try to free Tyson. Chief Judge Wesley Rattif of the Indiana Court of Appeals refused to release Tyson immediately, but a three-judge appeals panel scheduled a Friday hearing.
"Every moment Mr. Tyson spends in confinement is a moment of injustice," said Dershowitz, whose clients have included Leona Helmsley and Claus von Bulow.
Washington testified during the two-week trial that Tyson coaxed her to his hotel room, pinned her to the bed, stripped her, raped her and laughed as she cried in pain and begged him to stop.
Gifford sentenced Tyson to 10 years for one count of rape and 10 years apiece for two counts of criminal-deviate conduct. She suspended four years from each count and ordered the terms served concurrently. She fined
him $10,000 on each count.
He could have been sentenced to 20 years on each count.
If he behaves in prison, Tyson could be released in three years. Gifford also ordered Tyson to serve four years of probation after prison and undergo psychotherapy.
Tyson told the judge he would have apologized to Washington if she had been in court, but he denied assaulting her.
Washington made her presence felt through a letter to the court.
"In the place of what has been me for 18 years, there's now a cold and empty feeling," she wrote. "Each day after being raped has been a struggle to learn to trust again, to smile the way I did and to find the Desiree Lynn Washington who was stolen from me and those who love me on July 19, 1991."
Prosecutor Jeffrey Modisett said Washington was somber after the hearing.
"Desiree's belief all along was that she had a duty to come forward," he said. "I think she feels that justice has been done."
By Gayle Osterberg
Keeps an staff writer
Problematic tax plan seen as districts' saving grace
Kansan staff writer
People have struggled for equality throughouthistory. Latest in the effort arevoicesrepresentingKansasschool children.
In October, Shawnee County District Judge Terry Bullock issued an opinion stating that the Kansas Legislature violated the rules of educational equality in the state.
"The legislative duty is not to districts, not to schools... not to voters. not to personal constituents, but to voters in areas that are equally." Bullock's opinion states.
and protest has followed this opinion as Kansas lawmakers have worked to develop a plan that would create an equal environment in classrooms from Prairie Village to Goodland.
A flurry of possibilities, proposals
The result of 12 hours of House debate, House Bill 2892 was passed in an effort to meet the goal by creating a financing system in which the state budget is made up of taxes and collects a standard rate of property tax from each property owner.
Currently, districts determine the property tax rates in their areas.
But the projected results of this plan have triggered both joy and fear that reach to the KU campus.
primary and secondary education by lowering property taxes and raising the sales tax, a provision that could touch KU students by June. But the long-term ramifications could burden higher education in other ways.
The plan creates more money for
Meanwhile, a Senate committee has begun discussion on the bill and could pass it to the full Senate early next week.
Educators are anticipating the final outcome and its ultimate mark on their future.
For the past 25 years, Jim Peterson has entered Room 29 of Desoto Junior High School each school day and seated himself in his
wooden chair.
Although the finish on the corner of the armrests is peeling and the wheels squeak, the chair serves its purpose. But Peterson says the building it occupies no longer does.
The red brick building, built in 1918,
has no air conditioning. During
warmer months, the only ventilation
opened is a central peed-up
open, 18 inch-by-24 inch window.
The cafeteria and empty hallways have substituted as classrooms when students are assigned to eat.
A lift that rises from the first floor to the school's upper levels requires almost five minutes to transport students who are not able to use the stairs.
Peterson thinks that with the 34-mill decrease in property taxes, DeSoTi residents could afford to improve a new building and maybe a new chair.
building, which was designed for an occupancy of 360.
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Even more difficult for him to swallow is that the annual eighth-grade
Mike Hester is nearing the end of his second year as principal of Moscow High School, but he still is adjusting to the fact that the nearest McDonald's cheeseburger is 35 miles away.
INSIDE
Women's sports past and present
As much as things have changed over the years for women athletes, some things have stayed the same.
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Libraryjournals at risk
Soaring costs force the library to consider cancelling subscriptions.
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