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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, Januarv 21. 1992
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Administrator pleased with budget proposal
By Greg Farmer Kansan staff writer
Gov. Finney's fiscal year 1993 budget recommendations could have been worse for the University of Kansas, said Josseand, KU's legislative laison.
"We are very pleased," Josserand said. "The governor's recommendations were good to us, especially if you consider the pressures on state government and the difficult questions it
will have to address."
Josserand, who addressed about 80 people Saturday at the Adams Alumni Center, conducts legislative update sessions once a month when the Legislature is in session.
Chancellor Gene Budig, State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, and State Rep Sandy Praeger, R-Prestwick, were present at the first update.
Jossner said the Board of Regents fared very well in the governor's budget compared to other state agencies and institutions.
"The governor said her budget was tight. I agree," Josserand said. "But the Regents did very we'l. The governor recommended that a 3.1-percent increase in general funds be given to the Regents, compared to only a 1.2-percent increase in general fund expenditures statewide.
fund money than it is taking in. The governor's fiscal year 1993 budget tries to solve that problem."
"We all need to be cognizant of the fact that in the current fiscal year the government is spending more general
Budig said the governor's recommendations for the University presented a strong foundation on which the Regents universities would try to improve.
"In my judgment, it is basically a matter of remaining competitive," Budig said. "We will work to secure the governor's recommendations and, if possible, build on them."
Winter said Kansas's economy was in better shape than the economy of most other states.
"Thirty-two states will have actual budget cuts," Winter said. "That will not be the case here. In relative terms, our economy is chugging along."
"With our relative economic strength, it's too bad that we cannot charge our efforts and move ahead of other states on higher education."
Winter said the governor's plan to
finance public schools with a 45-mill statewide property-tax levy would overshadow everything else this session.
Praeger said the school finance issue would be emotionally charged.
"We, as legislators, have to be careful," Praeger said. "The tendency is to be extremely parochial. We can't do that this year. We have to rise above those interests and find something that works for Kansas."
"Sesame Street's" Grover gives 3-year-old Aubrey Gunter a hug while visiting the KU Children's Center.
Healing hugs
'Sesame Street' characters lift spirits in pediatric ward
By Katherine Manweiler
Kansan staff writer
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — No one had to tell the children at the KU Children's Center how to get to "Sesame Street" on Friday, because "Sesame Street" came to them.
More than 50 smiling children, parents and staff members lined the halls of the pediatric ward at the University of Kansas Medical Center to meet Crowder and Flima, characters from the
"I'll give him a hug if you hold my hand."
Randy Knight, telethon coordinator for the Miracle Network at the Med Center, said events such as the "Sesame Street" visit were as crucial as medication and therapy to
popular children's television show, "Sesame Street."
The pair paid a visit to the Children's Center as a promotion for the production "Sesame Street Live," a variety show performed this weekend at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Mo.
The visit was part of Miracle Smiles and Treasures, a program sponsored by the Children's Miracle Network. The network is an international organization of children's hospitals that raises money and develops research and education programs.
Grover and Elmo silently wandered the halis hugging children, posing for pictures and meeting the children's favorite stuffed animals.
Jenna Schmidt Children's Center patient
help children get well.
"If we can help get these kids up in their spirits, they can do the rest," he said.
Some of the children kissed the noses of their furry heroes, but others were shy.
Jenna Schmidt, 3, whispered to her friend, Libby, "I'll give him a hug if you hold my hand."
Libby Tavis, 12, said it was fun to see the characters. Her illness was diagnosed as leukemia four months ago.
"It was real neat to have them here," Libby said. "The kids feel bad, and then they come up here and make the kids feel better."
Three-year-old Aubrey Gunter, who had open-heart surgery in December, overcame her shyness and toddled down the hall hand in hand with Grover.
Christopher Ebel, a 6-year-old hip surgery patient, was wheeled down the hall in a makeshift wagon to see Grover and Elmo.
The characters knelt on the floor and shook his hands. Christopher smiled but said nothing as Elmo rubbed his head.
Soon, Grover and Elmo were led to the elevator. Their visit was over. As the elevator doors closed, Christopher finally had a comment.
"Mom, Grover and Elmo messed up my hair," he said.
KU has one Truman finalist
By Raniit Arab
Kansan staff writer
Although five college students in Kansas were chosen as finalists for the Harry S. Truman Scholarship, only one attends KU. Three of the finalists are students from Kansas State University and one is from Fort Hays State University.
Margaret Hu, Manhattan junior, was the only KU finalist chosen from three nominees.
Hu will compete against 200 other national finalists for one of the 82 available scholarships. The last interviews for finalists from Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas will be Feb. 2 in Kansas City, Mo.
The scholarships are made available to college juniors in the upper third of their class who have proven that they are committed to a career in public service, said J. Michael Young, college honors program director.
Young said Hu was a deserving finalist. However, he said more could be done to raise the number of future KU finalists for the many national scholarships. One reason K-State students are so successful in scholarship hints is that their school has a strong program that recruits potential scholarship winners in high school, he said.
"In order to compete in this arena, one has to spend a good deal of time discovering the potential," he said. "Then, one
has to spend a good deal of time working with them."
Young said more staffing was needed to help increase the number of finalists at KU. A greater number of scholars also would impress high school students interested in the University, he said.
"The competition of incoming students is very stiff," he said. "Anything KU could do to make the University more attractive would be beneficial."
Last year, eight students were nominated by a KU committee, but none were chosen as national finalists. Young said. Although he said he did not know the number of nominees from 1990, two students were chosen as finalists. Pam McElwee, Lawrence senior, was the only KU student to receive the scholarship that year, he said.
In her application for the scholarship, Hw wrote an 800-word essay addressed to State Sen. Wint Wint Jr., R-Lawrence. The essay was a legislative proposal that opposed the use of the Norplant contraceptive as a means of judicial punishment.
Hu said she planned to study gender law at the University of Michigan.
Pearson renovations completed displaced students finally return
She has been a co-coordinator of Environs,has participated in Women's Student Union and is a member of Gov. Finney's Student Advisory Council.Hu is president of the campus Amnesty International group.
By Jay Williams
Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Residents of Pearson Scholarship Hall finally returned Saturday to the hall they moved out of eight n onts ago.
The residents had expected to return in August. Carol von Tersch, assistant director of student housing, said Metro Construction of Kansas City, Mo., the company contracted to do the renovations, was fired in August because it could not finish the project on time.
Pearson residents lived on the sec-
ture floor of Joseph R. Pearson Hall dawn-
ing every day.
Pearson residents saw the renovations on Saturday, the first day they could return to Pearson since mid-May.
Other students have begun to move into empty second floor. IRP rooms, and the gymnasium.
On Sunday, seven residents formed a line, sounded off and gave the new building a 21 water-balloon salute. The balloons were thrown toward Battentfield Scholarship Hall. After the salute, former Pearson director Jim Schmaedeck cut the ribbon to open the hall.
The men of Pearson Scholarship Hall begin moving back into their rooms.
"We were looking to add something to the ribbon-cutting," said Chris Locke, Pearson Hall president. "We have a habit of throwing (water balloons)."
"It is going to be really easy for the
woman has to do the dishes," Boschotten
Dave Houghton, proctor at Pearson,
said the biggest changes in the hall
were in the kitchen areas, where stain-
less steel appliances were used,
automatic dishwasher were added.
new carpet, woodwork and air conditioning, he said.
"That will benicebecauseit will give the men a cool place to study," Houghton said.
Although there are no disabled residents living at Pearson, the hall has a residential room on the first floor with disabled access.
The livingroom in Pearson received
An elevator will be completed later this semester so a resident with disabilities could use the upper floors.
On the second and third floors, residents now have renovated bathrooms with dividers separating the showers. Houghton said. Before the renovation, there were no dividers.
The second- and third-floor hallways have new carpet, he said. The residential room interiors on those floors were not changed.
"The furniture is not new, but everything else is," said Michael West, Springhill senior. "The first time I walked through the door I said, 'Wow.'"
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