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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
(USPS 650-640)
VOL.101.NO.74
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 15, 1992
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Governor's budget ignores Hoch
Bv Gavle Osterbera
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA - Gov. Joan Finney did not approve $1 million for the start of the reconstruction of Hoch Auditorium when she outlined her budget plans yesterday.
The money was requested by the Board of Regents as the first installment of a three-year, $18 million plan to rebuild the campus building. The 64 year-old Hoch was gutted by a fire after it was struck by lightning June 15.
The Hoch reconstruction still may be financed. The fate of the auditorium is now in the hands of the Legislature. It will hammer out budget details during the 1992 session, which opened Monday.
"Our legislators must, of course, be
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reminded of the importance of Hoch Auditorium," Chancellor Gene Budig said in a prepared statement yesterday. "KU cannot do a first-class instructional job without its replacement."
Two Lawrence representatives in the Legislature said they were optimistic about financing the project.
"We should be able to get it (the $1 million)," said State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence. "We have some very good arguments."
insured, meaning it should be able to finance a loss such as Hoch Auditorium without having to buy insurance. But the state does not set aside money specifically for such emergencies.
"If the state does not start planning and financing the replacement of Hoch, it doesn't mean we are self-insured," Charlton said. "It means we are not insured."
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said that the absence of funds for Hoch was "a failure in (Finney's) budget."
Charlton said the state was self-
Winter was less optimistic about getting the $1 million reinstated in the general budget without Finney's recommendation, but said he was working on a new approach to finance the reconstruction. Winter said he was not ready to discuss his ideas.
"We think the time for planning is now." Budig said. "We will work with the Legislature to see that funds are made available."
The new Hoch would provide classroom space, as well as library space, with an overhead walkway connecting the building to Anschutz Science Library. Hoch still would be able to house concerts and entertainment events.
Meanwhile, work was scheduled to begin this month to stabilize the standing walls and to install a temporary
roof over Hoch's remaining shell.
Funds totalling about $237,000 this segment of the project are coming from several sources — including the Hoch re-roofing project, which had started at the time of the fire, and the funds appropriated earlier to repair Hoch's exterior brick walls.
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By Greg Farmer and Gayle Osterberg Kansan staff writers
TOPEKA - Gov Joan Finney yesterday recommended to the Legislature a KU budget $12 million greater than last year's. But pre-approved tuition increases, not increases in state tax dollars, fuel her proposal.
Finney submitted her proposal to the Legislature during her annual State of the State address.
Finney's budget, which boasts no new taxes, includes a 10-percent increase in resident tuition and a 12.5-percent increase in non-resident tuition approved by the Board of Regents in the fall. The proposed increases would generate an expected $7.5 million in revenue, while state funds would increase by approximately $594,000.
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, agreed that raising tuition was not a good idea.
"How can we sit here and applaud when the governor says 'no new taxes' when we are raising tuition?" said Bejio Betty Jo钟帝, D-Lawrence.
*If our institutions are to remain public institutions, we have to look to public funds," Solbach said. "Students often have inflexible budgets. They
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said that tuition revenues traditionally made up 25 percent of the higher education budget, but that the current budgets exceeded that percentage.
live in cheap housing, drive cheap cars and buy inexpensive clothing. If tuition continues to increase, we'll put higher education out of reach of peo
Winter said he saw the proposed increase as a broken contract.
"I think she failed in our commitment," Winter said. "This is a broken partnership and I think it's wrong to do that."
Local lawmakers were equally dissatisfied with the absence of the 5-per cent salary increases requested by the Regents. Finney's budget allows only for merit increases for faculty and staff.
"We still have a certain amount of inflation," Charlton said. "When we don't give our public employees any cost of living increases, it amounts to a cut in salaries."
Chancellor Gene Budig said in a prepared statement that the governor's message represented progress on several fronts, but that the faculty and staff deserved more.
Finney trims KU's request
Because of tough budgetary times, KU's budget request was trimmed by Gov. Joan Finney. Below are some of KU's requests and Finney's recommendations.
KU's requests
Finney's proposals
$1 million in planning funds for rebuilding Hoch Auditorium
5 percent across-the-board increase in faculty salaries
No money for Hoch planning
5 percent increase for operating expenditures
2. 5 percent merit salary increase
4 percent increase for operating expenditures
Aimee Brainard, Daily Kansan
Source: KANSAN staff
Kosten Petty/KANSAN
Gov. Joan Finney speaks to Senate members and state representatives in her annual State of the State address at the Statehouse in Topeka.
Iraq says nuclear program is debris
MANAMA, Bahrain — Iraq has acknowledged for the first time the existence of a sophisticated system to enrich uranium for nuclear bombs, a U.N. inspector said yesterday. But Iraq told the inspectors that nothing remains but debris and steel slabs.
"The significance of this ... is that Iraq acknowledged it has been pursuing a production-scale centrifuge enrichment program rather than simply a research program," he said.
The disclosure came during a tour by the U.N. inspection commission of Iraqi sites, said Robert Gallueci, deputy chairman of the U.N. commission.
David Dorn, a U.N. nuclear expert in New York, said Monday that investigators thought Iraq might have had the means to build four nuclear bombs a year using key equipment imported from Germany. Dorn also said he did not think the Iraqis had destroyed all their centrifuge equipment.
"We don't have evidence they operated the machines, but we're not saying that they did not," Gallucci told The Associated Press in Bahrain after returning from Iraq.
The Iraqiacknowledement was the latest in a series about Baghdad's nuclear program. Most acknowledge-
Robert Gallucci U.N. commission deputy
"We don't have
evidence they operated the machines,but we're not saying that they did not."
Iraqi troops detained a team of U.N. inspectors in a Baghdad parking lot for several days in September in an attempt to stop them from removing documents that reportedly detailed the nuclear program.
ments were extracted under pressure or after discoveries by U.N. inspectors who were carrying out their mandate under the Gulf War cease-fire resolution to eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
David Kay, head of the inspection team that was detained, told the British Broadcasting Corp. yesterday that the imported German components would have provided Iraq with "thousands of centrifuges," used to make enriched uranium for nuclear weapons.
In Bonn, a Foreign Ministry official said five German companies were thought to have shipped Iraq magnets and casings needed to produce a great number of high-speed gas centrifuges.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said it was not clear when the supplies were shipped or whether the companies knowingly violated export laws. He did not name the companies.
The official said Germany would prosecute any firm suspected of exporting illegally.
U. S. State Department representative Margaret Tuwiler told reporters in Washington: "This is yet another example of Iraqi duplicity about the scope and intent of its nuclear weapons program. This latest development reaffirms the need for continued United Nations inspections and continued U.N. economic sanctions."
Gallucci said the Iraqis told the U.N. inspectors that they had not declared the centrifuge components earlier because they had destroyed them. The inspectors were shown a pile of rubble
after confronting the Iraqis with the information about German imports.
"Today, they invited the team to review the remains of these items, and they were there in steel slabs or ground up into fine remains," Gallucci said.
He said the quantity of rubble they saw was "not necessarily a big mountain. ... What we saw today is plausible, ... but the conclusion has to come from Vienna after the analysis."
The centrifuge system is a faster and more sophisticated way of enriching uranium than electromagnetic separation, which Iraq had said it was using for research purposes.
Gallucci said the full dimensions of Iraq's nuclear program remained unknown.
Dorn said that if clusters of centrifuges had been set up and running, Iraq would have been able to enrich enough uranium to make about four bombs a year. He said the centrifuges could be in widely separated areas and, because they didn't use or generate much energy, could escape detection by satellites.
Bush says Iraq may still be trying to copy Scud missile
In a report to Congress, Bushalso said that documents found in Iraq and inspections conducted after the war confirmed that Saddam Hussein was trying to build nuclear weapons.
WASHINGTON — President Bush said yesterday that Iraq had "large numbers of undec勒al balistic missiles" and may still be trying to produce copies of the Seud missile that it bought from foreign suppliers before the Persian Gulf War.
"These documents and facilities reveal a well-funded and broadly based nuclear weapons development program involving sophisticated facilities," the president said. He said further investigation was required.
The president's report was released just two days before the first anniversary of the start of the U.S.-led war against Iraq. The report was intended to keep Congress informed of efforts to win Iraq's compliance with resolutions adopted by the U.N. Security Council.
Bush said that inspection teams, which were created under a Security Council resolution, had supervised the destruction of 62 ballistic missiles, 18 fixed missile launch pads, 33 ballistic missile warheads and 127 missile storage support racks.
In addition, he said they destroyed large amounts of rocket fuel, an assembled 350mm supergun, components of two 350mm superguns and two 1,000mm superguns, and one ton of supergun prooillant.
"The United States believes, however, that Iraq continues to possess large numbers of undeclared ballistic missiles," the president said.
"Questions also remain about whether all aspects of Iraq's attempts to produce the Scud missile indigenously and to develop a more capable solid-propellant missile have been discovered," Bush said.
In terms of its nuclear program, Iraq acknowledged for the first time that it had built a large uranium-enrichment system suitable for producing nuclear bombs, a senior U.N. inspector said in Bahrain after returning from an inspection trip to Iraq.