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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.103.NO.13
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8,1993
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- Set funding ceilings for each agency
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- Close housing and urban development department regional offices
- Reduce Army Corps of Engineers from 11 offices to six
- Enact federal budgets for two years instead of annually
■ Consolidate food safety work under Food and Drug Administration
- Increase manager/worker ratio from one-to-seven to one-to-15
Reduce time required to fire workers for cause.
Require agencies to develop performance objectives
Cutting red tape
Empowering employee
Abolish time sheets and time cards Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Clinton unveils plan to 'fix' government
Proposal slashes federal work force by 252,000 people
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Seizing on public dissatisfaction with government, President Clinton put forward an ambitious plan yesterday to make the bureaucracy work better and cost less, aming to save $108 billion and shrink the federal work force by 252,000 people.
"The government is broken, and we intend to fit it," Clinton said.
Launching his campaign to "reinvent government" in a ceremony on the South Lawn, Clinton endorsed a book of more than 800 recommendations to cut waste, reduce red tape, streamline the bureaucracy and simplify personnel and purchasing rules.
The backdrop behind Clinton dramatized the idea of a bloated government. Two forklifts held aloft tons of budget rules, purchasing regulations and the 10,000-page federal personnel code.
The administration proposes closing hundreds of government offices outside Washington, giving managers more control over personnel decisions, making it easier to fire incompetent employees and requiring government agencies that provide services to compete with private business.
Some proposals would have a direct impact on consumers.
One proposal calls for the Internal Revenue Service to let people pay
taxes by credit cards. Another would eliminate restrictions that keep the IRS and other agencies from using private companies to collect debts
Vice President Al Gore, who over saw six-month study that produced the proposals for Clinton, said that more than half of the plan would require congressional approval. Administration officials said they did not know how or when Clinton's plan would be presented to Congress.
"Make no mistake about this: This is one report that will not gather dust in a warehouse," he said.
But Clinton spoke confidently about the proposal.
He plans to begin selling the program with appearances this week in Virginia, Ohio, California and Texas.
Republicans were quick to endorse
Clinton's aims but were skeptical that Democrats would actually cut government.
"These make for a good start but unless Congress can act to implement these federal spending cuts and government reform proposals, we really haven't made any progress," said House Republican Leader Bob Michel.
Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole said, "I don't know of any Republican not willing to vote to reduce the cost of government."
Three labor unions representing the bulk of federal workers offered qualified support, as long as the proposed job reductions are achieved
Organized labor was hesitant to attack the plan even though it calls for slashing the 2.1 million federal work force by 252,000 within five years.
through ways other than layoffs
Clinton's program envisions achieving the reductions through early retirements, attrition and job buyouts, but administration officials said layoffs were possible.
John Strudvild, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, said the proposals were "positive steps to move the government into the 21st Century."
The government overhaul plan was developed by Gore and a team of specialists who made an agency-by-agency review and held hearings with government employees around the country.
For Clinton, the proposals offer a fresh start for his administration and a foundation to counter GOP criticism that he's an old-fashioned tax-and-spend Democrat.
Cutting the fat
Anticipated savings
The Clinton administration hopes to save the government $108 billion by the end of fiscal year 1999.
1995 $12.6
1996 $18.8
1997 $21.9
1998 $24.7
1999 $30
Sources of savings In billions
Haskell bid alive for Nobel winner
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By Carlos Tejada
Kansan staff writer
Rigoberta Menchu, 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner, has said no to speaking engagements at Kansas State University and Bethel College in Newton.
But Beatriz Zapata, director of the Sisters of St. Joseph's Justice and Peace office in Salina, said Menchu had not yet ruled out an invitation to speak at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence
Menchu
"Being Indian herself, and the first Indian Nobel Peace Prize winner, she would probably give more consideration to them than to the other two," Zapata said.
Zapata said there was a "good chance" Menchu would visit Haskell as a stop on her trip to Oklahoma sometime next year.
Menchu won the award last year for her work on the rights of indigenous people around the world. American Indians, the original inhabitants of the american continents, are considered indigenous people.
Zapata said she called Haskell when she was contacted by Bethel and Kansas State about bringing Menchu to Kansas. The original plan was to add Haskell to a statewide speaking tour.
But Menchu limits her engagements in the United States and has said no to most requests. Zapata said.
She said Menzel limited her appearance in the United States because its
government had yet to address the concerns of its own indigenous people as well as the indigenous people of other nations, such as Guatemala.
"Even though the U.S. does have influence in Guatemala, it doesn't have a lot of power in the Nobel Peace Prize system and doesn't stand up for indigenous people in Guatemala." Zapata said.
Zapata said she was a personal friend of Menchu through her work with Menchu's Committee for Campesino Unity. The group works for the rights of Guatemala's farm workers, who are mostly indigenous people. Menchu herself is a member of the Quiche tribe in Guatemala. The tribe is a descendant of the Mayans.
Dan Wildcat, head of the department of natural and social sciences at Haskell, said Menchu's decline of other schools' invitations but not Haskell's was a good sign.
"She will give our school a sense of the kind of heroism and leadership native people can offer throughout their lives," he said. "She speaks well of native women. She embodies that sense of survival with dignity and respect."
Wildcat said he consulted with Zapata and the department of Latin American studies at KU on Menchu's invitation.
With Haskell's recent name change, a visit by Menchuk would show the university's progress and growth. Wildcat said.
"With that change in status, it would be an appropriate place for Ms. Menchu to visit," he said.
"She's a native woman with a positive message of what it's going to take for us to live together," he said.
Wildcat said Menchu's message also would appeal to non-natives.
John Gamble / KANSAN
Facilities Operations employee Ed Osterhout took to the ledges of Lewis Hall yesterday to repair a fifth floor window.
Out on a ledge
Vending machine fans paying more
Disco returns
A Lawrence bar is holding a disco night every Thursday, and bartenders say the dance music's popularity is rising. Are you ready for a flashback to the '70s?
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For some KU students, dinner may consist of an entree of peanut M&M's, a side order of chips, cookies for dessert and a Diet Coke to wash it all down.
By David Stewart Kansan staff writer
Five-cent increase necessary for service
The 5-cent increase of these goods in August follows a spring 1992 increase in candy bar prices at KU vending machines from 50 cents to 55 cents, said Robert Derby, manager of KU Concessions.
But students who substitute campus vending machines for home cooking have had to fork up an extra nickel since August for gum, cookies and potato chip products sold at vending machines around campus.
He said increases in operating and
product costs caused an inevitable in price increases at the vending machines.
"Our retail prices are based on all our costs, not just the costs of our products." Derby said. "We're very careful in our price decisions. In no way, shape or form are we out to gouge the students."
Operating costs include maintenance of the machines and the delivery involved in replenishing the 200 vending machines around campus, Derby said.
Although a candy bar may cost less at some stores around Lawrence, Derby said the higher retail price of KU concessions included both the cost of convenience and the state sales tax.
"The only people that are lower than us are places like Dillons and Wail-Mart that can buy their candy in such high quantities," Derby said. "Historically and traditionally, vending prices have always been higher than other
retail because the costs of vending have been higher."
Some students said they accepted the trade-off for higher prices in exchange for the convenience of readily available snack foods and soda.
Boyell Linderbock of Treat America, a Kansas City, Kan., vending machine wholesaler, agreed that KU Concessions charged a lot less than it could for vending machine products, including their 55-cent candy bars.
"They're really being fair to you, alot fairer than they have to be," Linderblood said.
"What else can I do about it?" asked Frank Bonafila, Anioch, III, senior, after he bought a 60-cent package of oatmeal raisin cookies from the Wescoe Hall first-floor vending machine. "It's aprice you've got to pay for the service."
Kansan staff writer
By Kathleen Stolle
Architect group to help represent minority students
David Alcindor, Paris junior and executive board member, said minorities in the school of architecture needed a group with which they could identify.
After nearly a year of planning, KU students have organized a chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students.
Of the 600 students in the school, 53 are minorities
"It's just been a matter of being represented or misrepresented or not represented at all," he said.
Cal Jones, Kansas City, Mo., senior, and organizer of the group, said that one of its goals was to expose all students to lesser-known types of architecture.
“It's been dominated so long by Europeans,” he said.
“What we're trying to get out is that there's different archi- tecture all over the world.”
Jones said the group also hoped to increase the number of minority faculty members in the school by keeping qualified regional minority instructors' resumes on file. When faculty positions open in the school, the group will present administrators with their recommendations. Jones said
Three of the school's 39 full-time faculty members are minorities.
Hobart Jackson, associate professor of architecture and urban design, and Carmina Sanchez, assistant professor of architecture and urban design, are the group's advisers.
The group also wants to encourage high school minorities and women to consider pursuing architecture as a career. Jones said.
Membership in the group is not limited to minorities, Jackson said.
"Any student who wants to affiliate with NOMAS or supports those goals would be welcome to be a NOMAS member," he said.
Jackson said that although the group has not been officially chartered by the national organization, the mandatory seven dues-paying members have received certificates from the national office. Plans are under way for the organization to be formally recognized in a spring ceremony, he said.
Mike Cummings, president of the KU chapter of American Institute of Architecture Students, said his organization and NOMAS were discussing working together on future projects.
Junk Food Price Jump
non concessions expects to earn $102,674 on sales out of vending machines this year. Profits from these are used to support the Kansas and Burge Unions, a non-profit organization.
Source: Robert Derby, AU Concessions Dave Campbell / KANBAN