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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102.NO.155
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30,1993
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Tuition hike to finance pay raises
Budig calls increases 'inevitable' to take faculty salaries to peer level
By Lisa Cosmillo
Kansan staff writer
Though they acknowledged the need for higher faculty salaries, KU student leaders said they were unhappy about students' bearing the burden of the increase.
Last week the Board of Regents voted to raise tuition for the 1994-1995 school year.
The increase will have a dual purpose. Primarily there will be a 5 percent increase to resident undergraduates and a 9 percent increase to nonresident undergraduates which will pay for standard maintenance.
Additionally, pending approval by the Legislature, resident and nonresident undergraduates would pay an additional 4 percent increase which would directly affect faculty salaries, said Chancellor Gene Budig.
Budig said that increasing tuition was
inevitable in the years ahead. He said that KU faculty salaries were significantly lower than other schools.
"Our students want and deserve a quality faculty, and that will not happen without competitive salaries," Budig said. "Improving salaries will do much to guarantee the University's future."
This fall resident undergraduates will be paying $960, of which $789 will be tuition and $171 student fees. Nonresident undergraduates will pay $3,269, of which $3,098 will be tuition and $171 student fees.
Based on these figures, students could expect to pay as much as $1,031 for resident undergraduates in fall 1994, a 7.4 percent increase in tuition, and $3,671 for nonresident undergraduates in fall 1994, a 12.3 percent increase in tuition.
Budig, the other heads of universities in the Regents system and the Regents will spend much of this summer and fall explaining the Regents plan to the governor and the Legislature in an attempt to ensure allocation of the funds for faculty salaries. Budig said.
"If the legislature doesn't approve the plan, the Repeals will modify it." Budhe said.
Jeremy Haas, Wichita senior and student treasurer, said he was skeptical about the program. As a student leader, he said he found the state often did not support programs that would improve student life.
"Ultimately it's coming down to the students' shoulders again." Haas said. "If it would guarantee bringing better professors, I'm for it, but I'm skeptical about that actually going through."
Chris O'Brien, Lawrence graduate student and executive coordinator for the graduate student council, said he did not oppose tuition increases. As a long-time student, he said he knew that tuition always would increase, but that it was a bad precedent to increase tuition to pay salaries.
Haa cited KU on Wheels and SafeRide as examples. He said that it had been necessary for students to plan and finance both programs on their own.
"I think faculty are state employees, and the state has an obligation to meet their payroll."
Rising cost of education
The Board of Regents has proposed a tuition increase for the 1994-95 school year. Tuition has increased steadily in recent years. A breakdown of tuition increases for the past seven years follows
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Nonresident undergraduate
Year amount amount
'93-94 $960/semiester $3,260/semiester
'92-93 $890/semiester $2,085/semiester
'91-92 $831/semiester $2,670/semiester
'90-91 $782/semiester $2,344/semiester
'89-90 $725/semiester $2,124/semiester
'88-89 $680/semiester $1,904/semiester
'87-88 $622/semiester $1,747/semiester
O'Brien said.
Source: Office of Institute Research and Planning
"The Legislature should pay that, rather than students being directly responsible for paying increases in salaries."
Jerry Bailey, associate dean of education, said he thought there was not enough information for him to draw a conclusion at this point.
"It is unfortunate that it has to come from students," Bailey said.
No smoking Campus ban starts tomorrow
Rv Will Lewis
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas is not a prison. But its new no-smoking policy might make it seem that wav to some.
For the estimated 26,000 students who do not smoke, though, the policy will be a godsend.
Beginning tomorrow, smoking will be banned in all campus buildings, excluding student housing, the Kansas Union, the Adams Alumni Center and the Kansas University Endowment Association building. But even these buildings, with the exception of student housing, recently have developed policies that will ban smoking.
So what are the effects of a complete smoking ban?
Valene Bontrager / KANSAN
In one extreme case, Vermont completely banned smoking inside and outside of one of its prisons to protect the health of those inmates who did not smoke.
Inmates craved the smooth mixture of tar and nicotine so badly that violence, black marketing and sexual favors were used for the pleasure associated with sneaking a single cigarette. The guards made money by smugglings packs inside and selling them for $40.
Stress rose tremendously and a prisoner reported seeing fellow inmates smoking coffee and Tang as a makeshift substitute.
Smoking eventually was allowed outdoors
For the last 10 years, about 10 percent of the student population have been smokers, said Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
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Until now, those who choose not to smoke never were guaranteed clean air in campus
**Above:** Michael Chermiss, professor of English, protests the new smoking ban. Chermiss put up this cigarette advertisement poster on the window of his office in Wescoe when the ban was announced.
Tomorrow they will be able to breathe fresh air while sitting in the offices of their instructors. The only thing left will be the yellowed carpet, and you should carpet the carpets in the offices of those who smoked.
Michael Cherniss, professor of English, said he would pretend the policy did not exist. After July 1, he simply will close the door to his
But there are some who say they will not comply with the policy, despite nonsmokers' com-
Right: Jason Daisley, employee at Wescroft Terrace, goes outside to take a smoking break. Dailey said he did not mind going outside to smoke because smoke lingered inside the building.
office.
"I opposed to it and I don't intend to conform, to it," Cheriss said. "If you have to in here and it is my private space, I am going to smoke in here, we have people dictating what I can do in my office."
A picture of Joe Camel on Cheriss' office win dow faces the hallway. He put it there shortly after the policy was approved.
As long as he remained in his office while smoking, he said, people should not be bothered
by the smoke.
"I know there are people around who claim they can smell cigarette smoke half a mile away," he said, "But if I'm not blowing smoke in their faces, I don't care if they complain."
"With the door closed, what are they going to do?" he asked "Bring smoke-sniffing dogs to
Chermiss said it would be difficult for anyone to enforce the policy.
Cherniss joked about possibly burning incense
in his office to annoy those who dislike cigarette smoke.
Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor, said that although no penalties have been set for violators of the policy, action would be taken on the basis of complaints.
"If there are complaints, then of course we'll have to respond," he said.
Meyen said past experience showed people
NBC movie to be filmed in Lawrence
By Susan White
Special to the Kansar
Patty Duke, Martin Sheen and Lawrence will have one thing in common this summer — they all will be part of the new television miniseries
Leonard Hill Films from Los Angeles, under the name The Kansas Filmworks, will film its latest television production for NBC here this summer.
Duke and Sheen will head the film's cast, which will include several local actors and actresses, said Jack Wright, professor of theater and film studies. He is responsible for casting the local speaking parts for the film.
Martin Sheen
Patty Duke
names of the local actors will not be released until a later date.
Lawrence has been featured in several movies in the past few years and its popularity seems to keep growing. Just this year, three made-for television movies were filmed in the area: "Day Before Dawn" with *Cheryl Ladd*, "They've Taken Our Children" with Khaled Malden and Julie Harris and "I Can Make You Love Me" with Brooke Shields.
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Wright said that the Kansas Film Commission was responsible for the increasing number of films being made in the area.
"The whole team has been recruiting films for Lawrence." Wright said. Judy Billings, director of Lawrence Conventions and Visitors Bureau, said Lawrence was first featured in a television movie in the early 1890s.
"Lawrence first got recognition in 1982 for being heavily involved in the made-fortelevision movie "The Day After," starring Jason Robards and Steve Guttenberg, 'Billions said.'
After 1828, filmmakers made various television movies with local footage such as "Cross of Fire" with John Heard and Lloyd Bridges, "Where Pigeons Go to Die" with Michael Landon and Art Carney and "Skylark" with Glenn Close and Christopher Watkin, Billings said. Filmmakers even made a feature film, "Kansas," with Andrew McCarthy and Matt Dillon, in Lawrence.
the "Fmal Justice" production team has begin working on the film, said Heather Laird, production assistant. She will be casting parts for extras in the film.
Anyone interested in auditioning for a role as an extra in "Final Justice" should immediately send a Polaroid picture or current snapshot attached to the top of a piece paper with the following information on it: the person's name, current address, phone number, height, weight and age to Kansas filmworks c/o Randa Inn 420 S.E. Sixth St. Suite 22. Topeka, Kan. 66007 with Attention: Heather on the front of the envelope.
Bugeyed about bugs
Charles Hines' interest in creating bug jewelry began two years ago. Now, those interested in unusual jewelry will have something to look forward to with his month-old business, Bedebug.
Vehicle flies across campus
See story. Page 7.
And fly she did—for 138 feet—after driving her 1886 Honda off a four-foot wall and over a service road behind Wescoe and Stauffer-Flint halls.
By Katie Greenwald Kansan staff writer
Car leaps wall behind Wescoe; hospitalized driver gets DUI
She told police she wanted to fly
A few minutes before 10 a.m. Saturday, Antionette Nelson, a 32-year-old Lawrence resident, was driving her car southwest on Sunflower Road when her car left the road and jumped onto the grass, traveling in a diagonal line across from Bailey Hall on Sunflower Road. Nelson's car continued its diagonal path on the grass until reaching Jayhawk Boulevard. There her car crossed the intersection and left the road for the sidewalk in front of Stauffer-Flint, KU police reported.
Her car continued down the sidewalk
then flew off the four-foot wall and struck the top of a tree. The vehicle landed and hit several trees and a three-foot light pole. The car finally stopped because it could go no further — it was wedgeged between a tree and the northeast corner of Malott Hall.
The first police officer to arrive asked Nelson if she needed an ambulance. According to the report, she replied that she did not need an ambulance because her friends in the back seat would help her. Nelson was the only occupant of the car.
The officer, who found a wooden pipe in the car and noticed a strong odor he assumed to be marijuana, asked Nelson what had caused her to leave the road. Her response was that she had wanted to fly.
Nelson also told police she had been smoking marijuana.
Police confiscated the pipe and cited Nelson for driving under the influence and
One witness estimated that Nelson's car was traveling at about 35 mph, while another
Source: KU Police report
er witness said it was going about 60 mph. Police are attempting to estimate the speed based on skid mark measurements, vehicle weight and the distance between the point of takeoff and the final location of the vehicle.
Police are not releasing their estimates at this time.
The Lawrence Fire Department extricated Nelson from the vehicle and the Douglas County Ambulance Service transported her to Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Nelson was later taken to the University of Kansas Medical Center where she was listed in fair condition yesterday.