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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Finney may sign admissions bill
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Gov. Joan Finney backed away yesterday from her previous opposition to a proposal to set standards on state universities.
Finney indicated that she might consider signing a bill to end the state's 78-year-old policy of allowing all of its high school graduates to attend the six Board of Regents universities.
supporters of the proposal have said they might try to force a vote in the House to send a bill containing it to Finney. The vote would be to accept Senate amendments to a House bill relating to the state's high school activities association.
at, and I will have a decision here — it hasn't been passed yet, has it? So we'll just see if it comes in," Finney said during a brief news conference.
"That's another one that I'm looking
Finney said in February that she has concerns about the proposal, echoing some Democrats' arguments that it would not provide higher education for some Kansasans.
The governor has long described herself as a populist, and in the past, opponents have relied on populist arguments to defeat an admissions bill.
Supporters say the proposal will make students prepare better for college. The Regents have dubbed it "the certified admissions" to reflect that belief.
Under the Senate's proposal, stu
dents would have to pass a basic skills test in 10th grade before they could enter a Regents university. Then, starting in the fall of 1997, Kansas students would have to do one-of three things to be admitted:
Obtain a "C" average on a college preparatory curriculum, which would include four years of English, three years of math and three years of science.
Score 23 or better on the American College Testing program.
Graduate in the top third of their high school class.
Each university would be allowed to waive the requirements for up to 10 percent of its freshman class.
University budgets bill passes House
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — A bill designed to set state university budgets for three years at a time so that they will be guaranteed small annual increases in spending narrowly won House approval Thursday.
The proposal is the brainstild of Rep. Rochelle Chronister, R-Neodesha, head of the House Appropriations Committee. It would take effect July 1, 1994, and universities would, in theory, be guaranteed a 2 percent increase in state tax dollars for the two following years.
The measure passed on a 63-60 vote, with just enough votes to win approval in the 125-member House.
Critics of the proposal tried unsuccessfully to send the bill back to committee.
The proposal now goes to the Bureau, but Sen. Gus Bogina, R-Shownee, head of the Ways and Means Committee, announced unenthusiastic about it.
"It is late in the session, and we are limited in the amount of time we have to review new initiatives," Bogina said.
Chromisture said that her proposal was designed to make the budgets for the Board of Regents institutions more efficient and allow them to plan the future.
The plan would not apply to the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., and the Kanss
State University Veterinary Medical Center.
The budgets would be set in state law. One legislature cannot bind future legislatures, so the amounts could always be changed, but setting them in state law is supposed to make that more difficult.
The Regents could increase spending more, but they would have to increase student tuition. The bill would give the Regents considerable latitude, and create a "tutium pool," so that the revenues would be shared by all universities.
"It represents a major shift in the way universities would be funded in Kansas," Chronister said.
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