UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, March 10, 1993
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Regents' budget awaits approval
Salary increases included in plan
By Ben Grove Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — The Kansas Senate yesterday approved by a voice vote the Board of Regents $1.05 billion budget for next year that included a slight increase in faculty and student employee salaries.
An annual vote is scheduled for today. If passed, the bill would go to the House Appropriations Committee.
The bill provides for a 2.5 percent increase in faculty and student salaries. Gov. Joan Finney in January recommended 3 percent for faculty and 5 percent for students.
Before that, the Board of Regents had proposed 5 percent raises for faculty and 4.5 percent for students.
The Senate bill also included a proposed 8 percent tuition increase for in-state students and 10 percent for out-of-state students at the three largest Regents universities; the University of Kansas, Wichita State University and Kansas State University.
Before the Legislature's halfway point last week, the appropriations bill had been in the Senate Ways and Means Committee, where the salary increase recommendations were reduced.
The bill also included a 3.5 percent increase for other university operating expenditures and an eventual $40 a-credit-hour fee increase for law school student. The bill did not include arecommendation for a 1percent retirement benefit increase for faculty, which will be considered later in separate legislation.
State Sen. Gus Bogina said this year's Regents budget was $15 million more than last year. He said the budget increase was necessary because of increased enrollments. The budget is $6 million less than what the governor had recommended.
But when the bill came up for full Senate discussion before the voice vote yesterday, several senators said that this year's Regents budget was too high. State Sen. Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard, spoke of the impact the Boeing laffoffs in Wichita would have on the state.
"It's somewhat frivolous for us to pass a budget with such an increase." Taibrt said. "We need to start stepping up to the fact that we don't have as much money to spend this year as we did last year."
Potholes trouble Towers residents
By Will Lewis
Kansan staff writer
Although repairs are underway, students living at Jayhawker Towers are getting tired of battling mud and potholes with their cars in search of a parking spot.
Jayhawker Towers provides a tri-level parking lot on the east and west sides of the apartment buildings. The ground level of the east parking lot echoes with the thump-tump of cars hitting metal plates covering potholes on the upper level. Its surface resembles a gravel road after a heavy rain — muddy and rutted.
Marton Sanders, St. Louis junior and Towers resident, said that these problems had existed in the parking garage since snow fell in early January.
"There are way too many pot holes and they can really mess up your car and tires." Sanders said. "When you're trying to swerve the pothes, you might hit another car. It's a real hazard. It's pretty bad considering I value my car a whole lot."
Angie Morgan, Russell sophomore and Towers resident, said that she was worried by jacks that
had been supporting a secondlevel cracked beam for about a month.
"It makes me nervous," she said.
"It makes me wonder when it's go to collapse."
Morgan walked slowly to her car, gauging carefully where she would place her next step. She explained how difficult it was to drive on the ground level.
"You have to drive so slow and even then you bottom out," Morgan said. "I'm not a mechanic, but I know it's not good for my car."
The department of student housing is aware of the students' concerns and plans to lay asphalt as soon as the ground level dries out, said Ken Stoner, director of student housing.
stoner said the potholes on the upper levels of the parking garage and the cracked beam would be filled as soon as Finney & Turnipseed, the Topeka firm designing the repair work, placed its bid.
Potholes have been a problem at the lots for the past three or four years but were not a safety hazard, Stoner said. Steel plates are used each year as temporary covers until the holes are filled.
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