SPORTS: The Kansas baseball team lost to Oklahoma 9-7 yesterday at Hoglund-Maupin Stadium. Page 9.
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KANSAS STATE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA KS 66612
VOL.103.NO.125
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1991
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Partnership for Excellence's future shaky
The appropriations committee recommended the Board of Regents budget Thursday but removed $10 million—money that was to go for faculty salary increases.
Finney: Won't sign bills unless both are passed
The Partnership for Excellence may be dead if the Kansas Legislature follows the recommendation of a House committee.
By Stephen Martino Kansan staff writer
It is not known when the House will vote on the committee recommendation.
The Partnership for Excellence is a plan forwarded by the Regents. The partnership is represented in two bills that were introduced into the Senate: raising faculty salaries to 100 percent of the average of each school's peer institutions and allowing Washburn University to enter the Regents system. Gov. Joan Finney has said that she would veto one partnership bill if the other bill were not passed. The Senate rejected the Washburn bill earlier this month.
The partnership was partially derailed by the Senate's rejection of Washburn's entry into the Regents. This may result in a Finney veto on the faculty pay raises.
Increased faculty salaries were to be financed through higher tuition — a 6 to 9 percent for instate students, depending on which Regent university they attended, and 13 percent for out-of-state — and increased funds from the state. Nine percent would be the increase for KU instate students. KU faculty members' would see about a 13-percent wage increase during the next three years if the proposal passed.
However, what the committee advanced to the
House would provide only a 3 percent salary increase for faculty members this year.
Chronienist said that the state simply could not afford to spend the extra money on faculty raises.
"The Washburn bill has nothing to do with it," she said. "This is the plan I've been talking about for most of the session."
However, State Rep. Rochelle Chronister, R-Neodesha and head of the appropriations committee, said the threatened veto had not affected the committee's decision.
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afford to spend the extra money on faculty raises. The Senate, however, passed the Regents appropriations bill March 18 with the money for the partnership included.
The problem, State Rep. Barbara Ballard, D-
Lawrence, said, was that many legislators thought education received enough money from the state already. She said that kindergarten through 12th grade and higher education received a combined 63 percent of the state's budget.
Ballard said that she and other Regents supports would offer amendments to reinstate the money taken out, but it would be a difficult task.
"It is very frustrating when you know there is a great need but you see there has been a big cut," she said. "Education is a top priority, but it can't be as high a priority as everyone wants it to be. There just isn't enough money."
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
Subletting may be hazardous to your home
By Denise Nell Kansan staff writer
Enrique Rodriguez, Durango, Mexico, senior, has had three experiences with subleasing, and none of them were good.
He once had to pay his landlord $100 to find someone to sublease his apartment when he moved out before his lease expired. And once, his landlord accidentally gave the security deposit — which he and his roommate paid — to the people who were subleasing the apartment.
"It was $120. and we never got it back," Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez's problems are typical of the many college students who find themselves rushing to get out of their apartment leases for the summer or looking desperately for summer housing when residence halls close.
Different apartment complexes handle subleasing in different ways, said Sofiana Olivares, manager of A & S Management Services, 2223 Louisiana St. The service helps people who are either looking for apartments or trying to find someone to rent theirs. It helps many students trying to sublease apartments. Olivares said.
Many apartment complexes hold the person on the original lease responsible for rent and damages to the apartment even after the people subleasing move in, Olivera said.
"A lot of people sublease their apartments for three months, and the people don't pay the rent," she said. "They'd have been better off if they'd just left the apartment empty."
In addition, the tenants on the original lease should be sure to have all utilities in their names stopped before they leave.
To combat this problem, Olivera said, people subleasing their apartments should screen candidates carefully before accepting them. In addition, she said, tenants should have the manager inspect the apartment for damages before they move out. This way, the apartment manager knows who is responsible if damages occur during the time the apartment is being subleased.
"Otherwise, you could end up with a big phone bill," Olivera said.
Nicole Weigand, Wellington, Kan., sophomore, discovered another frustrating aspect of subleasing that Olivaver said was common in apartments. She wanted to sublease her apartment, but discovered in her lease that the complex charged tenants who were planning to sublease their apartments $100. The complex would help find somebody to sublease, but this fee provided no guarantee that the apartment would be subleased.
"I felt like the complex wasn't as flexible as it could have been," she said. "All the regulations are annoying."
Olivera said that people who were looking for apartments to sublease for the summer should check to make sure all the utility bills were paid and demand an inspection before they move in.
She said people interested in subleasing their apartments or finding someone to sublease their apartment should begin looking as soon as possible.
"It's important to start looking now," she said. "It gets really crazy later on."
James Wilcox / KANSAN
The dance is over
Kansas head coach Roy Williams, left, with junior center Greg Ostertag, thanks the crowd of 200 who met the men's basketball team at Allen Fieldhouse Friday, Kansas lost to Purdue 83-78 in the NCAA Southeast regional semifinal Thursday.
CHARLOTTE
And then there were four...
The NCAA Final Four teams have been narrowed from the 64 teams that started playing 11 days ago. The semifinals are Saturday, and the winners will play for the national championship April 4.
The semifinal games are Arizona (West
In the regional finals, No. 1 seeded Missouri lost to Arizona, Arkansas defeated Michigan, Florida stopped Boston College, and Duke shut down Purdue.
region) vs. Arkansas (Midwest) and Florida (East) vs. Duke (Southeast).
NCAA:
NCAA:
Kansas,
Michigan and
Boston College
all were sent
home early from
the tournament.
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and 12.
Heather Strickland, Lawrence sophomore, apprentices at Grimms Tattoos in Kansas City, Mo., as a body piercer. She does both ornamental and functional piercing.
Investigator in KC follows Whitewater
Woman could be key in presidential probe
WASHINGTON — For months, a federal investigator named Jean Lewis labored to get her superiors to take seriously a check-kiting scheme at an Arkansas savings and loan that she believed might have benefited President and Mrs. Clinton.
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Lewis, an investigator in the Resolution Trust Corp.'s Kansas City, Mo., office, was for months the lone voice calling for a probe into the relationship among the Clinton's, the Whitewater Development Corp. and the failed Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan.
Her actions came to light last week when Rep. Jim Leach, R-Iowa, released a series of memos, notes and electronic mail messages between Lewis and her colleagues. Now, she is likely to be a key in special prosecutor Robert Fiske's Whitewater probe and the RTC's ultimate decision about whether to pursue civil actions against those involved in the failure of Madison.
Madison's owner, James McDougal, was acquitted in 1990 of federal bank fraud charges arising from the S&L's failure.
Lewis was assigned to take another look at Madison in 1991. As she probed, Lewis came to wonder: If the Clintons had put no money in Whitewater, and it was generating little cash flow, how was the $202,000 in loans being paid off? And, she wrote in a Feb. 2, 1994, memo: Shouldn't the Clintons' suspicions have grown since they knew that their Whitewater co-investor, McDougal, headed an S&L that was commonly known to be in bad financial shape?
In one memo to her own book, Lewis related how a lawyer with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in Washington, April Breslaw, had told her "the people at the top" wanted to say that Whitewater did not cause a loss to Madison.
Lewis wrote that Breslaw said the superiors wanted a "honest answer" but would be "happier about certain answers that would get them off the hook." Lewis wrote that she reiterated to Breslaw her belief that Whitewater had caused losses to Madison.
In an interview last week with the New York Times, Breslaw disputed Lewis' assertion and criticized the quality of her investigation.
"I categorically deny the accusation that I said anybody from Washington wanted any particular outcome on any issue," she said. "That's a complete fabrication."
In the documents released by Leach, Lewis accused the Clintons of no wrongdoing. But after tracking $70,000 that McDougal shifted from Madison to Whitewater in 1985, she said the Clintons' might have been the unwitting beneficiaries of Madison's defrauding.
Stickin' it to ya
Lewis' resiliency was tested when her first recommendation that the Clintons be subjected to a criminal investigation was rejected. She followed up with a second similar recommendation.
Finally, Lewis was taken off the case
to her temporary relief, she said.
The romance of the drive-in returns to KU
The '50s fad makes a comeback with SUA
By Susan White Kansan staff writer
The 1950s were a time of rock n' roll, poodle skirts, fast cars, malt shops — and drive-in movies.
Drive-in movies were at their peak during the '50s, and they will be back, at least for two nights outside the Kansas Union. Student Union Activities will show doubleheader drive-in movies two nights next month.
Drive-in movies were a product of the post-World War II era, said Chuck Berg, professor of theater and film.
"A lot of the Gls returned to or started families in the late 1940s," he said. "Sev-
ral of these families moved to the suburbs, a place where drive-ins were easily accessible. Piling the family in the car and going to the drive-in was less costly than hiring a babysitter to go to a movie house."
*In the 1900s technological age, drive-in movie theaters have become a rare find.
Berg said the drive-in craze started to die out in the early 1960s and never regained its popularity.
"Drive-ins started to get an unsavory reputation in the late '50s as being passion pits," he said. "There would be a station wagon with a car of kids with teenagers making out of ferociously in the car next door. Drugs also became more pervasive in the '60s. All these things eventually drove a lot of the middle class clientele out."
Marian Sheeran, SUAbox office assistant and Lawrence senior, said SAU will show "Grease" and "Blazing Saddles" on April 8 and "Raising Arizona" and "Reservoir Dogs" on April 15, starting at 7 both nights.
KU students will get the chance to find
out what the craze was all about starting next week.
"Our regular movie schedule stops after Spring Break," she said. "Every spring we either have movies on the Hill or drive-ins outside the Union."
Students can watch the movies from their cars in parking lot 91 outside the Union. They also can bring lawn chairs if they don't own cars or don't want to watch the movies from their cars, Shearan said. The movies will be shown with amplified sound so everyone can hear it.
Admission will be free on both nights.
And...action!
April 1 Special film presentation: "Apocalypse Now" will be shown in 35 millimeter and will start at 8 p.m. in the Lied Center. Admission is free.
April 15 Drive-in movie double feature: "Raising Arizona" and "Reserved Dogs."
April 8 Drive-in movie double feature: "Grease" and "Blaizing Saddles"
Arizona and Reservoir Dogs Drive-in movies will be shown in parking lot 91 by the Kansas Union. Both double features will start at 7 p.m. Admission is free.
A
April 20: "Arts on the Boulevard"
For more information about movies, call 864- SHOW.
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