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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.103.NO.118
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
KANSAS STATE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA KS 66612
HURSDAY. MARCH 10, 1994
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SenEx rule limits outside speakers to meeting topics
By Jamie Munn Kansan staff writer
In a unanimous vote, University Senate Executive Committee voted yesterday to require a two-thirds approval by University Council to allow non-member speakers to talk at its meetings.
SenEx also amended Council rules to stipulate that the speaker, if given the two-thirds approval, would be allowed to discuss only the issue under consideration by Council.
The ruling comes in the wake of January's Council meeting at which former KU law professor Emil Tonkovich's request to speak initially was refused by Bob Friedau, head of Council. During a Council discussion of KU's consensual relations policy. Tonkovich eventually was allowed to speak. He then criticized the administration's handling of his firing earlier in 1993 for allegations that he had sexually harassed one of his students.
Altevogt said that Tonkovich had gained the right to speak but had ignored recommendations to keep his comments limited to the discussion about the policy.
SenEx member John Altevogt said the vote had passed to discourage speakers such as Tonkovich from disrupting the meetings.
"He whined like he was on a TV talk show," Altevont said.
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"The first thing out of his mouth was that he wasn't going to talk about that." Altengott said.
Altevogt compared Tonkovich's speech to the
talk show "Oprah."
Tonkovik's reaction to SenEx's decision was one of amusement.
"Obviously they can make whatever rules they want to." Torkovich said.
He said he thought that Council instead should spend time investigating his appeal of his employment termination.
In other SenEx business, the committee unanimously voted to urge Chancellor Gene Budig to request additional funds that could complete original plans for Hoch Auditorium's renovation.
T. P. Srinivasan, head of SenEx, said he wanted Budig to encourage state legislators who had been supportive of additional funds.
"it looks like the money is there," Srinivasan
Earlier this year, bids for Hoch's renovation were about $3 million more than the initial budget. Two floors of library space, which were to house KU's Government Documents and Maps Library, were then eliminated from the original plans.
said. "The only thing is, the governor had to approve it."
Srinivasan said he shared the concerns of Jack Davidson, chair of the University Senate library committee, who was worried that the underground libraries would never be established if excavation was not made at the time of the rest of the renovation.
Srinivasan said the shelf-space needs of the University's libraries would be threatened in the near future if the new space was not provided.
Washburn denied entry into Regents Vote may hurt chances of faculty salary raises
By Stephen Martino Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Washburn University was strongly rebuked yesterday when the Kansas Senate voted 13-23 on Washburn's entry into the Board of Regents system.
Washburn's entry was one component of the Partnership for Excellence, a plan supported by the Regents and endorsed by Gov. Joan Finney. The other component of the partnership consists of raising faculty salaries at Regents schools to 100 percent of the average at each school's peer institutions. This would be done by increasing student tuition and support from the state budget.
however, Finney has stated that she would not support one component of the partnership without the other. The failure of the Washburn bill potentially damages the chances of faculty salary increases becoming reality this legislative session.
State Sen. August "Gus" Bogina, R-Shawnee, said that the state had little control over the $6 million Washburn received.
Washburn supporters said that if Washburn was a Regents member, the Regents would be able to exercise more control over the school and the money it received from the state.
"I would maintain Washburn is part of the state higher educational system now," he said. "It has received state funding since 1962."
Bogina, who as head of the Senate Ways and Means Committee was responsible for guiding the bill, said concerns that Topela was forcing Washburn on the state were wrong. He said that Topela citizens still would have to pay an 18-mill property tax, which is used to maintain Washburn. A mill is $1 of tax on every $1000 of assessed value.
Furthermore, he said Washburn stu
dents wouldn't benefit because tuition would stay higher than most Regents students' tuition until 2004, when tuition levels would be equal.
"I think the reasons are right, and the time is now," Bogina said. "It's not a matter of if, but when, and when is now."
However, opponents said that Washburn's entry was not appropriate this year.
"Why would we address bringing another major university on board when we're having trouble maintaining the needs of the six universities we already have on line?" said State Sen. Robert Vancrum, R-Overland Park.
Vancrum said he was concerned that in the future Washburn would need more financial help or that Topeka would seek to remove the property tax, creating a burden for the state.
"I think the consequences of this action have been seriously understated," he said.
After the vote, senators said, they still will consider the other portion of the partnership, even with the governor's threatened veto.
However, State Sen. Sandy Praeger, R-Lawrence, said she was less optimistic about the salary increases passing this year. She voted against Washburn's admission.
Senate Majority Leader Sheila Frahm, R-Colby, said she would not be surprised if the Washburn issue came up later in the session. But, she said, the faculty pay raises are not dead yet.
"I am afraid that any short-term gain in faculty salaries would have been lost down the line, and then we would be in the same hole. If we would have passed it, we would have been pennywise and pound foolish."
"It will make it difficult to pass," she said. "To link Washburn and the partnership was wrong. I think.
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Honing in
Steve Roth, Overland Park freshman, checks his compass after measuring the height of the flag pole in front of Lindley as Lisa Schoendaller, Walker freshman, keeps notes. The two were working on a basic mapping exercise during their Geology 101 lab.
Tobacco tax hike angers industry Clinton asks for 75 cent-a-pack raise
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — About 16,000 tobacco industry workers marched down Pennsylvania Avenue yesterday to protest a Clinton administration proposal to raise the cigarette tax to help pay for health reform.
After marching from the White House to the Capitol, the protesters crowded into federal office buildings to make personal appeals to individual members of Congress.
"We may need to do something about health care, but we don't need to do it on the backs of the people who have grown tobacco all their lives," said Sen. Laugh Faircloth, R-N.C.
Tobacco executives, workers,
growers and suppliers say that if Clinton's proposal to raise the cigarette tax 75 cents a pack is approved, the higher tax will depress sales, costing the industry as many as 275,000 jobs. Among the hardest hit would be growers, who would lose 18,000 jobs and $103 million in profits, they said.
Clinton has proposed raising the federal excise tax on cigarettes from 24 cents to 99 cents a pack to help finance his health-care reform plan. The money raised by the tax increase would give smokers an opportunity to pay their fair share of health-care costs, the administration has said.
"The message is jobs," Faircloth told the protesters before the march began. "I sympathize with you, I understand, and I'm with you."
Most of the protesters were workers from the nation's two largest cigarette makers, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in Winston-Salem, N.C., and Philip Morris in Richmond, Va. But others also traveled to Washington by bus from as far away as Kentucky, South Carolina and Georgia.
Workers in downtown Washington office buildings peeked out of windows while the crowd walked by, yelling "Save Our Jobs!" and "We've had enough!" and singing "The Star-Spangled Banner."
Two hours later, as the crowd shivered outside the Capitol in 34-degree weather, Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., took a swipe at both Clinton and the proposed tax increase.
"Don't blame me. I voted for Bush," Helms said.
The demonstrators broke up into groups of four or five to visit lawmakers and their aides and hand over petitions signed by thousands of people.
"It's not fair to tax one industry to pay for health care that benefits everybody," Clay Lentz of Winston-Salem, N.C., told an aide of Rep. Charles Wilson, D-Texas, who has not announced a position on the tax. "Let's spread the expense out among all the workers."
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ARTIST BRINGS HIS UNIQUE STYLE TO KU
By Denise Nell Kansan staffwriter
Carlos Villa has been known to use blood, bone, spit, hair and paper pulp in his artwork.
The Filipino multimedia artist, who is known for political activism as well as unconventional art supplies, will speak about his art tonight at the auditorium in the Spencer Museum of Art as part of the Asian American Festival.
Carlos Villa, a professor of art at the San Francisco Art Institute, is a sculptor, painter and performance artist. He said his style of art had evolved and changed throughout his life.
"It's gone through a number of changes," he said. "I started off as a painter and went to sculpting. Now, I'm at a point where it's a lot of things."
Villa said he had become active in uniting San Francisco's Filipino community in the last three years. He coordinated an exposition and series of films, theater productions and symposiums about the history of the Filipino community. The exposition will take place at the Yerbabuena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
"I've constructed an experiment or means to allow the community to look into themselves, be able to identify themselves and identify a personal history." Villa said. "As an artist, I wanted to explore all different ways we could deal
with the community because the Filipino community is somewhat fictional. One thing I wanted to do was get the people together."
"Not only is he a very prominent artist regionally and nationally, but he's sincerely dedicated and concerned about multiculturalism," he said.
Chong-Sok Han, Salina senior and art major, said he had seen Villa's art and was interested in hearing him speak.
Villa said he would be speaking about his art and critiquing and advising student artists during his visit.
Norman Gee, professor of art, said that Villa had been chosen to speak at the festival because of his dedication to raising awareness of Filipino culture.
"I like his work," he said. "I've seen some of his sculptures. In a way, his art has a really raw feel to it. It's very interesting to look at."
Photo courtesy of Carlos Villa
Han, who is also a member of the Asian American Student Union, the group responsible for arranging Villa's visit, said that Villa's presence would help fight stereotypes about Asian Americans.
"I think in a way it's good to have someone representing the Asian-American community not in the stereotype, not in a business, economic or medical profession," he said. "Instead, you get the image of an Asian American who has chosen an alternative lifestyle like art."