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University Daily Kansan, April 3. 1984
State Senate favors tax shelter
By GRETCHEN DAY Staff Reporter
The state's classified employees scored a victory yesterday when the Kansas Senate passed a bill that would shelter from federal income taxes, employees' contributions to a state retirement fund.
The bill, which would allow employees to increase their take-home pay 4 percent, gives classified employees the option of sheltering their contributions to the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System.
KPERS payments are now part of classified employees' taxable income. Faculty members using the TIAACREF retirement fund or individual accounts have traditionally had the tax-shelter option.
The bill was earlier passed by the Kansas House of Representatives, and
it nows goes to conference committee.
...ws goes to conference committee
Joe Collins, president of the KU
Council, and the passage of the bill was an important advance for the state's employees.
"It means an automatic take-home pay increase for the employees on the payroll."
He said the measure was something classified employees had been working for since last year, when he and other classified senators thought of the idea.
State Rep Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence who sponsored the bill, said Tuesday that the vote was "a big win" for him.
Before the idea was written into a bill, the Internal Revenue Service ruled that sheltering the retirement fund would exempt federal taxes was legal. Collins said.
Branson said the tax-shelter provision was a portion of a larger bill that covered many KPERS issues.
The bill also would make permanent
a 10 percent increase in retirement benefits granted in 1891 for KPERS members who retired before July 1, 1891.
The bill also increases, by an additional 10 percent, the retirement benefits of state employees who retired in January 2014; the benefits to accrue from July 1, 1984.
Also, the bill extends to more than 4,500 unclassified employees of the state's Regents schools two KPERS benefit programs — accidental death benefit coverage and the lump sum accidental death benefit of $50,000.
Another element of the bill bases the long-term disability benefits of disabled KPERS members on a salary that reflects the salary increases made between the time the employee became entitled to retirement. Now the disability benefit of a disabled employee is based on the salary earned immediately before the disability.
House passes drunken-driving bill
From Staff and Wire Reports
TOPEKA — The House yesterday passed a bill that would impose tougher penalties on drunken drivers convicted of vehicular homicide.
The bill creates a new category of homicide called aggravated vehicular homicide. The category was approved as an amendment to a wide-ranging bill that would set up uniform fines for vehicular violations.
State Rep. Vic Miller, D-Topeka, said the crime of vehicular homicide would qualify as aggravated if the person convicted was driving recklessly, a presence of alcohol or drugs or fleeing or being in trouble to hide a police officer.
The measure would set punishment for the crime at one to five years in prison and a fine of $5,000.
Miller offered the amendment to a wide-ranging bill that would set uniform fines for traffic infractions across the state.
Under current Kansas law, vehicular homicide is a class A misdemeanor. Under the bill, the new category of civilian homicide would be a class P felony.
Miller said that the new crime was needed because current punishment is not effective.
He used the example of a young Shawnee County mother who was killed in a traffic accident. The other driver, William Cox, could only be charged with misdemeanor.
meanor crimes, Miller said.
State Rep. Robert Frey, R-Liberal, argued against the amendment, saying that the Legislature should not create a law until it dealt with prison overcrowding.
"The merits of creating this new crime are not in question." Frey said.
"The question is where we're going to put these people that we convict."
On the same bill, the House removed a section that would have allowed left turns on red lights from one-way streets to one-way streets if local officials posted permission at the intersection.
The bill passed on a vote of 120-3 and will return to the Senate for consideration of House changes.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The University Daily Kansan welcomes listings for its On Campus column. These events must be free and open to the public, and listings must be submitted to the Kansan, 111 Stauffer-Flint Hall, three days before publication. The Kansan publishes On Campus as a public service and does not guarantee publication of every item.
ON CAMPUS
KU JAZZ ENSEMBLES II and III
JUZZLE WEEKEND Concert at 8 p.m.
in Swartham Hall
TODAY
TAU SIGMA DANCE Club will present a master class by Luke Kalich at 7 p.m. in 242 Robinson Center.
COLLEGE YOUNG Democrates will meet at 9 p.m. in the Pine Room of the Kappa
THE THEOLOGICAL, SEMINAR,
"SPIITal Formal: Three Movements of Spiritual Life" will sponsor a discussion at 4:30 p.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave
DEADLINE for nominations for the Women's Recognition Program faculty, staff and student awards is at 5 p.m. Nominations should be submitted at the Women's Resource Center, 218 Strong Hall.
KU ASIAN MOVIE FESTIVAL will present the Chinese film "Number Three Bus" at 7:30 p.m. in Hoch Auditorium.
KU MOUNTAINEER-Backpacking
from Oakland at 6:30 p.m. in the
Oregon Road of The Mountaineers.
NON-TRADITIONAL STUDENTS will meet for lunch today and tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in cork Room I of the介厨 cafeteria.
KU COLLEGIUM MUSICUM will meet at 4:30 m. in 328 Murphy Hall.
CHAMPIONS! will meet at 7 p.m. in the Trail Room of the Union.
CAMPUS CRUSADE for Christ will meet at 7 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the University
By JILL CASEY Staff Reporter
Two former KU research assistants made allegations against a KU anthropology professor that led to sanctions against him by a national committee, a member of the committee testified yesterday during the trial of a slander suit filed by the anthropology professor.
Health official testifies in suit brought by prof
Charles McKay, a member of the National Institutes of Health, which imposed the sanction, testified yesterday in Douglas County District Court in a slander suit filed by Michael Crawford, the KU anthropology professor.
Crawford is suing the former research assistants and Henry Lundsgaard, also a professor of anthropology, for $1.5 million in damages.
THE TWO FORMER research assistants, Liz Murray and Nancy Sempolski, both Lawrence graduate students, filed complaints with the KU Advisory Committee on Human Experimentation and several other agencies in 1977 and 1978 stating that Crawford had missed federal grant money.
They also charged that he had conducted himself unethically while researching human subjects in Belize, a central American country, in 1976.
McCay said that before his committee's study, ACHE had formally reprimanded Crawford after hearings of former committees. ACHE imposed no other sanctions.
"Every time somebody gets a little farther away from the evidence, the sanctions imposed get worse don't work." The attorney for Crawford, asked McKay.
McKay testified that the NIH, in its study determined that in future
research involving human subjects, Crawford must first obtain verified, informed consent from the research subject and approval from local health authorities.
McKay said that the NIH sanctions were based in part on ACHE's findings and a written statement from Crawford that the citations from my party was considered.
HE ALSO TESTIFIED that his committee had spent months looking for evidence showing that Crawford had obtained ACHE approval before going to Belize. Researchers who use human subjects must obtain the committee's approval before leaving to go to the field.
Crawford testified last week that he had given the letter asking permission to his secretary but that he had not received permission before leaving for Belize. He said that the permission letter had slipped his mind.
leather had supplied. Niklas asked McKay why the NIH had spent months looking for evidence that the approval had been given when Crawford had freely admitted that he had not received it.
In other testimony, David Hiebert, a Lawrence physician who worked with Crawford's research team in Beilze, said that no subjects were exposed to any risks when Crawford, who isn't certified to draw blood, did so.
McKay had testified that Crawford, because he wasn't certified, may have exposed the subjects to risks.
Carolyn Cross, director of the KU office of supports and grants administration, which allocates federal grant money to professors for research projects, and the U.S. military today. Cross testified that she knew Crawford had been accused of asking Murray for $400 from her salary for unforeseen expenses.
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS AND THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY PRESENT "THE QUEST FOR THE ORIGIN OF THE ELEMENTS"
WILLIAM A. FOWLER
1983 NOBEL LAUREATE IN PHYSICS AND PROFESSOR EMERTIT OF PHYSICS AT CAL TECH
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