University Daily Kansan, March 9, 1984
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Carlin says House will OK bills on hazardous waste
TOPEKA — With only four weeks left in the regular session, Gov. John Carlin predicted yesterday that the House would approve a hazardous waste package next week based on a tentative compromise worked out this week.
On other topics raised at his weekly news conference, Carlin said he would study whether large natural hydrogen and nitrogen deposits discovered recently in Kansas should be subjected to the state's severance tax — just as natural gas, oil, salt and coal were.
The Democratic governor praised the Republican-led Legislature on its work so far this session, saying that nearly all his legislative initiatives were being dealt with to his satisfaction. Though the session so far had been low-keeded, Carlin said it was bound to heat up.
He also said that the Legislature would not make a decision this year on whether the 1983 income tax increase should be allowed to expire at the end of its two-year life or be continued. Carlin said agreements were made before the start of the session that they would remain in place until the end of the year for all 165 legislators.
"With nine weeks down and four to go, we still have the big half left," Carlin said.
Law students compete in mock trial
Robert McRorey, Mission, and Bradley Jantz, Tampa, will participate in the regionals of the National Student Trial Advocacy Competition. If they win, they will go to the finals in Washington, D.C., on April 13.
Two KU law students will compete in St. Louis today against teams from seven law schools in a mock trial of a wrongful death case.
Jantz said that he and McRorey were chosen to represent the University of Kansas in the regional competition because they were the only team that had turned in its briefs by the Feb. 1 deadline.
In the regional competition, each student will have $2^{1/2}$ hours to conduct opening statements, direct cross examinations, and make summations about a case involving a woman who charges that her husband's death was caused by the negligence of a hiker.
Three to attend education seminar
Three KU graduate students in the School of Education are among 25 students chosen to participate in a national seminar on higher education March 11 and 12 in Chicago.
The students are the first from KU to be selected to attend the annual seminar. They are: Barbara Brier, Fort Leavenworth; Stan Koplik, Toneka; and Jane Tuttle. 315 Northwood Lane.
The topic of the seminar, which is sponsored by the Association for the Study of Higher Education, is state educational policy.
ON THE RECORD
A KU STUDENT'S CAR window worth $300 was broken Tuesday afternoon in the McCollum Hall parking lot, KU police said. Police have no suspects.
A KU STUDENT REPORTED that a power saw worth $150 was stolen Tuesday morning from the back of a pickup parked in the 800 block of Michigan Street, Lawrence police said. The victim had rented the saw from Anderson Rental, 812 New Hampshire St. Police have no suspects.
A KU STUDENT'S BLACK vinyl car cover worth $120 was stolen Wednesday night from the 1000 block of West 23rd Street, Lawrence police said. Police have no suspects.
A 10-22 CARBINE and a 22-caliber automatic rifle, total value $70, were stolen Wednesday night from a KU student's residence in the 100 block of West 14th Street, Lawrence police said. The burglar broke a window pane and opened the window to get to the property. Police have a suspect.
FOUR TIRES WORTH $160 were stolen Monday morning from D & D
Tire Inc., 1000 Vermont St., Lawrence police said. Police have a
suspect.
AN ELECTRIC TYPEWRITER worth $157 was stolen Wednesday afternoon from a residence in the 2500 block of Bremer Street, Lawrence police said. Police have no suspices.
A LAWRENCE MAN WAS ARRESTED Wednesday afternoon on a felony charge of forgery in connection with an incident at the Lawrence National Bank, 27th and Iowa streets, Lawrence police said.
A KU STUDENT WAS TREATED at Lawrence Memorial Hospital Wednesday and then released after suffering a shoulder injury in a motorcycle accident, Lawrence police said. The accident occurred in the 1200 block of Lousiana Street.
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Program chairman wants speech requisite to stay
A recommendation to eliminate the oral communication requirement for B.A. and B.G.S. degrees at the University of Kansas could seriously erode the oral communication program, the chairman of the department of communication studies said yesterday.
By JENNY BARKER
Staff Reporter
Last semester the Dean's Task Force on General Education proposed cutting the requirement.
Tom Bee secker, chairman of the department of communication studies, has since met with the task force and said yesterday that he hoped the members would change their minds before making a final recommendation to the Committee on Undergraduate Studies and Advising.
"THE RECOMMENDATION could have a devastating effect on our graduate program and could trickle down to manifest itself in the undergraduate program, too," he said.
Officials in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences may decide to decrease the number of graduate assistants that the department now uses to teach undergraduate oral communication
"Not only would that hurt us deeply, but it would hurt the quality of graduates from the University of Kansas," he said.
Beisecker said that KU students should take an oral communications class at the University because few students received sufficient training in oral communication while they were in high school.
Beisecker said he expected that students would
take oral communication classes even if they weren't required for B.A. and B.G.S. degrees. Before the B.G.S. degree had an oral communication requirement in 1981, 80 percent of the students who graduated with a B.G.S. from KU took oral communication courses voluntarily, he said.
"IF LEFT ALONE, the elimination of the requirement would have no effect on us whatsoever," he said. "The effect would depend on what the college office decided to do.
Because students will still take the classes,
Beisecker said, the graduate assistants now
employed to teach in the program will still be
needed.
"The college could say, 'hey, you no longer have that requirement, we're going to curtail the number of graduate students you can hire.'"
In its interim report, the task force recommended replacing the communication requirement with the choice of either a communication course or a logic course.
“Frankly, we have no quarrel with encouraging students to take an introductory course in logic.” Beissecker said “But the skills taught in oral communication are essential analogous to those focused on in introductory logic.”
Michael Young, an associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and chairman of the task force, said. "Although there was general support on the task force on the importance of persons being able to speak well, there was not much support for that particular requirement."
Young said that the task force had not yet reached a final decision on its recommendations.
County to buy signs to label rural roads
By ROBIN PALMER Staff Reporter
The Douglas County Commission yesterday agreed to spend more than $2,500 to purchase about 250 signs that would be used in setting up a new system for identifying township roads in the county.
The system, which the County Commission approved in January, is designed to help ambulance attendants and nurses respond effectively.
The signs would be placed at the intersections of township roads and county routes within a month, Dooley said.
Mike Dooley, the county's public works director, said that buying the signs was the first step in a four-year program to install the new sign.
The signs will display road identification numbers that have been assigned on the basis of distance of the road from the east and south county lines.
Before the numbering system was approved, county residents identified the roads with colloquial names. Emergency personnel often could not find incidents without calling the residences for directions.
For example, a township road with the number 300-E is three miles east of the west county line.
Dooley said that the county would place the signs at township and rural route intersections, which experience a
Dooley said the program could take up to four years to phase in because county residents and emergency personnel would have to become familiar with the road numbers.
In addition to the signs, he said, the county is working on educating ambulance and firefighter dispatchers on the new system.
Budig is encouraged by action on budget
By GRETCHEN DAY Staff Reporter
Chancellor Gene A. Budig yesterday called recent action on KU budget requests by the Kansas House Ways and Means Committee a "truly significant victory" for the University of Kansas.
Although the House committee recommendations are a pleasant change in the budget picture for KU, Budig said he hoped the Senate Ways and Means Committee would brighten the outlook even more.
The House committee, in opposition to an earlier recommendation by the Joint Committee on Building Construction, provided $170,000 for a science library at KU, a top priority in KU's budget requests for the next fiscal year.
"TIM ESPECIALLY encouraged that we'll be able to move ahead on the much-needed library project," Budig said.
The House committee voted to shift the $170,000 from funds previously earmarked for the Haworth Hall project to the science library project.
The committee recommended that the $170,000 be returned to the renovation fund.
Budig said renovation of Haworth Hall would continue as planned.
The Board of Regents had originally requested $255,000 for the next fiscal year to begin planning the science library.
Former KU Chancellor Archie Dykes said that although the recommendation was less than what was requested, it represented a first step and a commitment by the Legislature to build a library at KU.
"It's excellent news for the University of Kansas," said Dykes, who is also
The committee, however, did not recommend funds for preliminary planning of the proposed renovation of Sinai Hall this year, another top目标.
INSTEAD, THE COMMITTEE has recommended that funds requested for the next two fiscal years be combined in fiscal year 1986.
The House committee also recommended restoring $761,019 to the University's base budget, which Gov. John Carlson had recommended cutting.
"Essentially KU is getting what it sought, only in different configurations," Budig said. "We were pleased that the legislative committee members were willing to endorse the need to renovate Snow Hall."
nudig said, "Restoration of the cuts
the budget was of critical importance to
the state."
The budget reductions would have cost both classified and unclassified
THE COMMITTEE AGREED with the Regents request to increase unclassified staff salaries 7 percent. The salaries will be considered in another bill.
The committee also recommended increasing the fee waiver for graduate teaching assistants from 60 percent to 70 percent, and no recommendations for an increase.
Budig, however, said the goal was a 75 percent fee waiver.
Although the House committee improved on Carlin's recommendation for KU's other operating expense budget, it did not reach the Regents request.
The Regents had requested a 7 percent increase, while Carlin had recommended a 5 percent increase. The committee recommended a 6 percent increase.
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