University Daily Kansan, March 6, 1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA News briefs from staff and wire reports
Kassebaum says economy is narrowing 'gender gap'
WICHITA — Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan., said yesterday that she thought the so-called "gender gap" between President Reagan and women was narrowing.
Two problems led to a decline in Reagan's popularity with women, Kassebaum. said
One, we went through a severe recession," she said. "Women were very worried about economic considerations of their own and their
The gender gap is narrowing because of a lower inflation rate and the recovery of the economy, she said.
tillness.
"And I think many women were very sensitive to what they regarded as an imbalance of priorities in the budget — the increase in defense spending and the reduction in other areas."
Recovery of the economy, she said.
The senator spoke at Wichita State University during Women's History Week activities. In other activities for the week at the university, Kenyan poet and playwright Micere Mugo will speak Thursday morning and former Rep. Bella Abzug, D-N.Y., will speak Thursday night.
Jayhawk Dial-A-Ride ends service
One of Lawrence's two taxi services, Jayhawk Dial-A-Ride, stopped service Saturday.
Lon Faler, the owner, said he discontinued service when he discovered that he was not complying with state tax laws.
Faler said he had considered his drivers to be independent contractors, not employees, so he had not paid taxes on his drivers' earnings. But according to state law, drivers are employees.
Faler said that he owed back taxes. He also said some of his drivers had quit because they wanted to be independent contractors.
Jayhawk Dial-A-Ride opened 15 months ago and offered a single fare for rides within the city.
Faler said he had not known he was violating the law and that he would not reopen the taxi service unless the law was changed.
KILL LIMITS COURT ACCESS FOR INJURED
TOPEKA — The House yesterday passed and sent to the Senate a bill that would require injured motorists to incur higher medical bills before they could seek damages in court.
The bill, which passed 63-57, would revise the state's 10-year-old no-fault insurance law. The minimum number of votes needed for the House to pass a bill is 63.
Houses to pass a bill is the key.
The bill would raise the amount of medical expenses from $500 to $1,500 that an injured motorist must incur before he could sue to recover damages for pain and suffering.
When the measure first came up for a vote, it received only 56 votes. But supporters initiated a "call of the House," under which no house lawmaker is allowed to leave the chamber. If the call is carried out fully, absent lawmakers are found and returned to the floor to vote.
five legislators were absent, including Rep. Betty Jo Charlton,
DJ Lawrence, whose husband died Sunday.
D. Lawrence, whose husband Although it was thought that four of the five absent lawmakers opposed the bill, other opponents did not persist in maintaining the call when the bill started gaining votes.
Rep. Bill Brady, D-Parsons, said he opposed the bill saying his perspective was unique because he was an insurance agent voting against the bill. Brady said he voted against the bill because access to the court system was an important right.
KU research groups to receive funds
Three national organizations recently announced that they would donate more than $270,000 to KU research programs during the next three years.
three years. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will donate the largest amount, $150,000 over three years, to a bacteria study directed by George C. Stewart, assistant professor of microbiology.
The National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke will give the University of Kansas a $107,000 award for the next three years. The grant will finance a study by Richard F. Sattilaro, a research associate in the KU Center for Biomedical Research.
The National Endowment for the Arts will support research and documentation of artifacts in the Museum of Anthropology. The grant is designed specifically for African, American, oceanic and Australian art.
Professors to speak in lecture series
Three professors from around the United States will speak in the 1983-84 Visiting Scholars Series scheduled for March 8 through April 20 at the Frank R. Burge Union.
Ian Mitroff, distinguished professor of strategic management at the University of Southern California, will speak on "Policy-making in Turbulent Environments" at 10 a.m. March 9 in the southeast conference room of the Burge Union.
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Chee Chow, associate professor of accounting at the University of
North Carolina, is scheduled to speak at 10 a.m. March 23 in 506
Summerfield Hall.
Thomas Dunfee, the Joseph Koldny Professor of Social Responsibility in the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, will speak at 10 a.m. April 20 in the southeast conference room of the Burge Union.
Good diet may help ward off cancer
The American Cancer Society recently issued a set of nutritional
The American Cancer Society recently issued a set of nutritional guidelines which, it said, might reduce the chance of acquiring cancer. But the society cautioned that no dietary plan prevented cancer in humans.
The recommendations in the guidelines are: avoid obesity; cut down on total fat intake; eat more high-fiber foods; eat foods rich in vitamins A and C; consume more cruciferous vegetables such as cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower; be moderate in consuming alcohol and in consuming salt-cured, smoked and nitrate-cured foods.
Student book-collection contest set
contest is April Elizabeth Snyder, from the Kansas City, Kan., area, sponsors the contest. Graduate students and undergraduate students may compete. The graduate student and undergraduate student judged to have the best book collections will receive a gift certificate from the Oread Bookshop in the Kansas Union.
The deadline for the 28th annual Snyder student book-collection contest is April.9.
Bookshop in the Rainbow Interested students should contact Joe Springer in the special collections department at Kenneth Spencer Research Library, or Rob Melton in the reference department at Watson Library.
ON THE RECORD
A KU STUDENT REPORTED that clothing worth about $260 was stolen during January or February from her room at Naismith Hall, Lawrence police said. Police have no suspects.
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Challenge starts for Costume Party
by CINDY HOLM Staff Reporter
The campaign is over for the new student body president and vice president, and the party has just begun. But the good times they say they're anticipating will also include a lot of hard work.
On Costume Party "thank you"
posters around campus, Carla Vogel,
the president, and Dennis "Boog"
Higherger, the vice president,
outlined some of the steps they want to
take toward improving the relationship
between the Senate and students.
"WE ARE NOT assholes out to destroy everything, nor are we out to prove that the people who have been in the Senate before us were wrong or stupid — we just want to try to make things better." they said on the posters, which Costume Party members distributed yesterday.
Vogel and Highberger moved into the Senate office over the weekend to begin the shortest term in Senate history.
They will meet with the Senate tomorrow for the first time.
Higherberger said yesterday that he and Vogel had considered canceling tomorrow's meeting to give them more time to settle into their offices but that the Senate needed to consider a financial bill before spring break.
Tomorrow, when former vice president Jim Cramer formally relinquishes his office to Highberger at the meeting, Highberger plans to use Roberts Rules of Order to ask the senators to suspend those rules for the meeting.
THE SENATE WILL vote on a bill that would allot $2,588.73 to the Jayhawk Singers from the unallocated student activity fund. Highberg said the singers needed a decision on the bill before spring break to plan a concert.
If the meeting works without the parliamentary procedures, he said, he'll ask that Roberts Rules be abandoned for his term.
The senators will have a written explanation of how to vote by consensus, Highberger said, and people
"Everything we do will lead to a vote." Highberger said. "We just want to make the discussion less structured and more of a dialogue."
Highberger said he would ask the senators to use the consensus method to resolve the issue.
To maintain continuity in the Senate office, Highberger said, he and Vogel have asked the office staff members to remain in their jobs.
familiar with the process will explain how it works.
"IN THE TRANSITION, we need competent people who know what's going on," he said. "I think we can work well with the staff we have."
The members staying on are: Bonnie DeNoyelles, Senate secretary; Mark Bossi, Senate treasurer; and David Friend, Student Executive Committee chairman Terry Frederick, administrative assistant to the treasury; Jack Emmons, Amy Bush, executive secretary, will stay only until the end of the semester.
Frederick said his decision not to remain in the office had nothing to do with the new administration.
He said he had resigned his position as treasurer in November because of academic commitments but had agreed in January to serve as administrative assistant until after the new election.
HIGHBERGER SAID he and Vogel would accept applications for administrative assistant until March 21 in the Senate office, B105 Kansas Union.
Bush said she would leave at the end of the school year because of academic commitments in the fall. The term usually would run until November.
She said that she had been planning to leave after one semester since Lisa Ashner, former student body president, appointed her in January.
Highberger said that if he and Vogel had won November's election, they would have made staff changes because in the past students have felt uncomfortable going into the office.
Highberger said he and Vogel would try to eliminate that feeling and to increase communication within the staff through weekly staff meetings.
Senate tentatively favors reappraisal bill
By United Press International
TOPEKA — The Kansas Senate yesterday narrowly gave preliminary approval to a bill that supporters say would protect farmers from large tax shifts expected to occur under property reamraisal.
The bill, approved by a 20-18 tentative vote, would require agricultural land to be appraised on the basis of its income productivity rather than market value when statewide reappraisal is undertaken.
A final vote is set for today.
Under the "use value" method of reappraisal, the value of agricultural land would be based on how much income it provides its owner, not how much it is worth on the open market. For tax purposes, all property in Kansas presently is appraised on the basis of its fair market value.
SENATE DEMOCRATS LINED up to
oppose the bill, which Senate Minority Leader Jack Steinerberg, D-Kansas City, called "one of the most dangerous" cases in a Democratic caucus after the Senate vote.
Steinger and other Democrats said the bill unfairly protected one segment of property taxpayers without any similar protection for other taxpayers who might be hit hard by resuscitation, particularly residential property owners.
"The bill is not in the best interests of any property taxpayer in the state, including agriculture," said State Sen. Mike Johnson, D-Parsons. "It would favor one class of property holders and will be counterproductive."
State Sen. Dan Thiessen, R-Independence, who explained the bill to the Senate, said that in order to determine how much income the land provides, commodity prices would be averaged from the previous eight years.
Both the House and Senate have approved a reappraisal measure, under which information on property across the state would be collected over the next $3\mathrm{h}_{\mathrm{b}}$ years before reappraisal was implemented.
THE REAPPAIRAL BILL has been sent to a conference committee to hammer out differences between the House and Senate.
Democrats support a classification amendment to the state constitution that would allow the state to assess different classes of property at different levels. Under the reappraisal bill passed in November, taxpayers could not be added to the tax rolls until a statewide vote was taken on a classification amendment.
Steineger said if rural lawmakers were satisfied they had a use value measure in place to protect agricultural land, the need for a classification amendment would not be as pressing to them.
In other action, the Senate narrowly defeated a Democrat-backed bill that would have required banks to simplify how interest rates are advertised.
The bill, which is part of a Democratic "consumer fairness" package, was defeated in a 16-16 vote. Under the bank, banks would have been forced to say in their advertising how much they per $100 their rates would yield.
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