University Dally Kansan, March 1, 1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA News briefs from staff and wire reports
Today last chance to vote for student-body president
Today is the last day that students may vote in the student-body presidential election.
Between 1,000 and 1,500 students voted yesterday. University officials said.
The polls will open at 9 a.m. in the front lobby of Strong Hall, on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union and on the third floor of the Frank R. Burge Union.
Voting booths at Strong Hall and the Burge Union close at 4:30 p.m., but students can vote at the Union until 7 p.m.
Members of the League of Women Voters will supervise the use of the voting machines.
Voters must present valid spring semester student identification cards.
Horton voters retain mayor in recall
HORTON — Disgruntled residents yesterday voted to oust Finance Commissioner Joseph Montes but opted to retain Mayor James Enyart by a margin of only 12 votes.
by a margin of only 12 votes.
In the recall election, 285 people cast ballots to recall Montes; 271 voted to retain him. Emyart kept his seat with 385 residents voting to retain him: 373 voted to oust him.
Last November, after city officials reinstated an intangibles tax that voters earlier had rejected, several residents filed petitions for a recall election. Some residents were also unhappy with a city contract the commission approved with Kansas Power & Light Co.
About 65 percent of the community's registered voters cast ballots in the recall, Brown County officials said.
Debate team gets bid to nationals
A KU debate team recently received an automatic bid to compete in the 1984 National Debate Tournament after being ranked as one of the top 16 teams in the country, the KU director of forensics announced yesterday.
the team of David Rhaea, Salina senior, and Jerry Gaines, Houston junior, will be the 45th KU team to compete in the tournament scheduled for March 28 to April 2 at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Teen, said Donn Parson, the director.
KU is the defending champion of the National Tournament.
Ex-banker will run for county office
The former president of the First National Bank of Lawrence filed for the 3rd District county commissioner seat Tuesday.
Warren Rhodes, 1520 El Dorado Drive, was the first to file for the office and will run on the Republican ticket.
office and will run of the Representation. Rhodes was president of the First National Bank of Lawrence, 900 Massachusetts St., from 1956 to 1979, and president of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, 823 Vermont St., in 1961.
number of committees. He was also on the Douglas County Extension Council.
He was also on the Douglas County. Rhodes was an agricultural loan officer for the Commerce Bank in Kansas City, Kan., and a county agricultural agent in Lime and Wabausee counties.
ON THE RECORD
A KU STUDENT was arrested Tuesday evening for possession of a stolen radar detector worth more than $100, KU police said. As a result of a tip, Lawrence police and KU police set up a meeting with the suspect in his room in Templin Hall, where the radar detector was found.
A KU STUDENT was arrested Tuesday night in the Gatehouse Apartments, 2166 W. 26th St., for disorderly conduct, terroristic threats and for damage to more than $100 worth of smoke detectors, Lawrence police said.
WHERE TO CALL
Do you have a news tip or photo idea? If so, call us at 864-4810. If your idea or press release deals with campus or area news, ask for Jeff Taylor, campus editor. For entertainment and On Campus items, check with Christy Fisher, entertainment editor. For sports news, speak with Jeff Cravens, sports editor.
For other questions or complaints, ask for Doug Cunningham, editor, or Don Foux, managing editor.
The number of the Kansan business office, which handles all advertising, is 664-4358.
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Formula
The Hoch Auditorium Box Office will open at 7:00 p.m. on the night of performance.
Auditorium doors will open at 7:30 p.m.
This program is being presented by the University Arts Festival with the support of Mildred Cards
Students cheer, boo Watt's battle
TOPEKA — James G. Watt said yesterday that his term as secretary of the interior was immersed in a conflict over the kind of government the United States should have and not over environmental issues.
By GRETCHEN DAY Staff Reporter
opposition during the campaign of 1980, he said.
Greeted by a mixed crowd of cheers and boos from about 700 people at Washburn University, Watt said the real battle was between the two wanted to centralize power and those who could lift up the dignity of the individual.
"I BELIEVE WE can improve the health, environment and military position of this country I represent us, but the privileges don't like that."
"It's despicable, it's shameless for four years. Congress would vote for it."
individual. The two philosophies met in crashing
"I stand for change," he said. "I'll wish to challenge the status quo.
He said that his environmental impact was plagued by the elite who opposed progress.
"If you're secure in your economic well-being, he said, 'you don't want to take this away.'"
Watt's speech at Washburn was also marred by controversy.
He said that the press had supported the leadership of environmental groups.
Watt resigned last fall because of what he called 'an insensitive remark' by a colleague.
percent, and that no group had phiected.
He said that he had done more for the environment during his time in office than the Carter administration had done in four years.
scribing members of an advisory commission.
MORE LAND HAD been acquired for national parks during his term than any other time since the United States bought Alaska, he said. And three times more money was spent to preserve species than in the Carter administration.
JANA CRAMER, public relations director of the Washburn Student Association, said that she had received several complaints from students who were upset that student activity fees were being used to pay for his visit.
The press is not as accountable as it should be, he said.
"Facts — have you read them?" he asked.
Watt said that he had restored funds to care for national parks that the previous administration had cut by 50
Panel wants pay raises at Regents schools
By LORI DODGE
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Action taken on Board of Regents budget requests yesterday by a House committee was "very encouraging" and showed the committee's support for higher education, legislators said yesterday.
The House Ways and Means Committee voted to recommend restoration of a $1.9 million system-wide base budget cut that Gov. John Carlin had recommended to help finance salary increases for fiscal year 1985. The committee also voted to recommend salary increases beyond Carlin's recommendations for classified and unclassified employees.
"ACTION TODAY WAS very encouraging, but it's not carved into stone," said State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, a committee member. "It puts the House Ways and Means on record as supporting higher education," he said.
The recommendations that the committee made now go to the full House for debate. But Solbach said he expected a lot of support from the rest of the House.
The committee voted to increase unclassified faculty and staff salaries by 7 percent, a proposal which met the Regents' request. Carlin had recommended a 6 percent increase, partially financed by the base budget cut, and a $2 million salary fund that the Regents would allocate to the schools.
BUT THE COMMITTEE voted to recommend restoring the budget cut, which Regents officials have said represented the elimination of 86 employee positions, with the $2 million fund.
The committee took action yesterday during a presentation of Regents budget issues by David Monical, a legislative staff fiscal analyst. Subcommittees met earlier this week with officials from the separate Regents schools to listen to budget concerns and requests each school had made.
"I think this is a good motion," State Rep. R.E. Arbuthnot, Haddam, said. "I think we need to get the base budget restored."
For the University of Kansas, the budget was $701,000 per seat. Sobach said a platform, Sabch seating
The committee also voted to recommend a 5 percent plus $204 a year increase for classified employees, which Carlin had recommended, but it also added a 1 percent increase to be combined with the $204 for merit pay.
HE CITED SPECIFICALLY the recommendations for salary increases, which met the Regents' requests, and a 6 percent increase in other operating expenses, which was more than Carlin bad recommended.
Richard von Ende, executive secretary to the University, said that the committee's actions were "very supportive."
Carlin had recommended a 5 percent increase and the Regents had requested a 7 percent increase.
The committee also voted to recommend that the graduate fee waiver be increased from 60 percent to 65 percent. The Regents had requested an increase to 75 percent, but Carlin had made no recommendation.
However, the committee took no action, in adherence to no recommendation from Carlin, on a proposal by the Regents that would provide for 230 research fellowships for $1,000 each. One of the fellowships would go to KU.
A motion by State Rep. Jack Shriver, D-Arkansas City, that would have mandated the subcommittees to put in their reports an expression of intent to restore summer of 1982 emergency budget cuts, was narrowly defeated.
THE INTENT OF the motion,
Shriver said, was to put the committee on record as supporting higher education by stating its intent to restore the university's position in the state fiscal crisis, over the next few years as funds became available.
"We restored them to the school districts and the community colleges, but not our universities," he said.
Solbach said that the cuts were a slap in the face that would hurt for a long time and that it would be a booster to the university, which is regaining its intent to restore those cuts.
makes sure
But State Rep. David Louis, R-Shawne,
said, "Let the actions today
speak for themselves."
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