University Daily Kansan, February 28, 1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA
News briefs from staff and wire reports
Student arrested after theft of radio in Templin Hall
A 19-year-old KU student was arrested Sunday afternoon in connection with the burglary of a radio valued at $80 from a room at Templin Hall, KU police said.
The owner of the radio reported the theft to KU police late Sunday morning, the police report said, and police arrested the suspect later.
The suspect, who was also booked on police charges of possession of drug paraphernalia, was in the Douglas County Jail late yesterday afternoon. His bond was set at $5,150, police said.
The radio was apparently stolen sometime Saturday night while the owner was asleep in his room, police said.
City,countv will share repair costs
The Douglas County and Lawrence City Commissions yesterday approved a joint agreement to share the costs of significant repairs and improvement on the Massachusetts and Vermont street bridges across the Kansas River. The Lawrence public works director said yesterday.
Under the agreement, the city is responsible for all surface maintenance, including painting, placement of pavement and the installation of drainage systems works direct.
The county is responsible for 50 percent of the costs of any significant repair or improvements. But if the damages are minor, then the city may not be responsible.
The agreement, which took effect yesterday, is an official version of an informal agreement that the city and the county have been following until now.
The bridge is within city limits and was built about five years ago. Williams said.
justice wants more appeals judges
TOPEKA — The chief justice of the Kansas Court of Appeals yesterday told a Senate committee that the number of appeals court judges should be increased from seven to 10 to help eliminate a backlog in cases.
Chief Justice J. Richard Foth told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the backlog caused disrespect for the state and for the judicial system.
He said the backlog problem should be addressed soon by the Legislature.
In addition to increasing the number of judges, the bill before the committee would increase their salaries to an amount at least $7,500 higher than district court judges.
Secretary of Administration Patrick Hurley, who served on the commission, said that the lack of salary differential between district court judges and appeals court judges discouraged the best judges from seeking to move up to the higher court.
The bill is based on a special report to the governor submitted last year by a 12-member committee of judges, attorneys and legislators that studied the issue for seven months.
Auto-insurance bill gets early nod
TOPEKA - The House yesterday tentatively approved a bill that would put an end to family exclusion clauses in automobile liability insurance policies.
The bill was approved 58-52. Sixty-three votes will be needed for final approval today.
House Minority Leader Marvin Barkis, D-Louisburg, stripped the provisions of a different insurance bill and replaced it yesterday with a new one.
He told House members that if his daughter and her friend were riding in his car and both lost a leg in an accident that was his fault, only his daughter would have her medical bills paid, while the other girl would be able to file suit against his liability policy and collect damages for pain and suffering.
The original bill would have required notice in insurance policies and renewals of the penalties for drunken driving. Its sponsor, Rep. Larry Turnquist, D-Salina, said he would try to bring the bill up again.
Student-group budgets due Friday
Student organizations that want funds from the Student Activity Fund for fiscal year 1985 will until Friday to submit a budget proposal to the Board.
Jon Gilchrist, chairman of the committee, said yesterday that organizations must turn in an itemized budget request form to the Senate office and make an appointment to present the proposal to the committee during budget hearings, which begin March 20.
Budget request forms are available in the Senate office, B105 Kansas Union.
Participants sought for KU arts fair
KU artists, actors and musicians interested in sharing their talents may apply to participate in Inside Out: A Tribute to the Arts, which will be April 25 and 26.
Pat Fidler, chairman of the Student Senate Cultural Affairs Committee, said yesterday that any student who wanted to perform musically or dramatically or to display artwork could submit an application to the Student Senate office until the end of March.
For the first time, artists also will be able to sell their work, she said.
For the first time, artists also will be able to sell their work, she said. The number of entries will be limited only by the amount of space available, she said. The fair will be on the lawns in front of Watson Library and Stauffer-Flint Hall.
ON THE RECORD
COMPUTER EQUIPMENT WORTH $1,264 and a $100 television set were stolen Sunday afternoon from a KU student's apartment in the 1500 block of Kentucky Street, Lawrence police said. Police have no suspects.
A CAR WORTH $3,500 was stolen from the Templin Hall parking lot morning or late Friday night, KU police said. Police have no suspect.
A KU STUDENT reported that a car stereo worth $335 was stolen late Saturday night or early Sunday morning from his car parked in a lot at Meadowbrook Apartments, Lawrence police said. Police have no suspects.
A LAWRENCE WOMAN reported that a car stereo worth $350 was Saturday night or Sunday morning from her car parked in the 200 block of 16th Street.
STEREO SPEAKERS WORTH $150 were stolen Friday from a KU student's apartment in Jayhawk Towers, KU police said. Police have no suspects.
A CAR STEREO worth $380 was stolen late Saturday night or early Sunday morning from a KU student's car parked in the 1500 block of
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Wichita State plan could cost KU
The University of Kansas could lose prospective students if a proposal before the Board of Regents to expand the engineering doctoral program at Wichita State University passes, the university said on Monday. Executive Committee said yesterday.
By JENNY BARKER Staff Reporter
rule on in May, we expand Wichita State's current engineering doctoral program from the aircraft field to include aeronautical, electrical, industrial and mechanical engineering doctorates also.
James Carothers, the chairman, said that such a program would also cut the amount of state funds that KU received because the state would have to give Wichita State more money for its expanded program.
The proposal, which the Regents will
Dennell Tacha, KU vice chancellor for academic affairs, told SenEx that KU and Kansas State University administrators opposed the proposal because the additional doctoral engineering program was unnecessary.
"WE AND K-STATE both have excellent Ph.D. programs in engineering, and we think we can fill the needs of the state adequately." "Tacha said,"
Carothers said the proposal would be the first important test of a new
Regents policy that no new graduate programs be approved in the Regents system unless compelling need was demonstrated, and resources for the new program could be derived from existing programs.
"THE ADDITION would appear to be the kind of duplication the Regents are of."
Carothers said the range of votes by his colleagues Regents universities was insurgent.
The chief academic officers at KU and K-State gave Wichita State's proposal the lowest rating — "forwarded without approval." Fort Hays State University gave the proposal a rank of "recommended strongly," and
Wichita State, Emporia State University and Pittsburgh State University gave the proposal the highest rank in the merits immediate implementation."
"It's kind of unusual for a recommendation with negative endorsement to go forward — and it's unusual for it," Caradars said. "They kind of split." Caradars said.
Although the Wichita State proposal acknowledged that existing doctoral programs in the region had the capacity to admit more graduate students, the program couldn't attend the current resident programs because of their location.
Jobless rate increases to 4 percent in county
By ROBIN PALMER Staff Reporter
Decreases in the labor force caused the Douglas County unemployment rate for January to increase to 4 percent from adjusted December figures of 3.9 percent, the manager for the Job Service Center said yesterday.
Edson Mills, the manager of the 833 Ohio St., said the increase was the result of an exodus of employed KU students for vacation in December.
The work force declined by 300, Mills said, causing the unemployment rate, which is a percentage of the total workforce, to increase, although the number of people employed did not decline.
University and public school employees increase the unemployment rate during vacations because they desire employment. They also drive the unemployment rate up.
The actual number of unemployed in the county remained at 1,300.
People employed in government for January also dropped by 300, because of budget cutbacks and the holidays, he said.
dividing the number in the work force by the number of unemployed.
The unemployment rate is figured by
Mills said that weather-related layoffs in construction caused a drop in job numbers.
The strength of the job market is now in the manufacturing areas, Mills said. Manufacturing employees increased from 4,000 to 4,100 from December to January.
The number of people unemployed
has decreased by 500 from January of
1983 to
Figures showed that the number of figures employed in retail business decreased by 300 in the county. Mills employed less than half of the holiday in retail business after the holidays.
Next month's unemployment rates should decrease because of the return on capital.
Mills said that as the spring approached, the job market would be tight.
The Douglas County rate was lower than the 4.8 percent for the state, which was an increase from December's recomputed rate of 4.2 percent.
Jerry Shelor, secretary of the Kansas Department of Human Resources, said that the increase in the rate was caused by an construction, retail and farm jobs.
AURH guidelines to cover elections
By TODD NELSON Staff Reporter
Student Senate is not the only University of Kansas student organization with a history of controversial elections.
And, like the Senate, the Association of University Residence Halls plans to clean up its act for this year's election on March 5 and 6, Mark Denke, AURH adviser and assistant director of the office of residential programs, said yesterday.
Last year a University appeals board invalidated AURH's first presidential election and ordered a new one, after the candidates who won the offices of president and vice president were accused of violating AURH campaign rules on the night of the first election.
To help ensure that such a problem does not occur again, Denke said, the AURH Elections Committee has clarified several campaign rules for this year's election.
After a two-month delay following the first election last year, Alan
Rowe, who was elected president in that election, and David Walker, Rowe's running mate, won the second AURH mate.
Both said they never had broken any AUIRH rules
At the time, Rowe contended that AURH had uncleared election rules that provided an inexact definition of illegal campaign activities.
Bob Dowdy, who was AURH's president before Rowe, said that the association did not have procedures covering election violations, which hampered both AURH and KU as well to resolve the problem at the time.
The old AURH election rules prohibited electioneering within 50 feet of any polling place but provided no definition of what activities constituted electioneering. AURH election rules now prohibit "campaigning, distribution of campaign literature and extortion of voters" within 50 feet of a polling place.
The new rules define campaigning as "any active attempt to influence a voter or group of voters to vote for a candidate or candidate or group of candidates."