University Daily Kansan, February 22, 1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA News briefs from staff and wire reports
Firm gets broadcast license for TV station in Lawrence
The president of Low Power Technology, a Golden, Colo., firm, said yesterday that his company would construct a television station in Lawrence and begin broadcasting by fall.
Jeff Nightbyrd, the president, said the Federal Communications Commission had granted his firm a license to broadcast in Lawrence on Monday.
Nighthyrd said that he would visit the city within the next month to organize construction of the station, and to begin looking for local staff. The FCC licenses low-power stations to provide local broadcasting.
The station will produce some programming locally, Nighttyrd said, including music videos for regional bands.
Nightbyrd said that he had been working to acquire a license to broadcast in Lawrence for two years. He said he expected the FCC to grant his three-year-old company between 10 and 20 licenses to broadcast in other college towns this year.
KU to be host of debate tournament
The 28th annual Heart-of-America Debate Tournament will be at the University of Kansas Saturday through Monday in the Kansas Union. Sixty teams from 26 states, including the defending champion teams from Florida, North Carolina, D.C., and Samford University, Browningham Ala., will runmate.
The announcement of the best 10 speakers and top 16 teams will be made at 8 a.m. Monday. The top two teams will compete for first place at 4:30 p.m. Monday in the Jayhawk Room of the Union.
Parson said the Heart-of-America tournament was chosen as the best debate tournament in the 1970s by debate coaches across the country.
ON THE RECORD
A RADAR DETECTOR and cassette tapes, together worth $395, were stolen late Sunday night or early Monday morning from two cars parked in the 1300 block of West Campus Road, Lawrence police said. Police have no suspects.
A BICYCLE WORTH $250 was stolen Monday from a KU student's garage in the 2000 block of Haskell Drive, Lawrence police said. Police have no suspects.
TWO TEMPLIN HALL residents reported thefts Monday that occurred during the weekend, KU police said. One of the students said that a Sony Walkman and other items, together worth $180, were stolen from his room, and that a television set worth $300 was stolen from the other student's room. Police have no suspects but said the thief or thieves probably entered the rooms through the windows.
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For other questions or complaints, ask for Doug Cunningham, editor, or Don Knox, managing editor.
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Rolf Smedvig, Trumpet Charles A. Lewis, Jr., Trumpet David Ohanian, French Horn Lawrence Isaacson, Trombone Samuel Plafian, Tuba 8:00 p.m. Sunday, March 4, 1984 Cratton-Prever Theatre/Murphy Hall
The program will include classical brass works from the Baroque and Renaissance and of a lighter nature as selected by the artists.
Tickets on sale in the Murphy Hall Box Office. All seats reserved, for reservations:
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this performance is partially funded by the KU Student Activity Fee, Swarthout Society and the KU Endowment Association. A University Arts Festival presentation.
Classified president supports merit pay
By GRETCHEN DAY Staff Reporter
Morale among classified employees will continue to slide if the state doesn't start a merit-pay system coupled with a cost-of-living salary increase, the president of the KU Classified Senate said yesterday.
Staff Reporter
Joe Collins, the president, said that unless a method of financially rewarding classified employees for outstanding and above-average service was adopted, employees would ignore their job evaluations.
A merit-pay plan is one of five legislative issues addressed in a position paper issued last week by the Regents Classified Council.
Classified employees are civil service employees and are not faculty
Legislature for a 4.5 percent cost-of-living salary increase plus $204 a year for all classified employees, along with a merit-pay plan that would reward above-average and outstanding employees.
THE COUNCIL represents classified employees at the University of Kansas, Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University and Pitsburg State University.
The council is asking the Kansas
Gov. John Carlin's budget blueprint for fiscal year 1985 recommends a 5 percent cost-of-living increase plus $204 or did not recommend a merit-pay plan.
Collins said the additional $204 would create a larger percentage increase for those employees on the lower end of the pay scale.
ALTHOUGH CARLIN'S coat-of-
ling increased, he said, the
smoke was hisperfect weapon.
"We thought we should give up something to get a merit-pay plan," he said.
The employee evaluation system, in which supervisors evaluate and rank employees each year, was to be tied to a merit-pay plan, Collins said.
The evaluation system was approved by the Legislature in 1979, but a merit-pay plan has not been financed yet by the Legislature.
People who take pride in their work and strive to excel are demoralized when they see others do not work as hard getting the same wage. he said.
"If they don't fund a merit-pay plan," Collins said, "people aren't going to pay attention to evaluations."
HE SAID THAT because the quality of work would suffer, the problem would eventually become the state's and the University's.
In the area of health insurance benefits, the council is requesting that the state at least maintain its policy to insure single employees at $80 a month.
The council also asks that family coverage of $120 not be taxed, to ensure that employees have a greater take-home pay.
Carlin has recommended that a state health insurance committee be formed to deal with employee health-care benefits.
Collins said that the council hoped that the proposed committee would explore ways to create a more flexible health-care plan for state employees.
BECAUSE EMPLOYEE ages and family situations vary, the present
"There ought to be a way of tailoring health care benefits to the individual."
plan, which only distinguishes between single and family coverage, does not address the fact that a home is
The council also requests that employee's contributions to the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System be sheltered from taxes, and that employees receive more for their money invested.
The council also seeks to alter the system used to determine the age at which a child can enter school.
An employee who has worked for the state for 35 years would be able to retire
The "90-point plan," which the council recommends, combines the age of the employee and his years of service to the state. When the combination reaches 90 points, employees would be allowed to retire.
The final point of the council's position paper suggests that employees be allowed to use sick leave to care for children or to immediate families who become ill.
House voice vote favors reappraisal legislation
By United Press International
TOPEKA — The House moved one step closer yesterday to ordering the first statewide reapraisal of real property since the 1960s by giving tentative approval to a controversial reapraisal bill.
The bill passed on a voice vote with the majority, if not all, of the yes votes coming from the Republican side of the aisle.
The outnumbered Democrats failed in an effort to amend the bill to make the gathering of new property valuations contingent upon a constitutional amendment that would allow the notification of property being sent to voters.
FINAL ACTION ON the bill is scheduled for today. If the bill is approved, it will be sent back to the Senate to consider changes made by the House Assessment and Taxation Committee.
The bill orders county appraisers to begin rewelling property on July 1 and finish by Jan. 1, 1988. However, under an amendment added in committee by Rep. Ed Rolfs, R-Junction City, the new values could not be placed on the tax rolls until after a classification amendment went to the voters.
"We've got the donkey pushing the cart here," Rep. Harold Guldner, R-Syracuse, said in opposing Hensley's amendment.
DEMOCRATS FEAR that reapraisal will cause a massive tax shift to homeowners and farmers, who they say could be protected if the Kansas Constitution allowed different types of property to be taxed at different levels.
Rep. Anthony Hensley, D-Topcka, attempted to change Rolfs' amendment yesterday so the gathering of the figures could not even begin until voters had the chance to vote on classification.
Former student files suit against estate of KU doctor
By the Kansan Staff
A former KU student filed a malpractice suit Friday against the estate of a deceased physician who was employed at Watkins Memorial Hospital from 1977 until his death in December 1982.
The University of Kansas and Watkins Memorial Hospital were also named as defendants in the suit, and he was found in Douglas County District Court.
According to the suit, Barbara Beckmann, the former student, went to Watkins in February 1882 for treatment to her right under index faxes.
Boeckman is asking for $10,000
for actual damages and $10,000
compensation for improper diagnosis
and treatment.
Frederick E. Totten, the deceased physician, improperly diagnosed the severity of Boeckmann's injuries,
and his diagnosis resulted in the "permanent injury and disgier-ement" of her finger, the suit said.
Boeckman was a nursing major at KU before, and for some time after, her hand was injured. The suit said that before Boeckman was admitted to hospital abilities that would have interfered with her work as a registered nurse.
But, as a direct result of the alleged improper treatment of her finger, Boeckham said she would not be able to perform all of the duties required of a registered nurse.
When Boeckman sought treatment at Watkins, the suit said, Totten took an X-ray of her finger but didn't analyze it correctly.
According to the suit, Tatton didn't set the fracture, reportedly thinking that the finger wasn't broken and should allow the finger to mend itself.
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