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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 94, No. 97 (USPS 650-640)
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Friday morning, February 10, 1984
KU budget is scarred by rescission of 1982
By LORI DODGE Staff Reporter
For the University of Kansas, reminders still linger from the summer in 1982.
That summer Board of Regents schools lost $14.2 million in a round of emergency budget reductions made by John Carlin during a state fiscal crisis.
The reductions were called temporary then, but have since been made permanent.
For KU students, those sweeping reductions have meant crowded classes, buying their own syllabas and trying to make do without new laboratory equipment and library books.
LAST SPRING the temporary reductions became permanent when the Legislature went along with the governor to make the rescissions in the fiscal 1984 budget.
"Most of us felt, and were led to believe, that as the economy turned around, the base budget reduction would be reinstated." State Wint.
winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said yesterday.
But obviously it hasn't, Winter said. Carlin has recommended restoring $800K.
And the students are still trying to make do, be said.
James Carothers, chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee, and "There is certainly no concern that the governor is going to restore it."
In fact, he said, students and employees have been making do so much in the last couple of years that the University of Kansas has become Make Do It.
WINTER CRITICIZED Carlin's 1985 budget recommendations for Regents schools recently because he said they were inadequate, especially coming on the heels of the huge cuts that issued 347 positions in the Regents system.
"Last year the Regents had their arm cut off, this year they had a foot cut off," Winter said.
See EDUCATE, p. 5, col. 3
Governor's budget plan would cut 19 positions
By JENNY BARKER Staff Renorter
The University of Kansas will lose 19 full-time positions if Gov. John Carlin's budget proposal for KU is accepted by the Legislature, a KU official said yesterday.
CALRIN'S BUDGET proposal includes salary raises for classified and unclassified KU employees. However, because the state would not finance the entire amount of the raises — part of the money for the pay increases would have to come from the elimination of 19 full-time positions at the University.
Keith Nitcher, director of business affairs, said that although no one would be fired, some vacated positions would be released. Another KU employees could be paid more.
Staff Reporter
the difference between Carlin's recommended raises and the amount the state would provide is $761,000. Nitcher said.
See FACULTY, p. 5, col. 3
REGENTS REQUESTS VS. CARLIN'S PLAN
The following graph represents the Board of Regents requested budget increases for the next fiscal year, along with Gov. John Carlin's recommendations. The figures are rounded to the nearest $100,000.
For the fiscal 1985 budget that the Legislature is now considering, the Regents have also requested that 44 percent, or $6.2 million, of that $14.2 million be given back to the Regents schools. Carlin has recommended restoring $600,000.
Carlin has agreed to stick closely to the Regents requests for salaries in the next fiscal year. However, 86 positions from Regents schools will be eliminated, or not filled upon vacancy, because of the expense of giving salary increases.
In next year's base budget, Carlin has recommended $2.7 million less than was allocated in this fiscal year. In 1982, the governor cut $14.2 million from the fiscal 1983 Regents budget to help offset a state fiscal crisis. That $14.2 million was never restored.
Miss Libertv brings Ford to a Kansas town
Staff Reporter
By TODD NELSON Staff Reporter
The three-piece suits and trench coats were conspicuous among residents of this small southeast Kansas town who were straining to catch a glimpse of former President Gerald R.
INDEPENDENCE, Kan. — In the rain-soaked streets, children ducked past Secret Service agents in overcroats and highway patrolmen in bright yellow rain parks.
Overlooking the crowd from platforms, more state troopers kept watch, the rain dripping from their helmets.
Ford had come to the town of 10,500 to rededicate a miniature replica of the Statue of Liberty, which stands on Liberty Island in New York Harbor.
IN 1952, A Boy Scout troop gave the 6foot statue, of 500 replicas nationwide, to the city. The police reserves began raising money last year
to restore the figure and to install electric spotlights around its base.
Last night's patriotic rededication ceremony coincided with a national campaign headed by Chrysler Corp. Chairman Lee Iacoca to refurbish the company's headquarters. Ford is an honorary chairman of that campaign.
Many in the crowd of 2,500 that huddled together in the drizzle and sporadic rainfall were unable to see the former president, who stood beneath a memorial and-plastic shelter in front of Memorial Hall.
Kim Grayum, 12, said that although she couldn't
the president, it was still fun to hear him
speak.
Ford was scarcely visible to the crowd and was obscured from the view of much of the crowd gathered in honor of the Miss Liberty. Dressed in a blue coat, Ford seemed to blend in with the color of the statue.
"I think it was pretty good," Kim said. Mike, a year-old brother, simply nodded in agreement.
During Ford's 15-minute address, he congratulated the community for its restoration efforts.
"THE PEOPLE HERE IN Independence, on their own, symbolize what Miss Liberty stands for here in Independence and what the State of Liberty symbolizes in New York Harbor." he said. "The Statue of Liberty in New York harbor embodies freedom, opportunity, tolerance and hospitality."
The former president, so often maligned during his presidency as being climpy, did not manage to win over the party.
Ford's visit was a special occasion for Edith and Orville Austin, who moved to Independence from New Jersey in 1942, and who have both visited the Statue of Liberty several times.
FORD ACCIDENTALLY PROMOTED Lt. Gov. Tom Docking to the office of governor when he thanked him for granting him an honorary lifetime citizenship to the state of Kansas.
"We climbed all those steps," Edith Austin said, "made it to hallow, and you can see the barn. It's like a cottage."
Orville Austin said he figured the Independence version looked just like the real thing, but smaller.
EDITH AUSTIN SAID Ford was the first president she had seen in person. But seeing presidents was nothing new to her husband.
"I had an occasion to shake hands with Calvin Coolidge when I was 14," he said.
Others weren't in awe of the visit. And Ford might have had good reason to feel uneasy as he peered through the rain at the crowd. He may have been president, but he is no Queen Neewollah.
At least, that was the feeling of Rob Fann, a member of the Independence High School choir that sang during the ceremony.
Fann explained that the most exciting event of the year in Independence was the annual Neewollah Festival.
Newwollah, Halloween spelled backwards, is the name of a weeklong fall party in the streets of the city.
President Andropov dead at 69
Tass statement ends speculation about leader
By United Press International
MOSCOW — Soviet President Yuri Andropov died late yesterday after a long illness, the official Soviet news agency announced today. He was 69
Mr. Andropov, who had been leader of the Soviet Union for 15 months, had not been seen publicly since August. Tass, the government run news agency, made the announcement of Mr. Andropov's death at 5:24 a.m. following a night of rumor and speculation fueled by program changes in Tass.
The announcement said Mr. Androny died at 9:50 a.m. yesterday
Mr. Andropov, who gained power in November 1982 when President Leonid Brezhnev died, had not been seen in public since Aug. 18 and many news sources said he was dead. Until today, Soviet officials had said only that he was suffering from a cold
Frequent reports in the last few months have indicated that Mr. Andropov was suffering from a kidney disease and had undergone a kidney transplant. Before the official announcement, Soviet television and radio stations toled him regularly programs with somber music, indicating that a top opener had died.
Tass said Mr. Andropov, head of the KGB for 15 years, died after a long illness but did not elaborate about what he had been suffering from.
"The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Presidium of the U.S.R. Supreme Soviet and the U.S.R. Council of Ministers with deep sorrow inform the party and the entire Soviet people that Vuri Vladimirovich Andropov, general secretary of the CPUs of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union, the U.S.R. Supreme Soviet, died after a long illness at 16 hours 50 minutes on February 9, 1984," the official announcement said.
"The name of Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, an outstanding leader of the Communist Party and of the Soviet state, a staunch fighter for the ideals of Communism and for peace, will always remain in the hearts of the Soviet people, of the whole progressive humanity."
The Tass statement appeared about five minutes before Soviet radio and television simultaneously broadcast the statement.
Mr. Andropov's portrait, surrounded by black borders, flashed on the television screen while an announcer read the Tass report. Both radio and television then played pre-recorded funeral music.
THE WESTERN WHITE House staff in Santa Barbara, Calif., was informed that Mrs. White will be shortly after 2:30 a.m. White House deputy press Secretary Mary Speakes
See ANDROPOV, p. 5, col. 1
Jack Winerock, associate professor of music, tickles the ivories yesterday afternoon was part of the Brown Bag Concert series for people passing through Strong Hall. His performance scheduled every Tuesday and Thursday.
NRC wants reactor weakened
Bv GRETCHEN DAY
Protected by 610,000 pounds of concrete, 6,000 gallons of water and encased in stainless steel, the nuclear reactor at the University of Kansas was struck by a bomb threat by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Although KU's reactor is idle most of the time, it is one of 23 university research reactors that the NRC is trying to get to convert to a lower-grade fuel.
Staff Reporter
The commission considers the highly enriched, bomb-grade uranium that KU and the other universities use to be too accessible to terrorists and therefore a threat to security.
"The concern is that someone might steal
The KU reactor uses less than three kilograms of highly enriched bomb-grade uranium, said Russell Mesler, professor of chemical and biom engineering and supervisor of the reactor.
Mesler said that a bomb could be built with just three kilograms, or about seven pounds, of
Gulisky said a bomb could be made with 15 to 29 kilograms of highly enriched, bomb-grade uranium.
Theodore B. Taylor, president of the Nuclear Control Institute in Washington, has said that if
some and use it for explosives," NRC Commissioner Peter Talinsky said recently in his Washington letter.
See REACTOR, p. 5, col. 1
Swenson's appeal is rejected
By CINDY HOLM
Staff Reporter
Scott Swenson's four-month quest for the office of student body president ended yesterday
The Appeals Panel of the University of Kansas Judicial Board rejected an appeal from Swenson that would have put him back in the president's office.
"It's over," said Swenson, who was twice decimated, still body president and was twice positioned the position.
On Jan. 28 Swenson filed an appeal objecting to the procedures that the judicial board had used in recommending that Chancellor Gene A. Budig order a new presidential election.
IN A WRITTEN report, the Appeals Panel, comprising Doug Whitman, associate professor of business, and Eric Strauss, associate professor of architecture, said yesterday that it had found no defects in the original hearing and that it upheld the original decision.
"It's disturbing," Swenson said. "You begin to where wonder is哭 in the system comes in."
Budig concurred with the recommendation of the Appeals Panel and said yesterday that the new election would proceed as scheduled on Feb. 29 and March 1.
Swenson announced last week that he would not run in the new election because of time, money and grades. But he said he would have a chance to win if the Apples Panel had ruled in his favor.
See APPEAL, p. 8, col. 1