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University Daily Kansan, January 26, 1984
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Utility proposes easing-in rate increases
By United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Power & Light Co. said today that it would propose a phase-in of a rate increase planned upon completion of Kansas' Wolf Creek nuclear power plant.
The rate increase is subject to approval from KCP&L's board.
"Under our concept, the initial increase would probably be about half of the total then required, with theince to be deferred and made effe- tive. The second step," said L.C. Rasmussen, senior vice president of finance and commerce for KCP&L. "The deferred portions of the increase would have carrying costs, which would be included in the step increases."
If approved by KCP&L's board, details of the proposal will be developed before it files its rate increase request next summer with the Missouri Public Service Commission and the Kansas Corporation Commission.
The KCP&L board is to meet Feb. 7,
a Turner White, company
sapper.
KCP&L's announcement comes the same day that Union Electric of St. Louis announced it will pressure it to spread out a proposed $690 million annual rate increase to pay
THE PHASE-IN PLAN would lessen the impact on customers of paying for the $2.85 billion plant, said Stewart W. Smith Jr., UE's executive vice presi-
for operating Missouri's Callaway nuclear plant.
White said that the two utilities were aware of each other's plans to announce a phase-in approach. He said Wolf Creek and the Callaway plants are identical units located in different locations, and both serving customers in Missouri.
White explained that currently there is no provision in either Kansas or Missouri for a phase-in of rate increases. KCP&L, which serves
234,235 customers in Missouri and 115,499 in Kansas, expects rates to increase about 50 percent once the Wolf Creek station starts operating.
"PHASING IN THE COSTS would definitely benefit our customers by lessening the impact of 'rate shock', but it will ultimately result in slightly higher rates because of the deferred increases." Rasumssen said.
KCP&L owns 47 percent of the 1150 megawatt unit under construction since 1977 near Burlington, Kan., about 100 miles southwest of Kansas City. The $2.67 billion plant, which KCP&L said it about 92 percent complete, is scheduled to begin operating in February of next year.
Study abroad opens portals to the world
By the Kansan Staff
Students who want to study while sipping mint jellies and basking in the sun may soon have their dreams come true.
The KU office of study abroad is giving students the chance to pursue their studies in exotic places such as Africa, Australia, and India. A study abroad official said yesterday,
"We are begging for students in the science to study in France," said Mary Ryan, study abroad assistant director.
She said that although many new programs were opening for students in fields such as bio-chemistry, engi-
nistry, or biology, she said that planning, no one is applying for them.
"There is a misconception among students," she said. "They think study abroad is only for language majors, but that's not true."
Through the International Student Exchange Program, or ISEP, KU students can study abroad by paying a fee and residence hall fees, Ryan said.
STUDENTS IN THE ISEP program have the opportunity to study in many countries, including France, Hong Switzerland, Africa and Malta, she said.
The program at the National Institute of Applied Science in Lyon, France, she said, is designed specifically for French students who are proficient in French.
The deadline for applying for ISEP is Feb. 10.
Some ISEP universities accept students who are not proficient in the
native language. Ryan said.
For students to qualify for the ISEP program, they must be enrolled at the University of Kansas, have a "B" average and, for most countries, be proficient in the language of the country where they want to study.
Many students don't apply to study abroad because they think they can't afford it, she said. But a student can use his or her financial aid to finance studies overseas.
Hiring form alteration irritates some faculty
By the Kansan Staff
A new form for notifying KU faculty of their continuing employment will be used next year, the vice chancellor for academic affairs told the Senate Executive Committee yesterday.
The only difference between the new form and the present one is that the new form must be signed by the employee and returned to the KU administration, said Deanell Tacha, the vice chancellor.
Faculty members are not now required to sign or return the form.
Clifford Griffin, professor of history and president of the KU branch of the Kansas-National Education department, said the new form was unnecessary.
"There's no reason for the change. We don't see a problem with the existing form." Griffin said.
In addition to notifying faculty members of their salary and rank, the form is designed to help the administration plan for the coming year.
THE REQUEST FOR NEW forms came from the Board of Regents, which asked its seven institutions to develop standard forms. The requirement that the forms be signed drew some complaints from KU and UCF. A judge signed a one-year appointment form would abridge their tenure.
Griffin said that KU-NEA was opposed to any changes in the current form, but said he could not know how the new form because he had not seen it.
"One of the interesting things is that all of the faculty members outside of University governance proposed the proposed forms," Griffin said.
Griffin said that the Regents had not explained why the new forms were needed
HE SAID THERE WERE other possible standard appointment forms that would require no change.
Tacha assured SenEx members at last week's meeting that the forms would not interfere with tenure records and other documents, merely notices of employment.
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A FEW THOUGHTS ABOUT THE TCVC GRAVY TRAIN
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My opposition to the city's current developer of record, a designation the city commission granted the Town Center Venture Corporation (TCVC) on January 17th, is inspired by a respect for good government and logical thinking. When Richard Zinn, TCVC's attorney, claimed that bearing the cost of a market feasibility study was "a city function", he forgot that the political hybrid to which he was referring (public funds being used to enrich a few members of the class least in need of financial assistance for performing in the private sector) is, because of its predatory nature, a patchwork process without acceptable methodology. However, Mr. Zinn's mistake is scarcely noticeable in the Lawrence/ Town Center-induced dust storm.
many wonder why the three years of hard work which culminated in the Sizerler Plan were jettisoned last November 8th when the city commission abandoned Sizerler Realty for the TCVC. Two of Town Center's architects, Messrs. Bob Gould and Dale Glenn, recently gave their answer to this question when each told the Chamber of Commerce, in the words of Journal-World reporter Carolyn Trowbridge, "that the 600 block of the city's main shopping street is a weak spot, and therefore the logical place for redevelopment."
Although the presentations of both these two gentlemen and Town Center's president Duane Swenda contained professions of concern about our downtown, no one mentioned the Downtown Comprehensive Plan which advocates strengthening downtown Lawrence by rendering it "a compact, pedestrian-oriented area..." (with its) primary focal point...the intersection of Massachusetts Street and Eighth Street...(and) the primary retail core...with the area bounded by Seventh Street, Tenth Street, Vermont Street, and Rhode Island Street".
While Mayor Longhurst's enthusiastic support has enabled the TCVC gravity train to override the Downtown Comprehensive Plan's essence. Downtown Improvement Committee's (DIC) advice, Downtown Lawrence Association's (DLA) will and a considerable portion of the public's sentiment, the inadequacy of the TCVC diet which has fueled the Mayor's bounding is becoming manifest.
Although Mayor Longhurst began the January 16th DIC meeting by admitting "that not everyone is happy with . . . (the commission's) decision" and later confessed to harboring a "fear . . . someone is going to try to change the footprint (basic location of the project)," he also blithely said, in Journal-World reporter David Horst's words, "the commission and DIC should formulate the best project they can, but keep the process moving. If they are wrong, Longhurst said, the community will 'rectify that error' when it votes on funding for the project".
Because the "error" which has so distressed the community is the commission's "decision" to cast aside the experienced Sizerler Reyle Co. after it had spent thousands of dollars on our behalf for a relatively nexexperient group unwilling (or perhaps unable) even to shoulder the $2500 cost of a market feasibility study, a vote in which the electorate accepts or rejects only the TCVC design obviously cannot, in Mayor Longhurst's words, "rectify . . . (the November Bth) error".
If the Mayor and TCVC cicle really believe in both Town Center's plan and the democratic process, then why don't they dispense with the gas masks, engage in some open discourse, and let the various local entities perform their delegated tasks?
William Dann
2702 W. 24th St. Terr.
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