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Regents plan to review allotment of state funds
University Daily Kansan, November 21, 1983
By PAUL SEVART Staff Reporter
HAYS — The decreasing percentage of the state's general fund allocated to higher education will be a primary concern of Board of Regents representatives when they meet tomorrow with the governor and state budget division officials.
Stanley Koplik, Regents executive director, and regents John Montgomery of Junction City and Archie Dykes of Topeka, a former University of Kansas chancellor, will meet with budget director Lynn Muchmore in Topkai to discuss the budget division recommendations for fiscal year 1985.
AT A MEETING of the Regents Fiscal Affairs Committee at Fort Hays State University on Friday, Koplik said the proportion of the general fund used to pay for the past several years and said that it represented a "disturbing trend."
"State general fund support has dropped dramatically from only a few years ago. Koplik said "General fee increases are paying for increased expenditures."
Dykes said the state's budget policy did not encourage the University of Kansas Medical Center to earn money, because earnings over a specific level would be distributed to other areas and not returned to the Med Center for salaries and equipment to help it stay competitive.
Koplik said that under present budget proposals, the general fund would contribute $2.1 million less to the schools than it did for this fiscal year.
ANOTHER TOPIC THAT will certainly come up tomorrow. Koplik said, is the budget division's recommendation to create a pool of money for merit raises equal to 5 percent of the unclassified salary base, with an additional $2 million available to reward senior classroom teaching.
The Regents had requested a 7 percent figure, but even with the $2 million fund added in, the total budget division had budget division was about 6 percent.
Also, Koplik said the board would try to respond by Dec. 10 to six alternatives to increase efficiency that were suggested in a report from the Legislative Post-Audit Committee. Those alternatives are:
*Establishing a standard measure that the state could use to compare costs of programs at the different schools. That would be difficult, Koplik wrote in a memo, because comparisons between similar programs in different schools often have no meaning because of the great difference in schools.
- Consolidating or reducing degree programs. This alternative is already underway through the Regents five-year review plan, Koplik said. The Regents are now reviewing education programs.
- Placing enrollment caps on some Regents schools so that students will attend other schools where resources are available. This is unnecessary, Kopik said, because enrollments will relatively stable in the next 10 years.
- Reducing the number of schools.
Koplik defended the number of public four-year universities in the state as not out-of-line with neighboring states, and said all of the schools were still capable of delivering a quality education.
- Setting long-term legislative budget goals and letting the Regents and the Board of Education work out how the goals will be met. That would be called a Kohl's plan, because of difficulty in predicting enrollments and state revenues.
*Shifting a greater amount of the cost of education to students. The informal agreement between the Regents and the Legislature, Koplik said, has been that students would pay 25 percent of the cost of their education.
ALTHOUGH THAT PROPORTION fell to about 20 percent by 1981, it has been brought back to 25 percent since then. Koplik said that proportion is out-of-line with other states, and it requires equal access to public higher education.
The school-presidents, the regents and the Regents staff will draft an answer to these alternatives for the post-audit committee. Koplik said the comments in his memo were suggestive what should be included in the answer.
On the recommendation of the Policy and Procedures Committee, the board endorsed a proposal for the next legislative session that would low the cost of the staffing class assigned to employees from 62 to 60 to compensate the employees for accumulated sick leave.
ANOTHER PROPOSAL THE board supported would create an early retirement plan for faculty members between ages 60 and 65 who wanted to work between quarter-time and half-time. The state would continue to pay federal land and health insurance premium as if they were full-time employees.
William Kauffman, Regents general counsel, said both changes could be financed with existing funds. If 25 percent of the budget for this year took half-time appointments, Kauffman said, the Regents system could save as much as $2.1 million.
Glickman says stronger ties important for U.S., Soviets
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER Staff Reporter
saying that Soviet-U.S. relations were at their worst point since World War II, Rep. Dlg克曼克 Lichtman improved ties with the Soviet Union.
Glickman, D-Wichita, told about 100 people at the Lawrence Jewish Community Center, 917 Highland Drive, that Soviet-U.S. relations had been deteriorating since 1979 when President Jimmy Carter issued a statement in January because of the invasion of Afghanistan.
GLICKMAN PRAISED Lawrence for its recent efforts to improve Soviet relations and stressed the level of 'between the two countries'.
"It's time to change the Afghanian sanctions," Glickman said. "We need to produce good, strong contacts with the Soviet Union."
Rather than concentrating on political relations, he said, improved contacts should take place in the cultural and scientific exchanges.
GLICKMAN ALSO SAID unilateral disarmament was not a possibility, and that an agreement would only from length negotiations.
"Right now it's more important for KU to develop a relationship with the Soviets than for us to develop political-level ties," he said.
He said that he saw no end to the fear of nuclear war in the next 15 to 20 years. That was part of the reason Glickman recently presented a speech in Congress urging the Soviets to show, "The Day After" in the Soviet Union.
"The movie is basically neutral. We want Russian people to see it so
they can encourage their government to do something about it." Glickman said. "If you talk to people there individually, they acknowledge many things, but the interest in bearing individual views.
Glickman's recent trip to the Soviet Union with 18 other congressmen was the first formal trip he made since Carter stopped official visits.
Glickman described his Soviet visit and the impressions he came away with.
"The Soviets know little about our political system, they have a hard time understanding how it works," he said. "There is a fundamental difference in how we relate to each other."
He predicted that the present Soviet leaders would soon hand the reins of leadership to the next generation, and that this would create an early negotiating situation. The next generation will not remember World War II and will not work with Joseph Stalin, he said.
Glickman also attacked President Reagan's foreign policy, and said he hoped Reagan would be replaced in office. He said Reagan was too inflexible.
"I heard the word respect over and over from the Soviets," Clickman said. "A basic cultural difference between Americans and Russians is that Americans want love more than respect and the Russians want respect more than love."
HE SAID THAT the Soviets felt that Richard Nixon had treated them with respect.
"They have a Rodney Dangerfield complex," Glickman said. "They don't get no respect.
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For more than 20 years, the Rev. Jesse Jackson has held audiences spellbound with his message of social and racial equality.
But Jackson's recent decision to run for the 1984 Democratic presidential nomination could undo years of pro-immigration blacks, a noted sociologist said Friday.
His mesmerizing oratorical style has brought him distinction paralleled by no other black leader since Martin Luther King Jr.
"A candidate running as a 'bark candidate' and who seems to be calling attention to 'black issues' could sharpen the racial division over the issue," he said. "It all depends upon how the issues are defined and elaborated."
William J. Wilson, Langston Hughes visiting professor of sociology and a professor of urban sociology at the University of Chicago, said that if he was based on racial issues, his campaign would become married with racial tensions.
WILSON CONTRASTED THE MAYOR election in Chicago last year, which he said was tainted with racism, and the recent mayoral election in Philadelphia that was free from such a problem.
The difference, Wilson said, was that racial issues were not the focus of the campaign in Philadelphia.
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"I like the issues he is raising and I wish that he could be a positive force in the campaign," he said. "But I worry about what might come out."
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BUT IF THE media get caught up in portraying Jackson as a flamboyant orator who can captivate an audience with his evangelical-style manner and they focus on the most colorful aspects of his campaign, Wilson said. Jackson's commitment to other issues will become overshadowed.
"He is an enormously impressive man." Wilson said. "He is one of the most knowledgeable and informed persons you'd ever want to meet. He is much more impressive to me than to anyone, the college faculty members I know."
Wilson said he was encouraged by the effects Jackson's campaign could have on voter registration across the country.
"His candidacy could trigger a sharp increase in voter registration drives across the country," he said. "It is conceivable that he could lead to Reagan's defeat by increasing black voter registration."
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