University Daily Kansan, November 8. 1983
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State report recommends modest increases for Regents schools during fiscal year 1985
By DONNA WOODS Staff Reporter
The state budget division report on Board of Regents universities that will be forwarded to Gov. John Carlin this week will not make any changes in the size, increases, the Regents executive director said yesterday.
"The outlook is still going to be one of fiscal conservatism," said Stanley Koplik, the director.
The fiscal year 1985 budget that the University of Kansas has proposed calls for an operating budget of more than $105 million, a $10 million increase over the fiscal 1984 operating budget.
DAVE DALLAM, state budget division analyst for Regents schools, said that the division's report would only recommend modest increases in the numbers to describe what he meant by a modest increase.
"Nobody argues that there are things we have to hear," she says "but the speed at which they can be done matters."
Dallam said that the University had urgent equipment needs. KU is seeking a $350,000 increase for instructional equipment in its base budget.
Marvin Burris, Regents associate director for budget, said that recommendations for fiscal 1985 showed an increase of more than 6 percent over present operating budgets.
However, he said, the recommendations would not make significant strides in helping Regents schools recover from base budget reductions in fiscal 1983 and 1984 that were made permanent in Legislature last spring. KU suffered bank cuts of more than $3.3 million during that time.
KEITH NITCHER, KU'S director for business and fiscal affairs said that University budget officials would learn today which fiscal 1985
budget recommendations would be forwarded to Carlin.
Carlin will use the budget division's recommendations and revenue projections to make his own recommendations to the Legislature for the 1984 session, which begins in January.
Koplik said that severance tax and sales tax revenues looked encouraging, but that corporate tax revenues were substantially below estimates.
"That is a great indicator of the financial welfare of the state," he said.
Revenues from those sources go to the state's general fund, from which money is allocated for specific projects.
Projections of revenue released Friday showed that corporate income tax collections for fiscal 1984 would fall $15 million short of earlier estimates.
Budget forecasters estimated that tax collections would be about $17 million, or 1.1 percent, below earlier projections.
statement Bell gave on Aug. 17 to police officers "after they confronted him with that tellale fingerprint."
In Bell's statement to the police, Harper said, Bell told the officers that he had been jogging the morning of the murder and went to the police station. Bell had been fired from his job there in June.
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Harper said that Bell told the officers that he and Seurer talked about money and that Seurer told him to stop.
Harper said Bell then told officers that Seurer bumped him. Bell first thought that Seurer did it accidentally, Harper said, but then thought Seurer did it deliberately.
HARPER SAID THAT Bell then told officers that he stabbed Seurer with a pickle knife once in the back and once in the front, put the knife in a bag and left the restaurant.
During yesterday's testimony, Gary Steve Montgomery testified that he delivered beer to the restaurant about 9:40 a.m. on the day of the murder.
He said that he entered the restaurant through the back door because the door was already open. He said that when he entered the kitchen, he saw a body on the floor.
MONTGOMERY TESTIFIED that he saw a crumpled white piece of paper on the floor near the body.
Among the items that the state introduced into evidence were two envelopes that had been addressed to Bobby Bell's Bar-B-Q, which was the former name of the Seurier restaurant.
Mike Hall, a detective for the Lawrence Police Department, said that the envelopes, one folded inside the other, were found a few inches from Seurer's right hand.
The Marines closed the airport after 10 artillery shells and mortars crashed near five planes preparing for takeoff.
Officer Robin Moore of the Lawrence Police Department testified that when he arrived at Pop's Bar-B-Q the morning of the murder, he saw Sueer's chest covered with blood, especially on the left side. He said he checked the body for signs of life, but found none.
A SINK HAD also been partly torn from a wall and small runs of blood were on it. he said.
Bruce McCann, an employee of the restaurant and a first cousin of Susan Seurer, the wife of Frank Seurer Sr., testified that a pickle knife he had used to slice pickles the night before the murder was missing from the restaurant the next day.
- Twelve U.S. F-14s flew reconnaissance missions over Beirut for the second time since suicide bomb attacks Oct. 23 and Nov. 4 killed 500 U.S. Overseers and Israeli soldiers in Lebanon
Mideast
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- Gummen assassinated the head of an Israeli-sponsored paramilitary organization, in Nabatiye in southern Lebanon on the eve of a four-day strike called to protest the ISAF occupation.
- The fighting was the most intense since a Sept. 26 cease-fire halted three weeks of civil warfare between the Lebanese army and Muslim militias over water power in the Christian-led government.
- Lebanese army troops battled Shiite militiamen amid the pockmark corridors of Beirut's southern slums. One soldier was killed and a civilian were wounded, Beirut radio said.
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Panel
island and the implications of U.S. involvement there.
Brebeca Cramer, a professor of anthropology at Johnson County Community College, said, "I think McIntyre is basically a bureaucrat who will go down there and do what he's told to do for the time . . . to set up a very pro-U.S. government."
Cramer, as well as the other panelists, condemn the U.S. invasion of Grenada as a threat to national security.
Charles Stansifer, professor of Latin American Studies, said of the invasion, "It is a violation of the United Nations' and the Organization of American States" charters. There is fear in Latin America as to who is next."
U. S. CITIZENS be concerned that they might be in legal, he said, but instead generally support the idea.
"The reaction of the American public was that they tasted blood and they liked it."
Stansifer said. "It scares me that they'll want more."
The Reagan administration, which had not had a foreign policy victory, needed to have a rallying point around which American public opinion could gather in support of the President, said Robert Tomasek, professor of political science.
"The Reagan administration felt that this was where it had to take a stand," he said. "Grenada was manageable — Nicaragua was not."
He said that the American public liked strong and decisive presidents and that the American people could rely on him.
CRAMER SAID THAT because the invasion happened so suddenly and because the U.S. press was barred from Grenada during the first days after the invasion, the American people did not have time to formulate opinions.
Downtown
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Three representatives were on hand for Town Center Content Corp. a Lawrence group that provides content for local newspapers.
Bob Gould, one of several architects on the project, defended Town Center's decision to close off the 600 block of Massachusetts Street. The Town Center plan calls for closing the block of Massachusetts Street and building a mail box between Street and the alley east of Massachusetts Street.
IN A PRESENTATION before the forum was opened to the audience, Town Center made a direct comparison with some parts of the Sizerel plan. Gould said Town Center's plan would take less space, provide more parking, displace fewer buildings and disrupt fewer roads and utilities.
The Lawrence City Commission is supposed to pick one of the two developers at 7 tonight to be the city's official developer for downtown buildings, and the commissioners attended last night's meeting.
"It accomplished something with the people, but if the commission is already dug in, what difference does it make?" asked Barbara of the Downtown Improvement Committee.
Mayor David Longhurst, who has sided firmly with the Town Center plan, agreed that the forum would make little difference if all the commissioners had made up their minds.
After the meeting, several people said that they thought the forum was worthwhile, but said that it wasn't.
HE ALSO SAID the public was obviously concerned about the issue.
"Many of the questions weren't questions, they were statements. And they were hostile state responses."
After the meeting several pro-Sizeret citizens surrounded Longhurst for about half an hour and asked him to speak.
The only new wrinkle to either plan was a trolley system proposed by Town Center. The trolley, which would be paid for through a benefit tax district, would go around the 600 block mall, along Massachusetts Street and around the 1100 block.
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