CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, October 18, 1983
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ON CAMPUS
TODAY
THE AFRICAN STUDIES department will sponsor a fall colloquium titled "Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Buteo but were too Hexed to Ask" at nounce in Alcove D of the Kansas Union.
SIMULATIONS BASEBALL Club will meet at 7 p.m. in Parlor C of the Union.
KU SWORD AND SHIELD will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Walnut Room of the Union.
CAMPUS CHRISTIAN FELLOW- Ship will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Campus Christian House, 1116 Indiana St.
CAMPUS CRUSADE for Christ will meet at 7 p.m. in the Big 8 Room of the Union.
TAU SIGMA DANCE Club will meet at 7 p.m. in Dance Studio 242 in Robinson Center.
CHAMPIONS! WILL meet at 7 p.m. in the Trail Room of the Union. TOMORROW
THE FILM "The Last Epidemic" about the medical consequences of nuclear war will be shown by the Campus Coalition for Peace and Justice at 7 p.m. in Dyche Auditorium.
THE CONTEMPLIATIVE PRAYER Session will be from 7:45 to 8:15 a.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center.
UNIVERSITY FORUM will feature a speech by William J. Wilson, Langton Hughes visiting professor of sociology, at 11:45 a.m. at the
ECKANKAR WILL PRESENT "What is Eckankar" at 7:30 p.m. in the Governors Room of the Union.
UNIVERSITY SINGERS will perform at 8 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
The attention brought to secondary education by "A Nation at Risk" and by similar reports probably will not compel legislators to vote for large increases in funds for school districts, education officials said yesterday.
Competition predicted for state education funds
By PAUL SEVART
Staff Reporter
Many of the changes recommended in the reports, such as higher teacher salaries and longer school days and terms, are considered by educators to be desirable but expensive. Some predict increased competition between higher education and public schools for state dollars to finance the changes.
But attempts by the state to finance improvements in school districts would be accompanied by proportionate education, the Kansas officials said.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said yesterday that the Kansas Legislature would probably not reauthorize such reports as "A Nation at Risk."
"IT WOULD BE awfully short-sighted of us to take the 'Nation at Risk' report and rob Peter to pay Paul, when he is adequately funded." Winter said.
Winter, a member of the Senate Education Committee, said the Legislature would-probably discuss a proposal to give scholarships to students entering schools of education and a proposed meal by Gov. Joha Carlin to bring higher pay for teachers and lower standards in schools of education. New legislation for public elementary and secondary schools would be likely, however.
Dale Dennis, assistant commissioner for financial services at the Department of Education, said the Kansas Legislature would try to be fair in its allocations through a general across-the-board increase.
"I think the Legislature will not go overboard in any particular segment," Dennis said. "There will be some competition for those dollars, but they'll be as equitable and fair as humanly possible."
AN INCREASE FOR school districts that was disproportionate to an increase for the Board of Schools schools would be unifair, he said, because both segments have urgent financial needs that are recognized by legislators.
Dennis said that the state was giving about $616 million to school districts, which represents about 40 percent of the state's general fund and about 45 percent of the public school revenues by the districts. That figure includes support for elementary and secondary
education, community colleges and Washburn University.
Richard Von Ende, executive secretary of the University of Kansas, said the fact that school districts and universities gathered a large part of their students from different sources would discourage competition for education funds.
UNIVERSITIES CAN DRAW on student tuition and fees and on research grants, he said, but they are dependent on the state for the day-to-day operation of academic programs. School districts, however, raise most of their money through property taxes.
Dennis said that the Board of Education usually tried to request a budget increase sufficient to keep schools from increasing in the school districts.
Regents to study housing rate hikes
By LAURE JONES
Staff Reporter
The Board of Regents will consider proposed rate increases Friday for next year for Stouffer Place Apartments and other KU housing.
The Residential Programs Advisory Board announced yesterday that Chancellor Gene A. Budig has approved the recommended increases. They will be taken up by the Regents Fiscal Affairs Committee on Thursday, and the Regents will consider them Friday morning in 'Topeka.
During the meeting, Fred McElhenie, director of the Office of Residential Programs, presented a letter from Budg to Layne Pierce, chairman of the Stouffer Neighborhood Association.
Pierce had said that RPAB violated the guidelines for increasing rent at the University properties.
IN ADDRESSING PIERCE'S CONCERNS, Budig said that the process of increasing rates had not been violated. David Amber, vice chancellor for student affairs, decided last week to modify RAPB's recommended $2 a month increase at Stouffer apartments by adding 30 cents to the increase.
The extra 30 cents made the increase a round figure, Ambler said, which would make the University's accounting process simpler. However, the university would have guessed that the 30 cent addition had violated the bargaining process.
Electric rates are up 26 percent this year, he said, and proposed telephone rate increases could cause an estimated $6,000 additional charge for the halls.
If the recommended rent increases are approved, residence hall contracts will be $82 more expensive next year.
"PEOPLE ARE TIRED of hearing about utilities, but I think we are lucky and will not suffer as much as other communities," Wilson said.
Electricity and telephone rate increases are the main reasons for the residence hall increase, said J.J. Wilson, director of housing.
The proposed increase for men's scholarship halls is $39 a year. Two of the four women's halls, Douthart and Sellards, will see the same increase. The cost of Miller and Walkins halls, however, will be raised by $34.
"Utility rates are relentless; it is a tough subject," Wilson said.
In other action, RPAB set Nov. 14 as the deadline for reserving space in the residence halls during Thanksgiving recess. The University plans to charge $10 a person each night, Wilson said. At least 50 people would have to stay each night in order for the service to be economically worthwhile, he said.
Staff Reporter
By ANA DEL CORRAL Staff Reporter
On Oct. 31, 1517, Luthier posted his 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, deciering the money in exchange for indulgences.
Martin Luther, born 500 years ago on Nov. 10, gave the stained glass of Roman Catholicism the blow that showcased it into hundreds of Christian hurlers.
In recognition of Luther's impact on history, the University of Kansas joined the worldwide commemoration of Luther's anniversary by conducting a three-day symposium that ended with a presentation at Washburn University at Topeka.
THE SYMPOSIUM, titled "Martin Luther in His Time and Worses; Perspectives after 500 Years." included plays, films, music and lectures.
The Protestant church in the United States is divided into about 300 churches and many of Luther's beliefs underlie the American Constitution, which associates professor of history and religious studies, said yesterday.
Luther disagreed with the Catholic Church on issues such as the pope's infallibility and celibacy for priests. He believed that faith alone could lead to salvation and favored a more wide reading of the Bible by lay people.
"It was an event that totally altered the history of the world," he said. "It shattered the unity of a church that had been a small, modest community literally hundreds of little churches.
"Ever since then we've been trying to put the pieces back together." Anderson
The Rev. Homer D. Henderson,
pastor of Lawrence's Plymouth Congregational Church and United Methodist Church, said that although the Protestant and Catholic churches had reached agreement on some doctrinal visible signs of unity were hard to find.
POPE JOHN PAUL II has brought the churches together by focusing on human rights and compassion, Henderson said, but John Paul's insistence on "legislative morality" has deepened the between Protestants and Catholics.
As part of the celebration of Luther's anniversary, Jill Rait, professor and head of the department of religious studies at the University of Missouri at Columbia, will lecture on the subject of Lutheran and Roman Catholics in the "Religious Studies" at 1 a.m today in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
Director of county agency resigns
By JOHN HANNA Staff Reporter
The director of prevention and research for the Douglas County Citizens Committee on Alcoholism resigned yesterday, because the number of drug abuse prevention programs had been reduced by a merger with the Douglas County Drug Abuse Council.
LeRoy McDermott, the director of prevention and research for the DCCCA, said in a letter presented to the Douglas County Commission that contrary to agreements reached before the merger, the Drug Council budget had not been used for prevention programs.
"From the point of view of what the County was promised, not a single specific provision or general objective of the merger has been realized," he said in the letter. "From my personal vantage point I have seen little good faith effort to implement the agreement."
McDermott later said that he did not want to comment further.
IN HIS LETTER, McDermott said
employees with the drug council had been excluded from participation in DCCCA. Again he said that he would not comment further.
However, George Heckman, assistant director of the DCCCA, said that drug council members had not been excluded from the organization.
Three members of the Drug Abuse Council are on the DCCCA board of directors and participate in making decisions, he said.
The DCCCA provides treatment and prevention services in six Kansas counties, Heckman said, including Douglas County. The organization is also involved in statewide programs involving drinking and driving.
THE CITIZENS COMMITTEE is financed by a grant from the Kansas Department of Transportation, and the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, Heckman said. DCCCA also is financed through state
taxes, donations, and city and county revenue.
yeah 1983 was $4,601. He said
In his letter, Mecdermt said that most of the money provided for prevention programs in the DCCCA were being used for salaries and expenses.
The organization's budget for fiscal year 1983 was $555,971, he said.
"Instead of drug abuse prevention services to Douglas County being maintained or increased, they have been reduced," he said. "Two years ago we virtually all prevented funds now go to DCGA in house expenses."
HOWEVER, HECKMAN SAID the agency had increased its drug prevention programs in the last year. In fiscal year 1983, he said, the agency had provided 448 school drug prevention programs for 8,900 students in grades 7-12 and 3,031 people. In fiscal year 1982 the agency provided 260 school programs for 6,119 students and 163 community programs for 3,634 people, he said.
"I don't know about the number provided by the drug council," he said, "but I seriously doubt that it rivals these figures."
Father and son escape injury in plane crash
By the Kansan Staff
tank. He switched to another tank, but the alternate tank had no fuel either.
A 49-year-old Wellington man and his 13-year-old son who were flying from Wellington to Lawrence to attend church services were uninjured Sunday when the plane crash landed in a bay about eight miles southeast of Lawrence.
Meridith said that the fuel gauge had read full for both tanks. He said he did not know why the gauges were incorrect.
Bill Meridith said yesterday that he was piloting the single-engine Cessna to Lawrence to meet his two daughters at the Lawrence Municipal Airport. When the plane was nearing Lawrence, he said, it ran out of fuel in its main
THE PLANE CONTINUED to fly for about five minutes, he said, before it crash-landed at about 10:15 Sunday morning in a pasture about four miles south of K-10 and two miles east of Haskell Avenue.
Meridith said he had pulled up the landing gear when he landed the plane because he thought the plane might roll into a ditch in the pasture. He told him.
Douglas County Sheriff's Department that he had originally tried to land on a gravel road but couldn't because of power lines in the area.
Meridith said the bottom of the plane had been damaged extensively. Except for some damage to the tip of the left wing of the plane, the wings were undamaged. He did not know the extent of monetary damage.
Meridith said he was unable to attend church Sunday.
"But we did a lot of praying before we got to the ground," he said. "He did help us."
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