The University Daily
KANSAN
Vol. 93, No. 155 USPS 650-640
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, July 6, 1983
Weather
Today will be sunny with highs around 90, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Winds will be from the south at 5 to 15 mph.
Tenight will be mostly clear with lows in the middle to upper 80s.
Tomorrow will be mostly sunny with highs in the lower 90s.
Regents approve funds for salary, merit raises
By ANN REGAN Staff Reporter
The Board of Regents approved a $2.5 million increase for salaries and fringe benefits for the University of Kansas during a tele-conference meeting, said KU budget director Ward Zimmerman.
The funds will go toward merit salary increases for unclassified employees and salary incentives.
UNCLASSIFIED EMPLOYEES include faculty members and administrators. Classified employees are part of the state civil service and include custodians, secretaries and laboratory workers.
The increases approved by the Regents will affect the six state universities in Kansas and the
- A 2.25 percent average annual increase for new aircraft procedures.
- The $2.5 million approved for KU will be used to fund:
- 4.2.25 percent average annual increase for student hourly help.
- A 2.25 percent average annual increase in classified salaries
OF THE $2.5 MILLION allocated for KU, the College of Health Sciences in Kansas City, Kan. will receive more than $1.2 million in increases, another director of business affairs, said yesterday.
No other figures on salary increases were available.
During the conference, the Regents authorized KU and the other Regents institutions to prepare an operating budget for fiscal year 1984, which began Friday, based on allocations announced last week by the state Finance Council, said Zimmerman.
The Finance Council approved a total increase of $5.2 million for all the Agregions institutions
THE FINANCE COUNCIL is composed of a group of legislators that conducts the business of the Legislature when it is not in session, Zimmerman said.
The seven Regentia institutions have a week to prepare a 1964 fiscal year budget based on the data in Table 2.3.
The Regents will meet again by a teleconference call on Friday to approve the budgets.
The increase in funds also will cover the rising costs of existing benefit benefits. Zimmerman
KU has been allocated more than $7.2 million in state general use funds for the 1984 fiscal year to cover salaries, benefits and other operating expenses. Zimmerman said.
OTHER OPERATING EXPENSES include photocopying, office supplies and office equip-
Faculty members working on a 12-month contract basis should expect to receive their merit salary increases starting Dec. 18, Zimmerman said.
Those with a nine-month contract will receive theirs Jan. 1, be said.
Students to show compliance with draft law at enrollment
Students who receive federal loans this fall probably will have to sign a statement of draft registration compliance when they pick up their loan. At the same time, RU director of financial aid, said yesterday.
Signing such a statement would comply with a ruling last week by Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court requiring that male federal officers be required to sign the draft to be eligible for federal financial aid.
Rogers said he thought it would be easier to ask all students to sign the compliance statement at enrollment before they received their diploma. Rogers said that who had not already signed a compliance form.
Rogers said that he thought most students had already signed the compliance forms and that it would be simply a matter of signing them again at enrollment.
The compliance forms ask male students whether they have registered for the draft. Female students can check a box that says they are exempt from the draft.
But students who applied for Guaranteed Student Loans were never asked whether they had registered for the draft, he said.
He said students who had applied for campus-based federal financial aid — such as National Direct Student Loans, the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant and College Work-Study programs — received the grant. And they were notified of the amount of their award.
He said students applying for Pell Grants were asked whether they had registered for the draft on the Student Aid Report, the application form for Pell Grants.
Steve Zuk/KANSAN
Lawrence Mayor David Longhurst emerges from the dunking tank mayor into the tank during the Independence Days celebration after a sure-shot contest pegged the bull's eye, sending the Sunday and Monday in Lawrence. See related story, page 7.
Wanted: volunteers to help local groups, organizations
By MELISSA BAUMAN
Staff Reporter
Lawrence volunteer program notice dot the bulletin boards of campus buildings, asking students and others to donate their idle hours to volunteer work.
Although most of the services recently have completed their summer training sessions, many are accepting volunteers and will begin training this fall
THE UNIVERSITY OF Kansas gives credit for one of three such programs operated by Volunteers in Court, which is operated and financed by the Douglas County Court Services, according to Mark Gleason, court services officer and juvenile director for Douglas County.
Gleason said that accredited volunteer positions were limited.
The Offender Follow-Through Program gives college credit to volunteers in certain fields for being what Gleason describes as an extension of volunteering. The program requires truancy or other problems the youth might have.
Workers are given a casework of three to five children, Gleason said, and are asked to donate five to 10 hours each week working with juveniles who have been in legal trouble.
GLEASON SAID THAT male volunteers were needed almost constantly for another Volunteers in Court program, called One-On-One, which asks volunteers to spend time with troubled children. He said that One-On-One was similar to the Big Brother and Big Sister programs.
Glesson said that most volunteers for this program were female and that males were always needed because, according to Glesson, boys are juvenile offenders more often than girls.
Gleason said that One-On-One volunteers spent about three hours a week working with youths and that four events, as picnics, were planned each year.
The Alternative Home Program, also a part of Volunteers in Court, places children in emergency situations in the care of volunteer families for up to two weeks, he said.
A COUNSELING GROUP that needs volum-
se VOOLUNTER page 5.
Association official expects compromise on withholding tax
Staff Reporter
By MARY ANN COSTELLO
An official of the Kansas Bankers Association said yesterday that he expected Congress to reach a compromise that would eliminate a proportion of perishable tax on interest margin.
AS THE PROPOSED bill is now written, it would require financial institutions to withhold 10 percent of the interest earned by a savings account depositor for tax purposes, said Maag.
Jim Maeg, director of research for the Kansas Bankers Association, said members of a House and Senate compromise committee would probably meet next week and that he expected a compromise bill would be passed by them and signed by President Reagan.
He said the compromise bill would replace the withholding tax on interest with stricter reporting requirements for interest on tax forms. Under the stricter requirements, the tax authorities could impose a percent withholding requirement on people who fail to give a full report of their interest.
The bill was originally scheduled to become law last Friday, but it may now be reviewed by the committee until Aug. 1. If a compromise is reached, the bill would become law Aug. 1 as it now is.
The enactment of the withholding tax was postponed a few weeks ago by Donald T. Regan, secretary of treasury, so that the House and Senate could reach a compromise.
MAAG SAID THERE were several reasons this some bankers were opposed to withholding of the funds.
Under the proposed withholding tax law, $5 of that interest wi ld be withheld by the bank for the government. Therefore, for the last six months of the year the investor would be earning interest on only $45 of the $50 the certificate had earned.
He said it would deny an investor the use of compounding on the interest he had earned on a time deposit. For instance, if someone were to invest in a $1,000 certificate of deposit that earns 10 percent interest compounded semiannually, and used of six months it would have earned $0 interest.
Maag also said that the statistics he had seen show that 90 percent of the people filing income tax returns report all the interest they have earned.
AN ARGUMENT FOR withholding interest has been that it would prevent people from lying on income tax forms about the amount of interest they have earned.
Watkins Museum seeks funds from county for storage room
Dotty Daugherty, administrative assistant at Watkins Museum, shows some of the clothes the museum wants to store in a climate-controlled room which, if completed, would be used to slow the deterioration of museum pieces.
By MICHAEL PAUL
Staff Reporter
After being turned down by the Lawrence City Commission for a share of federal revenue funds so that it could construct a temperature-controlled storage room, the Elizabeth M. Watkins Community Museum now has turned to the Douglas County Commission.
Steven Jansen, director of the museum, said last week that the museum would ask the Douglas County Commission tomorrow for $3,500 of any federal revenue sharing funds that the county might receive in 1984 so that it could construct such a room.
JANSEN SAID THAT quilts, clothing, guns and other 19th century museum pieces at the museum, 1047 Massachusetts St., would not deteriorate as fast if the museum had a temperature-controlled storage room in which to keep them.
He said that the City Commission last year had allocated $2,000 in 1983 federal revenue sharing funds so that the museum could purchase air conditioning equipment for the storage room.
This year the museum requested $3,500,
Jansen said. Last month, however, the Commission decided not to allocate any 1984 revenue sharing funds to the museum.
City Commissioner Howard Hill said the decision not to allocate any 1884 federal revenue sharing funds to the museum "was not a slap in the face at the museum."
HE SAID THAT one reason the decision was that the Commission had always thought it was the city's responsibility to allocate funds for improvements to buildings but not to allocate funds for improvements to the interior of buildings in kind of work, he said, should be raised privately.
Jansen said another reason for the decision might have been the competition from social service agencies for funds that had been withdrawn because of federal budget cuts.
"We recognize that funds are limited," Jansen said. "And we appreciate the past support of the Commission. But we feel that we have made a legitimate application for the money."
Last year the County Commission had allocated $2,000 in 1983 federal revenue sharing funds to the museum so it could purchase air conditioning equipment for the room.
Jansen said the museum had needed a temperature-controlled storage room since it
JANSEN SAID THAT the museum had central air conditioning but that there was no air conditioning in the subcatic, where some items are stored.
He said that because of the museum's 16- to 21-foot cellings and its 11-by-8 windows, the museum was unable to keep the temperature at 65 degrees and the humidity in the 40 percent to 60 percent range necessary to prevent deterioration of materials.
See WATKINS page 5
City to draft plan to allow Sizeler to find retailers
Staff Reporter
By GENE HUNTER
The Lawrence City Commission voted 3-2 last night to direct the city staff to draft an agreement that would allow the city's downtown developer to begin searching for a tenant for a proposed department store as part of the downtown redevelopment plan.
Mayor David Longhurst and Commissioner Mike Amyx voted against the agreement that would allow Sidelity Realer Co. Inc., Kenner, La., to continue as the city's developer of record.
Sizer has proposed a plan, called Scheme 4, for downtown redevelopment. Scheme 4 calls for an enclosed shopping center to be built in an area within the city. The new project is Island streets and Seventh and Ninth streets.
The commission will decide next Tuesday whether to ratify the agreement drawn up by the
THE AGREEMENT WOULD also allow the city to begin work arranging financing for the project.
The agreement, if passed, would permit Sizerel to represent itself as the developer of record in seeking a prominent retailer for a store that would become the best copor of North and Massachusetts streets.
Longhurst be a sometimes heated debate by reading a four-page statement outlining his
He also said that the proposed financing plan, which includes a projected $8 million federal loan, is under consideration.
Longhurst said that taxpayers would have to pay between $9.5 million and $10.8 million and not the $3.5 million that some estimates had projected.
Amyx said he thought the downtown area worked well just the way it was and that he was not willing to take the financial risk of redeveloping the downtown area.
Commissioner Ernest Angino disagreed sharply.
"Lawrence is not unique enough to escape to the fate that has befallen other cities that have witnessed such a loss."
ANGINO ALSO SAID that Lawrence needed Sizerel as much as Sizerel needed Lawrence.
"You have to face up to the fact that If Sizeler backs out, the Lawrence merchants will have to pay you. You will not be able."
"In the past, they haven't had the capital to do this."
Commissioner Nancy Shontz said that she agreed with Angino.
"I have worked with this too long and put too much into this project to see it go down the drain
Longhurst, however, warned that many unforeseen expenses might arise, such as the legal costs of acquiring property and added insurance. In some cases, the increased traffic flow in the downtown area
LONGHURST, LISTING six items on which he said Sizeler would not compromise, criticized Sizeler for not being sensitive to the needs of Lawrence.
"I get the distinct impression that the Downtown Improvement Committee would accept something they are not particularly happy with rather than risk losing St.蒜." he
Commissioner Howard Hill said he favored going ahead with the project but emphasized that the Commission was not yet committing itself.
City Manager Buford Watson said that Lawrence would not be committed to actual construction until the financing was set and the construction team had been assigned, which would not be until early next year.
Amyx said that he was prepared to make a motion for a referendum to let voters decide the