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University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, April 22, 1983 Vol.93, No.140 USPS 650-640
Utility increase OK'd for Board of Regents
By JEFF TAYLOR Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Six members of a House-Senate bargaining committee rolled up their sleeves late yesterday and carved out a compromise 6.5 percent utility increase for the 1983-84 Board of Regents budget.
After three hours of debate, House members of the committee coaxed the three senators into backing away from a Senate utility plan that would have them the fiscal 1984 budget at audit level.
SENATE MEMBERS concluded yesterday afternoon during the Senate session that Regents universities would not run into increased utility bills in fiscal 1984 and decided to allocate about $5.6 million, the same amount given to the universities for fiscal 1983.
universities for those jobs Gov. John Carlin had asked the Legislature to
approve a 20 percent increase. The House passed a 10 percent increase.
Included in the compromise 6.5 percent raise was a Senate provision to allow the Hugens universities to freely spend any money left over from the raise, if utility expenses turned out to be lower than they were during fiscal 1983.
be lower than they were during
FY 1983 ends this July. During this fiscal year,
Regents universities gave up 4 percent of their
original 1983 allocation and had to conserve
energy by shutting down utilities during the
summer.
THE 4 PERCENT voluntary reductions were made at Carlin's request, after the state discovered revenues had fallen $47 million short of expectations.
In this session, the Legislature made those budget reductions permanent.
budget reductions per month. State Sen. Paul Hess, chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, told conference members that Regents could live within 1983
utility levels if the schools concentrated on conserving energy.
concerning, in the best thing in the world that happened to them over at KU, when they shut the air conditioning off," he said. "It shook a few people up."
He explained to skeptical House members of the committee that university learners to keep windows shut tight and watched thermostats more closely during last summer's focus on
But House Ways and Means Chairman Bill
Brunen, R-Toppea, disagreed.
"It don't see anything to be gained by putting an unrealistic increase in the budget," he said. "Obviously they're not going to be able to save anything, to use any remaining utility money for
other things. They're going to think you're coming them."
STATE REP. Mike Meacham, R-Wichita, did not participate in committee actions but sat during the conference debate in the hot room.
actions taken by the committee were not binding, because a conference committee had not officially been named.
Mecanch has urged the House Ways and Means committee during meetings to provide additional financing for Regents universities, including a plan he helped draft that provided $1 million to four Regents schools for high technology research.
During the conference committee's discussions, Hess maintained that the Regents universities could ask for additional appropriations and cost more than the Legislature had anticipated.
"It's higher education by candlelight, Abe Lincoln style," he said.
House passes plan to raise gasoline tax
By DIANE LUBER
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — After rejecting Gov. John Carlin's finance plan for state highway repair管理局, the house voted 63-61 for a Republican plan that included a 3-cent increase in the state's motor fuels tax.
"You're not passing a program," said House Minority Leader Fred Weaver, D-Baxter Springs. "You're passing a Band-Aid.
springs. "You've put yourself
"it will get you by the next election. It will sure
do that for you. But it won't take care of the
highways."
CARLIN WANTS to finance highway repair by transferring to the highway fund $100 million now in the state freeway fund. He also wants to use revenues from the sales tax on vehicles and vehicle parts that are now in the state general fund.
fums.
The House had tentatively approved the motor fuels tax bill on a voice vote after more than three hours of debate earlier in the day.
three hours of debate.
But when the speaker called for the final vote,
55 House members initially went on record in favor of the bill while 67 opposed it.
The voting moved in the direction of a tie as some legislators slowly changed their votes. Then House Speaker Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, made it clear that he would send the Highway Patrol to a Wichita hospital to bring back State Ben Kent O-R Mulvane, to vote if needed.
OTT HAS BEEN hospitalized since he was injured in a tractor accident last week, and would have been expected to vote for the bill.
in the one, only ten Republicans voted against
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Weather
RAIN
Today will be cloudy and cool with a 60 percent chance of rain. The high will be 55 and winds will be from the northeast at 5 to 15 mph.
Tomorrow will be cloudy with a high of 50 and a chance of rain.
Tonight will be cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain. The low will be 45.
John Ward, supervisor of animal husbandry for KU's Animal Care Unit, released six ducks yesterday at Potter Lake. The
ducks had been kept at the unit the past few months because the lake had frozen over.
Ducks' return to lake signals spring
By SUSAN STANLEY
Staff Reporter
The swallows return to Capistrano every year. Yesterday, the ducks returned to Potter Lake.
"They took to it—well—like ducks take to water," said Barbara Meador, animal technician at the University's Animal Care Unit.
Six ducks were driven 10 miles from KU's Animal Care Unit farm and released from their white plastic and wire traving cage. They promptly waddled into the chilly waters of
Although 11 ducks were picked up from the lake in January, only six were returned yesterday. The ducks can be left at the lake each year until the lake freezes over. Ward
Potter.
JOHN WARD, supervisor of animal husbandry at the unit, said that ducks have muddled on Potter since anyone can remember.
"When the lake freezes they can't run into
the water to get away from the dogs. A frozen lake takes away the last defense they have from the dogs." he said.
Meador said the lake could support only six ducks. The five others that were captured in January have found work as pets at a local farm.
The six ducks now at Potter include three Pekings, a typical domesticated white duck, two mallards, and one Muscovy duck.
The Muscovy breed is from Central America, Ward said. The duck is larger than a mallard but has a smaller crest with red markings around the eyes and throat.
"The MUSCOY is kind of an outcast," Ward said. "He is the only one of his kate at the lake and usually swims off by himself. He is not your typical sleek duck. He is a kind of an italian."
around the eyes of her. Meador said that she was not sure how the Muscovy had found its way to the lake. Several of the other ducks had been abandoned.
odds are a little off." he said.
of the other ducks had been male. Male ducks outnumber the females, four to two. Ward said a good ratio was one drake to five hens.
"Our odds are a little of it," he said.
EKNEN THOUGH both sexes are represented,
there is little chance that ducklings will one day
waddle around Potter, Ward said.
"It would be to hard for the ducks to build nests and protect the eggs from the dogs that run around down here," he said.
While they are at Potter, the ducks must fend for themselves. Ward said.
He said the six ducks could easily live on the meadows and grasses around the lake as well as on the hillside.
"We don't encourage anyone to drop their extraucks at the lake for that reason — the lake can only support so many. He said, 'The first time the unit has cared for animals not used in research at the University, Ward said.' Before, the ducks had been kept by a biology graduate student who was no longer able to take them, he said.
The ducks had been kept on land during their recent stay on the farm, Meador said, watching the ducks splash and dive in the water.
Work-study survives state debate
by JEFF TAYLOR
Staff Reporter
The House-Senate conference committee agreed after three hours of discussion to give $231,000 to the six Board of Regents universities and Washburn University in Topeka.
TOPEKA — After an up and down struggle, a state work-study program survived opposition from some legislators and was approved yesterday by a six-member negotiating committee.
For the University of Kansas, $60,000 will be available
GOV. JOY CARLIN asked the legislature to distribute $700,000 for the program to the Regents universities. The House originally reduced that amount to $622,000 and the Senate at first decided not to finance the program in However, Senate members are and incorporated $622,000 for the
A minority of members of both the House and Senate argued throughout the work-study's journey through the Legislature that all four-year state universities should divide the money.
However, Senate members of the Ways and Means Commission appropriated $62,000 for the
Instead, the House Ways and Means committee decided to allow universities to use part of an expected 4 percent student salary increase to pay for a work-study program.
THE LEGISLATURE had approved $5.6 million for student salaries in fiscal 1983 and is expected to increase that amount by 4 percent. Universities were not required to use the 4 percent increase for work-study, under the House plan.
Carlin has asked the Legislature to delay faculty, student and classified employee raises for fiscal 1984 for six months. So student raises will actually amount to a percent over $6.6 million of $5.6 million.
In the past, the money for regular student salaries had to be used for on-campus jobs.
In the Senate's latest proposal, the state universities would have been able to use the $5.6 million for work-study in private industries outside campus jobs.
If universities had used part of the $ 6 million for off-campus employment, employers would have had to pay for 50 percent of the student's salary.
however, the conference committee defeated See WORK page 5.
FBI expels three Soviets for spying
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WASHINGTON — FBI agents caught three Soviet officials in the act of trying to obtain U.S. military and aerospace secrets, the bureau said yesterday.
The FBI ordered two expelled and let the third leave the country voluntarily, it said. The Soviets were identified as a diplomat in the Soviet delegation to the United Nations, an army officer attached to the Soviet military office in Washington and an intelligence officer.
"THEY WERE caught with their hands in the cookie jar," a U.S. official said.
Authorities said one Soviet was collecting film of classified military documents from the base of a tree in the Maryland countryside when agents took him into custody. Another approached an aide to a congresswoman who had access to classified information.
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Fundamentalists, mainline Christians often clash in approach
By JOEL THORNTON Staff Reporter
Greg Vandgrief says he thinks he will go to hayegw when he dies.
Joanne Hickey says she is not sure where she will go.
FUNDAMENTALIST Christians, represented at KU by groups such as Icthus and Campus Crusade for Christ, emphasize a "born-again" experience, evangelism and a fairly literal interpretation of the Bible. For example, many believe in creationism.
Vandegrift and Hickey both say they are Christians. They represent two distinct religious viewpoints — fundamentalist Christian and the "mainline" churches, such as the Methodists, Lutherans and Roman Catholics — that are clashing at the University of Kansas and throughout the country.
beneath and mainline churches, in campus groups such as the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center, University Lutheran Church and the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center, consider themselves to be the historic Christians. In
general, they are less literal in their interpretation of the Bible and are more active in some social issues, such as promoting peace and women's and civil rights.
Hickey, St. Marys junior, is president of the student program council at Ecumnician Christian Ministries, a campus group supported by the United Methodist Church, United Church of Christ, Church of the Brethren, United Presbyterian Church, and the Presbyterian Church in the United States. A Sunday evening fellowship there attracts from 15 to 25 students.
Vandgrift, Kansas City, Mo., junior, is a student leader of Ichus, which he said attracted an average of 150 to 200 students to its weekly meetings.
Dan Brenton, student coordinator for Campus Crusade, said that about 250 students a week attended the various activities of his group, which included small Bible-study groups and a
ALTHOUGH MINISTERS, religious observers and sociologists disagree about the actual growth of fundamentalist Christian groups across the country, Icthus and Campus Crusade have attracted more students than have many of the traditional denominational groups.
weekly fellowship and prayer session at the Kaupas Union.
The weekly fellowship meeting attracts 120 to 150 students, Brenton said. The 50 student-led Bible study groups attract about five students each.
"We're not here to judge any denomination or step on anybody's toes — we're here to walk with God and commit our lives," Brenton said. "We're not attacking sin, we loving the sinners. Reaching out to people for Jesus Christ is the issue, not different people for different denominations."
"denominations.
"I THINK WE are seeing a trend to getting back to basics. People are getting back to simplicity with a relationship with God."
simplicity will win. Ministers at several of the mainline campus groups, however, said they did not view Christianity in such clear-cut terms.
"Another thing is that we believe that ECM is
The Rev, Jack Bremer, campus director of Ecumenical Christian Ministries, said, "One of the differences is that a ministry like Ecumenical Christian Ministries is a church movement, whereas the others tend to be student movements
an authentic sample of historical Christianity. On the one hand, a faith in Christ, and on the other hand, a deep concern for people.
simplify University Lutheran Church draws 25 to 30 students a week to its Sunday evening fellowship group, he said.
Ministers and students agreed that the non-denominational nature of some fundamentalist groups at KU attracted students who might
"I would be quick to point out the inadequacies of many fundamentalist churches that have made an idol of the Bible. They emphasize legalism, doctrine and form. In extreme cases, it is a legalism against which Jesus spoke so forcefully."
group, he said.
“There’s a certain centeredness, or sense of conviction, that the answers to religion and social questions can be answered in a black-and-white way,” Hoeler said. “Mainline denominations stand more for ambiguity.”
THE REV. MARK Hoelter, pastor at the University Lutheran Church, 2104 W. 15th St., said that fundamentalist Christians were more certain that their problems could be solved simply.
be "turned off" by identification with a formal denomination.
However, Brenton said, Campus Crusade is not a church substitute. Students in Campus Crusade are encouraged to attend local churches, and most of them do, he said.
THE GROUP attracts students from many denominations, although most of them have Protestant backgrounds, and only a few Roman Catholics are in the group, he said.
"There's really not too much talk of denominations. Campus Crusade does influence you to go to church, but in no way influences what denomination you go to," Brenton said.
Icthus also attracts students from many denominations. Although the group was founded by a Presbyterian Church in Kansas City, Mo., and is supported financially by donations, Icthus members come from a variety of Protestant churches, as well as the Roman Catholic church.
Vandgrift said that it mattered little what denomination a student belonged to as long as he
I think that when you talk about salvation,
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