The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Friday, April 15, 1983 Vol. 93, No. 135 USPS 650-640
Regents panel proposal would raise tuition, fees
By JOEL THORNTON Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The Board of Regents today will consider a recommendation that would raise fees and tuition at Regents institutions for the 1984-85 school year, in addition to the life of KU's proposed $15 academic services.
OUT-OF-STATE students attending KU would have to pay $1,290 a semester.
The recommendation, approved by a special Regents committee on tuition and fees yesterday, would raise fees 10 percent, and would raise tuition to $450 at the University of Kansas, Kansas State University and Wichita State University. It will help Hays, Pittsburg, and Emory state universities.
The proposal would also require resident graduate students to pay $40 more in tuition than undergraduate students because of the higher costs of graduate programs. Non-resident graduate students will be charged $1,415 a semester.
next fall, tuition at Regents schools will increase 20 percent.
Under the new plan, each university would earmark $15 of the tuition increase to finance academic computing and library acquisitions. The rest would generate an estimated $2 million
The Legislature would be asked to match the $2.3 million the schools would raise
CHANCELLOR GENE A. Budig, a member of the committee, said that if the Regents approved the recommendation, KU would eliminate the proposed $15 academic services fee after the meeting.
KU's proposed academic services fee, designed to help finance library acquisitions, academic computing and equipment, was approved by the Student Senate in March.
The fee, awaiting approval by Budig, would run for three years. Budig said earlier this week that he did not know whether he would recommend the fee to the Regents.
"The recommendations are reasonable,"
judge said. "I think them to be conservative."
I think they should be conservative.
"I ALSO THINK the recommendations will permit us to be highly competitive with other companies."
He said that two concurrent fees supporting the same areas were unnecessary.
Budid said that tuition at Regent's universities was about 10 percent less than at KU's peer institutions. And tuition at KU and K-State is above the national average of other state universities in the Midwest.
The Regents proposal would set the fee-cost ratio, or percent of total school budget that tuition would finance, at 25 percent. Students now pay for about 22.4 percent of total costs.
Rob Raine, student body president at Wichita State and a member of the committee, said the student body presidents from the state schools probably would oppose the proposal, because it would force students to pay a higher percentage of educational costs while not requiring the Legislature to match that support to the universities.
"OF COURSE, there's nothing to oblige the Legislature to give us the money," he said. "That's the worst fear. We just feel like we're kind of back-needling."
"it's going to take a lot of public pressure to make the Legislature match the $2.3 million."
See REGENTS page 5
East Asian languages director to resign, cites tight budget
By JENNIFER FINE
Staff Reporter
The director of the department of East Asian languages and cultures will resign after the summer semester partly because of frustrations over budget problems, he said yesterday.
G. Cameron Hurst, the director, said that he went through the regular procedures for submitting his resignation in January, when he was leaving leave of absence to take a research position.
"IT WASN'T LIKE I WANT up the dean and pounded on his desk and said 'I've had it.' "
He said his resignation was a result of many frustrations "coming to a head."
But he added, "Quite frankly, if the funding situation was good, I would maybe not have raised it."
In a letter to the editor of the Lawrence Journal-World, Hurst described budget problems.
"It is simply too frustrating to sacrifice time and energy, more meaningfully spent in research and teaching," he wrote, "to see
the University denied funds even to maintain what I consider an already inadequate resource.
HURST SAID the purpose of the letter was to dramatize the problems of the University and bring them to the attention of faculty and students.
"i would hope to dramatize the object. It is to help the chancellor present a case that says "The problem is that you are not a student."
Hurst said he hoped the letter would also make people realize that cutting some programs might be better than allowing programs to decline because their funding was decreased.
"I'm not sure the people of Kansas appreciate the difficulties we have," he said.
In his letter, which he showed to several other faculty members who were sympathetic, he wrote that recommendations and actions of the governor and the Kansas Legislature "assure that KU will continue its steady decline towards mediocrity."
HE CITED problems in the department of East Asian languages and cultures, in which three senior faculty members will be replaced by a one-year visiting teaching assistant, who
Doug Cunningham/KANSAN
See HURST page 5
rally against rape, called "Women Take Back the Night," drew about 200 people in a march from Wescoe Hall to South Park.
200 join in night rally against rape
By ANNE FITZGERALD Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Lisa Reddick says she sometimes feels like a prisoner in her home. Her freedom to come and go is smothered by her fear of being attacked.
"I resent being trapped in my house after dark if I don't have a car or someone to go out with."
TO PROTEST THAT FRAY, she joined about 200 people who braved cold and gusty winds last night in Lawrences's first "Women Take Back the Night" march and rally.
We students and faculty members, some with their children, and about as many men as women wound through Lawrence along a street on the 20th floor of 11th and Massachusetts streets, for the rally.
The crowd, which was larger than the organizers had expected, sang and chanted as it walked peacefully, accompanied by police escorts.
Many of the marches carried lighted candles. Others lit the way with flashlights.
People with red bands around their arms, who called themselves "peace keepers," made sure the crowd stayed in the part of the streets closed to traffic.
ONE FOREIGN student carried a copy of the Korean high above his head as he walked upstairs.
Farouk Saad, Khartoum, Sudan, graduate student, said if everyone understood the Islamic holy book's message about women, there would be no reason for such marches.
He said, "I was brought up to love and respect women because I am from a woman.
"Rape is basically a Western problem, and it's peculiarly American because of the demoralization of women by commercial advertising." Saad said.
Sue Bryant, who spoke at the rally, said that rape was a crime against all women, a crime of oppression against young girls and old women alike.
BRYANT, ASSISTANT coordinator of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, told the crowd that important changes had been made in Lawrence and in other parts of the state to address the problem, but that more were needed.
In the past five years, rapes have increased 40 percent throughout the nation, she said. "It is one of our greatest challenges."
She said that unreported rapes were estimated to be from three to nine times as many as those reported, and that KU police estimate that 10 percent of these reports did not claim more than those reported.
She urged the crowd to change hopelessness into positive activities, such as the march or volunteer service for a rape victims' organization, to bring about the
Marci Francisco, former mayor of Lawrence, said that she took part in the march and rally because crime against women was a both a community and a private issue.
"I WAS ASSAULTED one night on the way home from a Lawrence City Commission meeting," she said. "The rally is a statement. I will so solve the problem, this is necessary."
Francisco said that it was often easy for people to ignore a problem when they were not personally affected by it.
"Women Take Back the Night," a candlelit protest march against rape, drew about 200 people last night. Above, Sue Bryant assistant coordinator of the March for Truth earlier, said that in the past five years, reported rapes has increased 40 percent.
Carlin says legislators dodged money issues
Bv JEFF TAYLOR
Staff Reporter
Gov. John Carlin opened fire on the Kansas Legislature yesterday, criticizing legislators for evading tax proposals and finance bills during the regular session that ended last Saturday.
Carlin also refuted verbal attacks from Republican leaders who have been traveling through the state since Monday criticizing him as a liberal-sedating governor.
"Whatever fault I have it want it shared with the Republican Legislature," he said. "I cannot add to or subract from their legislation. I can only approve or veto."
its cleanup session than any other Legislature in the state's history has, he said.
"They've created their own problems," he said. "They've put off so much because of the recession."
Carlin told about 150 Lawrence Kiwanis Club members and high school students at the All Seasons Motel, 2309 Iowa St., that his policies were an investment in the state and would not harm them.
NEXT WEDNESDAY, the Legislature will have to begin negotiating more state business in
Carlin said the transfer of general fund revenues collected from taxes on sales of cars and automobile parts would equal a 7 to 8 percent gasoline tax increase, or about $100 million.
However, critics in the Legislature have stood against some of Carlin's spending policies, including his plan to transfer money from the state's general fund to the highway fund.
"I WOULD LIKE to get the users fees you already pay to the highway department," he said. "People using the highways should pay for the highways. There's nothing wrong with that."
Opponents of the idea have said the state needs to keep such money in the general fund to help stimulate jobs.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, attended the speech and said after the meeting that he opposed Carlin's idea of transferring money from the general fund.
He said money could be used to increase funds at Regents universities.
but we agreed with Carlin that the Legislature too many financial matters pile up for the three
"We'RE GOING to have some of the biggest policy decisions of the session to solve," he said.
Senate confirms Adelman as new arms chief
See CARLIN page 5
WASHINGTON — The Senate, handing President Reagan an important victory, yesterday confirmed his controversial and hard-fought nomination of Kenneth Adelman as the nation's arms control chief.
Reagan expressed hope the vote would usher in a "new bipartisan consensus of arms reduction." Both he and Adelman pledged full consultation with Congress.
The Senate voted to confirm Adelman 57-42, a wider margin than expected, following three Republican votes.
By United Press International
Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calf, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, called Adelman's confirmation "a victory for the Democrat in control within the Kessigan administration."
BUT SENATE Democrats who fought the nomination were pessimistic.
Adelman, 36, said after the vote. "There are those who have said that I'm a little too young for this job. But you can bet that I don't feel young any more."
"NOW THAT THE debate and the vote are behind us, we should work vigorously to make progress on attaining a strong arms control on one encompassing real nuclear arms reductions.
Reagan chose Adelman to be director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Jan. 12 and refused to abandon the nomination despite repeated attacks on his qualifications and his top aides personally for Adelman in the days before the vote.
Adelman vowed to work hard for disarmament and echoed Reagan's call for bipartisanship.
"I believe that such close consultations can help our arms control efforts, which, in my view, must be bipartisan in order to be effective," he said.
"It's my earnest hope that this positive step will mark the beginning of a new bipartisan consensus on the vital issue of nuclear arms control," said Mr. statement to reporters two hours after the vote.
"As we seek equitable and verifiable agreements with the Soviet Union to reduce the arsenals and the risks of war we will need the advice and support of the Congress.
"I'm confident that with the full consultation with Congress and the development of our arms reduction initiatives the United States can be a model for genuine peace and progress in the world.
"AND IF WE'RE met with reciprocal seriousness of purpose from the Soviet Union, 1883 can be a year of historic importance in hard-hit civil and stable peace through arms reductions."
Adelman, a former student of U.N. Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrici who served as her deputy counsel in the Senate.
U.S. trying to stop arms flow to El Salvador, Reagan says
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan said yesterday that the United States was not trying to overthrow the revolutionary Sandinista government of Nicaragua but that it was taking steps to stop the supply of arms to leftist rebels in EL Salvador.
In a related event, the Pentagon and official sources said yesterday that U.S. radar surveillance planes periodically had been conducting an air traffic control operation on air traffic moving in and out of Nicaragua.
THE PENTAGON refused to give details about the operations of the sophisticated Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft, but the sources said the planes had been flying to the Central American region from their headquarters at Tinker Air Force Base, Okinawa.
Reagan, in a 12-minute news conference devoted primarily to questions about the U.S. role in fighting along the Nicaraguan-Honduran border; and Mr. Obama to try to show the Nicaraguan government
"Anything we are doing is aimed at inter-
援 supply lines and stopping efforts to
sell products."
Reagan's Central American policy is coming
under intense scrutiny by members of Congress who charge the administration is illegally supporting Nicaraguan insurgents and is attempting to increase U.S. involvement in El Sendero.
BUT REAGAN said flatly his administration was complying with an amendment by Rep. Edward Boland, D-Mass., that forbids military support for any organization "for the purpose of obtaining state government of Nicaragua provoicing a military exchange between Nicaragua and Honduras."
But he was equally firm in underlining his view that the leftist government in Managua is trying to topple the U.S.-supported regime in El Salvador.
"It is a revolutionary government that is trying to overthrow the government of a neighborly country, El Salvador, which was a former dictator in 1975. It is another election before the year is out," he said.
Reagan said the rulers in Nicaragua had "pledged to the United States that it would not attempt to overthrow any other governments, or to violate laws so violated that promise and are still violating it."
REPEATING HIS charge that Nicaragua "today has created the biggest military force in all of Central America," Reagan said the United
See REAGAN page 5
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny and not as cold with a high in the mid-50%, according to the forecast.
Winds will be from the west at about 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be fair with a low near 30. Saturday's high will be in the upper 50s. No precipitation is expected.