University Daily Kansan, April 8, 1983
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Fee
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"It's good that students have a choice on the fee by voting in the referendum. But at this point, the Regents already know what our opinion is."
Included in the petition for the $15 fee is a sunset clause, which would automatically eliminate the fee after three years. But Raleigh questioned its effectiveness.
"The three year sunset clause attached to the proposal will not be effective," he said. "They'll implement it."
ADMINISTRATORS have said that if the regents do not accept the sunset clause, they may not accept the sundown clause.
David Adkins, former student body president and acting coordinator of the Student Senate Transportation Board, said, "I'd rather go with no fee. My first reaction was just outrage. I could not believe it. The Legislature has to take more responsibility for financing higher education in the state, and the University has to articulate its needs better."
He said that later, however, he decided the fee was needed to guarantee that students receive a
"The in final analysis, education is still a very good bargain at KU, and for us to cut off our nose to spite our face is short sighted. The $15 is a small price to pay for increasing the quality of education at KU. But it's still very discouraging."
WOODS SAID THAT in view of the current
state financial situation, anything the University could do to improve the library and other equipment would be welcome.
Sigler said, "i'd use a lot of equipment and computers. I haven't come across a huge need for more equipment and library acquisitions but the instruction we think we need it, then I guess we do."
Rasure said, "The general fund is strapped. The money has got to come from somewhere. I think I receive an excellent education from the University for the price."
"SCHOOL. WILL build walls around them-
selves to protect their budgets," he said.
Adkins said he hoped the University could avoid a differential tuition system, where schools that offer courses that cost more would charge a higher price for tuition.
Turner said, "I'm all for having different fees for different schools. I think it would be much more efficient."
But Adkins said that several schools in the University were already requesting that they be allowed to charge students special fees.
"I will protect very strongly against the $15
(say) I don't think people know as much about it,
as they do."
Coffelt said, "We probably won't get enough votes to make the referendum valid anyway. The students have not received enough information about it. No one makes an effort to reach the off-campus people."
Shuttle
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been used in the vacuum of space, tried out tools and work techniques designed for later flights and exclaimed over such sights as the Hawaiian Islands passing by 176 miles below.
A series of brief telecasts from Challenger showed their ghostly figures, dwarfed by the size of the ship and its satellite-launching equipment, bobbing like parade balloons at the end of 50-foot safety tethers that kept them from floating off into space.
The key accomplishment of the walk was to prove the new spacesuits had been cured of
problems that caused them to fail during their debut on the last shuttle mission five months ago, barring a similar spacewalk by astronauts Joseph Allen and William Leonir.
OFFICIALS ON the ground were delighted at the result.
"I thought it went amazingly well," said Harley Stutesman, assistant chief of the crew systems division at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
"We have demonstrated that except for some very minor things, (the new spaceunit) is a very small object."
Editor's note: KU students will be voting Monday on whether to recommend that a $15 academic service fee be added to student fees. The fee, which was proposed by KU administrators, would go into effect next fall and continue until June 30, 1888. KU administrators think the fee is needed to finance KU library acquisitions, academic computing and equipment because of the expected shortfall in state financing this year.
Few options to $15 fee, officials say
The Student Senate approved the fee and decided to let students vote on the proposal. No matter what the students decide, however, the final decision will be made by Regents will make the final decision on the fee.
Kansan reporter Joel Thornton asked Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, and Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, about the reasons behind the proposed fee.
Cobb: It was in the best collective judgment of the vice chancellors that if we were to shore up the ongoing needs of the University, especially in the areas of library, computing and equipment, that we needed to find some means by which we could offset in part the consequences of the combination of the recision, enrollment adjustment and prospective shortfall in research-oriented recovery. The first figure is of course the large one, in excess of $3 million or approximately 4.3 percent of the generate use budget of the University, which was received last year by Gov. John Carlin. The second figure was approximately $500,000; the third figure is a problematic one, because it is no certainty that shortfall will indeed occur, but the prospect of it, particularly in combination with the other two, presented us with this serious set of circumstances.
Since those three areas represent the very lifeblood of the University and since they are areas we all value, then it seemed to us, as difficult and painful as it might be, that this was the most responsible course of action given those sets of circumstances. We're of course extremely gratified that the Student Senate Finance Committee has endorsed it.
Q: What other options did the administration provide in lieu of the $4.5 fee?
because there appeared to be no others at our disposal, since the Legislature both appropriates from the state general revenues and reappropriates the fees collected.
This device, especially if it were to receive the support of the students, would be one way in which we had reason to believe that the problem or problems might be addressed.
Personally, I hope that everyone understands that all of this all along has been advisory to the Chancellor, just as the Chancellor's recommendations that might be forthcoming at the end of this process would be a request to the Board of Regents. And none of this would occur unless both the Chancellor and the Board of Regents had endorsed it.
Q: How much money will this $15 fee generate
and how will the revenue be allocated?
Cobb: I think we considered few others,
Tacha: It would generate over the course of the year, approximately $550,000. It depends, of course, on enrollment because it would be on a per student basis. That money, we have said, would be allocated roughly equally among computing, equipment and library acquisitions. In this case the purchase or maintenance of periodicals and books — it does not go to staff requirements.
Q: Do you think a $15 fee, in addition to student fees, might be viewed by some legalists as a signal that KU students would be willing to pick up their education or that the Legislature would not nav?
Tacha: I think the Legislature this year is in a particularly difficult position because of the revenue situation in the state. It would be my hope that with the student interest in this for a short term and because of the sunset clause that is in the fee, that the Legislature might simply have an attempt by students to work with the state in addressing the problems of higher education.
Q: Some have said that they view the $15 fee as a dangerous precedent, possibly opening the way for a number of extra fees being added to student loans in the future. Do you see this as becoming a norm?
Tacha; It is my understanding that the Board of Regents intends to study and make a proposal about a fee and tuition policy that might be considered next year for the next year. I would
hope it might address some rationalization of appropriate restricted fees and appropriate across-the-board tuition. I'm sure students understand the differences — tuition is paid into the general fund, which is the fund from which the University's total budget is partially funded, so that those funds become part of the total funds available for the state.
Restricted fees, on the other hand, come directly back to the generating institution.
Q: How much benefit will the money generated from the $15 fee provide in library services?
Q: Would you see any significance if the students selected the fee?
Cobb: I think that if, as Dr. Tacha indicated,
we're talking about a total revenue of $550,000 or
$000,000, and the question is what does the
non-availability of that amount of money do,
especially in these three areas for which the
academic services fee is designed. I think
there's no question but that without some
improvement in our support for those three
areas that there are consequences that are more
or less severe in a given year.
Cobb: Most especially, I think, although it is true that the Chancellor's position on the issue is not yet known and he has not made the decision to accept the proposal. Believes he would be informed by the referendum;
Q: If the Legislature decided to appropriate more money to the University, would it eliminate the need for the proposal?
Cobb: It's my personal feeling that the need is a chronic one. However, if the Legislature, in the last few days of the session, were to improve the funding of the University of Kansas, then quite clearly that would have a direct bearing whether or not any proposal of this kind would go forward.
Philosophically, I think many of us would prefer a single tuition figure from which all of the activities of the University are supported. That is not at the moment available to us. That is one of the reasons for the recommendation, that as I indicated earlier, I believe represents the best judgment of the vice chancellors and myself.
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