The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Thursday, April 7,1983 Vol.93,No.129 USPS 650-640
Budget compromise cuts high-tech funds
By JEFF TAYLOR Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — In a game of compromise, Senate members of a six-man conference committee gave into demands from House members and shaved $400,000 from the $1.4 million Plan to improve high-technology programs at four Board of Regents universities.
During a six-hour review of conflicting Senate and House Regents proposals for fiscal 1984, the legislators struck a bargain on the Senate high-tech package, which scrapped Gov. John Carlin's plan to make $1.5 million available in the schooloo that could attract private research money.
INSTEAD, THE COMMITTEE altered the Senate $1.4 million proposal and agreed to dispense only $1 million to the University of Pittsburgh and the State University and Pittsburgh State University.
Details for distributing the $1 million have not been worked out, but each university would have to come up with funds from private industries to match the state's allocation.
Also, the high-technology proposal would allocate $75,000 to the Kansas Department of Economic Development to hire a high-technology director who would be responsible for organizing contacts between Regents universities and private businesses.
Senate members lost part of their high-technology package, but haggled with House members on their 5.5 percent increase for the budget. The committee squeezed an extra $400,000 into the OQE budget.
THE OOE COMPROMISE increased funds for fiscal 1984 by 6.5 percent. Universities use OOE money to buy such materials as library books and penicals.
Legislators from both sides of the aisle disagree about using the money to improve high-technology programs at Regents universities.
State Rep. Bill Bunten, R-Topeka and House Ways and Means Committee chairman, said the entire $1.4 million high-techology plan should
be thrown away because the money could be used for other university needs.
"Every state in the union now has this catchy little phrase 'high technology' and they think they're going to be another Silicon Valley frog," she logic of putting nearly $1.5 million into a brand new program."
BUT STATE SEN. PAUL HESH, R-Wichita and Senate Ways and Means Committee chairman, said other states were running away with the state's industries that were not looking to Kapsau to build.
"in you stack the money into OOE and they buy penels with it, you don't get a match for that." he said. "Those dollars can go a lot further if we use them for the high-tech match approach."
Hess persuaded the House members to increase OCE to 6.5 percent, but said the $1.4 million should be used strictly to finance new equipment and high-technology research.
members of a subcommittee assigned to work out differences in how the $1 million would be dispensed to the universities could not come to agreement. Sen. Wint Winter Jr., a subcommittee member.
WINTER, R-LAWRENCE, said House members of the subcommittee wanted the Kansas Department of Economic Development to control distribution of the money.
senate members of the subcommittee disagreed with their proposal, Winter said.
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The subcommittee must report its decisions today. Under one possible plan, the committee would allocate $120,000 to each of three "centers of excellence" — KU, K-State and Pittsburgh State. The remaining $640,000 would be split by all four Regents universities included in the high-techology package.
OTHER COMPROMISES. House members conceded to a Senate proposal to drop a state work-study program from the Regents budget. Carlin asked the Legislature to spend $700,000 on the work-study program. But the House reduced the $700,000 to $622,000 and the Senate decided not to finance the program at all.
However, the committee agreed to place work-study in the session's final appropriations measure, the omnibus bill.
A new head basketball coach will likely be named today at the University of Kansas.
Lonnie Rose, head of the coach's search committee, said last night, "I would expect a decision in the next few days, maybe even tomorrow."
Rose said the search committee met yesterday and decided on a final list of applicants ranked in order of preference. He met with officials of the hospital about an hour and submitted the committee's recommendation for final approval.
He said he did not know how long affirmative action would take in approving the list, but said the officials did not mention any problems during the meeting.
"After we get approval from them, we can proceed along with the recommendation of our client."
THE NEXT MOVE FOR the University will be for Athletic Director Monte Johnson to
contact the top candidate. Rose said. If a he does not accept the offer, the next candidate on the list will receive an offer.
Johnson could not be reached for comment. Rose denied reports that the committee had had difficulty finding top candidates for the position.
"I can't tell you how sought after this position really is." Rose said. "We haven't had a problem finding a candidate, we've had problems deciding which of these excellent candidates could do the best job for the University of Kansas.
"WISH I Could TELL you right now the names of some of these people who are interested in the job. You would say, 'No kidding!' and all, all, he答应的 everybody on the list."
Rose said he could not release any of the names on the list or the number of candidates still being considered.
Today will be mostly cloudy, and the high will be 45, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Winds will be from the northeast at 5 to 15 mph.
Weather
Tonight will be cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain or snow. The low will be 35
Tomorrow will be cloudy with rain or snow likely. The high will be 40.
Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun spoke to a packed the Supreme Court. Blackmun came to campus as part of the auditorium in Murphy Hall yesterday about his experiences on Judge Nelson Timothy Stephens Lecture Series.
Blackmun visit draws anti-abortion protest
By JENNIFER FINE
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
While U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun described the work of the nation's high court as "grim, controversial and competitive" yesterday to a packed theatre, people outside reflected the controversy with hanners of protest.
About 45 people, wearing black arm bands and carrying two 20-fool banners, stood outside Murphy Hall where Blackmun spoke in the Crafton-Prever Theatre.
ONE OF THE BANNERS said, "Since 1973—12 Million Innocent Killed. IS THIS JUSTICE?" and another "Supreme Court Decisions — 1857 - Drd Scott - Blacks aren't people - Taney 1793 - Roe v. Wade - Unborn Children aren't People - Blackmun."
They handed out fliers with the number of American casualties from various wars, including the Civil War, World War I and World War II, ending with the "War on the Unborn."
man's rule in writing in the court's opinion in the 1973 Roe v. Wade case, which established abortion laws.
paved the way for more liberal abortion laws.
Steve Schonberg, a member of New Life Christian Fellowship and organizer of the abortion rights movement, reports a coalition of different groups against abortion.
The demonstrators were protesting Black
"Our purpose is to bring some of the facts of what's happening to the conscience of the people. We're obviously taking advantage of the opportunity of Justice Blackmun being here as a means of bringing the decision to attention." he said.
INSIDE, BLACKMUN TALKED about the positive and negative aspects of the court, and some of the light-hearted aspects of the sometimes eccentric nine justices.
Blackmum, who has served on the high court for 12 years, described the court as a place where justice were forced to view such things as widespread drug problems, crime, challenges to the guarantees in the bill of Rights that injury injuries to life, property and human spirit.
Blackmun emphasized the role of the
Constitution and the Bill of Rights, which he said people could forget.
Blackmun graduated from Harvard Law School in 1332 and has worked with a private law firm and taught law.
He was appointed to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Paul, Minn., by President Eisenhower, where he served 11 years before President Nixon nominated him to
AND ALONG WITH THE positive and negative issues, justices must deal with those that are neither, but rather are matters of public interest. If the court affirms action or closed criminal trials.
Blackmun said that working with eight "prima donna" was hard work, and that the justice had learned to work through inevitable tense moments through compromise, but he alsoJoined about becoming accounted for as "brother" — Sandra Day O'Cannon — a sister.
He stressed the importance of people realizing the accessibility of the court.
See BLACKMUN page 5
$5.1 million athletic budget proposed
Staff Reporter
The KU athletic department has projected its income and expenses at more than $5 million for fiscal year 1984, an increase of 21.6 percent over last year, the proposed athletic department budget shows.
By ANDREW HARTLEY
budget shows.
The athletic department anticipates an increase in income and expenditures of more than $900,000 over last year's budget, bringing next year's budget to $5,143,965. The increase is the largest in at least four years.
the hats given to the new players.
The largest percentage increase in a single sport was in the football program, which would be allocated 32.9 percent more money for operating expenses and 21.5 percent more in salaries than last year.
THE INCREASE WOULD PROPEL the overall football budget to more than $2 million.
The proposed budget, which has been in the planning stage since February and was obtained yesterday by the Kansan, was completed this week and today will be sent to members of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board for examination.
The KUAC board will meet at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Southeast Lounge of the Frank R. Burge Union to decide whether to adopt the budget.
FOOTBALL TRAVEL COSTS ARE expected to rise 48 percent, partly because KU will travel to Los Angeles next fall to play the University of Southern California.
Other increases in operating expenses requested by the football program were in recruiting, which would increase 25 percent to 30 percent over supplies, which would increase 60 percent.
The increase in the salaries is accounted for by the addition of a ninth coach and by one of the remaining years on the contract of Don Fambrough, who was fired as head coach in December, said Susan Wachter, athletic department business manager.
The remaining football coaches' salaries would rise by only 4 percent over last year,
Income from the football program, however, is only expected to increase 10.4 percent, the budget says. Projected income is placed at $1,775,000, which is about $160,000 more than last
income is an assumption that the average paid football attendance will be 23,288. The 1982 average was 31,723. Wachter said.
BUILT INTO THE ESTIMATE of football
The budget also assumes that the base rate of increase recommended by the state would be honored. The rates are a 4 percent increase for salaries and a 7 percent increase for operating expenses.
The greatest burden of income for the athletic department budget will be placed on the increase in television and radio advertising, as well as the longest last year's budgeted amount — and the Williams Educational Fund.
A push by the Williams Fund to have its members increase their contributions over the next several years is expected to bring an increase in income of 19.7 percent. The Williams Fund accounts for about one-third of the athletic department income.
THE BUDGET ALSO PROJECTS that basketball income will increase next year by 12.1 percent, based on an average of 10,020 paid fans a game. This past year, the average attendance
The overall budgets for all of the other athletic department programs at the University are also
See ATHLETICS page 5
Some officials,profs oppose raising class loads
By DAVID POWLS
Staff Reporter
Officials and faculty members in the departments of English and mathematics said yesterday that they opposed a plan by the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences that would require them to teach more courses instead of canceling them.
LAST WEEK, OFFICIALS in the department of English found out they had been allocated $48,000 less than last year to hire graduate teaching assistants for fiscal 1984, a 10 percent reduction. Officials in the department of mathematics found out they would receive $63,000 less than last year, an 18 percent reduction.
"All the faculty realize that we have some real problems and they are committed to the teaching mission," Lineberry says. "We are expecting an increase in freshmen next fall and we have an obligation to meet their legitimate needs."
But Robert Lineberry, dean of the College, said he thought the officials and faculty members would recognize the seriousness of the budget situation and agree to make further changes.
Michael Johnson, professor of English, said he opposed the plan. He refused to comment further on the dean's letter, he said, because officials in his department would meet with Lineberry
IN A LETTER ADDRESSED to the chairman of the English department, Lineberry said, "I regard it as essential to the well-being of the College, and indeed of the University, that we teach as many students in elementary English courses at our campus as there are to my estimates, this will require that something on the order of 25 sections of such courses be taken over by regular faculty members.
"I expect, accordingly, that you will serve as many students in 100 and 200 level courses as you did in fiscal year 1983. I also expect that the sections of English 050, 359, 360 and 363 that you will take have been included in a module amidning the Office of Admissions and Records to restore those sections."
LINEBERRY RETURNED the English courses to the timetable because, he said, "until we reach an agreement, we should not disadvantage any students."
today to gerhard Zuther, chairman of the department, also refused to comment on the letter or its implications.
In the letter, Lineberry argued that if canceled courses resulted in a substantial decrease in student enrollment, the College's budget would also be reduced in the future.
Last week he said that some excess shrinkage money might be available for departments throughout the year, but in his letter he said that he did not have much hope for such money.
"Though we may resent it, we all know that our funding is and will continue to be enrollment-driven," he said.
"Shrinkage returns are down dramatically, and virtually all of what we expect to generate is already up in long-standing commitments," he said.
Shrinkage money, he said, is 2 percent of the College's budget that is paid back to the state because some faculty go on leave, transfer or die.
CHARLES HIMMELBERG, chairman of the department of mathematics, said that it would be impossible for his faculty to increase their teaching loads because they were already overloaded to the limit.
Last week Himmelberg said that next fall could be a disaster because his department did not have enough faculty to teach all the courses.
"We have the same amount of faculty members that we had in 1971, but student enrollment has increased by about 10,000," he said.
He also said that Math 002 and Math 113 would not be offered next fall, affecting the enrollment of about 1,600 students.
Fred VanVleck, professor of mathematics, said that any further increase in teaching loads would decrease the quality of teaching and reduce research in the department.
Himmelberg said that a final decision as to what his department would do concerning the budget would be made on or before Friday because enrollment starts Monday.
1912 60 580 he explained student credit hours by saying that in a five-hour credit class with 20 students the student credit hours would be 100.
"It's true that junior colleges teach larger loads, but their teachers don't do research," VanVleck said. "We have to make a choice between a juco-type department or a university-type department."
HE ALSO SAID THAT the average number of student credit hours that a math professor taught in a semester had increased from 310 in 1975 to 360 this year.
Prof sends letters about shortages to state officials
By JOEL THORNTON Staff Reporter
Earl Schweppe thought some people should know about the canceled class sections and the shortage of faculty in the KU computer science department, so he wrote a few letters — more than 200 of them.
Gov. John Carlin, Chancellor Gene A. Budig and all state legislators were among the people who were sent a letter this week from Schweppe, professor of computer science, that detailed how state budget reductions were hurting the computer science department.
SCHWEPPE SAID HE WAS careful to write the letter in a factual tone, concentrating on the effects of the Legislature's budget reductions on his department, instead of in a complaining tone.
The letters were typed by his wife, Mary. Private donations paid for postage and stationery.
Schwepe said he and his wife drove to Topeka
See LETTER page 5