University Daily Kansan, April 5, 1983
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City Commission sanctions sewer study
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER
Staff Reporter
The Lawrence City Commission yesterday approved a budget for storm water management that included money for two drainage studies, after which the city will borrow by voters last spring of a 50-cent water fee to finance a drainage study.
The commission voted 3-1 to approve the budget, which would allocate $35,900 to two drainage studies. The budget also allocates $13,400 for equipment and $10,000 to match a grant that will be used to make aerial maps of the city.
COMMISSIONER Don Binns, who voted against the budget, said he thought the voters did not want more
money used to study drainage problems.
"If we do more studies they'll just sit on a shelf somewhere," Bims said. "It will be a waste of money. We should use the money to make improvements of the existing drainage system."
Commissioner Nancy Shontz,however, said that using the money for the studies would not be improper.
In other action at the meeting, a continuation of last Tuesday's meeting, the commission requested that the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission review and comment on plans for downtown redevelopment
The commission approved 2-1 a resolution authorizing continuation of the Downtown Improvement Committee, which has advised the city on plans for downtown redevelopment.
BINNS SAID he voted against the resolution because it was amended to make the mayor a non-voting member of the committee instead of a voting member.
The commission deferred a resolution that called for quarterly evaluations of the city manager after several changes were made in the resolution. The commission evaluated the evaluation in January with review sessions in April, July and October.
bums remained opposed to the resolution, saying that the commission should leave the decision to the new commission, which will meet together next week following today's general election.
The commission also amended and
approved on second reading a human relations ordinance that was heavily debated Tuesday night.
The amendment removed an option of the city to assess punitive damages in extraordinary cases.
THE ORDINANCE gives the city's Human Relations Commission the power to order back pay and compensate damages in cases of discrimination.
The commission also passed a motion to reconsider demolition of property at 725 New Jersey St. The commission had requested that the owner of the property make certain improvements in the structure by April 1. Because the owner failed to make the improvements, the commission decided to consider whether it should require the demolition at its April 26 meeting.
Pell Grant plan wouldn't affect aid for 1983-84
By SUSAN STANLEY
Staff Reporter
A proposal requiring students to pay 40 percent of their college costs before they can receive a federal grant will not change the university's KU financial aid official said Friday.
"It is so far down the road that we hate to alarm anyone about the possibility before there is a definite plan," said Donna Kempin, assistant director of the office of financial aid
DUNCAN HELMRICH, director of public information for the U.S. Department of Education, said the department was taking the proposal from President Reagan seriously and had suggested changes in the Pell Grant
program, a federally-administered program that provides up to $1,000 a year to a student based on financial need.
KU students received $7 million in Pell Grant money last year.
“There is no possible way that the program could be implemented right away,” Helmrich said. “But there is a lot of work we are paying for more of our education.”
Reagan has proposed that the Pell Grant program be phased out during the next two years. The money will go to finance a grant program that would give students money only after they have provided 40 percent of the total cost of attending school, or $800, whichever is larger.
THE MONEY can be supplied
through part-time jobs or student loans.
According to a table from the Department of Education, a student from a family with an income of $28,000 who wants to attend a school with a cost of $7,500 would be eligible for grants of up $1,440.
The student would provide 40 percent and the student's parents would have to provide the rest. The student would be unable for $820 under the old aid schedule.
A student from a family with the same income attending a "low-cost" school would not be eligible for grant money under the new proposal. The department defined low-cost as a total cost of $2,500 or less. He would
previously have been eligible for an $820 grant.
THE PROGRAM would give students from low-income families the chance to attend higher-cost schools, Helmrich said.
Reagan's proposed budget for fiscal 1984 requests an increase from $2.4 billion to $3.0 billion.
Helmrich said that if the proposed program were approved, the department would change its name to the Pell "Self-Helf" grant.
Kempin said that the program, if approved, would radically alter the Parks.
Joint resolution reached on TA contract dispute
"What is important to remember is that there are no changes for next year." Kempin said.
Staff Reporter
By SARA KEMPIN
KU administrators and graduate students have temporarily resolved the issue of notice provisions in the graduate teaching assistant contracts, the executive director of the Graduate Student Council said last week.
Tom Berger, the executive director, said during a meeting of the Senate Executive Committee that it temporarily resolution to the situation had been reached.
GRADUATE STUDENTS have objected to a provision in their contracts announced last semester that would allow the University to fire them with a notice of only 30 days. Previous contracts had no such provision.
In a recent letter to Berger, Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said she had asked deans to approve offers of appointments to GTAs for next year, using the old contracta for one-s semester-only appointments and a modified mite provision contract for yearlong contracts.
She said that based on the recommendations made by GradEx and the graduate students, she had removed the possibility of graduate teaching assistants being fired without notice before the fall 1984 semester. She also offered for (or the spring semester to) 45 days before the starting teaching responsibilities.
"Because of the need to retain flexibility to respond to unanticipated budgetary changes, I expect that some units may find it necessary to offer
more semester only appointments than in previous years," she said.
BERGER SAID he hoped that a newly formed Graduate Student Task Force, organized by Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, would provide the university with the necessary conflict over the notice provisions in the graduate assistant contracts.
SenEx also discussed a need to increase communication between the faculty on the Lawrence campus and the University Health Sciences in Kansas City, Kan.
Francis Cuppage, professor of pathology and chairman of the College of Health Sciences faculty steering committee, and Barbara Langer, an instructor in the department of pediatric nursing, told SenEx that they wanted more contact with the faculty at Lawrence.
"We need to have autonomy as it relates to budget matters, but we are a University and we need this University and faculty." Cuppage said.
SENEX DECIDED to recommend to the chancellor that he meet more often with the College of Health Sciences faculty to maintain a better relationship between the two campuses and increase communication.
SenEx voted to invite the faculty members of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation to their next meeting to discuss the recent firing of KU head basketball coach Ted Owens, as well as charges made by some professors that the University was a farm team for professional athletics.
SenEx also decided to start a committee to increase communication between faculty members on the two campuses.
House passes bill to aid
By DIANE LUBER
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA - Prospective medical students who want to practice in medically needy areas of the state after they graduate could still receive state scholarships this fall from the University of Kansas Medical Center, under a bill that the Kansas House passed yesterday.
The House voted 98-21 to pass the bill, which allocates funds to the Med Center through June 30, 1984. The bill includes money for 100 scholarshipsto students
entering medical school this fall.
During House debate, State Rep William Brady, D-Parsons, proposed an amendment to remove those funds from the bill.
GOV. JOHN CARLIN had recommended in his budget only enough money to continue the scholarship program, which was created in 1978, for those students already in medical school.
But a House Ways and Means subcommittee added $850,000 to the governor's proposal, which would allow marriages to new medical students this fall.
Brady said that according to information provided by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, the shortage was not as severe as it had been when the medical scholarship program began.
The program has done little to contribute to the increase in medical services, he said.
THE SUPPLY OF full-time physicians in the state has increased from 2,545 to 3,063 since the scholarship program began, Brady said.
And although 60 counties did not have enough physicians to deal with people's health, it was a good step.
1980, he said, the number of under-
served counties dropped to 36 in 1982
However, only 23 scholarship recipients have entered into practice as of the year.
House Speaker Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, defended the program and criticized Brady's amendment.
'When the medical scholarship program was created, tuition was dropped.
STATE REP. Robert. Robert Vancum, R-Overland Park, said he opposed continuing the program because applifficials had to prove financial need to obtain aid.
Actress Gloria Swanson dies in sleep at age 84
By United Press International
NEW YORK - Gloria Swanson, the ever-glamorous movie actress and health food fanatic who was one of the first Hollywood stars to make $1 million, died in her sleep yesterday. She was 84.
Swanson, who first appeared in silent films at age 15 and was last on the screen as herself in "Airport 1976," had a long career. She married John March 20, a week before her birthday.
THE HOSPITAL, at her family's request, did not disclose the nature of the illness, but a friend, Earl Blackwell, president of Celebrity Services, said last week the great-great-grandmother had suffered a heart attack.
Swanson's most acclaimed performance was in the 1950 Hollywood classic "Sunset Boulevard," playing the part of an aging actress living in a decaying mansion, at odds with the jarring reality of the present.
Legislature considers property reappraisal
TOPEKA—With four days left in the Legislature's scheduled session, the House decided to reconsider statewide property reappraisal, which would bring property values in line with current market values.
House members opposed to the reappraisal of property without first classifying that property killed a reappraisal bill yesterday morning, but in the afternoon voted to place the measure back on the House calendar*
OPPONENTS OF the measure have said that the Legislature should first send a classification resolution to
voters that would place property into different tax grounds.
Classification would require a two-thirds majority in the Legislature and voter approval, because the measure would alter the state Constitution.
Without classification, opponents have said, the property tax burden would shift from businesses to homeowners and farmers.
Gov. John Carlin has said he would veto a reappraisal bill unless the Legislature also approved classification
A resolution that would require
classification is currently on the House calender.
In a news conference yesterday, House Speaker Mike Hayden criticized Democrats in the lower chamber for not supporting the reappraisal bill.
State Rep. James Braden, R-Clay Center, told House members that the courts could order classification, if the Legislature did not send the issue to voters. Court-ordered classifications would be imposed on the House plan, which would require county appraisers to reappraise property during the next four years.
A bill that spells trouble for anyone possessing, reproducing or manufacturing a fake I.D. is on its way to the government, and if he signs it, will use it.
THE BILL WAS introduced by the House Federal and State Affairs Committee to deal with the problem of minors using false or copied identi-
The Kansas House yesterday unanimously approved Senate changes in the bill that would for the first time pass the permission of a fake I.D. a misdemeanor.
The bill also increases the penalty for lending a driver's license to an underage person for use in the purchase of liquor or beer.
cation to illegally purchase liquor or beer.
State Rep. Robert Vancrum, R-Overland Park, who had testified in support of the bill in both House and Senate committee hearings, said, "By increasing the penalty for a user, we can prevent him from step in cutting the use of fake I.D.s."
The bill would limit the kinds of
identification documents a person could submit to the Kansas Department of Revenue to receive a duplicate driver's license or a non-driver's identification card.
The bill would make lending an identification document to a person who tried to use it to falsely obtain a driver's license a misdeemeanor.
House OKs bill to outlaw false identification
Manufacturing a fake I.D. would be a felony and would carry a penalty of 5 years in prison and a $5,000 fine, if the bill becomes law.
Wastes foul Mexican water
By United Press International
MEXICO CITY — Virtually all of Mexico's rivers, lakes and coastal waters are polluted "from industrial and domestic wastes," a government spokesman said yesterday.
The capital alone has 35,000 factories that send untreated wastes into a river that empties into the Gulf of Mexico in the southwest. The Texas border, the spokesman said.
THE FINDINGS were contained in a study prepared by the Urban Development and Ecology Ministry, ministry spokesman Alberto Munoz said.
The study, completed recently, was made in order to establish short- and long-term environmental protection policies.
Munoz said
coverage in surface waters, mainly
in the country's 12 largest rivers.
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