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Tuesday, April 5, 1983 Vol. 93, No. 127 USPS 650-640
Profs fear low raises will deplete faculty
By MICHAEL BECK Staff Reporter
An exodus of faculty members may be the result of a proposed 4 percent increase in unclassified employees' salaries at the University of Kansas Medical Center, professors at the Med Center said yesterday.
Ralph Robinson, professor of diagnostic radiation, said that faculty members would probably not get the 9 percent increase in
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salaries they expected from the Legislature, and he was concerned that industries and other universities would coax some faculty members away from the Met Center...
BUT OTHER Med Center officials did not think that faculty would leave for higher salaries at other schools.
A 1982 report by the Association of American Medical Colleges, with salary figures adjusted for a 1983 increase of 7.5 percent, said the University of Kansas paid professors $7,000 less
The report said that KU also underpaid associate professors by $5,000 and assistant professors by $7,000.
tran other schools in the midwestern, western and southern regions.
Yesterday the Kansas House passed the Med Center's fiscal 1984 budget, but the budget did not include salaries. The House Ways and Means Committee will consider salaries for all Regents
"Nobody's happy about with the low increase," Robinson said. "I realize things are tight, but I can foresee people leaving because of this.
"INDUSTRY IS going to snatch these people up."
However, Eugene Staples, hospital administrator, said that if the Legislature passed the budget with the 4 percent increase, it would not threaten his leadership and faculty would not leave because of it.
Robinson said another reason that might cause faculty members to leave was Gov. John Carlin's proposed elimination of merit salary increases that reward some employees every five or 10 years for staying on at the Med Center.
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More than 250 people attended the 13th annual Easter sunrise The service was shortened slightly because of the unexpectedly service on Campanile Hill, despite the mid-30 degree weather. cold temperature.
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Snow, rain dampen Easter weekend
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Tatsu Fujita, Japan graduate student, yesterday found a snowman to keep him company on a bench outside Hashinger Hall.
By JOEL THORNTON
Staff Reporter
Wet snow, rain and high winds greeted thousands of students returning to Lawrence yesterday, many of whom endured a soggy Easter weekend at home.
Yesterday's snow was the first April snowstorm in Lawrence since 1979, according to the
Six people were injured in snow-related accidents in Lawrence this Easter weekend, a Lawrence Memorial Hospital spokesman said, the students were treated and released by yesterday afternoon.
THE DOUGLAS County Sheriff's Department reported eight accidents, only one involving an injury, during the weekend. Also, about to cars off county roads because of snow and slush.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported that many cars had skidded off the roads because of snow and rain. Only one injury was reported, on U.S. 40 west of Lecompton.
More rain and snow are expected today and should continue this week. Highs are predicted to be 12°C.
By 9 a.m. yesterday, the storm had dropped 5 inches of snow in Lawrence, 2 to 3 inches in
Topeka and 1 inch in the Kansas City area, Wichita reported only a trace of snow, according to weather reports.
A STORM SYSTEM that developed in the Southwest was responsible for bringing the snowstorm to most of Kansas, said Steve Kays, meteorologist for the National Weather Service.
A winter storm warning was in effect last night for much of the state, with an additional 5 to 9 inches of snow expected in the west and 2 to 4 inches in the central portion of the state. A major storm has been reported, remaining areas of the state and a flash flood warning was issued for the southeast.
Robert Porter, KU associate director of physical plant operations, said crews were on campus yesterday at 5 a.m. to remove snow from the streets.
Special emphasis was placed on clearing streets and parking lots near the Kenneth A. Spencer Research Library to accommodate visitors who wanted to see the Magna Charta, which is on display at the library through tomorrow.
PORTER SAID he did not expect the snow to interfere with campus travel today.
in other areas of the country, jetstream winds diminished in Florida, permitting the maiden launch of the space shuttle Challenger.
Final draft of severance tax awaits Senate debate, vote
By JEFF TAYLOR
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — House Democrats yesterday morning united behind Gov. John Carlin's request to defeat a severance tax feared to be unconstitutional and late in the day passed a severance tax that House leaders said would stand in court.
By a vote of 85-35, the House killed a controversial severance tax that had been tentatively approved Thursday. Democratic leaders said it did not levy an equal tax against all counties and thus could have been declared unconstitutional.
THE BILL approved by the House will be sent to the Senate for concuring approval. The proposal includes an 8 percent tax against natural gas and oil producers, a 3.5 percent rebate to oil-producing counties and a 1 percent rebate for natural gas-producing counties.
The rebates were included in the tax to make up for property taxes assessed against mineral rights.
The severance tax that was considered
unconstitutional also included a tax rebate for mineral producers.
But it included an amendment from State Rep. Robert Vancrum, R-Overland Park, that would have allowed producers to deduct a percentage of the property taxes they paid compared to the oil or gas they produced. Because property taxes vary among counties, some producers would end up paying more than others, making the proposal potentially unconstitutional.
THE FINAL DRAFT of the severance tax includes taxation of royalty owners, who are paid for one-eighth of the oil or natural gas produced on their leased land. Royalty owners would not have been taxed under Carlin's tax plan
State Rep. James Braden, R-Clay Center, told House members that the severance tax they finally passed would raise about $111 million for the state.
Under the final tax plan, 6.6 percent of the money raised will be returned to the mineral-producing counties. Nearly $103 million of the tax revenues will be put into the state's general budget.
Braden, chairman of the House Assessment
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Magna Charta gets warm reception despite chilly weather
The Magna Charta, on display until tomorrow at the Kenneth A. Spencer Research Library, was viewed by more than 1,000 people on Sunday, its first day of exhibition here. The English document is regarded by some as the basis of the American Constitution.
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By JENNIFER FINE
Staff Reporter
A spring snowfall yesterday failed to keep people away from the document that is considered to be the parent of the American Constitution.
The smaller can be viewed between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., and tomorrow between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. After viewing hours each day it is taken to a local bank vault in an armored
About 2,000 people trudged in from the wet snow for the second day of the display of the Magna Charta at the Kenneth A. Spencer Research Library.
Sixteen groups of students from nearby schools, some with as many as 160 people, were among those who saw the document yesterday. Reactions to the charter ranged from "old" to "it's something you ought to see at least once."
Outside Sunday on the terrace of Spencer, five musicians played recorders for a group of six people dancing and playing a medieval game of ball while the line of people waiting to see the charter began weaving around the terrace.
By 3 p.m., when the exhibit was opened to the pubic, the line had stretched around the terrace, over to Snow Hall and toward JavHAwk Boulevard.
THE DISPLAY of the Magna Charta opened at 2 p.m. Sunday with a showing ror state and local legislators and KU administrators.
Andy Sterling, assistant tour director for the Magna Charta in America Foundation, said the crowd Sunday was one of the largest he had seen.
STERLING, WHO has been to about 20 cities with the Magna Charta during the last year and a half, said the foundation had collected 500 people see the exhibition in an eight-hour day.
Lee Sterling, Andy's father, also works with the Magna Charta in America Foundation, said that Sunday's attendance during the four hours the exhibit was open was estimated at 1,000. He said that between 75 people were turned away near closing time.
Thelma Helyar, a librarian for the Center for Public Affairs, said Sunday that she had been standing in line about 45 minutes but
that she thought seeing the charter was worth the wait.
Helyar once lived in a London suburb, and had seen a copy of the Maggar Charia, to
"WHEN I SAW it in Salisbury, I was so impressed to think that this had been around for such a long time, and it's still important," she said.
Michael Davis, dean of the School of Law and co-chairman of the committee organizing the display, was at the opening on Sunday.
"I thought it was a great thing to see it. It's one of less than a half dozen punctuation marks in the development of English and American history," he said.
He said that Deanall Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs and professor of law, was behind him in line viewing the document, and that they both thought that the opportunity to have the Magna Charta at KU was worth it. He also told the committee during the past few months.
Inside the library, people passed by an exhibit of charters and seals from the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries from the Spencer collection. An explanation of the history of the Marca Charta.
THE MAGNA CHARTA, written in Latin on a 18-inch square of animal-skin parchment, probably either cow or sheep skin, is in a wood case covered by one-inch thick bullet-proof plastic and is flanked by two guards.
It is one of four remaining copies of the original 20.
THE MAGNA CHARTA was written on June 15, 1215, to protect the rights of the people from the rule of the king under a government of laws. Twenty copies were made and sent to be read throughout England.
A description of the Lincoln Cathedral, where the document is kept, and proclamations from Gov. John Carlin, the Kansas Governor, and the city of Lawrence also are displayed.
Its visit to the University has been underwritten by the KU Endowment Association, the Friends of the Library and others.
The copy displayed in Spencer was sent to Lincoln, a cathedral city in England. At the end of the month it was placed in the Lincoln Building, stamping, where it remains when it is not on tour.
Linda Thurston is happier than she has been for a long time despite the tired feet, long hours and hard work of operating the Emma Chase Cafe in Cottonwood Falls, near Emporia.
Activist retreats from city life to run rural cafe
Staff Reporter
By ANNE FITZGERALD
"I hum while I flip pancakes." Thurston said. "I haven't hummed as I worked for years."
An avid feminist, Thurston is the single mother of an 11-year-old son and has a doctorate in developmental and child psychology from the University of Kansas.
SHE GAVE THE keynote address Friday at the Feminist Survival' conference at the Women's Center.
Last fall, Thurston quit her job as director of a women's survival skills project at Juniper Gardens—a learning center for women in a Kansas City, Kan., housing project—packed some belongings and leased out her house. She then headed for the hills—the Flint Hills.
There, the 57-year-old native of Chase County and a partner from Kansas City, Linda Wooed.
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Weather
The high today will be in the upper 30s, and winds will be from the north at 15 to 25 mph, according to the National Weather Service in Tuneka.
There is a 90 percent chance of rain or snow both today and tonight. The low tonight will be 25.
Tomorrow's high will he 40 with a chance of rain or snow.
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