University Daily Kansan, March 29, 1983
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Forty seek Owens' job; committee reviews list
The search committee to find a replacement for head basketball coach Ted Owens has compiled a list of 40 candidates for the position, the chairman of the committee said yesterday.
Owens was fired by Athletic Director Monte Johnson March 20.
"The list includes the names of some of the top coaches in the nation and some who are not household names but have experience with good winning seasons, recruiting and tournament appearances," said Laurence Rose, professor of law and chairman of the committee.
THE SEVEN-MEMBER committee met for two hours yesterday
the first time since it was formed Wednesday.
Of those 40 names, Rose said, 30 of the candidates have filed applications or said they were interested in the job. The remaining 10 are unattested. None of them must have not yet said they were interested in the position.
The next step in the search for a basketball coach will be for the committee members to confirm that the 40 candidates are still interested and to check resumes and referrals. The committee should do down until next week. Rose said.
A FINAL VOTE THAT designates the committee's choice for the position will not be taken before applications are closed April 6.
Center seeks women to honor
Nominations for outstanding women at the University of Kansas are now being accepted by the Emily Taylor Wonges's Resource Center.
Kelly Bovee, a secretary at the center, said the winners would be honored next month at the 14th annual Women's Recognition Dinner, sponsored by the KU Commission on the Status of Women.
Anyone at the University can nominate female faculty members, students or staff, she said. Two or three letters supporting each candidate must ac-
THE COMMISSION ON the Status of Women founded the Hall of Fame in 1970, when five women were inducted.
contributed to the University and to Lawrence.
Bovee said that five or six women were inducted each year into the Hall of Fame. She said that those nominees had a lot to offer outstanding in their field and have
Other award categories, Bovee said, include six for female students; women in community services, health care and international and non-traditional women.
The Women's Center will accept nominations until 5 p.m. April 6, she said.
In addition, outstanding women teachers and non-faculty staff members are eligible for nomination.
One woman in each of the categories will win an award. Each of the student winners also will receive a stipend, Bovee said.
Police report string of thefts at McCollum, Ellsworth halls
A rash of thefts from rooms has broken out in McCollum and Eilworth halls during the past few days, a KU official said yesterday.
Elizabeth Phillips, who keeps records for KU police, said about 10 thefts had been reported to police in as many days.
HE SAID THAT police were investigating the crimes but that not enough evidence had been gathered to warrant assigning a detective to the cases.
Jim Denney, KU police director, said that one theft often was responsible in such situations involving a string of weapons or drugs. The thefts also could be committing the thefts.
Police records show that three purses and a wallet were stolen from Elsas.
Phillips said jantors at Ellsworth had found the purses in the trash chutes. None of the money or credit was missing, removed from the purses, she said.
Denney said almost all the thefts had been of purses or wallets from unlocked rooms.
"Students must realize that their rooms are not like their bedrooms at home," he said. "The people across the hall are not their family."
"Students must lock their rooms even when they're just going to the bathroom.
"It itkes less than two seconds to step into an unlocked room, grab a purse and go back into the hall, looking perfectly innocent."
On the record
A BURGLAR STOLE a bicycle yesterday, worth $1,200, from Mick's Bicycles, 1339 Massachusetts St., police said.
A 1967 FORD PICKUP TRUCK was stolen from the 1200 block of Kernemann Street.
A THEIF STOLE an electrical circuit box Sunday, valued at $20, from the fifth floor of McCollum Hall, KU police said.
A BICYCLE, worth an estimated $100, was stolen last weekend from the back rack at Oliver Hall, KU police said.
House committee reworks severance tax
By JEFF TAYLOR Staff Reporter
A House committee stripped away Senate exemptions from a muddied severance tax yesterday, approving a 4 percent tax on oil and a 7 percent tax on gas.
In a version that revamped a Senate-approved 8 percent severance tax, the House Assessment and Taxation Committee excluded coal and salt producers that were included in the Senate plan.
OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY spokesmen strongly favored the Senate credit for property taxes, but Gov. John Walters opposed strong addition to such tax brackets.
The committee also rejected a Senate proposal that allowed producers to deduct property taxes from their severance tax liability.
However, the House package included a Senate suggestion to tax
State Rep, James Braden, R-Wakefield, said the bill adopted by his committee showed Carlin that the House was willing to compromise if the governor would bend on key parts of other tax packages.
"It's a fair compromise," Braden said. "It's certainly less than the governor recommended, but it's a much cleaner bill.
Both the House and Senate proposals fell below Carlin's revenue expectations. Carlin asked for a 7 percent tax that he said would raise $172.5 million.
BUT, HE SAID, "I'm sure there will be a lot of attempts on the floor to chair
royalty owners, a tax source Carlin had not asked the Legislature to consider.
State Sen. Charlie Angell, R-Plains,
agreed that the Senate would reject the
changes made in the tax plan. He said
that it is important to remove the
property tax credit.
However, Braden said he expected the bill would return to the Senate virtually unchanged. But he said he did not expect the Senate to concur with
The House version would raise an estimated $97.5 million for the state's general fund. The Senate plan was estimated to bring in $00 million.
"He knows there are a few steps to go in the process, but this is the type of bill he wants to see come out of the Legislature this year, as opposed to the one that came out of the Senate," Swenson said.
changes and said the tax plan would end up in conference committee, where members of both chambers could iron out differences.
"What you're going to do, really, is put some wells out of business," he said. "The House kept putting pressure on the Senate to pass the severance tax, and we get a tax over there, and they don't pass a true severance tax."
Braden said the House tax plan was actually an excise tax, because the tax would be levied only against the oil and gas each industry produced.
MIKE SWENSON, Carlin's press secretary, said the governor considered the House bill more palatable than the Senate version, which offered numerous exemptions to the industry and included an expiration date of July 1, 1986 that was removed by the committee.
However, Don Schnacke, leading spokesman for the Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association, said the bill would allow oil and gas producers out of the state.
SMALL PRODUCERS, called strippers, were exempted from the House
"This is the most punitive bill we've seen here in three years," he said. "At least the Senate bill protected and gave a little bit of incentive to the industry. The message to the industry is, 'Just quit in Kansas.'"
Graduate-student loans won't suffer, officials say
If Carlin signs the bill as approved by the House committee, the minerals tax would take effect on May 1.
Information for this story was also supplied by United Press International.
By SUSAN STANLEY
Staff Reporter
Financialaid officials say that graduate students don't need to worry about Reagan's proposal to strip away part of their student loans.
Congress is expected to vote next month on a proposal to double the administrative charge, called the origination fee, for Guaranteed Student
"As I see it the prospects for its passage are nil to 0.01 percent," John Dean, assistant council to the House committee on Education and Labor,
THE PROPOSAL WOULD double the origination fee, used to defray the costs to the government and banks in administering the program, from 5 to 10 percent.
For example, if a graduate student received the maximum loan of $5,000 in
DEAN SAID THAT the House Education and Labor committee members had decided not to support the measure because a decrease in the interest rate of the 90-day Treasury bills to which the measure had fed had cut the cost of the program.
The origination fee is now 5 percent for both undergraduate and graduate students, and the fee will remain at 5 percent for graduate students even if the origination is passed.
Because the program is expensive to run, Dean said, it will always be the topic of much debate when the government is triving to cut costs.
BECAUSE THE COSTS OF Guaranteed Student Loans had gone down, national student lobbying organizations were asking that loan limits be raised and repayment schedules relaxed, he said.
Dean said that the costs of the program this year were estimated at
"The increase would be a significant reduction in the amount that the graduate student would receive," Weiberg said.
$2.5 billion, down from $3.7 billion last year.
one year, $500 of the loan would be taken by the government as the debt repayment.
Jeff Weinberg, associate director of the KU office of financial aid, said about 50 percent of the almost 5,000 KU graduate students used the loans each
The student could not use the $500,
but still would have to pay an 8 percent
interest.
Weinberg said the intent of the increased fee was not to discourage graduate students from borrowing money. In contrast, if the higher fee could have that effect.
PAUL JURCZAK, SAN Diego graduate student, said, "It is a case right now in which you are paying for a whole lot
more than you are getting. By the time they take out the origination fee and add on the interest, there isn't a whole lot left."
Tom Berger, graduate student senator, said, "That proposal is ludicious."
Dean said that the measure would also discourage students from entering graduate study in mathematics and science, two fields in which the government had been trying to restore interest.
We also say that the graduate students were already in a bad position because of the limited amount of a guaranteed loan that they could receive if they were fulfilling teaching positions required for their degrees.
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Dean said that the interest rate on GSLs made after July 1 would be only 8 percent, down 1 percent from present rates.
Thieves prev on stereo equipment in parked cars
Staff Reporter
By DON HENRY Staff Reporter
Lawrence residents and KU students have reported more than 500 thefts from cars since September, KU and Lawrence police officials said yester-
Mark Brothers, crime analyst for the Lawrence Police Department, estimated that 150 of those thefts were thefts of stores. The others were thefts of hubees, wallets, purses and other belongings from unlocked cars, he said.
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Elizabeth Phillips, who keeps records for KU police, said about 4 car stereos had been stolen since September from cars in parking lots of residence halls.
But, Brothers said, since spring break the number has decreased.
"We haven't had more than ten since spring break," he said.
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Brothers said thieves avoided residential areas, which were usually lined with firearms.
"They go to parking lots with a lot of sports cars, where maybe 35 out of 40 are there."
PHILLIPS SAID THAT sterae thetus on campus were not confined to any particular parking lot, but that thetus occurred in all residence hall lots.
"There they might only find one car out of 40 with valuable stereo equipment."
Owners should also put stickers on the rear passenger windows of their cars so theyv would know the equipment had been marked. He said the police department would provide those stickers for free.
He said once stereo equipment was engraved it was more difficult to sell them.
Brothers suggested several ways to deter potential thieves.
tions for a car-stereo owner to take is to engrave the serial number and model number into the metal of the stereo equipment, he said.
alarm system that sounded a loud siren that was broken into was not always effected.
"A $1,000 stereo might only bring $150." he said.
BROTHERS ALSO SUGGESTED that hiding stereo equipment in the glove compartment or in the trunk of car could discourage a potential thief.
"I've seen a lot more people embarrassed by them than protected," lie
The number of thefts then began to
Another type of alarm transmits a signal to a receiver held by the car's owner when the car is broken into, and in effect it is effective in deterring thefts, he said.
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Rick Huddleston, a salesman at River City, said he usually sold alarm systems to people who bought car stereo worth more than $800.
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The Student Senate Transportation Board is seeking applicants for the position of TRANSPORTATION COORDINATOR. This position requires a currently enrolled K.U. student with a cumulative GPA of at least 2.0. The position is a year long appointment and carries a stipend of $100.00 per month. Responsibilities include oversight of the day to day functions of the K.U. on Wheels student run campus transportation system. Opportunity for hands on experience in leadership, business, and university governance.
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