University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Friday, March 11, 1983
Vol. 93, No. 116 USPS 650-640
Panel defeats effort to increase KU budget reductions
By JEFF TAYLOR Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — An additional $450,000 would have been slashed from the 1984 KU budget recommendations yesterday, but the House Ways and Values Act required that expected to surface again on the House floor.
The committee sent its 1964 budget recommendations for the Regents universities to the Senate.
In its recommendation, the increase in allocations for operating expenses at KU were reduced from 7 to 5.5 percent. The Regents had asked for a 10 percent increase for operating expenses, and Gov. John Carlin had recommended a 7 percent increase.
HOWEVER, THE committee voted to allocate $50,000 to KU and WSU to help defray operating costs.
In an effort to redistribute the total reduction made in the budget for the Regents universities, State Rep. Mike Meacham, R-Wichita, asked the committee to make smaller reductions in the budgets of three universities, which would have increased the reduction for the University of Kansas.
However, State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, persuaded the committee to vote against Meacham's proposal, saying the proposed tax would cost more money allocated to Wichita State University.
Meacham denied that he had offered the amendment strictly in WSU's interest and said the Legislature's new method of determining budget reductions at the Regents universities had unfairly drained money from smaller schools.
"I's a boss job," he said, adding that he would propose the change again on the House floor.
SOLBACH SAID he predicted a bitter debate if
Meacham pursued the budget changes again in the House.
"It worries me, if he can line up the votes." Sobach said. "It really penalize KU, K-State and Auburn."
This year, the Legislature used a method called "peer group funding" to determine budget reductions for Regents universities. The method attempts to compare budgets at Kansas universities to universities nearly the same size from other states. For example, money allocated to the University of Kansas is compared to the budget used at North Carolina State.
In the past, the state, using a pro rata form of computing the budget reductions at Regents universities, considered the size of each Regents school and the amount of money each school needed. Meacham wanted the Legislature to return to the pro rata system.
STATE REP. Bill Burten, R-Topeka, said the method used to make budget changes was not
"The basic problem is, the governor has chosen to balance his budget by reducing the amount of tax that he pays."
opportunities to Regents institutions," he said.
Bumen, the Ways and Means chairman, said Carlin had asked the Legislature to distribute 660 million to elementary and secondary education in the state, but should have used some of that money to help finance Regents universities.
"It's just not fair," he said, "to make that base budget reduction at a time when I, think, he is paying off political debts to the National Association with Regents institutions money."
BUNTEN SAID that although Meacham had a valid concern about the way budget reductions were made at the universities, the committee would have to recalculate all the budget
The committee excluded proposed salary increases from the recommendations and also
Regents Schools Budget — Fiscal 1984
School Former Form (Pro Rata) 1983 Form (Peer Group) Difference
KU... $ 3,952,119 $ 3,484,666 -$467,453
KS... $ 3,706,662 $ 3,294,126 -$412,536
WSU... $ 1,676,281 $ 2,194,076 +$517,795
ESU... $ 762,795 $ 1,105,776 +$342,981
PSU... $ 749,447 $ 1,012,920 +$263,473
FHSU... $ 701,662 $ 457,802 -$243,860
TOTAL $11,549,366 $11,549,366 $0
In past years, the Legislature has used a "pro rata system" for deciding budget reductions at Regents universities. The Legislature this year is using a "peer group funding" system. If the Legislature now decides to scrap the new method, as has been proposed, the budgets for the University of Kansas, Kansas State University and Fort Hays State University would be reduced more than currently planned. The budgets for Wichita State University, Emporia State University and Pittsburgh State University would be reduced less.
left out a proposed increase in funds for the KU utility budget
Separate legislation for the utility and salary increases will be sent to the House later in the year.
The committee, omitted the University of Kansas Medical Center's budget from action it proposed.
manged from his last year's budget allocations.
Reviewing specific budget areas, the committee voted against a recommendation that KU spend $175,000 of the $1.2 million contributed to the Kansas University Endowment Association for activating a computer.
salaries at the Med Center and other problems that lineered from last year's budget allocations.
See REGENTS page 5
Proposal would reduce police training funds
A recommendation made yesterday by the Kansas House Ways and Means Committee to drop a $50,000 addition Gov. John Carlin suggested for police training funds would result in fewer training sessions in the state, the dean said. Division of Continuing Education said yesterday.
Robert Senecal, who controls state-wide training of police, said that the $50,000 reduction in next year's fiscal budget would force the officer to take training courses on a more regional basis.
THE TRANNING of police officers is now financed entirely by a $2 fee on all criminal cases, he said. Gov. John Carlin had recommended that the $50,000 be given to the program because the money generated by the $2 fee had been insufficient for this fiscal year.
Police officers in the state must take a 320-hour training course before they can be certified, he said. They must also take a 40-hour course each year are in service, he said.
The Law Enforcement Training Center is in Hutchinson but training sessions are held around the state, he said. The University of Kansas is one of the training all Kansas police officers, he said.
STATE REP. Sandy Duncan, D-Wichita, said the $50,000 should be raised by charging tuition to police officers who take the training courses for credit.
"If you're going to offer those courses or entered the state general fund should not be written."
House tentatively approves measure outlawing possession of fake license
Senecal said only about half of the officers who enrolled in the courses took them for credit.
he said he doubled that charging would raise the $50,000 dollars that the committee received.
The bill also would raise the penalty for manufacturing or selling fake licenses or I.D. cards from a misdeemeanor to a felony. The penalty will be one and a half times the penalty of five years in prison and a $5,000 fine.
TOPEKA — The Kansas House tentatively approved a bill yesterday that would make possession of a false driver's license or identification card a misdeemer.
A final vote on the bill is set for Monday
THE BILL WAS drafted by the House Federal and State Affairs Committee a few days after the committee killed two bills that would have raised the drinking age for 3.2 percent beer.
State Rep. Ginger Barr, R-Auburn, said.
"College students need to realize that not raising the drinking age was not a victory.
“There are a lot of people in the Legislature looking at drinking and seeing some problems.” Last year, the Legislature attempted to deal with the problem of stricter drunken driving laws, she said.
"THIS YEAR the big crackdown is on false I.D.s," she said. "If we didn't have underage kids getting hold of this stuff, we wouldn't have to deal with it year after year."
State Rep. Robert Vancrum, R-Overland Park, said the legislation was necessary to reduce the proliferation of false drivers' licenses. He estimated that there were 19,000
more drivers' licenses in circulation in Kansas than there were drivers.
State Rep. Anthony Hensley, D-Topoea, said he didn't think he would vote in favor of the bill.
"The concern I have is that it raises the penalty," he said.
THE COMMITTEE has recommended another bill to the full House that would require specific proof of a person's identity before a driver receives an insurer's driver's I.D. card could be issued by the state.
The bill also would increase the penalties for reproducing a driver's license or nondriver's I.D. card and for lending a license or I.D. card to someone person for use in the purchase of liquor or beer.
Psychology chairman fired after refusing to resign post
Staff Reporter
By JOEL THORNTON Staff Reporter
Michael Storms was fired this week as chairman of the KU psychology department, effective June 30.
Storms said that he was fired as chairman Tuesday afternoon after refusing a request to resign made Monday by Robert Lineberry, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
STORMS SAID he would remain at the University as a professor of psychology.
Lineberry said, "There is a standard policy in my office that I do not comment on personnel
Storms he said he was not sure why he was asked to resign. He said Lineberry had told him that certain communication problems existed because of the psychology department and the College.
However, Storms said, Lineberry did not elaborate on those communication problems.
ON WEDNESDAY, Storms said, the psychology department faculty voted unanimously to
"Quite honestly, I don't really know what the reason is," he said.
send a letter to Linebery asking for a more detailed explanation of Storm's 'dismissal'
The letter will be mailed to Lineberry today, he said.
Lineberry, as dean of the College, has the legal right within University of Kansas rules to fire
However, Storms said, he would not accept this dismissal without investigating the reasons behind it. Storms, a tenured professor of psychology, could not be fired as a professor unless he was found to be guilty of moral misconduct or other serious offenses.
THE PSYCHOLOGY department will await Lineberry's response to the letter before deciding on further action they will take in response to the firing, Storms said.
Storms, who has openly declared his homosexuality, said he did not think his sexual preference had anything to do with his dismissal.
"I'm not certain the issue about me being fired is settled." he said.
Pal Gump, child psychology chairman, said he regretted Storm's firing but did not think he
"There are definite political problems I don't want to interfere with," he said.
Jack Brehm, chairman of social psychology, he was heistant to comment on the incident.
EPA controversy caused Burford to quit, she says
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Anne Gorsuch Burford, fighting back tears, said yesterday she resigned as head of the Environmental Protection Agency because "it was getting to the point where I couldn't do my job anymore."
"I resigned because I felt I had become the issue." Burford said in her first public comments since her resignation. "It's hard to lead a normal life when there are people camped outside."
"That man is a fine man. He is right for this country, I'm proud to have worked for him and I'll be proud to work for him again," Burford said.
Burford, 40, verged on tears during the news conference, especially when she talked about President Reagan.
Reagan accepted Burford's resignation Wednesday, praising her "unselflessness and bravery."
BURFORD TOLD reporters jammed into the ballroom of a downtown hotel, "I'm not a bitter
ASKED IN AN interview, with ABC News.
See EPA page 5.
This picture, taken from Fraser Hall, offers one last look at the KU campus before spring break. Next week's weather in Lawrence is expected to be warm and sunny.
Weather
NEH approves $1 million grant for libraries
Today will be mostly sunny and warmer with a high temperature in the upper 40s. Winds will be light from the north to northwest.
Tonight and tomorrow will be clear to partly cloudy. The law will be in the 90%
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday are expected to rain, causing a chance of rain. The high will be in the 60s.
The high temperature tomorrow will be in the mid- to upper 50s.
By SARA KEMPIN
Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas will receive $1 million from the National Endowment for the Humanities to strengthen its humanities programs and libraries, if it can raise an additional $3 million to support the humanities.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said Wednesday, "This grant will afford a tremendous opportunity for our humanities programs. It comes at an ideal time. We are deeply in need of this support for our outstanding library and for faculty scholarship and development."
WILLIAM J. BENNETT, NEH chairman, said the grant was intended to "foster increased
resources for sustaining and improving the quality of humanities programs."
The grant will be evenly split into a faculty development fund and a fund for purchasing equipment.
"That is the beauty of this grant. It's $1 million that will be there for us for the foreseeable future."
Susan Gronbeck-Tedesch, grants consultant for the Center for Humanistic Studies and coordinator for the grant application, said. "This research is designed to improve financial stability for the humanities at KU."
JIM RANZ, DEAN of libraries, said that the money would be coming to the University as an endowment and that the University would receive the first year and the other half the next year.
"Each year we will spend half the interest that accumulates on the money," he said.
"It's a wonderful thing to have happen to us. I can't think of a more timely thing to happen"
Wait, there's no comma before "than".
Let's look at the first line again.
"It is a wonderful thing to have happen to us."
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"I can't think of a more timely thing to happen"
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"It's a wonderful thing to have happen to us."
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"It is a wonderful thing to have happen to us. I can't think of a more timely thing to happen"
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The fact that the University applied for the grant is an indication that KU is interested in the research.
"It's also an indication that the National Endowment for the Humanities felt that our interest in the humanities and in the libraries was great enough to give as the grant," he said.
"I THINK THE $5 million will be raised. The University would not have applied for the grant."
Jim Martin, vice president of fund raising for the Kansas University Endowment Association,
See GRANTS page 5