University Daily Kansan, March 9, 1983
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Fund drive nets larger alumni donations
BY ANDREW HARTLEY
Staff Reporter
Despite losing seasons in both football and basketball, KU alumni have responded with resounding support to the athletic department's call for doubled contributions, department officials said yesterday.
During the department's annual fund drive, it asked members of the Williams Educational Fund, which solicits donations for athletic scholarships, to consider doubling their contributions over the next two years.
In addition to increasing long-range support for the department, the sudden increase in donations may also help the athletic department chip away at an anticipated $100,000 shortfall in alumni money.
THE DEPARTMENT'S BUSINESS office estimated in December that would continue its growth, the fund could $100,000 short of the budgeted income.
Susan Wachter, department business manager, said the effect of the increased contributions would not be known until the April meeting of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board.
Bob Frederick, director of the Bobs Fund, said: "We're extremely mournful" of his death.
"Right now the mail is coming in so fast that we're just trying to keep up with the immediate responses to the contributions."
HE SAID THAT AT least two-thirds of the donors who responded during the past three days had increased their gifts from last year. Many of those who have responded, he said, already doubled their donations.
Richard Konem, assistant director of the Williams Funds, said the average annual donation to the Williams Funds was $150,000 and members gave more than $750 a year.
"The mail has been heavier than I've ever been it since I’ve been here." Konzezna
The fund drive began in late February when the athletic department personal letters to their 2,300 members asking for doubled contributions by 1984, a plan that was initiated by Athletic Director Monte Johnson.
Johnson said that each letter was signed by Frederick and him and that many of the letters included hand-written post scripts.
THE LETTERS STRESSED that the athletic department's operating budget was the seventh lowest in the Big Eight Conference. Only Kansas State University brings in fewer dollars for athletics a year than KU.
Of KU's athletic budget, 30 percent of the income is provided by contributions from the community.
Johnson said he told the supporters that the only part of the budget that the department could control right now was donations. He said that until the football and basketball programs consistently could bring in more money,
the department must depend on private donations.
Johnson said he urged alumni to join with new head football coach Mike Koch.
The department is asking for increased contributions because a drive for new members is not feasible, Johnson said. A membership drive, he said, requires more parking and benefits than the University has to offer.
KONZEM SAID HE thought the greatest reason for the immediate success of the drive was that alumni were shocked to find out that KU had the seventh lowest operating budget in the conference.
"Once we supplied the figures, they could understand why we're not doing a lot of things in the department," Konzem said.
Both Johnson and Frederick are wary of predicting a successful drive too soon because, they said, the more members are the quickest to respond.
Lippincott to house program
KU faculty and students will mark the inauguration of Lippincott Hall as the new International Programs building March 21.
Anita Herzfeld, director of the KU study abroad program, said this week that festivities would include visits by Janina del Vecchio, vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Arizona and Sir Philip Sherlock, former President of the University of the West Indies and Secretary General of the
Association of Caribbean Universities
KU Chancellor Gene A. Budig and Vecchio will formally renew an academic agreement between University of Kansas and Universidad de Costa Rica on the day, and at 7:30 p.m. Sir Piah will be the featured speaker of the George Waggoner Lecture Series, Herzfeld said.
She said that open house in Lippincott would be from 3:30 to 5 p.m. March 21.
AURH officers elected
The coalition of Alan Rowe, Emporia freshman, and David Walker, Chicago freshman, beat three other coalitions last night to become president and vice president of the Association of University Residence Halls.
Collium Hall, was elected secretary and
Amy. Widdle, Osawatimie Junior,
Barnett. Teresa Duckworth, Jr.
Dowdy explained that the activities of the AURH board included programming for the organization and services for all of the residence halls.
Rowe represents Ellsworth Hall and Walker is from Joseph R. Pearson Hall. The president and vice president are required to live in separate residence halls, said Bob Dowdy, Coffeville mayor and out-guest president of the organization.
Rowe, who was last year's AURV vice president, said, "The main emphasis of our administration is going to be improving communication and coordination and improve our ability to represent the hall."
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THE BILL WOULD put an unfair tax on 15 percent of the state's water users, he said. Part of that tax is a 2.5 cent charge on every 1,000 gallons used to be used to develop and acquire future water supplies for the state.
"It's fraught with unfairness," he said.
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But State Rep. David Heinemann, R-Garden City, said, "Where is the money going to come from? You just need to pay up money for a reservoir overnight."
Solbach said that by raising the rate for reservoir water above the
Today is the last day that the House can consider any House bills, except for those coming out of the Senate and the federal and State Affairs committees.
The bill was on a fast track and received special treatment, Solbach said. It was the only Senate bill that passed by the Republican House bills was a propity, he said.
The vote came after an hour and a half of debate, which included three attempts by State Rep. John Obach, D-Lawrence, to amend the bill.
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SOLBACH ALSO SAID that although water users would be the only ones to pick up the tab, they were not the only ones who benefited from the reservoirs. The reservoirs were also built for flood control and recreation, he said.
Existing water contracts, such as the one between Lawrence and the state for Clinton, call for water rate readjustments every 10 years, but the contracts were negotiated under a current state statute that set the maximum rate for reservoir water at 10 cents for every 1,000 gallons.
The bill would increase the rate for water from federal reservoirs to 11.38 cents for every 1,000 gallons. The bill would increase the rate for every 1,000 gallons from Clinton.
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A bill that would raise the rates Lawrence would pay in 1986 for water from Clinton Reservoir is on its way to the governor's desk, after the Kansas House voted 104-19 yesterday to pass it.
The pricing structure in the bill fails to spread the interest costs of the reservoirs over the life of the systems, Solbach said. As a result, those who contract early for water from reservoirs pay the interest cost. The water supply will be years before contracting for reservoir water avoid paying interest.
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