University Daily Kansan, March 3, 1983
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Libraries face $265,295 shortfall Senate to discuss library fee
By JENNIFER FINE Staff Reporter
A bill requesting a student fee for library privileges has been submitted to the Student Senate Financing and Auditing committee, which will discuss it Monday.
The petition asks that a $$ fee each semester be assessed to students to pay for it.
If the petition is approved by the finance committee, it will be presented to the full Senate on Wednesday. If the Senate passes the bill, it will have to be vetoed by a vice chancellor for student affairs, the chancellor and the Board of Regents.
LOREN BUSY, chairman of the finance committee, said he thought the Student Senate would pass the petition. That the administration would support it
Paul Bushkirk, a hold-over senator,
said that he did not know what the
Senate thought of the bill, but that he
hoped they would pass it regardless of
their opinion to start it through the
necessary channels.
He said that if the Senate passed the bill, there was a good chance that it would also pass a referendum for a student vote on the bill.
Buskirk said that David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, requested that he have all fee requests by March 15, so that KU administrators could get them to the Board of Regents by April or May.
THERE is not time for a student vote before the March 15 deadline, Buskirk said. But if the bill reaches the Board of Regents, the Senate may hold a vote on the ban, and present the results to the Regents before the board make a decision.
The fee would raise approximately
$200,000 a year, almost 10 percent of the library's acquisition budget.
The libraries requested $2,476,089 for acquisitions for the coming year, fiscal year 1983-84. The figure included a base allocation of $2,276,089, plus $265,295 for a 12 percent inflation increase. Also included in the budget request were two $100,000 grants which the library received last year.
Clint Howard, assistant dean of libraries, said the libraries would receive the base allocation they requested but did not know how much money they would receive from the University to allow for inflation.
HE SAID the highest inflation increase that had been discussed was 7 percent of the base allocation, or $159,326.23.
He also said he did not know whether the two $100,000 grants would be refunded.
With only the base allocation, the libraries face a $652, 255 budget shortfall. If the grants are not renewed, the libraries will have a $465, 255 shortfall.
Howard said that if this happened, use library would have to cut back the use of the library.
With a shortfall, the library would be forced to cancel 2,633 serials and 3,506 books. If the grants are not renewed, an additional 4,000 books canceled and 4,000 fewer books bought.
THE SENATE BILL states that additional funds for the libraries are necessary because the quality of the libraries is threatened with large decreases of acquisitions of books and periodicals.
Also, the petition states that KU is the largest borer of interlibrary loan materials of any university in the country. It ranks 33rd in the nation for library spending.
The bill says traditional sources of money, such as the state, the University and private donations, have reached their limits. Further decreases in the library's budget would threaten research and teaching.
THE PETITION stipulates that money raised by the fee be used only for acquisitions for Lawrence campus and not salaries or cataloging expenses.
Also, the fee will be collected only if the state and University continue the same level of financial support.
The fee, if imposed, will be reviewed each year to determine whether it is still needed and being used only for acquisitions.
David Canantella, vice chairman of the University Senate Library committee and head of a subcommittee that examined the user fee, said the committee did not have an alternative plan if the bill was defeated other than re-introducing it later in the semester or next fall.
"What's most important is that in some way students say they're supporting the libraries — that the teachers are in bad shape," Cannatella said.
DEAN WADDEL, assistant dean of libraries at the University of Nebraska, said that the university had not issued fee but that the possibility existed.
Oklaahoma State University's dean of library services, Roscoe Rose, said the libraries experienced a budget cut this time this year. Next year could be worse.
Library officials from other Big Eight schools said they were having similar budget problems, but that they had not proposed a student fee.
Drice Hobrock, dean of libraries at Kansas State University, said that a student fee had been proposed and that some faculty opposed it because they thought the university and the state were obligated to support the libraries.
Dioxin level high even after floods in Times Beach
By United Press International
Tests showed the deadly chemical remained confined largely to the roadways and shoulders. It was not even visible in the air by the flooding as had been feared.
ST. LOUIS - The high levels of dioxin in Times Beach, Mo., were not washed away by December's floods, federal officials said yesterday.
"The dioxin has not washed away," said Gary Stein, of the national Center for Disease Control. "We have reason to believe the dioxin is still there. People should not be living in Times Beach."
A MAP showed the largest concentrations of the chemical — 100 to 300 parts dioxin per billion parts of the city. It also shows that streets that run through the town.
Contamination of even one part per billion is said to be a health hazard.
The initial test results led the Environmental Protection Agency to announce that the government would buy out the 800 homes and 12 businesses in the town for $33 million.
THE STATE is required to put up 10 percent — or about $3.3 million — as its share.
Pat Rebenby, of the Federal Management Emergency Agency, blasted the state for moving slowly in coming up with its share.
But the federal government will probably meet its goal of March 17 for a plan for the buy-out, he said.
STATE OFFICIALS have proposed turning Times Beach into a riverside park once the buy-out is completed and structures razed.
KJHK plans development of policy-making board
Bv SARA KEMPIN
Staff Reporter
Radio station KJHK hopes to create a policy-making board before the end of the semester, which will have the authority to hire and fire staff personnel and deal with the budget, the station's faculty adviser said yesterday.
Dale Gadd, the adviser, said the board would probably consist of students, faculty, a professional broadcaster and a member of the Lawrence community.
BECAUSE OF the growth in KJHK's operations in the last two years, there is a need for a KJKH Board, similar to the University Daily Kansan Board, to make broad policy, personnel and budgetary decisions, he said.
Some Student Senate leaders have expressed an interest in being a part of the board, he said.
Robert Walker, co-chairman of the Student Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities Committee, said KJKH had worked to create a KJKH Board for some time.
"I think a JKHJ Board would be a great idea," he said. "I would provide for a lot more organization. There is room for improving communication."
He said he had written legislation to mandate that the Senate set up a KJKH Board, which would include several student senators.
BUT AFTER Gadd told him that the radio-television-film sequence of the School of Journalism planned to create a new board, he withdrew the legislation, he said.
"We will work with them now and formulate some legislation later if we need to," he said.
"We want a good cross-section of people on the board. We thought it was
important to get more student input into KJHK."
Walker said a board hadn't been necessary in the past because KJHK had received less student money.
Lisa Ashner, student body president; agreed that a KJIKB board should be
Student senators have seats on the Kansan Board and the Jayhawker Committee.
"To be consistent, we should have a senator on the KJHK Board." she said.
BUT THE Senate would not try to exert control over the board, she said. It would only relay student concerns to to the board.
Steve Ghornley, operations manager for KJHK, said, "I don't see a major problem with a board. But, I feel like the students have done a credible job making policy so far."
KJHK does have an executive committee, which has a say in hiring
and firing and making policy, he said. A board might provide more objective opinions, he said.
"It's hard to be objective when you're so close to the station. But I don't think it's important."
HE SAID Gadd gave the executive committee a lot of freedom, which allowed the students to gain experience in making decisions.
"It's a tight group," Ghermley said. "We agree to differ so we can work things out. A board might have a lawyer or bog us down bureaucratically."
"If the people who are chosen to be on the board know what JKHJ is trying to do and are willing to work along with us, then it might work."
If people are on the board for reasons other than helping JKHK, or if they are not familiar with radio, it could create confusion at the station's staff and the board, he said.
Pacific storm kills at least 15, leaves thousands homeless
By United Press International
LOS ANGELES — An angry Pacific storm yesterday smashed historic piers and expensive houses along the California coast, claiming more lives and forcing thousands to flee flooded homes.
By noon, the storm had dropped 4.00 inches of rain on Los Angeles. That raised the season's rainfall to 21.33 inches, more than 10 inches above normal and almost 15 inches more than at the same date last year. The rainfall in San Francisco rose to about 26 inches, 6 inches above normal.
Yesterday's deaths, which included a 3-year-old boy crushed in a mudslide, brought the number killed by the series of storms to at least 15.
In Malibu, the waves and mudslides destroyed at least five houses, including the home king by tennis star Billie Jean King that was the subject of a lawsuit, helping her former lesbian lover. Two dozen other houses were damaged.
TWO MORE inches of rain fell at Mount Wilson, east of Los Angeles, bringing the 24-hour total to 8 inches—and the total for the week to 16 inches.
"We moved out here in 1972 and lived in the Garden of Eden," he said. "In 1978 we had a big storm and they said that was a freak. It was such a freak that in 1980 we had another one, and now we have another one, and in between we have two major fires."
CHARACTER ACTOR Robert Webb said the new storm had convinced him to cancel his movie.
Weather forecasters said showers and thunderstorms, sometimes heavy, would continue through the night, with some clearing expected today.
Army helicopters were pressed into service to rescue people stranded in a rugged canyon south of Monterey. The helicopters pulled out 28 people before they were forced to stop the evacuation because of high winds.
Yesterday's wave followed a day of heavy rains, tornadoes and even an earthquake Tuesday. Roadways were flooded, homes and businesses wrecked and at least 200,000 people were left without power.
A storm centered off the middle of the Atlantic Ocean spawned more rain over the North Carolina coast.
Student candidate wins Prairie Village primary
By ELLEN WALTERSCHEID Staff Reporter
Champagne was out of the question because the candidate is not old enough to drink
DAVID S. Morrison, a 20-year-old junior from Prairie Village, defeated his opponent by 41 votes.
The Republican primary winner in the Prairie Village City Council race celebrated his victory Tuesday night with a pizza party in his KU residence.
Morrison is virtually assured of winning the general election in April because no Democrats ran in the primary election.
"I couldn't believe it," Morrisson said of his victory over Bill Knoth, vice president and partner of Leo Eisenberg's law firm. The village commercial real estate business.
Morrison had 365 cups to Knoth's 344,
according to complete but unofficial
"We had a big pizza party up on the too floor at Naismith," he said.
"Here I was a student, not even living in the area," he said. "I was kind of a college student."
Morrison, who is majoring in political science, economics and English, said the election results surprised him because his opponent was both a Prairie Village resident and an established businessman.
MORRISON, past president of the KU chapter of College Republicans;
But even a politician can use some help from his parents.
said he had waged his campaign with letters, fliers and door-to-door visits, at a cost of about $300.
"Mom and Dad helped me with the mailing," he said.
Morrison said voters in his ward were less educated than he was because he was a student in law school.
"I had to stress that I could come back to represent them," he said.
"Once I overcame that concern, they could see I was serious."
Commuting to Prairie Village to serve on the 12-member council should not be a problem, Morrison said.
"They meet at night, once a week," he said. "And I plan to take a reduced fee."
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IF MORRISON wins the general election in April, as he expects to, his term will not begin until after finals are over, he said.
Morrison credited his victory to campaigning for specific issues, which included
Knoth said he did not resent his defeat by someone as young as Morrison, whose nickname is the "K.C. Kid."
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"I have no problem with his age." Knoth said.
ONE OF Morrison's former puftes, said he was not surprised that the game was over.
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"He was a very active, very good student," said Earl Nehring, professor of political science. "I like to see you go out into the political arena."
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