KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, March 1, 1983 Vol. 93, No. 108 USPS 650-640
Regents schools report drop in enrollment
Staff Reporter
By ELLEN WALTERSCHEID
Overall enrollment for the seven Board of Regents schools dipped this spring, officials from the universities said yesterday.
The total Regents university enrollment was 50,768 - 59 students fewer than last spring. Most officials cited budget cuts and the weak economy as the culprit in the decrease.
Cutbacks in off-campus programs, such as continuing education courses, also contributed to the lower figures, they said.
KANSAS STATE, Emporia State and Pittsburg State universities lost in both headcount and full-time equivalent enrollment figures, as did the University of Kansas.
The Kansas Legislature uses the FTE, which is calculated by dividing the total number of student credit hours by the average full-time course load, to help determine appropriations to the universities.
Three schools, however, Wichita State and Fort Hays State universities and the Kansas Technological Institute in Salina, gained students.
But university officials from those schools tempered the gains with wary comments.
AUTHORH THE Kansas Technological Institute's enrollment increased, the gain was not proportionate to increases in the past, said Tim Landon. The institute insigrar He blamed it for the problem.
"In short, economics has effected the decrease in our increase," he said.
William Wynne, Wichita State registrar, said that although Wichita State experienced a jump in both headcount and FTE, off-campus enrollment was down by 296 students.
Wynne said Wichita State had never had
problems attracting on-campus students be cause Wichita was large and could draw most of its students from the city or from surrounding counties.
BUT DECLINES in off-campus enrollment have plagued the university, he said, in part because the federal government cut funds that helped support an off-campus law enforcement
By next year, most of that program's off-campus branches will be discontinued, he
KU, too, was stung by a drop in its off-campus
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House committee passes bill that would raise water rates
By DIANE LUBER Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — A bill that would almost double the rate Lawrence would pay in 1988 for water from Clinton Reserve cleared another hurdle yesterday when a House committee voted to recommend passage of the bill by the full House.
Despite the objections of three legislators, the House Energy and Natural Resources Committee agreed on a voice vote to approve the bill that would set the rate for water from federal reservoirs in the state at 11.58 cents for every 1,000 gallons.
LAWRENCE NOW pays 6.6 cents for every 1,000 gallons taken from Clinton Reservoir
The bill, which has already been passed by the Senate, now goes to the full House.
one of the most controversial components of the new rate has been a 2.5 cent charge that would be used to finance the development and acquisition of future water supplies for the state.
Lawrence City Manager Buford Watson told the committee last week that reservoir water users should not be required to pay more than the state has paid for construction, operation and maintenance of the federal reservoirs. And a representative of the League of Kansas Municipalities said that reservoir water users should not be required to contribute to a fund for future water supplies until a state water plan was fully developed.
State Rep. Jim Patterson, R-Independence, said the state should apply the 2.5 cent charge to people who use water from wells for irrigation, commercial or industrial purposes.
STATE REP. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, said that federal reservoirs, unlike streams and groundwater, were the state's only renewable water resource, and that the bill would place the cost of the whole state's water plan on that source.
Another issue raised by the bill has been whether existing water contracts, like the one Lawrence has with the state, will be exempt from the provisions of the bill.
Existing water contracts call for water rate readjustments every 10 years, but the contracts were negated under current state statute that sets the maximum rate for reservoir water at 10 cents for every 1,000 gallons. Lawrence's water rate should be readjusted on Dec. 29, 1987.
THE MAYOR of Marion told the committee last week that her community would take legal action if the state tried to readjust the rate in their contract above the limit set in current law.
Watson said he also opposed the section of the bill that would allow the Kansas Water Authority to sell some of the water Lawrence had contracted for if Lawrence was not using or paying for all of it within six years of the initial contract date.
The committee also voted to recommend another controversial bill for passage by the full House yesterday.
THE COMMITTEE approved the "deep horizons" bill, which would shift the burden of proof to the holders of natural gas and oil leases when landowners allege that the leaseholders have not fully developed those resources.
Existing law states that the landowner who seeks cancellation of a lease must prove that the leaseholder has not prudently developed the lease.
But State Rep. Keith Farrar, R-Hugoton, said that most of the landowners in the Hugoton fields cannot afford to prove their cases against the leaseholders in court.
THE PRODUCTION companies that signed natural gas and oil leases with the landowners in the Hugoton fields many years ago have produced from only the shallowest and cheapest zones, he said. The companies have not fully developed the deeper zones, he said.
Gary Smith/Special to the Kansan
"Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen," said Bill Mauldin, noted war-cartoonist. See related pictures and story, pages 6 and 7.
OPEC leaders meet to avoid oil price drop
By United Press International
PARIS — Three OPEC oil ministers met for an hour here yesterday in a last-ditch effort to reach agreement on a unified oil price cut within a week and thereby avert a $a-barrel price drop by the group's powerful Persian Gulf producers.
Meanwhile, gold plummeted by $50 or more an ounce on world markets amid fears that a global oil price war would erupt and force oil-rich Arabs to sell their gold holdings.
VENEZUELAN ENERGY and Mines Minister Humberto Calderon Berti, fresh from weekend talks with representatives of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, met at the Kuwaiti embassy in Paris with Algerian Oil Minister Mahmoud Kuwaiti Kuwait Oil Minister Sheikh Al Khalluja al Sabah.
The three ministers, who represent members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, did not issue a statement after yesterday's meeting.
Unconfirmed reports said other OPEC ministers might later converge on Paris to set the world gas price.
THE PARIS meeting assumed a new sense of urgency after Saudi Arabia and four other Persian Gulf members of OPEC – the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Turkey – unilaterally绞刑 by $7 a barrel if the 13-nation cartel failed to concur on a unified price reduction within a week.
Gold tumbled to $401 an ounce in New York for a loss of more than $100 in a week. The reason was said to be a mass unloading by speculators and investors who believed Arabs and the Soviet Union would have to sell gold because of the lower oil prices.
IN NEW YORK, gold plummeted to $401 at the close from Friday's $444.40. The New York Commodity Exchange settled the March contract at $400.50, down from $443 Friday.
Diplomatic sources said more oil sessions might be held in London following unprecedented talks that OPEC conducted last week with Japan and Waycock, the cartel's competitors.
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Legislators hear of KU's budget woes
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In Zurich gold closed at $409 an ounce, down
$66.50 from Friday's close of $465.50.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy and warm. The high will be around 70.
Today will be sunny and mild. Highs will be in the mid- to upper 60s. Winds will be from the southwest at 18 to 20 mph. Highs will be fair with lows will be around 40.
ALTHOUGH CONCERN over oil prices and Arab sailing triggered the plunge, market analysts said, the sharp drop late last week and yesterday reflected the liquidation of speculators who could not or would not sustain huge losses. When speculators buy contracts on margin, or with a small down payment, they are required to put up additional cash as fa$<sup>11</sup>
Rv. JOEL THORNTON
Staff Reporter
A Kansas House subcommittee visited the University of Kansas yesterday and was told how the state's financial crisis had been hurting University programs and services, legislators said.
The legislators listened to the pleas of administrators, faculty and students but said they could not promise that the University would receive all of its budget requests.
"At this point, we were just pleased to be over here," said State Rep. Sandy Duncan, R-Wichita, a member of the subcommittee "10 days before." "We say we're favorite anything we heard today."
THE THREE-MAN panel of the House Ways and Means Committee will report back to the full committee in the next few weeks. The full committee will then make a recommendation to the house about the entire Regents budget.
also a member of the subcommittee, said he did not know what the full committee would decide on KU's budget requests.
"We had a really good discussion with all the groups," he said. "They all basically told us the same thing. They're proud of their institution, and they want to maintain that excellence."
CHANCELLOR GENE A. Budig told the subcommittee that KU and the other Regents schools had taken the brunt of state budget reductions.
State Ree. Jack Shriver, D-Akansas City
"Contrary to the opinion of some, there is no fat in the University budget," he said. "Consequently, these required cuts went into vital tissue."
KU was especially hurt by Gov. John Carlin's 4 percent budget reduction last July, when the reduction trimmed about $3 million from KU's 1983 budget. These cuts were felt primarily in the operating expenses and equipment budget, an already lean area.
Kevin Nichter, University director of business affairs, said the University had wanted the
additional $307,000 reduction that Carlin proposed in KU's 1984 base budget to be restored to KU.
"We went through a cut in July, and we want it all restored," Nitcher said. In addition, the University should be immune to further state budget reductions.
KU ALSO WANTs authority from the Legislature to spend $299,000 in student fee revenue it received from an enrollment increase this year, he said.
he said.
Shriver said he thought that KU deserved to have the $207,000 that was cut from the base budget restored.
The said nee did not think the University would get permission from the Legislature to spend the money from extra student fees, which were collected by students had enrolled than had been anticipated.
Duncan said that he sympathized with the University's other state agencies also had criticized it.
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Lawrence polls close at 7 p.m.
Polling places will be open until 7 p.m. today for the primary election, which will narrow the field of 13 candidates running for the Lawrence City Commission.
The six candidates who receive the most votes will then run in the April 5 general election for three open seats on the commission now held by Mayor Marci Francisco and Commissioners Don Bins and Tone Gleason. AIMS is the only one of the three to file
BINNS WAS the only one of the three to file for re-election by the Jan. 25 deadline.
The primary ballot will have 14 names because one of the candidates, Roger Borland, withdrew from the race after the ballots were printed.
PATTY JAIMES, county clerk, said yesterday that voter registration books would open tomorrow for people wanting to register for the general election. She said registration would close on March 15 until after the election.
More than 150 residents of Hashinger Hall last night watched the last episode of "M"A°S"H". Two televisions were placed in the hall's theatre to accommodate the crowd.
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By MICHAEL BECK
Staff Reporter
It was easier for the women. They were allowed to cry. But the men held back the tears by any means possible.
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The last episode of M*A"S*H blared on TV screens across Lawrence and the country, from bars to residence halls to private parties.
It caused much emotional trauma.
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Their eyes glazed, blinked or looked away.
They laughed nervously at silly jokes and then took a drink, swallowing hard.
It caused much trouble. THE OLIVER HALL TV room was a darkened, quiet sea of bodies. Six or seven times more people than usual crammed around the glowing set in the corner. No one spoke, as if in silent agreement.
agreement. The commercial advertisement popped on the screen, without warning. There was a sudden rush to the restrooms and soda machines. After four $450,000, 30-second advertisements, the room fell into silence watching Hawkeye, Hotline and Korea.
Other halls were much the same In Ellsworth and McCollam halls, capacity
crowds quietly surrounded television, and all eyes were glued to the set.
The Exchange, a private club at 3406 Iowa St., packed people into its small bar, decorated with antique furnishings.
THE BARTENDER made the announcement for quiet before the last 30 minutes, but those who had made good use of the $1 martinis in honor of the succial gin of Hawkeye and B.J. laughed heartily at the proposition.
Some knew that the show was 11 years old, had first aired in September 1979 and then had a lowly 47th place in the Neilsen ratings, but most really did not care.
Last week, the Neilson ratings placed M"A$*H" ninth.
Yesterday was M*A*S^H-mania day.
Americans sported M*A*S^H-T-shirts, buttons,
socks.
The final CBS episode, which saw the good Father Mulcahy go deaf, Hawkey go mad and Klinger get married, carriage ride and give birth to a new species of party called the "M*A*S*H baha".
Even the nation's blood banks and charities benefited.
THE CENTRAL Blood Bank in Pittsburgh staged a 'Farewell to M*A$H" blood drive.
Doctors and nurses in Wichita wore fatigues while accepting blood donations.
In Toledo, hometown of Jamie Farr, who played Klinger, 300 people were invited to a bash at Tony Packo's Cafe. The cake was made by Angus and Klinger as well in the TV series.
President Reagan and ex-president Ford sent telegrams to the cast welcoming the 407th home. Dan Rather spent three minutes saying good-bye on the CBS News Evening. The Kansas City Times quoted them as their response to what happened to their favorite character after the end of the war.
A helicopter delivered fatigue-clad M'A*S"H fans to a club in Sanford, Maine, where participants recreated the TV series' opening scene.
A TENT was hoisted in the lounge at a Howard Johnson's motel in Springfield. Mass., and it was dubbed "Rosie's Bar," a watering hole for M*A*S*H characters.
Crappie Cove, often mentioned by Hawkey in the series, is really the hometown of the author of the original M*A*S*H, H. Richard Hornberger.
Hermione Hobber, a retired surgeon, wrote the
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