University Daily Kansan, February 23, 1983
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Historic standing won't affect tax status
By WARREN BRIDGES Staff Reporter
Future donations to the Chi Omega sorority may not be tax-deductible, despite the assumption of the sorority's president and several house members, an official of the Register of Kansas Historical Places said yesterday.
Nora Pat Small, architectural historian for the register, said the misunderstanding could have arisen after the recent listing with the state register of the sorority's building at 1845 West Campus Road.
"Becoming registered with us has nothing to do with tax exemption of donations," Small said. "There is no effect at all."
MARILYN TEETER, Topeka junior and president of the sorority, said she had assumed that because the building now was on the register, future donations to the house from outside sources would be tax deductible.
"The house was obviously mistaken," Teeter said. "We were looking for something that we didn't see."
Susan Rowan, an alumna of the sorority and an attorney, said the sorority had asked her to find out whether it could it could be considered tax-exempt.
the internal Revenue Service on the basis of our being an important, significant structure to the University."
"I am aware that just because the house is recognized by the register, there will not automatically be any effect on the tax status," Rowan said. "At this time, we are considering applying for a revenue decision from
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She said that because the house was a non-profit organization, it could receive tax-deductible donations.
Small said the sorority was one of only two Greek houses at the University of Colorado.
She said the house was waiting to hear from the National Register of Historic Places.
ROWAN SAID, HOWEVER, that the sorority did not apply to the state register to convince the IRS how significant the house was.
The national register will decide whether the building meets its quality.
"The national register is supposed to reply within 45 days after receiving the application." Small said. "But I understand there is a tremendous backlog of applications."
The sorority members learned of the registration two weeks ago, Teeter
SMALL SAID THE registration would protect the house from state construction projects. Any construction projects proposed by the state that might affect the house must be approved by the state register.
She said that in addition to the sorority, several other buildings at the University were listed in the register, including Spooner Hall, Dyche Hall, Lippincott Hall and the Beta Theta Prfraternity house, 1425 Tennessee St.
Officials thank state at Haworth groundbreaking
By JIM BOLE Staff Reporter
Officials gave thanks for state money over the clatter of bulldozers and dump trucks in yesterday's groundbreaking ceremony for the $14 million Haworth Hall addition.
Although construction began in late January, the University waited to have the ceremony to work out scheduling with the construction company, said Allen Wiechert, University director of facilities planning.
Speakers at the ceremony included James Pickert, chairman of the Board of Regents; Chancellor Gene A. Budig; Gunther Schlager, chairman of the division of biological sciences; and
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor.
PICKERT SAID THE University was lucky to receive the money for the addition because of statewide budget cuts.
"We are extremely grateful to the Legislature and to the governor for the $14 million appropriation," he said.
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The Legislature appropriated the funds last spring, to be allocated each year through 1985.
Budig said Kansas showed a firm commitment to higher education by backing the Haworth addition.
"The importance of this addition is not to be found solely in bricks and mortar; the justification for this building will be the work that takes place in it," he said.
Brower Burchell, chairman of the advisory committee for the Haworth addition, said the new facilities and equipment would keep KU's biological sciences up-to-date for many years. Burchell, professor of physiology and cell biology, said he had pushed and planned for the addition since 1973.
Schlager said the addition, scheduled for completion in 1985, would bring all KU biologists under one roof and encourage cooperation and research in other fields housed in nearby buildings.
MIKE WOODS, SMITH Center senior and president of the KU Biology Club, said the new addition would improve undergraduate education and faculty education.
"The faculty deserves the new facilities and modern equipment," he said.
While Budig, Pickert and the other guests took turns scooping up dirt on the building site with a gold shovel, construction workers were removing dirt by the dump truck load.
R. D. Andersen Co. Inc. finished excavating the basement of the new addition yesterday, said Stan Claassen, project manager.
The workers, he said, were constructing cylindrical steel cages that will be lowered into foundation holes already drilled in the ground. Then concrete will be poured into the holes, forming a barrier wall that would then allow dams walls will be built. He said they should complete foundation construction by April 1.
He said workers would begin construction of the foundation tomorrow.
Supreme Court cracks down on drunken driving
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 yesterday that a motorist's refusal to take a blood alcohol test can be used as evidence against him in court.
The ruling gives states another strong weapon to use in convicting drunk drivers, who are blamed for more than 26,000 traffic deaths each
The justices overturned a South Dakota ruling that found using a driver's refusal against him violated
ms Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination.
"A refusal to take a blood alcohol test, after a police officer has lawfully requested it, is not an act coerced by the officer and thus is not protected by the privacy of the person. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote for the majority.
"THE CARNAGE CAUSED by drunk drivers is well documented," she noted. "This court . . . has repeatedly lamented the tragedy."
The result of the ruling is that a suspected drunken driver not only can be forced to take a blood alcohol test,
but in those states where he is given a choice, his retusal to take the test also can be used to indicate his guilt. Further, the court said, police do not need to tell a driver that a refusal may be used against him.
Justices John Paul Stevens and Thurgood Marshall dissented from the ruling, saying the case could have been settled under state law issues.
In other activity, the justices:
- set off a major trademark controversy by permitting Parker Brothers to be stripped of its monopoly on Monopoly, the name of its famous board game.
- ruled 7-2 that public broadcasters are not required by a federal law benefiting the handicapped to offer captioned television programs for the nation's 13 million deaf people.
- Agreed to review a ruling striking down the oil windfall profits tax, giving the government a chance to salvage the levy expected to provide $40 billion to the Treasury over the next five years.
- Rulied 5-4 in a Pennsylvania case that prison officials may place an inmate in solitary confinement without a hearing.
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Robert Harder, state SRS secretary, has said that $3 million is needed to continue the general assistance program through fiscal year 1983, which ends June 30. If the Legislature does not provide enough money and if the bill is passed, he said, he will follow Gov. John Carlin's plan for the program.
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The subcommittee has said the $9 million needed to finance its recommendations would come from reductions in other parts of the governor's budget or from increased taxes. The governor last week that the money might come from reductions in salary increases for faculty and classified employees.
TOPEKA — The Legislature should take responsibility for the state's general assistance program instead of handing it over to a state agency, representatives of social service and community organizations said yester-
NANCY SARGENT, A representative of the League of Women Voters, said the Legislature needed to have the courage to take responsibility for its needy citizens.
ALTHOUGH THE SECRETARY OF SRS establishes regulations governing other social programs, the Legislature should also provide for the general assistance program.
Paul Johnson, director of the Public Assistance Coalition of Kansas, said, "One of the arguments used in favor of this bill is that the Legislature will fund SRS adequately. In budget battles, poor people tend to consistently lose."
ROGER McCOLLISTER, director for Kansas Legal Services, said he opposed the bill because it allowed the secretary to decide what federal social program the state would participate in. He also stated his assistance program would continue.
Members of the state Senate Ways and Means Committee heard eight people testify against a bill that would require the secretary of the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation to lose more severe loss general assistance benefits if the Legislature does not provide enough money for the program.
State Sen. Paul Hess, R-Wichita, committee chairman, allowed each of the eight speakers at the meeting, except Harder, to testify for five minutes. The statements were punctuated by objections and questions from committee members.
If this bill passes, she said, "there will be at least 4000 adults without a means of subsistence," she said.
proposal to finance general assistance at the committee hearing today, Hess said. The subcommittee has proposed that all those who would have lost benefits under Carlin's plan should instead be eligible for a monthly grant of $100 and catastrophic medical assistance.
She proposed a more graduated income tax and increasing the sales tax as a way to raise revenues to finance general assistance.
"Senate President Ross Doyen, R-Coronida, said, "We're going to provide the money the secretary is going to pay for," Mr. That's how it's been in the past."
Hess said that the Legislature was accountable for the program because it controlled the program's budget and key performance metrics, and viewed the regulations of the program.
McColllier said the bill might be unconstitutional because it gave powers to a state agency that the Kansas Constitution granted solely to the
David Shulman, associate program director for Cross-lines Cooperative Council in Kansas City, Kan., said that the secretary is given to the secretary too broad.
A Senate Ways and Means subcommittee will provide the details of its
General assistance may be the only major program that will be financed beyond the governor's proposed budget, he said.
If this bill was law, he said, the cuts would already have been made, and legislative review would have come too late.
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