University Daily Kansan, February 21, 1983
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Taxes focus of Chamber breakfast
By DIANE LUBER Staff Reporter
The issues were not always as easy to digest as the eggs at the Eggs and Issues Breakfast, sponsored by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce Saturday morning at the Eldridge House.
State Reps. Jessie Branson, Betty Charlton, and John Solbach, all Democrats from Lawrence, State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, and State Sen. Jake Brown, shared summaries and predicted activative activity with those who attended.
Some of the legislators talked about the severance tax bills, which will be studied this week by the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee.
Winter said he was disappointed by the lack of leadership in the Senate on his own.
THE GOVERNOR has provided a tight budget, he said, but it needs some support.
Winter said that he would be part of a small group in the Senate that would work for passage of a meaningful severance tax.
But Allen said he opposed the tax.
"I don't think it is a fair tax to single out one industry," he said.
The severance tax will not raise enough revenue to meet the needs of the state. Allen said. The final tax package will probably include increases in the sales tax and in the motor fuels tax, he said, but will come from Carlin.
The governor will probably veto the first severance tax bill and the first school finance bill to reach his desk. Allen said.
WINTER PRAISED a bill that would allow school boards to conduct referrendum for income tax increases to finance schools in their districts.
But Solbach said that tax might turn out to be a regressive tax if it were not applied statewide. Landlords and corporations who live or have home bases outside the district would escape taxation, he said. The bill would put the burden on middle-class residents of the district.
Branson said she was not satisfied "with the school finance bill that was passed by a House committee last year," he added. He raised property taxes across the state by
$40 million, would increase property taxes in Lawrence by 3.4 mills.
A mill is a tax of $1 on every $1,000 of assessed value of property. According to state law, the assessed value is 30 percent of the appraised or market value.
But the property taxes in Eudora would increase by 19 mills because property values there are low, she said. And in Glenza, a southeast Kansas city, property taxes would also rise, low, property taxes would increase by 25 mills if the bill were passed.
THE BILL allows schools that have spent less than the state average for each student to raise their budgets by 6 percent. Schools that have spent more for each student than the state average increase their budgets by 3 percent.
Winter said that wealthier schools should be allowed to increase their budgets by at least 4 percent. School boards should be allowed to raise school budgets by more than the 3 percent and 6 percent.
Branson said a bill that would require aides in nursing homes to have 40 hours of training before they provided any direct care to patients was introduced
by the House Committee on Public Health and Welfare last week
"It was a milestone to get this bill introduced," she said. "We couldn't even get it introduced before because of the nurses from the nursing home industry."
THE BILL would not change the required amount of training, only the length of time before the training began.
Existing law requires that aides at nursing homes be certified by the state within six months after they begin training and are required for certification.
Nursing homes in communities that have large student populations use students for cheap help, Branson said. These students often do not work at one nursing home for six consecutive months. As a result, the certification and training requirements would not apply to them, she said.
"People in nursing homes are the most fragile members of society," she said. "Ninety percent of the care they receive is given by aides."
ASK to fight NCAA freshman standards
By ANDREW HARTLEY Staff Reporter
The Associated Students of Kansas will fight the new tighter freshman eligibility standards for college athletes passed last month by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the KU Campus director of ASK said yesterday.
The action was taken last week at ASK's Legislative Assembly at Kansas State University.
Scott Swenson, the director, said ASK opposed the standards because it thought the NCAA had overstepped its authority by regulating high school course requirements and because some of the tests were racially discriminatory.
700 on the SAT or the equivalent of 15 on the ACT.
The new requirements were passed in early January at the annual NCAA meeting in San Diego and will not take effect until 1986.
UNDER THE new rule, a freshman would be eligible to play only if he receives a 2.0 grade point average in a class of 40 or higher in mathematics and science, and if he received a
Swenson said the NCAA had overstepped its authority by legislating the minimum entrance requirements, an area handled by the state legislatures for public schools and boards of trustees for private schools.
Curricula for state schools cannot be designated by a non-governmental body such as the NCAA, be said. The result could be that athletes would have to pass higher admissions standards than non-athletes.
Swenson said the open admissions policy of the state allowed the use of ACT and SAT scores for evaluating a student's academic standing, not as an entrance requirement.
HOWEVER, THE NCAA's requirements would prohibit athlete with poor grades from receiving a opportunity for a higher education, he said.
ASK is also against the standards.
The research also showed that 60 percent of black female athletes would not have been eligible under the new rules, he said.
Swenson said, because of the possible links between standardized tests and testing protocols.
Research compiled by ASK shows that about 51 percent of the black male athletes in the nation's recruiting class are under 30 years old and play to play under the new rule, he said.
--that it could not accept the methods chosen at the convention.
The average SAT score for a black school student is 707, *Swissman School*
ASK's Legislative Assembly, which comprises ASK members from Board of Regents schools, considered three stances on the rules; using either the test requirement or grades, but not both; dropping the test requirement; or lowering the test requirement, he said. Surgeon said ASK would seek to
PRESIDENTS OF predominately black colleges have protested the new rules, saying that the NCAA is trying to undermine the standards of standardized tests, as requirements.
He said that ASK did not usually take a position on rules of the NCAA or similar private corporations.
Svenson said that ASK's position was to support the NCSA in finding methods to prevent false positives.
Swenson said ASK would seek to lower the test requirement.
ASK will send letters to each of Kansas' NCAA Division I schools, KU, K-State and Wichita State University. A copy of the letter will be sent to Walter Byers, executive director of the NCAA
Byers could not be reached for comment.
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Regents defer action
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The Board of Regents Friday decided to study the State Scholar program before cutting its maximum stipend for the program.
The Regents vote to defer action until next month on a proposal to cut the maximum stipend awarded from $500 to $300 and raise the minimum grade point average necessary for retaining the scholarship to 2.5.
Joe McFarland, Regents academic affairs director, said the Regents wanted more information on the number of students that would be affected by the proposed cut, made necessary because of a reduction in federal money that supported the scholarships.
The options that the Regents may consider include cutting the number of recipients of the award or not giving stipends to new recipients, he said.
IN OTHER ACTION, the Regents
The Regents also approved a motion that will make discussions about naming buildings after people a confidential process.
voted to cut the University of Kansas' 1984 budget request for energy conservation projects from $1.13 million to $445,000.
The reduced request was recommended last week to the Regents by Chancellor Gene A. Budig. The cut was made possible because KU had received a $100,000 U.S. Department of Energy investment in energy conservation projects, including the insulation of steam pipes in the power plant.
Jerry Harper filled the request with Douglas County District Court Judge
DA wants rape suspect to be tried as an adult
Stanley Kopilk, executive director of the Regents, said the purpose of the motion was to prevent embarrassment if the Regents did not approve a building name change.
The Douglas County district attorney asked Friday that a 16-year-old Lawrence youth who is being detained in connection with a recent rape on the campus of the University of Arizona.
The district attorney's office Thursday received the results of a psychological evaluation of the suspect, which indicated that he was at the suspect's detention hearing.
attorney, said that the evaluation was one of several important reasons for the district attorney's decision to ask that the man be tried as an adult.
JEAN SAGAN, assistant district
Students who are planning to receive financial aid to attend summer school may be out of luck, the director of the office of financial aid said last week.
If he is tried as an adult, the man will face charges of rape, aggravated sodomy and two counts of armed robbery.
Financial aid prospects slim for summer school students
"About the only thing that students will be able to receive as far as summer school aid goes is the GSL," said Jerry Rogers, the director. "And they are going to make sure that if they have not reached the $2,500 loan limit during the school year."
The man's adjunctive hearing, which is equivalent to an adult trial, is often a less serious issue.
THE GUARANTEE Student Loan applications are available in the office
of financial aid, Rogers said. The form used for the 1982-83 academic year should be filled out as soon as possible and the money will arrive by June 1, he said.
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The suspect is being detained on $10,000 bond in juvenile facilities at the judicial and law enforcement center.
Short-term loans will be available to pay for school-related expenses for summer, he said, but the loans will be reduced before the beginning of the fall semester.
Short term loans are available through the office of financial aid and are financed by the Kansas University Endowment Association, he said.
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