The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Friday, January 21, 1983 Vol. 93, No. 81 USPS 650-640
Chancellor Gene A. Budig spoke yesterday to the Ways and Means committees of the Kansas House and Senate about Gov. John
Carlin's $1.5 million proposal for high-technology research Regents universities,
Reagan says U.S.on right track
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan said yesterday that he had begun mending the damage inflicted by "the overtaxing, overspending, over-regulating binge" of his predecessors and had "made America respected in the world again."
Reagan appeared to be in a relaxed, jovial mood at the informal news conference in the White House. He marked the midway point of his campaign, when the administration had set America "on the right course."
"For all our troubles, midterm finds this administration and this country entering a new era."
At the news conference, Reagan said that he was studying a proposed flat income tax and that he was determined to go ahead with the 10 percent tax cut on July 1.
REAGAN ALSO said he intended to stick with "indexing" that raised tax brackets along with his plans.
"I am determined that the two remaining tax cuts of our program will be in place, that is, the 10 percent cut in July and then the further indexing to stop government from making a
profit on inflation because, when government does that, it becomes too tempting to government to do the things that create inflation." Reagan said.
"That is a thing that we've agreed to look at. to study in connection with what we think is the top priority in taxes in this country, to have a tax system that the people can understand," he said.
Reagan said his "greatest satisfaction is the conviction that a country that was skidding dangerously in the wrong direction, losing the respect of friends and foes alike in the world, and even worse, losing faith in its own future, has been set on the right course."
"WE'VE BEGUN to
"and do the damage that
the overtaxing, over-
spending, over-
regulating binge of
the 60s and 70s inflicted
on the American way
of life," he said. "And
we made America
respected in the world
again."
lated damage has piled up so high for so long, putting America's house in order has been a disaster.
Reagan said the biggest regret of his "because the accumu-
"IT'S A REAL human tragedy that so many of our people today are still suffering for the political mistakes of the past that we're finally starting to correct."
But, the president said, "I see an American economy and an America on the mend."
In a response issued two hours after Reagan's surprise appearance, Democratic National Committee Chairman Charles Manatt said in a statement, "Contrary to the president's comments today, the course on which he has led this nation during the first half of his presidency has been marked by unfairness, misdirection, mismanagement and mistakes.
first two years was that
"THERE IS little doubt but that he will have to change his course if any semblance of authority and influence is to remain in the executive branch."
He said he hoped "for the good of the nation that the state of the union as seen by President Reagan bears at least a fleeting resemblance to reality which would be a marked improvement over his detached performance in the first two failed years of his administration."
New ruling allows quorum increase
Staff Reporter
By NED STAFFORD
In a ruling yesterday, state Attorney General Robert Stephan said that the Lawrence City Commission could raise its quorum from three commission members to four.
Under the ruling, if the commission voted to raise its quorum, two commission members could discuss city business in private without violating the Kansas State Open Meetings Act.
"the open meetings law states that a majority of a quorum of any public body may not discuss issues at a pre-arranged meeting that is closed and therefore is a majority of the members of a public body."
IN THE PAST, Stephan has said he thought an attempt to raise the quorum would violate the law.
Stephan was unavailable for comment yesterday.
City Commissioner Tom Gleason said he supported raising the quorum, but he also said there was no point in doing so with the City commission election less than three months away.
"I'd rather let them decide the issue," Gleason said.
Two years ago Bims bimed a complaint charging Mayor Marci Francisco, Commissioner Nancy Shontz and Gleason with violating the open meetings law by occasionally gathering in the mayor's office on Tuesday afternoons before commission meetings.
City Commissioner Don Binns said he opposed to授quorum.
At that time the commission appealed to the attorney general for guidance on the correct interpretation of the law and what constituted violations.
The ruling hand down by Stephan would allow the city commission to raise its quorum to four, meaning that two members of the commission
Binns said the City Commission had three study sessions a month and saw no need for them.
In that way, he said, a majority of the commissioners could conduct business without having to get approval.
Gleason said he saw no threat to the public by raising the ouerum.
would not constitute a majority of a quorum and could theorese discuss city business in private.
"What's to prevent two commissioners from getting together one day and then one of those with another the next?" he said.
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The commission would have to pass a charter ordinance to raise its quorum. A charter ordinance requires a four-vote majority.
taking the quotation.
"We never agree anyway," he said.
IF PASSED, the ordinance would not take effect for 60 days. If 10 percent of residents who voted in the last election sign a petition opposing the ordinance, the final election would be needed to decide the issue.
Private funds available for research, Budig says
By JEFF TAYLOR
Staff Reporter
Chancellor Gene A. Budig yesterday told a joint Ways and Means Committee that the Regents schools should have no problems finding private funds to match a $1.5 million high-techology proposal.
Private high-tech industries would be willing to invest money in university research, he said, but the Kansas Legislature would first have to raise money for equipment and operating expenses.
GOV. JOHN Carlin's 1984 budget proposal, presented to the Legislature Monday, recommended the allocation of $1.5 million to the Board of Regents for distribution among Regents universities. The state money would be matched by private high-tech industry industries.
"Teaching and research equipment in major universities is, on the average, twice as old as instruments in industrial research laboratories." Budg said. "In Kansas, this lag is generally greater than the national average. This means that students at the state universities, in Kansas, are not being prepared adequately for the new high-techology business environment."
Some science equipment at the University of Kansas was manufactured in the 1950s and does not work well with modern computer software.
BUDIG SAID a problem at KU was that only 128 students can work on the main computer at the same time. For today's job market, he said, "I teach computer literacy from university students."
By the year 2000, Budig said, high-technology industries will provide 75 percent of the nation's
"Even those segments of the economy not directly engaged in the production of high technology hardware are increasingly incor- pore to advances to improve their operations," be said.
Universities must have sophisticated equipment and teaching resources to retain and attract highly qualified instructors. Budd said.
REGENTS SCHOOL officials presented their financial needs for 1984 at the joint meeting. They said Carlin's 4 percent salary increase for university employees was not enough.
Also, the 7 percent budget allotment for other university operating expenses would worsen the already diminished teaching resources at the school said Stainley Kopilik. Regents executive officer.
The Regents for salary increases of 7 percent for classified employees, 9 percent for unclassified employees and 10 percent for other operating expenses.
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, said he thought faculty members deserved more than the 4 percent salary increase.
BUT HE SAID that larger allocations for salaries and operating expenses would depend on the amount of money available in the state's general fund.
"A university is not an institution you can set up overnight like a tent," Solbach said. "It's something you set up over years and years with the bricks and the brains that go into it."
State Sen. Paul Hess, R-Wichita, chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, said he would hold a hearing on the issue.
"Are we spreading the peanut butter on the bread too thin?" Hess said.
The state's allocation to Regents schools is $400 million, he said.
koplik said he saw no reason to eliminate a university from the Regents schools. He said that the number of state universities corresponded to Kansas' population, and that a lot of money needed to be spent to maintain high-level university programs.
In some education areas, schools such as KU and Kansas State University ranks among the top universities in the state.
Money woes force SUA to cut number of movies
BY JENNIFER FUND Staff Reporter
"Actually, films are not doing too well," he said. "We have a fairly large deficit at this point."
Higher costs and decreased attendance may force the Student Union Activities Film Committee to cut back further on the number of films produced. The film chairman of the committee, said yesterday.
GENE WEE, SUA program advisor, said the series had about a $6,000 budget deficit.
Wee said that although SUA had lowered its expenses by 23 percent, its revenues had
The committee has reduced the number of films that will be shown this semester, leaving some open days. Before the budget problems films were scheduled everyday.
A major reason for the problem, he said, is with the popularity of cable television, people do not have to leave their house to see a film that already been shown in the commercial theatre.
"If it's available to us, it's available to cable," he said.
Gebert said that the price SUA must pay for the films added to the problem.
To combat the problem, Gebert said SUA would try to lower expenses by cutting back on the number of films shown and becoming more selective in its choices.
WEE SAID that SUA did not want to raise the $1.50 ticket price because that might cause attendance to drop even more. However, if it were a movie or films SUA might have to consider raising prices.
The film committee gets the films from about
Now, he said, they must rely on "blockbuster" films, such as "Raiders of the Lost Ark," and "Reds," to do well enough to pay for other films. These movies, as well as others, including "Poltergeist?" and "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," will be shown this semester.
KU becoming less tolerant of minorities, professor says
The 11 people on the committee keep a balance of different kinds of films such as foreign, classic or older films, because they have a diversity of opinion in the committee.
By ELLEN WALTERSCHEID
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
"It used to be foreign films would pay for themselves, but not make as much as an American."
But in the past ten years, people have been less inhibited about expressing anti-minority feeling.
Gebert was the most popular American films would be scheduled for Fridays and Saturdays, the strongest days for the films, in an effort to fill them for the rest of the week's programming
Recent campus displays of anti-Semitism are part of a growing threat to minorities at the University of Kansas, a KU professor said yesterday.
DAVID KATZMAN, professor of history, told the University Council that the present campus atmosphere did not champion the freedom of wrighters and blacks as much as it had in the past.
Katzman said economic hardship caused much of the tension that led to religious, racial and ethnic conflict.
In the decades after World War II and through the 1960s, Katzman said, society discouraged anti-Semitic behavior.
Both Wee and Gebert said they thought fewer people were going to see movies recently because of the cost of first-run films and home channels such as Home Box Office and Cinema.
PEOPLE ARE not as inclined to try out something weird, especially with the cost." Gebert said, referring to the foreign films and older films in the series.
However, Gebert said he was encouraged by better turnouts this semester.
"Part of the problem is that film prices have increased while attendance has decreased." Wee said. Attendance was down 26 percent this year, he said.
IN THE SECOND, Katzman, who is faculty adviser to the organization, found a swastika and an anti-Jewish message written on the door of his office in Wescoe Hall.
But he blamed foreign students for part of the conflict, saying they did not understand what he called America's tradition of tolerating different beliefs.
Katzman cited two incidents that occurred last November.
In one, vandals broke into and damaged a booth belonging to the American-Israeli Friendship Organization. The organization had set up the booth on campus to advertise the culture of Israel.
"I think these despicable acts and growing intimidation avoke at the essence of the ideals of the revolution."
Three years ago Harvard University dealt
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10 national distributing companies. Usually a new film will be available to SUA six months after it is released in the theaters, except certain movies that are saved for re-release in the theatres, such as "Star Wars" or "E.T. : The Extra-Terrestrial."
See COUNCIL page 5
Michael Storms, chairman of the psychology department, talked about the anxieties and problems gays may have before coming out of the closet. See story page 9.
Weather
Today will be mostly cloudy with a high in the mid 30s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Winds will be from the northeast at 5 to 15 mph.
Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low in the upper 29s.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high near 40.