The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Tuesday, January 18, 1983
Vol. 93, No. 78 USPS 650-640
Carlin's budget asks for salary increase
By JEFF TAYLOR Staff Reporter
Gov. John Carlin asked yesterday in his budget request to the Legislature for a 4 per cent salary increase for Kansas Board of Regents faculty members and unclassified employees, and he called for a 2 percent increase in money for other operating expenses.
Under the proposal, faculty salaries for Regenia schools for 1984 will be based on merit increases that will allow universities to decide whether a faculty member's salary will increase more than 4 percent or less than 4 percent. Paul J. Krause and the Senate laws and Mem Committee, said.
CARLIN'S PROPOSED salary increase,
however, was not as high as the Regents wanted.
Stanly Kopik, Regents executive officer, said recently that the Regents would ask for a 7 percent increase for classified employees' salaries, a 9 percent increase for unclassified employees' salaries and a 10 percent increase for other operating expenses.
Representatives from the Regents and Chancellor Gene A. Budig will meet Thursday with the joint Ways and Means Committee to discuss Carlin's budget proposal.
Budig said Carlin's proposal is reasonable considering the tight state economy. He also said that KU would continue to support the Regents' budget request.
"Every possible effort will be made to increase the 4 percent recommendation for salaries," he said. "As most legislative leaders have stated, we have been severely disadvantaged in recent years."
"We will make the strongest possible case for increased other operating expenses support. In my judgment, the quality of our academic programs is at stake."
REGENTS FACULTY will be relatively better off next year than they have in years past.
It certainly would be nice to have more but the state of Kansas is on a very tight fiscal belt.
Carlin also said he was concerned about Kansas elementary and secondary teachers' salaries, which he said ranked 38th nationally. He said that the percent increase to those public school teacher
Hess said he thought the 8 percent increase for public school teachers would irritate the faculty members and classified employees in the Reegents schools.
"That's the widest gap I've ever seen between those two groups." he said.
CARLIN SAID he wanted $70,000 to go to the work-study program, which was introduced to
state Budget Director Lynn Muchmore by Associated Students of Kansas, a student lobbying group.
ASK Campus Director Scott Swenson said he was ecstatic with the money allocated and said the program would create more jobs either on campus or in the private sector.
Private companies would benefit from hiring students because the companies pay only 50 percent of a student's salary, Swenson said. The rest of the sales would be paid through the school.
program, he said.
A $1.5 million fund, to be administered by the Regents for new scientific and computer equipment, was also recommended by Carlin. Those funds would have to be matched by grants from high-technology firms in private industry.
REGENTS BUDGET Officer Marvig Burris said that the governor's proposal was intended to attract high-technology business to the state, which Carlin said was expected to provide 75 percent of the nation's industrial growth for the rest of the century.
but hurries also said the basic elements of the proposal had to be worked out in a task force on the development of high technology in the state. No money has yet been pledged by private firms.
Carlin addressed a packed House chamber and public gallery for almost 25 minutes about his $3 billion budget request and was applauded by staff members. He also described about his proposed 7 percent severance tax.
The severance tax on the natural gas and oil industries would generate $138.5 million, he said.
THE SEVERANCE tax has been rejected by the Senate in the Legislature the last two years.
"From border to border across our state, in coffee shops, classrooms and around the dinner table at home, the severance tax has received scrutiny. Mr. Trump said, "And it has also received, through the clear voice of the electorate last Nov. 2, a decisive stamp of approval from the people of Kansas."
Carlin recommended no other tax increases, but asked for fairness in the taxing system and urged the Legislature to pass a constitutional amendment that would eliminate cases of taxation for different classes of property.
Reclassification would relieve the massive tax burden on homeowners and farmers, be said.
MINTENANCE OF Kansas] highway system will be crucial, Carlin said. He proposed the transfer of existing state sales tax dollars from the state general fund to the state highway fund.
the state general land to the state Carlin also praised his Agricultural Working Group, which in the past several months has been examining farm problems. He also said the state needed to investigate its water management policy.
Gov. Jo'oN Carlin yesterday wrapped up his State of the State address to the Kansas Legislature, Seated behind him were Mike
Hayden, speaker of the House, left, and Ross Doyen, president of the Senate.
Able-bodied may lose state general benefits
By DIANE LUBER
Staff Reporter
Between 4,000 and 6,000 people in Kansas will lose their general assistance benefits if a recommendation by the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services becomes law, according to an SRS report presented to the House Ways and Means Committee yesterday.
Robert C. Harder, SRS secretary, recommended to the committee that able-bodied people between the ages of 18 and 51 who have no job experience may be eligible for general assistance benefits:
THE PROPOSAL is an attempt by SRS to stay within the $12.9 million appropriated for general assistance in fiscal year 1983, which ends June 30. SRS estimates that more than $11 million in general assistance payments will have been made by the end of January.
made by the chair of Monday,
The Ways and Means Committee voted
Thursday to introduce a bill that would,
if passed, make the SRS proposal law.
needs of individuals and families who do not qualify for Aid to Dependent Children or the federally financed Supplemental Security income program.
The general assistance program, financed entirely by the state, is designed to meet the
According to the SRS report, if eligibility requirements are not changed, more than $22 million would be required to serve the more than 168,000 people SRS anticipates will need general assistance during fiscal year 1983.
NOT ALL COMMITTEE members agree that the SRS proposal is the only solution to the problem.
State Rep. James Holderman, D-Wichita, said he thought the legislature might raise revenues that would make the cut unnecessary.
that would make me die. "Apparently no one is going to freeze to death, but I don't want anyone starving to death," he said.
State Rep. Ruth Luzziat, ranking minority member of the committee, said, "I would like to do more."
Luzzati said the legislature could raise revenue by passing a 7 percent severance tax.
THE PROPOSAL might eliminate benefits to
those receiving general assistance because their unemployment benefits have run out, she said.
According to the SRS proposal, each family that would lose general assistance as a result of this cut would be eligible to receive a single, transitional payment of $100.
State Rep. William Bunten, R-Topека and chairman of the committee, said, "If you're well and strong, then you'll just have to get out and hustle."
Employable people with dependents will continue to be eligible for Aid to Dependent Children, medical and food stamp assistance.
EXEMPTIONS SUGGESTED by SRS would allow general assistance benefits to continue to be provided to persons who are physically incapacitated, mentally retarded or mentally ill and participating in a treatment program. Persons participating in vocational rehabilitation training, resisting alcohol in the home to care for another not capable of self-care will also continue to be eligible for general assistance benefits.
Weather
Classified research sparks discussion
Today will be mostly cloudy and cold with a high in the upper 20% to low 30%, according to the National Weather Service. Winds will be from the southeast at 10 to 15 mph.
Tommy will be cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Lows will be in the teens. Tomorrow will be cloudy with a chance of snow and a high in the 30s.
By DON HENRY
Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas is years behind the times in some high-technology research fields, several KU professors said this week.
One of the reasons it is behind, they said, is because classified research, according to present KU policy, is virtually forbidden.
BUT A PROPOSAL supported by the Faculty Senate Research Committee would loosen restrictions on classified research and help the University catch up, its proponents said.
Research findings may be kept confidential for only one year in certain cases in which the sponsor of the research needs that time, either to analyze the findings or to seek patients.
The proposal is scheduled to be submitted to the University Senate Executive Committee after a public forum to discuss the proposal has been held, said Carolyn Hallbeck, assistant vice chancellor for research and graduate studies.
Catching up, however, would entail compromising the ideals of the University, Anthony Genova, chairman of the department of philosophy, said.
The forum will be Jan. 27 in the Kansas Union, he said.
DAVID KRAFT, dean of the School of Engineering and director of the KU Center for Research Inc., said he favored the proposed changes.
"It would be beneficial to the University to expand," he said, "primarily because it would permit a larger number of faculty members to pursue research in the field."
Richard Hardin, professor of English and an opponent of the program, will not swallow that rationale.
"That's looking for a pretty obscure cause," he said, "when the real issue is funding."
JAN ROSKAM, professor of aerospace engineering, said he thought the accusation that the proposal was designed only to secure research mowey was nonsense.
"What the money really does is help students," he said. "What else could we do with the money? We can't make a profit from it. We give the extra money back to the spoons."
Genova also opposed the new proposal and looseness restrictions on classified research.
"The whole idea of classified research is contrary to the idea of a university, where all research should be open to the public."
Roskam is at the other end of the pole.
IF THE CLASSIFIED restrictions were loosed, Roskam said, the aerospace research volume could be doubled in five years. The present amount spent in that area is about $250,000 a year, he said.
Roskam is at the other end of the pole.
"But that's not the point." Roskam said.
See RESEARCH page 5
Decibels can play havoc in stereo listeners' ears
By SUSAN STANLEY Staff Reporter
But prolonged exposure to loud music through portable stereo cassette headphones could be damaging to the listener's hearing, a University of Kansas Medical Center audiologist said yesterday.
RANDY LASKOWSKI, an audiologist at the Med Center, said that there was a chance of hearing damage from the small cassette players.
They can be spotted a long way away. They have wide grins and far-off looks on their faces as they strlur or jog along the campus sidewalks.
As they approach, it is easier to see the black plastic headphones and twin wires that connect them to one of the newest fads of the college-age population — the portable stereo cassette player.
Those regulations recommend that a person should not be exposed daily to more than two hours of noise above 100 decibels.
"It is a difficult thing to figure out," he said. "We follow the Occupational Safety and Health codes."
One hundred decibels is roughly equivalent to the noise a let plane makes when it takes off.
A REPRESENTATIVE of the Sony consumer service center, one of the companies that makes the cassette players, said that if someone listened to a headset at its loudest for an event amount of time, the music would be distorted and the person's hearing would be impaired.
"The louder you play one the greater risk you take, although a hearing loss is hard to relate
Two companies that make the players agreed that misuse could result in hearing difficulties.
Ed Lickum, an audio buyer for Radio Shack, a division of the Tandy Corporation, Fort Worth, Texas, said that any of the large stereo systems that he sells could cause hearing problems if
The Sony representative said that he did not know the decibel range at which the company's
"They need to be used with discretion. I don't
See STEREO page 5.
Salvadorans send soldiers to oust rebels
By United Press International
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The Salvadoran army yesterday threw one-fourth of its troops into one of its biggest offensives of the three-year civil war to oust rebels from their strongest bases, military officials said.
One officer in San Francisco Gotera said about 6,000 government troops and at least a dozen artillery pieces were moved from San Francisco toward the eastern border in northeastern province.
THE OFFICER said about half the soldiers were from the U.S.trained Atacall, Belloslo and Atonal battalions, backed with regular units from San Miguel and La Union provinces.
The rebels have declared a “January offensive” against the U.S.-backed government similar to a 10-week autumn uprising that killed or wounded an estimated 1,000 soldiers.
U. S. supplied war jets pounded the area in preparation for an assault by the operation, which involved more than 5,000 of El Salvador's troops, the officer said.
"This is one of the most important operations, and we're going to clean the subversives out of the province," the officer said.
The only comparable offensive in the region was last June, when about 6,000 soldiers were beaten back by well-armed guerrillas who had established their strongest bases in Morazan.
Refugees entering San Francisco, about 75 miles northeast of San Salvador, said the guerrillas also had captured the towns of Villa El Rosario, Joacea and Llano Alegre.
Military sources confirmed that Meanguera, about nine miles north of San Francisco Gotera, fell slandy to about 1,000 guerrillas.
The rebeels' Radio Venceremos yesterday also said "some 300 (soldiers) abandoned their positions in Jocacique."
REBELS STAGED a grenade attack on a meat processing plant only 10 miles north of the capital, destroying machinery and meat, workers said.
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ers said.
Venceremos has reported that about 140 government soldiers have been killed, wounded or captured in the latest drive.
military officials claimed soldiers Sunday killed 30 guerrillas blocking the Northern Highway, but judicial officials responsible for registering the deaths said they had seen only four bodies.
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