University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, August 31, 1977
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Club debts haunt Senate Questions raised over 1972 rugby bill
By LEON UNRUH
Staff Writer
The rugby socks and jerseys may be in tatters, but the hill for them ongers.
The Student Senate has been asked to find a way for the University of Kansas to pay a five-year-old bill for $428 worth of rugby equipment. The equipment was ordered in 1972 but the company that delivered it alleges it was never paid for the merchandise.
Chris Caldwell, Senate treasurer, said that there was "a possible moral obligation" to pay the bill, but that he knew of nilateral obligation to pay it.
Lattweil said the club had used a standard order voucher, but it had been signed only by the club's president and lacked the required signatures of the appropriate Senate officer and an official from the controller's office.
TO FURTHER compound the problem, the Senate did not allocate money to the club for equipment purchases in 1972, Caldwell said.
Rick Whitson, who recently stepped down an ubbey Chu treasurer, said the club had "good rapport."
Now the Senate must decide if it will pay all or any of the bill, ask the Rugby Club to accept the bill.
"There's no way that there's anybody around now that's responsible for what somebody did before it. It's just a screwy deal," he said. "For all I knew, it was paid back."
Whitson said the club had no idea the
KU computer aids research
Months or years of painstaking search for resources can be reduced to an afternoon's work by a computer, Linda Parker, a librarian at Watson Library, said yesterday.
A research service, available to KU students and faculty since it began last year, gives users lists of sources relevant to their tonic, she said.
A request for a computer search includes consultation with a librarian and completion of a search.
The user can expect the search results after an application is made. Tarker said
In some cases, she said, the librarian would recommend the requester do a manual search because the cost of the file system might outweigh the value of its findings.
The price usually ranges from $10 to $100, she said. That charge pays for the printing of results, the charge for using privately owned computers and telephone costs linking them to KU.
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but we can't because of our financial situation."
"It allows the user to do a highly sophisticated search in much less time than you would with an index."
The cost now must be paid entirely by the user, she said, but research funds sometimes are available to pay for all or part of the costs.
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Between 50 and 60 persons used it last year, although usage was expected to increase this year as more people heard about it. she said.
“It’s important that it be thought of as a new service open to your willing to pay for it.”
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TODAY: NAVY ROTC fall awards ceremony is at 4 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union, KU COLLEGE REPUBLICANS meet at 7 p.m. in the Union's Pine Room. ALL SCHOLARSHIP HALL COUNCIL meeting will be at 7 p.m. in the Union's Walnut Room. ALPHA PHI OMEGA open house will be at 7 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union. KU HANG GLDING CLUB meeting will be at Wescoe Hall. PRE-MED MEETING at 7:30 in the Council Room of the Kansas University.
FOMORROW: GROUP CAREER COUNSELING AND TESTING WORKSHOP from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at 13th and Oread streets, Annex A. KUAIL SAINC CLUB meets at 7:30 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
company, Rugby Imports, Ltd., of Hum
ward was still sending bills for the
enquiries.
Caldwell said Senate records showed that after the order was made, an agreement apparently was worked out between the company and the club to pay the bill in about 10 months. However, it has not been determined whether the bill was actually paid.
IN THE MEANTIME, the University has received several letters from the company, most of them shortly after the order, Caldwell said.
"It hasn't sat dormant," he said.
Wilson said members of the club purchased equipment individually from the purchaser.
And according to KU records, the club also ordered $100 worth of entreaty in秋
The most successful of the Dykes' office and then referred to the Senate, Caldwell said.
"There has been no pressure from the Chancellor's office to pay the bill," he said. Caldwell now is trying to locate the 1972 case, which will be club, John Roberts, to discuss the bill.
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Group overspends budget
By LINDA STEWART
Staff Writer
The University of Kansas International Club is holding a bill for over $30 that it expected the Student Senate to pay but that the Senate cannot pay because of state law, Chris Caldwell, acting Senate Treasurer, said yesterday.
StudieX拔 to cover only $297.73 of the club's bills, which total $684 more than its allotted budget for last semester. The committee will tell the Senate is allowed to pay by state law.
The law prohibits unbudgeted expenses from being paid with Senate funds, Caldwell said. The outstanding bill of $857.27 was an amount they cannot be paid out of state funds, he said.
The International Club's budget for the past fiscal year was $8,450; this fiscal year's budget is $3,000, down $500 from the club's request of $3,500.
STEVE LEBEN, student body president, said KAANAS Atten. Curt Cushner ruled this summer that student activity funds all state money under state control.
Because the bills totaling $297.73 were received before June 30, the end of fiscal 1977, the Senate was able to cover the bills, Leben said.
The $300 bill is owed to the Kansas Union for film and projector rental and was
received after the end of the fiscal year. Because the club overspent in all budget categories, no money remains to cover these additional costs, he said.
"TM NOT SURE how the club is going to be able to do this, but there is the Senate that the Palme can do about it."
Bahram Germai, president of the International Club, said yesterday the club was going to talk to the Senate again about finding a way to pay the bills.
Gerami said the club had gone over its budget because it had underestimated how much it had spent on printing costs. The club did not know how much it had spent because Kansas University Printing Service is one of the companies are subtracted from the Senate treasury.
"It was not the fault of the club's bookkeeping," Gerami said. "The printing service charged us more for printing our newsletters than they originally
THIRTEEN OTHER student organizations overspend their Senate-allotted budgets, but StudEx voted to cover those expenses because they were minimal or were called to the Senate's attention earlier in the school year.
Steve McMurray, StudEx representative, said he was not sure how the International Club's bills would be handed. He said the club had never managed its books well.
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U.S. to stay neutral on Ireland
WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Carter, pledging impartiality, asked Americans yesterday not to support groups involved in violence in Northern Ireland and threatened prosecution of those who do so.
He also said that in the event of a peaceful settlement, the United States would be prepared to join with others to provide additional job-create investments.
The President said U.S. policy on Northern Ireland "has long been one of impartiality, and that is how it will remain."
White House spokesmen said the governments of Britain and the Irish Republic had been consulted on the statement.
"I place myself firmly on the side of those who seek peace and reject violence in Northern Ireland," Carter said in a two-wace statement.
THE IRISH GOVERNMENT, through its embassy in Washington, said that the government is constructive development in American relations with Ireland and Britain and reflects the traditional generosity of the American government and people and its commitment to progress.
'THE UNIED STATES wholeheartedly supports peaceful means for finding a just solution that involves respect and mutual understanding Ireland and protects human rights and
O'Nell said Carter "is the first American President to speak out and contribute in a positive way," Kennedy called the President's statement "the most important and constructive American President on the Irish issue."
guarantees freedom from discrimination." Carter said.
"I ask all Americans to refrain from supporting, with financial or other aid, organizations whose involvement, direct or indirect, in this violence delays the day when the people of Northern Ireland work together in harmony, free from fear.
"Federal law enforcement agencies will continue to apprehend and prosecute any who violate U.S. laws in this regard."
"The President has placed himself firmly on the side of those distinguished American leaders who . . . seek peace and reject violence."
Carter said the United States had ties to both parts of Ireland.
"We support the establishment of a form of government in Northern Ireland which will command widespread access to information and community," Carter said. "The only permanent solution will come from people who know how to be no solutions that outsiders can impractical."
House Speaker Thomas O'Neill and Sen. Edward Kennedy, who both represent many Irish Americans in campus institutions, supported Carter's stand.
The Irish statement said the government "also welcomes the renewed commitment of Ireland vigorously to apprehend and prosecute those who violate U.S. law, in respect of supporting with financial or other aid the actions of these men directly in violence in Northern Ireland."
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