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Wednesday, November 8, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
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RAs needed to staff orphan wings
By Lisa Moss
Kansan staff writer
Helen Nguyen, Lewis Hall resident, lives on an orphan wing at Lewis.
An orphan wing is one that does not have a resident assistant living on the wing.
Next year the department of student housing will hire about 15 more resident assistants, said Kenneth Stoner, director of student housing.
Stoner said a goal of hiring more resident assistants was to break down larger floors and to ultimately have one resident assistant on every floor.
The number of resident assistants being hired has been increasing for several years. About 10 or 20 resident assistants have been added in the past two years, he said.
Stoner said he was meeting with the department of residential life tomorrow to discuss the exact number to be hired.
He said after hiring more resident assistants for next year, two or three buildings could have resident assistants on every floor.
Whether increasing the number of resident assistants would affect their pay has not been resolved yet, Stoner said.
He said there would be trade-offs in the number of desk assistants needed because resident assistants also worked at the halls' front desks.
One less room would be available on floors that have two resident assistants. However, the residence halls have vacancies.
"We will still be able to accommodate the same number of students," Stoner said.
Jim Wilkins, resident hall director at Templin Hall, said orphan wings developed more problems than wings with resident assistants.
"I think it will make a big difference," he said.
Nguyen said she never saw her resident assistant and it would make a difference if the resident assistant lived on her wing.
He said adding extra staff would cut down vandalism and disciplinary problems because people who lived on orphan wings did not have the resident assistant as a role model.
"I think if we had two RAs on the floor it would bring the floor closer together," she said.
State lobbyists exceed 1988 spending
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Although lobbyists reported spending less to influence legislators in September than they did in September 1988, they have spent more this year than they did all last year, according to a state Public Disclosure Commission report.
Lobbyists' reported spending for the year to date is 32.5 percent higher than spending in the same period last year. In fact, for the first nine months of this year, spending is 25.2 percent higher than for all of last year. The report, released recently by the commission, also indicated that more lobbyists are representing more clients than ever.
reported spending a total of $47,674.
That compares to $413,537 for the same period last year and to $437,602 for all of 1988.
The previous record for lobbyist spending was set in 1986, when they reported expenditures of $478,404. That is $696,470, or 14.5 percent less, than what has been spent so far this year.
Through September, 675 lobbyists registered to represent 961 clients, compared to 622 lobbyists representing 859 clients in 1988. The previous records were set in 1987, when 662 lobbyists registered to represent 915 clients.
Through September, lobbyists
lobbyists filed spending reports
Traditionally, the vast majority of spending has been for food and beverages, as was the case in September.
Under Kansas law, lobbyists must file a report if they spend more than $100 in a month. In September. 23
"For September 1989, $9,004 of the total was spent for food and beverage," the report said.
Business and industry groups continued to lead in reported spending, listing $86,459 for the year. Transportation groups are second at $68,419.
Economic Lifelines, a bipartisan group formed to lobby for passage of a road improvement plan, is the leader in reported spending. The group has led throughout 1989, spending $45,870.
Court urged not to free missing boy's mother
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — In an emotional case pitching child protection against parental rights, the Supreme Court was urged yesterday to uphold the indefinite jailing of a Maryland woman for refusing to disclose her son's whereabouts.
Social workers fear the child may be dead.
incriminate herself.
Mitchell Mirviss, a lawyer appointed to represent the missing child, predicted extreme ramifications if the mother is allowed to go free in protecting her right to not
Booknik's lawyer, George E. Burns, said authorities have other alternatives to jailing the parent indefinitely for contempt of court.
The court engaged in a spirited one-hour discussion in the case of Jacqueline Bouknight, 23, who has been in a Baltimore jail for 18 months for refusing to disclose where her son is.
She could be prosecuted under a child neglect law that carries a three-year prison term, he said.
Anthony M. Kennedy noted that since Bouknight was jailed, Maryland has enacted a law that permits law enforcement officials to grant limited immunity from prosecution to compel testimony.
In Bouknight's case, they suggested, the state could require her to reveal her son's whereabouts in return for assurances that the disclosure would not be used to convict her of any criminal charges.
Social workers last saw Bouknight's son Maurice in September 1987, when he was 11 months old.
Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and