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Friday, April 30,1982 Vol.92,No.144 USPS 650-640
KANSAN
David Dallas
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Panel OKs compromise for classified salaries
By COLLEEN CACY Staff Reporter
TOPEKA- After sharp criticism from House Speaker Wendell Lady for "nickel and diner" with classified employee salary increases, a House-Senate meeting last night covered the increase of 7.5 percent.
It would be split between a 6.5 percent cost-of-
living increase and a 1.25 percent merit increase.
the increase and a 1.25 percent merit increase.
The panel of members of the House and Senate
Ways and Means Committee met to agree on
compromise measures. The Senate recom-
mendation of 8.5 percent and the Senate
commendation of 7 percent. This was a diffe-
rence of $4.8 million.
The committee began bargaining Wednesday, but could not reach an agreement between the
THE PAY increases apply to all state employees, including KU classified employees. These generally include all university employees except faculty members and administrators.
House's compromise figure of 7.75 percent and the Senate's compromise figure of 7.5 percent, a difference of $800,000.
Committee chairman State Rep. Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, and State Sen. Paul Hess, R-Wichita, appeared to remain in a deadlock last night until Lady, R-Overland Park, stepped in.
"There's no way I'm going to buy that," he said, referring to a proposal by Hess that the committee split the difference and recommend an increase of 7/5 or 8 percent.
Rick Musser
"I can't believe nickel and dining is going on here for 1/8 of a point. You realize what these people do for us."
RESUME
nalism.
Rick Musser, associate professor of jour-
See CLASSIFIED page 4
Thirteen semesters.
General Manager of University Daily Kansan, fall 1977-spring 1982.
Duties: Advise news staff, teach advanced review, criticize Kanzan, defend Kansan.
lester
education: Ph.D. in Mass Communications from Indiana University, 1978. (As an undergraduate, threatened to slip controlled substances into his fraternity brothers' milk.
Grew long hair. Moved out of fraternity house and refused to return.)
Voice: "Like fingernails on a chalk board," report says, or "like the voice of a line
Hair: Thinner, grayer and shorter.
Children: Three. Noah, Liz and Ben.
Wife: One. Brenda.
Fobiles: Refuses to read books written by authors who are younger than he is.
Most extravagant criticism of story:
FOOL/S,CRW. (written in red felt pen).
*
Most extravagant praise: "Oh, right, it is the old woman-dumps-de-pagements-on-city."
Hours: In by 9 a.m., out by 5 p.m.
Salary: $22,000
Staff attitude: "We're going to miss the old hime."
Duties next fall: Teach two reporting classes and one journalism seminar. Thirteen semesters.
Kansan fills jobs for summer, fall
The Kansan Board yesterday selected the 1982 summer session editor and the 1982 fall semester business manager for the University Daily Kansan.
Coral Beach, Kansas City, Kan. senior, will be the summer editor.
Susan Cooksey, Kansas City. Kan. junior, will be the fall business manager.
Applications for summer 1982 news staff positions are being taken. They are available in 200 Flint Hall.
Applications are due by 5 p.m. Tuesday in 200 Flint.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy with a high near 70, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
weather service in 10pm.
The low tonight will be in the low 40s
with winds from the north at 5 to 15
mph.
Tomorrow will be sunny with highs in the low 70s. Saturday night's low will be in the 50s.
Mary Anne Davidson and her two sons, Jess and John, of Kansas City, enjoy a day in the park learning how to fly kites.
Maranatha: church or cult?
By BARB EHLI Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The synthesizer soothes and the amplifiers send a soft melody floating throughout the room. The melody is suspended on voices that rise and fall rhythmically.
The song comes to an end with the hushed voices murmuring praise to God the Father.
AHEN
"The reason we come together is to honor God," Duvall continues. "When we know Him, He lets us understand other people."
Lyrics from a transparency sheet are projected on the wall and the voices repeat their message two or three times before the next lyrics appear.
"Thank you Lord. Thank you Father," Bob Duvall, Marantha pastor, says. "Father, our hearts do rejoice you. Alleluia. Praise you Lord. Praise you Father. Thank you Lord."
Some members of Maranatha Ministries, caught up in the music, raise their arms high, as if to catch the free-floating notes and channel them toward their hearts.
"You know what we did the other night? Do you want to know what we did the other night? We threw kisses to God—we love him that much."
MARANATHA MINISTRIES, once considered by church leaders to be just another fundamentalist Bible group, has increasingly stirred controversy among church leaders, who
call Maranatha a cult and charge that it practi ces mind control on its members.
Local church leaders are hearing more and more stories of students who describe unsettling experiences during their involvement with Maranatha. Stories of prearranged marriages and students competing all finance demands in the town are being covered. Maranatha's (fundamentalist beliefs).
turbulenceHaskBenefits:
Robert Weiner established the group in 1972 after his involvement with Campus Crusade in California.
Maranatha has grown from a drug counseling center in Paducah, Ky., into a church with 32 campus ministries in the United States. There are eight ministries located worldwide, said, with nine being located in England, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Venezuela, Argentina, Australia and Israel.
THE NAME MARANATHA originates from the Aramaic language found in Greek script translation of First Corinthians who maranatha is a prayer which means "One Lord come."
The Beliefs
Maratha's teachings strongly emphasize that drinking, using drugs and dating are sins. The tenet that prohibits dating is the most controversial of Maratha's beliefs.
A Marantha booklet entitled 'God's Perfect Choice' had to this say in a discussion on daring
"There are many other things that could be said about the 'dating plan'. However, in light of
the few things we have pointed out, any plan which subjects people to the possibility of being hurt, broken-hearted, emotionally scarred, rejected and defied sexually can certainly have originated in a person of the god of love. We must conclude that this plan had its origins in the pits of hell."
its origins in the plea of
"Amen," "Duvall added. "God told us that
that's the way it's supposed to be and I consider
that a great joy.
"It's a conviction that we have that we feel is valid and is scriptural."
DUVALL ADDED that he first kissed his wife on their wedding day.
on their wedding day.
Drinking is another area that MaranthaТАnada was being sinful. Nick Pappas, traveling Marantha evangelist, talked extensively about drinking as well as drugs and dating when he spoke last week in the Kansas Union on a four-day stop in Lawrence.
day stop in lawrence.
"How much life is in the discos tonight?" he asked. "How many people are looking for someone who's as lonely as himself?"
soften.
Asked why they are against drinking,
Marantha members and leaders both answer,
"The Bible says that no drunkard shall enter the
Kingdom of God."
Maranath publishes a monthly magazine and several Bible supplements. It also has a commitment form that members sign, and a Statement of Covenant of the Maranatha
The Statement of Covenant read in part: "I See MARANATHA page 5
JOHN HANKAMMER/Kansan
Nationally known cartoonist Paul Coker sits amd clutter in his room and hides behind his drawing from Mad magazine. See related story page 11.
Budig pleased with progress made during first year at KU
By ANNE CALOVICH Staff Reporter
Gene A. Budig has found in his first year as chancellor that it takes travel in Kansas to do the most good for the University of Kansas.
so good the girl has spent four nights a week in Kansas towns other than Lawrence to gain support, future students and money for KU.
"one of the best things I did this year was to travel extensively," he said Monday.
Budig said he was pleased to get money from people he talked to in the state and from the Kansas Legislature. The money for Haworth Hall from the Legislature was essential, he said, but securing money for the libraries was one of the year's greatest accomplishments.
Budig was president of West Virginia University before he came to KU.
He met with alumni groups, civic groups, local and state officials, public school teachers, and administrators and teachers and staff of community colleges in the state.
"I got exposed to a good cross-section of Kansas," he said. "I also had the opportunity to talk to a significant number of high school seniors.
BUDIG SAID he did not intend to cut down on his travel next year.
"People in the west half of the state tend to feel ignored. We must do a better job in reminding them KU is their comprehensive state university. We need to get more of our faculty, staff and students out in the state—their presence would be very helpful to the institution."
campus. I spent much less time at the Med Center in West Virginia—it is much smaller there."
Budig also spent a lot of his time at the College of Health Sciences in Kansas City, Kan.
An university presidencies are different assignments." Budig said. "This one was somewhat different in that I had to spend so much time at the Med Center, where a lot of our faculty is located in the United States a very complex organ. The total budget is somewhat larger than the one for the Law系."
IN THE PAST eight months, he said, $200,000 extra has been committed to the libraries, and an additional $100,000 has been added to the base budget for 1982-83 for the libraries.
"Iam especially proud of what we were able to do for the library," he said. "We have underscored our commitment to the library and it is important to the future of the University of Kansas."
Budd said that 1981-82 also was a good year academically.
He said that although ACT scores were declining nationally, the scores of KU freshmen had increased over the last two years and were now three points above the national level of 18.7.
He said KU ranked 11th among all public universities in number of national neri scholarships.
AND KU is assisting students to stay in school with financial help. Budig said, About 4,500 students work at KU on a payroll of more than $8 million, he said, and to offset expect declines in the payroll, $18,000 of University funds and a year for student employment opportunities.
See BUDIG page 4