University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
KANSAN
Friday, February 19, 1982 Vol. 92, No. 100 USPS 650-640
Bill would permit 6-month residency Regents push bill for new Kansans
KEVIN HELLIKER Staff Reporter
Some students who have lived in Kansas for only six months may再 be eligible for in-state.
at the University of Kansas, state residents pay $450 a semester for tuition. Out-of-state students pay $825 a semester for tuition.
A bill before the Kansas Senate Ways and Means Committee would reduce the residency requirement from one year to six months, because many states require requirements before receiving residency status.
At a hearing before the committee yesterday, John Conard, director of the Kansas Board of Regents, said the bill was aimed toward families who move to Kansas for employment.
"These people start paying (state) taxes the day they move in," he said. "It doesn't make sense for the employee or his family to have to a new year before they're considered state residents."
ALTHOUGH the bill does not specify who may receive in-state tuition after six months, it would not grant residency status for students who come to Kansas expressly for school, Conard said.
Now, in addition to residing in Kansas for one year, a residence candidate must gain full-time work in Kansas, pay state taxes, transfer insurance and obtain a Kansas driver's license if he drives.
Students seeking residency also must be totally independent of parents who live in other areas.
The one-year requirement alone would change under the proposed bill, sponsored by the Senate.
Besides the legal requirements, however, a student must convince officials at state schools that his quest for residency is not motivated by tuition costs alone. Conard said.
"There's nothing automatic about becoming a resident after six months," he said. "Ultimately, residency status is in the mind of the individual, and no one can read his mind."
"But there are bits of evidence by which a person can determine whether a particular deserving of慈怜."
But William Kelly, associate dean of admissions and records at KU, said a student's intentions were not questioned if he met all the legal requirements for residency.
The University does not ask whether the enquiry request is related to tuition costs, Kelvy's.
"To be honest, if a person meets the requirements, then he becomes a resident," said Kelly, who approves resident requests at KU. "If you need help, do it if the requirement changes to six months."
Last semester, there were 6,385 out-of-state students at KU. Because these students pay more than twice the tuition charged to Kansas students, it would result in recessions could result in fewer dollars for the state.
Although Conard said that there was no estimate of the possible loss of tuition dollars, he said at a hearing for a similar bill last year that the bill would cost the state less than $300.000.
This is the fifth year that such a bill has come before the Legislature since the residency requirement was increased from six months to a year in 1975.
Conard said one reason the Regents supported the bill was that all community colleges in Kansas and Washburn University had only six-month residency requirements.
The drop to a six-month requirement would mostly affect Wichita State University, which is near factories that often attract people from out of state, Conard said. But with nearly 7,000 out-of-staters in Lawrence, KU probably would be affected as well, he said.
Faculty salary funds diverted to operating expenses budget
By COLLEEN CACY and ANNE CALOVICH Staff Reporters
Money for faculty salaries, left over from a higher than expected rate of employee turnover, has been transferred to the operating expenses budget at the University of Kansas for the past five years, according to a report released by the Kansas Legislative Research Department.
But the money transferred out of the salary fund could not have been used for salary increases, Keith Nitcher, University director of business affairs, said yesterday.
The report said that from 1977 to 1988, a total of $1,672,063 was transferred to the operating expenses fund, an average increase in the fund of 1 percent each year.
The report was released at a meeting of the House and Senate Ways and Means committees, where the Kansas Board of Regents presented their 1983 budget requests.
Legislators questioned the Regents request for a 13 percent faculty salary increase because
funds had been taken out of the salary budget in the past.
BUT NITCHER said this money could not be used for salary increases because the raise would only be for part of the year. The employee should ask that next year because that money would not be there.
Faculty members are named in the budget the year before their salaries are paid, and their salaries are paid for the following year.
"If you have turnover or vacancies over a year, you save some money," Nitcher said. "It's nothing new. It's part of the University's fiscal policy."
Nitcher said that in 1981, $44,348 had to be transferred from the operating expenses fund to the salary budget because there was less employee turnover than expected.
When money is left over in the salary fund, it is because more vacancies occur than were already available.
But in 1981, the reverse happened.
SHRINEAGE IS the estimated amount an institution's salary budget will shrink because of a new budget.
See BUDGET page 5
God Stokes former mayor of Cleveland, rode from yesterday's Cleveland Press denouncing Reagonomics. Stokes spoke at Templin Hall last night.
Doors open for blacks, Stokes says
By JANET MURPHY Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Mixing wite and tough talk, black leader Carl B. Stokes last night exhorted KU's black students not to use their race as a crutch, but to use the opportunities gained for them to get
Stokes, former Cleveland mayor and the first black mayor of a large U.S. city, told about 200 students and faculty members at the school that black students had "needed for blacks in recent years."
"There isn't anything you can't do today," he said.
Jr., no NAACP, no Urban League to solve their individual problems.
Stokes appeared in conjunction with the observance of Black History Month.
He said there was no Martin Luther King
"You are going to have to do this yourself," he said.
HE TOLD students to go to the classrooms
they themselves "while those of us out
here fight."
JON HARDESTY/Kanaan Staff
Bill Gleason, Roeland Park freshman, had Memorial Stadium to himself vesterdav afternoon as he loaded around the track.
In the 1960s, he said, blacks were denied
in employment. In the 1980s, blacks were
deforestation. We are not always qualified for jobs.
But the doors are open now, he said, and babe must take out counties and do more business.
Stokes said it became important to him early in life to be independent and to work for himself. He and his brother now have the largest law firm in Ohio.
He said he learned, in college, the limits to education. But he said he also
learned the confidence, challenge and determination to be independent.
"So, when a Ronald Reagan is doing what he did, you may hurt my country, but be wounded much."
HE ENCOURAGED students to take courses that prepared them for a good job.
"So the IBMs and the Dow Chemicals will be on your doorstep and will choose you," he said, "not because you're black, but because you're needed."
Stokes said his competitive drive made him want to learn. He said it was effective in his political life and when he went into jour-
Holding a copy of Thursday's Topea
Capitol-Journal, of workers being laid
off at STORES in CALIFORNIA.
Weather
Tomorrow will be clear to partly cloudy with a high in the mid- to upper-50s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Winds will be from the southwest at 10 to 15 mph. The overnight low will be in the low 30s.
Economy, budget emphasized in Reagan news conference
By United Press International
WASHINGTON-President Reagan left the door to budget compromise jarey yesterday, saying he would listen to proposed changes in his policy. He said he left the Pentagon and his tax cut program alone.
Reagan also said he intended to appoint a private-sector task force to find waste and inefficiency in the federal government, which he said spent $23,000 a second.
Reagan's statement came in a prepared statement that led off his eighth news conference.
However, Reagan's refusal to answer questions on the news conference may have been a mistake.
REAGAN SAID the blue-ribbon panel, whose members will be announced soon, would bring to the problem of government spending "outside of improving management and outsider federal costs."
Reporters asked 30 questions in the 40-minute
period, and Reagan refused point-blank to answer 11 of them on grounds they dealt with three things he said he would not discuss—overt operations against another government, plans and options for U.S. actions in Central America, and options for the American economy would begin its recovery.
Reagan also was asked whether he had approved any covert activity to destabilize the left side of Iraq. He said he did not.
THEN, realizing his mistake, Reagan did not make the same sweeping disclaimer about Nicaragua and only gave the answer that government spokesman are instructed to give when asked about possible covert activity—"I will not comment."
His mind on a previous question that dealt with El Salvador, he answered. "No, we're not sure."
On the economy, Reagan said, "We have made progress. Inflation, our No. 1 enemy, is coming closer."
Reagan said he expected the recession to "bottom out" in the coming year.
City commissioners evaluate Watson; no decision made
The Lawrenceaty Commission discussed City Manager Biofurd Wolf's job performance.
Mayor Marci Francisco said all five commissioners agreed that, at least for last night, they would not take either of two extreme measures: firing Watson or giving him a raise.
"The choices are not whether to fire the city manager tonight, without pay, or the choice to say to the public. "Buford has done a great job for the city. Buford has been in fact an exemplary city manager to the extent that we are going to vote to give him a raise," she said.
The commission will continue to evaluate Watson in a closed session at 1:30 p.m. Saturday.
COMMISSIONER Tom Gleason bad said recently that he would move to fire Watson at the evaluation yesterday, but he said the evaluation was not yet complete.
Watson said he did not want to speculate about Saturday's meeting.
"If I change my mind, I'll let you know," he said.
In response to Glisson's letter, a group has been a petition drive to force an election to renew it.
It was revealed two weeks ago that Gleason had written a letter to Watson asking that he should
THE COMMISSIONERS eventually will release to the public the policy statements of the commissioners regarding saxon sand.
"People have said to us, 'If there a problem with the city manager, you need to set policy,'" she said. "When we have policies, we'll release them."
Francisco said the commission was not abusing the purpose of closed sessions, because it was not a formal meeting.
"It not policy unless we vote on it," she said. "The meeting Saturday might end the uncertainty of whether Watson will remain city manager, Commissioner Barkley Clark said."
"I hope that after Saturday, we'll know," he said. "I can't promise that."
The commissioners tried to overcome their difference so that they could work as a team, CIM.