KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
Monday, February 15, 1982 Vol. 92, No. 96 USPS 650-640
Carlin sees leaner salaries
By COLLEEN CACY Staff Reporter
KU's faculty will be lucky to get a 10 percent salary increase from the Kansas Legislature next year, Gov. John Carlson said Saturday.
Carlin spoke at an "Eggs and Issues"
sponsored by the Lawrence Chamber
of Commerce.
"Ten percent should look very good in light of the response by the Legislature," he said. "We shouldn't be talking about 10 percent being too good, but I will go up, I can assure you, and it's likely to go down."
Carlin recommended a 10 percent faculty salary increase in his 1983 budget. The Board of Regents asked for an 13 percent increase.
"I was quite proud I was able to recommend the 10 percent increase with what I had to work
with." Carlin said. "It should illustrate a firm commitment that salaries are important."
FACULTY MEMBERS have said that KU salaries are not competitive with other universities. Chancellor Genoia made an appeal to the university, saying they are necessary to keep a high-quality staff.
Carlin said the fate of his proposed severance tax would have an important, though indirect, impact.
Four different versions of a severance tax, which is a tax on minerals extracted from the state's soil, have been introduced in the House of Representatives. Carlin has proposed a 5 percent tax on oil and natural gas and a 2 percent tax on coal.
The estimated $125 million in revenues from the tax would help finance public schools and highway improvements. Carlin said if the education system were to reduce there would be less money for higher education.
"Those who oppose a severance tax will look at higher education (for budget cuts)," he said. "They're not talking about salary increases for professors or higher education at any level."
Carlin's budget recommendations include revenues from a severance tax. This is the first time a Kansas governor has built his budget on a tax not yet approved by the Legislature.
He said the charges that his budget was risky were "a bunch of hogwash" and political 'gamme-ness'.
"If I had not put it in, I would have been criticized for that," he said. "I left it out last year and was criticized for that. I put it in this book and was demanding me for putting in funding that didn't exist."
THE MOST powerful opposition to the severance tax is in the Senate, he said.
New AD brings a positive approach
"It comes down to the Senate, and more specifically, to the proper role of the Senate (Ross McDermott) on FGM名"
By BARB EHLI
Staff Reporter
Jim Lessig, newly named KU athletic director,
brought a sprinkle of good humor, good intentions and enthusiasm for the University of Michigan to press新闻 conference at Parrott Athletic Center.
Lessig described himself as a positive thinker.
Lessig described himself as a positive thinker.
"You can do anything in life that you believe
you can do," Lessig said. "I believe in the
University of Kansas."
Lessig directed 24 men's and women's sports involving 750 athletes at Bowling Green, which is the location of the 1996 U.S. Women's National Championship.
Lessig, 46; was athletic director at Bowling
Mall. On December 11 he was appointed last week by Chapter 51 of the Law
last week by Chapter 51 of the Law.
A search committee made up of students, faculty, alumni and administrators screened 46 applicants and recommended four to Budg. The committee's choice of both the committee and the chancellor.
HE REPLACED Bob Marcum, who resigned from the position Jan. 2 to become athletic director at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Lessig will earn $51,000.
He said he did not think that his background in basketball, rather than football, would make any difference.
"That's like asking one who has three children which one he likes the best," he said.
Most of the athletic directors in the Big Eight Conference and at KU have had backgrounds in
school and college levels. He also has served as a color commentator with the Cleveland Cavaliers Television Network and as the Cavaliers' assistant coach and talent scout.
Lessig has coached basketball on both the high
Lessig said he would return to Bowling Green until they found a new athletic director, but he said he hoped to be permanently at KU by May 1. Lessig expressed concern that athletes "graduated with a degree that is meaningful to them."
He likened the place of athletics at a university to the front north of a house.
the front porch is not the most important part of the house, but it is the most visible," he
said HE SAID that many people passed by the house who would never come close enough to judge it from the inside. Like the house, he said
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ASK delegates deny funds for second campus directors
Funds to hire second campus directors at three Kansas colleges were denied by the delegates of the Associated Students of Kansas at their spring legislative assembly this weekend in Topeka.
By ANN LOWRY Staff Reporter
Debates took place between the seven member schools, Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University, Kansas State University, Pittsburg State University, the University of Kansas and Washburn University, and also among KU delegates.
Some delegates thought the second director's work at Wichita state, H. and K-Slate could be done by a team of 15 students.
"I think it would be a mistake for ASK to
assume that to get anything you have to pay students, "Dick White, Pittsburgh State" ASK
Steve Dunn, KU's ASK board member,
disagreed.
"You must realize the work is not the same at the campuses. We feel there is enough work, at least at KU, for two people. We don't feel we can depend on volunteerism," Dunn said.
KEVIN FAULKNER, Fort Hays State's campus director, said the Fort Hays Student Senate had allocated extra money to its campus director's salary.
"If the campus feels it's necessary, let them do it themselves." Faulkner said.
KU* ASK *members* had appended #kU *Student Senate for Senate* for a hire a second KU *ask moon* 5.
The warming trend will continue today with the highs expected to be in the high 45, according to the National Weather Service in Toneka.
The wind will be west to northwestern 5 to 15 mph. Tuesday will be mild with highs in the 50s.
On his campaign trip to Lawrence, Dave Owen, Republican candidate for governor, stops by GSP to visit his daughter, Elizabeth.
GOP's Owen blasts Carlin for lack of education support
By KEVIN HELLIKER Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
On a one-day campaign swing through Lawrence, Dave Dawn. Republican candidate for governor, promised to promote higher education in partisan-partisan states in Tuguegea if he were elected.
Owen, a 43-year banker from Stanley,
criticized Gov. John Carlin's "overspending" in
some areas and underspending in areas such as
higher education.
"Under Carlin, the state's support for higher education has declined constantly," said Owen, former lieutenant governor under Gov. Robert Bennett.
Owen said that under Bennett, state colleges and universities received 21 percent of the state's general revenue fund. But that figure has slipped below 19 percent since Carter took over,
"It is typical of the misleading way he's handled his budget that all the headlines say he's requested a 10 percent increase in faculty wages, when in fact, the increase amounts to 8.3 per cent."
Owen also criticized Carlin's "deepest" proposal or a 10 percent salary increase for the manager.
ALTHOUGH CARLIN proposed a 10 percent
wage increase, he increased his
earnings.
members retire and are replaced by lesser-paid
members—from 2 to 3.5 percent, Owen said.
A real danger exists that the higher education community is going to lose confidence in the state government." Owen said.
Already, private industry and out-of-state colleges are luring state faculty members away.
OWEN SAID that increased revenue for education, as well as for the proposed construction of a medium-security prison, could be raised without implementing the severance tax, which ultimately would raise utility costs, he said.
"We don't need the severance tax." Owen said. We "don't need to go to a witch hunt through the woods." We don't need to be a witch hunter.
"What we need is an even-handed, across-the-board look at every aspect of the state budget. We've allowed Carlin to spend us into a mess, but it also gives us an economic turn, we end up in kind of on the shorts."
Owen blamed Carlin for the problems at Kansas State Penitentiary, and said there had been too many studies and not enough action taken to alleviate the problems there.
He and other Republicans supported a new prison in the 1970s, he said, but Carlin, the Speaker of the House, continually shot down the proposal.
Asked whether he would maintain Patrick
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Get Smart a leader
New Wave rides high in placid Lawrence
By CATHERINE BEHAN Staff Writer
Marc Koch, 1319 Tennessee St., looked like a typical 21-year-old in his Lewis and T-shirt, but tucked under a chair in his living room were a pair of scuffed red satin shoes and a leather jacket. In his left ear I noticed an earlure.
But at the -Wall Hall, 737 New Hampshire St. where Get Smart often performs and where a band called Jason and the Nashville Scorchers played Friday and Saturday, dancers with purple hair pack themselves into their hats and pushers or zebra striped shirts, and they bounce up and down to the loud, fast and energetic music.
"We're not punk," Koch said of his band, Get Smart...
"No one from the middle class can be punk."
He said that there was no such thing as "punk rock" or "new wave" music and that those were just names of the type.
Some of the dancers sport Mohaws, with their heads shaved off all but a strip of hair from their foreheads to the napes of their necks. The hairstyles rival those of Jason and the other band members.
One self-described punk rocker, Stell Stoll, 818 Louisiana St., was dressed in a leather jumpsuit, red T-shirt, black and red checkered tie, red sneakers and white spats. He said punk rock was high-energy music without the similarity of older groups such as Journey or REO Speedwagon.
Koch agreed that the music he and the other band members, Lisa Wertman and Frank Loose, played in his studio.
"In the post-Vietnam psychedelic era, there was a humdum of mediocrity of music," he said. "Bands like the Ramones started writing harder core music to fit their own needs."
Most punk fans say the music is just part of a movement that started in England in 1977 with the Sex Pistols. During depressed economic times, thousands of young people were unemployed and angry, and the punk movement began as a statement about their own circumstances.
The popularity of the Sex Pistols spread to the East Coast and, while pink faded in England, the music's pop-era took over.
punkers is cresting in California, with groups such as the Germs, the New Marines, Black Flag, Jerry's Kids and the Dead Kennedys, nearly three years after punk died in England.
Koch said the kids who started the movement were saying that people had to accept them for what they needed.
He said that there were still some bands, especially on the West Coast, that were punk bands, but the bands that played in the Midwest were not punk band-style people have "nothing to complain about."
"It isn't a regeneration of rock 'n' roll (in the United States). Everyone is tired of pain and their surroundings, and want to do something about it, so they do it in music instead of speeches," he said.
Many punk bands in the United States follow me
example of the English bands by getting a group of
musicians to form a band.
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whatever comes to music. Musical talent usually doesn't matter as long as the music is fast and loud.
Ann Hellman, Overland Park junior and music director at the student radio station JKHK, which plays what the station calls "progressive rock," said some, but not all of the bands that the radio station
"Good musicianship is not really a prerequisite for popularity." Hellman said.
"Punk rockers are the hippies of the '80s," Stoll said, taking off his slit-end sunnails.
AND WHILE THERE are not as many punk rockers as there were hippies, punk rockers like music and
"For the first time they are a part of something, whereas before they were put down for being poor and uneducated and were never a part of anything." Koch said.
With the adamant support of the movement and the music and the rebellion it stands for, the dancing sometimes gets violent, and one violent dance has its own name—"slam dancing."
Usually dancers just bounce up and down to the music, but when slam dancing, they stand and move
SLAM DANCING is a close cousin to the popular Los Angeles punk dance, *shanking*. Koch said that "we were very proud of this project."
side to side, slamming into each other as hard and with as much pain as possible.
Susan Accardi, Lenexa senior and a disc jockey for KJKH, said. "They get pretty violent up there (in Los Angeles). Only a few people are doing it here, and I hope it doesn't really catch on."
Sometimes, slam dancers hit band members or non-slam dancers. When that happens often enough, people
"Sometimes they'll just move away from people who are sham dancing, but if they really get mad, they'll
"It's very violent. They go out to cause harm in this dance," he said. "They wear studded bracelets and necklaces."
Although slam dancing in Lawrence is considered tame when compared to California punkers, dancers can throw it hard.
"With the movement, they can be that they want to be and set away with it. "Koch said.
In Los Angeles, slam dancers try to cause as much pain to other dancers as is humanly possible. When a clumsy dancer falls to the ground, aggressions come out and people start kicking with their boots.
"I don't think people sit around and think what they are going to bloom up next or who they are going to be."
BUT THE aggression that punk rockers have in their lives sometimes leads to aggression in their music and dance.
"It reminds me of locker-room antics," Koch said. "They have fun. It is a way to get out their hands."
The dancing is not the only violent aspect of punk rock. Usually the groups 'names and song lyrics aren't calm either; the Dead Kemmies perform such titles as "Kill the Poor," and "California uber Alles."
Lawrence punk is a bit tamer, with bands such as Get Smart. Thumbs, Start and Mortal Micronetz. And though middle-class Lawrence residents might not have much to complain about, many are following the movement a little more plausibly—but just as zealously—as their California counterparts.