University Daily Kansan, December 7, 1981
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Legislators prepare for session. tour KU
By LISA MASSOTH Staff Reporter
When the Kansas Legislature convenes in January, the most prominent issue in the legislators' minds probably is the Senate's selection section, according to some legislators.
State Rep. Dave Miller, R-Eduora,
agree with Shriver, saying that
revenue-raising legislation probably
put on hold for because of the
election.
"I almost hate to say it, but the most important issue is we won't address the issues very well this year," State Rep. Jack Shriver, D-Akansas City, said Friday. "It's an election year for the governor and the House. We'll probably put most of the major funding things off this year."
With the lean election year hanging over their heads, members of the House and Senate Joint Ways and Means Committee met on Tuesday in Kansas Friday to tour the campus and to hear University officials roiterate their requests for legislative action.
The legislators toured Malott and Marvin hall to see renovation projects; touched Snow Hall to see how badly it has deteriorated; and heard administrators, professors and the Geological Survey ask for more money.
HOWEVER, State Sen. Jane Eldredge, R-Lawrence, who also toured the buildings, said she thought higher education is part of the legislature, partly because of the joint statewide visits by Chancellor Gene A. Budig and Kansas State University.
"The Legislature is aware that Chancellor Budig and President Acker
have made a tremendous impact on their visits around the state," she said. "The governor's office is feeling a little more pressure for higher education."
But she also said that raising revenue would be harder in 1982.
"It is traditionally harder to raise taxes in an election year," she said.
The Ways and Means committees are required by law to visit state institutions for their courses, which finished a week of tours here Friday. They also went to the University of Kansas Medical Center in both Kansas City, Kan., and Wichita, the Lansing campus of the university Hospital, the Osawatime State Hospital and Emporia State University.
State Rep. Burr Sifers, R-Mission Hills, said he thought the tour was a good idea.
"It's very helpful and informative," he said.
State Rep. Ed Rolfs, R-Junction City and former KU student body president, said the tours were somewhat productive but not specific enough.
"It gets to the point where you get, not cynical, but almost mechanical, which is bad." he said.
HE SAID seeing the people and programs they were allocating money for helped to put things into perspective.
"We need a point where we can relate in human terms," he said. "Why do we allocate money?"
"But in terms of legislation, if it's yes or no (on an issue), the tours are not really productive."
The committee members were noncommissioned about whether KU ans the other Regents schools would be the allocations they were asking for.
Budig spoke briefly to the legislators after lunch, reviewing the University's
assets and thanking the Legislature for the role it has played in building KU.
"Be assured the University of Kansas appreciates what the Legislature has done for it," he said. "The Legislature has played a role in the building of an outstanding University. What we need is your assistance in supporting one of the most valuable assets in the Mid-west."
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, spoke to the legislators about specific KU needs.
"This University has a 115 year history," he said. "God and the Legislature willing, it will continue to exist in the future."
HE EMPHASIZED KU's need for increases in faculty salaries, other operating expenditures, enrollment costs, and funds for an addition to Howert Hall.
The first stop on the chartered bus tour was the Kansas Geological Survey in Moore Hall on West Campus. The director, William Hampton, helped the committee members an automated legislative legislative allocations. Then he turned to the most popular topic of the day—money.
"I'd like to tell you what you can do for us," he said. "The building we're in leaks like a sieve. We'd like the building to appropriate money for the building."
"We'd like to go out on bid early in the spring. The best thing you could do would be to appropriate the money early."
Next the legislators rode to Mallett to see the new addition and to hear about the scientific equipment crisis.
Richard Schowen, professor of chemistry, showed a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer to demonstrate the level of sophistication of KU's equipment. Then he talked about the need for more.
"The crisis we face is this—how can we maintain our capability in instrumentation when instrument costs are rising?" finding sources are drying up?" he asked.
THE COMMITTEE members went on from Malot to see the result of the Marvin renovation and then to Snow Hall to see the need for the Haworth addition. The plan is to move the biological sciences from the deteriorating Snow to a new Haworth addition.
Other issues that might come before the Legislature were discussed by Rolfs.
A medium-security prison was proposed by the Legislature last year, he said, and was inscribed in the budget House Ways and Means Committee.
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By LILLIAN DAVIS Staff Reporter
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