THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY TOPEKA, KS 66612
VOL 100,NO.6 (USPS 650-640)
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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JAY SEPT.1, 1989
Power to spend funds balanced, Budig says
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By Doug Fishback Kansan staff writer
There is a suitable balance between state oversight and University governance, Chancellor Gene A. Budig told a legislative interim committee yesterday.
Budig told the State Senate Interim Ways and Means Committee that the University was accountable to the state through dialogue with legislative committees, with the Board of Regents and with individual legislators.
Budig also spoke in support of the current "corridor system" of increasing legislative financing of the University. The corridor system increases University budgets based on actual enrollment and faculty figures rather than on future projections.
"The corridor system is a reasonable approach to adjusting budgets in line with changes in enrollments," he said in a prepared speech.
The corridor system does have its problems, Budig said. A two-year delay between enrollment growth and increased financing by the Legislature was the main problem, he said.
To ease the burden of enrollment growth, the Legislature has implemented a fee release policy that authorizes the University to spend 75 percent of the money collected in interest fees that goes beyond projections.
University budget director Lindy Eakin said the University otherwise would not be able to spend the money.
Eakin said the University received a $460,000 fee release in fiscal year 1988. Enrollment projections for fiscal year 1989 were accurate enough to make a legislative fee release unnecessary, he said.
Budig also defended the number of graduate teaching assistants
He said data did not support sug-
Kansas Legislature debates control of university money
The Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. — The Legislature has enough oversight of the financing of the state's universities, lawmakers were told yester-
The State Senate Interim Ways and Means Committee is studying methods to increase legislative oversight of the Kansas Board of Regents' budget. Some lawmakers have complained that the Legislature has too little control of the money that is appropriated annually for the six state universities.
"There's a proper amount of legislative oversight," said Stanley Koplik, executive director of the Board of Regents. "I think we have the right balance. We don't think there too much; we don't think there's too little."
Koplik noted that communication sometimes broke down between the state universities and lawmakers. He cited the recent instance in which Kansas State University officials appeared before a legislative committee to oversee a project to renovate football coaches' offices and to enlarge football locker rooms.
That project began in mid-July
and is expected to be completed before the game with Northern Iowa University on Sept. 16.
The project began without the legally required approval of the Board of Regents or the State Building Construction Committee.
"We had a little slip up and that will happen from time to time," Koplik said. "The good news is that it's never deliberate."
Koplik said the Board of Regents budget was complex and difficult to understand because of its size.
gestions that KU employed too many GTAs.
"I don't think Kansas would benefit by micro-management of its institutions by the Legislature." he said.
GTAs represent 32 percent of the University's instructional staff, a percentage comparable to those on other public universities, Budig said.
But some lawmakers were concerned that neither the Board of Regents nor the Legislature over-spend by state universities.
"The basic role of the Legislature is to raise and dispense funds," said Rep. Fred Gatlin, R-Atwood. "If the Legislature does not attempt detailed oversight, and the Board of Regens does not do any detailed oversight, who does?"
Koplik said that much of the oversight was done by the Board of Regents staff. "They leave it to us, but we do." "We do it at our level."
James Scaly, assistant to the Chancellor, said the committee's
review of the legislative oversight was causing no alarm in the Chancellor's office.
"None of us sees it as anything
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doing our homework, he
Scally said he agreed with Budig that the current system of accountability is not working.
Bakker 'stresses out' during trial
The Associated Press
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jim Bakker was committed to a mental institution in handcuffs and manacles yesterday after a psychiatrist reported that the TV evangelist was hallucinating and cowering in a fetal position in his lawyer's office.
U. S. District Judge Robert Potter suspended Bakker's fraud trial and ordered him taken to the Federal Correctional Institute in Butner for up to 60 days of psychiatric evaluation.
"Please don't do this to me," a sobbing, disheveled Bakker said as he was led from his lawyer's office by
U. S. marshals to the courthouse for processing of the commitment order. He curled up in a fetal position in the back seat.
"Mr. Bakker, I'm going to have to to say you to sit up, please," a deputy maitain said.
After the paperwork was completed, marshals left for Butner where Bakker would be spending his first night behind bars since the PTL second broke. The evangelist is among the followers of his evangelical empire.
The Butter facility has been used for psychiatric evaluations of John Hinckley, who shot President Reagan, and Hustler magazine publisher
Dr. Basil Jackson, a psychiatrist who has been treating Bakker for nine months, told the judge that Bakker began hallucinating Wednesday after a former PTL executive testifying against him collapsed on the stand.
Larry Flynt. It houses about 320 inmates, including about 150 in the mental health unit.
"Mr. Bakker reported that when he left the courthouse Wednesday, suddenly people outside took on the form of frightening animals which he felt were intent on destroying him, attacking him and hurting him," Jackson said.
Battenfeld Scholarship Hall residents play basketball behind their hall. The four players shooting baskets yesterday were, from left to right: Mark Denney, Leavenworth sophomore, Will Hallagin, Buffalo sophomore, Paolo Aldeguer, Lenexa junior and Steve Kamb, Lawrence sophomore.
Andrew Morrison/KANSAN
Scholarship halls stress unity
Kansan staff writer
Bv Lisa Moss
Fred Neis, Des Moines, Iowa, sophomore, likes to sit on
the outside at Outside Fellowship School Hall at
142% Alumni Plaza.
"He just likes sitting out there to watch all the girls go by," said Will Hallagain. Buffalo sophomore.
Neis, vice president of Battenfeld, lived in the hall his freshman year and decided to stay.
"When I first decided to live in Battenfell I was worried about the bookworm stereotype that seems to go with living in a scholarship hall," Neis said. "We are not even close to fitting that stereotype."
Brandon Worrrell, Augusta sophomore in Grace
Fearson Scholarship Hall, 1338 Louisiana St. He said he
didn't mind being an intern.
If someone went to a scholarship hall party with a preconceived notion about the residents being bookworms or being different, that notion would change, he said.
There are four men's scholarship halls and four women's scholarship halls. Each of the halls participates in a national competition.
Students work six hours a week in each hall and are
"Living in a scholarship hall is like cooperative living," Neis said.
responsible for cooking, cleaning and answering the phone at the front desk. Permanent job assignments are given out each semester. In Miller Scholarship Hall, 1518 S. 10th St., Wilmington, DE 19820. Jia Lane, residents share kitchens with roommates.
Paul Borchardt, a Lawrence freshman who lives in Battenfield, said, "The main benefit of living in a scholarship hall is that you get to know people really well. It is like having a big family."
Holly Hughes, El Dorado sophomore, lives in Sellards Scholarship Hall, 1443 Alumni Place. Last year she lived in Lewis Hall.
"Everyone helps each other out a lot." Hughes said. "We'ta're care of the hall a lot more than the people at the residence halls because it is our hall and we are responsible for it."
Janet Horner, Chapman junior and Sellards president, said a benefit of living in a scholarship hall was that there were no curfews and there was a 24-hour visitation policy.
"It's like you're living with your family." Horner said. Horner said that sometimes when she told people she lived with them, they thought she was a queen.
Recycling trade flourishes in area
By Steve Buckner Kansan staff writer
John Hahert of River City Recycling picks up classes Thursday
This story is the third in a series. When it comes to recycling in Lawrence, business is definitely picking up.
"There's a lot of different reasons" for the local recycling boom, said Patricia Marvin, part-time temporary recycling coordinator for Lawrence. "We're real lucky that our people care for the environment. It gives us a good base."
Several established companies, a new firm, City Hall and various organizations and individuals are involved in the business of converting trash into cash, thus sparing the local use of material that can be reused.
Lawrence residents have several choices of how to recycle their aluminum cups, glass bottles, newspapers and some items that, at first glance, might not appear to have a second life, such as batteries, screen doors and radiators.
River City Recycling, 716 E. Ninth St., conducts a curbside business, in which residents leave glass, aluminum cans, tin cans and newspapers sacked separately on their curts to be picked up weekly, said Mark Akin. The company is the only one of its kind in Lawrence.
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"We started with $500 and a pickup truck, and in five months we've sold 250,000 pounds of recyclables," said
John Hebert, who co-owns the company with Akin and Kirk Devine.
Akin developed the idea for the company after watching a "60 Minutes" segment on environmental problems. He withdrew from the University of Kansas when Lawrence officials began discussing whether to get into the recycling business. Akin started the company in March after the city decided to let private enterprise handle curbside recycling, he said.
Although River City Recycling pays for aluminium cups brought to their office, the company does not buy material left at the curbside. But customers see the lack of monetary incentive as a deterrent to adding customers.
Akin said his company served 15 businesses and 1,100 residences. He said he expected to have 3,000 to 4,000 customers by the end of the year.
The materials collected by River City are bought and picked up by various out-of-town companies, except for tin, which is sold locally. Akin said. The glass goes to an Oklahoma glass company.
A Topeka company buys the aluminium for commodity speculation, he said. The newspaper is used by a company that converts it into cellulose insulation.
Although the partners are pleased
with their company's growth, they said they were eager to expand their operation.
Some other local businesses have
"We want more." Akin said.
He said that "more" included automated machines for crushing glass and for processing aluminum, and a conveyor to help load trucks, as well
See RECYCLE, p. 5
Usual holiday havoc has police on guard
By Bryan Swan Kansan staff writer
"We will be running a full complement of officers, as normal, and if time and manpower permits, we will have the check lanes," said Spokesman Alexandra Dunn, the spokesman. "We will have these locations until Sunday, Sept. 3."
Labor Day weekend and the usual accompanying increase in traffic accidents have Lawrence and KU police keeping a close eye on motorists.
"The lane checks are to make sure the driver's license and registration are current, that the vehicle is in proper running condition, and that the checks for people under the influence of alcohol." Mullonson said.
If the patrol shift has enough time to conduct the checks and weekend weather conditions are good, planes will be established, he said.
The Labor Day weekend is a
Mulvenon said the cheek lanes would be at the south-bound lane on the Kansas River bridge, the 1300 block of Tennessee Street, Sixth Street and Schwartz Drive, 23rd Street and Naismith Drive and the 100 to 200 block of McDonald Drive.
busy time for law enforcement officials and a dangerous time for motorists, said Sgt. Schuyler Bailey, KU police spokesman.
In 1988 there were six fatal accidents in Kansas during Labor Day weekend, resulting in 10 deaths, said Sgt. Terry Maple of the Kansas Highway Patrol. There were also 29 injury accidents and 37 non-injury accidents.
Unlike their city counterparts, KU police officers expect a quieter weekend than usual. Bailev said.
"Our numbers (of accidents) go down because so many students leave." he said.
But Bailey said the officers still would keep an eye on campus roads.
"Our officers are more alert over Labor Day weekend because not all the students go home and stay, still cross campus," he said.
Bailey said that from Aug. 31 to Sept. 10 of 1988, no arrests were made for driving under the influence of alcohol on campus, and accidents occurred. He said alcohol does not a factor in those accidents.
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Saturday is Drive for Life Day in Lawrence. The event is an effort by the Douglas County chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
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