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Friday, January 26, 1979
Weather service needs funds
By PAT RICE Staff Reporter
The KU Weather Service may be forced to discontinue its services after this semester if it does not receive additional funds for equipment and staff, Larry Cosgrove, director of the weather service, said recently.
"There's just not enough interest," Crosgrove said. "The University seems to think the service is nice for public use, but it is neither weather, but after that the interest is gone."
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The weather service provides free daily weather forecasts.
Cosgrove said the weather service received an average of 80 calls a day asking for the weather forecast. Because of the weather service's heavy workload, he said, the phone service might stop within the next few weeks.
THE ONLY WAY we could continue the phone service through the semester is if the
University gives us a recorder for phone messages," Cosgrove said.
The weather service received $2,000 from the Student Senate last semester, but Cogsworth said it would take $10,000 to buy equipment. He successfully with the National Weather Service.
"I would not like to see the service stopped," Cosgrove said. "But that money is really needed to buy a telephone machine or someone to run the service after it leave."
Cosgrove said he planned to get his master's degree in meteorology in the spring. He is the only graduate assistant at the weather service. The rest of the staff consists of 14 undergraduate meteorology students.
Cogrove train the staff and coordinates the weather service's broadcasts to radio stations.
"THIS IS a much-needed public service." Crogsave said. "There is no national weather service in this area and without us, local residents would have to call long-
distance for a forecast. Our service is free and we're on camou."
Cogrove, whose weather broadcasts can be heard on campus radio stations JKHJ and KANU, said the KU Weather Services office is providing weather service to all college weather service in the country.
Cogrove also said more funding for the weather service could attract students to
udent
Cosgrove began the KU Weather Service in 1977 when he transferred to KU from Temple University in Philadelphia. The weather service originally broadcast to three stations in Hutchinson, Garden City and Topeka. It now broadcasts to 16
"If the University would develop a forecasting program, students from Nebraska, Iowa and other states might come here instead of going to the University of Missouri or Penn State, where they already have forecasting programs," he
The University funds only the service's
weather observer position. The other staff members are not paid.
The weather observer, Randy Reddick,
Lawrence junior, records the temperature
throughout the day and measures
precipitation and the barometric pressure.
He gives the information to local
newspapers and radio stations.
"I DEFINITELY LYE feel the weather service is worth continuing." Reddick said. "We get a lot of calls from farmers, pilots and people out of state who need the weather forecast."
Cogrove said Kansas was one of the worst areas of the world for storms and tornadoes. And in really bad weather the National Weather Service cannot help the state, he said, because of the inaccuracy of their long-range forecasts.
"If we had a really bad spring, we couldn't rely on the National Weather Service. They're just not that good." Cosgrove said. "Our service is something the people of Lawrence shouldn't forget about."
Berman says lid won't hurt funding, tax relief
By GENE LINN Staff Reporter
TOPEKA—The overwhelming approval, 37.1, of a 7 percent spending bill by the Kansas Senate yesterday will have little effect on the prospects for formula funding or sales tax relief, according to State Sen. Arnold Berman, D-Lawrence.
The bill, which is opposed by Democratic Gov. John Carlin, would place a lion on expenditures from the state's general fund. This fund is made up of all revenue raised by the state, including income and sales taxes.
The limit would equal 107 percent of the Legislature's estimate of expenditures in the preceding fiscal year. Carlin has a 38 percent budget and of budget about $1.1 billion for fiscal 1980.
By limiting expenditures, the legislation could make less money available for formula funding and for the elimination of the sales tax on food and residential utility bills.
UNIVERSITY OF Kansas officials determined, by using formula funding criteria, that the University was underfunded by almost $4 million last year.
Formula funding compares the financial status of KU with five universities with similar enrollment and financial needs. KU budget requests to calculate KU's budget request for 1980.
Berman said formula funding, for the University of Kansas and other Kansas Board of Regents schools could be adopted despite the spending lid.
"Formula funding and the spending lid are separate and distinct," he said. "We could have formula funding without being committed to a certain amount of money."
Berman also said there was hope for eliminating the sales tax from food and utilities because general fund revenue exceeded the 7 percent lid on expenditures.
"THESE IS absolutely no question that revenue will increase next fiscal year by more than 10%."
average increase in the last few years has been 11 percent."
The Senate's spending bill provides for a tax relief fund made up of tax revenue that covers most of the state's income.
"This tax relief fund could be used to finance the elimination of sales tax on food and utilities or some other form of tax on property. The fund is used is a bookkeeping question.
CARLIN HAD called for a 10 percent balance in the budget speech he made to the council.
"The spending lid will not be operating in a vacuum."
One result of a spending limit bill, he said, was that the minimum ending balance in the general fund would be 8 percent of the total fund.
The governor also had criticized spending lid legislation in his speech and recommended instead that a spending lid be placed on current state government.
In spite of Carlin's opposition, all 19 senators and senators co-sponsored the Senate budget.
However, Berman said he did not think this was a break in party discipline.
"There is no significance in the difference," he said. "The governor is in favor of a spending lid. He just doesn't want to have a specific number attached."
But Berman said there could be some conflict because the governor had recommended an 11 percent increase in general taxes, while the percentage more than the Senate spending lid.
BERMAN SAID he did not know where the 4 percent would be trimmed.
"I chatted with the chairman of the House committee about the two bills," he said.
As for the future of spending lid legislation, Berman noted that the Kansas House Ways and Measures Committee had decided to spending limit bill similar to the Senate's.
It is likely that the Legislature will pass a spending bill, Bill Berman, said, but Carlin's part of the plan is less likely.
"It's too early to foresee what he will do with the bill," Berman said.
KANSAN On Campus
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TODAY: COUNCIL ON SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION will meet all day in the Wainroom Park of the Kansas University. ANTHROPOLOGY CLUB will meet at noon in the Wainroom Park of the Kansas University. CLUB will meet at noon in Akove G of the Union. KANAS BANKERS will hold a session at 1 p.m. in the Governor's Suite of the SCIENCE CENTER for Sen. James Crowley will begin at 3 p.m. in the Kansas Room of the Union. BILOGY CLUB will meet at 4 p.m. in the Sunflower Room of the Union. BILOGY CLUB will meet at 4 p.m. in Cork 1 of the Union.
TONIGHT: FINE ARTS SENATORS will open an hold open at 6 in the council Room of the Union INTER-VARSITY CHRISTIAN SENATORS and First Christian Church Education Building. CAMPUS CRUSADA will meet at 7:30 in the Pine Room of the Union. A STUDENT RECTI BULY by Sae Moeen and Jeanine Gilman on 8 in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murray Hall.
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TOMORROW: STUDENT RECITAL to Kimberley Kennedy will begin at 8 in Swartworth Recital Hall in Murphy Hall. FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHELTEES will host a disco dance at 8 in the Walnut Room of the Union.
SUNDAY: A COMEDY MATINEE entailed "America Laughs: Film Comedy from 1913 to 1958" will begin at 1 a.m. p.m. at Whitson School Auditorium, 17th and Arlington High School, where the program on music at 2 p.m. in the Contemporary Gallery in the Museum of Art.
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Off-campus students to elect own senator
Bv CAROL BEIER
Staff Reporter
Although 50 percent of the students at the University of Kansas live off campus, these students for the first time will choose their own student senator next month.
Spending limits for all of the campaigns have been established in the rules of the Student Senate. Student body presidential and vice president candidates are
The off-campus seat, established by the Student Senate last spring, is one of 107 senate seats, 12 class offices and two senate offices to be filled following the Feb. 14 and 15 elections. The off-campus senator was appointed last semester.
Mitchelson said he was more concerned about low voter turnout than with a lack of candidates. Ten percent of the student body was also against his 's election for the present administration.
The off-campus seat will allow students who live off campus to elect someone in a similar living arrangement to represent them.
The Interfraternity Council, the Panhellenic Association, the Association of University Residence Centers and the Panhellenic organization supplied with a seat in the Senate. It is up to the organization to fill that seat, John Mitchelson, Senate Elections Committee
Mitchelson said, "A lot of people may not even know there is an off-campus Senate seat open. This way, they have the same opportunity to run as students in other living groups."
Candidates must either pay a $3 fee打印 or submit 50 signatures of their constituents to place their names on the ballot. The candidates will print for these offices is Monday at 5 p.m.
He said, "A lot of graduate students don't seem to have time for Senate. They have half a million excuses for not running. I'm not saying that's good or bad."
Candidates for the senate seats are allowed to spend three cents per constituent or $35, whichever is more. All candidates are required to submit a financial audit to the elections committee within two weeks after the election.
Nunemaker seats are available to freshmen and sophomores in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The 27 seats are divided into five geographical districts.
"We are concentrating on publicity," Mitchelson said. "Also, I contacted each organized living group for a member to serve on the elections committee."
Mitchelson expects a crowd of candidates to file on the last day. However, he said there had been no nominations for the seven graduate student seats last fall.
Mitchelson said he had two reasons for recruiting his committee members in that
"Number one, I needed the help," he said.
"Number two, I thought if someone in a house or hall were involved in the elections, I might stir up some interest. I hope it works."
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