THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol. 89, No. 79
Wednesday, January 24.1979
Staff photo by TRISH LEWl
Budaet Address
Governor John Carlin presented his budget statement to a joint session of the Kansas Legislature yesterday. Carlin called for a conservative budget for his first year in office.
Budget draws mixed KU reaction
Staff Renorters
By TAMMY TIERNEY
KU administrators and local officials reacted yesterday with a mixture of satisfaction and gloom to Gov. John Carlin's budget message.
"We're very pleased with his recommendation for a 7 percent increase in faculty salaries and for the increase in the annual wage," Chancellor Archive D. Rykes said.
"However, with only a 6.4 percent increase for operating costs, we obviously cannot keep up with the pace of inflation. We will need to stretch our funds as far as they will allow."
In his message, Carlin recommended that student wages be raised from $2.65 an hour to $2.90 an hour to comply with federal guidelines.
Kyle's view was echoed by Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, and Richard Von Ende, executive secretary. Both said they were pleased with the salary increases for faculty and students, but dismayed at the budget cuts that have made a big bake from the University's budget.
SHANKEL SAID, "Clearly, with a 6 percent increase in operating expenditures, the company is making real progress."
some of the progress we've made. The recommendations Carin made won't allow us to make the library improvements we'd like in our major equipment requests also were denied.
Library improvements requested by the University included a security system and security monitors.
Several large requests for capital improvements also were cut from KU's budget. In 2014, the University and Lindley halls and improvements to increase the access of the handcapped to
Shankel said, "We'll just try to make the best case or they try to budget the budget."
Another disappointment for the administrators was Carlin's decision not to adopt formula funding. Instead, Carlin said that he would be more able to help feature budgets for Kansas schools.
VON ENDE SAID the 6 percent recommendation would result in a net loss in purchasing power for the University. The University will not be known until next year, he said.
Formula funding is a new method of figuring budgets for the Kansas Board of Regents schools. It is based on the comparison of Kansas schools with peer schools.
Dykes said he and other administrators had expected Carlin to reject the new funding method and said it probably would be adoated in phases.
"Most of us thought that Gov. Carlin would like to take more time to consider formula funding. I think it will be implemented when the Legislature and the Governor have had adequate time to study and consider it." he said.
SHANKEL SAID KU would keep pushing for formula funding at budget hearings so that at least part of the program would be adopted this year.
Dykes that because of the current penny-pinching mood of the legislature, he expected a lean year for Kansas universities.
"Formula funding is a pretty good indication of the quality of education," he said. "It is a rational and reasonable investment to make convincing and rational arguments."
"At across the country there is a much more conservative trend," he said. "There is pressure to reduce taxes and expenditures. There is pressure to provide for higher education in the Legislature."
However, local state representatives reacted favorably to Carlin's stand on aid to the troops.
"The University came out pretty well." Rep. Mike Glover, D-D Lawrence, said.
HE SAID he was satisfied with the increases for student employee and faculty pay, but worried about a possible lack of equipment or replacing equipment in KU's science labls.
State Rep. John Solubch, D-Lawrence,
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John Vogel, Lawrence, the sole Republican representative from Douglas County, said he was generally pleased by the state partly because of its conservative values.
"As a whole it was quite favorable to education," he said.
However, both Glover and Vogel said they thought some of the recommendations the committee made were true.
"The leading Republicans in the House want a spending bid, "Vogel said, "feel that the majority of Republicans in the House will encourage the make tax on utilities and food."
Glover said many Democrats supported spending lid legislation and the elimination of Obamacare.
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Vitamin C as cold remedy argued
By RON BAIN Staff Reporte
Staff Reporter
The minimum daily requirement of vitamin C, as established by the Food and Drug Administration, is 45 milligrams, but according to a local pharmacist, that's not enough to store a cold.
Popping vitamin C tablets to avoid winter colds has become a national fast recy, but local authorities are advising people not to take them.
Vitamin C—ascorbic acid to a chemist—has long been known to be essential to human nutrition. Lack of the chemical causes a deficiency disease, scurvy, which occurs in long voyages until they started eating citrus fruits on trips.
Debbie Pearls, a pharmacist at the Round Corner Drug Store, 801 Massachusetts St., said yesterday that she thought large doses of vitamin C could prevent colds but could not cure them.
Taking vitamins, unlike taking drugs, causes no immediately measurable body response, according to Pleas. Also, different people have different daily requirements for vitamin C; so the effects of taking vitamin C pills vary from
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According to a California biochemist, Linus Pauling, scientific studies have shown that the brain of mice actually alleviated the
symptoms of a cold, even after its onset. Pauling published a book in 1976 titled "Vitamin C: The Common Cold and the Flu," which recommended a daily intake of 2 to 5 grams of vitamin C for cold and flu prevention.
PAULING WAS one of the first scientists to publicize vitamin C' abilities to increase cold resistance. Pauling visited the University of Kansas last year to speak on the subject.
HOWEVER CONSUMING more than two of those tablets a day could be "counterproductive" for preventing colds, according to Peter Beyer, an assistant professor of diet and nutrition at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
A person with a daily intake of four 260-milligram A vitamin C tablets or a gram a day, would have to spend an average of $143.35 per day.
A well-balanced diet will provide about 100 milligrams a day of vitamin C, which is contained in foods ranging from orange juice and Kool-Aid to turnip greens and parsley. To avoid overloading on vitamins, the person would have to take vitamin C supplement tablets. A bottle containing 250 tablets, each with a 250-milligram dose of vitamin C, costs $6.06 in the Kansas Union Book-
Beyer said recent studies showed that doses of more than 500 milligrams of vitamin C *d* day reduced lymphocyte production in the human body. Lymphocytes, examples of white blood cells, are involved in the blood stream and are what ultimately cure colds.
Beyer said that consuming more than the FDA's
recommended allowance of 45 milligrams but less than 500 milligrams of vitamin C might make some people feel more comfortable, but that feeling could be psychosomatic. He said some people are reassured by taking a pill for colds.
A REGISTERED dietitian at Watkins Memorial Hospital, Marc Bates, said many people take large doses of vitamin C only during the winter cold season. That practice could lead to problems, she said.
Bates said consuming large doses of vitamin C increased the ability of hair to absorb the vitamin, so that symptoms similar to scurvy could develop if a person began taking large doses of vitamin C in the winter and then stopped in it.
Bates said people should stick to food for their nutrition needs, even if they were sick.
"I don't just recommend supplements off the hat," Bates said.
"You want to get at least the minimum, but I think it's better to learn how to meet nutrition needs their dishes," she said.
SUPPLEMENTES are big business these days, and many pharmacies and natural food stores sell vitamins.
Buddighy Straight, owner of Norwegian Woods, a natural food store at 1344 Indiana St., said it 15 to 20 percent of his family's income.
Gov. John Carlin presented recommendations yesterday to the Kansas Legislature for what he called a concession that cut the KU request by $8.2 million.
"We try to let people make their own choices," he said.
Straight said he used vitamin supplements, but did not try to rush the oilms on his customers.
By GENE LINN Staff Reporter
Carlin reduces budget request
The Kansas Board of Regents had asked for $225 million for the University of Kansas. Carlin suggested that the Legislature allocate $115,419,408 to KU.
State funding for KU and other Regents schools is now based on the number of full-time teachers.
Although Carl said he did not favor formula funding and cut about $32 million in formula funding requests, he did say he had used the concept as a "benchmark" in his research.
Formula funding compares the financial resources available to similar enrollment and fund needs. KU administrators had used formula funding to calculate KU's budget request for
"I DON'T think formula funding is the answer at this time," Carlin said.
However, he did recommend that funding for education be based on quality and not outcome.
"Because of declining enrollments, our policy towards funding higher education—based on full-time enrollment—mus chance," he said.
If the Kansas Legislature approves Carlin's recommendations, KU will receive little funding for new programs or capital improvements in fiscal 1980.
Carlin recommended one capital improvement project that had been requested by the company. A Marvin Hall project costing $1,277,100 was approved. However, a $1.9 million project for Lindley Hall and $800,000 in planning funds for a new power plant were not approved.
CARLIN ALSO cut 6 percent off the $19,187,537, a 13 percent budget increase, that the Regents had requested for the University of Kansas Medical Center. The Governor's recommendation was for $12,603,440.
However, Carlin proposed a KU faculty salary increase of 7 percent, 5 percent more than the Regents had requested. Carlin also recommended a 9.5 percent student employee wage increase and a 6 percent increase for other operating expenses.
Carlin's recommendations for KU were in keeping with his budget for the state as a whole.
The Governor recommended an overall budget increase of 7 percent to $24 billion.
1" contrast this to a comparable time four years ago when the increase was 12 per cent.
However, he said that 4 percent of the increase in his budget was because of new programs that he was proposing. He called them "very conservative, but compassionate."
CARLIN ALSO said his budget was
fecally balanced and no tax increases were
needed.
Apparently, one casualty of Carlin's conservative recommendations was a plan to eliminate the sales tax from utility and food bills.
Carlin, who had backed this measure during his campaign, said it had his hand on the ball.
"AS POLITICALLY visible as sales taxes are, the property tax is the most unfair and wasteful."
"The question is when?" he said. "At this time there are too many unanswered unanswered questions and other questions that you should do with the taxes on foot or utility bills."
Instead of cutting sales taxes, Carl said, he would provide $30.8 million in property taxes.
Carlin said he wanted to keep the sales tax because he planned to transfer $20 million from the state general fund to the state highway system.
Carlin also said the Legislature must protect homeowners and farmers before it draws up a program to reapraise property, as it is scheduled to do this year.
On another matter, Carlin stopped short of endorsing bills-lid legislation to limit
"The best spending lid we can give
Kansens is a thoughtful and deliberative
legislative process which is not stamped
into headline-grabbing programs." he said.
Carlin said that although his budget was conservative, it was responsive to the needs of his community.
He recommended a 5 percent increase of state assistance to the poor in minimum wages.
IN OTHER matters, Carlin made recommendations which would:
- create a consumer committee to advise the
  Kansas Corporation Commission on utility costs
- contain health care costs, partly by reviewing the current Blue Cross & Blue Shield programs in Kansas to insure cost-effectiveness.
- give state employee a pay increase to 4.5 percent plus $18 month across
- provide an estimated balance at the end of fiscal year 1980 of $121,370,000, the lowest percentage of the state general fund since fiscal year 1971.
- tighten the lid on property taxes,
before a vote is needed necessary before the bill could be passed.
Nigeria students face more financial woes
By MARK L. OLSON
Staff Reporter
Most of the Nigerian students at the university are not financially difficult if the Nigerian government does not pay their scholarships, Apelcibir Willabo, Port Harcourt, Nigeria,
"I was able to fall back on the little songs I had," he said, "but now it is much tougher."
The lack of money coming from the Nigerian Consultate, which handles the money exchange between the Nigerian government and KU, has put a strain on the students who rely on government scholarships to pay for their tuition and on a payment to protect them and pay rent according to Wilabo and Jim Eklei, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, senior.
The failure of the Nigerian government to pay the tuitions of 16 students for the IUC administration to threaten to drop those students from the University if the tuition is not paid by Feb. 13, the 20th day of classes, according to David Ambler, vice president.
AMBLER SAID yesterday that the administration's decision to drop the students had not changed since the first day of classes, when there were 20 students whose tuitions had not been paid for the previous semesters.
Wilabo said the problem was worse for those students who have scholarships from
He said phone calls to the Nigerian Consulate in New York to find out about the attack.
"The problem," McCoy said, "you call and you can never get hold of anyone who
The 16 are among 45 Nigerian students studying at KU on scholarships granted by many of the 19 Nigerian states and by Graeme McCovy, comptroller
The Nigerian state of Rivers which stopped
their students in June 1978.
William is from Rivers.
"THIS THING IS the bureaucrats back home," Willabo said. "They are not doing a job."
He also said that the Consulate in New York had continued to send scholarship money to students after they had received their degrees, and that many of them had decided to use the money to get a masters. Wilabo said he thought that because of the money was not enough money to allot to those students who used their scholarships leisurely.
The delinquency of payment led Willabo to take on a job to help pay rent and buy food. He worked for a short time at a factory where he writes parking tickets for the University.
He said he must have the consent of the Immigration and Naturalization Service to work off campus, but to work for KU he must be a foreign officer. Coan, director of Forcing Student Services.
ACCORDING TO ROBERT H. Rumbaugh, district director of the Kansas City branch of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, a foreign student must prove that he needs job access because of economic in order to work or work a maximum of 20 hours off campus.
Xume said that short-term loans from KU, which must be repaid by the beginning of the following term, may not be enough to fund the back of funds from the Nigerian government.
ACCORDING TO AMBILER, the matter has come to the attention of the Nigerian business community.
But Wilabo said the Embassy had told him that it had no money, and that students were leaving.
"The funny thing is, even if my parents want to send money," Willabo said, "they technically cannot because I am on scholarship."