Friday, January 19, 1979
University Daily Kansan
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Legislator to unveil new district map
By GENE LINN Staff Reporter
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, will literally redo the political map of Douglas County this morning when he turns in one or more maps showing proposed changes in accordance with Kanaş' House reorientation.
Solbach is responsible for redistricting Douglas County for a subcommittee of the Apportionment Committee. The subcommittee is drawing up reaportion plans for most of northeast Kansas.
Sobach's maps will be given to the legislative research office, which will take maps with proposed changes for them and put them together into one state map.
The Apportionment Committee will discuss any need for changes in the maps when it meets on Monday.
At stake for Douglas County is the possibility of an additional house district to go with the three existing ones.
IF THE new district emerges, Solbach said yesterday, it could become an issue in partisan politics, with party leaders in the university student vote at the University of Kansas.
Solbach explained that Douglas County and a small part of another county would merit four representatives if reapenting the area about the rural population growth.
"Douglas County has enough people for 3.7 representatives," he said. "We could pick up the .3 from someplace else."
How the districts' boundaries are
drawn will be politically important,
Solbach said.
He said the two districts that include most of Lawrence could consist of a safe Republican and a safe Democratic seat, or of two seats that could go either way.
"The Republican leadership seems to like the idea of having one safe Republican seat and one safe Democratic seat in Lawrence," Slochah
HE SAID the other two districts were basically rural and tended to vote Republican.
One of the keys in apportioning the Lawrence districts is the student vote at KU, which Solbach said was somewhat of a boc vote.
"Students voters are probably more liberal than other voters in the county," he said.
Despite all the room available for partisan maneuvering, Solbach said, rapportment in the county and in the state will be fair.
"We're working in a spirit of cooperation," he said, adding that partisanism was "below the surface."
He also said there were checks and balances at work in the political system this year, with a Republican legislature and a Democratic governor.
"And, the state supreme court has to approve the final plan," he said.
Solbach said he did not think the Kansas House would hold a secret meeting to make its own reap-
ishment. As the Senate had done last Wednesday.
"I don't think the House leadership would do that," he said.
By TAMMY TIERNEY
TOPEKA- Although they had spent a day reviewing formula funding, members of the Kansas House Ways and Means committee reviewed the cost and implementation of the program.
Staff Reporter
Formula funding is a new method of figuring the budgets for Kansas Board of Regents schools. The system compares the program expenses with other "peer schools" in program areas to other "peer schools."
Panel reviews formula funding
During a two-hour meeting, committee members spent nearly an hour questioning Tom Hawson, a representative of the committee, made a presentation before the committee.
The leaders of each of the Regents schools were present at the meeting in a show of support for the system. Formula funding required the 1980 budgets of all the Regents schools.
Also attending the meeting was Del Shankel, University of Kansas executive vice chancellor, who said that he thought the presentation was good and that he hoped committee members would examine the new system carefully.
Among the concerns expressed by legislators was that formula funding had been designed to offset declining enrollment.
"It is not an easy concept to grasp," he said. "But it is clearly important to the universities and needs to be completely understood."
However, Shankel said that if enrollment declined in Kansas, it would also decline at the peer schools to which Regents schools are compared.
Other formula funding questions raised by the legislators concerned the cost of the program, its complexity, the selection process of the peer schools and the
In his remarks, Rawson tried to assure committee members that the current process did not create problems in those areas.
possibility that Kansas schools would base decisions on what peer states were doing.
"The PROGRAM could cost five million, or it could cost 15 million—that is a choice that will be made annually by the Legislature," he said. "It is difficult to equal to a dollar amount, but we have shown evidence that the two are related."
Although the new system is complex, he said, other states are using funding methods that do not require a central bank.
"People have been critical of the complexity of formula funding. I have no answer to that except that higher education finance is complicated," he said. "At least 20 other states use some kind of formula and others are more complicated."
When selecting the peer institutions for the Regents schools, Rawson said, the
characteristics of both the school and the state were considered. Population and enrolment decline or growth were not correlated. The numbers vary too much from state to state.
Rawson said the purpose of formula
funding was to make Kansas schools like
this one more accessible.
"WE'RE MERELY trying to provide a framework within which the governor and Legislature can make more responsible decisions. We didn't pick five schools so we would be forced to emulate their states," he said.
The reason formula funding was developed, Ruwson said, was to obtain an appropriate level of funding for the Repubs to make sure funds were equitably distributed.
He said the existing system did not do that because it was incremental and had no provisions for determining the correct level of funding for a school.
"Two hundred million dollars of general use money is tied up in the operation of the Regent's学院," he said. "That is a lot of money." The simple-minded look at how it will be spent."
Lawrence legislators agreed that it could be an uphill battle for formula funding if other legislators were unconvinced of its merits.
Mike Glover, D-Lawrence, said that although several parts of the formula probably would be adopted this year, it would not be used before the entire formula was implemented.
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"WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE?"
Psalms 2:1 and Acts 4:25
Several friends have suggested that we change the title or text of this column, and made good suggestions for another. However, the further we go along the more appropriate we think the above one is, it not only fits any situation that arises, but also taken with its context explains it, giving greater meaning and curse, and pointing the way to blessing and safety.
"WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE?" is the opening words of the Second Paimon of God's Book, The Bible. God asks this question of Jesus in his Gospel: "Do you the God you will have to meet and give account of the deeds done in the flesh when your asprit leaves the body and returns to God who gave it? The heart in your bosom is a relic of Christ that you will receive from the appointment the Almighty has made for you to appear before His judgment ask God communal Heaven's people and Heaven's people meet with Him! GOD — WHETHER ANY HEAR, OR FOR ANY BEWARE!"
Webster says a heathen is "one who does not believe in the God of the Bible," and this file in with what God Himself says in this Psalm: "Who imagine a vain thing, kings and rulers who say that God is the Lord of His Commandments." The results of this rebellion is God's laughter, God's derision, God speaking in wrath, and God sexing mankind in His awe displeasure. But in mercy God informs the heathen that God speaks in their words to the kings of the earth to be wise, the judges of the earth to be instructed
and" SERVE THE LORD WITH FEAR—LEST HE BE ANGRY,
AND YE PERISH FROM THE WAY, WHEN HIS WRATH IS KINDLED BUT A LITTLE. BLESSED ARE ALL THEY WHICHPUT THEIR TRUST IN HIM."
We cannot hear God laugh. We can with the "eye of faith" see evidences of His Derrision, and the exections He sends or permits to come upon man; and with the "eye of Faith" we can hear Him speak in wrath. We think God "spoken in wrath" to him; we know that he was a willed enemy to Kennedy to be suddenly cut off, and this Provident Act was a rebuke to the nation for departing from the "faith and foundations of our founding fathers." Since the tragedy we have continued traveling away from these land-marks. Our ancestors knew not what they were preparing to meet God? Or, does pride and prestation cause you to feel you are already "just right"?
So, we submit our title "WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE?" is applicable to the crime problem, juvenile problem, child protection problem, etc. etc. However, THUS SATH THE LORD: "YEIL WILL NOT BELIEVE, YEIL SHALL, NOT BE ESTABLISHED. The hope of our nation and generation in those who "TRUST AND OBEVY, FOR THERE IS NO OTHER
1) also WARNS OF THE CURSE AND WRATH OF GOD AHEAD, BUT URGES THE PEOPLE, KINGS, RULERS, and JUDICIES TO BE INSTRUCTED, TO TURN TO GOD AND GOD CHRIST TO BE THAT BLESSED PEOPLE WHOSE GOD IS THE LORD."
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