THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
The University of Kansas
KANSAN
Thursday, November 30,1978
Lawrence, Kansas
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Senate slashes budget for legal services
By MARY ERNST
By MARY ERNST and TAMMY TIERNEY
Staff Reporters
The proposed legal services program will lose one-sixth of its budget in fiscal 1979 as a result of an amendment to the Student Senate revenue code approved last night.
The step will cut more than $9,100 of the previously budgeted $54,000. The cut could eliminate one or two staff members of the proposed legal services program, scheduled to begin in January.
our cut was made because of an accounting error in redistribution of Senate funds.
IN OTHER action:
- The Senate approved an amendment to the revenue code that would prevent any member acting on behalf of the Student Bar Association from distributing a petition urging the moving of Jimmy Green statue if that group wants to continue being funded.
- Mike Harper, student body president, lashed out at KU administrations for allegedly interfering with our work.
- Senators approved a bill to form a Transportation Board, replacing the current one-person administration of the KU bus system.
- Senators approved funding of $2,888 for transportation for handicapped students.
- Senators passed a resolution preventing smoking in the Senate meeting room.
- The Senate passed a resolution requesting that Associated Students of Kansas, a student lodge organization, be involved.
THE LEGAL services budget accounting error occurred when the Senate planned redistribution of a $1.50 student activity fee which previously went to women's athletics. This year, when the revenue code for 1979-80 was planned, the entire $1.50 was designated to fund legal services.
However, groups that had been getting money from the $1.50 fee this year were not cut back to their original allocations during the revenue code revision, and groups that received code 28 cents a student over available funds.
The Senate vote maintains an extra 15-cent-a-
student allocation to the Graduate Student Counci
e.
Series, cutting Legal Services 25 cents a student to compensate.
Harper said he thought the Kansas Board of Regents might approve an increase in student activity fees to compensate for the loss in funds because KU students had indicated in polls that they would be willing to pay an increased activity fee for a prepaid legal services program.
"BUT I think that the Legal Services program could be run on a $5,000 budget," Harper said. "The way it looks right now, I don't think we're going to have a program by the spring."
Harper said he was convinced that a program designed by the Legal Services Governing Board—which included litigation—would not get past the judge and might put an end to the entire program.
Bock Rocha, acting chairman of the governing board, said he had heard much the same thing.
"I've heard that we may not have a program in the spring," Rocha said, "but if we do, we'd probably have to get rid of the consumer advocate, a paralegal, or both."
The Senate's restriction on the Student Bar
Association states that "no member of the Student Bar Association acting on behalf of the association or the Governor of Kansas may persuade the Governor of Kansas to issue an executive order directing that the Jimmy Green statue be moved from its rightful location on Mount Rushmore." Such action will result in the loss of SBA funding."
THE' AMENDMENT was proposed by Barry Shalinsky, holder voter, who said he did not think the petition represented the opinion of the majority of KU students. Shalinsky said he thought Gov. Robert Bentley might order the status move simply by a vote. The students left in office and "had nothing to lose politically."
According to a decision by Attorney General Curt schüiber last spring, any move of the statute could be deemed unlawful.
However, two members of SSA could no effort had been made by any of the group's members to change
"The Student Bar Association hasn't circulated any petitions" said Jeff Roth, SBA president. "A petition
was circulated by several students, but I never heard a count on it and I thought interest had drowned."
ROTH SAID he did not know why the Senate thought the petition was associated with SBA. He said that the petition had been filed by a member of the Senate.
"Unless there was a very clear mandate from the company to conduct the sale, it should be appropriate for SBA to get involved," he said.
Jim Cato, Prairie Village law student, said a document he circulated was not a petition.
"Those were not petitions, they were pous, he said.
Cato said that he had taken the poll out of curiosity and that it was not sponsored by SBA.
"THE STUDENT Senate obviously was acting on the beliefs," Cato said. "SBA was not at all behind the beliefs."
"I have no intention of doing anything with the poll. I was just interested in seeing how people feel. I was a social psychology undergraduate—I'm curious as hell about people's attitudes."
"I don't like the idea of the Student Senate threatening to withdraw funding. It was an
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Vacation housing use 'surprising'
By LORI LINENBERGER
Staff Reporter
Seven of the eight residence halls at the University of Kansas were kept open during the four-day break. Students had for free the education of a staff of 28 resident assistants, desk assistants and security monitors, Fred McElhene, director of the office, said yesterday.
"I WAS totally surprised at the number of people who wanted to stay in their halls," she said. "We really didn't know what to expect, but we weren't expecting this large a number."
About 545 KU residence hall members took advantage of an experimental project offered by the office of residential programs during Thanksgiving break, surprising KU housing officials with their enthusiastic response to the service.
"I think this kind of response to the program shows that people will be interested in staying around if they aren't charged for it," he said.
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McBellner said he thought most of the service advantage of the service because it was free.
Under that policy, a student who remained on campus during break had to move to another hall if his hall was not one of those left open.
He said that the costs of keeping halls open during break were high and that students would have to pay for the service in future years to defray costs.
THIS PROCEDURE would be similar to one used in past years. Residents were charged by the night, but had to live in one of the two or three halls kept open.
If the residence halls are kept open next year during University breaks, students probably will be charged on a nightly basis, he said.
"We're faced with the terrible dilemma of needing to have the funds to cover the costs of school tuition," she said. "I don't know how this is going to affect the response of students in the future, but I
"Our experience in the past has been that if a student has to move out of his own room and into another and he is going to be charged for every night he stays in the hall, he will either home or find some place else to live, if he can," McEllenie said.
He said he had not received an itemized estimate of the program's cost.
would guess that it's going to discourage them from staring here."
THIS YEAR, funds to keep the halls open during Thanksgiving, and possibly during Christmas and spring breaks, were provided through the housing system.
Students interested in staying in their halls during Christmas will be asked to sign a guestbook.
Completed applications must be returned by 5 p.m. Wednesday to 105 Vint Hall.
If the response is good, the halls will remain open without charge. However, McElhenie said he thought the response was so bad as high as it was at Thanksgiving.
McEleniha said he did not know whether the halls would be kept open during intermission.
"I think it's only logical that many of the students who stayed here during Thanksgiving celebrate Christmas because it's a much longer break," he said. "Some students who live far away couldn't go home at Thanksgiving because it was too cold, anticipate a long home visit for them."
SOME OF the residence hall directors and assistant drivers were required to forift their Thanksgiving vacation so the halls would be adequately staffed.
Applications for spring Kansan news and business staffs will be available this afternoon in the School of Journalism office, 105 Flint Hall; the Student Senate office, 875 Flint Union; and the Office of Student Organizations and Activities, 202 Strong Hall.
assistant resident directors and resident assistants maintained services in the halls during the Thanksgiving break. Security monitors and desk assistants also were recruited to assist in the operation of the halls. McEllenie said.
Kansan posts are available
Food service was not offered, making it necessary for students to eat out or buy food from the vending machines, which were stocked throughout the break.
Officials still search for panel corrections
By DEB RIECHMANN
Staff Reporter
A consulting firm in Connecticut might have the answers to constructing structural problems.
KU and state officials are scheduled to fly to Hartford, Conn., Wednesday, where they hope to find a way to correct precast panels on the outer surface of KU's law building.
That would be another step in an investigation of panel deficiencies which have been identified.
BRAD SMOOT, attorney for the Kansas Department of Administration, said yesterday that the trip was necessary to examine samples of defective precast panels, which have been treated with products to improve appearance.
Smoot said two alternatives existed to determine the future of the building's panels that have caused problems since Green Hall was constructed in 1977.
An expensive alternative, he said, would be to remove and replace the defective panel.
However, the concrete used to manufacture the panels has been discontinued and to remove only the defective ones, allowing the building with a uniform appearance, he said.
SMOOT SAID a less expensive proposal under consideration to be reinforce
The consulting firm in Connecticut, he said, would show them spray and paint products that would strengthen the surface of their floors and prevent maintenance problems later.
The Kansas Board of Regents has paid for the investigation, Smooth said, but the state should not have to pay for correcting the panels because it was not to blame.
Smooth said that it was impossible to tell how much the investigation so far had cost but that roughly $10,000 had been spent in consulting fees. In addition, money has been spent on legal fees, he said, and the insurer took a timed up time needed for other projects.
University and state officials will continue to work to find ways to correct the problem.
CASSIAN CONSTRUCTION Co., Topeka, which built Green Hall, has cooperated with the investigative team, he said, but if the case goes to trial, he will be on the panels, the issue could end up in court.
Allen Wiechert, University director of facilities planning, will be among the KU officials who go to Connecticut. Recently, he was charged that Mr. Anderson would be found before the end of the year.
Three weeks ago, blockades and fences were set up outside Green Hall to keep pedestrians away from the slides of the stairs. The building also added a possibility that some panels might collapse.
Staff Reporter
KU information policy questioned by AAUP
By CAROLINE TROWBRIDGE
The KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors voted yesterday to ask Ron Calgaard, vice chancellor for academic affairs, to explain an information distribution policy for KU programs.
Ambrose Saricks, chairman of AAUP, said the organization's executive committee would send a letter to Calgaird requesting information on when the policy was made, the exact terms of the policy and how it was enforced.
AALP is responding to a letter from Dennis Quinn, director of the Integrated Humanities Program, that stated the policy would require dissemination of materials about HIP.
Calgaard, said HIP was not the impetus for the policy's intervention. He
"WE DECIDED that individual departments could not prepare their own material for sending out to prospective students," Calgaard said. "This came when one of the information units, not HIP, wanted to send information to all incoming freshmen."
Calgaard said the cost for 33 departments and eight professional schools to mail information to all incoming freshmen would be high.
However, Quinn said only specialized areas of study at KU would be interested in them.
"The English department doesn't need this," Quinn said, "and neither does Western civilization. They've got their own way of doing it at the University of Kansas by this means."
Quinn said that he had discussed the policy with Calgaard and that Calgaard did
"HE SAID that they didn't want departments competing for undergraduates," Quinn said. "And he said they don't want new freshmen deliged with information."
"Freshman need it. They depend on it. He didn't even use money as a reason."
Quinn said that during his conversation with Calgaard, Calgaard said the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences could produce a set of including HIP information for new students.
The brochure was compiled during summer 1977.
"Calgalard conceded to authorize the College to put out a brochure on special programs." Quinn said, "such as women's colleges," and "provided humanities and intensive languages."
"It has never been mailed. It wouldn't cost anything to mail that out. They'll never get the reply."
"I HAVE a letter of apology in my files that they couldn't much for the big brochure they put out."
Robert Cobb, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said the inclusion of IHP information was not the reason the brochure had not been mailed.
"I don't know that we've decided to mail additional information to prospective freshmen as part of our overall strategy," Cobb said. "We've not mailed information from the College to incoming freshmen for some time."
Cobb said the brochure was available in the College office and was used primarily during the fall.
Calgaard said he had no objections to mailing the brochure. However, there are no plans to mail the information to new KU students, Cobb said.
Qmin said the information policy was "Calgaird's baby" and Calgaird was "the mother and father." He also called Calgaird the information about IP leaving the University.
"THIS is not personal, believe me,"
"Kunn said. "I rather like R康拉德
Gallard."
"I don't really expect the policy to change," she said, asking guard leaves, somebody will think it over.
Calaiguad accepted a position last week as president of Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and will leave KU this summer.
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