KU
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.89, No.43
HOPE history, finalists described
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, October 25, 1978
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Meet the Pres.
Republican senator candidata Nancy Landen Kassabue looks to former Gerald Renthal for support at a fundraiser in
Ford praises Kassebaum, criticizes administration
By TIM SHEEHY Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-Sharp criticism of the Carter administration and praise for GOP senatorial candidate Lance Landon (Washington) visited Gerald R. Ford's visit to Topena yesterday.
Ford came in support of Kassebaum, along with several other Kansas Republicans, including Sunbury Dale, U.S. Gov. Richard Benton and Larry Wilson, Gov. Robert F. Bennett, AFL Landon, former governor of Kansas, 1936 presidential candidate and Kassebaum's father, also
Ford told Republicans gathered for the $22-a-plate luncheon Kassbaeu would represent those who wanted fiscal responsibility in the Senate.
Although he never mentioned Bill Roy, Kassebaum's Democratic opponent, by name, Ford said her opponent had a lot of things to say. He was in Congress and invariably would be again.
"VOTER FOR a saver like Nancy." FOOT LOVE for the audience, "not a spend like her likeness," said Danny.
Work continues on panel repair at Med Center
By CAITLIN GOODWIN
Staff Reporter
Work is progressing on the repair of about 140 panels that make up the outer surface of the Bem Memorial Hospital at the Cleveland Medical Center, two officials said yesterday.
Allen Wiechert, University director of facilities planning, said he had looked at the building Monday and had seen workers repairing the panels.
Vincent Cool, acting state architect, also looked at the panels Monday and said he could not determine whether the panels would remain until the special glue on the panels dried.
"The contractor is still working on them" he said. "But the fact that he is doing so means the business is not going."
"The process of curing takes time. We probably won't know for two weeks," he said.
WICHECH AND COLD said they could not loot all the panels closely enough to retrieve them.
Ford used most of his speech to criticize the Carter administration and Democrats.
"I strongly believe the Democrats' economic plan has been a disaster," Ford said. "They have blown it, and we ought to hold them responsible."
According to Ford, the Democratic majority in Congress is stifling competition among political candidates and limits the choices presented to voters.
"It's hard to know," Cool said. "When you make a patch in anything, you have to wait
"The chips are down," Ford said. "The two-party system is being seriously threatened. Competition is always better; the country gets better candidates and
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At a press conference following the luncheon, Ford continued his criticism of
Ford liked Carter's program, which asks for voluntary controls on wage and price increases, to putting a Band-Aid on a serious infection.
Election'78
ANTICIPATING THE unveiling of Carter's inflation fighting plan, Ford said that from the knowledge he had of the plan, it was destined to be a flop.
"Voluntary wage and price controls are no better than mandatory controls," Ford said in a statement. "Investment spending is underneath increases in wages and prices, inflation will never be
Although he said Carter's accomplishments at the recent Camp David summit were encouraging, Ford claimed partial credit for the success. He said Carter succeeded in the step-by-step formula set down by his Sinai II agreement with Israel and Egypt.
DESPITE persistent questions from reporters, Ford would give no indication as to whether he would run for president in 1800.
7% ceiling could affect KU
By DEB RIECHMANN and JAKE THOMPSON
Staff Renorters
President Carter's voluntary wage and price guidelines announced last night might mean University officials will have to
Carter proposed a voluntary 7 percent ceiling on salary increases to help fight inflation.
The President said his anti-inflation guideline would be mandatory for businesses that accepted federal contracts.
It was not immediately clear whether the University, which accepts federal grants, would be forced to comply.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said he knew of no existing interpretation on whether the University would be bound by a rule that requires such an agreement.
Mark Henderson, associate White House press secretary, told the Kansasan after Carter's speech that he did not know whether a
Shankel said it would be "almost an impossible thing" for the University to juggle individual salaries included in the fiscal 1980 budget.
If Carter's proposal applies to each individual's salary, Shankel said, University, state and Kansas Board of Regents officials would approve it.
"I would hate to speculate right now whether the University
would comply," Shankel said, "I would think that the guidelines applied to the University as an aggregate."
However, Henderson said he interpreted Carter's guidelines to apply to salaries on an individual basis.
Shankel said the logical way for Carter's guidelines to be applied to the University would be to compute the total wage increases and
The existing 1880 budget proposal, which is being reviewed by the state budget director, would comply on a total average basis.
Last week, the Council of Presidents, a group of the top administrator at Regents schools, discussed an additional 1 percent salary increase, which would make the total salary increase 7.5 percent.
Last spring, the Regents approved a 6.5 percent salary increase for faculty and administrators at Regents schools.
The council, however, decided to wait for Carter's guidelines before final approval of additional increases. The council will review the plan on an annual basis.
"I would think the Regents would say that this is what the president wants and we should comply," Shankel said.
Compliance with the guidelines on an individual basis would require "a lot of additional work," Keith Nitcher, University
Carter unveils wage, price policy
Nearly 700 of the University's 1,200 unclassified employees received salary increases of more than 7 percent last year, he said.
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Carter unveiled a largely voluntary new set of wage and price guidelines last night and announced the $17.9 million wage package.
The president, speaking from the White House Oval Office, set a guideline of 7 percent in 1979 for increases in wages and fringe benefits and a complex price guide aimed at holding increases to approximately 5.75 percent next year.
CARTER SAID if the program was successful it would translate into an inflation rate of 6 percent to 6.5 percent in the next year,
He said he would ask Congress to approve tax rebates for workers who complied with the 7 percent wage guide and who would suffer when inflation exceeded that level. Carter called it "real wage insurance."
As part of his new assault on inflation, which the president said would be his administration's No. 1 domestic priority in the coming year, Mr. Trump asked that the president
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the railroad and trucking industry, bringing increased competition in the
railroad and trucking industry.
Carter's wage guideline is intended to limit both wages and benefits to an average of 7 percent a year for all workers except
those making less than $4 an hour. Those persons will be exempted from the program.
ALSO EXEMPTED are future pay raises that have already been written into existing contracts.
The price guideline is somewhat more complex. It takes to limit the average price increase for a firm's product line to 0.5 percent of its original price.
Carter's advisers figure this will result in price increases across the economy of roughly 5.75 percent a year. But they expect it to be less volatile over the next several years.
Although the price guidelines will be mainly voluntary, there are some incentives for compliance.
Firms seeking federal contracts of $5 million or more will be required to sign a statement that they are in compliance with both
Carter said the federal Council on Wage and Price Stability, which currently has a staff of about 30 persons, will get 100 additional employees and will "monitor" all collective bargaining agreements in the nation, those with annual sales of more than $500 million.
CARTER SAID his limits on federal hiring would mean a reduction of more than 20,000 in the number of permanent employees budgeted for this year. However, a rider attached to the Federal Retention Corps at Carter to cut the federal workforce by about 30,000 to 40,000 persons.
Carter said his program could work, given time, but would not produce any immediate, dramatic cut in the inflation rate.
Kaufman keeps his chairmanship, apologizes
Rv TAMMY TIERNEY
Contrary to his previous statements, Phill Kaufman, Student Senate Executive Committee Chairman, did not resign from his position last night. Instead, he apologized for what he called a lack of responsibility for his tob.
"Things have slid a little far in the last few weeks and it is my fault," he said. "I want to apologize to all of you and I hope you'll accept my apology."
Kaufman had no other statement to make at last night's StuEx会议, but he said
he would have another statement to make at tonight's Student Senate meeting.
Kaufman then turned the floor over to Reggie Robinson, student body vice president. "We told her that as I was this morning, What you're saying tonight is not what you said yesterday, and people who read the paper say it will never move in and will have a totally different view."
ROBINSON WAS referring to an article in yesterday's newspaper that quoted Kaufman as saying, “We are making a lot of progress.”
request of Mike Harper, student body president.
"The Kansan probably won't have the nerve to print this, but the things they've been printing lately have been semi-animal in nature, to say the least," he said.
Harper said he thought the Senate should re-evaluate its funding of the Kansan.
Harper said he was displeased with the Kansan's coverage of the Student Senate.
"I think we'd be better off investing $730 in the National Finance" he said.
The Kansan is partially funded by a $2
Twilight shadows
The joys of autumn in Lawrence are shown by late afternoon shadows near an old barn
south of town. The figure swinging in the tree is taking full advantage of the Indian summer before the cold winter winds blow in.
HARPER ADVISED committee members to be careful in talking with Kansan reporters. He urged them to send meeting notices to their committee members well in advance of their meetings so all members could plan to attend.
student subscription fee. This year, $73,000 was allocated to the Kansei that would increase printing costs, the Kansas will make a $9,000 supplemental request to the Senate
"I tired of hearing about apathy problems. Student Senate he said." I was watching the debate as the Kansan pulled that editorial out of its files and ran it again—it's the same one
"I think we've done a back of a job. We do represent the students and we have a lot of them."
Kaufman said Monday that Harper's request that he resign was prompted by an editorial in the Kansan about Student Senate anathy.
THE EDITORIAL called attention to a StudEx meeting last week at which mem-
ber of the committee proposed to quorum. The editorial said the failure to get a quorum was "alarming because the Executive Committee (StudEx) is made up of committees chairmen—the elite of study groups."
however, Harper had denied that the editorial prompted his request and had said he was too afraid of losing management problem with StudEx. He went on to say he did not think apathy was a reason.
Kauffman had countered by saying, "If he thinks it's a management problem, then it's a shame he won't remove himself from his management position."
Robinson said last night, "I used to be in the journalism school, and I never thought I'd be anti-journalism, but there's a difference between sensationalism and just bad journalism and we've been seeing a lot of that lately."
Margaret Berlin, Communications Committee chairman and member of the Kansan publication board, said she was sur�ried by the Kansan editorial.
1 was shocked at the Kansan's report of apathy," she said. "I thought that was all over. The people I've talked to and have met this year have been very enthusiastic."
Assist full meeting tonight, the Senate will hear budget requests from groups previously funded by the Senate, a funding request from the Graduate Student Department, and supporting a merger of the campus and community consumer affairs offices.