ASK members give more support to KU
By TAMMY TIERNEY
Staff Renorter
Issues that threatened to prevent the University of Kansas from joining Associated Students of Kansas, a state lobbying group, were settled with relative ease at an ASK retreat in Tokea Saturday.
Although initially suspicious of KU's motives for joining ASK and unhappy with the terms of its provisional membership, representatives of the six member schools became more supportive when Mike Harper, KU student body president, assured them that KU would become a full member and probably would become a full member next year.
The prime objections from other member schools to KU's proposed membership have been that KU should pay more money for full representation or accept less representation for $2,000. Also, with so much money invested in the school representatives said they thought KU would hold more power than any other member school.
KU'S PROVISIONAL membership is subject to the control of the student tenants of all other member schools.
The student senates of the other schools will vote on KU's membership this month and one dissenting vote on the proposal.
Although the purpose of the retreat was to determine what interests the group would lobby for this year, it is unclear how much interest it had.
vice president, were on hand to answer questions about KU's proposed membership.
Born were pleased with the outcome of the retreat. "It was a big relief that things went so well." Harper said. "For a while, I wasn't sure whether we'd be fed or welcomed with open arms."
Both were pleased with the outcome of the retreat.
ROBINSON SAID, "I's a let more optimistic about our chances of getting in now that we've had a chance to try."
The board of directors of ASK passed a resolution this summer recommending that KU be allowed a 10-month provisional membership in ASK with full voting rights for a reduced membership fee of $2,500.
Currently, all other Regenta university and Washington University are members of ASK, each with 10% membership. They also have membership fees. Every member school has one delegate for each 1,000 full-time students to the university.
If KU paid the full fee, it would cost about $10,000 a year, and KU would have 23 delegates in the legislative assembly, more than any other member school.
AT AN OPEN board of directors meeting during the retreat, Hannes Zacherius, executive director of ASK, explained how he and Harper had arrived at the terms of the provisional membership.
Zacharias that in July, he had met with Harper to discuss the possibility of KU joining ASK. He said, "I am confident that we will make a good deal."
join and because Harper could commit only $2,500 to ASK this year, he decided to recommend the following to him:
*“Because of aause from women's athlts, KU Student Senate funds were depleted, hence the $2,000
Richard Drain, ASK representative from Emperor State University, objected to the provisional mem-
"IT SEEMS to me like ASK is making an overture and KU is getting the best end of the deal." he said. "I'd like to see KU become involved and be a member, but why can't they get exposure to the organization without the compliment of full membership?
"I have a real problem with the fact that Emporia students will pay more money for less representation than KU students will under the provisional membership."
Zacharias said both ASK and KU were getting a good deal.
"We have no guarantee that KU will come in next year at the full price, but we can be sure they won't if they don't get a provisional membership this year," he said.
"We have the option of gaining $2,500 this year and possibly $10,000 next year, but we won't get a cent if we don't."
HARPER EXPLAINED why full representation was necessary.
"Because KU has had so much ill-fighting against ASK in the past, our pastor needed an incentive to join," Harper said. "There was only one way to get that provisional membership through the KU Senate and that was to lower the price for full representation."
Eric Schoepfer, ASK board of directors memorial from Emperor State, said RU night overshadow the survey.
"Why should we vote to let them join when they decrease the voting power of Emperia State?" he
However, Kathy Davis, ASK campus director from Wichita State University, disagreed with him.
"WHY SAY that KU will dominate AS? We have our own lobbying effort that works just for Wichita State to make sure our interests are represented. The other schools can do that, too." she said
Kaye Hemmens, Pittsburgh State University member of the board of directors, agreed.
"The point of ASK is to lobby for students, not to argue about how many votes each school has in the legislative assembly. KU has a fantastic lobbying team," she said. Tapped, I think we should go with them," she said.
Despite objections, many representatives agreed that what ASK would benefit in the long run from KU's membership compensated for the compromise they were making.
"I can understand some of these objections because they exist at my school, too," Sam Brownback, student body president at Kansas State University, said.
"There's always been a natural antagonism between KU and K-State, and some of my senators think the K-State rights in giving KU a provisional membership to their own organization they'll more than likely form their own lobbying organization to rival ours. That means we'll have to pump more money into ASK to be it up. Whereas, if we had a partnership with a provisional membership this year, we're guaranteed $2,500 this year, and possibly $10,000 next."
ERIC MELGREN, student body president at Wichita State, said, "The financial base of ASK him' expanded since it began. If we don't allow KU to join, it won't."
Harper said he hoped KU and ASK would successfully merge.
"With or without ASK, KU will have a lobery effort, even if we end up paying $10,000 next year for our own lobery. However, we will continue to do our work as we are successful and that KU will want to join again next year."
ASK will lobby for a 3-cent cigarette tax, minimum wages for students, control of student fees, deferred fee payments, voter registration by mail and the decriminalization of marijuana.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol. 89, No. 7 Tuesday, September 5, 1978
Formula funding increases budget
Lawrence, Kansas
Graham finishes with Royal rally
See story and pictures pages 8 and 9.
By TIM SHEEHY
Staff Reporter
Formula funding, a new method of determining the operating budgets for Kansas Board of Regents schools, should be implemented because for the University of Kansas next year.
However, the increase will be smaller than in previous years because fewer new student services are being planned at KU, as a result of stabilizing enrollments.
FORMULA FUNDING is based on the comparison of peer schools similar to KU in size, academic goals and state income and taxation levels.
Developed by a Regents task force, formula funding calls for funding based on the actual costs of education rather than on enrollment statistics.
The new formula funding was approved by the Regents and Gov. Robert F. Bennett et al.
KU's budget will increase by $8.9 million to a total of $107.8 million for the 1979-80 fiscal year. The combined operating budget will increase by 12 percent to $424,888,718.
Peer schools for KU are the universities of Colorado, Iowa, Oklahoma, Oregon and North Carolina at Chapel Hill. KU also is compared to the schools in several other categories including instruction, libraries, research and academic administration.
Figures from each category are then factored to reflect, for example, how much a certain amount of research or student would cost consider KU's size and needs.
Ron Calgaard, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said yesterday that the factoring process differed among categories because in some areas cost was affected by the number of students. In other areas, the cost of providing a service. Calgaard said.
See FUNDING page 10
Workers preparing stadium for opener
Staff Reporter
By BARB KOENIG Staff Reporter
Finishing touch are still being added a week to Memorial Stadium for the first baguette.
But, according to athletic department officials, the gates will open on time to Jake and Lauren.
Floyd Temple, physical plant director of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation, said yesterday that installation of three or four sections of seats, some minor painting and a weatherproof sealer for windows was necessary to complete the $1.8 million renovation.
Temple said that a misplaced shipment of seats had caused a delay in completing the installation, but that he expected the shinnet to arrive today.
"As far as I know, we will have each seat in every place and numbered," he said.
Temple said the contractor responsible for the seating would have to pay the original price of each seat if all the seats were not installed and numbered by Saturday.
Water use strains supply
SOME MINOR painting also remains to be done, he said. Bleacher seats at the south end of the stadium are to be repainted at the order of Bob Marcum, men's athletics team, under the invitation during a tour of the stadium Friday to check all renovation changes.
The wooden seats were not replaced with new aluminum seats because they actually were bleachers belonging to the baseball on loan for football season, Temple said.
The municipal water plant, Third and Indiana streets, has a capacity to pump 17 million gallons of water a day through its water lines.
By BILL HIGGINS Staff Reporter
Lawrence water usage is running close to the capacity of the city's water plant as summer nears an end, a water plant operator said yesterday.
However, because of a reduced water supply this summer, that capacity has been cut to 14 million gallons a day, and at least 20% of the demand has been higher than that capacity.
A blue strip also will be painted across the press box and the words "Kansas Memorial
See STADIUM page 10
Staff Renorter
Harold Shirk, a plant operator for the city's water plant, said that the city's water sources, the Kansas River and seven wells near the river, were running low.
Shrink said the water plant's wells were tour to show lower than their normal size about 14.5 feet (4.38 m).
"DURING PARTS of this summer and through all of August the river has been low," Shirk said. "And it seems even lower now."
He said the most water pumped in a single
Gene Vogt, city director of public utilities,
has said that if water demand exceeds the
supply, one solution could be to ask the big
users of water to cut down on their use.
"If we lose one of our pumps," he said,
"We could be a million gallons short, and that would tell on us after 24 hours. We just hope nothing goes wrong."
The most water ever pumped by the plant in one day was pumped during the summer of 1976, when 16 million gallons coursed through the water lines.
In response to the increasing water demand, a supplemental water plant, with an estimated cost of $8.8 million, is being built near the Clinton Reservoir dam.
Shirk said the plant had been pumping an average of from 10 million to 12 million gallons of water a day for the past two months.
day this summer was about 15 million gallons. Right now, he said, that would not be enough to run a car.
The new plant, which should be completed next year, will add another 10 million gallons a day to the city's water-pumping capacity.
Moses moves
Staff photos by RANDY OLSOM
After waiting for Facilities Operations to move a 14-foot statue of Moses, Elden Tefft, director of the International Sculpture Center, decided to take matters into his own hands. With members of his sculpture class steadying the statue and two friends' horses pulling it, Tefft moved Moses from Learned Hall to the Visual Arts building
sculpture foundry. Although the stroymod-and-wax stature represents 12 years of his work, Tefft was calm about the move, even when Moses' forehead was sucked on a door. The next step in the project is to make a plaster cast of Moses's head, and Tefft plans to finish the statue in about a year. When completed, it will sit in front of the Kansas School of Religion.