Wednesday, August 23, 1978
University Daily Kansan
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Tan man
Photo courtesy of Jan Anderson of the Lufkin (Texas) News
never one to miss a chance for some sun, Tan Man now spends most of his days sunning on the beaches of Corpus Christi, Texas.
A photographer for the Lafkin (Texas) News took this picture of Tan Man in late July.
Administrators, Kansas Regents tackle KU's fiscal 1980 budget
By CAROLINE TROWBRIDGE
While most University of Kansas students still are organizing their financial situation for the 1978-79 school year, KU officials and the Kansas Board of Regents have been tackling the $225,514,324 KU budget for fiscal 1980.
The budget reflects the total of the funders, the centers and the universities in Kansas Medical Center.
The Regents approved the KU operating June 21 with some reductions in request fees.
One reduction was in the budget request for men's and women's athletics. KU administrators requested $184,000, but the Regents approved $40,996.
The KU budget will be submitted on September 15 to James Bibb, direct to the KU office.
Bibb recently said he would make recommendations concerning the budget to government.
Public hearings on the budget will be in November and December in Topeka.
After the hearings and review of Bibb's recommendations, the governor will submit the budget to the Kansas Legislature for approval. The governor will vote on the budget sometime next spring.
According to John Conard, Regents' executive officer, the Lawrence campus budget for fiscal 1980 was increased 10 percent. The increase in the number of students increase at the Med Center was 17.3 percent.
increase at the Med Center was 17.5 per cent.
Conard said the large increase in the Med
Center budget was to compensate for expenses incurred in staffing and purchasing
KU administrators used a new method called formula funding to calculate requests for the 1980 budget. Under formula funding, the fiscal 1979 KU budget was compared with the current institutions, the universities of Oklahoma, Iowa, Colorado, Oregon and North Carolina.
The Regents approved *1,969,570* in the
instruction to升级 KU to the level of its peer institution.
The Regents' requests for the six Regents' *six*
requests for $424,688,716, an increase of 12 per cent
of 12 percent.
The KU operating budget is composed of state tax money, students fees, federal grants and private funds given to the University.
The Regents also approved the following:
- $35,336 for establishment of a doctoral program in social work.
- $43,424 for improvements to the Helen Foreman Spencer Museum of Art, and $66,467 of a $137,818 request for improvements to other museums.
- $25.94 for a technician and more
public service radio station
- $10.70 a semester increase in student fees.
- $ 6,220,000 for renovation of Watson Library.
Tan Man enjoys catching rays in Texas,but misses 'nice' KU
Tan Man used to draw strange glances from people on the KU campus when he sambled in to the Newtown, New in, Corpus Christi, he'd found a cowbud, but he still has his golden-brown body.
He told her, "Too bad it gets so cold in ansas because KU is a nice place."
John Snyder, 34, who became the famous Tan Man at KU because of his habit of walking around in the snow wearing only sandals and sandals, now is living in Corpus Christi.
Tan Man is considering a move to Tuson, Ariz., because it, like Lawrence, is a college town, and Snyder said students treated him better than the people in Corpus Christi.
It was there that Jan Anderson, and
December 1977 KU journalism graduate and
Anderson said the Tan Man had been thinking about visiting Lawrence sometimes that day.
now a photographer for The Luffin (Texas)
News, discovered Svader on a beach.
"I couldn't believe it," Anderson said yesterday. "He was just sitting there, and I walked up to him and said, 'Are you the Tan Man?' and he said, 'Yes.'"
Anderson said Snyder, who left Lawrence last December for a warmer climate, had been working odd jobs since being laid off by a custodian company last June.
But lately, with no job, the Tan Man has been spending his time at the beach, at least
And in Tucson, Snyder said, "it stays warm all year round."
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