University Daily Kansan / Monday, October 15, 1990
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Student body presidents: Margin good, fees bad
By Jennifer Schultz
Kenan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Third-year financing of theMargin of Expense is crucial for higher education in Kansas,student body presidents of five state universities said during a news conference Friday.
Mike Schreiner, KU student body president, said that if Kansas wished to remain competitive, everyone would have an educational system a top priority.
Faculty salaries and overall operating budgets at Regents institutions are below those of their peer institutes. Faculty salaries in the state's general fund used for higher
education has been steadily decrease ing,he said.
Schreiner challenged Kansans to demand that their elected representatives prepare the state for the next high education hereto priority.
In the first year of the Margin, schools received 83 percent of their requested financing, and in the second year, they received 100 percent. The Margin was not financed for its third year.
The Margin of Excellence was the Board of Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven schools to $140 million in schools and to bring faculty salaries
to 100 percent of their peers.
The Friday news conference included student body presidents from the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, Wichita State University, Fort Hays State University and Emory State University.
Andrea Roberts, Emporia State student body president, said political candidates apparently had forgotten the vital role higher education played in issues they seemed to believe were important, such as social services and property taxes.
The accessibility and quality of education at each of the Regents institutions could influence future taxes and the number of people
applying for income assistance, she said.
Roberts said the public deserved to know where higher education was placed on the candidates' priority list, how candidates planned to finance it.
Todd Johnson, K-State student body president, said the two proposals by gubernatorial candidates Mike Hayden and Joan Finney to finance the Margin were limited. Hayden has proposed raising the tobacco tax to finance the Margin, and Finney supported raising money from the state lottery.
Johnson said all candidates promised to support the Margin because it
was politically popular.
was particularly prominent.
Schreiner said he was optimistic that the Regents schools would receive full Margin financing.
"I believe we have to be optimistic," he said. "Full funding is vital to the well-being of higher education."
Roberts said she did not know whether the Margin would be fully financed this year.
"The real question is, when push comes to outhe, will higher education be pushed out the door" she said.
The presidents said they were taking a proactive approach to higher education this year.
nger collection this year.
Schreiner said that at KU, nearly
1,000 letters had been signed during
the Associated Students of Kansas letter drive to urge candidates to support the third year of the Margin.
He also said that all Regents student body presidents were opposed to an engineering fee that had been raised by the Board, being at KU, K-State and Wichita State.
screener said the engineering fee would set a dangerous precedent because it could lead to fees at other schools.
He said that on average the proposed $15 a credit hour fee would add at least $1,000 to tuition costs during his time there to earn an engineering degree.
Students practice their aim during festival
By Amy Zamierowski Kansan staff writer
Architecture professors cringed as architecture students stood five feet away and carefully aimed their plates full of whipped cream.
"I don't know if I like the view from here," said David Griffin, associate professor of architecture, standing behind a sheet of plywood with a cutout for his head. "You can call this morbid aid to the expansion. Fortunately the students can't hit the broad side of a barn."
Splat! Whipped cream splattered inches away Griffin's face as the plate hit the board.
"If that would have hit me it would have knocked me out," he said.
Stephen Grabow, professor of architecture, said. "This is where all those D's come back to haunt you."
Professors signed up for 10-minute intervals as targets, and students paid $1 to throw a whipped cream pie at the professor of their choice.
Alpha Rho Chi, the professional architecture fraternity, sponsored the second annual Arch-to-burr-fest, where architecture students had the opportunity to participate in activities at Marvin Hall in front of and behind Marvin Hall.
The money that students paid to throw the pies helped pay for a barbecue and other activities.
In addition to throwing pies at professors, architecture students could play musical chairs or participate in a five-person team root-bee
Kevin Klinkenberg, president of Alpha Rho Chi, said, "The purpose of Arch-tee-burst-fest was to try to get people outside. We also wanted to get the students and the faculty inter-ment," he said, "everyone who went had a good time."
"The barbecue went over really well," Sojkowski said. "We had 119 hamburgers and 300 hot dogs, and we had only a little left."
Jon Solekowski, member of Alpha Rho Chi, said that behind Marvin, participants could eat free barbecued hamburgers and hot dogs.
Griffin takes his turn as a target at the Arch-toe-burr-fest, a barbecue for architecture students.
HALO members attend leadership conference
By Holly M. Neuman
Kansan staff writer
Members of KU's Hispanic American Leadership Organization traveled to Chicago on Friday as one of the largest groups to attend the eighth annual United States Hispanic Leadership Conference.
Angela Cervantes, HALO president, said 26 HALO members attended the conference. The trip was partially financed by the Office of Minority Affairs and the Office of Student Affairs.
Jon Ramirez, HALO vice president, said. "I think it was great that so many KU members went. It
means more people will be aware of issues and will bring that back to KI!."
Cervantes said that 2,500 people attended the conference and that 500 were college students.
"It was a very beneficial trip for us," she said. "It was so great to get a large group of Hispanic students from all over all united for the whole week."
The conference, titled "Making Democracy Work," was designed to encourage people to vote.
"It was aimed at making us realize we should be getting our voices heard," Cervantes said. "It is important for us to get within the system". At the conference, Cervantes led a workshop on organizing campus groups.
"It isn't just a KU or a Big Eight problem," she said. "There were people from schools in California, where I was asking me what they could do."
Cervantes said she was surprised by the amount of discussion about minority recruitment and retention.
One of the featured speakers at the conference was Cesar Chavez.
Chavez attended the conference and accepted a National Hispanic Hero award for his achievements in
the union and for his work with migrant farm workers, Cervantes said.
Ramirez said Chavez mentioned that people should continue a grape boycott that began in the 1970s. Cervantes said that until farm workers created safer conditions for workers and harmful pesticides were abolished, the boycott would continue.
Cervantes said, "Everyone rushed up to him to get pictures and autographs. He was so patient. I heard people say that Cesar Chavez is the closest thing to God that Hispanics have."
Variety of events promote Alcohol Awareness Week
By Courtney Eblen
Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Lewis Auto Salvage, 2005 E. 19th St. provided the taupe, smashed Chevrolet Chevette that sits on the grass in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall. The car was involved in an alcohole-related accident, according to an intern in Watkins Memorial Health Center's health education department.
The annual national Alcohol Awareness Week is being promoted at KU this week with numerous materials intended to promote responsible drinking.
Sadecki is one of the coordinators of KU's Alcohol Awareness Week. Sponsors include the Watkins health education department, BACCHU (Boosting Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the Health of University Students). Robinson Wellness Center, Interfraternity Council, Panhellenic and the Association of University Residence Halls.
She said the car would be on campus until Oct. 21. Today beer cans will be stuffed into the car's interior, and a contest will be conducted to see who can guess the number of cans inside the car. The student who guesses the closest number will be given two tickets to Hell's Cellar, a haunted house at 635 Vermont St.
Mary Altenhofen, health educator at Watkins, said Alcohol Awareness Week's kick-off event would be from 1 a.m. to 1 p.m. today in front of Wescoe Hall, where non-alcoholic beverages will be served, and literature, keychains and buttons will be distributed. Seat-belt dummies also will be in front of Wescoe during the kick-off event.
Numerous speeches and programs will be presented throughout the week.
On Wednesday, a simulated drunk-driving exercise on tricycles will be used to demonstrate performance impairment while under the influence of alcohol. It will begin at 4 p.m. at the parking lots of Kappa Sigma fraternity, 1045 Emery Road, and Delta Upsilon, 1025 Emery Road.
Albert Gerken, professor of music, will play 10 minutes of music on the Campanile carillon, beginning at noon Thursday, to memorialize drunken-driving fatalities that occurred in 1989.
Also Wednesday, the films "Clean and Sober" and "The Morning After" will be shown at Oliver Hall. Show times have not yet been announced.
A non-alcoholic beverage bar will be open Thursday at the Gertruze Sellars Pearson-Corbin Hall cafeteria during the evening.
Friday is Designate a Driver Day. Many area restaurants and bars have begun serving free non-alcoholic drinks designated drivers, Altenhof said.
On Saturday, there will be a balloon release at the kickoff of the KU vs. Colorado game at 12:10 p.m. The balloons, donated by Balloons-NMore, 409 Vermont St., will say "Go Hawks," and "Alcohol Awareness."
On Sunday, the final day of Alcohol Awareness Week, the "Breaking Away 90" Fun Run/Walk will be from 9 to 11 a.m. along Constant Avenue across Iowa Street from the Engel Road residence halls. Prizes and free T-shirts will be given to participants. There is a chance participants may register during kick-off event in front of Wescoe.
The beer industry has begun a safe-drinking campaign to correspond with Alcohol Awareness Week.
Five appointed to committee; urging Defense policy change
Kansan staff report
The members of the chancellor's special committee that will lobby to change the Department of Defense policy excluding individuals based on sexual orientation are announced Friday.
Frances Ingemann, chairperson of the University Senate Executive Committee; Siegried Lindenbaum, professor and director of graduate affairs for pharmacy and pharmaceutical chemistry; Donald McCoy, distinguished professor of history; Robert Jerry, dean of law; and Pat
warren, Student Senate executive committee chairperson, are the five committee members.
Del Shankle, interim executive vice chancellor, said the committee's first priority would be to develop a position paper to present to the national educational associations and Congress.
A Sept. 27 University Council resolution recommended that Chancellor Gene A Budg appoint the special envoy to negotiate the Defense Department policy.
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