University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 21, 1990
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Andrew Morrison/KANSAN
House fire
Lawrence firefighters battle a blaze at 1305 W. Fourth St. They arrived at the fire at 11:11 p.m.
Wednesday. Fire Chief Jim McSwain said the vacant home was used as storage space for an adjacent doctor's office owned by George Learned. The fire was caused by an electrical short, McSwain said, and caused $15,000 in damages to the house and $75 to the office.
By Mike Brassfield Kansan staff writer
A speech by a KU history professor Tuesday will open the 43rd year of the Humanities Lecture Series.
John Clark, professor of history will speak at 8 p.m. at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union or "Her Hue Shadow" Enervate the
"Her Huge Shadow"; Energy, the Environment and America's Responsibilities to the Globe."
Clark said his speech argued that the United States must redefine national security to stress the protec
tion of the global environment.
Clark's speech will begin this year's five-lecture series, which is administered by the Hall Center for the Humanities.
Janet Crow, assistant director of the center, said the main purpose of the series was to communicate issues related to the students' communities and arts to the KU community.
Boris Notkin, professor of rhetoric at the University of Moscow, will speak Oct. 10. His speech will be titled "Good Evening From Moss"
Tuesday
cow." Notkin also is an anchorman and commentator in Moscow.
On Nov. 15, Patricia Graham, dean of the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University, will present her children in Schools: Historical Views."
On Feb. 21, Arnold Rampsed,
professor of English and comparative
literature at Princeton University,
will present "Four Black American
Lives: Du Bois, Hughes, Hurston
and Wright."
Regents ask for cigarette tax increase
By Yvonne Guzman
Kansan staff writer
The Board of Regents endorsed a position paper on the Margin of Excellence yesterday that proposes a 5-cent increase in the state cigarette tax to raise more money for higher education.
During the last legislative session, the state passed a 5-cent sales tax, said Stanley Kopik, executive director of the Regents. The tax was to raise an estimated $12 million for the Regents schools. The third year of the Margin was supposed to provide about $55 million.
The Margin of Excellence was the Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers. The Legislature financed the first two years, but not the third.
Kopik said the position paper would let legislators know that the Regents did not plan to give up on theMargin.
The calendar was designed to meet the Regents request that the University have at least 150 instructional days in each academic year.
Law students will have a 10-day final period because finals usually are the only exams law students have. In order to meet the 150-unit final exam requirement, law classes will be held on three weekends during the semester.
The Regents also passed a resolution that intercollegiate athletics should be secondary to learning and intellectual growth.
The Regents accepted the resolution after amending it to clarify that there was no problem with the way institutions currently handled athletics.
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