University Daily Kansan, December 7, 1984
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Legislature
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Executive Committee, said KU faculty members often were concerned that other schools weren't getting a high enough priority in legislative financing.
"We were never on easy street," he said, "but there was a more altruistic look in the 1970s than there is now toward education."
Although usually not a main factor, some legislators said the prejudices of a few representatives and senators against higher education would be a source of ambition that sometimes was difficult to combat.
Sobach said he sometimes had to go the extra mile to convince some legislators, such as those from western Kansas, that KU was essential to the state economy.
"THERE ARE SOME legislators who've
move it a cause to fight against university budgets," he said. "We have to try to educate them to the importance of higher education in Kansas."
State Rep. Joe Knopp, R-Manhattan, said legislators from other parts of the state occasionally formed opinions about higher education financing based upon indefinite reactions to events on Regents school campuses.
"I'm not saying we lost $622,000 because we had an alleged student riot in Aggieville," he said. "But we did lose some public confidence that we got to try to restore in the Legislature."
biggest strike against KU's financing in the coming legislative session is available money.
But despite these political hazards, legislators and administrators agree that the
"It'll be tight," said Von Ende, the chief legislative liaison for the University. "I'd say we're looking at a 4 to 6 percent increase over last year."
Knapper said the gloomy state revenue picture in recent years had changed University appropriations into something like a firefighting operation, with limited state funds going for emergency needs.
"I all Say is they're at the point where they'd better raise sayres." Knapper said. "Unless we do the right thing by education, we're going to be pretty bad off."
Crossing
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to "allow beer drinking on the landlocked peer in front of the Crossing," as a Kansas
Gary Hart. Glennview, III. junior, "A real Friday experience is to be on the front" of the school.
Doug McWard. St. Louis senior and a bartender at the Crossing, said the Crossing crowd was hard to define.
"This is a place where everybody can hang out who doesn't feel comfortable hanging out anywhere else," he said.
DAN GARDNER, WHO said he was at the Crossing almost every day, said, "The people here are like the songs they play. The music is just as diverse as the crowd."
In a bar that plays everything from Pure Prairie League to Prince, that says a lot.
The people who frequent the bar said they would miss much about the Crossing — the music, the food and happy hours.
"But mostly I'll miss the people," said Naomi Abrams, Berkeley, Calif., senior. "Newspapers have called this a tavern or a drinking establishment. I call it home."
A Christmas tree stands in the tavern decorated with toilet paper for tinsel and post cards for ornaments. Lights are strung all around the bar, and they create an almost festive mood, despite the imminent closing of the landmark.
"It's going to be a very sad day," said Howard Koerth, the manager. "But the cultural mish-mash of people who hang out here are going to party like crazy until then."
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