THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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KANSAN
Vol. 90, No. 72
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Thursday, January 17, 1980
State Legislature to address student-related issues
The 1980 session of the Kansas Legislature, which convened this week in Topeka, will address several issues that have a direct effect on University of Kansas students.
Most officials react favorably
Among those issues are:
- A proposed bill that would raise the minimum drinking age in Kansas to 21;
- An amendment to the Landlord-Tenant Act, designed to force negligent landlords to comply with existing health and safety codes, and with their rental agreements;
- Proposed salary increases, to the $3.10 minimum wage, for students employed by the University;
- A bill reducing the resiency requirement from one year to six months for out-of-state students;
- A bill raising tuition by $300 for foreign students;
*A bill that would prohibit the use of student fees to pay for academic, instructional or health care buildings, classrooms, rooms and payments they now are make on them;
before a House Judiciary Committee for a vote in about two weeks.
- Proposed funding for non-student uses of student unions, such as faculty and administrative meetings, which now are partially funded by student activity fees;
- Proposed increases in the maximum amount of federal funds available for scholarships will increase the proposed bill increasing the number of scholarships available to students at state colleges.
- A proposed 100 percent fee waiver for graduate teaching assistants.
Although a bill to raise the drinking age has not yet been introduced, most observers are confident that the issue will be raised this session.
ASK's Bob Bingaman said that almost every legislator he talked to this week wanted to know what ASK's position would be on such a bill.
The executive director of the Associated Students of Kansas, the state student lobby group, said yesterday that changing the drinking age would be a "very hot issue."
The LA, with representatives from each member school, sets the issues for lobbying priority. KU has 23 voting members.
Bingamand he expected such a bill to be introduced in that it would know when the Senate had approved ASEM's bill a bill would be determined by the Legislative Assembly when it meets in session.
If passed, the self-help amendment to the Landlord-Tenant Act would affect students who rent apartments or other housing.
According to the bill's sponsor, State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, the amendment would give a tenant an easy legal means to obtain housing without agreement or with state health and building codes, if the landlord refused to make necessary improvements within a certain period.
The amendment is expected to come
Landlords would not be liable for anything not already included in the existing act, Subbach said, and only necessary repairs could be made.
Most students employed by the University will receive an increase in salary from $2.90 to $1.00 an hour if the Legislature follows Gov. John Cardin's recommendation to raise
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Dillingham could not be reached for comment, but Forer said he didn't think Dillingham was planning any action against the University now.
When the administration concluded its internal review of the faculty members' records, the chief executive would further action against Forer and Dilghuna would be taken according to the official KU record.
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forerer and Clarence Dillingham, a lecturer in the School of Social Welfare who taught children with autism. He given 20 days of leave without pay after their unauthorized trip to Iran. For left after the return, he was
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Norman Foreser says he wants peace. The KU associate professor of social welfare has been charged with opposing against the KU administration concerning his status as an instructor during his conduction.
Art and Design
action by the adi designed to en future.
Twenty months after opening, the Art and Design Gallery in the Visual Arts building has its first alarm system.
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"I don't think further actions concerned, the Forer said.
DYKES AND chancellor, we comment yeste action would be members.
Previously, art and design students had said that the gallery provided little protection for their works.
Forer said he had violated due him without a he not pursue the is. I don't must.
night protection daytime by stud
In December and jewelry stud a gallery safe to They displayed above the safe.
GRADUATE ment of design exhibit of their encourages all work at the galle
T. P. Srinivas chapter of the University Prof the group did no
Forer said if I bring charges as they would have
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In the past, the gallery had no alarm for
The new system, a sonic barrier alarm, should be operational next week, according to the U.S. Army's School of Fine Arts. Thompson refused to comment on the manufacturer, cost, or
A sign above tl
some barrier alarms detect intruders by registering the sound waves the intruders create
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Homogenized,
computerized, remodeled, reconstituted
Muzak attacked my senses as it entered
the water. I waded through, a huge
maille mail in Overland Park.
BY DOUGLAS HITCHCOCK
Light, dark sides of Christmas revealed in Kansas City's holiday shopping areas
"Ya better watch out. Ya better not cry.
Ya better not pout, I'm telling you who...
It sounded like the Ray Coniff Singers,
OEd on Valium.
Somewhere, a tape recording of some synthetic orchestra droned through its repeating loop.
A sign at the edge of Santa's stage said,
"One three inch by four inch print for $3.49. Two wallet size for $3.99. All three for $6.99. While U-Wait."
a pair of bleach-bottle blondes stood at the counter of a shop, Tantopical S. a clerk with a rich, blower luster was signing up for a few sessions under the ultraviolet灯。
Men walked with their hands in their pockets, wearing brown leather jackets and felt hats with ornamental feathers in them. Women carried face masks as faces carried hands of sacks and packages.
But this Santa didn't care about the kids or their gifts.
Throngs of shoppers trudged through the vast corridors of the multi-acre mall, building their cache of Christmas goodies.
Santa was dressed in the classic red suit, trimmed with white padded-fur. But Santa's face was shiny and his expression never changed. This Santa had outdone his predecessors. He wore a rubber, Halloween mask with a white board attached.
IN THE MIDDLE of the second floor on a green and red stage covered with white cotton "snow" sat Santa, or at least this mall's version.
In the past, Santas sat in department stores and kids sat on their laps and fantasized about their Christmas gifts.
SANTA'S NUBILE, young attendant.
definitely not an elf, led a mother and daughter up the cotton-covered ramp to the plastic-faced fascimile.
the padded surface she leaned over her
the little girl's mother leaned over her
for a moment, trying to persuade her to sit on Santa's lan.
panta didn't say much to the little girl.
Mahlk did not "me" to her.
The little girl turned away and toddled down the ramp, her mother in tow.
THEY WALKED away from Santa's stage past a booth selling computer portraits. Examples hung around the low, plywood counters. Faces, rendered by a myriad computer characters on swatches of cloth, had slogans printed underneath
them.
"Sex instructor," one said. "Always available for instruction."
available for first action.
Another said, "Wanted: dead or alive for
42 counts of verbal abuse."
A banner above the computer portraits said, "Happy Xmas."
said, "Happy Xmas."
Suddenly, I realized the Muzak had completed its program and was starting again.
I 'd only been in the mail 45 minutes and I was already hearing the same song again. I wondered, as I walked out the door, the people who worked here endured the
"Ya better watch out. Ya better not cry.
Ya better not pout, I'm telling you why.
Santa Claus is coming to town."
KANSAS CITY is proud of its annual display of the Plaza lights. Every year, on Thanksgiving Day, near the whole city crowds the Plaza to see the fire rings on these lights on.
amateur photographers swarm the Piaza at night during the Christmas season, learning to take time exposures.
But, during the day, the Plaza isn't so colorful.
The only Christmas decorations you can see when the lights aren't on are huge fiberglass candles and bells.
The shoppers hurryying by on the sidewalks don't notice the candies in their rush.
A clutch of fur-furad sophisticated stroll down the wide sidewalks, their finely cuffed hair protected from the breeze by silken scarfs.
"I've got to get home and get ready for our cocktail party," one said.
A SIGN IN A store window said, "Fine Christmas gifts for the discriminating buyer."
At night, after the stores are closed,
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