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University Daily Kansan
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Wednesday, Nov. 20, 1985
KU to assist in issues forums
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
Citizens across the United States have formed groups to discuss national issues, and now the University of Kansas will assist citizens and students in Kansas eager to form discussion groups.
The University of Kansas Alumni Association and the division of continuing education will sponsor sessions Dec. 7 and Jan. 4 at the Adams Alumni Center, 1266 Oread Ave., to introduce the National Issues Forum to those interested in forming groups in their communities, Loren Taylor, director of alumni chapters and student programs, said yesterday.
A group in Wisconsin began the National Issues Forum in 1981 to discuss and study political, social and economic issues.
The daylong sessions at the Alumni Center will train citizens to be moderators for their study circles, which are unstructured and allow each group independence within the national network across the country, he said.
Rose Rousseau, programs manager for conferences and programs in continuing education, said preparation to start a branch of the program in Kansas began about a year ago.
The issues for the 1885 forums, are: "Welfare: Who Should Be Entitled to Public Help?" and "The Soviets: What is the Conflict About?" and "Taxes: Who Should Be Paving and Why?"
Rousseau said the program was for people interested in the welfare of society.
Citizens inform themselves on issues that affect their lives by creating study circles. Each year the group will receive information on the issues for that year.
Issues discussed in the past have been inflation, retirement and social security, and nuclear arms and national security.
Continuing education and the Alumni Association will contribute to the groups' activities by offering resources from KU libraries or by asking faculty to participate.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig and three other University officials met with the Senate Executive Committee yesterday to explain how the state's fiscal problems could affect KU.
By a Kansan reporter
Budig told Senex members that the budget cuts suggested on Nov. 12 by Alden Shields, state budget director, would leave no room for progress at the University.
KU pinched by cuts, Budig says
Shields predicted that the state would collect $132.6 million less than anticipated in general fund receipts for the next two years.
Because of the state cuts, the Regents could lose as much as $45 million from their original budget request.
James Bibb, associate director of business affairs, said at the meeting
The shortfall came about because of the nature of budget making, Bibb said.
that the figure was discouraging and showed that the state should take a serious look at the budget problems.
Late in each year, he said, an estimated budget is created by the state's Consensus Estimating Group. In early December, the group meets again and develops a final estimate.
The amount of actual revenue the state receives often falls short of the estimated budget amount, he said.
Bibb, who was the state budget director for 27 years, said that in the past few years the money held over from the previous year's budget had been less than usual.
He said a carry-over balance of at least $90 million was needed if the state wanted to have enough of a cushion to handle shortfalls.
Bibb said that no matter what the state came up with in the final budget, he did not think that the University would get all that it asked for in its budget.
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