Friday, Nov. 8, 1985
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University Daily Kansan
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Taxes
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to have to be a bipartisan, joint effort to solve the financial problems facing Kansas."
Swenson said the six-member estimating group likely would slash its earlier estimates of tax collections by $40 million for the current budget year, which ends June 30, 1986. And it would cut its income projections another $40-$50 million for the following fiscal year.
“There’s no doubt now that revenues are going to drop dramatically over what we had been expecting,” he said. “Over the next two years we’re talking potentially
"Now, it's important that this issue doesn't become a victim of election-year politics. It would not be intelligent for the Legislature to ignore the problem again and leave it for a longer horror. It needs to be addressed now."
over $80 million or $90 million plus.
This has been building. It's a very serious situation and something the governor warned would happen.
November, 1986, and several lawmakers, including House Speaker Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, Senate President Robert V. Talkington, R- and Sen. Fred Kerr, R-Patt, already have expressed interest in the post.
"The situation is worse than anyone could have predicted a year ago." Swenson said. "Our three biggest industries, agriculture, aviation and oil and gas, are all hurting. Our biggest problems have been with sales tax and income tax. That's a sign our economy is in trouble. The time to act is now."
Swenson was referring to the jockeying already taking place among hopefuls in the race for the GOP gubernatorial nomination. A new governor will be elected in
Proposal
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liaison to the presidents' commission, said the commission's original amendment provided for an "eligibility index" that would permit a student athlete to use a higher GPA if offered an offseason or a GPA lower than 2.0 or to higher GPA to offset a score lower than 700 on the SAT or 15 on the ACT
The new jointly sponsored amendment still provides for an eligibility index, but stipulates that it be phased out by the fall of 1988, he said.
Under the new proposal, Tow said, the indexes would become increasingly strict.
In 1986-87, a test score of 740 on the SAT or a 17 on the ACT could compensate for a core curriculum GPA of 1.8.
In 1987-88, the index would be reduced so that it would require a score of 720 on the SAT or a 16 on the ACT to obtain a GPA of 1.9.
In the fall of 1988, the rule as it is
He said several other proposals would be presented by three factions at the convention.
currently written would go into effect, Tow said.
Meetings
One faction wants no reference to test scores at all in the rule, he said, while another wants the rule as written to go into effect on Aug. 1. The third faction isn't satisfied with the present rule, but still wants some reference to test scores in any amendment, he said.
laws, according to a 1977 opinion by Curt T. Schneider, former Kansas attorney general.
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However, Jeff Southard, deputy attorney general, said yesterday that Robert J. Stephan, the current attorney general, might have a different opinion than Schneider.
He said his initial reaction would be that Student Senate was subject to the law because the University created the Senate and gave it the power to allocate student activity fees.
Southern said that under state law, government meetings can only be closed to discuss matters of non-essential concern; it matters that did not affect the order.
Day said the committee discussed "personal matters of StudEx members and possible conflicts of interest and the allocation of seats."
Southard said conflict of interest was not a legitimate reason to close a meeting.
When the doors reopened at Wednesday's meeting, the committee voted unanimously to send the same figures back to StudEx.
At the beginning of the meeting,
Arnold, Easley and Polack spoke
against the figures the Elections
Committee sent to StudEx.
on enrollment figures from Oct. 21 instead of the 20th-day enrollment figures that the University used officially, Arnold said. This time, StudEx approved the figures.
StudEx had rejected the figures the first time because they were based
Day said the difference between the more recent numbers and the 20th-day figures was that according to the newer figures, the School of Architecture and Urban Design would receive two seats instead of one and Nunemaker, which consists of freshmen and sophomores in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, would receive 17 seats instead of 18.
Arnold said, "The people who lose are the students and ie press, because things were discussed off-the-record that were not limited to personal subjects."
Easley and Polack said they would not take responsibility for the figures the Elections Committee sent or for StudEx's approval of the figures.
Lawhorn said he knew of people who planned to appeal the validity of the elections to the University Judicial Board because of inconsistent planning of the elections. Easley and Polack said they would not appeal because they hoped concerned students would make the appeal.
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the university's view of the facts, they will meet with the University general counsel in court on Nov. 21, he said.
The University said the case could be dismissed on a clear, legal basis, because there wasn't an answer. The players to play for football in KU.
"We felt he could have decided today," Thomas said yesterday afternoon.
Thomas and Rose Marino, assistant general counsel, have said that the case had to be settled before the end of the football season for the University to gain satisfaction.
Neither Williams nor Griffin had their scholarships removed, and both have played in games since Sept. 19, when they filed suit against the University to regain their eligibility.
The end of the regular football season will not necessarily mean an immediate end to the suit, according to Gary Hunter, assistant athletic director.
Hunter said both sides would probably continue court proceedings even if they continued past the end of the KU football season.