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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 4, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 8) (USPS 650-640)
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Budig remark called 'too early' by official
By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansas staff
A Washburn University official said yesterday that Chancellor Gene A. Budig's questioning of the financial feasibility of allowing Washburn to become a Board of Regents school was "premature."
Budig said yesterday in a prepared statement, "State universities in Kansas are underfunded. I question whether the state of Kansas is in a position to assume additional fiscal responsibilities in the areas of higher education."
He said current financial problems should be resolved before the state took on new responsibilities.
"The Regents universities have been receiving a declining percentage of the state general fund," Budig said. "If there is to be a serious study of the Washburn issue, I believe the role and future of the community colleges should be considered, too."
The official, Al Dickes, director of institutional research at Washburn university.
criticism of the proposal came too early because Washburn's own board of regents had not yet chosen the long-range financing program it would like the university to pursue.
He said that the Washburn board of regents would recommend to the Kansas Legislature one of several options that could give Washburn a role in the financing system and that joining the Regents was just one option.
Seven schools now are governed by the Regents: the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, Wichita State University, Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University, Pittsburgh State University and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
The Regents will give their opinion on Washburn's potential admittance at 9 a.m. tomorrow to the Legislature committee studying their admittance.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said, "The bottom line is probably going to mean less money
for higher education at KU, and less money arguably leads to less quality.
"The money has to come from somewhere. It doesn't take a genius to figure out . . . it's going to come out of existing higher education."
Budig said, "State leaders do regard the Regents institutions as major assets. They have encouraged our involvement in the critical areas of high technology and economic development.
"However, the Regents universities have been receiving a declining percentage of the state general fund. Over the last decade and a half, the percentage of the state general appropriation to our state universities from more than 24 percent to less than 19 percent of the total."
Winter said that he could not imagine that Washburn, which has a current enrollment of about 7,000 students, would be accepted as a full partner in the Regents system
See BUDIG, p. 5, col. 1
Strike ends in S. Africa
From Kansan wires
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Union leaders called off a 48-hour strike by thousands of black miners yesterday in the face of violence between workers and guards, low worker turnout and reported threats of mass firings by mine owners.
The National Union Mineworkers said it was suspending the strike, begun Sunday night, but would file a civil suit challenging what it called the "unlawful" eviction and firing of miners at legally struck miners.
The strike was called to win extra pay raises of 2.8 percent on top of increases of 14 to 19 percent granted in July. The extra money already has been paid to about 100,000 MU member
Yesterday, students abandoned black schools near Johannesburg and riated around Cape Town. Police battled with mixed-race and black youths who erected street barricades, robbed motorists and stoned and gasoline-bombed vehicles and buildings.
No casualties were reported.
Yesterday also marked the first anniversary of riots in Sharpeville, which have sparked a year of racial violence that has killed close to 700 people, most of them black. Police and troops sealed off eight black townships, including the two in which the rent protests began a year ago.
The Sharpeville riots were triggered by the death of black Mayor Sam Lamini by a mob protesting rent increases, and coincided with a new constitution that mandated the political rights of South Africa's 24 million blacks.
A state of emergency was declared July 21 in 14 percent of the country to stem the violence. At least 4,000 people
have been arrested or detained without charge since then.
The union, accusing owners of intimidating miners into working, said 21,000 miners struck five mines yesterday, 7,000 less than Monday.
The union did not say whether the strike would resume. But it was clear that the strike call — originally made to 70,000 men at seven gold and coal mines — failed to win mass backing.
Organizers had hoped the strike would be put new pressure on the white-minority government to reform its system of apartheid, South Africa's policy of legalized racial segregation.
The Gold Field corporation said it had begun to "process 5,000 terminations" at the Deelkraal mine west of Johannesburg after miners failed to show for work. But it was not clear whether they would be fired immediately.
In Johannesburg, NUM spokeswoman Manoko Nchwe said men returned to work at the Matla mine in the face of employer intimidation.
Union officials said that at least 14 miners had been injured since Sunday by police and private security guards firing shotguns, rubber bullets and tear gas and that at least 88 miners and strike organizers had been arrested.
"They have been faced with dogs, batches charges,
rubber bullets and tear gas," a spokeswoman said.
Bryan Graves/KANSAN
Drv dock
Pat Bloxham, Lakewood, Colo., sophomore, and Lynne Miller, Topeka senior, members of the KU Crew team, talk to Jim Latimer, Topeka junior, about the team. The men stood near one of the team's boats on display in front of Strong Hall yesterday afternoon.
By Gary Duda
By Gary Duda Of the Kansan staff
Kansas Bureau of Investigation figures released yesterday showing a 34.6 percent decrease in the Lawrence crime rate for the first six months of 1855 are inaccurate, a Lawrence police spokesman said yesterday.
Because of computer problems, the figures include only the number of crimes in January, March, Sgt. Don Dalman said.
Crime at the University of Kansas decreased 7.1 percent during the first six months of 1985 compared with the first six months of 1984, the director of the KU police department said.
He said that because of computer problems the Lawrence Police Department was unable to get its figures to the KBI in time for its report. When May, June and July are included in the report, the figures probably will change, Dalquest said.
"We might be down or we might be up," he said. "A lot of times you're not working with a great deal of numbers. You could have one homicide and it would raise it 100 percent."
Violent crime rose 7.7 percent in Kansas during the first half of 1965, the KBI said.
Dalquest said, "Ours is a partial report. We didn't get our Uniform Crime Reports in on time."
Dalquest said that the crime rate figure did not include the KU campus but that KU did play a key role in the crime rate in Lawrence.
"Since KU went ahead and got their own police department they
have been listed separately," he said.
Because many students live off campus, Dalquest said that they were represented in figures for the Lawrence crime rate. He said that students were the target of crimes where they were not the criminals.
Because of this attitude, KU students are the targets of crimes, he said. However, the crime rate for the first six months of 1985 was about $4.2 million, continuing a trend in the past several years toward lower crime rates.
Jim Denney, director of KU police, said the University suffered "from its reputation of being an affluent center."
"Criminals know when the students come back," he said. "Criminals know when University students are assaulted. They're ripping our kids off."
KU crime figures for the first six months of 1864 and 1865 were:
Denney said that the crime figures for the campus should not be compared with Lawrence's because of KU's unique make up.
armed robbery: 1:0
Denney said KU used to be protected by Lawrence police but with the eventual development of a campus police force, Lawrence police were phased out. He said that before 1978, KU did not keep crime statistics.
motor vehicle thefts: 15; 6.
rape: 2:1
larcenv: 275: 272
assault · 28 · 20
assault: 28; 20.
murder: 1984.0; 1985.0.
Three fraternities still owe taxes
By Gary Duda
Ruth Verynck, the treasurer, said that Kappa Sigma, 1045 Emery Road, paid its 1984 property taxes — more than $2,800 — in full last week. The three fraternities that still owe money are Phi Kappa Theta, Acacia and Alpha Phi Alpha.
Three of four KU fraternities that appeared on the Douglas County treasurer's list as delinquent property taxpayers still haven't paid, the Douglas County treasurer said yesterday.
Douglas County treasurer's records show that the three fraternities
Of the Kansan staff
owe a total of more than $9,000 for
1984, but Acacia and Phi Kappa
Theta each owe more than $14,000 in
total property taxes.
Vervynk said that Acacia, 1100 Indiana St., had been delinquent since 1981 and Pi Kappa Thape, 1941 Stewart Ave, since 1983. She said that the longer the fraternities let their taxes remain unpaid, the more it would cost them. An 18 percent tax on property is compounded daily on the taxes.
Ronald Hardin, Alpha Phi Alpha president, said that his house had made arrangements to raise the money it owed for property taxes.
Chris McKenzie, Douglas County counselor, said that even though Acacia was close to the four-year limit for delinquent taxes, it was
unlikely that any action would be taken soon. He said a 1/2-year backlog in unpaid property taxes had to be paid first.
Jeff Galvan, president of Acacia,
said his house acknowledges its debt
"We got some donations from alumni and that should be cleared up — probably within the next two weeks." he said.
Phi Kappa Theta also is trying to erase its two-year property tax debt
Pat O'Connell, president of the alumni board for Phi Kappa Theta, said that the house was paying off the debt, which began in the mid 1970s.
Alpha Phi Alpha, 1014 Mississippi St., also is taking action to pay off its $600 debt.
Even though the house could pay off the debt in full, O'Connell said that Phi Kappa Theta would rather put the money into the house so that it could attract new members.
"It's just a matter of priorities," he said. "We just don't consider it a big deal."
Center pitches write ideas to profs
By Jill Waldman
Amid the disarray of setting up shop, the University Writing Center opened yesterday and is ready to help professors help students.
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The center, 4004 Wescoe Hall, is a consulting service and resource center for faculty whose classes involve writing.
The center is unique because it is the only one in the country that consults with faculty about writing in their classes, Stephen Goldman, director of the center and associate professor of English, said yesterday.
He said center staff would help faculty find materials to create writing assignments and develop grading criteria.
Goldman said center staff would create a library of resource materials for various areas of study and training sessions for interested faculty.
The center has a list of faculty who
William Douglas Jr., associate professor of civil engineering, said, "I'm always interested in writing and English. Our students need help, but I don't want them from my English department would probably help my students."
in the last academic year indicated interest in a center.
Goldman said the center would try to teach faculty to describe how they wanted students to write for courses. The center also will make available writing style styles dealing with writing for specific classes, he said.
"We don't need more English classes in writing — we need more writing in other classes," Goldman said.
John Garland, associate professor of business, said, "I wouldn't feel I would need it (the center). I always give documented descriptions of what I want and specific guidelines on how to approach term papers."
Goldman said center staff would look at models of writing dealing with
other areas of study, such as professional articles, business memos and engineering reports.
He said that center staff thought each profession had its own requirements for writing and that the staff should have a good command of and professor write the same way.
"We don't wish to encourage narrow writing that makes great use of jargon with very little meaning behind it," Goldman said.
"We're searching for whatever writing the field demands," Goldman said. "We're trying seriously not to overdo it, but with essay as the sole form of writing."
The center was developed last year after the office of academic affairs called for a task force to look into writing across the curriculum. The
The center also will have a peer tutoring system in which upperclassmen will be trained to tutor freshmen, sophomores and some juniors in writing techniques for their areas of study.
At a meeting last fall, he said, faculty members suggested creating a center to help them put more writing in their courses.
task force was headed by Haskell Springer, director of the freshman-sophomore English program.
Goldman said the initial plan called for a drop-in center that students would be referred to by their instructors.
"Actually, it was faculty opinion that changed the direction of that (the task force's recommendation," Goldman said.
Springer said that the center's work would depend on how people wanted to be helped and that by working with individuals the center's effect would grow.
Ultimately, Goldman said, he hopes to make a writing laboratory available for all students. He said he hoped to do this over a two-year period.