THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.85—No.112 Tuesday, March 25, 1975
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Demos eye school fund cut
By RICHARD PAXSON Kansan Staff Reporter
TOPEKA- Democrats in the Kansas House are studying a report that proposes cuts of almost $1.2 million in the fiscal 1976 budgets of the state colleges and universities, House Minority Leader Pete Loux of Wichita said Monday.
The report, prepared by the Legislative Research Department and sent to Louis last week, suggests nearly $2.6 million in reductions in Gov. Robert F. Bennett's fiscal local 1976. Bennett forwarded his $1.5 billion to the legislature in late January.
ALTHOUGH A COMPLETE breakdown of the proposed $1.2 million in cuts in the state college and university budgets wasn't immediately available, it is known that at least $471,000 could be cut from the University of Kansas budget.
The report suggests that elimination of a $100,000 special allocation to KU for the treatment of patients with diabetes is considered. The report also states that a reduction of $271,066 in the allocation to the University of Kansas Medical Center could improve both better use of hospital revenues.
ANOTHER RECOMMENDATION of the report is the elimination of $100,000 that would pay for the teaching expenses of Mei Cai and is in family practice at hospitals in the state.
Chancellor Archie F. Dykes expressed strong opposition to any further curbing in the Kiel Commission.
"We arrived at our budget requests after careful and thorough consideration of the
needs of the University," Dykes said. "The Board of Regents has already made cuts. Then the budget agency and the state administration have. We have already been cut at three levels.
"If further reduction should be made by the legislature, obviously the University would be severely handicapped in its effort to train students." Programs in the face of spiraling inflation.
The appropriations bill that will prescribe the budgets of the state colleges and universities is currently before the House Ways and Means Committee. The committee has already announced it will endorse a 15 per cent increase in faculty salaries and a 10 per cent increase in operating expenses for fiscal 1976.
Dykes said the $100,000 allocation for the replacement of teaching equipment was especially needed.
"We have a tremendous reservoir of unmet needs," he said. "The University has been in need of replacing much equipment that has worn away over the years. Further would stifle this attempt to replace outmoded equipment."
The $10,000 cut in the Med Center budget would reduce the center's ability to continue the family practice residency program, and it would increase the students to enter general practice, Dykes said.
Two other proposed budget reductions would affect KU. A $168,067 cut from
student wages at the colleges and universities would reduce all student wages to the minimum wage. A $185,668 cut would eliminate a revision in a funding formula that increases the schools to include off-campus students in their enrollment figures.
Loux said it was untrue that a large part of the proposed cuts were from the state colleges and universities. However, according to the report, at least $1,145,697 of the proposed $2.6 million cut comes from their budgets.
Loux said he requested that the Legislative Research Department suggest positive action.
See BUDGET Page 2
Med Center seeks funds
By YAEL ABOUHALKAH
Kansan Staff Reporter
Authorization to spend an extra $100,000 this fiscal year, sought by the University of Kansas Medical Center will be debated today by a Kansas House Ways and Means subcommittee.
State Rep. Winger, D-Ottawa, said Monday that the increase had a 50-50 chance of approval. Other legislators were dissatisfied about the chances of approval.
William O. Rieke, executive vice chan
GSC committee requests details in fund petitions
The Budgeting Committee of the Graduate Student Council has asked nearly all of the organizations requesting funds to submit more detailed applications.
Twenty-two graduate organizations are requesting nearly $11,000 in activity fees, and the GSC has only $8,500 to allocate, to Charlotte Kimbrough, GCS treasurer.
celler for the Med Center, said the raise in authorized wages was needed to pay for new staff.
The committee heard the requests of 19 organizations in meetings Saturday morning and Monday night. The requests of the organization will be heard 6 a.m. Friday in the GSC office.
Rieke stressed that the Med Center already had the money from hospital revenues and only needed authorization to spend it.
"A good many groups did not submit their requests in adequate detail," Anthony Staiano, budgeting committee chairman, said Monday.
The Kansas Board of Regents Friday approved the Med Center's request to ask
the Board to provide
The committee has asked organizations to qualify every item with detailed accounts of its use.
Organizations were urged to collect dues from their members, avoid duplication of University services and provide a priority list ranking their most important items to help the committee to help the committee eliminate all but the most necessary items in each request.
However, legislators contacted Monday
expressed opposition to the arena fee.
Organization have until March 31 to submit their revised requests. Saigao said,
State Rep. Wendell Lady, R-Overland Park and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said he opposed any increase in the amount of monies allotted the Med Center for Other Operating Expenditures (OEE).
Unless the committee has questions about the revised requests, it will ask no group to participate. Further committee deliberations be publicized and open to the public, he said.
"I think it's a leadership position that you (authorization) won't be changed," Lady said. "I personally think it has no chance of being increased."
Lady said the Med Center already had used a generous amount of general state funds this year. He said that just because the Center had underestimated its income this year there was no reason for the funds thus reaped to be spent by the Med Center.
Lady said Med Center officials should, in the future, make better estimates of their yearly income, so that they wouldn't have to pay such money initially from general state funds.
State Sen, Ross Doyen, R-Coronado, chair of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, said he probably wouldn't spend more time when the bill reached his committee.
"I think they're a little out of context
expecting us to go along with amount increase," Doyen said. "We'll take a look at it but I don't think we'll put the full amount back in, if any."
State Rep. Mike Hayden, R-Attwood, said the policy of the House Ways and Means Committee had been to approve the increases in OOE requested by Gov. Robert Bennett. Hayden said he supported that position.
Such a position would mean approving only $299,000 for the Med Center, not the other.
Rieke said a committee at the Med Center would begin reviewing possible steps to reduce hospital expenditures if the authorization wasn't received.
If the increase isn't approved, Rieke said, the hospital might have to begin limiting patient service to emergency cases. Another reduction might come in the number of laboratory tests done at the hospital, he said.
Also, Rieke said, some currently vacant positions might have to be left unfilled for an indefinite period if the extra funds aren't approved.
The bill under consideration by the Kansas House Way and Means Committee authorizes expenditures of $89,000. That is the figure requested by Bennett. The new budget authorized expenditures to $89,000, the amount requested by the Med Center last year.
Rieke said Bennett had cut the Med center's request because he needed more patients for the $89,000.
But Rickie said, "Since that time, we provided more recent justification. The changes have made our life easier."
Mideast prospects called gloomy
Kansan Staff Reporter
He said that unless Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's withdrawal from the negotiations there last week was a play to exert pressure on the combatants, a peace settlement between the Arabs and Israelis may be difficult to obtain.
Prospects for a resolution of the Middle East situation may be "disappointing," Erwin D. Canh, editor emeritus of the Christian Science Monitor, said Monday.
By KATHY STECHERT
Kansan Staff Reporter
Cannham's visit to the University of Kansas, sponsored by the KU Christian Science Organization and the School of Journalism, will conclude tonight with a tour of the Hall. He will discuss current events and the future direction of the United States.
THE IS NOT possibility for a peaceful solution in the Middle East that will satisfy both side, Canham said. There must be a compromise, he said.
IN HIS FIFTY years with the Christian Science Monitor Canham has been the paper's correspondent in Geneva, head of Washington bureau, general news editor, managing editor, editor and editor in chief. He was been editor emeritus since January 1974.
Chamh visited journalism classes and met informally with members of the KU organization Organization Monday. He spoke to journalism world events and the role of newspapers.
"What ultimately comes is going to be more painful to the Israelis than to the Arabs," he said.
However, the Israelis must have a total guarantee of their right to exist.
Chamad said U.N. troop occupation of the Golan Heights and international control of the Holy Lands were possible aspects of a peace settlement.
He also moderates a weekly Boston television program and is public affairs commentator for the Westinghouse Broadcasting Co.
Chamah writes a weekly column, "Let's Think," for the Monitor in which he discusses topics including former President Obama and the population explosion and President Ford.
newspapers more difficult and more necessary.
He said the complexity of current events had made investigative reporting more interesting.
A newspaper must not just report an event but must report a situation, he said, by giving the causes, effects and possible solutions to problems.
news media in general news and cultural news in the same way the Wall Street Journal is supplemental in business news, he said.
Canhann said all newspapers would have realize that readers usually have newspapers at their disposal.
Cankham said the increasing complexity and urgency of world problems like the COVID-19 pandemic were a major challenge.
The Christian Science Monitor, although one of several publications of the Christian Science Publishing Society, isn't an official church organ.
they read the newspaper. Therefore the rule of newspapers must be to analyze news and make sense of it.
Canham said the Monitor had been an investigative newspaper for a long time because its readers usually received other newspapers before the Monitor. Thus it has been necessary for the Monitor to do more than just report the news.
The Monitor is dedicated to the solution of problems, Canham said, and strives for the best possible performance.
The Monitor is a supplemental national daily newspaper, supplemental to other
Religion and the press...
Edwin Canham, editor emeritus of the Christian Science Monitor, speaks casually and openly about the relationship of
By Staff Photographer BARBARA O'BRIEN
religion and the newspaper. Canham will lecture at 7:30 tonight in 3140 Wescow.
Concert tune up By Staff Photographer BARBARA O'BRIEN
Alten Dee, a member of the New York Brass Quintet warms up before a performance in Hoch Auditorium Monday evening.
KU student expenses increase predicted
Kansan Staff Reporte
Bv TRICIA BORK
Being a student at the University of Kansas is going to be more expensive next week.
Students can expect price increases in book prices, residence hall fees and costs.
However, no increase in tuition is expected for next year, Keith Nitcher, vice chancellor for business affairs, said Monday.
"Our budget for fiscal year 1976 didn't contemplate any fee increases," Nitcher said. "No one has advised us to expect any vet increase."
Nitcher said the incidental fee, that portion of the tuition fee that went to the state budget and from which the University was funded, had increased $25 a semester in resident residents of Kansas. For non-residents the fee increased $125 a semester, he said.
"RIGHT NOW the resident student
erolled into a class of $205
or burgess fees." Nicole said.
The privilege fee includes charges for the Kansas Union, health services and an activation.
Textbooks and supplies will probably cost more next year, according to J. D. Cohen, a senior marketing manager at Bookstore. Although increases this year are about 12 per cent more than last year, Christmas said, he won't really know the price for the fall semester until the books arrive.
"Generally speaking, we do expect some kind of loss, if it was not yet yet bad, I will be careful." Custis
"We have been discussing this with some of the publishers' representatives, and they don't seem to have any indication of what the price increases will be."
FRANK BURGE, director of the Union, said he realized the importance of book prices to students, and said the bookstore had textbooks as carefully as possible.
Two measures are being taken to offset the cost of books to students, Burge said. One measure is buying books already on the shelf instead it passed on to the student. Second, the bookstore will buy back books at a percentage of the cost if a new shipment of books is marked up.
Beginning this fall, residence hall fees will increase according to J. J. Wilson, director of housing. The Kansas Board of Regents approved the increase in October.
For a full year's payment for a double occupancy room in Terminil Hall, the price
will increase $100, from $1,630 to $1,130;
McCollum Hall will increase $85, from $1,095 to $1,180; Hashinger Hall will increase $90, from $1,095 to $1,185, Ellsworth, Pearson, Corbin and Joseph K. Pearson hall will increase $45, from $1,045 to $1,130.
Costs for rooms paid for by installment payments will also increase in the fall. For residents of Tempipl, a double-occupancy apartment will cost $1,155; McCollum will increase $85, from $1,129 to $1,205; Hashinger will increase $90, from $1,120 to $1,210; Ellsworth, Lewis, Pearson and Joseph H. Pearson will increase $65, from $1,070 to $1,155.
STUDIO FEES for Hashager will increase $3, and mount rent in Stouffler Bay.
Wilson said these increases were partly due to increases in food prices.
No significant rent increases are expected in any of the apartment complexes
The assistant manager of Meadowbrook apartments, Robin Yessen, said he did not foresee any increases for the next school year.
"We don't plan any increases in the near future," he said. "The prices we please now have will be at least $10 a month."
Debbie Vansan, rental manager of Jayhawker Towers apartments, said, "The prices we have in effect now for next fall have been in effect since August, but I can't say whether any increases are planned," she said.
DORIS BREWER, manager of Park 25 apartments, said monthly rent was raised $2 two years ago and hadn't been raised since.
"I haven't been informed about any planned price increases in the future," she said.
The cost of living in a fraternity or sorority may be slightly higher next year, according to Robert Turvey, adviser to the Women's Affairs Council at Hornsby House, assistant to the dean of women.
Horne said that since the dean of women's office didn't solicit financial information from sororities until fall, she didn't really know how much house bills would increase. She said there might be some kind of increase.
Turvey said he hadn't heard of any increases in fraternity house bills for the fall semester, but some fraternities raised their house bills slightly this spring. Some kind of increase, however, may come next fall, he said.