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Wednesday, December 11. 1974
University Daily Kansan
Legislators
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favor the change “if such a change shifts the tax burden to the urban property owner. If assessments are reduced in rural areas, the state must determine how much and where.”
The question, "Should funding for regent institutions continue to be based on the number of credit hours taught?" drew the answer of definite answers from the legislators.
Funding for regent institutions like the University of Kansas now is based on the number of credit hours taught. Many administrators have said the formula didn't accurately reflect institution costs and should be changed.
Half of the senators and 46 per cent of the representatives said they had no opinion on the bill.
However, 38 per cent of the representatives indicated they favored the change.
About 50 per cent of the representatives said they would not to placing a concession in their bettle; about 40 per cent parimutel betting before the voters. Exactly half of the senators they would favor putting parimutel betting before the voters, 43 per cent opposed it and 46 per cent supported it.
Three-fourths of the representatives and 50 per cent of the senators said they would vote against lowering the age for buying liquor from 21 to 18 years of age.
--so much hell I'd be reluctant to do so
the senator, a republican state senator from Lawrence, were
"I voted to lower the age to 18 but I caught
The last question asked the legislators whether the $148 million in remaining state general revenue funds should be spent on programs like grading programs or saved for future use.
About 60 per cent of both the representatives and senators indicated that the money should be spent on existing programs, but about 40 per cent of representatives said the money should be saved for future use and 16 per cent said it should be spent on new programs. More than half of the senators said the money should be spent on existing programs, and said it should be spent on new programs.
"There are no 'leftover' funds," one moderate representative said. "I'm surmise-
"Question 10 has no neat answer," another representative said. "Surely there are worthy new programs—but I felt many existing programs have been neglected. I'm not sure we should be in reserve for the next year, because the items as a result of a possible recession."
The poll itself drew the most comments from the legislators.
"I love these polls," one representative said. "It’s almost as much fun as sitting in the kitchen."
"Simplistic surveys leave a great deal to be desired, but since it is the Dunkan Kuro, the most difficult of the three," she said.
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people have shown less interest in these efforts that they might have shown at a less domestically troublesome time. Most Americans express approval of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's move toward detente. Throughout the Watergate affair, Kissinger was one of the few Nixon cabinet members who managed to maintain a favorable public image. Public opinion has not yet had time to coalesce on Ford's armed limitation treaty with the Soviets.
Too much importance can be attributed to polls. Ours is not a government by definition, but the position may reverse itself in a matter of days, depending upon the course of events.
The environment and busing were both national issues in 1974 and the most attention to the questions came from par- ents important to people in states such as Colorado and California. Boston was almost consumed by the busing issue. One pollster found that more than 40 per cent of the nation's busing attention was being paid to minifemales.
Pessimism . . .
One poll taken before the November elections showed that of the people questioned, almost one-third were likely to be motivated by a strong sense of social resentment. These were people who experienced their lives in ways they came then and that traditional values and traditional morals were crumbling in a wave of permissiveness. They felt powerless to make any significant changes in the course of society. Of these people, 82 per cent thought people in government were not as trustworthy as they once were, and 62 per cent expressed the feeling that individual rights were not as important to government. Almost a quarter of all people polled in one survey thought they had been left out of the American mainstream.
Many of the lesser issues that once had national attention have been overshadowed by the troubled economy and declining public confidence in government. Foreign affairs and detente have occupied much of the federal government's energies, but the
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