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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 25 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Friday
September 26,1986
Tax reform bill gets House OK in 292-136 vote
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House easily passed a landmark tax reform bill yesterday, moving the nation a giant step closer to a new tax code that would have fewer tax breaks, lower rates and touch the pocketbooks of almost all U.S. citizens.
among the university.
The sweeping overhaul of the country's tax laws, touted by sponsors as the great equalizer between income classes, was approved 292-136 and sent to the Senate, which is expected to give the bill final congressional passage next week.
A total of 176 Democrats and 116 Republicans voted for the bill while 74 Democrats and 62 Republicans opposed it.
President Reagan, who has made the issue a top priority and fought hard for revising the tax code when the idea seemed dead time and again during the last two years, welcomed the vote and urged the Senate to follow suit.
A White House statement said the country was "one step away" from a new tax code that would promote
fairness and equity and, most important of all, reduce rates for most U.S. citizens.
In addition to limiting deductions and cutting tax rates to their lowest level in a half-century, the compromise legislation would take about 6 million working poor off the tax rolls. In the next five years, it also would raise taxes on businesses by about $120 billion and lower taxes on individuals by a similar amount.
Sponsors argued that by curbing tax breaks and instituting a strong minimum tax for the wealthy and corporations, the bill finally would bring equity to a tax code that had become top heavy with loopholes and had allowed too many people and businesses to avoid paying their fair share.
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The most emotional moment of the more than three-hour debate came when retiring Speaker of the House Thomas P. O'Neill, D-Mass, made a rare floor speech in favor of the bill, calling it the decision of a political lifetime and a chance to accomplish
See REFORM, p. 5, col. 1
Just one more
Doug Butts, Prairie Village junior, does push-ups at the Lawrence High School football field for an Army physical-readiness test while Cdt.-Mjr. Mike Connolly, Lawrence senior, counts. The test, which was given yester-day, is administered once each semester for Army ROTC.
Task force studying new plans for higher education Consulting aids faculty, business Board would coordinate schools
By BETH COPELAND
Start Write! A local manufacturer lacked the equipment to ad-
equate their e-commerce products — ap oil rig fitting.
To hire a consulting firm to conduct the tests would be expensive and time consuming.
The manufacturer's solution was to hire KU faculty to conduct the tests in KU laboratories.
As a result, Aeroquip Corp., 2001 Lakeview Road, gains the expertise of KU faculty at a lower price than a professional consulting firm would charge. Aeroquip is a national company that locally manufactures air brakes and industrial clamps.
In return, the faculty benefits from applying engineering theory to real problems.
ing them. Thus, because Legislative Task Force on Higher Education is considering a plan that would help businesses like Aeroqiup solve problems with help from the faculty of state universities.
This spring, the Legislative Commission on Economic Development created the 11-member task force, which includes Sen. Wint Winter, R-Lawrence. It may recommend in December a measure providing faculty with state funds to consult for Kansas businesses.
ate funds to consult or rank students. "This plan could mean more funding and positions for KU faculty and graduate students," Winter said after the task force's second meeting Tuesday.
Charles Reese, professor of mechanical engineering works with several Kansas companies and stresses the practical applications of faculty consulting.
p I "use examples I find in consulting almost daily in the classroom," he said.
Reese added Kansas could benefit from the intellectual resources of university faculty.
"The smaller companies represent a significant part of the state economy," he said. "What happens to them affects the state as a whole."
Joe Takacs, an engineering manager at Aeroquip, agreed that small businesses would benefit most from a state-financed consulting program.
"A let of times a small company is living hand to mouth and can't afford a consulting fee," he said. "An important product could fall by the wayside just because they're not able to pay for research."
Takacs said faculty consulting benefited both his company and KU.
"The faculty allows us to look into the next generation of materials and equipment that we might not otherwise have known about," he said.
In return, Takacs said that engineers from Aeropod periodically lectured at KU and that one engineer, Orval Engling, left the company for a semester to teach a mechanical engineering course at the University.
By BETH COPELAND
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A force task is considering three plans which would alter post-secondary education in Kansas, one of which would place community colleges and state universities under a single governing board.
under a single governing body. The Task Force on Higher Education was created by the Legislative Commission on Economic Development to coordinate the focus of all post-secondary schools.
Now, separate boards govern post-secondary schools, creating a lack of coordination among schools. State Sen. Wint Winter, R-Lawrence and a member of the task force, said yesterday. This prompted the formation of the task force.
task force.
"There's no single uniform game plan," he said. "One a team knows what the other is doing because there's no coordination between community colleges and the Board of Regents."
The Regents oversee the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, Wichita State University, Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University, Pittsburg State University and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina; the state Board of Education oversees elementary and secondary schools.
The Board of Education also works with the state's community colleges to supervise some budget and curriculum decisions, but the state's control is limited
because community colleges are governed by the city in which they are located.
Winter said the task force, which had its first meeting in July, was considering three proposals to coordinate the decisions of post-secondary schools.
First, the Kansas Legislature could create an "umbrella board" that would combine the governance of community colleges, the Regents and the Board of Education.
Second, the Legislature could create a separate board solely responsible for the decision-making of community colleges.
Third, the task force could recommend that Washburn University in Topeka join the seven Regents schools, a plan criticized by Chancellor Gene A. Budig because he says the additional school would drain money from University coffers.
Winter said he couldn't decide at this point which plan would be feasible.
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Buddig also said that endorsing a plan would be premature at this point but that the University would work to coordinate its programs with those of other schools.
schools. "Our academic officers will meet with their counterparts at other institutions to explore ways in which we can be more cooperative," he said.
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Ray Schmidt, Lawrence, gets a hug from Marie Galluzzi, president of the Lawrence Region Men and Women Widowed Group. The organization, a support group for widows and widowers, had its monthly meeting last night.
Widowed residents get group's support
By NANCY BARRE
Staff writer
No one was allowed to leave a meeting last night in the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St., before receiving a hug.
"It might be the onlyug we get all month." said Marie Galluzzi, president of the Lawrence Region Men and Women Widowed Group. "At the end of a meeting we all feel really close, and a hug is a good way to show someone that they're still loved."
Gallucci started the non-
denominational widow and
widowers group about two years
ago after her husband died. The
group started out with two
members and now has 114
The group meets once a month and serves a social, supportive and educational purpose, she said. About 30 people came to the meeting last night to watch a film on Caribbean cruises.
Some meetings have featured lectures on topics such as osteoporosis, lawn care and estate planning. But sometimes members get together to go to the theatre in Kansas City, Mo., or just to have a picnic.
to have a prize.
"The group serves as a stepping stone into the real social world."
Galuzii said, "We offer support to newly widowed people.
"A lot of times people aren't ready to step out into the real social scene right away. It's easier for them to first share their experience with someone else who has gone through the same thing."
miao Galluzzi said members often met informally between meetings to combat loneliness.
"It's terrible to walk into an empty house," she said. "The loneliness in unbearable. You have to get out of the house, or you go crazy."
Members don't just sit around talking about how lonely they are though, they also have fun, she said.
said, "I love it," said Ruby Sherman, a Lawrence resident and member of the group. "We just do such fun things."
"A lot of times, a group of us gets together to go to the senior citizens dances on Sunday nights. But don't tell my daughter, I wouldn't want her to find out."
Andy Anderson, one of the four men at the meeting, joined the group about four months ago after his wife died. He said the group
See WIDOWED, p. 5, col. 3
Homosexual groups talk about problems
Staff writer
By SHANE A. HILLS
Kevin Elliot, president pro term of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, said the meeting was the first of its kind in the state.
Members of gay and lesbian support groups from Lawrence, Wichita and Topeka met yesterday at the Kansas Union to share ideas about solving problems within the gay community.
Elliot, who organized the meeting, said he hoped to see the meeting become an annual event.
The groups discussed problems they were having in getting financing, the spread of acquired immune deficiency syndrome and discrimination and violence against homosexuals.
Also at the meeting was the Rev. Liz Leech of the Metropolitan Community Church of Topeka, which has a predominately gay and lesbian congregation.
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Attending were representatives from the Gay Lesbian Resource Association at Wichita State University, the Lesbian Gay Alliance of Wichita, the Lawrence Gay and Lesbian Alcoholics Anonymous and the Topeka AIDS Project.
college, Wheeler, a student at Wichita State and president of the school's Gay Lesbian Resource Association, said the student senate
"WSU's student senate is definitely behind the times as far as human right endeavors go, especially gay rights," he said.
The KU Student Senate has helped finance GLSOK for four years. Elliot said
said.
George, a representative from the Lawrence Gay and Lesbian Alcoholics Anonymous who requested that only his first name be used, said statistics varied on the problem of alcoholism within the gay community of the United States. He said some statistics indicated alcoholies made up 30 to 70 percent of the gay community.
still had not helped finance his group
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"Discrimination and constant rejection are part of what causes homosexuals to use alcohol or drugs to escape from what seems like a cruel world," he said.
critic wrung on.
He also said a trend toward conservatism in the United States was not going to adversely affect the advances toward acceptance that the gay community had made.
gae "If conservative viewpoints are shouted into the mountains, the gay community will surely react to the echoes," he said.
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But people at the meeting agreed that society was accepting homosexuals more readily than it used to
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See PROBLEMS, p. 5, col. 4