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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, November 17, 1987
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Ruth Jacobson/Special to the KANSAN
Nothing to do
Chali Holt, Lawrence senior, watches from her window as rain falls.
Legislators agree schools need money
Committee fails to offer way to finance maintenance at Regents institutions
TOPEKA — Although members of a legislative study committee acknowledged that they saw a need to increase financing for maintenance at State Board of Regents institutions, they could not come up with a way to do it yesterday.
The Associated Press
During nearly three hours of discussion, the committee rejected a proposal to increase a statewide property tax used to finance construction and maintenance of university buildings from 1 mill to 1.5 mills. It also rejected several other proposals.
As a result, the committee voted to approve a report to the 1988 Legislature that gives a history of law for more maintenance money and concludes that more money is needed — but nothing else.
"Nothing," State Sen. Gus Bogina, chairman of
the committee and the standing Senate Ways and Means Committee, said of the report. "We have nothing."
Currently, the state levies 1.5 mins in property taxes, 1 mill for an educational building fund and another half-mill for an institutional building fund. A mill is $1 in property taxes for every $1,000 of assessed valuation.
Currently, the levy for the educational building fund raises $11.2 million a year, and statewide reappraisal to be completed in 1989 is expected to raise $7.6 million a year. A half-million increase would make the total $22.1 million.
At the same time, the Regents have identified $143 million in maintenance needs on the campuses of its six universities and Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
The property tax was first levied in 1942, at a
However, other members simply did not want to raise property taxes. A move to approve the recommendation failed on a 3-5 vote, and a proposal to increase the levy a quarter-mill died on a 2-3 vote.
quarter-mill. It has not been increased since 1955, and Bogina said it was not really reasonable to finance modern needs through a tax rate that hadn't been changed in decades.
"I'm opposed to raising the mill levy, period," State Rep. Jack Shriver, told Bogina. "The property tax in Kansas is the highest tax in relation to other states."
State Rep. Bill Brady said increasing the mill levy to finance maintenance of university buildings could prevent the state from raising money to finance construction or maintenance of other state buildings.
Library computer downed by bugs
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL
Staff writer
While students are working hard at Watson Library, the library's new computer catalog has been taking a lot of breaks.
The system was down from about 4:30 p.m. Sunday until yesterday morning and then crashed again at 8 p.m., said Rebecca Stuhr-Rommeir, reference librarian.
"We still have the microfiche catalog up, so it's not causing any problems, except that we want to be using them and we can't," Stuhr-Rommeim said.
Workers at the computer center had no explanation available last night why the computers weren't working.
John Miller, library automation analyst at the computer center, said the terminals went down Sunday because a pad erased its memory Sunday night. A pad is a piece of hardware used to encode data from the main computer in the computer center for transmission through telephone lines.
Miller said that kind of malfunction
The system came back on about
9:30 a.m. yesterday, said James Neey, reference librarian.
The terminals in Watson have had a few minor problems since they were installed Nov. 6. Neeley said, but Sunday was the first time all of them went down for a period longer than a few minutes.
Neeley said the library had expected such problems during the system's first few weeks, because the new equipment was being used together for the first time.
Despite the problems, Neeley said the test period was going well, and the library was going ahead with its plans to install six more terminals near the reference desk by the end of this week.
Miller said the heavy use the system was getting — about 2,000 transactions per terminal per day — was costing him $5 million in testing the programmers had done.
Although programmers corrected those problems when they discovered them, more problems could crop up in the future, he said.
"Part of computers is that they go down," Miller said.
Tavern alters offer, police halt inquiry
Staff writer
Lawrence police stopped investigating a Lawrence tavern last week after the owner stopped offering all you-can-drink beer on the weekends
The Sanctuary, 1401 W. Seventh St., had been under investigation for possible liquor law violations after offering "All the draft beer you can drink" on Fridays and Saturdays.
Lawrence police Sgt. Don Dalquest said yesterday that police had stopped the investigation last Thursday after he talked to Ace Johnson, owner of the Sanctuary. Johnson changed his offer from all you-candrink to 10 cents a draw
Kansas law states that owners of drinking establishments must charge customers at least what it costs the establishment for drinks. The law also prohibits the sale of unlimited drinks.
Johnson said yesterday that he and Dalquest had straightened out their understanding of the law.
John Gillen, agency training officer for the Alcoholic Beverage Control in Topeka, said that selling draws for incidents each complied with state law.
Gillen said that as long as taverns don't lose money on the sale of each draw, the offer would be legal.
Johnson said that if he had planned to remain past this weekend, he might argue that his $4 cover charge met the law's requirement.
"I think there's a fine technicality, but I'm not going to quibble about it," he said.
The University of Kansas Theatre Presents William Shakespeare's
Hamlet
7:30 p.m.
November 12, 1987
8:00 p.m.
November 13-14 & 20-21, 1987
Crafton-Preyer Theatre
Tickets on sale in the Murphy Hall Box Office All seats reserved/For reservations call 913/864-3982
Special discounts for KU students and senior citizens
Partially funded by the KU Student Activity Fee
Just What You've Been Waiting For! Preholiday Basketball Tournament
A Good Way to Warm Up for Intramural League Play Which Begins in Late January. Entry Fee: $15 per team Entries Due: Friday, Nov. 20 at 5 p.m. in 208 Rob.
- A total of 136 team entries will be accepted.
\* Men's and Women's open divisions.
Games will be played on Monday, Nov. 30 - Dec. 8.
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