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Wednesday, November 11, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
State/Local
Board seeks higher teacher salaries
The Associated Press
TOPEKA - The Kansas Board of Education is seeking $17 million in windfall tax to upgrade teachers' salaries in the state, board members announced yesterday.
The board presented the proposal to Gov. Mike Hayden yesterday morning as part of its legislative recommendations for the upcoming session.
The state is expecting to receive $135 million in federal money as a result of the 1986 income tax reforms. Hayward will announce he proposes to do with the windfall
"There's no better place to put it than education," board member Robert Clemons of Independence told
a news conference.
Kansas ranks 33rd in the nation among the teachers' salaries, Clemons said. Only a few years ago, it was ranked ninth, he added.
"We're concerned about the real
Board members indicated that the governor was noncommunal.
"He didn't say yes, but he didn't
member Marion Stevens of
The board is seeking a 6-percent hike in the general fund, resulting in an overall teacher salary increase. The proposal also requires $40 million in general state aid.
The board also recommended that the state provide schools with $5 per student.
pupil to implement the new human sexuality and AIDS program. On Monday, the Board of Education approved a mandate requiring public schools to teach courses in elementary and high schools on sex education and sexually transmitted diseases.
The additional funding, which totals to $2 million, would be used by school districts to buy classroom materials and train teachers, according to board member Evelyn Whitcomb of Wichita.
The board also included these recommendations in its package of legislative proposals:
Provide $2 million in state funds to allow area vocational and technical
schools to repair facilities. Area schools have not received funds under this program for two years. Provide $1 million to fund a program to reduce illiteracy and prevent students from dropping out of school through early intervention and remedial assistance.
—Increase state aid to community colleges to 40 percent of their operating budgets, a level of funding that would be phased in over a five-year period. This would cost $6 million in Fiscal Year 1989, increasing gradually to $9.6 million in fiscal 1993.
Fund special education at 93 percent the excess cost above that which it costs to educate a "normal child."
Guest vocalist to join jazz group in concert
By a Kansan reporter
The University of Kansas Jazz Singers will perform at 8 p.m. today at the Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
The group will perform "Spice of Life," "Not Like This," "Time to Get Hip," "Tangerine," and "My Country 'Tis of Thee." Vocalist June Murphy will perform with the Jazz Singers in several numbers. Murphy has performed in musicals and dramas in Topeka.
Tickets for the concert are on sale in the KU Band Office in 214
murphy hall and at the school
Tickets are $5 for the public, $4 for
senior citizens and $2.50 for students.
Also tomorrow night, art historian William Vaughn will deliver a Murphy Lecture in Art at 7:30 p.m. at the Spencer Art Museum auditorium.
Vaughn, professor at Birkbeck College, University of London, will discuss "Primitivism and Progress: A Victorian Problem." He is regarded as one of the world's leading scholars of 19th-century English and German romantic art.
Watkins preparing for flu season by offering to administer shots
By AMBER STENGER
Staff writer
Nearly 49,000 people died of influenza and related pneumonia in 1982, according to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. Since then, deaths from these diseases have increased 40 percent.
Watkins Hospital is giving flu shots through November to students, faculty, staff members, and retired faculty and staff members. The cost is $5.50, and appointments are not necessary.
Although most healthy people will not die from the flu, they are encouraged to get flu vaccinations to avoid the inconvenience of being sick for a week, said Charles Jockevel, chief of staff at Watkins Hospital.
Lynn Heller, registered nurse at Watkins, said, "Getting the vaccination doesn't mean you're not going to get
Students learn about hunger
sick. But you would probably get a milder version than you would have."
Heller said people might have mild reactions to the flu, such as fever and fatigue up to 12 hours after the shot is given. A vaccination is needed each year because the virus mutates.
Heller said that people were more likely to get the flu when their resistance was low. Lack of sleep, poor eating habits and stress can lower resistance to diseases, she said.
She said that if students do have a fever, they should stay in bed until it subsides to help expedite their recovery and to prevent transmitting the flu to other people.
By CHRISTINE WYRICK
Special to the Kansan
With their eyes shut tight, a group of KU students hunched down on the floor of Parlar A in the Kansas Union last night.
Bill Hoopert, field coordinator for the National Student Campaign Against Hunger, told the students as they fidgeted in discomfort that they represented the Third World.
In that 10-minute simulation, Hooperp illustrated the obstacles faced by Third World countries. And he demonstrated to the 20 students who attended the meeting how they could get involved in the fight against world hunger in the Third World and in the United States.
"There are creative ways to get the message across." Hoogertp said. One possibility is a skip-a-meal event, in which students in University housing sign up to skip one meal and the cafeteria donates money for each skipped meal, he said.
He also suggested the idea of a simple meal. Students eat a meager meal of bread, soup and ice water. Teachers help them to donate money for their savings.
KU Students Against Hunger is planning a KU War on Hunger this spring. The organization's goal is to focus students' attention on the issue of world hunger using speakers, films and a benefit concert.
for their commitment. "It's rare to see a hunger organization on a campus, so you're ahead of the game," he said.
Hoofterp said his organization had sponsored a hunger cleanup for three consecutive years. Students at 263 colleges and universities raised funding firms and individuals to sponsor work projects within the community.
"This year 80 to 90 cities are expected to participate in the hunger clean-up on April 16, 1988," he said. That gives campus organizations a good opportunity to work together, he said.
Hoogterp commended KU students
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