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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Monday August 31,1987 Vol.98,No.7
(USPS 650-640)
Two-state deal making Missouri more in tuition
Jazz great Wynton Marsalis swings hard with help from bassist Robert Hurst. Marsalis' quartet was the highlight of two days of music
By AMBER STENGER Staff writer
The bill Kansas pays for a reciprocal tuition agreement with Missouri is more than $1 million in excess of what Missouri pays, Kansas Board of Regents officials say. And officials from both states said last week that the program may be in jeopardy because of financial imbalances.
The Kansas-Missouri Reciprocity Program has allowed Missourians to pay in-state tuition at the University of Kansas and Kansas State University when enrolled in certain programs. The program also allows Kansans to pay in-state tuition for some programs at University of Missouri campuses.
Most Kansas students in the program study dentistry at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Most Missi- school students in the program study architecture at KU or K-State.
But Stanley Koplick, executive director of the Kansas Board of Regents, said he planned to make a proposal this fall to change the program. Kansas officials say they think Kansas is having to pay too much for the program.
"There is a significant imbalance in the cost to each state. Kansas subsidizes the program to a greater extent than Missouri." Koplik said. "It is clear the program has to change."
The imbalance between the number of Missourians studying architecture in Kansas and the number of Kansans studying dentistry in Missouri has been increasing. In the 1985-86 school year, the most recent year for which statistics were available, Missouri had 694 architecture students in Kansas and Kansas had 135 dental students in Missouri. Koplick said the large number of Missourians in the reciprocal program caused Kansas to lose money.
"It is not balanced when you look at how many Missourians are studying architecture versus how many Kansans are studying dentistry," he said. "We have far more Missourians, and even though the cost of architectural education is significantly less than dental education, you reach a point where you exceed the balance. And we have exceeded the balance."
The reciprocity program began as an agreement between MU's dental school and KU's and K-State's architecture schools in the 1960s. In the 1970s, a new agreement was made between the Kansas Board of Regents and the University of Missouri. Kansas agreed to pay the University of Missouri $40,000 each year to compensate for the increasing costs of dental education programs.
Last spring, the Kansas Legislature decided not to pay the $40,000. The Legislature based its decision on a study conducted by the Board of Regents on the costs of the program to each state. The study showed that for fiscal year 1986, the program cost Kansas $4,521.545 and cost Missouri $3,199.490. The fiscal year begins July 1.
Jay Barton, vice president for academic affairs at the University of Missouri-Columbia, said that when the Kansas Legislature refused to pay the $40,000, the program collapsed. He said that Kansas students already in the reciprocal program or those who had applied would be allowed to finish, but that it was unlikely that new students would be allowed to enter the program.
Koplik also said that Missouri students already in the reciprocal program would be allowed to finish.
Koplick said he hoped the program would continue if revisions were made. He plans to present a proposal to Barton this fall that attempts to make the program financially balanced.
"What we really want to accomplish is a reciprocal agreement that has balance and symmetry in terms of cost to each state." he said.
Koplick said the first step in his proposal would be to determine how many architecture students were required educational costs to one dental student.
Ray Hauke, director of planning
Crowd enjoys KC Jazz Festival
See Deal, p. 6, col. 1
By JULIE McMAHON Staff writer
It was time for the act that the crowd had come to see. Four young men in Italian suits took their places onstage. The one with the trumpet led a blind piano player to his bench.
Monday Morning
That's how jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and his band began their performance about 7:30 p.m. last night before an enthusiastic crowd of about 50,000 in Volker Park at the Kansas City Jazz Festival.
Aaron March, president of the Kansas City Jazz Festival Committee, said this year's festival was bigger than last year's. In all, 13 groups performed during the two-day festival.
Just four hours earlier, the multi-Grammy-winning Marsalis, dressed in a T-shirt, sweat pants and high-tops, had played to an almost empty park. Only touch-football players, some frisbee throwers and a few picniciners heard him play.
"This was definitely the best in three years," he said. "The first year might have been bigger because 'Count Bausa was here.'"
That short rehearsal was impressive to Lois Watson, of Kansas City, Kan., who had settled in at Volker Park at 2 p.m.
"The best thing I've heard at the festival was Marsalis warming up," Watson said before Marsalis took the stage for the formal performance last night.
But she also liked what she heard Saturday at the Jazz Festival.
"Oh, Mike Metheny was terrific, and so was Hilton Bruz." she said.
and so was Hinson Rubz, "Shi Shu,
and Lero Hester Habers, Winston Watson, and said they were at the festival all day Saturday and all day yesterday.
"I've been here all day and I'm drinking fuzzy navels," he said. Watson and Hester go to the jazz festival every year and sit in the same spot.
Other people were not so devoted, but they were just as enthusiastic.
Many people brought coolers full of refreshments and food. Some set up grills and cooked.
"We just showed up for Wynton. We just got here 40 minutes ago." Matt Hickam, Topea junior, said shortly before Marsalis played.
"I guess about four years ago I saw Wynton in Manhattan. I paid $10 for those tickets," he said.
"I'm just glad this is free."
Michelle Cupp. Independence, Moe, sophomore, said, "I would rather hear his classical, but his jazz is great. Outdoors it's moreUXed, not like some concert hall. I think I can enjoy it more like hall."
A girl with blond spiked hair, dark lipstick and dressed in black leather said, "I'm just here to listen. It's a way to pass time in Kansas City."
Marsalis took his performance more seriously, however. Midway through the concert, he recalled a song from his saxophone player, Charlie Parker
"You all know who Charlie Parker is don't you? He's from Kansas City," he said. "We all try to play like Bird, or a percentage of how he played. We can't play like him."
Jackson stops in Kansas City
By VALOREE ARMSTRONG Staff writer
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Democratic presidential contender Jesse Jackson worked his magic before an elite group of supporters in Kansas City, Mo. Sunday afternoon, emphasizing his commitment to serve the nation.
The Baptist preacher and politician emphasized the need to give farmers back their land, stop the use of foreign labor by large U.S. companies and keep drugs from crossing into the United States.
"We focus on issues that bind people and unify people and make a difference," Jackson said of the Democratic party. He spoke at a press conference before a fund-raising event at the home of a supporter.
Jackson was in the area drumming up financial support for his bid for
the 1988 presidential nomination. In 1984 he became the first black to endure the political course through to the convention.
Although he hasn't formally declared his candidacy, Jackson said he had a much greater chance this time because he had a broader coalition, had the strength the people wanted in a president and addressed more humane issues such as housing and health care.
Speaking to an audience of about 7,
civil rights activists and supporters,
Jackson, a civil rights advocate himself,
noted the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s march on Washington — Aug 28, 1963. There was a need in violence then, he said,
but now there is a need to end economic strife.
"There's something wrong with rising malnutrition in the cities and
surplus on the farms, and yet farmers starving on the farms. That suggests chaos," he said.
He said the lack of jobs had been caused by corporate mergers and companies that use cheap foreign labor to increase their profits.
"Stop merging corporations and purging workers," he said. "Reinvest in America."
Jackson criticized the Reagan administration, citing its inability to stop drugs from crossing into the United States.
Jackson also praised Kansas City Royals batting coach Hal McRae for his recent refusal to over management of the Royals for the rest of the 32-game season.
"If we can defend our allies' borders in South Korea and Europe, we can defend our own borders against the importation of drugs," he said.
Special legislative session opens to focus on Hayden's highway plan
The long-awaited special session of the Kansas Legislature called by Gov. Mike Hayden opens at 9 a.m. today with at least eight plans for highway improvement on the table.
From Staff and Wire Reports
At 11 a.m. the governor will
acquire a joint session in the House
chamber.
Hayden refused Friday to say what he would talk about this morning. But the subject will be his highway plan that calls for $1.71 billion in new road construction over the next nine years and $1.6 billion for upgrading existing roads and financing for the Kansas Department of Transportation.
Primary debate will focus on how the highway project would be financed and, possibly, where Hayden is willing to compromise.
The outcome of the session could affect the financing of the proposed South Lawrence trafficway. The trafficway would connect Highway 10 on
Under the governor's plan, financing would come through a five-cent increase in motor fuel taxes and an
the east side of the city with Inter-
state 70 on the west side.
increase in vehicle registration fees, as much as 50 percent for trucks and 100 percent for cars.
Those fees would be adjusted annually to keep pace with inflation.
The special session, the first since Gov. William Avery called one in 1966, will be attended by 40 senators and 125 House members.
Conservative estimates place the cost to taxpayers at $30,000 a day for the special session
About $20 million of Hayden's
package has been designated for the South Lawrence trafficway.
The City Commission will vote tomorrow whether to give final approval to the resolution.
The final version of a joint city-county resolution outlining policies for building the trafficway was approved Thursday by the Douglas County Commission.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson spoke in Kansas City, Mo., yesterday.
Mayor Mike Amyx said he thought the resolution would have no trouble getting approval from the commission.
Under the resolution, the city and the county would each commit $4 million to finance the project.
Besides the $8 million from the resolution, other financing for the $38 million project would include $7.2 million from last year's federal highway bill and about $2 million from the Kansas Turnpike Authority for construction at the interchanges, County Commissioner Nancy Hiebert said.
Legislators' personal plans take back seat to lawmaking
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL
Staff writer
Lawrence legislators say their personal plans for the fall were complicated by Gov. Mike Hayden's call for a special legislative session, but the complications have just begun.
The legislators said that Hayden's highway proposal and prediction that the session could last only one week might be complicated by different goals of the members of the House and Senate.
Hayden had said the House and senate would pass his multi-billion-dollar budget.
"He came out of the Legislature, and he should know better than that," said State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence. Hayden is a former speaker of the House.
"We have to decide on an amount
Solbach said the time between sessions in non-election years was usually used by legislators to focus
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said the call for the special session had spoiled his plans for a vacation to South Carolina on Sept. 10.
"My first priority and biggest responsibility is as state legislator," he said. "My vacation takes second priority to that."
Charilton said the session was one reason she would not be leading a discussion section for KU's Western Civilization program for the first time since 1970.
and decide how to raise that amount," she said. "I doubt that can be done in one week. I hope it won't be a month."
on their personal lives and businesses.
Other legislators said they had managed to arrange their schedules because they had expected the governor to call a session but weren't necessarily pleased that a session had been called.
State Rep. David Miller, R-Eudora, and State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said that for at least six weeks Hayden had been warning that he might call for a special session today.
Branson said she had questioned the need for a session just for the proposal, although it was one of the most comprehensive pieces of legislation the Legislature had ever tackled.
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