University Daily Kansan, October 6,1982
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Candidate aides step up attacks on tax proposals
By BRUCE SCHREINER Staff Reporter
'Aides to the two major gubernatorial candidates unleashed a new barge of attacks Monday on the opposition's mounting shortfalls in Kansas rainy weather.
Revenues for September were $18 million less than estimates made last fall, and the revenue estimating team comprised part of university economic professors.
During the fiscal year's first quarter, from July to September, revenues were $139 million.
Budgets for Regents schools and other state agencies have already been denied by revenue shortfalls. Gov. John Carlin ordered a 4 percent cut last summer when state coffers were found to be short of $47 million.
TO AVOID further revenue snortages, Republican gubernatorial candidate Sam Hardage has embraced a series of proposals, including a 4 cent increase in the gasoline tax, which would raise about $55 million annually to help cover the costs of a smaller percent cut in state spending and a hire freezes on state employees.
Carlin has countered by continuing to lobby for a severance tax on oil and natural gas, which he expects would generate about $120 million annually.
Darrell Day, Hardage's press secretary, said a new round of budget cuts was a necessary remedy that Carlin failed to realize.
"When Sam challenged Carlin to make an additional 4 percent cut in spending, the incumbent called it an abstraction and not necessary." Day said.
"About a week later, we find out that the state is in even worse shape than had been thought. It just shows theumbent's lack of management skills."
DAY SAID some state agencies would be more susceptible to further budget reductions than other departments.
"There are some departments that have more fat than others," he said. "One is the Department of Transportation, which requires applicants a little bit more budget scrutiny."
The long-term answer to turn around plummeting revenue trends, Day said, is to attract new industry to Kansas, the mark of Hardware's economic platform.
But Mike Swenson, Carlin's assistant press secretary, said Hardage's proposals would do nothing to solidify the state's economic position.
"Their program doesn't even speak to the needs of education and the need to bring down property taxes." Swenson said. "Their gas tax is even inadequate for funding highways, and is grossly unfair to the people."
CARLIN HAS repeatedly hailed the severance tax as an alternative to rising property taxes. The severance tax would step up state aid to education while freeing up general and money to be transferred to the highway fund.
Swenson also said Hardarge was 'tigger happy' in wanting to trim stems of the canes and keep his hair short.
"There has been no need shown for another 4 percent budget cut. I'd like to see Hardage sit down with Regents members and tell them another $11.2 million must be taken from their budget," he said.
The registers 4 percent cut would cost the Regents schools $11.2 million in state funds.
SWENSON CALLED the Hardage camp's attacks on Carlin's economic record hollow, since the nation was in the grip of a recession.
“It’s a sign of the times. There was no way for Kansas to continue to be recession-proof, because this recession deeper and lasted longer than others.”
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Officials say Soviets stealing technology
By United Press International
disclosed the existence of the new app sitting at a two-day meeting of the Coordinating Committee for Exports to Communist Areas in an effort to the "hemorrhaging" of western secrets to the Soviet Union.
The network, manned by a staff of 20,000 people, was formed specifically to reduce the technological gap between the Western alliance and the Soviet Union and has already shown remarkable success, the officials said.
PARIS-The Soviet Union has created a new espionage network with the express purpose of stealing western technological secrets and applying them to military uses, U.S. officials warned yesterday.
DELEGATES FROM all members of NATO, except Iceland, and a special delegation from Japan attended a briefing in which U.S. officials immediately halt in the sale of 159 semiconductors of western technology to the East.
Speaking anonymously,the officials
During the last two years, American officials said. U.S. intelligence
KGB officials that had detected and other sources provided clues for the organizations, one of the officials told western correspondents.
organizations initiated "a major effort to find out how western technology was being used by the Soviets in their weapons."
"They established an organization of 20,000 with the express purpose to track down things that can be acquired legally — technical data, tools, or equipment — forth and things that can be acquired through espionage," he said.
MANY ITEMS of civilian technology that are even more sophisticated than military technology can be bought legally and then converted to weapons use, he said.
The officials said "the hemorrhage comes from the United States primarily, also a tremendous amount from Japan and some in Western Europe."
They said the leaks have reduced the technological gap between the Russians and the West by 10 to 15 years less than two years ago. They said 150 western items have been replaced in their systems," including night vision equipment and technology for SS-20 missiles.
College Assembly approves new degrees
By VERONICA JONGENELEN
Staff Reporter
Graduate students who complete degree requirements for one of the four departments under the division of speech and drama will now receive a Bachelor's degree in those departments because of a vote yesterday by the College Assembly.
Previously, graduates received degrees under the general title of speech and drama, no matter what their areas of specialization, Bobby Patton, professor and chairman of speech and drama,
said.
Students will be able to earn degrees from the departments of radioeconomics film, speech language hearing, communication studies and theater, he said.
"What we're trying to do is get the times changed to correspond with the data."
THE DEPARTMENT of speech and drama became a division last year, with the individualized departments under its direction.
The Committee on Graduate Studies
presented the proposal to change degrees, which was unanimously approved in a 10-minute meeting of the College Assembly, the governing body of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The membership of the assembly is made up of faculty and undergraduate students in the college, Robert Line-
"The meetings are, nine times out of 10, very routine," he said. Members can submit their votes on controversial issues by mail, he said, and this also
reduces the number present at meetings.
WITH THE SAME VOTE, the assembly approved changes in Ph.D. requirements for computer science and philosophy students.
The changes will result in a general strengthening of the programs, Ronald Francisco, a member of the graduate professor of political science, said.
Curriculum changes in six departments were also approved, including the addition of seven courses in the American studies program.
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