--- University Daily Kansan, September 13, 1982 Page 5 ASK hurting, says ex-director By DON KNOX Staff Reporter Despite an increase in student government support, all is not well for the Associated Students of Kansas, Bob Bingaman, former president, who was a member ofobby group based in Topeka, said Saturday. But John Keightley, KU's ASK campus called "Bingman's comments" "unwarranted." Bingaman, who resigned as executive director in 1981 and now works for the United States Student Association, sharply criticized a percent tuition increase that might take effect later. "The No. 1 issue that students could be priced out of an education," Bingaman told 70 student delegates at a KU-sponsored legislative assembly in Smith Hall. "A 40 percent increase over the past two years is amazing me. That certainly outpaces inflation." BINGAMAN ALSO CRITICIZED a decrease in emphasis on grassroots student support and said that too much involvement with student government actually could be harmful. "We cannot lose sight that we must involve students outside of student government," Bingaman said. "Otherwise, we become bimbivy a rubber stamp for student government." Keightley said, "Bob has been out of the group for more than a year, and he works on the other side of the country. I think ASK has received great grassroots support this year than in any other." Mark Tallman, who succeeded Bingaman as executive director last year, agreed. "Maybe that is a fair assessment from what he has seen," Tallman said yesterday. But I do not know. TALLMAN SAID the large attendance at the legislative assembly and a successful voter registration drive on all Regents campuses that ASK had developed grassroots support. Bingaman's criticisms of ASK's close ties with student governments were also unchanged. "For us to be a legitimate organization and claim that we have a direct association with the students, we have to close to student representation." "The teachers are representatives of the students themselves." "The position, whether you like it or not, was approved overwhelmingly by the legislative body." And Tallman said ASK's support of next year's 20 percent tuition increase was necessary because of rapidly expanding university budgets. TALLMAN SAID that ASK accepted the proposed increase with the understanding that legislators would work harder to establish a state financial aid fund. "We still stand by that," Tallman said. "If we're going to pay $10 million more in tuition next year, there are going to be demands that some of those funds go back to the students." From page one Request Two additional programs that were included in all the requests were a $200,000 state-funded, fire service training program and a $400,000 support fund for new campus buildings. Watson Library, and $75,000 for special registration instructional equipment. Additional programs included only in the Regents' proposal were: $175,000 for improving the University's computing system; $100,000 for spending the state's reserves to make up the difference. The only significant money to be submitted outside the general use budget was $5,200,000 for the second phase of the Haworth Hall addition, said Zimmerman. THE STATE had a "rough year" last year because of an over-estimation of the state's population. Zimmerman said he expected a "tight year in the Legislature" this year. He said he did not expect the Regents' proposal to make it without being cut somewhere. "It all depends on the amount of emphasis the Legislature puts on higher education," Zimmerman said. "You sign it and suddenly it's substantially different," he said. From page one Shapiro said that in some cases a contract could be cancelled because one party was taken advantage of. However, that usually happens only when that party is poorly educated and either cannot read the contract or cannot understand its consequences, he said. Contract "IT SEEMS enormously unlikely that the court is going to protect a 24-year-old graduate student well on his way to a Ph.D. because he didn't read the contract," Shapiro said. those administrators — Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, Deanall Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs; and Frances Horowitz, vice chancellor for research and graduate studies — Berger was told the change was made "in good faith," those administrators said. Burger said the contract change was made by KU administrators during a four-day period of intensive budget revisions made necessary by the Board, which handed down from the Kansas Board of Regents. In a late-August meeting between Berger and AT THE SENEX meeting, the group considered asking the administrators to clarify what information was being collected. Berger said the administrators would not use that opportunity to rewrite the contract to their advantage, such as by inserting a clause allowing the determination of unavailable funding to be completely at their discretion and that they had already promised to act in good faith. SenEx agreed to draft a letter to the University administration asking for clarification of the phrase "unavailable funding" and to complete the letter at the next meeting. Pot From page one survey. By comparison, 6 percent of the seniors said they drank alcohol daily. Mike Malone, who resigned as Douglas County district attorney over the summer to become an associate district court judge, said the county had sent in a student in the marijuana market during his tenure. "You deal with thousands of people who use it for recreational use," he said. Rather than trying to prosecute the users, he tried to prosecute the sellers and growers, who were the most involved in the case. THE COUNTY BROUGHT 21 marijuana cases to trial in 1981, according to court dockets. arrested for possession the first time to community service work. he said. Malone rejected as "TV fantasy" the idea that a pyramid of marijuana dealers existed and that a prosecutor could work his way up to the main supplier of the drug. "You might make a dent on one group of people," he said. The heyday of marijuana arrests was the early 1970s when Vern Miller was Kansas Attorney General. Then, those merely in possession of marijuana were arrested in large numbers, as in when Miller's 154-man battalion raided Lawrence, the largest drug bust in Kansas history. 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