Monday, November 3, 1997
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
Chancellor sets funding priorities
Alumni to lobby for technology, salary increases
By Matthew Friedrichs mattf@ukans.edu Kansan staff writer
Chancellor Robert Hemenway outlined the University of Kansas' budget requests to Jayhawks for Higher Education on Friday.
Shortly after the dedication of Budig Hall, Hemenway met with the group of University alumni that informally lobbies the Legislature.
He asked the alumni to support University requests for a 5 percent increase in faculty salaries, an increase in operating expenses for University's libraries and additional technology funding.
In addition to the funding increases, Hemenway focused on the final passage of 1997 Senate Bill 373, a bill that would transfer the ownership and management of the hospital at the KU Medical Center from the state to a public hospital authority board. The change in ownership would not affect the academic operation of the Medical Center.
"It's a $150 million business that has no tax dollars going into it." Hemenway said.
The hospital needs to be owned by a public authority in order to compete in the Kansas City medical marketplace without the entanglements of being a state agency, Hemenway said.
Last year, the House and the Senate approved the bill, but the legislation did not make it out of the six-member conference committee.
Rep. David Adkins, R-Leawood, attended Friday's meeting and said Hemenway's
budget requests were reasonable.
He said much would depend upon Gov. Bill Graves' budget proposals.
If Graves proposes funding at levels close to those requested by Hemenway and the Regents, the Legislature will be more comfortable funding them. Adkins said.
But if Graves proposes lower levels of funding, legislators would be unlikely to spend more than the governor requested, especially because 1998 will be an election year, Adkins said.
Adkins said requests for faculty salaries and operating expenses were justified, and he said a $60 million tax windfall from Western Resources could make technology funding possible.
Adkins, who graduated from the University with an undergraduate degree in 1983 and a law degree in 1986, said he would support higher education in Kansas.
"A quality University is part of what made Kansas great, and with continued investment and stewardship, it will be available for generations to come," Adkins said.
Other fiscal year 1999 budget requests presented to Javahawks for Higher Education:
$89,702 for Youngberg Hall operating support. When the new KU Endowment Association building opens, Youngberg Hall will be used for University purposes.
$503,663 to provide the University's share health insurance benefits for Graduate Teaching and Graduate Research Assistants.
$459,337 for additional compensation for upper-level Lawrence campus faculty.
$150,000 for a Kansas Geological Survey study of pressures within the Hugoton natural gas fields in southwestern Kansas.
$356,000 for the Center for Health in Aging at the Medical Center to expand education and research in the care of the aging in Kansas.
$50,000 to initiate a KU Women's Health Center to research the education and treatment of illnesses specific to women.
By Ryan Koerner
rkoerner@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Six students given prestigious award
Hilltopper recipients announced
Multiple summers as orientation assistants, internships with Kansas senators, early acceptance to medical school and 4.0 grade point averages are just a few of the accomplishments that distinguish the six seniors selected by the "Jayhawker" yearbook as 1998 Hilltopers.
The award began in 1927 and has gone through five name changes. It has been given every year except when it was discontinued between 1973 and 1983.
The Hilltopper Award is presented annually to six seniors who have displayed excellence in scholarship, leadership and service on the University of Kansas campus and in the community.
"The Hilltopter is prestigious because it looks for such a variety of things. We
really wanted students who showed a breadth of experience," said Kari Haverkamp, Topeka junior and "Jay-hawker" business manager.
The "Jayhawkner" and the Hilltopper selection committee chose Allison Arbuckle, Wichita; Tony Coast. Cimarron; Jason Fizell, Olathe; Sasha Flores, Hutchinson; Grey Montgomery, Junction City; and Aroop Pal, Lawrence, as recipients of the annual award.
"These six stood out the most because of their activities outside of the university as well as within the University. They all work or volunteer, and they all hold leadership positions," said Todd Hume, Highlands Ranch, Colo., sophomore and associate editor of the "Jayhawker."
To be eligible for the award, the seniors must have a 3.0 grade-point average and must be graduating in December or May of the academic year. Havercamp said.
Faculty, administrators and students were encouraged to nominate students who they thought had left their mark at the University.
Havercamp said 27 seniors were nominated for the award. Fourteen completed the application process and were voted upon by the selection committee.
The committee, consisting of faculty administrators and past and present Jayhawker staff, selected the winners.
"We try to get people in the University community who know a broad range of students," Hupe said. "A lot of committee members are regulars and have done it for years. We try to build on that each year and bring in a new few."
The recipients will be recognized at an awards banquet Dec. 5 at the Adams Alumni Center.
"The reception is a chance to honor them in a formal way," Hue said. "It is also a time for them to meet one another if they don't already know one another."
Hupe said the banquet gave the committee a chance to put a face with the students and to congratulate them in person.
The students and their accomplishments also will be featured on a double page spread in the 1998 Jayhawk.
"I'm so excited," Arbuckle said. "I feel it's a big honor, especially being a third-generation student. I have heard about the Hilltopster since I was a kid."
Omaha trees hit hard by snowstorm
The Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. — Before it was the Cornhusker State, Nebraska was the Tree Planter State. Settlers arriving in the 19th century softened the featureless horizon, blocked the wind and anchored the rich prairie soil by planting thousands of trees. Arbor Day was conceived here.
But the fierce snowstorm that struck the Plains a week ago devastated Nebraska's trees. Leafy branches trapped the heavy snow and fell on cars, homes and power lines. Some trees split down the middle.
paths," Omaha Mayor Hal Dalb said. "We've never had every inch of our city damaged like it was by this storm." The storm damned
"We've had tornadoes, and we've had floods, but they've always had definite
The storm damaged or destroyed about 85
percent of the trees in Omaha, a city of 345,000. The cost of cleaning up and replacing them is estimated at $60 million. City officials in Lincoln said 25,000 trees would have to be cut down.
Central Nebraska had the heaviest snowfall. But the most tree damage was in the eastern part of the state, in Omaha,
which received 9 1/2 inches, and in Lincoln, which got 11.
Two people were killed in Nebraska during the storm, and the damage to power lines left thousands of homes and businesses without power or heat. Some 12,000 customers were still without electricity this weekend, and service isn't expected to be restored until midweek.
Arbor Day was invented by J. Sterling Morton, a nature lover who moved from Detroit to a farm on the Nebraska prairie. He quickly planted trees, shrubs and flowers around his home and proposed a tree-planting holiday in 1872. By 1894, Arbor Day was being observed nationwide. Morton became agriculture secretary under President Grover Cleveland.
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