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CALENDAR
WHAT: Women's Entrepreneur Group
WHERE: Signs of Life, 722 Massachusetts St.
WHEN: 9 to 10 a.m.
ABOUT: Network with self-starting women who run their own local businesses at this monthly event.
Tuesday, April 9
WHAT: Bad Religion
WHERE: Granada Theater, 1020 Massachusetts St.
WHEN: 7 p.m.
ABOUT: Tickets run from $27 to $29 to see this Los Angeles-based punk rock band.
WHAT: Persian Culture Fest: Nowruz Celebration
WHERE: Spencer Museum of Art,
WHEN: 2 to 4 p.m.
ABOUT: Celebrate Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, by sampling Persian food, viewing Iranian handicrafts and cultural items, and learning about resources for Persian languages at the University.
WHAT: Tuesday Nite Swing
WHERE: Kansas Union
WHEN: 8 n.m
WHEN: 8 p.m.
ABOUT: Take lessons in a variety of dance styles from East Coast and Lindy Hop to Hizzop Lindy and Balboa, all for free.
Wednesday, April 10
STATE
Brown Museum Rest: Film/
Panel "A Separation"
WHERE: Spencer Museum of Art
Auditorium
WHEN: 5 to 7:30 p.m.
ABOUT: See this Academy Award-
winning film from Iran for free, then
participate in a panel discussion
afterward.
WHAT: KU Fit Launch
WHERE: Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center
WHEN: 4:30 to 9 p.m.
ABOUT: Hit up the Rec for the launch of new fitness classes. Zumba, Body Pump, Hip Hop Hustle, Turbo Kick and Power Step classes will be featured.
WHAT: Cottin's Hardware Farmers Market
Thursday, April 11
Market
WHERE: Cottin's Hardware, 1832 Mass.
machusetts
WHEN: 4 p.m.
ABOUT: Visit this small-scale indoor
farmers market and pick up home-
grown treats.
WHAT: Persian Culture Fest: An Eve-
ning of Persian Classical Music
"Some of these discoveries don't
ming of Persian Classical music
WHERE: Spooner Hall, The Commons
WHEN: 6:30 p.m.
Legislature considering cuts to higher education
ABOUT: Kansas City-based classical Persian music group Orkideh will perform as part of Persian Culture Fest.
MATTHEW JOHNSON
mjohnson@kansan.com
Faced with a looming budget shortfall, the Kansas legislature has been considering whether or not it will cut funding to higher education institutions across Kansas for fiscal year 2014.
The House wants to cut 4 percent of state funding to higher education while the Senate has proposed only a 2 percent reduction. Gov. Sam Brownback's budget proposal would keep higher education funding at its current level.
"The governor has been very clear that higher education is a partner in growing the economy of Kansas. The innovation mission, entrepreneurial spirit and trained workforce — all of these things are necessary for our economy to grow," Caboni said. "We're the largest incubator in the Midwest."
TimothyCaboni,theUniversity's Vice Chancellor for Public Affairs, agrees with Brownback's perception of higher education as an engine of economic growth for the state and advises against further cuts.
Caboni also pointed to the benefits provided by the University that are difficult to measure on a balance sheet.
produce any measurable return for 10 or 15 years," Caboni said. "What is the value, or return, on having an educated populace? What is the value of medical breakthroughs or works of art that can only be produced at a flagship university?"
According to Caboni, although state funding only constitutes about one-fifth of the University's total revenue, a 4 percent dip would cost the University millions of dollars — $20.3 million, to be exact.
If the deepest cuts are approved, it would mean an $11.4 million reduction for the University of Kansas Medical Center and an $8.9 million reduction across the University's other departments and programs.
Michael Lynch, political science professor and coordinator of the University's Topeka internship program this semester, explained the political rationale behind cutting funding to universities, as well as the impact the cuts will probably have on University students.
"It seems likely that tuition will go up from this cut," Lynch said. "If you cut K-12 funding, they don't have the money, and there's no way to make it up. Politically, it's more feasible to cut funding from an institution that has another way of getting money."
In just more than 14 years, state funding to the University has declined by $124.4 million. Caboni explained the effect of this reduction on each University student.
"The funding for the University today is below its 2006 level," Caboni said. "If you take it in constant dollars, we've gone from $371.3 million in fiscal year 1999 to $246.9 million in 2014. If you look at those figures per student, it's 15,000 per student in 1999 and 9,000 per student in 2013. As you can imagine, that puts tremendous pressure on the institution."
Lynch also noted the combined impact of state and national cuts to higher education.
"If you get continued cuts from state aid, you have to have tuition increases and larger classes. There's also a cut at the national level from sequestration, so it's hard for the school to eat all that." Lynch said. "It will affect salaries, it will affect the recruiting of faculty and it will affect our ability to retain faculty."
Caboni said the University has done as much as it can to limit waste and maintain quality.
"When you're talking about this kind of reduction, there is no more fat to cut," Caboni said.
Edited by Allison Hammond
BY THE NUMBERS
1. THE HOUSE WANTS TO CUT 4 PERCENT FROM HIGHER EDUCATION, THE SENATE, 2 PERCENT
2. UNDER THE HOUSE PLAN, $11.4 MILLION WOULD BE CUT FROM KUMC — THAT'S JUST OVER 10 PERCENT
3. $8.9 MILLION WOULD BE CUT FROM THE REST OF THE UNIVERSITY.
4. STATE FUNDING CURRENTLY ACCOUNTS FOR 18 PERCENT OF THE UNIVERSITY'S TOTAL REVENUE.
5. IN JUST OVER 14 YEARS, STATE FUNDING TO THE UNIVERSITY HAS DECLINED BY $124.4 MILLION.
6. THE PER-STUDENT STATE APPROPRIATION, CONTROLLING FOR INFLATION, IS DOWN 40 PERCENT SINCE 1999.
7. $15,000 PER STUDENT IN 1999 AND ONLY $9,000 PER STUDENT IN 2013.
CAMPUS
DJ to speak at third Jason Wren seminar
Byczkowski
College students drink knowing alcohol consumption can entail harmful situations. "Solo Cup Culture: Minimizing the Risks
of an Alcohol-Soaked Campus Climate" hopes to address that.
The third-annual Jason Wren Initiative Underage Drinking Education Seminar will be tomorrow, presented by the University of Kansas chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity and Delta Gama Sorority.
When SAE member Jason Wren died from alcohol poisoning in 2009, his fraternity brothers created the Jason Wren Initiative to honor his memory and raise awareness of irresponsible drinking and how to deal with those who are negatively affected by alcohol.
"Coming out of such a tragic event, it was an eye opener, looking towards where we see collegiate culture of irresponsible drinking," said Robert Aaby. "We wanted to take a stand against that and move into a more positive culture."
Robert Aaby, a junior from Wichita double-majoring in communication studies and journalism, is SAE's Jason Wren Event Chair. SAE, he said, is raising awareness and taking measures to prevent irresponsible drinking, as evidenced by this semester's transition into a dry house, meaning no alcohol is permitted on SAE property.
As a DJ, a Redbull Representative and a Delta Tau Delta fraternity member at Ohio State University, Jake Byczkowski, this year's keynote speaker, has attended a few parties. Sharing stories of dangerous encounters due to his own problem drinking, Byczkowski discusses bystander intervention and harm reduction.
"More than anything, we want to preach the dangers of irresponsible drinking and how to go about drinking in a responsible way," Aaby said.
"We felt that he obviously had a face-to-face experience with a lot of binge drinking through DJ-ing so he'd be very qualified to talk on the subject." Aaby said.
Emily Donovan
The seminar, presented in Budig Auditorium 120 from 6.30 to 8.30 p.m.tomorrow, will be free of charge.
Man who held hostages at Clinton office on the lam
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MANCHESTER, N.H. — A man who took hostages at a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign office in 2007 escaped from a minimum-security correctional facility on Sunday, authorities said.
Leeland Eisenberg was discovered missing during an afternoon head count at the Calumet Transitional Housing Unit in Manchester, state Department of Corrections spokesman Jeff Lyons said.
At his arraignment in that case,
public defender Randy Hawkes
Eisenberg was sentenced in May 2010 to 3 1/2 to 7 years for probation violations. The 52-year-old would have been eligible for parole in August.
Eisenberg spent about two years behind bars for the November 2007 siege at Clinton's Rochester campaign office in which he claimed to have a bomb. No one was hurt in a five-hour standoff and the bomb turned out to be road flares.
Once he is found, he will be charged with escape, a felony punishable by $3 \frac{1}{2}$ to 7 years in prison, Lyons said. Eisenberg isn't considered armed.
portrayed Eisenberg as a man at the end of his rope emotionally after being repeatedly turned down when he sought psychiatric help.
Eisenberg "heard voices and saw a movie in his head telling him he had to sacrifice himself" to shine light on the flaws in the health care system, Hawkes said.
Eisenberg was released on probation in November 2009. His first violation occurred soon after his release, when he failed to charge his monitoring bracelet. He was incarcerated in January 2010 after failing to take mandatory alcohol breath tests.
In February 2010, he cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet and fled, a day after being given a last chance at freedom by a judge who released him despite multiple probation violations. He was found in his Dover apartment the next day.
Eisenberg's long criminal record also includes two rape convictions.
He was sentenced to 10 years for rape in Worcester, Mass., in 1985 but escaped the next year and committed another rape, prosecutors said. He was sentenced to 11 to 20 years for that. He was released from prison in March 2005.
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