Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, April 27, 1989
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600 state workers gather at Capitol, plead for pay bill
by John P. Milburn
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA - Donning buttons and carrying signs, state employees yesterday converged on the south steps of the Capitol to urge passage of a pay-restructuring bill.
A Dixieland band played in 90-degree heat to a crowd of more than 600 people who had traveled across Kansas to persuade the Senate to pass the bill and Gov Mike Hayden to sign it. Many of the students from KU had taken a day of vacation to attend the rally, and those from Topeka came to the Capitol on their lunch hours.
"We are here as one voice," said Charles Dodson, executive director of the Kansas Association of Public Employees. "It will show, in no uncertain terms, that state employees want House bill 2583 to become law. The bottom line is that employees who trisa is flat out wrong when she says state employees do not support this plan."
He said that public employees were tired of being given lettowers by the Legislature and that the bill required a step to reverse past treatment.
The bill would aid employees by reducing the number of years served between the pay levels awarded for satisfactory job performance, adding two pay levels within each pay range, providing longevity bonuses from $400 to $800 per year and raising the mandate on a 3 percent pay for all workers. The plan would cost the state $3.4 million.
A dozen House Democrats who supported the bill addressed the crowd, praising the workers for their hard work and sending a message to the Senate.
State Rep. Norman Justice, D-
11.
I have a message for my colleagues in the Senate:
Get off your butts and pass it. I have a message for Hayden in the governor's office: Get off your butt
and sign it.'
and sign it.
State Rep. Norman Justice
Kansas City, had his own advice for the Senate and Hayden.
"I have a message for my colleagues in the Senate: Get off your butts and pass it," he said. "I have a message for Hayden in the governor's office: Get off your butt and sign it."
More than 25 employees of the University of Kansas attended the rally. Workers from facilities with their co-workers' support, with their co-workers' support,
"My supervisor said, 'Go and represent our shop,'" said Gene Vaughn, an employee in the plumbing shop.
Diana Dyal, president of the KU Classified Senate, said the rally was productive and sent a message to the Legislature.
"This bill addresses a group of employees who have long been passed over." she said.
Dyal said she would continue to build support for the bill in the Legislature this week.
Other KU employees said the bill would help improve morale among their co-workers and would bring them to the level of the private sector.
"Unless action is taken, Kansas state government will continue to lose more and of its best people to the private sector," Dodson said. "Under the present system, state workers find fewer and fewer incentives to stay with the state as they gain in experience."
KU facilities operations employee Gene Vaughn, right, shows his support for a bill that would restructure the pay scale for public employees.
AIDS causes trying times for families, author says
by Thom Clark
Kansan staff writer
which had spread the AIDS virus.
Beverly Barbo has seen people react their best and worst when confronted by AIDS.
She told the events that led to the death of her 30-year old homosexual son in November 1986 and said that she believed that she had drawn them to sexual promiscuity.
Barbe, the author of "The Walking Wounded," spoke to about 100 people yesterday at a University Forum at the University Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
"If we do not bless long-term relationships between two people who are committed to each other, where are they to go?" Barba said. So far, we have our society promotes promiscuity by abandoning some of its members."
Barbo, of Lindsborg, said she remembered that her son, Tim, first told her that he was a homosexual boy. He was also his sophomore year in high school.
"Our immediate response was to try and fix it," Barbo said. "We went
to the pastors of our parish, who were not prepared to deal with it."
Barbo said that she and her husband later attempted to downgrade homosexuals.
"All we did was succeed in ripping the last pieces of self-esteem in our son." she said.
Barbo said that parents' rejecting their children because of the children's sexual preference or because of positive AIDS tests was common.
She talked about a woman named Pat, who would not allow her son, who was dying of AIDS, to come
home because she thought that the stigma would haunt her younger son, who was still living at home.
Barb said her son's being diagnosed with AIDS in April 1985 began a tremendously challenging year and a half until he died in November 1986.
Barbo traveled to Los Angeles three times to care for her son during the final stages of his life. During these visits, she scoured bathrooms and cleaned vomit from floors and walls.
"The final months of his life became quite painful." Barbo said.
"The bathroom became the torture chamber.
"that is the way it is with AIDS," Barbo said. "You never know when the end is going to come."
She also said that society's fear of catching the virus through personal contact with homosexuals was unjustified.
"Many of these people are totally abandoned from their families," Barbo said. "Sometimes, the companionship of a teddy bear is the only thing they die with. It is a feeling of being forgiven for who they are."
Campaign Kansas launches Lied Center donation drive
by Scott Achelpohl
Kansan staff writer
A classical musical group played and performing arts posters lined the walls of the Holiday Inn Holdome yesterday as Campaign Kansas leaders, Lawrence business leaders and alumni gathered to formally launch Campaign Lawrence.
The campaign will seek $3 million in local donations for the construction of the new Ernst F. Lied Center for the performing arts. The gifts will supplement a $10 million donation given by the Lied Foundation of Las Vegas, New.
thought that local business reaction to the campaign, scheduled to end Aug 31, would be
"I think it will be successful," "Schumm said." "There's a lot of enthusiasm for the arts in Lawrence. Certainly, the people gathered here today are a high-powered group of people."
William Kanaga, keynote speaker at the luncheon, said. "The heart of a great institution"
Kanaga, a 1947 KU graduate and chairman of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, spoke to an audience of about 200 businessmen and alumni about the need for philanthropy for the center.
Construction of the center is scheduled to begin in November on a 20-acre site southwest of 15th and Iowa streets and is scheduled to be completed in 1992.
institution." Kanaga said.
The center will house a main lobby, courtyard, reception area, art lounge, a warmup complex, an administrative suite and dressing room. Its main performance hall will seat 2,160.
*We must pay the debt we owe this great
Bob Schumm, mayor of Lawrence, said he
The campaign already has raised $85,000.
“This is an outstanding beginning,” said Chris Hunt. “We are going to do great things.”
Budig jokingly said he had urged the gathering convene in Hoch Auditorium.
Lied Center will replace Hoch for concert performances because of the auditorium's inadequate acoustics, seating and storage
'KU and the city of Lawrence need a new concert hall.' Budig said. "We will never again be told by a conductor that his orchestra will not return to KU because of inadequate facilities. It will have an enormous impact on Lawrence for years to come."
Donald A. Johnston, chairman of Campaign Lawrence and master of ceremonies at the event, said Lawrence businesses would have the chance to make campaign contributions through hand-delivered proposals from campaign personnel.
Ex-senate candidates will meet over audit
by Candy Niemann Kansan staff writer
It is a first step toward filing a grievance with the University Judicial Board.
scott Hedrick, former Certain Impact candidate, and Brad Sanders, former New Blood candidate, claimed that Common Cause exceeded Senate campaign spending limits by $377万
Two former Student Senate presi-
dential candidates will meet today
with the office of affirmative action
committee in Washington, DC,
leading by the Common Causes co-
lation.
Any senator who exceeds spending limits must forfeit his seat, according to Senate regulations. Up to 50 students could lose their seats.
Hedrick said that in filing a grievance with the University Judicial Board, he would be following Senate regulation 6.9.8, which states that any candidate or coalition may appeal a decision of the elections Review Board to the University Judiciary.
However B. Jake White, student body president, said his coalition, Common Cause, was well within spending limits.
Brian Stern, chairman of the Elections Review Board, said the board would not review its April 18 decision validating all campaign audits because Hedrick and Sanders' notification had come after the complaint deadline, which was 5 p.m. the day after the election.
Murray Levin, chairman of the Judicial Board and associate professor of business, would not comment on the specific case.
Hedrick said that Levin recommended that he go to the Senate Executive Committee office There. There, he will be to the office of affirmative action.
He said that in general, Judicial Board policy asked that an attempt at a hearing be made at a lower level on the board would hear a grievance.
The controversy centers on the interpretation of Senate regulation 6.7.2.
Sanders and Hedrick cited a section of the regulation: "Within each school, a group of candidates running together as a recognized coalition must limit their combined expenditure to a maximum rostitut, whichever is higher."
Sanders and Hedrick interpret this to mean that spending is limited to $25 a school for each coalition.
White cited a section of the same regulation: "An independent candidate for a Student Senate seat shall limit his/her campaign expenditures to $35 or $0.33 represented constituent, whichever is higher."
White said that, taken as a whole,
the regulation had been interpreted
to mean that spending is limited to
$35 a candidate.
Common Cause spend $1,499.73 on its campaign. If the limit were calculated as being $35 a school, the limit would have been $1,162.23
Hedrick said that Stern told him that the spending limit was $35 a school. But Bill Moseley, Common Cause campaign manager, said Stern told him that the limit was $55 a candidate.
Common Cause calculated its spending limit at $35 a candidate; while Certain Impact and New Blood calculated their limits at $35 a school.
"I don't know what I told everyone because everyone keeps telling me different things." Stern said.
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