THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1989
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VOL.99.NO.138
Coalition may have overspent
Kansan staff writer
by Candy Niemann Kanean staff writer
Common Cause coalition everestens its election budget by $377 50, according to a notice submitted to the House.
According to Senate regulation 6.7.5, any candidate exceeding maximum expenditure limits must forfeit the seat in Student Senate. Up to 50 students were denied a seat in Student Senate. Cause is found to have violated the regulations.
Scott Hedrick, former Certain Impact presidential candidate, and Brad Sanders, former New Blood presidential candidate, asked the Senate Election Review Board yesterday to review its
April 18 decision validating campaign audits
Hedrick and Sanders claim that Common Cause violated Senate rule 6.7.2, which states, "Within each school, a group of candidates, running together as a recognized coalition must limit their combined expenditures to $25 or 3 cents per represented constituent, whichever is higher."
Common Cause calculated its maximum expenditure allowance at $35 per candidate instead of $35
"We did not overpend," he told B. Jake White,
student body president, as he followed what it says
of the state's stance on appeals.
White said he had heard that someone was
complaining about his campaign expenditures, so he asked for the opinion of P. Purwara, co-chairman of the campaign.
In an April 21 letter to White, Warren stated that Common Cause, in his opinion, had spent within $2 million on the project.
But Sunders and Hedrick said the rule was clear in setting the maximum at $35 per school.
"They have flagrantly overspent." Sanders said. "I want to feel I lost fair and square. But if I did it, I'm ready."
Jane Hutchinson, Student Senate Executive
See COMMON, p. 6, col. 5
Margin becomes law for another year
Chancellor Gene A, Budig and Regent Richard Dodderidge watch while Gov. Mike Hayden signs the Margin of Excellence into law.
by John P. Milburn
<ansan staff writer
With the stroke of a pen, Gov. Mike Hayden yesterday signed the second year of the Margin of Excellence into law.
Hayden called the bill a significant package that increased the state's commitment to higher education.
"This legislation will enable our state's institutions of higher learning to better meet the needs of Kansas as we prepare to compete in a global economy," he said. "Students must be better prepared as they face the challenges of a changing and more complex world. That's really the message embodied in this important legislation."
ruyen said that the efforts of the university communities — especially those of students — showed concern for a strong system of higher education.
Hayden signed the bill in Strong Hall in front of a crowd of more than 50 faculty, staff and students.
The Margin provides for an annual 7.6 percent increase in the total allocated for faculty salaries. Inherently, all of these are determined solely by merit.
The bill also will increase state financing of community colleges, the Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University and establish the state minority scholarship program and provide $2 million for the construction of the new Regents Center in Overland Park.
The bill provides more than $900 million for higher education statewide, including more than $1 million in operating grants to Washburn University in Topeka. Legislators denied Washburn admittance into the Regents earlier this session. Hayden said he would continue his efforts to include Washburn and implement qualified admissions.
Hayden included both programs in his Margin of Excellence Partnership Act proposal at the beginning of the legislative session.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said the Margin legislation underscored the state's commitment to higher education and would enable universities to retain and attract quality teaching personnel.
Our citizens want their education institutions to be strong and contributing partners in society," Budig
said. "They want their sons and daughters to have access to quality people and quality programs."
Budge praised the Legislature for its efforts and recalled the early days of the Hayden administration, when he asked leaders of state universities and the Board of Regents to come up with a plan to improve higher education.
"He (Hayden) called for a blueprint. A blueprint that would make Kansas more attractive to future generations." Budig said.
Baidu said the Margin had been embraced by people from all walks of life, especially students, and that the media had played a role in its success.
The Margin is the Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers.
"The Margin has become a symbol, a symbol of deep commitment and one of progress. It has restored confidence and has excelling the citizenry." Budue said.
The Margin had put the universities in a position to be more competitive and made the state's future brighter, he said.
Margin gives Regents money; Legislature takes some away
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By Alan mergan
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — While Gov. Mike Hayn yesterday signed into law increased financing for all Regent institutions, the Senate Ways and Means Committee approved cuts in budget expenditures at Regent institutions.
However, the cuts, in utility financing, proposed by Hayden, will not affect the institutions' financing, and are only technical adjustments, said State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence.
Winter, interim chairman of the committee, said the cuts reflected savings on utilities at the various institutions.
Hayden recommended cuts totaling $833,345 for the University of Kansas for fiscal years 1989 and 1990, to reflect new utility estimates. Overall, the Board of Regents will have a $79,254 cut in finances. That money
will be transferred into the State General Fund.
"When the figures for the utility financing are first proposed, the Legislature doesn't really know what the rates for the upcoming year will be." Winter said. "The estimates are done in April of the previous year, and we can only guess on what they will be.
"This only reflects the savings at the various universities, and the finances could not have been used for any other area of financing."
Ray Hauke, Regents director of planning and budget, said the cuts would not have a detrimental effect on any Regents institutions.
"It's typical for the Legislature to come back at the end of the session and revise the proposed utility finances," Hauke said. "Their revisions are consistent with the savings at the institutions."
Soviet party retires older, conservative officials to rebuild
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — The Communist Party swept out 110 senior officials — many thought to be inactive and conservative — and promoted 24 people yesterday in a major reshuffle that has helped Chevrolet's power base to push for reform.
The party's policy-making Central Committee retired 14 of its 301 full members, including former President Andreel Gromyko; 24 now voting members of the Central Auditing Commission, which handles财会 finances.
Party ideology chief Vadim Medvedev said at a news conference that the officials volunteered to step down from the position, Committee unanimously approved.
At a full meeting of the committee, the officials issued a joint request that referred to President Gorbachev's campaign for perestroika, or reeducation, on rades on the Communist Party Central Committee and the Central Auditing Commission should work hard to further perestroika, it is essential for us, in the interest of the common cause, to give up our
Medvedev remarked, "This is a
serious and important milestone in our course, perestroika, which shows that our party is realistically assesses the national security quite critical about its own activities.
The resignations followed the first contested, nationwide elections in 70 years of Communist rule on March 26. Dozens of top party and government officials, including more than 30 regional party chairmen, were
The military lost a substantial voice in the Central Committee. At least nine senior officers were dropped, and just one officer was promoted from candidate status to full membership.
The changes left the Central Committee with 251 members, party personnel cliché Georgy Razumovsky said at the news conference.
selvedev said 83 members, or more than one-quarter of the body, lost the government and party jobs that entitled them to committee membership since the 27th party congress elected them in 1984. Their jobs because of poor health or age, but some fell from political favor.
Of the 83, many were removed yesterday.
Government in China calls for end to protest
The Associated Press
BEJIING — The government moved yesterday to halt a 9-day-old student protest for democracy and a free press, urging them to go back to class and disband their fledgling and warning workers to stay on the job.
In a harsh editorial, read on the televised nightly news and hourly on the radio, the Communist Party called for a swift end to the student movement, the biggest since the revolution of 1949.
rism is a grave political struggle facing the whole party and Chinese citizens" the editorial said. "This is a planned conspiracy that . . . aims at negating the leadership of the party and the socialist system."
It called the student unions illegal and said that new demonstrations would be suppressed. The unions were not suppressed by the state-run student organizations.
"This is their first step," said a Beijing University student as the editorial was played repeatedly over. We can expect arrests to come soon."
Students and student leaders said they would defy the editorial.
"It makes me sick to hear this," said one student at Beijing Normal
University. "This is just this kind of propaganda and lies we are fighting."
At least 50,000 students have boycotted class since the strike began Monday. They plan to maintain the boycott at least until May 4, the 70th anniversary of China's first pro-democracy student movement.
They also said that they would persist in calling for talks with the government to discuss demands for a free press, more funds for education and the publication of the financial records of China's leaders. Many senior leaders such as Premier Li Feng and Deng Xioping to resign.
About 10,000 soldiers from a special force for suppressing civic disturbances took up positions in many areas of the city. Students and Chinese sources said.
The government took steps to keep workers from supporting the two-day student class boycott, warning them that激烈 strikes would not be tolerated.
Many workers back the student movement.
For the first time yesterday, bands of students ventured into the city's center to distribute leaflets calling for freedom, democracy and a free press.
Transportation secretary works to pass highway plan
by John P. Milburn
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — If someone were to drive every mile of the state highway system, that person's car would travel more than 100 miles or deter drivers who in 1987 became Secretary of the Kansas Department of Transportation, is responsible for each mile.
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Edwards said he hoped this the year he would accomplish that goal. The fate of his program rests in the hands of a conference committee on $1.2 billion to $8.3 billion to program.
Charged with creating a comprehensive highway plan when he took office, Edwards said he wanted to give Kansas a system that it could be proud of.
That was when Edwards began leading the charge toward an ambitious, relatively expensive program. Edwards was stopped cold by his boss, a former legislature. He passed to the program.
Later that year, Hayden selected him to be chairman of a task force assigned. "To craft, to design and subsequently to try and self-comprehensive program," Edwards said.
that tainted to pass the prosecution. He said that in 1867 the reaction from the Legislature and residents was extreme. People wondered why the governor and his transportation secretary were talking about billion dollar programs when earlier pro-
eowards, 63, former president and chief executive officer of a subsidiary of Atlantic Richfield Oil Company in Independence, Kan, had retired to Los Angeles when Gov. Mike Hayden tapped him to be transportation secretary in 1987.
posed programs would only have cost several hundred million dollars.
Edwards said that it was a common misperception in 1897 that the entire package, with a $3 billion price tag, was for new highway construction. He said that only $1.72 billion was for new highways; the rest was for operation of the department and local agencies and for assistance to the handicapped.
"A lot of the opponents attacked this as a great-grand plan, the governor's ambitious plan or the secretary's ambitions plan to build a whole bunch of new roads when we need them," he added to the ones that we had. Well that's puppy-cock. That's a bunch of bulp. Edwards said.
Perceptions changed because the program's designers had to go through a learning period in 1867, he said. People who were then horrified at anything that even sounded like a billion dollars now are talking about a $1.2 or $1.3 billion program.
NEW ELEMEN?
No, the team is basically the same, but perceptions have changed. Edwards said.
Now Edwards is ready to try again.
"I suspect that most people would never
understand that process, "Edwards said it, 'w was a necessary baptism by fire for Kansas to go through learning what it cost these days to maintain the highway system."
State Rep. Rex Crawell, R-Longton and chairman of the House Transportation and Utilities Committee, served on the task force in 1867. He said the special session to pass the program had two strikes against it before it even began.
Only 80 miles of new construction were proposed in the 1987 program. Those miles would have connected unfitted projects, a huge increase in nonsense out of Kansas highways, he said.
First, the session's atmosphere was different than the regular session. The special session was called by Hayden to discuss the sole issue of highways. Second, legislators are part time workers. They have their own office and lives so they not appreciate the interruption. Crowned said.
"People have pronounced this to be much more sane because it has as its thesis better maintenance and they don't understand that that was what it was about in the first place."
Horace Edwards
Edwards said all system enhancements were to improve safety, relieve congestion and provide access to allow business to expand and prosper.
"It is a shopping list — things people said they would be interested in, but that they will have to compete for. If passed, the money for the project would not cover all of the items."
State officials appear to think Edwards is the person to do the shopping.
"Horace Edwards, following an extensive and distinguished career in the private sector, has become a recognized leader," Hayden said. "He brings extreme credibility to the position of secretary of transportation."
Hayden said Edwards' work in the private sector had made him one who was not
satisfied with the status quo.
"He's quick to point out and identify what action the state, as well as the nation, should take in the area of transportation and he sets out to bring about those changes," he said.
The two have met frequently to put the program together during the past two years, leaving Hayden satisfied with his selection for the agency's secretary.
Work would continue if the Legislature did not pass the new program, but Hayden said
he was optimistic that it would pass and that it would be closer to the size approved by the Senate.
State Sen. Bill Morris, R-Wichita and chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee and vice chairman of the interim committee, said he had no trouble working with the secretary during the quest for the highway program.
See MORE, p. 6, col. 1