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Thursday, April 13. 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Attorney says he is optimistic about settling Haskell dispute
by Mary Neubauer
Kansan staff writer
An attorney representing staff members of the Haskell Indian Junior College student newspaper said that he thought an agreement could be reached that would give the students control of the paper.
The attorney, Patrick Nichols,
Topeka resident, met Tuesday in
Topeka with the students, their
representatives. Haskell administration
members and an assistant U.S. attorney.
"There was a lot of discussion going on." Nichols said. "Our position was that the administration had been able to control the content of the paper."
The meeting lasted two hours, Nichols said.
Kurt Sherkern, assistant U.S. useh is who is representing the askell administration, attended the meeting with Robert Martin, Haskell's acting
president. Dario Robertson, KU associate professor of law who is representing the Haskell students, attended the meeting with three students, Nicols and two representatives of the American Civil Liberties Union.
U. S. District Judge Richard Rogers put a restraining order on publication of the student newspaper, the Indian Leader, March 31 after Haskell students submitted a civil action in court alleging that the Haskell administration had censored the paper.
Rogers suggested that the parties meet out of court after the March court hearing to try to settle their differences.
On March 29, Robertson removed the layout sheets of the paper from Navarre Hall on the Haskell campus because the student managing editor, Marcel Stevens, said she wanted to look at them outside the building. He submitted the pages as evidence at the hearing.
Stevens said she and other members of the Indian Leader Association, a group of students that published in the paper, have been in the lavour or editing of the paper.
At the meeting Tuesday, the Haskell students presented to the Haskell administration and its representatives a version of the paper the students had put together. It contained all of the stories in the original paper plus stories about recent controversy at Haskell.
Nichols said he talked with the U.S. attorney's office again yesterday.
"Mr. Martin's a attitude is positive." Nichols said. "He seems willing to work for a student newspaper that is student controlled."
"You may be talking about six different things," he said. "But if an agreement can't be reached on one of them, there could be no resolution."
Library faces buying problems
by Thom Clark Kansan staff writer
The University library is still limited in its buying power despite a potential $100,000 from increased enrollment and $250,000 from the Margin of Excellence, a University official said yesterday.
Jim Ranz, dean of University libraries, said the requisition budget of the library needed an extra $300,000 for next year to keep up with the rising cost of inflation. The requisition is $3.7 million.
Ranz said the libraries would most likely see an 11 percent to 12 percent increase in the cost of periodicals and an approximate 6 percent increase in the price of books next year.
"The inflation rate for the library's purchasing power is about 10 percent annually," Ranz said. "This rate is about double in comparison to the cost of living throughout the rest of the country."
Ranz said the purchasing problem resulted from both inflation and the devaluation of the dollar abroad.
"This has had disastrous effects upon the information base supporting our academic programs." Ranz State College
He said this lower support was forcing the library to forgo the purchase of one of every three publications previously acquired.
According to the Association of Research Libraries, KU is ranked among the top 106 research libraries in the nation. The KU library system fell in the category of total volumes from 31st in 1985 to 35th in 1988. And in the amount of volumes added during the year, the system fell from 33rd in 1986 to 47th in 1988.
Steve Hamburg, chairman of the University Senate committee on the Library, said the financial support received through the Margin would ease the problem facing the library but would not solve it.
"This is certainly a big step in the right direction, but it still is not sufficient," Hamburg said. "This is a unique problem tied to the value of the dollar."
Hamburg said the buying power of the libraries would have to become more dynamic.
"There has to be a more effective way to develop an acquisition budget for books other than from the OEE (other operating expenses) budget, which does not deal with the fluctuation in the cost of books," Hamburg said. Pass around
"The library directs all of its resources toward the support of the University's teaching and research program," he said. "As a consequence, any curricular activity must be reflected in lower support for academic programs."
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