University Daily Kansan / Thursday, April 6, 1989
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Center receives $750,000 donation
by Scott Achelpohl Kansan staff writer
A Hays couple has donated $750,000 to a KU research and training center working for the disabled and their families.
The donation, made by Ross and Mariana Beach, will go to the Beach Center on Families and Disability, named in honor of their international work on disability within families, said John Scarffe, director of public relations at the Kansas University Endowment Association.
The gift will be counted as part of Campaign Kansas, the University's five-year, $150 million fund-raising campaign.
"Our major mission right now is within the United States," she said. "But the gift will enable the center to work to South and Central America."
Ann Turbull, professor of special education and co-director of the center, said that the gift would support an exchange between special education faculty in the United States and South America.
The center, 4138 Haworth Hall, is financed by a U.S. Department of Education grant and is a joint venture between KU's Bureau of Child Research and department of special education. Turnbull said.
Its research provides information for books, articles, pamphlets and video tapes to parents who have children with disabilities, developmental or emotional problems, she said.
"Parents need relevant and accurate information on the opportunities available for their sons or daughters, opportunities like jobs or new friends," she said. "These children have same opportunities as you or me."
Marianna Beach said that the availability of help for disability within families was the concept for the rest and the primary reason for the gift.
"We view it as vitally important that families receive this help." Beach said.
Watching her own family mature sparked her interest in working with children, she said.
In 1969, she served with the President's Committee on Mental Retardation and was chairman of the committee on international activities.
In 1981, she was appointed by the secretary of state to an Inter-American Children's Institute council designed to deal with youth and family problems in North, South and Central America.
Today, she serves on commissions dealing with rehabilitation and developmental issues in Kansas.
Ross Beach said he hoped that the gift to the center would help provide money for work not otherwise covered by public financing.
"We're fortunate to have funds to make this gift," he said. "We are very happy to further the work of the research team." It enjoys a hell of a reputation."
The gift was inspired by a close friend working in South America, he said.
Richard Schiefelbush, director of the Bureau of Child Research, said the gift would help the center serve as a valuable forum for research and education for family and disability experts visiting from around the world.
Daniel Starling/KANSAN
Sing a song of summer
Singer/guitarist Billie Dee Anderson, Wilmington, Del., senior, and Jesse Jackson, Topeka sophomore, perform "Summertime Dance" as a part of "Coming Together: An Evening of Poetry, Song, and Dance." The variety show was in Smith Hall last night.
Highway bill is stalled
by John P. Milburn Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA - Members of a joint conference committee on a highway program could decide on only one issue yesterday: to disagree.
Joint committee can't agree on tie to sales tax
The committee met for 15 minutes, following a 30-minute delay, and agreed to draft a report for the House and Senate stating that the members could not agree on a compromise. The statement will go to each house and another joint committee will be assigned.
The conference committee was trying to reach common ground between a $1.3 billion plan passed by the Senate and a $9 billion plan passed by the Senate.
State Rep. Herman Dillon, D-Kansas City, led opposition to the Senate highway package passed last week. He said the Senate had intentionally tied the highway program to a bill that would raise the state sales tax to finance education and highway construction.
"It's not fair. It's not the way to do business," Dillon said. "It is not fair to use education as a play to build highways."
State Sen. Bill Morris, R-Wichita,
said he did not think it was the
intention of the Senate to tie the two
legs in a compromise force a comprism
by the House.
He said the highway package included a sales tax mechanism for a purpose.
"People who support 2014 (high way program) want the entire pac age in one bill." Morris said.
State Sen. Fred Kerr, R-Pratt an major leader, said the two bills were pushed through the Senate together to show what the compor- tions they tax could do for both programs, not to force the highway issue.
It's not fair. It's not the way to do business. It is not fair to use education as a ploy to build highways.
- State Rep. Herman Dillon
D-Kansas City
Dillon said the Legislature would not be facing a budget crunch if it had not been forced to pass a bill earlier in the session to return $80 million in windfall taxes. The bill was a special request by Gov. Mike Hayden.
Dillon said he did not support the return of the windfall because he knew the Legislature would face this situation at the end of the session. He said the return of the windfall took place in a limited fund that Hayden two years ago wanted to serve as a cushion if the state fell into financial difficulty.
nor had asked for the cushion for two years, then came back this year wanting the cut and big ticket items as transportation and education.
He said the sales tax bill should be decided first by the Legislature before it attempted a compromise on the highway bill. Dillon wanted to write his own bill, but by the House yesterday because it was listed at the top of the calendar.
State Rep. Robert H. Miller, R-Wellington and majority leader, said the House was never scheduled to debate the sales tax issue. He said he will hold a hearing under general orders but that they were not discussed each day.
Dillon did not know why the gover-
He said he expected the final decision of the highway program to be discussed up to the final day of the veto session, when legislation will either be passed or die on the House or Senate floor. The session will begin following a 10-day to two-week break by the Legislature.
"It will take several conference committees to complete the highway bill," Miller said. "A lot will depend on the sales tax bill."
Miller said the bill would be debated tomorrow and put to a vote on Saturday. He said that the issue would go up the highway program to a degree.
Allen's leaks to be fixed
bv Merceda Ares
Kansan staff writer
Bids were accepted yesterday to replace part of the Allen Field House roof, said a spokesman for the State Purchasing office in Topekc.
Diamond Roofing Inc. **2301 Ponderosa, submitted the lowest of seven bids, which ranged from $65,825 to spokesman Gaylen Greenwood.**
The department of facilities planning usually selects the lowest bid for projects.
Mark Gwalney, president of Diamond Roofing, said a flat portion of the roof extending from both the east and west sides would be replaced.
He said construction of the 8,400
square-foot project would begin as soon as paperwork was finished, and actual construction, would take 45 to 60 days.
Gwaltney said paperwork usually took 30 days. "But since they're leaking up there, we're trying to do it as soon as possible," he said.
Floyd Temple, assistant athletic director, said he was not sure if construction would interfere with any activities that would be held in Allen Field House during the summer.
"We do have camps in here," he said. "Depending on the work sched... would be a problem. We never have it now, but we might would be very difficult to make an
assessment until I know the schedule."
Basketball camps will be held during June and the first two weeks in August, he said.
Temple compared the roof to a home appliance.
"Just like an appliance at home, you turn around and another one needs repairs," he said. "They have to be insured for the past six years, possibly more."
So far, leakage, which has moved from the east side of the field house to the west, has not reached the basketball court, Temple said.
"If it did, it could be a catastrophe." he said.
Haskell hearing deferred
by a Kansan reporter
A preliminary injunction hearing to decide whether Haskell Indian Junior College students' rights were violated by the college administration has been postponed.
The hearing had been scheduled for tomorrow in the U.S. District Court in Topeka.
Wayne Correll, deputy clerk of the U.S. District Court, said that the parties involved were trying to work out the conflict.
"They will let the court know as soon as they know what has been decided." he said.
acting Haskell president Robert Martin in court March 30 to decide whether students' First Amendment rights had been violated when Haskell faculty allegedly censored the student paper, the Indian Leader. The students were asked to submit a KU associate professor of law, and Patrick Nichols, a Topeka attorney.
Haskell students appeared with
U. S. District Judge Richard Rogers issued a temporary restraining order at the meeting that prevented publication and distribution of the paper until after preliminary injunction hearing.
Candidate: KU needs independent student leader
by Stan Diel
Kansan staff writer
Student government lacks a balance of power, and election of an independent president is the solution. The University is independently candidate in the race.
"What I'm offering is just a balance of power." Wika said. "If the president is in the same coalition as the majority of the members of Senate, I don't see that there is a balance of power."
Wika, Olathe junior, said that because the president was a member of the majority coalition, many students' views were not expressed on Student Senate. He said that an independent president could change that.
"Anything Senate does, the student body president has the power to veto. Wika said. "The power of veto on our耳 has not been exercised even grace."
An independent president would have the advantage of a larger pool from which to draw talent, he said.
and ideas from all of the coalitions and use them instead of being restricted to one coalition," Wika said.
Wika said he had two main concerns as a candidate for student body president. high tuition at the University and U.S. hostages in Lebanon.
"I'm after a substantial cut in tuition," he said.
"I've done some research and found that tuition has increased at two times the rate of inflation. If you look at tuition in 1980, it was $280. In the fall of this year it is going to be $578. Basically, tuition has doubled in 10 years and inflation has gone up 51 percent."
Wika said that students could pressure the Bush administration to negotiate for the release of U.S. hostages. A third action should be taken, he said.
Wika said that his second concern was the fate of U.S. hostages in Lebanon.
"He should take the best students
"If those negotiations fail, they'll
Naiuliana Nakashima/Sopecial to the KANSAN
Brian Wika, Olathe junior, is the independent candidate for student body president.
have to declare war on terrorism I'm talking a congressional declaration of war on terrorism.
tages' God-given rights, I'm wondering, is it time to change or abolish our form of government?"
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