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Monday, March 6, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
KU professor using computers to study future water problems
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Gerhard said the study, whose second year will cost $200,000, would probably be finished in seven or eight years. He'll be fine on the study was 13 or 14 years.
A study of surface water brings the problem a little closer to home.
Y. S. Yu, professor of civil engineering, has developed computer models for management of the Kansas River basin. The study, which is scheduled to be finished March 31, focuses on the release of water into the Kansas River by the reservoirs along the basin. The study, financed in part by the U. Department of the Turtle Creek, Michigan operations of the Turtle Creek, Perry reservoirs, but does not include Clinton Reservoir, which is considered too far downstream to affect the system as a whole.
Yu's study observes the coordinated operation of the reservoirs, and focuses on the orchestrated water that would best serve the river basin.
Yu said the reservoirs were useful
for flood control, recreation, conservation, navigation, as well as providing habitats for fish and wildlife
yu's computer study processed water demand figures for 1980, and projected demand figures for 2035. Yu said estimates logged by the state showed that the majority of the population growth in Kansas would be along the Kansas River basin, and thus, the demand for water would be greatest in the area along the Kansas River from Toneka to Kansas City.
It then evaluated how much flow could be increased in the Kansas River basin by releasing water from the reservoirs.
Two models were created by Yu, a simulation model and a optimization model.
Yu also entered as data the historical drought period from 1952 through 1957 as a basis for analyzing possible future droughts.
Both models will be completed this month, and include a software package which allows for changes in population and water consumption
Regents plans to be decided by legislature in next session
stitution will come. Whether it is next week, next year or even further down the road, it will come."
Rein said the focus of the Partnership Act should be on provisions for the level of community college state financing to increase from 28 percent to 40 percent during the next five years.
"If our concern is money, then the community college proposal should get more attention. Its financial imminence may be greater than Washburn," Rein said.
Qualified admissions, which is being debated in the Senate Education Committee, would give the Regents power to enact tougher admissions requirements.
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"It's the same things we've heard before. Some schools say they have an inability to provide resources, and some argue that late bloomers would not be given a fair chance." Josserand said.
Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, has testified in favor of the bill.
"What we have now could be considered inadvertent discrimination." Ramaley said at the meeting. "For someone that has come from a small town and has a lack of family background in college, coming to KU can be very hard. It is almost discrimination for us to not give them some sort of guidelines on what they should do to prepare."
Washburn official wants admission
TOPEKA — There is no better time than now to admit Washburn University to the Board of Regents system, the university's president told the Senate Ways and Means Committee on Friday.
Kansan staff writer
by John P. Milburn
Bob Burns, Washburn president,
said that admission of Washburn into
the Regents system would provide
consistent financing in the future.
Washburn currently relies on Topeka mill levy increases and tuition increases to compensate for rising operating costs, Burns said.
"We come to the state when Washburn is academically and fiscally strong," Burns said.
However, if not admitted, Burns said, Washburn and its students would be affected in the future through increased tuition.
"It will come to a point when we will say. 'Higher education is not an
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, asked Burns if the school would benefit from participating in the tuition grant program instead of joining the Regents. Burns said that the tuition grant program would only show term help, and would only delay an increase in tuition.
option for you (low income students).'' Burns said.
The tuition grant program provides assistance to Kansas residents at private colleges and universities in the state.
Burns said that many of Washburn's students were from the Topeka area and that many worked and went to school part-time. An assistant principal, who is many of those students or force them to decrease their course loads.
Tution at Washburn is $70 a credit hour whether a student takes one hour or 20 hours. Burns said.
Stanley Kopik, executive director of the Regents, said that the Regents wanted to address two concerns before admitting Washburn. First, the financial institutions of the current Regents institutions must be secure. Second, they must expect full financing for the first and second years of the Margin of Excellence before they would add any schools to the system.
One Margin is the Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer school's financing and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peer school's faculty salaries.
Second, the Regents want Washburn to be free of debt or have a plan for retiring any debts upon admission. Kopik said that concern has been raised in the committee. It is included in the bill and is no longer as great a concern.
"We have no intent to enter a state system fraught with funding problems," Burns said.
he said.
"Washburn University is Washburn University, and that's all it should be." Konikli said.
Kopik said that the Regents objected to the name selected for Wasburn to use should it join the system.
Kopik said that the Regents also opposed the freezing of Washburn's tuition. He said that the Regents did not think that was necessary.
The Senate bill would change the name from Washburn University of Topeka to Washburn University of Kansas.
Discussion of the bill and or training of the Regents' institutions for 1989 and the second year of the Margin will continue today. Wednesday is the deadline for debate on bills in their house of origin.
Tougher drunken-driving bills debated
by Alan Morgan Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — A Senate judiciary committee, trying to get through a full agenda, beard testimony Friday bills concerning drinking and driving.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-
Lawrence and chairman of the
committee, said the committee would
discuss time to discuss the proposed bills.
Winter said there was a chance for the bills to be discussed later this week, but if not, the bills would probably die in committee.
"I think that with the large number of bills we have to cover this session, these bills will have a hard time making it." Winter said.
Richard Taylor, representative of
Among the bills discussed was a Senate bill establishing a .95 blood alcohol level as the limit for driving and exposures. The current standard is 10.
Kansans For Life At Its Best, told a Senate judicial committee Friday that a .05 blood alcohol level in drivers was still too high of a threshold for being charged with a drunken-driving offense.
Taylor said the concern of some people that a 65 law would overflow the jails with convictions was unfounded.
"If we really want to remove the drinking driver from the road, we would pass a law for zero blood alcohol content," Taylor said. "Airline pilots, bus drivers, and railroad engineers are expected to have a zero blood alcohol content, yet a great many more people are killed andmaimed by drinking drivers than by all those persons combined."
"The vast majority of persons make a good effort to obey the law," Taylor said. "At 05, the concerned drinker will say after two drinks, 'I better quit and spend more time with non-alcoholic drinks and food before
driving so I will not even come close to .05.
"Prevention, not punishment, is the goal of 65."
Using a six-pack of cola to illustrate his point, Taylor told the committee that a 200-pound person could drink that much beer within one hour and still drive legally under the current system.
"If you wear around 70 pounds, one beer would put you near .65, but most drivers weigh more than that," Taylor said.
Blood alcohol content of .05 in a 70-
driver driver makes that person just
as deadly as .05 in a 200-pound
person, he said.
He also told the committee that his group supported the other bill that the committee discussed Friday.
Jim Clark, an Allen County attorney, testified in opposition to lowering the minimum wage offenses. He said that he did not think the change in law was needed, and
that the proposal was being made without proper research of the problem.
"I think this is moving too far, too fast, without conducting appropriate studies," Clark said.
The committee also heard testimony on a bill concerning driving with an open container of alcohol in the vehicle.
The bill would make the driver or operator solely responsible for any open containers in the vehicle.
Gene Johnson, representative of the Kansas Community Alcohol Safety Action Project Coordinators, testified in support of the bill.
"Senate Bill 170 is another tool in responsible use of alcoholic beverages insofar as operating a motor vehicle in our state." Johnson said when he was driver or operator of the vehicle he held responsibility for his passengers."
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