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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.104.NO.131
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FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1995
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Cutbacks cancel five chemistry labs KU buc
By Matthew Friedrichs
Kansas staff writer
Years of threatened budget cuts finally caught up with the department of chemistry.
Three lab sections of Chemistry 184 and two sections of Chemistry 625, organic chemistry lab — all of which are listed in the timetable — will not be offered next semester.
In past years, administrators told the department that they would have to cut labs, but funding for the labs always has been found, said John Landgrebe, professor of chemistry.
But not this year. And the chance that the department will find funding to
reopen the closed labs is small, Landgrebe said. The department received about 90 percent of its requested budget this year.
"The college is very sympathetic, but they're in a position where they can't do anything about it," he said of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The result is that students who enroll in the lecture section of Chemistry 184 will have a more difficult time finding a lab section that fits into their schedule. The closings leave 47 lab sections for the As many as 940 students can enroll in Chemistry 184, and they must enroll in a lab section.
enrolled in Chemistry 624 do not have to enroll in a lab. There are 440 spots remaining in the accompanying Chemistry 625 lab sections.
James Muyskens, dean of liberal arts and sciences, said the college would evaluate enrollment in the fall lab sections to decide whether more sections would be needed to provide for incoming students.
"Our position has always been that we provide the necessary seats for students to meet their degree requirements," Muvskens said.
But students who need chemistry for part of their degree could be feel the repercussions of lab cutbacks.
"I think it's really important to start out in the pre-medicine route with Chemistry 184 when you are a freshman," said Kevin Cattaneo, Mission senior. "If you don't, that will hold you back in other classes."
Cattaneo said Chemistry 184 was important as a prerequisite class that had to be taken before other classes, such as organic chemistry.
He also said students needed to take Chemistry 184 as freshmen because schedules grew increasingly difficult as they moved into upper-level classes.
"If you don't take Chemistry 184 your first year, you'll basically put yourself in a bind," Cattaneo said.
Students protest printing of Kansan story
Three REAL members part of paper dumping at Stauffer-Flint Hall
By Eduardo A. Molina Kansan staff writer
Brian Vandervliet / KANSAN
The students were upset by yesterday's front-page story about Eric Moore, Lawrence sophomore, who on Wednesday announced that he was resigning as director of LesBiGay Services of Kansas and withdrawing as a member of the REAL coalition for
Behind the back of KU police officer Richard Avery, REAL coaltion Student Senate candidate Terry Huerta heaves a stack of The University Daily Kansas on a pile near Stauffer-Flint Hailer. Huerta and REAL coaltion Student Senate candidate Ana Calderon, pictured carrying newspapers, joined several others yesterday in protest of the newspaper's decision to run a front-page story on Eric Moore, Lawrence sophomore, with withdrew from the Student Senate election on Wednesday.
Six students, two of whom were members of Student Senate and three of whom were members of the REAL coalition, yesterday staged a protest of The University Daily Kansan by dumping hundreds of Kansans on the lawn in front of Stauffart-Flint Hall, where the Kansan offices are.
Student Senate because he had tested positive for the HIV virus.
In the story, it was revealed that Moore had in 1990 pleaded no contest to charges of aggravated indecent solicitation of a child under the age of 12. He was sentenced to one to five years in the Ellsworth Correctional Facility in Ellsworth.
HOUSING:
Former LesBiGayS OK Director Eric Moore will remain at his job as a Templin Hall resident assistant.
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"This is simple theft."
"We would like to see more journalistic integrity," Case said. "A lot of assumptions were made without the input of the person involved. This story is destroying one person's life."
Stevie Case, residential senator and candidate with the REAL coalition, said the group was protesting the decision to print Moore's criminal record.
Kansan editor Steve Martino said the Kansan made numerous attempts throughout the day to contact Moore but that he did not respond.
Tom Eblon
Ami Hizer, student senator, said it was the group's right to dump the newspapers.
"This is First Amendment, guys," she said. "This is not censorship because we are not destroying the papers. Students can take them from here."
But Tom Eblen, general manager of
general manager of The University Daily Kansan
the kansan , didn't agree with Hizer interpretation of the First Amendment
"This is simple theft," Eblen said. He said that every student was entitled to a Kansan because a small portion of student fees went to support the Kansan.
Eblen said that the Kansan had asked the Douglas County district attorney to take appropriate action on the case.
Hizer said the paper dumping was sup
"It wasn't that we were not aware that this was happening," he said. "But these people acted on their own. We were not a part of it."
But Sherman Reeves, student body president, said Senate had nothing to do with the incident.
"This doesn't have to do with coalitions or elections," she said.
ported by Student Senate.
The other four students involved in the incident were Terry Huerter, Lake Quivira sophomore and candidate with REAL, Ana Calderon, a Nunemaker senator candidate with the REAL coalition, Lindsay Sander, a member of finance committee, and Ted Fleming, Toneka freshman.
During the incident, KU police talked to the students and told them that they were littering.
The officers instructed the students to put the papers in the recycling bin in front of Stauffer-Flint, and they complied.
Later, some members of the Kansan news and advertising staffs took the papers from the bin and put them back into distribution boxes around campus.
KU budget stalled in committee
Legislators fail to reach compromise on proposal
By Virginia Marghelm
Kansan staff writer
There still may be hope for KU's budget.
The House passed a modified version of the Board of Regents' budget last month that would cut $5.8 million from Regents institutions' budgets.
The House bill would cut $3.4 million from KU's budget. Most of the cuts were a result of the Legislature's decision not to replace KU's tuition shortfall.
But the proposed budget is stalled in a joint conference committee. The committee, made up of both representatives and senators, was supposed to approve or amend the House's version of the budget and send it to the Senate.
If the committee members cannot reach an agreement, the committee could agree to disagree, which means the members would sign the bill without reaching an agreement and send it to the Senate. Or, a new conference committee could be appointed to attempt to reach a compromise.
Praeger, who opposes the proposed budget, said she did not think the bill would pass the Senate. If the bill is rejected by the Senate, it will be sent back to the joint conference committee.
Praeger said that the tuition drop at KU was expected. KU increased its out-of-state tuition to bring it to a level comparable to other state schools. Legislators expected fewer out-of-state students to enroll at KU after the tuition increase, causing tuition revenues to drop, Praeger said.
The tuition drop may not be a surprise, but Chancellor Del Shankel was surprised by the Legislature's failure to replace the tuition shortfall.
In the past, the Legislature has allocated money to replace tuition shortfalls. For the Legislature to change its practice is not fair, Shankel said.
"The Legislature is proposing to change the rules in the middle of the game," he said.
If the rules are changing, KU will lose the game.
"It would have a very dramatic impact on us," Shankel said.
Lindy Eakin, associate executive vice chancellor, said last month that although the proposed cuts of $3.4 million totaled only about 2 percent of the University's budget, it would be hard to cut that much.
Eakin said that about 80 percent of KU's budget was locked into salaries. Graduate teaching assistants who already have been hired and tenured professors cannot be let go, so the University would be left to cut from the remaining 20 percent of its budget, he said.
After the budget passed the House, David Shulenburger, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said that the budget cuts would have an adverse affect on KU.
"There's no way you can hide a cut that big in a budget that is as tight as it is," Shulenburger said. "We don't have fat to cut out."
Shulenburger said that many of the cuts likely would fall to academic affairs. Some things that could be cut are supplies, student hourly positions and class offerings, he said.
Shankel said that he still was hopeful that some of the money would be restored to KU's budget.
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Candidate hopes to motivate
Stephanie Guerin decided to become involved in Student Senate after she was nearly squashed by a bus on campus, she said.
By Ian Ritter
Kansan staff writer
REAL member has financial experience
"I wanted to know who was controlling those buses," said Guerin, Lenexa senior, who is running for student body vice president with the REAL coalition. Senate elections are Wednesday and Thursday.
Guerin learned her junior year who was controlling the buses when she joined the Senate finance committee as secretary.
Guerin said she had been concerned with the campus transportation system ever since the near-accident with the bus.
Since campus transportation is entirely run and financed by Senate, she said, students are paying unneeded fees when they could be working with the city to split the cost of buses.
She said that it was unfair for students to pay $12 of their activity fees for buses when it cost the public only $1 a ride.
"If we don't change the system now, the prices of transportation for the students are going to rise exponentially." Guernin said.
She said that the problem with campus transportation was a lack of motivation.
"The fact is nobody wants to put the work in to improve the system," she said.
Changing campus transportation is one of many goals that Guerin and the REAL coalition would like to see accomplished.
Guerin used an analogy from Malcolm X's autobiography to describe
"I want to make sure the senators are organized and that they can accomplish their goals," she said.
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Guerin said she would like to help student organizations survive financially.
"I think I can find a way for these organizations to survive on campus, since they provide valuable services to many students," she said.
Stephanie Guerin,
Lenexa senior, is running with the REAL coalition for student body vice president.
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