Funds for ASK approved
Staff Reporter
BvCAROL BEIER
The Student Senate renewed KU's membership in the Associated Students of Kansas lobbying organization last night in a meeting to protest from senators and non-senators.
The University became a member of ASK last fall under a provisional membership of $2,500. Membership for fiscal 1890 will cost $1.13 million, which is 25 cents of each hour.
Peter Griffith, Leawood senior, spoke in opposition to membership in ASK and referred to what he considered "stupid efforts to legalize marriana."
Griffith repeatedly asserted that ASK ignored the "issue that unites all KU students--getting the best possible education."
After another opponent of the bill implied that support of the decriminalization of marijuana, the 1979 legislative session, conflicted with the goals of higher education, Rex Gardner, Liberal Arts and Sciences got through finally—without marijuana?
SEVERAL OF THE EOLE to the bill said continued membership in ASK would strangle Concerned Students for Higher Education, a KU lobbying group.
Bob Tomlinson, education senator, said KU would lose its representation for issues specifically related to KU if ASK membership were continued. He referred to KU's lack of reaction to a Kansas House apportionment bill that divided student voters.
Another senator said ASK asked KU with other universities of less influence, thereby diminishing KU's own lobbying effectiveness.
THE SENATOR, Mark Goldman,
Nunemaker 1 senator, said, "As a group alone, we have a strong voice. We're joining a bunch of weaker colleges."
Etta Walker, holdover senator, agreed with Goldman.
"They need us more than we need them," Walker said.
Steve Young, journalism senator, agree that ASK needed KU for reasons of both prestige and finance, but he said that a KU would in no way weakened KU's representation.
"Anyone who tells you that we don't have common interests with other schools in this region," he said.
Young also said KU had assumed a dominant role in ASK, holding about one third of the voting positions in the organization's legislative assembly.
YOUNG SAID THE Senate's approval of continued membership did not necessitate the demise of CSHE but he questioned the group's effectiveness.
"I do not necessarily support two separate organizations," Young said. "I do think it’s important to me to be involved with interest solely to KU that it is important the Legislature is made aware of our needs."
Walker conceded that, because students were "stuck with" ASK, they probably would get involved to improve the organization.
"ASK has assumed in the past that
student issues are liberal issues," Walker said. "If we stuck with it, we're going to have to look for a better way."
SUPPORTERS OF THE BILL cited a passage in the by-laws of ASK that refers to an individual student's right to withdraw his or her school organization although his school is a member.
However, Claire McCurdy, Liberal Arts senator, said that opposition to the ASK had been overturned.
"I don't think the people that were here to speak against the bill realized that an individual's choice to withdraw his membership would not affect funding," McCurdy said.
The by-laws state: "If a student desires to be exempted from membership, he may do so by notifying his campus headquarters in writing that he does not want to be a member of ASK. However, such exemption is unlikely in no way affect any (tuned based upon students' needs)."
In other business, the Senate gave its final approval for funding of several student programs.
The organizations and their allocations were:
Blacks in Communication, $800; KJHK radio station, $9,157; University Daily Kansas, $73,260; Women in Communications, $250; Kansas Engineer Magazine, $309; recreation services capital improvements fund, $20,233; recreation facilities fund, $15,479; tramurals, $38,800; Cricket, $135; Fencing, $42; Frieture, $109; Hang Gliding, $145; Karate, $85; Rubygo, $679; Soccer, $790; Crew, $285; and Volleyball, $390.
Sleepy senator
Staff photo by BARB KINNEY
Stacie Leslie, Belleville, Ill., freshman, found the Student Senate
budget hearings less than exiting last night. Leslie is a senator in the School of Fine Arts.
KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Tuesday April 10,1979
Lawrence, Kansas
The University of Kansas
Vol.89,No.128
Stephan's opinion on hall check expected
State Rep. Mike Glover, D-Lawrence, said yesterday that he expected an opinion within two weeks from Attorney General Robert Stephan on the legality of an unannounced safety inspection of student rooms in a KU residence hall.
Glover asked for the opinion after staff members at Joseph R. Pearson Hall enlisted in his effort to ensure a check for possible safety violations. During the check, a ladder made of rooms was found in the hall.
Rex Gardner, chairman of the Student Rights Committee of the Student Senate, said his committee had not been informed of the time of the last committee meeting.
against state officials. However, that bill will not be in effect until June 1, Glover
what they do is right and there is no cwr remedy, the abuses of power are liable to occur more often. Because of the act, officials will be a little gun-shy from now
"Students could sue under the act, but the point isn't to sure it's to point out to students what is wrong."
"I called Glover and he told me he had done it on his own, without a specific request by a student." "Gardner said."
The Kansas Legislature passed a court liability act this session that allows suits
Glover said the attorney general's ruling
The Student Rights Committee passed a resolution March 29 stating the room check was a violation of student privacy rights. That resolution will be considered by StudEx for possible consideration by the full Senate.
would not be based on the court liability act but on the contract signed by students living in residence halls.
"Students are safely vulnerable to this sort of thing during Christmas or spring break," he said.
AURH OKs residence hall ID sticker
A proposal to identity students who live in residence halls by placing stickers on their KU ID cards rather than issuing them separate cards was approved at last night's meeting of the Association of University Residence Halls.
The hall identification sticker would prevent non-hall residents from purchasing parking stickers for hall lots, using hall equipment and eating free meals, Chris Cline, chairman of the Services Committee, said last night.
Cline said there had been a "fragrant misuse of residence halls," and that hall residents "lose services they're paying for."
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, had suggested a separate card, Cline said, which would require the purchase of nine laminating machines at a total cost of $25,000; it did not include the cost of plastic pouches for the cards, printing and other materials.
THE COST OF stickers was estimated at about $1,000.
However, one possible problem with the first system would arise if the card were needed for another purpose after it had used to check out equipment, Cline said.
which the lots would have designated spaces for cars of various sizes.
each car size could be determined by requiring hall residents to fill out a form that would ask the size of their cars.
Solutions to the overcrowded parking situation were discussed.
Parking lots would be re-striped this summer.
Cline said Wilson suggested a plan in
Members of AURB also were concerned with the non-resident use of laundry equipment.
CLINE SAID that the cost of washers and dryers were inexpensive compared to off-campus laundries. Halls charge 35 cents to wash and dryers are free. Local laundermats cost 50 cents to wash and up to 25 cents to dry.
Eggs may hatch a warning
By DOUG WAHL
Staff Reporter
Experiments with chicken eggs by KU researchers must bring an insecticide to the lab.
The chicken eggs are being used by KU professors in a three-year research study of the deformative effects of inbreeding in the early development of the human embryo.
One of the researchers, Charles Wyttenbach, said last week, "We know insecticides are harmful to an older embryo. What I'm anticipating is that we'll find they will be more harmful on early development."
The other parts of the experiment, which began in January, are being conducted by Paul Kitos, professor of biochemistry and cell biology, and Edwin Uyeki and John Doul, professors of pharmacology at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Wyttenbach, professor of physiology and cell biology, will observe deformities in the structure of tissues and organs as his part of the four-pronounced experiment.
He said the effects of insecticides on less developed embryos were relatively low.
THEY RECEIVED a $300,000 grant from the National Institute of Health through the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences.
Wyttenbach said the team would inject the eggs with insecticides after the eggs had been incubated.
According to Kitos, exposure to insecticides in common use, even in relatively small levels, could prove to be harmful to an embryo.
Kitos said, "These compounds are active at extremely low concentrations.
"ALTHOUGH THE HUMAN body has a system that tends to detoxify the insecticides, what you don't know is what hasn't shown up yet. There is a link to some kind of embryonic developmental change in smaller doses that could cause deformity."
Eaq driller
Staff photo by STEPHAN SPECTOR
Charles Wyttehenhack, professor of physiology and cell biology, demonstrates how to inject insecticides into an egg with a device
he helped design. He and three other professors at the University of Kansas use the machine to study the effects of insecticides on
Legislature finds some solutions
Staff Reporter
By TAMMY TIERNEY
Although a few fresh issues faced the Kansas Legislature this year, the session was highlighted by new solutions to old problems.
The elimination of the liquor pools in the state's nearly 1,000 private clubs and the first death penalty measure to reach the state's marks marked some high points of the session.
Although the liquor bill is limited to private clubs, and although patrons will pay a hefty 10 percent tax on all the liquor they buy, they don't have to know that some that liquor by the drink will be in law in KC.
The bill also ends yearly attempts by legislators to sidestep a provision in the Kansas Constitution that prohibits open saloons.
The path for the historic measure was cleared by an opinion released in February of 1974.
In his report, Stephan concluded that the open salon provision did not apply to him.
The House previously has passed a death penalty bill only to have it rejected by the Senate.
THE DEATH penalty bill was another first, only in a different way.
He fought for the confirmation of his appointees to the Kansas Board of Regents in January. And, although only two of the six officers were established himself early as a tough fighter.
Despite its drama, the session also proved to have its share of political skirmishes by the audience.
Passage of the bill was the first time in seven years that both houses had agreed on a bill to be passed.
Although still considered a freshman governor, John Carlin managed to make his presence known in the Republican-controlled Legislature.
AWARE OF the cost-conscious attitude that prevailed in the Legislature this year, Carlin offered a bare-bones budget that he termed "compassionate and conservative."
Continuing to establish his hold, Carlin won another battle in trying to make state government operate within a spending limit.
Although members of both houses worked diligently on a bill that would impose a 7 percent spending limit each year, Carlin finally said in the matter and vetoed the bill.
Raising objections that he had made continually, Carlin said the 7 percent lid failed to provide for future tax relief, allowed for future tax increases because of lower government reserve reserves and forced the Legislature to appropriate less for supplemental funding.
Carlin is expected to veto that bill as well, leaving Kavannas without a spending bid for Tucson.
IT WAS ONLY a partial victory, however,
because his counter proposal, a bill that
would establish a yearly spending limit, was
not approved. In those houses until it
resembled their original plan.
In other issues that confronted the Legislature, Carlin stunned many
legislators and constituents by his refusal earlier this year to endorse bills that removed the sales tax from groceries and utilities and by his recent veil of the death penalty. Both were issues in his election campaign.
HE ALSO had said that although he personally opposed the death penalty, he would sign any bill that reached his desk and met Constitutional requirements.
Carlin had attacked incumbent governor Robert C. Peninn on the utility issue saying he had done nothing to help Kansans who could not afford rising utility bills.
Carin made little attempt to explain either turnabout and merely said he had four years to fulfil promises made for him. But the judge changed his mind about the death penalty.
Both issues are sure to surface again in the next gubernatorial election.
The surprise discovery a month ago of nearly $100 million in excess tax collections generated much enthiasm among摩尔多邦 about how best to return it to the people.
AS THE END of the session neared, House and Senate leaders from both parties worked out a $79 million tax relief package to help them address budget cuts and elimination of the sales tax taxes.
Although the House approved the package, Senate members flatly rejected it. In its place, the Senate proposed its own $117.5 million plan for tax relief.
One of the proposals of the Senate package, the elimination of the sales tax on utilities, was passed by the House and sent to the governor. The other Senate proposals included the Clerk and Taxation Committee awaiting a three-day cleanup session that begins April 25.
Another political battle erupted in mid-session in the House about remapping of representatives districts. The Legislature is to redraw the districts every four years.
ALTHOUGH NEW boundaries for Senate districts were easily approved by both the Senate and the state Supreme Court, a similar situation in the House quickly became a skirmish between Democrats and Republicans.
An amendment offered by State Rep. John Vogel, R-Lawrence, that would give a new measure to the Republican Party Republicans was hotly disputed by Lawrence Democrat representatives
Glover said that the amendment would disenfranchise KU students and appealed to House members to reject it. After much debate, the issue finally failed on a party-line vote.
Last-ditch appeals to the governor to veto the bill failed and Carlin, too, approved the new map. The bill will go before the Kansas Supreme Court April 18 for a hearing.
Although the session sometimes was marred by shaky relations between the new governor and the Legislature and their failure to agree on a spending lid and tax payment, the 1979 session probably will best be remembered for making liquor by the drink legal.