THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol. 89, No.112
Legislators lead black workshop
Lawrence, Kansas
See page five
Regents funds get House OK
Monday, March 19, 1979
BY GENE LINN and TAMMY TIERNEY
Staff Reporters
By GENELINN and TAMMY TIERNEY
Although KU students enjoyed a holiday last week, members of the Kansas Legislature stayed busy.
The Kansas House last week approved a trimmed-down Kansas Board of Agriculture bill that derealized a death penalty bill and authorized liquor by the drink in private
Included in the allocation were several provisions for the KU budget. Among them were $18,660 for miscellaneous operating expenses for women's athletics, $100,000 for a book theft detection system for Watson Library and a transfer of $27,500 from an allocation of $40,000 of Marvin Hill to renovate Lindley Hall.
Thursday, member of the Kansas House passed 11-24 of a $435 million budget for the Regents schools. The figure was not included that Gov. John Carlin had recommended.
House members said they favored splitting the money to get both projects started this year.
In other matters, the House passed a spending bill and a Senate committee held hearings on a bill that would lower the maximum mission of less than an ounce of marijuana.
Legislators said the funds to finish both buildings probably would be allocated by the Legislature next year. It will cost $16 million for Marvin and $1.65 million to finish Lindley.
ALTHOUGH THE governor recommended that $1,277,500 be allocated to renovate Marvin Hall, the House split that figure, allocating $1 million for the renovation of Marvin and $277,500 for Lindley.
Despite the high cost of remodeling, which is about $50 a square foot, renovation would be cheaper than constructing new buildings, they said.
Other additions to the budget were $80,000 for the Kansas State scholarship fund, $35,000 for the development of sandstone aquifers in western Kansas and $10,000 for a Children's Project, a cooperative effort between KU's Bureau of Child Research and the community of northeast Kansas City. Kan. Curtin has not recommended
ACCORDING TO KANSAS Sen. Norman Garza, R-Westwood, the Senate Way and Means Committee will hold hearings on the proposal to increase committees already had reviewed budgets for the Regents schools so hearings would be a "short circuit."
Also on Thursday, the Senate approved 24-16 a House bill that originally called for death by injection of a lethal substance. The measure designated first-degree or felony murder.
However, an amendment proposed by State Wint. Wint Winter, R-Otawa, respects provisions for the death penalty with all persons in prison without a possibility for parole.
Senate members rejected a mandatory 30-year prison sentence 18-22.
The bill will return to the House for approval of the amendment.
Friday, the Senate approved 22-18 a bill that would give private clubs the ability to eliminate lounge pools and sell liquor by the drink to their members.
The bill also provides for statewide reciprocal club memberships. Under the bill, a single $10 membership would allow members to rack up at hundreds of clubs across the state.
THE MOVE to eliminate liquor pools entirely was proposed by Gaar as an statement to another bill sponsored by State Sen. Ron Hein, R-Tonkea.
Under Hein's bill, liquor pools would be eliminated only in private clubs that derived half their income from food sales.
Gaar's amendment was adopted on a voice vote. The amended bill will move to the House for its amoerel.
A spending lid bill will move to the Senate this week.
The bill, passed by the House last week, was unacceptable to Gov. John Carlin, according to Bill Hoch, Carolin's press secretary.
"The bill is no more acceptable to the governor than the one he vetoed a few weeks ago," Hoch said Friday.
The bill includes some changes that affect the state budget. It increases state spending to 7 percent and requires at least an 8 percent surplus in the state treasury at the end of the fiscal year.
A Senate hearing on a marjuana bill sponsored by State Rep. Mike Glover, D-Dawrence, marked the beginning of the fight against marijuana penalties for possession of mariana.
Cartin has consistently opposed setting specific limits for increased spending and for treasury surpluses.
Hoch said that the bill stands, there was a good chance that Carlin would veto the bill, but that the governor would not release it on the bill until the Senate acts on it.
Under his bill this year, conviction for possession of less than one ounce of marijuana would be no more serious than a conviction for an ordinary traffic offense. Possession of less than an ounce of marijuana is a fine of $2,500 or one year in jail or both.
HOWEVER, SENATE President Ross Doyen, R-Concordia, said it was unlikely that the Senate would make the changes Carlin wanted.
Glover's previous efforts to lower possession penalties have failed, but he said Friday that he was encouraged by the Senate hearing.
"It was a great hearing," he said. "The proponents had good arguments and the opponents sounded so irrational that they helped the bill's chances."
GLOVER SAID the best testimony came in a statement by a young woman who was a member of a one-half ounce of marijuana and had to spend three days in jail and post a $75
A representative of the Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists read the statement for the young woman, who did not want to be identified.
"Last year, one senator said no one gets busted for possession anymore, so her statement helped." Glover said.
Glover said the joint committee might vote on the bill late this week.
7% pay increase unlikely, Gaar says
By JOHN LOGAN Staff Reporter
Gaar said the Senate Ways and Means Committee would discuss subcommittee
GOV. JOHN Carlin had called for a 5 percent increase in his January budget, but the House Ways and Means Committee last month cut the proposed increase to 10 percent.
The Kansas Senate major leader said yesterday that chances were slim that the state would increase the amount increase would be boosted to 7 percent, despite intense lobbying by KU ad-
The majority leader, Norman Gaar, R-Westwood, he said was sympathetic to faculty needs, but the mood of the Legislature did not favor the hike.
The Senate will be reviewing the House of Representative's budget recommendation for all institutions this week. The House recommendations, approved last week, are due next week.
He said he expected the Ways and Means Committee to recommend action on the requests next week. The budget for the Senate. Senate by the end of the month, be said.
"It would be pretty rough to get it." Gaar said. "I don't think that kind of sentiment is in the full Legislature."
reports on the budget requests of the seven Rezens schools this week.
DYKES SAID it was hard to tell how the administration appeals had been taken. But he said he was confident that additional cuts in the pay increase, which had been proposed and voted down in the Senate, would not be approved by the Senate.
He said the Senate might vote in the 7.9 percent increase. But, he said, if it were voted in, the legislators probably would have to compromise with a 6.5 percent increase when the budget is reviewed by a conference committee of both houses in April.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said yesterday KU administrators had met with senators all last week in efforts to set the KU budget approved.
"The fact that they didn't have enough votes appears to us that good, solid support exists for the 6 percent increase," Dykes said.
Groups to oppose remapping bill
By GENE LINN Staff Renorter
A group of KU students and the local Democratic organization are planning to file separate briefs asking the Kansas Supreme Court declare Carson House
The students and the Democrats have said the bill deliberately sucks the KU student body.
Jeff Chanay, Topeka junior, said he was planning to file a brief. Chanay was one of the students who presented a petition Thursday opposing the bill to an aide of Gov.
The petition, which had been signed by 392 KU students, said the bill "is a blatant
political attempt to disfranchise KU students and divide the student voice."
The House redistricting legislation would take away much of the traditional KU student support from State Rep. Mike Glover, D-Lawrence.
GLOVER'S 6TH District would shift to wost Lawrence and pick up a number of people from the 5th district, the 46th, would pick up the KU campus and part of the Oread neigh-
The reappointment bill was signed Friday by Carla. The bill now goes to Attorney General Robert Stephen. The governor will ask the Senate to step Stephan makes his recommendations.
Chanay said an assistant to Stephan had
said the attorney general would send the bill to the Court in seven to 10 days.
"We'll wait until it goes to the Supreme Court before we file the trie," Chumay said. "The court will have 30 days to make a decision on the case."
develop any briefs filed by KU students, the local Democratic organization or residents
HE SAID his group had not yet worked on the details of the brief. The group will get an update and would not consult Glover or the other Lawrence Democrat representative, John
"Anything we do will not be done for any particular candidate," he said. "We want to
Bavid Berkowitz, the chairman of the County Council and his county also planned to file a brief with the Supreme Court. He said he probably would handle the brief with help from counsel.
Meanwhile, Glover and Solbach said they did not plan to tie a brief ensemble, but instead to a two-hour performance.
THE DEMOCRATIC brief would likely contend there are options that come closer to meeting two Supreme Court guidelines on whether the current bill does. Beckworm
The court has said districts should be compact and must deviate less than 5 percent from the ideal populations for each district, which is about 19,000.
Spellbound
Sunday sermon as he has nearly every Sunday morning for the last 52 years. Sims is Pastor Emeritus of the Second Christian Church in Lawrence.
Sonja Collins, 8, of 440 Illinois, sits spellbound as Reverend W.E. Sims (inset) delivers a
Pastor guides flock for 53 years
Bv CAROL REIER
Staff Reporter
The soft-spoken manner and bony figure of the 85-year-old Rev. Wesley "WES" Sins. Sins hardly reminds one of a father's laughter.
Indeed, the only thing to identify his Second Christian Church, 1248 Connecticut St., as a "house of the Lord" is a "house of the Lord."
Yet no one can doubt the power of that soft-spoken figure when he moves slowly to his place and grips the sides of his hand.
As he begins his sermon, his voice remains gentle for only a few moments - long enough for his aged vocal cues to be heard.
THE CREASES IN his face deepen to emphasize memorable passages. He raises his gray head briefly to meet the mesmerized gaze of his congregation with a trembling gaze of his own.
The sharp crescendo in his oratory are comparable to the swelling volume of the gospel church and the piano to him.
"Behold, God is my salvation," Sims' voice crashes and then ebbs. "My friends, let us think on these things."
His every phrase is echoed by one or more from his back, many of whom have closed their eyes and sway in their hearts.
"Yes, amen, yes. That's right," they say over and over.
His measured circling of the lectern to a place in front of
the wooden pews signal the choir to begin a lymp as Bismuth his finishes his clamping, and unclasps his massive
"The harvest is truly great, but the laborers are few," he shouts.
The reflection of the bright sunlight through the windows is mirrored in his glasses and as the echo's songs swell in his ears.
FOR THE PAST 35 years in Lawrence, Sims has spent the hour before Sunday noon buy at the same pastime. Since 1925, he has been pastor of the Second Christian Church, a position he relinquished last April for the position
He began his preaching career in 1919 in Georgetown, Ky., the same year he was married. He and his wife attended the same schools and she still listens to his sermons from the first new.
They raised five boys, two of whom are proachers in Texas. Sims visited those two in December but he and his wife were gone.
"This is where we'll stay. It's our home." he says, "All of our friends are here."
His church members, many of whom he greets by name,
arise
One member of his congregation, Joyce Barkdale, 1600 Barkdale, says every member of her family had been
"There are five generations in my family—since I'm a grandmother—under the Rev. Sims," she says.
"He lantized my mother down here in the Kaw River."
"He baptized my mother down here in the Kaw River." Sinsa estimates his church's membership at 100 parishioners. He smiles again when he says, "Of course, some are not too active."
There is no baptismal pool at his church. Baptisms are now performed at the First Christian Church, 100 Kendall
For that matter, there is no stained glass and there are no silver or gold candlesticks. Two electric fans sit at the back of the small room, as if monitoring the behavior of fidgeting children in the news.
WINE FOR communion is passed around in small plastic cups.
And two collections during last Sunday's service yielded about $10
However, money seems to mean little or nothing to Sims, who collects Social Security.
"The Lord's just always made it possible for us to get by and get through," he says, and the milky brown of his eyes
"All we can do is work for the Lord."
He often class his eyes for a few seconds during the service, even during the most lively selections by the chair. He does not think of anything in particular at those times, he says.
"Sometimes, you have to pause, and think about these things," he says. "The spirit guides me.
"We just let the Lord use us."
Regents ask Legislature for fuel tank funds
Bv PATRICIA MANSON
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-The University of Kansas might run out of fuel to heat the Lawrence campus if it does not buy a new fuel oil storage tank, a KU official said Friday.
The official, Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, asked the Kansas Board of Regents at its monthly meeting for money for a new storage tank. The board voted to request $390,000 from the Kansas Legislature to buy the tank.
`If we aren't able to get that tank, there is`
a certain amount of danger that we would have to close down a few days or a month in order to keep it running.
Although KU depends on natural gas for most of its energy, it has an intermittent contract with the Kansas Public Service Company to cut off KU's supply when the demand for gas is high. KU used its own oil heat to burn coal in a coal-fired winter when gas service was stopped.
KU OWNS A tank that holds 250,000 gallons of oil, a 14-day supply. It also holds
two other tanks, but the tanks have cracks and cannot be used.
The new tank would hold 250,000 gallons, an additional 15-day supply. Shankel said.
In other business, the board voted to raise the Student Union building fee at KU from $15 to $15.50 a semester. The building fee is the activity fee students pay each month.
Margaret Berlin, student body president, told the board that the Student Senate passed a resolution in 1975 approving the fee raise when the satellite union opened.
KU officials have estimated that the increase would provide $600,000 each year to KU's space fleet. The remaining $400,000 needed would be raised through sales in the satellite union's
Margaret Glades of Yates Center and Sandra McMullen of Hutchinson, the two members of the panel to meet the meeting. The Senate Select Committee on Appointments recommended last week that they be confirmed to the board. The committee also requested that state agencies, has not voted on them.