KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol. 89, No. 109
Wednesday, March 7, 1979
KU budget items approved
Staff Reporter
By TAMMY TIERNEY
TOPEKA-As expected, the Kansas House Ways and Means Committee yesterday approved the addition of $16,100 for women's athletics and a library security system to the fiscal 1980 KU budget.
Committee members also approved a transfer of $77,700 from an allocation for renovation of Marvin Hall to
Unexpected to the budget were $80,000 to the Kansas State scholarship fund, $35,000 for the development of sandstone aquariums in western Kansas and $80,000 for the development of sandstone aquariums in eastern Kentucky between KU's Bureau of Child Research and the northeast
athletics is less than one-tenth of $267,368 requested by KU. The money would be used for travel to athletic events and a team.
Also part of the governor's budget建议 was a $1,277,500 allocation for the renovation of Marvin Hall
However, committee members split that figure, allocating $1 million for the renovation of Marvin and a nearby parking lot.
State Rep. David Heinemann, R-Garden City, and he favored splitting the money to get both projects started this
Committee members said the funds to finish both buildings should be allocated by the Legislature next year.
said, are maintaining a 9.5 percent increase in student wages for next year, increasing the Kansas Scholarship program from $750,000 to $830,000 and raising a recommended faculty salary increase from 6 to 10 percent.
Both the scholarship and faculty salary funding are needed, he said, to keep teachers and students at Kanaas
ZACHARIAS SAID the governor's recommended increase in student salaries would bring them in compliance with the department's budget.
"Faculty and students should not be enticed out of the state," he said.
ANSK's other funding priorities, Zacarias said, are an increase in the fee waivers for graduate students from 60 to 100 percent, full reimbursement to universities for student union rentals, allocation of money for the removal of certain nonessential expenses and of the formula funding budget method and an increase of the salaries of Regents staff members from 2 to 1.7 percent.
Landlords warv of abuse
By KATE POUND Staff Reporter
Get married, get rid of your pet and pay attention, local landlords suggest, if you want to see your security deposit
Deposits are returned when a tenant moves out, unless the apartment is damaged or the lease broken.
In an informal survey of about 20 Lawrence landlords, most said that married tenants caused less damage than unmarried ones, and that pets and negligence caused more damage than anything else.
"The tendent that does the most damage is the person with a pet," Mark Schneider, of Schneider Investments, said. "Married couples are least likely to do any damage."
Schneider, who owns several hundred rental units, said pets damaged carpeting, draps and woodwork. Often, he said, carpeting must be replaced after a tenant has kept an animal in an apartment.
TENANTS WHO PUT silverware down garbage disposals and damage appliances by improper cleaning cost landlords more in repairs than do vandals, several landlords said.
Negligence and ignorance cause much damage, almost all of the landlords reported.
"The most damage is caused by ignorance," Toni Campbell, 625 W. 16th St., who owns 12 Lawrence rental units, said. "When tenants have a problem, they don't recognize it until it becomes a big one."
Most tenants do little damage to apartments and get their deposits back, the majority of the landlords said. Vandalism is rare and most damage is the result of normal wear.
Kenneth Walker, 1021) Randall Road, who rents several apartments to students, said he rarely kept a security
However, at least one former tenant of the Towers said that getting back his entire deposit was not so easy.
GARAGE CHASE, Leawood senior, said he lost part of his deposit each of the two years he lived at the Towers. The Towers management deducted charges from him and his coimmates for not cleaning their apartments.
Barbara Fendley, manager of the Jahywah Towers Apartments, 1650 W. 18th St., said the majority of the residents were in their 40s and 50s.
"They said the charges were for general cleaning and said they couldn't give us any more specifics," Chase said. "The apartment was shipshape. They were just out to take every apartment."
The biggest problem, several landlords said, is that tenants often leave dirty apartments.
Cleaning an empty apartment can cost several hundred dollars, Juanita Humard, manager of Mails Ode English School in Dallas.
Although vandalism is rare, it does occur, several landlords said. Few tenants purposefully cause excessive damage, Dick Lynch, Lynch Real Estate, 2271 Ohio St., said but there is always an exception.
walls and cleaning or replacing dirty carpeting and drains can cost more than $200.
"Just about the time you forget they can do it, someone does. I yelled said.
THE WORST RECENT damage to his property occurred when a tenant poured cement down the drains of an apartment, he said. Plumbers will not be able to start to repair the damage until the ground thaws.
Lynch said his properties had been damaged heavily in the past three months. Most vandalism, including kicked-in doors, broken windows and holes knocked in walls, can be repaired easily, he said.
Landlords occasionally have to deal with tenants who move without paying their rent. Although this doesn't seem like a bad thing, it's not ideal.
Lynch said the repairs and loss of rent income when the repairs are finished probably would cost him several millions.
Rent collection can be difficult in such cases.
Lawrence Property Management owns or manages several thousand rental units in the area, including
Failing to pay rent occurs more often in lower-priced housing than in expensive apartments, Ed Church, of Lawrence Property Management, 1611 Andrews Drive, said.
THE LANDLORDS said they could do little to prevent damage or force tenants who skip out to pay their rent. Some damage and problems are to be expected by landlords. Schneider said.
Most of the landlords said they tried to check the condition of apartments with new tenants and to record any damage. When an apartment is vacated, a landlord refers to the description and determine what has been
"Tenants living in lower-priced apartments have less money and are scratching to get through school," he said.
Church said less controversy occurred when the signed checklist was used.
A representative of the association said she encouraged tenants to have the landlord sign the checklist and keep a copy of it for themselves. Most landlords agree with this policy.
MOST LANDLORDS require a security deposit from tenants. The Kansas Landlordr and Tenant Act states that landlords must have a deposit.
The Consumer Affairs Association of Lawrence says that a written and signed check can protect tenants.
OF THOSE REQUESTS, Zachariah said, the graduate fee waiver, improvements to make buildings accessible to the handicapped and Regents salary increases are most important.
unfurnished apartment or one and one-half month's rent for a furnished apartment.
A deposit can be held and used to pay for repairing damage done by tenants, but it cannot be used by the tenant for rent. the act states. Landlords can hold damage deposits if tenants do not pay rent.
In addition to requiring deposits, many landlord's ask tenants to sign leases. A lease is important, Campbell said, because it formalizes the tenant-landlord relationship.
"It lets people know what we expect from them and what they can expect from us," she said.
The act says that tenants can also lose security deposits by breaking their leases. Landlords, however, must be able to prove that they have met all the terms of the lease and that tenants have not.
Landlords said disagreements between landlords and tenants often were handled in Small Claims Court, which has jurisdiction over cases involving landlord-tenant disputes.
Landlords are using the Small Claims Court more often now than in previous years, several landlords said.
"IT'S THE PRINCIPLE of the thing," Schneider said. "We've not to fight the damage somehow."
However, landlords said the Small Claims Court was not very effective. Lynch said if favored tenants. Landlords can use the Small Claims Court only five times a year, and cases often take months to settle, he said.
Another problem with small claims is that landlords can file actions against residents of Douglas County only, according to Rhonda Ross, 1643 Rhode Island ST, owner of three rental properties.
If tenants leave the county without paying for damages or rent, they cannot be prosecuted, she said.
Courtey and communication are the best tools lindwards have to prevent damage, Mary Lou Roberts, sales manager of Mitchell Agency Inc., 818 Massachusetts St., said. "If you treat a tenant properly, you will reciprocate."
HOWEVER, SOME tenants said not all landlords took the time to cnmunicate.
Ken Beck, Greensburg graduate student, said his landlord did not go through his apartment with him or fill
Beeck said the apartment was in poor condition when he moved in and the landlord did not attempt to clean it. The landlord was slow to correct problems in the apartment and did not seem to care about his tenants, Beck said.
"He's not the worst landlord." Beck said. "He's just not very quick."
On the other hand, Elizabeth Yates, manager of Stadium Apartments, 1123 Indiana St. said she had been on a visit to a child care center.
"It surprises me that so many people are willing to sign a lease and not take responsibility for the property."
By LOIS PRESS Staff Renorter
College students who invest in a house can graduate with money in their pockets if they keep on their property.
"I've already made at least $10,000," Mike Weas, Shawnee junior, said.
Weas began his property investments by purchasing a home to rent. He now owns five homes on Tennessee Street, with 41 rental units.
We bought all his properties on contract. Through this method, instead of using bank financing, the seller finances the property for the buyer. The down payment is made to us at a discount rate.
One of the biggest problems students have in purchasing property is financing the investment.
If the buyer defaults, the property reverts back to the seller, who keeps all previous payments.
Jack Collins, a former KU student, said his roots were now established in Lawrence because of a house he bought here in August.
...accts of the business," he said. "If you're going to hire out
% going to coat you a fortune and you're not going to my e
WEASSAID that owning rental property was not an easy business.
Collins said his father co-igned his home loan. He said he would not have been able to get the loan with the bank because he had been accused of cheating.
He originally bought his Victorian-style house at 521 Louisiana St. as an investment. But he has put more money into the property he said, the house now is a part of him.
odeling, which is about I be cheaper than con-
Cofran purchased his mobile home for about $6,000 and he said he probably will get about $5,000 when he sells it.
JAMES COFRAN, Topeka sophomore, owns a used mobile home at Ridgeview Estate 1908 E. 19th St. He said he liked living away from campus.
But he worries about fire.
Baraban said if he kept the home in excellent shape he could get at least 75 percent of his investment back when he sold it.
He pays a $55-a-month lot fee at Mobile Acrees South Park, 440 W. Sixth St. The fee includes trash and water service. Other utilities are paid separately.
He said he moved to a house because he wanted to be able to have a dog and that at an apartment he would have been charged an expensive pet deposit.
Home investments bringing profits
Collins said he earned about 7.5 percent a year on his investment. He arrived at that figure by subtracting an 8.3 percent interest rate on his loan from a 104-15 percent interest rate.
"I would say the majority of students I've dealt with need parents or someone to co-sign for them," Rick Jordan, sales manager of Interstate Mobile Home Sales, Inc. 1020
"If this place ever catches on fire, it will go up like a torch," he said.
Parents with more than one student at the University of Kansas have an opportunity to give good investment because many must be in a house together, Howard Eardley or another Heidelberg校友 Jody Gourd, Chanute junior, said her father figured the rent he would to pay with three students in college was about the same as the payments he would making on a house.
Students can invest in a mobile home by getting a bank loan.
Paul Baraban, Overland Park junior, used GI Bill money to invest in a new mobile home, but still needed a co-signer for the loan.
he said, the house now is a part of him.
Mobile homes that are from one to two years old and in good condition are a good investment because they don't deprecate much after the first two years, he said.
FOR EXAMPLE, a student who purchased a used 12-60 month home for $4,500 and financed it during a five-year period probably would owe about $1,500 by the time he
1 WAS TIRED of landlocks and always healed hoseel! "Calline said"
Steve Jones, president of the Board of Realists in Lawrence, said that a house was good investment but cost $1 million to build the cost of a college education. A student could expect to make about 7 percent a year on an investment in a
we've about 10,000 students the graduated. He could sell it for $4,000 and leave Lawrence with $2,500. Jordan said.
Unless a student had substantial savings, a trust fund or a steady in
me, he would need a co-signer on his loan, Jones said.
Mary Lynch, owner of Lynch Real Estate, 2327 Ohio St., said that to make any profit, a buyer should plan to own the property for at least two years. Otherwise, she said, the owner would pay $100,000 for the land.
"IF YOU JUST move in there and expect to live there two years and drain off the profit and not put anything back in the house, force it," she advised.
Ann Powell, loan officer at the First National Bank of Lawrence, 900 Massachusetts St., said that a student should be aware of all the expenses involved in the purchase of a house. She said that First National required 20 percent of the purchase price as a down payment.
Realists' commissions, insurance, back property taxes, appraisal and attorney's fee,
if one is retained, are all possible expenses, she said.
Realists suggested that students interested in investing in a house shop around for the best buy, consider their financial situation and then approach the bank with their information.
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ie said that if small snack bars began rating across campus, it would be hard mit their number.
The Union, said the Union had exclusive its to the concessions on campus because Union was organized to provide service Union does not pay for the tract, he said.
ORREST JOLLY, director of vending the Union, said concessions could be made to the workers to extract. He said the profit from the vending machines was deposited in the Union bank.
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contract, but I think the芦荟 contract
repealed," he said. "KU
concessions has no reason to improve its products because it does't have to compete
But Jolly said competition would raise the food prices and cause a reduction of service. "No one will wind soft drinks for 25 cents. The only place where grocery store will get wholesale," he said.
JOLLY SAID machines in MCollume were serviced three times a day on Sunday.
"McCollim is always serviced three times because it is a large dorm. We pamper McCollim because it is such a large room. The same one cold food machine but it holds 180 cups."
"We have 12-hour service on the machines, so they really shouldn't be emptied."
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Staff Reporter
By BILL RIGGINS
KU schools losing n battle for students
Although most schools within the viversity of Kansas had slight enrollment reases compared with a year ago, four oids had decreased, figures released last week by the office of admissions and ords indicate.
three of the four schools have limits on number of students they accept. The *c* schools with decreasing enrollments have lower educational, Pharmacy and Social Welfare; the *h* school of Education, the only school not an enrollment limit that recorded a reuse, had the most severe decrease. The *h* schools has 48 fewer students than a rago.
BE ENROLLMENT decrease reflects wide publicity given to the lack of jobs ination, Data Scannell, dean of education, yesterday.
We make sure we talk to all students who e into the school and inform them of the payment limitations," he said. "We teach them that if they don't then their not to stay in the school."
e School of Architecture, which has rolled enrollment, experienced the largest loss. 17 students. Dennis McLeod, the vice president, the decrease was due to the way alignment was figured. He said the total eight hours in the school had risen from 80 to 112 students, an officer said 119 students majoring in architectural engineering were listed under School of Engineering but were also enrolled in School of Architecture and an Design.
HE SCHOOL OF Social Welfare had a cease of 13 students. Edith Black, stant dean, said the school's practicum ram limited the number of students could be admitted. The school requires all teachers and workers in unction with their class work.
ie School of Pharmacy, the other school
rding a last decline, had one less student
spring than a last spring.
rollment increases in the Graduate
college, the College of Liberal Arts
and nces, the schools of Business,
Medicine, Law and Health. Law
the College of Health Sciences.
igh Cotton, associate dean, said lack of rattasy space prevented the school from pting more students. The school usually ives 120 to 156 applicants each year.
E ITOTAL enrollment at the Lawrencepus this spring increased by 244ents over last spring. Enrollment isnow at its highest level of all the schools recording increases do
not limit the number of students they accept. Exceptions are some departments of the Graduate School and the School of Law and the College of Health Sciences.
The Graduate School had the largest increase, 101 students. Dorothy Haglund, assistant to the dean of liberal arts, said the Graduate School's admissions process varied from one department to another, but all required a certain level of because of space and staff restrictions.
The second largest gain was in the School of Fine Arts, which had an increase of 46
"We've had a very steady rise," Don Scheid, associate dean, said. "We haven't experienced any drastic rises or falls. I think enrollment is leaving off."
THE SCHOOL OF Business had the next highest increase, 36 students, and the School
Enrollment for Schools Spring 1978 Spring 1979
Graduate 5,104 5,205
Liberal Arts 9,114 9,132
Architecture 412 418
Business 918 924
Education 1,460 1,291
Engineering 1,328 1,561
Economics 1,197 1,697
Journalism 612 615
Law 454 473
Legacy 440 239
Social Welfare 496 483
Health Sciences 1,505 1,506
of Engineering followed with an increase of 33 students.
David Kraft, dean of engineering, attributed the growth of the school to a strong job market and an increase in enrollment by women and minorities.
Although the School of Law enrollment increased by 19, Martin Dickinson, dean of the school, said he expected the school's enrolment to remain fairly stable.
This year, the school accepted 190 students out of 650 who applied.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, which had an increase of 18 students, has had slight increases during the past few years, according to Bob Adams, associate
Enrollment in the School of Journalism, which had an increase of three students, has also had only slight increases in the past few years, Lee Young, acting associate dean,
The College of Health Sciences had an increase, but a small one. It had one more graduate.