Wednesday, April 16, 1986
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University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs
Panel will choose nominees for NASA
A panel of journalists and journalism educators has been chosen to select the south central regional nominees for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Journalism-In-Space Project.
Panel members will choose eight of 20 regional semifinalists on May 1 and 2 at the University of Chicago in the Southern regional region in national competition.
KU's journalism school is one of five schools coordinating the regional selection process for the NASA program.
Members of the selection panel are Charles Gray, news director of WDAF Radio, Kansas City, Mo.; Terry Vitale, publisher of Denver Magazine; Jim Redmon, anchor for KMGH-T江 in Denver; Pam Johnson, assistant managing editor for the Kansas City Star; W. Davis Merritt Jr., executive editor of the Wichita Eagle-Eacon; Diane Borden, Gannett Foundation professional in residence at Durham University; Adrienne Rivers-Waribach, KU assistant professor of journalism; and Del Brinkman, KU Dean of journalism.
The names of the 100 regional finalists are scheduled to be released today by project coordinators in Columbia, S.C., according to United Press International.
Cash for Kurt OKd
The Student Senate University Affairs Committee unanimously approved a bill last night that would provide $5,500 to finance partially a speech by novelist Kurt Vonnegut.
Vonnegut is scheduled to speak on Oct. 22 at Hoch Auditorium. Seating for the free speech will be on a first-come, first-served basis. The bill still needs final approval
The bill still needs final approval of the full Senate.
Coordinator named
Student Union Activities will also provide funds for the speech.
Charles Bryan, Lawrence sophomore, was named transportation coordinator April 1. He will work with Tim Boller, former transportation coordinator, until May 1.
Bryan was chosen from four applicants, Boller said. Bryan, who was not on the Transportation Board before his election, has had five years experience with motor freight transportation.
Ferguson to speak
Lew Ferguson, the Topeka bureau chief for the Associated Press, will discuss "Covering the Kansas Legislature" at 3:30 p.m. Friday in the reading room of Stauffer-Flint Hall.
The Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, is sponsoring the event.
Final day to apply
Today is the last day the Kansan will accept applications for summer and fall news staffs.
Applications are due by 5 p.m. today in the journalism dean's office. 200 Staffer-Flint Hall.
They are available in the Kansas business office, 119 Stauffer Flint, 200 StauFFER-Flint and the Student Senate office, B-105 in the Kansas Union.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny and warmer with a high around 60 and winds 15 to 15 mph. Tonight will be clear with a low around 40. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high in the mid-60 s.
From staff and wire reports.
Basketball success boosts gifts. earnings
Bv Frank Ybarra
The success of the KU basketball team is scoring big points at the cash register, according to an analysis report of contributions to the Williams Educational Fund.
Staff writer
The report, released yesterday at the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation Board meeting, indicates that contributions to the fund rose from $116,156 in February to $235,338 in March, an increase of 180 percent.
The increase is attributed to the success of the basketball team, which competed in the National College Athletic Association's Final Four, said Richard Konzem, assistant athletic director.
"We're on track, we are budget and we hope we just sustain the momentum we have now," Konzem told the board.
Total athletic contributions, including those of the Williams Fund, are expected to be about $168,000 greater than they were last fiscal year, and another increase of nearly $100,000 is expected for next year.
Tentative fiscal 1986-87 budget figures for some athletic programs were also released at the meeting. The entire budget cannot be released until the Kansas Legislature decides on state appropriations, some of which go to the Athletic Department.
Tentatively the KUAC has budgeted $6,941,600 for the 1986-87 fiscal year, including about $300,000 expected from the state.
The board unanimously voted to let the KUAC executive committee finalize the budget when the Legislature completes appropriations. The Legislature is scheduled to reconvene April 23.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig will give final approval to the KUAC budget.
is apparent in the budget. According to the report, $941,900 was earned from 16 home games this year, compared to $828,970 last year.
The success of the basketball team
Concession sales also jumped. Through March 15, $66,402 was earned in concession sales, compared to $41,300 for all of last year.
The budget calls for public seating basketball tickets to increase from $8.50 to $9 next season.
The budget also depends on a jump in home football ticket sales. Susan Wachter, assistant athletic director who reported on the budget, said the KUAC expected 2,000 more home football tickets to be sold next fall. The sales would increase home football income to $1,780,533. Last year's estimated revenue from home games was $1,484,533.
But this year, KU is actively promoting the sale of season tickets in Kansas City, Topeka and Lawrence through organizations called 'Hawks
However, a sharp decline is expected for revenue earned from away football games, Wachter said. The Jayhawks are scheduled to play only four games away from Memorial Stadium.
Clubs.
Both the Oklahoma and Nebraska games, usually big money makers, are at home next fall.
Last year's income from away football games was estimated in the budget at $762,657. This year's projected income is $370,000.
The board discussed at length the near $90,000 that the KUAC will pay KU Parking Services for the use of their facility during basketball and football games.
The corporation pays $3 for each football parking stall and $2 for each basketball parking stall.
Some board members expressed concern about the amount, and Athletic Director Monte Johnson said
he was trying to compromise with Parking Services.
In other business
In other business
Norman Yetman, professor of
American studies and sociology and
KUAC academic committee chairman,
reported on his committee's
meeting with coaches to discuss the
academic situation of athletes at the
University.
Yetman said the coaches wanted to develop a summer orientation for athletes and were concerned about the conflicts of being a student and an athlete.
Anthony Redwood, professor of business and chairman of the KUAC executive committee, said he had sent a letter to the University Senate Executive Committee after some student members of the SenEx Athletic Committee had questioned the early enrollment of athletes.
Professor moving to Smithsonian
Athletes were allowed to enroll in the first week of enrollment.
By John Buzbee
Special to the Kansan
Robert Hoffmann, Summerfield distinguished professor of systematics and ecology, has been a chairman, a dean, a curator and a diplomat during his 17 years at the University of Kansas. But he remains, foremost, a teacher.
"My bread-and-butter work, on a day-to-day basis, is teaching courses and curating collections," he said.
Hoffmann, curator of mammalogy at the KU Museum of Natural History, will leave the University on Friday to become director of the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
One of Hoffmann's goals in his new job is to encourage graduate students to come to the Smithsonian and work with faculty curators.
Hoffmann has had more than his share of graduate students at KU, said Kenneth Armitage, chairman of the department of systematics and ecology.
"He has played a major role in graduate education, particularly students working with mammals." he said.
Diane Dultmeier/KANSAN
Gary McGrath, Lawrence graduate student,
has known Hoffmann for eight years. Hoffmann was McGrath's major professor, and now they teach a class together.
"He lets me make my own decisions. If I fail, I fail on my own accord. If I succeed, it's to my credit."
"Bob seems to be willing to accept a much wider range of students," he said. "Those types of professors seem to be in the extreme minority."
Hoffmann accepted some graduate students who failed to get their degrees, McGrath said, while others got their degrees quickly.
Hoffmann is an effective leader, McGrath said, but his other characteristics will be harder to replace.
Hoffmann became chairman of the newly organized department of systematics and ecology in 1970 after coming to KU in 1968.
Robert Hoffmann, Summerfield distinguished professor of systematics and ecology, plans to leave the University of Kansas on Friday to begin work at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. He said reading was one of his favorite pastimes.
"As far as leadership goes, there are going to be people to run the department," he said. "But as far as being a graduate student professor, I don't know how his replacement will be."
He has taught many different classes, including systematics, which is the study of the diversity of organisms, mammalogy, which involves studying the behavior of mammals, and wildlife conservation.
He has also been acting dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and has traveled to the Soviet Union and China as part of his work.
Hoffmann's travels have brought recognition to KU's department of biology. Armitage said
He has also gained recognition among his students at KU.
otGtGraid said, "He is a brutally fair person. I don't think he would favor his own graduate students over anyone else for a position or an award.
"He's not judgmental. He'll give you his advice, and you can take it or leave it. He never held a grudge because I didn't take his advice. Of all the different people he comes in contact with, I've never seen him keep score."
Hoffmann is not sure how long he will stay at the Smithsonian.
Class officers elections to continue today
Board of Class Officer elections are scheduled to continue until 3 p.m. today in front of Wescoe Hall.
About 200 students voted yesterday, the first day of the election, said Doug Farley, senior class treasurer. The poll will open at 9 a.m. today, and the senior class elections committee will begin counting votes at 4 p.m. today.
By a Kansan reporter
The class officers are responsible for organizing such projects as class card specials, the HOPE award, homecoming, senior breakfast and commencement, said Mike Slaney, senior class president.
junior class positions. A group of write-in candidates is also running for the senior class positions.
The Express Coalition has candidates for the sophomore, junior and senior class officers. Smart Coalition candidates are running for
The senior class candidates for the Express coalition are: president, John Fevurly; vice president, Jim Winne; secretary, Julie Riggle; and treasurer, Mark Hanna.
The junior class candidates for Express are:
president, Cliff Stubbs; vice president, Selina Jackson; secretary, Eugenie Dillard; and treasurer, Steve Denison.
The Smart Coalition candidates for the junior class are; president, Bill Sheehy; vice president, Pat Meacham; secretary, Peggy Haslam; and treasurer, Dave Platt.
The sophomore class candidates for Express are: president, Brian Rodkey, vice president, Ron Lockton; secretary, Christina Brito; and treasurer, Brook Menees.
Freshman officers are elected in the fall.
Tax deadline causes dash to beat clock
Bv Debra West
Staff writer
The deadline for filing income taxes arrived at midnight last night and many people scrambled to beat the clock.
Among those people who put off the annual sacrifice to the Internal Revenue Service were several KU students.
One student said he even had prepared his tax returns in March, but that he didn't think about mailing them until last night. Ed Hummer, St. Joseph, Mo., junior, was at the Lawrence Post Office at about 10 p.m.
"Classes take up a lot of time," Hummer said. "I just didn't think about coming to the post office."
Not all KU students were caught unprepared. Lesa Arnold, Lawrence junior, said she filed early.
"I didn't have any trouble with the forms," Arnold said. "But my dad is a tax accountant and he helped me with the state form."
Jeff Maxwell, Enid, Okla., senior, summed up the situation for many students.
"I didn't have any income, so I didn't have to file." he said.
one tax consultant said she was so flooded by late filers yesterday that she had to turn away some.
"It itse like people have been unusually late filing this year," Mary Anderson, owner of Accounting Specialists, 812 New Hampshire said. "I've been swamped for the past week.
However, other tax preparation services said the week before the deadline was no busier than in other years.
Art Frye, a clerk at the KU Substation Post Office in Strong Hall, said that several people came in yesterday looking for tax forms and packages. "Some of them were fewer, people were mailing forms yesterday."
The main post office, 645 Vermont St., remained open until midnight to process the last-minute forms, said William Lawrence, superintendent of postal operations.
Although the office wasn't very busy during the day, it was filled with people hurrying to mail their forms during the evening hours.
Most late filers owe taxes and want to wait as long as possible before signing over their checks to the IRS, said Charlene Garzillo, tax manager at Beneficial Tax Center, 946 Massachusetts St.
Another late filer, Todd Wertz, Hampton, Va., sophomore, said, "I had to pay. I didn't want to send the check off I had to."
Garzillo said many people who came in yesterday asked to file extensions.
"They need to realize that an extension on filing doesn't give them an extension on paying," she said.
Extensions are for people who cannot complete their return on time for some legitimate reason, she said. Those who haven't received a W-2 form or who have been in the hospital can receive an extension.
the penalty for not filing a return on time is 5 percent interest on the amount owed each month that it is late, she said.
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