Friday, April 11, 1986
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs
ZBT fraternity to get charter tomorrow
Zeta Beta Tau, 1625 Edgehill Road, will receive a charter from its national fraternity tomorrow night, Ken Braus, a member and founding father, said yesterday.
ZBT was on campus from 1960 to 1974, but never received a charter and closed during the Vietnam War because of pressures on all fraternities, Kraus said. Alumni from those years are expected to attend the ceremony, which begins at 8 p.m.
Art historian to talk
The fraternity came back to the University of Kansas in September 1982, he said.
The former director of the Spencer Museum of Art will speak tonight on the subject of American art and his experiences since leaving the museum four years ago.
The speech by Charles C. Eldredge, director of the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., will be at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of Spencer Museum.
$^{10}$ Eldredge will show slides of prominent American art works and discuss his job at the National Museum, a part of the Smithsonian Institute.
While at the University of Kansas, Eldredge taught courses in American art history and was instrumental in moving the Spencer Museum's art collection from Spooner Hall to the museum's new building.
Prof to speak on life
John Maynard-Smith, professor of genetics at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England, will speak at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow in Wooldruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. His speech is titled, "The Origin of Life."
Orientation planned
A dedication ceremony and open house is scheduled after the speech at the new Haworth Hall addition. Both events are open to the public.
An orientation for students admitted to the University of Kansas Study Abroad programs for next year will be held from 9 a.m. to $3\frac{1}{2}$ p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas Union.
Students who will be studying in Asian countries next year will have a separate orientation at a later date.
Kansan applications
The Kansan is accepting applications for summer and fall editors and business managers.
Applications are due by 5 p.m. today. They are available in the Kansan business office, 119 Stauffer Flint Hall; the journalism team's office; the Student Senate Office; B105 at the Kansas Union.
Applicants will meet Wednesday with the Kansan board, the governing body of the newspaper. The editors and business managers will be chosen afterward.
Applications for other news and business staff positions are due by 5 p.m. Wednesday in 200 Stauffer-Flint.
Weather
Today will be cloudy with a 20 percent chance of morning showers and decreasing cloudiness by afternoon. The high will be in the mid- to upper-60s, with winds 5 to 10 mph. Tonight and tomorrow will be partly cloudy. The low tonight will be in the mid- to upper-40s, and the high tomorrow should be in the mid- to upper-60s.
TOPEKA — The Kansas House passed the 1987 fiscal year budgets for the Board of Regents and the University of Kansas yesterday in a measure that two Lawrence representatives did not support.
From staff and wire reports
House passes '87 budget for Regents, KU
By Mark Siebert
Democratic representatives Jessie Branson and Betty Jo Charlton called the budgets inadequate and voted against the bill, which passed 84-40.
Staff writer
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said he didn't support the changes in the Regents budget but voted in favor of the proposal.
"There are no systemwide issues in the bill,
but the KU budget itself isn't in too bad a
With only two days left in the session, a budget compromise must be worked out by a six-member conference committee made up of three members from each house.
shape, " Solbach said. "I could have justified a 'no vote.'
"I voted against it as a protest," Charlton said, "because it was completely inadequate."
Chariton said the Regents budget that came to the floor had no credibility. The deletions by the House Ways and Means Committee last week were made because no revenue package had been put together, she said.
The committee recommended a $3.2 million cut in KU's $185 million budget and a slight cutback in capital improvements. About $3 million
of the deletions were a result of the committee's decision not to increase the Regents systemwide budget.
The House cut the Senate-recommended budget for the Regents by 3 percent in faculty salaries, 1 percent in the state's contribution to university grant investment and 4 percent in the student wage base.
These cuts put the House's budget back to the same level as the governor's basic budget.
The Regents schools are the six state universities and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
The only program adjustment that was made in the KU budget was the deletion of $100,528 and two faculty positions for the science instrumentation laboratory.
Branson said she didn't think the budget should have been considered until the House passed a revenue-enhancing measure.
Later in the day, the House passed its version of the sales tax increase, but a compromise still has to be worked out in a conference committee that will meet today.
The Regents and KU budgets were passed by the Senate on March 28; the Senate had passed a 1-cent sales tax increase the week before.
Solbach said a coalition of representatives considered amending increases into the budgets but decided just to speak on the issues before the full House.
Sales tax bill is approved by the House
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — The Kansas House yesterday approved bills raising the state sales tax and increasing the individual income tax burden of upper bracket taxpayers. The Senate, however, balked over accepting the House revenue plan.
The bills are destined for bargaining between the two houses in a conference committee. But The House didn't appoint its members yesterday, and the six-member panel isn't scheduled to meet until this morning.
"We just need to meet with more senators to see what there is support for," said State Sen. Fred Kerr, Pratt and chairman of the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee.
Kerr is serving as chairman of the tax package conference committee. On identical 63-61 votes, the House passed bills which would:
The second bill reduces income taxes paid by those with incomes under $25,000 by $13.3 million. It increases the income tax liabilities of those making more than $25,000 by $16 million, and leaves the state a net gain of $2.7 million.
- Increase the state sales tax from 3 percent to $1\frac{1}{2}$ percent effective May 1 of this year, and raise it to 4 percent Jan. 1. That would generate $9.9 million of new revenue in the final two months of this fiscal year, which ends June 30. It would generate $131.8 million in fiscal year 1987, which begins July 1. The Senate wants a full penny increase for the full fiscal year, gaining $172.1 million.
The biggest chunk of the $16 million increase would come from those in the $50,000 to $100,000 income bracket, who would pay $6 million more.
■ Amend the state income tax regulations to allow Kansans to claim the same standard deduction on their state returns that they may now claim on their federal returns. It also would allow Kansans to claim 30 percent of the child care deduction they claim on their federal returns. It would allow individual income taxpayers a $55 tax credit per dependent instead of the present $1,000 personal exemption per person.
Untangling
Amy Lee, 900 Alabama St., and Doerr, 10, son of Andrea Warren, 814 Alabama St. played yesterday in front of Memorial Stadium.
Allen Lee, 10, fights to untangle his kite from Ben Doerr's kite. Lee, son of
Hazing bill clears House, goes to Carlin
Staff writer
By Mark Siebert
TOPEKA - Anti-hazing legislation is on its way to Gov. John Carlin's desk for approval after it easily passed the Kansas House yesterday. 105-18.
KU fraternity and sorority officials said yesterday that they didn't know whether a laziness law was in effect.
But Erik Hansen, Interfraternity Council president, said the new law was an improvement.
"It is definitely better than the last one," Hansen said. "We've been discussing it, and it seems to be fine with everybody the way it'is been amended.
"I personally think it will be good to have something on the books."
The proposed hazing law received new life Wednesday when Senate Majority Leader Paul Burke, R-Lewood, tacked the proposal onto a routine House bill concerning criminal procedure.
"What I don't want to have is a tragedy before we do something," said Burke. He sponsored the original hazing bill that was defeated by the House on April 4.
The new hazing measure would make reckless hazing as a condition of membership into a social or fraternal organization a class B misdemeanor, punishable by a $1,000 fine and up to six months in jail.
Hazing is defined as willfully and wontonly coercing, demanding or encouraging any act that could be expected to result in great bodily harm, disfigurement or death.
State Rep. Clint Acheson, R-Topeka, recommended that the full House concurr with the Senate's changes because the penalty was lessened and the hazing definition was revised.
Lawrence representatives Jessie Branson, Betty Jo Chariton and John Solbach, all Democrats, voted in favor of the measure.
In the original bill, a hazing violation was a Class A misdeamner and was defined as any act that violated the law.
Hansen and other opponents of the bill feared the law would open up student organizations and their
Burke, who softened the legislation to push it
through the House, said the bill alerted county and district attorneys to their options in a hazing incident.
"I think it makes it clear to the prosecutors that the mechanism is in place," Burke said.
Mary Kelly, president of Panhellenic Association, said she didn't think there was a problem with hazing in sororities at KU.
"I think the bill is a little redundant," said Kelly.
She said enough internal regulations were in place to take care of any problems that arose.
Burke said he received many telephone calls telling him of hazing incidents and hoped the legislation would make student organizations aware that regulations prohibited hazing.
Burke said he intended to send a letter and a copy of the law to student organizations and administrators in the Board of Regents system to inform them of the new law, if Carlin signs it.
The Regents schools are the six state universities and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
Med Center man to direct fungi stock center
Staff writer
By Russell Gray
But these were no ordinary fungi. They were from the National Genetics Stock Center and were on their way to the University of Kansas Medical Center.
In October, Craig Wilson loaded and drove a rental truck full of fungi halfway across the United States by himself.
"We're kind of used to humble situations," Wilson, the curator of the stock center, said yesterday of the odyssey.
The fungi were moved because Lee Kinsey, a physician at the Med Center, was chosen as the host.
and because of his background, he was the logical choice for the position.
"It's sort of a service job that someone has to do." he said.
Kinsey said because the Med Center could offer the space for the center at the right time
The selection process involved finding a person who was in a position to take the responsibility, Kinsey said. The National Science Foundation is the founder and sponsor of the stock center.
The stock center was founded in 1860 at Dartmouth University in Hanover, N.H., but moved to Humboldt State University in Arcata, Calif., in 1970 when the director at the time moved.
"Part of the deal was, 'If you want me, you get my collection,' " Wilson said.
fungus from catastrophes, Wilson said.
The primary reason the center was started was to preserve genetically defined strains of
The center also guards against the loss of a strain by people cleaning out dirty-looking, old furniture.
"I mean, fungus doesn't look like too much," Wilson said.
Fungus is a form of plant that absorbs nutrients from what it is growing on, he said. It can dry up and disappear without proper care, which makes it important for the center to take care of its fungi.
The organization of the fungus cell is similar to that of a human but is more primitive, Kinsey said. It can be manipulated in ways a human organism cannot, but the results are still applicable to people.
ing problems in genetics and biochemistry.
The fungi primarily is used as a tool for solv-
Researchers can study inherited traits in fungi faster than in humans. Wilson said. Humans and plants can sometimes take up to 20 years to show the effects of an inherited trait, but fungi can do it quicker.
The center provides fungi for people doing research with the principal strain at the stock center — neurospora, Wilson said. Instead of using a sample from a laboratory, he may have the center send him its fungus.
"It's a real timesaver for people doing work in that way," he said.
A centralized collection of a strain helps with standardization because researchers across the world know they're working with similar strains, Wilson said.
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The Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic would like to thank all who donated time and effort for the Red Cross Blood Drive 1986.
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