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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, APRIL 4. 1986. VOL. 96. NO. 126 (USPS 650-640)
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Proposal favors Kansas students
Regents committee endorses fee increase
By Lori Polson
Staff writer
TOPEKA  The Board of Regents Special Committee on Tuition and Fees unanimously endorsed a proposal yesterday which would increase tuition for students attending state schools.
The proposal would increase general fees for all students by 3 percent and add an additional $100 to the general fee cost for non-resident students. The increases would be equal to the general fees charged in fall 1986.
In choosing the option, the committee rejected another proposal which would increase general fee costs for all students by 6 per cent.
The proposal will be presented to the Regents at their monthly meeting April 17. Final action will be taken at the May meeting.
Stanley Koplik, Regents executive officer, said the committee had the interests of Kansas students in mind when it voted on the proposal.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said later that he was pleased with the
The proposed increase is very
conservative," he said. "The University will remain a superb economic buy."
The University of Kansas may be hit harder by the proposal than the other Regents schools, however, because the number of non-respondents attending KU
But Budig, said he didn't think the higher fees would discourage non-residents from attending the University.
According to figures from the office of admissions, 29 percent of the students attending KU are not Kansas residents.
"The University will remain highly competitive," he said. "It will remain very attractive to out-of-state
students."
Tutition is divided into general fees and restricted fees. The Regents set general fees and the individual schools set restricted fees. General fees at KU are $495 of the $655 at UC Berkeley, $877 of the $1,317 non resident tuition
The proposed increase will only affect the general fees portion of tuition costs.
Last May, the Regents passed a 5 percent general fee increase for all students which will take effect next fall. This will increase resident general fees at the University to $220 non-resident general fees to $1,475.
Tom Rawson, director of financial
planning for the Regents, said tuition increases were necessary to ensure that students paid for at least 25 percent of their education costs
The Kansas Legislature set the 25 percent fee cost ratio in the late 1960s. The ratio means the state will pay for three-fourths of educational costs at Regents schools and the students will pay for the rest.
The Regents schools are the six state universities and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
Kopik said the Regents were estimating a 5 percent increase in educational expenses because of the rise in the cost-of-living. The proposal will offset this cost, he said.
Police look for woman in bombing
The Associated Press
ATHENS, Greece — Police in several countries said yesterday that they were hunting an Arab terrorist suspected of planting under her airline seat a bomb that exploded later, killing four Americans.
Police sources said the explosives were planted under seat 10F, which was blown out of the TWA jet over Greece on Wednesday.
Italy's interior minister said a woman had occupied that seat on an earlier flight, and Greek police sources said she might have hid the bomb in a life preserver.
Lower prices for oil affect state income
By Russell Gray
Lower oil prices may have people happily filling up their tanks, but the decrease has some worried about keeping state revenues on full.
Staff writer
The decrease has created less taxable income for the severance law, seriously cutting the state's revenues, Dave Collins, an economist for the Kansas Geological Survey, said yesterday Collins has been working with the Legislature recently to find a solution to the problem.
The severance tax covers the production of various mineral resources, primarily oil and natural gas, Collins said.
The state department of revenue said there would be $84 million less revenue than what was estimated in November for the next 20 months, he
The drop in oil prices may account for more than $25 million of that amount, said Darwin Daicoff, professor of economics and a member of the Consumer Revenue Estimation Group.
Dieaffo said the combination of oil and natural gas was responsible for more than 90 percent of severance tax revenues.
Michael Kimber, associate professor of music-viola, uses an 18-foot fishing pole as a bow to play the viola. Kimber was accompanied on the piano by Patty Pace, graduate teaching assistant in music, during the Pi Kappa Lambda Faculty Folies last night.
Faculty Follies spoof music recitals
For every $1 drop in the cost per barrel of oil, the state loses about $2.3 million, said State Rep. John Solbach. D-Lawrence.
"I see no overriding political effort to reduce the tax burden on this industry because of their depressed
Daieoff said that there were other industries in Kansas that had similar problems, such as the agriculture and aircraft industries but that nothing special had been done for them.
The state must find some compromise between the revenue interests of the state and the interests of the oil producers. Collins said.
By Barbara Shear
See OIL, p. 5, col. 1
See related stories p.10.
it was the greatest show on earth — or at least between here and Tonganoxie.
It had Bach — PDQ Bach that is. It had a musical concert, uh, concerts. He had a lecture filled with scientific knowledge but also crystal pieces.
It was the Pi Kappa Lambda Faculty Follies, and the musical recital was spooled for a crowd of about 50 people. Swar-
The follies, a fund raiser for the Pi Kappa Lambda scholarship fund, was a chance for the music department faculty to show the silly side of its profession and perseverance. The music department honor society
Michael Kimber, associate professor of music and a performer in the show, said the follies had been around for several years. And he, being an old pro at spooting, loved performing in them.
"People thought it would be fun to do, a chance to relax a little bit," Kimberl said. "I have been in three follies since I have been at KK and enjoy making a fool of knowing how I know I won't in a serious rectal."
In the next skit, Patty Pace.
When the show began, the stage was barren except for a piano in the middle. By the end of the show, it was covered with everything from computer paper to popcorn.
The skits that contributed to this mess began with a B-flat "cornecerto" by Orville Redenbacher. Five musicians, played by John Boulton, professor of music-flute; Alan Hawkins, associate professor of music theory; Susan Hicks, assistant professor of music-oboe; Tom Liley, assistant professor of music-saxophone and Larry Maxey, professor of music-clarinet, entered the stage and sat down around their "inspiration" — a popcorn player.
As the conductor turned on the air popper and filled it with popcorn, the five musicians anxiously watched as the popcorn began popping. The skirt proceeded quickly as the musicians played to keep up with the rhythm of the popcorn. They came down on them, jumping on speed, as it fell to the floor.
graduate teaching assistant in music, performed an organ recital on the popcorn-covered stage. Played a pace Wiggins-type woman, a character similar to the character in the *Carol Burnett Show*.
Kimber, who sleeps stumbled in the music and dance office, found the office was plagued by a lazy secretary and phone problems. Mary Cade, secretary in fine arts, played the secretary.
After that, Kimber performed his four-scene skit about life in the music and dance department.
After a repairman solved the telephone problems by installing a Snoopy phone, which also served
See FOLLIES, p. 5, col. 3
The woman, May Elias Mansur,
was a passenger Wednesday morning on the Boeing 727 when it flew from Cairo to Athens, said the sources, who spoke on condition of freezing it to the fire or to Home and the bomb with off during its return trip to Athens that afternoon.
An airport security official in Cairo confirmed that a Lebanese woman who boarded in Cairo was about 30 years old and used that name.
The woman may have loaded plastic explosives into a life preserver under the seat during the flight from Cairo, then made a connection to Beirut at Athens, the bomb went off under that seat.
The blast tore a 9-by-3-foot hole in the cabin wall while the plane was at about 15,000 feet in its approach to Athens. A Colombian-American man and three Greek Americans — a woman, her daughter and 9-month-old granddaughter — were sucked out.
The Italian news agency ANSA quoted unidentified investigators as saying the woman was Lebanese but used a Jordanian passport in the false name of May Elias Mansur.
Maj. Gen. Hosni Farag, the Egyptian Interior Ministry assistant for the Cairo airport, gave this account in yesterday's edition of the government-run newspaper Al-Ahram:
The woman completed pre-boarding procedures later than the other passengers, and both airport and TWA security inspected her bags. She was a given a thorough body search and the airline security check before she boarded in a company car for luggage identification before she boarded.
Farag did not say why the woman was delayed, subjected to a body search or taken to the plane by TWA's security chief. The Al-Ahram report did not mention whether Egyptian officials suspected her of being a terrorist.
A Cairo airport security official.
See PLANE, p. 5, col. 3
Slattery denounces school budget cuts
By Sandra Crider
Staff writer
U.S. Rep. Jim Slattery, D.Topeka,
is constantly on the run.
Yesterday he was running around the University of Kansas like Alice's white rabbit to talk with students and faculty about what the federal government is doing and what his constituents think it should be doing.
"The congressman is a real sports fan," Jeff Dillon, Slattery's district aide, said "when he gets the mormon vote." The man asked the papers, not the political news."
He participated in a forum at the School of Law, saw the Codex Hammer by Leonardo da Vinci at the Spencer Museum of Art, ate lunch at the Kansas Union, spoke to faculty and students at the University Council and talked with students from two political science classes.
Slattery's congressional district includes Topeka, Lawrence, Manhattan and Kansas City, Kan.
He wanted to visit with KU men's basketball coach Larry Brown, but Brown was on a recruiting trip.
"Education is absolutely essential to the future of the country." Slattery
In the 1987 budget, the Reagan administration proposed cuts of 25 percent in federal financing for educa
The big topic of the day, however,
was not basketball. It was federal
hospitalism.
tion and for student financial aid.
Reductions in Guaranteed Student Loans and Pell Grants will affect the largest number of students.
"I'm one of those people who wouldn't have been able to complete my education without federal money," he said.
As a member of the House budget committee, Slattery is pushing for a freeze on the federal education allocation, he said.
Slattery is able to relate to the problems of students receiving dwindling financial aid.
He said Reagan's cuts were unacceptable.
"Economic growth and development will result in the creation of more job opportunities." Slattery said that employers will want to stay in Kansas.
Improving the state's higher educational system goes hand-in-hand with aiding a stumbling state economy.
Kansas' three primary industries are agriculture, oil and gas production and aircraft manufacturing. All three have seen better days.
But Slattery said there were signs of hope.
Some success in reducing the federal deficit has caused interest rates to drop. Low interest rates have sent the dollar's value down. Both results have helped farmers and aircraft manufacturers.
like Horton-Special to the KANSAN
U. S. Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Topeka, spoke yesterday to about 50 people during a forum at noon in Green Hall.
Proposal would make ticket scalping illegal
Staff writer
By Abbie Jones
TOPEKA — The scalper sees his target.
Standing nonchalantly just a few yards in front of the ticket booth at Allen Field House he waves the bait, calling for warrants for fans who want to see the game.
"The they are reselling our product," Richard Konzem, director of the Williams Fund, said yesterday. "It's a nuisance for us. It's a nuisance for all of our fans."
Scalping tickets in Kansas and the rampant schemes during the Final Four tournament in Dallas prompted a Lawrence senator to revive a bill that would prohibit the sale of a ticket to any event for more than its value.
Tickets to the basketball games
Ticket scalping favors the rich who have money to pay for the high ticket prices, said Winter, who traveled to Dallas to watch KU play in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament.
"It was rather disgusting," he said. "There were a whole bunch of students down there who couldn't get tickets. Inside, in the best seats, people who had probably never seen a basketball game."
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., RLawrence, received permission from the Judiciary Committee chairman to schedule hearings on the bill Monday.
"The students were the ones who got nailed," he said.
reeled in $250 to $1,000 from affluent Dallas people. Winter said, and the legitimate Kansas fans were left out of it. The student even begged him for a ticket.
Despite allegations that KU students were allocated fewer tickets to the Final Four than the other schools, Gary Hunter, assistant athletic director, said each of the four schools was given 1,700 tickets.
But the problem also hits the University.
Komzen said a group of 10 to 20 people frequently stood near ticket booths at Allen Field House and outside the gates at Memorial Stadium to scalp tickets. But because the practice is legal in Kansas, ticket personnel can't force scalpers to leave.
"Not being able to move them away is wrong." Komzen said. "It's a problem at our games."
The process inhibits business, he said, and a state law would cure some of the problems.
Under the measure, scalpers would be punished with no more than one month in the county jail.