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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Fridav, Jan. 24, 1986, VOL. 96, NO. 82 (USPS 650-640)
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Out-of-staters may get drop in tuition fees
By Mark Siebert
Staff writer
TOPEKA - Out-of-state tuition requirements for Board of Regents schools may soon be changed to better suit new residents of the state.
A bill now under consideration by the House Ways and Means Committee would change the resident requirement from one year to six months and would allow persons who move to Kansas for employment purposes to pay in-state tuition.
KU in-state residents now pay $615 per semester, while out-of-state students pay $1.517 per semester.
The bill, sent to a subcommittee for language changes yesterday, probably will be acted on Monday, said State Rep. Bill Bunten, R-Topeka, the committee's chairman.
Stanley Kopilik, executive officer of the Regents, said the bill was designed to bring Regents schools in compliance with community colleges in the state and Washburn University in Topeka. Those schools require only six months for resident status.
The Regents schools are the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, Wichita State University, Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University, Pittsburg State University and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
"We have been pushing for this for several years," he said. "I think it will avoid a lot of confusion."
Koplik said a significant number of KU students would be affected.
The new proposal also grants resident status to people who have accepted a job but did not move in time to meet the six-month resident requirement.
The current law gives exemptions to employees of state educational institutions, military employees, people with special domestic circumstances and people who have lost their resident status within six months of their enrollment. It also provides for their spouses and dependents
Miller said the way the proposed bill read now would allow a someone to become a resident if he merely got a part-time job.
He said the language had to be changed so only those people relocating with a full-time position would get resident status.
"I think it is a good bill and has a lot of support," Miller said. "This proposal is a way to remedy some of the problems."
Koplik said he also was optimistic the bill would be passed from the committee to be voted on by the full House.
The bill has economic development implications, said Koplik, because someone who got a job in Kansas and paid taxes no longer would have to wait a year to receive resident status.
Union to offer videos for rent and purchase
By Juli Warren Staff writer
Employees of the Kansas Union Bookstore worked like elves yesterday, wrapping brightly printed little boxes in plastic and shrinking the plastic to fit with a hair dryer.
Videos will be available only to members of the KU Video Center, he said. Students and faculty who buy a lifetime membership for $10 will get four free video rentals.
Today, those 270 little boxes will be displayed in the bookstore to show the selection of videos available for rental. The bookstore will begin renting videos and video players today, said Mike Reid, assistant manager.
Videos will be $2.50 a day or $3 a weekend. Video players will be $5 a day or $10 a weekend.
Available videos will include feature titles and educational films, he said.
Students can special-order videos to buy, Reid said, and faculty members can special-order videos for students to rent.
Reid said the Burge Union might offer videos in the future if the program was successful at the Union.
Available videos include some made at colleges on subjects from surgical and dental techniques to interviews with autistic children, he said.
Reid said he didn't expect the bookstore's video rentals to infringe on the market of the Student Union Activities films.
Five of the movies on the SUA film schedule will be available at the Union, Reid said, and three of them have been shown already.
Gary Mackender, film chairman for SUA, said he didn't think having video rentals in the Kansas Union would hurt SUA's business.
"Besides," he said, "you can't show 200 people a video."
"Video hasn't cut into our program very much. We're bringing in film that hasn't been screened in this area."
See VIDEO, p. 5, col. 2
Chad DeShazoSpecial to the KANSAN
Emergency personnel attend to Charles Cassity, 59, 1414 Davis St., after he crashed his pickup truck into a traffic light pole on the northwest corner of the intersection at 23rd and Louisiana streets. Lawrence police said yesterday that cassity suffered a heart attack and ran his vehicle off the road. After striking
in the pole, Cassity's truck spun around and hit a car driven by John Mull. Hutchinson senior. Mull's car sustained minor damage. Mull was treated for a slight bump on his head and released from Watkins Hospital. Cassity, who received facial lacerations, is in critical condition.
Virus infecting students not flu
Bv Sandra Crider
Staff writer
Tired, watery eyes and red, runny noses have been filling the lobby of Watkins Hospital since the beginning of the semester, a staff physician said yesterday.
And although an influenza epidemic has appeared on the national scene, Richard Schaffer, the physician, said the students who were going to the hospital had a cofattigious viral infection other than the flu. The virus, which lasts three to seven days, has not yet been identified.
Schaffer said there was little need for alarm on campus about the virus.
"At this point, I certainly wouldn't sav it was an endemic" he said.
He said that although the number of students who came in with the virus was not dramatically high, it
appeared to be on the upswing.
Chrissy Becker, Wellington freshman, said, "I've had it for around two weeks, so I finally decided to take care of it."
"The number of cases that I've seen has seemed to increase as each week in the semester goes by," he said.
Becker, who lives in Gertrude
'The number of cases that I've seen has seemed to increase as each week in the semester goes by.' Richard Schaffer Watkins Hospital physician
The common symptoms of the virus, he said, are a sore throat, head congestion, a fever of 101 to 103 degrees and aches all over the body.
Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall, said the virus was making the rounds on her floor and was being passed back and forth between the residents. One day she would feel fine, then bad again the next, she said.
Some afflicted students said they went to Watkins for relief from the stubborn bug.
Becker's roommate, Susan Collins.
Leawood freshman, also had the bug.
Mike Olson, Lake Quivira senior,
said that in spite of the infection, he
had been attending all his classes.
"The worst thing about it is you have to take a Pepsi with you to each class to keep your throat from being dry and scratchy," he said.
Schaffer's advice to suffering students was the ever-popular doctor's remedy: "Get extra rest and drink plenty of fluids."
He said it was common to see viral infections during the winter and that he had been prescribing a decongestant and aspirin or Tylenol for aches. For more severe aches, he prescribed a drug with aspirin and codeine.
Only one patient that Schaffer has seen during the past week has had flu symptoms, such as dizziness, fever, aches and nausea, he said.
Staff writer
By Mark Siebert
TOPEKA — Legislators eliminated two provisions of the proposed Kansas lottery amendment yesterday and then passed it out of committee so the issue could be debated on the full 'House floor.
The committee took two sections out of the amendment — one that provided for a state lottery commission and another that designated the lottery's funds.
The original resolution earmarked all the lottery's revenues, after operating costs, for reducing general property tax levies.
The House Federal and State Affairs Committee passed the resolution, which allows for a state-owned and operated lottery, on a voice vote after a short discussion.
Miller, R-Wellington, said the committee had taken a big step but the Legislature had a long way to go before it got a two-thirds majority in the House.
A vote was still some time away, Miller said. "But this step is the furthest such an amendment has gone in the 124 years of Kansas history."
House Speaker Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, said he thought the lottery amendment would come to a vote the first week of February and the resolution was about five votes short of a two-thirds majority.
Committee Chairman Robert H.
"The votes that are not committed are people who are open minded — both Republican and Democrat," he said. "This is not a partisan issue."
A committee member opposed to endorsing the resolution said the process was just getting started and that the committee should not pass the
bill to the House
"I feel like it is too early at this time," said William Brady, D-Parorsons, the committee member. "We're just starting to hear from our constituents."
If the House passes the amendment by a two-thirds majority, the resolution will go back to the Senate for confirmation of the changes. The Senate passed the resolution during the 1985 session.
One committee member, State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, said she thought an early vote meant the resolution would be passed.
If lottery supporters do bring it to a vote in 10 days, it would pass in the House, Charlton said. "If they need to, they may take a few more weeks twisting arms."
Charlton, who hasn't decided which wav to vote, said even if the
lottery amendment was passed this session, the state will still need more revenue.
She said tickets probably wouldn't be sold until 1988 and the state wouldn't receive any revenue until 1989.
"We need money for the general fund now. The lottery is not going to provide the additional revenue when we need it." she said.
The Federal and State Affairs Commission next week will tackle another controversial gambling issue — parental wagering.
Miller said the legislative leadership might want the lottery and parimutuel issues debated on the floor at the same time.
The committee will listen Tuesday to supporters of the resolution to put horse racing by the county before the voters.
Increased enrollment taxes English faculty
GTAs feeling numbers crunch
By Lynn Maree Ross Staff writer
The University of Kansas' English department faces an increasingly difficult task — teaching more students with fewer faculty members and fewer dollars. And the task will be only more difficult if solutions aren't found soon, the chairman of the department said last week.
The department has a serious imbalance between the number of students, and the faculty and graduate teaching assistants who can teach them, said Michael Johnson, the chairman.
Over the last eight years, the number of faculty members has diminished while department enrollment has continually increased. Since 1978, enrollment in ENGL 102 has increased 30 percent, and the average number of students in each section has increased 34 percent. The biggest jump occurred this semester in ENGL 102.
About 450 more students than expected enrolled in ENGL 102 this semester — about 600 more than last spring.
James Hartman, acting director of freshman-sophomore English, said the department had expected only about 85 percent of the students who had enrolled in ENGL 101 last fall to enroll in ENGL 102 this spring. He said he was not sure why the enrollment had increased.
Because of the unexpected increase, he said, the department has increased the number of ENGL 102 sections and juggled teaching assignments.
"It hasn't been fun," Hartman said. "We try to spread the pain around."
Even with the increased number of sections, each class has an average of 29 students — a 26 percent increase compared to the 1984 spring
semester.
The graduate program is the backbone of the department, he said. But the stipend for English GTAs is
Johnson said low graduate teaching stipends and an insufficient number of GTAs added to the problem.
The added students place a larger burden on the graduate teaching assistants who teach most of the ENGL.102 classes.
lower than those for GTAs in English departments at other universities, thus making it more difficult to recruit candidates.
Schools such as the University of Illinois or the University of Wisconsin award stipends of about $7,000, he said. But those' figures can't be directly compared with KU's because the amount paid by another school might be for less work or include different benefits, Hartman said.
Hartman said new GTAs at KU received $5,750 to $6,300 a year, depending on their experience and teaching load.
Johnson said the English department determined GTA stipends based on the number of GTAs needed to fill the teaching schedule.
The number of GTAs is divided into the amount of money allotted to the department by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, he said.
Budget cuts made by the state also decreased the amount of money the University and the GTAs receive.
Those cuts leave Johnson with two choices, he said. He could either hire the same number of GTAs as in previous years at a lower stipend or hire fewer GTAs for a similar stipend.
To handle the number of courses
See ENGLISH, p. 5, col. 1