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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
April 15, 1987 Vol. 97, No. 133 (USPS 650-640)
KU fee release. salaries stuck in joint committee
Staff writer
By CHRISTOPHER HINES
TOPEKA - Deadlock
That's how much progress a state legislative conference committee made yesterday toward deciding the University of Kansas 1967 fee release, statewide faculty raises and a proposal to slash the state's travel budget.
A joint appropriations committee met for about seven hours yesterday to work out budget differences between bills passed by the state House and Senate.
In an example of legislative give-and-take, the University of Kansas lost about $70,000 so that Kansas State University could keep $100,000 in its budget.
The Senateate of the committee, led by State Sen. Gus Bogina, R-Lenexa, offered $30,000 from KU's 1988 state work-study program and about $41,000 from the School of
Law's budget. The House side then rescinded an amendment that would have transferred $100,000 from K-State's 1988 operating budget to its school of veterinary medicine.
"That's just it how works," Bogina said. "And it's only just begun."
Both the House and Senate stood strong on their KU 1987 fee release recommendations, putting the issue off until today or Thursday.
When the committee finishes its report, the full House and Senate will have to approve its recommendations when legislators return from their recess.
"The decision is whether the money is needed more by the University or other programs supported by the state's general fund, said Robert M. Hope, executive director of the House side of the computer
1987 fee release request for KU. But the Senate had raised that to about $900,000.
Bill Bunten state representative
We're making cuts in all other areas of the state budget, it's only fair that the universities take their share.'
Bogina said, "It would seem somewhat logical that since the money comes from
students, they should get some of it back. The 75 percent is accepted by considerably more people than the House's position."
The University generated about $3.2 million in additional student fees last year, none of which the state now will allow the University to spend.
Bunten said, "I think we're doing everybody a favor in these uncertain economic times by trying to keep the state in sound fiscal shape."
A bill concerning Regents institutions' 1988 operating budgets came before the committee, but faculty salary increases were left undecided.
The House had proposed a 1.5 percent faculty salary increase for half of fiscal year 1988, but the Senate had raised that to 2.5 percent for the entire fiscal year.
"We have a number of major differences in
all areas of higher education," Bunten said.
Bogina said the Senate had taken a very responsible position concerning higher education and had asked the House to do the same.
"We have to look at higher education and understand what we're doing to it." Bogina
Bunten replied. "You can't spend it if you don't got it. We're making cuts in all other areas of the state budget, it's only fair that the universities take their share."
Bogina questioned a House-approved amendment, proposed by maverick Republicans during a recent wave of budget cuts. He also asked the state two-thirds, from the state's 1988 travel budget.
"Was this thing ever studied in committee?" Bogina asked. "It's ridiculous - how would you enforce it?"
Amyxelected as new mayor
By TODD COHEN
Staff writer
David Longhurst, former city commissioner, and Sandra Praeger, outgoing mayor, exchange a hug before Longhurst steps down from office. Commissioner Mike Amyx was elected mayor, and three new commissioners were sworn in at last night's meeting.
L. A. Rauch/KANSAN
After emotional farewells, the three Lawrence city commissioners defeated in this spring's city elections relinquished their seats to their successors last night, ending four years together on the commission.
The new commission then moved quickly to elect Commissioner Mike Amy as Lawrence's new mayor, replacing Sandra Praeger, who remains on the commission.
An overflowing crowd at City Hall watched as Bob Schumm, Mike Rundle and Dennis Conway came in to handshake and recited the gate of office.
Rundle and Schumm, who was elected vice mayor, will serve four-year terms, and Constance will serve a two-year term.
The new commissioners were sworn into office by Vera Mercer, city clerk. Merck, who retires in June after 20 years in office, administered the oath from memory.
Constance, who nominated Amxy, said, "He represents the leadership that can send a message to the entire city that we are a team."
The vote and swearing-in ceremony came after outgoing commissioners Howard Hill, Ernest Angino and David Longhurst said goodbyes to the commission and lauded the city staff.
Longhurst, appearing on the verge of tears, read a three-page statement praising the city staff and each commissioner personal-
"To all of you, as colleagues on the Lawrence City Commission, I thank you, good luck and love, my friends." he said.
But Longhurst also delivered what he termed "parting shots" to new commissioners and reflected defeat in the March 3 primary.
"I must confess to being absolutely stunned at being denied the opportunity to continue on theence City Commission," he said.
"Because I know for a fact that I care more for Lawrence than
anyone else, or at least as much as anyone else. I couldn't understand why the people of my community wouldn't support my candidacy. I know in my heart and mind that I made right decisions," he said.
Referring to the possibility of a suburban mall, Longhurst said, "I don't envy you the fight, and I don't envy you the result, unpleasantness that will result."
Angino said, "I hope that the commission follows the will of the people as this commission did and not be a nunet commission."
As the three prepared to leave, Angino, looking toward Praeger, said, "Well, what do we do now?"
Longhurst replied, "Take a hike."
INSIDE
Tough times
Foreign students who have trouble understanding, the new immigration bill, which takes effect May 6, should contact officials at the foreign student office for advice and correct information. See story page 3.
Baseball coach Marty Pattin wants to leave KU with a winning baseball program, but life on the baseball field has not been easy because of the losing streak his team has faced. See story page 11.
Legal advice
Midnight tonight is the deadline for filing federal and state income tax forms. To help handle the rush, the main Lawrence post office, 645 Vermont St., will have two additional collection boxes, and all returns filed by midnight will be postmarked April 15.
Uncle Sam's deadline
New state residents to pay in-state tuition
By ROGER COREY
"We're pleased," Bruce Lindvall, director of admissions, said yesterday day of the law, which becomes effective July 1. "We think the law will be a positive motivator for families and students moving into the state."
Staff writer
The law will allow people who move to Kansas in order to accept or retain a full-time job to immediately attend an action at Board of Regents schools.
He said that when people considered transferring to another state, they added up the costs.
Administrators at the University of Kansas are enthusiastic about a law signed Friday by Gov. Mike Hayden.
"The savings in tuition could be a factor that makes them decide to continue their education."
Lindvall gave an example of a high school senior in Indiana whose parents recently moved to Kansas. The student has considered enrolling at Purdue University. But because her father moved to Kansas, she will lose her resident status in Indiana in one year.
"If she chooses to go to Purdue, she will pay in-state tuition for one year and then three years of out-of-state tuition." Lindvall said.
Out-of-state tuition at KU is $3,200 a year. In-state tuition is $1,290
He said the student would pay $16,000 tuition at Purdue for a four-year degree. At KU, given a constant tuition, she would pay $5,000.
"That has to be a deciding factor-
."Lindvall said.
Ted Ayres, Regents general counsel, said it would be difficult to verify whether a student or his family had moved to Kansas on a valid job transfer or whether the parents had found employment after moving.
The original House bill said that anyone who came to Kansas for employment would be eligible for instate tuition. This was changed, through the insistence of the Regents, to anyone who moved to Kansas from another state to installment. Full-time employment is defined as 1,500 hours a year.
In the past, students who had questions of residency were handled by the department of educational services. Now, residency problems will be handled by Carla Rasch, assistant director of admissions.
Lindvall said, "We've always been the office to raise questions of residency, but, in the past, we turned the department of educational services."
Ayres said he did not expect the law to have a big effect on KU or Kansas State University.
"I expect the long-term effect to be minimal." Ayres said
The Regents may authorize students to pay in-state tuition under the following provisions:
"The statute says 'may,'" Ayres said. "The Regents have the discretion and flexibility to accept or not accept the ruling."
Cargo jet came in too low, was warned before crash
By PAUL BELDEN
Staff writer
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The crew of a Boeing 707 cargo plane that crashed and exploded Monday night didn't answer a tower controller who twice tried to warn them their airplane was too low, a federal aviation spokesman said yesterday.
"The airplane was on its final approach, and the tower controllers had the plane on radar when the radar screen went off with a low-altitude alert," said the spokesman. Bob Kline, the federal Aviation Administration
"When an airplane gets too low, the radar screen flashes and an alarm sounds," Raynesford said. "This happened twice during the airplane's final approach. The controller warned the pilot both times, but the pilot never acknowledged the warnings."
The airplane crashed and burned about 10 p.m. Monday in a muddy
field about two miles southeast of Kansas City International Airport and a half mile north of Barry Road, killing four people on board.
The airplane was owned by Texasbased Buffalo Airways but was under a short-term contract to carry
'The controller warned the pilot both times, but the pilot never acknowledged the warnings.'
Bob Raynesford FAA spokesman
unspecified freight for Burlington Air Express, of Fort Wayne, Ind. It had taken off earlier Monday from Oklahoma City and had picked up freight in Wichita. Its eventual destination was Fort Wayne, a Burlington spokesman said.
Killed in the crash were the pilot, Clarence Ray Brenner, 52, of Henderson, Nev.; the co-pilot, David Lee Zupancic, 40, of Flower Mound, Texas; the flight engineer, Nicholas P. Pennell, 20, of Axtell, Texas; and a passenger, John Lemery, 36, of Wichita.
The crewmen were employees of Buffalo Airways, and Lemery was a 12-year employee of Mid-Continent Airlines, a Burlington spokesman said.
Six investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board in Washington, D.C., arrived in Kansas City yesterday morning to try to determine the cause of the crash.
Harold Donner, who is in charge of the investigation, said at a news
See CRASH. D. 6. col. 3
Danny Ray/KANSAF
Susan Novak, Chicago graduate student; Richard Seigel, researcher with the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory in South Carolina; and Joseph Collins, KU zoologist, pose with two of their subjects. The three co-edited the book "Snakes: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology."
Snakes sliding into research roles
By NOEL GERDES Special to the Kansan
You're hungry, but your feet are tied together, your hands are pinned behind your back and you're lying belly down on the floor. In front of you looms the refrigerator, and to eat, you must open the door.
If you can imagine this, then you can imagine what snakes must go through to catch a meal, said Joseph Collins, KU zooolist and editor with the Museum of Natural History.
After years of slithering on the earth, snakes finally are coming into their own as research animals. Collins said.
And Collins should know
Collins, Susan Novak, Chicago graduate student and Richard Seigel, researcher with the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory in South Carolina, spent about two and a half years compiling "Snakes: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology."
The 529-page text, released April 8 by Macmillan Publishing Co., is the most comprehensive book
about snakes available today, Collins said.
it attempts to summarize knowledge of snake biology and to serve as a launching point for research in the future." Collins said.
"If you take about four or five people out and lift rocks, you'll get a snake about every 50 rocks," he said.
Some scientists also may hesitate to use snakes because they are uncomfortable around them. Novak said that when she began working for an ecology laboratory, she was afraid of snakes but overcame her fear quickly.
Some snakes common in Kansas are the racer, the bull snake, the milk snake and the ringneck. Collins said that these species were harmless and would make excellent research animals.
If scientists want to research snakes, they must either catch the reptile themselves or order them from biological supply houses. Collins said that snakes were not aggressive toward humans was willing to use local species.
Scientists have overlooked snakes as laboratory animals, he said, because of a bias toward white mice and rats, which are readily available, cheap and easy to breed in captivity.
Collins said that snakes offered research opportunities that rats and mice could not.
Collins said that Takeru Higuchi used black rat snakes for his experiments. Higuchi, Regents distinguished professor of chemistry and pharmacy and former chairman of the department of pharmaceutical chemistry, died of heart failure March 24.
"For example, how does an animal without arms and legs go about eating?" Collins said. "How do snakes manage to survive and reproduce without any of the appendages we consider normal?"
Although the book is geared for biology researchers, professors and their students, Collins that said anyone with a casual interest in snakes might find parts of it useful.
See SNAKE, p. 6, col. 5