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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
April 9,1987
Vol. 97,No.129
(USPS 650-640)
Inverted
vws McCauley of Lawrence executes a maneuver that skaters call an invert. McCauley used the base of the stand in front of Lippincott Hall to practice yesterday. McCauley is a member of the Heartland Skate Club.
Senate approves pay raise for state university faculty
By CHRISTOPHER HINES
Staff writer
"I think the vote will send a clear signal to the house that the Senate supports higher education in Kansas," said State Sen. Wint Wint Jr., R-Lawrence, who drafted the salary increase amendment.
Gov. Mike Hayden recommended a 2.5 percent faculty salary increase as
TOPEKA - Without one vote of opposition, the state Senate yesterday overrode a committee recommendation and approved a 2.5 percent salary increase for state university faculty.
"The salary increase gives our faculty some degree of equity with that of university faculty in other states," he said.
Winter proposed the amendment during full Senate discussion on a fiscal year 1988 expenditures bill for Board of Regents institutions. The Senate Ways and Means Committee had recommended a 2.5 percent faculty salary increase for only half a year, but Winter's amendment raised it to 2.5 percent for all of fiscal 1988.
The bill now goes to a conference committee, which will hammer out differences between the House and Senate versions. The House, during a recent wave of budget cuts, approved a 1.5 percent salary increase beginning Jan 1, 1988, or an annual increase of only 0.75 percent.
part of his 1988 budget proposals, and has said he would stand firm on that figure.
Winter's amendment provide some senators an opportunity to voice their support for Kansas higher education and Hayden's recommendation.
I think the vote will send a clear signal to the House that the Senate supports higher education in Kansas.'
R-Lawrence
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr.
State Sen. Jeanne Hoferer, R-Topau, said the quality of the state's higher education system was one of the biggest about Kansas, but that could change.
"We have to support the governor on this issue," said State Sen. Michael Johnston, D-Parsons. "He is doing the necessary minimum to keep good faculty in the state."
"We in Kansas can hold our heads high among other states and be proud
of our institutions of higher learning," she said. "But if we don't do something for faculty morale, they could slip through our fingers like grains of sand."
Some senators opposed Winter's amendment in a preliminary vote, but when a final roll call vote was completed, a voted yes. Four senators abstained
State Sen. Frank Gaines, D-Augusta, said the Legislature often financially overlooked public primary and secondary schools for the more attention-grabbing state universities.
"The strength of our primary and secondary schools is the key to guaranteeing the quality of our students when they reach the university level." said Gaines, who voted for the amendment. "We need to look at all the education bills together to find out how much we spend and where to give Kansas education equity at all levels."
The Regents bill, now amended,
eventually will have to be approved
by the House, which has consistently
faculty salary increases this
session.
But State Rep. John Solbach, D-Dawrence, said there was hope for House approval of the salary increase if an adequate coalition of Democrats and Republicans could be formed.
Suburban mall still a possibility
Staff writer
By TODD COHEN
Hours after Lawrence voters soundly rejected a 3-year-old downtown mall proposal, surburban mall developers already are appearing on the city's horizon, several city leaders said yesterday.
supported the mall, was defeated in the primary
In Tuesday's city election,
Lawrence residents rejected the
downtown mall project on three separate
referendum questions by margins of 78 percent to 21 percent; 75
percent to 30 percent; and 70 percent to
30 percent.
Three anti-mall Lawrence City Commission candidates also rolled to easy victories Tuesday, unseating two incumbents who had supported the mall. A third incumbent, who
"That's a very clear message," Lawrence Mayor Sandra Praeger, a downtown mall supporter who remains on the commission, said yesterday. "The downtown issue is dead."
Praeger said that the commission, now with a majority opposed to the mall, soon would bring the current 600-block mall project to an end.
Joel Jacobs, chairman of the Urban Renewal Agency, a citizen committee which was to help with the creation of the URA meetings had been cancelled.
But Praeger said talk of a mail in
laws would not die with the
GREATNESS.
developed by Jacobs, Visconsi & Jacobs of Cleveland.
Praeger anticipates that within 30 days, developers will ask the commission to change zoning laws to permit construction of a suburban mall.
Praeger said the commission probably would reject suburban mail rezoning requests. However, she said she was afraid the developer could successfully challenge the zoning in court and have the city's laws overturned.
Hames Zacharias, city management analyst, said it was possible the city could violate anti-trust laws by not developing a downtown mall
BSU retains its revenue code status
Staff writer
Rv LISA A. MALONFY
The Student Senate defeated 27-12 a motion to take away revenue code status for the Black Student Union at its meeting last night.
See MALL, p. 6, col. 3
"It is unfortunate, in a term of extremely responsible actions, that the Senate chose to drag its reputation through the mud on this issue," said Jane Hutchinson, Nunemaker senator.
Before the meeting, Kelly Milligan,
student body vice president, said he
would consider out of order any
motion to remove BSU's status.
In addition, granting status to BSU was the same as granting a contract, which the Senate cannot break, he said.
The Senate cannot reconsider anything that has been passed by the Senate and signed by Brady Stanton, student body president, Milligan said. Last week, Stanton signed the code bill granting status to RSU.
Woody Browne, liberal arts senator who made the motion to take away status, said that BSU did not
Michael Foubert, graduate senator, cited the Affirmative Action complaint that three BSU members filed against Foubert and two other Student Senate Executive Committee members.
At that point, Milligan gave control of the meeting to Betsy Bergman, who accepted Browne's motion for debate.
deserve status and that a majority of senators agreed with him.
Details of the complaint have not been made public, but Foubert and the other two senators have said it
related to StudEx's Feb. 28 decision to deny BSU revenue code status. That decision was reversed by the full Senate on March 25.
Vernelle Spearman, BSU's adviser, expressed no surprise when the motion was overturned after almost two hours of debate.
"I think that it's been a rather long, arduous and painful process for both those who favor status for the Black Student Union and those who oppose it. I'm hoping that this is finally the consensus of the Student Senate," she said.
INSIDE
Hugh Stanfield, Kansas' leading hitter with a .380 average, is excelling in both academics and baseball. He has earned a degree in communications and has broken KU career records in hits, at bats and in stolen bases.
Investigators for MCI have asked U.S. Sprint officials to help investigate phone code abuse in Lawrence," because several U.S. Sprint codes also have been abused.
Hitting home
Libraries losing power, dean says
Phone abuse
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"And we're taking steps now to cancel as many as one-quarter of our periodical subscriptions," he said. "That will seriously inconvenience every professor who's engaged in research and who's teaching. That can't be escaped."
KU faculty and students soon with feel the effects of their libraries' deteriorating buying power, the dean of libraries said yesterday.
Jim Ranz, the dean, said the libraries' buying power had declined by one-third in the past two years.
Staff writer
The libraries lost about $843,000 in net buying power in the past two years, Ranz said.
Ron Francisco, professor of Soviet and East European studies and chairman of the University Senate library committee, said yesterday that KU already was the country's single largest borrower in an inter-library loan program.
"With this sort or reduction, it's going to be very difficult for most professors to do research," he said. If library financing doesn't improve, University of Kansas faculty and students won't be able to keep up with developments in their fields of study. Banz said.
Under the loan program, KU's libraries borrow copies of publications from other university libraries.
A 3.8 percent state budget cut this year cost the libraries about $8,500. But the decline of the dollar's power has hurt the most, Francisco said.
"We're going to have many situations when faculty and students aren't going to be able to get their required materials." Francisco said.
The University libraries would run up a $900,000 deficit next year if they tried to maintain current periodicals and book acquisitions. Francisco said.
Forty percent of all the University's library expenditures go overseas. Overseas acquisitions have been more expensive since the dollar's decline against other currencies, he said.
"The dollar continues to decline against the world's major currencies, at least the countries from which we buy books," Francisco told the University Senate Executive Committee on Friday. "There isn't a lot of optimism among library people that things will get better."
Francisco also told SenEx that other universities eventually would tire of sending loan materials to KU.
SenEx member Sharon Brehm, director of the college honors program and professor of psychology, said, "If that would shut down, it would stop most researchers dead in their tracks."
"People like the University of Illinois are going to say, 'Forget it. It costs us money to send you those things if you're not going to acquire them on your own,' " Francisco said.
The University probably will add money to the library's budget if the Kansas Legislature votes to release 75 percent of excess fees generated by enrollment increases at KU, acting executive vice chancellor Del Shankel told SenEx.
Student Senate has supported a plan to charge students a library fee, student representative Michael Anderson told SenEx. But the Board of Regents has said the University couldn't charge a fee for what was supposed to be a state responsibility.
Francisco said yesterday that the University needed to establish a library contingency fund, which would be financed either by the state or through endowments. The fund would collect interest and dividends when the dollar was strong and release money to the library when the dollar was weak.
Alan Hagman/KANSAN
A hospital ambulance staff member dresses the "wounds" of tornado victims in preparation for a drill at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Members of Alpha Chi Omega sorority and Lambda Chi Alpha, Acacia and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternities participated in the drill yesterday afternoon.
Students play victims during mock tornado
Staff writer
By JENNIFER WYRICK
Injured people with various gruesome wounds were strewed about the Lawrence Memorial Hospital grounds yesterday after noon.
Ambulances raced to the scene to rescue victims of a tornado that touched down east of the hospital and ripped through the Veterans of Foreign Wars building and the water works plant.
The staged event was part of the hospital's semi-annual emergency tornado drill. About 15 KU students played the part of victims
But after the two-hour incident ended, the victims pulled the fake wounds from their bodies, and the hospital went back to its normal
The students were members of
The hospital ambulance staff put simulated wounds on the victims, who were given explanations of their injuries and told to act as if they really were in pain, said Jim Murray, ambulance service training officer.
the Alpha Chi Omega sorority and theLambda Chi Alpha, Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Acacia fraternities.
Kathleen Flanagan, Overland Park senior, had a piece of metal "lodged" in her abdomen and also was in severe shock. She was taken to surgery immediately after being admitted to the emergency room.
About 2 p.m., ambulance workers began transporting the victims from the ambulance service area
See TORNADO, p. 6, col. 3
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