University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 6, 1987
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Candidates raise less this year
By TODD COHEN
Staff writer
Although a proposed downtown mall has sparked one of the most pivotal and heated Lawrence city commission campaigns in years, the six candidates collectively have raised almost $7,000 less than 1985 commission candidates did.
The six commission candidates in lomorrow's election have raised more than $16,000 to finance campaigns for the votes of 23,162 registered voters. In 1985, six candidates raised almost $23,000.
Commissioner Ernest Angino, who finished second in the March 3 primary, raised the most money of this year's field.
Angino has raised $3,845, about $200 more than former Commissioner Bob Schumm, the primary's winner, who collected $3,654. They were followed by Commissioner Howard Hill, $2,789; and challengers Dennis Constance, $2,611; Mike Rundle, $2,470; and Ellis Hayden, $903.
The candidates voluntarily provided the information at the Kan-
san's request. Under state law, city candidates are not required to file a report of campaign revenues, expenditures and contributors with the Douglas County clerk until Dec. 31. The county commissioner report how much money they personally contributed to their campaigns within 30 days after the election.
The candidates' success in raising money did not mirror their vote-getting abilities in the primary. Although Schumm almost matched a dollar for every vote, Constance, Rundle and Hayden received more votes than dollars raised. Angino, though, raised nearly $1,000 more than votes and Hill's campaign dollars are twice the votes he received.
Schumwon won the 12-candidate primary, garnering 3,532 votes. Angiho finished second with 2,955, Constance at third with 2,826, Rundle at fourth with 2,776, Hill at fifth with 1,929, and Haven at sixth with 1,894.
Schumm, a restaurateur, is seeking to return to the commission. He served from 1974 to 1981, when he was defeated for re-election, finishing
fifth in a six-candidate field. Angino, a KU professor of civil engineering and geology, is seeking a second term. Hill, director of KANU-FM 91.5 public radio, was appointed by the city commission to fill a vacant seat in 1983 and won a two-year term in 1985.
Constance is a house manager at Joseph R. Pearson Hall, Rundle is a secretary in the KU design department and caller for the Lawrence Barn Dance Association. Hayden is a retired baker who runs a booth in a downtown flea market as a hobby. None of the three has run for public office before.
Political action committees, which participated in Lawrence city commission campaigns this year for the first time, also contributed to the candidates. The Old West Lawrence Neighborhood Association-PAC gave $500 each to Rundle and Constance. Rundle also reported a $75 contribution from Citizens Against Wasteful Spending, a group opposed to the proposed mall.
Mizzou could lose vet school if accreditation not renewed
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M. Joseph Bojrab, chairman of the school's department of surgery, said, "I don't think they can get it all done in two years. They had five and they've wasted three."
COLUMBIA, Mo. — The College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Missouri might lose its accreditation in two years, which could force it to close, officials say.
The school's dean, Robert F. Kahrs, said, "It's a life-or-death situation for the school."
The school has 300 students and an annual budget of $11 million.
The American Veterinary Medical Association put the school on probation because of old and obsolete equipment and buildings, significant faculty vacancies, marginal funding and few opportunities for faculty research.
The school was put on probation by the American Veterinary Medical Association three years ago and given until 1899 to get up to par.
As a result of the poor conditions, several valuable laboratory animals have died. Researchers have been forced to set up labs in condemned trailers and many researchers have found it difficult for federal grants because the school is not meeting national standards.
Kahrs said that if accreditation was lost, closure would have to follow because graduation from an accredited veterinary school is a condition for a veterinarian's license in all states.
Loss of the veterinary college could have serious ramifications for agriculture, the state's No.1
industry, because the school does diagnostic and research work for those who raise livestock. The state is second in the nation in cattle and hog operation. School officials worry that producers would relocate some operations closer to veterinary schools that can meet their needs.
University President C. Peter Magrath said the university had asked the Legislature this year for a new Veterinary College facility.
State Rep. Christopher S. Kelly,
D-Columbia, has been working
with the school to develop a legislative solution.
"This is another example of what happens to programs in your state when you're 50th in the nation in taxation per capita." Kelly said.
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