University Daily Kansan / Friday, March 27, 1987
Local Briefs
Service, burial for professor set for today
A memorial service for Takeru Higuchi, Regents distinguished professor of pharmaceutical chemistry and chemistry, who died Tuesday morning at the age of 69, will be at 10 a.m. today in Crafton-Prever Theatre at Murbury Hall.
The service had been scheduled to be in Swarthout Recital Hall. Family members will greet friends and guests afterward.
franks and guess afterward.
A private burial will be in Pioneer Cemetery on West Campus.
KUEA receives two scholarships
The Kansas University Endowment Association has received money for both ophthalmology and history scholarship.
Advanced students majoring in history are eligible for scholarships from the Lila Aktkinson Creighton Scholarship Fund. The fund was established by Alex E. Green and is named after Colo., in honor of his late wife.
A bequest of more than $250,000 was made from the estate of Frances Peterson, formerly of Palo Alto, Calif., for an ophthalmology scholarship in honor of her parents.
The scholarship is to be used for tuition costs for University of Kansas Medical Center students in ophthalmology. Preference will be given to students who need financial aid.
One scholarship will be awarded to a junior or senior, and one to a graduate student majoring in history, showing academic promise and in need of financial aid.
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Adviser to Kennedy to speak Sunday
Schlesinger served during President John F. Kennedy's administration as a special assistant for the president of Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
In 1945, Schlesinger received the Pulitzer prize for history with the "The Age of Jackson" and in 1966 he won a second Pulitzer for biography with "A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House."
Schlesinger teaches at the City College of City University of New York as an Albert Schweitzer professor of humanities. He currently is writing a multi-volume history, "The Age of Roosevelt," of which three volumes have been written
A reception follows Schlesinger's speech.
Summer positions on Kansan open
- Applications for Kansan news and business summer staff positions are available in 111 and 200 Staufer-Flint Hall. Deadline is 5 m. april 3.
Applicants also should sign up for an interview in 119 Stauffer Flint Hall. The Kansan is published on Wednesdays during the summer school session.
From staff and wire reports.
Senate approves revenue code allotment
By LISA A. MALONEY
In a final session that ran well into the early morning hours yesterday, the Student Senate approved revenue code allocations for the 21 revenue code groups.
Staff writer
At 1:45 a.m., the Senate approved treasurer Tom Wool's motion to cut 3.8 percent from all revenue code groups except for KU on Wheels, Associated Students of Kansas and
"Groups are going to have to tighten their belts a bit, but I don't think that it will cut into the vital activities of these organizations," he said.
the University Daily Kansan.
Michael Foubert, graduate senator, said, "I think it was a mistake. What we did was extremely irresponsible."
He said some groups would be hurt more than others by the budget cut.
because their needs were different. Instead of a dilateral budget cut, the Senate should have evaluated each groups' budget separately, he said.
"But nobody wanted to go back and argue everybody's budgets." Foubert said. "There was a lot of unhappy feelings during the hearings and the compromise allows everyone to feel good about themselves."
to the Black Student Union, renewed status for KU Forensics and decided to grant money to the Consumer Affairs Association. The three groups' financial requests brought the revenue code groups' total amount to more than the $1,234,800 that Senate had to allocate. Woods said.
"The only alternatives were to increase the student activity fee or cut certain items requested by certain groups," he said.
Earlier Wednesday evening, the senate granted revenue code status
Woods said that ASK could not take a 3.8 percent cut because the $28,323 requested is paid to the state as membership dues for the statewide organization. Because KU on Wheels and the Kansan did not request an increase, Woods said he thought they should be exempt from the budget cut.
"I think we need to reward groups
    see SENATE, n. 6, col. 5
More self-policing causes drug busts
By PAUL BELDEN
Staff writer
The number of students arrested for drug violations at residence halls has increased this semester, but the director of student housing says more students aren't using drugs, more are getting caught using them.
Kenneth Stoner, the director, said students living in residence halls were doing a better job policing each other than in past years.
So far in 1987, KU police have made five arrests for drug violations at residence halls. KU police records indicate. One violation occurred at Joseph R. Pearson Hall and four occurred at McCollum Hall.
In 1985 and 1986, KU police made four arrests each year for drug violations at residence halls.
Stoner said more students were reporting drug use to residence hall staff members or directly to the KU police.
All the arrests in 1985 and 1966 were misdeanors, and all involved either marijuana or drug paraphernalia. Two of the 1987 arrests, both involving the sale of marijuana, were felonies, and the other three were misdeanors, said Sgt. John Brothers, KU police.
Brothers said the actual numbers for 1985 and the first half of 1986 might have been higher. If someone made a mistake while entering a report into the police computer, the computer could not retrieve that report.
Brothers agreed, saying, "Residence hall staff members seem to be
calling the police more on crime matters in general."
Deb Stafford, assistant director of residential programs, said that all residence hall staff members were trained to identify drugs and drug paraphernalia. They also receive training in drug education and counseling, she said.
Officer Jerry Sylvester, KU police, provides a drug education program to residence halls, fraternities or sororites that request it. The program consists of a film, a short talk and examples of drugs and drug paraphernalia such as bongs, bowls, pipes and roach clips.
Stafford said that most of the drug educational films she'd seen focused on cocaine, but that no one had reported cocaine use in the residence halls.
Jim Schmaedeke, assistant resident director at McCollum Hall, said he didn't think there were more drugs in McCollum this semester than in the past, even though three McColumn Hall residents were arrested by KU police within a week this month. He also said he didn't think there were more drugs in McCollum than in other residence halls.
"It believe it's not so much that cocaine isn't in the residence halls, but cocaine is so much easier hidden than marjuanja, and there is no odor with cocaine," she said.
"I don't get the impression that students now are any worse than they have been," Schmaeda dekei said. "It's hard to be scientific about it. It's not
KU police officers think that association with bongs, pipes, roach clips and other drug paraphernalia on campus eventually will result in an uneasant association with the law.
Dale Fulkerson/Special to the KANSAN
statistically very significant."
and said some students were caught because of a normal procedure is a three-stage
punishment for rule-breakers: hall probation, followed by a hall warning then expulsion, she said.
the wise is sufficient. If a person continues to smoke marijuana, eventually the behavior pattern catches up to him."
Stoner said, "Generally a word to
Freshmen to have speech class choice
Staff writer
Bv JOSEPH REBELLO
This fall, freshmen may not have to face the difficulty of getting into a required oral communications class.
In fact, some of them may not have to take basic courses in oral communications at all.
As a result of a change in the basic requirements for liberal arts and sciences students, entering freshmen can opt to take a course in logic instead of basic oral communication skills. The teacher or the director of the basic course program in the department of communication studies, said Wednesday.
In the next few semesters, that option should reduce the demand to get into required oral communications courses, Patton said.
But currently, the backlog of students who were unable to get into the courses is so large that many students still may have to be turned away, said Wilmer Linkugel, chairman of the department.
More students were turned away from courses in COMS 130, 140 and 150 this semester than were enrolled, Linkugel said.
51 sections of those courses in the spring. More than 800 were unable to get into the classes.
Linkugel said 50 sections would be offered this fall.
"That won't handle the need but it is just about as much as we can manage to staff," he said.
The department has a shortage of full-time faculty, and that affects its ability to offer more sections in basic communications courses, Linkugel said.
Only 750 students were enrolled in
"Our majors take half their
work as teachers and assistants.
That's a serious problem."
If graduate students could be used to teach basic courses, the number of sections offered in those courses could be increased by at least 10, Linkugel said.
But an additional $60,000 this semester from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has at least partially brightened the outlook for the department, he said.
But that would create a shortage of instructors in the 200-, 300- and 400-level courses, which graduate assistants now teach. Full-time faculty then would have to be hired to teach those courses, he said.
Cuts motivated by chaos,some say
By CHRISTOPHER HINES
Staff writer
Behind the recent KU budget cuts made by the state House lies a backdrop of political confrontation and sometimes confusion, some lawmakers say.
"You've got chaos and almost anarchy in the House," said State Wint Winter. R-Lawrence "I noticed that point there is a lot of confusion."
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said, "They're making wild budget cuts, and they don't know what kind of effects they're going to have."
The state House on Wednesday gave final approval to about $23 million in new cuts to Gov. Mike Hayden's 1988 budget because of the House's rejection two weeks ago of two revenue transfer bills. The revenue bills were expected to generate about $50 million in additional revenue for the state during the next three years.
Hayden had included the revenue generated from the transfer bills when he drew his 1988 budget proposals, along with an estimated $140 million windfall the state would receive next year because of changes in the federal
The Kansas Department of Revenue made the $140 million windfall estimate with the stipulation that the estimate might be off by $30 million to $50 million.
Hayden is taking the optimistic position that the federal tax windfall will generate at least $140 million for fiscal 1988, but other lawmakers are taking different positions on how much money it actually will generate.
Here lies the new political divisions at the state Legislature with each lawmaker making his own estimate of how much revenue will be generated next year.
State Rep. Bill Bunten, R-Topke, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, has guided the House in making the new cuts and sees them as a necessary evil in light of the state's uncertain financial future.
"The governor has a right to his opinion," Bunten said. "But we have to take a much more conservative approach to the budget. By keeping the state in a sound financial situation, we are doing all Kansans a favor."
Bunten supports the House leadership's plan to make $25 million in
new state budget cuts, $13 million of which were approved Tuesday.
However, some maverick House Republicans broke with the party line and took an even more conservative approach, winning final approval for an additional $9 million in cuts Wednesday.
Those cuts were in the state's travel budgets and office supplies and equipment.
State Rep. Robert J. Vancrum, R-Overland Park, proposed the $9 million in additional cuts and considered the affected programs as non-essential.
"When so many other more important programs are being cut, these programs can afford to be cut." Vancura said.
State Rep. Marvin Barkis, D-Louisburg, House minority leader, said that the Republicans had not consulted any Democrats when they drew up the new budget cutting proposals.
"We were left in the dark from the very beginning." Barkis said.
the very beginning," Barkis said. Barkis said the speed with which the cuts were made and the inability of lawmakers to agree on the amount of money to be generated next year had put the Legislature in a stalemate.
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