University Daily Kansan / Monday, March 23, 1987
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Local Briefs
KU professor critical after heart surgery
Takeru Higuchi, Regents distinguished professor of chemistry and pharmacy, is listed in critical condition after undergoing coronary bypass surgery Wednesday at the Columbia Medical Center in Columbia, Mo.
Higuchi, chairman of Oread Laboratories, a Lawrence research company, was presiding over the annual Higuchi Conference, a meeting of pharmaceutical experts, Tuesday in the Lake of the Zarizs in Missouri, when he beware ill and went to the hospital.
The surgery also postponed indefinitely the ground-breaking ceremonies, scheduled for last Thursday, for the Oread Laboratory building in the University Corporate Research Park at 15th Street and Wakarausa Drive.
President Reagan has threatened to veto an $88 billion federal highway bill, passed by Congress on Friday, that allocates $7.2 million toward construction of the proposed south Lawrence trafficway.
Doctors performed an angi-plasty to clear clogged veins, but determined that other surgery was needed and had open-heart surgery in 1979.
Bypass threatened by possible veto
However, it is likely Congress would override a veto. Howard Bauleke, an aide to U.S. Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kan, said Friday.
KC man arrested in ticketing incident
KU police arrested a former KU student Thursday in connection with an incident in which a KU parking services student-employee was bumped by a car she was ticketing.
Lt. Jeanne Longaker said that at 11:05 a.m. March 12 the student-employee was ticketing a car parked in the lot south of Malott Hall when the driver of the ticketed car began verbally abusing her.
As the student walked around the car to get the license plate number, the man bumped her with the car. Lonnerack said
The man, a Kansas City, Mo. resident, had received another parking ticket earlier that day in another parking lot on campus, she said.
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KU police put out a warrant for the man's arrest, and he turned himself in at 1:30 p.m. that day, she said.
The student-employee was not injured in the incident, Longaker said.
Local boy released from Med Center
Earl Lawrence Neis III ended a 23-day hospital stay on March 13.
Earl, 19, was struck by a car
Feb. 19 and taken to the University
of Kansas Medical Center, where
he spent part of his time in a coma.
Deadline nears for applications
Applications for summer editor and business manager of the Kansan are due at 5 p.m. today. Applications can be picked up and turned in at 200 Stauffer Flint Hall. Applicants will be interviewed by the Kansan Board tomorrow.
New cuts made to state budget concern Budig
By CHRISTOPHER HINES
From staff and wire reports.
Political confrontations in the Kansas Legislature produced a new round of budget cuts last week, prompting Chancellor Gene A. Budig to meet with Gov. Mike Hayden on Friday.
Staff writer
The House Appropriations Committee approved on Thursday about $25 million in new cuts to the state budget, including the 50 percent reduction in the Board of Regents 1987 KU fee release request and a $7 million cut in the Regents budget.
The Senate Ways and Means Committee last week rejected the House's 50 percent fee release recommendation. The House Hayden's 75 percent recommendation.
the appropriations committee, said the House would have to stand strong on its 50 percent recommendation to make up for the lost revenue when it took the issue into conference with the Senate.
Budig met with Hayden in Topeka, along with presidents from other state universities, to express concern about the dangerous effects the cuts would have on the Regents institutions and to seek Hayden's reassurance that he would fight the new cuts.
"We took our concern directly to
the doctors," she said. The visit was candid and reassuring.
The Republican House leadership created the cuts to make up for lost revenue caused by the House's earlier rejection of two revenue transfer
The two bills rejected by the House
The first bill would have reduced the amount of money generated by the state sales tax, which the state returns to city and county governments.
were part of Hayden's strategy to alleviate some of the state's fiscal responsibilities and transfer them to local governments.
The other bill would have reduced the amount of money the state transfers from the general fund to the state highway fund.
Hayden supported the bills and was said to be furious over the House's rejection. The bills would have generated about $21 million in extra state revenues for the rest of this fiscal year and fiscal 1988, and about $50 million during the next three years.
timed support to KU's budget release, his 1987 and 1988 fee release recommendations and the amended corridor system, which would mean $1.7 million in extra revenue for the University in 1989.
"He told us that the threatened cuts were not needed." Budig said. "He is ready to do battle for those recommendations."
The House's rejection of the bills left the Republican leadership little choice but to make the new cuts if the Republicans avoid going into the red. Bunten said.
"The state is in a very delicate situation," she said. "And this functionalism is worth it."
Budig said that Hayden gave con-
One item that survived the new wave of budget cuts was the 1988 fee release, which would put $635,612 into the 1988 budget.
But some Democrats charge that the Republican leadership is using the House's rejection of the two revenue transfer bills as a way to push for a new round of budget cuts.
"Those cuts were contemplated before the rejection of the transfer bills," said State Rep John Solbach. D-Lawrence, a member of the appropriations committee. "They are using the rejection as a false catalyst to make more cuts."
Sobach said that the House Republican leadership had taken the initiative and questioned Hayden's leadership on the budget issues.
"The governor has indicated his agreement that these budget cuts aren't needed," Solbach said. "He should take some leadership on the matter and support his own budget."
2 students charged in marijuana crimes
By a Kansan reporter
Two KU students were charged in the last ten days with marijuana-related crimes in Douglas County District Court.
The students, whose cases are unrelated, both live in McColum Hill.
Teri Michile Olmstead, 21, Winfield sophomore, was charged March 12 with one count of possession of marjiqua and one count of possession of drug paraphernalia, including rolling scales, a bong, miscellaneous pipes, scales and a hemostat.
L. Tjeanne Longaker, KU police
Lt. Jeanne Longaker, police arrested
Almstede on March
Both charges are class A misdean-
men, punishable by a maximum
one year in the county jail, a $2,500
fine or both.
Olmstead is free on a $1,000 bond.
She is scheduled to appear in district
court at 11:15 a.m. April 28.
Amy Patricia Lemire, 19, Maryland Heights, Mo., freshman, was charged March 16 with one count of the sale of marijuana, a class C felony for which the maximum sentence is 5 to 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
KU police arrested Lemire on March 10 after a McColmill Hall staff member called KU police to report the odor of marijuana in the building. Another resident of McColum was also arrested at the time, but charges had not been filed against this person as of Friday.
Sgt. J卵 Brothers, KU police spokesman, said several plastic bags containing between two and four employees in a bedroom in lenure's room in McCullough Hall.
Lemire is scheduled to appear in District Court at 4 p.m. Thursday. Until then, she is free on a $750 own recognition bond.
KU officials criticize Hayden's proposal to stop 'brain drain'
Staff writer
By ROGER COREY
Gov. Mike Hayden's plan to halt the "brain drain" from Kansas by offering National Merit scholars a tax break is a nice idea, but unnecessary, said Jerry Rogers, director of student financial aid.
Hayden submitted his tax break plan to the Kansas Legislature this month. Under the plan, National Merit scholars who borrowed money to pay for their college education, whether they attended college in Kansas or elsewhere, could receive a tax credit on their Kansas income tax. The credit would allow the loan's holder to reduce the year to remain tax free, provided that student worked and lived in Kansas.
Rogers said the average Guaranteed Student Loan for University of Kansas students was about $5,000 a year. After graduation, students who had borrowed this amount would begin to repay their loan at $101 a month, or $1,215 a year.
Only National Merit scholars who graduated from a Kansas high school in 1885 or later would be eligible for the tax credit.
National Merit scholars would not have to pay taxes on the loan.
"At most, it amounts to a difference in taxes of a few hundred dollars," Rogers said. "It isn't going to keep a student from accepting a
high-paying job out of state."
"Less than 10 percent of our Merti scholars need to borrow money." RIPA wrote.
Rogers said the tax break was unnecessary because most Merit scholars received scholarships, and did not need to borrow money.
Twenty-six National Merit scholars enrolled at KU this year.
Sally Bryant, coordinator of KU's academic scholarship program, said she was surprised that Hayden's staff had not explored the data more thoroughly.
"The majority of these students
daid need financial aid. Bryant
need financial aid."
policies.
Bryant said she was disappointed that Hayden had singled out one group of students as deserving of special privileges simply because they had made high scores on two exams.
"How would they check to see if a student was really a Merit scholar?" Rogers asked. "The bookkeeping would be difficult."
"We have other qualified students who could use tax breaks," she said.
Rogers said that giving a tax break for homebuyers would be complicated for the state.
Bryant said a better way to bring gifted students to Kansas would be to provide high-paying jobs and to support industry.
Mall on their minds Groups square off before election
Bv TODD COHEN
Staff writer
The principal players in the controversy surrounding a proposed downtown Lawrence mall didn't join KU students in taking a spring break last week.
Instead, new faces and voices joined the fray that is building toward a climactic finish in this spring's general election.
Last week, the city commission enacted a partial freeze on city work on the mall project, and three local groups took positions on the three-question mall referendum.
Lawrence residents will elect three city commissioners and will vote on the referendum April 7.
A proposed 360,000 square-foot mall in the 600 block of Massachusetts and Vermont streets has received the city commission campaign.
The mall, which would cost the city $20 million, would permanently close Massachusetts and Vermont streets between Sixth and Seventh streets. A six-story parking garage would also be built at Sixth and Kentucky streets.
The city commission Tuesday approved Commissioner Howard Hill's request that the city not spend public money on the mall project before the election.
However, the commission refused Hill's other request that the volunteer Urban Renewal Agency and its subcommittees stop meeting until the election. The groups were created by the city to collect information about downtown to help the mall's developers.
Meanwhile, the URA endorsed a "no, yes, no" position on the
referendum, and the Citizens for a Better Downtown, a group opposed to closing downtown streets, tried but failed to take a position on the second and third questions.
Question No. 1, which was proposed by CBD, asks whether the city should prohibit the closing of Massachusetts and Vermont streets between Sixth and 11th streets.
The whole issue is that the city should keep its options open.
— Joel Jacobs chairman, Urban Renewal Agency
Question No. 2 asks whether the city should spend public money to help build a downtown mall, and Question No. 3 asks whether the city should prohibit the closing of any downtown street to build a mall.
The referendum is advisory and won't legally bind the city. However, the commissioners and commission candidates have said the results will be binding on them.
Minkin, CBD co-chairman,
said, "We still are strongly in favor of voting yes on Question No. 1. The problem is the other two questions the commission tagged on are too general and unspecific.
"They are confusing people," he said.
said the URA needed until October or November to do a complete job of gathering information and preparing the, mall proposal. The residents should vote then, he said.
"The whole issue is that the city should keep its options open." Jacobs said. "Don't shut off streets right now and don't seal off use of public funds."
The third group, the Keep Downtown Downtown Committee, which was organized by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce and the Downtown Lawrence Association began putting up 200 yard signs advertising advertisements promoting a "yes" vote on Question No. 2.
Duane Morris, committee chairman, said public money was an important ingredient to downtown development. He said the city must be able to use city money and seek federal and state money to pay for development.
Joel Jacobs, URA chairman.
"We just don't want the public to sever that umbilical cord to state and federal monies," he said.
Morris said his group would continue to buy advertising space to educate the public about the use and source of public funds.
Jacobs said the URA would raise private money to finance the distribution of pamphlets explaining its position on the mall.
Minkin said CBD would begin concentrating on the six commission candidates. He said CBD leaflets would encourage the defeat of the two incumbents in the race, Hill and Ernest Angino.
The other four candidates oppose the mall. They are Dennis Constance, Ellis Hayden, Mike Rundle and Bob Schurm.
New PAC wants economic growth
By a Kansan reporter
The mall is monopolizing this spring's city commission election and the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce doesn't like it.
Chamber president Bob Johnson announced Friday the formation the chamber's own political action committee to promote economic development issues.
"The city commission election has been reduced to a single-issue election," Johnson said.
"The mall certainly has economic development value," he said. "We don't think that should be the issue on which to judge who should sit on the commission the next two or four years."
Lawrence residents will elect three commissioners April 7.
In a statement, Johnson said the PAC would support candidates who have expressed "strong positions in favor of economic development and creating jobs."
However, the PAC, which won't use Chamber money, won't contribute to candidate's election committees.
Johnson wouldn't name which candidates the PAC would support or specify what the economic development issues were. He said that a 15-member board that he would have to approve was required for the decisions regarding the PAC.
The Chamber decided to form the PAC after conducting a poll of
its 1,500 members. Johnson said 66 percent of the 243 members who responded suported a PAC.
The Chamber and the Downtown Lawrence Association formed the Keep Downtown Downtown Committee earlier this month to urge a "yes" vote on the second referendum question on the general election ballot. Three questions regarding the mall will be on the ballot. The second question asks whether the city should use public money to help pay for the mall.
Duane Morris, Keep Downtown Downtown Committee chairman, said the committee was not supported financially by either association.
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