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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday
February 20, 1987
Vol. 97, No. 100
(USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Gary Mook/Special to the Kansan
Paramedics, a Lawrence police officer and a passer-by attend to Earl Lawrence Neis III. 10. The boy was injured when a car struck him yesterday afternoon in the 1200 block of East 19th Street.
Lawrence boy,10, hit by car
By a Kansan reporter
police
A 10-year-old Lawrence boy is in serious condition at the University of Kansas Medical Center with head injuries after being struck by a car yesterday afternoon.
He apparently saw someone he knew on the south side of the street. He then ran into the street and was struck by the right-side mirror of a car driven by Marcia Decker, Lawrence, a police spokesman said.
The boy, Earl Lawrence Neis 13, 1636 Pennsylvania St.. was walking shortly after 3 p.m. with friends on the north side of East 19th Street just west of Miller Drive, witnesses told Lawrence
A Lawrence resident who witnessed the accident said the boy ran out into the street. Decker swerved to try to avoid Earl, who was hit by the side of the car.
Decker, who was not issued a citation, was driving not more than 20 miles an hour when the accident occurred, the spokesman said.
The witness said Earl was wearing a sweatshirt with a hood covering his head at the time of the accident and did not look for traffic.
Multilevel parking lot planned
Staff writer
Bv KIERSTI MOFN
Finding a parking space on campus will be easier when the University of Kansas adds more than 500 student beds, possibly more than 600 by fall 1988.
KU officials plan to have finished by fall 1988 a multilevel parking structure with room for 600 to 800 cars. And the University will add more than 500 spaces this summer by redesigning several existing lots.
The Board of Regents yesterday approved the University's request to build a three- or four-level open parking structure on campus.
The Regents will decide today whether to give the university permission to ask the Kansas Legislature for authorization to issue $5 million in revenue bonds to finance the parking structure.
Allen Wiechert, KU's director of facilities planning, said he expected the Legislature to approve the project because the bonds would be paid back with University parking fees, not state funds.
"It's not like we're asking for state money or taxpayers' money," he said.
Rodger Orok, director of support services, said the structure would cost the University about $600,000 a year in maintenance and debt repayment over a period of several years. Parking fees and other parking service revenues would cover that cost. State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Dawrence, said she favored the proposed parking structure.
"It sounds like a good idea. . . I know the parking is very tight. If the Regents approve it, I would certainly be supportive of it," she said.
Uroke said, "We're out of space." He said he thought the parking station would be a huge investment because of the large demand for parking on campus.
He referred to a December 1986 study of the University's parking needs by Illinois parking consultant Jean M. Keneipp.
See PARKING, p. 6, col. 3
House mistakes Regents estimates of fee revenue
By CHRISTOPHER HINES
Staff writer
TOPEKA - The House Appropriations Committee discovered yester day that it had underestimated the fee revenues generated by the University of Kansas' record fall enrollment.
Committee chairman Bill Bunten, R-Topeka, said the committee had thought that the Board of Regents $1.2 million fee release request for KU represented the total amount of excess revenues generated by this year's record enrollment.
But Raymond Hauke, a principal legislative fiscal analyst, informed the committee yesterday that the University of Kansas actually had generated about $2.7 million in excess fees this year.
The committee Wednesday rejected Gov. Mike Hayden's proposal to reinstate 75 percent of the fees recommended by the Regents and instead approved a 50 percent reinstatement.
Bunten said, "It's a bad job of communicating. Our decision was to release 50 percent of the total fees to assist the rest in the state's general fund."
Committee member Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said that the
Republican leadership in the House was playing a budget strategy with the Senate but that in this case had miscalculated.
"I don't think it's clear to the committee how many funds were generated by KU because of increased enrollment." Solbach said.
After discovering the discrepancy between figures, the committee yesterday took no action to reverse its 50 percent fee release decision.
"We'll have to check and make sure, but none of us intends to balance the state's budget on KU's fee increases," Bunten said.
If approved by the state Legislature, the committee's recommendation would return $635,612 to KU and deposit about $2 million of the University's excess fees into the state's general fund.
Tom Rawson, Regents director of budget and planning, said the Regents recommended a $1.2 million release fee for KU based on the average cost to KU for each additional student.
The original recommendation was based on 20th-day enrollment figures, and later more precise revenue information about enrollment was available.
"The amount of the total revenues
has not been a secret." Rawson said,
"Maybe the Legislature just did it"
"badly."
Hauke said the Regents' request failed to consider a number of other factors that increased the amount of excess revenues.
Many of the additional students are from out of state or are graduate students, both of whom pay higher than the average resident student.
The Regents also underestimated KU's summer and fall enrollment, reducing the amount of expected revenues, Hauke said.
"The combination gave KU much higher revenues than could have been predicted on an average head count." he said.
Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R. Lawrence,
said the appropriations committee's
misunderstanding was typical of the
company that handled the entire fee
release issue.
Rawson said that deciding the budget was a long and complicated process, and that the fees could be returned to KU by the Senate or in next year's state budget.
"It shows that they didn't spend as much time on it as they should have," Winter said.
Staff writer
By TIM HAMILTON
The five employees of the Tape Exchange received pink skirts Wednesday when the service moved from the University of Kansas to the State Services for the Blind in St. Paul, Mim.
The exchange, founded at KU in 1979, performs high-speed duplication of tapes of books, magazines and other publications for the 104 members of the Association of Radio Reading Services.
Radio reading services, such as KU's Audio-Reader Network, broadcast printed material on the radio for radio and handicapped listeners.
The exchange operates on a grant of $75,000 a year from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which it received three years ago.
The executive committee of the Association of Radio Reading Services voted Feb. 3 to relocate the exchange because of the announcement early in January that Rosie Hurwitz, director of KU's Audio-Reader Network for 13 years and administrator of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, would resign this summer. Hurwitz was the executive committee of the Association of Radio Reading Services and is on the group's board of directors and executive committee.
But several employees of the exchange and association members have questioned why the executive committee voted to relocate the company and chose the decision to relocate was unjustified and nothing more than power polities.
Robert Bearse, associate vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service at KU; said that the relocation had nothing to do with the exchange's performance.
"The issue, as far as I'm concerned, had to do with the politics of the administrating organization," he said.
The Tape Exchange falls under the office's jurisdiction.
But, Sheila Miller-Shugerman, an ARRS vice president said that as a result, there will be no board member to supervise the program. The association decided to relocate it where it could be directly supervised.
"It's all been a storm in a tea cup that has been blown out of proportion."
Bob Watson, treasurer of the association and head of the Minnesota State Service for the Blind, said that the relocation was a business decision of association and occurred because of Hurwitz's resignation.
Bill Pasco, general manager of Radio Information Service in Pittsburg, Pa., and member of the association board, said that some board members thought there was no need to move the exchange. The board had options other than relocating the exchange. he said.
Employees of the exchange said that Hurwitz's resignation should have been irrelevant because she had limited contact with the exchange.
Mona Lonberger, an employee of the exchange for four years, said that Hurwitz never had been very active with the exchange. Lonberger and other employees said that after a break-in at the exchange, Hurwitz didn't even come down to see what had been taken.
Lonberger was one of the five employees who lost jobs.
Molly Nulloy, assistant director of Audio-Reader Network for five years until resigning last fall, agreed that Hurwitz didn't deal with the exchange on a regular basis.
Janet Campbell, operations manager of Audio-Reader Network, said that Nulloy, one of his Wurwitz's assistants, had acted as the main liaison between the network and the exchange, handling the payroll and paperwork and writing grants for the exchange.
But Hurwitz said yesterday that that insulted fullfilled her obligation as the ex-communist.
Polly Bouska, supervisor of the exchange for the past 18 months, said that she had heard rumors of the move but didn't receive confirmation until Watson called her one week before the scheduled move. Bouska, who lost her job, said that employees weren't given written notice of their termination until the day of the move.
Campbell and other employees of the exchange also said that they were upset with the way that the association announced the decision to relocate and the decision to terminate five employees.
"We thought we were being completely informative and fair," Watson said. The employees also were told they would receive two weeks termination pay, he said.
Watson, in the letters of termination, said that the employees had been informed verbally Feb. 6 of the discontinuation of the exchange.
Bouska said that even some members of the association hadn't been told of the exchange's move and were calling in orders on the day of the move.
KU lags peers in funds official tells Regents
"This is creating a lot of chaos with the radio reading services," she said. Steve Kinkaid, chief engineer at the Audio-Reader Network, said that the move would affect the exchange's service.
Bv ROGER COREY
Staff writer
The University of Kansas is $16 million under the average level of its peer institutions in financing, a KU administrator told the Kansas Board of Regents yesterday.
Frances Horowitz, the administrator and vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, addressed the Regents as a member of Chancellor Gene A. Budig's task force on economic development. The Regents also reviewed the findings and recommendations to the Regents at a meeting in Toopeka.
Horowitz urged the Regents to recommend that the University receive more money within a four- to five-year period to overcome the $16 million deficit. Bringing the University up to the average level of its peers would enable it to hire needed faculty and graduate student assistants and raise its level of technical and support services, she said.
"KU is significantly behind the
peer schools," Keith Nitcher, University director of business affairs, said yesterday.
Horowitz said that strengthening the University's basic and applied sciences was a key to attracting new economic activity. Underfunding and the lack of access have seriously weakened basic and applied science in the last 10 to 15 years, she said.
Nitcher said the $16 million estimate was based on a report from the KU institutional research and planning office.
As a result, the University's basic and applied sciences are not as competitive as they should be in obtaining external financing and recruiting faculty and graduate students.
See REGENTS. p. 6. col. 3
The University's peer institutions, the universities of Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Oregon, were selected because of similarities in size, academic goals and state-income levels.
Flying fans
While the Jayhawks soundly beat the Wildcats, these students generate their own excitement by lifting other fans into the air. Last night's game was KU's final home game of the year. KU crushed K-State. 84-67. See stories, page 9.
INSIDE
Dream team
Kansas fans honored five former and present KU men's basketball players by choosing them for the Valvoline All-Time Jayhawk Team. See story page 10.
Downtown saqa
The downtown mall saga continued as the Downtown Lawrence Association withdraws its support of a proposed site in the 600 block of Massachusetts Street. See story page 12.