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University Daily Kansan / Monday, January 19, 1987
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Property reappraisals may cause rent increases
By TODD COHEN
Staff writer
Rent increases may follow a Douglas County property tax reappraisal team when it enters student neighborhoods this month.
Residents living on Kentucky and Vermont streets will be visited either this week or next by the appraisers, who are collecting data for reappraisal of property throughout Douglas County thenurr Jr., the county recassional field guard.
The 1985 Kansas Legislature ordered statewide property reappraisal to eliminate unequal tax rates that have developed across the state since property was last appraised in 1964, said Marvin Clements. Douglas
County reappraisal coordinator.
The appraised value of most property almost certainly will increase because of inflation and may result in increases for some owners. Clements said.
Cements said all property, even structures built since 1945, was now covered by a new construction.
If taxes increase, rent for homes and apartments probably will rise because landlords can be expected to pass the added costs to tenants, said James Drury, KU professor of political science.
"If you pay rent, you pay property tax," Drury said.
Higher rent because of reappraisal is very likely, said Tom Gyalardy,
president of Kaw Valley Management. 901 Kentucky St. Kaw Valley Management leases apartments in Lawrence.
"I'm sure it will have an effect," he said.
Galarydt said it was too early to estimate how much rent could rise.
However, all reappraisal will not be completed until Jan. 1, 1989. Clements said, and taxes won't be affected until the fall of 1989.
Dettbarn said the appraisers would hold two- to five-minute interviews with all residents in the area. The appraisers will be wearing blue and white I.D. cards that have the appraiser's picture, a blue ink drawing of the Douglas County Courthouse
The appraisers will ask about the number and size of rooms, heating and cooling systems, type of foundation and other related questions. Clements said. Exterior measurements also will be made.
and a badge number.
Appraisers will not enter residences without asking, Clements said. If no one is home when the appraisers visit, they will leave a questionnaire that residents can fill out and mail to the appraiser's office.
Anyone with questions about reap praisal may call the office at 841. 7700, extension 135, he said.
Clements said the appraisers would not visit multi-unit apartment complexes until summer, but this
county that will escape notice."
semester they will visit homes that have been converted into apartments. The appraisers definitely will be visiting Ohio Street apartment houses sometime this semester, he said.
All property, rural and urban, will be appraised by his office. Clements said.
The appraised value of property, or estimated fair market value, is used to determine the amount of property tax owed. Clements said.
Property tax is determined by using a property's appraised value, its assessed value and the local monument's mill levy. Clements said.
Puzzle intriques math man
Prof honored for article about riddle
Diane Dultmeier/KANSAN
BY JOSEPH REBELLO
Saul Stahl, associate professor of mathematics, will receive the $500 Carl Allenbroder Award for an article he published in 1985. The article was about two mathematicians from the University of California, Santa Cruz, who solved a variation of a math equation formulated in 1852.
Staff writer
"There isn't a property in this
Nearly four years after he wrote an article describing how a little-known band of mathematicians solved one of the great riddles of modern mathematics, a KU mathematics professor finally is seeing his work receiving national recognition.
Saul Stahl, associate professor of mathematics, will receive this year's Carl Allendorfer Award for an article he completed in 1983 and waited two years to see published.
Stahl's prize-winning article on "The Other Map Coloring Theorem" appeared in the May 1985 issue of Mathematics Magazine. It described how two mathematicians at the University of California, Santa Cruz solved a complicated variation of a famous puzzle, the Four-Color problem, seven years before the original problem was solved by another group.
The Four-Color problem was formulated in 1852. It asks whether four colors are enough to color a flat or global map so that no two bordering countries share the same color. Stahl said.
Baley Price, professor emeritus of mathematics, said, "It's a very nice nice hire for him, the department and the University."
The $500 Allendorfer Award is given annually to the authors of the best expository articles published in Mathematics Magazine Stahl will accept the prize at a meeting of the Mathematical Association of America in San Antonio, Texas.
That problem was solved in 1976 with the help of computers, but an offshoot question, posed in 1890, was answered by the two California mathematicians in 1969 without computer aid, Stahl said.
The offshoot question asked how many colors were needed to meet the same conditions by superimposing a map on a more complicated surface, such as that of a pretzel or doughnut.
"I'd always thought this was a good story and I wanted to see if I could write something that non-traditional would find interesting," Stahl said.
The solution of the offshoot question was a milestone in the development of advanced geometric theory, but the theorem remained relatively unknown. Stahl said
In 1983, Stahl began researching the history of the theorem and decided that it was time to bring coloring theory to coloring theorem out of obscurity.
"When the Four-Color theorem was first solved, its main tool, besides ingenuity, was a good compass. But it doesn't find that interesting," he said.
But when Stahl tried to get his article published in Scientific American he was turned down because editors found the article.
Although the coloring map theorem involves abstract questions, it may have some practical applications in the future. Stahl
too technical, he said
For example, the theory could be used to find ways to print complex computer circuits on a wafer so that none of the wiring intersected. This could be done by printing the circuits in two or three dimensions instead of just one, he said.
But Stalh said his pleasure in solving the theorem did not lie in its practical applications.
"All mathematical problems are meant to be like a Rubik's Cube for mathematicians," he said. "Obviously, I'm not interested in the practical applications. The people who designed the theorem never had any interest in its practical applications."
Mathematicians work on problems such as the coloring map theorem in the hope of no greater reward than a pat on the back from colleagues and the pleasure of working with numbers, he said.
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