Big Manning on campus
The Jayhawks beat Washington last night 82-68 and Danny Manning scored 32 points, pulling within three points of his career high.
Playboy Magazine's January issue rated KU as No.26 of the top 40 party schools in the United States. K-State was No.27.
Party U.
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Real gust, ho
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Winds will come from the south today at 15 to 25 mph as partly cloudy skies bring a high temperature in the 40s.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 72 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Friday December 5,1986
Budget cuts may lower salaries
By TONY BALANDRAN
A nearly $1.8 million cut in salaries and wages was among the proposed reductions for the rest of fiscal year 1987 that the University of Kansas submitted yesterday to the state, a KU budget official said yesterday.
The revised budget demonstrated how the University would carry out a cut of $3,166.697. The University would absorb the cut during the next seven months.
The salaries and wages category includes money for unclassified and classified salaries, student and graduate teaching assistant salaries and fringe benefits, said Ward Brian Zimmerman, KU budget director.
He said the reduction proposals did not specify any particular departments or individuals that the cuts would affect.
The revised plan had to be submitted because of a proposed 3.8 percent across the-board cut in state spending. The board also ordered Mike Hayden order Nov. 19.
The Kansas Legislature, which convenes next month, must approve the cuts before they take effect.
The KU plan called for a reduction of $1,794,652 in salary and wages and a reduction of $1,334,392 in academic instruction, said Keith Nitcher, University director of business and fiscal affairs.
Also, the University has proposed a $475,168 reduction in institutional support and a $165,081 reduction in student services.
"There was a significant reduction in salary," Zimmerman said. "We cannot come up with a $3.16 million reduction without the salary decrease."
Although some of the numbers appear large, Nitcher said, they are a relatively small percentage of the total originally allocated to these areas at the beginning of fiscal 1987.
Fiscal year 1967 ends June 30, 1968. Zimmerman the figures in the revised budget would be specific enough for the governor's office, but, from the University's standpoint, it will be a general framework.
This general framework would allow KU officials to rearrange cuts if they have to in the future months, he said.
"This is very important that we have this flexibility." Zimmerman said. "If there's a positive aspect to these recisions, it would be that the governor has allowed us, the University, to most efficiently make the decisions."
Robert Cobb, executive vice
chancellor, said, "The issue is the $3.16 million. The rest of it is bookkeeping."
Cobb said the numbers in the reductions might be rearranged if the Legislature grants a fee release.
On Wednesday, Chancellor Gene A. Budig, along with the other top executives from Board of Regents schools, visited with Hayden.
"It was a productive meeting." Budig said in a prepared statement "The governor-elect shares our deep concern about the impact of the recision."
Budig said he was confident Hayden would make every possible effort to reinstate the recent cutback.
"It was apparent that he has been thinking a lot about the future of higher education," Budig said.
TOPEKA — KU English instructor Kelley Hayden will return to the Universi-
lity of Kansas to teach after spending summer and fall campaigning for his
secretary to instructor in January.
Hayden's brother returns to teaching
By BETH COPELAND
TOPEKA — In May, Kelley Hayden, a KU English instructor, was working to submit students' final grades when the telephone rang.
A campaign worker for Mike Hayden, a Republican gubernatorial candidate and Kelley Hayden's brother, was on the line, asking him to be his brother's press secretary.
"Mike and his wife had raised a little money, but not much." Kelley Hayden said. "They needed an all volunteer staff, so here I
"School was just out. I didn't have anything planned for the summer except to go help my father harvest wheat. . . They doubted I would accept the position, but I did immediately."
Kelley Hayden took leave from teaching English at the University of Kansas for summer and fall 1986, and hit the campaign trail — first to help his brother defeat a Democratic candidate in the primary election and next to help him defeat Democratic candidate Tom Docking in the general elec-
am. They wanted somebody who could write.I can write.
Mike Hayden weathered the rift caused by errors in a campaign flier that called the Democratic Carlin-Docking administration "ultra-liberal" and "soft on crime." But a second flier almost cost Hayden the election, his brother said.
tion in November.
This brochure said a suspect "murdered" a woman in Meade County. Three days before the Nov. 4 election, the suspect's lawyer subpenaed Hayden, saying her client couldn't receive a
But the road to victory was treacherous at times.
"For a couple or three hours, we thought maybe it was over." Kelley Hayden said. "We could see them in the lines." Hayden subpoenaed.
fair trial because of the statements.
Campaign workers searched throughout the day to uncover information, showing that the lawyer had close ties with the Democratic Party and the Dockside allegations later substantiated.
Because of that, Kelley Hayden
See HAYDEN, p. 5, col. 1
Congress will form special committees on Iran-contra deal
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Senate and House leaders yesterday announced that they would set up separate Watergate-style committees to consolidate investigations of the Iran-contra scandal when Congress reconvenes in January.
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, who has been pressing for quick action on a comprehensive investigation of the controversy, also said President Reagan would decide today whether to call the first special session of Congress in 38 years to get the investigation moving even faster.
"The president wants to get the process under way to demonstrate, once again, his determination to get the staff to put the issue to rest." Dole said.
After Dole's comments, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said Reagan would wait for a recommendation from both Republicans and Democrats before deciding whether to recall Congress.
Spokesman Dan Howard also said the White House still was pressing for legislation to make it more difficult.
At the same time, the Senate Intelligence Committee was bogged down by former Reagan aides John Poindexter and Oliver North's refusal to testify.
The panel's chairman asked the president to either encourage the cooperation of crucial witnesses or to provide essential information himself.
After more than a week of discussion with Dole, Senate Democratic leader Robert Byrd said they had agreed to create an 11-member committee. The committee will be in charge of unraveling the Iran-contra connection.
Byrd said the committee would be made up of six Democrats and five Republicans, reflecting the Democrats' new majority in the Senate when the 100th Congress convenes.
House Democratic leader Jim Wright of Texas appeared with House GOP leader Robert Michel of
Illinois to announce that a 15-member "blue-ribbon panel" would convene in January to develop a consolidated record of what went on.
Wright said the House panel would include nine Democrats and six Republicans.
In other developments yesterday:
Speakes, who announced that he was quitting his White House post Feb. 1, said Reagan agreed with Vice President George Bush's assessment that some mistakes were made in the Iran-contra affair.
■ FBI Director William Webster halted plans to retire soon and will stay as the director to maintain stability as the agency continues its criminal investigation into the affair, Justice Department officials said.
■ North, fired by Reagan last week after he was identified as the master-mind of the contra connection, said he had a "straightforward willingness to tell all the facts." North, a Marine, has been reassigned to a desk job at the Pentagon.
The Wall Street Journal said that the CIA used Zaire, which gets military equipment from both the United States and Israel, as a staging ground for shipments of weapons to Iran.
■ Between $500 million and $1 billion in weaponry was sent to Iran by the United States and Israel in a series of secret shipments this year, said Gary Sick, a former National Security Council aid. Sick worked under President Jimmy Carter during the Iran hostage crisis.
■ Reports surfaced that private U.S. citizens in El Salvador had mixed tons of Soviet-made rifles with food and medicine they had received from the State Department. The private group then shipped the combined cargo to Nicaraguan rebels last spring, said an unidentified source who said he helped supply the weapons. The shipments allegedly were directed by Richard Gadd, a former covert operations specialist with the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Speakes announces resignation, new job
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Larry Speakes, who has clashed with reporters for almost six years as President Reagan's chief spokesman, announced yesterday in the midst of the Iran arms-contra aid crisis that he would resign Feb. 1.
Speakes denied that the controversy had prompted him to accept a lucrative offer from the Wall Street firm Merrill Lynch & Co.
"A great opportunity presented itself and I took it," Speakes said in an interview. "I wanted to be certain the president was comfortable with my decision and my timing and he was."
Speakes said the Iran arms crisis persuaded him to delay his departure until Feb. 1.
"I wanted to stay on for a longer period than one normally would have," he said. "The 60 days will give us an opportunity to talk to the
public. I am convinced the president has been doing the right thing, and I think by the time I leave we'll have put a lot of this behind us."
Speakes, 47, who served as a lower-level White House spokesman in the Nixon and Ford administrations, will become senior vice president for communications for Merrill Lynch at what is expected to be a six-figure salary.
As a full-time assistant to the president,
Smokes makes $75,100 a year.
Although no successor was named, the candidates are thought to include Interior Undersecretary Ann Door McLaughlin; Sheila Tate, a former press secretary to Nancy Reagan; Albert Brashear, deputy White House press secretary; Marlin Fitzwater, press secretary to Vice President George Bush; and Gary Schuster, a former Detroit News and CBS News correspondent now working as a consultant to the White House.
By KIRK KAHLER
Facilities operations, KU police may face cutbacks
A recently proposed statewide budget cut might take $368,000 from facilities operations and the KU police department.
Rodger Oroke, University director of support services, said $322,000 would be cut from the facilities operations budget and $46,000 would be cut from the police budget.
Oroke said facilities operations would deal with the reduction through salary appropriations. As positions become vacant, he said, the department might not fill them.
Oroke said the cut also would reduce the
number of student workers by as many as 20. In the past, students have worked in clerical and labor positions, he said.
Thomas Anderson, director of facilities operations, said the entire $322,000 would be created through the gradual reduction of staff and office space; would occur when workers retire or quit.
Both Anderson and Oroke said that routine maintenance and repairs would decrease and that the department would concentrate on emergency repairs.
"The challenge is going to be there because the personnel won't." Oroke said.
When positions become vacant, he said, personnel might have to be reassigned to meet needs in the vacant areas.
Oroke said that the support services served the academic community, and that he understood why his department received a larger cut than most of the academic side.
James Denney, director of KU police, said the $4,000 budget cut would mean about 400 fewer hours of police coverage for the KU campus each year.
The department would lose one police officer and one security officer, Denney said. These positions also would be vacated
The department also would no longer pay overtime, which would cause an additional loss of police coverage, he said. Last year, the department paid about $34,000 for overtime.
through attrition, he said.
The department now pays time and-a-half for overtime. Under the proposed budget cut, officers would take time off equal to the overtime hours worked.
"It gives me cause for concern." Denney said. "A high police profile goes a long way for a safe community."
however, Denney said, the problem could be dealt with and the decreased security should cause few security problems.
"At times, I think our manpower on the streets will be less than I am comfortable with, but it can be borne," he said.
Denney said that the police department was in the process of buying a new computer system to keep records and for word processing, but that had been stalled because of the cuts.
"That keeps us from operating at an efficiency level that I think we should," he said.
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