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Thursday April 28,1988
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 98, No.144 (USPS 650-640)
Budget to Hayden for final approval
Package includes Margin of Excellence
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — The Legislature yesterday sent about three-quarters of the state's next annual budget to Gov. Mike Hayden, including money for the Margin of Excellence program for Board of Regens universi-
Other major bills passed included the "KanWork" welfare reform program and salary increases for judges.
The House and the Senate passed eight appropriations bills containing close to $3 billion in spending. Hayden had proposed a $4.2 billion budget for the next fiscal year, which begins July 1.
Hayden praised the Legislature for tackling major appropriations bills on the first day of its wrap-up session. The House-Senate conference committee negotiated the comprisions before the wrap-up session began.
"Their actions today in passing all but three of the remaining regular
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Their actions today in passing all but three of the remaining regular appropriations bills hopefully signifies a readiness to bring this session to a timely and orderly close.
Mike Hayden
governor
appropriations bills hopefully signifies a readiness to bring this session to a timely and orderly close," Hayden said.
The Margin of Excellence program was proposed by the regents as a way of making state universities more competitive with their peers in other states and to increase faculty salaries.
A conference committee agreed to spend a total of $9.1 million to fund
the program, $5.3 million for salary increases and $3.8 million to improve other academic programs. The regents had requested a total of $10.8 million, $6.3 million for salary increases and $3.8 million for programs. The extra money would increase faculty salaries by an average of 7.5 percent.
Rep. Robert Vancrum, R-Overland Park,援 his colleagues to reject the conference committee's compromise on the Regents budget. The House had voted only to fund the salary increases.
"This has been rather a substantial change in philosophy — we said we would fund the faculty part of the organization recognizing that need." VanCrum said.
However, Rep. Rochelle Chronier,
R-Neodesha, said many of the
universities would use the extra program money to hire extra professors.
Students will race canoes at KSU
By Julie Adam
Kansan staff writer
Sink or win is the motto for KU civil engineering students this weekend.
The students, who built and will race their concrete canoes in Manhattan on Saturday, say they will win.
Dan Lanning, Ottawa junior,
was putting the final coat of paint
on the canoe that will heal his
wrist. The team has won the
Annual KSU Concrete Canoe Race.
"We've got the winning canoe right here," he said. "This is the cellulations, and it's not going to sink unless there are big waves."
Ben Frevert, Pomona senior, said that about 25 civil engineers have helped to construct the canoe, which is a different design than canoes that KU engineers have made in the past.
Spring Fever
BY JERRI NIEBAUM
Janie's ponytail flipped right and then left as she looked down the hall. No one was coming from either direction. She double-checked the sign on the door. "Girls." She always double-checked now because one time, she had accidentally gone into the boys' room. When she had seen the funny-looking sinks, she knew she was in the wrong place, but it was too late. The man standing at the sink had been laughing, but Janie
the funny-looking sinks, she knew she had was too late. The man standing at the sink had been laughing, but Janie wasn't. Her face had been red and hot. This time, she knew she had the right room. She pushed the heavy door open with both hands and stepped quietly inside. She tip-toed down the row of stalls. As she looked under each door, her blond ponytail dragged on the floor. The bathroom was empty. Quickly, she stepped into the stall farthest from the door and sat down on the toilet. She pulled her knees up to her chest with her feet on the seat. If someone did come in, she wouldn't know Janie was there. She would just think that some smart alek had locked the door from the inside and climbed under.
Janie pulled a pen from the hip pocket of her jeans. It had tabs that she could push for red, blue, black or green ink. She pushed red. Steadily her right hand with her left, she drew a heart the size of a workbook page on the door of the stall. Then she flipped the blue ink tap. Giggling, she wrote "Janie loves Tim" inside the heart. She dotted the i's with bubble hearts. Then, she drew the point of an arrow at the bottom of the heart and a feather on a stick for the rest of the arrow through the top of the heart. Now Tim has to love me. It's written on The Wall.
She put the pen back in her pocket and let her feet slide to the floor. She heard someone enter the bathroom, so she flushed the toilet before leaving her stall.
She stepped on the bar under the circular sink on her way out of the bathroom. She stuck all ten fingers along the tiny holes that fed the giant bowl. Then, one by one, she patted the water and watched the water are pitched. She had always wanted to climb into one of those sinks.
Recess was over by the time Janie got back. The other kids were stomping the slush of their boots and hanging their coats on hooks. Janie sat down at her desk and took out a pad of paper. She opened it to the inside front cover. The page was covered with tic-tack-toe games, hearts, scribbles, drawings of cats and dogs and her name, "Janie Elizabeth Jones." She had written it in cursive, in bubble letters, in tall skinny print, in short fat print and backwards. She also had written "Mrs. Tim Swartz" and "Janie Elizabeth Swartz." She quickly scribbled over the dream names. If anyone found them, they would know who wrote it on The Wall. As it was, everyone would probably think that one of Janie's friends had written it as a joke. She would have to find the message later and pretend to be furious about it.
The other students settled into their seats, and Mrs. Jackson stepped to the front of the room. Janie didn't like Mrs. Jackson. Whenever she came to Janie's desk to help, she leamed over and stuck her face in Janie's. She opened her mouth to spit-tak the instructions, and the smell started. It was like dog's breath, an ashtray and sour air. The teacher never asked long questions because she couldn't hold her breath long enough to survive the answers. Today, Mrs. Jackson wrote "lovely" on the board.
"Take out your handwriting tablets. We're going to practice our curative handwriting by telling a story that uses the word lovely in it. Tim, can you give the class an
example of a sentence that uses the word lovely?"
Tim. She was asking Tim a question. Janie tried not to look at him. She felt her face grow warm. What if he sees me? Tim was sitting two rows over and one seat back from Janie. She would have to turn her head to look at him. She glanced at the other kids to see if they were looking at him. They were. She looked. A gorgeous bangle bang on his neck and head. He had a small scratch on his cheek. John had told Mindy to tell Janie that Tim's cat scratched him. Mindy was Janie's best friend, and John was Tim's best friend. Mindy and John had been chasing each other at recess for the past couple of days.
"The weather is lovely today."
Janie's ponytail flipped to face the back of the room again. She didn't want to be caught looking at him. Someone might think that she liked him.
She flipped open her blusher. She smashed the wiry black brush around in the pink powder for awhile and pulled the tiny mirror to her cheek. Her whole arm moved as she swept a pink streak just below each cheekbone. Then, she scrubbed at the streaks with her hand until just a hint of a blush showed on each side. She closed the compact and exchanged it for a marmac she lifted the brace green then she lifted her foot from the brake. As the ear slid forward, she opened the marmac. Switching her eyes from the road to the rear-view mirror, she brushed the black liquid onto her lashes.
"OK, Tim. That was an appropriate sentence to use. It is lovely weather today. The snow is melting, and it looks like spring might really come. Now everyone, I want you to fill three tablet pages with a story that uses the word lovely. Be sure that the 's' climb all the way to the top line of your paper and paper the 'o's and 'v's and 'e' climb only to the dotted line. Please begin writing. You have twenty minutes."
She put the make-up back in her purse as she pulled into the parking lot. She didn't see any empty stalls. A car pulled into the卧底 behind her. It was Him. She took a quick look in the rear-view mirror and fluffed her blond curls. She serpentine slowly through the room, looking out towards the moment of the black Porsche behind her. She found a parking space in the last row. She sucked in her breath. There was an empty space next to it.
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"Hi." He spoke to her as they both got out of their cars.
"Hi," she answered, Oh God, did I remember to brush my teeth? She swallowed hard.
"Nice day. Maybe it will stay warm now."
"Yeah. Hope so."
"I had a good time the other night."
"Good movie."
She kicked a rock on the pavement and shifted her books from her right to her left
"Maybe we could go out again sometime you know, just us, without everybody else."
"We have a few minutes before school starts. Do you want to listen to some music..."
case.
She felt her face grow warm. "OK." Her voice was soft, choked. She could hardly breathe.
"...in my car?"
She sucked at the air
he played with the cocktail napkin under her drink. She recrossed her legs inside the tight miniskirt under the bar. Her panties were climbing. She would have to go to the ladies'
"The music's great!" he shouted at her over the din. "You want to dance?"
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She slipped off the stool without answering. He wouldn't be able to hear her call. She walked up and pulled her close to him as they walked to the dance floor. She reached back and pulled at
her party elastics. a new song was just starting, a slow one. She smiled. he probably planned this. he probably went to the D.J. while I was in the bathroom and told him to play a slow song at exactly 10 o'clock. Oh well.
All the girls were wearing tight skirts and short pants again. Most of the guys were wearing Hawaiian shirts and O.P. shorts. It was weird to see skin again after so many months of sweaters and jeans. She put her hands on his shoulders, and another girl ran away. She lay her nuzzled blond head on his shoulder. His breath was hot on her neck.
Mrs. Jackson's foul breath pulled Jane from her reverie. "You haven't even filled one tablet page, Janie. Are you having trouble getting started?"
"OK. You have ten more minutes, so you'd better start writing now."
"Huh? Oh, no. I just wanted to think everything out first I started writing."
Janie put her pencil tip on the paper, and Mrs. Jackson turned her back. Janie's friend Mindy was sitting next to her. She tapped twice on her desk — the signal. Janie looked down at the folded piece of paper on the floor. She snatched it under the desk. Looking straight ahead, she opened the note and pulled it toward her. Then, glancing down at her lap, she read, "Jan — Tim like you. John told me at recess. - Min."
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the four houses given tations were Phi Kappa ae1, 1941 Stewart Ave.; alpha Tau Omega, 1537 nnesse St.; Kappa Sigma, 145 Emery Road and Alpha appa Lambda, 2021 Stewt Ave.
ler room, computer room and vision room; storage of combusti-
material in the attic and within
ee feet of an open flame device;
I use a multipug adapter in the nputer room.
he Delta Upsilon fraternity, 1025 Ivy Road, was also listed as one he house cited for fire violations. He was also dismissed by the fire department.
I received a call from the fire armment this morning that said rges for Delta Upsilon were dissed, because house members had reected problems," said Jerry le, city prosecutor.
he Delta Upsilon fraternity had n cited for failure to correct stritical hazards in two rooms and r a soft drink machine, maintain lighting in the library and in the r stairway, repair emergency ting in the second- and third-floor mitories, and maintain fire inguishers in the library, boiler m and living room.
ichard Barr, Lawrence fire marl,
said he would drop charges inst the four houses if they com-
with fire codes. However, the dl decision is up to Little.
it's up to me to decide whether rges will be dismissed," Little l. "I haven't decided yet, I still / proceed with some kind of fine.
I will work with the fire departat on that and will listen to their ummendations."