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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday April 28,1988
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 Regents universities.
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 compro-
mission 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
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 $2.4 million for programs. The extra money would increase faculty salaries by an average of 7.5 percent.
Rep. Robert Vancrum, R-Overland Park, urged 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 plan, recognizing that need." Vancrum said.
However, Rep. Rochelle Chronier, R-Neodesia, 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.
weekend.
The students, who built and will rai r 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 he says will beat
the Boeing 787. (AP)
"We've got the winning canoe right here," he said. "This is the year. We've got all the calculators out there, and we sink unless there are big waves."
Ben Frevert, Pomona senior,
said that about 25 civil engineers
can use the cane, which is a different design
than canoes that KU engineers
Knock, Knock
BY SUSAN HARPER
The Tommyknackers
by Stephen King
G.P. Putnam's Sons; 558 pages; $19.95
halfway.
In the past three years, Stephen King might have overexerted himself to the point where his newest novel, "The Tompyknockers," meets his other 19 only
hairnyj
the latest book, which was released in
hardback last fall. King conquered a new
area of horror and science fiction —
extraterrestrial life.
The inhabitants of Haven, Maine, become the victims of unimaginable and unseen evil when what begins as a tentative dig at something buried in the earth becomes a compulsive drive to uncover a ship from outer space. The ship has been buried for millions of years and has an inhuman vibration.
As they uncover the ship, the townspree begin to change, or “to become,” as King eerily puts it. The people change inwardly at first, some losing their minds, most just letting themselves be taken over. The physical changes come when they develop transparent, jelly-like skin and inhuman organs. The townpeople are changing into the tommyknackers, the former pilots of the ship in the ground. Find out the title for his book and the
further photos of the ship which he gave.
King gets the title for his book and
the name for his unseen characters from a
nursery rhyme that goes like this:
Late last night and the night before, Tommyknockers. Tommyknockers.
Tommyknockers, Tommyknockers, knocking at the door.
I want to go out, don't know if I can, cause I'm so afraid
Although King gives more than one definition for a tommyknocker in his preface, the definition he creates in the novel is new. It might forever change the way one sees this traditional nursery rhyme.
King describes the way the tommyknocken seep into the townpeople's
minds and bodies with his bold, graphic,
imaginative style. He drags readers through the story and leaves no room for questions.
Faithful followers of King novels can count on his usual detail, step-by-step description, which draws readers so far into the story that they don't want out until it becomes a novel. King's "drawing in" process takes much longer than in most of his past books
— roughly 100 pages and seven chapters.
In the eighth chapter, when the digging is well on its way and many of the townspeepe are no longer mentally human, readers can count on being drawn in fast. Their heads will finally spin at the last page.
Susan Harper is an Overland Park senior majoring in magazine journalism.
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16 KANSAN MAGAZINE April 27, 1988
The school year is almost over and the light at the end of the tunnel signals. . PARTY!
When decorating for Formals Spring Flings,and Graduation, PENCE is the place for renting tropicals.
We've brought in another large truckload of plants from Florida.
3'-51/2' Palms
6' Dracenas
Fig Trees Galore
and many more!
4 Blocks East of Mass. St.
the bottom of a concrete
eering students. They will
from across the country in
nasas State University.
is worth it because the canoe ce is more like a social event ch year.
Beating K-State would also like the work worthwhile, Lang
"We were going to name the noe the Final Four, but we auld ve run into some copyright oblems," he said.
ns found ternities
C
the four houses given
tations were Phi Kappa
etta, 1941 Stewart Ave.;
Alpha Tau Omega, 1537
nnesse St.; Kappa Sigma,
445 Emery Road and Alpha
appa Lambda, 2021 Stew-
t 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 Upsition fraternity, 1025
erry Road, was also listed as one
he house cited for fire violations
never, the charges were dis-
sessed by the fire department.
I received a call from the fire artment this morning that said rges for Delta Upsilon were dressed, because house members had rected problems," said Jerry le, city prosecutor.
he Delta Upsilon fraternity had nc for failure to correct trifical hazards in two rooms and a r 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.
iearhbard, Lawrence fire marl,
said he would drop charges
inst the four houses if they com-
pete. Then, in order, the
d 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 depart it on that and will listen to their ammendations "
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