Thursday April 28,1988
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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 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 compasses 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 $4.2 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 organization recognizing that need." Vancrum said.
However, Rep. Rochele Chonier,
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 he says will bear
the name of his team. The annual
KSU Concrete Canoe Race.
"We've got the winning canoe right here," he said. "This is the year. We've got all the calculations up front, and 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.
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