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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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 Hadden, including money for the Margin of Excellence program for Board of Regents university.
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 $2 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 tacking major appropriations bills on the first day of its wrap-up session. The House-Senate conference committee negotiated the comprocession 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 plan, recognizing that need." Vancrum said.
However, Rep. Rochelle Chronier,
R-Neodeshe, 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 beat
the United States in an annual
KSNU CONcrete Race.
"We've got the winning canoe right here," he said. "This is the microcells, and it's not going to sink unless there are big waves."
Ben Frewert, Pomona senior,
said that about 25 civil engineers
have helped to construct the
canoe, which is a different design
than canoes that KU engineers
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feet and do, perhaps, too much. The job takes a lot of time away from you. It's been pretty time consuming, and it can be very draining."
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Drug Rock Chalk, Buchholz and McManness often work from 7:30 in the morning to midnight. How do they survive without coffee? "We eat lots of fast and junk food," Buchholz said.
The two also keep busy maintaining sound equipment in most of the auditoriums and in Allen Field House.
said, Sound lighting, "scoreboard." McManness added.
"We provide systems for all sports events," Buchholz said. "Sound lighting."
"...scoreboard, "kublack,
"Yeah, scoreboard. Shot clocks, anything that has to do
with the actual running of the game, in terms of keeping
time," Buchholz said. "Anything that has the electronics in
it, we're involved with it." They also set the lighting and
sound for commencement.
and for commencement, especially when events overlap. One year,
Life is hectic, especially when events overlap. One year,
commencement was on the same day as a Big Eight track
meet. And this spring, the two jugged men's and women's
basketball with the Mummenschanz mute trope, the New York City Opera Company and Rock Chalk.
TINKER BELL STUNTS AND BABYSITTING A hectic life has given this dynamic duo many interesting stories.
stories.
“One year, didn't they fly somebody down from one of the balconies? Or they wanted to?,” McManness asked Buchholz.
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They wanted to. "Buchholz said. 'We've had to leap in and tell people when they can't do something for safety reasons. They get some ideas like flying someone in like Tinker Bell."
McManness said one group tried to bring in a mechanical lift that a student would jump from, landing on a mattress hidden by scenery.
mudden by scenery."
"Before I would let him attempt it, I said that you've got to get a release from the University. Nobody had really thought about (releases) until that had come up. Finally, the university got their attorney involved with it," McManness said.
ness said.
With the release approved and some safety modifications,
the stunt went well. But the two don't remember when the
stunt was. They said the shows had run together over the
years.
years.
Buchholz and McManness work with Rock Chalk from beginning to end. Buchholz said they often watched clumsy kids transform into polished performers.
mcmanness said, "The biggest pleasure I get is when I see somebody like Harry was talking about that can't move both feet at the same time. And then they come into the performance, and they are doing it, you know, pretty close to a professional."
Although they enjoy watching the professionalism onstage, the two men sometimes play babysitters for the students backstage. "I've caught them doing stuff like playing frisbee with the lap-boards," McManness said.
Besides Rock Chalk, the two men have been called on to do the sound and lighting for speakers Louis Farrakhan and President Ford and for the recent free speech forum. They have been investigated by the FBI, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and local and private security groups because of their responsibilities in such events.
Though they have met many stars, the two work mainly with the "roadies," the crew that travels with entertainers to set up equipment. With a big-bearded grin, McManness said, "I kind of consider myself a roadie with his feet planted."
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the bottom of a concrete ring students. They will om across the country in sas State University,
worth it because the canoe is more like a social event year.
eating K-State would also be the work worthwhile, Lansaid.
We were going to name the
ele the Final Four, but we
ld've run into some copyright
elems," he said.
e Delta Upsilon fraternity, 1025 ry Road, was also listed as one e house cited for fire violations ever, the charges were dised by the fire department.
received a call from the fire
moment this morning that said
ges for Delta Upsion were dis-
eased, because house members had
seted problems," said Jerry,
city prosecutor.
r room, computer room and vision room; storage of combusti-material in the attic and within feet of an open flame device; use of a multiplex adapter in the puter room.
he four houses given
tions were Phi Kappa
sta, 1941 Stewart Ave.;
sha Tau Omega, 1537
messe St.; Kappa Sigma,
15 Emery Road and Alpha
paa Lambda, 2021 Stew-
Ave.
s found ernities
e Delta Upsion fraternity had cited for failure to correct rical hazards in two rooms and a soft drink machine, maintain lightning in the library and in the stairway, repair emergency ng in the second- and third-floor itiories, and maintain fire guishers in the library, boiler and living room.
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hard Barr, Lawrence fire marshal he would drop charges at the four houses if they complained over the decision is up to Little.
s up to me to decide whether
we will be dismissed." Little
"I haven't decided yet, I still
proceed with some kind of fine.
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vill work with the fire depart on that and will listen to their mendations."