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 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 $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 compromises before the wrap-up session.
"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 $4.9 million for other programs. The extra money would increase faculty salaries by an average of 7.5 percent.
Rep. Robert Vancurr, 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 program recognizing that need.” Vancrum said.
However, Rep. Rochelle Chronister, 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
Kansas staff writer
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 be
built for 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 calculators, we've got all the 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.
f Hoch Auditorium
Kansas Relays.
STORY BY CHET DICKENSON PHOTOS BY ANDREW MORRISON
Harry Buchholz, technician for the University of Kansas, stands in a control room below the Memorial Stadium press box, where he is testing circuits for the stadium scoreboard.
Buchholz removes an overhead stage light after the free speech forum March 7 in Hoch Auditorium.
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the bottom of a concrete ring students. They willom across the country inas State University,
worth it because the canoe is more like a social event year.
We were going to name the be we the Final Four, but we'd've run into some copyright items," he said.
ating K-State would also be the work worthwhile, Lan-said.
r room, computer room and
ision room; storage of combusti-
naterial in the attic and within
feet of an open flame device;
use of a multipug adapter in
the pater room.
he four houses given tions were Phi Kappa sta, 1941 Stewart Ave.; ha Tau Omega, 1537 messe St.; Kappa Sigma, 5 Emery Road and Alpha pa Lambda, 2021 Stew-Ave.
e Delta Upsilon fraternity, 1025 yr road. was also listed as one house cited for fire violations dised by the fire department
received a call from the fire mending this morning that said yes for Delta Upsion were diced, because house members had set problems," said Jerry city prosecutor.
is found ernities
e Delta Upsion fraternity had cited for failure to correct rical hazards in two rooms and a soft drink machine, maintain lighting in the library and in the stairway, repair emergency ing in the second and third-floor itories, and maintain fire guishers in the library, boiler and living room.
hard Barr, Lawrence fire mama he would drop charges at the four houses if they compelled him. The decision is up to Little
s up to me to decide whether es will be dismissed." Little "I have decided yet, I still proceed with some kind of fine.
will work with the fire depart on that and will listen to their imendations."
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