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-quarterst of the state's next annual budget to Gov. Mike Heyden, 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 compromises before the wrap-up session.
Their actions today in passing all
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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
the program, $5.3 million for salary increases and $8.3 million to improve other academic programs. The regents had requested a total of $10.8 million, $6.3 million for salary increases and $4.5 million for other 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 Chronister, R-Neodesha, said many of the universities would use the extra pro
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 cane that he will beat will
be a double title winner.
Annual ISSUe Concrete Game. Base.
"We've got the winning canoe right here," he said. "This is the year. We've got all thecalculator cards, and we sink unless there are big waves."
Ben Frevert, Pomona senior,
said that about 25 civil engineers
have helped in constructing
canes, which is a design
design that canoes *KU* engineers.
The eyes and ears o
Gary McManness, University of Kansas technician, checks the communications system to be used for the Kansas Relays.
Two men give light and sound to campus events
they sat among the props stored in the wing east of the Hoch Auditorium stage. On the table before Gary was a well used, long gray soldering iron with blue smoke rising from its tip. As Gary leaved the tattered end of the cord, Harry sat back in his chair, his head slightly cocked to one side as he listened to the crackling voices from the radio climbed to his belt.
Noticeably absent were any coffee cups. "I can't drink coffee," said Harry. Gary looked up from his work and uttered something similar.
KEEPERS OF HOCH
They are Harry Buchholz and Gary McManness, keepers of Hoch Auditorium, and much more. If you ever have been to a concert at Hoch or to a sporting event on campus, you have witnessed their handwork. Or you may have bumped into them as you were exiting and they were entering a building where the fire alarm was wailing.
Buchholz and McManness might be considered old-timers on campus; Buchholz has been at the University of Kansas since 1966, and McManness since 1973. But they aren't really old. Buchholz's silver hair and youthful face don't give you a clue as to his age. At 40, he seems somewhat timeless. But McManness, 36, looks like he rode out of the airport with a backpack that he didn't look as if he would be more at home riding a motorcycle than finishing the frayed end of a microphone cord.
The instrumentation shop where they work takes care of most of the sound equipment and the fire and security systems on campus. But the two spend most of their time in the system at Hoch, where they have helped with many shows.
Buchholz and McManness are best known by the students as the professionals behind Rock Chalk Revue. Buchholz has worked for the show since he was a student here in 1966. Twelve years later, McManness worked overtime to learn the lighting system and stayed on to become a Rock Chalk fixture.
Grinning, Buchholz said, "It's something you get hooked on. At least it is for me. This is the only main interest I've got anyway. I'm not married. I go home every now and then." More seriously, he went on, "I don't have any ties to worry about getting in the way, so I can jump in with both
Both of them truly love their jobs.
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McManness tests the functions of the Memorial Stadium scoreboard before the opening of the
be 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, Lan said.
We were going to name the
he the Final Four, but we
ld've run into some copyright
elems," he said.
is found ernities
r room, computer room and
ision room; storage of combusti-
naterial in the attic and within
a feet of an open flame device;
use of a multiply adapter in the
puter room.
he four houses given
tions were Phi Kappa
tta, 1941 Stewart Ave.;
ha Tau Omega, 1537
messe St.; Kappa Sigma,
5 Emery Road and Alpha
pa Lambda, 2021 Stew-
Ave.
E dupia Epsilon fraternity, 1025
ry road, was also listed as one
e house cited for fire violations
died by the fire department
10
received a call from the fire
mortition this morning that said
gels for Delta Upsion were dis-
eased, because house members had
acted problems," said Jerry
J. city prosecutor.
e Delta Upsition 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 ng in the second-and third-floor ititories, and maintain fire guishers in the library, boiler and living room.
hard Barr, Lawrence fire manshe would he drop charges at the four houses if they compelled him to answer. The decision is up to Little.
s up to me to decide whether
es will be dismissed," Little
"I haven't 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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