THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday April 1, 1988
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 98, No. 125 (USPS 650-640)
Student Senate approves budget
Most of the nation loses an hour when it returns to Daylight Saving Time at 2 a.m. Sunday
Knight-Ridder Graphic
By Jeff Moberg
Kansan staff writer
After 11 hours of debate spanning two nights, Student Senate approved the fiscal 1898 budget for previously financed student organizations at its meeting last night in the Kansas Union.
Late Wednesday night, Senate killed an amendment to the budget, which had passed 21-16 earlier in the month. Then KU crew 1.80k for a set of oars.
Crew $1,500 in a set of 90
Carolyn Speer, Nunemaker senator,
motioned to reconsider the
amendment after she received information that she thought had misled Senate. Speer originally had voted in
favor of the amendment.
She said she made the motion to reconsider because KU Crew did not keep its promise of not asking for more equipment this year. Last spring, KU Crew received two new shells and in return, promised not to ask for any more equipment this year, Speer said.
Jason Krakow, student body president, told senators Wednesday night that he would veto the budget if the KU Crew amendment was the only additional capital request. Krakow said that it would not have been fair to other student organizations.
The threat of a veto changed some of the senators' opinions about the
amendment, he said last night
After Senate passed the first part of the student organizations budget at 11 p.m. yesterday, Krakow said he was pleased with Senate's efforts.
"They did a pretty scrupulous job," Krakow said. "They went to painstaking detail, so the student body gets a fair shake."
In response to the debate Wednesday, three senators last night sponsored a bill that asked for more than $78,000, including the purchase of two airplanes for the fictitious KU Flying Club.
Roger Templin, Student Executive Committee Chairman, stand in front of Senate trying to keep from laughing as he read the resolution.
Jane Hutchinson, Nunemaker senator, said the resolution was put together as a joke to show Senate how time was wasted debating pointless issues. She also said it was a response to the complaint that Senate leaves too much money unallocated.
"Last night, we lost control with all these motions to reconsider and talking about issues three times," Hutchinson said. "It's taking the inappropriate arguments of last night and carrying them to their extreme in the hope that they won't come up again. It also serves as a warning to groups that come and ask for a majority of Senate's budget."
Senate also voted to amend the budget, allocating $2.250 to Jayhawk Course Source. The Senate Finance committee had recommended not to finance Course Source because it said the publication was not providing new information.
In addition, Senate allocated $48,911 to 31 previously financed student organizations all remunerated in the unallocated student organizations account.
At 11 p.m. last night, Senate still had to consider two budget bills, one that would deny funds for four student organizations and one that would finance three new student groups.
Margin plan might reach Senate soon
By Elaine Woodford
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA - After being amended, lobbied for and argued against, the Margin of Excellence could, as early as Tuesday, move out of committee and on to the floor of the Kansas Senate.
State Sen. August Bogina, R-Lenexa and chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, said he expected the state Board of Regents budget to move out of the committee on Monday and on to the Senate floor for vote on Tuesday. The Margin of victory plan is part of that budget.
But the battle for the plan is far from over.
Although Margin of Excellence received a recommendation for full financing from the senate committee, the committee members are supportive.
The Margin of Excellence is a three-year program created by the Regents to counter low pay for faculty and help alleviate financing problems in targeted areas at the seven Regents schools. The plan would cost the state about $15 million for the first year.
Bogina said he was not in favor of financing the Margin of Excellence. He said that in determining the amount of money the University of Kansas should receive, it was wrong to compare the University with what he called an arbitrary set of peer institutions.
Bogina said that he didn't have a problem with financing higher education but that supporting the plan wasn't the way to do it.
He said KU had created its own problems, such as lack of classroom space and a shortage of teachers.
"KU has increased enrollment because it recruits students so they
"As a legislator, I'm going to expect accountability from the system for an enhanced value for the educational system, instead of just raising someone's salary," he said. "So, if there isn't a quality product, the whole system has totally failed."
can request money from the Legislature for additional classroom space," Bogina said.
Senators said that several critical factors would determine the amount of money the Margin of Excellence will receive.
A school finance bill that would cost the state $7.5 million, which was approved in committee yesterday, could ultimately make legislators choose between secondary schools and higher education, said Senate President Robert Talkington, R-Iola.
"The Margin of Excellence was a close vote in the committee," he said. "It also depends on if the revenue is there to fund it."
On Monday, state officials will estimate the amount of revenue the state will take in during the next fiscal year. If the projections are low, the Margin of Excellence may lose support.
State Sen. Joseph Harder, R-Moundridge, said it was still too early to tell whether the plan would retain full financing.
"Until the consensus estimates are in and we can determine the revenue picture, we can't tell if the Margin of Excellence will be fully funded," he said. "But it will be funded at some level."
But State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, expressed cautious optimism that the plan would be fully financed.
"the committee recommendation breathed vibrant life into the Margin of Excellence, but it's far from over," he said.
Eighty KU students to lobby for Margin
Rv till less
Kansan staff writer
"Lobby Day II, Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back to Topeka," will be more intense than the first lobby day January 19, said Jane Hutchinson. KU director of the Associated Students of Kansas.
Focusing on hard-hitting lobbying of legislators who have not supported the Margin of Excellence, students will again converge on the state Capitol Tuesday.
During the first lobby day, about 250 KU students discussed education issues with every state legislator. This time, the Higher Education Rescue Operation will take 80 students and focus on members of the House of Representatives and members of the Senate Ways and Means Committee who might not have supported the Martin of Excellence.
"We will be taking only experienced, educated and committed students." Hutchinson said.
The Margin of Excellence is the Regents $47 million three-year plan to increase financing of the seven Board of Regents schools to 95 percent of peer averages.
The House of Representatives had passed the Board of Regents budget, which includes the Margin of Excellence, without $6 million for mission-related enhancements. Mission-related enhancements include libraries and research.
However, last week, the Senate Ways and Means Committee voted to add full financing for the first year of the Margin to the budget. Committee action on the budget is expected the beginning of next week.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., RLawrence, who helped train the lobbyists for the first lobby day, said it was important for student lobbyists to come back now.
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Laura Ambler, H.E.R.O. lobbyist and KU press coordinator for ASK, said lobbyists would examine the voting record of the legislators before Tuesday. The lobbyists will stress the mission-related enhancements portion of the Margin.
He said it was important for the students to remind legislators as final budget decisions were approaching that higher education was a legitimate concern for the state.
"Sure, teacher salaries are a problem; closed classes are a problem." Amber said. "But if you don't have a library or you don't have researchers, it's kind of pointless to have the rest."
"A lot of water has gone under the bridge since they were here last," Winter said.
"We're getting down to crunch time." Winter said. "It's important to stress funding of existing programs rather than new ones."
On our way
KU basketball players Kevin Pritchard, left, and Scooter Barry wave as they leave Municipal Auditorium after the National Association of Basketball Coaches All-American East-West game in Kansas City, Mo. The Jayhawks arrived in Kansas City in time to watch most of the second half of the game. Coach Larry Brown had his bus driver from Pontiac, Mich., flown to Kansas City to drive the team's bus during the Final Four.
Children learn acting skills
By Kevin Dilmore
Kansan staff writer
Alex stumbled for words. "I, um, have some beer and some, uh, cedar bread," he said.
Eleven-year-old Sarah Carlson gasped for breath as 9-year-old Alex Clifford knelt beside her. "I am starved, boy," she manned between coughing spells. "Give me something to eat."
The circle of about 10 children fell silent. Alex had blown his line.
Sarah took the imaginary bread from Alex's hand and pretended to look it over. "No, it's cinder bread."
And the children working on their skit for the "School's Out-Theater's In" workshop all laughed and began the scene again.
Toni Molloy, teaching assistant in theater and head of the program, said the program combines dramatic exercises with crafts. The children sometimes made the puppets, masks and props that went along with their skits.
About 50 children participated in yesterday's workshop, which was in the Lawrence Community Theatre, 1501 New Hampshire St. The two-day workshop was part of a series that is underwritten by Southwestern Bell and is held during breaks in the school year. The workshop ends today.
"We only have one day with the kids, so it's hard to pack it with information," she said. "We want to provide activities that cultivate a child's interest, whether it be in drama or not."
Molloy said the workshop used April Fools' Day as a theme for the day's activities. The children divided into
three groups according to age and worked on masks, costumes and skits.
The skirts were produced in the Commedia del Arte tradition, which Molloy said originated in Italy during the Renaissance and which used broad, stereotypical characters.
"It won't be an adult form of Commedia, not after one day's work," she said. "But it gives the children a motivational focus."
Andy Stevenson, London graduate student, led a group of children in mask-making and pantomime exercises. He said that he wanted to give children a brief taste of theater.
"I get a lot of fun out of it, and they get more out of it," he said. "Theater means more to children."
he said. *VanderPol-Hosek*, a Lawrence resident who directed a workshop skit based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale of the Golden Goose, agreed.
lucky are you to keep all age groups motivated on the task to work toward a goal, but adults take theater much more seriously." she said.
Some of the children aren't in the workshop just for laughs, though Sarah Carlson, a sixth-grader at Sunset Hill Elementary School, said she attended the workshops to get dramatic training.
"I do it for the experience, and I think it's fun," she said.
Moloy said that reactions like Sarah's were the main intention of the "School's Out-Theater's In" program.
The workshops are geared out to show how things look when it is done; we worry about the child's experience."
Senators approve contra aid plan
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Senate gave approval yesterday to a $48 million humanitarian aid bill that would break a one-month drought in the flow of U.S. supplies to the contrasts and would send medical care to war-injured children.
Approval on an 88-7 vote sent the measure to President Reagan, who has promised to sign it into law so that the rebels can be sustained in the field as they wait for agreement with the leftist Sandinista government on a long-term cease fire and a reconciliation between the two warring sides.
White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said that Reagan, who leaves Washington today for a 10-day vacation, wanted to sign the bill before he left.
"I would think he would sign it almost immediately after receiving it." Fitzwater said.
Earlier this year, Congress twice had rejected ad proposals for the contras, and their last U.S. support expired Feb. 29.
The easy passage of the bill in the Senate, and a day earlier in the House, was made possible by a March 23 accord on a 60-day truce that was reached in Sapoa, Nicaragua, after talks between the contras and the Managua regime.
Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., said that the aid bill fell short of the desires of contra supporters, who would have preferred sending weapons to the rebels, and also bothered opponents who opposed sending any aid.
"This package strikes a balance and is for the sole purpose of supporting that agreement in Sapoa," Dodd said during a harmonious floor meeting to measure, "not for that agreement, we wouldn't be doing this today."
- Contra humanitarian aid totaling $17.7 million over the next six months. The money would flow at a rate of $2.7 million a month, which would buy food, clothing and medical supplies. It also could include $1.5 million for communications equipment, if that is deemed in accord with a Nicaraguan cease-fire agreement.
Among major features of the aid leisaliation:
A new $17.7 million program, which would pay for medical care for children who are victims of the Nicaraguan civil war.
■ About $10 million, which would pay the expenses of a commission set up that verifies compliance with the provisions of the cease fire. The commission includes Nicaraguan Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo and Joao Baena Soares, secretary general of the Organization of American States.
Vigil to mark anniversary of King's death
Rv Kathleen Faddis
Kansan staff writer
Campus and community groups are planning events for next week to commemorate the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the anniversary of his death.
Twenty years ago Monday, at the age of 39, King was shot to death on the balcony of a motel in Memphis. Tenn.
James Earl Ray, who recently turned 60, pleaded guilty to killing King but has since claimed innocence. He has spent most of the last 20 years at Brushy Mountain Prison in Tennessee.
The Cross-Cultural Communications Network, a campus group recently formed by Danette Cooper. Topeka senior, has planned a silent vigil
for 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Campanile.
The KU ROTC unit will give an honor guard salute, and one of King's speeches will be read, Cooper said. The vigil will end with a lightning of candles and a moment of silence.
Cooper said she planned the remembrance on the anniversary of King's death to draw attention to him and the things he stood for.
A second commemoration has been planned by local clergy and members of Students and Community Against Oppression and Racism for 4 to 6 p.m. April 10 at Haskell Stadium.
"The goal is to show that the dream is alive in Lawrence," said Dave Litwin, director of Hillel and a member of SCAOR.
The group has planned speakers, including Executive Vice Chancellor Judith Ramaley, gospel singers and American Indian dance and musical groups. King's "I Have a Dream" speech also will be read.
The group began planning the event soon after the recent controversy when the Ku Klux Klan was invited to speak on campus at a free speech forum. SCAOR, an organization of students, clergy, and community members, organized a protest of the forum that drew about 2,500 people.
Beth Miller, Lenea junior, said the protest drew a lot of people together and raised consciousness.
"We wanted to keep that consciousness alive," she said.