Tuesday March 22,1988
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 98, No.117 (USPS 650-640)
Margin gets Senate support Committee opts to fully finance plan's first year
By lill less
Kansan staff writer
Complete funding for the first year of the Margin of Excellence plan was added to the Regents budget in the state Senate Ways and Means Committee yesterday.
The state House of Representatives last week had passed a version of the budget that included money for faculty salaries but not for the mission-related enhancements.
However, the Senate committee gave the Regents the requested $8,961,679 for mission-related enhancements, to fully fund the $15,274,679 for the first year of the plan.
The University of Kansas would receive about $1.9 million for fiscal 1889 for mission-related enhancements.
means.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, a member of the committee, said that debate on the budget had been tense before he and State Sen. Merrill Werts, R-Junction City, convinced the committee to fund the plan.
Winter said that the bill should reach the Senate floor next week and that he expected it to pass in that chamber.
The bill would then go to a conference committee of Senate and House members before returning to the
Winter said he thought the bill would pass the Legislature with the plan fully funded.
House floor.
"It think it may be the year for the university," he said yesterday.
Executive vice chancellor Judith Ramaley said yesterday that she had not yet heard of the committee's report, but that she was pleased by the news.
Ramaley said that the money would allow KU to spend money on
"That is very welcome news because about half of our Margin of Excellence requests is in the form of mission-related enhancements," she said.
libraries, new faculty positions, research and research equipment.
"The reaction is 'hooray,'" she said.
The Regents Margin of Excellence plan would allot $6.3 million for faculty salary parity, $4.5 million for mission-related enhancements at the six Regents universities and $4.4 million for enhancements at other Regents institutions, such as the University of Kansas Medical Center, the Kansas State University Veterinary Medical Center and Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
In January, Gov. Mike Hayden
recommended funding $5 million of the $6.3 million the Regents had requested for faculty salaries. However, the only mission-related enhancement funding that Hayden recommended was $1.7 million for the Med Center.
Richard Stewart/KANSAN
mittee and fully funded the salary request in February but did not address mission-related enhancements.
The House Appropriations Com-
All figures are for fiscal 1989, the first year of the three-year funding plan for Margin of Excellence.
Sue Schellie/KANSAN
KU senior Veronda O'Hara works on an exercise called the leg toss during the afternoon track practice at Memorial Stadium. She runs the 400 meter and the mile relay on the KU track team. The team travels to Alabama on April 2 to compete.
Noriega makes offer to step down
Leg toss
The Associated Press
PANAMA CITY, Panama — Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega has offered to resign before the May 1989 presidential election if opponents agree to talks with his regime.
The political opposition, whose general strike yesterday paralyzed the nation, and the United States, which has kept up steady pressure to force Noriega's resignation, were unlikely to accept the general's terms.
Manuel Solis Palma, installed last month as the minister in charge of
Opposition unlikely to agree to conditions set by general
the presidency, made the announcement yesterday in a nationally broadcast speech.
Solis Palma said Noriega had given his word to step down if his conditions were met.
In Washington, State Department
spokesman Anita Stockman said yesterday that there was no immediate reaction from the administration. White House spokesman Mark Weinberg also had no immediate response.
Noriegia is under indictment or
several drug charges in Florida. The United States has dried up the flow of money to Panama, which uses the U.S. dollar as its currency, in the effort to force him out. The Panamanian economy is near collapse.
The general put down a coup attempt by dissident officers last week and rejected a U.S. plan for him to leave Panama and live in Spain.
In Washington, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said there were no plans for further talks with Noriega after the return of two administration officials from Panama City.
Nicaraguan soldiers leave border area
The Associated Press
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Nicaragua withdrew its soldiers from the Honduran border yesterday and declared an end to fighting while it holds truce talks with the contras, according to reports from all sides.
■ See related story p. 7.
The border region remained tense, with Honduran patrols on the lookout for any booby traps left behind by the Sandinistas.
President Jose Azcona Hoyo said the 3,200 U.S. troops sent to Honduras
last week, after the Nicaraguan army was accused of sending 2,000 men across the border in pursuit of contras, might not be needed any longer.
"The worst is over, and there is peace now in the border region." Col. Reynald Andino Flores, commander of the Honduran army's 101st Infantry Brigade, said from his headquarters in southern Honduras.
"We are remaining on a state of alert to be ready for anything that may happen." Flores added.
Flores and other officers, some of
whom insisted on anonymity for
security reasons, said the Sandinista penetrated an area of about 20 square miles inside Olancho province while chasing the U.S.supported rebels in a two-week offensive to evict the contrasts from Nicaragua.
About 200 border incidents have been reported in Olancho since the contras began fighting the leftist Sandinista government in 1981.
President Daniel Ortega and the Nicaraguan government have denied Sandinista soldiers crossed the border.
The contras maintain camps in an area called Bocay, which includes
territory on both sides of the border. Nicaragua claims that the camps, which the contrasts use to store supplies and to stage raids inside Nicaragua, are in Nicaraguan land. The contras say the camps are in Honduras.
At Nicaragua's request, a U.N. fact-finding team will leave for Nicaragua today to investigate the border violence, the United Nations announced in a statement. It said observations will be limited to the Nicaraguan side, since no permission was received from Honduras to go there.
Sponsor of forum faced with large security bill
Kansan staff writer
By Ric Brack
police that totalled more than $3,200.
Even though the bill for security at the March 7 free-speech forum at Hoch Auditorium is higher than had been estimated, the organizer of the event said his group would honor its commitment to pay the bill.
Michael Foubert, Lawrence graduate student and president of Slightly Older Americans for Freedom, the group that organized the event, said he received a security bill from KU
Since that "Obviously, we're seeking sources of funding," Foubert said. He said that he would ask Student Senate for funds and that if necessary, private donations would be solicited.
KU police originally had estimated a cost of about $2,000 for the event, based on a security force made up of the entire KU police force to be employed for a period of four and a half hours. The maximum cost an hour was estimated before the forum at $450.
KU police director Jim Denney said yesterday that although the maximum cost an hour had been adhered to, the final cost was different from the estimate because security for the event had been employed longer than four and a half hours.
Denney said the bill was due immediately but that he understood that the group could have trouble paying the bill.
"Sometimes, people get in over their heads, and this is a classic
case," Denney said. "We'll work with him any way we can."
Denney said after the forum that the total cost of security for the event could have been as much as $19,000.
The 33-person KU police force was assisted by about 23 Lawrence police officers, five Douglas County Sheriff's officers, 50 Kansas Highway Patrol troopers, two bomb disposal experts from the Overland Park police department and seven Kansas Bureau of Investigation agents.
Task force rejects AIDS study
Group suggests that University not participate in program
Bv leff Moberg
Kansan staff writer
Because of a lack of information, the Student Senate's Task Force on AIDS will recommend to Senate tomorrow night that KU not participate in a nationwide study that would try to discover the percentage of college students who test positive for AIDS.
The study calls for the 20 participating universities each to send 1,000 blood samples by January 1899 to the CDC in Atlanta for analysis. Blood samples would be chosen randomly from students who have blood tests at student health centers. Only demographic information, including race, sex and age, would be linked to the samples. To further assure the anonymity of the samples, every tenth sample would be discarded.
After its meeting in the Kansas Union last night, the task force decided that it did not receive enough information about the five-year study, which will be conducted by the American College Health Association and the Centers for Disease Control.
sample In nine to 12 months, the study's results would be released in regional and national percentages only. In its proposal, the ACHA said regions that showed a high percentage of students testing positive could be scrutinized to find out why.
Despite assurances from Charles
Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins
If they wanted us to make an informed decision, they did not give us enough time.'
Student Senate AIDS task force
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Hospital, that the University of Kansas could back out of the study at any time, the task force said that KU might not be able to control how the study would be conducted after the first year because not enough information was provided about years two through five of the study.
— Ruth Lichtwardt
The proposal for entering the study was brought before Senate on March 9, but the Senate decided to send the resolution to the task force and the Minority Affairs and Student Rights committees for examination. Those two committees will not meet before Senate's meeting tomorrow night.
Although Senate's approval is not needed, Yockey said that a proposal such as this should be decided by the Senate.
"Until a long-term framework is provided, Student Senate should not open the door to this type of study," said Michael Foubert, director of the task force.
some members of the task force resented the lack of time they were given to discuss the proposal. KU must inform the ACHA by Friday if it wants to take part in the study.
"We want to totally inform the
senate and the student body of this proposal, and if there is not an overwhelming majority in favor of it then we'll inform the CDC that the University of Kansas is not interested," Yockey said.
"If they wanted us to make an informed decision, they did not give us enough time," said task force member Ruth Lichtwardt.
roubert and Yockey also discussed the issue on JKHJ's JayTalk 91 last night, along with Kathryn Anderson and Steve Kidwell, both members of the task force.
Foubert said on the program that KU should not participate in the study because 1,000 samples would not accurately reflect infection rates of the whole student body and that high risk groups would not be identified.
But Yockey disagreed because no real information existed about the percentages of students who tested positive.
"I think this study is important because it would give us a better estimation than we have now," he said.
Second of three shopping mall sites rejected by planning commissioners
Bv Christine Martin
Kansan staff writer
The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission last night voted unanimously to recommend denial of the second of three suburban mall rezoning requests.
The commission denied the Jacobs, V viscison and Jacobs (JVJ) proposal, which would be a 61-acre site at Iowa Street and Armstrong Road in south Lawrence.
The Planning Commission first voted unanimously Feb. 22 to recommend denial of the Collister proposal, which was submitted by Ed Collister, a Lawrence attorney. The Collister proposal would be a 55-acre site at Highway 40 and Wakarusa Drive in west Lawrence.
the planning staff first recommended denying approval of the three proposals in September. The report on the proposals, submitted to the planning commissioners last month, backed up their conclusion with testimony from several public hearings.
The third proposal, the Warmack proposal, will go before the Planning Commission April 13. The proposal was submitted by Warmack and Co., a Fort Smith, Ark., developer, and would be a 10-acre site at Clinton Parkway and Wakarusa Drive in southwest Lawrence.
Planning commissioners spent nearly three hours amending 11 pages of a 22-page report on the JVJ proposal, which was prepared by the planning staff. The commission had amended the first 11
The commissioners amended the report because they did not agree totally on what was fact and what was opinion in the report.
pages of the report at the Feb. 22 meeting.
The commissioners discussed how the rezoning would affect wildlife in the area, the increased traffic and whether spinoff commercial development would interfere with downtown Lawrence.
"I can't believe putting a 400,000 square-foot mall anywhere would not have some kind of negative effect on a neighborhood," planning commissioner Mark Buhler said.
Planning commissioner David Evans that a mail would not necessarily have a negative affect on downtown Lawrence.
'Just because you have a commercial center doesn't mean you'll have commercial things all around it," he said.
But the commissioners did agree that the city would need major traffic improvements, such as widening lanes and adding turn lanes because of increased traffic from the proposed mall.
The planning staff first recommended denying approval of the three proposals in September. The report on the proposals, submitted to the planning commissioners in February, backed up their conclusion with information from public hearings, which took place from October to November.
For final action, the JVJ proposal will now go before the City Commission, and the Collister and Warmack proposals will go before the County Commission.