Friday February 12, 1988
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 98, No. 95 (USPS 650-640)
Committee endorses plan to raise salaries
The Associated Press
TOPEKA - The House Appropriations Committee yesterday endorsed Gov. Mike Hayden's recommendations for a 4-percent cost-of-living salary increase for state classified employees.
The committee also endorses the governor's recommended 5-percent salary increase for faculty at the state's six Regents universities.
However, the committee went $1.7 million beyond the governor's recommendation for extra faculty salary increases under the Board of Regents' Margin of Excellence plan.
The vote on state employee salaries didn't come until after lawmakers argued whether they should decide statewide issues such as pay increases before the whole Legislature decides what to do with the $135 million income tax windfall the state is expected to receive.
"We too often make decisions in a vacuum," said State Rep. Robert Vancrum, R-Overland Park.
State Rep. David Miller, R-Eudora, said the committee shouldn't make decisions on financing issues, such as money to local school districts, until the windfall issue is decided.
But State Rep. Jack Shriver, D-Darkansas City, said he was frustrated that lawmakers had not decided what to do with the windfall.
"I wish it was settled the first day
of school," she added. "But we
have to go on with our work."
If this is what we're going to do, we'll have to take money from elsewhere. '
Bill Bunten
state representative, R-Topeka
Because committee members decided on the 4-percent increase for classified employees, they will automatically use that increase when deciding how much money to build into agency and institution budgets as the total state budget is developed.
The increase for classified employees also would include an average 1.73 step increase for state employees. That is the increase they receive as they move up the state's career advancement ladder.
At Regents universities, committee members voted to give faculty a 5-percent base salary increase but also voted to fund the Regents' total request for $6.7 million in additional increases to all faculty.
The governor has recommended additional salary increases of $5.01 million by giving extra money only to those faculty members who teach but not to those who do research or work in programs such as the agricultural extension agency at Kansas State University.
Many committee members said they thought the governor's recommendations would be unfair to universities with more researchers because those universities would get
less money.
For example, under the governor's recommendation, Wichita State University would receive $1.28 million, almost the exact amount it requested, because most of its faculty members teach. But, Kansas State University would receive $1.1 million, or about $1 million less than requested, because of the large number of extension agents it has.
"If you recommend the governor's program, you're recommending that those glitches be left in," State Rep. Bunten R.-Topekca, said.
"I'm kind of between a rock and a hard place," said State Rep. William Brady, D-Parsons, who said that he thought the governor's plan was unfair to Kansas State but that he didn't want to give more money than the governor recommended.
Several members proposed different ways to equalize the amount of money each university would get without giving more total money to the program, but the committee voted those down.
Bunten was critical of giving faculty more money than the governor recommended.
"If this is what we're going to do,
'have to take money from elsewhere.'
I'll just use the first one.
The committee also endorsed the governor's recommendations to give universities 75 percent of the excess tuition fees they gathered in the current fiscal year and a 4-percent increase in other operating expenditures for the universities, about a $2.95 million increase.
Valentine flowers go both ways nowadays
Kansan staff writer
Rv Donna Stokes
Feb. 14 used to be thought of as the day when birds began to mate, but Valentine's Day, along with dating trends, has changed since then.
More about valentines p. 6.
For example, local florists say flower sales are booming again this year, but many of the orders are from women to men.
"Of the hundreds and hundreds of flower orders we have for Valentine's Day, about 50 percent of them are from women to men." said Lisa Breaulth, salesman at University Floral, 2103 W. 28th St. Terrace.
Tim Albright, Melvern senior,
said, "Guys may not admit to liking
flowers, but most think the thought
would be really nice. It signifies
affection. I think it would be cool."
Don Randel, owner of Owens Flower Shop. Ninth and Indiana streets, said most of the flowers were bought by men, but that quite a few orders were to men from women.
Andrea Norton, Springfield, Mo,
sophomore, said, "I don't think guys
would necessarily be embarrassed to
get flowers, but girls might be
embarrassed to send them."
Dennis Dailey, professor of social welfare, teaches a class called Human Sexuality in Everyday Life. He said society was giving slightly more permission for women to be a little more assertive.
"If you took a random sample of women who have their eye on a certain guy, about 85 percent would raise their hands, but only about 5 percent would call the gue and ask him out," Dalley said. "This is an increase from the past, when women would not even consider calling a man."
Don Simm, Ottawa junior, agrees. "I think it's more acceptable today for girls to be more assertive than 15 to 20 years ago," he said. "I think guys are pretty receptive to being approached."
Norton said, "A lot of girls are being more aggressive. A lot of guys have told me that girls should go ahead and ask if they are interested. But I wouldn't feel comfortable doing that."
Another dating trend suggests that people tend to date only one person, Dailey said.
There is a trend toward serial monogamy," he said. "People will date one person for a period of time and if it doesn't work out, they find someone else. There seems to be less dating of several people at the same time."
Schools lose power to reduce add time
By Rebecca J. Cisek
Kansan staff writer
Individual schools on the Lawrence campus would no longer be allowed to shorten add periods under the add-drop policy passed two weeks ago by University Council.
Yesterday, the council defeated an amendment that would have allowed schools on the Lawrence campus to continue shortening add periods.
Despite the amendment's defeat, individual professors would still be able to prevent students from adding classes.
Under legislation passed Jan. 28 at the council meeting, the add-drop period would allow students three weeks to drop a class and three weeks and two days to add a class. The clause that allowed schools to set shorter add periods was then deleted.
Gary Thompson, director of student records, said that every school on the Lawrence campus had adopted a shorter add period during the 1987-1988 academic year.
The University of Kansas' current policy provides for an add period of four weeks and a drop period of five weeks. But schools can set shorter add periods.
The Senate Executive Committee recommended that the council reopen the discussion on the rights
of schools to set more restrictive add periods.
Bass said the majority of students that enrolled in classes during the third and fourth weeks had problems because much work already had been assigned.
Sharon Bass, associate professor of journalism, introduced the amendment that would have allowed schools to shorten add periods.
Edith Guffey, assistant to the director of student records, said that without the amendment, students would be under the illusion that a longer add period would guarantee them a chance to add a class. Professors have the option of calling the enrollment center during the add-drop period and reducing the maximum size of their classes.
Pam Houston, assistant to the dean of liberal arts and sciences, said most students didn't know about the maximum class-size option, which is not printed in the timetable. If the amendment to let schools set shorter add periods had passed, the University could have informed students in the timetable.
She said a student could add a class in liberal arts at any time with the department's permission. In some classes, such as physics.
See COUNCIL, p. 5, col. 1
Photos by Craig Sands and Joe Wilkins III/KANSAN
Catch some snow
Snowboarding, a combination of surfing, skateboarding and skiing, has become a popular sport at many ski areas. Top, Ian Duffy, Lawrence resident, skies down the hill behind Joseph R. Pearson Hall on his snow board. It was Duffy's second day skiing, and he said he was getting the hang of it. Left, getting to the top of the hill is the hardest part of snowboarding at KU. John Newman, Topeka junior, climbs the stairs.
Please see related photo, page
Hayden backs Regents plan
Second and third year of plan depend on windfall decision
By Elaine Woodford
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Gov. Mike Hayden recommends allocating $7.1 million for the first year of the Margin of Excellence plan, but additional money after fiscal year 1989 is uncertain.
"I certainly hope we can fund the plan, but it is a tremendous financial commitment," Hayden said.
This session, the Legislature will debate the amount of money the Margin will receive. The majority of the money is expected to come from the state tax windfall, which is estimated to bring an additional $135 million into state coffers.
Hayden addressed members of the media yesterday in Topeka at a meeting sponsored by the Associated Press Topeka bureau.
The Board of Regents first-year request for the Margin totals about $15 million.
Legislators are debating whether to return the windfall to taxpayers or to use the money for state programs.
Gov. Mike Hayden
I certainly hope we can fund the plan, but it is a tremendous financial commitment.'
"I haven't heard or sensed as much positive response and support for higher education in the last six years as I do now," he said.
State Sen. Wint Wint Jr., R-Lawrence, said, "I think that it's entirely dependent on how this wind-fall issue works out."
Hayden said that if the windfall resources were used to finance the plan next year, additional funds would have to come out of the state's general fund.
Winter said, "If we don't keep a large proportion of the windfall, it's going to be almost impossible to fund the Margin in the next two years."
Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, said that although the Regents plan called for multiple
sources of money, it would be a challenge to finance the plan without state aid.
"It would be more difficult, but at this time, it's hard to predict what the financial situation of the state will be in two to three years," she said.
Winter said part of the problem in determining future financing for the Margin was that the Legislature was more worried about the budget for the next 18 months and couldn't think about the next 30 months now.
Winter said that he thought Hayden had placed education on the top of his priority list but that he'd like to hear Hayden say in the future that he gave the same priority to the second and third years of the Margin plan.
Kansan reporter jill Jess contributed information to this story.
"I think the reluctance to fund the Margin of Excellence is that we can only budget from year to year. For this year they are just waiting to see what happens with the windfall. If we have the money, we'll get it funded," he said.
Nofziger found guilty of peddling influence
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Presidem Reagan's onetime political director, Lyn Nofziger, was convicted yesterday of illegally lobbying top White House aides by jurors who said they had no trouble finding evidence of influence-pedding.
The jury, which deliberated about six hours, cleared Nofiger of a fourth illegal lobbying charge and acquitted his partner, Mark A. Bragg, of a single aiding and abetting charge.
"The evidence just kept coming up all the time," said Towana Braxton, the foreman of the federal court jury that convicted Nofziger of three counts of illegally representing private business with a year of his resignation from Reagan's staff in January 1982.
Notzfiger, the first former high government official convicted under the revolving-door provisions of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, attacked the statute as a "fousy law" and compared his offense with "running a stop sign."
"I feel I am innocent. I don't think I did anything wrong." said Nofziger, 63, whose lawyers vowed to appeal the convictions.
The former White House political director, who dates his association with the president back to Reagan's days as governor of California, could receive a maximum two-year sentence and a $10,000 fine for each of three convictions.
But lawyers familiar with the case said it was unlikely that the former presidential aide would be given a prison term.
Independent counsel James C. McKay said he found the verdict depressing because "I just hate to see someone get convicted of a felony. But we felt we had to do our job."