Friday January 15, 1988
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 98, No. 76 (USPS 650-640)
Regents welcome budget Gov. Hayden's $536.2 million proposal praised
Kansan staff writer
By Rebecca J. Cisek Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — The Board of Regents said yesterday that it was pleased with Gov. Mike Hayden's 1989 budget proposals for higher education but found certain aspects of his fiscal plan surprising.
That raise would include only faculty who teach. It does not include librarians, department heads and research faculty.
Gene A. Budig
There is reason for the faculty at the University of Kansas to be genuinely optimistic.'
The Margin of Excellence is a Regents proposal aimed at bringing financing of Regents schools to 95 percent of their peer schools and increase faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peer average. Peer schools are similar in size, scope and mission.
Hayden's budget calls for the state to spend $363.2 million for the seven Regents schools. His budget calls for a 5-percent salary increase for university faculty and a 4-percent salary increase for student and classified employees. Classified employees will also receive a step movement, which is equivalent to another 2-percent increase.
Faculty will receive an additional salary boost from the governor's budget. His budget asked for 100 percent of the Margin of Excellence request for increased faculty pay.
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However, Regents Chairman Donald C. Slawson of Wichita reacted
The Regents were surprised that Hayden's budget did not include Margin of Excellence increases for non-teaching personnel.
Chancellor
positively to the governor's recommendations.
"The governor responded to our fondest wishes," he said.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said during a break at the meeting that he too was pleased with Hayden's plan, especially fee releases and enrollment adjustments.
"There is reason for the faculty at
Kansas to be gentle with optimistic.
Hayden's budget would give instructional faculty at KU a 2.8 percent Margin of Excellence in their total salary increase 7.8 percent.
Budig said the Lawrence campus would receive an extra $1.7 million for enrollment adjustments that would create 24 additional faculty salaries will cost $1.3 million, and almost $400,000 will go to supplies. The governor's proposed fee release would give KU $466,382.
The governor did not recommend any increases in "mission-related" or program enhancements for the Margin of Excellence except at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
vice chancellor, said. "I will be
getting to the rest of the Margin
(funded)
Judith Ramaley, KU executive
She said she was optimistic about Hayden's recommendations.
"It's the most positive budget this campus has seen in years," she said.
But Budig and the Regents were concerned about Hayden's request to increase hospital revenue profits to partially fund the Margin of Excellence program.
Budig said that, originally, the MEd Center had to raise $100 million in cash receipts by the end of fiscal 1988. Now, the governor wants that amount increased to more than $103 million by June 30, he said. For fiscal 1989, the governor expects $105 million.
Budig said the Med Center would probably meet this year's figure, but he was cautious to say whether the hospital could raise $105 million for fiscal 1989.
"We will have to do some very aggressive and creative things to achieve the hospital revenue increase," he told the Regents.
Stanley Kopilik, executive director of the Board of Regents, said that the financing from hospital revenue was a key factor in the Margin of Excellence program.
He said that every reasonable effort to meet those projections would be made because they are in the best interest of the state.
The Regents had asked for a $5.5 million increase in state general funds, but Hayden recommended only $1.2 million. Hayden's 1989 budget also includes an increase of $11.1 million in tuition at the Regents schools. Hayden recommended that tuition increase 12.8 percent overall.
Also during the meeting, the Regents:
■ received a report from Gene Sauber, vice chancellor of hospital administration at the Med Center, that showed that the Med Center was fully accredited for the next three years and was in the top 10 to 15 percent of state-owned hospitals in the country.
- decided to study the economic contributions of the Regents distinguished professors
- ■ assigned the Council of Academic Officers to report within 90 days on the feasibility of uniform guidelines for evaluating undergraduate education at all Regents schools.
- decided to review campus policies on alcohol during the next 30 to 60 days. KU requested that all events that serve alcohol be approved through the office of the executive vice chancellor.
- received a report from Koplik on a proposed agreement with the University of Missouri-Kansas City dental school for Kansas residents.
Classes canceled for King holiday
By Stacy Foster
Kansan staff writer
A march across campus and speeches at the Kansas Union this morning at 11:30 will celebrate today's federal and state holiday.
For the first time, the University of Kansas will give students a day off in recognition of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. All Monday classes are canceled.
"We're living in a different generation," she said. "It's up to the older generation to educate the younger one and make them aware of his work and what it was about."
The office of minority affairs is sponsoring the march, beginning at the Chi Omega fountain and ending at the Kansas Union.
Juditr Ramaley, executive vice chancelor, and Ola Evelyn, academic adviser for the men's basketball team, will speak in Iderson Auditorium after the men's inspirational Gospel Voices will sing.
Students have celebrated King's birthday on campus since 1981.
The march is important to help educate a new generation about the works of a man who influenced an entire country, Evelyn said yesterday.
Belva Smith, a 1984 KU graduate, said she organized the march then because the University did not have anything planned to celebrate the day. She and her friends
Because of the holiday, the Kansan will not be published Monday.
sought the guidance of Sam Adams, associate professor of journalism, who had known King personally.
Smith said the march in 1981 was to demonstrate the importance of making Martin Luther King's birthday a national holiday.
"He was a man that represented the struggle for dignity, respect, freedom and equality for all people," Smith said.
Smith boycotted classes on Jan. 15 all four years she was at KU to draw attention to the importance of King's birthday. Her dedication was rewarded. Her governor John Carlin wrote Smith a letter in 1982 telling her that Kansas officially was going to recognize King's birthday.
Smith said that was a major accomplishment. But there were still issues to overcome, she said.
"There are still people and organizations that feel the need to establish themselves as superior. That is obviously wrong," she said. "It is an attitude as a whole that people must overcome."
Adams agreed that making King's birthday an official holiday marked an acceptance that was not previously there. Still, he thinks work remains to be done.
Steve Donziger, co-coordinator of Project Due Process, encourages law students to represent Cubans being detained in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary in hearings scheduled to begin next month.
Students to help Cubans
Bv leff Moberg
Kansan staff writer
About 100 KU students have volunteered to assist Cuban prisoners being detained in the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary at their release hearings next month before an Immigration and Naturalization Service review board.
Because the federal government has refused to help Cuban prisoners with their INS hearings, the Coalition to support Cuban Detainees, formed in Atlanta in 1985, made a stop at KU yesterday to persuade students to represent any of the 550 Cubans jailed in Leavenworth.
"I think a lot of people may assume they're all insane or criminals, but some are just political prisoners," he said.
Roberto Maldonado, a Wichita law student who volunteered to help the detainees, said he felt compelled to because he was of Hispanic descent.
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think a lot of people may assume they're all insane or criminals, but some are just political prisoners. '
Steve McAllister, Lucas law student, said that people in the legal community, including students, had a responsibility to people like the Cuban detainees.
Roberto Maldonado
Many of the Cubans have no legal help, so the coalition travels around the country visiting universities near prisons where Cuban detainees are held, asking law students and anyone else interested to help. The program is called Project Due Process. Leavenworth has the largest concentration of Cuban detainees in the country.
After November's prison riots in Atlanta and Oakdale, La. 718 Cuban
Steven Donziger, co-coordinator of Project Due Process, said that the coalition usually arranged meetings with local law students. That's because the students might know more about the law than the INS officials who run the hearings, he said.
detainees from the two prisons were sent to Leavenworth. About 150 Cubans have been released during the last month.
But the program is not just for law students. Donziger said it is for法学教授.
Principals given editing role
"Our aim is to train a corps of people to take some of the cases up at Leavenworth," Donziger said. "We would like a group of three to four people from this University to coordinate a trip there."
The coalition left Dwaine Hemphill, law graduate in team, to coordinate the local efforts. Hemphil said there would be a training session Thursday in Green Hall for anyone interested.
Supreme Court ruling limits freedom of high school press
By Christine Martin
Kansan staff writer
Some local high school officials and students are angry about a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that gives public school officials the right to censor student publications.
The court on Wednesday ruled 5-3 that a Hazelwood, Moe, high school principal did not violate students' First Amendment rights when he ordered that two articles, one dealing with teenage pregnancy and another dealing with children, be deleted from an issue the student newspaper, the Spectrum
The school district argued that because the student newspaper was part of the school curriculum, it had the right to control what was printed. The students argued that the paper was a forum for student opinion.
Three students sued the school district in 1983, saying that their First Amendment rights were violated.
Justice Byron R. White wrote in Wednesday's majority opinion, "A school need not tolerate student speech that is inconsistent with its basic educational mission even though the government could not censor similar speech outside the school."
But some local officials disagree.
Atthebury said that high school students had been reduced to second-class citizens because of the ruling.
"My students are pretty upset about it," she said.
"I think it a step backward," said Cheryl Attebury, faculty adviser for the Lawrence High School student newspaper, the Budget.
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What the ruling . . . has essentially done is to make the principal the editor of the paper.
- Susan Coughenour high school journalism adviser
Ann Grzymała-Busse, special projectors editor of the Budget this semester and editor-in-chief of the newspaper last semester, said, "I'm revolted. I'm certainly not surprised. For the past two years, the Supreme Court has been taking rights away from students.
"It's not a question of issues being disruptive. Now it's how the principal and the community see it. If we can't write about problems in school, what's the point?"
Susan Coughenour, faculty adviser for the Passage, the student newspaper at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School in Shawnee, said some students there were talking about organizing a petition against the ruling.
Brad Tate, Lawrence High School principal, said he didn't anticipate any problems with the ruling. He said he always saw the school newspaper only after it had been distributed to the rest of the school.
Coughenour said that the ruling put teachers and school officials in awkward positions.
"What the ruling says is that an administration has the right to continue."
"We have some guidelines, but it doesn't provide for that kind of censure."
she said. "What that has essentially done is to make the principal the editor of the paper."
Mark Goodman, executive director of the Student Press Law Center in Washington, D.C., said that the ruling was not ordering every school district to censor student publications but that they now had that right.
"I hope they decide not to," Goodman said, the ruling hates. "student journalists are not allowed."
Goodman said he had heard of one high school principal in California who started censoring the school newspaper for the first time only one hour after he became aware of the ruling.
Ted Frederickson, KU associate professor of journalism who teaches media law, said that he thought the court's ruling would pertain to only elementary and high school journalism, not to college journalism.
"What the Supreme Court has done is to give public school officials the right to give away the right of freedom of expression," Goodman said.
"I'm hoping that it is limited at a university level because we're dealing with adults, people who are likely independent," Frederickson said.
"I think it it's a different situation. I hope it is, he said." But then again, I thought high school students had First Amendment rights, too."
"It certainly teaches high school students the wrong lesson about journalism," he said. "The Supreme Court seemed to say that students had rights until the educational mission of the school took over.
"Good God, is that the lesson they want them to learn?"
Cold spell brings back ice skating to city park
By Jill Jess
Kansan staff writer
Ice skating has returned to Lawrence, after a year's hiatus because of mild weather.
Last week, the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department flooded the basin in Central Park for ice skaters. The park is between Seventh, Sixth, Kentucky and Tennessee streets..
Although the department began filling the basin last week, the ice was not ready until the weekend, said Fred DeVictor, director of parks and recreation.
"It's a bit rough," DeVictor said Wednesday, "that it's going to go."
He said that some skaters had been on the ice before it was solid and had roughed up the surface. Because the ice is outdoors and not in a professional rink the surface can not be expected to be perfect, he said.
"You have to recognize that it's not like an artificial rink," he said. "We rely on Mother Nature."
"We don't have an attendance record, but I've driven by and seen 20 to 30 people there at times," he said.
The number of skaters at the unsupervised rink varies, DeVictor said.
Lisa Palmquist, Concordia junior, was skating in the park
Greg Trimarche, Long Island, New York, law student, practices hockey in Lawrence's Central Park. Mild weather prevented the skating areas, provided by the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department since the early 70s, from opening last year.
Tuesday afternoon. She said that when she and two friends arrived, they were the only skaters but that the others were the skaters and an elderly man showed him.
to be there skating," Palmquist said.
"He was really proud of himself
The ice surface was good, she said, except that at one end, it had
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