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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Arraignment set for murder case
Vol. 87, No.121
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, April 7. 1977
See page eight
Sport fee raise, student group cuts to go to Senate
Recreation would cost students, faculty
A $1.50 increase in the student activity fee will be recommended to the Student Senate next week by an ad hoc committee on recreational facilities.
The committee also will recommend that $80,000 in unallocated Senate funds be allocated to the Recreation Advisory Board for capital improvements projects and that $25,000 will be charged to faculty and staff members who use the facilities at Robinson Gymnasium.
Faculty members on the committee agreed to the proposal, provided that an oversight committee on recreation services be set up to include at least one student member and one faculty member not in the department of health, physical education or recreation, who will have with administration-appointed members in deciding the use of recreational facilities.
The committee had sent a questionnaire to 200 faculty and staff members who now have lockers in the gymnasium. Of 100 students, it would be willing to pay the $10 users fee.
The three additional revenues for recreation services would total about $120,000 and would allow the advisory board to maintain Robinson Gyim's open hours next year and finance planned improvements in recreational facilities.
The University currently provides $16,350 for the super vision of recreational facilities.
Tom Willerson, director of recreation services, is expected by this weekend to make a list of capital improvements needed in the recreational program.
boring.
A survey of 1,185 students by Stevie Mullen, student body president, and Ralph Munyane, student body vice president, during February's election campaign found that 55 per cent of the students surveyed would be attending school in improved improvements in recreational facilities.
The improvements suggestions will include lights for some campus tennis courts, softball backstores on the fields at the corners of 23rd and Iowa streets and 19th and Naismith streets and new sod for all intramural fields.
Leben said yesterday that necessary improvements in recreational facilities had been funded last year by an emergency appropriation by the University of Kansas, and that it would be hard to duplicate that appropriation this year.
To keep the number of free hours open to students at Robinson Gynn next year comparable with the number of hours open this year would take $16,000 that isn't available without the additional revenues, Leben said.
The committee was formed a month ago by Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, and Leben to investigate possible ways to improve the maintenance and capital improvements.
The Student Senate must approve the student activity fee increase and the $60,000 allocation of unallocated funds. If the Senate approves the fee increase, it will be approved by the Senate. The recommendation for the $10 users fee will be submitted to FacEx for approval.
BY LINDA STEWART and JOHN WHITESIDES
Committees drop $35,586 from requests
Staff Reporters
Two Student Senate committees ended their budget deliberations last night by cutting $35,886 from the budgets of 41 student groups requesting $79,939.
The Student Senate Services Committee cut $15,646 from the budgets of 14 groups. The groups had requested $50,285, but the committee had only $43,701 to allocate.
All committee recommendations must be approved by the full Senate to take effect.
The Academic Affairs Committee ended allocating its $8,652 to 25 of 27 groups
The Campus Veterans budget received the second largest cut, from $1,757 to $2,703.
THE LARGEST CUT made by the Services Committee was in the Environmental Services request of $10,943. The committee recommended that the group not be funded at all.
The Kansas Environmental Service, also called the KU Weather Service, was formed in 1926 to serve as the state's weather office.
formation service, which people could telephone to get specific weather forecasts.
Some senators said they didn't want to be the service until they knew whether student teachers were ready.
Another group that received no money was the Counseling Student Organization, which had requested $460. The group received funds last year from the Graduate Student Council, which receives a block of funds. The committee recommended that the Counseling Student Organization try to receive funds from the council again this year.
THE COMMITTEE recommended that Hilltop Child Development Center not be funded by the committee but that a bill be introduced on the Senate floor next week requesting money for the group from unallocated funds.
The committee had never dealt with Hilltop because the center's funds had previously come directly drown the Senate operating budget.
Mike Tareboulos, committee chairman,
said that Hilltop's past record probably
would assure it Senate funds. The group requested $1,075.
MECHA, a student service group for Chicano and Latino students, requested $1,360 its $2,680 for a symposium next fall. The group also asked making the group's total allocation $2,000.
ALPHA PHI OMEGA'S request was cut $321, making the group's total allocation $736. Funds were cut from such areas as advertising and office supplies.
The committee also cut $175 from the Native American Alliance's budget in the areas of advertising and office supplies, but funded a $175 request for the group's annual powwow. The group's total allocation was $2,280.
The budget of the Commission on the Status of Women was cut by $199, making its budget $1,851. The group said its goal was to raise the consciousness of women.
See COMMITTEES page three
Other cuts made by the committee were Women's Coalition, $335; Douglas County Council, $280.
Molten alass
David Huchtenhaus, an instructor in glass blowing at the University of Illinois, demonstrated Tuesday the creation of his "fantasy vessel" to about 50 persons in Chamney Barn. The demonstration was a part of a series of programs sponsored by the KU department of design. Normally, the glass blower works about five hours to complete one of his "fantasy vessels," which are vases containing many colors of glass sandwiched between several layers of
transparent crystal. But Hutchhausen did a "smaller, quickier version" to demonstrate the techniques he uses to make one of the vases. Hutchhausen, who has been glass blowing about 26 years, recently completed a one-man show of his works in New York before coming to KU. One of his works will be displayed in the Kansas Union during the annual Nuclear Show. It will be part of a show entitled, "The Son of Glass Gems," which will feature the work of 15 to 20 glass blowers.
Study requested of Indian death
The chairman of the Navaho Tribe in Arizona has written a letter to a South Dakota student requesting an investigation into allegations that Haskell Indian Junior College student.
The letter was sent to Sen. James Aboreux, D-S.D., by navaho Chairman Peter McDonald. Neither McDonald nornor McDonald could be reached for comment last night.
The report of the letter was released by Donald Peaches, Haskellrell who, said he and other regents were dissatisfied with the results of a local investigation.
Wallace Gallucci, Haskell president, said last night he knew nothing of the letter and that the company had not responded.
The letter from the Navaho leader asks for an investigation by the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division into the shooting death of Larry Piccote, 22.
Picotee was fatally shot March 5 at the Long Branch Saloon, 1099 Massachusetts St., by three Lawrence policemen after he reportedly drew a pistol on them. It later was discovered that Picotee's gun wasn't loaded.
The policemen were attempting to question Picotte about an armed robbery the week before of the Site Service Station, 946 E. 23rd St.
The Douglas County attorney ruled March 19 that the three policemen had not acted with felonious intent in the shooting. The court said the being suspended during the investigation.
Peaches said the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) also received a copy of the letter and had been asked to help in the new investigation.
Although Picotee was a Sioux, McDonald reportedly wrote the letter out of a concern that his former employer had been fired.
KU budget compromise sought
By ROSS MCILVAIN
Staff Reporter
A conference committee of the Kansas Legislature met last night to forge an agreement between the Senate and the House on the main appropriations bill for the University of Kansas.
The conference committee, which includes three members from each house, planned to report last night's decision on the bill to the legislature this morning, according to State Rep. Fred Weaver, D-Baxter Springs, a member of the conference and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
As it now计划, the bill would give KU about $45.4 million for next year. The House passed the bill yesterday, leaving cuts in faculty raises and operating expenses made by the House Ways and Means Committee unaltered.
The Senate had already passed the bill to allow students to yesterday to reject the Haitian mandates.
THE HOUSE Ways and Means Committee amended the bill to reduce Gov. Rick Scott's budget cuts.
faculty salary increase at all Regents schools to 6 per cent—except at Fort Hays State, which would get the full 7 per cent as a catch-up provision.
The committee also cut the recommended increase in other operating expenses from 8 to 7 per cent—except for the University of Maryland Medical Center and Fort Hays State.
A supplemental appropriations bill that includes $364,020 for KU also went to the budget conference committee yesterday. The amount of money needed mainly to cover increases in utility
Women's sports funding criticized
The Student Senate has more responsibility to fund University of Kansas recreation programs than KU women's intercollegiate athletics, Steve Leben, student body president, told a group of about 25 students last night.
Applications for Kansan now available
Applications for summer and fall Kansan editor and business manager positions are now available in the Student Senate office, the offices of the dean of Women's affairs and in 105 Fll. Hall Applicants must be turned in by 5 p.m. this Friday to the Kansan board will interview candidates the afternoon of Tuesday, April 12.
At a meeting called by Leben to discuss the Senate's role in funding women's sports, Leben reiterated the Senate's plans to fund the women's program this year but said a resolution would be sent to the Senate to approve the Senate not fund the women's program again.
Leben said that the Senate's decision to recommend funding of the women's program came about because there weren't any other sources of revenue available to the Senate to fund the conflicts in the timing and procedures of the Senate's and the University's budgeting.
NONETHELESS, Leben said that a proposed $1.50 student activity fee increase per student each semester would fund improvements in KU's recreational program without cutting funds for the women's program.
The Senate's general funding policy states that inter-collegial activities should not be funded.
activity fee to the women's program and $1.05 to recreational services.
LEBEN SAID THAT about half of the KU student population used the intramural facilities, while only one or two 250 students in the women's intercollegiate program.
Each semester, students pay $1.50 of their
A resolution to stop funding the women's program after this year would indicate the Senate's funding philosophy to the state of Kansas, Leben said.
The Senate currently provides about $36,000 for the intramural program and $54,405 for the women's athletic program.
He said that with the right timing, the University or state would be forced to pick up the funding for the women's program in order to comply with Title IX.
However, Marian Washington, director of the Women's Intercollegiate Athletic program, said it would be difficult for the school to hire an administrator money that would be cut by the Senate.
costs, which were much greater than expected.
Weaver said the committee would consider the supplemental bill last night "as soon as we can get something to eat," and would report it to the legislature this morning along with the main appropriations bill.
A CAPITAL improvements bill that includes $17.3 million for additions to Malott Hall and Robinson Gymnasium has passed the Senate but is still in the House Ways and Means Committee, although it was ordered to be voted on yesterday morning.
Weaver, chairman of the committee, said the bill probably wouldn't be reported to the full House or voted on until the legislature reconvened in about 10 days. Today is presumed to be the last day of the regular session.
Appropriations bills usually are passed before first adjournment, so when a legislative session has closed, a clean session will have a week or two later, legislators will have the chance to override the governor if
BUT WEAVER said the committee generally agreed with Bennett's recommendations on the capital improvements so they weren't worried about a possible veto.
The legislature adjourned about 8 last night and many of the members paused briefly to eat before meeting in committees that were the most important bills before the session ends.
The legislature will convene at 10 this morning for what is expected to be the last day of the regular session, and may work into the night. It isn't yet known when the customary two- or three-day clean up session.
House OK's pay raise for classified emploves
By DEENA KERBOW Staff Repeater
Staff Reporter
The Kansas House of Representatives is expected to send to the Senate today a bill that gives wage increases to all classified employees, even those at the top of their pay scale.
The House voted yesterday, 116-5, in favor of the bill after amending the original Senate version.
If made law, the bill will affect about 1,450 University of Kansas employees, Phil Rankin, associate director of central personnel, said last night. About 375 of those employees have reached the top of their pay range, he said.
STATE REP. Wendell Lady, R-Overland
park, amended the Lady to include
the following:
Under Lady's amendment, an employee receiving more than $10,000 a year would receive the $25-a-month pay increase and, if at the top of his pay scale, an additional 2 per cent raise upon the approval of the appointing authority.
At KU the appointing authority would be ATKU architec Arch Dykes, but he has designated the responsibility to Russell Mills university director for support services.
Under the bill, an employee earning less than $10,000 a year will receive a pay increase of 3 per cent or $25 a month, whichever is smaller. An employee also will receive a higher step increases and longevity pay increases, which are usually about 5 per cent.
thought chances of a Senate concurrence on the House amendments were good.
The original Senate bill proposed only a 2.5 per cent pay increase for classified personnel (civil service employees) earning less than $10,000 a year. But Rankin said he
"THEE SEEMS TO be a pretty strong feeling that the classified people should receive something more than what the warrior originally recommended," he said.
Rankin said he thought Gov. Robert Bennett had been thinking that the proposed 2.5 per cent pay increase would be added to the 5 per cent step increases to meet this year's approximate 7 per cent cost of living increase.
"But all that does is roughly keep you
sane." Rankin said.
He explained that classified employees who had reached the top of their pay scale steps weren't eligible for the 5 per cent step increases. Therefore, without Lady's support, the managers would face a 7 per cent higher cost of living with only a 2.5 per cent pay increase.
JIM FOLDTENE, director of central personnel services, told about 50 classified employees at a meeting yesterday that the threat of a disease would 'affect longevity pay raises.
Gvil service employees, Rankin said, follow a program of seven steps, A through F, and as an employee is promoted, one step requires 3 per cent pay increase for each step.
He said the longevity program began at step F to provide additional 5 per cent pay increases, similar to step raises. But, he said, longevity applies only to employees who are expected to work in the program for 1970. The program was eliminated for classified employers after that date.
RANKIN SAID, "There has been a lot of pressure since longevity was established."