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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vote today
Tuesday, April 5, 1977
Vol. 87, No.119
Campaian footwork
Roger Martin, instructor of English, hit the campaign trail on campus yesterday morning for his candidate for city commissioner drew varied responses from passerboy. Mohammad Ebileh Tehran, Iran, special student, responded exactly as his textual reading suggests.
Faculty pay increase cut in House committee action
Bv the Kansan Staff
Topeka - The Kansas House Ways and Means Committee yesterday cut a request for a 7 per cent salary increase for all Board of Regents institutions to 6 per cent.
The committee also reduced Gov. Robert Bennett's recommendation for an 8 per cent increase in other operating expenses for the University of Kansas to 7 per cent. Other operating expenses comprise all University costs, than salaries and capital improvements.
THE APPROPRIATIONS bill is expected to go to the House floor today.
Cancellor Archie Dykes did last night he didn't know whether the cut was intended to compensate for an increase in salaries of classified employees. He also didn't know whether the governor's recommended 2.5 percent salary for classified employees had been raised.
Earlier in the week Dykes had said he opposed exchanging a faculty salary increase for a classified employee increase, but he agreed to increase the increases for some classified employees.
Dykes also said he was pleased that the committee had reinstated a request for $250,000 for the affiliated family practice program at the KU Medical Center. But the bill also deletes $122,900 for additional staff for the Department of Family Practice.
The bill requests $150,000 for operating cost grants and $100,000 for site development.
THE PROGRAM—an effort to train more family doctors and encourage them to establish medical practice in Kansas—has been supported by the governor.
The committee changes affect the Med Center in several ways.
The committee added $16,434 in state general funds and $343,566 in research overhead funds for purchase of a full-body scanner.
But the bill deletes $35,000 for the extended preceptorship program. That program provides interim clinical internships for medical students who have completed classroom work but won't begin their residencies for several months.
The committee also deleted $60,921 for primary care residences.
THE REVISED BILL also eliminated a $5,000 request for installation of a second elevator in G Building. The Senate had ordered that the governor failed to order it.
The committee also requests the Med Center to determine and report the annual cost for each student in undergraduate medical instruction. Reports are to be reviewed by the Legislative Coordinating Council, which is to receive them by July 1.
John Conard, Regents executive officer, said State Rep. Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, who introduced the first big effort to keep Kansas, Kansas, was requesting this information.
Conard said, "If the mandatory service bill doesn't get passed in this bill—and it appears that it will not—he will have the information to use next year."
CONARD ALSO EXPRESSED concern about an energy conservation program that employs a hybrid system.
"It wasn't even discussed in the House Ways and Means Committee," he said, "much to our astonishment, because we had never, last store of information to the committee."
Conard said, however, "We don't look at it as a close out on these items. We expect, on the basis of very informal statements by the House Ways and Means Committee, that some of these things will be put back in the joint conference committee meets."
The Kansas Senate also voted on budget changes yesterday. The Senate, with no debate, approved a capital improvements bill that will provide $2,500,000 and $3,000,000 in 1978 for additions to Robinson gymnasium and Malot hall, respectively.
Senate kills marijuana bill, 19-17
By BOSS MCII VAIN
Staff Renorter
TOPEKA-Pot-smokers in Kansas will have to wait at least another year. The Kansas Senate last night killed a bill to ban the sale of marijuana or possession of an ounce or less of marijuana.
The bill was defeated 19 to 17. State Rep. Mike Glover, D-Lawrence and most important sponsor of the bill, said yesterday the measure was dead for this year even before it had been referred to the Senate Federal Affairs Committee by a vote of 19 to 14.
THE BILL WOULD have reduced the penalty for possession of less than an ounce of firearms, but would allow the first two offenses. The third and subsequent offenses would have been class D felonies. Under current Kansas law, the penalty amount for any offense is a class D felony.
"I'm disappointed, but I'll try again next year." Glover said.
Glover said there wouldn't be time to
reintroduce the bill to the full Senate before this year's session ended. First adjournment is expected Wednesday; the session probably will resume about two weeks later for a two-or three-day clean-up session.
Opponents of the bill said that marijuana was physiologically and psychologically harmful, that marijuana use would increase if the bill were passed and that passage of the bill would be interpreted by Kansas youth as approval of marijuana smoking.
Those favoring the bill told a different story.
STATE SEN. JOSEPH Norveli, D-Hays, who carried the bill in the Senate, said "the penalties under the present law are vastly out of proportion with the so-called crime."
Nurvell notes a report by a presidential commission that says marijuana causes no brain damage and that it doesn't lead to violent crimes and aggression, as alcohol doesn't cause them, so says that marijuana doesn't lead to use of other drugs in most cases, Norvell said.
Plane explodes on Georgia highway; 71 dead
NEW HOPE, Ga. (UPI)—At least 71 persons were killed yesterday when a Southern Airways DC9 crash landed on a two-lane highway. The plane, its engines flamed out in a hiatusist, plowed through the road before it disintegrated in a ball of fire.
At least 27 persons were injured. Twenty-two of the injured were among the 85 persons aboard Southern's Flight 242. The plane was hit and hurried from the plane before it exploded.
Pauleding County Sheriff Bob Shipp said there were 39 bodies in a makeshift morgue near Dallas, the county seat. Area hospitals are dealing dead on arrival or during treatment.
The twin-jet plane was carrying 81 passengers and two of four from Hunt-Stone Airport.
ONE OF THE DEAD was in a grocery store when the left wing of the plane destroyed it. Shipps said three other New Hope residents who were flying that they might be in a hospital or in the woods.
Jack Barker, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said that
at 4:16 p.m. EST (3:16 Lawrence time) the plot reported a windshield failure and one engine flamed out to the Atlanta Air Route Traffic Control Center.
"And then he reported the flameout of the second engine," Barker said. "He then switched over to the Atlanta Tower and said he would try to set it down on a road."
THE PLOT, Capt. William McKenzie, 40 of La Place, La., died in the crash.
tore a 300-yard path down the narrow highway. It struck Newman's General store, pulverized an undetermined number of cars and cut down trees and telephone poles.
Shipi said the survival of 22 passengers was due to McKenzie's efforts land the plane.
Barker said he didn't know what the pilot meant by a "windshield failure." He said tapes of the final transmissions from Flight 142 would not be made public for two days.
"I give all credit to the pilot," Shipp said. "It must have been the best thing he could do. He did a miraculous thing. He did all he could and lost his life doing it. He had his mind and thoughts with the people on that plane."
The plane came in the New Hope elementary school, barely missing it, and
Burning and exploding pieces of debris were hurled into the air like skyrockets. At least 10 of the passengers on the plane, according to government sources, were
executives from the Marshall Space Flight Center and the Army's Redstone Arsenal Research and Development Command at Huntsville.
The use of a publicly owned computer by the Committee to Retain Commission-Manager Government appears to be legal, despite charges by members of the Citizens for Mayor-Council Government that private use of the computer was "questionable."
The computer is owned by the city, school district and county, and is operated by the Computer Service Agency, a private group hired by the city. The computer contains a list of people living within the Lawrence water district and was used by the Comprehensive Government as a mailing list for distributing a brochure last week.
Computer use O.K. despite charge
The brochure appealed to Lawrence
voters to vote against a question on today's election ballot calling for a change to the mayor-council form of government from the commission-manager system.
Mark Kaplan, a spokesman for the Committee for Mayor-Council Government, said yesterday that use of the computer by private, political groups was unfair because it is subsidizing private interests and because of arbitrary approval of use of the computer.
Mike Wilden, assistant city manager,
said that it was legal for community groups
to participate in the election.
THE CITY'S policy on private use of the computer is unclear and needs to be reviewed.
upon approval by the city manager or himself. Other groups, such as the Humane Society, had used information from the computer in the past, he said, but the city won't allow business groups to use the computer.
Wilden said that the Committee for
Municipal Government could have a
vote.
**RULEY BURCHAM, co-chairman for the Committee to Retain Commission-Manager Grant Procedures and through proper channels to obtain permission to use the computer's information and that it had paid the fee. He said that it had received information and didn't include personal information.**
He said that in the eight states that had reduced penalties for marijuana possession, use of the drug either hadn't increased or been increased by only insignificant amounts.
Norwell also said that sending marijuana offenders to jail couldn't rehabilitate them, but would only teach nonserious offenders more about crime.
Several amendments to the bill were attempted. A motion to strike the enacting statute would have killed the bill, failed 18 to 14. Amendments that would have reduced the crucial amount of marijuana from one ounce to an ounce plus one tablespoon failed.
Norvell opposed both amendments and said their adoptions would have sent the bill to a joint conference committee, effectively killing the bill.
AN AMENDMENT to add a possible 30 days in jail to the proposal $100 fine for the first two offenses of possession of less than an ounce, left sentencing to the judge's discretion. Backers of that amendment said the case matters than those proposed were necessary.
State Sen. John Vermillion, R-Independence, said, "Firm discipline is a part of correcting the individual, instead of justifying his actions. No individual was ever strengthened by justifying his actions."
Norvell said, "This bill will further legalize
the marijuana. It 'just reduces the penalties."
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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 men and dean of women and in 105 Flint High School. Please visit www.kansan.edu/pm. this Friday to 105 Flint. The Kansan board will interview candidates the afternoon of Tuesday, April 12.
The best advice on tax forms is to follow directions
By JOAN McMULLEN
As April 15, the deadline for income tax, approaches, the advice from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is to think your way through it. Rick Stevens asked the IRS in Wichita, said to "read the return and follow it."
Staff Reporter
If you can't muster up a financial wizard from among family, friends and graduate students, then you'll have to resort to directions and a toll free number.
The Volunteer Income Tax Association (VITA) also offers free help to students. A listing of times and places students can get help is in the Volunteer Clearing Service. The VITA volunteers are trained by the IRS.
Frulich said most college students should be able to follow the directions on the return, but emphasized that they should call the IRS information service if they feel they will fill puzzling. The toll-free number is 1-800-363-2190.
1040A year.
The RHSAT forms are the 1940 (long form)
1040A (short form). Kristen Andersen, manager of
H&R Block, estimated that more than 80 per cent of
the students use the short form. The long form
allows itemized deductions, which most students
use. The long form, there is usually only one
deduction—yourself.
The IRS forms are sent by the government to individuals who filed previously. Forms are also available in post offices, banks and Room one of Carruth-O'Leary Hall.
The two things needed for filing a return are an IRS tax form and W.2 forms from the previous year.
W-2 forms are usually sent by employers. Frulch said they should be notified immediately if W-2 forms
For students, the most important section of the tax law is in Publication 17, *Your Federal Income Tax*, Fax: (212) 435-8900.
it reads: "You should file a federal income tax
return if you had income tax withheld from pay out
or received income tax return."
By filing a return and claiming yourself as a personal exemption, you can get refund even if you may be disabled or have income below the poverty level.
What this means is that filing an income tax return isn't required if an individual earned less than $2,450 and has no other form of income to pay taxpayer. If money has been withdrawn from paychecks of a person who earned less than $2,450, Frulich advised that he file a return. Even if a person earns more than $2,450, the dependent, he probably will set a refund, he said.
Most students lead simple financial lives, Frulich said, and most of them will get refunds. He said the university is one of the few that does this.
There are very few exemptions for students, he said. Scholarships and grants can be exemptions in some situations, but he recommended calling the information number to make certain.
Andersen said students should be careful to enter the correct name, address and social security number on the form and to sign it. She said such errors often cause unnecessary delays of refunds.
If you've delayed filing for income tax because of lack of motivation, consider this: penalties for late income tax are one half of one per cent of the unpaid amount. These rates are charged monthly. Late filers also must pay a seven per cent interest charge. The penalties can't exceed 25 per cent.
If you have to pay and don't have the money, she said, file anyway. Interest will be charged on the bill.
A change in the short form that is important to students is line 17. Frulch said.
Students expecting a refund may file after April 15 and still get a refund, she said. The IRS will accept late files for up to three years. You may not get in touch with the money but you will get the full refund, she said.
On line 17, there are two options for figuring
For example if $800 in income tax is owed, the first-year fine is $13 in penalties and $2 in interest. The penalties are figured monthly, so if payments are made during that year, the fine may be less.
The other option is to figure two per cent of the taxable income. The maximum allowable deduction for this option is $90 for a single return and $180 for a joint return.
exemptions. The first choice is to multiply the number of dependents claimed by $35.
One important thing for students to remember, Frulich said, is to ask for W-2 forms when they leave a job. Because students are transient, he said, they often lose W-2s and the employer has no way to find them. If you can't get the W-2, he said, leave an address where you will be living the next year.
Andersen said it was also important to make a copy of a filed tax return. She said it might be needed for her work at the firm.
Students seeking professional help on income tax can consult either a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or a professional tax service. CPAs charge by the hour and tax services charge by the form. Andersen said the minimum charge for a short form is $8. The average cost for hiring a CPA is $12.50.