Thoughtful decision
Brooks Augustine, Potwin freshman, carefully looks over his ballot for the student senate elections. Voting ends today.
KU asks legislators to restore budget cuts
Staff Reporter
By STEVE FRAZIER
TOPEKA-University of Kansas administers asked the House and Senate ways and means committees yesterday for restoration of cuts made by Gov. Robert Bennett in the fiscal 1978 KU budget as approved by the Kansas Board of Regents.
The Regents recommended $103.9 million for the Lawrence campus and $83.2 million for the Med Center, but Bennett cut those amounts to $99.2 million and $83.2 million respectively.
A statement by Glee Smith, Regents chairman, and presentation of the KU budget opened three days of Regents institutions budget hearings. The hearings resulted in a legislative toward approval of fiscal 1978 and supplemental fiscal 1977 budgets.
Chancellor Archie Dykes; Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor for the Lawrence campus; Robert Kugel, executive vice chancellor for the KU Medical Center; and Cramer Reed, vice chancellor for the University. There are many sections of the Regents requests were the minimum requests necessary to maintain adequate programs.
Dykes briefly mentioned a 7 per cent faculty salary increase, $5.5 million in first-year construction costs for additions to the school and another an 8 per cent increase in other operating expenditures, which all were approved by the governor. To save time, Dykes said KU concentrated its presentation on items that are or substantially reduced by Bennett.
Shankel asked the ways and means committees to approve $73,000 to renovate the staircases for new stage curtains for Hoch Auditorium and Spooner Hall exterior walls, $83,000 for repair work on old Green Hall and $40,000 for renovation of Marvin Hall. All of these items were
Reed said a $25,000 cut in requests for new positions at the Wichita branch of the Med Center would seriously impair expansion of programs there. The Regents recommended 7 Wichita restoration of the cuts, Reed said, the Wichita branch and pediatrics departments at the Wichita branch might collapse.
Dykes spoke in favor of a $100,000 study of a possible solid waste-fired power plant. Bennett had recommended $100,000 to study the feasibility of a power source, be restricted to any single power source.
Bennett has recommended that KU be allowed to spend only $380,492 of $1,800 from a higher extra fee money resulting from a higher tuition charge in 1976. KU renewed its request to spend all the money, which includes $380,000 in university library improvements approved by the Board.
State Rep. Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, and State Sen. Wint Winder, R-Ottawa, asked Dykes and Kugel about their efforts to kansas. Both Hayden and Winter were before the 1977 Kansas Legislature that would require medical students to pay up to a year in tuition unless they promised to invest in rural areas of Kansas after graduation.
Dyke's said statistics from 1973 indicated
graduates stayed in Kansas. Dyke's grad
was 54%.
Kugel explained programs designed to keep Med Center graduates in Kansas, such as a placement office, efforts to match rural communities with graduating doctors and residency programs in cities other than Kansas City, Kan., and Wichita.
Winter said, "If those programs don't work, I think Rep. Hayden has an idea of what to do," referring to Hayden's tution bill. Kuel has said he heaps such a bill.
Dykes asked for $216,443 to establish new baccalaureate programs in respiratory therapy, nurse anesthesia and emergency medical services administration. All three
Dykes asked the ways and means committees to lower the governor's recommended shrinkage requirements for both faculty and staff members. Specified shrinkage rates require that the total amount of faculty and staff salaries be a certain percentage lower at the end of a fiscal year than at the beginning, because of deaths, deaths or the holding open of positions.
Dykes said the shrinkage rate for classified employees on the main campus is 10%.
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KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol.87,No.92
Thursday, February 17.1977
Unexpectedly large voter turnout causes ballot shortage, poll delay
By SANDY DECHANT
Staff Reporter
An unexpectedly large voter turnout yesterday in the first day of Student Senate elections caused a shortage of ballots at five polls. The number of ballots opened the opening of all 10 polls an hour.
Flynn said yesterday's turnout wouldn't be counted until tonight.
THE CAMPUS POLLS closed at 4:30 p.m., and the evening polls were scheduled to open at 5 p.m. However, a delay in the closing of the daytime polls and a shortage of personnel to move boxes of ballots to the nighttime polls delayed the opening of the nighttime polls until about 6 p.m., Flynn said.
A half hour after the polls opened last night at Lewis, Oliver, GSC-Porbin and Naimish residence halls and at Battfenn Scholarship Hall, the polls ran out of sophomore, junior and senior class balls, Flynn, Elections Committee chairman.
Some of those polls also ran out of ballots for Nunemaker College and the schools of architecture.
Flynn said that no problem occurred with the five polls that were open from 7:30 to 9:30 last night because five sets of ballots had been reserved for those polls.
Because of the shortage of ballots and the delay, polls in Oliver, Naismith, Lewis, and GSP-Corbin halls will be open from 5 to 7 tonight.
INITIALLY, when the ballots ran out, voters were told to sign sheets allowing them to complete their voting today. Flynn said, but when the problem began occurring at all the polling places, he decided to reopen the poll tonight.
Flynn, who had used last year's voting totals to determine how many ballots to print, said he printed 600 ballots each for the state and classroom class office elections, and all were used.
Only about 50 ballots remained in each of the following categories: Nunemaker College, in which 2,700 ballots had been printed; the School of Business, 400 ballots; the School or Engineering, 800 ballots; and the Law School. 200 ballots.
FLYNN HAD predicted rotor turnout this year to increase to 5,000 students. To encourage voting he had increased the number of polls from 10 last year to a total of 20 yesterday. Ten of those 20 polling stations were replaced by polls at 53 other places.
Flynn said that even though he had expected increased student voting, he hadn't foreseen such an increase that some ballots would be depleted the first day.
Votter turnover at apartment complexes—which totaled 27 at five places; was too small for many.
TO REPLENISH the supply of ballots for today's voting, members of the Elections Committee late last night ran off about 1,500 additional ballots for the category depending on the heaviness of voting yesterday. For example, only 50 additional Law School ballots were made; but 300 additional ballots were printed for the school's board of honour. Both class and 100 for the junior class.
The KU Printing Service, which had printed the original ballots, had said it couldn't prepare additional ballots overnight.
The disadvantage of the Senate copying
the ballots, Flynn said, is that the names on the ballots can't be rotated, as originally planned, to avoid discrimination stemming from the order of candidates' names on the ballots.
TO AVOID problems today, Flynn said, he plans to have plenty of balloons available and to close daytime campus polls about 20 minutes early—perhaps about 4:10—so that evening polls can open on time. The late morning from 7:30 to 9:30, won't be open tonight.
Flynn said he had few problems with the evening of morning polls yesterday, even though there was a delay resulted when a buildings and grounds truck he had reserved was borrowed for use by Chancellor Archie Lynch by police to deliver to the ballot boxes by car.
Students' reasons for voting vary
THE ONLY other problem yesterday was that the name of a student running for a Nunemaker奖 was mistakenly placed on the ballot for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The name had to be crossed out printed on correct balls by hand, he said.
Bv MARSHA WOOLERY
Staff Reporter
A sense of responsibility, personal obligations and a desire to see the whistle resumed—not the candidates or issues—seemed to draw voters to the polls yesterday, according to an informal Kansan poll.
Only 29 of the 75 students questioned near polls around campus said they had voted or planned to vote. Seven students said they weren't sure whether they were going to vote and 39 said they were sure they wouldn't.
Those voting said their main reason for voting was to answer the questionnaire—particularly a question about reinstating the whistle. A second reason many gave was that they were not working on a campaign, and a few said they thought it was their duty to vote.
"I REALLY FEEL it's a responsibility," Kathleen Roult, Leawood freshman, said. "Especially when people have gone to all the colleges, we do it, the least you can do is acknowledge it."
The Elections Committee will begin to tabulate ballots about 9 tonight, Flynn said, and results of the presidential and vice-presidential candidates should be ready by about 1 a.m. tomorrow.
'When they go to the point of putting advertising on your apartment door, that's a bit too much,' Ceryl Shakboua, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, 'and I just says to where how often you see their name determines how the people vote.'
Some students said they thought the candidates had gone to externe to get their
One unidentified student said, "I vote it will be out of protest because I really think it's important."
OTHER STUDENTS said they hadn't had the opportunity to learn enough about the job.
Mark Johnson, Wichita Falls junior, said,
"I would vote if I had the opportunity to meet them personally. They should come to where the people are."
Terry Massa, New York graduate student, said, "They should have made sure that students were University, such as stopping people on the street and introducing themselves. The articles and posters helped, but words are just unless you hear them personally."
Most of the 39 novotons said they didn't care who was in office.
“WHEN I HAVE voted in the past, they have always turned out to be the same,” Deric Schindell, Lawrence junior, said. “Each Senate bolts down to the same stew.”
Gail Carpenter, Great Bend freshman,
said, "I just feel that they all stand for
the same thing. The changes they want to make
are the changes everyone has always wanted
to make. They haven't gotten anywhere so it seems useless."
Some students were frustrated that there weren't any issues distinguishing the cases.
"The apathy is justified because there's nothing to be concerned about," Dave Eagle, Prairie Village sophomore, said. "No issues. no vote."
The committee reportedly wasn't going to abolish the votes until then because it was not convinced that a voter would vote.
MERIT RAMZY, Topke junior, said her decision not to vote "stems from all the things I heard about Student Senate. It made me feel very hurt and angry and bicker and never get anything done."
CBs still a good buddy despite thefts, vandalism
Staff Renorter
Bv JIM MURRAY
Was your brand new, 40-channel CB ripped off only three weeks after you had it on the shelf? Is it worth the half and half of the dashboard along with it? Does your antenna keep getting caught in low-hanging trees? Does the sound of "104," a Brooklyn accent make you cringe?
If so, you are suffering from CB backlash. In the last few years the CB craze has grown to such proportions that the Federal communication department (FCC) which regulates use of the airwaves was forced to expand the citizen's band from 23 to 40 channels Jan. 1, 1977.
sut Radio Shack, 711 W. 32rd S.t., reported unimally low sales of channel-encoders.
BUT ALONG with the increased popularity of CBs has come increased theft and vandalism and higher insurance rates for CB owners. Despite these drawbacks, local electronics stores report that sales of both 23- and 40-channel models are normal.
Team Electronics, 2319 Louisiana St., and River City Communications, 23rd and Ixra streets, both reported that CB sales were "very good" for both models even though 23-channel CBs are being sold at "clearance prices." at River City.
Colesbank one of the main complaints about the design of CIs- that of internet users.
"The 404 have not sold too well, because of the depressed prices on the 238," Scott Colebank, manager of Radio Shack, "the 'Virev at close-out level' prices."
He said he expected the 40-channel sets to arrive once the store had sold all of its 23-channel sets.
Results of the other Senate races will be tabulated by about dawn tomorrow, he said. Returns will be carried all night over at the KU Information Center, 844-3560.
"The 23-channels were built to specifications, the FCC approves and verifies," he said. "When they expanded to 40 channels, they didn't just add 17 channels, they also changed the specifications to lower the interference.
emissions-had been corrected in the new 40-channel models.
Because they aren't part of the dash of a car, but are bolted onto the floor, ceiling or dash, CBS have become a favorite target of thieves. The tall, distinctive antenna serves both as a beacon to potential felons and as a convenient target for vandals.
"BUT ONCE the specifications are get, all receivers are made the same. We don't do anything extra, but nobody else does either."
The Lawrence area, however, seems to have hit a lull in CB thefts.
LT. VERNON Harrell said 25 to 30 percent of the stolen CBA had been recovered. He said that vandalism of antennas wasn't common but that they were frequently stolen.
Because of the high CB theft rate, many car insurers have raised the rates of drivers who own CBS. Some companies refuse to insure CBS with a "quick release" mounting, which makes the CB easy to remove from the car.
In 1976, 143 CBS were reported stolen in Lawrence. More than 100 of these were reported to be stolen in the months of 1976 and only 12 sets were reported stolen in the last four months of the year.
John McKinsey of American Family insurance, 1000 Iowa St., said his company required a month for every $100 of assessed value and assessed three months of 1976, American Family
paid $230,000 in claims on stolen CB
and did not include return to burglarized cars.
MPA Insurance, 1003 E. 23rd St., doesn't have a surcharge for CDs according to VA law.
"We ARE NOT surcharging now, but it's in the works," Wess Hunn of Allstate Insurance, 839 Iowa St., said. He did not put a restriction on mountains.
"It is attached to the vehicle, it is part of the car, comes under the comprehensive coverage. "
Downing said MFA had no mounting restrictions at this time
John Hartman of Prudential Insurance,
1927th Massachusetts Sd., said that his
company's rate for CBS was based on the
following: "CBS's latest study was
examining 'mute release' moun-tains
Several students who said they were apathetic toward the elections said they would support a candidate who promised support for foreign students or gay liberation.
Amy Riddee of State Farm Insurance, 927
Massachusetts Arcade, said that an added fee was charged if a CB was "permanently in the claim rate on CBS was" 'pretty high.'
But one student simply said, "Nothing could really make me care."
Commercial CB usage is in danger of being virtually wiped out in the near future, however. The February issue of Science Digest contains an article which predicts that we will see a sunspot activity over the next few years would severely affect transmission.
"A lot of them have the CBA stolen,
replace them and have them stolen again,"
said the investigator.
It also said that the possibility of "bounce" transmissions—transmissions which bounce off upper atmospheric layers and are received far beyond the normal CB range—might be greatly increased by the sunspot activity.
Tuesday officially was the last day to apply for financial aid for next year, but students are encouraged to turn in late. The university will hold an office of director of financial aid, said yesterday.
After 4,000 applications have been received so far, he said, and about 1,000 of those were turned in Tuesday. The total may exceed the number of applications made for aid for this school year, which was a school record.
4,000 apply for KU aid
Weinberg said that late applications would be put on file but that financial aid to those applicants would depend on whether money was still available.
Students also must fill out financial statements. The Basic Educational Statistics
deadline before fall enrolment, but the Parents' Confidential Statement and the American College Testing form should be said out as soon as possible, Weinberg said.
He said the early deadline this year was partly because the office wanted to award financial aid as soon as possible to incoming freshmen to encourage them to come to KU. Another reason was to inform returning students of their financial aid that they could arrange for additional aid if necessary, Weinberg said.
Processing of financial aid applications will begin immediately in the hope that students can be notified by May 1 whether they will receive money.
Which one?
Staff photo by MARIANNE MAURIN
The popularity of CB radio has continued to rise with the invention of several new styles. Michael Stueningen, Kansas City, Ma., ltres to decide which one would help him the most.