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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, February 1, 1977
Vol. 87, No. 80
Student Senate receives $108,000 additional funds
By SANDY DECHANT
Staff Reporter
An unexpected increase in the 1976-77 fall and spring enrollments at the University of Kansas aawrence campus means an amalgamation of the Student Senate's fiscal 1978 budget.
In addition to the estimated $60,000 in student activity fees, the Senate also will get about $15,000 in unallocated reserves, about $17,000 in controlled reserves and a portion of the university's unused funds allocated to campus organizations in spring and fall budget hearings.
This $180,800 is in addition to the $371,817 already budgeted for fiscal 1978.
500 Beisman, Senate treasurer, said yesterday the unexpected $0,000 from student enrollment fees was the result of low enrollment projections made in last April. The department also adopted the fiscal 1977 budget included the 1976-77 fall and spring semesters.
When John House, former Senate treasurer, prepared the 1977 budget last April, he projected a full-time enrollment of 450 students in spring enrollment of 18,500. Beairsted say.
The actual full-time enrollment for fall 1976 of 21,011 students and the predicted final-time spring enrollment of 21,830 students resulted in the unexpected income. Beisner
The actual spring full-time enrollment won't be known until the 20th day of classes. The Senate receives $8.60 in activity fees from each student enrolled full time,
The $17.00 in controlled reserves is annually budgeted to safeguard the Senate.
from a shortage of operating funds, should the treasurer overproject the next year's enrollment—the opposite of what happened this year, Beaiser said.
Unused controlled reserves in previous years comprise the estimated $15,000 in funds provided to the company.
In the past, money from excess enrollment fees, unallocated funds and unused funds was allocated in budget bearings, to student organizations. But, Beisner said, the Senate never had close to $108,000 with which to work.
"Although technically, the $100,000 surplus could also be allocated to campus organizations, we don't want to see the money wasted," he said.
For fiscal 1978, the Senate budgeted $48.965 for student organizations.
Tom Mitchell, Senate business manager,
said he wanted at least part of the money to
be reserved to insure the Senate enough
to prevent a should predict drop in
enrollment occur.
If enrollment drops, the amount of money the Senate gets also drops, he said. The Senate is financed totally through student activity fees.
Mitchell said that to prevent a future surplus, the activity fee could be lowered by
I realize that those activity fees may not benefit the student today, but they will be worth it in the long run.
"A lot of students would like to see the activity fee lowered just for their own benefit. What they don't see is that if there is a declining birth rate and the activity fee
All three student body presidential candidates have plans for the additional $108,000, one of the candidates, Randy Knotts, will receive $16,000 and the $108,000 to be transferred from the State of Kansas accounts, where it doesn't draw interest, to the Kansas University Enrollment System, where the interest could be used to finance a Senate-sponsored scholarship program.
The transfer of the $108,000 from the state to the Endowment Association would have to be approved by the legislature, McKernan said. If it was transferred, the state would lose money it would normally invest, he said.
Another candidate, Sherri Grey, Manhattan senior, said she would use the funds to improve intramural recreation facilities, increase Senate allocations to student organizations and would consider helping finance construction of the proposed stadium. But the president might have to be approved by the legislature or administration, she said.
had previously been lowered, the Student Senate will not have the revenue it needs.
Steve Leben, El Dorado junior, and another student, said simply that he would "send it"
"The purpose of the student activity fee is to provide a benefit for those who pay it." he
Mitchell cautioned the candidates to be britey with the money should they be
Kansas affected by natural gas plan
"Just because we have it, doesn't mean we have to waste it," Mitchell said.
By PAEH ALBERTSON
Special Correspondent
By YAEL ABOUHALKAH
WASHINGTON-James Pearson doesn't exactly relish the situation, but the Kansas Senator seems to be in an "I told you so" position this week as Congress feverishly considers President Jimmy Carter's emergency natural gas act.
Pearson has been a long-time but unsuccessful proponent of deregulation of natural gas prices, and he hoped that the new rules would spur exploration for more natural gas.
Kansas is directly affected in at least two important ways by the recent chilling
"We if we decide to accept the proposal, we will send a letter to town to teach more presentable," she said.
now, along comes the Big Freeze of 1977, a cold snap that has paralyzed large parts of the Eastern United States. The drain on natural gas supplies has shortened work weeks for thousands of businesses and put about two million people out of work.
The Lawrence City Commission will decide tonight whether to accept a proposal to acquire a warehouse area at Sixth and Fifth streets as the location for a new city hall.
Commissioner Carl Mibke said that the commissioners thought they had a chance to get the buildings without spending much money, but he instead costed the cost of renovating the buildings.
- The state, while not yet feeling the pinch of greatly curtied natural gas allocations, faces increased conservation methods later in the year as is shipped out of state by Carter's plan.
The proposal was submitted jointly by the Bowersock Mills and Power Company and Kansas Fibreboard Inc. at last week's commission meeting.
City hall site up for vote this evening
Commissioners were generally optimistic after they visited the buildings last Thursday. Commissioner Marrie Argeringer thought the buildings had great potential.
The Bowersock company owns Bowersock dam, electrical generating equipment, grain elevators and the building housing Closeout Carpet, 546 Massachusetts St. Under the proposal, the company will supply the equipment not sold to the city, the selling price would be $25,000.
Kansas Fibreboard buys additional buildings to the east. Under its half of the proposal, the city could buy the buildings for a value or for $20,000, whichever is superior.
- As the fourth largest supplier of natural gas for the nation in 1975, Kansas producers would stand to gain increased revenue from any deregulation act.
"I uke to see Lawrence get a city bus," he said. "It has good possibilities."
Carter's reallocation proposal calls for limited deregulation of natural gas prices, but only until mid-1977. It would also make states with only excess natural gas, such as Nevada, reliance on that gas to cripple Eastern states for emergency use in hospitals and homes.
Therefore, natural gas supplies for Kansas residents may decrease in the coming weeks, no matter how warm the state's weather gets.
But a staff member for the Senate Commerce Committee soft-paceded the possibility that Kansans faced curtailed access to government services because of the pending, interstate shipments.
"I don't think Kansas will be hurt under the Carter proposal," the staff member said last night. "It can always turn bad later on, but the odds against that are large."
The staff member said curtailments of natural gas in Kansas were running higher than expected. But he pointed out that many businesses, already cut off from their natural gas producers, had successfully prepared for alternative supplies of energy.
Staff photo by MIKE CAMPBELL
The situation isn't to positive for the East, even with additional natural gas being shipped through the Gulf.
"We need to move large amounts of investment capital as rapidly as possible into the search for domestic oil and gas," Gravel said. "This means deregulation of oil and gas so that the market can work its will in achieving greater domestic production."
All of these problems, of course, don't delight any congressman. But the crisis does reinforce the call of derogators such as Pearson and Sen. Mike Gravel, R-Iowa.
prolonged conservation methods to make sure there is enough fuel to at least keep homes heated until warm, spring weather arrives.
Deregulation is a complicated and con-
temporary sub课题. Briefly, this is the
political challenge.
Interstate gas—gas sold between states—is under control of the Federal Power Commission. Gas discovered before 1975 sells at 52 cents per 1000 metric feet (Mcs). New gas, discovered after 1975, sells at a $1.44 per Mcs.
Gas sold intrasteat—within the state that produces it—is uncontrolled except for market demands and sells now for between $2.15 and $2.25 per Mcs.
Obviously, it is more profitable to sell gas within the state that produces it, which means that gas producing states have little access to the supplies to sell at the lower interstate rates.
It isn't known just how much extra
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Town Swearingen (left), museum artist, and Orville Banner, paleontologist, view the exhibit recently completed. It is the only mounted skeleton in a dinosaur in Kansas.
New exhibit
Dinosaur museum addition
A reproduction of a rare dinosaur skeleton, mounted last week at the University of Kansas' Dyche Museum of Natural History, is the only mounted skeleton of a dinosaur in Kansas or Missouri, Larry Martin, assistant curator of vertebrate paleontology and assistant professor of systematics and ecology, said yesterday.
Martin said the duckbill dinosaur, Parasaurolophus walkeri, was an unusual kind because of a big crest on the top of its tail. The dinosaur might have used to sound mating calls.
an unstressed price, KU's museum pur-
chased this case made from a mold of the
mold.
The dinosaur lived about 70 million years ago and probably was about 11 feet tall and weighed six or seven tons.
In addition to the new display, the museum will open its spring Wednesday Evening Series of lectures and programs with, "Dinosaur Alive!"
The original skeleton is at the Royal Ontario Museum of Toronto, Canada. For more information, visit www.royalontario.com.
A presentation at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the museum's Panorama Room will feature slides and fossil specimens. Martin will show the appearance and behavior of dinosaurs.
The cost of the program is $1.50, and reservations can be made through the museum's public education office, Room 602, Dyce Hall. Tickets can be purchased at the main entrance. Tickets for all three programs to be presented this spring are $3 for museum associate members and $3.75 for others.
Leave policy fine as it is to Calgaard
By JOHN MUELLER Staff Renorter
A faculty proposal to change the University of Kansas subbatical leave policy may cause more problems than it might. A professor for academic affairs, said yesterday.
The proposal, from the Faculty Senate Committee on Faculty Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities (FRPR), will be considered by the Faculty Council at its next meeting. The committee has urged that less emphasis be placed on research in the humanities and sciences such as saabaticals, and that the decision-making on saabatical leaves be decentralized.
BUT CALGAARD said, "the plan would create only more layers of review than we have now. The system we have now isn't perfect, but I like it better."
A recent FRRP report indicated that KU sabbatical procedures, controlled by the University Committee on Sabbaticals, were numbered-second and, in some cases, not worthwhile. "FRRP recommended that many decisions to grant leaves by made by four academic groups, including research centers from KU's various schools and departments.
CALAIGRAR SAID, however, that he
proposed behind the proposed
academic groups.
The groups are in humanities; natural sciences, including mathematics and computer science; social and behavioral sciences; and professional schools and the
Lamping the professional schools and library together wasn't logical, according to Calgard, because "what do the Schools of Social Welfare, Fine Arts and Pharmacy have in common with the library?" And the books of Engineering could be put with natural sciences."
The real issue in University sabbatical policy, he said, is "the fact that someone's going to be unhappy. I don't care what the people are, we can grant only so many awards."
THE BOARD of Regents sabbatical policy currently limits KU's sabbatical awards to "4 per cent of the number of students admitted nationally with rank of instructor or higher."
FRPR called the limitation disabling because it didn't include assistant instructors in determining how many faculty members were eligible for awards.
THE FACULTY Council acted last week to seek increased state support for the faculty retirement fund, a benefit the council gave top priority, and also for faculty insurance and long-term disability coverage.
State aid for the present faculty long-term disability program may require a close look from administrators, Calgard said. The council proposed that the state finance a much-needed investment in the amount that be normally would have made if he hadn't been disabled.
Cangard said he thought the retirement fund request had been the most important of being mature.
Calgaird said possible administrative modification of the council proposals would be based on an assessment of cost and which would be the preferred fringes.
Josh McDowell talked about the future last night in Hoch Auditorium
Josh McDowell exhorts Christ criticizes educational system
By RICK THAEMERT
Staff Renorter
The educational system is partly responsible for creating apathy and rambling existences, Josh McDowell, Christian evangelist, said yesterday in an interview.
Criticism evengues, said yesterday the 35-year-old activist said that today's educational system didn't meet the needs of students, especially their spiritual needs.
"Many know there's a need in our lives, but we recognize that it's a spiritual need," he said, adding that although professors can teach subjects, they fail to teach core values. "You can't help the students; you can't help the学生 reach a spiritual goal, he said.
McDowell, who has spoken at more than 40 universities in 42 countries, said students were part of "an educational system that depersonalizes the individual, depersonals sex," and that didn't provide adequate models for
substances.
Jesus Christ is the only worthy model to follow, despite the fact that many historians and professors doubt his existence. McDowell said.
McDowell said he believed the resurrection was fact and could be proven 'according to the laws of evidence'.
Speaking to an audience of about 800 Sunday night in Hoch Auditorium, McDowell presented statements that attempted to validate Christ's resurrection.
"I have come to the conclusion that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is one of the most wicked, vicious, heartless hawks ever foisted upon the minds of men, or it is the most fantastic fact of history," he said.
He said he based his belief upon manuscripts and historical records that date back to A.D. 68, which he has documented in his book, "Evidence that Demands a Verdict."
He has degrees in theology, language and economic theory and calls his view of Christianity an "intellectual-personal" one.
personal" one.
After two years of trying to refute the truth of Christianity, he was converted, and he now attempts to intellectually prove his truth, said he.
Amid sporadic "amens" within the mostly student crowd, McDowell invited students to accept historical evidence and Jesus Christ into their lives.
"Doubling Thomas was from KU." McDowell said. He said evidence of Christianity was also so beaten that he could not speak.
Until then, he said, students remain in an identity crisis. "They are asking the questions: Who am I? Why am I? What am I going to do?"
McDowell said most students didn't know that Jesus could help them find meaning in life and answer those questions.
"Students want to get just a functioning degree so they cannot be a functioning job and just function," he said.
And without meaning in life, apathy thruhes, he said.
"Students want to get just a functioning degree so they
can do what they want."
Ascending apathy among students is insecurity, McDowell said. Because students are insecure and can't share themselves with others, they turn to teachers, who consequently, he said, there is a "reaction instead of a response."
McDowell said he hoped students would begin responding to Jesus. Although he accepts the existence of other religions and teachings, he said, he has never found ways to improve and improve people's lives than through Christianity.
Through the teachings of Christ, he said, people can find freedom to be what they should be, strength to live as they should and a happiness that isn't dependent upon outside circumstances.