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Friday, April 5, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
Committee OKs $20 million cut to education
By Joe Gose Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA - The higher education financing bill is limping to the Senate floor.
The Senate Ways and Means Committee approved cuts of almost $20 million yesterday when it voted to send the bill to the Senate.
Senate cuts $4 million more in support to Kansas Board of Regents than did House
The bill had passed through the House with $16 million restored after a House committee had cut almost $40 million from Gov. Joan Finney's recommendation. The Senate committee's action would cut financing $4 million more than the House had originally proposed.
The cuts reflect a 2.6 percent decrease in State General Fund support for the Kansas Board of Regents.
More than $4.3 million would be cut from KU's requested fiscal 1992 budget. Those requests included financing for the Margin of Excellence, other operating expenditures and enrollment adjustments.
Before the final vote to send the bill to the Senate, the committee approved a recommendation that more than $450,000 be reinstated for
the Career Work Study program.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, recommended that the program, which had been killed by the House, be restored.
He also said he would fight to restore the $20 million next week when the bill hits the Senate floor.
Winter attempted to restore the money last week, the first day the committee discussed the bill, but his attempt failed.
'My present intention is to offer an amendment on the floor to add
money to this bill similar to the motion I made earlier," he told the committee after sounding the lone vote to oppose the bill's trip to the court. "I just wanted to let you people know that that was my intention."
But State Sen. Jim Allen, R-Ottawa, asked, "How do you propose to spend more money when you don't have it?"
Winter responded that he thought it was time to start discussing tax in advance.
"I think that quality education is worth more money out of our pockets," he said. "And I wish to acknowledge that when I make this motion, it will mean more revenue to the state. I will make sure that it goes to education."
Other members of the committee, however, said they did not think the Regents should get additional support until they reviewed each of their institutions and found ways to spend money more efficiently.
State Sen. Paul Feleciano Jr., D-
Wichita, said the Regents were not living up to their responsibilities.
"Didn't we entrust them with the responsibility three or four years ago to begin the business of looking into the operation of their institutions"? he asked.
Stanley Koplik, executive director of the Regents, said that programs at each institution would be reviewed and that if two or more programs would be consolidated into one program and offered at one institution only.
Kopik said that the review was scheduled to be completed in April 1992.
Student Senate wants to convert parking lot back into sports field
By Katie Chipman
Kansan staff writer
A temporary parking lot that was previously a sports field has been a subject of discussion lately for some students and administrators.
Student Senate passed a resolution Wednesday night calling for the removal of the lot between Robinson Center and the Computer Services Facility and the return of a recreational field for Fall 1991.
However, the parking department says the lot is needed to accommodate the additional people that use Dole Human Development Center.
Now the decision is in the hands of
Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor.
Shankel said that he was aware of the two conflicting views and that he would make a decision on the status of the lot by the end of the semester.
the parking lot originally was tailed in 1988 with the intent of burning it to recreational status or the completion of the Dole
Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking, said the lot was built to relieve the parking space shortage because of the construction of the Dole Center.
But the 82-space lot should be permanent because the addition of
the Dole Center has increased the number of people who part in that that activity.
Hultine said a survey conducted in the fall showed that all of the lots near the temporary iot frequently were filled to maximum capacity.
Aimee Hall, student body vice president, said. "The resolution is to encourage the University to stand by and help prevent the parking lot to a playing field."
The resolution states that groups have been turned down for field usage because of overcrowding and that considerable damage has been done to the remaining fields because of overuse.
This year's health fair stresses 'prevention,' offers the chance to see doctor, receive tests
By Amy Francis
Kansan staff writer
Lawrence Memorial Hospital will have a fair tomorrow, but instead of getting popcorn and cotton candy, they will offer water and information about their bodies.
The health fair is from 7:30 a.m. to noon in the same-day surgery building at the hospital at 325 Maine St. It is free to the public. Local health agencies also will have information tables set up in the building.
"Prevention, I guess, is the key here," said Brenda Haack, community education coordinator for the community.
Haack said she expected about 300 people, about 70 percent of them older than 50 years, to attend the hospital. The cost will cost the hospital $2,900 to $3,000.
Many of the people who attended the health fair make it an annual event, Haack said. Many do not have a regular doctor or cannot afford one.
"This is a once-a-year opportunity for them to see a doctor," she said.
The hospital has sponsored the health fair for almost a decade with many of the same health agencies coming back each year, she said.
County Health Department, said,
"It's something we've been involved in for many years. We essentially have information on everything we do. It basically informs the public about the range of services we have here at the department."
The hospital tries to offer basically the same tests each year because people begin to expect them, but Haack said she also tried to add new tests to the health fair. Cholesterol screening is new this year.
Douglas County Senior Services also will have an information table, said Jean Cowles, director of the services.
Shuttle to liftoff for 5-day trip
The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The shuttle Atlantis was buttoned up and ready yesterday to carry a 17-ton satellite into space to study the powerful gamma rays that burst violently but unseen through the universe.
"Gamma Ray Observatory is a truly mission of discovery because we will be looking at regions of space that have not been studied before." said Lennard Fisk, NASA's chief scientist. "You have the real possibility of seeing phenomena that have not been observed before and perhaps have not been imagined before."
NASA scheduled the liftoff for 9:18 a.m. EST today but said it could delay the launch until nearly noon to wait out any weather problems.
The shuttle will be flying for the first time with new computers that are replacing the set that was used since the space fleet went into operation 10 years ago this month. The new general purpose computer will take times the memory and three times the speed of the earlier ones.
Air Force Col. Steven R. Nagel and his crew of three men and one woman who played the first Americans on space station. They are to return to Earth on
In search of gamma rays
A new space observatory, the heaviest satellite to be deployed the shuttle, will study the universe through observations of gamma rays
Shuttle Atlantis
- **Launch date:** Friday, April 5,
  Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
- **Landing date:** Wednesday, April
10, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
10, **Crew:** Five, including one female
About the observatory
Weight: 35,000 lbs.; that is about nine Cadillacs
Orbit: Low-earth orbit at 243 nautical miles
Motion: None
Mission: Look for clues and answers to origin and history of universe through
- Thought to originate with the "Big Bang" and subsequent expansion of the universe
A form of light that cannot penetrate earth's atmosphere; emitted by some of the most exotic structures in the universe — supernovae.
Study of gamma rays will help scientists better understand inner workings of these objects
Knight-Ridder Tribune News/MARTY WESTMAN
The astronauts' main mission is Sunday's release of the 35,000-pound Gamma Ray Observatory. The astronauts also carried an instrument ever carried in the shuttle A day later, mission specialists Jerry Ross and Jay Aplt will put on space
Wednesday morning at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
suits and move out into the open cargo bay to test techniques to be used in building a space station.
The Gamma Ray Observatory, or GRO, is the second in NASA's Great Observatory series. The GRO has a three-lens telescope, was launched last April.
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