University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 12, 1991
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Committee will consider budgets
Bv Michael Christie
Kansan staff writer
The Student Senate Finance committee heard the last eight of 17 budget requests last night and is preparing to take a week off so committee members can examine the budgets individually.
next week the finance committee will begin deliberations on budget cuts for campus groups that are eligible for two year financing.
The total money requested by all of
the campus groups exceeds the projected revenue from the student activity fee by about $10,000, said Damon. Student Senate treasurer.
After the finance committee amends or approves the budgets, they will be sent to Senate for approval.
The finance committee also will begin deliberations on student organizations' budgets for next year.
Student organizations are financed
annually.
Damon advised the committee members to look at each budget request closely during the next week.
Leslie Lancaster, finance committee member, said she felt the budget requests were reasonable.
"We have our work cut out for us,"
she said.
The groups that went before the committee last night were Rape Victim Support Services; University Dance Company; Student Bar Association; Black Student Union; Graduate Student Council; Lawrence Transitional Care Services, University Theatre and the University of Kansas Concert, Chamber Music and New Directions Series.
All are requesting increases in financing.
Julie Jacobson/KANSAN
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end is being remodeled. The partition is to keep merchandise in the north end from collecting dust while the men work
GPA bill meets opposition in statehouse
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Bv Joe Gose
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA *A bill that would affect high school students who participate in extracurricular activities was met by a 36% increase in education Committee hearing yesterday.*
The bill would require students to maintain a 2.0 grade point average or face suspension from activities, but it does not mandate who do not participate in activities.
State Rep. Michael O'Neal, R-Hutchison, who introduced the bill, said high schools in Kansas did not expect out of their students.
"We should challenge them to better," he said. "The bill I've introduced, I think, sets a very high standard."
The grade requirements the Kansas. High School Activities Association now enforces allow students who are making at least D-minus in each class to participate in extracurricular activities. O'Neal said,
He said he wanted a rule requiring that students pass all classes to participate because a student could experience and still maintain a 2.0 average.
But Jerry Baumgardner, president
of the activities association, said he did not understand the purpose of the bill.
"What problem are we addressing with this bill?" he said. "If it is to place another barrier in front of you, the judge will judgment, accomplish this purpose."
Baumgardner said that the current requirements were working and that success in life was not always measured by grades.
Committee members voiced concerns that students would take less challenging courses or that they would drop out of school to avoid the
possibility of suspension from their activities.
Some also said teachers and schools would lower their standards.
State Rep. William Reardon, vice chairperson of the committee, said he was concerned that the bill would limit a level of participation in activities.
"I've been teaching 28 years and have been a coach for 20 of those 28," he said. "And extracurricular activities are the most powerful academic motivator for students who don't find academics motivating."
National bird takes roost in the Lawrence area
Bv Katie Chipman
Kansan staff writer
By the 1970s, that number had dropped to fewer than 2,000.
When the bald eagle was designated as the national bird in 1782, the birds' population in the lower 48 states was estimated at 75,000.
Today, the eagle population is estimated at 5,000, and Clinton Lake is an active nesting area for the eagles. Rasmusen, park ranger at Clinton Lake.
For the past two years, a pair of bald eagles has been nesting and raising their young at the lake, she said. The eagles were two adults and three eaglets.
"We'd expect them to lay eggs in February or March," Rasmussen said. "The eggs hatch 30 to 35 days later."
Since the lake froze in early January, park employees have seen eagles three or four times a week and snowbirds around the shoreline, she said.
Rangers monitor Clinton eagle population
Rasmussen said that the family had an active nest at Clinton and that the parents usually started establishing territory in January or February.
Bald eagles are endangered and protected by state and federal law, she said. The maximum penalty for harassing a bald eagle is a $25,000 fine and one year in prison. In 2013, the judge ordered by either a $25,000 fine or one year, or both.
Because the lake now is frozen, the birds survive by catching fish at the Kansas River, which is protected by the state. The easement was granted to the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks to protect the vegetation and
"Before the lake froze, we'd see 10 or 12 at a time," Rasmussen said.
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Rasmussen said female eagles weighed up to 14 pounds and had a wing span of eight feet. Male eagles weigh about 10 pounds and have a wing span of four feet.
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Joyce Wolf, co-president of the Jahayh Audubon Society, said, "The eagles spend part of the winter in the Lawrence area. They come down from the north, and they stay in the until late winter or early spring."
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Wolf said that many people in Lawrence did not know the eagles were so close to the downtown area where they perched in the birds to nest so close to the city.
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