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University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 8, 1991
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Senate hears budget requests
Student organizations ask for more money than is available
By Michael Christie
Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
The Student Senate Finance Committee needs to trim about $100,000 from next year's requested budgets of campus groups that are eligible for year financing, said Tray Ridakovsky, finance committee co-chairman.
The last of the 17 budget requests are scheduled to be heard Monday. Next week, the finance committee also will begin debate on the actual financing of two-year groups.
Carl Damon, student body treasurer, said the $100,000 amount was small compared to the more than $700,000 that finance committee had for her requests two years ago. Damon was assistant treasurer at the time.
"It's going to make it a bit easier for them to meet the needs," he said. Although the committee must
Although the committee must debate and decide for itself what cuts
to make, the process should go smoothly, he said.
After the committee either approves or amends the budgets, Senate will vote on them.
Senate has about $196,000 in unallocated money and will try to finish the year with $130,000. Damon said.
That amount would act as a cushion for next year's Senate, he said. If enrolment dropped or an emergency school would need to have back up funds.
The unallocated fund should not get too large, he said. Student fees are to be used by Senate.
But this does not mean that the committee and Senate would give financing to groups indiscriminately.
Last night, the committee reviewed the budget requests of five organizations: KU Band, Legal Services for Students, the University Daily Kansas, Student Senate and Campus Transportation.
'We are one of the best bands in the country, and we still struggle with instruments.'
Jay Stutler KU Band president
Jay Stutler, KU Band president,
must supervise needed money for equipment.
"We are one of the best bands in the country, and we still struggle with instruments," he said.
KU Band is requesting $99,500 for next year, an increase of more than $10,000.
Legal Services for Students is requesting $196.815 for next year. Je Hardesty, the director, said Legal Services needed to make the salaries three full-time positions competitive with other state attorney positions.
Last year, Legal Services received $167,277 from Senate, which is the sole financer of the organization. The requested salary increases would raise the director's salary from $34,000 to $41,140. The other attorneys' base salaries would be raised from $24,000 to $29,328.
The University Daily Kansan is requesting $110,000. Audra Langford, business manager, said that figure would cover newspaper printing costs. The Kansan has an annual budget of more than $1 million.
Student Senate is requesting $83,146, which is $3,438 more than it received last year. The requested salaries from the executive salaries a 10 percent increase.
The last time salaries were raised was about six years ago, Damon said.
Campus Transportation is requesting $333,950 for next year, an annuity. This is largely attributed to the increase in gasoline prices, Damon said.
Campaign budgets might be voluntary
By Nedra Beth Randolph
Kanean staff writer
Kansan staff writer
There will be no mandatory spending limits on Student Senate elections this year, according to a report. Elections Commission proposal.
Tom Poer, elections commissioner, said the commission was recommending a voluntary spending limit for campaigns in Senate elections. Last year, campaigns had mandatory spending limits.
"We believe that no more than the amount we recommended is needed to run an election," he said. "The candidates are given an abide by our recommendation, or they can set their own limit."
Candidates would be required to submit a campaign budget to the commission 10 days before the election. Candidates would agree
to follow the submitted budget or face penalties.
Each candidate's budget would be published before the elections.
be published before the elections. Candidates would be required to submit four campaign activity reports before the election.
Jason McIntosh, off-campus senator, said a lack of mandatory spending limits would lead to overintention of only the wealthy.
"Basically, they are putting a price tag on the presidency," he said. "It's taking away from other issues."
Curt Winegarner, chairperson of the commission, said, "We did it to encourage people to be more honest with us with their campaign spending. We know they haven't always in the past."
International Fair celebrates cultures
The Senate elections code will be released Feb. 18.
Students ask questions, taste native foods
By Jonathan Plummer
Kansan staff writer
Last night, cultural highlights of Thailand, Great Britain, Paraguay and several other countries appeared in the lobby of McCollum Hall at the Culture Connection International Fair.
Countries and cultures of all seven continents were represented by natives of the countries or information about the cultures.
Claudia Villaiba, Asuncion, Paraguay, freshman, was at the festival representing her home country. Her display table was covered with pictures of the country, a map of South America, and Paraguay's red, white and blue flag.
Villala also offered visitors Sopa
pasta with a bread-like dish made
with corn.
Villala said most visitors to her table approached with a question.
A lot of people don't even know where it is located," she said, "so they usually start with the map." Johna Matthews, Shawnee junior, said she was able to help people understand the culture of Great Britain because she spent a year there as a nanny.
"The cultures are similar, yet very different; it's a much more formal culture."
dress was coat and tie
For example, Matthews said she was invited to a casual dinner while in London, but when she arrived, the
Judaism, Sikhism, Christianity and other faiths also were represented at tables.
Jay Lewis, a representative of the Jewish student group Hillel, said that while most students asked about the group's activities on campus, one student learned about Judaism for the first time.
"It was interesting," Lewis said. "There was a guy from the Sudan, and he had never heard of Judaism before."
Manpreeet Brara, Lawrence graduate student, said that although many students had come to ask him about the other subjects of representatives of other relations did not.
"Maybe they don't know too much about us," he said. "Maybe they are afraid they might embarrass us."
Bernardo Gonzalez, a Lawrence senior代表 Mexico, said he was not able to explain everything he could tell people about the country.
He said people did not take the time to look at his books that showed Mexico's culture, tourist sites and Hispanic tradition.
He said many people were surprised by a picture at his table of the Sierra Madre mountains.
"A lot of the students I've talked to think of Mexico as a desert," Gonzalez said. "They don't know about the other aspects of the country."
Bruce Blanc, of Lawrence, reads tarot cards to Kris Stolzenbach Boulder, Colo., junior, at the Cultural Connection International Fair.
'Bird' Parker considered jazz great
By Jonathan Plummer Kansan staff writer
Charlie "Bird" Parker. For many, the name is synonymous with jazz. He is considered by many to be the greatest improviser in jazz history.
At 13, he began studying the saxophone in school and soon began playing in bands and combs, which again offered him the chance to study
Parker was born in 1920. When he was 7, Parker's family moved to Kansas City, Mo, where he heard the blues and jazz movies he would use later in life.
and learn the basics from the masters
In 1939, Parker began touring and recording, playing in swing bands and homing his improvisational skills with Earl Hines as Earl Hines and Dizzy Gillespie.
Parker created a new jazz style, one that was not based as much on melody as on harmonic structure, the chords that lie under the tune.
But when in Hollywood in June 1947, Parker suffered a nervous breakdown because of his addiction to heroin and alcohol and was in a
By Joe Gose
After he left the hospital, Parker returned to New York and formed a quintet that included a young Miles Davis on trumpet. In 1947 and 1950, Parker created most of his recordings and gained most of his following.
Despite battles with drugs and alcohol, Parker's musical influence shaped jazz
mental hospital for eight months.
But he still was dogged by problems with drugs and alcohol, and in
Students in favor of free press bill testify in Topeka
Kansan staff writer
The committee heard testimony from 10 proponents and one opponent of the Student Publication Act, a Senate bill that would give students the right to freedom of expression in student publications.
The bill was proposed in response to the 1988 U.S. Supreme Court's Hazelwood decision, which gave high court discretion to judge his power over student publication.
TOPEKA - The Senate Education Committee heard the message loud and clear yesterday: no censorship of high school newspapers in Kansas.
1954, he voluntarily checked into Bellevue Hospital after twice attempting suicide that same year.
In debt and in bad health, Parker performed what would be his last concert on Mar. 5, 1955, exactly a week before his death at the age of 34.
High school students voiced their approval of the bill and gave examples of how the Hazelwood decision had affected their newspapers.
Because Parker's music was so original, it was not as accessible to many listeners of his time as was the music of other jazz artists. But his influence remained among many other musicians, including Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman.
"Freedom of speech is a powerful right and must be used carefully and professionally," said Traci Carl, editor-in-chief of the Lawrence High School newspaper "Student journal journalism." He was proud and worthy of the same constitutional right that every other American is granted."
Today, Parker's music is studied by students of jazz, and his place as a creative force in jazz history is assured.
John Karpinski, editor-in-chief of the Northwest Passage, the Shawnee Mission Northwest High School news website, told The Times he forced his paper to censor itself and
steer clear of controversial subjects.
"At what point would our principal feel obligated to begin to read our paper prior to publication?" he said. "I know and we don't want to find out."
Carol Dreiling, president of the Kansas Scholastic Press Association and adviser to the McPherson Senior High School yearbook and newspaper, said, "Is Kansas scholastic journalism in jeopardy? When a censorship policy becomes part of the district handbook in a southeast Kansas town, when a principal reads the contents of the school paper prior to publication in a central Kansas community — I would have to say 'yes.'"
Advisers of student publications testified as well.
Gordon Risk, a representative of the American Civil Liberties Union, was the lone opponent of the bill.
Risk said a clause in the bill prohibited expression that encouraged civil disobedience when protesting controversial issues.
But Patricia Baker, associate executive director for the Kansas Association of School Boards, said still will allow discussion of any issue.
This is the second attempt by the Legislature to adopt such a bill. A similar House bill died last year.