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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 5, 1991
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Senate considers budget requests
By Michael Christie
Kansan staff writer
The Student Senate Finance Committee heed budget requests for next year for more than $100,000 from four groups last night.
KJHK, KU Forensics, Headquarers and Hilltop Child Development Center were the first of 17 groups to go before the finance committee with budget requests. After hearing the requests, the committee will submit recommendations to Senate for approval.
KJHK is requesting $56,500 for next year.
Tim Mensenkind, general manager, said that if Senate did not provide the money he did not know where it would come from.
He said he was counting on increases in financing from the School of Journalism and from Senate.
"The University is a lot more favorably disposed to the radio station than it was two years ago." Mensendek said.
KU Forensics is requesting $13,500 from Senate for next year, an increase of $1,956.
Robert Rowland, director of forensics, said the increase was largely due to increases in travel expenses and tournament fees.
"We try to hold meal costs down because meal costs don't get us to tournaments," he said. "Maybe we should have Western Sizzlin' a couple of times."
Headquarters is requesting $20,120 from Senate next year, up from $16,060.
Marcia Epstein, director, said that the student activity fee accounted for less than 25 percent of Headquarters expenses but that more than 50 percent of its services went to KU students.
Hilltop is requesting $13,049,
almost 50 percent more than it
received last year. For the past two
years, Hilltop received $8,831 to
the child development center.
Joan Reiber, director of Hilltop, said the money Hilltop requested had been designated for KU students.
The company Hilltop students.
The company Hilltop students.
Senate goes to KU student employees and is used to pay for Student Senate scholarships, which help KU students with children part of the cost of sending their children to the center.
Finney's tax plan receives some Democratic support
Bv Joe Gose
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — If interest groups and state employees are not pleased with the tax proposals submitted by Gov. Joan Finney or the Democrat-led House, they had better submit their own.
That was the message that House Speaker Marvin Barkis, D-Louisburg, and State Rep. George Teagarand, D-LacyGene, answered yesterday at a news conference to show support for Finney's tax plan.
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The two Democratic leaders urged interest groups and state employees to get involved in the budget process.
"The governor's tax plan is courteous in that it challenges a half-century of special interest tax policy." Barkis said. "My challenge to the state's major lobby organizations is to create a table with solutions, not criticisms."
Teagarden challenged the rest of the state.
this state, as well as all citizens, to accept my invitation," he said. "I want to utilize the wisdom of your experiences and learn where you feel state government could use our state tax dollars more efficiently."
Barkis said that there would have to be a bipartisan effort to overcome the tough economic times Kansas must have to make. Morshals would have to take the lead.
"I invite the front-line workers of
"We have not forgotten why we are Democrats," he said. "We will advocate for children and families a higher educational system for Kansas."
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D Lawrence, said she did not know whether there would be unity between the Democrats.
"I'm a Democrat and I happy to have a Democratic governor," she said. "But I don't agree with her on everything. If her budget came to the House floor now, I wouldn't vote for it."
Foundation excavation for the Lied Center continues as Allen Grob of W. A. Dunbar & Son Trucking & Excavating Inc. breaks up rock with an excavating machine. Construction began Jan. 7 and is expected to be completed by March 1993 at a cost of $14.4 million.
Digging in
Act requires accessible campus
By Katie Chipman
Kansan staff writer
The federal government recently passed rules that require public buildings to be accessible to people with disabilities.
The Americans with Disabilities Act, passed in the summer of 1990, concentrated on the areas of public accommodations, communications, employment and transportation, said Glen White, training director in the KU department of independent living.
Part of the act's provisions went into effect in August; others will go
into effect in January 1992 and January 1993.
"The Americans with Disabilities Act is going to require that all buildings on campus adhere to specific accessibility standards." White
White, who uses a wheelchair, said the University of Kansas was not wheelchair-friendly because it was built on a hill.
According to the act, newly and previously constructed buildings may not discriminate on the basis of disability.
Bob Turvey, associate director of
the KU student assistant center, said that KU had been in compliance with a similar act since 1973.
Turvey also is chairperson of the Architectural Barriers Committee, which reviews plans for construction and renovation on campus.
"Like any other public university, KU has had to have any programs accessible to any handicapped person." Turvey said.
He said changes had been made on campus to accommodate people with disabilities. Construction was done to add space for wheelchair seating.
From a meager start, surgeon has pioneered his field
Kansan staff writer
By Nedra Beth Randolph
Ben Carson did what all the experts said could not be done.
Carson, a pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins University, in 1988 separated the German Siamese twins, Benjamin and Patrick Binder, without either of them dying.
Most medical experts thought that both twins could not survive a surgery that would separate them. They were attached at the back of the head through the spine.
Carson and a team of 79 doctors, nurses and technicians preformed a 22-hour operation that saved the lives of 18 patients.
From poverty-striken, inner-city beginnings, Carson has proven the medical field wrong his whole career. He has risen as a leader in pediatric neurosurgery.
To help children with severe seizure problems, Carson successfully resurrected the new procedure.
Most medical experts considered the hemi spherectomy, which is the removal of one half of the kidney.
rarely was performed before Carson revived its use.
Before Carson perfected the procedure, a child only had a slim chance of survival after a hemiperisectomy. But since Carson started treatment, the success rate has significantly increased
The 39-year-old doctor has been going against the odds his entire life.
Since the knife incident, Carson says he has not let his temper get the best of him. He funnels his energy into his work instead of anger.
Carson had an extremely violent temper when he was young. He realized that he needed to control his temper when he almost stabbed a bov for reasons he cannot remember.
His parents were divorced when he was eight. His mother had to work three jobs to pay for her education.
Carson's childhood was difficult. But it was similar to the lives of many other poor, inner-working class girls.
Carson studied intensely in high school and
won a scholarship to Yale University. From there he went to medical school at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
After earning his medical degree in 1977, he began his residency at Johns Hopkins.
After completing his residency, Carson took a neurosurgeon position at a hospital in Perth.
He said that because there were so few neurosurgeons in Australia, he was able to get as much neurosurgical experience in one year would gain in three years in the United States.
After working in Australia from 1983 to 1984, he came back to work at Johns Hopkins in the pediatric neurosurgery department. He became director of the department in 1985.
Carson said that he had no plans to leave. Johns Bookkins to go into private practice.
"I'm perfect content, quite frankly," he said. "I'm here at Johns Hopkins. I'm the director of my own division. Money isn't everything."
Ben Carson
Wendy Davis, president of the association, presented a petition to the Residential Programs Advisory Committee to set policies for campus housing.
But Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said that some of the figures presented by the tenants association were misleading.
Residents complain about rent
The president of the Jayhawker Towers Tenants Association yesterday told members of the office of student housing that increases in rent and decreases in services were upsetting students.
'It would appear that there is, at least to some degree, a communications breakdown.'
Towers tenants say services neglected
Caryl Smith dean of student life
Davis said more than 150 people had signed petitions opposing the closing of the towers' swimming pool and a new sewer system, which were neglected while rent increased.
The board comprises members of student housing governments and the office of student housing. The board is led by the dean of student life.
Davis said student housing had failed to repair potholes, improve crumbling steps and upgrade the县's Nest, the towers' common area.
By Jonathan Plummer Kansan staff writer
Stoner said that the closing of the swimming pool was not final and that the closing was discussed at the board's last meeting, which was not attended by members of the tenants association.
Stoner said that because rent payments were made eight times during a nine-month period instead of once a month, Davis' figures should be adjusted to reflect the increase accurately.
Davis said members of the association were unable to attend the last four meetings of the board because of conflicts with work schedules.
■ Rebecca James, vice president of the Stauffer Neighborhood Association, told the board that the Helping Hands Day Care Center, which received financing from Student Senate last week, opened yesterday and was commencing its search for a permanent director.
Caryl Smith, dean of student life and chairperson of the board, said members of the tenants association worked with students to address complaints and meet with Stoner next week.
In the 1979-1980 academic year, the last year the Towers were privately owned, rent was $255 per month. The current rate is $552.
"I brought plans to develop a plan to the November RPAB meeting," he said. "It was a plan that did many things, but I didn't know all of the conditions that we needed to look at."
"It would appear that there is, at least to some degree, a communications breakdown," Smith said.
The All Scholarship Hall Council is considering adding another financial scholarship to the 17 it already provides.
Stoner said last year's rent increase was due in part to requests by tenants that phone service be included in the cost of rent. In the past, tenants had to pay deposits to the phone company each year.
Davis said the increase in rent was above the national average.
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