THE UNIVERSITY DARRY KANSAN
19 DECEMBER 10 2000
NSAN 2009
NEWS
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KU Budget: What goes up must come down
BY JESSE RANGEL LAUREN CUNNINGHAM AND MEGAN MORRIS$
jrangel@kansan.com,
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In the last 10 years, the University's budget has weathered state budget shortfalls, a period of
steady growth and a recession.
The $132.8 million dollars of support to the University from the state Legislature was cut in fiscal years 2003 and 2004, bottoming out at $129.4 million. A four-year period of increases followed, and the recession has cut the budget to 2006 levels.
Kathy Damron, director of state relations for the University, said the
state was making steady increases in higher education spending until the recession, which started last year.
"It's all about the economic downturn, Damron said. "The world just changed as we know it last September."
The governor's $2 million budget cut to all Board of Regents institutions, announced Nov. 23.
has yet to take effect. Regent Bill Docking said before the announcement that if spending on higher education dropped below 2006 levels, the state would lose funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, often referred to as the stimulus package.
One area that hasn't seen decreases is tuition, outside of the University's tuition compact started
in 2007 for incoming freshmen.
Mallory Saunders, Olathe senior, has been a student at the University for six years and experienced the increase firsthand, seeing tuition increase about $1,300 for a 12-hour semester's worth of classes since 2004.
Though she lives with her parents, Saunders said that last semester felt especially financially tight.
She has had financial aid every semester at the University.
"I wasn't working because I knew I'd have a heavy load," Saunders said. "I used financial aid for living expenses — I had car payments to make. If I was living on my own, I'd be screwed"
Edited by Tim Burgess
ENROLLMENT, LAWRENCE CAMPUS
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Fall 2000: 25,920
Fall 2009: 26,826
SUPPORT TO KU FROM STATE GENERAL FUND
Fiscal Year 2001 (Fall 2000): $132.8 million
Fiscal Year 2010 (Fall 2009): $136.8 million*
*before latest adjustments
Fall 2000: $1,362.50
Fall 2009: $3,706.85
CRIME
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Murder suspect allowing police to fence off his house
Anthony Sowell, who pleaded not guilty last week by reason of insanity, appeared in handcuffs and dressed in an orange jail jumpsuit at the pretrial hearing.
CLEVELAND — A registered sex offender charged with killing 11 women and hiding their remains in and around his home agreed Wednesday to let police fence off the house with barbed wire to preserve evidence.
He responded with few words to the judge's questions, waiving his right to a speedy trial to accommodate his new defense team. The waiver pushes back any trial until mid-2010.
Cuyahoga County assistant prosecutor Richard Bombik said the state hasn't ruled out asking the
court to allow the trial jury to visit the Cleveland house. Health considerations would be a factor in any decision about a jury walkthrough, he said. He did not elaborate.
During the hearing, both sides agreed to let the city halt the 24-hour police guard outside the home and fence it off. Bombik said the security arrangements would allow the defense to make its own check of the house. Police have said they have completed their search of the premises.
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Timothy McGinty approved defense requests to provide money to hire a private investigator and mental-health consultant. But the judge stopped short of issuing a defense-requested gug order that would have barred attorneys and police in the case from
publicly commenting.
Authorities say Sowell, 50, lured women to his home and attacked them. The remains of 10 women and a skull were found in the residence or buried in the yard.
Sowell faces 85 counts including murder, rape, assault and corpse abuse in the slayings and in the attacks on three women who survived. He could get the death penalty if convicted of any of the killings.
Also Wednesday, Mayor Frank Jackson appointed a commission to review police policies for handling sexual assault and missing-person reports, but it will not look into the Sowell case. Some relatives of victims complained about police handling of missing-person reports. Police say some victims were never reported missing.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Anthony Sowell, right, appears in court with his attorney John Parker Wednesday, in Cleveland. Sowell, charged with killing 11 women and hiding their remains in and around his home, agreed to let police fence off the house with barbed wire to preserve evidence. Last week Sowell pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
TERRORISM
Chicago man pleads not guilty to 12 counts in Mumbai bombing case
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO — A Chicago man pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that he conspired in the November 2008 terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai that left 166 people dead.
At an arraignment that lasted about three minutes, 49-year-old David Coleman Headley pleaded not guilty to all 12 counts against him, including charges that he also planned a terrorist attack on a Danish newspaper. He could get the death penalty if convicted of the most serious charge.
Headley told U.S. District Judge Harry D. Leinenweber that he understood the charges and was waiving any indictment in the case. He was charged Monday in a legal document called a criminal information, which typically signals a plea deal.
Headley is accused of making five trips to Mumbai and conducting surveillance on the Taj Mahal and Oberoi hotels, a landmark called Nariman House and a large train station, all of which were struck by terrorists.
Lashkar-e-Taiba, whose operations are mainly focused on the longrunning friction between Pakistan and India over the disputed territory of Kashmir.
Authorities in Washington say Headley is cooperating with the government. But his attorneys, John Theis and Robert Seeder, told reporters after the hearing that they would not comment on a possible defense strategy.
"We will not be adding anything to what the government has said," Theis said. He said the defense would review the evidence but
Seeder told reporters he was added to Headley's defense team because federal law calls for a second attorney in cases that could result in capital punishment.
After entering his plea, Headley was led away by a phalanx of marshals.
Prosecutors say he answered to the Pakistan-based militant group
Leinenweber gave prosecutors until Jan. 8 to turn over key evidence to the defense attorneys. He set a status hearing for Jan. 12.
would not comment on the substance of the case.
It is the second time in recent years that Theis is representing a witness who is cooperating with the government in a high-profile case.
A retired major in the Pakistani military, Abdur Rehman Hashim Syed, is charged separately with coordinating surveillance on the Danish newspaper. His whereabouts are uncertain.
The paper, Jyllands-Posten, published a dozen cartoons in 2005 that depicted the Prophet Muhammad
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nessman Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 48, a Pakistani-born Canadian national, is charged with providing material support to terrorists in the planned attack on the Danish newspaper.
Headley was arrested by FBI agents at O'Hare International Airport on Oct. 3 as he was about to board a plane for Philadelphia. The government says he was believed to be headed to Pakistan afterward to confer with collaborators.
Two other men have been charged in the case. Chicago busi-
and set off protests in the Muslim world.
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