CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, October 28, 1993
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Handing out a message
Tom Leininger / KANSAN
Kenneth Charles, Hiawatha, waits for people on Jayhawk Boulevard so he can hand out Gideons New Testament Bibles. Charles, a member of The Gideons International, based in Nashville, has been to campus for several years for a one-day visit.
Federal mandates wring cities' pocketbooks dry
By Traci Carl
Kansan staff writer
City and county lawmakers said yesterday that Congress and state legislatures have been passing laws and making local governments pay for implementing them.
Lawrence, Douglas County and thousands of other cities and counties across the country participated in National Unfunded Mandates Day. The day was designed to educate the public about the impact of unfunded mandates and encourage federal and state governments to finance those programs they force local governments to implement.
Local governments united to oppose unfunded mandates, or laws and regulations passed by federal and state governments without financing.
During the past 12 years, federal and state governments have cut funding for local governments by 35 percent, but they have not cut the number of laws and regulations they require local governments to abide by.
Mayor John Nalbandian said unfunded mandates cost the city of Lawrence about $1.5 million annually.
"We are not allowed to vote on programs, but we locally elected officials who are accountable to the public must find the revenue to pay for them," he said.
Mandates apply to each city and county in the same way, Nalbandian said, but each city and county is different.
He said that he supported the goals of most federal and state mandates, such as improved environmental conditions and equal accessibility for people with disabilities, but that local governments needed to have more input in developing and implementing the mandates.
For example, Lawrence has been struggling to finance federal regulations for cleaner, safer water, Nalbandian said. The city decided to finance the regulations by raising utility fees.
Since 1991, the city has been increasing fees 8 percent each year. The 8-percent
County Commissioner Louie McElhaney said unfunded mandates cost Douglas County about $4 million annually.
increases will continue until 1996.
President Bill Clinton has said he was against unfunded mandates, but he recently signed the motor voter bill, which will be paid for locally.
Part of that $4 million pays for students from Douglas County to attend community colleges in other counties.
Ken Collier, assistant professor of political science, said the administration of former President Ronald Reagan initiated cutting funds for federal mandates and passing the burden on to local governments.
Like local governments now, the federal government did not want to increase taxes to pay for programs, so they forwarded the costs to states and then to local governments.
"It's a good way to conceal costs," Collier said.
1950s brought KU Blacks together
By Chesley Dohl
Kansan staff writer
Discrimination is meant to weaken a race, but at KU in the 1950s, prejudice and discrimination built a strong Black community.
That was the message John F. Gardenhire, English instructor at Laney Community College in Oakland, Calif., brought to about 25 people during a speech in the Kansas Union last night.
Gardenhire graduated from KU in 1958. Discrimination was rampant on campus during the three years he spent here, but he said those three years were some of the best years of his life.
He said it was a time when he built life-long friendships and grew strong in his beliefs and his identity.
"We nurtured each other. We sustained each other through the struggle," he said. "And that struggle was KU."
There were about 200 Black students on campus when Gardenhire attended KU. He said the students would get together and make plans to change the system. They made sure a Black face showed up in every activity in the yearbook, he said.
Several students in the audience said the student turnout for the BSU-sponsored Black Awareness Week speaker was evidence of the uncommitted attitude of students at KU to bring about change.
"There are things we're missing here in 1993 that they had in 1968," said Syketh Milburn, Houston senior. "We're regressing instead of progressing. But it takes more than 10 people to make a change. It takes the whole campus community."
"It was a conscious decision based on real leadership," he said. "That was our goal, to make people realize we were here and we had an impact."
Gardenhill will speak again at 8 tonight at the Ballroom in the Kansas Union.
Holly McQueney / KANSAN
John F. Gardenhire, University of Kansas alumnus, shows photos from his days as a student at KU.
Two days left for picking up ticket coupons
CAMPUS. BRIEFS
Students who have ordered and paid for KU basketball season tickets have only two days left to pick up their coupons.
The coupons are redeemable later for tickets during the basketball season.
As of late yesterday afternoon, almost 2,000 coupon packages had not been picked up, according to Patrick Mikesic, athletic ticket office intern.
Students can pick up their coupons from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and tomorrow at the Allen Field House ticket office, Mikesic said. Students must have their KUID with a Fall 1993 fee sticker on the back.
Students who do not claim their coupons by tomorrow will not receive basketball season tickets, Mikesic said. Unclaimed coupons will be reassigned next week through a lottery. Mikesic said the lottery will include about 700 students who did not get tickets during a lottery conducted earlier this month.
Students who do not pick up the coupon package may receive a full refund for their tickets.
Regents consider plan for all-at-once review
Under a new proposal before the Board of Regents, the University would review the effectiveness of all academic departments during a one-year period every six years.
The new system, which will be voted on by the Regents in December, would replace the current system of reviewing about one-sixth of the University's departments every year, said David Shulenburger, vice chancellor for academic affairs.
"It's a far superior system than to review the programs a little at a time each year," Shulenburger said. "You can't get a good idea of how one department compares with another unless you compare them all at the same time."
By reviewing all programs during the same period, Shulenburger said, the University could account for changes in annual enrollment figures.
"If you review a department in a year that had a 10-percent overall enrollment growth and then a few years later review one with a 2-percent drop in enrollment, you can't make an accurate comparison of the departments," Shulenburger said.
Schools in the Regents system still could make reviews of their departments at any time, said Martine Hammond-Paludan, director of academic affairs for the Regents.
"It's always the prerogative for the chancellor and the Board to look into programs being discontinued," Hammond-Paludan said. "But this way you get to look at the total institution."
The Regents schools are: KU, Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University, Kansas State University, Pittsburg State University and Wichita State University.
Escapee arrested after abducting 79-year-old
Chad Beers, 24, of Lawrence, was arrested Tuesday at a bus station in Corpus Christi, Texas, said Jeff Lanza, FBI special agent in Kansas City.
Beers was arrested in Lawrence on Oct. 1 in the armed robbery of Checkers Foods, 2300 Louisiana St. He escaped from a Douglas County Sherrif's deputy Oct. 5 after a doctor's appointment.
Beers and another man, Jonathan W. Kleim, allegedly stole a carin Conway, Ark, and drove to Clarksville, where they robbed a convenience store on Sept. 24, Lanza said.
During their escape, they abducted a 79-year-old Clarksville man and took him to Checotah, Okla., where the man was left bound and gagged. He was otherwise uninjured, Lanza said.
"They were on a crime spree, and we believe there are other robberies being tied to them in the past couple of months," Lanza said.
Authorities did not know the identities of the suspects, even though they had left behind a photograph of themselves visiting Elvis Presley's grave.
After the crime was featured on the television show, "America's Most Wanted," law officers received tips about the suspects' identities. Both men were charged Oct. 14 on a federal kidnapping warrant in Arkansas.
Kleim, 19, was arrested Oct.21 in
Hays. Kan., Lanza said.
Kleim was being held awaiting extradition to Arkansas, and Beers was in custody at the U.S. marshal's office in Corpus Christi.
Strong Hall empties after bomb threat
KU police evacuated强 Hall yesterday morning after a male caller phoned a bomb threat into a first-floor office in the building.
The call came in at about 9:30 a.m., said Burdol Welsh of KU police. Police then notified instructors and staff in the building.
The evacuation was voluntary, Welsh said. Department heads and teachers made the decision to leave the building.
"Some may not have been out at all," Welsh said. "Some may have been out about an hour, which is about average."
Police searched the building and found no bomb, Welsh said.
Students who were in the building said they smelled marijuana, but police said there was no indication of it.
Welsh said it was the first bomb threat of the semester. The last one reported was June 14 in Snow Hall.
Anyone with information about yesterday's bomb threat should call CrimeStoppers at 864-8888. Callers can leave tips anonymously, and a cash award is available.
Sanchez replaced as featured speaker
Sonia Sanchez, poet and author of African-American literature, will not be speaking tonight as planned. The speech, to be part of Black Student Union's Black Awareness Week, was canceled because of a lack of communication, said Terry Bell, BSU president. BSU will try to bring Sanchez to campus at a later date, Bell said.
John Fouts Gardenhire, author,
English teacher at Laney College in
Oakland, Calif., and KU alumnus,
will speak instead at 8 tonight at the
Ballroom in the Kansas Union.
Briefs compiled from wire and staff reports.
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