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Wednesday, April 18, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
State budget amendment put off by committee
By Rod Griffin
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — The House Appropriations Committee yesterday delayed consideration of a state budget amendment that would have increased the KU budget by nearly $800.00.
The bill was part of a series of amendments that would revise Gov. Mike Hayden's budgets for fiscal years 1990 and 1991.
The amendments were prepared
by the governor's office after a revised state revenue estimate was completed April 4.
The revised budget estimates would release an additional $1.1 million to Board of Regents institutions through a general fee release. The
figure was based on actual enrollment totals for Spring 1999 and would reduce spending from the state general fund. The University of Kansas would be allocated an additional $781,655 through the fee release.
But the measure was passed over for further consideration at the suggestion of State Rep. Rochelle Chronister, R-Neodesa.
If all the amendments were adopted, an additional $11.3 million would be spent from the state general
fund in fiscal 1990, and $18.1 million would be spent in fiscal 1991.
A large portion of the budget increases would be for Social and Rehabilitation Services, but State Rep. Dune Goosen, R-Gooseal, said his subcommittee's suggestions would mean little. The SRS budget does not exist in bill form.
"All we're really doing is issuing recommendations from our subcommittee," he said.
Passes, IDs offer advantages for students traveling to Europe
By Curtis Knapp
Kansas staff writer
Students going to Europe for the summer should take advantage of discounts offered to them, a spokesman for the Office of Study Abroad said yesterday.
Mary Elizabeth Debicki, director of the office, said students could get cheaper traveling rates if they purchased international student identification cards, youth hostel passes and Eurail passes.
Debicki said that although other countries provided some discounts for students, Europe was the most popular travel destination.
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Debicki said students could receive the discounts up to a year after graduating.
Robert Beck, Topeka senior, said he would be leaving in September for Wales on a study abroad program. Before he goes he will buy an international student ID and a youth hostel pass.
A youth hostel is a supervised lodge similar to a dormitory, which costs between $3 and $10 a night.
Beck said he wanted to get an ID for insurance purposes and a youth hostel pass so he could travel to other places cheaply.
"There's no way I could afford to stav in hotels," he said.
ses were sold at the SUA office.
Erin Kelly, office assistant for Student Union Activities, said international student IDs, American youth hostel passes and Eurasian pas-
Kelly said youth hostel passes, which cost $25, gave students a one-year membership to hostels. Membership is required by some hostels.
Kelly said international IDs were $10. They enable students to obtain cheaper air fares with some airlines and provide hospital, accident, death and emergency evacuation insurance. A 24-hour toll-free hotline for emergency phone calls also is provided.
Farmers still need more rain
By Chris Siron
Kansan staff writer
Recent rainfall has helped replenish the ground's moisture reserves, but farmers facing spring corn and soybean plantings will need continuing rainfall for a good harvest.
Severity percent of Kansas' land has adequate or surplus subsoil moisture, said Neil Gum, statistician with the Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service. Thirty percent of the state has inadequate ground soil moisture.
Subsolub moisture is evaluated on a scale that ranges from completely dry to saturated. The moisture is needed by plants with deep root structure or ones that can sustain extended periods without rainfall.
Gum said that half of the land in east-central Kansas, which includes Douglas County, was saturated. The other half has adequate subsoil moisture.
Last year 27 percent of the state was short of subsoil moisture, and only 2 percent had a surplus.
Jim Shroyer, crop specialist for Kansas State University's Agricultural Extension Service, said that current subsoil moisture levels were a good sign but that farmers would need more rainfall during the early stages of crop growth.
Corn farmers usually plant after mid-April, and soybean farmers plant their fields in May or early June.
Jack Lindquist, Douglas County agriculture extension agent, said soybeans and corn were among the most common crops in and around Douglas County.
"We still need ten inches of rain to restock the depletion in some areas from last year's drought," he said.
David Babb, meteorology student with KU Weather Service, said that the average rainfall during April was four inches and that the area had received less than one inch so far this month. The May average is six inches.
He said he expected that rainfall this spring would meet or exceed the past averages.
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