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University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 9, 1990
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Budget loss may be small
By Kathryn Lancaster
Kansan staff writer
A Senate Ways and Means subcommittee yesterday recommended cutting a quarter million dollars from the fiscal 1980 KU budget, a much smaller decrease than education supporters had feared.
The entire Board of Regents system could lose $7 million to $8 million of their fiscal 1990 budget, said Mark Tallman, executive director for the Associated Students of Kansas.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, subcommittee member, said that although the reduction seemed large, it represented only a fraction of what Regents schools could have lost.
Give Mike Hayden's budget proposal called for a $ million reduction in the fiscal 1900 KU budget. Write it.
On the final day of hearings, the subcommittee, which examines statewide policies affecting funds for Regents schools, recommended increasing Hayden's proposed fiscal 1991 budget by about $5.5 million.
Several subcommittees are examining higher
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education and financial policies at each Regents institution. The full committee next must consider the subcommittee recommendations.
the fiscal 1990 budget loss would be caused by an increase in the salary shrinkage rate from the University's budgeted 2.2 percent to the approved 2.5 percent.
The subcommittee did not decide on shrinkage rates for fiscal 1991.
The University traditionally has used the money saved at the end of the fiscal year. But subcommittee members decided that in fiscal 1980, this excess money should be returned to the state.
2.5 percent.
Shrinkage is the money saved in salaries when there are vacant positions and lower salary scales for incoming professors.
Other recommendations for the fiscal 1991 statewide Regents budget include:
The subcommittee also overturned Hayden's proposal to eliminate a statewide fee release policy. This policy allows universities to spend 75 percent of enrollment fees collected in excess of estimates. At KU, the fee release increases the
1990 budget by $351.716.
wide Regents base. Increasing the faculty salary base by 4 percent. This is 1 percent less than the Regents requested. Maintaining student salaries at fiscal 1990 levels. Regents had asked for a $1.25 million increase from fiscal 1990 to raise student wages to meet 1991 minimum wage standards. Hayden requested a $140,000 cut from fiscal 1990 levels.
- Increasing other operating expenses by 2 percent. This is half the figure the Regents requested.
- Maintaining graduate teaching assistantship fee waivers at 75 percent. Hayden had recommended an increase to 80 percent. The Regents had asked for 100 percent fee waivers.
- moving institutions about $8 million for increased enrollment figures, an amount equal to the Regents request. Hayden proposed giving only $4 million to Regents schools.
- Adding a $15 application fee for incoming students. The $15,000 in expected statewide revenue could be spent only to expand student services and scholarships.
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ASK fine tunes plans for lobby
House. Privat, Taggart and two other friends have been taking turns in line since Wednesday night in hopes of obtaining seats behind the KU bench.
By Matt Taylor
Kansan staff writer
Associated Students of Kansas yesterday fine-tuned plans for Lobby Day on Feb. 19 in Topeka.
The Margin is the Board of Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers.
as last night's meeting, the ASK advisory board heard reports about Lobby Day and the "Hands Around the Capitol" project. Both events are aimed at bringing attention to the need for third-year financing of the Margin of Excellence, said Sherri Sweers, ASK campus director.
At Lobby Day, ASK plans to urge legislators to support the Margin. Sweens said. Students plan to surround the Capitol to show support for financing higher education.
"The demonstration is meant to unify student support and attract media attention." Sweers said.
Bill Moseley, ASK advisory board chairman, said students from the ASK chapters of all the Regents institutions would attend Lobby Day.
He said a minimum of 400 people would be needed to surround the Capitol. He said he hoped that KU could provide 250-300 people and that Kansas State University could provide a large number of students.
On Lobby Day, buses will leave for Topeka at 9 a.m. from the parking lot behind the Kansas Union, Moseley said. Students will assemble in the rotunda and will circle the Capitol about 10 a.m. Some buses will leave Topeka at noon to return to Lawrence.
A reception sponsored by ASK is scheduled from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Kansas Expcentre in Topeka, Sweeps said. The reception is open to legislators and students. Buses will transport students from the Capitol to the reception.
First in line
Shawn Privat, left, Emporia freshman, and Travis Taggart, Hays freshman, hold their place in line for Tuesday's Kansas-Missouri basketball game by camping at the north entrance of Allen Field
Sweers said student lobbyists had
'I'm absolutely sold on student involvement. The students in the seven years since I've been here have dramatically had an impact.'
— Wint Winter Jr.
State Senator, R-Lawrence
made appointments with several legislators and would discuss issues including the Margin, tuition rates and closed classes.
"I'm absolutely sold on student involvement," said State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence. "The students in the seven years since I've been here have dramatically had an impact."
Sweers said students who wanted to lobby were required to attend at least one of two training sessions offered by ASK. The first session will be at 7 p.m. Thursday at Alderson Auditorium in the Union. The second is scheduled for 2 p.m. Feb. 18 in the auditorium.
Students who completed a workshop would be excused from classes on Lobby Day, said Sweers, who made the arrangement with KU administrators. Students who participate only in Hands Around the Capitol will not be excused.
She said more than 250 students were expected to lobby.
KU on Wheels donated $700 worth of transportation service to ASK, Sweiers said. She expects to use five buses. Students can ride the buses for free.
"They donated for the cause of the Margin," she said.
Gov. Mike Hayden is scheduled to speak at 3 p.m. on Lobby Day, which is based on the theme, "Stand up for Higher Education."
Originally, Hayden was scheduled to address the students at 10 a.m., Sweirs said. No reason was given for the change.
Davis still champions Black, women's rights
By Jonathan Plummer Kansan staff writer
But in 1969 after she acknowledged membership in the Communist Party, the California Board of Regents, including then-Gov. Ronald Reagan, fired her.
Born the daughter of two teachers, Angela Davis found value in education and studied at schools in Europe and the United States before becoming a philosophy instructor at the University of California-Los Angeles.
Angela Davis
Later investigations found that the guns used by the captors were registered in Davis' name. The
Davis then became interested in the plight of three Black prisoners known as the Soledad Brothers, who had been accused of killing a prison guard at the Soledad State Prison.
On Aug. 7, 1970, a judge and three other men were shot to death in an exchange of gunfire outside a courtroom where four men had taken hostages and demanded freedom for the Soledad Brothers.
Born: Jan. 26,
1944, Birmingham,
Ala.
Occupation: Teacher
Position: Rights activist,
vice-presidential candidate with the
Communist Party in 1980. Author of
profiling Black and female leaders.
state charged her with complicity and began a search that included placing her on the FBI's 10-most-wanted list.
wisherhs.
After she was captured in October 1970, she awaited trial for 16 months.
During her time in jail, she became famous when groups such as the National Committee to Free Angela Davis and some European Communist parties charged that she was being treated unfairly because of her race and political views.
When her trial finally began in 1972, Davis was acquitted of charges of kidnaping, murder and conspiracy by an all-will jury.
City may convert track into trail
By Eric Gorski
Kansan staff writer
Lawrence may convert an abandoned section of railroad track southeast of the city into a hiking and biking trail, a city official said yesterday.
and baiting train, a city officer said many times. A stretch of Santa Fe railway may be bought by the city for $7,500 and converted to a public trail, said Mike Wilden, acting city manager. The city commission will decide Tuesday whether to purchase the stretch, which is about a mile long.
Wildgen said the city had been negotiating with Santa Fe since 1988, when the company announced it would abandon the track.
The stretch of track runs near 23rd Street and Haskell Avenue to 28th Street.
campaign designed to convert unused railway land into hiking and biking trails.
Wildgen said if the project were approved Tuesday, the rails and ties would be sold. There is no estimated completion date or cost for the project.
project. Clark H. Coan, co-chairman of the Kansas Coalition of Rails to Trails, went to the city with the idea for the project in 1988.
The project is part of a national "Rails to Trails"
Wilden said that after the rails and ties were removed, a rock surface would be added. Volunteers will lay the rock and clear overgrown brush and trees.
The surface of the trail would be similar to the 11-mile Kansas River leeve trail operated by the city, Wildgen said.
Coan said the mile-long trail was a good starting point for future converted railway trails in Lawrence
Rails to Trails also has projects in Manhattan, Wichita and Topeka. Coa said the coalition has removed rails and ties on a 20-mile stretch of track between Topeka and Overbrook.
The trail someday may be lengthened, Coan said. He expects Santa Fe eventually to abandon its track running north from 23rd Street and Haskell Avenue into the downtown area.
The Topeke-Overbrook project was financed by private contributions. Coan said.
Bram Sheafer, Sunflower Surplus bike shop manager, said he was encouraged by Rails to Trails' Lawrence effort.
KU to ask for money to support new buildings
By Eric Gorski
Kansan staff writer
School officials will go to the Legislature next week to request $428,869 to cover operating costs for new buildings at the University of Kansas.
ness affairs, said the University would ask House and Senate subcommittees next week to provide the funds.
Gov. Mike Hayden's proposed 1991 fiscal budget does not include these projected expenses.
Keith Nitcher, KU director of busi-
The subcommittees will make their recommendations to the full Legislature
and University Press Offices.
The Dole Center, scheduled to open in April, accounted for $293,949 of the request.
The $428,869 was requested for the Dole Human Development Center, the Regents Center in Overland Park, Spahr Engineering Library
Lindy Eakin, KU budget director,
said the money would be used to pay
for employee salaries, maintenance
supplies and utilities for the buildings.
Eakin said the Board of Regens
estimated salary costs to be $260,494.
Utilities were estimated at $110,551.
Operating expenses, including mops,
vacuums and other cleaning supplies,
were estimated at $87,924.
The state has a history of supporting funding for new buildings. In fiscal 1990, the state provided $607,441 for the Anschutz Science Library, Parker Hall, the University Press Offices and the Dole Center, Eakin said.
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