University Daily Kansan / Thursday, January 25, 1990
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Leak repair
A water leak at Crescent Road and Naismith Drive left the Jayhawk Bookstore and a few houses to the west without water for about five hours yesterday.
carolyn Marcum, office manager at Jayhawk Bookstore, said the leak didn't cause any major problems for the store.
The leak was discovered when a department employee walked by the area, heard it and made a report.
Kevin Carr, equipment operator for the Lawrence utilities department, said that a valve in an underground pipe had rotted out and needed to be replaced. The utilities department knew about a leak several weeks ago, but no one knew exactly where to find it.
problem for the store. "We had to go across the street to use the bathroom," she said.
Tobacco tax increase may restore financing for Margin, MediKan
By Rod Griffin
Kansan staff writer
New legislative proposals could p eduction against social services, and smokers may get burned in the process.
Two tobacco tax bills are under consideration in the Legislature. One would restore money to the Margin of Excellence, the other would restore cuts in the budget of the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services.
Only one is likely to survive.
(“Times and tough,” said State Rep.
Only one is likely hurt. "Times are tough," said State Rep. Jeff Freeman, R-Burlington. "We'd like to have money for everyone."
State Sen. Wint Winton Jr., R-Lawrence, said it was unlikely that the Legislature would approve two passes in the tobacco tax this session.
"At this point the budget is like a desert, and we're trying to drain every drop we can from appropriate revenue sources." Winter said.
Gov. Mike Hayden's proposed budget for fiscal 1991 included none of the $13.8 million requested for the SRS budget, and also included cuts in the SRS budget.
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.
To finance the Margin, State Sen Dick Bond, R-Overland Park, introduced a bill to raise the tax on a pack of cigarettes by 5 cents. The bill, which would raise $12 million in the first year, originally earmarked $8 million for the Margin and $4 million for the war on drugs. But Bond said he would propose an amendment today that would give all the money to the Margin.
State Rep. David Miller, R-Eudora, has proposed a 10 cent pack increase in the cigarette tax. The revenue collected from the tax would be used to restore some funds to SRS programs.
The other proposal, which is in the House, partially would restore proposed cuts in the fiscal 1991 SRS budget.
"We're just trying to restore cuts for those individuals who are at the lowest end of the scale," said Freeman, who co-sponsored the bill.
Ex-prof will conduct symphony
By Bryce J. Tache
Kansan staff writer
Zuohuang Chen
Zuohang Chen, conductor of the Central Philharmonic Orchestra of China, was appointed last week as the new music director and conductor of the Wichita Symphony Orchestra.
Chen taught at KU from 1985-87, where he conducted the University Symphony and was a professor of orchestra. In 1986, he earned the HOPE award, on a honor bestowed by senior students in a KU faculty member
Stanley Shumway, professor of music theory, worked with Chen while he taught here.
"He certainly inspires people," Shumway said. "I think he has great musicianship, great enthusiasm and great powers of communication. Even though English isn't his first language, his communication skills go beyond language."
Mitch Berman, general manager of the Wichita Symphony Society, said the appointment was the culmination of a search that involved 250 candidates.
Chen is the first conductor from the People's Republic of China to be named a conductor of a U.S. orchestra.
Chen went to school at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. In 1968, during the Cultural Revolution,
his education was interrupted when he was sent to an army farm.
Berman said that during the four years Chen spent on the farm, he secretly studied and silently conducted scores he had copied by hand.
He studied at the University of Michigan and received a doctorate in musical arts there before coming to KU.
After the Cultural Revolution, he returned to the Central Conservatory of Music and later was chosen by the Ministry of Culture to take advanced studies in the United States.
As conductor of the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, Chen will continue his position as the principal conductor of the Central Philharmonic Orchestra, the state orchestra of China.
Med students can shape up at Kirmayer Fitness Center
By Steve Bailey
Kansan staff writer
The new Kirmayer Fitness Center at the University of Kansas Medical Center will be dedicated Friday.
The 10 a.m. ceremony at the site in Kansas City, Kan, will include a statement by Chancellor Gene A. Budig.
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The $2.7 million center, scheduled to open Feb. 1, was financed by a $2.4 million gift from the Nellie Mae Kirmayer estate and a significant donation from Butler
Construction Company
but muske, fitness center director, said the new center would accommodate all types of fitness seekers.
The center will house a four-lane swimming pool, a gymnasium with six basketball goals, an indoor running track, a whirlpool, spa and sauna, and space for aerobics and auxiliary fitness, including exercise bikes and tread-mills.
The center also will be home to the sports medicine program, he
said.
Jinske, who spent the past nine years as director of the Sweeney Recreation Center at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, said the center was important because it gave members an increased opportunity to keep physically fit.
"The center exemplifies the mission of the Med Center — to emphasize fitness and complete wellness," he said.
dents were automatic members because they paid a $32 charge on their activity fee.
Jinske said he had heard no student complaints regarding the automatic charge.
Jinske said that membership was limited to the Med Center community and that full-time stu-
"Everything I have heard so far has been 100 percent positive," he said.
Melissa Shimanek, Leoti junior,
said she didn't mind paying the
extra charge.
of time to use the facilities," she said.
"I'm excited about it because I still have a year and a half of classes left, which gives me plenty
However, not all Med Center students agreed with the mandatory charge.
Johna Priest, Elkhart junior, lives in Lawrence and commutes to the Med Center daily.
"I probably won't have time to use the fitness center very much," she said. "I don't think the fee should have been mandatory. I think students should have had a choice."
Senate to back 2 piano concerts
The Finance Committee passed a bill to bring two guest pianists to the University of Kansas in coordination with a Black History Celebration.
Recommendations to bring two concert pianists to KU and to discontinue financing of Jayhawk Course Source were among decisions made by the Student Senate committees held their first regular meetings of the semester.
Tentative performance dates are March 18 for Dilworth and March 21 for Hutchinson. The performances will be in Swarthout Recital Hall. They will be free and open to the public.
By Matt Taylor Kansan staff writer
The pianists, Helen Dilworth and Karen Hutchinson, are both highly-regarded performers, said Michael Diggs, Minority Affairs Committee chairman and author of the bill.
'This funding request enables us to host two high-caliber performers.'
Of the $5,500 approved for the events, Hutchinson will receive a $2,800 honorarium and Dilworth will receive a $2,300 honorarium. The remaining $400 will be used to buy posters for publicity.
Minority Affairs committee chairman for Student Senate
"This funding request enables us to host two high-caliber performers for the price of one." Diggs said.
Although Dilworth's performance falls on the Sunday when many students return from spring break, Diggs said he expected a sellout.
"I think there will be enough interest from the students and from the Lawrence community," Diggs said. "The pianists have received critical acclaim in some major newspapers."
The Rights Committee agreed to strike Jayhawk Course Source from Senate financing. Jayhawk Course Source is a publication that lists various courses offered at the University and includes class objectives, prerequisites, reading assignments, information on the importance of tests in the final grade, test formats and overall grading percentages.
The bill now will go to Senate for a vote. The next scheduled meeting is Jan. 30.
Financial restraints kept the publication from receiving more Senate financing, said Michael Moschini, AURH senator.
Finance also passed a bill, sponsored by The American Friends of Palestine, to conduct an informational forum on the historical background of Palestine. Sarah D. Shields, a scholar, on Tuesday is scheduled to speak at the forum Feb. 27 in Alderson Auditorium.
Several dates in February have been reserved for the Finance Committee's annual budget hearings, said Alan Lowden, finance co-chairman. The first hearing is scheduled for Feb. 7.
The Graduate Affairs Committee discussed ideas about putting together a survey to gather concerns of graduate students, said Eric Rabe, chairman. He said the committee also talked about Lobby Day, which will be Monday, Feb. 19, in Topeka.
中国学生学者联谊会
主办
CHINESE SPRING FESTIVAL PARTY SPONSORED BY C.S.S.F.A.
CONTENTS: Talent show, ulde show, dance, etc.
Fruit, soft drink, cookies are provided.
TIME:
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(On the intersection with 12th St.)
7:30pm -- midnight, Jan. 26, 1990
(Chinese New Year's Eve)
PLACE:
Everyone is welcome!
祝大家春节愉快。万事如意！
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