THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.100.NO.74
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
THURSDAY, JAN. 18, 1990
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Fight for Margin heats up
By Pam Soliner
Kansan staff writer
With Gov. Mike Hayden's proposal to not finance the third and final year of the Margin of Excellence, the governor announced his new school, local officials say.
The Margin of Excellence is the Board of Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer
For fiscal 1991, the Regents are seeking $16.3 million to finance the Margin. State legislators approved $12 million in fiscal 1989 and $17.1 million in fiscal 1990.
In his State of the State address presenting the budget for fiscal year 1991, Hayden made no mention of financing the Margin. He has proposed a consolation $400,000 to be divided among the Regents schools for top faculty raises. The University of Kansas would receive $50,000 to be divided among top faculty.
schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers.
But University officials and Regents aren't ready to back down. They still have 90 days to lobby the legislators for Margin funds before action is taken on the budget.
"This is not a time to retreat."
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said in a prepared statement. "Rather it is a time to stand firm and battle for what our Regents institutions represent and what they need. Presidents of the state universities intend to continue their fight for passage of year three of the Margin of Excellence."
Under Hayden's proposal, KU will
See MARGIN, p. 5
Just a few more loads
Stacy Stallbaumer, an Overland Park freshman, and Jennifer Roberts, a Grand Island, Neb., freshman, carry some of their
belongings to Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall. They moved back into the residence hall in warm weather Monday.
Soviet troops get OK to open fire on ethnic rioters
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — The Kremilin yesterday authorized the thousands of soldiers it sent to the Caucasus to open fire if necessary on Armenians and Azerbaijans fighting in the hills near the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Thousands of Armenian refugees poured from the southern republic of Azerbaijan, many beaten or chased from their homes by angry mobs. Some blamed the attacks on Azerbaijanians who earlier fled ethnic violence in Armenia.
The death toll rose to 58, mostly Armenians, and the number of injured to 169 in five days of civil warfare, an Interior Ministry official said.
The violence erupted Saturday
with ant-Armenian riots in Baku.
Fighting rapidly spread to Nagorno-Karabakh and nearby areas of Azerbaijan.
Interior Ministry officials said they could not recall such measures being imposed since World War II.
Foreign reporters have been barred from the region.
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev sent 11,000 army and internal security troops to the southern region Tuesday, but they have been slowed by Azerbaijanis who erected barricades on roads and at a military airfield.
Azerbaijanis continued their rail blockade of Armenia's 3.5 million people, cutting short fuel and other supplies. Azerbaijan has 6.9 million people.
Med Center names new vice chancellor
Bv a Kansan reporter
A new vice chancellor for hospital administration has been hired for the University of Kansas Medical Center, Med Center officials announced Tuesday.
Glenn Potter, 46, executive vice president and administrator at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, was named the new vice chancellor. He replaced Eugene Staples, who retired in December.
Staples will continue work at the Med Center on a part-time basis until Potter takes over March 1, said Nancy Miller, spokesman for University Relations at the Med Center.
"Mr. Potter comes to this position with unique qualifications," said Chancellor Gene A. Budig.
teaching hospitals. He was our first choice for the position, and we are delighted."
"It is a complex assignment. He must direct one of America's finest
Potter said he looked forward to the challenge of the new position.
"Obviously, I am very pleased," Potter said. "This is a great opportunity to work at an excellent facility."
Potter has a master's degree in health administration from Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, and a bachelor of arts degree in business administration from Ottawa University.
Before becoming executive vice president and administrator at Iowa Methodist, the largest private health care facility in Iowa, Potter was chief operations officer for three patient care facilities in the Cuyahoga County Hospital System, Cleveland, Ohio.
Trade deficit reaches $10.5 billion
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The United States' trade deficit widened to $10.5 billion in November, its worst showing in 11 months, as U.S. exports took a tumble caused in part by a strike at Boeing, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.
Owen cleared of charges in district court
The Associated Press
OLATHE  All remaining criminal charges against former Lt. Gov. Dave Owen and two codefendants for allegedly scheming to make illegal political contributions were dismissed yesterday in Johnson County District Court.
Judge G. William Pierron said he dismissed the charges against Owen, lawyer Elliott Kaplan and businessman John E. Palmer because there was no proof of probable cause and because the statute of limitations had expired.
expressed.
Owen, who sought the Republican nomination for governor in 1982, was charged Oct. 31 with seven felony counts plus 11 misdemeanors by special prosecutors after a two-month inquisition. The state dropped one felony count accusing Owen of criminal solicitation last month.
exports, rose 2.4 percent.
The misdemeanor charges accused him of illegally contributing $28,500 to the Hayden campaign on Oct. 14, 1986, contributing illegally to the campaign by using the names of five individuals and four companies, including Am'Vectors and Kansas Microwave, and conspiring with Palmer to make illegal contributions.
The inquisition that led to the charges began after the Kansas Public Disclosure Commission alleged that Owen exceeded limits then in effect in making contributions to the 1986 campaign of Gov. Mike Hayden.
The Commerce Department said that while imports dipped slightly from an all-time high set in October, U.S. exports sales declined even more, falling to their lowest level since last March.
As a result, the trade deficit, the difference between imports and
In finding no probable cause for the theft and conspiracy charges, Pierron said Kansas law did not recognize a person stealing his own money.
The increase, coming on the heels of an even worse 20 percent surge in the October deficit, left private economists disheartened about the chances for further improvement in the country's trade performance any time soon.
Court: William still can't spend his $500
By Matt Taylor
Kansan staff writer
After court action yesterday, convicted murderer John William still cannot spend money paid to him by a KU professor.
Yesterday, King further restrained William from spending the money at least until after a trial. No trial date has been set.
Ralph M. King, Douglas County district judge, granted a request by Attorney General Bob Stephan two weeks ago to restrain William from spending the money.
Paul Lim, assistant professor of English, testified that he paid $500 to William last year for rights to publish William's life story in a play.
Gerard Agnew, chief accountant at Kansas State Penitentiary, where William is being held, testified that $431.66 of the $500 was transferred to William's prison account before the restraining order was applied.
Technically, King converted a temporary restraining order against William into a temporary injunction.
William now has $434.36 in his prison account, but the restraining order prevents him from spending any of it. Without a restraining order, William could legally spend it in anyway, Agnew said.
A restraining order is effective only until an application for a temporary injunction is heard. An injunction is a restraining order effective until a trial is heard.
David Plinsky, assistant attorney general, is suing William on behalf of the Crime Victims Compensation Board for illegally accepting Lim's payment. A 1986 state statute requires anyone publishing under a contract with a person accused or convicted of a crime to pay the board, not the individual.
See related story p.9
"The statute discourages criminals from profiting from an experience of a victim of crime," King said.
Lim testified that he had not paid any money to the board. He also said he was not aware of the statute until Dec. 21 and had no intentions of violating it. Lim has not been charged with violating the statute.
"I am primarily interested in his background as a homeless person," Lim said. "I want to know about his life in foster homes and his life on the road."
ham told the court he was more interested in William's background as a transient than in his crime.
William was convicted last November of killing 9-year-old Richard Settlemyre.
"I asked questions about his life up until the legal proceeding began," Lim said. "I was in the pursuit of the truth of this man."
the counter, william's attorney,
argued that because Lim was not
concerned about the crime for the
play, the statute did not cover this
situation.
Census adjustment forms add twist to fee payment
By Buck Taylor Kanean staff writer
When Trish Hudson woke up at noon yesterday, she remembered that she had to do something that day besides plan her evening agenda.
Open further thought, the vision of masses of students walking between Hoch Auditorium and the Kansas Union clutching sheaves of paper made her pull the pillow back over her head.
Hudson, an Omaha, Neb., senior slowly made her way to campus and prepared to join her fellow checkwriting students waiting in various lines to pay tuition and student activity fees.
Tuesday and yesterday marked the eighth year that the University of Kansas has used both Hoch and the Union for the fee payment system, said Gary Thompson, director of student records.
Keith Thorpe/KANSAN
Students wait for loan checks and fee payment in the Union Ballroom.
"Today's system is a piece of cake compared to when fee payment and class enrollment were at the same time, in the same building," Thompson said. "Ten years ago, students would have to spend close to an entire day in Allen Field House trying to reserve space in the classes they wanted."
This semester, in addition to fee payment cards, students were told to fill out census adjustment forms. These forma, Thompson said, are used to document how students want to be represented in the Legislature.
"Using these forms, students have the option to be represented either here in Douglas County or in their hometowns," he said.
Although there is no penalty for refusing to fill out the form,refusing to give information is in violation of the federal census laws, Thompson said.
The Office of Student Records used about 30 student workers during the two-day period to cope with the voluminous number of students. Jenny Kwong, a Kowloon, Hong Kong freshman and a fee payment worker, said that handling the paperwork could be tiring by the end of the day.
"This is the first time I have done this job," she said. "I get tired, but it is fun because a lot of different people come by my station."
Thompson said that the student workers were a tremendous help in making the process run smoothly. Students workers are responsible for distributing fee-payment cards and collecting payment.
collecting Lines in Hoch and the Union were never long; however, for some students, any waiting is an unpleasant task. John Stubert, a St. Louis senior, said that KU should begin telephone fee payment similar to other large universities.
other large groups.
I think all of this waiting around
to pay for classes is ridiculous."
Stu伯特 said. "There is no reason we shouldn't be able to phone in to pay fees and enroll."
Linda Mullens, assistant vice chancellor for student affairs, said that telephone fee payment and enrollment at KU were at least two years away.
"At the moment, we are evaluating and analyzing phase two of our long range plans for fee payment and enrollment," Mullens said. "We are working step by step on this, and telephone service is the phase three of our plans for the future."
No problems were reported during the two days of fee payment.