THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.100,NO.72 (USPS 650-640)
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
FRIDAY DEC. 8,1989
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Margin funds could provide state tax relief
By Kate Lee
and Derek Schmidt Kansan staff writers
Financing for the Margin of Excellence is endangered, several Margin supporters said yesterday.
Gov. Mike Hayden yesterday announced several property tax protections would recommend the Legislature a special session that begins today.
Hayden's proposals include expanding "circuit breaker" relief programs by $80 million. The programs would provide direct tax relief to property owners whose taxes have skyrocketed in the wake of property reappraisal.
the same general fund.
Some say that means the Margin.
To finance the circuit breaker, Hayden proposed a mix of money from at least five sources, including the state general fund.
Some say that means the Margin. The Margin of Excellence is the Board of Regents three-year plan to broaden its education institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers.
The Margin is in its second year.
the Margin is in its second year.
"The message that I'm receiving is that the Margin, not only the third year, but the second year, may be in trouble," said Shari Swears, campus director for the Associated Students of Kansas. Swears declined to elaborate.
Frank Ybarra, the governor's deputy press secretary, said in a telephone interview that Hayden was on vacation to education to finance tax relief.
"There's not a single mention of the governor's proposal, Myra sala."
Ybarea said he was not aware of any proposals to divert any Margin money from the current year. He said money for the third year was not specifically targeted for cuts.
But Hayden said last night during an interview with KTKA-TV Channel 49 in Topea that he wanted to balance tax-relief needs with the needs of other programs, including the Margin.
In a statement issued yesterday, Hayden said, "As the Legislature addresses this funding matter, they must strive for reason and fairness and not dismantle programs of education and environmental protection."
Ray Hauke, director of planning and budget for the Regents, said he heard that a source of financing for the current fiscal year
"I have not heard the Regents singled out, though," he said.
"Obviously, it would be an understatement to say that we wouldn't be happy. We would want to know how much was being cut and if it would be restored or would be a permanent reduction."
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, he met yet heread with Hayden and Michael O'Keefe, director of the budget. Hayden did not mention cutting the Margin, and O'Keefe said the administration did not plan to target it for tax relief. Winter said.
Winter said that he was unaware of any serious efforts to divert second-year Margin money, but that the team was a "major, major concern."
"In our new-found zeal to act like we're protecting taxpayers, we threaten to kill programs on which they've been so long, like the Margin," he said.
Winter said he opposed circuit-breaker expansion during the special session, including that proposed by the governor.
"It will negatively impact on general fund programs, including the Margin," he said.
Fire leaves tenants locked out of homes
Kansan staff writer
By Lisa Moss
A fire being investigated as aggravated arson at Meadowbrook Apartments, 15th Street and Crestline Drive, has left residents of Building E homeless for an undetermined period of time.
Maj. William Brubaker of the Lawrence Fire Department said that the Lawrence Police, the KU Police and the Douglas County Sheriff's Department were helping investigate the fire and interview people.
These estimates may be conservative because the value of the 12 apartments and the storage room's contents are not known, he said.
Wednesday night's fire, which was contained to the basement of Build- ing E, caused an estimated $40,000 to residents homeless. Rebuker said.
Brubaker said that it would be two or more weeks until residents would be able to move back into the apartments.
be able to move back into her apartment but was under the impression that moving back would not be possible for several months.
Stokes said that yesterday she went into her apartment to get some belongings and that there was soot on the walls, and everything smelled like smoke.
Stokes' cockatoo was in the apartment at the time of the fire and survived. She said she did not know what had happened but knew it had suffered smoke inhalation.
Residents who did not have a place to stay were accommodated at Travelodge Motel, 801 Iowa /St., last night and Wednesday night. Residents said they did not know if Meadowbrook management would pay for them to stay at the motel tonight.
"My children are feeling distress," Stokes said. "I haven't yet come to grips that this has really happened to me. I am sitting in a hotel room where I have been given some person decided to do this. Lives were not lost, thank God."
Sandra Stella, Lawrence senior,
said she did not know when she would
Kevin Caffrey, Newton senior, said that the damage to his apartment was more extensive than he had expected it to be and that the earliest he and his roommates would be able to move back in was January.
"I am going on to a day-to-day walk in the Meadowbrook is doing a lot for us."
She said she was meeting with the American Red Cross today to discuss four cases.
He said that his apartment looked dingy and that his clothing was smoke damaged.
"Everything smells like it has been hickory smoked." he said.
Senate Minority leader Bob Dole discusses project financing for the University
Patricia G. Brüngersgoethel to the Kansai
Dole predicts competition for financing
By Kate Lee
By Kate Lee and Derek Schmidt Kansan staff writers
Universities likely will have to compete more often to receive federal money for construction and other projects, said U.S. Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole
Dole made the comments yesterday after meeting with KU faculty and administrators during the last day of a two-day visit to Kansas.
"It may be the beginning of more competition," Dole said of a move by Congress to shift $5.2 million for a proposed KU bioscience research center to a more general fund administered by the National Institutes of Health. The University of Kansas now must compete against other universities for the money.
The trend in Congress is to favor general competitions instead of financing for specific projects, Dole said, to reduce the effects of "pork barrel" projects that are obtained through political clout, not merit.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said KU would be competitive.
"The University of Kansas welcomes a competition," he said. "We are confident that we will fare well in any such competition. This area represents a legitimate strength of the University of Kansas, and it has for a number of years."
Possible reductions in defense spending resulting from changes in Eastern Europe could lead to less federal spending for research and development, Dole said.
"I felt that we were being less than properly aggressive in terms of getting money for our Kansas universities," he said. "We found many of the very large schools getting the projects."
Dole, a KU graduate, said Kansas universities traditionally had received a disproportionately low amount of federal money for projects.
"I think they do have something to worry about," he said of research institutions. But he added that research probably would be the last area cut from the defense budget.
Dole said that he was excited when the Berlin Wall came down and that the Eastern European changes opened new economic opportunities for U.S. businesses and created obligations for the United States.
The United States must financially support fledgling democracies in Eastern Europe, he said, but must guard against making those nations dependent on U.S. aid.
"It's mind-boggling," Dole said. "There are new developments every day."
At a Topeka news conference on Wednesday, Dole urged caution in responding to Eastern European reforms
Gunman's note blames women for rampage
See DOLE, p. 6
The Associated Press
MONREAL. The gunman who raged through the University of Montreal's engineering school and killed 14 women, carried a suicide letter to the police when men had spoiled his life and he was taken revenge police said yesterday.
In his rampage Wednesday afternoon, the killer — identified only as "Marc" — also wounded nine women and four men before killing himself.
As he roamed through the six-story engineering bulling, firing a rifle, he shouted, "You're all a bunch of feminists!"
Andre Tessler, director of operations of the Montreal police, told reporters the man had obtained a permit for the rifle.
Jacques Duscheeneau, a Montreal police investigator, said at a news conference that police hoped the killer's .223-caliber Sturm Ruger semiautomatic assault rifle would lead to his identification.
One of the wounded students remained in critical but stable condition yesterday. The rest were out of danger.
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shots were fired
from the assault rifle
The school was crowded on the last day of classes before examinations, when the killer arrived about 3:30 p.m. CST.
Police said he first shot a woman in a second-floor corridor, then entered a room on that floor where a class of 15 students and 10 female students was in session.
"It was just like Rambo. He had at least two ammunition belts on his chest," said engineering student Robert Leclerc, who was in the classroom.
Witnesses said the killer told the class to separate by sex and sent the men into the corridor before opening fire, killing six more women.
City officials discuss the need for noise control
and Dave Wakefield Kansan staff writers
By Stacy Smith
City commissioners may pass a noise ordinance during the semester interim that would make it possible for police officers to arrest or fine people for excessive noise.
On Dec. 18, city commissioners will study the noise ordinance proposed by the Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods. They could act on the
When KU students return from Christmas break, they should check with City Hall before turning up their stereos.
proposal at their Jan. 2 meeting while students are home for the holidays.
"I think that there is a definite possibility," said Mike Wilden, acting city manager. "They won't wait until students come back in mid-January to act on this."
Mayor Bob Schumm and commissioner Bob Walters said they favored some type of noise ordinance.
Commissioner Shirley Martin-Smith said she would prefer that students and neighborhood
"It needs to be a reasonable and credible proposition," Schumm said. "I think we need to have some kind of noise ordinance."
associations reach an agreement. A noise ordinance should be a last resort, she said.
Commissioner Dave Penny said he did not think a noise ordinance was needed in Lawrence.
"I think this thing is mainly aimed at fraternity, sororites and dormitories," Penny said. "I don't know why there is a sudden rush to put an entire group of them. I'm a little suspect the mollyes involved."
Commissioner Mike Rundle could not be reached for comment.
Student leaders said that it would be unfair for
See NOISE, p. 12
Jury finds Miami officer guilty of killing 2 Blacks
Decision does not lead to more violence
The Associated Press
MIAMI — A Hispanic policeman was found guilty of manslaughter yesterday in the deaths of two Black men, and Black leaders praised the just response to the shooting that set off three days of racial violence.
Miami Office William Lozano, 31,
showed no emotion when he heard
the verdict in the Jan. 16 deaths of
motorcyclist Clement Lloyd, 23, and
driver Daniel Carrion, 24. The two counts carry a total maximum
sum of 45 years.
Circuit Judge Joseph Farina deferred adjudication on the jury's findings, an administrative formality to allow a presentencing investigator to remain free on $10,000 bond and had to surrender his passport.
The televised verdict by the six-member, multiethnic jury brought an inner-city community that feared the trial would spark another round of racial unrest.
He said that by midafternoon there had been no reports of violence.
But community leaders praised the presence of two Black jurors and the almost gavel-to-gavel five broadcast coverage of the trial as reassuring the community that the trial would be fair.
"It just shows that our system works if people will give it a chance to work and that there are other ways of impacting the system than through violence," said Willie Sims, a Black community leader who is a member of Dade County's community relations board.
Miami has been racked by racial unrest four times this decade, including riots in 1980 and 1984 sparked by the death of Blacks.
"We were relieved that justice has been served," said George Lubrin, Blanchard's brother-in-law.
"We are very satisfied that the verdict came back gulty on both counts and that the trial itself was handled with great deftness, attorney for the Lloyd family.
Defense attorneys and Lozano's family did not offer comment and left the courtroom quickly, his wife in tears.
Lozano, who remains suspended with full pay, talked about his case later at his attorney's office.
"I was not given a fair trial from the beginning. There was a lot of evidence denied and quashed," he said. "We're going to look for a new appeal based on the circumstances."
Defense attorney Roy Black said, "From the beginning, every major rulling was against us. To even refuse us the right to present witnesses is bizarre. It was critical for the jury to know the motivation of Clement Lloyd and why he didn't want to stop and why he tried to run over this officer. The jury got a false impression of this case."
Prosecutors told Lozano fired unnecessarily at Lloyd, who was fleeing a police car after a traffic violation. Lloyd died of gunshot wounds and Blanchard died of injury due to the resulting crash. Lozano, a native of New York, fired in self-defense when the motor-cycleist tried to run him down.
"The jury returned what we thought was a just verdict. It was a jury that represents all segments of our society," said Assistant State Attorney John Hogan, the lead prosecutor.
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The January riot left one man dead and 11 others wounded. Thirteen buildings were set afire, others were looted and 372 people were arrested.
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