University Daily Kansan / Thursday, December 8, 1988
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Margin in need of all-out effort legislator says
By Barbara Joseph Kansan staff writer
With all the programs competing for state financing, an all-out effort is needed to get second year financing for the margin of Excellence. State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said yesterday.
"Most of us didn't realize the extent to which we've been reliant on general fee funds and hospital fee revenue for passing last year's Margin," Branson told more than 50 people who attended the Ecumenical Christian Ministries' last weekly luncheon forum of the semester. The forum was on educational issues to be addressed by the 1989 Legislature.
"There are going to be very significant increases in demands from the state general government." Branson said. "Things could change during the legislative session; funds could surface, but it's going to be a struggle."
For the second year of Margin financing, the Board of Regents will ask for about $16 million. Added to regular budget increases, the Regents are asking for about $45 million in increases.
According to a booklet published by the Kansas Board of Regents, the Regents hope to fund the Margin with interest and a general fund revenue than last year.
About $440 million from the state's tax windfall could be added into the general fund, Branson said. The windfall is extra revenue created by the state's taxes. But demands upon the windfall could total more than $400 million.
Competing with the Margin are public school financing, community colleges, classified employees' raises, state employees' health insurance, mental illness programs and facilities, a water plan, a highway plan, a medical indigence program and prisons. Plus, the governor has indicated he wants to return about $41 million from the windfall to middle income taxpayers and to end up with a balance of $135 million
Competition against the Margin also could come from the proposed admission of Washburn University in connection with the Regents system. Branson said.
Last legislative session. Gov. Mike Hayden pushed a bill that included Washburn, the Margin and an increase in state aid for community
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Most of us didn't realize the extent to which we've been reliant on general fee funds and hospital fee revenue for passing last year's Margin. There are going to be very significant increases in demands from the state general fund. Things could change during the legislative session; funds could surface, but it's going to be a struggle."
Jessie Branson State Representative
colleges. The bill made it through the Senate but failed to pass the House.
Branson said the governor again alluded to this package a month ago, indicating it would be an issue in the plan. He also planned the plan held the Margin hostage.
"The Shawnee delegation, at least the Democraeus, supported the Margin and was disappointed when we from the Regents districts didn't return the favor (by supporting the bill)." Branson said. "They warned me not to pressure them for the 1989 session, and they have the governor on their side."
Branson said Douglas County Democrats must persuade other Democrats to make the Margin a top priority, and they have the majority in both houses.
Audience members questioned Branson further on public school financing, reapportionment, Washburn, prisons and the Margin.
"It doesn't sound very hopeful for it," said David Wakefield. Overland Park senior, after the speech. "There hasn't been the big hype on campus this year. It if you fail it will hurt KU's standup in the nation."
Branson said she was not trying to paint a picture of gloom and doom.
"It just means everybody has got to pitch in and work harder than last year because the Margin is absolutely essential to the University," she said.
It's about time for dinner at Stephenson Hall, but three of the hall's residents will be drinking only water or milk for the third meal of the day.
Students fast to protest apartheid
By Deb Gruver
Kanean staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Three-KU students began a fast Saturday night to protest South Africa's system of apartheid. Eric Angevine, Lawrence sophomore, Ian McAdams, Amarillo, Texas, sophomore, and Edo Vandevelde, Enscheme, Netherlands, freshman, will eat their first meal of the week tomorrow night.
Angoveve said the fast was a spur of the moment idea to show their anger with racist urpising.
"A friend of mine is fasting for the homeless," Armeine said. "I just thought there was some thing I could do."
Their main goal is to educate people about South Africa's government. Apartheid is the government-enforced system of racial segregation officially established in 1948.
"People shouldn't, ignore (apartheid) just because protesting isn't the thing to do." Angwenie
All three said they always had been bothered by racist acts.
McAdams said that he had grown up with a liberal family.
"My grandfather worked on a coalition against apartheid," he said. "Our purpose is to stir up emotions."
Vandeverle said that he was not confronted by racism as much as the others because it wasn't an issue he had dealt with.
"The Amnesty International in Holland wrote to St. George's political prisoners, he said, "I supported that."
The three said that they were encouraged by the tae and were surprised that they did not feel too well.
“It’s just like having a cold — you can ignore it
after awhile," Angevine said.
By yesterday, news of the fast had spread around the hall, and they had encountered some negative feedback from other residents.
"People have said to me, 'You're crazy.' "
Vandexley said
Angevine and McAdams said that they had gotten some strange lookers other students, and the staff, all pledged by the group.
"Everyone says 'Hey, it's time for dinner.'" McAdams said. "I had to cook dinner Sunday, and I just kind of looked the other way."
Jeb Burdett, a hall resident, said that apartheid was a wrong, but that he believed the changes in South Africa were positive.
“There's something very wrong in South Africa,” Burdett said. “You can't say tomorrow that there's going to be equality It has to be a gradual thing. The international pressure is very great.”
Putting down roots
Allen Mitchell and Clarence Rayton, facilities and operations employees, lower a blue spruce into the ground behind Stauffer-Flint Hall. The tree was one of several planted yesterday as part of a landscaping project.
KANU's Christmas show features music, skits
Kansan staff writer
One of KANU's most popular live programs will have a Christmastime theme reminiscent of the song "Gone Baby Gone."
By M. Meredith Relph
Rachel Hunter's "Goodtime Radio Revue," a bimonthly live program, will be broadcast at 8 p.m. Dec. 17 from Liberty Hall, 642 Massau Avenue, in St. Louis, is invited to participate in the broadcast.
Hunter, assistant program director at KANU- FM 91.5, has produced the Revue since its inception in January 1987 and is also the author of over 460 people regularly attended each show
This year's Christmas Revue features the return of the Topeca Festival Singers, a 37-member professional chorus. The group appeared on the first Christmas show last year. They will sing a selection of traditional holiday songs.
The Newgrange Ensemble is also part of the show and will play a selection of U.S. and Celtic music.
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I lost concerts people go to are only one type of music. I wanted something where people could hear groups they might not ordinarily hear.'
Rachel Hunter
assistant program director at KANU-FM 91.5
musicians and will make the Christmas Revue one of its last performances.
The guests will be joined by Bluestem, the house band that plays at each broadcast of the radio.
The Lawrence Mandolin and Guitar Ensemble, which has played in the Lawrence area since the late 1970s and has been a part of the ensemble before, will be back for the holiday Reve.
"In terms of the audience that comes to the
show, it's very popular," Hunter said. "It often sells out. Last year's show was packed."
Hunter attributed the popularity of the program to its format, in which Lawrence-area actors perform music and comedy sketches to encourage participation from the audience.
The actors who perform the skits are members of the Imagination Workshop. The troupe will be visiting here in July.
Debi Gilley, public information director at KANU, said the imagination Workshop, which began five years ago, tried doing a few live shows, which proved to be popular. When the Goodtime Radio Revue was developed two years ago, it also became a live show.
Darrell Brodog, program director at KANU, developed the Imagination Workshop and devises the sound effects for the skits done by the group. "I have always such," a serial comedy, is also a regular feature.
Gilley said the live programs were produced only six times each year to maintain interest in the program.
a live show.
“We have a whole crew of engineers that “wave it together. Everyone has a part to do. It would be very difficult to do them more often and still work with our other work at the station.” Gilley said.
Hunter said her idea for the show arose from a desire to give exposure to local musicians. The shows feature music ranging from classical and jazz to gospel and bluegrass.
"Most concert people go to are only one type of music," Hunter said. "I wanted something where people could hear groups they might not ordinarily hear."
Hunter said that she tried to get a good mix of musical styles on each program.
"The show brings a lot of music to KANU that we don't usually broadcast," she said.
Tickets for the Goodtime Radio Revue Christmas Show are $4 for adults and $1.50 for children. They are available at CATS ticket outlets, including Liberty Hall, or at the door.
The program will be heard on KANU-FM 91.5 in Lawrence
By Craig Welch Kansan staff writer
Student Senate is biased against graduate students, a graduate student senator said at last night's meeting.
"There is a consensus among graduate students who are present that this body is biased against graduate students." Muir said.
James Muir, graduate senator,
said graduate students were upset
because they believed undergradu-
age students were insensitive to
them.
Graduate students objected to two actions last night.
Jeff Morris, Nunemaker senator,
proposed an amendment to a parking
resolution that said graduate students,
staff and faculty supported a
student undergraduates on the Student Senate Parking Board
Advisory Committee.
But Muir said he did not think the report represented the opinion of his constituents and resented Senate's attempt to include graduate support. He said that graduate students had the right to own report but that because it was important to the public, he would not recite any major differences between the two.
In response to the proposed amendment, Muir and the other graduate senators in attendance abstained from voting on the resolution.
Graduate senates became upset earlier in the meeting when Senate rejected 21-15 a bill proposing supplemental allocation of $3,900 to the Graduate Student Council. The bill requested $1,800 to cover the increased cost of the graduate newspaper and $1,500 for a speaker's fund.
Many senators said Graduate Student Council shouldn't receive supplemental money because it already received financing every two years through the Senate's revenue code hearings.
Senate's next meeting will be Jan 26.
In other business, Senate:
- passed a $3,800 bill to help finance a visit to the University of Kansas by Alvin Poussaint, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School and a social activist.
- **killed a motion to reconsider an**
$11,500 bill, passed last week, to
finance a visit by Gary Hart to KU.
Hart is scheduled to speak Jan 31.
- passed a $25 bill to help finance a newsletter, audiovisuals and publicity for the Study Abroad Club.
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Thane Thompson Tony Young
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