Priceless Take One Vol. 18 Number 47 An Award Winning Weekly Newspaper Thursday, May 6, 2010 CrazyCrazy KSU Commencement Editorial education” and the Manhattan School problems, the money that they bud- Is May 8, 14 And 15th By Jon A. Brake District Budget went up $20 million geted for last year and this year has By: Katie Mayes The Manhattan School Board has been cut by lower and lower tax of education. over the next five-years, $20 million. KSU News Service * College of Agriculture, 2:15 something in common with the But the Board could not manage the returns. Even the State has come up Riley County Commission and the with a plan to add 1% to the Sales Around 2,900 students are can- p.m., Bramlage Coliseum, with business of the District without more didates for degrees from Kansas Manhattan City Commission. They money so they went to the voter to Tax. Adrian Polansky, executive direc- are all crazy. approve a $97.5 million bond issue. Is there no end to Tax and Spend State University this spring. tor of the Kansas State Farm The School Board is talking The $97.5 million was to be used to by the State, the School District, Commencement ceremonies will Service Agency. about a Sales Tax for the next 10- fix and repair building in the District. Riley County and the City of be Saturday, May 8, on the K-State * College of Human Ecology, years to help them run the schools. The Board could not maintain the Manhattan? at Salina campus, and Friday, May 4:15 p.m., Bramlage Coliseum, The Riley County Commission is schools from year-to-year and needed It is a lot easier to add a few mills 14, and Saturday, May 15, on the with President Schulz. talking about a new Sales Tax to the outrageous amount to make or more Sales Tax to the citizens K-State campus in Manhattan. * College of Engineering, 6:15 replace the sales tax that expires in repairs. And the voter gave it to them. than to do the work of cutting The class of 2010 is the 143rd to 2012. spending. When will the taxpayers p.m., Bramlage Coliseum, with Now, the Board cannot make a $70.5 graduate from K-State since the Douglas G. Smith, senior vice The City of Manhattan has no million budget cover all of the expens- of Manhattan and Riley County idea of what they are doing. It is stand up and kick the bums out? first class in 1867. president of Tetra Tech Inc. and a es. The Board wants to add another Commencement for K-State at nothing for them to add millions Sales Tax so they don’t have to do Our elected officials are Crazy 1971 graduate of K-State with a and millions of debt onto the tax- their job managing the money. and anyone who votes to re-elect Salina will be at 10 a.m. May 8 in bachelor’s in civil engineering. payers. The City knows they must Look at the School Districts them must be Crazy too. the campus’ new Student Life A virtual commencement cere- increase the property tax by 15 Budgets over the past few years: Two School Board members Center. Pat Bosco, K-State’s vice mony for distance students is mills over the next two to three 2004 - 2005: $48,018,967 have been talking to the City Staff president for student life and dean available at http://www.dce.k- years to pay off the Downtown 2005 - 2006: $53,771,518 about the City placing the tax on a of students, will be the commence- state.edu/students/commence- Redevelopment debt. 2006 - 2007: $58,418,452 ballot. The District has all the ment speaker. ment/. In 2004 the School District had a 2007 - 2008: $63,225,453 money they need. If the board mem- Graduate degrees will be award- Budget of $48 million. The same bers feel they cannot manage with Videotapes of the ceremonies 2008 - 2009: $63,522,702 ed Friday, May 14, in ceremonies may be ordered through the K- year the State Supreme Court said 2009 - 2010: $70,531,226 what they have they should not run the State of Kansas must “fully fund for office. on the Manhattan campus. The State Student Union Bookstore at Graduate School ceremony will be The State of Kansas has also has 800-KSU-CATS or 785-532-6583. at 1 p.m. in Bramlage Coliseum, Ceremonies will be shown May and the College of Veterinary 18-20 on K-State TV, channel 8 on USD 383 - 2004-07 Summary of Total Expenditures Medicine ceremony will be at 3:30 campus and on Cox Cable in p.m. in McCain Auditorium. Manhattan and Junction City. Commencement speakers are Playbacks will begin at the follow- April Mason, K-State provost and ing start times unless the preced- senior vice president, for the ing ceremony lasts longer than the Graduate School, and Dan time estimated: Thomson, the Jones Professor of * Tuesday, May 18: Graduate Production Medicine and School, 2 p.m.; and Veterinary Epidemiology and director of the Medicine, 4 p.m. Beef Cattle Institute at K-State, for * Wednesday, May 19: Arts and the College of Veterinary Sciences, 2 p.m.; Architecture, Medicine. Planning and Design, 4 p.m.; and The schedule of ceremonies Education, 6 p.m. May 15 and speakers include: * Thursday, May 20: Business * College of Arts and Sciences, Administration, 2 p.m.; 8:30 a.m., Bramlage Coliseum, Agriculture, 4 p.m.; Human with Provost Mason. Ecology, 8 p.m.; and Engineering, * College of Architecture, 10 p.m. Planning and Design, 10 a.m., * Monday, May 24: Graduate McCain Auditorium, with Ben School, 8 a.m.; and Veterinary Hakimian, a New York City real Medicine, 10 a.m. estate developer who earned a * Tuesday, May 25: Arts and USD 383 - 2008-10 Summary of Total Expenditures bachelor’s in architecture from K- Sciences, 2 p.m.; and Architecture, State in 1967. Planning and Design, 4 p.m. * College of Business * Wednesday, May 26: Administration, 12:30 p.m., Education, 2 p.m.; Business Bramlage Coliseum, with K-State Administration, 4 p.m.; and President Kirk Schulz. Agriculture, 6 p.m. * College of Education, 11 a.m., * Thursday, May 27: Human Bramlage Coliseum, with Diane Ecology, 2 p.m.; and Engineering, DeBacker, Kansas commissioner 4 p.m. Colbert Hills New Club House Dedication By: Rosie Hoefling since March 19, but will be fully Colbert Hills Golf Course will functional after the dedication cer- have a dedication ceremony for its emony, when the bar and grill area new clubhouse at 9 a.m. Saturday, begins serving meals. May 8. The ceremony is free and In addition to the dedication, open to the public. The golf course Haney said that Colbert Hills also “Fearmongers” Were is owned by the Kansas State is celebrating its 10-year anniver- University Golf Course sary. The course opened May 1, Management and Research 2000. Haney said that the course Right About Obamacare Foundation. has accommodated more than The dedication will include pre- 250,000 rounds of golf on its 18- By Michael D. Tanner Medicare Advantage program will lose Congressional Budget Office warns sentations by three guest speakers hold Championship Course, more Cato Institute their coverage under that program and that nearly 4 million Americans, nearly and a ribbon-cutting ceremony. than 50,000 rounds on the Par 3 The ink was barely dry on President be forced back onto traditional three-quarters of them middle-class Guest speakers will include pro- Course, and has hosted more than Barack Obama's signature before the Medicare. workers, will be hit with fines for fail- fessional golfer Jim Colbert, a 800 golf outings since it opened 10 RAND Corp. released a report con- And how many times did President ing to meet the government's mandate- years ago. to buy insurance. Those penalties will member of the PGA’s Champions cluding that, not only would the hard- Obama criticize the United States for Tour, the golf course’s namesake The golf course also has devel- won health care package fail to curb having the highest health care spend- average nearly $1,000 per person in 2016. and a K-State alum; K-State’s oped special golf privilege pro- health insurance premium increases, ing in the world? Well, late last month grams for K-State faculty, staff but the bill itself would drive premiums the government's chief actuary All this, and the health care "reform" John Currie, director of athletics; for young people up as much as 17 per- released his report on the bill, showing law is merely a month old. and Howard Sherwood, board and students. cent. that the bill will actually increase Perhaps this is why nearly 56 per- president of the K-State Golf Colbert Hills has been the home This should not have been a surprise: health care spending by $311 billion cent of American voters now favor Course Management and Research to both the K-State men’s and the Congressional Budget Office had over 10 years. repealing the bill. Foundation. women’s golf programs since it already warned that the plan would do At the same time, the report warned This episode provides a lesson, not The new clubhouse is 13,400 opened. It also has assisted in pro- almost nothing to reduce premium that promised future spending cuts, just for health care reform, but more square feet with 2,000 square feet viding many educational opportu- hikes.