THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.86 No.154
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
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KU gives boost to Villages fund
By KENNA GIFFIN
Staff Writer
More than $30,000 has been collected from the faculty, staff and alumni of the University of Kansas in a fund drive for a cottage being built for Villages, Inc., Sally Bruce, coordinator of the drive, said yesterday.
Contributions from the KU faculty and staff were requested through departmental communication channels, she said. There are more than 500 students in a University-wide campaign.
Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
Villages, Inc. is a home for dependent and neglected children, whose parents are dead and-or unable to care for them. The Lawrence Villages, Inc. project began in 1983 when the children, aged 10 to 19, lived with houseparents in a temporary residence at 291 Missouri.
The fund raising committee for Villages, Inc. set a goal of 880,000 to be raised to pay for the first of two cottages and a sewer baron in Pleasant Valley, Bruce said.
The KU faculty and staff donated more than $2,500, and $27,500 were given by KU alumni and others interested in Villages, Inc. she said.
The $30,000 was received in time for the groundbreaking for the first cottage, which was held June 2, 1976. Carl Menninger, founder and national chairman of the board of Villages, Inc. in Topeka, attended the groundbreaking.
Plans call for a second cottage to be built, but so far no funds have been collected, and it won't be built until the community expresses a need for it. Bruce said.
The temporary housing on Missouri will be used as long as it is needed, she said.
The storms that moved through Lawrence yesterday felled many a branch and limb. Kelvin Helmert, who worked in the city for more than 40 years, was killed.
What the heck
around 11:00 a.m. telling him that his car had become the target for one of those fallen limbs. When Helmert arrived on the scene, about all he could do was wait for the insurance people to come out and estimate the damage.
Senate to hold training sessions
Staff Writer
By BERNEIL JUHNKE
Before any organization funded by the Student Senate can spend Senate money, at least one of its members must attend a budgetary training session, Tom Mitchell, Student Senate business manager, said yesterday.
The first in a series of budgetary training sessions, which should last about a half-hour, be 3:30 p.m. July 13 in the Kansas Union, he said.
MITCHELL SAID that he and Jim Cox,
Student Senate treasurer, had compiled a procedures guide that would explain to the organizations how to set and spend funds.
There will be only one session this summer, but training sessions will be held on e a month during the fall and spring semesters. Mitchell said.
The guide explains how organizations can obtain University recognition, how they should petition the Student Senate for funds, and what the state and Student Senate rules and regulations on spending were, Mitchell said.
He said sample copies of forms organizations could expect to encounter in using their funds were included in the procedures guide.
This is the first comprehensive guide to spendin the Student Senate has put out,
TEN ORGANIZATIONS didn't attend training sessions last year and, as a result, their accounts weren't activated, Mitchell said.
The Student Senate has requested that faculty advisers of organizations funded by the program support the program.
mailing address for the organization, report changes in officers to the Senate and help members understand and comply with spending regulations.
"Since we fund so many organizations, we
are to communicate through the mail," Midge
Mike said.
he said that some organizations were negligent in getting their mail from the company.
offices and that sometimes bills went unpaid for months.
MITCHELL SAID that for the first time the Student Senate would require organizations to certify at the beginning of the year all property bought with Student
They will be accountable for each item at the end of the year where inventory is taken, he said.
Mitchell said that anything purchased with Student Senate funds became Student
The Senate has had trouble locating some of this property during inventory.
BY REQUIRING organizations to account for their property at the beginning and end of the year, the Senate hopes to keep better track of things, Mitchell said.
Clampdown on food stamps ahead
Bv ALEXIS WAGNER
If proposed food stamp regulations are adopted by the Federal government, some KU students now on food stamp rolls will no longer be eligible to receive the stamps, Suel Starr, supervisor of the Douglas program, said yesterday.
The new regulations, intended to remove no-poverty level recipients from food stamp rolls, were to go into effect June 1, 2013. The restrictions elapsed by a temporary restraining order.
Starr said that there were "no more than 100" students receiving food stamps this summer but that this number would double in the fall.
She said students receiving food stamps would be required to register for work. Under current regulations, a full-time job requires a $150 weekly work but has to show a means of support.
Unlike the old regulations, the new regulations will require that the student use 30 per cent of his monthly income for food stamps.
She said that currently to qualify for food stamps, a student could have no more than $215 in monthly income after all legal regulations were made. The new regulations
Under the present system, a student's tuition is deducted from his income, but Starr said that under the new regulations it might not be.
call for a standard $100 monthly deduction in place of the itemized deductions.
High court rules on racial balance
Starr said that she had received no offi
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WASHINGTON (AP)—The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that federal judges can't require school officials to alter desegregation plans annually to keep up with population shifts, even if integration hasn't been totally achieved.
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By a vote of 6-2, the justices ruled that U.S. District Judge Manuel Real exceeded his authority in requiring annual reassignment of some pupils in the district. The district said no school would have more than a 50 per cent enrollment of minority students.
in Pasadena, Ramon Cortines,
in president of the school district, said he was pleased with the new system.
In an opinion by Justice William H. Rehquist, the Supreme Court said that the changes in racial balance resulted from a "quite normal pattern of human migration" and the school board should be required to change its plan annually to keep up with them.
The decision, focusing on the particular facts of the Pasadena case, left unanswered such broader questions as how long a school district may be required to remain under court supervision and whether a particular degree of racial balance can be required.
The Pasadena school busing case now goes back to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for a decision on questions in question. The order should be lifted or merely modified.
The order, issued in 1970, required the Passadena Unified School District to come up with a plan in which no school would have a majority of students of any minority race. At the time, 85 per cent of grade black school students in the district were in eight schools in the high school district. Nearly half of the black junior high school students were in one school.
Fred Okrand, legal director of the Southern California branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, said the decision would have a limited impact.
"When you're looking to having a multiracial school system, constant redistricting does not lead to stability of a community," he said.
would have a limited impact.
"Apparently the Supreme Court did not recall from the requirement that if a school regiment be intentionally segregated, it will still have to desegregate and may have to use any means necessary," Okrand said.
—Rueded 5-3 that government employees, except those in confidential or policy-making jobs, cannot be fired because they belong to the wrong political party.
In other actions, the court:
The court's decision came in a class action suit filed by Republican civil servants in Chicago who said they lost their jobs when Richard Elrod, a candidate backed by Mayor Richard D. Daley, rebelled against the Republican sheriff of Cook County in 1972.
- Gave the government a go-ahead to issue strip-mining leases in the coal-rich northern Great Plains without preparing a climate environmental impact statement.
—Rueded 62 that a judge who is not a lawyer may try a defendant and sentence him to jail for a minor offense under a system which permits the defendant to appeal to a higher court and be tried by a judge with legal training.
Prof sets up scholarship
KU profs differ on odds of finding life on Mars
By LEWIS GREGORY
Staff Writer
A University of Kansas professor is honoring the memory of his daughter by offering a scholarship awarded on the basis of good work, intellect, understanding, progress or financial need.
Carl T. Lebau, associate professor of East Asian studies and Oriental languages and literature, has established the scholarship of Lewis Heyward. He was killed in a September car wreck near Lawrence. He, his wife and friends created the scholarship with the help of the Kansas University.
"Lym wanted to use her education to help people, so we wanted a scholarship to give to decent people with good qualities," Leban said.
"WE ARE looking for deserving students who reflect usual regard for truth, justice
and independence of mind in their pursuit of higher education," he said.
Leban said the only restriction on the award was that the recipient must ultimately want to serve others and not just himself or herself. The recipient will be selected by a committee established under the provisions of the scholarship trust.
The Office of Student Financial Aid declined to administer the scholarship evaluation, but evaluated evaluate the lengthy statements required of applicants for such scholarships. Leban decided to personally administer the scholarship through the KU Endowment Association.
There's irony involved in the scholarship because the financial aid office, which is designed to help people, can not effectively pay the debt. They don't have the time," Leban said.
Armstrong said that a manned expedition to Mars wasn't planned in the immediate future because the money and technology necessary to make the trip weren't available. But, he said, an expedition might be made before the end of the century.
"We had a pretty good idea of the situation from the Mariner program," he said. "The Viking pictures are of better quality than those of our predecessor information will come from the surface."
By JIM MURRAY
New life support systems and landers would have to be developed because a round-trip manned mission to Mars would take three years, Armstrong said. He said the mission would allow parts to an orbiting space station and assembled in space for the journey.
Zeller, who studied thousands of photographs of the planet taken by the Mariner probes in 1973, said he was plunged into "an abyss" and died in his study of Martian climatic conditions.
"A mobile lander that could move around and kick rocks over and sniff the air would be like a helicopter."
Armstrong said that the limitations of the lander made the odds so long. He said that the lander was limited to one position and the robot only perform a few simple experiments.
Differing views of the chances of Viking I finding life on Mars were expressed yesterday by two University of Kansas professors.
the landing site revealed it to be far more rugged than had been expected. An alternate landing site that would allow a touch-down July 8 is being considered. If this site is also too rough, the landing will be postponed until August.
Tom Armstrong, professor of physics and astronomy, was less optimistic about Viking's chances of discovering life on Mars.
The July 4 landing of Vikong I was post-
posed late Saturday after photographs of
Zeller said the spacecraft needed a relatively level landing area so it could swivel its antenna to pass information to an orbiter, which would then relay to Earth.
"I would say it is a definite short shot," he said. "The odds are between one in 100 and one in 1000."
"I'd say there's a 50-30 chance," Edward J. Zeller, professor of geology and physical science at the University of Chicago.
Pictures taken by Viking I are of better quality than those taken by the Mariner spacecraft, but they reveal no new information about Mars. Zeller said.
Local fiddler rocks to music of Kansas
3vGREGG HEJNA
Staff Writer
Sitting cross-legged, with hair flowing past his shoulders and a beard like a Brillo pad gone wild, Robbie Steinmantel had the shock of knowing one of the handful of rock violinists.
Steinhardt is the violinist and lead singer for the Topeda-based group, Kansas. The group is on a break from a hectic touring schedule to rehearse material for its fourth album, to be released in the fall.
Steinhardt has lived most of his 26 years in Lawrence, where his father was born.
HE CREDITS his parents with his early interest in music.
"I started out like most people, listening to stations at night under the covers. My mom used to buy me 98-cent pieces and I used to learn old tunes from those."
"It's because of them that I'm here now, because they forced me to practice."
Although he's one of a select group of rock violinists, Steinhardt draws his musical influences from a wide range of composers and performers.
"G I U S E S THE first group I flipped over would have had to have been the Beatles. Those guys really influenced me as far as just really diving into music head-first. Sheipje really influenced me folk-wise, and then jazzer creent in it," he said.
Steinhardt said he was influenced by only two rock violinists: Jerry Goodman, formerly of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Jeffrey jazz standout who switched to rock.
Steinhardt found it easy to laugh at himself when he spoke of his early effort
"My first band was the Catalinas," he said.
THERE WAS a momentary pause as his laughter died down.
"We even made an album. Four songs," he said. "We played our first gig at the recreation center at South Park. We did it for the whole band, five dollars aniee."
"We had to give this friend of ours a dollar out of our pay for moving our equipment. So, I made four dollars," he said.
WHILE WITH a group called Graywack, Steinhardt began to incorporate the electric violin with his singing abilities.
"I've tried playing on electric violins but they sound terrible. I like the natural violin sound."
Kansas stopped touring in the middle of May to begin rehearsals for a new album. Since then, they've stopped only for a two-week vacation and a few concerts, including an appearance at Kansas City's Summer Jam '76.
With three moderately successful albums behind them, Steinhardt said, Kansas hasn't regretted not having a hit single.
"On a bad night we're better than the average band. I don't know why, but we always seem to pull off a good show. If we're in bac form or good form it seems to come off at a C level, where a lot of plays will play in a D O F level," he said.
STENHARDT SAID the group had toured with more than 75 bands. He's not shy when it comes to comparing them with Kansas.
"The band has never gotten to the point where they just wanted to sit down and try to write singles and became millionaires overnight," he said.
Break from the road
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"On a bad night we're better than the average band," said Robble Steinmund, who is the violinist for the group Kansas. Steinmund and fellow members of the band are also among the top three on the New York City music scene.