University Daily Kansan
Friday, February 6.1976
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Staff Photo by JAY KOELZER
Exhausted
Robert Smith, visiting professor of theatre from Kalamazoo, Michigan, revisits Lambryn Helen Hedley, Brooklyn, graduate student, during the play "Slow Dance on the Killing Ground." The production is playing at 8 nightly through Feb. 13 in the William Inge Theatre.
Events...
TODAY: The AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF AERONATICS AND ASTRONAUTICS Meeting will be at 3:30 in 2002 Learned.
TONICHT: The KU WOMEN'S SWIM TEAM will have a double nunz mess with Ohlahoma and Oklahoma State in Robinson pool. The KU FOLK DANCE CLUB will have a double nunz mess in Robinson pool.
SATURDAY: LAWRENCE GAY LIBERATION will sponsor a Disco-Boogie at 8 p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
SUNDAY: THE KU ACCOUNTING SOCIETY will provide free income tax assistance from 1. p. to 4.p.m. in the Governor's Room of the Union. The KU WOMEN'S SWIM TEMW will meet Nebraska at 11:30 a.m. in Robinson Pool. The KU FOLK Dance Club will meet at 2 p.m. in 173 Robinson.
MONDAY: James Moeser, dean of the KU School of Fine Arts, will present a program of music at 8 p.m. in the Plymouth Congregational Church in
The BLACK BUSINESS STUDENT COUNCIL will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Ronald Kloss Room of the Business School, professor at Hunter College, for a Forum Room in the Union.
Announcements . . .
Twelve members of TAU SIGMA DANCE ENSEMBLE will perform in Wichita State University's annual Tau Sigma Dance Concert this weekend. The two groups will perform on Friday, March 28, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Wichita State Recreation Center.
The MT. OREAD BICYCLE CLUB will sponsor a 32-mile tour at 1 p.m. Sunday to Lone Star Lake.
JODI S. DEUTSCH, teacher-partner of Padaffia jo, a dance and fiber art studio, will exhibit her work at the Lawrence Public Library during the month of February. Deutsch's work involves stuffing fiber shapes that have been painted, tie-dyed. Weaving pieces and fabric creations will also be included in the show.
Grants and Awards . . .
ROSS E. MCKINNEY, professor of civil engineering, has been named the first engineer in the newly endowed N. T. Veach Professorship in Environmental Engineering.
Although the federal government's largest student aid program has run out of money for grants, 99 per cent of the University of Kansas students promised the loans have received them, Jerry Rogers, director of financial aid, said yesterday.
However, he said the shortage of funds may have made that one percent who haven't received the funds more vulnerable.
"All we can tell them to is hang in there," Rogers said. "We can't speculate what will happen if the Congress doesn't appropriate additional funds, but the director of the regional office of education said he thinks the council will approve an additional objection."
Shortage hits student aid
Educational Opportunity Grant program in the U.S. Office of Education, said this week that the tight-money economy and the large enrollments last fall accounted for the net demands on grant funds this year. The university's inquiries in the previous two years, he said.
Personalized license plates bearing letters instead of numbers are owned by 71 people in Douglass County, Tom Wilcox, an adviser for Douglas County, said Wednesday.
Peter K. Voigt, head of the Basic
Voigt said the program had only $220 to spend on grants this year, but expect expended funds in the present time, about 800 colleges and post-secondary schools haven't received grants for their students and will receive one per cent of their requested amounts, he said.
License plates, formerly rows of more numbers, now can have a small variety of other uses. They can express your sentiments, give your name, advertise your business or cheer the University of Kansas Jawhaves on to victory.
Anyone living in Douglas County can get a personalized license plate on the date of renewal or up to 60 days before, Betty Leslie, deputy county treasurer, said.
Car plates get personal
Congress will either have to allow the program to draw an advance of $160 million.
By state law, the licenses can't be put on trucks or motorcycles.
A $2 reservation fee must be paid when the plates are ordered, Leslie said. This fee is collected by a 10% charge on the total bill.
which range from $10 to $20, depending on the weight of the vehicle.
There can't be more than six letters on the plate, Leslie said.
A July 1 federal law prohibits the state and county from releasing a list of persons with such plates, Leroy Beyers, head of titles and registrations for Kansas, said Tuesday.
Most people have their names, nicknames or the names of their businesses put on their plates. Wilcox said. Almost anything can be printed.
"It cannot be obscene." Leslie said.
Gary Skeet, KU police officer, said he hadn't encountered many personalized victims.
He said he hadn't any occasion when he had to memorize such a plate but thought they would be easier to remember than regular, numbered plates.
Ronald Fields, 28, who has written both a book and a play about his famous grandfather, will be a guest at a showing of vintage W.C. Fields films, and will give the comic actor, Ann Evans, director of the Lawrence Arts Center said Wednesday.
Rogers said that the University had applied for additional funds and that some students had received checks despite the lack of funds.
on next year's appropriation or pass a supplemental appropriation, Volgt said. If neither happens, institutions would be asked to reduce every award by 20 per cent.
The program, "A W. C. Fields Film Festival," is a benefit for the Lawrence Arts Center and is cosponsored by the center and SUA. Tickets cost $2 and are available at the arts center, 9th and Vermont, and at the SUA office.
There will be shows at 3 and 7 p.m. Sunday in Woodford Auditorium, Evans said. The films will be "The Golf Specialists," "Pool Sharks," "The Dentist," "The Barber Shop" and a surprise film.
Awards at KU totaled $338,388 last semester, Rogers said. A need for $330,000 was predicted for this semester to cover grants for returning students. However, Rogers said that twice the number of new students predicted had actually shown up, and the grants requested for this semester. Grants could be $13,000 for the school year. Rogers said.
Schools were asked to prescript the number of students that would be awarded grants, Rogers said. Last semester, the number of KU students who actually picked up grant funds was smaller than the number predicted. This is because the number was twice the size of the prediction.
W.C. Fields, the great comedian, died in
St. Michael's his grandson will be in Lawrence
School.
"This is really ironic," Rogers said. "KU is one of the last schools to enroll for spring and we're not having that great a problem. The problem is that the funds seem to be a bottomless pit when it is possible to borrow against the next year's allocation."
Fields will come with stories about his grandfather, along with memorabilia such as the top hat and cane Fields wore in most of his films. Evans said.
The problem with the estimates might be alleviated some by unclaimed checks, be said, and these would be redeposited in the grant fund to be used later.
The comedian's grandson is the author of the biography, "W.C. Fields by Himself," now in its ninth printing, which was a besteller in 1973.
Fields, who wrote a play in 1974 called *C. Fields; 80 Pro.* "plans a sequel to his story," he writes.
Next year, Rogers said, the program will probably operate on a reduced schedule as it has in the past two years when the program had surpasses. Instead of a maximum of $1,038 for the neediest students, the maximum will be considerably lower. He said he didn't know what that figure would be.
Grandson at Fields festival
Fields has appeared on numerous television and radio shows since he became a television producer.
His career goals, Fields has said, include "waiting for someone else in my family to become famous so I can continue the work of writing about my notorious relatives."
Drinking age bill before Senate
The age restriction for consuming cereal malt beverages in Kansas will change from 18 to 21 years if a Kansas Senate bill in effect last week is passed by the legislature.
State Sen. Wayne Zimmerman, R-Olathe,
said yesterday that some people in Olathe,
"who apparently had problems with some
beer," had asked for the bill's introduction.
The bill, No. 785, is no longer being considered by the Senate's Federal and State Affairs Committee.
Zimmerman wouldn't disclare the names of his constituents who requested the bill.
"One of our procedures is to do these things by request." he said.
Such requests usually come from petitions, individuals or general feeling, he said, and in this case several persons requested the introduction.
The proposed bill would amend Kanass
Statute No. 41-2704, he said, and the only
chief reason for this is that the state
The section of the statute that would be amended to raise the drinking age to 21 was passed in January 1976.
of age shall be permitted to buy or drink any of such beverages or about said place of
Any person under eighteen (18) years of age who purchases or attempts to purchase any cereal malt beverages in any licensed place of business shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as provided by law."
State Sen. Edward Kelly, R-Leaeworth and chairman of the Federal and State Affairs Committee, said the bill's hearing was on Monday at 8 a.m. in Room 629 of the Senate Chambers.
Reilly avoided comment on the bill before the hearing.
He did say, however, that the hearing would be open to the public.
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