THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol. 88, No. 112
Wednesday March 22,1978
Lawrence, Kansas
Harper reaffirms funding position
Staff Writer
By MARY HOENK
If the women's athletic department has to look beyond the Kansas Legislature for funding, the Student Senate will stand behind its decision not to fund the program, Mike Harper, student body president, said yesterday.
The version of the bill that is to appear on the Kansas Senate floor later this week is a recommendation by the Senate Ways and Means Committee that would cut KU's revenue by an percent increase of $80 for women's attire to a 14 percent increase of $2.233.
the increase will be based on a $157,346 block budget allocation received by the women's athletic department from the state for fiscal 1978. The University's request was to raise funds by the SBJ Senate to stop funding women's athletics beginning in fiscal 1979.
HARPER SAID that the Student Senate had made an agreement with the University that the Student Senate would fund the women's athletics, and would be responsible for women's athletics.
"The Senate is in a precarious position because it has also committed itself to a
capital improvement program and a legal services program," he said.
However, Harper said that if the Student Senate were forced to help provide funds for women's athletics, there would not be much difference because an increase in the student activity fee.
"An increase in the activity fees tacks on to tuition and could be detrimental to enrolment," Harper said. "We'll attempt to enhance that and that it doesn't have to happen."
But, Harper said that he would not eliminate the possibility of amending the bill on the Senate floor to comply to the Senate's recommendations—commended by the Senate sub-committee.
He said there seemed to be a strong misconception among some members of the Senate Ways and Means Committee that all women had to dumping women's athletics on the state.
"The vote of the sub-committee doesn't reflect a lack of information," he said. "I believe we have an opportunity."
See WOMEN page nine
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PLO scorns cease-fire
TEL AVIV—Israel's declaration of a cease-fire yesterday has been called "not enough" by the Palestine Liberation Organization, which is calling for an unconditional withdrawal of all Israeli troops from southern Lebanon. See story page two.
Carter. Begin open talks
WASHINGTON-President Jimmy Carter opened talks with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem begin yesterday by pleading U.S. support to Israel but warned that prospects for a Mideast settlement had been "clouded over." See story page two.
Debts could end strike
WASHINGTON - Interviews with more than 100 United Mine Workers leaders have shown that because of depleted finances coal miners might accept the offer to work for the company.
Weather . . .
Springtime showers are headed for Lawrence as today's skies turn cloudy and temperatures drop.
Today's high temperature should be in the mid-60s, falling to the 30s overnight and rising only to the mid-40s tomorrow. Winds will switch from southwesterly to northherly, bringing clouds and moisture. There is a 30 percent chance for rain tomorrow.
Locally...
Leo the lion fish has made it big, but how he did it is a puzzle to his owner. Despite Leo's determination to devour his fuzzy friends in the aquarium, a local business decided to take his picture and use it as a marine jigsaw puzzle.
See story page 13.
in the sun for both humans and non-humans. With the coming of warm spring weather, more students are staring outside throughout the campus to relax between class periods.
Sunsteps
more students are staying outside throughout the campus to relax between class periods.
Revision slated for affairs offices
By NANCY DRESSLER
Staff Writer
A proposed tuition increase at the University of Kansas School of Medicine has prompted a group of medical students to order to investigate the legality of the increase.
Approved by the Kansas Board of Regents last week, the increase would raise yearly tuition for state residents in the medical school's four-year program from $1,125 to $1,375.
Students in the three-year program would pay tuition of $4,000, an increase of $2,500.
Out-of-state students in the two programs will be issued a rate, or $8,000 and $8,000 respectively.
In increased tuition was planned as part of a bill the legislature is considering. If passed, the proposal would encourage doctors to practice in Kansas by waiving tuition and paying students a $500 stipend to practice in medically underserved areas.
Sharon Prokasha, president of the assembly, said yesterday that medical workers were sick.
The group, which has hired a Kansas City, Kan., lawyer, is the Medical Student Assembly. It represents approximately 400 students now enrolled at the Med Center.
rights regarding the increase in tuition, which will allow all triple student fees.
*'STUDENTS WANT to see if the fees scheduled we were given when we enrolled are correct.*
The schedule says that "fees for programs offered at the University of Kansas College of Health Sciences and Medicine" change with Board of Regents approval.
Prohaska said the students questioned whether the amount of the increase was too high.
"Students want to know their rights as students. We've hired a lawyer and we're just investigating to see if we have a case," Prohaska said.
Kay Saving, a representative of this year's graduating class on the assembly, said no action has been taken yet, but that the university has been approved Monday to hire the lawyer.
Saving said a vote of the 35-member assembly, made up of student representatives from each class at the Med Center, before any funds could be appropriated.
"THE ASSEMBLY had voted several months ago to contact a lawyer. We want the truth," Ms. Duncan said.
we were accepted as medical students and also the bill now before the legislature to pay them.
The possibility of the assembly taking its issues to court is not being considered now,
"It's up in the air at this point." Saving said, "No state university has yet to have a court case (in the area of tuition increases)."
Saving said she thought a similar effort by students to contest a tuition increase had occurred last year at George Washington University and D.C. The students lost their case, she said.
Students' feelings about the Regents' tuition increase were not considered, Saving said, and the increase appears to be related to the tuition waiver bill, now awaiting by the Kansas House before going to Gov. Robert F. Bennett for his signature.
"THE INCREASE seems to coincide with the bill. We've been told these are not related but as far as the time sequence goes, it appears they are." Saving said.
"The increase has already passed Who's to say what will happen if the (fee waiver) is approved?"
However, the executive officer for the
Regents, John Conard, said the Regents thought the proposed increase was not an unfair level when considered along with the high schoolships available to medical students.
"The Regents realize it's a large jump. But with opportunities for aid and in view of the high earnings of young doctors, the Regents think 10000 was not unreasonable." Conard said
Conard said legislators had met with medical students in Kansas City to discuss scholarships and tuition increases before the state took action. Conard said students who agree to practice in the state.
"THIS IS A STEP to try to let medical agents put a bit more to their fare share of the costs."
However, Conard said it was perfectly right for the students to contact a lawyer in New York.
people. Basil Norris, left, quit L.A. City College and his job at the Tribal American as an aid teaching Indians who want to get their G.E.D. His fellow walker, Joe Basuro, also quit school to go on the walk. See story, other pictures in WEEDAKY, page six.
Prohasks said the assembly was working on a position paper to present the feelings of medical students regarding the tuition increase and fee waiver bill.
The paper might be released next week, she said.
Staff Photo by ELI REICHMAN
"We're purposefully trying not to antagonize
Probahaa. Probahaa said. We just want to
show how we do."
Legality of fees increase studied
Bv BRIAN SETTLE
Staff Writer
Changes in the structure and organization of the offices of Student Affairs will soon be made. Don Alderson, dean of men, said yesterday.
But neither Alderson nor David Amber, vice chancellor for student affairs, would state specifically what the changes were or when they would take place.
"There will be reorganization," Alderson
Up against the wall
Two members of The Longest Walk, an Indian protest march from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., rest in a parish in Montrose, Colorado. The walk is to protest a number of bills that are now in Congress and that they feel would wipe out the Indian
said, "and I am confident that we (the office of the dean) will be involved.
"However, I honestly don't know what the final blueprint will be or when it will be."
Ambler yesterday acknowledged that speculation the offices of the dean of men and the dean of women would be combined in the universities and the departments of student affairs.
HOWEVER, HE said that any announcements were pure speculation.
"I am consulting with people about changes in the whole division, which would include the dean of men and the dean of any women who wish to single out any one department," he said.
A spokesman from the office of the dean of women said yesterday that the departments would be combined but said a decision on how to combine them had not been reached.
The office of student affairs comprises 11 offices, including the offices of the dean of men, the dean of women, the housing office and the office of the dean of admissions and
Ambler said the changes would be made before the new fiscal year, which begins
July 1. That way, he said, it would be easier to budget the changes and would give the offices time to work out any problems in the changes before the beginning of the fall
The changes will be the culmination of the work of several task forces which Ambler assigned last spring to study the goals and directions of the office of student affairs.
ON JAN. 20, Ambler sent a confidential memo to heads of the departments of student affairs asking for responses to the complaint and structure of the office of student affairs.
"Anytime you get someone with his (Am伯尔's) experience and training, you would expect him to make changes to better meet his goals," he said.
Alderson termed the changes logical.
Ambir listed several factors that were holding back the announcement of the changes in the Legislature, Legislature, consultation with people affected by the changes, making sure the changes should be made and making sure the announcement of the changes is completed.
"WE'RE PROBABLY moving slower
than we want, but at the same time we don't want to move too fast," he said.
The changes will all be made at the same time out of necessity, he said.
"It would be difficult to address one without another," he said. "Some will take longer than others, some may need added effort; most, they will all be started at the same time."
Ambler emphasized that any changes would not involve firing any current em-
He said he thought the most important considerations for changes would be in areas where student affair departments work together to provide student services.
He listed career advising as an example. Several student affairs departments are involved in advising, he said, but the offices have no way to coordinate between these units.
Other areas that need improvement, he said, include support services for student services.
"We work closely with the Student Senate, AURH and IFC, but there are over 300 student groups on campus, and the smaller services we would like them to have," he said.
Committee approves laetrile bill
Rv DIRCK STEIMEL
Staff Writer
Laetrile moved one step closer to legalization in Kansas yesterday when a Kansas House committee approved a bill permitting the sale and use of the drug.
The House Public Health and Welfare committee approved the laetrile measure in a 12$ vote and sent it to the full House for consideration this session. The Senate, where the bill originated, passed the same bill Feb. 6.
Laetrile, a cancer treatment which is extracted from apricot pits, would be legalized and subject to Kansas drug laws under the bill.
This means a cancer patient would be able to use Laetrile only when the drug was prescribed by a physician or an osteopath with the patient's permission.
STATE REP. Kathryn Sughrue, D-Dodge City, a member of the council, said she
thought the committee passed the Laetrie bill to prescribe patients freedom of movement.
However, Sughrue said, many members of the committee thought the safeguards built into the bill would prohibit premature use of Laetrile. Those safeguards require the physician's or osteopath's and patients' approval before the drug is administered.
Doctors testifying before the committee had expressed fears that Laetrile might be used prematurely or instead of conventional cancer treatments, Suhrure said.
Use of Lactreli is prohibited in the United States because the Food and Drug Administration declared it had not found sufficient proof that the drug was helpful in
"My feeling is that more study is needed on the effects of the drug," Sughrure said. "I think the bill should have been sent to an committee for more study this summer."
the treatment of cancer. Most Laittrile used in France is now said to be migrated in from Mexico.
SUGHRUE SAID members of the committee said they thought the high prices that cancer patients now pay for illegal Laetrile were not a sign of an ethical problem. "We heard testimony from several people who use Laetrile and its obvious that they are going to get the drug anyway," Sughrue
Harold Godwin, director of pharmacy at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said the Med Center had never tested or used Laetrile.
If Leattle was legalized in Kansas, Godwin said, the Med Center administration would still have to decide whether the drug would be administered.
Gowin said the Med Center now relied on radiation therapy, chemotherapy and other therapies to treat the cancer.