Group leaders ponder minority funding cut
By ALLEN HOLDER
Staff Writer
The elimination of a scholarship fund for minority graduate students next year could create an impossible situation for black law students, the American Law Students Association said yesterday.
Tom Vaughn, BALSA president, said it would be a terrible mistake if the Kansas University Endowment Association transferred funds provided for the Post-Bakalian Scholarship and for minority undergraduate students.
The Post-Baccalaureate Scholarship Fund provides financial aid to minority graduate students in the schools of law, social welfare and business and some sections of the graduate school.
Vaughn said black law students were already in a difficult financial situation but they would be in an impossible situation if the Post-Baccalaureate Fund were eliminated.
Dykes had said he wondered whether more students or undergraduates could benefit from the field.
CHANCELLOR ARCHIE R. Dykes said Friday in a University forum that he had asked the Endowment Association to examine the rationale for continuing the program because of limited funds available to help minority students.
Mariyan Ainworth, BALSA's adviser, said she was unsure that more undergraduates would benefit if the school offered a Master of Arts degree.
Vaughn, Lawrence third-year law student, said elimination of the fund also could discourage black students from attending KU's law school.
He said about half of the black law students at KU were nonresidents of Kansas. More than half of the 20 black law students receive aid from the Post-Baccalaureate fund.
suents as undergraduates, unless we're talking about cutting the amounts of aid," she said.
Jeff Weinberg, associate director of financial aid,
said yesterday that 31 minority graduate students
attended the program.
Aimsworth said financial aid to law students was limited and loans often were difficult to obtain.
"I DON'T KNOW if it could really help more
Dykes had said that money could be obtained from other sources in the law school.
She said it was difficult to get a loan because most graduate students who received loans already had received loans for at least four years.
However, Ainworth said, "Most of that money has been攒积 for other things than minor scholarships."
AINSWORTH ALSO said the law school
AINSWORTH worked from outside
first-day specialty training.
campus agreed the fund could be better used for
upradeate students.
jobs, especially in minority groups on Leaders of other student minority groups on
Art Solls, coordinator for the Chicago Law Students Association and Cottonwood Falls second-year law student, said more funds were available for unrelated grants and programs as the Basic Education Opportunity Grant.
Sols said funds were very limited in the schools of medicine, law and pharmacy, and that there was a greater need by and less availability for students at the graduate level.
"YOU HAVE to look at all the options," he said.
William Hogan, faculty adviser for the Student Council for Reviewing, Motivating and Educating Black Engineers, said he hoped the Endowment could provide a means of aid to both graduate students and undergraduates.
"YOU HAVE TO look at all the options," he said. William Loma, Kansas, Mia. Mo., graduate student and adviser to Movimiento Estudiando Chicana de America, he thought the wrong question was being asked.
Lona, assistant to the dean of men, said the question should be whether enough funds were being provided to help minority students at both the graduate and undergraduate level.
"The answer probably will be, 'they are not enough.'" he said.
KU could give all minority students about $100 each and then say it had fulfilled its obligation to them, he said.
LONA SAID arguments could be made for both moving the Post-Baccalaureate fund to the undergraduate level and retaining its position at the graduate level.
Lona, who said he had not known about the fund until yesterday, also said more information needed to be provided.
Dykes said the Endowment Association would make the final decision. The association's executive committee will hear his proposal when it meets next month.
Staff Photo by DONALD WALLER
Class books proved to be good cover during yesterday afternoon's sleet storm for Claire McCurdy, Belleville, Ill., sophomore. McCurdy was waiting in front of Snow Hall for a bus.
Storm Shelter
Lawrence, Kansas
Vol. 88, No. 102 Tuesday, February 28. 1970
KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
By CAROL HUNTER
Staff Writer
Staff Writer
Chemical disasters similar to those that killed eight persons in Florida and 11 in Tennessee Sunday could easily happen in Lawrence, Travis Brann, county emergency preparedness director, told the Douglas County Commission yesterday.
"We have trains daily that carry the same kind of chemicals, and we have two chemical plants located in Douglas County," he said. "We have vehicles going down Interstate 70 that have highly toxic, high flammable materials."
"The most significant threat and most significant danger is the FMC plant."
"Because of the type and quantity of materials on hand required for their operation and their various mixing methods, I would consider it a greater danger than the Coop plant east of town," he said.
THE FMC Corporation, Ninth and Maple
manufactures sodium phosphates for
determination of blood pH.
Joel Jacobs, FMC manager, said the corporation had 35 persons trained to handle
cinemical fires or explosions. The employees are drilled five or six times a year, he said.
"Ours is a high expansion foam," he said. "Our would have enough air in it that the surface would be smoky."
FMC keeps its phosphorus in an underground pit away from the main plant, he said. A layer of water covers the phosphorus to seat air out.
"The most dangerous chemical we handle is phosphorus," he said. "But those cars are very stable. They're like a tank within a tank."
HOWEVER, the phosphorus is moved in railroad cars.
Because phosphorus burns on contact with air, it forms a fumarol. The air is also toxic and a phosphorus fire.
John Kasperberg, Lawrence fire chief, said the fire department did not have the type of equipment required to respond.
Kasberger said if a railroad car containing phosphorus began to burn, all firemen could do would be to evacuate the area.
"If it explodes or catches fire, the only thing you can do is to back people away."
from it and let it go," he said. "That's what we'd do in chemical schools."
"Some chemical fire, once that fire gets started, I just don't know of any chemical that would stop them," he said. "We could stop it if it hadn't got much of a start, but once it got a good start, we couldn't do much."
Evacuation is recommended with most chemical fires, he said.
A RAIL car carrying phosphorus was damaged in Lawrence about two years ago,age 70.
FMC places its phone number on the sides of rail cars carrying chemicals it manufactures, he said. If the car develops a problem, such as a leak, anyone can call the corporation. The corporation then sends representatives familiar with the chemicals to the scene. The corporation received five calls last year.
Loren Simmons, Santa Fe Railroad Company public relations director, said the railroad had distributed a book listing the hazards and how to handle them.
The Bureau of Explosives, which
published the book, should be contacted in the case of a fire or explosion, he said. Bureau members familiar with the chemical involved could then give instructions.
IN THE front of the book are the phone numbers of the area dispatcher, railroad division supervisor and railroad police department. They could determine what kind of chemicals were involved and provide assistance, he said.
Jim Ramsay, Cooperative Farm Chemicals Association safety director, said that natural gas, ammonia and fertilizer dust in the plant were highly explosive.
The plant has had no fires or explosions in the two years he has worked there, he said.
The plant, Route 2, has fire training for its employees each Wednesday, he said. The plant is scheduled to open on Saturday.
Brann said that the county had no plan specifically for railroad and company rolling stock.
"We do have the basic county emergency preparedness plan, but it would be mostly a play-it-by-ear type situation," he said. "It is not in our nature of utility to deal with that kind of experience."
Drop in enrollment not foreseen
Staff Writer
Although national and state studies predict lower enrollment at college campuses for the next several years, the University of Kansas has several reasons to believe the decline won't be sharp in the future. The executive vice chancellor said yesterday.
Official 20th day enrollment figures for this semester show 21,984 students are enrolled at the Lawrence campus and 1,897 at the University of Kansas Medical Cen-
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However, based on study reports of the Kansas high school population, 1978 should be the last year enrollment figures at which universities will increase for several years.
In addition, Dr. Gerald G. Parker, executive director for the Enrollment Policy and Educational Research Department at the University of Cincinnati; said last week that college enrolment was the early 1800s because of lower birthrates.
think we can keep the decline from being a funding problem," he said.
ter-a to a total of 23,861. The total is an increase of 309 students more than spring 1977.
Shankel listed several reasons for his optimism.
"We are located in an area that has shown ability to grow and attract people (it) to be a business."
In addition, he said KU had a number of professional schools that had to turn down numerous applicants for admissions in the last several years.
"We think this factor will play a big beating off process with the decline of product prices."
Shankel said the University acknowledged the situation problem but it was clear that he would be mindful.
He added that the facilities and general attractiveness of the campus also were reasons for continued success in attracting students.
Among the significant problems that will occur with a noticeable enrollment decline are budget cuts that will have to be made to maintain the level of funding the University needs.
The University is awarded state funding each fiscal year for every student enrolled at KU.
Shankel said he also was pleased that spring enrollment figures indicated a marked increase in the number of women enrolling at KAU. A total of 10,066 women are on the Lawrence campus that semester, 48 percent of the total Lawrence student population.
The figure is an increase of 429 women See ENROLLMAGE page five
Study intended to draw support for KU women's athletics funding
With hard work and consistent effort, we
By MARY HOENK
By MARY HOEN
Staff Writer
One completed study and one current study of athletics at the University of Kansas may help piece together the puzzle of whether will comply with requirements of the IXL.
The completed study, a comparison of men's and women's intercollegiate athletic budgets at KU for the past year, was initiated and completed by the KU Alternative Action Board and forwarded last fall. De Shankel, executive vice chancellor.
The studies were requested to draw attention to the July 21 deadline for compliance to Title IX, which says "equal protection of all members of both sexes" must be provided.
Sankhalk said yesterday that he had not yet reviewed the study thoroughly but that it would be used to try to "continue to continue need more money for women's athletics."
The request was made to offset a decision by the Student Senate to stop funding of the construction.
Marian Washington, director of women's athletics, said she would meet today with Deb Teeter, director of the institutional research office and chairman of the Affirmative Action Board, to discuss the results of the study.
THE UNIVERSITY has requested an extension of $85 from the Kansas Legislature for the construction.
Since the first study was begun, Chancellor Archie R. Dykes requested the office of institutional research and planning to conduct another study—a survey of Big Eight Conference schools to see how their men's and women's programs compared.
WILLIAM HOGAN, associate executive vice chancellor for women's athletics, said that responses to the Big Eight survey were coming in but that he had not yet had a chance to study or discuss the KU budget comparison study.
Teeter said she hoped the study would help support the budget request now before the semester begins.
The KU budget study shows that the salary total for 12 coaches in men's revenue-producing sports in 1977 was $255,000 compared with $10,700 for six coaches in the women's potential revenue producing sports.
Basketball and football are considered revenue-producing men's sports and women's basketball and volleyball are both essential revenue-producing sports in the study.
THE AVERAGE SCHOOLSHIP was $2,935 for men's revenue-producing sports as compared with $1,476 for women's potential revenue-producing Sports. In the non-revenue sports category the difference was closer: $1,115 for men, $966 for women.
A total of $355,133 in scholarship money was provided for the men's revenue-producing sports, while $17,708 went to the women's sports with revenue potential.
Representatives from the department of Health, Education and Welfare were on campus last month to investigate a complaint alleging discriminatory differences between men's and women's training facilities.
The study shows that the training room budget for men, which includes supplies, insurance and physicals, was $23,000 as compared with $5,661 for women.
Mike Davis, University counsel, said that no response had yet been received from HEW offices in Kansas City to a letter sent to the university asking for help to improve the women's training program.
By July 1, one assistant trainer and one student trainer will be added to the women's training staff, which now consists of one full-time trainer and two student trainers.
THE SALARIES of the women's training staff will be raised to meet the average salaries of the men's program so that the two will be comparable.
In addition, a physiology lab in Allen Field House will be converted into a training facility for women after the lab is moved to the gymnasium. Gymnasium, which is not yet complete.
Davis said he hoped that everything would be in compliance with Title IX by July and that the University would be working with HEW to meet the requirements.
He said that whether KU's interpretation holds up will be determined either by on-site review by HEW officials or by complaints from the university's sex discrimination after the July deadline.
"We hope we won't have a series of complaints after July," Davis said, adding, however, that anyone affected by the program had the right to file a complaint.
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Canal treaties survive
WASHINGTON—The Panama Canal treaties survived an important test yesterday when the Senate killed 55-34 an amendment that would have allowed American troops to be stationed in the Canal Zone for 20 years after the waterway is turned over to the Panamanians. Also rejected was an amendment saying that the English-language version of the treaties would take precedence over the Spanish-language version. See story page two.
Study favors saccharin
WASHINGTON - If using saccharin a person from putting on weight, the long-term cancer risk from the artificial sweetener is far less than the increased health risks caused by excess sugar. The author said that drinking a diet soft drink for an entire lifetime cuts life expectancy by nine seconds per 12-ounce serving. See story page two.
Weather
Light snow today should taper off by this evening, according to the National Weather Service. Temperatures will be falling into the 20s this afternoon. Cloudiness will decrease tonight as temperatures drop from 6 to 4. Lightning strikes on 60 percent today and 20 percent tonight. Skies will be partly cloudy tomorrow with a high of 20 to 25 degrees.
Court bars busing aid
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court, in denying a state appeal, said in effect yesterday that the federal government did not have to help pay the costs of court-ordered busing to achieve racially designed action bars for now, and any hope that state and local courts might have had to get such federal help. See page two.
Coal accord still in air
WASHINGTON - Coal mine operators and union representatives began yesterday to preview a new contract aimed at settling the 85-day coal strike. The tentative three-year contract was reached last weekend. Coal矿員們 refused to talk about the contract but their approval was rejected as representatives, were less certain about the reaction of the UMW's 180,000 miners. The rank-and-file coal miners will vote on the proposed contract this Saturday and Sunday.
Locally . . .
After 26 years of working at the Kansas Union, Derwood "Mac" McCabe is retiring. An often forgotten observer of the constantly changing student population, McCabe haswitened the dances and sports mania of campus university students. In 1985, 105; McCabe was unarmed of maintenance and repairs at the Union and also has been building engineer. See story on page five.