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University Daily Kansan
Monday, February 27, 1978
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Council rates SCoRMEBE program highly
Minority engineering students at the University of Kansas have a model program set up to provide them with financial aid and tutoring, according to a recent report sponsored by the National Research Council.
The program was set up by the Student Council for Recruiting, Motivating and Educating Black Engineers. Its benefits are to give students a place where who is a student in the School of Engineering.
William Hogan, chairman of the committee that wrote the report, said recently that although there were about 20 similar programs at colleges in the United States, not all the schools were implementing them with the same dedication as KU.
"I THINK OUR program has been very successful," Hogan, associate executive vice chancellor, said. "It's almost unique for an organization to provide this much aid and this many services to minority students."
In the fall of 1970 there were six black students in the School of Engineering at the University of Kansas. In the fall of 1977 89 minority students enrolled in the school.
Hogan said much of the increase could be attributed to the work of SCORMEBE.
HOGAN, WHO also is associate professor of electrical engineering, said there could be 35 more minority students in engineering next fall.
There were 1,612 students enrolled in engineering last fall. About 6 percent—93 students—belonged to American minorities, and about 40 percent—are considered members of SCORMEB.
Almost 16 percent of the U.S. population is black, Spanish surmured or American Indian.
SCOMREBE provides extensive financial and
military to tutoring to students from those
primary schools.
SCORMEB was founded at KU in 1969 by a black engineering student. Its goals are to attract more minority students to the field of engineering, to provide financial aid to these students and to assist them in finan- cial jobs and full-time employment.
HOGAN SAID SCOREMBE provided about $60,000 a year in financial aid and tutoring services. The KU Student Senate gave the organization $2,470 for fiscal 1978. The remainder is provided by industries and foundations.
Industries that have contributed in the past include Amoco, Dow Chemical Co., Exxon Foundation, Mobile Foundation and Phillips Petroleum Co.
Hogan, his assistant Pam Greene and students in SCORMEBet soli the funds to companies. Since the fall of 1970, SCORMEBet contributed an annual contribution totaling about $270,000.
Hogan said the funds helped alleviate the two traditional problems that often kept
“OFTEN THE student doesn’t have as rich a background in math and science as he needs,” Hogan said. “Also, many lack enough money to go to college. If a student has to take a year off to earn some money, he may be distracted and not make it back to school.”
Funds for the program are held by the Kansas University Endowment Association. Allocation of financial aid is based on financial need and scholastic performance.
minority students from becoming engineers.
"We determine a total financial aid package for the students with the office," Hogan said. "This helps everyone. Every dollar provided by SGORMEE free a dollar in the financial aid office for someone else."
The organization asks its members to apply for maximum aid at the student council.
IF THE OFFICE can't provide a full scholarship, SCORMEH will usually up make the difference. Sometimes the team pays the total cost of a scholarship.
Dave Roland, president of SCofMBEE,
said the organization had convinced him to
leave.
"They invited me to spend my senior year in high school here," he said. "They even gave me a special room."
jobs. The financial aid office then requires them to save $400 of their earnings to help pay for education. That increases the money available for others, Hogan said.
Once a minority student has the money to attend KI, SCormBE help him prepare during the summer to enter the School of Engineering. The summer programs offered by NU Science Foundation, have classes in math, physics and chemistry for incoming freshmen.
AS AN OTHER method of financial aid,
SCorMEE places students in summer
Derrick Rollin, Kansas City, M. senior, helps coordinate the tutoring services. He said a big problem with minority students is the lack of English background in math when they entered KU.
Brian Hurt, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, is active in SCOTMEB recruitment programs. He said many of the students came from inner-city school districts.
"ENGINEERING is difficult for everyone and the students from these districts often have poor preparation in high school," Hurt said. "The summer program and SCoRK they give them the background they need, help them to develop good study habits."
"That can really hurt a student," he said.
"He's not able to do calculus because he can't do algebra. If he has to take a math course for no credit to get this background, he might not have enough hours to graduate on time."
Band enhances Spheeris concert
ROLLINS SAID there were no limitations
Reviewers
A concert in the intimate atmosphere of Kansas City's Uptown Theatre is always a treat, and Friday night's performance by Jimmie Spheris was no exception.
By KIM DAYTON and DEBBI TRAVERS Readers
The evening began with a warm-up performance by Spheeris' longtime bass guitarist, who forced to contend with a rather restless audience, but his combination of original songs and old Spheeris tunes impressed the band, which they demanded an encore, his first ever.
It was obvious, however, that the fans were there to hear Spheris, and they went wild when he danced on stage to the Jamaican beat of "Tequila Moonlight."
William Smith, workshop leader, said black students sometimes might have applications in activities that might benefit them because a lot of them worked and went to college.
He said that because of an increasing lack of support by universities who usually provide financial assistance for black student organizations, black students must strive to keep the communication channels open between their various organizations and the system worked so that they could use it to their own advantage.
By VERNON SMITH Staff Writer
Blacks urged to fight racism at universities
Brown, a black 1959 KU graduate, spoke at the Big Eight Conference on Black Student Government at the University of Missouri this weekend.
COLUMBIA, Mo. -Black students should not become complacent about civil rights because racism has not been completely erased. Lt. Governor George Brown said Saturday.
The conference, which drew about 160 black students from Big Eight universities, including 10 from KU, gave the students the opportunity to learn about the exchange and exchange ideas and possible solutions.
Brown said the Alan Bakke reverse discrimination lawsuit, now before the judge in Chicago, asked him why question because it disguised the real issue. There is a growing sentiment against higher salaries.
HE SAID WHITES overwhelmingly favor elimination of special privilege programs for minorities, even though colleges and universities always had special privilege policies for children of families who made substantial financial contributions.
Brown urged his audience to work together and support one another in an art museum.
Funding for black student organizations, the high attrition rate and apathy among black students were the main problems for the department delegations during the two-day conference.
"None of us can go higher than all of us," he said.
Wilson also announced the appointment of a national task force that she said would be formed by the NAACP to address the needs and concerns of black students nationwide.
Later, in the evening address, Margaret Bush Wilson, chairwoman of the board of the National Association for the advancement of Colored People, told the audience to connect their goals to ideals and organizations and not to images and individuals, which could become illusive and toxic.
AS AN EXAMPLE, Wilson cited the effect of American people of the assassination of President Kennedy.
She said that Americans had become so attached to Kennedy that when he was killed the effect was devastating and that for a reason the public appeared lost and in a state of shock.
Spheres' first selection of songs set the mood for the entire evening, less mellow—a word he says he hates—than when he appears without a band. His new, more subdued songs, such as, "That's What We're For" were met with polite approval.
But his old, less mellow favorites really had the crowd singing and dancing. "Seeds of Spring" drew the strongest audience participation from the crowd. Some ad-tails about Kansas City. His talent
for improvisation came through best in a concert regular, "My Old Mother."
THE SKILLS of Spheres' new ensemble were revealed in the haunting "I am the Mercury," which included an especially fine performance by Pug Baker. Guitarist Joe Larson, who added new dimensions to old Spheeris favorites throughout the evening. Oregon is Dancing." The band also added necessary fullness to such songs as "The Nest."
Probably the best numbers of the evening
Spheres delighted the audience with his first encore, his version of "Love Potion Number Nine." By the end of the song, Spheres brought the fans to their feet in the almost perfect end of an almost perfect performance.
were Spereis's solo performances of "All in the game" and "On Broadway." He introduced Hank Williams "I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry" as one of the most beautiful songs ever written—and his interpretation of it was indeed beautiful.
tutoring programs helped not only minority engineering students but that they also
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"The SCoRMEBE program attracts more minority students to KU," Hogan said. "Even if a student leaves the School of Engineering, he'll usually stay at the University and do quite well in another school."
THERE WAS no immediate comment from Hernandez or any other officers of WCF.
Wolf said, "From several very reliable sources we have been able to confirm the fact that he was in the start-up of the operation and has had continued contacts through operatives, who come back and forth to the United States."
on the number of hours a SCORMEBE member can be tutored.
"Almost all of the freshmen and sophomores in SOrROMEBE have at least one tutor," he said. "However, we encourage everyone to drop his tutor by his junior year. We don't want tutoring to become a crutch for the student."
Hogan said that the financial aid and
A spokesman for "60 Minutes" said it was not known when Castro allegedly put up the video, but experts have provided any evidence to substantiate the charges, although Wolff said various intelligence agencies and shared information on the incident. The deputy chairperson on Narcotics, of which he is chairman.
CBS says Castro in drug trade
NEW YORK (AP) - Cuban President Fidel Castro provided part of the money for a U.S. banking firm that allegedly laundered money for the cocaine trade, the CBS-TV program "60 Minutes" reported yesterday.
Correspondent Morley Safer said the firm, WFC, based in Coral Gables, Fla., was being investigated by federal and local agencies and by a federal grand jury.
Rep. Lester Wolf, D-N.Y., interviewed on the program, said the top official at WFC was Guillermo Hernandez Cartaya, who "60 minutes" said he ties with anti-Castro Cubans in Florida and had been involved in the Bay of Pigs invasion.
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