THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
COLDER
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Friday February 17,1978
Lawrence, Kansas
Vol. 88, No. 95
Second thoughts
The pressure of the coming year seems to have already crowded in upon the newly elected student body vice president and presi-
jent, Reggie Robinson and Mike Harper. The two executives, only two hours into their 12-month terms, paused for a moment before the call.
Women's teams unsure of funding
Rv MARY HOENK
Staff Writer
The existence of at least one women's athletic team remains in limbo, regardless of whether the Kansas Legislature approves a proposed increase in state funding for
In addition to field hockey, Marian Washington, from the Iowa State athletics, is a rookie day that golf also plays.
nocken basketball, which was cut from the women's athletic program last year, may again be in danger of elimination, Washington said.
According to Washington, the addition of a proposed increase of $85,115 in state funds to a base budget of $160,000 may still be inadequate to maintain the current 10-sport
She said that no decision had been made to cut any team and that the department would have to deal with it.
"I CAN'T say how we will remedy insufficient time, so we make the mistake necessary," she said.
KU requested the increase in funding
The Student Senate allocated $44,405 to the women's department last spring and allotted the field hockey team an additional $13,800 to the department cut the team from their program.
from the state after the Student Senate
athletes beginning to fund women's athletics
beginning in fiscally
Diana Beebe, field hockey coach, said that she was disgusted with the way the situation was handled last year and that she had insisted the department define their plans.
"If they are going to cut us, fine." she said. "But tell us that we're in or out and the team's doing it."
BEEBE SAID the lack of a final decision on the star game, the hockey had halted the new play of new
She said she had received 35 letters from prospective students who had expressed an interest in the program.
Anne Levinson, fieldockey representative to tl. Women's Athletic Council, said last year's decision to cut field hockey was not based on valid reasons. She said she
intended to complain if the team was cut from the department this year.
Levinson, Winchester, Mass., sophomore, said she thought the situation this year was caused by a conflict of interest between a sports director and a coach of the basketball team.
"AS BAKETBALL coach. Washington attempts to get basketball the best in terms of funding, publicity, facilities and travel," she said.
Levinson said that as athletic director, Washington also was responsible to the 200
OUND EIGHT PLAY
HEW tightens co
BY STEVE FRAZIER Special to the Kansan
WASHINGTON-Joseph Califano, Secretary of the Department of Health, said the state's prosecutors tactics that ranged from computer audits to civil and criminal prosecution in a new interdepartmental campaign to eliminate the 'fraud, abuse and error' in federally funded studies.
and negligent, Califano also blamed colleges, universities and vocational schools for creating more problems through incompetent and dishonest ad-
Describe past HEW management of financial aid programs as absmal, inept
Already, Califano said, HEW computers are turning out 10,000 letters a day to students who have defaulted on government loans. Soon, HEW will begin a pilot project in California. Coast states that will use private bill collection agencies to persuade defaulters to pay.
to the gov
for aid, lying to school
educational programs and dive
financial aid funds for personal use and
general school operation.
Director says programs' overhaul needed to solve chronic problems
Califano said he had asked Griffin Bell, attorney general, to prepare U.S. attorneys across the country for the onslaught of government financial aid programs.
Harper, Robinson win lead Standpoint victory
The main problem, outlined yesterday by Joseph Califano, secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, is the high default students who have taken off federal loans.
Harper, Lawrence junior, and Robinson, Salina junior, won the election for the executive races with more than a two to one ratio. He and one other team and one write-in candidate.
The federal government is finally acknowledging that problems exist with federal loan and grant programs for students, Jeff Weinberg, associate director of the Office of Student Financial Aid, said last night.
Harper and Robinson spent the evening waiting at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house with other anxious candidates and members of their coalition.
The moments that Mike Harper and Reggie Robinson spent last night after someone made a false victory against him, the most mense minutes of their entire campaign.
HARPER AND Robinson received 1,123 votes, compared with their opponents Jane Calacelli, Glendale,ohl, sophomore, and David Parris, Manhattan junior, who received 442. Scott Morgan, Mission junior, four days ago, received 92% votes campaign four days ago. recovered 92% votes.
By MELISSA THOMPSON and LINDA FINESTONE
But when the official confirmation of their victory as student body president and vice president came over the phone, both candidates laughed. They clapped a little cold sweat from their upper lips.
Weinberg said that before the introduction of the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant program, colleges and universities asked the federal government to allow them to administer the funds, not a central computer.
Califano said a primary cause for problems with the BEOGs was that information on the applications was never verified.
Low hisses sometimes ran through the crowd of friends that were gathered around a table of snacks when disappointing senatorial returns were announced over the
"The government decided not to accept the suggestions," he said.
This spring's elections had the lowest voter turnout ever, compared with the past.
AND WHEN an especially hard-fought race was won, the crowd erupted in cheers. Of the 68 senatorial and class officer candidates that Harper and Robinson's coalition, Standpoint, ran 49 candidates were elected.
By ROBERT BEER Staff Writer
THEERE WAS a premature release of the tension in the crowd when a voice made a false announcement of a Harper-Robinson victory.
Staff Writers
"There is no way to verify the facts unless the University can request the Internal Revenue Service for the parent's return," Weinberg said.
However, some of the problems are in the federal government, and not exclusively in local governments.
"It's about time that the people in Washington realize there are problems with this system."
The initial review of the applications is by a computer in Iowa City, Iowa, Weinberg said, and the University is usually notified by mail of a student's eligibility.
Because the government divides the United States into regions, Weinberg said, perhaps by creating a national database.
Robinson stood in a corner of the room with a beer in his hand and said he hoped his mother did not make a big deal about the election, especially if he and Harper won.
"One of the most difficult jobs a finance officer has is to determine exactly what the budget for that month will be."
In a press conference yesterday Califano said he and President Jimmy Carter had refused to increase funding for the National Direct Student Loan program because its problems were so serious. However, funding was increased. Direct Student Loan program were increased.
The two candidates hugged each other and made the rounds of the room with handshakes until someone heard over the radio that the results were not completely tabulated. Then a tortuous 10-minute wait began.
"My pacemaker's already blown three batteries," Harner said.
For instance, he said, Washington will give one answer to a question and regional officials respond.
government regulations overlap and are changed continually, he said.
"I'm glad that's over," Robinson sighed, with eyes that seemed the slight bit best.
Mildred Force, comptroller for the federal lion protector, said the rate of assault on her would increase.
Califano said the national rate for defaulting of the NSDL program was 20
The Carter administration's refusal to increase funding of the NDSL program was a result.
Harper seemed calm early in the evening as he walked through the crowd sipping coffee. He said that he was not feeling nervous. The panic had set in about 5 p.m. yesterday, he said, when he wondered what he had done all that he could do to win the race.
The idea of not increasing the funding is like throwing the baby out with the bath water.
That figure itself is misleading, Weinberg said, because some students do not start talking to the teacher.
"It would prove an incredible hardship on the middle-class families that President Carter seem so concerned with," Weinberg said.
Steve Leben, former student body
r loans
Califano's proposals, announced at a morning news conference at HEW headquarters, encompassed the government's three largest financial aid programs: Basic Educational Opportunity Grants, and the Guaranteed Student Loan and National Direct Student Loan programs.
CALIFAO loaned his harshest criticism at the two loan programs. The GSL program has a default rate of about 10 percent in million, in unpaid principal and interest. The default rate for the NDSL program is even higher—20 percent in more than $400 million.
Still, Califora said, "BEGOs and GSL are sound programs deserving of public trust. That is why President Carter's recent proposal to aid middle-income families who must bear college expenses focused on additional $1.46 billion for BEGOs and GSL, and for the College Work Study Program as well."
The problem with BEOGs, Calfano said, is that the information on application forms is never verified. A September 1977 Government Accounting Office audit concluded that 7 percent of one year's work were a reward to ineligible Students, he said.
The NDSL program was singled out by Califano and Carter for exclusion from the increased aid package. Califano said, because its students were so poor so long to correct. Califano hinted that HEW might recommend substantial changes in the NDSL program when the department asked Congress to student financial aid programs next year.
Yesterday's announcements came as the administration tries to rally support on Capitol Hill for Hill's proposed 40 percent increase in federal aid, from $8.8 billion to $2 billion a year.
See CONTROL page three
president, waited with Harper and Robinson for the official results upstairs in a small room. He had earlier in the evening won a Senate seat in the School of Journalism. When the readers are read over the phone, the Harper's are thanked to their brothers, Leben smiled a little wistfully.
HARPER SAID that he was eager to start
warming up the hands and seemed to
want to lower the reins as soon as
"I'm going to wake this morning and then I have a bet with Chris Goldwell that I can't win."
"Steve came in and tossed the keys," he said. "You might say he was anxious."
Robinson said, with an eat-to-ear grin,
that he was glad the wait was over.
marked last night's wait for election results between the camps of the independent party presidential team and the write-in candidate for president.
CONTRASTING ATMOSPHERES
While winners Harper and Robinson partied with other Standpoint Coalition members and supporters last call, Calliaco's family, along with his sisters, seized quiet evenings studying separately.
Although disappointed, Calacci said she thought she and Parris had been successful in making the points they set out to make when they entered the election race.
Callaci, student body president candidate,
studied last night at home at Watkins
s scholarship hall, and Parris studied at
Watson Library until it closed. The two met
at Battelden scholarship hall when election
results were announced.
See HARPER page seven
Voter turnout lowest ever
Although polls did not close until 7 last night the pollers who tallied ballots in the firing before failed to
However, Grubaugh said last night he received two written complaints about the ban.
A record low voter turnout was the key to counting ballots faster than expected, Jill Grubbaugh, Student Senate Elections Committee chairman, said last night. Only 2,025 persons voted in this week's elections, but without since the Senate was formed in 1969.
But Morgan, Grubbaugh said, had nothing to do with the harassment. Grubbaugh said he would have been better off.
MIKE HARPER, who was elected student body president, filed a complaint charging harassment and intimidation of voters at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house, where Scott Morgan, the write-in candidate for president who lost, lives.
Grubbaush said the elections committee had not yet decided how to handle this complaint. The committee will meet next week.
The other complaint was filed by Susan Winslow, who ran for graduate student senator. Winslow complained because she was listed on the ballot for the School of Journalism rather than on the graduate school ballot.
but all was not grim at the Kansas Union, where the ballots were counted. Ballot-counters seemed to enjoy reading some of the ballots, with votes for Ward Cleaver, Beaver Cleaver, Son of Sam and Annette Funicello.
See RESULTS page five
Ballot box
The Student Senate Elections Committee counted ballots to 2 a.m. today when the Standpoint Coalition team of Mike Harper, Lawrence junior, and Reggie Robinson, Salina junior, was declared victorious in the presidential vice presidential race. Voter turnout was the lowest in the history of the Senate.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Sabotage causes Alaskan oil leak
FAIRBANKS, Alaska — Alaskan state troopers have announced that sabotage has caused the biggest oil spill in Trans-Alaska pipeline history. It also forced a new emergency response.
State troopers said they had no suspects. There was enough oil in holding tanks that no delays were expected, according to the general of the department, who described the story page two.
Israel wants to reverse U. S. plane sale to Arabs
WASHINGTON—Moshe Dayan, Israeli foreign minister, met with Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance yesterday in an attempt to reverse the proposed sale of U.S. jets to Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, the Carter administration defended the proposed sale and said it was consistent with the objective of peace in the Mideast. See story page two.
Dayan
Potent drug infiltrates K.C. market
KANAS CITY, MO. A potent new drug is being marketed in Kansas City as LSD but is 10 times as powerful and much more dangerous, police narcotics officers say.
The drug, d-4rombo 2,5-dimethoxy ampetamine, was found Tuesday when two Kansas City men were arrested and charged with the possession of a condom containing an epileptic agent in the arrest.
Locally ...
Despite the payment of a $260,000 arbitration award yesterday, the state of Kansas has still $3 million in lawsuit pending, all involving construction at the University of Kansas Medical Center. The award was made to a Kansas City electrical contractor, Truog-Nichols Inc. The company, in filing for an arbitration award, claimed that the state had given them faulty plans for the basic sciences building. However, in other lawsuits, Truog-Nichols and another company, Evans Electrical Construction Co., each are seeking $1 million in punitive damages from the state. See story page 10.