THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Thursday February 9,1978
Vol. 88, No. 89
Lawrence, Kansas
Increased student aid proposed by Carter
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Jimmy Carter called upon Congress yesterday to provide a record $1.2 billion in new aid to college students, including $250 grants to at least two million students from families with gross incomes between $1,000 and
"No one should be denied the opportunity for a college education for financial reasons alone," the president declared as he unveiled an aid package designed to head off moves in Congress to provide tax credits of up to $15,000 for all college students, recordless of income.
In addition to making two million students from middle-income families eligible for direct federal grants for the first time, the Carter plan also would provide subsidized loans to students with family income as required by the federal's appropriated subsidized work-study programs.
THE EXTRA MONEY would be available for the school year starting in the fall of 2017, and is distributed below $25,000 would apply individually to the government for the grants as part of the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant Program. Grants are credited directly to the student.
Carter wants to add $1 billion to the $2.16 billion basic grant program, which now aids 2.2 million students, primarily from low-income families.
The president already proposed $250 million in extra student aid last month. The entire $1.46 billion package would boost federal spending on college student aid programs in fiscal 1979 to $5.2 billion, an increase of almost 40 percent.
Carter said more than five million college students could get federal aid in the school year starting in the fall of 1979, an increase of at least two million.
REP. WILLIAM D. Ford, D-Mich., who heads the House Education and Labor subcommittee on higher education, called it the biggest single infusion of funding for middle-income college students since the adoption of the GI bill at the end of World War II.
--legislation joined Carter and Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr. at the White House for the announcement of the program.
Five other leaders of House and Senate committees that handle education
State senators hear both sides in ERA debate
From Staff and Wire Reports
Describing the Equal Rights Amendment as a radical tool to promote homosexuality, abortion and immorality, opponents of the ERA urged the Kansas Senate yesterday to rescind the 1972 notification of the amendment.
However, supporters of the ERA called the Senate resolution to rescind the amendment a waste of the state's time and money that would prove nothing.
About 150 women, some earing red "Stop ERA" buttons and some wearing green "Go ERA" buttons, packed the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee hearings on
The proposed resolution, sponsored by State Sen. John Vernillon, R-Independence, would automatically rescind the Kansas ratification of the ERA if the amendment did not meet its March 1979 deadline.
THE ERA STILL needs three more states to ratify it.
Also in Vermilion's resolution, the Kansas Legislature would be required to hold new hearings on the ERA if an extension of the 1979 deadline is granted.
Brenda Waugh, Overland Park, speaking for the Association of Ws. Women Who Want to be Women, said the ERA had spawned results that lawmakers had not anticipated when they voted to ratify the amendment in the 1972 session.
"This association was formed in response to the obvious threat posed by the misuse and misdirection of people using the Equal Rights Amendment toward goals obviously not in keeping with the original aim of the amendment," Waugh said.
"I am sure that your original ratification did not include the promotion of homosexuality, abortion and other immoral practices," he said. "The skin was surface as ratification has been pursued."
Opponents of the ERA were critical of the 1972 emergency legislation in Kansas to
The six lawmakers all hailed the administration's proposal, but some later expressed reservation about limiting the grant for all students in the $16,000-$35,000 range.
However, judy Teusink, a lobbyist for the Women's Political Caucus, said the legislature does not need to rehash the old issues of the ERA.
"I AM CONVINCED that ratification was an impulsive decision rather than an error in judgment," Jane Clark, Overland Park, said.
On Capitol Hill, Sen. William V. Hoth, R-DEL., author of the $250 college tuition credit bill, said that the Carter proposal was a desperate attempt to derail the college tax
"This is the third legislative session that has had to take the time and energy to discuss and attempt to resolve the issue of rescission. How many times must they hear a 'no' before this committee and others ask for more pressing legislation?" she asked.
Roth said the administration was more interested in seizing a good political issue than in helping middle-income families. He released the first page of an undated Califano memo in which the secretary wrote:
THE SENATE HAS passed Roll's bill with wide margins three times in the past 18 months, but House Democratic leaders have resisted from coming to a vote in their chamber.
"We must move quickly if we are to seize the initiative on this very hot issue. . . The congressional educational committees are so fearful of losing jurisdiction over education finances that they will go without us—and at a very high price."
Roth's bill would cost $1.2 billion in its first year and $2 billion in four years, when his credit would rise to $500. The American Council on Education has estimated that 32 percent of the benefits would go to students from families with income above $25,000.
Staff Photo by RANDY OLSON
CARTER WARNED that Congress must choose between the tax credit and his inclusion.
"This nation cannot afford the tax credit and I will not accept both," he said.
The council also has estimated that only 12 percent of federal aid now goes to college students from families with income above $15,000.
The council president, J. W. Pelisson, sent Carter a telegram supporting Carter's and package as an alternative to tax credits and endorsements to funnel the aid through the program and aid programs.
Califano gave this breakdown of the entire
$1.46 billion increase:
*$1 billion would be added to the $2.2
billion Basic Education Opportunity Grant
The maximum grant would climb to $1,800 from $1,600, and the average student from a family in the $8,000-to-$16,000 range would get $1,500, up from $80. The minimum grant of $250 would go to all in the $16,000-to-$25,000 gross income range.
Barry Shailani, law school senator, found plenty of time to mend his jeans at last night's Student Senate meeting. Shailani had intended to propose a bill but the meeting adjourned abruptly because of lack of a quorum. It was the last meeting of the term at which senators could act on legislation.
Sewina session
Staff Photo by DONALD WALLEP
Lack of Senate quorum delays salary debate
Staff Writer
Debate on a Student Senate resolution to raise Senate officer salaries ended abruptly last night because there were not enough senators present to make the action binding.
Steve McMurray, Norton senior, asked that a count of senators be taken railway way.
A quorum of 53 senators is needed to make
Taunted Tiger
Missouri Tiger mascot Debur Dick howled at an official's call during the Kansas-missouri basketball game last night in Allen Field House. Kansas clobbered Missouri T2-6.
Senate action binding. There were only 43 senators present at last night's meeting.
Before the quorum count was requested, the Senate passed six pieces of legislation, including a bill and a resolution that will create a prepaid legal service for University law.
The legal service, which would be funded by student activity fee money, would consider all cases except student vs. student. It also helps with stipulation about civil or criminal cases.
MCMURRY'S REQUEST, which met with grooms and boys by some of the senators, came after the resolution had been amended to eliminate the salary of the StudEx
chairman. Discussion was underway to change the student body president's salary to $550 a month, a raise of nearly 200 percent.
"We're not going to vote on that resolution, but than half the Senate he McMurray said.
Steve Leben, student body president, said he was disappointed that McMurry had asked for a quorum but thought the request was reasonable.
Leben, who submitted the original resolution, said that after the amendment of $500 for the presidential salary had been raised, he considered calling for a quorum himself.
He said he was elected as a journalism senator to the Senate in next week's election.
ANNE STUCKER, executive secretary,
said she was unhappy that the call for a quorum had been made. The absent man had not make any difference, she said.
"I think the people who cared were there," Stucker said.
Because of the abrupt adjournment, the Senate did not take any action on two bills.
One of the bills would have provided funding for the Kansas Defender Project, a
See SENATE page six
By MARY HOENK
Women athletes think state funds likely
Staff Writer
Support for women's athletics at the University of Kansas by Kansas state legislators is quite likely, Anne Levinson, field hockey representative to the Women's Athletic Council, told members of the council last night.
Levinson said the legislators she had spoken with were very supportive of a proposal to increase state funding of women's athletics. The proposal is to come
before the legislature in the current legislative session.
Gov. Robert F. Bennett has announced a proposed increase of $85,115 for women's athletics, which was the amount requested by the University.
Levinson said, "It really looks like we'll tell it."
She reported that she had received favorable responses from legislators to a letter-writing campaign organized recently by the council.
The campaign was aimed at members of the Senate Ways and Means Committee who will be responsible for the form of the bill as it will appear before the legislature.
$ource Sen, Paul Hess, R-Wichita and a member of the committee, last week that he would make a visit to the KU campus to survey the women's athletic program.
Legislators also will be in Lawrence on Wednesday to challenge the women's
See WOMEN page si
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News Capsules
From the Associated Press, United Press International
Sadat concludes U.S. trip
WASHINGTON - Egyptian president Anwar Sadat wound up talks with the United States yesterday without an immediate decision by President Jimmy Carter to sell him let fultowers.
Meanwhile in Geneva, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin said today that any sale of U.S. arms to Egypt would be "a very negative development in the Middle East peace process."
Med Center study likely
TOPEAK—The Senate tentatively approved a bill yesterday to hire a special prosecutor to investigate architectural problems with the University of Kansas Medical Center.
A prosecuting team from a private law firm would be given authority to investigate who was at fault for the problems and to bring suit to recover damages. See story pave five.
Locally...
Koenigs
The Kansas Jayhawks rolled over Missouri last night in Allen Field House 72-82.
Ken Koenigs led the Jayhawks with a season-high 20 points and 11 rebounds. Three other Jayhawks will betable figures. See story page eight.
Reagan
WASHINGTON - Ronald Reagan made a point-by-point television assault on President Jimmy Carter's Panama Canal treaty proposal last
Reagan lambastes canal proposals
"The treaty would in a single stroke eliminate the foundation on which our right- and our ability-to-permanently use the canal has been based for more than six decades." Reagan said in an equalization CBS television
Teagan, a former California governor used the television network President Carter's "firebase chat" last week.
Reagan raised the canal issue when he ran unopposed in the Democratic presidential nomination in 76. See story page two [3].
More space debris found
EDMONTON, Alberta—Radioactive debris from a Soviet nuclear-powered satellite has been found at five more places in Canada's Northwest Territories, an Atomic Energy Control Board official said yesterday.
Two of the sites are on the Hourtow River north of the eastern end of Great Slave Lake. The other three pieces of debris are 25 miles northeast of Reliance, about 105 miles east of Yellowknife on the Great Slave Lake.