THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol. 88, No. 87
Tuesday February 7,1978
Lawrence, Kansas
Lower fees lure residency tricks
By ALLEN HOLDER
Staff Writer
Jokes often are made about life in rural, rustic Kansas, but a Kansas resident pays almost $500 less each semester in tuition fees at the University of Kansas. In fact, some students go to great lengths to become official residents.
But the process involved in becoming an official Kansas resident is somewhat unusual.
James Henry, assistant registrar, said yesterday that some students who paid out-of-state costs when they were freshmen and college students had to attend time they were seniors or graduate students.
According to a Kansas statute, persons enrolling in universities or colleges under the Kansas Board of Regents must have lived in Kansas for at least 12 months before enrollment in order to pay in-state fees. If the person is financially dependent on his parents, the residency requirement applies to his parents.
HOWEVER, students whose parents do not live in Kansas also must have been financially independent for the entire year and not claimed as a student. Those students must rely on online sources for financial support. They also must take steps to establish a Kansas residence, such as obtaining a Kansas mobile registration and voting registration.
"It would be easy to pay that lower fee," Henry said, "but most students stay nonresidents because they intend to leave the state after graduation."
Tuition fees for Kansas residents enrolled in more than six hours is $344.00 a semester. Tuition fees are per person.
HENRY SAID that very few students who actually paint in-station should be bound to a studio.
He said that nonresident students who did not pay out-of-state fees usually were
caught by checks against their financial aid reports.
"It's very difficult to keep getting away with it," he said. "We may have one a day."
Henry said sometimes the University incorrectly identified a student as a Kansas resident. When that happened, he said, the student was notified that he had to pay out.
Henry said students who are caught trying to pay in-state tuition were made to pay the difference between in-state and out-of-state from the time they first paid in-state tuition.
Henry said he thought there were very few students in that category.
"I'T HARD for me to say," he said. "We don't want to be a police force."
However, a few students still manage to pay in-fate fees, even if they are financially indebted.
A Prairie Village junior, who asked that her name not be used, has continued to pay in-state tuition even though her parents moved out of the state when she was a
She said she applied for residency in the state where her parents live now, but she was denied. She so decided to stay in Kansas, although she could not afford outliving it.
After she graduates, she said, she probably would remain in Kansas.
HER GRADES are mailed to a friend's house in Prairie Village.
A Leavenworth senior, who is a military dependent, paid in-station tuition fees while her father was stationed at Fort Leavenworth. Although her father retired from the Army and moved to Arizona after her mother died, she paid in-station tuition again this semester.
Her parents now are establishing a
baby room but she said, but he said,
he had to pay out of pocket and
beheld him to pay out of pocket.
had to pay for take action in
See RESIDENCY page sx
Coed honorary plan abandoned by group
Efforts to organize a coed junior honorary began last semester after the Owl Society, a male junior honorary, decided against becoming a coed society.
A coeducational junior honorary society will not be established this semester because an informal task force of students and staff members decided to discontinue its efforts to organize the society.
Chris Caldwell, Lawrence junior, said Sunday that the task force was not an official university group, but an informal group interested in beginning an honorary society. He said all eight members at the university agreed to discontinue work on the society.
Caldwell said that the task force would draft letters to Mortar Board, a coed senior honorary, and to Lambda Sigma, a coed sophomore honorary, recommending that
future members look into the possibility of organizing a coed junior honorary.
The task force decided Sunday that the task was not right to begin the honorary, Californiac event.
Steff Photo by RANDY OLSON
The task force wondered whether an anatomy group really was important, Caldwell said.
Ann Gittberg, Salina senior, said the task force began to question the need for a coed junior honorary and had problems defining what the honorary would do.
Gottberg said that many of the task force members would be busy during March and that they thought there was not enough time to refine the goals of the organization so that members could be selected and the honorary could be established by next year.
Caldwell said the task force originally had wanted to broaden the membership base of the honorary to attract students who might not be interested in other honariors.
found pulling the twisted mass of wire from the ground was probably easier than trying to get the maze back to his pickup truck.
Tanaled web
Allen Bockheimer, a KU electrical worker pulled this wire from a hole near Summerfield Hall yesterday afternoon. Bockheimer
KU collects information for HEW
By BRIAN SETTLE Staff Writer
The investigation pursued complaints filed with HEW by a former women's athletic trainer who had discrepancies between men and women's treatment and care programs.
Mike Davis, University of Kansas General Counsel, said yesterday that the University was preparing information requested by a Department of Health, Education and Welfare investigator who was on campus last week.
Davis said he hoped to have the information gathered and ready for presentation to HEW by the first of next week.
Davis would not specify what additional information the investigator had requested.
"She called after she had visited the campus and asked that we provide some more information on some things she had done at KC, and gave back to Kansas City," Davis said.
ALTHOUGH HE said he could't be sure when the results of the investigation would be presented to the University, Davis said he was certain the results would be sent to the University in time to affect the guidelines that are to be established by July 21, the deadline for the University to comply with Title IX.
THE HEW investigator was to examine staffing, budgets and job descriptions in both the men and women's training programs.
The charge stems from a provision of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 that prohibits sex discrimination at federally-funded institutions.
Specifically, Title IX in section 8412
might equal athletic opportunity for
young people.
An institution risks losing federal grants if it does not comply with the provision.
HEW INVESTIGATES any discrimination charge filed as long as the charge meets two specifications: The charge must involve an institution that receives federal funds, and HEW must have jurisdiction over the complaint.
The possibility of discrepancies between the two athletic programs is only one facet of a larger issue that has surfaced since Title IX was passed in 1972.
Antitudes have caused several problems, according to administrators, because overall guidelines are not specific enough to not apply to different schools and departments.
KU and other federally funded institutions
and with Title X by July 21 or risk
discharge.
Laetrile bill passes to full Senate
By DIRCK STEIMEL
Staff Writer
The use of Laetrile as a cancer treatment in Kansas would be legalized by legislation passed yesterday in a Senate committee.
The Latecrite bill, which was approved 11-1 by the Senate Public Health and Welfare committee, will probably reach the Senate floor Thursday, State Sen. Wes Sowers, R-
Wichita, chairman of the committee, said yesterday.
Under the Senate bill, Laetrile, a drug extracted from apricot pits, would be legalized and treated as a common drug in Kansas. A cancer patient would need only a prescription from a registered physician or osteopath to buy Laetrile.
State Sen. Jam Meyers, R-Overland Park, said, "I voted for the bill because there
seems to be a situation in Kansas now in which the public favor use of Lactrile, but not regular milk.
HEYERS SAID she was concerned with the absence of a proof that Laetrile was valuable in cancer treatment. Also, she said, legalization might persuade cancer patients to forego conventional cancer treatment in favor of Laetrile.
Much of the discussion in the Judiciary
Committee laetrile hearings was about the limitations in distribution and use of
State Sen. Robert Talkington, R-Iola, the lone dissenter in the committee vote, said he thought there should be more restrictions on Larelle use.
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However, State Sen. James Francisco, D-Mulvane, said he thought the LaTeache bill
See LAETRILE page six
News Capsules
From the Associated Press, United Press International
Coal strike likely to end
WASHINGTON - A tentative contract that could end the 63-day-old coal strike was agreed upon yesterday by negotiators. The proposed terms are expected to be related to the United Mine Workers bargaining council today.
The strike is the longest coal strike in the nation's history. The tentative settlement reportedly includes company-run benefit programs, health and pension benefits and a wage increase for union members. See story page two.
The boy, Charles Rachek, died Sunday night from a pneumonia infection. His father, Roy R. Rachek, is being held in the Dallas法院 jail on $100,000 bond. See story page two.
Man held for son's death
DALLAS-A Garland, Texas, man was charged with murder yesterday in connection with the beating of his 18-month-old son that caused the child to remain "clinically dead" for 14 days.
The senator, John Vermillion, R-Independence, took strong issue in a letter to Schneider with opinions of both Schneider and the U.S. Justice Department, which said it up to Congress to decide on rescission. See story page 21.
Schneider blasts senator
TOPEKA-A- Attorney General Curt Schneider replied to a state senator who had been critical of Schneider's opinion that only Congress could honor Kansas' attempt to rescind ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. Schneider said the senator must be either confused about the issue or misinformed of Schneider's opinions.
Sadat
Sadat asks U.S. to lean on Israel
WASHINGTON—Egyptian President Anwar Sadat said yesterday that there could be peace in the Middle East in less than a week if Israel agreed to return to its old borders and make Jerusalem an open city. But Mr. Sadat has said only be made if the United States exerted pressure on Israel.
So far there has been no indication that Sadat has persuaded President Jimmy Carter to lean harder on Israel. A White House statement issued at the close of Carter's visit in March said that the U.S. role was that of a friend of both sides.
Locally . . .
Wichita freshman Steve Graves has set a blistering pace with the University of Kansas swim team. Graves, who has excelled at both sprint and distance events, has won at least one race in each meet this year, with the exception of the Southern Methodist meet. He said his early success had led to him receiving an All-American. Graves has high hones for the KU swim team this year.
"That's our team goal this year—to win the Big Eight." The team's players want to look forward the nationals. You have to have in yourself, in yourself.
Bill Spain, swim coach, thinks he is fortunate to have Graves on the team. "Steve was a good swimmer to begin with," Spaul said. "There's no doubt that he's going to be a lot, lot better." See story page eight.
Profs trying to organize Native American studies
Bv VERNON SMITH
The program would allow students to earn an interdisciplinary major in courses about biology, human anatomy, and more.
Staff Writer
Several professors in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are trying to establish a formal Native American Studies program at the University of Kansas.
Robert Cobb, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said recently that the group of professors would meet in the next few weeks to develop a course and curriculum for the program, which would be established through the college.
Cobb said that the proposal and curriculum would have to go through several stages of approval before a program could begin.
IF THE PROGRAM is approved, Cobb said, funding would come from the University and outside sources. He said he was optimistic that a Native American Studies program could be started as early as next spring.
However, Dana D'Zurella, a spokesman for the Native American Alliance, an
It would go first to the Committee for Undergraduate Studies and Advising, then to the College Assembly. It must then be approved by the Office of Academic Affairs and, finally, by the Board of Regents, Cobb said.
American Indian student organization here,
expressed discontent with the sources of
education.
D'Zurella said that if funding from sources outside the University, such as the federal government or private institutions, was utilized to run the program, additional pressure would be put on instructors to make the program successful and that it also would look as if the University was not firmly behind the program.
"A private group would be more likely to initiate a practice on continued monitoring, and if they decided to stop funding the program, what would happen next?" D'Zareault said.
Another proposal, which was made by the group of professors and also called for the
Cobb, however, emphasized that for the most part, outside sources of funding would be sought only for such things as library development, visiting faculty, and other educational areas. Those were areas in which there were not enough state funds to cover all the expenses, he said.
"THEY (THE INSTRUCTORS) would be under strict scrutiny and under constant pressure," he said. "We don't want this to be temporary or experimental, but to be a continuing educational program, designed for high school students between Indian and non-Indian students."
establishment of a Native American studies program, was abandoned in mid-January after it was determined that it did not have a chance of being approved, Cobb said.
IT HAD BEEN submitted last fall to the Undergraduate Studies Committee for consideration under the state guidelines for "new and improved" programs, he said.
But Donald Stull, assistant professor of anthropology and a member of the group of professors that drafted the proposal, said that most of the proposed courses were already offered. He said he thought the main reason the program was that it would have necessitated the hiring of additional faculty, and the University was not ready to do that.
However, because most of the courses under that proposed plan are already being offered in some capacity, Cobb said, it was not a problem. The state legislators would have approved it.
According to that proposal as of spring 1976, the University listed 27 courses that were offered in the school.
Rita Napiar, assistant professor of history who also helped with drafting the proposal, said the range of courses now offered in her program was with formal programs in other universities.
"We have one of the best course listings available," she said.