THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol.88,No.45
—Lawrence, Kansas
Monday October 31, 1977
Loan funds from HELP now ready
Money for student loans through the Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) will be available to University of Kansas students and U.S. Army, Gardeo, director of the program, said Friday.
HELP is the Kansas branch of the Higher Education Assistance Foundation, a Minnesota-based company that makes loans to students to secure loans through commercial banks.
Gov. Robert Bennett will present the first issue of a Kansas student at a ceremony in bakerfield.
The HELP office in Overland Park parked
the Helper and the group of applicants
Fidelity, Lennartpier, Lennartpier
Checks for the loans will be made out to the students but will be mailed to the financial aid office in Strong Hall. The office contact applications when their checks arrive.
HELP loans were supposed to begin last August, but bond sales to finance the loans were postponed until early December. Lombardo said the delay in bond sales was caused by the length of time needed to process the bonds for the sale.
JEFF WEINBERG, associate director of financial aid at KU, said the announcement of the availability of money for HELP loans was good news for him and for many
Weinberg said the HELP program had not contacted his office Friday to inform the University that the money would be available by the Nov. 1 deadline.
"All my information about the
media has come through the
media," Weimberg said.
Weinberg estimated that several hundred KU students had applied for HELP loans. He said, however, he had no specific figure for the number he been so busy processing the applications.
"This is a significant program for students," Weinberg said. "It has had some initial problems with financing, but they will be worked out."
The HELP program was established in Kansas because the state's banks were reluctant to make loans to students under the federally insured student loan program. The HELP program ended last February instead of setting up a state agency to guarantee student loans.
Strong talking
After a dramatic speech Saturday at Baker University, Balwin City, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, D-N.Y., answered
questions face-to-face. In her speech, Chisimal touched on subjects including the Bakke case, welfare and discrimination.
Insurance plan meets opposition
BY SUSANT, HALL Staff Writer
Still charging that the University of Kansas' new health insurance requirement for foreign students is unfair, foreign students in the U.S. are to Del Shunkel, executive vice chancellor.
Foreign students were required this semester to have health insurance coverage before they could enroll at UU. American students are not required to have health insurance.
After several members of the International Club broached the subject in a letter to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, they were directed to meet with Clark Coan, dean of foreign students, and Martin Wollmann, director of Watkins Memorial Hospital.
Nine foreign students met Friday with Coan, Wollmann, Steve Leben, student body president, and members of the Student Senate's committee on foreign students to demand an explanation of the health insurance requirement.
The Board of Regents, at KU's request, established the health insurance database.
"What is the right of the University to adopt this policy without consulting us?" Bahram Ghakad, Iranian junior, asked the two administrators.
WOLLMAN SAID, "I cannot answer what right the University has to enforce this rule."
Panel grants exemptions to final exam policy
By BRIAN SETTLE Staff Writer
Staff Writer
The new policy, effective this fall for the first time, does not permit instructors to take leave of students.
The University Senate Calendar Committee approved requests friday for two exemptions to the new final examination exam. The committee will review final exams during the last week of classes.
The two requests, both from instructors in the department of human development, were among seven formal requests considered by the committee.
classes, or six days before the last day of classes.
The two requests were approved on the condition that exemptions would be considered.
However, the committee was skeptical about what precedent might be set by appraisal.
Lorraine Michel, assistant professor of speech and drama, said that the approval of the human development exemption request would set a precedent for everyone in the University and would allow final exams to be given on the last day of classes.
the last six days of classes. From our previous experience, such students want to take the final immediately; they do not wish examination regularly or regularly scheduled examinations.
The second request, submitted by James A. Sherman and Montrose M. Wolf, professors of human development, was approved 4-3.
Their request asked the committee to allow professors to permit students to take a final unit exam during the last six days of classes.
"We are defeating the purpose of what the rulers say." Michel said.
had taken the 304 course and that it would be to the student's advantage to be able to take the final examination during the last six weeks, if he was finished with the course work.
Hein said that the student was given the option of retaking the final exam during the scheduled examination period, if he was not satisfied with the initial grade.
The committee discussed five other requests after it approved the two human development requests. But because committee members had to leave for classes, voting on the remaining requests was postponed.
The instructors said in a letter that their course, Human Development and Family Living 304, was broken into a series of units. They said that exams covered later units required the use of information presented in the course, and they said, negated the need of a final examination.
A meeting was arranged for Nov. 3 to complete the review of the exemption
Harold Krogh, chairman of the committee, said he hoped to complete all the work.
"In our opinion," the letter stated, allowing students to take the last unit exam and then allowing for discussion of answers and possible retake of the exam, is clearly in the interest of the student.
He said that if all the requests were not decided by the end of the Nov. 3 meeting, the committee would have to consider them at a Nov. 18 meeting.
requirement after learning that the Nigerian government, which sponsors most of the 58 Nigerian students at KU, would not pay for health insurance coverage in full unless it was incorporated into regular fees, Coa said.
Coan said foreign students were told about the health insurance requirement in the information they received about the insurance policy. The insurance policy was adopted, it was printed in the University Daily Kansas and in a newsletter distributed by Coan's office, he
"We've got to decide these requests as quickly as possible." Krogh said.
But Coan agreed with students that the recent ruling could have been better拍板.
"THE NEED for health insurance to obvious," he said. "It can be horribly agonizing for a student to be caught without insurance."
Wollmann said all students should have health insurance.
Sam Woo, treasurer of the International club, said he thought the requirement did not apply.
"if insurance should be mandatory, make it mandatory for everyone," he said.
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Wolffman said most American students were covered by their parents' insurance policy.
The first exemption request, proposed by George Semb, associate professor of human biology at the University of Georgia, requested that the committee allow students in his class to take the final examination during the six days of classes, or during the regularly scheduled examination
"There are additional policies that take over and aid Americans and permanent residents if they don't have health insurance, but this is not the case for students here at the University for a limited period of time," he said.
In his letter, Semb said: "Since students work at their own rate, they may complete assignments in a timely manner."
Ghdak said the policy also discriminated against foreign students because American students were required to Cross-Blue Shield student health insurance policy on a monthly, quarterly or annual basis, but foreign students could only be insured by insurance by the semester or by the year.
Sarah Hein, Salina senior, said that she
Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Winn reported considering Senate
WOLLMAN SAID that the payment schedule apparently was unfair, but that the Student Senate, not the administration, selected the insurance company providing coverage for the student health insurance plan.
Kyle Ward, representative of Blue Cross Blue Shield, said foreign students paid by the semester or annually to prevent them from dropping health insurance coverage.
WASHINGTON—Rep. Larry Winn, R-Kan., scheduled a news conference for today in Washington amid increasing speculation that he would seek the seat of retiring Sen. James Pearson. But Winn declined yesterday to say what would be discussed at the news conference.
The Wichita Eagle and the Kansas City Times quoted sources who said Winn would announce his candidacy. Winn and Gov. Robert Bennett have been considered candidates for governor, but he was announced two weeks ago that he would not seek re-election.
Winn
PHOENIX - Final testimony was heard Thursday in the trial for the murder of Don Boles, an investigative reporter for the Arizona Republic. A Superior Court judge ruled that the defense on case today. Max Dulun, a Phoenix contractor, and James Robinson, the attorney, are charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy. See story page two.
Winn had earlier said that he would not run if Bennett intended to. But Tara Towns, Bennett's press secretary, in to Teopka yesterday that Bennett would make no announcement for at least several days.
"The statewide intent is that the foreign student is covered at all times," he said. "This policy prevents them from dropping without authorization."
Norman Forer, International Club ad-
sid, said the policy left the Regents open in
the fall.
Locally...
Jury likely to act on Bolles case
Although the Jayhawks' football team suffered its most humiliating defeat of the season Saturday, one KU athletics squad — women's cross-country — came home with a big weekend victory. To win the AAU national championship, all of them were placed in the top 12. Although no Jayhawks finished in the top three positions, they were several teammates for company in fourth through twelf places. And next week the Jayhawks will try to qualify for the NCAa nnals. See store page nine
Abortion rules before Congress
"What is at stake here is unequal justice, which violates constitutional amendment
NEW YORK — Newswire magazine reports that campaign donations of $150,000 and $250,000 were funneled through Bert Lance and Andrew Young into President Jimmy Carter's 1976 campaign fund by an Atlanta businessman trying to stay out of jail. Newswire said the businessman, Michael George Thevis, ran a $100 million enterprise in cars, liquor, food, movies and records that was funded by profits from pornography. See story page two.
WASHINGTON — Congress has beenarguing since July about abortion guidelines. This week it will try to reach a decision on the issue in a bill that will health care programs for the poor during the next year. Congress also will continue debate over President Jimmy Carter's energy program. See story page two.
Improper Carter gifts reported
TOPEKA — To dramatize a possible December strike for higher prices, about 600 farmers paraded through Topeka on tractors and other farm vehicles in an action planned by the American Agriculture Movement. After the parade, about 1,000 attended a rally in Municipal Auditorium. See story page two.
Farm strike promoted in Topeka
See INSURANCE page 10
Students become spooks roaming haunted houses
By MARY HOENK
Staff Writer
As the harvest moon rises over an aislen sky tonight, there will be at least one Count Dracula in Lawrence this Halloween against whom a crucifix will be no defense.
"That only works in the movies," according to the man who portrays Dracula in the Lawrence Jaycees' haunted house at the Hillcrest Shopping Center. Another haunted banker with Rhode Island streets, is sponsored by the Frontiersmen Drum and Bugle Corps.
By day many of the spooks who haunt the Jaycee house seem to be ordinary people.
But by night they are transformed into gollush creatures, such as swamp monsters.
Steve Enyart, Horton senior, said Saturday that the swamp monster that he plays in the Jaycees' house was his own creation
Enyart told most people were psyched up to come to the house and go to entertain
But he said he found many reactions quite amazing.
"The ADULTS are scared even more than the kids sometimes he said. "They were afraid of what they saw."
One of those responsible for making certain the *Jaycees*' house is effective in organization and atmosphere is Kun Jaiser. City, Kan., senior and chairman of the project.
Kaiser said he started planning the haunted house at the end of August and had coordinated the work of the more than 40 volunteers to drive run the house. The house opened Oct. 22.
The haunted house has been a major fundraiser for the Jaycees for the last four
Since that time, more than 4,500 people have dared to enter the house's cardboard mansion.
See SPOOKS page six
Macabre mansion
Staff Photos by PAUL ROSE
Dr. Demente, above left, welcomes visitors to his bizarre house at 10th and Rhode Island streets and introduces them to its inhabitants, both living and dead. Above, a ghoul in the Jaycees' haunted house strikes out at the daring who venture inside, causing them to cringe, roll on the floor and run away screaming.