Towering inferno
mount of volcanic ash towers over 9,677 foot Mount S. Hielens, the newly active volcano in the Cascade Range of western Washington. The photo shows volcanic ash flowing down the eastern slope of the mountain (right) in the Gifford Pinchon National Forest, about 45 miles northwest of Portland, Ore. The mountain began erupting a few months earlier, and the graph was taken Sunday afternoon, soon after the volcano began a new series of eruptions. Mount S. Hielens is the first active volcano in the 84 states since 1917.
Lack of funds, personnel closing Free University
By JUDITH LYNN HOWARD
Staff Renorter
Future classes through Student Union activities' Free University, such as discos and dances at Zen, Zen will be canceled because of lack of manpower and money; according to Steve Kroll.
Cramer said that Free University, initiated at the University of Kannapolis in 1968, was not a viable option because SUA worker workers in the program could not give the program what it meant.
A Free University session was offered in February. SIA is still dwelling to whether to hold one more class session before the end of the semester, he said.
"I think for the program to do much more—it'll simply take a little more than SUA can give it," he said.
During the past few years, about 300 to 400 students participated in Free University, he said.
CRAMER SAID people manning SUA positions too often were full-time students who sometimes also were employed.
Cramer is a full-time student and he has a job, in addition to being chairman of Free University.
It requires time, Cramer said, to find faculty members, graduate assistants and others to teach the classes.
Soliciting teachers for Free University involves letter-writing and personal visits, Cramer said.
It also takes money.
He said he would seek funds to pay teachers through the Free University Network, a nationwide program.
Cramer said the program would be more attractive to potential teachers if they were paid.
The Free University in Manhattan
owns and independently of Kansas State
University, Cincinnati. The
the Manhhattan group to start an
independent Free University program in
THE MANHATTAN Free University would be able to do a better job providing Free University classes to the public, he wrote. It is one of the top Free Universities in the country.
Two English professors founded the KU Free University. Free University classes already were being held at campuses across the country.
Cramer, who has been Free University chairman for two years, said that although teachers taught classes to their personal students, SLA also had its own ideas for classes. SLA
Free University has been declining each semester since the program was originally offered, however. In 1972, the Student Senate funded the program, but after the program was abandoned some of the program's money, Cramer funding was discontinued, Cramer said.
STUDENT INTEREST was high in the beginning.
KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Tuesday, April 1, 1980
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Vol. 90, No. 120
Senate accepts budget plans
By SCOTT C. FAUST
TOPEKA-Kansas Senate Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wint Water, R-Ottawa, yesterday pushed all of his committee's recommendations about the Board of Regents to a more direct Medical Center fiscal 1981 budgets through the full Senate.
Staff Reporter
With the end of the legislative session less than three weeks away and House and Senate Conference Committee recommendations to pass legislation not even discuss Board of Regents Office committee recommendations before giving all the budgets tentative
In doing so, the Senate approved a proposal by State Sen. Arnold Berman, D-Lawrence, to add $300,000 to the State Scholarship Program, which would provide 600 additional scholarships for students attending public post-secondary schools in the state.
In committee hearings, Berman had argued that the Bermuda grant program which will be funded by $1.1 million with the Bermuda grant program will be closer funding to the Tuition Grant program, which will be funded at $4 million to provide money to Kansas student attending college.
The Senate Ways and Means Committee also had
the power to recommend that students who are eligible for both the Tuition Grants and State
Scholarships could receive in scholarship money be no more than $300 per semester. The Senate Ways and Means Committee
is recommended a $1,450 grant.
The Senate also adopted its committee's recommendation for an 8 percent salary increase for unclassified employees with a 2 percent increase set aside for faculty merit raises.
THE HOUSE had recommended a total of 8 percent in unclassified salary increases.
Consistent with recommendations by the House and Gov. John Carlin, the Senate adopted other operating expenditure increases of 7 percent for all Regents schools and 8 percent for the Med Center.
Some senators expressed concern that the 60 percent waiver would be insufficient to attract the highest quality teachers.
The Senate followed its committee's recommendation to keep the present 60 percent fee waiver for graduate student teachers, instead of the 100 percent waiver the House had recommended.
Kansas primary may die young
But Winter said the 60 percent waiver saved the state $297,245 and that he thought graduate students' teaching would be less expensive.
THE SENATE went along with House recommendations
SETBUDGET nase six
By BLAKE GUMPRECHT
Staff Renorter
Kansans today are voting in the state's first presidential primary. It could be the last
The primary, established on an experimental basis in 1978, would require legislative action if it is to be held again in 1984.
"There was something less than unanimous agreement in the first place," he said. "If there's a low voter turnout, there
The national press has ignored the primary. Until last weekend, no major candidate had spent even a night in the city. The voters are expected to stay in drowsy.
Some call it the least important primary vet.
"They probably won't have another one," Earl Nebring, chairman of the University's political science department, said yesterday.
would be substantial support that the benefits don't outweigh the liabilities," he said.
KANANS SECRETARY of State Jack Brier provided that 31.3 percent of the state's 1.14 million registered voters could vote in an election. 800,000 voters are expected to stay home.
About 86 percent of Kansas' voters went to
KANSAN Analysis
"If there's a medico turnout, if there's quite a bit of apathy," Larry Bengston, Democratic state chairman, said, "This primary may be the first and last."
the polls in 1976 for the last presidential election.
The primary's $1.1 million price tag has sparked considerable criticism. Even after the bill establishing the primary passed, proposals faced a considerable opposition.
Another bill that would have abolished the
primary passed the House, but was narrowly defeated by the Senate.
PROPONENTS JUSTIFED the cost by pointing out the national recognition and business that would be generated by the primary and visiting candidates.
Every major candidate, except President Carter, has visited the state, but combined, they spent only six days here. Most have spent much of last week in Wisconsin, where he was mayor.
Only Republican Ronald Reagan made more than one campaign trip here. GOP candidates John Anderson, George Bush and Hillary Clinton spent less than a day here, Kennedy only spent less than a day here.
However, in Wisconsin, Anderson spent 16 days; bush, seven; reagan, six; and Kennedy, five. California Gov. Jerry Sanders, who was president of Kansas, has spent 16 days in Wisconsin.
CARTER HAS campaigned in no primary
states himself, but organization dignitaries—including Vice President Wanda Mollide, first lady Rosalynn Carter and other members have spent eight days in Wisconsin.
7-2) (American Legion, 3408 W. Sixth St; (73) South Junior High School, 2734 S. Third Avenue, by bishopman Church, 2415 W. 21st Street, Valleyview Care Home, 2518 Ridge Court.
None came to Kansas until Mondale made less than two hours of appearances in Kansas City and Wichita yesterday.
Wisconsin has long been one of the more popular midwestern primaries because of the state's liberal nature and because voters aren't required to vote along party lines.
"We've been virtually ignored," said Belva Ott, chairman of the House Elections Committee. "Economically, I don't think we have to worry about it. I better use the money somewhere else."
Kansas has fewer than half the Democratic delegates that Wisconsin has, but only two fewer on the Republican side.
Nevertheless, the national media scarefully acknowledged that there was a Kansas primary until Wednesday, when it was one of the next ones coming up.
Polling places
(5-1) Deerfield School, 101 N. Lawrence Ave; (5-2) West Jimland High School, 200 Harvard Road; (5-3) Rusty Food Center, 22rd and Louisiana streets; (5-4) Indiana School E; (5-4) 2nd St.; (6) Sunset Hill School, 22rd and Michigan St.; (6-3) Schweigschool, 201st Oudsholz
1-{15} New York School, 958 New York St.
1-{23} Harvard Law School, 600 W. 7th St.
Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St.
{2-2} City South Park Recreation Center,
{2-3} Massachusetts St., {2-4} Cordova
St., New York City
(1)- Pinckney School, 810 W. Bishop St. (1-
2)- Plymouth Congregational Church, 825
W. Bishop St. (2)- Church, 1501 Massachusetts St. (1-)
Central Junior High, 1400
School
Polling places for the Kansas Presidential Preference Primary will remain open until 7 tonight.
AN ANGERED Brier sent an angry letter
See PRIMARY on page 127
(3-3) Lawrence High Administration Center, 2017 Louisiana St.; (3-4) East Tennessee State University; (3-5) National Guard Armory, 200 Iowa St.; (4-2) Allen Field House, Naismith Drive and Irving Hill Road; (4-3) Centennial School, 2145 Louisiana St.; (4-4) Kennedy School,
(24) Babcock Place, 1700 Massachusetts
(25) Judicial Law Enforcement
Building (26) Douglas County Bank,
(Ninth)
(31) Douglas County Bank, Ninth
(Hillcrest School,
1081 Hillcrest Bay)
Lawrence
See PRIMARY page six
Map of precincts and wards
Pro-family group protests Carlin's delegates
Bv ANN SHIELDS
Staff Renorter
SALINA—It was hard to believe that at the Bicentenial Center in the heart of Kansas, where even the flower arrangements were red, white and blue, a radical protest was being stared.
The people who traveled from their houses in places such as Hays and Scott City to attend the Kansas Cancer Center and to visit the children of the toddlers and driving sensible Chevrolet and men wearing leather suits and embracing a Bible-champion suit are among the many.
But they gave a standing ovation to the speaker who
cried, "We must be radicals. We must be willing to lay
down our heads."
AND WHEN it was all over, the director of the event proudly looked at those assembled and said with a sense of mission. "You know, being a radical is really something to be proud of."
The approximately 1,200 people attending the conference were determined to stand up and be counted in the name of God, motherhood and the American way of life. They were told they said was threatening their family-oriented lives.
The Pre-FAAthletic Coalition organized Saturday's conference to protest the selection of Kansas delegates two weeks ago in Wichita for the White House Conference on Faniquis this summer.
"I think this is a trend in our country," said JAn Heover, assistant state coordinator of the Pro-Family Coalition. "People are to the point where they aren't going to take anymore.
Because Gov. John Carlin appointed 14 of the 21 delegates and the rest were randomly chosen, the pro-family forces were angry that they could vote on neither the delegates nor the issues.
THE COALITION said that the delegates selected in Wichita included representatives from too many minorities, such as single-parent families and that they did not represent the typical Kansas family.
"I think a lot of people who are here came because they attended the Wichita conference and were frightened."
This is a very basic cardinal of our rights<sup>1</sup>. *Sat-Bas-Carrier*
*Bath&Hair* serves you
Coalition: "when we are denied the right to choose who will represent us."
Three of the Kansas delegates chosen by Carlin are pro-family.
CITIZENS WERE allowed to rank the importance of 10 family problems listed by the conference organizer.
"But that didn't let us say how we felt about the issues or whether we thought the government would even get involved in trying to solve them," said one woman who attended both conferences.
The Salma conference was only one expression of the country with the White House Conference on Fashion.
Conservative pre-family forces, recognizing the White House conference as a perfect opportunity to express their political opinions, won most of the delegates in the primary, and all of the states to choose its delegates to the national convention.
Since then, some states including Kansas have changed their methods of delegate selection, angering pro-family people such as those in California, who are organizing an alternative convention for Western states.
HANNAN SAID she organized the Salina convention and invited people with all opinions to attend the voice of the community.
The coalition will send the 10 statements to legislators and the organizers of the White House conference.
"And if anyone ever tells me we need to have a diverse group here today, I'm going to him in the mouth," she said.
Dellegates were nominated for being "a Christian mother with five Christian children," "a born-again, spirit-filed Christian" and "a mother, most of all. They also were nominated for ERA ERA church or church organizations.
Most of the delegates were raised in large families, and the only divoree on the ballot was defeated.
THE ONLY opposition to the 10 position statements—which supported a balanced budget, traditional family roles, more local control of education, voluntary prayer in schools, an anti-abortion amendment to the Constitution and the elimination of government control of food—was from people who thought the positions were too weak.
Fernandez gets mild reception, seeks exposure
By CINDI CURRIE Staff Reporter
The reception at the Eldridge House downtown didn't know a Republican candidate for the presidency was speaking there yesterday.
In fact, only 32 people came to hear Benjamin Fernandez tell why he should be the next president of the United States.
With the Kansas primary today, voters have been swamped by last minute visits from major political candidates who have been covered extensively by the media.
Mike Murray, Fernandez's campaign chairman, said yesterday that as soon as Fernandez received the same amount of exposure, he would be on his way.
fernandez has been trekking across eastern Kansas to get the votes that would "rattle the cages back in New York."
"If we can get 5 percent of the vote in this election, I will mean it," Murray said. "Five minutes on 'Meet the Press' and everyone out there is coming up to this guy." He really is a serious contention.
MURRAY SAY that although this campaign probably was not the one that would take Fernandez to Washington, it is possible that the national organization for the 1984 election.
Murray said he thought that Fernandez realistically had a chance of receiving 1 percent of the Kansas vote and that 5 percent would be a miracle.
Fernandez has one committed delegate in Minnesota and two in New Mexico.
"Ben Fernandez may end up being the new star of the Republican Party," he said.
Fernandez espouses the traditional doctrine of the Republican Party—free enterprise and the American Dream.
He said yesterday that he wanted to deregulate all business and that a return to free enterprise and true competition would problem of inflation and unemployment
"I'm the only candidate who thinks makes a profit is not obscene," he said.
HE SAID he thought that he was qualified to understand business because of his background in economics and his experience with his loan company.
He said he thought the country was on the brink of economic disaster, needing to strengthen its economic base.
Fernandez said he thought Carter had taken too weak a stand against the "specter of the mob."
"This country doesn't have to apologize to anybody," he said.
andez criticized Carter's handing on
See FERNANDEZ page six
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