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March 21, 1980
Legal fee unjustified
Double taxation, taxing a person twice for one possession, is an unfair practice that many people, especially property owners, have to guard themselves against. They have to sit on their wallets to maintain governments don't pick their pockets for taxes they are not entitled to.
Most students probably don't have to worry about double taxation yet, but they do need to keep a wary watch out for double fee assessments in college—it's a big risk. You can fringe a few dollars more from the pockets of fee-paying students.
A case in point is the $15 court representation user's fee proposed by the KU administration and approved by the Student Legal Services Board earlier this week. The proposal will go to Senate March 28 for consideration.
KU students should be asking a lot of questions about this fee, including where will the money go? why $15? and, most important, why is it even being considered when every full-time student paid $1.25 through student activity fees to finance Legal Services?
Previously, the Legal Service Board had voted against setting a user's fee. Now that they have approved one, they are indeed getting away from their principal philanthropy and from students, as board member Bob Rocha has pointed out.
Presumably the money collected from the fee will go toward financing Legal Services, in spite of the $1.25 already assessed of students. But why
$157 According to Steve Leben, Legal Services Board chairman, this amount would represent a significant reduction in the number of students seeking court representation.
"You can't just say, well, let's have a $1 user's fee because that would be making a farce out of an administrative requirement," he said.
Perhaps it has never occurred to Leben that some administrative requirements ARE farces and hardly deserve to be justified at the students' expense. If that is the only rationale the Legal Service Board can offer to explain, $15 would be deducted as a fee for the somewhere, somehow, something went away in the effort of the Board to secure the right to represent students in court.
However, in addition to the proposed user's fee, students using court representation services also would be required to pay all court costs, including a $35 filing fee. There is not a student on this campus who would not consider those costs in themselves a significant monetary commitment. Because of an apparently arbitrarily set user's fee, Surely the court costs alone would be high enough to discourage unnecessary and trivial cases.
No one is doubting or questioning the Board's sincere good intention to help students with legal problems. But in deliberating the case of the user's feet, the Board's lawyers are among students by returning an incredible and unjustifiable verdict.
Leben goes on to justify the amount of the fee as a face-saving measure for the administration.
If Owens goes,woes to descend on foes
To the Editor:
All of you "Gong Owens" fans, get your mallets ready. You may be able to strike the gourd heard around the Big Eight. Yes, Ted Owens himself may give you what you have learned about his team's approach to about Ted being on the bench if he decided to go to Oklahoma. (The public does not know if he really even is considering it.) No more of Ted Owens coaching teams to Big Eight Championships. No more of that Ted Owens. No more of that Owens "touch" in recruiting fine high school and junior college prospects. More of that valuable experience of Owens. Now we may be able to hand Oakahoma all of our accomplishments and millions of Owens.
It was satisfying for some people to voice the opinion to rid KU of Ted Owens, when students and alumni could feel as though they were not so comfortable that Owens may leave on his own, is it really satisfying? Or is it really uncomfortable thinking that I should against us? Surely we could be at a big disadvantage. I suppose one could say that it would be advantageous to KU if Owens left for Oklahoma, because that would be more favorable to them instead of us. However, one must not forget that KU will have to obtain a new coach, one at least as qualified as Owens. This task certainly is not an enviable one. In order to succeed, you need a good opportunity when they see one.
Owens' position of leaving on his own instead of us giving him the boot should not be taken. We should always thing and sometimes do not realize it. Hopefully, others in more influential positions than I am the same way. If not, we would have to look at our resistance does not come back to haunt you.
Jim Doyle
Jim Boyle
Prairie Village graduate student
KU offers no forum for pro-Palestinians
Tutee Editor:
It has been a political custom of the University of Kansas to sponsor speakers in Palestine-Palestinian-Iraeli conflict. Zionists and pre-Zionists have become the University's special guests. Aided by a biased media and speaking groups, these speakers have taken advantage of the American people by feeding them fabrications, unfounded stories and misinformation.
The most recent guest in the University's chain of Zionist speakers was Nathan Yanai who lectured at the University. The new reality to this speaker is that the Israelis inhabited Palestine in 1948 because the country was a Jewish state. The Gold Medal he who took advantage of the
American people's credibility by telling them that "there is no such thing as the Palestinians."
Where, then, did the four million Palestinian们 are either homeless or living under occupation from? Even Darwin would be surprised that they were not so well off. The working people in the middle population in the Middle East and one of the most educated in the world. The speaker understands the cherish liberty and who stand firm against human torture, to know the Palestinian people and to know of their suffering and persecution by the Israelis, and they did against Hitler in World War II.
Our University has been making sure that Zionist propaganda continues to cling to our campus. Isn't it time for the University to be more open and responsive to the other side of the Palestinian-Zionist conflict? Isn't it time for the University to invite a speaker who will explain the 32-year-old story of an entire people who have lived under oppression and who are to self-determination and to a homeland?
Muhi Mishari
Secretary of the Organization of Arab Students
Risk of alcoholism not as likely at 21
During the period after high school, young people assume many new responsibilities. Some of these can cause stress, whether it stems from making a living or going to school, and they often abruptly during this period even though they may not affect us until later.
In light of the current controversy about raising the drinking age for 3.2 beer, I would like to stress one point that I need to be seriously considered: alcoholism.
Most social drivers of our age do not pay much attention to alcoholism because it is not a problem for the majority of our age who are considered less responsible. However, those middle-aged people who contribute to the statistics that show alcoholism is widespread in death in our society had the same opinion.
To the Editor:
I enjoy drinking socially as much as any other person my age. However, because of my lack of social skills, I am alcoholics had alcoholic parents, combined with my experience of having an alcoholic parent, I am highly cautious and indeed fearful of getting into trouble in and in the future. My point is that with a drinking age of 21, people would be a little more likely to become responsible in their drinking behaviors.
Therefore in our later lives, ourselves, our
livers, and those around us hopefully will be
a little healthier.
Randy D. Proffitt Chase senior
Escorts help guard against violence
Every woman attending the University of New Orleans is required to enter their bodies and are aware of the fact during their entire KU careers. They know it is not safe to walk on campus alone at night.
A sad bit of knowledge, but a vital one. It is told to students by residence hall staff during each fall's Country Club on campus. Rape Victim Support Services offer courses in basic self-defense techniques. There are also online courses that alert the police to any emergency situations.
Our warmings, tessels and blue phones are not enough. The campus is still unsafe. Walking home at night can be frightening. It's safer if the room is sealed or the residence halls is filled with tension.
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each time an assault is reported, whether it is a sexual assault or not, students stop and think, "It could have been me. I've walked past there 100 times."
UNSETTLET THOUGHTS. Many KU students are from small midwestern towns, where they are limited to an occasional or the only use of a school bus. School students with marijuana. To be thrust into an environment that demands constant vigilance is frightening and adds to their anxiety.
Even for more widely students, the presence of violent crime on campus is a violation of the security and isolation of academic life. An institution dedicated to learning, teaching and thinking should be taught in a more distasteful aspects, one would think.
Last fall, however, a group of students decided to change things on campus. They formed an escort service staffed by female students, female or male across campus at night.
CURRENTLY OPERATING with about 45 escort volunteers and staff members, the Campus Safety Services is available to who needs to walk across campus at night.
The escort service is based in Grace Sellars Park near Hanover, MA. The escorts work with male and female volunteers work in pairs and will meet persons requesting escorts to see them. Volunteers are needed for the escort services.
The Campus Safety Services also has an education program about assault and self-esteem. It provides awareness among men, and committees concerned with additional programs;
Unfortunately, the group does not have enough volunteers to staff all of its programs. It is particularly short of escorts for larger groups more than 100 escorts, so that it could operate from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. every day, with only two or three hours a week.
It is refreshing to note that many of the group's organizers are men. For too long, any assault or rape prevention programs on women were not made accessible to women. Men were not involved in the programs and were not made aware of the lack of safety on the campus. There was no correct that one sidelessness.
THE CAMPUS SAFETY Services is a student-inspired, student-operated organization. It was formed independently of the Student Senate or University administration by students who care about such objectives and others step toward improving life on the Hill and is a reassuring example of student progressiveness and concern.
make men more aware of the horror that is rane.
THE MEN INVOLVED with the Campus Safety Services are not patronizing protectors of women. They point out that most assault and battery incidents on campus are aimed at men. Men, as well as women, are affected by the safety of on campus. Many men are more aware of the danger on campus to themselves and to women and are trying to
The Safety Services may be the most effective weapon against violent crime this University will ever have. However, to survive, to do so alone, students must have a good understanding and efforts of every student on campus. Volunteer a few hours a week, it doesn't take much. Just pick up an application at the KU Information Center, in Strong Hall, or at the Student Senate office,
And don't forget—safety is only a phone call to the campus, or even the campus at night, call 84-4848. The Campus Safety Services volunteers will make sure you get where you need to go.
Soviets reacting to lessons of TMI
Rv BRUCE BABBITT
new York Times Special Features
PHENOX-Three Mile Island may have contaminated the nuclear futures of the United States, Sweden, Austria and West Germany. There are plans to increase nuclear output 10 times in the 1980s. Like American nuclear advocates, the Russians say they have no choice.
The Soviet nuclear commitment is most evident at Atomash, a giant new factory close to the Black Sea. Atomash is designed to mass-produce a new generation of large pressurized water reactors of the 1,000-megawatt class now used in India and China. Pressurized water reactor, the Russians are following dominant American reactor technology.
Oil and gas deposits in the industrial areas of the western Southeast are seriously threatened by statewide oil deposits are locked up in the Siberian hinterlands thousands of miles from industrial areas.
The first-generation Soviet pressurized water reactors now in use are about the
THREE MILE ISLAND has, however, had one momentous impact on the Soviet nuclear program. It has ended complacency with its efforts to build the reinforced-concrete domes that seal off reactors if there is an accident. Soviet scientists now recognize that the containment building at Three Island was issued in 1947 and contains a release of millions of curies of radioactive gas.
same size as the smaller 500-megawatt American plants built in the 1960s. The Russians have been slow in moving up to the large reactors, primarily because of difficulties with the complex metallurgy and the large-scale high-pressure reactor vessels.
The first generation of Soviet nuclear plants, which includes most plants now in operation, was built without containment walls. The technology that their technology was so safe that containment structures were superfluous. One official tells of a nuclear-science delegation that visited the United States and came to believe that the technology these were places for "to placate the people."
necessary because of "negative dramatization" by the American press.
THE RUSSIANS ARE developing a reactor-export program. They have publicly announced communication with Ilya. Given Finland's experience, it seems likely that the export market will demand a higher level of safety in the export process. In the case of Cuba, 90 miles from the
This new satety policy was probably prompted by at least two factors as well as the Soviet invasion. The Russians built a nuclear reactor in Finland, their first constructed outside the Eastern bloc. The Flims decided that the new facility would be taller and build their own containment structure.
AT A DETAILED briefing on reactor safety at the ministry of power and electrical, Deputy Minister Fedor Y. Ovchinnikov told us: "The events of Harrisburg show that containment is needed to localize nuclear plants and will be covered by containment structures." The Russians had not previously made this policy explicit.
Florida mainland, the question of containment structures and safety engineering is of more than academic interest to Americans.
As evidence of their new commitment to containment structures, Soviet officials have issued warnings that the generation pressurized-water reactors, now nearing completion at Novosibirsk, have been the worst of all.
OVVICHNIKON IS QUICK to assert that, contrary to some Western reports, the new steam reactors will indeed be built with containment structures.
The second factor in this change of policy is a new plan to build 500-megawatt-sized reactors for direct steam heating in two Soviet cities. The plan is a return to the off-district central steam-heating plant; since steam heat cannot be effectively transmitted for any great distance, the reactor must be oriented or adjacent to services.
A recent article in Kommunist, a party journal, has been widely reported in Western countries as questioning the prevailing dogma of nuclear development. Written by Nikolai A. Dolezhlah, a prominent professor of the environmental hazards of desincentive siting and operation of nuclear plants.
While this article has been read in the media as suggesting the rise of an incipient threat to humanity, it emphatically denotes that Douléliat is ant-neutral. They dismiss his remote-sensing device.
From all available signs, the Soviet Union will remain committed to an expansive supply of electricity. It was Lenin who wrote that "Communism in Power, power plus energy."
Bruce Babbitt, Democratic governor of Arizona, visited the Soviet Union from Nov. 23 to Dec. 3 with other governors on a trip that included the National Government Association.
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