THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 90, No.105
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Tuesday, March 4.1980
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Bottoms up
It's warm-up time for Wee Wiggins, a Lawrence Parks and Recreation class for three- to five-year-olds. Jud, practicing the first step of somersaulting, puts intense effort into getting his up over head. To his
Women's home drops request for city development funding
Staff Reporter
By ANN SHIELDS
To protect its workers from personal attacks, the Women's Transitional Care Services, a shelter home for battered women, will withdraw its request to Pam Johnston, WTCS coordinator, said yesterday.
The Kaw Valley Pro-Family Form, formerly Lawrence Cities Against ERA, had accused the center of offering homosexual counseling and had asked the city commission to reject a WTCs request for $30,000 in community development funds. The city would have gown before the commission toughed.
WTCS officials have denied the forum's charges, saying they were only acting as a be-between for members of a lesbian support group who did not want to advertise their names.
However, Johnston said that because the commission had no rules for presenting evidence and hearing testimony, its meetings could not fairly resolve the forum's charges.
LAWRENCE MAYBarkey Clark said he also was afraid that forum members would make perk
actions.
"I didn't want to see this turn a mudbling contest," he said. "WTSC provides a valuable
service to this community, and I don't want to see it slandered in any way."
However, Jan Hoover, a forum member, said she had not named any WTCS workers in the chairs.
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"This is not a personal vendetta." Hoover said.
"It's a request for some information and truth." She said she was more concerned that the shelter
... request for some information and truth.
She said she was more concerned that the shelter
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could be offering lesbian counseling while operating without professional counselors.
OHOVER SAID that allbuthe she did not think the shelter's decision to drop the funding request was an admission of guilt, she was afraid that other Lawrence citizens would.
"I just think WTCS is afraid to get into it," she said.
Johnston said the shelter would remain open without the community development funds.
"It just means we won't be moving into a bigger house, which we could have," she said. "We'll just move to the suburb."
The SHELTER had planned to use the $30,000 to renovate the Bert Nash house at Fourth and Maine
Clark said he thought the commission would approve the money to improve the house. The
house's occupants probably will be named before summer, he said.
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"We have a predeceit for fixing up an old building and using it for a social service with the Senior Center," he said, "so this is an extension of that idea."
She said she did not think the controversy would hurt future WTTS chances for city funding.
"Their request was not refused this time." Francisco said.
BUT HOVER said the forum would continue working against WTCS and hoped to present its case in a final draft.
"We are going to the meeting prepared as if nothing had happened," she said. "I don't want this to happen."
If there's a problem, we need to solve it. And if
there isn't, we need to know how we can stop
walking.
However said she would ask the commission to use the Bert Nash house as a shelter to be run by another organization, such as the Red Cross, the Army or the Douglas County Health Department.
Tighter aid policy problems foreseen
By BILL MENEZES
Staff Reporter
A proposal that would reduce the time between students' failure to achieve "reasonable academic progress" could help create problems for many students, Jerry Rogers, director of the office financial aid, said.
Most financial aid is now awarded on a yearly basis, Rogers said, and a student who did not maintain academic eligibility during the fall semester could still receive aid in the spring.
"Once the award is made," he said,
theoretically, student could not poverty in the first
semester. "You don't know how to pay."
"We're looking at it as a commitment for a full year."
The committee proposed that the office of financial and device a procedure for "cutting off aid to ineligible students immediately following the announcement" to maintain reasonable academic progress."
A proposal from the University Senate Committee on Financial Aid to Students recommends that students' academic progress be monitored on a semester basis.
IN A REPORT to the Senate executive committee, the committee said that although aid was awarded on a yearly basis, payment of the second semester was limited, and no deficient semester violated eligible requirements.
Rogers said this could cause problems for students.
"There are a lot of kids who can turn it around in a semester," he said. "I'm worried about students with year-long commitments, like residence hall contracts."
Rogers also said some students could not be notified about their aid termination in time to make
"What about a guy who lives in Baltimore, Md." he said. "He might have already left to come here and he might not find out on his aid but he gets all the way out here.
The time frame should be considered."
The office of financial aid also may not have enough time to evaluate eligibility between the time grades are issued and the time students returned, Roens said.
"If they think we have time, we'll try," Rogers said.
IN THE ACADEMIC year 1976-1977 the office of financial and student salts 91 students of aid termination for academic reasons, Rogers said. In that year, 5,718 students requested aid and 3,000 repaid.
Rogers said that although 91 notice were some, were overturned on appeal because of ex-
"I imagine the percentages are higher now," he said.
The office of financial aid does not keep separate records of students who receive aid while in school.
The Committee on Financial Aid to Students suggested in its report to SenEx that each school supply a listing of all students on academic records to the office of financial aid to refer to at enrollment.
The LST would be used to determine students' mellel for financial aid, even though the student was already enrolled.
Rogers said that grade reports and student transcripts were consulted when determining and eligibility before the beginning of the academic year.
Students newly admitted to the University were eligible for aid, he said, because admission to the University was considered reasonable academic progress.
Staff Reporter
By BLAKE GUMPRECHT
TOPEAK-State Sen. Charlie Angell no longer has much hope for a bill he cosponsored that could cut in-state student fees (mostly in half).
All it took was an afternoon in which almost everyone at a Senate Education Committee proposal, introduced by Angell, R-Plains, and State Elen. Elwane Pomeroy, R-
"Realistically," Angell said after the hearing, "I don't think it has much chance of becoming law this year."
The bill calls for a significant change in the method for funding higher education in Kansas, instituting a voucher system similar to the GI Bill for state residents.
KU students who live in-state pay an annual tuition of $716.20.
IF THE BILL were in effect, the students
could be responsible for only about $450. The state would pay the remainder through the voucher system.
Full-time students pay about $23 a credit hour. If the bill becomes law, the rate may be increased to $60 a credit hour, because its general fund allotment would be reduced.
But students would be responsible for only $15 of the $20 charged a credit hour because of a $35 voucher supplied by the state.
Subcommittee to examine Med Center funds request
If enacted, the bill would make higher education funding more dependent on year-to-year enrollment. Accordingly, higher education funding would be more responsive to students.
Almost everyone at the Education Committee hearing liked the basic principle behind the proposal, calling it a "bright idea" and a "fresh approach."
By STEVE MAUN
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Members of a Kansas Senate Ways and Means subcommittee will visit the University of Kansas Medical Center to discuss the Center's budget requests to discuss the Med Center's budget requests.
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The subcommittee members will investigate the Med Centers' requests for additional faculty in the School of Nursing, funds to replace the expiring federal support for the School of Medicine, and support the family practice and outreach programs.
According to Tom Greeseon, associate director of business and fiscal affairs, the Med Center may have a problem paying for services. The government eliminates $850,000 in funds.
President Carter has proposed cutting funds, which are part of the 1979 Health and Manpower Capitation Act that rewarded medical schools with financial aid for increasing the size of their entering classes each year.
The Kansas House Ways and Means committee has funded the report on the hospital's efforts to expand its meandling $700,000 to renovate hospital rooms in the old hospital which would increase its staffing.
Carlin did not recommend any capital improvements for the Med Center although funds to renovate the old hospital were requested.
The University has requested replacement money for the federal funds from the Kansas Legislature.
The House subcommittee also recommended cutting Carlin's recommendation for eight additional nursing faculty positions and reducing $30,000 from the family practice program.
The Med Center's budget proposal will be decided by the Kansas Legislature before July1.
Simpson airs views at forum
By JON BLONGEWICZ
Staff Reporter
John Simpson, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, touched all political bases yesterday when he spoke before a group of former law school's Noon Forum in Green Hall.
Simpson, former Salina state senator who is seeking Robert Tolet's Senate seat, sent a letter to Sen. John Lennon that windfall profits tax, gas rationing and solar energy, while opposing the draft and impeachment.
In a talk sponsored by the newly formed Kansas University Democratic Law Students, Simpson said that there were two primary issues of economy and the character of the candidate.
Simpson, a KU business and law school graduate, concentrated his economic discussions on energy and a balanced federal budget.
"I think the federal budget needs to be balanced," he said. "But everyone is kidding themselves if they think it will help us go along to solve all our problems. It is not."
SIMPSON, A Republican turned Democrat, said that many things must be considered when discussing improvement in the job market. A policy, tax cuts and especially energy.
"We can reduce the dependence on foreign oil," Simpson said. "Our government must promote an energy policy of energy self-sufficiency, what we have in an intelligent manner."
Nuclear power is not the answer, according to Simpson. He said that he had to be careful not to expand the United States should not expand in nuclear energy. He called it too expensive.
He said that economists did not agree on many things, but that they did agree that a solid energy policy was a starting point.
"I'm sorry we've gone this far," Simpson said.
He said the controversial Wolf Creek nuclear reactor near Burlingen, should be converted into a coal plant. However, he was against dismantling nuclear plants already in operation.
ONE ANSWER to the energy problem,
Simpson said, is the windfall profits tax
now being debated in Congress.
Simpson criticized the committee debating the tax, saying that it was considering using the money to give tax cuts that would "fan the flames of inflation."
"The windfall profits tax will help the conservation program," he said.
Instead, he said, the money should be used for energy research and alternate sources of energy, such as solar power.
He said that Dole supported the altered version of the windfall profits tax because of his involvement in special interests.
"They are committing too much money to tax relief and not enough on the development of a good energy policy," Simsman said.
"We need a strong windfall profits tax, not one like Bob Dole wants," he said.
John Simpson
SIMPSON ALSO said there was little doubt that oil company profits were too high.
"There is too much concentration of economic power in too few places in this country," he said.
Simpson said oil company involvement in the coal and uranium industries was something that needed to be guarded against.
He suggested gas rationing as another possible solution to the energy problem. He said that he did not advocate rationing and that it may not be far from having to ration gas.
Simpson said that gas rationing could come in several forms, but that it was a better solution than a 50 cent per gallon tax imposed by some presidential candidates.
He opposed the draft and registration.
"The draft is something for a time of war," Simpson said. "We are not in a time of war."
Simpson said registration was of little value and the time saved in gathering an army was minimal. According to Simpson, the money used for registration could be
used to improve the present voluntary forces and to strengthen the reserves.
SIMPSON CRITICIZED Dole for his "special interests," "broken promises" and use of his Senate seat to advance his political ambitions.
"Dole received more than $10,000 from 'Oil and gas interests for his presidential campaign.' It is too early to determine. Legislature shows that I am not for special interests," he said. "I've made enemies of the oil industry."
"One problem with my campaign is that special interests are not contributing to the campaign."
Simpson said Dole broke promises when he became the ranking minority member on the Senate Agricultural Committee and then quit to join the Finance Committee. Simpson said that Dole used the Finance Department to advance his own political ambitions.
Simpson said that after Dole's attempt at the presidency, Dole was coming back to Kansas to campain for his Senate seat.
"He is treating the Kansas Senate seat as a consolation prize," he said. "Kansas deserves better."
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