I will do it
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 90. No.104
Both basketball teams fall flat
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, March 3. 1980
See stories and pictures back page
BEN BIGLER/Kansan staff
Telephone line
KANU's 7th annual Campaign for Excellence ended late Saturday night after a week of seeking contributions from the station's listeners. Frank Baxter, Topka junior, plugs an ear in order to hear a contributor other noise in the room. The fund drive.
conducted to help finance the purchase of special equipment for the station, easily surpassed its $30,000 goal, according to Richard Stuck, director of development for the station. See related story, page eight.
SenEx urges tightening of financial aid standards
By BILL MENEZES Staff Reporter
Expressing concern that the office of financial was not enduring some illegally required changes, Senate executive committee Friday forwarded tightier financial and standards to the agency.
The report from the Committee on Financial Aid to students said that the 150 student teachers and 80 semester students was lower than the standard set for admission of juniors in the program.
The standards, proposed by the Senate, require students to be proficient in math and would require most students receiving financial aid to have a cumulative 2.0 grade point average after their fourth semester at the university.
The current standards, which allow students nine semesters to achieve a cumulative 2.0 grade point average, were optimized by SenEx members as being too low.
"It is a bloody disgrace that the standards have been so low," John Bremner, SenEx secretary, said. "It seems strange we would have had no nurses who have 24 hours and only a 12-hour nurse."
than the 2.0 grade point average required for junior standing in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the report said.
Beginning in August, it will also be lower
"I'm worried about problems students face," he said, "Coming here is a big change for a lot of students."
But Evelyn Swartz, SenEx member, said the tighter standards might be just what some students needed.
maybe a little pressure on them to produce would be good," she said.
The School of Journalism and the School of Education require a cumulative 2.2 grade point average for admission. The School of Education requires a cumulative 2.5 grade point average in its major courses.
Students who do not meet the grade standards set by the office of financial aid face possible termination of their aid.
The report from the Committee on Financial Aid to Students said that the office of the Department of Education screen out ineligible students before the students received aid for the following reasons:
SenEx passed a motion expressing its dissatisfaction with this situation.
SenEx members also expressed concern that students on academic probation for low grades were still receiving financial aid in some cases.
In other business, SenEx forwarded to the University Council a request by the Homecoming Committee for early class meetings and discussed long-range University planning.
The KU Homecoming Committee requested that classes on Oct. 17 be dismissed at 2:30 p.m so that students could participate in Homecoming activities.
A SexEx subcommittee presented its three-paragraph preamble on long-range University planning proposals.
Washburn Student Senate votes to stop ASK dues
The preamble said that a committee should be given the task of monitoring the University planning process.
Bv SUSAN SCHOENMAKER
Staff Reporter
Membership dues for the Associated Students of Kansas were eliminated Thursday night at Washburn University, and Friday evening at Ridgeman 14-10 Washburn Student Senate vote.
"It is a money issue," Libby Ragadale, Washburn University student body president, said. "But if the Senate thought it would be better for funding cut would it have been considered."
ASK, a student lobby organization of which KU is a member, was founded at Washburn University in 1948 as executive offices in the Washburn Student Union. The Washburn Senate voted to approve the establishment.
"The $2,000 in ASK funding could be spread around campus programs. We appointed the campus director at the beginning of the year, and we usually never heard
Washburn student fees this year
WASHUBUR UNIVERSITY has 5,000 students and paid a $2,250 membership fee. Every other ASK member school pays a membership fee of 25 cents per enrolled student. At 25 cents a person. Washubur University has a membership fee of any members dues or a $1,000 fee reduction.
"We've always been told the flat fee is to give us a break because we donated the office space, "Ragdale said. "I suppose it was negative." We negate it. We've basically negating now.
generated $8,000 less than last year because of an enrollment decrease, according to Ragsdale.
Ragadale said that there had been a month's worth of work in more than 10 hours, although there was a part-time enrollment. The student activity fee of $10 was not collected from students.
"They always paid a flat rate over what they needed to pay, and picked up the office rent," Tempelton said. "The whole problem is based on money."
CRAIG TEMPLETON, chairman of the ASK board of directors, said money was at the root of the Washburn problem.
Although the Senate does not pay rent for the ASK office space. Raudszal estimated
the value of the space to be between $1,500
and $2,500 per year. The Washburn Union was paid for with student fees.
Templeton said, "I'd hate to consider waxhamp allother, they need us and we need them. The indication is that we have a good chance ofumping it if they don't see us at a high priority."
Templeton said the ASK executive board would be working on other methods of collecting membership dues from Washburn.
ASK had been on the edge of a funding at Washburn for several years, Ragsdale said. For the last two years the vote for cutting membership was close.
"This year it finally went in the other direction," Rauddale said. "A lot of senators
felt that ASK was geared toward state schools. ASK began at Washburn and it doesn't have to overlook Washburn."
WASHBURN IS UNIQUE among ASK schools because it is not a Rebutts school.
Kelly Langdon, Washburn ASK campus director, said that it was easy for those not involved in ASK to overlook ASK contributions to Washburn. She said, for example, that three bills relating to the ASK program were introduced in the Kansas Senate and House.
A bill in the Senate Ways and Means Committee would raise the state aid for graduate credit hours from $11 to $21, bringing it even with undergraduate state
Another bill before the committee would
raise both graduate and undergraduate funding per credit hour to $24. In the House Education Committee a similar bill to raise state aid to $2,50 is pending.
Langdon said Bob Bingaman, ASK executive director, said he would testify in favor of the bills.
Lucy Smith, ASK legislative director, said she didn't have enough personal contact with Washburn to comment on the legitimacy of their complaints about ASK.
HOWEVER, SHE SAID, if Washburn dropped out of ASK, it would detract from the organization.
Ragsdale said, "The ASK executive director, Bob Bingaman, said he would work specifically for Washburn but that didn't appease too many people."
Farmers say low-flying balloons rattle cattle
By DON MUNDAY Staff Reporter
Some Kansas farmers have been angered recently by hot air balloonists who evidently have no regard for the feelings of udders.
They've been angered so much that a bill has been introduced in the Kansas House of Representatives that would impose altitude minipumps for hot air balloons.
Tom Slattery, R-Topeka, introduced the hill after constituents complained that lowlying balloonists were scaring cattle and costing farmers both time and money.
A HOUSE COMMITTEE, however, has decided to try to solve the problem through letters. The committee will send letters to be sent to balloon-related organizations are expected to be approved.
"Balloonists sometimes fly too low over pastures, and when they have to regain altitude they propane gas burners make a difference." But balloonists are around and hear this noise and look
up, you see this huge thing making all this noise. It has a tendenza to scare them."
Martin Smith, a Shawnee County dairy farmer, said that during the past few summers his cows had been terrified by lowly balloons.
"I've never seen cat spooked by anything like they are by these hot air balloons," Smith said. "It puts real fear into them."
SMITH SAID that dairy cow's that had been frightened by balloons would often not produce much milk for the rest of the day, that there had been even worse consequences.
"A neighbor of mine had his cows start to run after a really low-flying balloonist came over, and they ran right over some freshly-
"I know a farmer who had a 2,800-pound buck break down a fire and hearing one of these things." Smith said, "and after a bull gets through beamed skin, he gets mad."
There have been other times when farmers have lost money from balloon-induced damage, he said.
bulldozed materials," he said. "They tore their udders and lose, and up selling them for market because they weren't good for milking anymore."
However, such udder destruction is not as widespread as some farmers make it seem, according to Alan Miller of the Lawrence BalloonPort.
"We've only had three complaints in the last three years, none of them serious." The Milwaukee police avoid an area if we know a particular farmer is irritable toward balloons. It really isn't.
WHATEVER PROBLEMS there are usually can be traced to one inconsiderate balloonist, Miller said.
Ted McAnally, operators inspector for the Federal Aviation Administration office in Kansas City, Mo., agreed that most livestock owners are not responsible for livestock problems.
"One bad balloonist can cause a lot of problems." he said.
percentage of the total who are making problems for everyone." McAnally said.
The proposed Kansas bill would prohibit balloons from flying lower than 500 feet above the ground in rural areas, unless they were taking off or landing. McAally said.
In congested areas, that limit would be raised to 1,000 feet above the highest obstacle within 2,000 feet of the balloon.
"We're talking about just a few, a small
THEOSE RESTRICTIONS, however, would virtually duplicate existing federal aviation laws. Miller and McAnally said.
"The Kansas bill is basically the same as our regulations." McAnally said.
"It's kind of frightening," Miller said. "The bill could run the sport for all balloonists. After all, the fun of ballooning is not reaching 3,000 feet and then just
The difference between the two, he said, is that the Kansas provision species livestock can be managed in small rural areas. FAA regulations, he said, mandate a minimum 300 feet above ground.
Chess concentration
See COWS page eight
Syavash Khajje, (right) Shirza, Iranophom婆, ponders his whole walk while Neale Ekgren, Parkville Village junior, watches and waits. Khajje, a member of the KU Chess Club, took part in a simulational exhibition in the main lobby of the union Saturday evening. The team also introduced two new members, pitched a club member against up to seven opponents at the same time.
Brown's supporters starting slowly here
By SCOTT FAUST
Staff Reporter
They waited patiently yesterday morning for the start of a 9:30 organizational meeting for Brown's Lawrence supporters. The meeting was to be.
Hamill, Charles Benjamin, Brown's Kansas coordinator and a political science professor at Bethel College, and Vic Phillipson, Topека campaign coordinator, had planned to meet with interested Lawrence people to discuss their candidate
In the living room of the Delta Ch
fraternity house sat three Jerry Brown
campaign coordinators. Nearby, a table
with slacks of stickers and literature.
This was grass roots politics in its seedling stage. None of the five people invited by Brown's Lawrence coordinator Chris Hamill. Collys nonmonore showed us.
Benjamin said Brown's strategy after his poor showings in the Maine and Iowa
But the three were undaunted by the non meeting.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, who began the campaign ahead of a rapidly rising Carter, is now expected to be predicted that low voter counts for him in Illinois and New York in a couple weeks are up.
caucasus and a 10 percent share in the New Hampshire primary last Tuesday was to hang back and wait for the April Western primaries.
But, he said, Carter has been saved by "mama from heaven" in the form of an Iranian crisis that has swelled American patriotism.
BOTH THE KANSAS and Wisconsin presidential primaries are April 1.
"If Kennedy drops out of this thing, and leaves it to Brown," Benjamin said, "it could get really interesting."
Benjamin said Kennedy had been urged to enter the campaign because many Democrats had thought Brown could successfully challenge Carter
"Kennedy's expectations upon entering
See BROWN page eight
Owl Society votes to admit women
Members of the Owl Society, a junior men's honor society, voted unanimously yesterday to change their constitution. The Owl Society, according to John Rogers, president
"We changed the constitution to read 'students' instead of 'men,'" he said. Under Title IX a couple years ago, the Overseas Educational Operation of the University and we decided we wanted to operate within the university because there are some advantages."
TITLE IX requirements state that a university cannot give "significant support to organizations that are not co-educational."
In 1977, the Owl Society drew criticism when it voted not to become co-eed and lost its privilege to a faculty advisor; office space and Student Senate罢免.
Rogers said the society now would be eligible for a faculty adviser from a university or an external services. He did not think the society would receive an office or Senate support.
Shelter's lesbian contacts debated
Rv ANN SHIELDS
Staff Reporter
Because of a promise of confidentiality, city commissioners may have to decide whether to approve city funds for a local project. If so, they can simply by choosing whose star to believe.
The Kaw Valley Pro-Family Forum, formerly Citizens Against ERA, has acclaimed its support of the Service of offering lesbian counseling, but WTCS officials have said they were only serving as a go-between for a group of lesbians who did not want to announce their
WTCS coordinator Pam Johnston said she would not release names unless the lesbians approved.
"The women who are leading that group have asked to remain anonymous," Johnston said. "That was the whole point, and we intend to respect that wish."
THE FORUM is trying to block a WTCS request for $50,000 in community development funds with what Johnston called slanderous and libelous accusations.
Jan Hoover, a member of the forum, said she thought the lesbians could have advertised their own phone numbers.
"There's clearly no valid reason for such an organization to go through WTCS," Hoover said.
Johnston disagreed.
**FOUR WOMEN will testify on behalf of the forum 7 p.m. Tuesday in the city commission meeting room, 900 Massachusetts, and another meeting rooms whether to annotate the WOUM testifies.**
Homosexuals would only encourage this negative attitude, she said.
But Johnston said she did not think a volunteer's sexual preference affected her work.
SHE SAID THE CENTER could remain
Hoover said she thought lesbians could not effectively counsel battered women.
"When someone is in trouble, especially a woman who has been battered or who is going through a messy divorce, her first boss is there, and she that is hates men," she said.
"We don't believe it should be tax-funded because I don't believe this is the type of lifestyle Lawrence citizens would promote." Barbara Hanna, forum member, said.
open even if funding, which would be used to renovate care center, were denied.
Hover said she did not want to close the home, but would rather have it managed by the Salvation Army, the Douglas County Department or a group of local churches.
"The shelter house is an important service," she said, "and we need to preserve it.
"But I think it could be better handled in someone else's hands."
JOHNSTON SAID the shelter, which has been in Lawrence about four years, had兵役 and received donations from the First Presbyterian and Plymouth Congregational.
Three of its more than 30 workers are paid.
Hover said she also thought the center should have professional counselors and an age limit for women it would counsel.
Even if the city approves funding for WTCS, Hoover said, the controversy is important because it calls attention to the center.
"Before, probably 99.9 percent of the city did not know about WTCs," she said, "but everyone needs to because it's an important service for the community."
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