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February 12, 1980
Tuition change needed
Students who were hoping they could claim Kansas residency for purposes of tuition and fee benefits within the state have been encouraged to enlist their supply of patience instead.
A bill that would have shortened the time a person must live in the state to be eligible for in-state tuition and fees at Regents schools from 12 months to six months was killed last week by the Kansas Legislature House Ways and Means Committee. The committee bill, sponsored by the Senate Committee, regarded the same subject and sent it to the full House only after deleting a section that would have had a similar effect.
Legislative and Regents officials cite loss of revenue, (what else?) as the reason for the one bill's death and the other's revision.
Bill Kauffman, Board of Regents staff attorney, says that reducing the eligibility waiting period would have meant a loss of between $135,000 and $230,000 in tuition and fee income if it had been in effect during the past fiscal year—undeniably a large sum of money.
Nevertheless, legislators seem to have forgotten the primary reason for increasing the waiting period in 1975 from the then six months to the present 12 months—soaring enrollments. The prolonged waiting period for residency
eligibility was passed in an effort to discourage out-of-state students from flooding Regents schools and colleges, drowning in-state student applicants.
Now, however, despite consecutive semesters of record enrollments, administrators are fretting about future enrollment figures falling—and losing the accompanying revenue. The answer is lying on the legislators' table instead of serving it up to them. Many legislators are ignoring their original rationale and standing behind their ubiquitous financial scapegoat.
The surviving bill would reduce the residency waiting period for an almost insignificant number of people and is so complicated to apply that, as Del Winters said, "it will chancelor points out, it would cause administrative problems."
Shankel also points out that the shorter residency requirement killed by the committee would have brought the regents schools in line with state community colleges, which requires only a six-month waiting period.
In addition, he says, it would have been a courtesy to people who transplant themselves to Kansas—people who work here, pay taxes here and for a year have to pay college tuition as if they lived somewhere else. If the situation doesn't change, maybe they will change schools.
Student legal service needs to be expanded
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By MARGARET BERLIN
The true test of student autonomy over student services funded by student activity fees is about to be seen.
The Student Legal Services program may soon be expanded from its present size to provide an additional service to providing in-court representation to students. This will become reality if the Student Senate's overwhelming approval of the legislation is upheld by the administration.
This expansion was recommended to the Student Senate by the Legal Services Board. The committee conducted a review of conducting an in-depth and meticulous review of the services provided since the semester began.
The Board's report presented some very positive results. A survey of the student body indicated that 92 percent of those who attended the program were representation if it would not raise their fees. Eighty-four percent they favored in-court representation even if it would mean a fee increase up to $1.00 a student must pay. Fourteen more pay $1.25 a semester for the program.
With such high student support for expansion of the Student Legal Services program, the Legal Services Board surveyed 26 major institutions throughout the nation to find out how widespread this new institution surveyed offered some type of legal services program. Court representation for students was provided by two-thirds of the programs.
CONSULTANTS in the legal profession were then asked to read and review the book before they could be react to it based upon their professional experience. Of the nine who replied, six are members of the Douglas County Bar Association, eight of the nine agreed with the Board's recommendation that in-court representation be provided at least in some types of cases.
Fully confident that the expansion of the Student Legal Services program into the area of limited in-court representation had the support of both the student body and
legal professionals, and knowing that a majority of major universities throughout the nation provide such services, the Legal Aid Center should be prepared to imendation to the Student Senate. Incortment representation should be added to the KU program in the following areas: 1) landlord-tenant and rental housing matters; 2) housing issues and residential matters; and 4) administrative matters.
THESE RECOMMENDATIONS were approved by the Student Senate Feb. 6, with the vote overwhelming in favor.
The sentiment of the student body was gauged by a survey-support for expansion was overwhelming.
The advice of legal professionals was sought. The responses favored expansion to in-court representation.
A survey of our nation's major universities showed that a majority offered the same services that were approved by the Board of Regents. The University of Kansas is a leader in higher education, it should keep up with universities across the land by at least allowing students to provide for themselves the kinds of needs that strongly need and supported as this one.
CLEARLY, IT is the will of the student body that the Student Legal Services program be expanded to include limited incourt representation. Because this is a new position, he should have and because the decision to expand was well researched and cautiously made, the decision of the student body and of the Student Senate should be honored. As Abraham, Lincoln once said, "1 for all government assists in hearing its burdens."
Those who bear this burden—the students have—must have the services they provide shall be limited in court representation. Balasar Gracan said it in 1974. "What the multitude says is so,
Let's hope the multitude retains that prerogative in 1980.
Margaret Berlin is student body president of the University of Kansas and a Bonner Springs senior majoring in political science and German.
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The Santa Fe jail more than 425 million damage to the prison alone. The cost of cleaning up the maze, identifying bodies and finding them will be added. The transfer of Santa Fe prisoners to institutions across the country is likely to be more the overcrowding of those prisoners.
for too long. No one seems to give much or a damn. And that's a shame.
Costly, unnecessary horror. U.S. police officials and the apathy of politicians could be more effective than they cannot be absolved of all blame for what went on inside the prison. They committed criminal acts—behms, inhuman atrocities, and let opportunities pass to prevent the riot.
The system fails and fails and fails again. And each breakdown ends tragically as those caught in the hopelessness of the prison system turn on each other.
U.S. prison system is tragic failure
More than 30 men died last week in New York after a fire at an institution designed to hold 800 prisoners, 1,136 convicts turned on their jailers and one another in a human explosion that will be handled by firefighters.
And it never should have happened. It should have been prevented, could have been prevented. Yet, it wasn't.
Experts in the field of crime and imprisonment have been warning the government for years that the U.S. prison system is failing. One wrote a few months ago:
"How soon our nation's prisons will explode one no one knows, but they cannot be expected to absorb many more inmates now in jammed inside the prison walls."
The failure of the prison system has been ignored too long, and like a spoiled child, the system and the people in it will be heard. Warning. For God's sake, someone, he felt.
In the case of Santa Fe, prophetic words.
Unheeded words, urgent words. Why didn't some one listen?
kate
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What prisons教 is hate -hate and frustration. Convicts teach the institutions and release the prisoners from crime they didn't already know, time a bureaucracy that makes the IRS look simple, broken promises, and an unwilling victim of injustice that returns to rage, and becomes tragedy.
The American prison system has degenerated to an become unwise, ineffecible institution. As the governor of Pennsylvania, he saw the first penitentiaries as institutions to save the lives and souls of criminals. His penitentiary in Philadelphia had been a center for Bibles to reflect on their sins. Food, warmth and the concern of the corn;unity were this plan to rehabilitate the prisoners.
and they are often hurt when tensions turn into roids. Prison wardens are often political appointees, with little experience in the field of incarceration. There are too few psychologists, social workers, teachers and educators. The education programs are underfunded. The work programs teach few skills that are useful outside the prison walls.
That's what happened at Santa Fe. Frustrations built to a breaking point, and once the system snapped, there was no way to contain the ferocity of the prisoners. They were fired on by police officers, who committed atrocities and sent trenches through every prison official in the country.
Every prison in the country has the potential to become another Santa Fe or McAlester or Attica. Reform has been too long in coming; funds have been too short.
Modern prisons little resemble the first penitentiary. They provide little comfort and no rehabilitation. They are overcrowded—the there are more than 300,000 inmates in state prisons intended to house two-thirds that number—and become more so.
Staffs are untrained. Security forces are often nice men in the wrong job—untrained to head off potentially explosive situations—
McCarthyism had unknown victims
I CAME OUT to the West Coast to meet with certain people in the motion picture field and work constantly in the theater. I loved it. In seven years there was not one film or television
I entered this country in 1946, arriving from South Africa with a talent I believed in. I had the will to learn, to work hard, to use my intelligence to help someone very naive when it came to politics, in government or industry. All I cared about was becoming a fine performer, perhaps a great one. For me, America meant the people, the people of the country and the right to try and fulfill it if I could.
By VONNE GODFREY
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RESEDA. Call me at the other day and took down the scrabbits I put away on a back shelf 20 years ago when I was a little girl. I reminded now that it has been 25 years since the heyday of McCarthym, and I wanted to look at the past again quietly in my own
I NEVER saw those lists. Has anyone? I have no idea what they actually contained. But these people did exist. I know because I had and I was one of the lucky ones—I found out.
A great deal has been written over the years about the activities of the investment industry during that era. But where are the words about the unknown names, unknown them and unknown who?
I am not talking about the minor names who were only somewhat known but rather about the more important people who were so invisible in their grief purge that they were not important enough to be called to testify about Communism or to ask asked to account for themselves in any way.
They were insignificant little names, to be sure, some just starting out and kept on of their own and the television industries for peculiar reasons. They tended vaguely familiar, names misspeppled and confused with other names in that turn may come from yet other names—all kinds of names.
THEIR NAMES were written down, probably in alphabetical order, on the very same pieces of paper that contained the names of the women, and some dark drawers—but with one different these people couldn't emerge because they have a career in the first place.
The irony is that in all likelihood, as late as today, almost all have no idea that they were among the "select."
job to show for it. I was offered film roles at various times but before anything could be made final, the offerings were withdrawn without explanation.
Even at that time, when fear and furtiveness were rampant, there were some courageous souls.
One man in a TV film-casting office man wait until his staff had left for the day to whisper, "Get your name off the list somehow or you'll never work."
me we mace that I would never reveal to anyone the fact that he had told me. I will keep my promise. I began to understand perhaps why I'd always been overlooked.
HOW DOES one go about getting a name erased from a list that no one acknowledges to exist?
I discovered that the method was not as devious as the one used to plan it there in the past, and because the process went through such dehydration, it was impossible for me even today, years later, I still carry scarf.
A writer friend on Variety contacts a representative of the House Un-American Activities Committee and arranged for me to meet quietly with him. He was able to walk in and talk with her, fitted with that of another—a name so similar that it was obvious an error had been made.
I'm not sure it was worth it.
I was being mistaken for someone else.
He told me I would receive letters from the workers, who would give me one or two other places clearing up the issue. I eventually did, and then I had to make sure that people in the industry were ready.
AND HER crime? She had once contributed to a publication called "Our World," but, it turned out, the committee had finally decided that the publication was of no importance whatsoever. But her name had never been taken off another list—"Our crew are just too busy keeping up with the tremendous work load," the HAU man told me.
I was advised to have a notarized affidavit drawn up saying that it was now verified that I was not, nor had I ever been (etc. etc.) and providing a brief explanation about the similarity of the names. I was impressed by this carry piece of paper to every casting director, producer—every single person I had contacted over a period of years.
And so I made the rounds with a pile of copies of the affidavit—months and months of retraining my steps—pleading that the judge understandably gave a little time I hauled one out. If
the kind of humiliation that takes its toll. At the end of each day, I went home and bitterly cried myself to sleep.
Miraculously, my name must have disappeared from something, because I began to work- first at NBC, then CBS, then WB, then HBO, then sixteen years later, then just beginning. Not a word was said, not a single remark was made by anyone, but people were engaged in now and talent agencies were interested. I felt have felt a great deal of joy but I didn't.
THEN ONE day I was called into a major TV studio to read for a good role. Behind the desk was a very young man who displayed a charming and very minor executive. I never met him before.
"Your name sounds very familiar," he announced loudly, "it's very much like me."
nounced loudly, "tell me about your old." He was new—was it possible he had an old I? I opened my mouth and there were no more hands in the room. I out of his office, drove out of the parking lot and went home. His words were no different from anything said in the normal course of a job interview. He was not any time, but to me, at that moment, it meant a whole lot more. I had no more courage left to show that paper of pencil he brought, or prove anything more about myself.
I WALKED away hoping to find again, somehow, the clean, fresh feelings I'd started out with, the bright hopes that once meant so much.
I felt dirtied and cheated and inconsequential.
I looked for a long time, but found only that fear had cooled too many things for her. She didn't know how to handle ability and, above all, had glowed along the way with a glow that was essential to a fine performer.
With very private tears I put my scrapbooks away in that closet and they were in. In spite of everything else, this was the book I wanted to read, do the letters and other paraphernalia
went into the strongbox with my citizenship papers and have been kept faithfully ever since.
I visit New York now and then. Each time I do, I make a point to catch a glimpse of the Statue of Liberty out there in the water. Only those of us who are not born here, who enter this country for the first time and, when we come up close, can know the very special feelings that But tat at the heart is no longer there for me. With time, one sees her differently. Her beacon isn't meant for me anymore, nor should it be. I was managed to find a place for them coming here and for the hope they bring along with them.
LOOKING BACK I make no apologies for my fears, my feelings, or the quality my stamina. If endurance must be judged, then I'd like it to be those who run the race
How many of them were there—200? 2,000! I doubt if we'll ever know for sure. Most were beaten before they ever started learning about the world anywhere in any book or report on the data of that era. We were the smallest fry, the inevitable numbers gathered into the net along with the others. Our existence added new information to our documentation. We were inconsequential.
If, by some remote chance, those lists are gathering dust somewhere waiting for another time in another era, with blank spaces at the bottom to be filled in as needed, then most of the old names can be crossed off now. Those unfamiliar faces find their identities in other ways. Of necessity, we have to go on to other things.
IS THERE now who will throw open the books for these people—allow them to read and use them, about the turn they have taken. For many it may also restore some dignity to the wasted hours, or weeks, or in some cases, all of it, may restore some self-steem.
It's owed to them.
It's owed to them.
Vonne Godfrey is a housewife who occasionally contributes articles to the press.
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