Tuesday, March 19, 1974
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Abuse of Food Stamps Believed to Be Rare
Can any student go down to the welfare department and get a free ride with the rental car?
Bruce Riames, income maintenance worker of Douglas County Social Service,
Food stamps enable any person whose income is less than $185 to buy food.
This figure of $183 includes deductions. For example, medical costs or tuition to a university could be deducted from a salary exceeding $183. If the remainder was less than $183 the person could still be eligible for food stamps.
Roades admitted that it was possible for students to take advantage of the Food Stamp Program. He said that if a student was getting financial assistance from his parents, their assistance wasn't taken into account and the student volunteered the information.
"It is easy to get food stock aid." Rhodes said. "All you need is to apply to the welfare department and submit verification of income."
In the past years, Rhoades said, the welfare department would check the tax returns of the parents and see if they had any deductions because of these students.
"Some parents would claim the deduction and not give the student a dime so this would be an automatic withdrawal."
Most importantly, Riboades said, students usually report to the Social Service Office the amount of parental assistance they receive.
But according to Jerry Rogers, director of financial aid at the University of Kansas, "the cost is too high."
"The Food Stamp program is a big game," he said.
He said that if a student was getting help from the Food Pool program his financial status would improve.
Rogers said that if a student got help from the Welfare Department on these food stamps, the financial aid office would like to spread its aid around to other students.
Riades said, however, that the welfare department knows how much money a student is getting from the University so this sum was taken into account.
According to Rhoades, it would be ridiculous for a student's financial aid to decrease because then the Welfare Department would raise the amount of money the student would get from the food stamps.
BvSTEVERAPP
Kansas Staff Reporter
Volunteer Army Oualified Success
The all-volunteer army, now in its ninth month, has been at least a partial success, and it is one of the best.
"You can't say that the whole program is a total success." Maj. David Windom, assistant professor of military science, said recently. "The real test will be time and to see if the people now volunteering will re-list."
The selective service system and military
Blake Hall
Students Despised Old Blake Hall
Editor's Note: This is one in a series of stories about University buildings and the people for whom they were named.
Old Blake Hall may well hold the dubious distinction of having been the most despised building at the University of Kansas. From 1855, when it was opened, to 1961, when it was razed, it drew sneers and criticism from students, faculty and outside observers.
By RANDY SCHUYLER
It was named in 1898 to honor Lacien I. Blake, professor of physics and engineering. He persuaded the legislature to appropriate funds for it and with the aid of an architect helped design it. Blake also considered himself to be the best dressed
faculty member at KU and was the only one to have a personal valet.
Blake Hall was originally supposed to resemble Green Hall. But it turned out looking like a French chateau instead of a Greek temple.
One story explaining the abrupt change said that when the plans were submitted to the state architect he was so moved by professional jealousy that he changed the plans to look as little as possible like the original.
Soon after Blake Hall was completed, the University Review, a campus publication, said, "Nobody likes it." The sandstone front of the building looks like a speckled chicken. The iron in the stones shows more plainly than the stone itself. If there be no lotions
Blake Hall was three stories high. Two towers flanked the front door. High above the doorway was a clock with a six-foot face. The roof sloped steeply to a point.
Even the clock was an object of ridicule. It never worked consistently. Pigeons sat on the clock hands, causing the clock to slow down or speed up at certain times. Custodians greeted the hands in the hope that the birds would slide off and kill themselves. For several years the handlers were very nervous for the clock run for three hours and stopped. It was junked and replaced in 1921, but soon the new clock began behaving strangely.
that will remove these bllesmies, let a screen be out before the building."
During that time, one Kanan editorial called it "a white elephant with a Queen Anne front and a Queen Mary back, and a single staring eye at its apex."
Blake Hall in the Horse-and-Buggy Days
In 1952, the physics department moved into Mallett Hall and Baile Hall stood
Actually, the architect paid little attention to Blake Hall's rear face. `^` At its construction, there wasn't a south approach but a north side; the left side was left plain and undistinguished.
The University wanted to remodel Blake Hall, but all the bids were too high and the University decided to raze it and build a new Blake Hall.
New Blake Hall might have retained the distinction of being the most despised building except for competition from new Fraser and Wescoe halls.
During the controversy about the design of new Fraser one student said, "The state architect's greatest achievement has been in creating Hall. Hall look beautiful relative to new Fraser."
Others said that new Blake Hall's modern design was out of place among KU's traditional buildings and that it looked as if the red roof had been put on as an af-
lets an applicant pick either the job specialty or the location he wants for his two-year enlistment, Hill said. Hill has followed through on all the people from the Lawrence area in this program and they all have gotten exactly what they asked for.
Interviews
Whether the volunteer army will survive will depend on its ability to match civilian salaries and overcome anti-establishment movements.
draft were officially abolished on July 1, 1973.
14. Col. E. C. Gresham, assistant professor of Air Force ROTC, said the volunteer system had forced the military to improve managerial practices.
tended period of time. The army faces salary competition from the civilian world and antagonism from a society that is tired of war.
Even though maintaining competitive salaries and technological schools and increasing benefits is costing the army more money, it's better for it to better people for its money, said Gresham.
Howard Callaway, Secretary of the Army, recently told President Nixon that the volunteer force might fail 20,000 people and that he was not improving the quality of the personnel was improving.
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Sgt. 1.C.Fred Hill of the Lawrence army recruiting office said the number of applicants hadn't changed drastically but more applicants had at least a
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in the office of the organized individual. Since the advent of the all-volunteer force, three services have engaged in largescale publicizing the new programs of the army.
"The opportunities for educational advancement was the biggest factor in the increased number of students considering the military," said Pestinger.
The most successful of the new programs is a two-year guarantee program, which
Lawrence High School counselor Phil Pestinger said that since the draft was dropped more students had sought information about the military.
The problem now facing the army is whether the system will work over an ex-
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