The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Monday, July 13, 1981
Vol. 91, No. 156 USPS 650-640
Abortion vote sparks debate
BY CONNIE SCHALLLAU
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
For the past eight years women have been legally able to have an abortion anywhere in the United States. However, new measures by Congress may outlaw abortion, even in instances of rape or incest, by giving fetuses constitutional rights.
Before the January 22, 1973, U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion in the United States, abortions were legal in only four states—Alaska, Hawaii, New York and Washington.
However, the legality of abortion anywhere in the United States is now being threatened.
ON THURSDAY *I* a U.S. Senate judicial sub-committee considering U.S. Senate Bill S-158 voted 5-2 to approve a measure that said human rights should be protected, and it would be considered a person. Fetuas
would then be protected under the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
If the bill passes, states would have the option of prosecuting abortions as murder.
The House of Representatives has a similar
introduced Henry Hydle, R-III, and
Romney D-K.
Besides outlawing abortions the proposed bills would also strip the lower federal courts of the power to intervene in case of abortion.
The another proposed bill, HR-867, would strip the U.S. Supreme Court of the power to review abuse.
The two dissenting votes on bill S-158 were cast by Democrats. Mauz Bacus, D-Mont., voiced the concern that under the bill some forms of birth control would be illegal because they do not prevent conception. Rather, they prevent the fertilized egg from attaching itself to the uterus.
THE BIRTH CONTROL methods in question
are the intrauterine device and the "mini-pill," a low-estrogen birth control pill.
Also, the "morning after" pill, a high-estrogen pill, used mostly in instances of rape, would be illegal. Women who became pregnant as a result of rape would be forced to have the child.
Linda Woozy, Kansas National Organization of Women coordinator, agreed with Baucus that the bill were passed many forms of birth control would be illegal.
"If life begins at conception lots of birth control would be murder." Woody said.
"We're real shocked that it came out to committee. It's not the place of the Senate to decide when life begins. That's up to theologians and scientists."
However, Meyll瓜金, head of the Kanaas Moral Majority chapter, said that the concern was that the government is not interested.
"That (birth control) is not the realm we are
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Team to reassess damage
By MARCHERZFELD
The inspection is part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's reconsideration of Carolin's request for $1.35 million to pay her money, which the FEMA denied last Tuesday.
CARLIN'S SUPPLEMENTAL request for iw-interest Small Business Administration ans is still pending, with a decision expected ter will. Carlin aide Mike Swenson
Staff Reporter
If Lawrence was declared a disaster area, the BAA loans would be automatically granted.
Federal emergency agency spokesman David Cobb said that governors were routinely allowed to appeal a denial of disaster aid.
"Anytime there is a denial, the governor has the right to request a reversal." Cobb said.
NINE STATE AND federal officials will be in Lawrence today to inspect damage, including three FEMA officials, three State Emergency Preparedness officials, two from the Kansas Insurance Department and one from the SBA. Swenson said.
Abductions investigated
Swenson said the team would spend no more than a day in Lawrence before going to inspect damage from last month's flood in Great Bend.
By CHRIS TODD Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Lawrence police and an FBI official in Omaha, Neb., said yesterday they were continuing to investigate last Monday's abduction of two high school students in Lawrence by members of a religious group.
John L. Evans, assistant FBI agent in charge of Nebraska, and Iowa, said yesterday that no new evidence had been turned up in the case, but that he and several other agents were working on the case in conjunction with Des Moines, Iowa, police.
The two girls, Patti Knorr, 16, of Omaha, Neb., and Janine Jerigan, 15, of Ralston, Neb., were in Lawrence attending KU's Midwestern Music and Art Camp when they were surrounded and abducted by seven men and three women last Monday in a parking lot near Minsky's Pizza, 2228 Iowa St., according to Lawrence police.
THE TWO GIRLS, police said, were taken to a local jail, where they were described as a white man with an orange stripe.
When the girls refused to be persuaded, police
they were freed on the outskirts of Des Moines.
During the trip, police said, the seven men and three women, who were described as "Jesus freaks" by one of the girls, tried to convert them to the group's religious beliefs.
"About the only thing I can say about the investigation is that we are looking for seven men and three women, and that they were traveling in a white van that was rimmed by an orange stripe," Evans said. "We also know that some of the abductors were wearing long, white robes. It's all very sketchy so far, but we're still working on it."
Lawrence police detective Lyle Sutton said yesterday that he had received several calls last week from Lawrence residents who had reported seeing what they thought were cult members.
"Some cult members have been seen in various parts of Lawrence during the last month," Sutton said. "Most of the callers say that the members are always trying to recruit new people, but that they didn't think the cult members would use force to do so."
Janie Jermigan, one of the two girls abducted, said yesterday that she was "dealing with the situation pretty well" but that she "got a little bit hurt" when she reflected on last week's events.
SUTTON ADDED that Lawrence police were continuing to canvass the area for any evidence about the cuts and that they were working with a office at 8th and Vermont Streets in Lawrence.
She said that the abductors seemed to be in uniform and that they were "disorganized and unaware."
"Most of the men in the group had shoulder-length hair and beards, and the women all had long hair," Jernigan said. "There were knapsacks inside of the van when we not there."
Tmorrow will be continued hot and humid with a high in the 90s.
She said that when she was forced into the van, her first thoughts were to just stay calm.
ONCE INSIDE the van, Jermigan said, the cult members tried to "turn us against society and
"I was scared, but hysterical," said Jernigan, who will be a junior in high school next fall. "The main thing I wanted to do was just keep my head straight."
The low tonight will be in the mid to upper 70s.
It will be clear to partly cloudy today with a high in the mid 90s, according to National Weather Service. It will be out of the south at 15 12 pm.
"The they thought society was false and too paced, and that our parents were all part of it," she said. "Some of them said made sense, but I really didn't take it too seriously. They kept it simple and just convert, we would be thankful to them because we would live eternally in the next world."
Weather
TRACEY TRUMPONKKHAIR SKIP Cathy Morris, left, and Katie Stolz take advantage of the nightly weekend pastime of roller skating on campus. Skates can be rented from the Mercury Roller Skate truck, which is located on the east side of campus on weekends.
Government owes KU $150,950 for loan expenses
Staff Writer
ByACHAL MEHRA
The U.S. government owes nearly $70 million to thousands of universities and colleges, including more than $150,000 to the University of Kansas, for administrative expenses involved in processing Guaranteed Student Loan applications.
Jerry Roger, director of the office of student financial aid, confirmed that KU had not been paid $150,800 by the Department of Education over the last three years.
Chances are the government will not pay that debt.
In 1978 when the student loan program was expanded to include the Guaranteed Student Loan Program, it became possible.
$10 as administrative allowance for each loan processed by colleges and universities.
UNDER THE GSL program students can borrow money from participating banks at a low cost.
Student applications for the GSL are processed by the student's college or university.
Bob Scott, program officer for student financial aid in the regional office of education in Kansas City, Mo., confirmed by the say, "With all the cutbacks, it is doubtful if the government will appropriate additional money toward paying back allowances."
But, Rogers said, the administrative allowance that the government agreed to pay to colleges for processing student applications was not paid, and it was unlikely that it would be paid.
Since 1978 the KU office of student financial aids has processed 15,095 student applications.
Nationally more than 3,000 colleges and universities have participated in the program, according to the National Council of Educational Statistics.
Among them they have processed nearly seven million applications during the past three years.
Scott said the allowance had not been paid to any college or university.
"Congress has never allocated anything for it," he said.
On May 20 this year President Reagan secured approval from Congress to eliminate the $3.5
million allocation for the allowance in the 1981 budget as part of his drive to cut expenditures.
Under the 1982 budget, now in a House-Senate conference to resolve differences, the government will no longer be required to pay the $10 increase to colleges and universities in the futures.
Both the House and Senate have approved eliminating the administrative allowance.
"We had a bit of a chuckle over that because we never paid us anything anyway." Roger said.
For the first time, however, this year the federal government distributed administrative allowances to colleges and universities for processing applications for the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant, now called the Pell Grant.
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Day care funds are threatened with budget cuts
By CONNIE SCHALLAU
A steady stream of parents reclaiming their children after a day at work flowed through the doors of the United Child Development Center, Kettering. The child development Delaware St. was among the five *clock flood*
Staff Reporter
Creamer is afraid, however, that his children's days at the center are numbered. Weighing him on his mind are President Reagan's budget cuts in federally funded day care programs.
CREAMER RECEIVES FUNDS from the federal Aid to Families with Dependent Children program, which is called Aid to Dependent Children in Kansas. Because of his ADC eligibility, social rehabilitative services pays for most of his day care expenses.
"I have three kids." Crema said. "My income is such that I am almost dependent on them."
"If the funds are cut, I'm going to have to
move. I'm going to have to move near my parents so they can help out with the kids.
It's going to be a bummer.
Creamer's son, Orion, agreed.
"I like it here a whole lot," Orron said. "Today I made a choo-choot train."
Createrah's son, Orion, agreed.
"I'll like it hone a whole lot." Ori
Orton also said that he had made lots of friends at the center and would not like leave.
DEPENDING ON THE extent of the budget cuts, he may have to.
The Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services is trying to soften the blow of the budget cuts for ADC people who have children that require day care.
They are trying to shift the day care from a program that has suffered extensive budget cuts to one that was virtually unscathed by the budget cuts.
Currently, day care for people on AFDC is paid by the Social Security Act program authorized by the Social Security Act.
Robert C. Harder, Kansas secretary of Social and Rehabilitation Services, has proposed that ADC day care in Kansas be shifted to Title IV A of the Social Security Act.
"When you hear that the president has proposed a 25 percent across-the-board cut, you start looking for other ways to fund programs." Harder said. "If I hadn't made that proposal, we'd be in a position of having no provisions at all for ADC. day care."
If the proposal is passed, and Harder thinks it will be, ADC day care would then join the Income Maintenance program, which was almost untouched by the budget cuts.
"There were cutbacks in Title XX." Dyer said. "However, ADC, being in Income Maintenance, is an uncaped program. That means that the federal government will match however much is should then provide for more federal dollars for ADC day care."
The reason for the proposed switch was to ensure funds for the day care program, Ernest Dyer, Lawrence Social Services administrator, said.
SEVERAL CHANGES in the operation of the program have also been proposed.
Under the current program, SKS pays the day
Under the proposed plan, it will be the parents' responsibility to pay the provider. The parent receiving the ADC grant will first pay the provider and then take a receipt to the Income Maintenance account. The income Maintenance will then add the allowed day care amount to the person's total check.
care providers directly. Providers can be day care centers, home care centers or individuals.
Both Dyer and Jan Bowen, Lawrence SRS administrator, agreed that this approach was good because it encouraged parental responsibility.
However, Dyer saw possible problems with $ ^{16} $
However, Dyer saw possible problems with it.
"The fear I have is that, say, somebody's refrigerator breaks down and they need to buy a new one." Dyer said.
"I can see them having to make a choice between buying a new refrigerator or paying the day care center. And I can see them opting to buy the new refrigerator. The day care center might then say, I won't take your kid until you pay. That person may end up losing a job."
Harder said that cuts in day care funds might
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