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The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, April 27, 1981 Vol. 91, No.140 USPS 650-640
Consumer Affairs office struggles for survival after CETA cutbacks
By KAREN SCHLUETER Staff Reporter
the three empty desks in the Lawrence Consumer Affairs Association's office on Vermont Street create a desolate backdrop for the lone figure seated at the front desk.
For a month, Clyde Chapman, the association's director, has been handling the workload of four full-time employees with some help from volunteers.
Following program cuts mandated by the U.S. Department of Labor in March, Consumer Affairs, an agency that investigates consumer complaints, lost three employees paid by Title II-D contracts under the Comprehensive Education and Training Act.
ALTHOUGH THE POSITIONS ended officially April 3, Chapman gave his CETA employees vacation time they had earned to look for new jobs.
"I think they got screwed even worse than Consumer Affairs, Affairman Chapman, said in a letter to the job."
The three Consumer Affairs employees are not alone. They belong to a group of 785 people in Kansas, and almost 300,000 nationally, who lost jobs funded by CETA contracts.
Jobs Made by CEE, CA
In March, Kansas CEETA officials were notified that the II-D program had been cut from $6.2 million to $3.8 million.
"We were in the middle of the fiscal year and had already spent almost that much, so we couldn't go any further," Brilette Doye, CIPA president for the Lawrence Job Center, said.
DOYLE SAID that the program fit in with DOYLE's budget-cutting mood started by President Reagan.
President Obama
"I'm just disgusted with the whole thing," she said. "I think it was a bad way to end the program."
program.
CETA was established in 1973 to provide jobs and training for economically disadvantaged people.
To be eligible for a II-D CETA, job, a person had to have been unemployed 15 out of the past 20 weeks and had to have an income below the government's poverty level for the past six
PEOPLE EMPLOYED under CETA's Title IV contracts, slated to end in late September, must
have been unemployed 10 out of 12 weeks. Their income level is figure on the past three months.
"The II-D program was cut first because the largest amount of money was tied up there," Jim Murray, public information officer, will be gently laid to rest at the end of fiscal year 191. "Title VI will be gained
"We felt very happy with our public service employment programs here in Kansas. But we were disappointed by the lack of diversity."
And now that the dustpan has been emptied, you now like Consumer Affairs must struggle to find a new job.
CHAPMAN SAID that he was not ready to close down yet.
close down yet.
"I can see being outside by this, he said.
"I don't feel we're sinking, I just think we're in a bad situation."
The 9-year-old association receives money for general operating expenses from city and county revenue sharing. The director's position, Chapman's job, is paid by KU student activity fee money allocated by the Student Senate. Chapman has been in charge since 1978.
He is now requesting money from the United Fund to navy the galley of one full-time employee.
"I think we can operate with two full-time people, but we must done," he said. "We'll just get more of them."
WHEN THE PROGRAM began in 1972, it was run by one full-time employee and student
But Chapman said that the program had expanded to a point where this would not be
"The quality of service will begin to suffer," he said. "Because frankly, I'm swamped."
Consumer Affairs handles an average of 1,300 complaints from students and 2,000 from Lawrence community members each year. Chapman said. It is the only program of its kind in Lawrence. Chapman said we want to stay in house there is a need for the service it provides.
He said his past requests for United Fund money had been refused.
"I think our problem in the past with the United Fund that was that we had the CETA money,"
HE HAD BEEN trying to establish a position,
See GETA page 5
See CETA page 5
Terry Wall, who has been working toward both a law and medical degree at KU for the past 10 years, studies in the KU School of Law library. Wall plan to earn his law degree in May and his medical degree one year later.
Medical student prepares for bar
By BRIAN LEVINSON Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
For most students working toward one degree at a time is plenty. There are some who double-major as undergraduates, and even a few who do it in graduate school.
But there are only five people in the state of Kansas who have done it the way Terry Wall is doing it.
graduate from Law school in May, and from medical school next May.
Although there are five people in the state who have both degrees, Will thinks he's the best candidate.
Wall, 26, is going to the KU Law school and medical school simultaneously. He will
"It hasn't been easy," Wall said. "It is transitioning from one school to the other."
HOWEVER, WALL, who first thought about pursuing both degrees in high school, doesn't consider himself to be a bright person.
"That is one of the troubles with being in trouble," he said, "everyone expects you to be bride."
Wall claims he doesn't have a lot of drive either.
"I substitute hard work for drive," he said.
WALL STARTED at KU as an under-
graduate and had amateur school for 10 straight years when he finishes med school next year.
The end will be welcome.
"sometimes, it seems like I do nothing but go to school," he said. "But, it has been kind of nice."
"It would be nice to be done and be out of school. Some of the people I started law
See WALL page
Jerry Falfwell, leader of the Moral Majority, bows his head in prayer before his speech on the Capitol steps in Topeka Fallwell. Fallwell's attracted about 2,300 people, including about 200 protesters.
ROB POOLE/Kansan staff
Moral Majority rally yields boos, applause for Falwell
TOPEKA—With a mixture of Grand Old Party politics, tent revival rhetoric and unembarrassed theatrics, Moral Majority leader Jesse Jackson has won America"s tour to the capitol Friday.
By PENNI CRABTREE Staff Renorter
"Thank God the American people are rising up and saying they've had enough," Failwell told a cheering audience. "For years we have watched silently as decency and the core of our civilization, the monogamous family unit, deceased before our eyes."
About 2,300 people thronged to the Statehouse lawn, either to support or protest Failwell's rally.
lawn, either to support or protest Fairwell's rally.
Fairwell, who has brought his rise to 75 states,
won champions and boos by discussing
hope reality, BRA, the arms race and
education.
"We mustn't be browbeaten by the political
"We need to inform ourselves about the issues of our times, and we need to act." Fallow said. It is a sin against God not to register to vote. If you are elected to government and yet don't vote, we are hypocrites.
AGAINST A BACKGROUND of 30 U.S. flags and with a brown, leather-bound Bible in hand, Falwell urged the audience to become politically and morally aware.
left anymore, we need to take the necessary grandchildren enjoy the freedoms that we do."
"We need to make ourselves spiritual and special with God unless we make God special not with us. God unless we make God special with us."
Carrying sign reading "Moral Majority is
Leaving Leavenworth to the Nation"
demonstration.
During the rally, which went from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Falwell's comments were often punctuated by jeers and derisive comments from protesters stationed near the Capitol steps.
organizations alternately booed and chanct during the rally program.
SEVERAL TIMES during the rally's musical productions featuring song and dance salutes to everything from the armed forces to the Christian church, individual protesters goose-stepped and raised their arms in mock Nazi salutes.
Falwell, who addressed the demonstrators as "rude, crude and impolite" and "goddow-creature,"
See FALWELL page 5
River banks snag fishermen despite city's weekdav noise
By STEVE ROBRAHN
Staff Reporter
Small groups of fishermen line the banks of the Kansas River near the Bowersock Dam each day, providing a calm backdrop to the hustle and bustle of the Lawrence City Hall.
Just a short distance north of the hectic seat of local government, sounds of rushing water dominate the serene atmosphere below the Massachusetts Street bridge.
"Most of the guys who come out here are retired or work nights," said R. N. Damles, 544 N. Third St., as he baked his hose with some turkey and kept the least twice a week and stay until I retired of it."
The muffled voices of fishermen drift up from along the shore and soft buzzing sounds of fishing boats are heard.
DANIELS AND TWO OTHER anglers had stationed themselves on a catwalk leading to the generating station powered by water from the dam.
"You need all of books 'cause the river's full of snags," warned Jack Smith, a curly-haired KU housing department employee fishing from a backyard walk. "I use about 100 books every three weeks."
"Oh, I'm retired my dad," Daniels said. "My garden and yard are full, but when you go shopping I fish." Fishermen钓鱼
Smith said he spent about 10 hours each week fishing near the dam and often caught 5-10 boats.
"They're not biting too good today," Smith said pointing to a pile of diffrentwood near the cement wall of the power station. "You get most of your bites there. Those carp fight pretty good too, and you usually have to fight 'em clear over to the shore."
the first one going chasing him. Pointing to the churning water below, he said fish swim up near the generating station to feed, making it an ideal fishing spot.
A SERIES OF TONES from a buzzer within the generating station interrupted the conversation.
"That's just the phone for the guys inside the power plant," Daniels explained. "They even come out here and do some fishin' once in a while when they're not busy."
smith said most people liked to go out on the dam, but he preferred the catwalk.
"Watch your head," Daniels shouted as he cast out his line. "Ya, if you walk out on that dam, you'd better be careful 'cause if you skip off and don't trip, you can get you and you might never come up."
Eddie Payne, clad in green checkered pants and an blue sweatshirt, stood just down the catwalk from Smith and Daniels. Payne said he worked for the Lawrence Asphalt Co., but that the company did have much work for him. He he spent much of his time now fishing the river.
"Oh, look what they're pulling in over there," Payne said as he pointed to the north shore where a large fish was being pulled from the ocean. "He gonna make me come over there in a minute."
"I usually dig my own bail," he said. "About two weeks ago I caught 15 cwarp in two days on
PAYNE, WHO LIVES at 901 Pennsylvania St., said the best baits were sweet corn, green worms and night crawlers.
No one seemed to be catching much Wednesday afternoon, even though the gray sky and rain are thought to be favorable for catching fish.
Jake Fullington, of Shawnee, said he never seemed to catch anything from the dam, where he was spending the afternoon sitting on a piece of driftwood.
Weather
It will be mostly sunny and warm today with a high in the upper 80s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Winds will be gusty out of the south at 15 to 25 miles an hour.
There is a 40 percent chance of
the sun's tonight. The low will be
in the 20s.
It will be cooler tomorrow with the high in the upper 70s. There will be a chance of thunderstorms throughout the day.