University Daily Kansan, April 21, 1961
Adviser to Bush defends cuts
By MARC HERZFELD Staff Reporter
Ronald Regan's proposed budget cuts are designed to prove that American workers can compete in the world marketplace, a former assistant secretary of labor told a KU Black Friday day Event in Saturday night.
Arthur Fletcher, who wrote affirmative action legislation during the Nixon administration, said Reagan's withdrawal of federal subsidies for business would force American workers to be more competitive.
"The name of the game in a free market is survival of the fittest." Fletcher said. Reagan is conducting an "experiment to determine whether America is ready to compete or not," he said.
Fletcher predicted that times would not be easy for blacks or whites.
"It's going to be tough to get a job and tougher yet to hold it," Fletcher told the 70 people who attended the banquet at the All Seasons Motel.
REAGAN MUST make unpopular decisions to ensure the nation's survival, Fletcher said. He warned that the United States faced either an economic war or a military war in the next 20 years.
"There is a belief that we have raised our own workforce that is unable to compete."
Fletcher, now an adviser to Vice President George Bush, said after his speech at the first annual KU Black Alumni scholarship awards that he supported most of Reagan's economic program. However, the period peril to soften the impact of budget cuts, and opposed elimination of the Legal Defense fund.
Fletcher defended affirmative action programs, and cited his own experiences as a black graduate of them. He emphasized the need for equal opportunity laws.
in spite of his good grades and work experience, Fletcher said, he was "overlooked" while employers recruited other, less qualified staff. He once offered a job back on his athletic skills, winning a job on a professional football team.
FLETCHER RUNS his own consulting firm now, telling large corporations how to comply to affirmative action programs.
Fletcher said that on-the-job testing could rule out possible preferential treatment for minorities in affirmative action programs.
"The only thing that is going to sell you to an employer is your ability to work for them."
Bernard Franklin, chairman of the Kansas Board of Regents, told the banquet audience that blacks would have to look out for their own interests because of the current conservative trend.
Earlier in the day Franklin talked to black students in a seminar about academic survival at KU.
THE FIRST BLACK Regents chairman told students at the seminar to set high goals for themselves.
"We are what we think we are."
Franklin said. "If we think we'll be little,
then that is what we'll be."
Mary Townsend, director of the KU Office of Minority Affairs, told the 15 students at the seminar that school should be considered a full-time job.
"Going to school and getting your certification is like running your own business," she said.
The Black Alumni gave scholarships for the first time, two Bruce-Smith awards for $800 and two Book awards for $100. The Bruce-Smith award for the first black KU graduate, and Lizzie Smith, the first black student admitted to KU.
Randall Fears, incoming Topeka freshman, and Belinda West, junior, whom the Bruce-Smith awards and Rita Holmes, Wichita hitter, and Arnel Dodson, incoming Topeka freshman, won Book Awards.
DAVE KRAUS/Kansan staff
Amy Glotzenbach maneuvers her BMW through a hairpin turn Sunday afternoon at a gymkhana sponsored by the Sports Car Club of America in the parking lot of the K-Mart store at 31st and Iowa. The annual Easter Sunday event pits drivers against the clock on a closed course where driving skill counts as much as speed.
Carlin signs montage of money bills
TOPEKA-Students between the ages of 18 and 21 attending four-year colleges will be ineligible for Aid to Dependent Children welfare benefits under a bill signed yesterday by Gov. John Carlin.
the new law, which takes effect July 7, will cut 479 individuals from the state Social and Rehabilitation Services Department program, making it easier to assist children in 1,100 dependent children in the 18-21 age group.
successfully to cut ADC benefits even for those individuals.
In cutting back the ADC program, Kansas lawmakers saved the state about $950,000. The cut is part of a mostly Republican program aimed at trimming bits and pieces from Carin's proposed 1982 budget so a general tax increase can be avoided, lawmakers have said.
STUDENTS BETWEEN the ages of 18 and 21 who attend high school or vocational education schools still will be eligible for ADC benefits. During legislative work on the bill, some lawmakers had tried un-
Other bills signed yesterday by Carlin will pay for a feasibility study of four new turnip interchanges, give counties the right to establish roads and allocate $7.9 million for legislative agencies in fiscal 1982.
The turnip bill, which will allocate $90,000 to study the feasibility of constructing four additional interchanges for access to the state's turnip system, was the subject of a legislative intern study last year.
The interchange studies would be done for the Lecompont-Perry road west of Lawrence, Highway 77 near the El Dorado Reservoir, Highway 53 near Mulvane and Andover Road and Andover.
UNDER A PROVISION in the bill, counties and cities adjoining the proposed interchange of the cost of the cost of the study in their areas with reimbursement by the state if the studies prove the new interchanges are workable.
By posting signs saying "minimum maintenance—travel at your own risk," the state, counties and cities exempt themselves from liability
Beginning July 1, counties will be able to declare certain county and township routes as minimum maintenance roads to be traveled at the driver's risk. Advocates of the new law said it will allow counties to keep certain roads open with a minimum of 30 percent of them of liability for accidents and the financial burden of road upkeep.
Four legislative agencies, including the Legislature, the Post Audit Division and the Legislative Coordination Council, will receive $9.7 million from the former bill signed by Carlin, who had recommended the agencies receive a total appropriation of $9.9 million.
Financial aid to require higher g.p.a.
By KARI ELLIOTT Staff Reporter
KU students will need a higher cumulative grade point average after three semesters to participate in federal financial aid programs this fall.
currently, a student with 36 credits needs a 140 cumulative KU GPA, but next year a 150 will be required, Jerry Rogers, financial aid director, said.
After five semesters a student must have 60 credits and a 2.00 cumulative KUIGA. Previously, it was a 1.60.
"Federal regulations require the student be making reasonable academic progress to receive Title IV assistance," Rogers said.
TITLE I ASSISTANCE includes National Direct Student Loans, Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, College Work-Student Loans, Basic Educational Opportunity Grants and Guaranteed Student Loans.
standards of satisfactory progress that should take into account the normal time it takes to complete a course of study, and evaluation measurements, such as grades which can be compared against a norm.
"It is up to each institution to define its standards of satisfactory progress." Rogers said.
Rogers said federal guidelines required the University to establish
At KU this fall, the required cumulative GPA for a freshman will be lower. After 12 credits a 1.00 GPA is the minimum, instead of a 1.20. With 24 credits, the minimum GPA is 1.25, instead of 1.30.
"The GPA is a little lower at first, but rises more rapidly now," Rogers said. "By the time the student is a junior, he must have a 2.00."
At two of the University's peer institutions, universities with similar size are enrolled in the University of Oklahoma and the University of Iowa, the standards are different.
At Oklahoma, a student must have a 2.00 GPA after 12 hours and that average must be maintained," Glenn Kinsley, associate financial aid director, said.
However, the standards are applied on an academic year basis, he said.
At KU academic progress is reviewed each semester.
the financial aid office at the University of Iowa doesn't tie the grade point averages to financial aid, John Kundel, associate director, said. "As long as a student is allowed to register that year's finals," he said.
THE MINIMUM STANDARDS at Iowa are a 1.5 cumulative GPA for a freshman, a 1.8 for a sophomore, a 1.75 for a junior and a 1.9 for a senior.
Also, Rogers said the "good standing" requirement had been eliminated and the student must make "satisfactory progress."
"Good standing meant a student could continue to enroll at a university," he said. "Satisfactory progress means a student is proceeding in a positive manner toward fulfilling degree requirements."
If a student is denied an award and doesn't get a check because he didn't meet academic standards the previous semester, he can appeal the decision.
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