The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Tuesday, April 21, 1981 Vol. 91, No.136 USPS 650-640
FacEx gives KNEA union little support
By KATHRYN KASE Staff Reporter
The KU Faculty executive committee said 'no' to the Kansas National Education Association Friday.
No, FacEx will not supply three faculty members for a KNEA University Tau Force.
No, FaeEx will not invite KNEA to this
campaign to explain what the teachers' union can offer KI 10 training.
THE FACEE RESPONSE came after George Worth, FacEx Chairman, and Ernest Angino, professor of geology, attended a meeting for the Faculty of Emporia State University last Thursday.
"What this was supposed to be was a factual presentation by each of these groups, letting the faculty from the Regents Bears hold the keys they wanted to go into collective bargaining." Worth said Fridav
KNEY also gave a video applied much literature about the Union, Worth said, and distributed a letter inviting Regents university faculty to name three faculty members to participate in a task force.
With the theme of the 56th Kansas Relays being "Building on Tradition," the rain kept with its tradition once again this year. Here, Jim Ellis (left) and Maurice Peters seek shelter from the rain. See related story page 14.
taught in the school to the letter, the task force would advise KNEE about how it could better serve and represent faculty members from Regents institutions. All task force expenses, including mileage, meals, lodging and meeting site costs, would be underwritten by KNEE, the letter said.
"They are very anxious to organize as many higher education faculties in Kansas as they can," Worth said. "Big bucks are being poured into this."
HE ADDED that his inclination was to not respond to the letter. Angie agreed.
"I don't sense a real need for organization in higher education in Kansas," he said. "If we did get involved, it seems to me that they would be involved with the KNEA way of doing things."
But Jim Maloney, professor of engineering, suggested FacEx send an observer to the task
force meetings.
"No matter how much we don't like what's going on," he said. "we might like to know what's going on."
Worth said that was unnecessary because the faculty senate presidents from the other institutions had informally agreed Thursday to let one another know that they had done about the invitation.
"I think we all left there generally agreed that we'd not do anything about it," he said.
At one point Worth asked FaceX whether it
was strong desire to appoint a representative
to the board.
CHARACTERIZING KNEA as determined and persistent, Worth said they wanted to visit each campus at least once a year. The Faxe reaction to that was negative as it was to the task force invitation.
"No, put it over there," Lawrence Rose,
professor of law, said, indicating the trash can
"No, I don't put things there quite so quickly," Worth responded.
worth responded.
The University Senate executive committee also met Friday and discussion centered around the inadequacy of committee reports.
DISCUSSION BEGAN when SenEx considered two final reports from the Financial Aid to Students committee and the Human Relations Committee. The consensus was that the reports were incomplete and that the committees had not acted upon all of their annual charges.
"The quandary is, what do we do at this time of the year when a faculty committee has neither responded to a charge nor considered it?" Worth said.
Angino added that a statement should be included about the purpose and value of faculty governance, but no decisive SenEx action was taken.
Worth suggested that committees submit preliminary reports. He also said that SenEx should send a cover letter with the committee charges saying that if the committee could not comply with the charges it should let SenEx know.
Student loan uses varied, legality questioned
By KARI ELLIOTT Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Guestfooted Student Loans are easy money.
No questions about financial need, family income or assets asked. The only requirement is that a student use the low-interest loan for "educational purposes."
But, Kansan interviews show, "educational" can mean anything from tuition to trips abroad. Students use the money for investing, paying school expenses and buying cars. And it's all good.
"I'm just taking advantage of a good situation," said Steve, a Salina sophomore who has borrowed $5,000 in Guaranteed Student Loans.
"My dad puts me through school," he said. When I get a student loan, he doesn't have to pay my school expenses so he invests the money. I'd go to school even if I didn't get a loan."
STEVE SAID his father, who is a stockbroker, invested the money in stocks.
"With $2,500 you can buy about $5,000 worth of stocks," Steve said. "There have been some losses and some gains. We've made about a 20 percent profit."
"If you invest $10,000 wisely, you can make quite a bit of money."
However, Steve asked that his last name not be used because he was concerned about the legality of investing loan money.
quit the job of one.
Jerry Rogers KU financial aid director, said there might be some misuse of loans, but few KU students fiagently abused the program.
"There's nothing illegal in using the money for a car or house," he said. "Miscellaneous expenses are built into a student's budget. That could mean a black and white TV."
NOT ALL KU STUDENTS use their financial aid money like Steve, and the investments make them mad.
"I know there are a few cases where students
invest the money." Lisa Massost, Madison sophomore, said. "It makes me angry. I use my grant money to pay for my education. I depend on it."
Massoth received a $400 Pell Grant, formerly Basic Educational Opportunity Grants, this year and a $650 scholarship. She does not have any loans.
"I use my financial aid for tuition, housing and books," the said "it will not cover all my expenses."
Massoth, who works in a residence hall cafeteria, said she had no money for "frills."
"I can't go out to eat or buy a lot of clothes," she said. "I'm just getting by."
THE G5L PROGRAM guarantees loans, which are made by private lenders, up to $2,500 for undergraduate students and $5,000 for graduate students annually. The federal government pays a 9 percent interest subsidy and a special allowance to lenders that covers the difference between the 9 percent loan rate and the rate of return.
As the program is structured now, any student can receive a Guaranteed Student Loan, and the federal government pays the interest, said Jane Lankford, who received a Guaranteed Student Loan policy section in Washington.
in 1977 the cost of interest subsidies and special allowances for GSLs was $331 million for $1.5 billion in loans. This year, $7.2 billion in GSLs will cost taxpayers about $1.6 billion.
The Guaranteed Student Loan program began in 1965 providing low-interest loans to students whose families make less than $15,000. GSLs are interest free for six months after a student steps away.
"There is potential for abuse, but it is not as prevalent as many think." Bryson said.
The government realizes that there is an unfairness in its current program, which is one reason why it is cutting back on the interest subsidy, she said.
inquiring; the sad.
ROGERS, who says students are availing
themselves to a good financial situation, just wants to keep students in school.
"We just ask that the students don't take the money and not go to school," he said.
Before students receive federal financial aid, they must sign a statement of educational purpose affirming that the funds they receive are intended for expenses related to attendance at the University.
However, Rogers said the statement was "worstless."
"we find out if students aren't following the statement if they don't enroll or pay their fees," he said. "We can win the case, but the court costs are too high, plus there's no time to prosecute."
"When a student has misused the money, he is in default and we put a hold on his records. Then we turn the case over to the basic grant program in Washington."
ROGERS SAID the number of GSLs had quadrupled since President Carter removed the family income ceiling. The Middle Income Assistance Act eliminated in 1978 the requirement that GSLs be limited to families with incomes less than $25,000.
"Four years ago the average GSL was about $1,700." Rogers said. "This year the average is $2,500 with both graduate and undergraduate students."
students.
The KU financial aid office has awarded about $16 million in GSLs to 6,500 student this academic year.
"About one in three students on the Lawrence campus has a Guaranteed Student Loan," Rogers said.
Rogers said. "One resident of a GSL, Rebecca Pyles, later graduate student, said she and her husband had been borrowing money with personal loans.
"We were just getting by on personal loans, which were about 12 percent in 1979." Pyles said. "Then loans jumped to 18 percent and our living costs increased. You couldn't afford to get a loan from a bank."
Tuition raise questioned by student board
See GSL page 5
By KATHRYN KASE
Staff Reporter
The Student Advisory Council to the Kansas Board of Regents has questioned the legality of the Board's decision Friday to raise tuition statewide by 22 percent.
The increase will make total fees at KU jump by $62, from $395 to $447 a semester, for in-state students and by $180, from $925 to $1,105 for out-of-state students.
of-state students:
Prior to Friday, the Board knew tuition would increase by less than 15 percent to absorb the $5.8 million cut the Kansas Legislature Legislature made in the Regents' budget earlier this year,
John Conard, Regents executive director, said yesterday.
"The other amount above that was imposed because the Regents felt that the budgets were so badly underfunded, especially in the area of Other Operating Expenses," Conard said. "They also thought that the budget required by the Legislature, they would be able to avoid raising it for the fall of '82."
"Now that's only conjecture. There's no way for the Regents to tell what economic conditions will be like next year."
DESPITE EXPLANATIONS for the increase, the Student Advisory Council, composed of student government leaders from Regents institutions, has criticized the Board's action.
According to Bert Coleman, KU student body president, the Regents must file a financial impact statement each time a fee increase is contemplated.
"They didn't provide one, so we called the Kansas State University's student legal council, who came down with a legal manual," he said. "I was very impressed and didn't raise the fee without an impact statement."
"But on a tuition fee increase, the impact should be fairly obvious," he said. "The Board does not need anyone writing a paper telling them what they already know they would be."
But Conard said that the impact statement was implemented by the Regents in cases such as a laboratory fee increase. In those cases, information about amount of money to be paid and number of students affected is not easily read, said, hence, the need for an impact statement.
Besides, Conard said, the impact statement was the Board's own policy. If the Regents violated any rule, it was one of its own.
AND THAT, to the SAC, is the legal question:
the Board can choose to violate its own polen?
To answer that question, Jim Anderson, SAC president and Fort Hays State student body president, he contacted the Kansas Attorney General's office. Anderson said the SAC was not one of the parties the Attorney General's office required to give legal opinions to.
was required to General to Kansas Statute 75-704, the Attorney General is required to give legal opinions, when requested, to the Legislature and its branches, the governor, the secretary of state, the state treasurer, state board of education and commissioner of insurance.
"We will advise the Regents on if they ask us, but so far they haven't," Brad Smoot, administrative assistant for the attorney general's office, said.
Smooth suggested that the SAC ask the Regents to request an opinion on the matter from his office.
(20) "We are not a court of law," he said. "We are not an arbitrator between state agencies."
ANDERSON SAID the SAC might find a legislator to bring the question to the attorney general, but only if the SAC decided to pursue the inquiry.
"It is to be stressed that we are seeking this for informational purposes," he said. "We are not now, or in the future, looking towards legal action against the Regents."
According to the Regents attorney, William
Society Journal page 5.
See TUITION page 5
Weather
It will be mostly cloudy today with scattered sunshine and warm temperatures, according to the KU Weather Service. The high will be 64 and winds will be out of the southeast at 10 to 20 mph.
Showers and thundershowers are predicted for tonight, with a 50 percent chance of precipitation at the southeast at 10 to 15 mph and the low will be near 54
Drug dealer accepts risks, for fun, profit of trade
There is a 60 percent chance that tomorrow and the high will be around 65.
By TIM SHARP
Fred paused in mid-conversation as he received the bong. He filled the small metal bow, flicked his Bic lighter, put the bong to his mouth and inhaled.
Staff Reporter
Red eyes gazed sleepily through the hazy smoke. The curtains were drawn, the lights low. "Z Z Too" bootied on the stereo.
The leaf substance lightened bright as it burned to ash, releasing a thick, blue, THC oil.
Fred held the smoke in his lungs for a few seconds, then exhaled.
"Wow, what a head rush," he said. "That's good not."
FRED (NOT HIS REAL NAME), a soponname from a small Kansas town, like many people, smokes marijuana and uses other drugs as a form of recreation.
He says he enjoys drugs as other people enjoy them, compared with the effects of drugs on others compared with those of drugs on others.
"The best speed I ever took was one hit of 'Red (dive drumming)', he said, "I was up for about 44 hours."
Fred is among Lawrence's "small-time"
dealers. He pursues his "hobby" for fun and profit by selling drugs to individual users.
"I'm not a heavy-volume dealer," he said. "I know one guy who has 15 to 20 pounds of hash in his pocket."
"I like to sell drugs. It's an easy way to get them free."
FOR EXAMPLE, if Fred bought a quarter-
mount of marijuana for $120, he could sell each
ounce for $4. He would get his money back after
selling one ounce and have one ounce left for
the bank.
"When I do make some money, I use it to buy gas or pay the rent," Fred said.
Fred works for a construction company during the summer and holds a part-time campus job.
He usually invests in a quarter-pound of marijuana, a pound of pallidocin mushrooms or a half-pound of hashish, but when he doesn't have ready cash, he uses another method to raise money.
"I can always get a short-term loan," he said, shrugging his shoulders.
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Many people use money from short-term loans to buy drugs, he said.
"It's great. The interest is low and it's really easy to pay back." he said.
ANOTHER DEALER SAID he had used the loans several times.
"When people apply, most of them really need that money for rent and groceries," he said.
HE ALSO SAID that such abuse of loan money probably was not that widespread.
But Fred said he didn't need the loans very often.
"We assume that students tell the truth when applying for a job," he said. Weftenmann, associate financial analyst, said:
"Drugs are cheap enough here (in Lawrence) that I can go home and sell them for a higher price," he said, "and get enough back to pay the loan and have a few dollars left over."
I Weinberg said there was no way of policing the use of loon money for drugs.
Short-term loans are offered by the KU Endowment Association through the Office of Financial Aid. They can be taken out for a few months.
"The only way would be to limit the ways people could use the money," he said. "We could make the loans good for just tuition and housing and make the checks out to the University."
and that if the Office of Financial Aid did find out that someone was abusing loan money, the information would be turned over to the proper University authorities and the student would be
subject to dismissal from the University, Weinberg said.
Besides facing possible expulsion from school they got cams, a small drug dealers also run the business.
"First, I only sell to someone I know," Fred said. "Unless someone I know—someone I really want."
LOCAL DRUG DEALERS SAID they took several precautions against being arrested.
"The trouble is that word gets around and people you don't know come up and say that someone said that I was selling drugs. I just say 'Drugs' I don't do drugs.'"
He also locks his merchandise in the trunk of his car when he drives home to sell to his friends
Dealers like Fred aren't major contributors to local drug traffic, but they get caught most often, according to Douglas County District Attorney Mike Malone.
"We've seen more medium-sized dealers get our jobs, we haven't, touched the surface with large data," she said.
"The KBI catches a medium dealer while a big, main supplier sits back and laughs at us."
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