University Daily Kansan, April 3, 1981
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Special education department faces possible federal funding cuts
By ANNIKAN NILSSON Staff Reporter
Proposed cuts in the federal education budget would, if passed by Congress, severely affect KU programs in handicap research and special education.
Losing these people would jeopardize the operation of the department, he said.
Rutherford Turnbull, chairman of KU's special education department, said that about 15 staff members, including administrative officers and administrators, were presently funded with federal money.
"If we don't have accountants and administrative personnel, we will not be as competitive for other grants," he said. "We would want to ensure our educational and instructional missions."
KU's special education department runs a preschool for handicapped and non-handicapped children. It is also involved in research on teaching and learning disabilities and an international training for children.
TURNBULL SAID about 40 to 50 handicapped children were directly served by programs at
Turnbull said President Reagan's proposed 25 percent reduction in funding for special education could mean an equal reduction in funding for all institutions. However, he said, it
was more likely that only one third of the institutions, including KU, would be affected.
Universities renew grant requests every three years. KU's special education department is requesting $500,000 for fiscal year 1981-83. But there may be no money left, Turnbull said.
He said that KU's special education department, which is among the top five or six in the nation, had been generously funded in the past. But, Turnbull said, Reagan's proposed redistribution of education funds in per capita block grants to states would hif KU hard because Kansas ranks in the bottom third nationally in
"The real loss is the diversion of money from a nationally significant teacher education program," he said. "Hurting this program will nationalize capacity to respond to special education needs."
HE SAID HE was not optimistic about receiving state funds because the state had not traditionally been involved in research and teacher training.
Turnbull said the new federal policies on special education and handicap-rehabilitation funding constituted a massive withdrawal of people with severe disabilities, most dependent people—handicapped children.
"The real issue is whether education of a handicapped child is a national priority
anymore," he said. "They are just turning their backs on 30 years of progress."
According to Turibull, these policy decisions also will have economic consequences.
"If you educate handcapped children you are going to have them as wage earners," he said. "We don't want people in government and if government responds to them, it is going to cost more in the long run."
Reagan
From page 1
hospital, according to an attorney familiar with criminal laws governing mental illness.
A new Washington Post-ABC poll yesterday showed that President Reagan's popularity with the American people jumped by 11 percentage points the day after the assassination attempt.
The poll was conducted Tuesday night, with 505 people interviewed by telephone nationwide. In the survey, 73 percent of those interviewed said they approved of Reagan's performance as president, 16 percent said they disapproved and 11 percent expressed no opinion.
The groups had conducted another poll last Wednesday through Sunday. In that survey, 62 percent said they approved, 23 percent disapproved and 15 percent had no opinion.
Service wants vest
By United Press International
WASHINGTON -The Secret Service may request that President Reagan wear a bullet-proof vest at public appearances after he recovers from his gunshot wound.
Knight and Treasury Secretary Donald Regan appeared before congressional panels yesterday and fielded questions while giving an account of the shooting of the president.
Secret Service Director H. Stuart Knight testified his agency did "everything it normally would do" to protect Reagan from Monday's assassination attempt, but in "hindsight he should have been" wearing a vest.
Knight said that if the Secret Service decided that the president should wear a bulletproof vest, "we would try to take him two out of three falls and try to prevail."
He said that there was no thought about having Reagan wear one Monday, before he was shot outside the Washington Hilton Hotel, and when taking Reagan was in a dangerous situation."
Regan, whose department has control of the Secret Service, also could offer no explanation, but said:
Knight and Regan were asked by members of the congressional panel why the FBI had not informed the Secret Service about the information that the accused assailant, John W. Hinkley Jr., had been arrested in Nashville last year, carrying three weapons in his suitcase on a day former President Carter made an appearance in that city.
"In view of hindsight, it looks as though (the information) should have (been passed on). Apparently at that time, and this is only the result of my bad luck, I didn't think it warranted being passed on."
Rostropovich
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Also affected is musicianship, he said,
attributing Isaac Stern and Leonard Bernstein's successes to their humanitarianism.
Last night, Rostropovich gave the audience not only himself and his humanitarianism, he gave an encore after returning to the stage for three bows.
His kindness was returned with another standing ovation and Mstislav Rostropovich exited, stage left.
"If you let humanitarian inside, that's true music coming out," he said.
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