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KANSAN
Cloudy, warm High, 63. Low, 42. Details on page 3.
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
Vol. 95, No. 127 (USPS 650-640)
Tuesday, April 9, 1985
University budget approved in House
By MICHAEL TOTTY Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — The Kansas House yesterday approved a fiscal year 1986 budget for the seven Board of Regents schools that further funded the school system, authorized by the Regents and Gov. John Carlin.
The House approved by a 101-21 vote the budget recommended by its Ways and Means Committee last week. The committee had approved last month by the Kansas Senate approved last month by the Kansas Senate
The $645 million appropriations bill now will be returned to the Senate, which is expected to reject the cuts made in the schools' proposed budgets by the House Committee. The Senate then would ask for a conference committee made up of members of both chambers to reach a compromise on the budget.
HOUSE MEMBERS who opposed the reduced Regents budget decided to wait for the conference committee and not tight to restore some of the lost money on the House
State Rep Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said opposition to the Senate's budget by the Republican majority in the House made it right on the floor to restore the budget cuts.
"We have hopes that some of that will be restored in committee." Branson said. "We decided that it would be risky to try to get it amended on the floor.
"This kind of vote comes down on a partisan basis. If they get defeated on the
Housing to move in
By MICHELLE T. JOHNSON Staff Reporter
A new director of housing has been picked to succeed J.J. Wilson, who is retiring this year after 30 years in the position.
Kenneth L. Stoner, associate director of residence halls at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has been chosen to serve in the office of student affairs announced yesterday.
A search committee composed of faculty representatives, housing office personnel and presidents of student housing organizations read applications and interviewed applicants for the position. The search began in December.
Stoner was one of four finalists, all of whom visited the University in the past two months
Fish tales on banks o
By MICHELLE WORRALL Staff Reporter
A whale of a turtle links in the Kaw River across from the old Bowersock Mill.
For years, fishermen have traded lobes about monster-sized clam that live in the waters of New England.
"Years and years ago I caught an 80-pound cat," said Ernest Higgins, a Lawrence resident who grew up along the river where she lived. "You have to fight em' til they give up."
Sounds kind of tushy, doesn't it? But this isn't another tale about the big one that we have.
In warm weather, fishermen gather by the dam across from Bowersock Mills and Power Co. Sixth and New York streets, in the town's fishing district, trophy and permafuse a few minutes of heat.
Snapshots of grinning fishermen proudly posing with their felty catches are tacked up on a wall of Higgins Bait Shop. Second floor, a flat east from Lawrence Riverfront Park
LAST YEAR, THE biggest fish dragged
at the bait shop weighing 61 pounds, said
Wendy Hook.
LAWRENCE'S GIANT catfish could mean big backs for Mrs. Paul. For example, one 18-pound catfish would be about 300 crunchy, lightly battered fishfishes.
The lure of landing a big one drew
lawrence residents Jim Russell and
Jane Kirkpatrick.
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion. His line, laden with snorkels and worms, gracefully flies over the river and plunked into the deaths of the river.
Biggers, however, took a more relaxed approach to fishing. He loured on a rock
floor, it's harder to get them reinstated in the conference committee."
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said some of the reductions were made to give the House a position to bargain with the Senate in the conference committee.
"IWITLED HAVE been a tactical error to make those changes on the floor," Solbach said. "We expect some of the cuts to be restored in the conference committee."
For KU the House approved about $80,000
WILLIAM J. BENNETT
NATIONAL AFFAIRS
Whv We Should Cut Federal Aid
Within days of his confirmation as the secretary of education, William J. Bennett supported students in student aid that would bar anyone with a family income above $32,500 from receiving a Guaranteed Student Loan and would limit the total amount of federal aid to $4,000. If he created a financial pinch, Bennett suggested, some students might try "stereo divestiture, automobile divestiture, three-weeks-at-the-beach divestiture." In two recent interviews, NEWSWUEK educator editor Dennis A. Williams asked Bennett about student financial aid and his views on higher education;
WILLIAMS: Do you believe that there are significant numbers of students receiving federal aid who do own cars and stereos and can afford beach vacations?
BENNETT A few, not a significant number . . . For many [the cuts] will require serious sacrifice. For those—not in large numbers—who receive federal aid and who do have those things,["divesiture"] can make a difference. I happen to know students and I talked to a bunch of students this summer, and they told me about this. When you have a situation where you're providing federal student aid to them, you have to limit the income, of course some people—not most, not all, but some—are going to take advantage of it who don't really need it. The point of our proposal is to put that limit where we are confident that most the money is going to the neediest.
A. The mail I have seen is running about 50-50. But I don't think that's too bad given that a lot of people only saw a few words of what I said.
Q. What kind of reaction have you gotten from parents and students?
Q. Have students come to regard higher education as a right?
Williams now, I would have more federal money available to me than I had then.
A. No, I don't think so. But the pattern we have seen over the last 10 or 15 years, with ever-increasing federal involvement, to affect our thinking about college.
Q. Under the current proposals, would there be exceptions to the GSL income limit for families with two or more students in college at the same time?
Q. Does limiting work-study programs
count to the kind of work ethic you
seek in school?
A. Well, there were certainly a lot fewer federal dollars, adjusting for inflation, when I went to college [1961-65] than there are now. My father paid some. Williams paid some, I worked summers and had two jobs on campus. When I finished [graduate school] in 71, I loved $12,000, which was a lot of money in loans. I had a couple of government loans, about $300. But, yeah—in fact, if William Bennett were going to
A. Under the current proposals, no. 1.
A. I don't think so. To encourage students to work, the federal government doesn't have to put up 60 percent of the funds.
Q. Would a William Bennett expect to go to Williams College under this budget?
Bennett: 'Helpful but limited' assistance
have told Congress we would be willing to work on some modifications, but we would still have to get to the same bottom line.
NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS/APRIL 1985
A. Well, it really depends on the circumstances—where you live, what colleges are available, what courses of study you want to pursue. There are state funds, which are increasing. There is a good public education available in many states. And institutional help. Some of the very high-priced colleges still have a policy of admitting anyone who's qualified and giving them full aid.
Q. Do you have any suggestions about where families might turn to pick up the slack on financial aid?
Students can still avail themselves of the $4,000 loans—it's called the PLUS Loan—even if the family income is above, even way above. $32,500 The PLUS Loan
is a 100 percent guaranteed federal loan. It is not subsidized, however, like the other loans are for people below that.
Q. What is the proper role of the federal government in education?
A. Helpful but limited. We've already established a pattern over the years, which is to provide some opportunity to those who, through no fault of their own, do not have these opportunities available to them. Maybe the way we've been doing it isn't the smartest way, but the intention is right—student aid for higher education.
Q. Should the government care if, as a result of these cutbacks, a working class is left out?
A. Sure, we should care. But there are all sorts of goods in the world. One good would be to give every student the opportunity to go to the college of his choice. We can't afford that. There's another good, which is to give every qualified student an opportunity to go to college. Not only can we not afford the first, I think the second is a higher good.
Q. You have pointedly raised the question of the value of a college education given the cost of tuition.
A. With some exceptions, when you criticize higher education some people read as if you've invaded a sanctuary, as if you've gone into a church and started breaking windows, because they're not used to being criticized . . . The American Association of Colleges issued a report saying that the undergraduate curriculum is in disarray, it's too incoherent, the baccalaureate degree is meaningless. On the other side of the page we read, "College costs up 70 percent." Now we need some consumer advocacy for our people who are going to college, or for the people who are paying for college.
Q. You have suggested that some people might be better off being trained in industry
A. Higher education is an $80 billion to $100 billion business. Corporations are spending $40 billion for education for their employees, many of whom are college graduates. Supposing the point of college education is to go out and get a job, my guess is many large companies do a better job of training people than colleges could. So if the point is training, why not just go knock on the door of the big company? Too many colleges have been presenting themselves as if they were in the business of job training. There are too many things [like that] going on in college given the financial sacrifice of parents and taxpayers. Higher education ought to be preparation for life.
The catfish congregate by the dam, said Ernest Higgins. Lawrence resident, because it is their nature to swim upstream and the dam blocks their path
than two pounds." he said.
But many years ago, fishermen dove into the water with large locks lashed to their wrists to try to snare the big catfish, also known flatheads, he said.
"People just don't catch 'em, so they grow," he said.
"I didn't do it. Itiggins said." "I didn't want to tangle with no fish in the water." They have rough teeth like a man's wiskers. They can tear a man's hide off."
According to an old fisherman's tale, a man dove into the water and never came
"Everyone assumed that he went under the dam." Judy Higgine said, "but they were there."
And when these fish bite, they really bite.
"Anything that wiggles and moves, they'll eat," he said.
"Yeah, you know when you have a big one on your line," Russell said.
Harvey Hasler, manager of Lunker Basket and Tackle, 951 E. 23rd St., said the catfish were large because they were old and could find plenty of food in the Kaw to eat, such as small fish, frogs, crawdads and snakes.
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
Jim Russell. Lawrence resident, batts his hook in hope of catching something to fill the frying pan. He was fishing Easter day on the Kaw River dam across from the Bowersock Mills and Power Co., Sixth and New York streets. Russell caught a nettle for a lot of nibbles and a five-inch channel catfish, which he tossed back.
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
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did the room.
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ed Press International
oviets call S.count 'gross lie'
OW — The Soviet Union accused the administration yesterday of "a gross missile count and of pursuing a poison" policy by dismissing Mikhail Gorbachev's call for a dam on Russia and of the administration.
cens can take a c o-business orientation wishes neither the arms reduction nor the renunciation of the arms buildup* sought in arms control talks, the official Tass news agency said. The talks entered their fifth week in Geneva yesterday.
Gorbachev announced Sunday that he had accepted President Reagan's call for a summit and would unilaterally halt defense spending. S-20 missiles targeted on Western Europe
BUT THE WHITE House quickly dismissed the move as "not enough," citing a 10.1 Soviet superiority in medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe.
The deployment of 572 medium-range U.S. missiles in five european nations began in late 1983 as part of a 1979 NATO plan to counter the SS-20s. The United States said the Soviets had 414 SS-20s operational, two thirds of them aimed at western Europe.
Tass said yesterday that U.S. officials used "stale arguments" of Soviet missile superiority to reject Gorbachev's proposal and accused them of ignoring the American lead in other nuclear programs. He said S. Tass would be required to include British and French forces in their missile count.
See SOVIET, p. 5, col. 1
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