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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
Vol. 95, No. 119 (USPS 650-640)
Wednesday, March 27, 1985
Larry Funk/KANSAN
Kansas softball catcher Kim Cobb receives medical atten-
tion after a collision at home plate during the first game of a
out of the game yesterday. See story, page 13.
KUEA leads conference in giving
By DeNEEN BROWN
Staff Reporter
The private support for scholarships and student loans last year by the Kansas University Endowment Association was the highest of all university foundations, a survey reported recently.
The informal survey was conducted by Steve Menaugh, Endowment Association public relations director.
Menaigh said yesterday that he conducted the survey to determine whether the Endowment Association was the most heavily endowed in the Big Eight.
"We had suspected we were probably the man we wanted to check it out." Meganah
The Endowment Association granted $4,255,314 in scholarships, fellowships, awards and prizes, and $2,554,680 in student loans in fiscal year 1984, which ended on June 27, 2015.
The University of Nebraska Foundation ranked second in the survey. It granted $2.4
million in scholarships and $900,000 in student loans.
TODD SEYMOUR, Endowment Association president, said the reason the Endowment Association was the largest that it was to support the other before most of the other schools' foundations.
He said KU alumni were dedicated and interested in making KU better.
Iowa State University Foundation gave a million in scholarships and $21,500 in student funds.
The Kansas State University Foundation provided $1.2 million in scholarships, fellowships, awards and prizes. It gave $59,200 in student loans.
The University of Oklahoma Foundation provided $1.7 million in scholarships. The survey did not list the number or amount of student loans.
THE OKLAHOMA State University Foundation listed $767,616 in student scholarships, fellowships, awards and prizes, but no student loans were given in 1983-84.
The University of Colorado Foundation recorded $250,000 in scholarships. The
amount given for student loans was unavailable.
The University of Missouri Foundation granted $654,920 in scholarships and $1,500 in student loans to programs at its Columbia campus.
Seymour said KU's Endowment Association ranked about seventh in the amount of private money donated among state universities in the nation.
Seymour said the motto for the Endowment Association was to build a greater University than the state alone could build.
In the past 10 years, the Endowment Association has provided about $135 million to the University.
The Endowment Association's annual report for fiscal 1984 said it had provided $19.6 million in direct support to the University.
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor said the Endowment Association support team is ready to help.
"This would clearly be a lesser institution without the support we've had over the years," Cobb said.
112 counts of fraud leveled against GE
By United Press International
PHILADELPHIA — General Electric Co. the nation's fourth-largest defense contractor, was indicted yesterday on more than 100 counts of defrauding the government in a $47 million contract to develop a nuclear-warhead system.
A federal grand jury charged GE with four counts of counting and presenting false claims to the United States and 104 counts of making false statements to an agency of the
Also charged in the 112-count indictment were one current and one former GE employee, who were accused on two counts of fraud against the grand jury investigating the matter.
If convicted, each of the two employees faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine. GE faces a fine of more than $1 million if it is convicted on all the charges, according to the FBI.
GE issued a statement denying any information provided.
criminal wrongdoing.
"IT IS ALEGED that incorrect charges
were entered on employee time cards submitted five years ago. Involved are 100 time cards out of approximately 100,000 time cards," the statement said. "GE has indicated its willingness to reimburse the company for superior charges that might have been made."
The indictment charged GE's Re-Entry Systems Division, located in Philadelphia and King of Prussia, Pa., had a series of contracts with the Air Force to replace existing re-entry vehicles on Minuteur helicopter ballistic missiles with a new, updated vehicle.
The re-entry vehicle carries the nuclear warheads and the arming and fusing system that activates and guides the warheads to their targets.
THE PROJECT, known as the MK-12-A program, included contracts for test equipment and related computer software programs that insure that the missile and its new components would function properly if actually launched.
See GE, p. 5, col. 1
according to the indictment charged that, between Jan
Trains help students engineer excitement
By MICHELLE WORRALL
Staff Reporter
Some KU students spend Friday and Saturday nights in the fast track — crouched next to railroad tracks as roaring locomotives thunder by.
But the thrill may cost students money — and their lives.
"Anytime time there's trains, there's danger," Ken Bauman, Union Pacifie Railroad freight agent, said yesterday.
The tracks are private property, he said, and trespassers could be found. The usual fine for criminal trespassing, according to a Douglas County district court clerk, is $50
There are two popular sites in the area for the activity known as training, and both are located where the Union Pacific Railroad tracks are suspended above water. One site is in Leavenworth County at Mud Creek, and the nearest is near TeePee Junction at the Kaw River.
Students on the train trestle, a framework that suspends the tracks above the water. The students are no more than three feet from the tracks.
"ITS AN INCREDIBLE sensation," said Pete Owens, Omaha freshman and member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, 1645 Tennessee St. "When the train hits the trestle, it starts to shake. And when the train goes by, you feel an intense rush of wind."
Lauren Jenkins, Oak Ridge, Tenn., fresh
man, said, "It's really exciting. It's like nothing you've ever done before."
Owens said he had seen as many as 15 people waiting on the trestle, which supports two sets of tracks, for trains. He and his team were late, states he, said, because it's fun to scare them.
Union Pacific Railroad officials said they were unaware of the tracks' attraction. Students, however, said the conductors had knocked down their hooks on the tires and flashed spot lights.
"THEY KNOW WE'RE out there," said Steve Muehlner, Overland Park freshman and another member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. "They just can't stop."
Some nights at the tracks have resembled footage from "Perils of Pauline."
One night a brave student rescued Jenkins when she slipped and caught her foot between the railroad tracks when a train was coming.
"My foot was cut and bleeding, but I still did it," she said proudly.
Jenkins said her scare had not kept her off the tracks. She said she had been training five times this year because it was an exciting and free form of entertainment.
ON WEEKENDS, the fun usually begins at 1:15 a.m. for the professional trainers, who know the train schedule by heart. Amateurs have been known to wait hours for a train. Students race to the tracks when they spot a train and leave after the thrill has passed.
"One time there was one train coming and
Committee postpones talk about financing of group
See TRAINS, p. 5, col. 5
By NANCY STOETZER
Staff Reporter
The Student Senate Finance Committee last night discussed allocations for seven student groups — recommending money for six and postponing discussion on another until the committee can obtain more information about the group's expenditures.
If the group receives funds from BSU, it might not qualify to receive additional money from the Senate because of the Senate's duplication of services rule.
The committee postponed recommending money to the Minority Business Student Council until members could find out who had received funds from the Black Student Union.
J. J. Le Blanc, committee member, said that in last year's budget request, which covered fiscal year 1985, BSU said it would not spend any more on all black student organizations on campus.
Luca Jellinek, committee member, said, "We're not doing any big injustice by waiting. We should wait and ask the past or will receive funding from BSU in the future."
BSU'S BUDGET request for fiscal 1986 does not say the group serves as an umbrella organization. The Minority Business Student Council has been the voice of the community in the last four fiscal years.
*Maybe in spirit they're an umbrella organization but the groups serve different needs.*
The committee will discuss allocating
money to the council at its next meeting at 6 p.m. Monday.
The committee is discussing the allocation of up to $51,181 among 33 non-revenue code groups. Non-revenue code groups are small student organizations that request money from the Senate annually and generally promote special interests.
Last night's five-hour discussion was the second night of preliminary deliberations over the financing of each group. The committee plans to meet several times before making a recommendation to the full Senate.
Last week, the committee heard a presentation from each group that has requested funds for fiscal 1986, which includes the 1985-86 school year.
The committee made the following first round budget recommendations last night for the following student groups:
The money comes from the $24 student activity fee students pay with their tuition
**Men's Soccer Club** — $1,056. The club requested $1,782. It received $790 last year.
- Latin American Solidarity — $764. The group requested $1,073. Last year the group received $433.
- Women's Soccer Club — $1,033. The club requested $1,314. It didn't receive Senate funds last year.
- KU Amateur Radio Club - $787. The club requested $1,897. It didn't receive Senate funds last year.
- Jayhawk Singers — $1,119. The group requested $3,373. Last year the group received $1,529.
- KU Volleyball Club — $1,240. The club requested $1,376. Last year the club received $300.
Separatism ignites orator
Controversy follows Farrakhan
By SHARON ROSSE Staff Reporter
Photographs of Louis Farrakhan show a small, clean-cut ear about 50. well-defined ears.
He appears far from threatening. But the fiery prophecies of racial apocalypse and black supremacy that pour from the sky are the power his power as a leader, orator and minister.
Farrakhan, a black separatist leader, is scheduled to speak at 7 p.m. tomorrow in Hoch Auditorium as part of the Black Student Union Lecture Series and Alpha Week, sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Earlier this month, Student Senate allocated $3,600 for Farrakhan's visit and another $800 for security.
After Farrakhan's speech, he is expected to respond to questions submitted by students.
Before he was called to the Islamic faith in 1955, Louis Eugene Walcott — Farrakhan is his Muslim name — performed as a Calpsoy Galgo in Chicago nightclubs.
IN THE 1970S, Farrakhan formed a separate group from the original Nation of Islam, which is now called the American Muslim Mission.
Farrakan's group has an estimated membership of 10,000.
But he gained national attention last spring as a prominent and vocal supporter of Jesse Jackson during Jackson's presidential campaign.
He caused problems, however, when he denounced the black Washington Post reporter, Milton Coleman, who first reported that Jackson had referred to
See FARRAKHAN, p. 5, col. 2