University Daily Kansan, February 26, 1985
CAMPUS AND AREA
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Records keep tabs on 200.000 alumni
By DeNEEN BROWN Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas Alumni Association is watching you.
The Alumni Association has been keeping files since 1873 on every student who has graduated or earned credit from the University, Nancy Peine, assistant secretary of alumni records, said last week.
The Alumni Association keeps records on more than 200,000 KU graduates and former students, Peine said.
When students graduate or leave school for more than two consecutive semesters, their personal records are transferred to the Alumni Association, which maintains the records for the University.
After the records are transferred to the Alumni Association, a full-time staff of six people works to keep the records up to date.
THE STAFF TRACES all geographical and occupational changes of KU students by sending out alumni mailings, Peine said. If a mailing is returned to the Alumni Association marked "return to sender," the student's records are placed in the temporary lost file, and staff members investigate to find where that person has moved.
Paine said that staff members checked first with a student's parents or guardians, then with the directory of the city where the student last lived.
Records of students who cannot be
found through these channels are put in a permanent lost file.
"When we've exhausted all sources, we put them in permanent lost." Peine said. "That means we cannot find you."
But once a record goes to the permanent file, it does not remain there.
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION once helped find a student whose parents had been unable to find her for more than 34 years, Peine said.
The search began with a phone call to the Alumni Association and ended with a meeting of four generations of the student's family. The former teacher was able to meet her family two months before she died of leukemia.
"It was a heartwarming story," Peine said. "This all came about from one phone call for information I had received, and all she was a former student."
Fred Williams, executive director of the Alumni Association, said that although any alumni or academic department could use the records, the records were protected from outside agencies.
The Alumni Association has a policy that printouts of alumni records may be used only for related activities, Williams said.
"In essence, we try to protect the privacy of our alumni with regard to any external agencies invading their lives," he said.
Students also use the records to contact alumni in different cities.
A preliminary autopsy conducted in Wichita indicated that Maria Maltots had been stabbed about 30 times in the upper torso, Marcella Maltots had been stabbed twice in the upper torso, and arm and the boy had been stabbed once in the throat, Kistner said.
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A BOAT VALUED at $300 was stolen between 6 p.m. Feb. 17 and 8 p.m. Saturday from a driveway of a house in the 1500 block of Cadet Avenue, Lawrence police said yesterday.
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The body of one of the victims was seen at 12:45 p.m. Sunday by a woman friend who peered through a window of the single-family house after repeated knocks on the front door failed to bring a response, Kistner said.
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LIBERAL — A boy, his mother and grandmother found stabbed to death in their home apparently knew their attacker or attackers and let them into the house without a struggle, the Liberal police chief said yesterday.
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tool box and battery charger, valued
together at $1,390, were stolen
between 4:30 p.m. Wednesday
and 4:30 p.m. Thursday from a building
on Route 1 in Lawrence, the Douglas
County sheriff's office said.
Authorities found the bodies of Maria M. Maltoz, 48; Marcella C. Maltoz, 25; and Joshua E. Maltoz, 5, in their home Sunday afternoon, Police Chief Rick Kistner said during a news conference.
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SUPPLY-SIDE DIETICIANS POSSIBLE CAUSE OF PRESIDENT'S CONFUSION
President Reagan's State of the Union message is a creative effort which only occasionally acknowledges the actual.
While claiming that "Nearly 50 years of Government's living beyond its mean has brought us to a time of reckoning", the President fails to mention the fact that in just four years the Reagan Administration has doubled our national debt.
While saying that "To move steadily toward a balanced budget, we must also lighten Government's claim on our total economy", he doesn't explain how the Reagan Administration's $7.5 billion rescue of the nation's seventh largest bank, Continental Illinois, was an expression of this belief.
While admitting that "policies that increase dependency, break up families and destroy self-respect are not progressive, they are reactionary", he proposes no changes in the very economic mechanism which has left people dependent and damaged by not providing jobs for many of those who wished to work.
While holding that the creation of enterprise zones will bring forth "a new generation of entrepreneurs" and thus answer the needs of "the millions in our inner cities who long for real jobs, safe neighborhoods and schools that truly teach", he ignores the fact that the high unemployment, unsafe streets and inadequate schools in these areas are all problems which only the government has both the financial resources and legal authority to solve.
While confessing that "Despite our strides in civil rights, blacks, Hispanics and all minorities will not have full and equal power until they have full economic power", he wishes to leave untouched an economic apparatus which demands more of minorities by giving these groups markedly less education, employment and police protection. (According to the January 20th Kansas City Times, the FBI said that although blacks compromise only 12 percent of the populace, 43 per cent of the nation's homicide victims in 1983 were black.)
While trumpeting our alleged return "to excellence...In the area of education", he smilingly overlooks the recently released Education Department survey which, according to the February 11th Kansas City Times, "indicated that one in four college freshman was taking remedial math, and one in six remedial reading".
While emphasizing that "Every dollar the Federal Government does not take from us, every decision that it does not make for us, will make our economy stronger, our lives more abundant, our future more free," the President remains blissfully unaware that even under his, in the words of syndicated columnist David S. Broder, "optimistic forecast annual interest payments (on the national debt) will have quintupled--multiplied by five--in 10 years...(and) will go on until it ravages the value of the dollar, unless--unless someone has the courage to say that we have to pay for the amount of government services we get".
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