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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 95, No. 99 (USPS 650-640)
Wednesdav. February 20, 1985
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A bench in front of Watson Library makes a good stand for tying shoes, as 4-year-old Juan Alvarez and his father, Francisco, a chemistry instructor, discovered. The two were enjoying the warmer weather yesterday as they walked on campus.
Police probe pyramid plan despite lack of complaints
Staff Reporter
By SHARON ROSSE
KU police last week began an investigation of a pyramid money-making scheme that circulated through campus last month, the department's community services director said yesterday.
but LT. Jeanne Longaker, the director, said police had found no one who had received in the scheme and had received no complaints about it.
"Through the investigation, we have found no victims or complainants." Longaker said. "We found no one who knew anyone who had participated in the program."
A pyramid scheme is similar to a chain letter. It uses funds from new investors to pay returns to previous investors, requires investors to sign the agreement, and doesn't sell any product or service.
PYRAMID SCHEMES violate the U.S.
Longaker said, "At this time, the investigation is at a standstill until someone can come up with any more information or any information at all."
Postal and Lottery Law and the Kansas Consumer Protection Act. Participants in schemes can be fined $1,000 or jailed up to 2 years. Proof of identity can fine you up to $2,000 for each transaction.
But one student, who asked not to be identified, said last week that he had participated in the scheme. He said he estimated that between 100 and 200 other Naismith Hall residents also had invested in the plan.
LONGAKER SAID that if police obtained information or names of students involved in the scheme, they would not arrest anyone. Police would give their information to Jim
The student said he knew no one who had received any money yet.
See PYRAMID, p. 5, col. 1
Down payment on classes sought
Rv TAD CLARKE
Staff Reporter
Early fee payment is one way a temporary committee studying enrollment hopes to improve enrollment and add-drop procedures. The chairman of the committee said today,
Brower Burchell, the chairman and associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the system would require students going through pre-enrollment to mail a portion of their fees to the University sometime before commencement week at the start of each semester.
Burchill said his committee had not made any decision about the early fee payment yet but said he hoped the decision would be made soon. If adopted, the system could start in the
"It would just be some sort of deposit to make the student decide then and there if he's coming back to school," he said.
If the committee recommends the early fee payment, the proposal would go to Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, for his approval.
THE PAYMENT would be a non-refundable deposit, Burchill said. The committee has not decided on the percentage of tuition and fees that would be paid early.
One of the reasons for enacting an early fee payment system, he said, would be to help administrators know how many students would be returning to school.
"If we just knew either a week or 10 days earlier that the student is not returning, we could disenroll him and use his class spaces for others." he said.
The early fee plan also would tell the University which students would not be returning to closed classes. Burchill said the computer then could enroll students in these classes because spaces would be made available by those not returning.
Students who don't have much money and are working at summer jobs would have the greatest hardship with an early fee payment, Burchill said. He said students receiving financial aid or scholarships would receive some sort of waiver.
'WE WANT TO do the best we can to not overburden anybody,' he said. 'But there's just so much to do to achieve the objective we have to do.'
Burchill said students who did not pre-enroll would not have to pay portions of their fees early.
"We don't even know they're coming," he said. "They just have to take what's left."
Burchill said his committee also was concerned about the large number of students that added and dropped classes. Gary Thompson, director of student records, said his department found that 63,000 classes were either dropped or added during the fall semester. No check will be made for the spring semester's number, he said.
Yesterday was the last day for a student to
withdraw from a class without getting a "W" on his or her transcript.
Burchill said he didn't know why students enrolled in classes and then waited until the last day to drop classes.
"If they know that they're not going to stay in the class, why don't they just drop it at the start and let someone else in the class? It also drives the faculty crazy," he said.
About 14,000 students pre-enroll each semester, Burchill said. Last fall, about 2,300 students did not pre-enroll for the spring semester.
Burchill said his committee conducted a survey of these students and found that 80 percent of them had either missed getting their dean's stamp or were uncertain about their plans. The other 20 percent did not return for spring classes, he said.
Burchill said his committee also was discussing other problems students might have with add-drop and enrollment.
"The student either has to skip part of a class or enroll later and not get as good of a course schedule," he said.
One student suggested moving the enrollment appointment time because sometimes it interfered with students' class schedules, Burch said.
"I'm looking for suggestions," he said, "and frankly not getting any good ones."
22 arrested after protest at train
He said the committee wanted students and faculty to offer suggestions about enrollment problems. Last semester, he received about 40 responses.
By JILL OVENS Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Twenty-two anti-nuclear protesters, including at least one KU student, were arrested early yesterday as they knelt in prayer along tracks that had just been crossed by a train that they said was carrying nuclear warheads.
After their arrest at about 3:30 a.m., the protesters were taken by bus to the Topeka police department.
The protesters were charged with criminal trespass, a misdemeanor, in an emergency court set up in the police department. Those arrested were on land owned by Santa Fe Railway Co., police said. They were arrested because they would not leave.
Those arrested were released on bond. A March 6 court date was set for most of the
The Lawrence group included students and local residents who earlier had been told by telephone that the train was heading for Topeka. Members of the Ground Zero network, an organization based in Poulsoh, Wash., watch for movements of trains carrying nuclear weapons and warn protesters across the country of any activity.
THE PROTEESTERS were part of a larger group assembled on the Sardou Bridge in the cold night air. About 150 protesters were already on the bridge when a group of 13 arrived from Lawrence shortly after midnight.
Last night's train left the Pentax Corp assembly plant in Amarillo, Texas. Monday and headed for Bangor, Wash., with its cargo of about 144 nuclear warheads, according to protesters.
Christine Moody, Topeka graduate student and one of the protesters arrested, said she protested because she thought no country should right to defend itself with nuclear weapons.
"I AM ON the tracks because I have to say 'no' for myself, my family, my friends and my world — all of whom I love," she said. "There are many who are here with me in spirit for whom the risk to be here themselves is greater than mine."
Caroline Bigham was another member of the group arrested. She said she lived on a farm.
"I'm a grandmother, and I decided it was time for me to do something that I believe in." she said.
She said this was the first time she had been involved in "Active Witness," as the group called its protest.
THOSE WHO WERE arrested separated themselves from the main group about 1:30 a.m. and moved to an area that had been cordoned off.
Moody, Bigham and the others who were arrested made a decision to risk arrest when they attended training sessions in nonviolent civil disobedience last year. The course was sponsored by Midwest Agena, a opuska group and a regional chapter of Ground Zero.
Jack Bremer, director of Ecumenical Christian Ministries and a member of the Lawrence group, observed the arrests from the scene on Tuesday. He had been trained in non-violent protest tactics.
Bremer said he didn't think it was necessary to be arrested himself. But he said he wanted to protest with others who had come with him from Lawrence.
"I wanted to stay with the KU students I brought with me," he said.
Tim Cook, Coffeyville senior, was one of the students in Bremer's group. Cook said this was the first time he had seen the train.
"When I actually saw it," he said, "I got a heavy feeling of dread."
THE TRAIN WAS 24 cars long. Three of the cars were reported by protesters to have been heavily armed. The train, once known as the "White Train," has been dubbed the "Chameleon Train" because cars recently were painted in red, green and brown.
Leaders of the demonstration urged participants not to lie on railroad tracks or
"Go peacefully. Don't go limp or offer resistance," an organizer said.
Pauline Penner of Emporia said. "I'm here because I felt in my heart I could no longer be silent. I had to come and make a statement. I feel that breaking the law will perhaps raise the consciousness. That's how I feel about the terrible destruction these bombs will cause."
Some information for this story was provided by United Press International.
Drinking age: Students cope, lawmakers debate Big Eight students adjust to constraints on drinking Panel eases punishment
By NANCY HANEY Staff Reporter
Lines at taverns no longer may be seen. Big keg parties on campus might be things of the past.
Kansas is not the only state faced with raising its drinking age this year. Last summer, President Reagan signed a bill requiring states to raise their drinking ages to 21 by July 1, 1986, or lose federal highway funds.
On the four states bordering Kansas, only one, Colorado, has a legal drinking age under 21. Proposals in the Colorado Legislature to raise the drinking age this year died in committee hearings before reaching the full Legislature.
Passage of a bill this spring to raise the legal drinking age to 21 in Kansas seems inevitable. The bill already has been signed by Gov. Joe Biden, who says the bill probably will pass in the Senate.
Gegalization An increase in the drinking age probably would affect the lifestyles of many Kansans. One of the largest groups affected would be college students, the majority of whom are under 21.
Hope Craig, student body president at the University of Missouri, said MU students under 21 usually spend weekends attending movies or shopping in residence instead of drinking.
STUDENTS ATTENDING college in states where the drinking age already is 21 said earlier this week that a higher drinking age brought with it a new campus lifestyle.
"Students are not allowed to have any
alcohol in the dorms and this is usually
encforced pretty well." she said.
The only place on campus that liquor can be found might be in a fraternity house, she
KATHY WINTERS, executive secretary for the University of Oklahoma Student Association, said most campus parties had been non-alcoholic since the Oklahoma drinking age was raised to 21 nearly a year ago.
"The fraternities are considered private property. As long as they don't publicize a party or charge an admission, it is okay," she said.
Big campus parties are in danger even at the University of Colorado, where one student leader predicted that the Colorado drinking age probably would not be raised even though the state would lose highway money.
*Attendance went down at the big campus parties after the age went up, but attendance was still high.*
"The beer companies here are the biggest lobbies in the state and they don't want to see their industry hurt by raising the age to 21, so it's a concern of the CU student government executives.
But Hausie said the CU administration was not happy with drinking parties and the CBS news channel.
EVERY FRIDAY afternoon. Hausite said, about 300 students attend campus beer parties sponsored by a student activities association.
"They probably won't be around very long," she said.
See DRINKING, p. 5, col. 1
Illustration by Steve Zuk/KANSAN
debate Panel eases punishment in liquor bill
By MICHAEL TOTTY Staff Reporter
TOPEKA - Minors who buy, possess or drink alcoholic beverages would not face the loss of their driver's licenses if changes are approvals a bit that toughens penalties for driving.
A subcommittee of the House Federal and State Affairs Committee removed the driver's license provision from the bill, which would allow drivers to effort to crack down on drinking by minors.
State Rep. Ginger Barr, R-Auburn and chairman of the subcommittee, said the driver's license provison called for a punishment that didn't fit the crime.
Barr said members of the subcommittee thought that revoking someone's driver's license was not an appropriate penalty for actions that did not involve driving.
"IF YOU'RE SITTING by the lake drinking a beer and not driving, then the penalty should not involve your driver's license," she said.
The bill, as originally written, provided a stronger punishment for drinking alcohol
The bill is part of a package designed to ease the passage of the Senate's liquor by the drink resolution. Other measures in the package restrict club and tavern specials and increase the penalties for drunken driving.
See BILL. p. 5, col. 5