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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.102,NO.111
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
TUESDAY, MARCH 2.1993
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President unveils plan for student aid
Program to allow repayment of college loans through service
The Associated Press
PISCATAWAY, N.J. — President Clinton pledged yesterday to revolutionize college aid by allowing students to repay loans through community work. He cast his ambitious national service plan as a 1990s G Bill to change the United States forever and for the better.
Starting with 1,000 slots this summer and growing to 100,000 or more within four years, the program will make college affordable to all while setting off a wave of involvement in education, health, safety and environmental projects. Clinton said.
"All across America we have problems that demand our common attention." Clinton said. "National service
is nothing less than the American way to change America."
The program was a centerpiece of Clinton's campaign, and he chose the 32nd anniversary of President Kennedy's creation of the Peace Corps to formally propose his plan. Congressional approval would be required.
Aides say many details are still unclear, from how much a student would be able to borrow to how big a stipend to pay young people while they work off their loans.
Clinton's plan is designed to dramatically reshape federal student aid programs and offer young people opportunities and incentives to perform such community service as working in inner-city children's health and drug clinics, tutoring in literacy programs and walking streets in neighborhood police corps.
The president himself set high expectations for the initiative, framing the announcement as "one I hope will be a truly historic moment in our nation's history." He compared it to the GI Bill's offer of education to servicemen returning from World War II, a program that expanded the nation's middle class.
"One of the things that we have to realize in this country is that an economic investment is not just building an airport or a road or investing in new technologies," Clinton said. "It's also investing in people."
One year of service would qualify students for two years of college loans. Eli Segal, the Clinton adviser drafting the program, said the administration had yet to decide on a borrowing cap.
Students could borrow first and enter service after graduating, or enter service after high school and
acquire credits for loans. Segal said stipends likely would be paid at or near the minimum wage, but no final decision had been made.
Students who chose not to enter public service could pay back loans based on a percentage of their income — not the amount borrowed — which Clinton said would encourage graduates to enter lower-paying but critical professions such as teaching and working in community health clinics. Clinton said states would have broad discretion in shaping the programs.
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16 more implicated in fake license ring
Carrie Finnehead, Manchester, Mo., senior, poses in front of a mural she painted last summer by Hockenberry's Tavern, 1016 Massachusetts St. The mural decorates a wall of the bar's outdoor terrace. See related story, Page 5.
Mural music
KU police suspect nine others to be involved in student operation
By Mark Klefer
Kansan staff writer
Sixteen additional students have been given notices to appear in Douglas County District Court in connection with last week's arrest of a student who has been charged with making fake driver's licenses.
KU police Lt. John Mullens said that police were in the process of finding nine other students suspected to be involved with the incident.
Ten of the 16 students are residents of Oliver Hall. The other six live in Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall.
Each student is scheduled to appear March 11 in court to respond to the charges, which include either possession of false identification or attempting to possess false identification.
KU police arrested Robert Martin, West Des Moines, Iowa, freshman, Wednesday after they received a phone call on the KU Crimesupporters' hot line that said a student had been making fake licenses.
Martin now faces a felony charge of manufacturing false identifications.
Bailey said another resident told him about the fake identifications.
Robert Bailey, Austin, Texas, freshman, lives on the same floor as Martin and was one of the students given a notice.
"I went to check it out and let him take my picture," he said.
Bailey said that he later decided not to get the license and that he never paid Martin for the fake Iowa driver's license.
He said that Martin had a stamp from the state of Iowa that added authenticity to the license but that the blank back side of the license gave it away.
"I've seen the real one and knew that it was a fraud," Bailey said of the initation Iowa driver's license.
Mullens said Martin had been selling the licenses for $25 to $50.
Bailey also said that he had his picture taken one week before Martin's arrest.
The arrests constitute the first fake license manufacturing case on campus since April 1991, said KU police officer Burdel Welsh.
The 1991 incident, also originating in Oliver, led to 21 notices for students to appear in court. The student had been making Missouri driver's licenses.
A Crimestoppers' call also led police to the discovery of that operation. The caller received a $300 reward.
Integration of gays into U.S. military echoes past
By Tracl Carl
Special to the Kansan
One night, in Augusta, Ga., several years after President Truman ordered the integration of the military, a car full of military police watched as George Allen, an African-American MP, was beaten by local police because he refused to walk in the gutter and not on the sidewalk.
"When I woke up in jail, the only way I could get out was to go to Korea," said Allen, now president of the Organization of African-American Veterans and the Fort Huachuca, Ariz. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "I figured it would be better over there than in Augusta, Ga."
His stories of tension and discrimination within the military are familiar. It has been 45 years since Truman signed Executive Order No. 9981 on July 26, 1948, which ordered the gradual integration of troops and forced the military to disregard race, color, religion or national origin.
Truman's order didn't mention sexual orientation. But the same fears and myths about African Americans, which made integration difficult 45 years ago, now are haunting homosexuals. Allen said.
The true test of integration is not eliminating the barriers for combat, but eliminating the social barriers, Allen said.
"I know I've got more scars from being a soldier in the United States than from served in Korea," he said.
Now the issue is discrimination of another kind.
Homosexuals always have fought beside heterosexual soldiers, and there has not been a problem, Allen said.
Alen said he had friends who tried to get out of serving in Korea by claiming that they were gay, but the military gave little thought to sexual orientation and forced them to serve anyway.
If they needed soldiers, the military wouldn't oppose lifting the gay ban
"If we were at war, there would be no issue," he said. "The issue is not whether gays can serve honorably like anyone else. They've been doing that for years. The "issue seems to be whether we know the person is gay or not."
But another African-American veteran sees more differences than similarities between integrating races in 1948 and integrating sexual orientations in 1993.
Samuel Adams, associate professor of journalism and Korean War veteran, said lifting the ban on homosexuals in the military was different than integrating the army because race was something that couldn't be controlled. The gay ban is based on behavior that can be controlled, he said.
"The military has always discriminated based on certain types of behavior." Adams said. "We're talking about two different things. We're talking about a control over lifestyle and a control of race."
In 1952, the military drafted their
soldiers. Today they hire them, and that changes the authority the military has over soldier's lifestyles, Adams said.
"The military is not a democracy," he said. "They just tell you what to do."
Adams said he thought homosexuals deserved to be treated equally, but he knew their fight for acceptance in the military would be hard.
African Americans' fight for equal rights was a small war in itself, Allen said. He said he knew it would take more than an executive order to ensure fair treatment for homosexual soldiers in the military. He knows he fought many of them and arguments homosexuals are fighting today.
"The good-old-boy attitude is still at
work." Allen said.
This attitude held that allowing African Americans to be associated with white soldiers would hurt morale. Allen said.
These are the same arguments, based on stereotypes and misconceptions, that are being used to uphold the ban on gays today, he said.
such as soldiers today worry about sleeping next to a homosexual, soldiers in the 1950s worried about coming to an African American, Allen said.
"Southerners just couldn't see sleeping next to a Black person," he said.
These stereotypes spurred violence during the period of integration, just
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Noregrets
KU professor's book puts tests to the test
Senior point guard Adonis Jordan reflects on his career at Kansas before his last home game tomorrow night.
See related story. Page 7.
By Ezra Wolfe
Kansan staff writer
F. Allan Hanson, professor of anthropology and author of "Testing Testing: Social Consequences of the Examined Life," says he thinks tests have established how our society's beliefs are established.
Taking tests is an inevitable part of life, right?
One KU professor thinks we are overtested and wrote a book to prove his point.
He cites 16th and 17th century tests for witchcraft to illustrate his point.
Back then, the ankles and feet of a suspected witch were tied together. The suspected witch was then thrown down from a rooftop and a witch, if she drowned, she wasn't.
"The fact of doing that test established for society that witches exist," Harrison says.
He says the same thing is happening with the idea of intelligence today.
"I argue that the very concept of intelligence is the product of intelligence tests," he says.
Tests such as the SAT, ACT or IQ establish intelligence as a fixed number that people are stuck with for life, when intelligence really is the sum of many factors that can change, Hanson says.
"You begin to get a sense of yourself from those tests and act in a way that reflects them," he says. "It's kind of a life sentence for a 6-year-old to be called mediocre or a genius."
Hanson, who has been teaching at KU since 1966, does not have a problem with tests that measure learned knowledge. He does have a problem with tests that establish ideas about future performance.
In "Testing Testing," which was reviewed in Sunday's The New York
Times, Hanson addresses drug testing.
Manson says it is ironic that heroin, cocaine and barbiturates clear out of the system in a few days, while marijuana, a less destructive drug, stays for much longer.
Hanson said that with any kind of observation, a supervisor would be able to detect drug use anyway.
"We are being made by tests in our society and we don't know it," she said.
He says pre-employment tests are problematic because the subjects know the test is coming and have the chance to stop using the more destructive drugs.
Fransje Knops, Lawrence graduate student, has read Hanson's book. She said she thought the book was timely and important because people need to be reminded of what is happening to our society.
F. Allan Hanson, professor of anthropology and author of "Testing Testing: Social Consequences of the Examined Life," examines the social effects of testing in such areas as intelligence and drug use. It will be available at the KU bookstores next week.