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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102,NO.93
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1993
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KANASSTATE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA KS 66612
Dean criticizes state's law school funding
In memo, Jerry denounces Washburn's legal program
By Dan England Kansan staff writer
A memo from the dean of KU's School of Law to Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, criticizes the state's policy for financing law schools in Kansas and denounces the quality of the law school at Washburn University.
memo to Brinkman, Jerry's immediate supervisor, on Nov. 30. Tom Hutton, acting director of the Office of University Relations, yesterday gave the Kansan a copy of the memo, which was intended to be a private communication. Hutton said the memo already had been leaked to the press by an unknown source.
The memo said its purpose was to outline Jerry's views on "what has
Robert Jerry, dean of law, sent the
happened in this state with the funding of legal education and a vision of how this should be changed."
In the memo, Jerry writes that the state's support of the law school at Washburn, which is not a Board of Regents institution, has made Washburn law school's resource base greater than that at KU's law school.
The memo refers to Washburn's law
"The state has failed to provide adequate resources to fund the state's one public law school," Jerry's memo said. "In a sentence, the state law school is in the process of getting leveled while a low-quality law school gets improved."
school as a "low-quality law school, with a faculty whose credentials cannot even compare to ours . . . and with a student body of significantly lower quality."
The memo said that there was room in Kansas for a law school at Washburn but that all state funding now provided to the Washburn law school should be transferred to KU's law school "to enhance the state's public law school."
"This would mean that high-quality Kansas residents would receive a state-subsidized education at KU," the memo said. "Lower-quality Kansas residents would still have an
option to get an education in Kansas (i.e., at Washburn), but they would have to pay more, which is reasonable because at a certain point the state should not be in the business of subsidizing the graduate education of lower-quality students."
Jerry's memo said, "The best interests of Kansans are served if Washburn tries to be the best school possible with its own resources."
Jerry was at an American Bar Association meeting in Boston yesterday and was not available for comment. Washburn officials also could not be reached.
A written statement released vester.
day by Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor, said that Jerry's memo did not represent the view of the University.
"We regret that someone leaked a private communication in an apparent attempt to damage relationships between the University of Kansas and a valued college institution, Washburn University," Meyen's statement said.
Meyen's statement said that he thought there was a need for two quality law schools in the state but that he shared Jerry's concern about adequate funding.
Job fair offers chances for students
Recession puts a bite on summer employment
By Terrilyn McCormick Kansan staff writer
Students gather around the People to People International representatet at the Internship and Summer Job Fair at the Kansas Union Ballroom. Fifty representatives were present yesterday to provide information and contacts for summer jobs.
While some economists have said the recession ended 21 months ago, KU students have found the recovery to be slow.
The recession has put KU students searching for a summer job in the same boat as recent graduates — unemployed.
"Summer employment, like any other form of hiring, is being affected by the current recession," said Ann Hartley, assistant director of the Placement Center.
Fifty companies from across the nation set up booths and gave out information regarding their summer employment opportunities yesterday at the Internship and Summer Job Fair in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
The recession has not affected the number of jobs but has increased the number of applicants, said Tracy Mullikin, a recruiter for Worlds of Fun.
Mullikin said that older applicants with degrees or work experience would not be favored over students.
Jeri Stephenson, Hugoton senior, said she thought the recession was tightening the job market.
"It really puts you out there in the real world," she said. "I'll be competing with not only people of my own age but with people with job experience, and that seems to count when looking for a job."
Kristin Rodney, a recruiter for Marion Merrell Dow, said that the recession had no effect on the pharmaceutical company's internship program but that an increase in applicants did affect a student's chances.
"it's not going to be easy to find ajob," she said. "You have to have something different that will catch their attention, like a smile."
Shelley Zuck, Overland Park sophomore, said early application was a must. She said she hoped that her personal qualities would give her an edge.
Traditional summer jobs like camp counselor are unaffected by the economy, said Ed Cohen, representative from Balti
more's Camp Airy and Louce.
"Every summer we fill up our sessions with kids and have some waiting, so we're not cutting back because of the recession."
Elaine Hicks, director of the Douglas County Community Correction Service, was at the fair looking for summer interns
The recession could have a positive effect on companies who offer volunteer internships.
"Students realize the need for them to have experience even if they frown when we tell them it's a volunteer position," she said.
Senate weighs new ID law for alcohol sales
Bv Ben Grove
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — A Senate subcommittee heard testimony yesterday urging more rigorous standards for identification in the sale of alcohol.
People should be required by law to present a picture ID when they attempt to buy alcohol, an Alcoholic Beverage Control officer told the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee.
"Draft cards, birth certificates and other non-photogram ID are passed too easily from person to person and cannot be reliably used to verify that the bearer is the person
on the face of the document," said Jim Conant, ABC's chief administrative officer.
Conant spoke on behalf of a Senate bill that would change a current state law protecting people who sold alcohol to minors if the minors presented any evidence they were 21. The Senate bill required alcohol
"What we're saying is that the law is a little weak," Conant said after the committee meeting. "Anyone can just say, 'Show me a draft card or something with a name on it, and we'll sell you liquor.' If they want to accept a typed-up page that says, 'Hey, my name is Joe, and I'm 21,' can they do that?"
sellers to accept photo IDs only.
Conant said that a clause in the current law prohibited alcohol sellers from selling to someone who appears to be younger than 21 and has a questionable ID. "What we're trying to do is get a hold of people who have just one ID who are trying to run a bluff," Conant told the committee. "They've gotten ahold of a brother's ID or a
birth certificate, and they're giving it a try.
The bill also would require alcohol sellers, like bar owners, to prohibit minors from possessing or consuming alcohol on their premises. The current law requires that they only prohibit minors from consuming alcohol.
Conant said that would make it easier for the ABC to prosecute minors who were holding a can of beer but did not drink it in front of a law enforcement officer.
State Sen. Ben Vidricksen, co-chairperson of the committee, said there was no committee opposition to the bill and that it would probably be passed today or sometime next week.
Plan suggests government guaranteed aid
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Educators and several members of Congress yesterday praised a proposal to guarantee $14,000 a year in aid to every U.S. college student. Bankers and others criticized the plan as unworkable.
Implementing such reforms would subject students to a crapshoot because the reforms might not work, said Sam Kipp, executive director of the California Student Aid Commission, which runs the state's grant and scholarship programs.
The money for direct loans would come from Treasury borrowing, which would add probably $15 billion to $20 billion to the national debt, he said.
The $14,000 in aid would be available regardless of family income, according to the recommendations of the National Commission on Responsibilities for Financing Postsecondary Education.
Education Secretary Richard Riley said he was delighted that the congressional mandated commission agreed with many of the Clinton administration's proposals, such as partial repayment of student loans through community service.
But students would get more in outright grants. Students from families with higher incomes would get more in loans. The reforms would require billions in new federal spending.
The recommendations reassert the federal role as primary in terms of financial aid — something the nation has not had for 12 years, said Richard Rosser, president of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.
Private financial institutions would be cut out of the federal student-aid program and a direct-loan system would take its place.
Relying on a bureaucracy to deliver loans would be costly and counterproductive, said Lawrence Hough, president and chief executive officer of the Student Loan Marketing Association. Known as Sallie Mae, the federally chartered corporation buys student loans from financial institutions.
Joe Bellew, president of the Consumer Bankers Association, said it may be unrealistic to call for the elimination of the one reliable source of funds for families over the past twenty years.
The General Accounting Office and others have said moving away from private sector capitalization would generate at least $1 billion a year in savings.
Replacing private funds with U.S. Treasury funds in a direct loan program could trigger a bureaucratic nightmare for both the Department of Education and colleges, said Daniel S. Cheever Jr., president of American Student Assistance, a private group administering federal student loans for 15,000 college and banks.
There are significant administrative costs associated with direct lending, said a statement by the Education Finance Council, whose members buy up tax-exempt state student loans.
Jolliffe Hall succumbs to parking demands
Five African-American authors discussed writing and African-American experiences with university students from across the nation yesterday courtesy of electronic technology.
Rv Will Lewis
Kansan staff writer
Jollife Hall stood at the corner of Alumni Place and Ohio Street from 1942 to 1983.
Yesterday, all that remained was dirt, rubble and several students who were happy to see the building demolished.
beginning next fall, the site will provide about 30 parking spaces for scholarship hall students, a needed addition, said Don Kearns, director of the parking department.
The hall had been empty for two years after the KU radio, television and film studios moved out.
"It's always been a problem down there just because of the proximity of all the buildings," Kearns said.
Kearns said that the scholarship
Melanie Pearson, a Leavenworth senior who lives in Sellarship Hall, said the new lot would make parking safer.
halls were built at a time when most students did not own cars and that parking had been a problem with students living in the halls for the past few years.
"It means parking closer to my hall, which means if I'm parking at night, I don't have to walk as far in the dark," Pearson said.
Jerry Milburn, a Leaeworthworth senior who lives in Pearson Hall, said nearby bars caused a parking problem.
"With the Wheel and the Hawk,
it's virtually impossible to find a parking space within three blocks." Milburn said.
Amini Hall, which opened last fall, has brought even more automobiles to the lots.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of the parking department, said that 200 spaces in five lots were reserved for scholarship hall parking and that about 260 parking permits had been sold for the spaces. The department's policy is to sell permits for the five scholarship hall lots as long as there is a demand for them, she said.
She said that students were warned during orientation that a parking permit does not guarantee a parking place.
The department strictly enforces regulations that keep cars without permits away from three of the lots, Hultine said.
"It's the strictest parking we have on campus," she said. "It's the only lot on campus where we'll tow for not having the proper permit."
Midland Wrecking Company demolishes Joltiffle Hall. The company began tearping down the building Tuesday morning.