University Daily Kansan, July 13, 1984
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News briefs from staff and wire reports
Services for KU student to be conducted Saturday
The funeral for a KU student who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound early this week will be held Saturday morning in Chanute, Kansas.
David Robert Merritt, 21, was a sophomore last spring in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
He had lived in the Chanute area for the past ten years where he was a member of the Grace Episcopal Church. He graduated from Chanute High School in 1981.
Memorial donations may be made to the Grace Episcopal Church organ fund, Third and Lincoln streets, Chanute.
Survivors are his parents, Robert L. and Jane Ann Merritt and his sister, Nancy, all of Thayer, Kansas; his brother, Ensign William S. Merritt of Jacksonville, Florida; and his grandmother, Mrs. Charles Wells of Chanute.
Plav director in critical condition
The director of "The Fantasticks," a musical playing at Murphy Hall, suffered a heart attack during a rehearsal Wednesday night, KU police reported.
Tom Ren, a 62 year-old associate professor of theatre at KU, is in critical condition in the intensive care unit at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Cathy Renfro, the assistant director of the play, will fill in for Rea while he is recovering. Renfro is a teacher at Olathe North High School.
Candidates to air views at forum
Candidates for local offices who are running in the Aug. 7 primary election will participate in a forum at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St.
The Lawrence League of Women Voters will sponsor the forum, which will feature the Democratic candidates for district attorney; the Democratic candidates for county commissioner, 2nd District; Republican and Democratic candidates for county commissioner, 3rd District; and Democratic candidates for county clerk.
Barbara Neff, a member of the league, will moderate the forum. The league will sponsor another forum for all local candidates, including those for the state legislature, before the general election in the fall.
Army examines health program
The head of the U.S. Army Health Services, a graduate of both the University of Kansas and the KU Medical Center, will meet with Med Center administrators next week.
Maj. Gen. Floyd Baker of Leavenworth will discuss the relationship between the Med Center and hospitals at area Army posts with the administrators.
Floyd, who has been services commander since July 1, 1983 wants to expand the patient care and education program the Med Center provides.
Fort Leavenworth and Fort Riley Army doctors receive consulting services and continuing education programs from the Med Center, said David Waxman, KU director of health care services.
The Army Health Services Command, based in Fort Sam Houston, Texas, serves military bases throughout the world, supplying care and education to servicemen, and monitoring all Army hospital activities.
Black studies leader back at KU
A black studies leader, Alferdeen B. Harrison, will return to the University of Kansas to speak on "Preservation of Black Culture in Mississippi," at 7:30 tonight in the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union.
Harrison assisted with the development of KU's black studies program in the late 1960s and early 70s.
Science scholars receive awards
Three KU students attending the College of Health Sciences recently received the annual Kansas University Medical Alumni Association Bimedical Sciences Scholar Awards.
Those who received the scholarships were Rebecca Horvat, Kansas City, Kan., graduate student; Sue Rockenbach, Clio, Mich.; Steven Farran, St. Louis; and
The three $6,000 scholarships were awarded based on the recommendation of a graduate scholarship committee of medical center faculty and staff and will be for September 1984 through August 1985.
ON THE RECORD
FIREFIGHTERS STOPPED AN anhydrous ammonia leak at the Farmers Co-op Association, 325 Locust St., early yesterday morning.
Barr said that the main hazard from the ammonia would have been from the fumes, which are flammable if highly concentrated.
Capt. Richard Barr of the Lawrence Fire Department said that the firefighters, wearing their protective clothing and self-contained breathing apparatus, stopped the leak by tightening some fittings on a 1,000-gallon storage tank.
GOLF CLUBS VALUED at $862 were stolen from the Alvamar Pro Shop, 1800 Crossgate Drive, early Wednesday. Lawrence police reports said that the thieves broke the outer glass door to the shop with a picnic bench and kicked in the inner door.
THEVES TOWED AWAY a motorcycle valued at $1,300 Tuesday
the 19th Januari Yankees in the 600 block of North
Mississippi according to Lawrence银行
A THEFT OF JEWELRY valued at $2,820 from a residence in the 2600 block of Pickwick Place was reported to Lawrence Police Tuesday. The jewelry was stolen from a drawer some time during the past two weeks, police reports said.
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KU students shoot for Board of Education
By MICKI SAMPSON Staff Reporter
Two students at the University of Kansas are making a first in the state of Kansas.
Lois Orloth-Lopes, Lawrence graduate student, and Christopher Edmonds, Topaka junior, are the first students in the Kansas State Board of Education.
Both Orth-Lopes and Edmonds said that they were running to give the Board more leadership and to share their experience as active participants in the educational process.
Both candidates, who are contending for the same seat, will be competing in the primaries on Aug. 7, Orth-Lopes on the Democratic ticket, and Edmonds on the Republican.
Since the State Board of Education was established in 1969, no KU student or faculty member, other than one Board member who attended summer school for one semester, had ever been on the Board.
Teacher certification, school accreditation and guidelines for training of faculty for kindergarten through community colleges are all under the jurisdiction of the Board, he said.
Before returning to the University after graduating with a degree in music education in 1971, she taught at the school for 11 years in Leaventry.
Orth-Lopes is now doing research in child development, and hopes to receive her master's degree in 1987
THE BOARD IS a policy making body that sets standards for the educational system, Dale Scannell, dean of the School of Education, said.
PRACTICAL TEACHING experience combined with insight gained from researching have given her qualities that would be advantageous of a Board member, she said.
"There should be teachers serving on the Board who understand what it takes to do the job in the classroom," she said.
"Instead of dealing with fads, we should be dealing with research information," she said. "No one has asked me to implement it in the classroom or the administration."
Orth-Lopes has had experience lobbying for various issues concerning education through the Kansas National Education Association.
"An effective State Board of Ed number should be more vocal," she said.
Edmonds agreed that to be effective, the Board on the whole must be outspoken.
"But, overall I'm concerned with education."
"IT'S BEEN FAR too long that the State Board of Education has sat around and said 'This is what the Legislature wants, this is what the Legislature gets', " he said.
Edmonds is a business and political science major, but emphasizes education.
He said that he could add fresh ideas to the Board because he was currently involved in the educational system, and because he had access to many helpful resources at the University.
"It's time that a student who understands the educational process help in the policy making process," he said.
"What we need is a new generation of leaders."
KU grad students support plan for more federal aid
By JOHN SIMONSON Staff Reporter
A shortage of graduate student financial aid has led the KU Graduate Student Council to support a proposal to increase the amount of federally-backed student loans, said the executive coordinator of the GSC yesterday.
But KU financial aid officials said that they would rather see graduate students pursue other alternatives, such as part-time jobs, to avoid large debts upon graduation.
SALARIES OF REMAINING assistantships are much lower than they are at other universities with similar graduate programs and similar available state support, she said.
LAST WEEK several graduate school associations nationwide sent a petition to Education Secretary Terrel Bell, asking that the current maximum Guaranteed Student Loan be increased from $5,000 to $8,000 to cope with increasing tuition costs.
"Unfortunately, financial support for graduate students is difficult to come by," said Roshann Parris, the GSC executive coordinator. "We would be supportive of any effort to increase support in some way."
Parris said the University had suffered a decrease in the number of graduate teaching assistantships, another traditional source of aid to graduate students. There are only 700 to 800 assistantships for about 5,500 graduate students, she said.
Pam Houston, assistant director of financial aid, said that she would rather see graduate students attempt to get other types of
aid, such as fellowships or part time work.
"The number of students leaving school in debt continues to startle me and sadden me," she said. "I agree that graduate students need more financial aid. I'm not against graduate students having enough money to live on. But most graduate students can have some kind of job while they are in school."
Houston said that a $3,000 job coupled with a $5,000 loan would be better for the student than taking on the responsibility of an $8,000 loan.
BUT IF THERE is a need,
Weinberg said, then students need
to be fully aware of the res-
ponsibilities of a large loan.
Jeff Weinberg, associate director of financial aid, said that, given the cost of attending the University, he did not see a real need for the increase in the Guaranteed Student Loan program.
"No one wants to think about bankruptcy," he said. "But it has happened to graduate students."
The GCS has lobbed the Kansas Legislature for aid for graduate students in other areas, such as reduction of student fees, Parrisis said. Graduate students can now receive a 60 percent waiver of student fees if they are employed as research or teaching assistants. A request for a reduction by 75 percent was rejected by the legislature.
However, the Board of Regents has recommended a three-year program to the legislature which would increase the waiver to 100 percent by fiscal year 1988.
Bar owners prepare to fight Congress
Staff Reporter
By KAREN MASSMAN
The Lawrence Tavern Owner's Organization is gearing up to keep Kansas from raising the drinking age from 18 to 21 in the next Legislative session.
At the beginning of July, in an effort to reduce the amount of drinking and driving, Congress passed a bill which will penalize states that do not have a drinking age of 21 with holding federal highway funds.
Although the bill has not yet been signed by President Reagan, who in the past was a strong supporter of the law, he has said that he would sign it.
executive director of the organization.
Edmonds also has lobbed at the state and national level for the organization's concerns.
Some taverns may offer specials to those people who show their voter registration.
The tavern owners have decided to push for voter registration, and will try to acquaint young voters with the rules. The tavern owners will endorse in the Legislature.
"in every student at KU registered to vote they could elect any senator in the state." said Chris Edmonds,
"IT'S TIME TO put the brakes on this type of blackmail." Ken Wallace, owner of the Jayhawk Cafe, 1340 Ohio St. said, "The bottom line when all is said and done is that reason will prevail. You cannot legislate morality."
THE TAVERN OWNERS will release a list in August of their supporters in the Legislature.
The Tavern Owner's Organization is composed of five core members and an executive director, but any tavern owner is a technically a member of the organization, Wallace said.
Their efforts to maintain Kansas' legal drinking age of 18 for 3.2 percent beer began last year when a bill requesting a higher drinking age was debated in the Legislature.
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It's time to put the brakes on this type of blackmail. The bottom line when all is said and done is that reason will prevail. You cannot legislate morality.
A RECENT STUDY done by the Tavern League of Wisconsin showed that the number of drunk drivers increased in Illinois, Maine and Michigan when those states raised their drinking age. Edmunds said.
He said that the increase in drunk driving was probably due to the fact that young adults drank more in their cars since they didn't have a "controlled setting," such as a tavern, to drink in.
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The tavern owners are also starting a drive to increase the membership of their organization throughout the state.
In addition, Edmonds is preparing a report that will indicate financial alternatives to reduced highway funds.
Although the bill was never voted on in the Senate, the owners' work was not over.
According to Wallace, recent statistics supported the groups beliefs that the drinking age should not be raised.
They also probably increased the amount of hard liquor consumed. Edmonds said, because other alcohol was equally as available as hard liquor. The amount of fake identifications was also increased.
Wallace said that he did not want to see anyone hurt from drinking and driving, but he did not believe that raising the drinking age was the solution.
PUBLIC AWARENESS about drinking and driving, law enforcement and highway safety were possible solutions to the problem. Wallace said.
Along with many other taverns in Lawrence, the Jayhawk Cafe would not be able to survive if the drinking age was raised to 21 City zoning in many areas, such as those near the Jayhawk Cafe would not allow the tavern to sell hard liquor.
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