University Daily Kansan, June 8, 1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA
News briefs from staff and wire reports
Applications for loans should be in by July 1
Students who need to receive Guaranteed Student Loans in time to pay fees on Aug. 17 should apply for the loans by July 1.
GSL applications will be accepted after July 1, but students might not receive their money in time for fall fee payment.
Besides the GSL application, students must turn into the office of financial aid, 26 Strong Hall, their GSL information form, statement of income form and a 1983 Federal Income Tax return, or a statement of income if no income tax form was filed.
After the office has all the forms, the student should set up an appointment with a professional staff member to review the application.
Fall GSL applications are available in the office.
Kaw River race to begin in Eudora
Several Lawrence residents will be among the 168 contestants in the Sixth Annual Great Kaw River Race, beginning at 8 a.m. Saturday in Eudora at the boat ramp on Main Street
The design and construction of the rafts used for the 26-mile race, from Eudora to Edwardsville, will be limited only by the contestants' imaginations.
Prizes will be given for the most unusual design, best use of recycled material and best use of people power. There will be divisions for mechanical and manually powered rafts.
D. P. Welling, Route 6, said that he used 4,000 aluminum cans for his raft, which was similar to the raft made of two-liter cola bottles he raced last year.
The Edwardsville Jaycees, Eudora Lions and Kansas City radio station KCFX-FM are sponsoring the event to raise money for community projects.
Jazz band invited to Tennessee
The University of Kansas Jazz Ensemble 1 has been invited to perform at the National Band Association's national convention June 14-16 in Knoxville, Tenn.
The group will appear June 15 in a program with the U.S. Marine Band and the National Honors Jazz Ensemble, conducted by KU alumnus Gary Foster.
The KU band is the only jazz group invited to perform at the convention, which will attrish more than 500 high school, college and university students.
The band recently performed at the Wichita Jazz Festival and received all superior ratings, said Ronald C. McCurdy, director of the jazz ensemble.
New firetrucks are too big to help
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The pride of the fire department, bolstered recently with the purchase of 12 new firetrucks, was deflated somewhat when firefighters found that the trucks were too big to use on some streets.
Cars parked on both sides of the road in the city's older sections allow only about to feet of clearance, but the trucks need 13 feet of space.
The trucks are too wide for at least five streets in the Armourdale District as well as a number of other older streets.
"We're in a situation right now where if a fire happened, and they had to carry all that equipment from the end of a block, there could be some lives lost," said Jane Reynolds, executive director of the Kountale Neighborhood and Business Revitalization Committee.
The five narrow streets serve about 150 homes
"There could be a possibility that we pull up to a house and it's too tight a fit and we're not even able to open the doors to fight the fire." Fire Chief Lawrence Bowers said. "I don't want to take that."
Bowers said that he knows of no trucks currently manufactured that are less than 8 feet wide.
Program in folk arts established
The Kansas Arts Commission has established a statewide folk arts apprenticeship program that will allow individuals experienced in folk arts to study under "master" artists.
The program was made possible by a $25,400 grant the Arts Commission received from the Folk Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Masters will be selected based upon ability to teach, artistic excellence and the how traditional the art form is. They must excellence and the how traditional the art form is.
"Folk arts are passed on informally by word of mouth or example." Jennie Chinn, Kansas Folk Arts Coordinator, said. Within every region there are groups that share the same ethnic background and geographic area, and each of these groups passes on its own tradition.
Apprentices must apply to the KAC by October 1, and the apprenticeship must take place between January and June.
Professorsstudv economic model
A KU faculty member and a University of North Carolina professor have been researching the feasibility of a statistical model to estimate how proposed tax changes will affect the U.S. Treasury and economy.
John R. Robinson, KU associate professor of business, and Karin M. Renfer were provided with a tax law research grant of $13,000 from the Arthur Young Foundation.
Their first concern was the question of estimating how much specific tax deductions and credits cost in terms of government subsidies.
"We hope to develop a means of including these interactions between tax provisions and other economic variables in the estimating process," Robinson said.
Several government agencies calculate these costs. However, Robinson said, these estimates do not take into account the interaction between various tax laws and economic variables.
KU employee to sit on committees
Steve Word, the general manager, was appointed to the larger stores committee and to the nominating committee of the National Committee.
The first committee reviews the association's policies, programs and services for larger stores. The second nominates officers and managers.
The general manager of the Kansas Union bookstore has been appointed to serve on two committees of a national organization of college bookstores.
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Roughing it is not a part of all camps Summer brings different breed of KU campers
By JOHN SIMONSON Staff Reporter
Summer camp. The words bring to mind idyllic days spent learning to paddle a canoe, shooting a bow and a arrow or making a wallet. Days filled with swimming in a lake. Nights with singing around a campfire.
The age of specialization has changed all of that. Now, summer campers can learn how to program a computer or ava or even write a newspaper story.
Members of Kansas Boys State take a break from their daily political activities to exercise in a series of volleyball games Wednesday afternoon in front of Lewis Hall, 1530 Engel Road. Kansas Boys State is one of the many camps hosted by the University of Kansas during the summer.
Between June 10 and July 27, hundreds of junior and senior high school students from across the country will participate in academic summer camps sponsored by various departments on the KU campus.
Scholarships will also be awarded.
The largest and oldest of the KU academic camps, the Midwestern Music Camp, will run from June 10 through July 21 in four sessions. The camp is in its 49th year and is being directed by David Bushue is expecting about 960 students to attend.
CAMPERS WILL LIVE in KU residence halls or commute to the camps.
Students attend daily classes and rehearsals in vocal and instrumental music at the camp. Students also participate in concerts throughout the sessions.
Bushouse, a KU professor of music, said that the faculty he had assembled was a national drawing card for his camp. The faculty include Col. Arnold Gabriel, conductor of the El Paso Symphony, and Orchestra, and Abraham Chavez, conductor of the El Paso Symphony.
The Midwestern Computer Science camp, in its third year at KU, has experienced dramatic growth since its first session, said camp director Herb Harris, assistant director of user services.
Harris said he expected over 125 students this year, more than three times the number two years ago. Harris attributed the increase to the number of sessions; this year's camp will be six sessions, two more than in 1982. The sessions will run from June 10 through July 21.
- the Midwestern Speech and Debate Institute. Camp director Ed Hick, teaching assistant in speech and drama, anticipates about 200 students will attend two sessions, from June 17 through July 14.
Director John P. Davidson, professor of physics and astronomy.
credit courses. Co-director Randa Dushun, instructor in English, express about 20 students for the single session, June 10 through July 6.
The Midwestern Astronomy Camp will run from June 24 through July 21 in two sessions.
anticipates about 20 students to attend each session of what he terms "intensive grounding in astronomy."
"They spend a lot of time looking at the big planets, Jupiter and Saturn." Davidson said. "They're very bright and show up well."
Other academic camps to be held on campus this summer include:
- the Midwestern Journalism Camp, which will run from June 10 through June 15 in three sessions, one for students and two for high school students. (For library Wallace, assistant professor of journalism, expects 65 to 70 students)
- the Sports Skills and Fitness School. A day camp, this program is for children ages 7-12 and will offer various athletic activities, including tennis, swimming, gymnastics, soccer, golf and archery. The camp will run from July 2 through July 73 in LaPont, associate professor of health, physical education and recreation, expects 80 to 90 campers.
- the KU Summer Honors Institute, which allows high school students to enroll for two college
Student Senate aims for a good semester
By KAREN MASSMAN Staff Reporter
Although most Student Senate staff members do not stay in Lawrence during the summer months, Carla Vogel, student body president, and Dennis "Boog" Highberg, student body vice president, should be busy organizing and researching for the next semester.
Vogel and Highberger said that it was important that they be available to students during the summer. The Senate office, in the Kansas Union, will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
"People need to be able to come in," Vogel said. "Now we finally have time to work on organizing research for the fall."
resignation of many of the officers citing "abuse of authority," and saying that the office staff "repress" the student population."
VOGEL. AND HIGHBERGER said that after their election in March, most of the previous Student Senate staff resigned their office and joined the president and vice-president to run the office by themselves.
Student Senate staff members resigned their positions following a controversy between the Senate and the Black Student Union.
Now, after filling the vacant staff positions, Vogel and Highberger said that they had time to investigate some projects of more personal interest for the fall Senate.
Vogel and Highberger will be doing research on South Africa, specifically on "American corporations' involvement in exploiting labor," in order to approach the KU Endowment Association in the fall.
In March, the BSU sent a letter to the Senate, calling for the
A new brochure, defining the function of the Student Senate, is also high priority to the Senate members, as well as programming the Senate's new computer.
Vogel and Highberger will also serve on the Student Senate Executive Committee, discussing Senate staff at the June 16 meeting.
DAVID AMBLER, vice chancellor for student affairs, requested a formal statement concerning staff salaries at the May 11 University Senate Executive Committee meeting.
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Right-to-life group begins Reagan re-election drive
By United Press International
KANAS CITY, Mo — The nation's largest anti-abortion organization yesterday opened a convention to rally against the guard the re-election of Ronald Reagan.
Jack Wilkie, the National Right to Life Committee's new president, said that the best offensive his organization could use in fighting to reverse the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortions was to make the 1984 presidential race its No.1 priority.
"We have been given a clean-cut choice in the fall elections." said
Wilke. "Ronald Reagan has made his position on abortion — that he believes in the civil rights of the umbrella."
THE CINCINNATI, Ohio, physician said that the next president could appoint as many as five new Supreme Court justices. He said that voters should elect Democratic presidential candidates having taken pro-abortion stands.
More than 2,000 anti-abortion leaders and activists have gathered for the three days of workshops, general sessions, and speakers, including the Rev. Jerry Failwell, leader of the Moral Majority.