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University Daily Kansan; September 15, 1983
Artist won't end his cartoon
Cartoonist Berke Breathed, who had threatened to stop drawing his popular "Bloom County" comic strip, says he is satisfied with his new contract offer, according to a story by the Associated Press.
Breathed had told a University of Rochester audience Sunday that there was a "good chance" he would stop drawing the cartoon strip.
But Breathed said Tuesday that
the Washington Post Writers Group had been "very responsive" to his requests regarding copyright and final say over any merchandising or outside exportation of "Bloom County" or its characters.
"Bloom County" is syndicated to an estimated 500 newspapers nationwide, including the University of Illinois and appears on Mondays and Fridays.
Soviet position on arms talks won't soften over jet incident
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union rejected speculation yesterday that it might soften its position at the Geneva arms talks in response to the international furor over the downing of a South Korean jetliner.
In Washington, British Defense Minister Michael Heselite predicted at a news conference that the KAL incident might make the Soviets more flexible in negotiations on medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe.
By United Press International
Georgi Kornienki said “there cannot be any connection between” the arms talks and the shooting down of Korean fighter jets in August, he referred to as a “U.S. provocation.”
A delegation from six NATO nations, visiting Washington, endorsed the deployment of U.S. missiles in Western Europe and said the recent Soviet downing of a Korean airliner would pave the way for the move.
pave the ground. Korienko denied that Moscow would accept U.S. demands to exclude French and British missiles from discussion at the Geneva talks by classifying the 162 weapons as strategic weapons.
Heckler names commissioner acting head of Social Security
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Martha McSeen,
Southwest regional commissioner of
the Social Security Administration, was named acting head of the agency yesterday. In 2014, he served Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler.
McSteen replaces John Svahn, who began work as an adviser to President Reagan on domestic affairs.
swahn had headed the Social Security Administration since May 1981.
McSteen, 60, a native of Iowa Park,
Texas, had been regional Social
Security commissioner for Arkansas.
He now lives in New Mexico, Oklahoma
and since 1976.
She previously worked for six years as regional director of the Medicare program in Dallas, as a social insurance officer for Medicare and an assistant director of the Supplemental Security Income program in Baltimore.
When Svahn's appointment to the White House job was announced last month, Mrs. Heckler said she would begin a search for his replacement.
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"Unfortunately, it didn't have the support and input of a large enough group of administrators and students to equip our school. It has gotten in the last couple of years."
THE LOUISVILLE GROUP also did
not have a lot of contact with Kentucky
"We tried to start a group at Louisville and it did some good there." Edmonda said. "It gave the student experience, lessons and some ideas to work with in the future."
legislators, Edmonds said. But he said that his experiences as an aide for a Topeka law firm would help him if he is nicked as director.
"I think I have enough knowledge and enough contacts to hold the campus director job." Edmonds said.
Two to vie for campus ASK director post
Investigating ways of solving ASK's struggling financial situation is a chief focus.
Last Sunday in Topeka, ASK's executive director, Mark Tallman, said that unless a ASK member schools approved a dues increase, the group would be forced to curtail some of its operations and/or cut staff salaries.
Edmonds, a Kansas native, transferred this year from the University of Louisville, where he was involved last fall to begin a jobbly group similar to ASK.
"I'd like to see more legislative forums and I'd like to see more communication between the campus and the Capitol," Levy said.
"Although a lot of people complain about the apathy on campus," Edmonds said. "I think it's as much and as much fault as it is the fault of the student."
By PETE WICKLUND Staff Reporter
IF SELECTED, LEVY said he wanted to enhance communication through more public meetings, advertise events at local businesses or live living groups on and off campus.
Although predictions surfaced last week that as many as six people would seek the position of the on-campus director of the Associated Students of Kansas, only two candidates have applied.
Staff Reporter
Edmonds echoed Levy's plans on publicizing ASK at KU.
EDMONDS PROPOSED SEEKING financial help from the business communities in the towns where member schools are located
Today is the deadline for applying for the $115-a-month position with the state lobby group. Last night, the Student Senate office released a report on the sophomore, and Chris Edmonds, Topea sophomore, had filed applications.
Warren Bird, Dodge City sophomore, applied last week, but withdrew his application Tuesday.
Bird, who is now the state ASK chairman on social issues and chairman of the Student Senate legislative affairs committee, said he was concerned about time restraints and withdrew.
Levy said that he had no specific plans for ASK, but that he had some general ideas that he would consider if chosen as director.
"Don't get me wrong. I love to apply for the position," Bird said. "I'd love to do more for ASK. But at this point in time I can't afford it."
SCOTT SWENSON, who resigned as the KU director Sept. 3, and members of the full-time ASK staff in Topeka will interview Levy and Edmonds tomorrow, and are expected to name a successor tomorrow afternoon.
Levy has worked with KU's chapter of ASK for the past year. He said he was satisfied with the progress Swenson had made in his nine-month tenure as director. Levy said he would continue Swenson's programs.
Levy, who was an intern this summer for Rep. Jim Slattery, a Democrat representing the 2nd District, cited his experience with state government as his major strength for the director position.
WASHINGTON — Despite more than 30 laws to protect the rights of the handicapped, discrimination against the disabled "continues to be a serious and pervasive problem," the U.S. court on Civil Rights said yesterday.
Disabled still face prejudice
"In spite of some advances, particularly in the last two decades, historical patterns of exclusion, segregation and isolation of handicapped people continue today," the commission said in a 173-page report.
By United Press International
Chairman Clarence Pendleton told a news conference there appeared to be widespread apathy concerning the rights of the disabled.
"Discrimination against handicapped people persists in such critical areas as education, employment, institutionalization, medical treatment, involuntary sterilization, architectural barriers and transportation," it said.
His view was echoed by Rabbi Murray Saltzman, a commission member who said Congress had failed to
provide money both for legal en-
mentation efforts and for the panel to
monitor the progress of the project.
The report said the effects and application of civil rights laws for the handicapped "are not well understood, and legal analysis and interpretation of such laws are still in their formative stages."
At the same time, it said, the concepts of civil rights law as developed to protect the rights of blacks and minorities "should not be applied mechanically to handicap discrimination issues."
"The key determination in applying established civil rights law is whether it furthersthe goal of providing practical and efficient ways of eliminating prejudice against oppressed persons and promoting their full participation," the report said.
It also challenged two misconceptions about civil rights and the handicapped: that making accommodations to permit disabled people is very expensive undertaking, and that the laws seek "special treatment" for handicapped people.
Plan will aid black families
By United Press International
LOS ANGELES — In an attempt to "break the cycle of poverty," a group of black professionals yesterday announced a model program to provide financial support and tree services to poor black families for a year.
The Adopt-A-Family Endowment is the brainchild of Dr. James Mays, a cardiologist, who said he thought the program was the first of its kind in the nation and hoped it would motivate other black professionals to become involved in similar programs.
"We were searching for a pilot family, but when I saw Mrs McNeese wander in like a mother duck with her children following her like ducklings, I knew we had our family," Mays said.
"This is not a welfare program." Mays said at a news conference. "This program is specifically targeted at youngsters in hopes that it will get them started in the right direction so that they may become the future Jesse Jacksonss and Ralph Bunches, and not find themselves pointing a gun at somebody in front of a restaurant."
UNDER TERMS OF the program Mays and other black professionals, including a physician, a dentist, a pharmacist, tutors and the owner of a meat market, will be role models for the children and provide the family with free services and $200 a month for a year.
Mays became aware of the family's plight when he fitted McNeese with a pacemaker McNeese, 43, has been unable to work for 10 years. He was on a track at the age of 16 while catching socks of cotton in Mississippi.
McNeese is particularly concerned about the education of his two oldest daughters, Willie Jean, 19 and Tamirte, 18. Both girls are expected out of high school, but returned this year to graduate with honors.
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A RESPONSE TO A JAUNDICED JAYHAWK
On the August 25th issue of the University Daily Kansan's editorial page can be found a bewildering piece entitled "Witch Hunt For Drugs" in which the effort's author contends that United States Olympic Committee President William Simon's use of sophisticated drug testing equipment to detect their guilty of drug abuse is a "witch hunt" born of "fanaticism."
As a witch hunt is, according to one dictionary, "an investigation of or campaign against dissenters (as political opponents) conducted on the pretext of protecting the public welfare and resulting in public persecution and defamation of character", a test which reveals only those dishonest few unwilling to abide by regulations designed to protect the amateur athlete is neither oppressive, fanatical nor defamatory because only the malefactors are punished.
The editorialists fears that "If Simon's witch hunt continues, and the world's amateur athletes continue to drop out of competition . . . his game—the Olympic Games—may indeed be over." Such an occurrence would probably establish President Simon's drug testing equipment as one of the wisest acquisitions of this century.
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