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University Daily Kansan, September 8, 1983
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Clearer election rules sought
By the Kansan Staff
In an attempt to avoid problems that plagued last year's Student Senate elections, the newly appointed Senate election chairman said yesterday that he wanted to make the election rules clearer.
Jim Clark, Overland Park sophmore, said that he would make sure the rules for November's elections were clear to all candidates and poll watchers. He said that the 1982 election rules were vague and ambiguous.
The 1982 election was marred by complaints from three coalitions that cited examples of electionering, plastering and ballototing by elected senators.
Also, members of the Momentum Coalition complained that blank ballot forms were found on election day stored in Senate offices in the Union.
Clark, who is presently gathering people for his committee, said the rules had to be known by election officials and that he was the beginning of this year's elections.
"If you spell it out clearly at the beginning and rely on the candidates' individual integrity, you can eliminate a lot of problems." Clark said.
Clark was nominated for the election chairman position by student body president Lisa Ashner and was confirmed by the Senate Tuesday night.
Asher and Clark are friends from high school and Ashler said she chose Clark, a former KU debate member, because of his organizational skills and because he was not connected to the Senate and wouldn't show favoritism.
Clark said he was studying material from last year's election and had not developed any concrete ideas for the next three years, which are responsible for operations of the election.
Several people have expressed an interest in working on the election committee, but Clark said that he would need at least 50 people to help vote.
He said that because work on the committee took a lot of time, some people were still deciding whether they would volunteer.
BOSTON — The nation's chief AIDS investigator warned yesterday that the disease may be far more widespread than previously believed with just "a tip" of the case-load iceberg being reported and more people could be unwitting carriers.
AIDS reports may be tip' of iceberg, researcher says
By United Press International
But the investigator, James Curan of the Centers for Disease Control, also cautioned that Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome — which attacks the body's immune system — often perhaps non-fatal form and that "there is no need for hysteria or panic."
In an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine marking the two-year anniversary since AIDS was first officially reported, Curran said the methods to diagnose and report it "lead to an under-
estimation of the size and severity of the problem."
He said that in diagnosing AIDS, doctors checked if victims — mostly homosexual men had such opportunistic infections associated with cancer, such as a form of cancer, Kaposi's sarcoma, and uncommon type of pneumonia.
But Curran wrote that it "is also likely that a variety of chronic symptoms" that also may be the result of other diseases — swollen muscles, recurrent urinary and weight loss — are related to the syndrome."
Such disorders have been found among homosexuals, hemophilias, drug abusers and Haitians, the high risk groups for AIDS. Doctors believe it is transmitted through contaminated blood products and intimate sexual contact, and may be caused by a virus.
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County gets $99,000 from HUD
By the Kansan Staff
Douglas County commissioners yesterday signed a contract with the Department of Housing and Urban Aid for $99,000 of housing aid for this year.
The money will be used for a rental assistance program that will help 30 families pay their rent this year, said Mr. Cummings. The Lawrence Housing Authority.
The program was set up by HUD so that low-income families could select their own housing and receive financial assistance from the federal government.
The rental assistance program is new to Douglas County. However, the city of Lawrence has its own program, which includes 241 families each year, Murrell said.
"The county program has not really begun," Murrell said. "The system is new. But we have funding for 30 units now."
FAMILIES ON THE program must pay 30 percent of their income for housing. Now, with the rental assistance program, the Lawrence Housing Authority will pay the rest of the rent, Murrell said.
"People can apply for the aid in Eudora, Baldwin and Lecomptem," Murrell said. "They can't apply in Chicago, where the availance already has its own program."
The commission also signed a contract with Jefferson County to maintain an access road to the Douglas County landfill.
The landfill is privately owned, but the access road runs across Douglas County and Jefferson County land.
GOVERNMENTAL DISPLAYS OF CLASS FAVORITISM CHART CAPITALISM'S DECLINE
Jefferson County agreed to pay for the maintenance of the entire road, said Mike Dooley, director of public works for Douglas County.
"Maintenance of the road will be funded by a surcharge added on at the landfill," Dooley said. "So, essentially, you will be paying the landfill will be paying for the road."
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