University Daily Kansan, August 29, 1983
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NEWS BRIEFS From Area Staff and Wire Reports
Heat shortens school hours
Torrid temperatures, compounded by classrooms without air conditioning, have forced school officials across the state to cancel or alter class schedules.
All schools in Lawrence Unified School District 497 will be dismissed two hours early every day this week. Classes will start an hour earlier to compensate for the early dismissal.
compensate for the early dismissal. Five hours of lost time that will have accumulated by the end of the week will be made up on April 20, which was originally designated as a holiday
Lawrence superintendent. School officials in the Topeka and Auburn-Washburn districts said their schools would be open only for a half day today. And school officials in Holton have canceled classes for today and tomorrow.
monday. "I think the staff recognizes that after 1 p.m. or 1:30 p.m. that the heat is really affecting productivity in the classroom," said Carl Knox, Lawrence superintendent.
In Wichita and Derby, students will operate on a schedule similar to the Lawrence plan.
Garden City superintendent Horace Good said his schools were in need of fans to help cool classrooms this week.
"We're starting to install ceiling fans," said Good, "but we really need donations of box fans."
Good said fans would be returned to their owners after the heat wave ends
The National Weather Service said yesterday that high temperatures across Kansas would reach 100 for the next two or three days.
Scholarship info meeting planned
The College Honors Program will conduct an informational meeting this week for juniors or seniors interested in applying for a Rhodes Scholarship.
scholarship.
Students will have the opportunity to talk with members of the school committee at 4 p.m. Wednesday in the lobby of Nunemaker Center. Thirty-two people nationwide are selected to be Rhodes Scholars each year.
Scholars each year A Rhodes scholarship pays for up to three years of study in any subject of the recipient's choice at Oxford University in England. It also pays for living and traveling expenses.
Applications must be turned into the College Honors Program office by Sept. 12. Interviews will start that week.
Bob Hockett, Stilwell graduate student, was chosen to be a scholar last year;
$7,000 collected for deputies' vests
TOPEKA — Shawnee County officials say $7,000 has been collected to buy bullet-proof vests for 35 deputies who regularly work in potentially dangerous situations.
dangerous situations.
A spokesman for the Sheriff's officers Safety Equipment Fund said as many as 80 vests could be used to outfit detectives and other officers who were on the street less often, but that would take $20,000.
The fund-raising effort is scheduled to end Thursday. It began after an Auburn marshal said his vest saved his life. The shooting was a hoax and Sheriff Ed Ritchie offered to refund any donations, but no requests for refunds were made, the spokesman said.
ON THE RECORD
POLICE SAID $187 was stolen from the King Oil Co., 2247 Louisiana St., at 4:03 a.m. Saturday. A suspect, police said, described as about 22 to 26 years old, about 6 feet 2., 165 pounds, took the money from a cash register after hitting a clerk in the face.
KU POLICE REPORTED that art supplies, jewelry and other items worth $340 were stolen from a locker in the metal-smithing area of the Art & Design Building. Police said the theft occurred sometime between July 29 and Aug. 23.
July 29 and Aug. 10
AN ARTBY PICCOLO was stolen from a room in Hashinger Hall sometime between 12:30 a.m. Aug. 20 and 2 p.m. Aug. 22, KU police said.
The piccolo was valued at $300.
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By JOHN HOOGESTEGER
None of the students who picked up federal financial aid checks during registration refused to sign statements saying they had complied with draft registration laws, according to financial aid officials.
No students resist signing draft compliance form
Staff Reporter
As a result of a federal law that went into effect July 1, if students had refused to sign the form, they would have been refused federal aid.
Jerry Rogers, director of the office of financial aid, said no students lodged formal complaints about having to sign.
About 4,500 people had signed the forms and more students were expected to sign the forms, because some financial aid checks had not been picked up. Also, students with jobs in the federal work-study program will be required to sign forms when they go to work. Rogers said.
work About 10,000 KU students are expected to receive some form of federal aid this fall.
THE LAW AFFECTS all Title IV federal financial aid programs, which include National Direct Student Loans, Guaranteed Students Loans, Pell Grants, Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, the Federal Grant Program and State of Kansas Scholarships, which are federally supported.
supported.
Rogers said the compliance statements would be on file at the financial aid office, and government officials would be using them to check against the national selective service registration list to make sure that students who signed the forms were registered.
Rebels killed in Nicaragua
By United Press International
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Security forces surprised anti-government rebels in a northern province, killing 16 insurgents in the 10th day of heavy fighting near the border with Honduras, the Interior Ministry said.
Barricada, official newspaper of the leftist Sandinista party, quoted Interior Minister Tomas Borge as saying fighting could worsen in the next few days and could involve U.S. troops, a car bomb and the Sandinistas have frequently made.
"We have made cold calculations, analyzing all the possibilities, and if the troops from the United States come to help us, we will be more time than in Vietnam," Borge said.
"In the United States, they will stop talking about the Vietnam syndrome and talk about the Nicaraguan syndrome." Borge said.
The Interior Ministry said security forces patrolling in northern Jinetega province Saturday attacked a hound of goats in La Zomopaera and killed 16 insurgents.
The Interior Ministry report brings the number to 97 of rebels killed since Aug. 19, when the U.S.-backed rebels launched a series of heavy attacks near the eastern border. Nigerian officials also said 12 soldiers died in recent combat.
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KU opposes law
He said that KU would continue to participate in all federal-aid programs for the benefit of the students who used the programs.
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In January, David Ambler, vice-chancellor for student affairs, representing KU, went on record opposing the law, saying that it uses the University to enforce military conscription and that it does not guarantee due process or equal protection of the law for all students involved.
Amber recently said KU's position had not changed, and that KU would enforce all aid requirements, including the one on compliance with registration, to make certain that KU students remained eligible for aid.
7:00 p.m. Starts Sept. 8
Starts Sept. 11
When the selective service office finds an unregistered man, the service sends a letter warning him.
Sunday
Officials at the selective service office in Washington, D.C., said that 98.7 percent of all eligible young men had registered, and that they were checking all available government records such as social security numbers and student financial-aid compliance forms to find the remaining men.
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ALL MEN WHO are 18 and older and who were born on Jan. 1, 1960 must register. The registration list includes your name, addresses, names, according to government officials.
"Our position is based on our traditional opposition to the draft itself," he said. "We see it as violation of our rights and we say, 'Be it for religion or any moral cause.'"
DAN WILDCAT, acting vice president of the Lawrence chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, said the ACLI was opposed to the law.
"We oppose any effort to revive the draft in the absence of war or threat of war. We are opposed to any kind of conscription and involuntary servitude."
Program delayed
The U.S. Supreme Court lifted the injunction in late June and the law was allowed to go into effect on schedule
"Even signing a form seems to be a kind of hostage ransom situation, saying you don't have the right to disagree."
question on financial aid forms when the injunction came, and students were given the option of answering it when required by financial aid applications in the spring.
Bill Brow, of the Friends Society of Oread, a local Quaker group, said that they were following the issue, and that they did not have much enthusiasm for it. But Brow said they had not yet come out with a stand on the law.
President Reagan signed the law a year ago, but because of a legal delay the University of Kansas and other universities and colleges around the country delayed collecting proof of compliance.
KU then had to prepare separate compliance forms and must now get students to sign the forms as they pick up checks. KU also had to send notices to about 1,700 students whose loans were already approved that said they would have to sign a compliance statement.
THE DELAY CAME in March when a U.S. district judge in Minnesota filed an injunction against withholding financial aid until the legality of the measure was decided in the courts. In August, the state court forced students to sign compliance forms.
KU already had put the registration
UNDER THIS SYSTEM, Rogers said, some students who applied before March or who signed voluntarily this spring would have to sign twice.
The law will remain in effect unless the Supreme Court rules it unconstitutional. A group of Minnesota students has challenged the law. The students have not expected to or on the issue until its 1983-84 session, which starts in October.
Teen-age suspect held in stabbing
One of the two juveniles, a Shawnee resident, was being held as a suspect.
OLATHE — A 16-year-old boy who is a suspect in the weekend stabbing death of a Merriam man was being held in the Johnson County Jail yesterday.
Ralph E. Cochran, 20, Merriam, was found dead by police outside his parents' home about 3 a.m. Saturday after two juveniles told Shawnee police they had been involved in a fight.
Police said Cochran died of a neck wound. He apparently was stabbed in his car...
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