University Daily Kansan, July 1, 1983
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Rogers said the KU financial aid office would have to go through all the forms on file and check to see whether the draft question had been answered.
The controversy created by the Solomon Amendment has prompted litigation that will continue after today, according to spokesmen of groups that oppose the new federal law.
A FLURRY OF LEGAL activity arose during the past two weeks after U.S. District Judge Donald Alop of Minnesota placed a permanent injunction against the plaintiff's investment in two district court decisions on June 17.
As reported on a National Association of Financial Aid Administrators telephone hotline, on June 20 the Justice Department requested Alsop to stay his decision.
Ahoi denied the stay, which would have rendered the injunction ineffective and allow full rehab.
The Justice Department requested a stay from the U.S. Supreme Court on June 21, and it was granted Justice Harry A. Blackmun temporary custody of the child in response by the American Civil Liberties Union.
The Minnesota CLU represented several Minnesota college students who were draft resistoris in a case against the U.S. Department of Education and the Selective Service System.
AFTER HEARING ARGUMENTS by the ACLU on Monday, Blackmun ordered a perma-
ture to the ACLU.
Richard Hastings, deputy assistant secretary for Student Financial Assistance at the Education Department, said the stay made the Solomon Amendment fully enforceable.
Therefore, all males who complete a Family Financial Statement application for financial aid may apply.
Matthew Stark, executive director of the Minnesota Civil Liberties Union, said that the Minnesota ACLU was against the Solomon Amendment because it was a bill of attainment, meaning it deprived people of rights without a guarantee to their Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination.
PAUL SIEGEL, executive director of the ACLU of Kansas and western Wisconsin, said that he was "extremely disappointed" by the Supreme Court's decision to grant the perma-
"The ACLU will continue, along with others, to fight the Solomon Amendment," he said. "This is only a temporary setback. We haven't lost vet."
Siegel said the matter would probably be in litigation for at least another 18 months. The Supreme Court will have to make a final decision on the constitutionality of the law, he said.
He said the ACLU was opposed to the Solomon Amendment for three reasons.
First, he said, the ACLU saw the amendment as an attempt by the government to return to a peaceleture draft, which the ACLU considers unconstitutional.
SECOND, HE SAID, students would not be given an opportunity to claim conscientious objection.
"They say that in the event of an emergency they will contact everyone and give them opportunity to say whether they are a conscientious objector at that time," be said.
"Then there will be something like 10 days for them to determine whether they will honor a request for concientious objector status. We hardly think that allows enough time for due process."
Third, Siegel the ACL does not think universities should be required to police their crimes.
Siegel said he was dismayed by a lack of reaction to the situation on the part of many students.
CHRIS GRAVES, legislative director for the Associated Students of Kansas in Topokan, said, "I have never felt so strong in my career."
She said that ASK's reason for opposing the Solomon Amendment was that it discriminated against men.
recommendation that school systems adopt a program such as the Five New Basics. He said that university students themselves were saying that a system of this type should be implemented because many of them did not make the right course decisions in high school.
Reagan
"Whether they are going on to college or not, there is a need for these types of programs in school. This is a highly sophisticated world and a solid education program that can survive the tough times." Nehring said.
Reagan expressed only what was wrong but did not give any firm solutions to the problem, he said. That is because a solution would cost money, according to Nehrring, and no one wants to spend that kind of money right now.
HE SAID EDUCATION was a good political issue because it could be addressed on a similistic level.
"This also keeps him on the offensive. It gives him something to shoot back to the Democrats since they've always been involved in educational issues." Nebring said.
Reagan told the crowd of nearly 1,800 delegates of the National Association of Student Councils/National Association of Teachers that he wanted to abolish the U.S. Department of Education
because of all the needless bureaucracy it created.
He maintained throughout his speech how the federal government was too involved in the nation's school systems — that it needed to give the authority back to the state and local levels.
The president, however, made no mention of merit pay for teachers as he had done during previous speeches on education. The National Education Association, the nation's largest teacher organization, opposes merit pay for teachers.
Several questions were asked of him by student delegates after his speech. One student asked him why he reduced college loan programs.
TO THAT STUDENT he answered: "We really didn't cut that many loans. We found that many were getting loans who really didn't need them. What we did was reorganize the system and make loans available to many of the truly needy who weren't getting them before."
Nefhering said one of the reasons the president was creating an issue out of education was because people always supported education and hadn't gotten from his economic policies to dissipate.
some of the students said the president was well-received because it was the first time many of them were given a job.
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area," said Judy Billings, organizer of the festival.
THE $70,000 CELEBRATION is being funded mainly by contributions from local businesses and Independence Days button sales, Billings said. The buttons entitle the wearer to all activities in the parks and the fireworks display in Memorial Stadium.
"The goal is to have as many people as possible in the parks for those two days, so that we can see them."
celebration, but to make it a success takes people," she said.
Entertainers will perform Irish, Dixieland, bluegrass, gospel, ragtime and country music, with dance, a circus and a dance. A magician, storytellers and other wandering performers will also be at the parks.
Entertainment will begin at 10 a.m. each day from stages set up in both parks. The performers will alternate between the two stages giving three to four performances during the two days.
to four to five percent marks during the en-
In addition to the entertainment, people will
demonstrate and sell their crafts. Food and beverage vendors will sell everything from "Quantrill" s turkey legs and licorice whips to homemade ice cream and snack器鸭。
The highlight of the crafts, food and entertainment is that it must all conform to the turn of the century — no electric guitars or canned soda cans. It also dress in turn-of-the-century costumes.
FOR THE KIDS, there will be a petting zoo,
wagon and pony rides, races, clowns and
a petting zoo.
Other events will include a seed-sitting contest every hour from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday and from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Monday; a bucket brigade by the city firefighters using a vintage 1901 water cart; The Walking tour of the museum; the tour departs at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m, each day from the drinking fountain in Central Park, 7th and Tennessee streets.
Parking for the expected 20,000 visitors will be limited at the parks. But free shuttle buses will
operate to transport people between the downtown parking areas and the park.
Buses will run at 10-minute intervals from stops along a rectangular route that runs along New Hampshire, Sixth, Vermont and 11th streets. Stops will be marked along the route, Billings said.
BUSES WILL DEPART every 30 minutes from Constant Park after the KANU concert on Sunday until the parks are empty, but they will not operate for the fireworks display on Monday.
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MORE THOUGHTS ABOUT THE KANSAS RELAYS FIASCO
Because I've met Bob Swan, whom I described in an April 28th adverbial as "the likeable co-founder of AUP" (Atheletes United for Peace), only once, most of what I know about him has been gleaned from our local newspaper. The information gained has led me to question his judgment, not his motives or character. Consider for a moment Mr. Swan's post-Relays statement to the press. Said Mr. Swan: "There were no demonstrations and not one single negative question . . . asked" (of the Soviet contingent). How can such a flaccid exchange—which ignores the fact of Soviet oppression both within and without its borders—promote peace?
The arms race and Cold War resulted from and has been prolonged by the Soviet Union's unwillingness to submit to such inspection requirements as those of the 1946 Baruch Plan and President Eisenhower's 1955 Open Skies proposal. The Soviet government's response to the popular uprisings in East Germany (1953), Hungary (1956), Czechoslovakia (1968), and Poland (1980-83) has been surpassed by its recent conduct in Indochina and Afghanistan.
In 1975 the Soviets began using toxic chemical substances in Laos. By employing such agents against the native population in Laos during the last decade and Afghanistan today, the Soviets have violated both the 1925 Geneva Protocol and the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. Surely such activity is a more convincing expression of Soviet intentions than any short-lived display of cooing and coddling by Yuri Andropov.
To ostracize is "to cast out from social or political favor or fellowship"; ostracism is sometimes used to induce change. The desire of many countries to effect a change in South Africa's treatment of most of its populace has resulted in its (South Africa) being barred from the Olympic Games.
In the spring of 1975 Dr. Kenneth Kaunda, president of Zambia, chose a White House dinner to say this about the efforts to achieve majority rule in Rhodesia and Namibia and end apartheid in South Africa:
If the oppressed peoples fail to achieve these noble ends by peaceful means, we call upon America not to give any support to the oppressors. Even now we call upon America to desist from direct and indirect support to minority regimes. For this puts America in direct conflict with the interests of Africa i.e. peace deeply rooted in human dignity and equality and freedom without discrimination . . . we are fighting an evil and brutal system.
Although Dr. Kaunda was discussing the misuse of power in southern Africa eight years ago, he could have been referring to the oppressive practices of the Soviet Union today.
By maintaining an economic system which is increasingly unconcerned with principled action, our government has lost influence and power both at home and abroad. While the Soviet Union sends arms, advisers, and soldiers to various countries to foment violence, we reluctantly give token assistance to Afghanistan's heroic defenders and sometimes appear willing to tolerate the loss of access to the Caribbean Sea and the Panama Canal.
This nation has the resources with which to peacefully stop the Soviet juggernaut. Although millions of people around the world are in dire need of food, clothing, shelter, medical assistance, and education, our so-called free-enterprise system often continues rewarding the tawdry (gambling, television, and those trashy tabloids), tyrannical (pornography and prostitution) and downright destructive (abortion). Dr. Kaunda put it this way:
Realism and moral conscience dictate that those who believe in peace must join hands in promoting conditions for peace. We cannot declare our commitment to peace and yet strengthen forces which stand in the way to the attainment of that peace.
William Dann
2702 W. 24th St. Terr.
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