University Daily Kansan, April 14, 1983
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Senate bill to finance gays angers some
By SARA KEMPIN
By SARA KEMPIN
Staff Reporter
A Student Senate committee's proposal to give money for the first time to Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas would objections from some students.
At Senate budget hearings earlier this month, the Senate Finance and Budget Committee recommended the incorporation of $493. The group had requested $1,146.44
"A lot of people are very upset because we are funding the gays," said Loren Busy, chairman of the finance committee. "You wouldn't believe the number of people who violently object to funding them. But they are an organization and provide counseling services for both gays and straights."
STUDENT SENATE WILL vote on the committee's budget Wednesday.
Busy said that he was surprised at how narrow-minded some people were about her.
Some student senators said they planned to speak against financing the organization at the next Senate meet, but would not go on record saying so.
Despite the objection, the finance committee decided to finance the group's request for office rent and phone charges.
"We're not saying that we should give them all the money in the world and we are not agreeing with their budget by giving them funding." Busbv said.
Busy received a letter during budget hearings from two KU students who were opposed to the Senate's
financing the Gay and Lesbian Services. The letter said that financing the organization would only promote homosexuality and sodomy.
IN THE LETTER, CHIRIS Alexander, Fontana special student, and John McDermott, Manhattan freshman, said, "Due to the ideas and services of Kansas, their request for student funding should be rejected."
The letter said that the Senate should not finance the group because Gay and Lesbian Services promoted homosexuality by sponsoring dances for gay people; sodomy is an extremely common practice among homosexuals; the organization could be held accountable for charges of conspiracy; and a Kansas statute states that sodomy is illegal.
Alexander said yesterday that he was not condemning homosexuals as people, but rather the practice of sodomy.
He said he had talked to officials in the attorney general's office in Topeka who told him they "wouldn't mess with what people do behind closed doors."
HE SAID THAT AS A Christian he thought homosexuality was wrong because of the way they viewed women.
"A homosexual is hopeless," he said. "A lot of homosexuals don't like themselves. Society shouldn't say that just legitimizes their behavior."
If the Senate accepts the finance committee's recommendation to finance the organization, he said, it will be able to award a majority of students at the University.
Ruth Litchwardt, director of Gay and Lesbian Services, said, "According to
the Kansas definition of sodomy, even some things married couples do in the United States.
"They're trying to regulate the sexual lives of consenting adults straight or gay No nawmaker has that power, they can do in the bedroom," she said.
She said she thought the statute needed to be changed.
RON BROUN, ASSISTANT general counsel for the University, said, "If the organization counsels homosexuals to commit sodomy, then they are encouraging them to break the law. If they are counseling people to commit sodomy."
Lichtward said, "The last thing on earth we do is to recruit homosexuals. We provide services for both homosexual and heterosexual people, selling, legal and medical referrals."
The group sends speakers to human sexuality and humanities classes on campus at the request of professors to answer questions about homosexuality, she said. And the service reaches hundreds of students.
SHE SAID THE ORGANIZATION had been self-supporting for 10 years. But the group had not called for Senate members so that it could expand its programs.
"Homosexuals are 10 percent of the population," she said. "That's also true at KU. About 2,400 people on campus are sav."
"I am assuming that the Senate is fair enough to be willing to help out when they look at the fact that we've had a lot of students and serve a large number of students.
'But homosexuality scares people. I guess they think if we don't get funding,
Mollie Mitchell, holder student senator, said, "I think they have every right to ask and receive funding just like any group.
we will disappear. And that's not true."
"It is my understanding that some people think they do not serve enough students to merit funding from the student activity fee."
BUT THOSE PEOPLE ARE neglecting to see an increase in the number of gay people the organization serves, she said.
Alexander said the Senate's method of allocating money was unfair because it gave more money to some groups than others .
"I think the way the finance committee allocated the money was a reflection of corrupt politics," he said. "How what's going through their heads."
Mark Bossi, Senate administrative assistant and member of the finance committee, he thought the stu-
der who wrote the letter had a valid point.
"But I'm not sure about the legal implications," he said. "And you have to be careful."
HE SAID THE CRITERI¨ the committee used while deciding how to finance groups was the amount of money they received and how many students were served.
"I think with groups like that, you have to look at how they represent the student body," he said. "With something that controversial, you have to decide how many students use the classroom over a year. The committee has to use some way to determine who should receive the students' money."
Number of graduate nursing students declines
The poor state of the economy and a reduction in federal financing have reduced the number of graduate nursing students in the College of Health Sciences, student admission records indicate
And the economic burden is also forcing more graduate nursing students to take fewer hours, thus making more time to get their degrees.
Admission records showed that this year's graduate program in nursing had about 36 fewer students than last year, slightly less than 20 percent.
By MICHAEL BECK Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
OFFICIALS FROM THE School of Nursing at the College said at a meeting last week that there were
problems keeping students in the graduate nursing program, Suzanne Schleender, assistant director of Student Records for the College, said yesterday.
But Sydney Kramptz, associate dean of the School of Nursing, said that the school had no problems getting or retaining students, but that the number of some students had increased in the last few years because of the economy.
She said the larger number of part-time nursing students, or those carrying 10 to 12 credit hours, reflected the national trend.
She said that part-time graduate nursing students outnumbered those enrolled full time by about 8 to 1, or 19% of students to 25 full-time students.
ALTHOUGH THE COLLEGE of
AIR CONDITIONING IS scheduled to be on May 15, depending on the weather and the status of a supplemental appropriation from the Legislature that KU requested last month for utility
The Board of Regents approved KU's request for $720,000 to pay for energy costs but the Legislature did not approve the request, since lowered its request to $620,000.
Doctorate programs in nursing women in the United States about 10 years ago, Krampit said. The nearest programs are in Chicago, Colorado and Texas.
Despite the increased number of part-time students and fewer students attending the School of Nursing, the need for nurses is growing in nursing next fall. Krumitz said.
By JOEL THORNTON Staff Reporter
She said that the degree would cater to students who want to teach or specialize in a particular area of nursing.
Health Science's $400 a semester graduate school resident tuition is less than many other universities, cuts in federal scholarships and tuiion relief programs have forced more students to bear the brunt of tuition costs.
The graduate program in the School of Nursing requires that students work in nursing for a year after obtaining their undergraduate degrees. And many more nurses are keeping their jobs pay for continuing their education.
Summer energy plan would relocate classes
Some summer school classes will still be scheduled in portions of Wescoe and Fraser. Hogan said.
THE DEGREE PROGRAM, she said, will have about eight full-time students and 22 part-time students.
The University will try to turn off the cooling for large sections of classrooms in buildings such as Wesco and Fraser, he said, while keeping offices for faculty and staff cool.
Although the market for nurses is not bad, Krampitz said, nurses do not have the choice of jobs that they once did. She said the new degree would give her a special skill to resilize in a particular field and be more competitive in the job market.
"We will effectively be operating with slightly less money this summer than last," he said, "But I don't think it is enough to affect the types or numbers of courses students will see in the timetable."
"There has always been a very heavy demand for nurses," she said. "They've always been very employable. But many want to specialize in some area of nursing to be more competitive."
He said newer buildings such as Haworth and the Malot addition had smaller windows and were designed for air conditioning.
William Hogan, associate executive vice chancellor, said the University was discussing other measures for the summer.
Unusually cool weather last June allowed the University to delay turning on air conditioning in buildings until jury 1, he said.
FOR EXAMPLE, HE SAID, certain laboratories and research areas in Haworth and Malott require conditioned environments. Because those buildings need to be cooled anyway, he said, it would make sense to house as many classes in them as possible.
The Legislature will vote on the measure during its wrap-up session, which begins Wednesday.
Hutchison said he would meet next week with deans of schools to decide which buildings would be used more this summer.
KU summer school students who would normally go to classes in Fraser or Wessex halls may instead find themselves in Malot or Haworth halls because of a new plan to cut energy costs.
The University of Kansas will try to save on cooling costs this summer by scheduling more classes in buildings that require lower temperatures to function, Jerry Hutchison, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs and the director of the summer session, said yesterday.
The University's budgetary problems should not affect summer school very much, Hutchison said.
HE SAID HE DID NOT know how much money the conservation measures could save.
On campus
TODAY
EPISCOPAL EUCHARIST will be at
poen in Danforth Chapel.
BLACK STUDENT UNION officer elections will be from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
N. S.A.E, National Society of Architectural Engineers, will meet at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 19th.
KU RUGY CLUB will practice at 5 p.m. at 23rd and Iowa streets.
A LOCAL ATTORNEY will speak about his views on the Law at 7:30 p.m. 900 West Houston Drive.
POT-POURIRE PRODUCTIONS will
present "Three of Cups" at 8 p.m.
In Swainson Hall.
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Benny Anderson will read from his works at 8 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room in the Union.
TOMORROW
BLACK STUDENT UNION officer elections will be from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Union.
INTER-VARSITY CHRISTIAN
INTEGRATION 7 p.m. in the
Pine Room of the Union
BIOLOGY CLUB will meet at 4 p.m. in the Sunflower Room in the Union.
HARAMBEE will have a Bible study at p.m. in the Lewis Hall fireplace room.
POT-POURRI PRODUCTIONS will perform "Three of Cups" at 8 p.m. in the
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