University Daily Kansan, April 7, 1983
Page 11
Increase in work-study money could help student job hopes
By SUSAN STANLEY
Staff Reporter
Students who are willing to work while going to school should be able to ind jobs easier next year because of increased financing for the work-study program, a financial aid official said last week.
Congress last week approved a $50 million increase in the amount of money available for work-study, said the director of the office of financial aid.
The bill would increase the total expenditures for the program to $900
ALTHOUGH ROGERS SAID he did not know the exact amount the University would get, departments will be able to hire more student employees.
And Chris Graves, legislative director of the Associated Students of Kansas lobbying group, said a work-study program that would allow students to work in private business had a good chance of approval by the Kansas Legislature.
The Senate killed the bill yesterday, but legislators said it would be considered later in the session in a final financing bill.
Clantna McCurdy, assistant director of the office of financial aid, said that KU would have no problem accommodating students who wanted to participate in the work-study program.
Many departments were forced to reduce student employees during the past year, she said. The additional students would be rehired for some departments to rehire them.
ROGERS SAID HE WAS concerned that too many students might be held hostage.
ponent on the work-study program
"All of the work-study students who
depend on their jobs to pay for tuition will have a real cash-flow problem," he said. "Unless they are able to save money the entire semester before, they will have a hard time coming up with that much cash all at once. Most of the work-study students use their pay-checks to buy groceries."
Exact figures on the amount of money that will be available through the federal work-study program should be released in May.
Graves said that traditionally, Kansas did not receive a large percentage of the federal money.
"There are many poorer states than Kansas that get more. There are also more schools to divide what we do get," she said.
SCOTT SWENSON, CAMPUS director of ASK, said that if the state proposal passed, the Board of Regents would develop a formula for distributing the money among the schools.
Ex-senators want procedures altered
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Two former senators called for "sweeping, farreaching" changes yesterday in Senate procedures that could lead to a reorganization of committees and a change in rules to stem increasing
Former Conn. S Abraham Ribicoff,
D-Conn., and James Pearson, R-Kan.
gave the Rules Committee a report they had been working on for months that apparently calls for changes in organization and operation of what traditionally has been known as "the world's greatest deliberative body."
THE TERM HAS BEEN used der-
visely in recent months as filibusters
and threats of filibusters and other
delays have proliferated.
The report was being held from the public until tomorrow so senators could
read it first. Rubicoff and Pearson were unavailable for comment.
But Senate Republican leader Howard Baker told reporters, "It is sweeping, far-reaching and will scare people to death."
RIBICOFF, WHO SERVED 18 years,
and Pearson, who served 17, were
asked to look at Senate procedures
after a long, wearying and cranky
lame-duck session last December,
in filibusters sprouted like weeds.
Pilots' error causes nose dive
By United Press International
MINNEAPOLIS — A DC-9 jetliner lost power and plummeted more than 20,000 feet before the engines were refired because two pilots failed to follow standard flying procedures, Republic Airlines said yesterday.
Saturday on a flight from Minneapolis-St. Paul to Los Angeles and San Diego. The plane dropped from about 33,000 feet altitude to 12,000 feet before the pilots could restart the engines.
The captain and first officer have been suspended pending an investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board, the company said.
THE PLANE. WITH 139 passengers and a crew of six aboard, lost power in both engines over northern Utah
"Republic's initial investigation, including discussions with the captain and first officer, indicate the prescribed check list was not followed in the initial stages of the flight," G. F. Wallis, senior vice president of flight operations, said yesterday.
He said the crew failed to turn on the plane's center tank fuel pumps as required on the climb check list.
Man to be tried in drug case
A Douglas County District Court Judge yesterday bound over for trial a Lawrence man charged with possession with intent to sell hashish, but the judge dismissed one count of possession with intent to sell marijuana.
Donald I. Fowler was arrested March 17 after a year-long drug investigation by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office and the Lawrence Police Department. He now faces a charge of possession with intent to sell hashish. No trial date was set.
KENNETH SPENCER, WHO has bought drugs several times for KBI investigations, testified that Powler will earn $20 worth of hashish in March 1982.
Scott Teeselink, special agent for the KBI, testified that he had given Spencer the money for the drug purchase, searched him and his car and watched him make the purchase from Fowler.
Spencer testified that he had been Fowler's friend.
When asked why he had volunteered to make the drug purchase for the KBI, Spencer replied, "I really can't say what the drug is. It. I guess it was just self-motivation."
Jon Getz, Fowler's attorney, objected to the admission of the hashish as evidence because the chemist who analyzed it at the KBI laboratory was the chemical engineer who questioned the competence of the chemist to analyze the substances.
Ettwell dismissed the count of the possession with intent to sell marijuana because the district attorney's complaint said Fowler sold the marijuana on April 20, but testimony and evidence said best it to Fowler April 21.
JUDGE MIKE ELWELL overuled Gets' objection, saying that because the chemist was a criminologist for which she was qualified to analyze the evidence.
On campus
TODAY
KU RUGBY CLUB will practice at 5 p.m. at 23rd and Iowa streets.
A MASTER'S RECITAL by Ricardo Noreiga, piano, will be at 8 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall EPISCOPAL ECUCHARI will be at 12 p.m.
TOMORROW
ECKANKAR will sponsor a program about "Life, the Great Adventure," at 7:30 p.m. in Parlor A of the Kansas Union.
LATIN AMERICAN SOLIDARITY will meet at 11:45 a.m. in Cork I of the Union.
KU BIOLOGY CLUB will meet at 4 p.m. in the Sunflower Room of the Union
HARAMBEE will have a Bible study at 7 p.m. in the Lewis Hall fireplace room.
in residence:
INTER-VARSITY CHRISTIAN
FELLOWSHIP will meet at 7 p.m. in
the Pine Room of the Union
A SENIOR RECTAL by Kathleen Neher, viola, will be at 8 p.m. in Swarthout.
OPERA, "The Magic Flute," will be performed at 8 p.m. in the University Theatre.
On the record
A BURGLAR STOLE jewelry worth $500 and a dog, valued at $200, from a Lawrence resident's unlocked trailer in the 1900 block of West 31st Street Tuesday, police said.
A THIEF STOLE a gas grill from the patio of a Lawrence resident's home in the 2400 block of Brookside Drive sometime last week, police said.
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