University Daily Kansan, March 31, 1983
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Carlin
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tax owed, whichever is greater. Carlin estimated that this measure would increase income tax
*Decreasing by 15 percent the deduction businesses would be allowed for depreciation. Carlin estimated that this measure would yield $15 million in fiscal year 1984.
- Increasing the cigarette tax from 11 cents to 16 cents a pack, which would increase the state's tax burden.*
- Increasing the liquor enforcement tax from 4 percent to 6 percent and the tax on 3.2 percent beer from 18 cents to 25 cents a gallon. The taxes on other alcoholic beverages also would be increased under the proposal, which is expected to raise $10 million.
CARLIN REMAINED steadily opposed to any increase in the state's gasoline tax, but stood
Nigeria
by his earlier proposal to provide money for the state highway program by transferring the revenues from the sales tax on vehicles and vehicle parts from the general fund.
House Speaker Hayden and Senate President Ross Doyen, R-Concordia, plan to respond to Carlin's proposals at a press conference Monday night.
House Republicans had proposed in meetings with the governor that the money from the sales tax on vehicles alone be transferred from the general fund to the highway fund and that the state gasoline tax be increased by a cents as part of the package to improve the state's financial picture.
CARLIN RECOMMENDED A $486 million budget for the state's school districts. The recommendation is $20 million more than the state's budget of $77 million less than he had originally requested.
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and students on scholarship certainly can not come up with the money on their own.
He said the result might be that only the wealthy could come to the United States to study.
ON THE POSITIVE SIDE, Rose said, the policy was instituted to help students in their first year here, which often proves to be the most difficult because of cultural adjustments.
"We would hope that as a result of the policy, the students would get on sound academic ground during that first year," she said, "and that it would give them lead time to arrange funds for the rest of their years here."
Rose said the policy was a temporary measure, which would be lifted once the Nigerian economy improved and it became clear
that those students could pay their bills promptly.
She said that would probably not happen for up to eight months or a year.
RICHARD HENSHAW, SUPERVISORY investigator for the Immigration and Naturalization Service office in Kansas City, Mo., said that inquiries had increased in the last year about Nigerian students who had failed to pay their bills.
Henshaw said that Nigerian students' unpaid bills had been a problem for a long time, not only for universities, but for utility companies, especially telephone companies.
Although students from other countries, such as Iran and Venezuela, had experienced difficulty in receiving money from home, Hemen was also the students seemed to have had the most difficulty.
Ambler
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gone there," he said. "But I had to look at a map to find where it was."
Ambler started as assistant dean of men at the school, which had an enrollment of about 17,000. Kent is near an industrial area that includes Cleveland, Akron and Youngstown.
In his first few years at Kent, Ambler worked at several positions that involved students. He was assistant vice president for student residential life at the time of the shootings.
AMBLER REMEMBERS THAT trouble was brewing at the camp in the late 1960s. Students would protest dormitory regulations one minute and begin criticizing the Vietnam War the next. An active chapter of Students for a Democratic Republic for students, and some suspected it of being communist.
In 1869, Ambler said, six students were arrested for trying to break into the Kent State administration building after refusing to meet with Kent's president to discuss their griev-
Ambler sees an indirect link between the shootings and the release of four of the students who went to jail for the break-in. The students left jail on Thursday, and the shootings occurred
THE DAY THE STUDENTS were released,
President Nixon announced the American invasion of Cambodia. Students flocked to the city's bars in regular fashion on Friday night, but fueled by news of the invasion, they broke down and damaged property in downtown Kent.
"Some believe to this day that the release triggered the activities," he said.
Kent's mayor called in the Ohio National Guard. A curfew was announced that prohibited the 8,500 students who lived on campus from going into the city.
School administrators tried to calm the students with coffee and doughnuts, but tempers continued to flare, he said. Saturday night, a
WHEN FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVED to put out the flames, the students assaulted them and cut their water hoses. The mayor then summoned the Guard to the campus to break up the rally.
group of angry students set fire to the ROTC building.
The National Guard's move onto the campus triggered what Ambler thinks was martial law.
"From my perspective, that's still a big issue," he said. "We fell they were running the machine."
On Sunday, there was calm. And on Monday — the National Guard shootings.
Ambler watched as students poured onto a grassy area about a block and a hail from the roof.
Sensing danger, Ambler went back into the administration building. The president and the vice president of the university had left the campus to confer with city officials. Other staff members monitored the rally and kept the building informed by two-way radio reports.
"THAT'S WHEN I HEARD that they were breaking the students up," he said. "Then suddenly, the word came, 'oh my God, shots are being fired.' There was chaos for quite a few minutes. Then the word came that quite a few had been injured and some appeared dead."
Within hours after the 12:30 p.m. shooting, the county prosecutor's court for an assault case in school indictment
And by 6 that evening, he said, all but a handful of Kent students were sent home on
The University was closed for six weeks afterward to give students and others time to recover. For the remainder of the term, Ambler said, professors held classes in schools, churches
"I taught a graduate course and we met in the United Methodist Church across the street from my dorm."
THAT COMBINED EFFORT of faculty and
students allowed seniors to graduate on time, Ambler said. A court ruling闭ed the campus and allowed commencement to proceed as planned, on June 10.
Although campus life slowly returned to normal, many of those close to the tragedy did not. Ken's vice president for student affairs, whom Amir replaced, resigned three months earlier.
"At the end of the summer, with all the uphheaval, he was pretty much exhausted and scared. He had to go."
Ambler has returned to Kent two or three times since he left to visit old friends, but said he rarely talks with them about the incident.
HE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN the events leading up to the Kent State violence, however. He said being at the campus during the shootings has his beliefs in the importance of universities.
"I think your commitment to the absolute necessity of education to a free society is reinforced through incidents like that," he said. "Democracy depends so much on a trained intelligentia and a self-disciplined citizenry if it is to survive."
Ambler said he did not know why college students of the late '05 and early '70s rejected the "establishment," when he thought they could have been educated in their goal goals of ending the war and achieving justice.
"I USED TO TALK TO them on their procedures," he said. "I asked them why they wanted to shut down the university. I told them, 'Why not tell 100 senators, who could stop the war tomorrow?'
"There was a paradox in campuses across the country. They were being used as a focal point to protest the war, when in fact, these universities were the biggest hope in our whole society for ending injustice and promoting humane treatment for all peoples."
"We must overturn the military fanaticism in Washington. If the U.S. revives the draft, the battleground will probably be Central America . . . Vietnam taught the American public not to have absolutely blind faith in their government."
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Last week 480 West Bank grade school students were taken sick to various hospitals as a result of poisoning caused by a mysterious substance. The Israeli military ruler declared that he suspected "anti-Israeli elements" of the crime. In other words, we are expected to believe that the Arabs poisoned their own children!
Two weeks before this sorrowful incident, children were on the streets throwing rocks at the occupying Israeli soldiers. They were irritated by the savage treatment of the "civilian" Israeli settlers who usurped their land, confiscated their property, frequently shut down their schools, deported their parents and deprived them of their basic human rights.
When the intensity of injustice is so acutely felt by grade school children and when a prevading feeling of horror so much permeates the youngsters' world, it is the unshakable responsibility of all of us to actively seek ways of alleviating the burden off the hundreds of thousands of tiny pairs of shoulders.
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