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University Daily Kansan; February 24, 1983
Job program to increase local power, officials say
By JIM BOLE Staff Reporter
State and local governments will have more control over a new job-training program instituted under President Barack Obama's nationalism, a presidential aid yesterday.
The Job Training Partnership Act, a new program for low-income and long-term unemployed people, will replace the 10-year-old Community Employment Training Act, said Larry Wolgast, assistant secretary of the Kansas department of human resources.
FEDERAL, regulations for the JTPA are intended to allow each state to design the program to suit its needs, he said.
"Now we will have 50 individual programs instead of 50 carbon copies of a federal program," he said.
The federal government will play a small part in the new program; its
main functions will be to set up general regulations, allocate money to states, approve individual state's programs and some national programs, be said.
State governments, he said, will be the main coordinator of the JTPA programs. They will distribute the money to areas that need it, develop a state plan and policy for use of the state administor some state programs.
STARTING IN October, Kansas will begin a nine-month transition from the federally controlled CETA to the state locally controlled JTPA, Wolgast said.
Another big change from CETA, he said, is that JPTA not only will allow local governments to coordinate job training, but will let private business and community-based organizations administer training programs, he said.
A private industry council will provide training programs for JTPA recipients that are suited to the local
area aid. A majority of the council's members must be from the private sector.
Under CETA, local government was in charge and a private advisory committee could only suggest changes, be said.
NANCY HEIBERT. Douglas County commissioner, said the added freedom given to the local level of the job training act would allow the county to try some innovative ways to help the unemployed, or people who need training to get out of a low-paying job.
Gary Toebben, executive vice president of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, said the new act would be a greater benefit to us by making jobs more secure because more money would be spent on training and less on administration.
The new act requires states to spend at least 70 percent of JTPA money on training, no more than 15 percent in day care, and no more than 15 percent on administration, he said. This is a significant difference from CETA, which spent about 70 percent of its money on support services, he said.
Gov. John Carlin has tentatively broken Kansas into five service delivery areas.
KANSAS, WHICH received about $16 million under the CETA this year, will probably receive even less under the JTPA because Kansas' unemployment rate is lower than the national average, be said.
State governments will divide their states into areas, with total populations of more than 200,000, that need job training and low- income residents, he said.
Wolgast spoke to about 30 people at the Douglas County Courthouse yesterday to explain the JTPA and to answer questions about Carlin's preliminary divisions. Wolgast said Carlin would announce the official divisions on March 17, after considering suggestions from interested parties.
Prof savs Med Center behind in research
By MICHAEL BECK
Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas Medical Center is falling behind in a revolutionary area of cancer research, a biologist at the Med Center said yesterday.
Lyn Yarbrough, associate professor of biochemistry, said the Med Center was neglecting cancer research that had been underfunded for cancer by the turn of the century.
Scientists' research across the country in the tendencies of certain genes and viruses to cause cancer is extremely promising, he said. He said increased emphasis and knowledge in those areas could provide important clues in the near future as to the cause of cancer.
HE SAID scientists had found that a certain gene, called the oncogene, when triggered by an unknown agent, became hererous and multiplied at a rate
The discovery of what triggers oncogenes to multiply is the next step, he said, but if and when that occurs, scientists must find a way to stop the process to prevent many or all types of cancer.
Yarbrough said he hoped more money could be spent at the Med Center.
The National Cancer Institute has invested nearly $50 million for research in the area of genes and cancer, he said.
However, the chances of obtaining more money for research at the Med Center are slim, he said, because of the poor economy.
department had already laid off several secretaries who aided in research and that much research equipment was outmoded.
But around the country, progress in the new research has sparked bold ideas.
poor economy
HE SAID that the biochemistry
Lewis Thomas, chancellor of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, in a recent article in Nature, a British science journal, said he looked for "the end of cancer before this century is over."
"I now believe it could begin to fall into place at almost any time starting next year or even next week, depending on quality and lack of basic research."
However, some doctors at the Med Center are not so optimistic.
LARRY BAKER, a physician and chairman of the Cancer Research
Center, said the new findings offered hope. But he said he thought the view was simplicistic because there were so many kinds of cancer that it would be impossible to find a specific cause for all of them.
Baker stresses the progress made in the last 10 years, he said, and doesn't give any details of his plans.
"Ten years ago we could cure one of three patients," he said, "and now we can cure many."
Fred Holmes, professor of medicine,
said the progress made in the last few
years was remarkable, but he doubted
that he would be possible by the turn
of the century.
HOLMES DESCHIBED Thomas as a distinguished scientist who has seen much progress in cancer research, but the only difference he made when there would be a cure for cancer.
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By ELLEN WALTERSCHEID Staff Reporter
Freshmen interested in applying for next year's University Scholars program will have to wait until next fall.
Applicants must submit a letter of
THROUGHOUT THE rest of their sophomore, junior and senior years, the students maintain an academic relationship with a faculty member of their own choosing or with one who has been assigned to them. That members the students work on research and other projects.
One current scholar is writing a novel, Johnson said.
In addition, each scholar receives a $250 stipend each semester to be used to further his education.
Since last spring, 20 students have been chosen each semester to be University Scholars, a program they begin in their sophomore year with a focus on research and leadership. The one-s semester course covers a wide variety of disciplines.
The University Scholars selection process has been moved from this spring to the fall in order to let freshmen do more than one semester of academic work before they apply for the program, Al Johnson, assistant to the vice chancellor for academic affairs, said this week.
By early December, he said, the scholars will be named and begin to meet with their faculty mentors.
application, letters of recommendation and a current transcript to the office of academic affairs. After graduation, applicants should commit, the final 20 are chosen.
Johnson said the selection process would begin in mid-September with a call for nominations and applications. Students may nominate themselves to be University Scholars.
FRIANCIS HELLER, chairman of the steering committee, said he preferred to postpone the selection process. The spring semesters were too bctic.
Johnson said the steering committee did not want to judge the freshmen's academic qualifications based on only one semester of work.
"The fall semester tends to be more leisurely, a little less rushed," he said. "We can do a better job in the up-between students and mentors."
"It's better for the committee and it's also better for the scholars," he said.
NOW, HE SAID, students will be second-semester sophomores before they begin the program.
The Map of Knowledge course will be taught next spring. Johnson said.
Selection of scholars moved to fall semester
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