The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, February 22, 1983 Vol. 93, No. 103 USPS 650-640
Stephan to review use of state postage by ASK
By SARA KEMPIN and JEFF TAYLOR Staff Renoirers
The Emporia State University branch of the Associated Students of Kansas may have broken the law by postmarking cards they sent to a postal office with a state postage meter, a legislator said Wednesday.
State Rep. James Lowther, R-Emorya, said that probably had received permission to use the map.
The student lobbying group sent more than 300 cards to state legislators last week urging them to vote against raising the drinking age and to Gov. Carlin's $700,000 work-study proposal.
But the students put their own addresses, not the address of ASK, on the cards and thus may be used for other purposes.
"I DON'T THINK the main question is going to be unauthorized use of a state meter." Lowher said. "The question is, has there been a law violated?"
Neil Woerman, press secretary to Attorney General Robert T. Stephan, said the office had received an inquiry from a legislator about whether ASK could legally use a postage meter operated by the state to send postcards to legislators.
"I talked to the attorney general and he said he
would be looking into the issue to determine whether any action could be taken. 'Woerman
Stephan told ASK's state office in Topeka to tell its members to stop using state postage meters until the investigation was complete, Woerman said.
State Sen. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said that he had received a card from ASK members about the drinking age issue, and that he has been consulted by those he considered adults if the state prosecuted them.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL tempered his directive to ASK by saying that he did not think the issue was one of the most serious matters the office was handling. Woerman said.
"There is a law that prohibits state postage from being privately used," he said.
But the attorney general thinks the problem was probably the result of an unintentional error.
Deb Clark, Emporia State ASK campus director, said that in the past, the group had
At Emporia State, it is the right of a recognized student organization to use the university's postage meter, she said. The groups use the same meter and get billed by the
Clark said, "When I set up the account, the secretary in the office said, 'Make sure you will be there.'"
Lauren Peterson/KANSAN
Anna Schonberg sits comfortably in a tree as she reads. Anna is the daughter of Steve and Addie Schonberg. 2137 Tennessee St.
Student affairs suffers from reduced staff
By JOEL THORNTON
Staff Reporter
The consolidation of duties in the divisions headed by the office of student affairs has left administrators tired and students with a lower quality of service, the head of the office said yesterday.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said reorganization of the duties, made necessary by the November 1983 death of Donald Duck, helped make work in more work in more work for student affairs administrators:
"Quite frankly, that's put a strain on us," Ambler said. "I think it just means it is more
difficult for us to cover all the things we have to cover.
AMBLER SAID THE increased workload could ultimately hurt his ability to perform his duties, as well as the University's ability to attract new administrators.
"There are no lifes, and ors, but bats about it. We're not able to do as good a job today as last year. We're not doing so well."
He said he often had to attend University meetings and banquets three or four nights a week.
But, he said, "I wouldn't be in this business five minutes if I didn't love it."
Alderson's death and the resignation of Joan Sherwood, assistant vice chancellor for student affairs, prompted the department to make some organizational changes. Ambler said.
Gil Dyck, dean of student services, said the increased duties had forced him to delegate most of his duties.
DIVISIONS FORMERLY under Alderson's administration, such as health services, placement, student assistance and counseling, were given to Dyck and Caryl Smith, dean of student
Ambler said he decided not to replace Alderson because he foresaw the possibility of budget cuts and knew money would not be available for administrative positions.
employment was added to the financial aid office and a full-time position was also added to the Student Assistance Center. Half-time positions are available for services and the women's resource center, he said.
Instead, he said, the department's emphasis was shifted toward providing more services to
However, because of fiscal constraints throughout the University, the department was asked by Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, to give up $11,000 to $12,000, which was used for academic computing and library acquisitions, he said.
A full-time position for supervising student
ALSO, A DROP IN enrollment last year amo Gov. John Carlin's 4 percent budget reduction last July severely crippled the department's efforts to provide more services, he said.
The department lost $52,000 because of the enrolment drop.
Today will be cloudy with dense fog in the morning, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. The high will be in the winds will be from the north at 5 to 10 mph.
German pilots his family to freedom
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a hich in the 50%.
Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low in the 30s.
By United Press International
LUEBECK, West Germany — A university lecturer who evaded water patrols and perilous currents piloted his family across the Baltic Sea from East Germany in a 7-foot boat so his daughters could grow up in freedom, he said yesterday.
A police spokesman said the 45-year-old man, who refused to be identified, would remain in Luebec at the house of his brother-in-law, a dentist, until he found work in the West.
The former biology lecturer at the Martin Luther University in the East German city of Halle arrived in Luebebck Sunday with his wife and two daughters, ages 14 and 15, after a perilous seven-hour journey aboard the tiny, engine-driven boat in freezing temperatures.
"I WANTED MY daughters to grow up in freedom as Christians, not pretending to be good Communists," the man told the Bildzeitung daily newspaper.
He said he had applied twice to East German authorities for exits visas and subsequently was fired from his job. His 41-year-old wife then married the family by working as a technical assistant.
The biologist said he made the decision to flee after his daughters were told they would not be allowed to take their final school examinations or go to college.
"You can't get away over land," he told the newspaper. "There are mines, booby traps and barbed wire. We saw the only chance to escape across the Baltic.
us all into the water. We were shaking with fright and with the cold. We had to keep turning off the engine of the boat so as not to be heard by border natrols.
"We had to accept the risk of drowning or freezing to death."
"The icy southwest wind threatened to topple
HE SAID THE family hid the little boat on the East German island of Poel, 31 miles west of Rostock, and traveled separately by car and train to the island Saturday.
Taking with them only a compass and family documents concealed in their homemade waterproof suits, the family left the East German coast as night fell.
Seven hours and 31 miles later they arrived on the West German coast and went to Luebck's cathedral to give thanks for their successful flight.
Student composer has dream of New York musical success
By SARA KEMPIN
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
He sits intently bent over the piano. Placing his fingers on the keys, he tentatively plays a few notes. As his fingers move over the keyboard and music fills the room, he begins to relax.
The process of composing is not new to Paul Schneider. Lawrence sophomore, because he has been writing and arranging music since he was 14 years old.
Schneider's mother graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in theater. She went to New York where she met and married his father, who was a cameraman.
The family moved back to Lawrence when Schneider was seven.
MIXED IN WITH Schneider's Eastern crest-
ture and Midwestern originality.
activity is a bit of Midwestern practicality.
He said he could not decide whether to major
"If I get a music ed major, I'll have it to fall back on," he said.
in composition or music education
"If I get a music ed major, I'll have it to fall
But he dreams of going to New York and making it on Broadway either as a composer or a
He said he wrote his first song in ninth grade.
"The cat my family had had for eight years
Schneider was selected as music director and vocal arranger for the In-Between-Act players in the recent KU variety show, Encore. He wrote the music for the opening song of the show and did the vocal arrangements for most of the numbers which were performed during breaks between the five shows presented by fraternities and sororites.
died and I felt so sad, I had to express it," he said.
AFTER HE WROTE the song to the song,
"We Really Do Love You," he set the words to
music, and showed the song to his West Junior
teacher. She asked him to arrange it for
the choir.
"I bought the script in case I ever had enough guts to write a musical," he said. "I think I've done it."
The song he wrote was about someone who had gone away and the sadness the loss brought, he said.
Schneider said he was now writing a musical based on the script "On Borrowed Time," by Pete Rock.
His interest in composing and arranging grew when he realised that he could arrange songs
"If they like it, the show could be put on at KU through the theater department," he said.
THROUGHOUT HIGH SCHOOL. Schneider composed and arranged songs for his school's
He said he has written eight songs for the musical and was about half finished with it.
But he is not sure where writing the musical will take him.
Schneider said he was competing against older, more talented people in college.
"FOR AWHILE, THERE is some resentment, but when you see that I work hard, they accept it."
Schneider plays the viola and is a member of the KU Symphony.
He is also in the KU Jazz Choir and has been in three KU musicals in two years.
Paul Schneider, Lawrence sophomore, wrote the opening number in Encourage and is now writing a musical. He has composed and arranged music since he was a child.
Paramilitary training bill draws protest
Staff Reporter
By JEFF TAYLOR
TOPEKA - Gun enthusiasts testified before a Kansas House committee yesterday against a bill that would outlaw paramilitary training among vigilante groups, which proponents the law restricts.
Members of one such group, Posse Comitatus, which has members in Kansas, have been necured of shooting and killing two federal agents in North Dakota slightly more than a week ago.
Kansas state troopers who were standing in the hearing room and outside the door during testimony arrested a self-proclaimed Constituent as he walked out the door after testifying.
THE TROOPERS ARRESTED the Topeka man, Tom Wemple, 46, on an Osage County bench warrants for speeding, a Shawnee County Jack spokesman said.
Before his arrest, Wemple told the House Judicary Committee that the bill was based on rumors of vigilante activity. He also said the committee was starting a witch hunt and that the government was intervening.
A Kansas Bureau of Investigation report on paramilitary training in Posse Comitatus, an extremist group, triggered the bill's introduction by State Rep. Robert Frey. R.Liberal.
"We do not think you have the power to tread on the Constitution and God's law," he said.
Last March, a KBI undercover agent took part in a three-day seminare on parimilitary training in Gaza.
TOM KELLY, director of the KBJ, testified that Pose Comatius was only one of several who were killed by the Nazis.
He told the committee that extensions of Posse Comitatus were scattered throughout other states, including North Dakota, where two federal marshals were killed.
Kelly testified that groups such as Posse Combatus trained its members in the use of weapons, and that former military personnel worked with the group's members detailed military tactics.
Kelly recited a long list of the kinds of instruction that had been taught during the three days at Weskan and said that members were using techniques for killing and on other war tactics.
John Chambers, a Topeka Capital-Journal reporter who has researched the vigilante problem in the state, told the committee that the official Posse Custatius handbook advocated for the group not to cooperate with the group's activities be taken to a busy intersection and hung at high noon.
CAMBERS QUOTED SEVERAL times from a Dodge City radio broadcast in which members of Posse Comitatus had said that Jews should be allowed to travel in the city was the way to maintain the American way of life.
The vigilantes on the radio program said they should kill Jews because Jews did not believe in Christ.
Chambers said, "Our quarrel is not with words, but with actual terror and violence. We must serve notice to these hate peddlers that we will not yield to due process."
Allen Katchen, a member of the Anti-
Defamation League, said that the small Posse
Comitatus group could gain strength and
See TRAINING page 5.