The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Wednesday, February 16, 1983 Vol. 93, No. 99 USPS 650-640
KU-Y's Senate funds jeopardized by debts
By KIESA ASCUE Staff Writer
A Canada goose runs across Clinton Lake as he prepares for take off. The goose is part of a winter flock at the lake.
And a Senate official said the Senate would not continue to finance the group until its bills were paid.
KU-Y paid more than $2,500 in bills yesterday,
but the group remains deeply in debt, say KU
and Student Senate officials.
The group's office telephone will be disconnected within two weeks because KU-Y members pay a $1,100.50 bill, said Mark Bussi, administrative assistant to the group.
KU-Y, an organization whose full title is KU-YMCA/YWCA, has existed for almost 100 years. It has been involved in the past with social activities such as the Urban Plunge and the Big Brother/Big Sister program, and with several campus organizations.
KU-Y had accumulated a $3,308.80 debt for its coordinator's salary from September through December, said Keith Ratzloff, associate contraller for the University. Yesterday, all but about $800 of that was paid, he said.
The coordinator's salary had been paid at the first of each month from money in the University Restricted Fee $c$ count, which consists of funds generated by University activities. Payment to the University from KU-Y was due, but not received, at the end of each month.
keenan Gentry, KU-Y treasurer, said the amount of the original debt was incorrect, but declined to say what the correct amount was.
This semester, KU-Y has no coordinator on the payroll, said Linda Beville, assistant to the vice chancellor for student affairs.
Gentry said KU-Y no longer needed a coordinator because the group's focus was changing. KU-Y has no official affiliates this run of offices, declared not to hire a coordinator to run its offices.
Future Student Senate financing for KU-Y could be jeopardized by the bills it has accumulated this semester, said Loren Busy, chairman of the Senate Finance and Auditing
"IT'S HARD TO JUSTIFY funding some group when they owe us money," he said.
SRS given power to decide who gets cut from benefits
T. R.Y. Preserve, Treasury treasurer, said KUY did not have any money left in its $1,875 budget from the Senate to pay the bills. The money has been spent, pamphlets and some phone calls, he said.
Bossi said that the phone was being removed because problems with long-distance calls continued this semester even after KU-Y had been informed of its growing debt.
Most of the calls were either collect or third-party calls billed to the KU-Y office number, and several of them came from a coin-operated phone in Dallas, Texas.
"AS I UNDERSTAND IT, most of the phone calls were private ones that had nothing to do with me."
By DIANE LUBER Staff Reporter
TOPEKA - A Kansas House committee voted yesterday to give the secretary of the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services the power to decide who would be cut from general assistance benefits, if the program runs out of money or if its budget is reduced.
But State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said he had voted against the proposal, which was adopted by the House Ways and Means Committee. He said the state needed more money to avoid reducing the budgets for general assistance and other programs.
"I DON'T WANT the Ways and Means Committee to do the same thing to KU that they've done here," he said. "I don't feel I can go in and ask for full funding for the University if I've voted to take food off people's tables.
"I think we should raise the funds to meet the state's needs."
Gov. John Carlin recommended in his legislative message that able-bodied people between the ages of 18 and 51 who did not have dependents be intelligible for general assistance.
An SRS report estimated that benefits to between 4,000 and 6,000 people would be eliminated if Carlin's proposal was adopted.
Robert Harder, state SRS secretary, has said that the reduction would save the state $3 million in fiscal year 1983, which ends June 30, and almost $20 million in fiscal year 1984.
Sobach said every state agency had the power to create rules and regulations in the administration of its duties. The committee proposal, if adopted by the law, would be subject to both WTA and federal laws that the rules and regulations necessary to administer the general assistance program, he said.
SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCIES and organizations testified against the governor's proposal in committee hearings. And both Democrats and Republicans in the Legislature have said they were opposed to the reduction in people served.
"the proposal would allot the secretary to determine who is able-bodied and employable."
Committee Chairman William Bunten, R-Topeka, said the proposal would allow the Legislature to "treat the general assistance programs we do all other social service programs."
THE STATE'S SOCIAL service programs are authorized by the Legislature through statutes, he said, but the administration of those programs is not.
Although the committee proposal would give SRS the power to create regulations for the implementation of the general assistance law, what SRS does is still subject to legislative review.
The Joint Administrative Rules and Regulations Committee reviews the rules and regulations created by state agencies, he said. And the budget process gives the Legislature an opportunity to review an agency's performance
Bunten said he voted in favor of the proposal.
Requests, defaults rise on KU short-term loans
By SUSAN STANLEY
Staff Reporter
The number of students requesting and defaulting on short-term loans has increased. George Stewart, controller for the Kansas University Endowment Association, said yesterday.
The short-term loans, which have a 6 percent interest rate for one semester, are financed by the Endowment Association. The loan program is offered in Strong Hall administers the loan program.
The percentage of students defaulting on the loans has increased from 4.8 percent in 1980 to more than 7 percent in 1982, he said. Of the $2,091,532 awarded, $133,000 remains unpaid, compared to $78,000 that went unpaid in 1980.
"We have been more aggressive lately in collecting from these students who haven't
in 1960.
STEWART SAID THE total number of short-term loans made in 1962 had increased 2.6 percent to 6,182 from the 1981 figure. The total dollar amount of the loans also increased by 12.6 percent, he said.
because of the amount of the loans that have not been repaid, the Endowment Association is increasing its efforts to collect from students, Stewart said.
unattured loans over to a collection agency after six months, he said. It used to allow the loans to remain unpaid for one to two years before turning them over to an agency.
The Endowment Association now turns
**WE TRY TO AVOID that because going to court is expensive and time consuming," he
In some cases, the Endowment Association takes a student to court, he said.
Stewart attributed the increase in loan defaults to the poor economy and a tight job market for students.
Despite the increase in the number of defaults, Jeff Weinberg, associate director of the office of financial aid, said his office is one of the few that the RU students pay back short-term loans.
"Considering the population that we deal with and the difficulty that they can have in meeting their bills, I think we have an incredible record concerning loan repayment," he said. "Of course we would like to have a zero percent default rate, but we
Sometimes a student is unable to repay the loan for a legitimate reason. Weinberg said. If financial aid officers decide that the excuse is legitimate, an extension can be granted so the student is not penalized for being late.
Curator angered by delays in displaying Wilcox pieces
WHEN A STUDENT is late paying back a loan, Stewart said, the interest rate increases from 6 percent to 14 percent.
By DAVID POWLS
Staff Reporter
The Wilcox Collection, a collection of Greek and Roman art, may never be displayed at the University of Kansas again, its curator said this week.
BUT AL. JOHNSON, assistant to the vice chancellor of academic affairs, said yesterday that the University never realized how much the project had discussed when next fall's display date came.
Elizabeth Banks, the curator, said that she had been misled by officials in the office of academic affairs when she was told that the classies department would be able to display the collection next fall in Lippincott Hall.
"They set back the display date to the spring of 1884 because they knew I might be doing research in Greece then," Barnes said. "And they would go there, and they can then postpone the project indefinitely."
was because "Because of the budget cuts, we just don't have enough renovation money for the Wileo project," he said. "But that doesn't diminish the
He said that the project would be on a list of projects that the University would ask the Board of Regents to finance this spring. The Regent's decision will be known in April or May, he said.
priority of the project. We are still enthusiastic about displaying it in the spring of 84."
Banks said that a tentative budget for the project totaled about $25,000, but Johnson said it would cost closer to $32,000.
Johnson said he could not make any guarantors that the collection would be displayed in
"If they do fund it, renovation in Lippincott could begin this summer," he said.
"I WOULD LIKE to be able to do that," he said. Since we have about half of the money, the group was willing.
Banks said the classes department had $13,000, and Johnson said the office of academic affairs had $2,000 that could be combined with money from a special Board of Regents to buy the furniture to be used to renovate a room in Lippincott, buy display cases and finish repairing the collection.
"They have been very generous for projects like this in the past."
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Debra Bates/KANSAN
Debra Bates/KANSAN Margaret Walker, author of the novel "Jubilee," visits the University of Kansas this week. Her visit is sponsored by the English department and the office of minority affairs.
Lebanese troops go to East Beirut to curb militia
Bv United Press International
Lebanese army troops marched into East Beirut yesterday in a move President Amin Gemayel hopes will reassert government control over the stronghold of the Israeli-backed Lebanese Christian militia for the first time in eight years.
But while Gemayel attempted to spread his control in the capital, the Israeli-backed Lebanese renegade army of Maj. Saad Haddad opened a garrison in a key southern town and announced he had dispatched another unit to the Israeli-held Bekka Valley.
The 1,800 Lebanese army troops were deployed across east Beirut without incident, but still faced the tough task of neutralizing the Christian militia forces who have vowed not to disarm until all foreign troops, especially Syrians and Palestinians, leave Lebanon.
Witnesses reported that Haddad, accompanied by Israeli officers, paraded through the market town of Nahatiyi with tanks and other armored vehicles, establish a garrison in a villa in the city.
The government hopes the reassertion of its authority will lead to the deployment of a portion of the multinational peace-keeping force, now in West Beirut, to the eastern sector within the next few days.
Haddad's new moves followed the establishment of a headquarters Monday in Sidon, Lebanon's third largest city, and placed his predominantly Christian Army of Free Lebanon in control of an area roughly matching the security zone demanded by Israel.
The Israeli military command in Tel Aviv said that outside Beirut, Israeli troops killed three gunmen in a car who opened fire on a roadblock.
up positions.
"The world is watching us to judge the quality of the Lebanese state and whether it is able to rise again." Gemayel told the troops before they moved into East Beirut about two hours after midnight.
THE CHRISTIAN MILITIAMEN, who have controlled East Beirut since the 1975-76 civil war, staged off the streets while the army took up positions.
THEERE WERE NO injuries to Israeli forces in the shoot-out in the Monteverdi area, three miles east of Beirut, the army said. The military said that weapons, including Soviet-made Kashnikov assault rifles, were found in the car.
IN A SUBSEQUENT news conference reported by Lebanon's independent Press News Agency, Haddad said he had also dispatched a helicopter to help with attempts to unblocked place in the Beka Valley.
The Lebanese Christian militia radio, however, said the car was fired on as an Israeli patrol passed along a road unleashing bursts of fire at suspected guerrilla hideouts. The radio said a fourth person in the car was seriously wounded.
Haddad attempted to counter rising fears that his moves to consolidate his position were leading to the partition of Lebanon, reiterating support for the central government he rebelled in 1977.
Israel jets repeatedly buzzed Sidon, swooping low over the Ein Helwy Palestinian refugee camp, whose occupants were already frightened and had been sent home recently, to present murders of refugees and local residents.
In Jerusalem, Israeli officials and news reports said Ariel Sharon, stripped of the before-ballot military power, would have to leave the Lebanon-Israel talks to troop withdrawals or future relations.