The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Monday, January 31, 1983 Vol.93, No.87 USPS 650-640
Reagan wants to cut education funds reduce student loans by $900 million
By DIANE LUBER Staff Reporter
President Reagan, who wants to abolish the Education Department, will ask Congress today to reduce the department's present budget by 15 percent, or $1.2 billion, including a $800 million reduction in student loan programs.
Reagan also recommended an education budget of $13.1 billion for fiscal 1984. The budget would include another $143 million in cuts in student loans and a reduction of $243 million in student loan debt.
Linda Tarr-Whelan, director of government relations for the National Education Association, said Reagan's proposal to cut student loans and vocational education was a "double-whammy" that would make it tougher for students to attend college or train for a job.
JEFFREY WEINBERG, KU associate director of financial aid, said the only two loan programs that received federal funds were National Direct Student Loans and Guaranteed Student Loans.
"We'll just have to see the bill itself before we'll know what the actual cuts are," he said.
The size of the proposed student loan reduction is much larger than the federal government's contribution to the NDSL program. He said he eliminated, he said, the GSL program probably will be cut.
salt, the GSL program pro-
mised. Pam Houston, assistant director of financial aid and coordinator of the student employment center, said many students, especially graduate students, depended on the GSL program to finance their educations.
thomas Berger, executive coordinator of the Graduate Student Council, said, "I think it's outrageous that they're thinking of making any cuts to higher education."
IF THESE CUTS are to the those Reagan recommended last year, he may be planning to eliminate the GSL program, Berger said.
More than half of the approximately 600,000 graduate students enrolled in colleges and universities in the United States depend on loans to finance their education, he said.
Although Reagan is seeking overall education
reductions, he also proposed a few increases. He recommended federal funds for col-age work-study programs be increased by 6% percent, to $850 million.
"I'll take all the money he'll give me," Houston said. "We could use a lot more."
Houston said the federal government had allowed schools to spend 10 percent more in their work-study programs than they were allocated by borrowing against the next year's funds.
THE FEDERAL government's allocation to KU this fiscal year was slightly less than $50,000, she said. Almost 600 students are participating in the KU work-study program.
Berger said an increase in funds for the work-study program would not help graduate students.
Reagan also recommended $50 million in federal block grants to states to increase the number of science and math teachers in secondary schools.
He proposed that Title I funds, used to provide basic reading and math skills to the disadvantaged, be cut by $126 million this year.
Wendy L. Nugent/KANSAN
State Sens, Betty Jo Charlton and John Solbach, both D-Lawrence, listened as Lynn Muchmore, state budget director, discussed Gov. John Carlin's proposed budget yesterday in the Lawrence Public Library auditorium. See related story page 5.
Justice Blackmun plans visit to KU
By SALLY JOY OMUNDSON
Staff Reporter
For the first time in almost 10 years, a Supreme Court justice will speak at the University of Kansas, the dean of the School of Law said yesterday.
Michael Davis, the dean, said Justice Harry J. Blackmun would visit the University April 4.7. Blackmun will give a speech as part of the Kate Stephens Lecture Series and will moderate the final round of the law school's Moot
Court competition.
Blackmun, 74, will also observe law classes, including an advanced constitutional law class taught by Francis Heller, professor of law. The class is spending the semester studying all of Blackmun's decisions, Heller said.
Supreme Court
Blackmun
Supreme Court Justice William Rehquist, who visited the campus in 1974, was the last justice to speak at KU.
BLACKMUN, who has been on the Supreme Court since 1970 is best known for writing the court's decision legalizing abortion, Heller said.
In the 1973 case of Roe v. Wade, Blackmun held that the right of privacy included a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy.
Davis said that he knew Blackmun and that he was impressed with his work on the Summit.
"I also like him, and I think the people at KU will like him too," Davis said.
Every year the law school's Page Visiting Jurist Fund allows the school to bring a distinguished judge to the Moot Court, a competition in which first- and second-year law students try contrived cases.
THIS YEAR THE school is combining this fund with the Stephens Fund to bring Blackmun to KU, Davis said.
Blackmun, who served as a judge in the 8th U.S. Court Circuit of Appeals for 11 years, was President Richard Nixon's third choice to replace Justice Abe Fortas, who resigned.
Blackmun graduated from Harvard Univer
sity in 1929 and attended Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the Minnesota Bar in 1932.
A conservative from Minnesota, Blackman was a classmate of Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and was best man in Burger's wedding. The two justices' friendship and shared political ideologies earned them the nickname "The Minnesota Twins."
HOWEVER, BURGER and Blackmun later often found themselves on opposing sides of important cases.
Jeff Chanay, Topoka law student in the advanced constitutional law class, said Blackmun was interesting because his political philosophies had evolved from conservative to progressively more independent.
"I think it's a great learning opportunity to be able to ask a Supreme Court justice questions about the actual decision-making process," Chanay said.
process.
Nedra Wick, Mission law student who is also in the class, said the main reason she took the class was to meet the justice.
Wick, who is also president of the school's Women in Law organization, said she was curious to see Blackman's opinions on the new abortion arguments now being presented to the Supreme Court because Blackman had written the court's previous opinion.
Truckers go on strike to protest tax increase
By United Press International
NEW YORK — Independent truckers across the United States pulled their rigs off the road at midnight yesterday to protest increased fuel and road use taxes, but other drivers vowed to keep on trucking.
Pennsylvania Teamsters organized "SWAT teams" to keep their trucks rolling and advised striking independent drivers not to stop them.
"Our people are running," said Ty McCue, spokesman for the Teams Joint Council 40. "If they try to shut us down, we'll have SWAT officers who can break them loose, any way we can."
Mike Parkhurst, president of the Independent Truckers Association, said early today that
THE ITA URGED truckers to park their rigs and not move until Congress rolls back the Surface Transportation Act of 1882, which raised fuel taxes by 5 cents a gallon and imposed higher user fees and other charges on trucks. Drivers estimate that the act will raise expenses by more than $5,000 a year.
A successful shutdown by truckers could empty grocery shelves by halting deliveries of food and other products.
Haymond Ralph, an ITA representative in New York, said, "You can expect fresh food to become in short supply."
An estimated 90 percent of the nation's fresh food supply is buleed by the independents.
would result from the strike. In Los Angeles, Independent Truckers Association spokesman David Kolman said the union did not advocate violence.
good supply is hindered by the monopolism.
A number of drivers said they feared violence
Truck driver Robert Keller, 48, said he would honor the strike primarily out of fear for personal safety.
KELLER, ONE OF about 50 truckers stopped at the Union 76 Truck Stop on 1-40 near Greensboro, N.C., said, "It is better to stop than be killed. I'm not going out there and get hurt. My life is more valuable than that trick."
Ohio 1TA President Marvin Hickman of Cincinnati said the strike would not begin in that state until tomorrow morning.
There was some dispute over when the strike would actually begin.
Former KU star Riggins paces 'Skins past Miami
By United Press International
PASADENA, Calif. — The Washington Redskins capped a storybook season with their first Super Bowl victory yesterday, using a record-setting 43-yard touchdown run by playoff hero and former Jayhawk John Riggins to the Miami Dolphins 27-17 in the NFL championship game.
With the Redskins trailing 17-13 and facing a fourth-and-one at the Dolphins' 3. Higgins sprinted to his left, broke through a tackle by Don McNeal and raced to the end zone to put Washington ahead for the first time.
Bringing Riggins' run was the longest scoring run from scrimmage in Super Bowl history. He also established Super Bowl records for most carries and most yardage, carrying 38 times for 166 yards.
RIGGINS, UNANIOMUSLY named the game's Most Valuable Player, also became the first running back in NFL history to record four consecutive 100-yard playoff games. He gained 119 yards against Detroit, 185 against Minnesota and 140 against Dallas before capping his spectacular playoff effort yesterday. He broke the record of 158 yards set by Pittsburgh's Franco Harris in Super Bowl IX against Minnesota.
Don Fambrough, who coached Riggins while he was at KU, compared Riggins, who played in Kansas' most recent Orange Bowl appearance in 1968, to two other Kansas players - Gayle Savers and Nolan Cromwell.
"He could do anything you asked him to do. He could play any sport," Fambrough said. "I used
to joke that he could also play the tuba during halltime."
Washington put the game out of reach with 1:55 remaining after Joe Theismann sprinted to his right and fired a 6-yard touchdown pass to Charlie Brown.
Miami took a 17-10 halftime lead on David Wooldie's 76-yard TD to Jimmy Cefalo and a Super Bowl record 98-yard kickoff return by Fulton Walker for a score.
Washington cut the lead to 17-13 midway through the third quarter when Alvin Garrett's 43-yard run off a double-reverse set up Mark Moseley's 20-yard field goal.
WHEN WASHINGTON LATER had the ball on its 40, riggings had runs of seven and one yards and Clarence Harmon plunged for a yard to set up a fourth and one. Washington elected to go for a first down giving the ball to Riggins, who scampered 43 yards into the end zone.
Warner's record-setting kickoff回回来 after Washington marched 80 yards in 11 plays to tie the game just before halftime on them in a 24-21 victory to Garrett in the risk marker of the end zone.
Walker, a second-year defensive back from West Virginia, took the kick on his own two, sped upfield and veered through an opening to his left. He raced downfield for a Miami touchdown, giving the Dolphins a 17-10 halftime lead.
Washington had an opportunity to tie the game again in the final seconds of the first half but blew the chance with some questionable tactics.
Miami broke out of its quarantine
playoff philosophy on the second series of the
IPER 5.
Weather
Today there will be a 50 percent chance of snow, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Highs will be in the mid-30s and winds will be from the northeast at 10 to 20 mph.
Tenight there will be a 60 percent chance of snow, with lows in the mid-28s.
Tomorrow will be cloudy with a chance of snow. Highs will be in the lower 30%.
Med Center emergency room dramas unfold nightly
Emergency room personnel under the supervision of surgeon Tim Zoellner examine and treat a patient in the trauma room at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
By MICHAEL BECK Staff Reporter
A man stood in the dark street, shooting at his girlfriend's car with his .38-caliber Smith and Wesson.
She ran him down as if he were a tall blade of grass, according to Dan Winterringer of the Kansas City, Kan., police department. An ambulance arrived to scrape him out of the water-filled gutter.
At the University of Kansas Medical Center emergency room Friday night, doctors and nurses were patching up an alcoholic who was bleeding internally when they received the call from paramedics in the ambulance about the injured man.
Because the man has not been charged with a crime, his name has not been used.
His blood pressure was low, and be was complaining of intense pain.
A nurse, in consultation with a doctor, refused any pain relieving drugs for him. It might cloud vital-sign readings when he got to the hospital
THERE WERE meticulous preparations in room 561, the fully equipped trauma room. Gowns were tied, masks pulled in place and plastic hair-nets stretched to the eyebrows.
The team of seven waited next to the electronic double doors of the emergency room for patients to be wheeled in. Despite their taut, frowning faces, they appeared neither excited nor worried.
Ann Baughman, a registered nurse, said, "I just pray it's not one of my kids or one of my relatives."
Ken Ramum, a registered nurse, said later that night, "It's the waiting, not knowing what's going to happen. It can be stressful."
Monday Morning
SOON THE ambulance rolled in the drive, just off the helicopter port. The paramedics hopped leisurely from the back. One grinned to the crowd looking through the glass doors. The tension broke. A few people smiled.
rails as three paramedics wheeled him into the trauma room.
trained toown
Randy Smith, a paramedic, said later. "You get sort of accustomed to the blood. I guess you get a bit calloused."
Ibison rooftop. A few people sniff.
The man groaned at the bumps of the door
Tim Zoellner, a surgeon, said, "The staff here is excellent. They know what they're doing, and they do it. They can take care of routine checks and that leaves me free to do other things."
Nurses, medical students and paramedic students went to work, checking the man's vital signs and stripping him.
appointed rounds.
IT HAD BEEN a slow night. Besides the man,
After various diagnostic and shock tests, doctors decided that the man had a broken leg. Some of the staff retreated to the nurses' and doctors' lounge, while others went to their appointed rounds.
there had been a pregnancy, a patient who'd broken out with hives and a woman with eye problems.
problems:
Cameras keep a constant eye on all sides of the emergency room, a permanent scar left from the May 1981 shootings by Bradley Boan, who walked in the emergency room and gunned down a physician and a visitor. Boan was convicted of two counts of murder last October and sentenced to two terms of life in prison.
Police are stationed in a booth across from the trauma room, where they watch the monitors. Only one of the four emergency room doors remains open, and it can be opened with the flick of a switch or booth.
One nurse said she tried to forget the shooting, but she couldn't.
Many nurses refuse to wear name tags or be identified because of the incident and because of the patients they treat.
"WE GET ALL kinds of people here, not the best, but they are people," Ranum said. "Most of the people come here out of neglect. They won't go to a family physician, so they come here when they get bad."
Ramun said he enjoyed working in the emergency room more than anywhere else because he liked the uncertainty and the different types of people.
But Baughman, a 14-year veteran of the emergency room, said, "You can't help becoming attached to the patients. They're people."