University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
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Monday, January 24,1983 Vol.93,No.82 USPS650-640
The Lawrence Pre-Life Movement, an anti-abortion group, 10-year-old U.S. Supreme Court abortion decision, marched down Massachusetts Street Saturday to protest the
City notes abortion rule's birth
By DAVID POWLS Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The U.S. Supreme Court decision on abortion was 10 years old Saturday, and people in Lawrence demonstrated with marches and rallies that the ruling had not been forgotten.
Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court case, said that states could not prevent a woman from having an abortion during the first six months of pregnancy.
The Lawrence Pro-Life Movement, an anti-abortion group, marched through the downtown area Saturday and held a rally at the South Park bandstand.
Carrying signs that said "Abortion is Murder" and "Legalize Compassion," about 50 people, including several children, marched down Massachusetts Street.
TWO MEMBERS of the anti-abortion group spoke at the rally.
Gary Bixler, the group's director, said that the intent of the march was to show that the right-to-life movement in Lawrence had not ended.
"The right to life movement will not end until
respect for all human life is restored to this notion." Bixler said.
About 50 members of a Lawrence group that favors the existing abortion law celebrated the anniversary of Roe v. Wade with a meeting and discussion at the Kansas Union.
Kee Letzel, project coordinator for the Uitarian Universal Service Committee, said the pro-choice group worked toward improving the quality of life.
SHE SAID DECISIONS concerning abortion should be made by the individual and that decision should not be restricted by national prohibition.
Ketzel said that pro-choice groups across the state telegrated the anniversary with prayers, a dance and a Sunday worship service.
Joan Mahoney, assistant professor of constitutional law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, told the group about the Supreme Court's decision and what had happened since.
In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decided that a woman's right to privacy was more important than the state's interest in her health during the first trimester of pregnancy, she said.
The Supreme Court also decided that the state could require abortions per month, and the court authorized a hospital because
abortions in the second trimester are more dangerous than first-trimester abortions, she
MAHONEY SAID that a birth control method that did not harm women was the answer to the controversy and that pro-choice and anti-communist groups should work together to develop such a method.
She said that although a majority of the people in the United States favored freedom of choice, a constitutional amendment to prohibit abortion could be passed.
the majority doesn't always make themselves heard." she said.
In 1970, three years before the Supreme Court's decision on abortion, Kansas required that a woman obtain three medical opinions before she have an abortion at an accredited hospital.
But a court decision changed the law so that only the consent of the attending physician and doctor was required.
The 1973 Supreme Court decision on abortion took the place of all state laws on abortion.
STATE THE 1973 decision, Kansas has not enacted laws concerning abortions performed during the second trimester of a woman's pregnancy.
Fees for KU housing to increase next year
By JOEL THORNTON
By JOEL THORNTON Staff Reporter
They're small, but in the past few years they have become almost as certain as death and taxes.
once again fees for University of Kansas residence halls, scholarship halls and apartments have been raised.
"As night follows day, it's one of those things that's an annual adjustment." David Amber, vice chancellor for student affairs, said Saturday.
The increases, approved Friday by the Board of Regents, were recommended to the Regents last fall by Chancellor Gene A. Budig and will range from 3.4 to 11.8 percent.
THE FEE HIKES will push the price of a double-occupancy room at a residence hall from $1,817 to $1,892 an academic year, a 4.1 percent increase. Single occupancy rooms will cost $2,892 next year, up 5.5 percent from this year's $2,742.
Other increases include Battentfeld, Grace Pearson, Pearson and Stephenon scholarship halls, $1,587 for the year, up 7.2 percent from $1,481; Douthart and Sellars scholarship halls, $1,460, up 7.7 percent from $1,374; Miller and Sellars scholarship halls, $557, up 10.5 percent from $94.
Jayhawker Towers prices will vary from $405 to $450, up 3.4 to 3.8 percent from $980 to $435; Stouffer Place Apartments $153.30 for one bedroom and $173.30 for two bedrooms, up 8.3 and 9.5 percent from $140 and $60; and Sumitomo Apartments $190, up 11.8 percent from $140.
Ambler said that the fee increases were needed to cover soaring food, wage and utility costs.
Although the increases will generate an estimated $400,000, he said, they will not be enough to cover all the housing costs the University will face next year.
"JUST THE UTILITIES increase alone will eat that money up." Ambler said.
J. W. Wilson, director of housing, agreed with Amber that rising utility costs made it hard for the company to meet the needs.
Utility rates for university-owned housing increased 24 percent last year, he said, and a quarter of the students were not using it.
The University has studied ways of conserving energy in the housing units but cannot use the same measures used in classrooms and buildings. Wilson said.
"You can't reduce the heat to the degree of classrooms because people are living and working."
AMBILER SAID that inflation in the 1960s and 1970s gave rise to what are now almost yearly increases in university-owned housing. He said that a majority of the student population in a residence hall for less than $1,000 a year.
Wilson proposed the fee increase last fall. The recommendation was forwarded to contract committees made up of the Association of Scholarship Hall Councils and the All-Scholarship Hall Council, Wilson said.
The students then studied the proposal, approved it, and passed it on to the Residential Programs Advisory Board, a group made up of students, faculty and staff members.
After the advisory board approved the
boards they were approved by Ambler and
sent to Biddeford.
Wilson said he thought the increase was fair because both students and administrators took part in the decision.
part of the decision.
"We like to think we had a good discussion," he said. "We're better off to raise rates a little than to cut back on services."
Neither Wilson nor Amberl said they expected the increases to discourage students from living in university-owned housing next year, although it is not a clear whether when student fees were also rising by 20 percent.
Last year the Regents approved a 20 percent rise in student fees for all Regents schools for the 1996-97 school year.
And with tighter restrictions on financial aid. Ambler said, the housing increases could put some students in a pinch.
"When you add all the increases together, it can result in a sizable increase in the cost to attend KU." he said.
Weather
Today will be mostly fair with temperatures in the low 40s and winds from the northwest at 10 to 20 mph, according to the KU Weather Service.
Tonight will be fair with lows in the mid 29s.
Soviet satellite falls to earth; radioactive portion still aloft
By DON HENRY
Staff Reporter
A radioactive Soviet spy satellite, which plummeted into the atmosphere yesterday at 4:31 p.m., probably malfunctioned because of a basic flaw in its design or construction, a KU professor of astronomy and physics said yesterday.
Thomas Armstrong, the professor, said the satellite, which re-entered above the Indian Ocean about 1,800 miles southeast of India, was one of several Soviet spy satellites that had fallen out of orbit and crashed to earth in the past few years.
"The Russians weren't able to park this satellite in a high-altitude safe orbit," he said.
"That's no surprise. Out of the past six satellites of this nature, two have malfunctioned."
THE RE-ENTRY of the main chunk of Cosmos 1402 ended a worldwide watch that had lasted several weeks, but the story of the malfunctioning satellite will not end until mid-February, when the expectant that contains the nuclear reactor is expected to fall to earth.
Armstrong said the satellite had to orbit at a law altitude so it could watch the earth. He used a satellite from Persian Gulf.
and the Indian Ocean, all important strategic regions.
When the orbit of a Soviet spy satellite begins to degrade, he said, the Soviets then explode the satellite into three pieces and jettison the satellite into space. The Soviet leader itself, into a permanent orbit at a higher altitude.
"One of the inevitable results of a low orbit is that it will eventually degrade," Armstrong强
Armstrong said the propulsion unit, which was to have sent the reactor into a safe orbit, had failed altogether. The same problem, he said, had occurred with satellites that had malfunctioned. One of the malfunctioning satellites dribbed radioactive debris across northern Canada in 1978.
SVOIET OFFICIALS said last week that the satellite had split into two pieces. The piece that came through the atmosphere yesterday was the one that contained no radioactive material. The 100-pound atomic pile, which powered the satellite's elaborate electronic surveillance equipment, is expected to fall to earth in mid-February.
Higher activity fees needed says finance committee head
Armstrong said another Soviet satellite could in the future malfunction in the same way.
"Space is no place for nuclear reactors," he said.
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Without at least a 50-cent increase in the student activity fee next year, student services at the University of Kansas will drastically decline, Loren Busby, chairman of Student Senate's finance and auditing committee, said Saturday.
By SARA KEMPIN Staff Reporter
Busby's committee will begin hearings Jan. 31 to allocate funds to groups financed by money from student activity fees, such as the University Daily Kansas, KJHK, Recreational Services and the University's concert series.
And, he said, if he can't convince administrators to allow groups to lower the amount they are required to hold in reserve, the fee would have to be raised by $1 or $1.50.
The current activity fee is $20.50 and is included in regular fee payment
Paul Bushkirk, chairman of the transportation board, said he had also thought the board could decrease the bus service fee from $6 to $5 because it had a surplus of money.
BUSYB SAID he had been anticipating a 50-cent increase in the activity fee because he thought the transportation board might have asked for a decrease in the bus service fee.
But at a meeting last Thursday, John Patterson, comptroller of the University, told the board it needed to keep $80,000 — 10 percent more funding. He found to use in case of emergencies. Bukkirk said.
Because of Patterson's recommendation, the board decided to keep the bus service fee at $6 instead of decreasing it, Buskirk said.
See REVENUE page 5
Firsthand experience, many skills give affirmative action director edge
By ANNE FITZGERALD
Staff Reporter
As a native Rosebud Sioux, mother of four, artist, teacher, counselor and attorney, Roberta Ferron has had a wealth of experiences. And they total, she said, an interesting life.
"Life has given me wisdom I didn't have." Ferron said.
"My first love is teaching. I have a real concern for students."
Ferron has the chance to share her wisdom and to employ her teaching skills in her new job as director of KU's office of affirmative action.
"THERE IS NO place free of racism," Ferron said. "Affirmative action means simply taking some positive action to alleviate discrimination against people. It more me
Roberta Ferron, the new director of the office of affirmative action, says she wants to educate people about discrimination and affirmative action.
and enforcement. It means doing things above and beyond the call of duty.
"The first cause of discrimination is usually ignorance or lack of information. The second is more deliberate and involves people with special needs who have formed some kind of brain set against it."
People who experience discrimination should teach the discriminators to change, Ferron said. They should share their experiences with the discriminator to help them unlearn their prejudices.
Ferron said also that as a minority woman she would give credibility to the office. The office monitors education and employment requirements across campus to ensure their fitness.
HER PLANS ARE largely educational, she said. Ferron wants to make her office more visible, and she seeks a good working relationship with the entire campus communi-
Ferron and her staff will offer training to
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acquaint different groups, such as supervisors or the discrimination hearing board, with affirmative action philosophy and Equal Employment Opportunity laws, Ferron said.
Ferron's commitment to those discriminated against has been a natural progression that began with the death of
Born in Deadwood, S.D., Ferron still calls the Rosebud reservation birthplace her home.
"THE INDIAN saying that a child is a child means that life for a child should be wonderful," said Ferron. She said that was her sister, even though her family was extremely poor.
Ferron recalled that childhood experiences as simple as searching for berries were made especially enjoyable by her mother, who speaks native Lakota.
"As a child, I was oblivious to discrimination," she said. "But the seeds were planted by my parents always saying that I had to be better than other children at school."
It wasn't until she returned to South Dakota to pursue a counseling career that Ferrell tallying the number of clients.
As a career counselor at the University of
See FERRON page 5.