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University Daily Kansan, January 17; 1983
Draft resisters fight to keep financial aid
By ANDREW HARTLEY Staff Reporter
Jeff, a senior fine arts student at the University of Kansas, receives $2,200 a semester from the federal government, one Pelk grant, a guaranteed student loan and money from the work-study program for school.
He says he's a hard-working student who values his education.
"Education is the most important thing in my life right now," he said. "I'd beg, borrow or steal to get a good education."
BUT BECAUSE Jeff, who prefers his last name not be printed, refuses to register for the draft, his federal pension is in danger of drying up July.
A federal law signed by President Reagan in September forces college students to register for the draft, and offers a eligible for any federal assistance.
But a student-supported lobbying group in Minnesota is trying to get the law declared unconstitutional. The Minnesota Public Interest Research Group, a student-financed lobbying organization, is to file its final briefs in U.S. District Court today asking for a preliminary injunction against the law.
James Miller, executive director of MPIRG, said Friday that the law violated the U.S. Constitution in several ways.
- It violates Article I, he said,
because students whose aid would be cut off would be punished without a trial.
- It violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment because it discriminates on the basis of age, race and wealth, he said.
- The majority of those who receive student aid, he said, are low-income students, meaning that minorities are disproportionately punished.
- It violates the Fifth Amendment because a student would be required to provide information that could be used in his prosecution, he said.
- Miller also said the law violated the Privacy Act of 1974, which prohibits the transfer of information from one government agency to another for "non-routine" uses.
He said the law allowed information on registration status to be transferred from the Department of Education to the Selective Service System.
have the case thrown out of court until any significant harm to the student resisters can be shown.
The government's case is being handled by Nilakaswamy, a Justice Minister who has not been reached for comment, but the government is reportedly seeking to
The government also is arguing that only 5 percent of eligible men have not signed up, decreasing any possible harm.
The Selective Service says 9.2 million men, or 94 percent of those eligible, have signed up for the draft.
But, Miller said, the student aid law also affects those who signed up late, not only those who have not signed up.
Jerry Rogers, director of KU's office of student financial aid, said that if the law was upheld, the amount of work for his office would greatly increase, because the University may require you for checking each student's status.
He said the federal government had not yet decided whether schools or students would responsible for proving eligibility.
Steve Dorssum, the Department of
Although Rogers said he knew that the amount of work would increase, he said he did not anticipate that a
large number of students at KU would have their aid cut off.
Various groups at KU that have traditionally objected to conscription say they know of few students on camps who have not registered.
He said he had no way of knowing how many religious conscientious objectors were at KU.
For Jeff, however, the reasons for not signing up were personal and not religious.
Jack Bremer, adviser for the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, said he had counselled five to 10 persons who were considering not signing up for the draft, but he did not know what their decisions were.
He said that he opposed killing of any kind and that any war in which the administration could enter would not involve "me personally."
The law denying federal aid to non-registering students does not sit well
"It's just another way of twisting arms," Jeff said. "The government's using a means they have no right to use.
"If they threatened to take away my aid, I'd probably have to succumb to their wishes. It would probably make me more bitter toward the U.S. government and the way it works, though."
Potter duck return to be short, effortless
By BRUCE BROCK Staff Reporter
The surface of Potter Lake is now calm, but after the 11 ducks that spent last fall there migrate back here this spring, the ripples will appear.
The migration will be short and effortless for the ducks, however, because it will merely consist of a truck from their winter quarters near Eudora.
According to Thomas Lee Jr., facilities operations landscape supervisor, the ducks are too fat and "well satisfied" to be able to fly anywhere. The ducks also enjoy each winter to prevent dogs from attacking them after the lake frozen over.
HE ALSO SAID this winter was the first the University had officially become involved in taking care of the children of students who took care of them in the past, he said.
For the past two winters, one of those students, Larry Kipp, Baldwin, and his wife, Elizabeth, have kept the ducks on their farm. They did not take responsibility for Kipp. He was not sure whether he would be attending KU all of this winter.
Kupp said the ducks needed to be protected from predators, not from the cold weather.
"The ducks are about one-third fat, and have the best down jackets in the world," he said. "Some people worry that they might freeze because of our
own feeling about how cold it is on there."
CAPTURING THEM each fall presented little problem, Kipp said, "although you have to know your ducks." He said it was easy to lure the nearly-tame ducks with feed into a pen at Snow Hall, then nab them and take them home in a cardboard box or gummy sack.
No other graduate student was willing to take care of this fall's 11 Potter residents, however, so the Animal Care Unit took on the responsibility, said John Ward, the unit's supervisor of animal husbandry.
"We had a lot of problems capturing them." Ward said.
He said that he called Kipp several times for advice, but said that Kipp's method was designed for seven ducks, not 11. Ward said people who were drunk could come in and their duck pets dumped them off at Porter, causing the population growth.
AFTER THE FIRST attempt at luring the ducks into pens proved unsuccessful, he said, the ducks "wised up quickly" and escaped to the middle of the lake. Ward and his fellow duck catchers finally herded them all into a corner of the lake with two rowboats and lifted them from the shore and the boats.
"Essentially," he said, "we just kept after them until they got tired. The whole thing was quite a scene."
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Reagan approval trails predecessors, poll says
WASHINGTON — Americans gave President Reagan lower performance marks halfway through his term than any of his four predecessors at their midway points, a Gallup Poll released yesterday showed.
The poll conducted in mid-December showed that 50 percent of the 1,500 adults surveyed disapprove of Reagan's performance while 41 percent think he did well, the lowest approval rating since he took office.
AMONG FORMER presidents,
Jimmy Carter got a 51 percent
approval rating two years after enter-
ing office; Richard Nixon got 62
percent; John Kennedy 76 percent;
John McCain 69 percent, accord-ing
to the poll.
Gerald Ford and Lyndon Johnson, who entered office by succeeding
Reagan got the support of only 9 percent of nonwhites collared, compared with 64 percent for Carter at the two-year mark, 33 percent for Nixon, 93 percent for Kennedy and 57 percent for Eisenhower.
presidents, could not be rated by the same two-year measure.
Thirty-six percent of women and 47 percent of men surveyed approved of Reagan. Carter had the approval of 54 percent of women polled midway through his term, Nixon had 47 percent, Kennedy 77 percent and Elsenhower 68 percent.
AMONG MALE respondents, 49 percent thought Carter did a good job, 56 percent supported Nixon, 74 percent supported Clinton and 70 percent backed Elshower.
The poll sample comprised 671 Democrats, 389 Republicans and 408 independents, with the rest from other parties.
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Burglar's stole $2,830 worth of stereo equipment from cars and houses over the past year.
AN AM-FM RADIO cassette player and 24 cassettes in a case were reported stolen from a car parked on the 2400 block of the 15th St. The merchandise was valued at $645.
AN AM-FM RADIO and cassette receiver, 20 cassette tapes and various papers were stolen from a car owned by Roberto Friedman, KU business teaching assistant, police said. The burglar broke the rear window on the passenger side of the car. The loss was valued at $200.
AN AM-FM RADIO cassette player valued at $300 was stolen from a locked car parked on the 1300 block of Cynthia Street in midnight and 9 a.m. Friday, police said.
AN AM-FM RADIO cassette player
valued at $465 was stolen from a car parked on the 500 block of Fireside Drive during the weekend, police said.
AN AM-FM RADIO and cassette receiver valued at $300 was reported missing from a motorcycle in the 190 Clyde Linehaven Court Saturday, police said.
BURGLARS STOLE a cassette tape deck worth $200 from a car parked in the 1500 block of St. Andrews Street and brought to the car by breaking the right rear window.
A MICROWAVE oven of unknown value was reported stolen from a fraternity in the 1400 block of Tennessee Street Saturday.
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