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University Daily Kansan, January 17, 1983
Reagan works to mend midterm image
WASHINGTON — President Reagan passes the midpoint of his first term this week with a new approach shaped by his advisers to dispel suggestions of an administration in charge of chief executive aloof of major decisions.
Angered by news leaks and buffered by strong criticism from columnists and editorial writers assessing his status at midterm, Reagan went on the offensive last late week to give the explanation of a president solidly in control.
"I make the decisions," Reagan declared. "And this has been working."
EARLIER IN THE week, communications director David Gerger tried to blame a rash of reports of indecision and staff dissension on house trouble artist officials in effect telling stories out of school
Days later, deputy White House
press secretary Larry Speaks found it necessary to denounce the same reports as "untrue, foolishness, misrepresented."
"Poppycock," Speakes said. "It is journalistic sinnoff."
Aside from their rhetoric, White House aides hope to improve Reagan's image through more frequent contacts with reporters and more visits such as one she scheduled recently predominantly black school in Chicago.
The effort to rebound from a midterm approval rating lower than those of his four elected predecessors and from pessimism that caused the New York Times to comment editorially that "the stench of failure hangs over Ronald Reagan's White House" also will be evident in his policies.
REAGAN IS filling two Cabinet vacancies with women and will extend overtures to blacks and the unemployed — other groups he has
been accused of ignoring — by offering proposals to stimulate employment in his State of the Union message later this month.
But the campaign launched by Reagan and his aides, which this week will see the White House issue a favorable report card on his second year, has not explained away factors leading to the view of a president in trouble.
Reagan won office on the strength of a campaign that promised economic prosperity and a balanced budget, but has presided over the deepest recession in decades, the highest unemployment since the Depression and the worst budget deficits in history.
In foreign policy, the Middle East peace initiative Reagan unveiled with fanfare last September remains stalled, with none of the parties willing to take the necessary first step.
These factors have been compounded by the unfortunate timing of others that seemed to darken the cloud over the White House, including pressure "much of it from proxies" and pressure to announce whether he will run again.
BY LATE last week, the Cabinet departures and arms-control purge caused reporters to ask White House officials to resignations to expect later in the day.
The resignations of Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis and Health and Human Services Secretary Richard Schweiker, prompted by lucrative offers from industry, led some observers to wonder whether a long-awaited midterm personnel shift had begun.
The situation was further inflamed by White House chief of staff James Baker's candid remark that Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan should resign.
KU financial aid office advertises loans
By JOEL THORNTON Staff Reporter
The KU student financial aid office wants students to know that they can get loans, grants and scholarships despite all the talk of financial aid cutbacks in the past year, KU officials said yesterday.
Office officials said they hoped to relay that message through the Kansas Financial Aid Awareness Week, which begins today.
Financial aid staff members will distribute applications and answer questions from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. today and Friday on the fourth level of the Kansas Union, said Claimna McCurdy, assistant director of financial assistance.
FINANCIAL AID STAFF members
also will man the booth for as many hours as their schedules permit tomorrow through Thursday, McCurdy said.
row through this time. She said Gov. John Carlin signed a proclamation Jan 4 declaring the third week in January Financial Aid Awareness Week in Kansas. All colleges and vocational technical schools in the state are participating in the program.
"We're putting financial aid on a positive aspect," she said. "There is money available and we want students to know it."
McCurdy said the week was not aimed only at students. Persons who have always thought they could not afford college might enroll if they find out that there is help available, she said.
"If the publicity is there, we'll reach
people who will give school a second thought." McCurdy said.
To receive financial aid, students must complete the American College Testing Program Student Data Form and Family Financial Statement, the applications KU uses for all university-sponsored scholarships and all federal loans, grants and work-study programs. Students have the best chance to obtain aid if they return the completed forms to the ACT office by March 1, according to financial aid officers.
SHE SAID THE event had been advertised on television, radio and by advertisement.
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Jerry Rogers, director of the KU student financial aid office, said he hoped Financial Aid Awareness Week would alleviate students' concerns over proposed additional cuts in federal
"IF YOU BELIEVE what you read, it doesn't look too good." Rogers said. "We've heard that before, and generally speaking, they come around and figure higher education is important and we continue to operate."
Financial aid staff members are also helping students with problems the new enrollment system has caused, Rogers said.
student aid. Nearly 50 percent of KU students receive some sort of aid.
For example, he said some students came out of early enrollment with less than 10 hours because they could not get some of the classes they wanted.
Students had to promise to add more hours or did not receive aid checks, because some federal programs relied on students for 12 hours to receive assistance, he said.
Alabama nuclear plant reported safe after alert
By United Press International
ALABAAM officials and civil defense offices were notified and the Tennessee Valley Authority, a giant federal utility that operates the three-reactor plant, staffed its emergency control centers in Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Muscle Shoals. Ala. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission also was notified.
TVA terminated the alert at 7:17 p.m. A site alert is the second of four nuclear event classifications and indicates that potential serious event has occurred."
ATHENS, Ala. — Officials said yesterday that there was no danger from a cooling-system malfunction that leaked radioactive water into the Tennessee River and prompted a 10-hour alert at the nation's largest nuclear plant.
The alert ended last night and normal operations resumed at the plant.
Browns Ferry, the site of the nation's worst nuclear accident until the three Mile Island claimed that distinction in 1979, was placed on alert at 8:50 a.m. yesterday when engineers discovered that a coolant system in Unit 3 had twice leaked traces of radioactive water into the river.
"The leak was so small that our technical people could barely detect it," said Craven Crowell, TVA director of information.
The alert was called off after a valve alignment returned the Unit 3 cooling system to service. A backup cooling system had operated effectively during the alert. The plant's two other reactors were not affected.
"THEY DECLARED an alert but that's as much to meet the administrative requirements as anything," NRC spokesman Ken Clark said.
"When they lose all their heat-
removal systems they're required to
call an alert. If it's a serious situation
They do not have an emergency."
The alert had residents of northern Alabama calling regional civil defense offices to ask whether they would be evacuated from areas near the plant. The Alabama Civil Defense office at Montgomery received so many reports of an incident that statement advising residents there had been no serious accident at the nuclear facility.
Prior to the 1979 Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania, the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant was the scene of the most serious commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history. The plant was used to fire a nuclear weapon using a candle to check air leaks in a pipe ignited a pipe fitting and caught the fire on facility.
YTA PUT THE plant on alert status yesterday when plant operators turned two heat exchangers in the Unit 3 reactor to investigate the radioactive
The other two heat exchangers had been taken out of service for routine maintenance, leaving the facility with a clean system to keep the reactor core cool.
Crowell said the reactor remained in normal status throughout the day yesterday.
The heat exchangers act as a radiator to cool the reactor core. Pipes suck up Tennessee River water and cool pipes carrying the radioactive water that circulates through the reactor.
Plant operators said the reserve cooling system operated effectively and there was no danger of the reactor core overheating. Unit 1 was operating at full power and Unit 2 had been shut down for months for refueling.
Engineers determined that one heat exchanger had leaked twice at midnight and 8:30 a.m. yesterday, and they were "minor releases of radiation."
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READING FOR COMPREHENSION AND SPEED
January 18 and 25,7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
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ACADEMIC SKILL ENHANCEMENT WORKSHOP
(Emphases on time management, flexible reading, listening, and notetaking.) January 20, 6:30 to 9:00 p.m., 300 Strong Hall Free. No Registration Required.
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STUDYING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Overcoming, mental blocks, preparing for exams, and improving skills in reading, writing, speaking and listening. January 19, 7:30 to 9:00 p.m., Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union or January 24, 3:30 to 5:00 p.m., Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union Free. No Registration Required.
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