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AUTUMNY
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Tuesday October 11,1977
Vol.88, No.31
The University of Kansas
Lawrence. Kansas
shapes and sizes for use on campus. He says glass blowing is an art, but add that he enjoys it for another reason: It keeps him warm.
Harold Fakhour, the only glass blower employed by KU, forms a distillation apparatus for a University secrete laboratory. In his work he was the inventor of a new method.
Glass man
Minimum wage increase likely to affect KU hiring
Staff Writer
By JOHN WHITESIDES
The U.S. Senate's decision Thursday to increase the federal minimum wage may have created a difficult situation for the Department of Justice, according to several KU administrators.
"It's a very difficult problem for us," Shankel said. "We've been discussing the problem and have been trying to come up with different alternatives."
Del Shenkel, executive vice chancellor,
said that because the legislature did not
provide any additional funding for student
help this year, the University might be
sullied by former students and decrease
student work hours and use of the
with the minimum wage law, if it is approved.
THE SENATE TOWARD to increase the federal minimum wage in four steps to $3.40 per hour.
The present minimum wage of $2.30 an hour would be increased to $2.65 an hour on Jan. 1, 1978, to $2.90 an hour in 1979 and to $3.15 an hour in 1980.
In September, the House voted to increase the minimum to $2.65 in 1978, to $2.85 in 1979 and to $3.05 in 1980. The differences in the minimum are in a house-Senate conference committee.
Sherry Kopf, KU payroll supervisor, said that, at present, there were approximately 3,000 students employed by the University. She estimated that 75 per cent of those students would be affected by the minimum wage increase.
"When you have a given amount of money to pay student help and you suddenly have to buy it yourself, you can't employ as many people," he said. "There are no magic ways to wave a wind turbine."
RON CALGARAH, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the increase in the minimum wage would have a very considerable effect on the number of students employed by the University.
Calgaird said he was concerned because the wage increase would make it harder for employers to find workers.
Polls to ask students about Senate, legal aid
Staff Writer
By LEON UNRUH
The Student Senate is taking the campus pulse—but it may be a white before the first black student.
Steve Leben, student body president, said about 600 students were being called about their opinions of the Senate, the way it operates and its actions.
Last night Senate officers and non-senators began the first steps of a two-pronged poll designed to indicate student dissatisfaction with legal services and about the Senate itself.
The other part of the poll, in which 800 questionnaires will be mailed to students, will be taken from a sample of all teachers.
services, the cost of such services and to what extent the services should stretch.
BRIT McPHERSON, chairman of the subcommittee, said he would wait two or three weeks before tabulating the results to give all the students time to respond.
Results of the telephone survey should be tabulated by the end of this week, Leben
All students surveyed, chosen at random by computer from KU registration files, are asked to provide the type of housing they live in, their sex and the number of credit hours in which they are enrolled.
Leben said he estimated getting the
results of at least 400 phone interviews and from 320 to 400 mail responses.
For example, the legal services' survey includes questions about the need for a psychologist.
THE RESULTS of the surveys would be used to guide his and the Senate's actions on legal services and would tell the people what needs to be done to their constituents think of them. Leben said.
"We can't help but follow what people are telling us to do, if we get an adequate response," Leben said. He has said he favors the legal services program.
per cent confident" that the results would be accurate.
The margin of error in the Senate poll be about 4 per cent. Leben said he was "95"
THE UNIVERSITY PRINTING SERVICE was to begin printing the mail surveys today, he said, and should have them ready, complete with stamped, self-addressed envelopes, by the end of the week.
The poll will cost about $250 Leben said.
Printing costs will be about $60, return
postage about $104, and bulk mailing and
computer time will cost the remaining $86.
"When you talk about a legal services program that could cost up to $50,000 a year, the cost of this research survey is miniscule," Leben said.
By KEVIN KIOUS
Delay in privately insured student loans over
Staff Writer
The biggest obstacle to privately insured student loans - a lack of application forms-
has been overcome by the University of Kansas Student Financial Aid Office.
LA&S drops end Friday
Jerry Rogers, director of the office, said yesterday that he received a case of 600 inmates on his staff.
Students who wish to withdraw trn classes in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences should do so by Friday, according to an experimental policy now being used.
After Friday, the completion of the seventh week of classes, a student may withdraw from a course only by petitioning the college. If the petition is accepted, a
The new policy says that petitions normally will not be granted for lack of interest or poor performance in a course. Rather, they will be granted for personal reasons such as ill health, shortage of funds or a heavy work schedule.
"W" will be recorded on the student's transcript.
A shortage of the application forms has existed for Kansas schools, according to the director of the higher Education Loan Program at KU, which will make loans to Kansas students.
"Everybody was fighting to get them," Roers said.
The financial aid office needs the application forms so KU students can make
the Kansas State Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators in Hut-
THE APPLICATION forms come from the Higher Education Assistance Foundation (HEAP), a non-profit Minnesota organization made to students. The company's Kansas
Rogers said students could begin receiving loans as soon as Nov. 1. He said that as far as he knew, he also would have made the direct students who had been turned down by banks.
operation recently began after being approved by the U.S. Department of
Rogers said his office was making copies of other forms that accompany the applications so complete packets could be given to students.
STUDENTS WHO wanted applications before this week were put on a waiting list, Rogers said. Post cards have been mailed to students notifying them that forms are available.
LAWRENCE BUSINESSMAS SAY THEY
WOOULD BE AFFECTED BY A NEW
MINIMUM WAGE. SEE STORY PAGE
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University would be hurt by the decrease in student help.
Shaikul he thought there were four possible solutions the University could seek
ONE POSSIBLE SOLUTION, he said, would be to find money elsewhere in the budget that could be shifted to pay student employees. Shankel doubted that would
"We don't have any excess funds in any part of the budget." he said
Shankel said another possibility would be to file an appeal with the federal government. He said federal law allowed colleges and universities to file for exemptions from wage increases. If approved, the exemption could only 80 per cent of the new minimum wage.
Shankel said the idea of seeking an exemption was not altogether unattractive because he thought that KU should pay the full minimum wage. However, he admitted
that the University might be forced by circumstances to seek the exemption.
THE THIRD POSSIBLE SOLUTION,
Shankel said, would be to make an emergency request to the Kansas Board of Regents, Gov. Robert Bennett and the Kansas Legislature for enough additional student work hours.
Shankel he favored that proposal and thought the legislature could make a quick decision on the funding when it convened in January.
The final option, he said, would be to decrease the number of students employed. The answer would involve the libraries and the computer center—would be the areas hit hardest by the cut-offs?
Shankel said he was conferring with Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, all the University vice chancellors and several other high-ranking affairs office on the proper steps to take.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Peace prize winners announced
OSLO, Norway - A London-based organization that works for political prisoners and those in detention started a peace movement in Northern Ireland as part of a pennant jesus movement.
The Nobel奖章由Norwegian parliament awarded the 1972 prize to the London organization, Amnesty International, for 16 years of effort on behalf of victims of the bombing.
It belatedly gave the 1976 prize to Betty Williams, 33, and Mairead Corrigan, 32, for organizing a broad-based "Peace People's" movement to end eight years of fighting in their homeland between Protestant and Catholic extremists. See story page two.
Police defend arrest of Chicanos
HOUSTON—POLice Chief Harry Caldwell yesterday defended two policemen who arrested the parents of Joe Torres, a young Mexican-American whose controversial death resulted in homicide convictions against two Houston policemen.
The parents, Joe and Margarita Torres, say they were arrested without justification while watching a disturbance at a night club Saturday. Their attestation comes after a fight between them in the
The Houston Mexican-American community has been angry since the two fired Houston policemen, charged with murdering the couple's 23-year-old son during an arrest, received misdemeanor homicide convictions and probated sentences Friday.
Report saves fuel overestimated
Federal officials have said they would be able to make up 60 per cent of expected shortages such as those that closed schools and factories last winter.
WASHINGTON—The new Department of Energy has overestimated its ability to cope with another cold winter and resulting natural gas shortages, a
But in a report released yesterday, a Senate subcommittee said the federal government would not be in a position to help very much, even though it was one of the biggest risks to the economy.
Boeing strikers into second week
SEATTLE—More than 24,000 Boeing machinists moved yesterday into the second week of a strike that has spread to California, where thousands of lockers
Settlement progress appeared to be at a standstill, with both union and Boeing officials awaiting a federal mediator's call to the bargaining table.
Peter Bush, spokesman for Boeing, said yesterday that the company had not been contacted by Pete Horn, the federal mediator who was expected to schedule a negotiating session. Horn's office was closed for Columbus Day yesterday and he was not available.
Locally...
Twelve campus living groups are preparing outdoor displays for competition in the upcoming homecoming weekend, and homecoming planners hope even more living groups will prepare displays before Friday. Lawrence merchants will be hosting an annual event planned for Friday to kick off the weekend festivities. See story page seven.
Classmates divided on validity of med student's suit
By KARYN GIBSON
Staff Writer
Althoughase Gregory, a black former University of Kansas medical student, contends in a lawsuit that he was the victim of discriminatory grading practices, the opinions of his classmates are divided.
Some support Gregory's charges that he failed school because of discriminatory practices. Others content that Gregory was not discriminated against, but Gregory did not take unfair advantages in KU Medical Center classes.
Meanwhile, administrators both deny Gregory's claims that he was not given the same opportunity as other students to take exams and maintain that programs to benefit minority students do not give the students unfair advantages.
GREGORY WILL PURSE a discrimination case he initiated in federal court in July, he said last week, despite an adverse decision at a hearing of the case. Seed 16.
At the hearing, he was denied a temporary injunction that would have allowed him to remain in school until he could take his case to court.
As the case now stands, KU's legal counsel must answer the suit's complaints. After an answer is filed, if one is filed, Gregory can go to court to ask for results resulting from his dismissal from the Med Center.
IN 1975-76, GREGORY, then a first-year medical student, failed the three courses he took. The courses included an emergency medicine.
He appealed to internal Med Center committees, which allowed him to repeat his first year. In 1976-77, he received the Knox Award.
The student handbook at the Med Center states that if a medical student fails one class twice or two classes once he automatically goes before the internal academic committee for review of his status.
The committee may recommend that a student repeat the classes or that he be dismissed from school. Gregory's dismissal was recommended after he failed the courses the second time.
GREGORY APPEALED to all available internal
committees, then filed his case in federal district court, charging that the grading procedures in the two classes he failed twice were discriminatory against him on a racial basis.
Sharon Prohaska, second-year medical student and secretary of the Medical Student Association (MSA), said, "I don't think the majority of the students felt Gregoris was discrimination against on the basis of
"I talked to some who felt he should be allowed to repeat, but that was a small percentage of the
Another MSA representative, Diane DeFever, also a second-year medical student, said she did not think there were many people who knew all the details of the case.
"I have talked to people who felt both ways about the case, she said." And there were some who did not think so.
DEFEVER SAID that there had been inequalities in the grading system of the classes for years and that
some opinions in favor of Gregory were based on this knowledge.
GREGORY SAID HE was refused permission to retake the tests, even after he asked his professors for
The contentions in Gregory's case centered on his failing grades in biochemistry and physiology. He said in his deposition to the court that he was not a graduate, and he tests and possibly raises his grades to the passing level.
James Lowman, dean of the Med Center, said yesterday, "He (Gregory) was not denied the same opportunities to retake the exam that other students were given."
He charged that white students were not only permitted to retake the tests in question but were offered the opportunity by the professor teaching the class.
Because white students do not get to the point of tailing their courses as often as blacks, Gregory said, it was "very difficult" for them.
clined to give whites more opportunities to pass a course.
Fellow students disagreed with the idea that whites had better chances to pass. In fact, they generally said that minority students were offered "unfair advantages" at the Med Center.
JANA RASMUSEM, second-year medical student and a representative of MSA, said there was resentment among white students at the Med Center about what they thought was preferential treatment given to blacks.
Walter Gehlbach, Med Center director of student admissions and records, said last week that minority students were given a chance to take a summer enrichment program before starting medical school to enable them to compete better with non-minority students.
Geblbach said the four-week enrichment program, which usually begins in May each year, was offered for $500. The program lasts three weeks.
See MED STUDENT page five