KANSAN
The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, October 6, 1981 Vol. 92, No. 32 USPS 650-640
BOB GREENSPAN/Kansan Staff
BOB GREENSPANKAnna Staff
Sam L'Eucyer, an employee with a local siding and guttering firm, worked on top of a house near Ninh and Maine streets recently.
Sprucing up
Sadat shot by military unit while viewing troop parade
By United Press International
CAIRO, Egypt — A military unit open fire on Egyptian President Anwar Sadat today as he reviewed a military parade in an eastern Cairo suburb. Witnesses said Sadat and Vice President Hosni Mobarak were wounded and taken by helicopter to a military hospital. He was undergoing surgery and his condition was unknown.
The attempt on Sadat's life took place at about a.5.m. DCT, nearly two hours after the parade began.
The shots were fired as an anti-tank unit was filing past the reviewing stand where Sadat, flanked by Mobarak and defense minister Gen. Abdel Halim Almu, was sitting.
witnesses said a military vehicle broke away from the march, stopped, and then soldiers came out. The soldiers then apparently sprayed the reviewing stand with machinegun fire.
In Beirut, an organization calling itself the "Independent Organization for the Liberation of Egypt" claimed responsibility for the assassination attempt.
The shods came as a formation of six Mirage jets was staging an air show overhead. Witnesses said everyone in the crowd was looking toward the sky at the jets when the attack came.
The witnesses said "many people were killed or wounded."
Sadat's private secretary, Fawzi Abdel Hafez was killed, witnesses said.
See SADAT page 5
Seven KU foreign students and their families may be forced out of Lawrence public housing because of a change in federal law, Dave McLane, the Lawrence Housing Authority, said yesterday.
Foreigners may lose homes
If the students have non-immigrating student alien visas, Murrell said, they could have to move before the end of the month.
A non-immigrant student alien vis means that a foreigner is in the United States only for educational reasons and does not intend to stay in the country or apply for citizenship.
"In 1800, legislation was passed that required any person who was not a U.S. citizen and who was receiving housing assistance through the U.S. government to sign a certificate stating they had a status other than non-immigrating student alien," Murrell said.
Murrell said his office sent letters last week to seven foreign students and their families living in the Edgewood Homes, 1600 Haskell Ave., a Lawrence Housing Authority project.
The families, mostly from Iran and Taiwan, Murrell said, include the family of Siazac Khagvi, one of the three Iranians arrested recently on charges related to a Sept. 12 fight in between pro- and anti-Khomeini Iranian groups. Murrell would not identify the other families.
None of the students affected by the law have contacted the office of foreign student services, according to Clark Coan, director of the office. He cannot certain whether his office could help the students.
"Frankly, I didn't learn of the matter until tonight," he said yesterday.
Students could be exempted from the new regulation, Murrell said, if they were married to Americans. However, he said, it was too late for the foreign students to apply for a change of status so that they could stay in their apartments.
Under the regulation, the housing authority must act on the violations immediately and may not allow the students time to change their alien status.
The housing authority may suffer an income loss if the students move, Murrell said. The foreign students paid an average of $100 a month rent, although the average rent for the complex was only $87. The difference, he said, was caused by the higher cost of living on the campus and many of the foreign students had slightly higher incomes than other residents of the public housing.
Discussion of ASK restructuring fails; K-State 30-cent fee divides committee
By MICHAEL ROBINSON Staff Reporter
MANHATTAN—A special committee of the Associated Students of Kansas met here last night, attempting to build a consensus on proposals to restructure the student lobby group.
The threat of a Kansas State University pullout from ASK still looms over the organization.
After more than two hours of discussion punctuated by anger and accusations, the committee decided to meet again Sunday at Emporia State University.
"I don't know what they're going to do," said Lejson Schneider, a member of KState's Law Office.
Bob Bingaman, ASK executive director, will meet with members of K-State's Student Senate this week to discuss ASK funding.
But organizational changes suggested by
Unless it approves a 40-cent-per-student fee for ASK, K-State, ASK's second-largest member, will be effectively removed from the organization.
Angela Scanlan, K-State student body president,
Bingman student with a stiff opposition.
Craig Wilson, K-State student body president.
"This is fuff." Don Cunningham, KU's ASK campus director. "It really doesn't mean anything."
Maria McDougal, ASK board member from the University of Kansas, agreed, saying, "This is ridiculous. We're being told in two hours that we have to change the structure of ASK."
Saturday's blasts from KU's whistle leave sleepy students all steamed up
The two KU representatives said that the
See ASK page 5
By STEVE ROBRAHN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The whistle sounded last weekend as if it were saving up steam for the latest round of controversy in its 70-year history.
It has seen wars and depressions come and go, and as it whistled its way through the decades, it has been the center of controversy a number of times.
rettions calibrated late last week called for whistle to be silenced on Satdays and at 7:20.
HOWEVER, the whistle wasn't really saving its energy for the coming flight, said George Meinhold, assistant director of the physical plant. The whistle sounds that way anytime there is too much water vapor in the atmosphere, he said.
IN 1977 THE whistle was silenced completely for 10 weeks before students came to its aid and voted overwhelmingly to resume its operation.
Born out of a "Foot Manifesto" in 1912, the loud timepiece on top of the power plant building brought order to the campus at a time when classes overlapped and professors wouldn't quit talking.
The sound of the whistle doesn't carry as well through humid air as it usually does, Heinholdt
The latest attack began last Thursday when a letter from Scott Jamieson, Lawrence graduate student, appeared in the University Daily Kansan.
"It is a simple fact that the whistle is undo-
nated but we wrote, 'Most universities do
not live without one.'"
"It's doing more harm than good on Sat-
terdays. We collected
235 signature in three days."
That afternoon, Jamiesson circulated a petition in front of the Kansas Union asking administrators to "let the whistle rest on Saturdays."
THE WHISTLE isn't directly benefitting anyone on Saturday, he said. Of the few classes he attended last week, it was the one for a piano.
and they don't finish when the whistle sounds, he said.
"Labs aren't like lectures, and even the professors of the labs say they rarely get out when the whistle blows," Jamieson said. "I'm not sure who benefits people who benefit from it on Saturday anyway."
Jamieson said he liked to sleep on Saturday mornings and decided to fight the whistle when he heard complaints from his neighbors in the area of 12th and Louisiana streets.
"It's pretty common to run into people who have been disturbed by the whistle," he said.
THE PETITION was submitted last Friday to Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, Jamieson said, and Cobb promised that the request would be discussed during a meeting with Chancellor Gene A. Budig either today or Thursday.
"The whistle has been a tradition at the University for years," said Richard Von Eckart. "I was a big fan of it."
See WHISTLE page 5
Penn House weathers old building
Staff Reporter
By PENNI CRABTREE
Bessie Nichols will insist, in a practiced, even tone, that her office's arcing heating and cooling system is the only thing that discourages her.
She says she can cope easily with the endless file of troubled, needy families who come to her seeking aid, and to the uncertainties of fund raising.
Bessie Nichols (left) and Mary Kiser (right) fold some clothes donated to the Penn House
BUT MENTION the words "furnace" or air conditioning and Nichols' expression *furnace* in the first line.
"You shiver in the winter and burn in the summer," Nichols, the office manager for Penn House, a United Way-financed social service agency in east Lawrence, said. "We wear gloves and coats in the office so we'd be able to stay and keep the house open."
But with luck, Nichols said, Penn House staffers may be able to keep their coats in the closet this winter. A plan for a new 3,160-square-foot building, to be built at the same 1053 Pennsylvania St. location, will be considered by the Lawrence City Commission Oct. 13. Penn House hopes to have the new house built by Christmas.
Plans for the new building, which will cost an estimated $40,000 to $80,000, have already been approved by the Lawrence-Douglas Commission. The East Lawrence Improvement Association.
"The new building would solve a lot of our problems." Nichols said. "I hope they give it
The present Penn House building, a debilitated, two-story construction with little storage space, is plagued by electrical, water cooling and termite problems, holds said.
FUNDS FOR THE new building, Nichols said, will come from donations.
"Storage is probably our biggest problem," Nichols said. "People bring things, leave
them in our yard or porch, and then they get destroyed by bad weather.
"The new building would give us more room to store items, as well as a display area."
"Most of our services are temporary things, to help low-income people in an emergency," Ms. O'Neill said.
THE AGENCY provides a number of services, from feeding a needy family for a week to filling out welfare forms for those who cannot read or write.
Penn House, which also receives city revenue sharing and private donations, is the state's largest employer.
pride ourselves on being a self-help agency,
helping people to learn to help themselves."
Penn House does not give cash or provide shelter. Nichols said.
Penn House has two full-time staff members and six part-time staff members, many of whom were former clients of Penn House, Nichols said.
"We don't do this for the money," Nichols said. "Full-time employees earn $214 a month, which is about $30 an hour."
AND BY CHRISTMAS, Nichols said, Penn House hopes to be providing its services in a way that is more accessible.
"With a heater," she said, smiling.
After several kU students of search for a Protestant KU student of good character, taking at least one course in vocal or instrumental music, but majoring in English or business, the office of financial aid has finally awarded a Lewis A. Parks scholarship.
Staff Reporter
that scholarship is just one of several thousand restricted scholarships awarded each year at the University of Kansas, Jerry Rogers, director of financial aid, said yesterday.
by TERESA RIORDAN
Staff Reporter
"We finally just gave that one to the music department, and they found somebody who knew it."
"That was a discriminating scholarship set up years ago. Those kinds of restrictions (religious) aren't usually accepted for scholarships today."
SEVERAL RESTRICTED scholarships go unclaimed each year because the financial aid is not available.
Rogers said that financial aid applicants were automatically considered for the restricted scholarships but that many still did not qualify even when they met the specific criteria.
"The problem is that once they meet the specific qualifications, they either don't have the need or don't have the academic record," Rogers said.
A perennially difficult scholarship to give away is the Eastern Seaboard scholarship, which must go to a student who comes from a state that borders the Atlantic Ocean.
MOST OF THE hard-to-award scholarships are regionally based and worth up to 850.
The Ivan Burket scholarship fund, which goes to high school graduates of Clark County High School, has several thousand dollars left to award this year.
IT IS NOT DIFFICULT to find students to fit restrictions for some scholarship, however.
Other scholarships are restricted to natives of places like Downs, Kan, and Bartlesville, Okla.
"It's true that there are always unused scholarships, but generally they're so highly restrictive that it's hard to find qualified applicants," Rogers said.
"We can't list them all in a catalog because there are so many."
The Laverne Noyes scholarship fund, which awards money to descendants of World War I veterans, never has any problems using up scholarship money.
Applicants must prove the relationship with a military discharge paper and a birth certificate.
Another restricted scholarship, so broad it has become unrestricted, is one specified for graduate students.
students WILL ROGERS, rogers, rogers,
ALTHOUGH ROGERS would like to see the
money awarded, he said, he isn't worried about
scholarships sitting idle.
"If they aren't taken, the money is carried over to the next year, just waiting for the right person."
"students think they might qualify for a restricted scholarship, they should come into the financial aid office and talk to a counselor, he said.
Weather
The National Weather Service in Topeka forecasts mostly sunny skies and a high temperature in the mid to upper 70s today. The low will be in the 40s. Tomorrow will be warmer, with the high in the low 70s, under sunny skies.