University Dally Kansan, September 9, 1981
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Student lobbying group needs money, will ask Student Senate for funding
By MICHAEL ROBINSON Staff Reporter
The United States Student Association, a student lobby group which held its national convention here less than a year ago, may find support in Kansas chapter without money after Sept. 26.
The KU chapter, which held its first organizational meeting yesterday in the Kansas City, will go before the Student Senate next week to ask for $175 to pay its national dues.
But several Student Senate officials, including Student Body President Bert Coleman, don't think the money should be allocated.
According to USSA, the organization has 3.5 million members in 85 to 100 colleges across the country, including the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and the University of Missouri.
"I would probably recommend that we not fund them," Coleman said. "I could fund them by taking money out of the (Senate) unallocated fund, but I refuse to do so."
Coleman said he objected to the organization because it dealt with social reform issues. He
said those issues were best dealt with through other vehicles.
"They should expend every available resource to restore (federal) budget cuts," he said.
But KU-USBA co-directors Patricia McQueen and Larry Ward have issued special issues were the main thrust of KU-ASevActivities.
McDougal said that the platform was drawn up at student congresses and that issues such as abortion and gay rights were only "support issues."
"Ninety-five percent of the time, the staff is gathering information on financial issues," Matera said.
Coleman also said that the organization is in debt for about $100,000 and that the debt was increasing.
But McQueen said the debt was about $70,000 and that she anticipated that USSA would be out of debt by the end of the year.
"Certainly USSA has its problems, but so does ASK, so does Student Senate," McDougal said. "It may have its faults, but at least it's there when we need it."
McQueen and McCouloud said that USSA was the few voices that students had in Washington C.
"The Congress probably listens to USSA when they want the student opinion," McQueen said.
She also said that USSA was a good way for local students to find out what was going on in Congress and how their congressmen had voted on student issues.
Coleman said a bill would be introduced at the first meeting next Wednesday to allocate the $12.5 billion.
But McQueen said she was uncertain of the bill's chances.
"I don't know," she said, "I'll try to talk to some of the senators. It's their ball game."
The local USSA chapter will try to get by without the Senate money, perhaps by charging members individual dues, she said, but that will make its job more difficult.
"Some of the students are saying the cuts have already been made and there's nothing we can do," she said, "but there's still a lot for students to do.
MQueen also hoped to drum-up more student participation in the organization—only three teachers and four students.
"It's going to be hard to pass out information if we're not funded," she said.
"I hope interest grows and I hope students get more involved, because it's for their benefit."
Watson Library to hold sale; proceeds to buy new books
Watson Library will conduct a book sale tomorrow and Friday on the lawn between Lippincott Hall and the Dyche Museum of Natural History.
Titles ranging from "The History of the American Sailing Navy" to "Journey Across Russia; the Soviet Union Today" are stacked and waiting, on the second floor of Lippincott.
This is not a going-out-of-business sale. Watson, through gifts and exchange programs, has gathered books that are duplicated by the institution and are acquired by Richard Ring, collection development librarian.
"We take them, but we tell the people they will benefit in the way that best benefits the library."
"Someone will call up and say, 'We have three boxes of books we would like to give the library.'"
Proceeds from this sale will go to funds for buying new books.
"It will also help clear out the stacks in Lippincott," Ring said.
The Library will be selling 3,000 to 5,000 books,
with prices ranging from 50 cents for paperbacks
to $100 for hardcover books.
Before the book sale, a library staff member was assigned to go through the books and set aside duplicates, said Ring.
An expert on the topic of the book will examine the book and decide whether there is a need to plan for it.
At 1 p.m. tomorrow, an auction of 13 older books will be held. These books will range in age from the early 18th century to the history of World War I.
"The sale is for students and faculty that will enjoy the books and getting them at reasonable prices."
Bible
From page one
Tiffin and parts of Iowa City, said they were worried the referendum would lead to teaching the Bible in school and could open the way for cults to enter the school.
With a handful of helpers, Johnson mailed
130 letters to try to away votes. The law student
wrote: "I think it's safer for me to vote."
It is, he said, "simply a matter of getting schools out of the business of telling children that points of view they learn at home are wrong."
In Topeka, panelists debated a similar issue yesterday before the State Board of Education.
At any rate, the state board has already approved a number of courses to schools whether such courses are taught in schools.
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