KANSAN
Tuesday, March 2, 1982 Vol.92, No.107 USPS 650-640
The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Jim Postma, Ed Carter and Marnie Argersinger were part of the group that decided to go ahead with the drive to recall City Commissioner Tom Gleason.
BOB GREENSPAN/Kansan Staff
Committee will continue Gleason recall action
By SUSAN AHERN MARUSCO Staff Renorter
The drive to recall Lawrence City Commissioner Tom Gleason will roll on.
By a 183-19 vote, the Lawrence Committee, the group that organized the recall drive, decided last night to let the citizens of Lawrence vote on whether Gleason should remain in office.
"It was not easy walking all those streets to get signatures, but we have an obligation to all those who signed that petition to go forward with the drive," Fred Pence, one of the organizers, told the petitioners who gathered at the Knights of the Bunts Council #1873 building at 2006 E. 24rd St.
Before last night's vote, one member of the Lawrence Committee, Leslie Rose, 828 Maine St., told the petitioners that although she was in favor of the recall, Gleason's public apology and political climate in law raised serious debates in about the movement's future.
However, Rose questioned Gleason's actions.
"Should we trust Gleason to behave?" she said. "Should we trust the commission to keep him in line? The city commission shouldn't be a babysitter to keep track of one member.
"I'm in this because I think Gleason acted improperly not because I want to change the face of the police."
BUT FORREST BUDD, 237 Perry St., who collected 40 signatures, told other petitioners that because Gleason had given his promise to work within the guidelines of the city commission, they should give him the benefit of the doubt.
"Drop this thing where it is," he said. "I'm talking to people who use logic. Some people are just looking for a fight. Some people here would like to get rid of Gleason any way they can, fair
He said he voted against the recall drive, but he wasn't disappointed by the election results. He said that he was impressed by how many members of the Lawrence Committee insisted that the only way the petitioners would know Lawrence wanted to allow its people to vote
Jim Postma, 723 Louisiana St., another organizer who voted against continuing the drive, told petitioners that Gleason's letter showed an "abuse of power," and that Gleason's letter put Mayor Marci Francisco and Commissioner Nancy Shontz on the spot, because they were known not to support City Manager Watson.
POSTMA SAID that the letter had forced Francisco and Shonitz to marshal support for either Gleason or Watson. But the ensuing controversy surrounding the letter showed Shonitz and Gleason that Watson had a lot of support in Lawrence, Postma said.
Budget pall cast on GSLs
This resulted in the commission working constructively" to improve the situation. An effort was made to establish a new agency.
By ANN WYLIE
"But the recall drive is a serious matter," Postma said. "We've never had one in this community, so there's no precedent to guide us. Hence we owe it to the whole community, to the commission, and especially to Gleason, to proceed judiciously."
Staff Reporter
More than 5,000 students wear "We are the future" buttons and waving "We need our books to understand your bombs" signs, rallied on the Capitol steps yesterday in Washington, D.C. as part of her visit to lobby against proposed budget cuts in federal education programs.
The KU graduate school sent Thomas Berger, executive coordinator of the Graduate Student Council and Lawrence graduate student, to lobby for the University of Kansas.
Berger attended a press conference and speeches by members of the Committee on Education in Labor yesterday morning, then offered regional regions to discuss issues affecting this area, he said.
in the afternoon, Berger had appointments with
Wilson Kessler and Robert Dole and
Yves Landi Kasselbaum.
vancy talked for a while and I asked her if a comment she made meant she was against the Reagan (education) proposal and she said, 'Yes.' " he said yesterday.
Berger also talked to Dole's aide in charge of education. Karen Gaston.
Marnie Argerings, former Lawrence mayor,
See RFCALL page 5
Rep. Larry Winn Jr., R-Kan, "was not 'very receptive' to Berger's stand, he said.
"She lent a sympathetic ear, the standard political 'We're-concerned about-it' (attitude)," he said, "but (said) nothing as to which way they 're leaning.'"
Winn believes that cutting guaranteed loans to graduate students is warranted because so many students have defaulted on their loans, Berger said.
Whatever argument I made, they would
Berger said he met members of graduate organizations from universities all over the country, and plans to keep in touch with them to see how they handle the proposed cuts.
pretty much go back to the standard of misuse- and-fraud thing," he said.
"I would hope that the lobbying day shows key legislators . . . the drastic effects that cuts in higher education will have on this society," Berzer said.
Rep. Peter Peyser, D-N.Y., a member of the Committee on Education and Labor, joined several national student organizations, including the United States Student Association and the National Coalition of Independent University Students, in sponsoring the lobbying day.
Miriam Rosenberg, cochair president, said the lobbying day could have a profound effect
See GSL page 5
By ANN WYLIE Staff Reporter
Graduate students threatened by loan cuts
Tracy Ousdahl might have to drop out of school.
If she cannot get a guaranteed student loan next year, she'll either quit school, move home and commute to Lawrence, or take classes at the Regents Center and work full time, Ousdahl, a Shawnee graduate student, said recently.
"That's extreme, but that's what the options would be," she said.
If Ousdahl worked, it would take her longer to finish school.
"Oh, God," she said. "If I did it on a part-time basis, I would be very likely, probably by the end and a half more years."
Ousudah is one of almost half the graduate students at University which finance their education with guadalajara.
If Congress approves President Reagan's proposed budget this session, graduate students will not be eligible for guaranteed loans starting in the 1983/84 academic year.
1ine government pays interest on the loans
with the student graduates. Then the student
pays interest on them.
The President's fiscal year 1983 budget calls for a 25 percent overall cut in education, and a 50 percent cut in student aid. It would eliminate loans to 400,000 graduate students nationwide.
UNDER THE GSL program, a graduate student can borrow up to $5,000 a year, or a total of $25,000, which he must begin to repay the month after he graduates.
Loans made before 1981 carry a 7 percent interest rate.
Half of the nation's graduate students,
650,000 people, are guaranteed student
loans. Half $2,318 and half $3,479.
"That's your impact right there," Dyce Bonham, regional director of the Higher Education Assistance Foundation in Overland Park, said.
"I think the figures ought to speak for themselves."
Forty-four percent of KU graduate students have guaranteed student loans, Bonham said.
KU students received 54 percent of the graduate guaranteed loans in Kansas last year, and 61 percent in Florida.
Lawrence campus graduate students received 1,801 loans worth 66,468,438 students
Worker counseling plan is first at KU
He had worked for facilities operations for ten years. He was a reliable employee.
By LISA GUTIERREZ Staff Reporter
See LOANS page 5
But suddenly, a year ago last January, the man began having problems at work. He showed up late or did not show up at all.
Staff Reporter
When the man's work problems came to Thomas Anderson's attention, the facilities operations director's first option was to fire the man.
His wife had died and his children were grown and had moved away from home.
Anderson enlisted the aid of Bence Williams, personnel officer for facilities operations, and a friend at the Counseling and Resource Center in Lawrence.
He was drinking.
"I feel that a manager should go to any lengths that are necessary to salvage an employee." Anderson said yesterday as he recalled the incident.
Instead, he chose to help.
The man refused help.
Doctors diagnosed him to have sugar diabetes and he refused medical help as well.
"We operate under the premise that it's much better to find assistance for employees with personal problems than to fire them," Bence Williams said.
Today, facilities operations employees have the opportunity to find assistance for personal as well as work problems through the department's Employee Assistance Program.
THE PROGRAM, the only one of its kind on KU campus according to Anderson, has opened at a new location.
"I called several universities in the United States and I was told, for the best results, to have outside people counsel them and recommend resources that the university has," Anderson said.
During the past year, Williams said that he himself had dealt with 30 employees. But many employers are now hiring a large number of new
"It's good for us and it's also the humanitarian thing to do."
"What we can do, if they're having difficulties at home, be that financial or chemical abuse like drug or alcohol, we can put them in touch with people who can assist them," he said.
Williams said the assistance program was not meant to carry into the employees' private lives.
"We have a verbal agreement to help if they hire a employee with a problem that's after-line their needs."
Gordon Petersen, an employee assistant consultant for the Counseling and Resource Center of Northern Kentucky
"Facilities operations is trying to reach out and help their employees," Petersen said.
HE SAID problems ranged from marital, relationship and sex problems to financial
"It's a program to help them figure out what to do next." Petersen said.
If employees' personal problems begin to affect their performance on the job, Williams says.
"Part of a supervisor's responsibility is if there is a negative trend in performance, they'll"
"find it difficult to manage."
"The supervisor, if they wish to, will get me to think they think they could use services." William kept on.
Often, however, the supervisor would just recommend the employee directly to Petersen.
"We don't ever force anyone to do this," Williams said. "I want to emphasize that.
"The only thing we can be aware of is their performance on the job."
Although the number of people who have used the program had not been overwhelming —30 out of the more than 430 employed by facilities which received the program was effective for those who have used it.
KU faculty advises senators to raise wages 13 percent
The University of Kansas will fall far behind other schools and lose some of its best faculty if the Kansas Legislature sticks with a proposed 7.5 percent tax increase on state leaders led two state lawmakers yesterday.
Staff Reporter
"Not only will we lose some of the best faculty, but we won't be able to find the best people elsewhere," Dave Shulenburger, president of the American Association of University Professors.
By COLLEEN CACY
He spoke to members of the KU subcommittee of the Kansas Senate Ways and Means Com-
mitte when they toured the KU campus yesterday morning.
Shulenburger and Ernest Angin, chairman of the University Senate executive committee, asked the members to consider supporting the 13 candidates recommended by the Kansas Board of Regents.
Subcommittee Chairman Ron Hein, R-Topke, and State Bill, Silny McDair, W-Cichta, will consider KU's individual requests such as capital improvements and special programs at the University. They will make budget recommendations for KU to the full committee.
ISSUES SUCH AS salaries that apply to all the
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Today will be cloudy and mild with a
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Easterly winds will blow 5 to 15 mph today.
Skies will remain cloudy tonight with a chance of rain with temperatures in the mid-30s.
Tomorrow, skies will remain cloudy, with a chance of snow and the highs ranging from the mid to upper 30s.
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Mitchell Klein, conductor for the Kansas City Philharmonic, is directing a rehearsal of the Lawrence Symphony in preparation for tonight's concert at 8 at the Plymouth Congregational Church. See related story page 6.