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University Daily Kansan, January 29, 1982
Opinion
Pity the poor student
Just a pull of the purse strings and 56 more students will join the others who aren't sure how they will pay for school next year.
The latest victims are not those students receiving federal loans or grants. This time, the state is the one paring the money available to students.
Gov. John Carlin wants to limit the number of medical scholarships given by the state to students at the KU College of Health Sciences in Kansas City, Kan.
He doesn't want to make a big cut, just trim the number of scholarships awarded next year from 660 to 604.
But that will be a small consolation to the 56 students who may not be able to afford to go to school.
The proposal is not surprising though.
This is not the first time the program, which pays tuition for medical students who practice in Kansas after they graduate, has been threatened.
The House Ways and Means Committee tried several times last year to restrict the program. One legislator attempted to eliminate the program entirely.
The scholarship cuts are consistent with the philosophy of many legislators that students should bear a bigger part of their educational costs.
And at a time when money for basic state programs, such as highway maintenance and primary and secondary education, is up in the air, it is easy to justify cutting some frills.
But the students were not the only ones benefiting from the scholarships.
Residents in medically underserved areas of the state also profit from the program. It has supplied doctors to towns which might otherwise have seemed unattractive to those starting a medical practice.
Alan Van Loenen, budget officer for the College, has said he is expecting the Legislature to make even bigger cuts than those proposed by Carlin.
The legislators will cut if they must. But they should consider carefully before cutting too deeply into a program that has benefited both the students and the residents of the state.
Douglas County could suffer in Legislature's party game
Every year the Kansas Legislature meets in Opека for about three months and plays a central role in state policy.
However, this session it is dealing with an issue of unusual importance for the Lawrence
By law, the Legislature must draw new congressional district boundaries to provide for the "one-man, one-vote" concept every ten years and this is the veil it takes on that dandy task.
Sounds like it would be easy, does it? But,
no, let's not forget that we are talking about:
the ball.
There are two redistricting plans seriously being debated.
The one that has already been passed by a committee (by a straight party vote) is called
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joint legislative committee this summer by State Sen. Paul Hess and State Rep. Neal Whitaker, both Wichita Republicans.
This plan is the result of committee meetings and public hearings on several related cities access the state, including Lawrence.
The other changes included in this plan would take Harper County from the 5th and put it into the 1st District and Kingman County would go from the 4th to the 1st District.
If passed, it would drop Franklin County from the 3rd into the 6th District. Douglas and Johnson counties, as well as the southern part of Wyandotte County, would then make up the 3rd District. The 2nd District would remain the same.
The biggest and most controversial change, a bothersome one for Kansas Democrats, is that affecting Sedgwick County. As it stands now, Sedgwick is split between the 4th and 5th districts but if the Hess-Hwhiter II proposal is adopted, it would be split a third way, moving the southwestern part of the county from the 5th to the 1st District.
Checkmate. Oh, sorry, wrong game
Both political parties believe that an ideal map would split Kansas into five equal districts. This would amount to 472,736 people in each district. Because it would be virtually impossible to come together on a common basis, the Legislature is trying to satisfy as many people as possible, as well as both political parties.
Under the Hess-Wituker plan, the population from the largest to the smallest district, varies 1.2 percent, or about 5,000 people. The Democrats think this is too much.
This number is misleading. Under the Republican plan, the district that is the farthest away from the ideal number is the 5th District which would have a population of 469,964, a mere .59 percent below the 472,736 goal. Such a small district strikes the Democrat's cries of gerrymandering.
The Democrat's alternative plan was drawn by State Sean. Jack Steiniger. D-Kansas City.
The Steininger map keeps all the counties intact, but would move Douglas County into the 2nd District. In other words, it would resemble a county of large gidgeck县 counties at the expense of Douglas County
It is no great secret that the citizens of Douglas County prefer to remain in the 3rd District. So why have representatives John Solbach and Betty Jo Charlton, both Lawrence Democrats, said they would vote against the Hess-Whitaker plan?
Solbach answered that question perfectly when he described the way he thought the Republicans would vote on the issue. "They have their marching orders. There are some issues that are just plain partisan. And this is one," he said.
Playing political games is fine to a point, but whether elected as a Republican or a Democrat, representatives are elected to represent their districts. There as been a clear mandate from the Lawrence community. They want to stay in the 3rd District.
It is becoming more and more apparent that our elected representatives choose to ignore our wishes. In fact, Sobach has said he could vote for President that would put Douglas County in the 2nd District.
When the vote comes up on the Hess-Whitaker II proposal, all the Lawrence elected representatives need to remember that under his leadership would remain where it wails—in the third District.
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Long nights starting early this spring
The spring semester is only two weeks old, and I like to countdown the KU student's most hated masters.
Yes, due to continual procrastination, I was known to resort to the most painful study habit known.
Mere mention of those weights makes my eyelids feel as if they we had 50-pound weights to lose.
Procrastination and architecture projects are the two most often cited reasons for resorting to an artificial clock.
After every all-nighter, I swear that I will never again wait until the night before to attend to my various assignments, but somehow I keep reverting back to my old wavs.
Maybe I have this affinity for working under pressure, or enjoy listening to the 5 a.m. chirping of birds while I toll over an accounting assigning job, and be woken up at shortened hours ago. But whatever it is, it's got to stop.
All nighters are just flat-out too taxing for someone like me, who thrives on excessive
The first stage is the reason why you're pulling the all-nighter in the first place. This is the period leading up to the all-nighter when you know that you have a lot to do, but just can't quite bring yourself around to getting it done. There's a good movie on, a crisis down the hall, a good article in the most recent issue of Soap Opera Weekly, or quarter draws at every bar in town. You'll do anything to make the prospect of an all-nighter increasingly imminent.
The next stage comes as a cold slap in the face. This is the stage where you realize that not only do you have two tests, seven chapters to read, and an oral presentation to give, but that 21-paper paper on the involvement of Artistes in the presidential campaign is due tomorrow also.
After getting stitches in your head and calling a mason to fix that new hole in the brick wall, it's hard not to be happy.
This period is normally less than productive.
this period norms, you can be better. For example, over material to find that you can't remember a word you've read. At the same time, you realize that you don't have a prayer in the world of finishing everything on your desk.
Two things happen at this point. The experienced all-nighter, after swearing he'll never
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put himself in this position again, actually buckles down and gets something accomplished. The weaker-willed, after frantically searching for razor blades, give up hone and go to bed.
For those who stick it out, now comes the most trying period. This stage could be labelled the **blooming** stage.
Your eyes become glazed, there’s a pinpong tournament going on inside your head, and the pages in your book start looking like the down-stuffed pillows your aching head should be holding. Although there is no sign of life at 8 am, you feel that you hear someone calling your name.
As you try to read on, you continue to doze off, and your head begins to bob methodically, slowly lowering itself and then jerking back for a fleeting second of consciousness.
When you realize that this has been going on for more than an hour and you haven't turned the page during that time, it may be wise to take a short break.
At this point, it is good to resort to coffee, a cold shower or a Joe's run—anything that bring you out of your foginess and back down to earth. That is, resort to anything but lying down. Simply stated, if you are fool enough to lie down at this point, you're dead meat.
If you make it past this point, it is usually clear sailing. You may start with the twilight zone once or twice, but as 5 a.m. approaches, concentration seems to be growing and it's almost as if a bird had been caught. There is even a distant possibility that you may get done with everything on time.
As the sun begins to rise, your body is limp and
you're tired. You'll just had an overdose of fy-shaped vitamins.
It is not until you go to your first lecture that the next stage begins to creeen on you.
While everyone else is experiencing the pains or waking up, you are a hyperactive schizophrenic with no sleep. You have no speech.
Back into the twilight zone, there is a distinct ringing in your ears. Somewhere, you hear the buzzing of voices, but it may as well be that of bees because you couldn't listen if you tried.
After the longest 50 minutes of your life, 'it on to an even longer class as the day drags on.
At the end of classes, there is nothing on your mind but the tranquility of your own bed. No matter that your parents, who you haven't seen in months, are in town, or that someone's offering you a steak dinner. Once you're ready to beeline for that delightful softly-wooed床
After blacking out in record time, nothing short of Gabriel's horn could awaken you.
Nothing except the thought that just ran through your head reminding you of 10 pages of accounting homework and that 12-page paper due for tomorrow on top of those two quizzes.
Oh well, it can wait until tonight.
"budg wants KU in Top 10," read the baseline in Sunday's Journal News.
DOKSU really need to be in the Top 102 With the way the music business is now? Frankly, I don't think KU could compete with "Physical" or the latest Journey single.
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Oh, there was a time when a decent-sized university like KU could crack the 10, but I didn't.
There was a flurry of excitement in the mid
In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Reagan hit upon a new system for running our complex government—trading.
Of course, Americans always have loved to trade--everything from cars to baseball players. But Reagan showed the country how trading can be done on a much larger scale.
He announced he wanted to swap food stamps and Aid to Families with Dependent
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1970s, when Queen released songs ... "Bobeman Rhapsody" and "Somebody to Love." These records featured lofty arrangements and thousands of voice overdubs. It was thought that universities, the business, could make their reemergence.
I was sure KU students would think differently.
Besides, KU has never done well on the charts. One of the few universities that has ever done well is Berkeley, and it hasn't released a record in 13 years. Its last record, the brilliant "Burn, Baby, Burn" (later covered by the Trammpus for "Saturday Night Fever"), was unparalleled in its social comment
But it never happened, and I think the chancellor is off the mark in thinking RU
But Berkeley was unable to tour behind the record, the Archies released "Sugar, Sugar" the same week, and to this day, the Berkeley record remains a forbidden classic.
I thought I'd left behind lusty locker room talk when I went last high school track season ended. If young women were only so many girls, then I didn't have the boys didn't date an attractive rump roast.
While waiting in line for a pay phone in the hallway outside Wesco Cafeteria last week, I saw a woman with a large camera.
Children to the states for Medicaid and a trust fund to be named later.
What a brilliant idea. All of these programs are struggling, but, like a ballplayer, maybe in a new ballpark they will regain their old form.
And, in the biggest swap of all time, Reagan could trade the federal budget deficit to George Steinbrenner in exchange for picking up Dave Winfield's contract.
Of course, there are risks involved. A fading program might continue to fade and an untrusted trust might not turn out to be all that was hoped for. But the rewards could be great. The Yankees never would have gotten Babe Ruth if they hadn't taken a chance.
Traffic also could solve labor problems. Air traffic controllers who say, "Play me or trade me" could be exchanged for striking coal miners or auto workers.
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speaking on the phone, came a breathy voice with the message: Sorority girls are good.
I leaned out glaring--at a young woman ciad in a kernelt-green, monogrammed shirt.
What had I stumbled onto? Only the end of rush.
"We got some good girls, some of the top girls, this time," she said. "Our house can handle it."
The boys in the locker room talked about numbers too. They used numbers to rate females and to score their masculine conquests. But sororities—households of service and sisterhood—can't be much like steamer lockers rooms.
Surely young university women don't treat each other like adolescent boys once treated