KANSAN
The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, January 27,1982 Vol.92,No.83 USPS 650-640
Carlin eves scholarship cuts
By COLLEEN CACY
Staff Reporter
Gov. John Carlin wants to limit the number of medical scholarships given to students at the College of Health Sciences in Kansas City, Kan. beginning next fall.
Carlin's budget proposals for fiscal year 1983 would eliminate 56 scholarships from the program, cutting the number awarded from 660 in 1982 to 604 in 1983.
The program pays tuition for medical students who practice medicine in Kansas after they graduate. Students who agree to serve in "designated medically underserved areas" receive tuition plus $500 a year for each year they serve the state.
Since the program began in 1978, the Kansas legislature has supplied scholarship money for every student enrolled.
"Instead of being unlimited, the program would be restricted to 100 students entering next fall." Mike Hayden, Chairman of Misee Makes and Means Committee, said yesterday.
"If there are more than 100 applicants, which there are almost certain to be, the administration will set up some kind of competition." Havden said.
Some legislators have objected to the program because they said students were using the scholarships as a cheap method of financing their education. They also complained that if the current number of students on the scholarship program, Kansas would have a surplus of doctors.
Hayden, R-Atwood, said that if the initial cuts passed, he did not think there would be any more attempts during this legislative session to restrict the program.
"We're going to continue the program at the same level," he said. "It've been very effective. Just look at how many students have participated."
The scholarships have been so popular that this year the scholarship fund ran out of money because the Legislature underestimated the number of participants.
"In fact, the budget department and the Medical Center have almost always underestimated student participation." Hayden said.
So that all students currently on the program can complete it, the House Ways and Means Committee introduced a bill that gives the College of Health Sciences $1,307,000, enough
money to carry it through fiscal year 1982, which ends in June.
He said this was a standard procedure in the Legislature for state agencies that run out of money and need more immediately while the Legislature is not in session.
The bill, which was sent back to the committee for hearings, also requests an extra $1,970,858 for the state.
"That is stricty because of unforeseen rate increases," Alan Van Loenen, budget officer at the College, said yesterday. "We weren't aware they'd go up so much."
A faulty electric meter that registered rates incorrectly, along with increases in electricity and water service rates, resulted in the need for extra money.
Concerning the scholarship program, however, Van Loenen said he expected that there would be attempts this legislative session to cut the program even more.
Despite the popularity of the scholarships among students, more than one legislator tried to block them.
Reagan asks for more state control
State Sen. Mike Johnston, D-Parsons, tried to kill the program entirely. The House Ways and Means Committee also proposed several cuts in funding, none of the previous attempts were successful.
By United Press International
WASHINGTON—President Reagan, pledging not to raise taxes or allow any tampering with his economic program, urged Congress last night to "change the face" of government by transferring $47 billion in federal programs to the states.
Delivering his first State of the Union message to the assembled Congress, the president laid out a sweeping proposal to place responsibility for scores of programs, including most welfare programs, directly in the hands of state and local officials.
He also restated his plan to dismantle the departments of Education and Energy.
Reagan rulled out any tax increases this year, a vow greeted by sustained applauser. He insisted that all taxes be collected by 1980.
tax reduction had paved the way for economic recovery this year and warned Congress it could not waver from the path if inflation and recession were to be eliminated.
"Seldom the stakes been higher for America," Heagan said a capacity audience in Los Angeles.
"What we do and say here will make all the difference to millions of everyday Americans who harbor the simple wish of a safe and financially secure future for their children."
Reagan offered a general outline of his sweeping proposal to end a "jungle" of welfare programs and create a "new federalism." He called it "a single bold stroke" that would dramatically realign responsibility for such issues, including highway maintenance as well as welfare.
Reagan advocated giving the states full control of more than 40 programs in social services, education, community development and transportation. The shift would take place over eight years, beginning in 1984 with a special trust fund to help sites foot the bill.
He said Social Security would not be affected.
Democrats in Congress assailed the program, and even some Republicans were critical of it.
Senate Finance Committee chairman Robert Dole, R-Kan., said Reagan's proposal to turn the food stamp program back to the states may not work.
In a taped Democratic response to Reagan's speech, House speaker Tip O'Neill said Americans "don't want any special advantages."
"They just want to put prociences on the table."
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Bill would put pit dog backers in doghouse
Staff Reporter
Rv KEVIN HELLIKER
The unlucky ones lie ripped apart in the bottom of a pit.
TOPEKA-It's a losing battle for the dogs. The lucky ones rip, tear and chew their way through a half dozen fights before injuries force them into retirement.
But for the people who turn these dogs against each other, the rewards outweigh the threat of punishment. Pit dog fighting presently is a misdemeanor in Kansas, but a bill under consideration in the Kansas House of Representatives would make the crime a class E felony, which calls for a maximum $5,000 fine and a minimum one year of imprisonment.
No arrests for dog fighting have been made in Kansas recently because of a lack of enforcement of animal cruelty and gambling
statutes. Rep. Santford Duncan R-
tierney, said veterinary officials.
"I'm not satisfied with the level of enforcement we're getting for the cruelty laws," said Duncan, who introduced the bill. "This paradox is so real, and thus important, I thought it needed some special attention."
By elevating the crime to a felony, a greater effort could be made to dig out the culture that produced it.
"it's really kind of a fascinating, secretive subculture," Duncan said. "Their fights are planned months ahead of time. They get news from their mouth among people who all know each other."
At a House Judicial Committee hearing yesterday, an official from the Topeka Humane Society said the dogs often were the only element of this culture to surface.
"We get dogs that are terribly wounded and scarred," said Audrey McCail, executive director, *Helping Hands Human Society*. They're the ones who hurt humans, but you can't trust them with another dog.
They don't grow or bark at another dog. They just rush at it and then you bear the tearing of your ears.
The equipment associated with dogfighting includes treadmills to exercise the dogs, scales for weighing them before fights, sticks to dogs and medicine to treat dogs after fuchsia.
The docs are bred in a culture that supports underground magazines, gamblers and equipment.
One Humane Society official at the hearing said she would like to amend Duncan's bill to
MARK McDONALD DKansen Staff
Scott Taubin, Overland Park senior, slams his fist through six slabs of concrete during a demonstration by the University of Kansas Karate Club Tuesday.
Microsurgery restores hope
Tuesday's windy weather did not appear to bother, left, Brad Westmoreland, Lawrence freshman, Rick Gaston, Albuquerque, New Mexico senior and dog Maggie as they played a game of Ultimate south of Allen Fieldhouse. Westmoreland and Gaston are members of the Horrorzontals, the KU Frisbee Club.
JON HARDESTY/Kansan Statt
By TOM HUTTON
Staff Reporter
A child born with a club foot faces daily taunting by classmates. He cannot play in typical children's games. He feels rejected, and eventually may suffer deep psychological scars.
Preventing such traumatic experiences is the concern of the newly constructed Sutherland Microsurgical Center at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.
severed limbs and with reversing vase-
tomies and tubal ligations.
Dedicated last June, this division of the Med Center deals not only with congenital heart disease but also cancer.
Using surgical techniques that require the use of tiny instruments and high-powered microscopes, this division can transplant living tissue, replenitre limbs and extremities and reconnect vessels severed in case of during permanent birth control operations.
The greatest benefit of microsurgery is tissue transplanting, according to John Heibert, professor of surgery and head of the Sutherland division.
"II" (microsurgery) has the advantage of being able to remove a small piece of a single procedure. Hebert said recently.
See MICRO page 5
Wolf Creek protesters freed
Staff Reporter
Bv JANET MURPHY
Fromme said K.G. &E;'s purpose for the charges was to keep people out of that particular area. He said he didn't think K.G. &E; wanted to retaliate, but he has no intention of refiling charges, he has said.
Charges were dismissed yesterday against three KU students arrested Nov. 13 during a demonstration at the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant at Burlington.
Gary Smith, Lawrence senior, Stephen Robinson, Wichita senior, and Lynn (Plesch) Anthony, 824 Ohio, were charged with criminal trespass when they crossed a Kansas Gas and Electric Co. blockade on a road leading to the String Town Cemetery.
Phillip Fromme, county attorney for Coffey County, where the charges were filed, said he dismissed the charges because it was unclear whether the road to the cemetery belonged to the public or to K.G.&E. He said that point was never resolved so he decided to drop the charges.
The three students said they were happy when they heard that charges had been dismissed.
"I'm overjoyed," Smith said, "not because I'm not going back to jail, but because we were."
"The K.G.&E. people tried to intimidate our only voice. They failed."
The KNG sponsored the demonstration that weekend as a tribute to Karen Silkwood, a nuclear power plant worker killed eight years ago in a car wreck while on her way to deliver evidence of unsafe conditions at an Oklahoma nuclear plant.
All three students are members of the Kansas Natural Guard, an anti-nuclear group.
The KNG had attempted to set up a campfire just inside the Wolf Creek property line. During the peaceful demonstration the group was to be given instructions to enter the area where the cooling basin will be, Smith said.
Eight other KNG members also were arrested that weekend but were not in the same area as Smith, Robinson and Anthony. Those KNG members were fined.
Lyle Koeper, manager of information services at KG Dike, said he was not aware that the system had been compromised.
the KNG has planned another demonstration March 28 to commemorate the three-year anniversary of the KNG.
Bobinson said the group was trying to convince the public that Wolf Creek would be dangerous from a distance.
The scheduled date for the plant to begin operating is June 1984.
"It's going to take a lot of people to stop Wolf Creek." Robinson said.
Anthony said they had made several appeals to Gov. John Cain to stop the project.
Weather
It will be windy and partly cloudy today with a high in the mid-30s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Cooler temperatures are expected to follow, with a low tonight of 15 to 20 and a high tomorrow in the mid-30s. Winds today will be from the northwest at 15-25 mph.
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