KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
Wednesday, October 28, 1981 Vol.92 No.48 USPS 650-640
Reagan gains AWACS votes
By United Press International
WASHINGTON—President Reagan yesterday rounded up 10 more votes for his $8.5 billion Saudi Arabian arms package and seemed on the shoulders of the nation's victory in today's showdown vote in the Senate.
"I think the odds have shifted in favor of the White House on the sale, although the final tally is not in." Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., the assistant Democratic leader, said yesterday.
The chief democratic opponent of the largest foreign arms sale in U.S. history conceded late yesterday that Reagan had gained significant ground in his uphill battle to gain the 50 votes he needs to win what he has made a major test of his foreign policy and legislative prowess.
As Reagan left the White House for Richmond, Vassar's appearance, he was asked for a prediction.
"Well you know how it is . . . these things can go one way or another," he said. "I think it looks like a simple thing."
LATER, at a rally for Marshall Coleman,
Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate,
Ryan Koehler.
package, which includes five AWACS radar
buffers hurt the chances for peace in the
Middle East.
"We need the goodwill of the Saudis," Reagan, suffering from a cold, told a crowd of 600 in an extremely hoarse voice. "They provide us with a significant amount of our oil, yes. But more than that, they represent a moderate force in the Middle East.
"Rejection tomorrow, I'm afraid, would be a step toward closing them out of any peace in the world."
After his speech, Reagan described himself as "e cautiously optimistic" on the vote.
Sen. John Melcher, D-Mont., made a late gentleman declaration in favor of selling the temporary building.
With the conclusive vote on the arms package for Saudi Arabia scheduled for 4 p.m. CST today, a UPI tally showed 52 senators opposed to or favoring it and only one member still uncommitted.
They were identified as Sens. Slade Gorton of Washington and Mark Andrews of North Dakota. They are among the 18 Republicans who unilaterally sponsored the resolution of disapproval.
SOURCES CLOSE to the leading Senate opponents of the sale indicated yesterday that two more Republicans—now inclined to vote against them—will likely switch their positions and support Reagan.
Republicans Bob Dole and Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas are both leaning in favor of the sale.
That could make the final Senate tally 50-50 and give Reagan the victory he has been fighting for with "quet persuasion." The disapproval effort will die unless it wins a majority vote.
In a day that saw 10 senators formally stake out positions on the controversial weapons package, Reagan seemed to be gaining the upper hand by winning with 68 members considered to be against the sale.
WITH MELCHER'S announcement, the president was up seven for the day—three unceded senators were firmly placed in his camp along with four nominal opponents.
When asked if the senators were "jumping on the bandwagon," a smiling Reagan replied, "Jump or climb. I don't make any deals."
State legislators to tour KU campuses to assess allocations, salary requests
The president smiled quizzically and quoted from a ballad——"I'll lie down, and bleed a woman."
By LISA MASSOTH
The State Senate and House Ways and Means committees are coming to the University of Kansas in December to see whether the Legislature is spending its money wisely.
Staff Reporter
The members of the two committees are visiting state universities and colleges in eastern Kansas this year to talk to people and to see the schools.
They will visit the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., on Dec. 3 and the Lawrence campus Dec. 4 for about three hours each.
State Sen. Paul Hess, R-Wichita, chairman of the State Senate Ways and Means Committee, said a law passed in the early '78s required the committees to visit state institutions every other year.
"The purpose is to get members of the Ways
and Means committees out to different state institutions in the state," he said yesterday.
The legislators will visit both KU campuses to look at some of the things they have allocated, or organized.
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Haworth Hall will attract the most attention during the committee. Lawrence trio, Plessa, said.
He said the legislation would cost $18 billion. University added $3 million to build the Hawthorn foundation.
"We want a good visual view of the situation," Hess said.
The Haworth addition was started in 1980, when the Legislature allocated about $500,000 for an architect's study. Last year, the University of Chicago asked the university to start construction, but the request was denied.
The addition would allow the biology department to move out of its cramped quarters in
Hess was not making any predictions about whether Haworth would be funded in the next leadership cycle.
"That's a lot of money," he said. "It ultimately needs you to think it's the most critical need on the KU budget."
Hess said the trip to the Med Center was to import several plans and problems of the
"We'll be looking at the billing system at the Med Center and the renovation of the older building."
"We want to look at the plans for who they're going to hire (to install the new system)." Hess
The Joint Ways and Means Committee has funded a new billing system for the MidCenter.
The Legislature allocated $700,000 last year to renovate the old hospital in Kansas City, Kan. The renovation is being done in stages because it will be a large, open. The legislators will look at the renovation.
Hess also said they would be asking about the medical scholarship program.
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Credit cards prove convenient, costly
By TERESA RIORDAN Staff Reporter
Students who use credit cards to combat rising college expenses and shrinking federal aid may find the plastic approach an expensive answer.
The number of KU students paying tuition with VISA and Master Card credit cards has gradually increased over the past 10 years to 1,000, or 4 percent of all students at the Lawrence campus, Howard Tiffany, KU assistant controller, said yesterday.
However, students from families with incomes of $30,000 or more are required to demonstrate need as of Oct. 1 to qualify for a guaranteed student loan at 9 percent.
Credit card interest, usually 22 percent for cards issued in the Lawrence area, is expensive compared to traditional government-subsidized loans at 9 percent.
PREVIOUSLY, students could get GSLs up to $2,500 regardless of family income.
For students who plan to pay off their credit accounts immediately, the
gets his statement on the tru-
November, the he doesn't have to pay any interest on it if he pays the full amount in a monthly monthly statement comes out," she said.
However, for students who plan to take a year or more to pay off the tuition and fees on their cards or on their parents' cards, they should run higher than that of a regular bank loan.
card is a bargain because no interest is charged initially, according to Elaine VanDeventer, vice president of Lawrence National Bank.
"If the person charges $1,000 today and nots his statement on the first of
If credit customers choose not to repay the sum quickly, then they must pay a minimum monthly amount of either $10 or 5 percent of the outstanding balance at an interest rate of 1.83 percent a month, or 22 percent a year.
SOME BANKS also charge a monthly or annual fixed fee for their credit card service in addition to the interest rate, as does National does not, VanDenvert said.
Compared to credit card interest, bank loans could be less expensive because students can get a six- to 12-month loan from banks, depending on the amount of the loan.
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Clergymen preach selfishness eases stress
RvJoLYNNE WALZ
Staff Reporter
The Rev. Jerry Spencer and Rabbi Michael Zedek, featured speakers at a two-day Medicine and Religion Seminar, spoke to about 100 people about stress.
Both men said people were so busy trying to keep up with the rapidly changing world that they often neglected to look after themselves, eventually caving in to stress.
KANSAS CITY, Kan.-A priest and a rabbi preached an unusual mummy yesterday at the University of Kansas Medical Center—people should be more selfish.
One of them, "Know thyself," is a maxim at least as old as the Delphic Oracle. Spencer said, more than anything else.
"We should try to find the pace we're most comfortable with." Spencer told the audience of doctors, nurses, social workers, rabbis, priests, rums and ministers.
THERE ARE eight ways to cope with stress, he said.
“There’s no point in trying to convince a turtle to run faster than a race horse, or in preventing a dog from attacking a cat.”
Once you know yourself, you should take good care of yourself, which isn't as easy as it seems
Because most people have so many demands on their time, Spencer said, they should set priorities and manage their time accordingly.
when there are many demands on your time, he said.
stabbl Zedek interjected a comment on that point.
"The number of support groups prevalent today recognizes that need," he said.
"People think that, since sex is fun, it must be a sin," he said. "In the Jewish faith, we teach our young people that any legitimate—and I emphasize the word 'legitimate'—pleasure that you do not avail of yourselves, of you will be held accountable for in the time to come."
ALSO, SPENCER said, people shouldn't be afraid to have fun
just have to say 'Stop. I want to get off.' Having supportive friends can also help you
To have fun, Spencer said, people should seek new friends, new experiences and new place.
He also said people could avoid stress by setting realistic goals for themselves.
THEY SHOULD also be more assertive in demanding breaks, days off and vacations, he
Spencer said he had noticed young people were so confused about the complex and rapidly changing world of the 20th century that they couldn't help in making what used to be routine decisions.
"Many of the young people are delaying decisions about careers, or what their final major is to go be," he said. "In recent years I've found some students who have changed their minds about their career several times, and professional studies have hailed my skills." He needed really wanted to do it.
Zedek said people would take a lot of stress off themselves if they changed their goals.
He said too many people thought the only goal in life is happiness.
“Certainly the kids think that,” he said. “All you would have to do is watch television, and they can’t.”
ANOTHER DEFEATIST goal, be said, is to tell yourself that all you need to do is the best you can.
"Parents are always telling their kids that," he said. "I've never been able to do my best. I always could have studied a little longer or worked a little harder."
He said the most realistic goal to set in your life was to care about yourself and other people.
"There's only one rule in life that I can think of,
"he said. "Damn it, be kind."
Hoping
KEITH FLANERY/Kansan Staff
Deree Rockovis, Topera senior, votes for a Hope Award finalist Tuesday in front of the Kansas Union as Mike Mitchell, left, ballot box supervisor, looks on.
Sousaphone's sousing worries band members
BySTEVEROBRAHN
Staff Reporter
"The new ones will get ruined if they keep it in the bag." Rodden, Shawnee soiphore some sponge phone using
Several of KU's 20 sousphone players had oranges and vegetables thrown at them during the KU-KState football game last Saturday, Hodgson said, and the gold-plated finish of his horn's bell was rused when a fan poured a drink on it.
"One guy stood right up in front of me and threw his whole whisky and jeans right down my arm."
His horn wasn't among the six that the King Instrument Co. of East Lake, Ohio, specially manufactured for the University of Kansas earlier this month. Hodgson said.
THE BAND received the six sousaphones,
valued at $3,000 each, last Thursday.
Tuba instructor Scott Watson said the new horn contributed to a better performance at the studio.
"Basically, I think it's ignorance on the fans' part," he said. "There's no malice, but if you'd
The finish on Hodgson's horn will be darker than Watson said, but the horn will still playable.
have a gold bracelet, you wouldn't throw Coke on it."
Although the new horns also were targets for orange and vegetable-throwing fans, Watson said he hoped fans would cool off and enjoy the improved performances.
"The better equipment you play on, the easier it is to sound good." Watson said. "Replacing the older sousaphones we have is like replacing your old Volvo with a new Volvo."
NINE OUNCES of each were used to plate the bodies of each of the large brass horns, a King Co. spokesman said. Nearly an ounce of gold was used to cover each of the 26-inch bells.
Delivery was originally expected about Dec. 1, Watson said, but after negotiations with the company in late September, the firm agreed to move up on the production date.
Watson said King susaphones were the "Rolls
Rovee of susaphones."
Six foreign students—scheduled to be evicted early in December—can study for their final exams instead of packing, because the Lawrence Housing Authority has extended their eviction
"They help get the kind of sound we're trying to get out on the field—a full symphony sound."
The University now has 22 of the 50-pound performance horses, Watson said.
Foreign student evictions postponed
so I checked the letter (from HUD) which said 'now that we're coming into the school year . . .' and read into that that the legislation was not designed to interrupt the school session."
The original eviction date was set for around the first of December in accordance with the 1980 federal law that states that non-immigrating student aliens—foreigners in the country for the express purpose of getting an education—cannot live in public housing.
"It could have badly dstructed their grades, so I checked the letter (from HUID) which said "L.""
Dave Murrell, executive director of the authority said last night the original date conflicted with KU final examinations, so he contacted the Department of Housing and Urban Development to see if LHA could make it easier for the students.
"I talked to two people (students) under this notice and we figured it out would be very difficult for these students to find a place by themselves," he said. "We should be preparing for final exams." Murrell said.
"The they understand. They are just grateful that they don't have to move soon," Murrill said.
MURRELL SAID he consulted with HUD and decided to extend the period before the students must be evicted.
He said the students, who live in Edgewood
theater at 1000 Haskell, were very relieved that the
students were able to attend college.
He said he did not know whether all the students intended to move from public housing, but he had talked to one student from Jordan who planned to move.
"It's not my impression that there are any bad feelings," Murrell said.
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Weather
Today will be partly cloudy with a high of 74, according to the KU Weather
Winds will be from the south at 10-15 moh.
Tonight will be fair with a low of 46.
Tomorrow should be mostly clear but turning cloudy before the end of the day will be more likely.