VOL 100, NO.9 (USPS 650-640)
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Bennett foresees drug-war victory
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — National drug policy director William J. Bennett predicted Wednesday that the war on drugs outlined by President Bush will win passage in Congress and then succeed against illegal drugs in America.
There will be no "Batman through the transom" flashy solutions to the drug problem, Bennett said. But he added, "If we follow this strategy, pursue and apply this pressure consistently over time, and if we do our job and the states do their job, and others who are called on do their job, this problem will get better and America will win this war on drugs."
Bennett, launching his campaign to sell the 7.9 billion program to Congress and the country, expressed confidence for what he called this "just war."
"Most Americans . . . understand what this problem is, they are impatient about it and they want something to be done," he said.
As for winning congressional approval, he said he was heartened that much criticism so far from Democrats has concerned money to pay for the proposal, not the basic tenets.
Bennett played a key role in developing the strategy that calls for a law enforcement crackdown on all levels of drug trafficking, from drug kingpins overseas to casual users in the U.S. It also seeks a 53 percent increase in funding for treatment programs, a 25 percent increase in prevention efforts and a vast expansion of the federal prison system to house drug offenders.
► See related stories pp.7,8
A number of congressional Democrats have said the program doesn't go far enough and that Bush should recommend a tax increase to pay for it instead of proposing to take money from other programs.
"I did not hear anyone taking issue in principle with an Andean strategy, with the strategy which talks about user responsibility, with the strategy that talks about our efforts in public housing, that talks about accountability, that talks about measurable objectives and the like." Bennett said.
The Andean strategy calls for $261 million to be spent next year in military and law enforcement antidrug aid to Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, the three main cocaine-producing countries. In addition, the administration plans to offer some $2 billion more over the five following years to those countries in economic and other aid once they demonstrate solid efforts to cut down on the drug trafficking.
As for those who say the $7.9 billion is inadequate to fight the war on drugs, Bennett said, "I'm just not going to be all that receptive to criticism of the figure of $8 billion from people whose correct mark is $6 billion."
The criticism wasn't only coming from Congress, however.
The American Civil Liberties Union called the Bush administration's anti-drug strategy "counterproductive and cynical," short-changing prevention and treatment
See DRUG WAR, p. 6
Pell Grant requires anti-drug promise Pledge must be signed to qualify for aid
By Doug Fishback Kansan staff writer
The Pell Grant program will "just say no" to financial aid recipients who do not sign an anti-drug pledge.
New this year on the Student Aid Report, the document Pell recipients sign to claim their federally-sponsored grants, was a certification students must check to receive their money, said Jerry Rogers, director of financial aid.
The drug pledge appears with three others, including a draft registration confirmation and a certification that the student will use the grant only at the approved institution.
The pledge reads, "I certify that, as a condition of my Pell Grant, I will not engage in the unlawful manufacture, distribution, dispensation, possession, control or commerce during the period covered by my Pell Grant."
Rogers said the financial aid office had been returning SARs left unsigned or incomplete.
Of the nearly 40 SARs returned to students, five have been returned because of failure to sign the pledge, said financial aid office bookkeeper
She said 2,677 Pell Grants had been issued to University of Kansas students this year for a total of $2.1 million.
Rogers said verification and enforcement of the anti-drug pledge were not conducted on the national level to the university financial aid offices.
But Rogers is not sure how far he is
suggested to go to see that the pledges
are honored.
"We're not the police force," he said.
Rogers said that he would not know what to do if he read in the local papers that a Pell recipient had been convicted on a drug charge.
"Whose responsibility is it to see that justice is really carried out? I don't know." he said.
Another problem with the drug pledge is that it is not consistently required for all federal aid programs, Rogers said.
"If you have to sign this for Pell, why don't you have to sign it for SEOG?" he said.
Pell Grant recipient Scott Pohlenz, Springfield, Mo., junior, said he hoped the anti-drug dledge eventually would be applied to other forms of financial aid.
A Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant is also federally funded.
"I think it's a good idea," he said.
"If you need money for school, you don't need to be spending it on drugs."
Azhar Shah, St. Louis sophomore, said he signed his Pell Grant SAR and checked the drug pledge.
A pledge is fine; he 's said.
The government, the requirement is proper, Brent McKay, Wichita senior, said.
"The radical people could say it's unconstitutional," McKay said.
But, he added, he had no quarrel with signing the pledge on his own SAR.
"As long as you're accepting the money, you ought to accept the responsibility," he said.
Steenqu Core KANIAN
Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, begins a day aboard a plane on the way to Garden City
Ramaley flies to Garden City, hears thoughts about education
By Kate Lee
Kansan staff writer
Most people at the University of Kansas probably think that Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, spent yesterday in her Strong Hall office, making and returning phone calls, attending meetings and, perhaps, teaching a class.
In reality, she spent the day in Garden City.
Ramaley likes to leave Lawrence every once in a while to visit a Kansas town and determine what the people there are thinking about education and the University of Kansas. Many people tend to think of KU as the eastern school in the state, she said.
"I like to ask, 'What are you doing in this community?'" she said. "What support do you want from higher education?" If there is a complaint or a criticism, I try to complain, but if I can't, I'll find an answer
"I like to emphasize that KU is all over the state. KU is working beside you every day; we're not as far away as you think."
When Ramaley sets out for an all-day tour of a town, she does so with vigor.
Ramley wanted to meet with someone from the school district because she had heard of its successful assimilation of the minority population in the community, she said.
The first stop on Ramaley's tour of Garden City was the office of Gerald Moseman, superintendent of schools.
In 1980, there was a 200 percent growth of minority students in the schools, Moseman said. This produced some problems for the district in terms of language and teaching methods, he said.
Writing to Read, a computerized method of teaching reading, is a program to help all students, especially those for whom English is not a first language, Moseman said.
"The Asians particularly are very interested in education and writing." he said.
Moseman said one of the things KU could do to help the district would be in training teachers.
"There needs to be more field experience and closer participation between the University and schools," he said. "There is too much theory and not enough practice."
The next stop for Ramaley was a meeting with business and civic leaders.
tricts.
One of her concerns is developing a communications network to link the Board of Regents schools and eventually the community colleges and public school dis
A new-business incubator, designed to aid small businesses when starting out in a city, could eventually be linked with the network. It would enable businesses to connect with programs, services and information at the Regents schools, community colleges and school districts in the state.
The tour continued with a Rotary Club luncheon at which Ramalev was the featured speaker.
She said she thought her speech, which was about the Margin of Excellence, was a report to the stockholders of the state.
"The Margin of Excellence, as an idea, is getting national attention because it has all of the features that most states are looking for as a planned approach to enhancing the ability of higher education to serve the state," she said.
The Margin of Excellence is the Board of Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers.
Ramaley said the Margin has made a "remarkable change on my campus."
"The affect it's had on our faculty and on our staff and on our students, it is hard to measure."
Party loses 29 seats in S.African elections
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The governing party suffered its worst election setback in 41 years of power yesterday, losing at least 29 of its parliamentary seats to far-right and anti-parteid rivals.
Riot squads with whips, tear gas and shotguns dispersed blacks protesting their exclusion from the baloting, and police said more than 50 people were arrested. Anti-apartheid leaders, who called a general strike, said 3 million people stayed away from jobs and classes.
With results in from 160 of 168 districts, it appeared the National Party would retain 93 or 94 of its previous 123 seats. The far-right Conservative Party improved from 30 to 40. Democratic Party moved from 20 to 33 seats, the most ever for an anti-apartheid faction.
Independent commentators said it was the first time since the National Party came to power in 1948 that it could get a majority of the popular vote.
The Conservatives, who want tougher enforcement of racial segregation laws, lost by only five votes in Vereeniging, former district of National Party leader F.W. de Klerk.
With his party narrowly retaining its outright majority in Parliament, de Klek, who was not a parliamentary candidate, is expected to be elected next week for a five-year term as president.
Foreign Minister Pik Botha and Defense Minister Magnus Malan were re-elected by margins sharply lower than in the white election of 1987. The Conservatives, who favor a first-ever seat in Prestoria, the capital, and in Cape Province and the Orange Free State.
The election was widely viewed as among the most important in history for the whites who control South Africa. It gave white voters the choice of stating that they want to strengthen apartheid, eliminate it or take a middle course.
The amount of support for the other parties was expected to influence the National Party in deciding whether
See SOUTH AFRICA, p. 6
Housing shortage squeezes Haskell
Kansan staff writer
By Beth Behrens
When Jason Whitehouse arrived at Haskell Indian Junior College this fall to start his sophomore year, he discovered there was no room for him in the residence halls.
He said he was given the choice of finding another place to stay or sleeping on the floor.
"They don't have enough beds," said Whitehouse, a Shoseh-Palate Indian from Detroit. "Some guys had mattresses, but they didn't have mattresses on me. Then they'd give me a room but I'd have to wait for a bed.
Until things change, Whitehouse is sleeping on the floor. He is supposed to sleep in one of the rooms with his two roommates, but he sleeps in the room pool instead because it has air conditioning, he said.
"I just have to wait for people to start getting homesick and go home."
Whitehouse said overcrowding was a problem during his first year of
school. He did not have to deal with it, he said, because he arrived early at the residence hall to start football practice.
A petition to stop overcrowding in Haskell residence halls was started this week by Becky Whitetree, Lawrence resident, and several students affected by the housing crunch. The petition was written with the help of Dario Robertson, a former professor of law at the University of Kansas.
Whittree's son, Cordell, is a soonborn at Haskell.
The petition states that the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of the Interior required in his June 1987 audit that Haskell provide 50 feet of floor space in each dormitory room for each enrolled Haskell student.
It also says that individual students have a right to an education, the right to a reasonable degree of privacy, the right to a safe and secure environment, and the right to due process.
"We've already gotten a few signatures," Whitetree said. "But we're not getting a very good response from the freshmen because they have already been told they are being watched.
"These kids are scared because most of them are away from home for the first time. Even if it's crowded, and they are just happy to have a roof over their heads. They don't have enough money to live off campus, and if they get put out, they have nowhere to go."
Charles Geboe, dean of instruction at the college, said he was unaware of any petition on campus, and said he did not deal with housing at Haskell.
James Baker, Haskell interim president, could not be reached for comment.
Robert Martin, newly appointed Haskell president, will not take office until Oct. 1, according to the Haskell administration office.
Whitetree said that Haskell students living on campus were
required to pay a one-time, $25 housing fee, and all students were required to pay a $25 book fee and a $20 campus fee. Other expenses for students who are at least one-quarter Indian are covered by the federal government, she said.
Robertson, who said he represented at least two students at the college, said the college acquired federal money for the enrollment figures it received from the first day of classes. Robertson contended that the residence halls were overflowing because of the increased financial support the school would receive from the government.
"The more I heard about all of the things going on at Haskell, the more it seemed to me that they weren't trying to fight to keep the students in the college, but trying to kick them out," Robertson said. "And the cycle repeats itself year after year."
Robertson said the students he represented had not yet decided whether they would file suit.
FCC fines KJHK $2,000 for illegal announcements
By Tracy Wilkinson
Kansan staff writer
Radio station KJHK received a $2,000 fine from the Federal Communications Commission as a result of last spring's investigation into violations of its noncommercial license.
Roger Holberg, an attorney for the complaints department at the FCC office in Washington, D.C., said action had been taken by the commission to send a notice of apparent liability to the station.
apprentice history.
"It was the first step in assessing a monetary forfeiture for the station," he said. "It is a civil fine to the monetary amount of $2,000."
In a statement released last night by KJHK, Max
Utsler, chairman of the School of Journalism's radio-television sequence, wrote that the station would pay the fine, which the statement listed as $2.500.
Holberg said the nature of KJHK conduct investigated by the FCC involved how the station handled acknowledging under-riding announcements for station sponsors.
"They can say a lot in acknowledging those announcements," he said. "What they cannot do is to make calls for action, give price or qualitative information."
Under FCC regulations, noncommercial stations are prohibited from the broadcast of donor announcements that include qualitative and comparative statements.
The KJHK violation was brought to the attention of the FCC in Spring 1988 by Steve Greenwood, a Lawrence resident. Greenwood, 178-79 KJHK music director, sent a letter, a tape of KJHK programming and a petition signed by 36 people questioning the legality of the station's donor announcements.
Holberg said a legal statement for a donor announcement for a noncommercially licensed radio station would be, "Tonight's operations were made possible in part by General Electric."
Whereas the statement, "Buy GE, we've got the best bulbs for the best prices," would be illegal because of its comparative quality inference, he said.
"The penalty is for conduct that occurred before the journalism faculty instituted several new station policies and procedures this summer," Uusler said. "The facul-
Utsaler said changes have been made to prevent the legal problems from happening at the station again.
ty's new requirements addressed the concerns raised by the FCC. The faculty moved to strengthen station management and help KJHK avoid future problems of this kind."
He said the school brought KJHK into full compliance with FCC rules and regulations over the summer.
"We have checked periodically with the FCC and now we are satisfied that KJHK can follow the letter and the spirit of the FCC's requirements," Utsler said. "The payment of the fine should close the issue and allow us to proceed in fully developing KJHK as an academic laboratory and educational asset for the University of Kansas."