Shankel OKs legal services
By CAROLINE TROWBRIDGE
Staff Reporter
Prepaid legal services will be implemented by January for students at the University of Kansas, Mike Harper, student body president, said yesterday.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, send a letter to Harper approving what is referred to as Phase 1 of a threephase legal services recommendation.
The recommendation was written by Jeff Arnold, administrative assistant for the legal services program, and now he is responsible for the legal services governing board.
Phase I included plans to have the legal services office give prepaid legal counsel to students at the University, to teach them important skills, and negotiate with adverse parties in a dispute, to perform nudity duties and to incorporate KU student organizations for legal advice.
"IT HAS been the history of campus legal services that they start out with Phase I programs and build up to the other phases," Harrer said.
Harper said it was not unusual for universities to implement legal services plans gradually.
He said the legal services governing board would meet tonight to discuss the plan and the administration's approval of Phase I.
The final decision from the student point of view will rest with the legal services governing board, "Harper said."
Shankel did not rule out the next two phases, but said Phase I needed a year's study before possible implementation of Phase II.
"After Phase 1 has been in operation for one year, we'll take a look to see if the needs of the students are being met, at what costs and what the costs are," Shankel said.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said he was pleased with the administration's approval of Phase 1 phases should not be started immediately.
"WHAT, IN FACT, we were saying was that we should start with Phase I and then do an evaluation to see if it was working." Amber said. "Let's not prejudice that Phase I is going to be on phases II and III."
Ambier said the office would employ one attorney, one legal secretary and four paralegals, who probably would be KU law students.
"The amount of money they've set aside for this is more than sufficient to operate the program on an annual basis," Ambler said.
The legal services office would operate on an annual budget of $4,000, half of which was approved last spring by the Student Senate.
IT WAS recommended that the at-
emy be hired at a salary of $18,000, the at-
ymy being $24,000, the $9,000 and the four paralegals be hired at
a combined salary of $19,000, or at $an
Albo also prepared a report in August that showed almost 80 percent of KU students did not know where to turn for legal services.
Lawrence has a legal aid society, which is available only to those with financial difficulties.
Arnold's report recommended that each student enrolled in six hours or more be charged about $1.50 a semester to support the legal services program.
A report compiled by Kathy Hoggard, assistant to Amber, showed that most legal services programs at Big Eight and BIG are funded by student activity fees.
Senate continues funding study
By MARY ERNST and TAMMY TIERNEY Staff Reporters
After four and a half hours of deliberation last night student senators were unable to complete consideration of fall supplemental budget for the further consideration until} Wednesday night.
Senate members considered only the first item on their agenda. Bill 209, the approval of supplemental allocations for groups not previously funded by the Senate.
The Senate also voted to suspend the rules and consider resolution 012 in support of the minimum wage for students and petition 003 in favor of maintaining J.KHK as a student-operated radio station. Both measures were approved.
MARGARET BERLIN, Communications Committee chairman, presented the KJHK petition and said it would be sent to the Federal Communications Commission.
Renewal of JKHJ's license is being questioned because of a recent FCC ruling that forbids single ownership of more than one radio station in a market area.
Mike Harper, student body president, spoke in favor of the minimum wage resolution Harper said he would take it to Congress and ask lawmakers to show student support for minimum wage.
The University owns both KJHK-FM and KANU-FM.
One major holdup in the meeting came when, hallway through consideration of the supplemental budget requests of groups not previously represented by him, Robinson, student body vice president, realized that recommendations for allocations to new groups required a two-third approval.
"Ive just made a screw-up royale," Robinson said as Senate members called for a division vote on the previously considered items.
APPROVOL OF THE other recommended allocations also was slowed by the additional load.
The Black Student Union, which had its original request of $3,765 cut back to $2,025 during Budget Committee hearings two weeks later, also back in its request to pay for printing costs.
After more than a half hour of discussion, the amendment was passed and the $200 was added, making the total allocation for printing costs $350.
The budget for the Association of International Students of Political Science, which was cut completely by the Budget Committee, also was discussed for more than a half hour before the Senate voted to approve the recommendation.
After a series of amendments and amendments-to-the-amendment, a quorum was called for to verify that more than 50 percent of the senators were present for the vote. A quorum of 56 of 105 senators was present.
THE CONTROVERSY about the political science group centered on the lack of organization of the group, which several senators viewed as too unorganized to represent.
Matt Davis, Nunemaker, senator, said he thought the members of the group had not been fully audited. He said preliminary budget hearings and still had not defined the goals of their group by last week.
Reggie Robinson, student body vice president, made the ruling, saying that the students were present at the meeting, he had to assume that no males would be allowed in the organization. The group could not attend. Senator Ruth Bader Ginsburg Senate regulations did not allow funding to
The committee's recommendation of zero funding for the Archonian Club of Zeta Phi Beta Sorcery was upheld after an objection by a Fanhellic senator, who ruled out of order.
The group originally requested $1,540.
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Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
The University of Kansas
Vol. 89, No. 39 Thursday, October 19, 1978
State scholarships limited
By PHILIP GARCIA Staff Reporter
Many students who were eligible for State of Kansas scholarships face the possibility of not being accepted.
Gerald Bergen, student assistance officer for the Kansas Board of Regents, recently estimated that 750 to 1,000 students were eligible for the scholarships have not
received the money. He said 520 to 350 of the students would receive aid.
The problem, he said, is less money to give and more state scholars than last year.
Staff photo by RANDY OLSON
Halloween hustler
Jim Falter, 9, takes a break from selling pumpkins at his North Lawrence home. Jim's family also sells small items at his
stand by their house. Fater's sister decorated the house to help him sell his pumpkins.
the scholarship but not all will get it," Bergen said.
"It's possible a student could get a scholarship one year but not another."
The amount of money available for State of Kansas scholarships in 1787-79 was $740,000, compared to more than $900,000 available for 1777-78.
The total amount available this year was decreased in order to meet a maximum amount of $740,000 that the program can award in a single year. The limit was $125,000. Robert P. Bennett's budget proposal in 1975 and was put into effect last year.
HOWEVER, BERGEN was not aware of the limit last year and awarded all available scholarship money. This year the limit was met.
"When the governor came into office he posed a limit of $740,000 to be the maximum amount awarded," Bergen said. "Two years ago when I took the job I wasn't aware
State of Kansas scholarships are awarded to students who have been named state graduate student in the area or program scores taken in high school. Financial need also must be established in
The state awards 1480 scholarships each academic year of $500 for two semesters.
A continual problem in granting scholarships, Bergen said, is that some students who are eligible to receive scholarships cannot use only so much can be awarded.
"YOU CALCULATE an attrition rate in an aid program in order to spend all the money."
However, if the attrition rate is not as high as calculated, students could be awarded more money.
In preparing for the 1977-78 year, Bergen awarded $200,000 that was appropriated to the program by the Kansas Legislature and about $600,000 in federal aid from the State Student Incentive Grant program. SISG is a program to aid state scholarship programs.
"We committed those dollars because we had that much money from the Legislature to pay."
He said that when the state made its appropriation for 1977-78 one knew how much federal aid would be available, so the Legislature could not adjust its allocation to meet that demand.
However, Hergen awarded all the funds when they became available without
THIS YEAR, the state appropriated $50,000 to the program and $60,000 in funds.
"The difference between last year and this year was not a sinister plot," Bergen said. "It's just that we were not aware of the limit.
"If you figure 15 percent attrition but only 10 percent, the situation could arise that your team
There is no way to get more money to close the gap between the amount awarded and actual amount available, he said. A student could be a scholar, have financial need established, have met the application requirements, have met the scholarship but still not get the money.
"I hope that would not happen," he said. "All that can be offered is an anology."
BERGEN SAID a proposal in next year's budget asked that $500,000 be allocated to
The state allocation would be used to award scholarships to first-year students with federal money funding scholarships for third, third and fourth year students, he said.
Paper distribution policy adopted
Rv CAROLINE TROWBRIDGE
Staff Renorter
Shankler said the policy was needed because of a lack of a policy for the sale of machines.
After six months of investigation, the University of Kansas has adopted a formal policy for the distribution of printed material on campus.
The policy, approved Tuesday by Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, states guidelines for the sale and free distribution of prizes including newspapers, prizes and fliers.
"There weren't any policies about the sale of literature, and we thought it would be best to develop a policy that would cover this area," Shankel said.
He said the policy was written by the Literature distribution committee and was reviewed by Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, Mike Davis, University general counsel, and David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs.
**AMBLER SAID,** *I think the policy cleans up and clarifies some things. We were never wrong*.
literature and we are now able to say you can bring things here, and you can't place them here.
The committee was appointed to deal with the sale of such newspapers as the City Moon, a satirical publication and Today's Student, a national religious publication.
Under the policy, groups that distribute papers such as the City Moon and Today's Student may provide their own coin-operated boxes after they receive permission from the office of student organizations and activities.
Local newspapers do not need the approval of the University Events Committee or the student organizations and activities office to sell their papers.
The policy says the content of the publication would not be a consideration for publication.
OTHER POINTS of the new policy are:
- Coin-operated boxes provided by the Kansas Union will be made available to students or student organizations. If there is space, boxes will be provided for non-student groups will be considered.
Permission for the use of these boxes on a semester basis must be given by the student in writing.
- The sale of other literature on campus by individuals must be approved by the librarian.*
- Sales and the free distribution of literature in residence or scholarship halls must be approved by the office of residential programs and the Association of University Residence Halls or the All Scholarship Hall Council.
- Free distribution of literature by hand does not require permission from any University body, but it must take place outside University buildings.
- Free distribution of literature from boxes must be approved by the student organizations and activities office. Again, the box may not be considered during review of the request.
- To appeal a decision regarding the sale or distribution of literature on campus, one must contact the Events Committee. After receiving an appeal, the group would make recommendations to Amber.
'Pyramid' scheme offers fortune
By SAMVAN LEEUWEN Staff Repert
Staff Reporter
Mark Trotter did not want to pass up an opportunity to make
$45,000 for three weeks' work.
S Trotters placed an in the Kanana, similar to the one that sparked his interest in what officials call a "pyramid" scheme.
for 100, which ran in yesterday's Kansan, read: 'Earn $45,000 in three weeks. GUARANTEED. Absolutely. For information send self-addressed stamped enveloped to M. Trotter. 8614 Haven, Overland Park, Kansas 66212.
Trotter, 23, said yesterday that the purpose of the scheme was to get persons to send $15 each to find out how to make $40,000 in
Persons who send in $15 are told to place an amd charge other people $15 for information on how to earn $45,000, he said.
"I guess I was interested to see how many college students would be gullible," Trotter, an advertising executive in Overland Park, Iowa.
M. J. Mullay, a fraud advisor and investigator for the U.S. Postal Service in Kansas City, Mo., said Treater's plan appeared to be a pyramid scheme because it required a certain number of people to purchase something.
"IF AN investigation shows that a person intentionally devised a scheme to deceive the through of the use of the mail intentionally, an office or office for positi-
tion."
prosecution," Mullally said. "Trotter's plan is nothing more than a fraud scheme."
Trotter said he knew the plan was illegal before the ad appeared in the Kansas. He canceled the ad Tuesday.
In some cases, human annotating manager, said the cancellation order was placed too late to prevent the ad's publication.
Mullally said that because Trotter was not going through with the scheme he did not think any action would be taken against him.
"A LOT OF times these things are run by kids who didn't know that what they are doing is a shame." Mullaly said.
Trotter said he would have carried out the scheme if it were not illegal.
Trotter, who in a former Kansan classified ad manager, said he found out about the scheme from an ad in the Turf Nickel, a newspaper. He told KABC that it was
In most cases, Mullily said, persons involved in pyramid scheme also stop the scheme after being told it was illegal.
"I was 99 percent sure it was a pyramidaling scheme," he said,
"but I didn't mind losing $15 to find out and tell the postal in-
Ruth Hams, the person who placed the original ad in the shopper, said she no longer ran the ad in newspapers because of a tax cut.
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