THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.89.No.35
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Women struggle for equal rights
Friday, October 13, 1978
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AURH recommends increase in hall fees
BvLORILINENBERGER
Staff Reporter
Students living in University residence halls next year probably will be paying $100 more for a double room and $255 more for a single room.
The proposals to increase residence hall rates were made by the Association of University Residence Hall contracts committee and were presented to the AURH full assembly last night. They are subject to a confidential Programming and Advisory Board.
Jay Smith, contracts coordinator, said he was confident that the advisory board would accept his nomination.
"The wishes of AURH carry quite a bit of weight with the advisory board," he said. "They encourage us to inform them what is going on and what we should and reasonable as far as rate increases to."
THE PRESENT yearly rates for
residence hall rooms are $1,285 for a double room and $1,695 for a single room. Those furnishes will be increased to $1,850 and $1,960.
The rate increase would affect 4,700 students living in residence halls. That is a significant change.
Smith said the rates were increased to compensate for cost of living and inflation.
The increases represent a 7.7 percent increase over last year's rates for those students living in double rooms and a 15.1 percent increase for those living in single rooms.
Smith said the larger increase in the single room rates was being proposed to discourage students wanting to contract for those rooms. This would allow for more openings in the residence halls and would reduce student boarding at the beginning of each semester.
IN ADDITION, the limitations imposed on the number of residence hall rooms allocated for use as single rooms will be decreased by 10 percent.
For 1978/79, 30 percent of the rooms were reserved as single rooms. All applications for single rooms after the 30 percent cut-off mark was reached were denied.
For the academic year 1979-80, requests for single rooms will be denied after 20 percent of all available rooms are promised to students.
The rooms allocated for use by residence hall residents, residence hall assistant directors and advisers and AUHR officers are included in the 20 percent cut-off mark.
In a third proposal submitted to the ad-
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ASK assembly to meet KU approval expected
Staff Reporter
By TAMMY TIERNEY
Although threatened yesterday by the possibility of being declared invalid, the University of Kansas membership in the Association of Students of Kansas now has more cards.
KU's membership in the statewide lobbying group was subject to the approval of the student senate of KU. The committee also gave a legislative assembly of ASK, KU's membership is expected to receive final approval when the assembly meets tomorrow in St. Louis.
Although all ASK member schools have approved KU's membership, the validity of Fort Hays State University's fifth of the student body at Fort Hays State approached the faculty-student court there and asked that the vote be
According to Seipel, Fort Hays State student body president, students opposing KJW's membership in ASK and presented a petition with 803 signatures to the governor in a meeting last week. Because the signatures represented more than 10 percent of the eligible student voters, the petition called for a campus wide vote on KJW.
The Senate's decision then was appealed to the faculty-student court which, after nearly three hours of deliberation last night, voted 4-1 that the Senate's rule on pledge would be advisory.
HOWEY, SEIBEL said, the Senate decided the petition was only advisory and voted to approve KU membership. The Senate's decision then was an
"I wouldn't say that it's all over here," he said. "He've heard rumors of petitions for recall of senators being circulated and the court's decision could still be appealed to the president of the board." He'd say that was a possibility."
Although he was relieved that the court had upheld the Senate's decision, Seibel said, the issue is far from resolved at Fort Hays State.
Sulbe said if the petition were declared valid, a referendum vote probably would be taken in three or four weeks.
To make voting easier for assembly members, surveys were given to all member schools for distribution to students.
BESIDES VOTING on KU's membership, legislative assembly members also will decide this weekend which university should be for at the Legislature this spring.
Students were asked if they would support such issues as the requirement for minimum wages for students, voter registration by mail, the payment of tuition in installments, state funding of university libraries, handicapped students, a landlord-en位
See ASK back page
Nuclear protesters plan sample of blockade tactics
By ROBIN ROBERTS
Staff Reporter
KU Students for a Radioactive Free Kansas are scheduled to present a "guerrilla theater" at 12:15 today in front of Wescock Hall.
The students will give a mock demonstration of the rail blockade planned by the Kansas Natural Guard, which is to take part in a Greek nuclear power plant near Burlinton.
AFTER THE mock blockade today, the KU group will hold a press conference at 1 p.m. in the Council Room of the Kansas State University, where loadouts after the conference is scheduled.
When the Sunflower Alliance failed to reach a consensus on a proposal to block the arrival of the nuclear reactor vessel to the power plant, the Kansas Natural Guard was
The Kansas Natural Guard is a spinner group of the Sunflower Alliance, an alliance
THE KU STUDENTS for a Radioactive Free Kansas support the Kansas Natural Guard and several members say they plan to be a part of the blockade.
However, a recent telephone call to the shipwreck led the group to think the vessel would arrive weeks. Jeanie Green, Shawnee Mission sophomore and member of the KU group.
The reactor vessel was originally expected to arrive in late October.
KCPL& and Kansas Gas & Electric have invested equally in the Wolf Creek plant.
GREEN SAID members of the Kansas
Natural Guard thought the reactor would be transferred from river barge to train near Tulsa. She said people there would telephone the Kansas Natural Guard at the
Last Monday, the KU Students for a Radioactive Free Kansas agreed on a proposal that would require everyone at the blockade site to have had no violence
Green said nonviolence training involved role-playing and exercises in making decisions quickly to insure that the nonviolent in situations that might develop at the blockade site. She said the sessions also included a discussion of the possible legal repercussions.
BILL BEEMS, Lawrence senior and member of the KU group, said farmers near the Wolf Creek state had given the Kansas Natural Guard permission to use their lands
However, the proposal stated that people without the training who showed up at the screening site might be able to take on-site training, although the location of the training will be given only to people who have had the nonviolence training, Beaeds said.
PREVIOUSLY, ONLY who planned to block the railroad tracks were required to be trained. But the group decided those individuals should have legal support group also be trained.
The group already has conducted six training sessions for about ten students and has announced that it will sponsor more sessions.
Nancy Kassebaum, Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate fields a question
Senate debate
from the audience while her opponent, Bill Roy, listens. The candidates met at the SUA Forum last night in the Kansas Union.
Kassebaum, Rov reveal views in KU debate
BY TIM SHEEHY Staff Renorter
Candidates for the U.S. Senate,
Republican Nancy Landon Kassbaum and Democrat Bill Roy, met last night in the Kansas Union to debate a number of issues and to give the voters some idea of the differences between them.
A three-member panel directed questions to the candidates before an overflowing crowd in Woodfrid Auditorium. The debate was sponsored by Student Union Activities.
The panel was composed of, Allan Cigler,
associate professor of political science;
Mike Harper, student body president, and
Deannell Tacha, associate dean of the School
In his opening remarks, Roy reiterated a familiar campaign statement, saying that there had not been a Democratic senator from Kansas in 40 years and that it was time to
KASSEBAUM RESPONDED to Roy's request in her openening remarks.
"You say there has only been one day." You have never seen that there has never been a woman, "Kassandra."
The first question addressed to the candidates asked what federal agencies and programs would be needed.
Roy said he thought the first program that should be locked at was the Comprehensive Nutrition Program, which cost $12 billion budget, followed by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the State Department.
"The $2.3 billion cut as it came out of the Senate is too large," Roy said, "and I feel confident it will be cut back in conjunction." He could support a tax cut of $18 to 20 million.
Commenting on the recent tax legislation before Congress, Roy called a proposed tax law.
"I feel that first we have to cut government spending, but a cut in the capital gains tax is also needed to stimulate jobs," Kassebaum said.
KASSERHAU DEFENDED the cutback
capital gains tax, which Roy has
granted.
Finances, in relation to both personal
wealth and contributions from outside sources, have emerged as an issue in the
Both candidates agreed that rhetoric over both candidates had become too big in all elections.
"The campaigns have gotten far too expensive," Kassarbaum said. "I set a limit of $600,000 on my campaign and I intend to stick to it."
Republican Bob Dole spent $1.2 million on his successful Senate campaign in 1974.
Kasselbaum said, however, that she had mixed emotions about financing campaigns with public funds and that she would prefer to try it out in a presidential election.
ROY SAID he would support such a measure.
In 1974, there were 24 baby contested
Senate races in the country. "Roy said, 'Of
those races, 22 were won by the candidate,
and 80 were money. I was outpent that
year, and I lost.'"
Both candidates made their first detailed statements of the campaign concerning
When asked if they would support economic sanctions against South Africa if it did not drop its practice of apartheid, both candidates said they opposed such sance.
Kassebaum said, "I have never supported economic sanctions as such, because I don't believe they do much to change a country's internal policy or moral position."
However, she did say she would support a suspension of sales of defense and technological equipment to South Africa until it became totally integrated.
ROY ALSO said he did not support economic sanctions as a rule, but would support a suspension of shipments of defense equipment.
The two candidates fielded questions from the audience that ranged from positions on nuclear energy to discernible party differences.
Roy said he would not call for a moratorium on the Wolf Creek power plant in Kansas, but would oppose the nature of it and the reasons elsewhere. He also said he would oppose the
storage of nuclear waste in the state's salt mines
KASSEBAUM CALLED for continued use of nuclear power as an alternative source of energy. The nuclear reactor must be fast breeder reactor research by the government should be transferred to other countries.
Both candidates agreed they had different views. However, Roy said they weren't ready to give their input.
Kassbaum said, "I think the basic difference is one of fiscal responsibility and
being able to establish those priorities that we feel are important now and what we will be able to do about them.
Hoy contended the difference wasn't so much an opposing philosophy but a case of mutual disaffection.
"From what I have heard on the campaign trail I find nothing in Mrs. Kassebaum's philosophy repugnant," Roy said. "However, I feel that there is a great deal of difference in the preparation to become a senator."
Lawsuit won't stop scholarships
The University of Kansas has decided to offer the KU Medical Center students who are involved in the Board of Regents to participate in a scholarship program, a University official
The students filed the suit last spring against the Regents as an attempt to halt an almost 300 percent increase in medical school fees.
The scholarship program, approved by the 1978 Kansas Legislature, is one way the state has encouraged students to
The decision means some plaintiffs in the suit will not have to strike their names from the lawsuit for financial reasons, as was indicated earlier by the students' lawyer.
An agreement made in August between Mike Davis, University general counsel and Gerald Jereich, the plaintiff' lawyer, said no student would be eligible for the benefits
of the scholarship while his name was on the petition.
JESERICH SAID that when he approved the agreement, he was not aware that the deadline date for other forms of financial aid already had passed. The decision forced many students to drop out of the suit at that time.
Davis said the University reversed its stand on the issue because it did not want KU to be responsible for any student not being able to pursue a medical education.
William Carpenter, Shawnee County district judge, last Friday lifted a restraining order that forbade KU to collect the higher fees until after the suit had been filed.
"Now that everyone has to pay the same fees, everybody will be on the same track," Davis said. "We didn't have to do it but we didn't want to create a division at the Med."
Center between those who weren't in the suit and those who were."
Students in the suit who want to participate in the scholarship program have
DAVIS SAID an open letter would be sent today to the Med Center explaining the diagnosis.
There are two types of non-competitive scholarships. Type I covers all tuition fees and provides a monthly stipend during the academic year. For each year of support, the students must agree to practice in the city for graduation in an underserved area of Kansas.
THE MEDICAL students filed the suit last
Type II covers all tuition fees but does not include the monthly stipend. The students are obligated to practice one year in the school and support but are not limited geographically.
spring, saying that the fee increase was unfair because it forced them to participate in the scholarship program and practice in Kansas.
Carpenter's ruling dismissed two of the three counts the suit listed. One dismissed point said the fee increase violated a contractual agreement between the students and KU which was made when the students enrolled in a stated agreement fees would be retired.
The other dismissed point said the fee increase, together with the scholarships, restricted the students' constitutional right of interstate travel.
Carpenter upheld a third count, which said the fee increase was arbitrary and capricious. If that charge is proven, state officials would not be shielded by the state immunity laws that protect them from legal actions challenging the fee raise.