A LITTLE HARMED
A LITTLE WARMER
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 89, No. 34
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Dodgers' Cey sparks 4-3 win See story page 11
Thursday, October 12, 1978
Fog blanketed Lawrence yesterday morning but failed to dampen the spirits of Dennis Canon, Eudora, as he finished mowing the grass near Memoriam statuary.
KU loses money on wages
By JOHN LOGAN
Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas needlessly spent thousands of dollars last month to pay 63 student employees who could have had most of their wages paid by the federal government, a financial aid office official said yesterday.
The students were eligible to receive 80 percent of their salaries through federal funds under the College Work-Study program, but instead used on the regular basis for education (in medical, clerma, Clantha Mcurdy, assistant director of financial aid).
If the students had worked under the program, only one-fifth of their salaries would have been paid by University departments. Students on the regular payroll must be paid with department funds.
MOST OF the students now have switched from the university to the work-study payroll, she said but some students do not.
CmCurdy said there was no way to assess exactly how much the University could have saved if the students had been on the work-study payroll in September. However, she said that at least 45 of the 63 students fund to the 63 students for the nine-month school year.
If the students earned an equal amount each month, then
the university might have saved slightly more than £7,000,
depending on how many hours the students worked. McCarthy
Another effect of the 63 students not having work-study jobs, she said, was that the money allocated to them could not be paid to other students until it could be confirmed that students were no longer interested in the work-study program.
AS A RESULT, last month the financial aid office was unsure who would receive the money.
The work-study awards are paid through a financial and program sponsored by the Department of Health. The award is non-refundable, ruled financially eligible to participate in the program is notified before enrolment and are allocated a specific amount.
McCurdy said all 63 students had agreed before August to work for the program and that her office had set aside money to pay them. She said she did not know that the students had disregarded the program by taking other jobs on campus until two weeks ago, when she received a computer printout that listed student employees.
The students have to work for work-study jobs that are advertised in Strong Hall. The financial and office deferrals are not available.
AFTER FINDING that students eligible for work-study were listed on the payroll, McCurdy said, she contacted University department heads about receiving federal funds for them.
"We got a very good response," she said. "Their responses ranged from You're kidding to I'll send them down
Most of the students have since come in and changed their jobs from the University to the work-study payroll, she said, but some departments and students have not responded.
"They apparently felt they did not want to get involved in it," she said.
McCurdy said her office tried to keep close tab on those students who accepted work-study allocations but who did not get work-study jobs. normally her office waits two or three weeks after enrollment before checking on students in the program, she said, but this semester she had been told that a number of student who had not followed up by getting jobs.
"We gave them almost six weeks this semester," she said. "During that time a considerable amount of money could have been used for other students. The time has gone by for those students to earn that money."
Vetoed speaker will talk anyway
Staff Reporter
Rv MARY ERNST
After having its original choice of a peacemaker, his Higher Education institute vowed to be the city administrators, a student steering committee made final plans yesterday to have him work on an anti-crime program.
Although originally asked to speak at the banquet, Jonathan Kozol will appear instead in an open forum Nov. 4 in the Kansas City Robinson, committee chairman, said.
Robinson said he was told last week by KU administrators that Keolon, who has been a senior staffer at UCF since 2014,
system, would not be allowed to speak at the banquet.
Another speaker, Stephen Baley, was the choice of the administrators, Robinson said, and will speak at the banquet. Baley, a professor at Harvard University, is on the faculty.
THE BANQUET WILL be the highlight of a week of activities. Guests will include administrators, faculty, students and Kansas lexisitators.
Robinson said Chancellor Archie R. Dykes had been worried that Koul's speech was going to be controversial.
The forum will be free to the public, Robinson said.
Dykes had never ruled out Kozol's speaking at other times during the week. Robinson said, but had not wanted him to speak at the banquet.
Dykes had the speech could be used an excuse by state legislator to cut funding for public schools.
Dykes, however, denied that he had not wanted Kozol as the banquet speaker because of a fear of funding cuts from legislators.
"I don't know anything about Kozai," Dykes said Tuesday. "I know Bailley and Andy."
BUT ROBINSON SAID, "I disagree with BURTON Dykes. I think Kool is very well known. I can understand his reservation, though, to having Kool speak at the
"I just wish I would have known that our recommendation was not going to be contested," he said.
know that Kozol is not a well-recognized person."
"He'll appeal to the public generally. 1
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Consumer Affairs votes for merger
By PHILIP GARCIA
Staff Reporter
Students wanting to file a complaint with the Lawrence Consumer Affairs Association may no longer have the convenience of a campus office.
Board members of the association yesterday voted to merge the organization with the Kansas Union with the community office at 819 Vermont St., Jude Kroeger.
The decision to merge the office was made because of the resignation of the President and the cutbacks in payroll for two community workers employed under the Compass.
"In order to merge the offices, we still have to get the OK from the Student Senate" Kroerover said.
The Senate had allocated £7,588 to the cournoff office for fiscal 1979.
A RESOLUTION asking for approval of the merger and transfer of Kroeger's salary to one of the two community offices, and the transfer to the Senate on Oct. 18, Kroeger said.
"We're going to be filling the vacated position with one of our workers funded by CETA," she said. "We want to get one of them on Student Senate payroll and move her to the campus office. CETA has told us they're planning to phase out non-profit organizations such as ours, so the Senate would pay her salary."
Kroeger said the two CETA workers had been funded only through October. The association will try to obtain more money for the second worker, she said. A money for the second worker, she said.
Craig Templeton, assistant Senate treasurer, said that because the association had been allocated money for a campus director, there would be no problem in paying the salary of Kroeser's replacement.
Kroger said that if the offices merged, the two CETA workers and the companies plants at the community office. The campus office, which would remain open as an intake office, would have a campus office and would be staffed by volunteers.
"The CAMPUS coordinator would work off campus but would coordinate workshops and conferences for the campus office." Kroener said.
Office hours would depend on the number of volunteers available and the coordinator's work schedule.
"There won't be any decrease in service for students because the community office is accessible and does not close during the day," she said. "Now, if I have to give a speech, or get sick, the community office that will not happen."
Kroeger said she thought that having one office to handle complaints would not create a decrease in service to students.
In addition, Kroeger said, students do make inquiries at the downtown office.
From July 1 to Sept.28,195 student inquiries were filed at the campus office, and 179 were filed at the community office.
The total number of inquiries made for the same period at the campus office was 245 compared with 538 at the community office, she said.
Safety of faucet filters weighed
By PHILIP GARCIA
Staff Reporter
Excessive or extended use of water filters can make faeces a nesting place for bacteria and can pose a health problem, a city
The official, K T. Joseph, water treatment chemist at the Lawrence water plant, said organic compounds and particles in the water that are trapped by the filter accumulate and become a food source for a bacterium called coliform.
"The presence of coliform in water is an indicator of bacteria and there is a chance that the bacteria can escape from the water."
Jack Towne, brand manager for the "instapure" water filter by Water Pik, which is the largest manufacturer of faucet or point-of-use filters, said that although there had been concern about the contamination of the filters, no incidents of widespread illness have been reported.
"WE HAVE nothing to show that there has been a problem," Towne said. "There is a certain amount of bacteria in the water but you want that to build up resistance. What we don't know is where it's coming from, and hasn't been defined and that's where our frustration comes in."
Joeph said he did not recommend using faucet filters because of the possible bacteria growth and consequent taste and odor.
A spokesman for the State Department of Health and En- environment said tracing or attributing intestinal illness to bacteria
in the water was difficult because there were many causes of stomach disorders.
The instapure device is made of two filters: a polyester filter that traps particles, rust and sediment and an activated carbon or metal filter.
Joseph said that the faucet filters remove some of the organic material that accumulates in the water line from the water plant to a home. It also removes chlorine from the water. Chlorine is added at the water plant to protect against bacteria.
The retail cost of the filter is $29.95, Towne said. Retail price of replacement filters is $29.95.
"OUR PRODUCT is a filtration device, not a purifier," Towne said. "It is recommended for water systems that have been cleaned."
The bacteria form when pores in the carbon filter, analogous to a sponge, collect the compounds and particles, he said. That clogs the filter, Joseph said, and when the filter is clogged, bacteria can grow.
"Depending upon the amount of water usage, the concentration of organics in the water and the quantity of activated carbon filter, it could be two weeks or two months before bacteria grow," he said.
THE ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency has set a limit of 506 specific plate counts or SPC's for each milliter of water. SPC's are the measure of bacteria population in a certain volume of a water sample.
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Official wants to interest disadvantaged in med jobs
By DAN WINTER
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Kan.-A University of Kansas Medical Center official is planning to use career education to cultivate uni- versity medical talent that he says is being wipped.
The official, Melvin Williams, director of affirmative action at the Med Center, said he thought disadvantaged youth were not given an incentive to learn and not informed
Williams said he preferred not to use the word minority.
Williams said he hoped to do something about that. His office is planning two programs that will try to interest disadvantaged medical careers at college or vocational colleges.
"Disadvantaged tells the story much better." Williams said. "The disadvantaged status is based on certain criterion: low income, low educational level, bad family circumstances, etc. It just so happens many of the disadvantaged are members of a minority."
If the program gets off the ground, Williams said, he will contact counselors from several high schools in Kansas and ask them to help the students educated by a philological aptitude test.
IN ADDITION to classes such as physics.
"We'll try to get the kids interested in high school so that when they get to college they'll have something to shoot for," Williams said.
He said many disadvantaged students were not aware that there were more careers in medicine than that of a physician or nurse.
WILLIAMS HAS submitted a proposal for a grant from the Department of Health, to provide medical care to disadvantaged Kansas high school students at the Med Center to initiate a program to prepare them for college.
Those students would be invited to participate in eight-week programs at the Med Center during the summer that would offer courses in biology, chemistry, and the students for medical study in college.
chemistry and biology, reading would be offered and encouraged, Williams said.
"A great many minority students lack the proper reading skills and that lack of ability to read is one of their greatest tests," Williams said. "The students are bright but were not brought up in an atmosphere where reading was stressed. Therefore, they might not seem bright in school."
Williams said standardized tests, such as the Medical School Admission Test, were the first to be administered.
"The MCAT is geared toward white students," he said. "The questions it asks are ones that only students with the best background and background could totally understand.
"The gist of the program is to get the students geared up and to help them realize that it is possible for them."
WILLIAMS SAID he hoped to talk with high school and junior high schools in the near future to try to get health clubs established in the schools. The club's ac
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