THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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Vol. 90, No. 74
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
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Monday. January 21, 1980
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Reunion uplifts refugee family
Ngoc Tho Nguyen could not keep from crying. His wife, Ngha, could not stop saving "Thank you."
The separation and worry that began five years ago when the Nguyens fled their
home in South Vietnam ended yesterday afternoon when Ngoc Thi's brother and brother-in-law, wearing rubber thongs and a cowboy hat, arrived at the Lawrence Municipal Airport.
The refugees, Nice Khanh Nguyen andDao Tam Xuan, began their journey about nine months ago when they left Vietnam in 1972. They arrived in Indonesia refugee camp, Nguyen said.
Refugees' reunion
agnia Nguyen, far left, Theo Nguyen, second from
right, greet their relatives Ngu Khanh Nguyen, second from
left, and Dao Tan Xun, far right. Ng Khueh and Xuan joined their family in Lawrence last year after facing South Vietnam
"The communists make it very difficult for people to get out of our country," said Nice Noe, who still has eight brothers and a sister. "They were very strict. My sister fed us out two times."
Nogc Khanh and Dao Tan had to leave their wives and children behind.
Ngoe Theo he would like to bring the rest of his family to the United States, but seemed to regard his relatives' escape as a blessing that might not come again.
"I'll try to get them out, but I don't know how to," he said, shaking his head. "How?"
The Lawrence Inter-Lutheran Refugee Resettlement Committee will help the two men find housing and employment, chairman Susan Gronbeth-Geddes said.
The committee, a local branch of the Lutheran Refugee Resettlement Committee based in New York, helped another refugee family adjust to life in Lawrence.
'Refugees come into the country with nothing,' she said.
However, she said, they usually support themselves in a few months.
"their hardest adjustment will be the language," she said, "because it predicates their job, their mobility and their social contacts."
Ngoe Khanh can speak English, but Xuan cannot. she said.
The Rev. Arden Dorn, pastor of the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, said Ngoe Khan, a radio and television repatriator, probably would be hired by the church.
Ngho Thew in a lab in the department of chemistry, and Nghia works for Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall food services. he said.
The committee is still looking for a job for Dao Tan, who worked as a goldsmith in his homeland. Dora said.
Residence hall rates to be raised 10-20%
The Kansas Board of Receipts Friday approved 10 and 20 percent rate increases in KU residence hall double- and single-occupancy rooms.
According to available University full-
semester records, the increases should
generate about $650,000 in adder revenue.
The 1980-b1 base price for double rooms
will be $135 per person, the from $285 in
the spring. The from $495 in the fall.
$1,900. Room rates vary over the base rate
by about $100, depending on the particular
carrier.
According to full figures, 4,284 or 96 percent of all students living in University residence halls live in double rooms. The other 9 percent residence halls house 4,404 students.
Included in the increases were considerations of future spending in salaries, food, building maintenance and repair, special fees and debt service, he said.
J. J. Wilson, office of housing, said yesterday that the rate increases were above President Carter's voluntary wage and price guideline of 7 percent. But because last year's increase was below 7 percent, the increases still were in comminence, he said.
"We are allowed to take a two-year average, we’re a little over this year," he said, noting that last year's increases were about 6 percent.
Wilson said the office of housing based its
salary projections for 1980-41 on the expected proposals of Gov. John Carlin and the Kansas legislature.
In Carlin's proposed fiscal 1981 budget, now before the Legislature all state revenue would be received by receive pay increases of 12 percent, and unclassified faculty would receive 8 per
"Of course, we don't have many unclassified students in our department. Most are classified," Wilson said.
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On planning for food, Wilson said the office mainly went by price indexes, such as the Consumer Price Index.
Wilson said the office expected a 10 percent increase in food costs.
ANOTHER MAIN source of revenue, he said, was the debt service paid on University housing. For each space filled in a dorm, the debt service payed $14 toward debt service. At present, Corbin, Carruth-O'Leary and Gertteuil Searlspore pennsayalls are the only halls
In addition to the basic rate increases, there would be an increase in the special fees paid to each individual ball, he said.
Spring enrollment sets record
Some Iranians face deportation for not paving fees
Staff Reporter
By GRANT OVERSTAKE
Enrollment for the day of spring semester classes at the University of Kansas leapt to a record 23,280 surprising last spring enrolment of 825 according to U.S. News.
Some KU Iran students may face deportation if they are unable to pay enrollment fees before the Feb. 26 late deadline, KU officials said this weekend.
Enrollment last Thursday, Jan. 17, at the Lawrence campus was 21,313. up 763 from
U. S. Immigration Service regulations stipulate that foreign students must be enrolled as full-time students by the
University deadline or face deportation within 60 days.
last year. Enrollment at the College of Health Sciences in Kansas City, Kan., was 1.967, un 182.
Jeff Weintshaw, associate director of financial aid at the University of Kansas, said recent U.S. economic sanctions against Iran have hard for some Iranian industries.
SOME IRANIAN STUDENTS applying for short-term loans through the University have been denied the loans, he said, because their ability to repay the loans was in doubt.
Final enrolment figures will be computed on the 20th day of classes, Feb. 13, and KU officials expect them to exceed last year's 20th day total by 610.
"The most important factor in the form of a loan is repayment," Wenburg said. "These who are showed that they had some source of repayment inside the United States were given loans, but those who listed their source of repayment coming from Iran
"If we had grants, we could award them, but loans must be paid. To make loans available, there must be some sort of repayment we can count on."
He said the movement of funds between Iran and the United States was becoming more restricted, making it difficult for students awaiting money from Iran to
"The parents of a student in Iran may attempt to send money through a bank in Germany or England and they could force him to pay taxes." European countries have begun to tighten
up their financial relations with Iran at the request of the United States.
"Nothing is more frustrating to me than the fact that we can't help them. We are doing everything we can, but our resources are limited."
POPORA RAEISI, Iran graduate student, obtained enrollment funds, but said she worried about other Iranians who had not.
"I borrowed $2,500 from an Iranian friend
in Kansas City to pay my tuition," Raessi said. "I still don't know when I'll get my money from home.
"My brother had to borrow money from an American family. I don't know what he would have done if he hadn't been able to."
would have done if he had not asked Rattisist said she was concerned that the person who lost her phone might not be able to find the said she had used most of the money for enrollment and unpaid bills.
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Illegal parkers' wheels to be locked up
Rv JENNIFER ROBLEZ
Staff Renorter
Those who crumble at the sight of yellow parking tickets on their car windshields could be heartbroken today at seeing a large metal clamp riveted to one of their front tires.
Beginning today, KU Parking Services will clamp a device called a wheel lock on illegally parked cars whose owners have five or more unpaid parking tickets.
L. E.W. Fenstemaker of Parking Services said the four locks that the department had available would be used as much as possible, but that they would not be used on vehicles found illegally parked in parking lots or on public roads leaving an illegal parking vehicle would be hazardous. In these cases the vehicle will be towed.
A large orange warning sticker will be placed on a windshield with instructions for freeing the vehicle.
MOVING THE CAR while the lock is attached will severely damage it. Fienstemacher, deflation
Such tampering with the wheel lock could be illegal, he said.
"Any attempt to remove or tamper with the wheel lock may result in criminal charges being filed."
He said there were about 300 parking violators at University of Kansas, including faculty, staff and students.
All fines assessed against a vehicle must be paid before it can be released, Firstminder said. If they were not, the driver would be fined.
THE USE of the wheel lock is not an overnight procedural change. Fentermacher said, KU parking personnel have expressed interest in using the locks because they were first used two years ago in Denver, he said.
and held. The violator would then have to pay towing and storage fees, he said.
Fenstemaker said the use of the lock wires could also save the violator time and money.
"We're trying to reduce the burden on a violator in recovering an impounded vehicle and to eliminate the charge for towing and storage of a vehicle." Fentemaker said.
Towing charges in Lawrence average between $14.50 and $7.50 without storage costs.
Future of salaried jobs studied
The number of salaried positions that could be cut from KU's budget in the event of declining enrollment would be limited, if a report under the University Senate Executive committee is approved.
Sketchy future enrollment predictions at universities across the country had led the University of Kansas and other Regents schools to consider adopting guidelines that would help provide for long-range planning. Christofferson said these guidelines for Kansas University are these.
Ralph Christofersen, vice chairwoman for academic affairs, said a Position Control Task Force report was intended to assist the Board of Directors in disbanding large cuts in one area, such as salaries.
The guidelines would regulate the number and salaries of both classified and unclassified positions
CLASSIFIED SALARIES and fringe benefits would have to be within 1 percent of the previous year's percentage. The remainder of the budget must go up in other operating expenses and student wages.
In the case of a budget cut stemming from declining enrollment, the portion of the budget allocated to unclassified salaries and fringe benefits would have to remain within 2 percent of the portion allocated.
If we can find some money in OOE (other
The Council of Presidents is composed of the heads of the seven schools governed by the Board of Trustees.
Christofferson said enrollment estimates were the first step in the long-range planning process. He found that 10 percent of students enrolled over the next five years, but he cautioned that the data were "not perfect."
Christopherferon met with Seneca Friars to discuss the proposed ordinance in Council of Presidents meeting in Tapeto to allow him to be president.
operating expense); then we don't have to let people go," Gerard Hutchison, EdEx chairman.
LAWRENCE SHEERR, professor of business and a member of SEN.SA, exposition of the estimate should be done several different ways to see whether different results were obtained. He said that then the findings would be shared Sherr with colleagues of leaving the matter of commuting an estimate to administrators.
The estimate will be revised each year, and the five-year predictions should become more accurate.
But Christofersen said he thought University governance should be involved in deciding which universities are going to open.
"We have five or six expert statisticians on this campus. Why don't we go to them?" he asked.
He said that originally the position control report
had been very detailed—"too detailed to be accurate." The guidelines have been relaxed in the latest version, he said, and the new version is more concise. "The university budget to adjust to enrollment changes
Ambrose Sarices, professor of history and a member of SenXs, said, "In one sense, the remaining part of planning after enrollment is very easy—we're very flexible.
"It is just a matter of putting numbers to paper, in our case."
Shern said the projection process was a factor, but was "more political than anything else."
CHRISTOFFERSER AGREED that enrolment predictions were a political consideration.
"If one institution indicates growth and the others indicate decline, that one will have an advantage with the Legislature as far as funding requests," he said.
Zuther said, "The Legislature wants to hear these (figures). They have to give them to their constituents, who in the final sense, are the people we are responsible to."
Zuber said the conservative guidelines providing for enrollment did not decline to discourage the University from taking a positive attitude toward students, something like something for the Legislature to go on, he said.
Zuther said the position control report was intended to give the University more flexibility in managing the program.
Flipped flag
RFN BIGLER/Kansan staff
It didn't take to long notice that everything wasn't quite in its propoe order Friday morning in front of the museum.
upside down, according to Floyd Temple, physical plant director for Abbott Holden, the mistake was in the layout of the office.