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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 90, No. 72
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
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Thursday, January 17, 1980
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State Legislature to address student-related issues
The 1980 session of the Kansas Legislature, which convened this week in Topeka, will address several issues that affect on效应 on University of Kansas students.
Among those issues are:
- A proposed bill that would raise the minimum drinking age in Kansas to 21;
- An amendment to the Landlord-Tenant Act, designed to force negligent landlords to comply with existing health and safety codes, and with their rental agreements;
- Proposed salary increases, to the $3.10 minimum wage, for students employed by the University:
- A bill reducing the residency requirement from one year to six months for out-of-state students;
A *nil* raising tuition by $300 for foreign students:
*A bill that would prohibit the use of student fees to pay for academic, instructional or health care buildings, equipment or payments they are paying on them.
Most officials react favorably to budget plan
- Proposed funding for non-student uses of student unions, such as faculty and administrative meetings, which now are partially funded by student activity fees;
- Proposed increases in the maximum amount of federal funds available for scholarships will increase the proposed bill increasing the number of scholarships available to students at state colleges.
- A proposed 100 percent fee waiver for graduate teaching assistants.
ASK's Bob Bingaman said that almost every legislator he walked to this week wanted to know what ASK's position would be on such a bill.
The executive director of the Associated Students of Kansas, the state student lobby group, said yesterday that changing the drinkable aide would be a "very hot issue."
Although a bill to raise the drinking age has not yet been introduced, most observers are confident that the issue will be raised this session.
If passed, the self-help amendment to the Landlord-Tenant Act would affect students who rent apartments or other housing.
The LA, with representatives from each member school, sets the issues for lobbying priority. KU has 23 voting members.
According to the bill's sponsor, State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, the amendment gives landowners the right to foresee and to comply with a rental agreement or with state health and building codes, if the landlord refused to make necessary improvements within a certain period.
Bingham said he expected a bill to be introduced, but that he didn't know when or where it would be heard. A bill a bill would be determined by the Legislative Assembly when it meets in Raleigh.
Landlords would not be liable for anything not already included in the existing act, Subbach said, and only necessary repairs could be made.
The amendment is expected to come
before a House Judiciary Committee for a vote in about two weeks.
Forer not to
By CINDY WHITCOME
Staff Reporter
When the administration concluded its internal review or the faculty members' meeting, a further action against Forer and Dillingham would be taken according to the official RU decision.
Most students employed by the University will receive an increase in salary from $2.90 to $3.10 an hour if the Legislature follows Gov. John Carcia's recommendation to raise wages.
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Dillingham could not be reached for comment, but Forer said he didn't think Dillingham was planning any action against the University now.
If the $550,000 additional federation aid pro- students at pri such as Ottawa College in Atchis
Norman Forer says he wants peace. And the KU associate professor of social welfare Sue Glover said she's against the KU administration concerning his status as an instructor during his conference.
But Forer yesterday called the threat of
Forer and Glacene Dillingham, a lecturer in the School of Social Welfare who taught at the University for five years, given 20 days of leave without pay after their unauthorized trip to France. Forer left Germany on May 1, 2015.
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1 wemy months after opening, the Art and Design Gallery in the Visual Arts building has its first alarm system.
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Each full-time in fees see Hall, Hall, Hall, the Kansai School, school pays up in student fees passes Bingame.
"I don't think further actions concerned, the Forer said.
Bingaman sai was adopted by effort to keep becoming overcoming more universities, more corporate state students to said.
A bill raising has been introduct legislators said spred by inter attempt to rest students admitt
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a new system, a sonic barrier alarm,
should be operational next week, according
to a study by the Institute of
School of Fine Arts. Thompson refused to
comment on the manufacturer, cost, or
"I won't raise said. "That is up Forer said if d bring charges a they would have
T. P. Srinivasa chapter of the University Prof the group did no
Sonic barrier alarms detect intruders by registering the sound waves the intruders create.
night protection daytime by stud
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The route to my birthingmother's house, which is in Birmingham, Ala., follows a trail of trees bearing masses of mistletoe on their bare limbs. The popular kissing catalyst provides a seasonal source of nectar for these animals, who common still springs of it door to door.
'winter' holidays
When Christmas does come, it's welcomed with a bang—literally. Although stricter firewalls have curtailed the tradition somewhat, Southern children still celebrate the day by shooting fireworks. Actually the weather is perfect for a couple of weeks before, but the biggest and best bangs are saved for Christmas Day and night.
For years, two cousins in Sampson, Ala., eagerly堆了 the caches of "ammunition" each had found stuffed in his stocking that morning.
"WE WOULD SHOOT them (freerackers) all day," said one of the cousins. "In fact, we had so many we
would run out of ways to shoot them. And we always shot the pretty stuff at night."
This custom dates back to before the Civil War, as a passage from the North Carolina Wilmington Daily Journal of Dec. 23, 1851, indicates:
"John Barleycorn retained his usual spirit . . . and out town authorities on Christmas generally let the boys have so far as mere noise is concerned."
Fortunately, for ear drums and safety's sake, there are some quieter Southern Christmas traditions, too, like eating.
University Daily Kansan
A favorite tasty tradition of Southerners is eating black-eyed peas on New Year's Day. It's supposed to peach you good luck.
So if you get the snowbound blues this
day, take your bus (27 hours), a car
(20 hours) or a plane (30 hours)
layover) and head south. Christmas
doesn't have to be cold or white to be
Christmas traditions
might, I could not find one single plastic-wrapped, beheaded, defeathered, Christmas bird in the city. Not one.
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The weather even seems to condone this lack of respect for Christmas tradition with sunshine and temperatures high enough to produce the English phenomenon called English roses. They are so common, I even found them in my
THE POOR ENGLISH children are the ones who suffer most from this lack of tradition. There is no Santa Claus.
That's right, no Santa. No merry reed-ruited "helpers" post themselves at every street corner and in every department store.
They do have Father Christmas.
However, I could not find anyone who
could tell me what he looked like. He seems only to embody the spirit of Christmas.
There is one lasting English ritual that seems to keep the Christmas spirit in the true American tradition—the carolers.
After nearly giving up on the English and their pathetic attempts to celebrate the holiday season properly, I heard several of them one night.
Opening the door to hear better, I was asked what he was wearing. He gave me the 50 piece set (about B) for worthy charity, I thought, Out of curiosity, I asked them which particular charity the man was affiliated with.
They looked at me in disbelief and said "Oh no mum. The money's for us, just us." There is hope for the English yet.
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