THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 90, No. 42 free on campus The University of Kansas-Lawrence, Kansas 10 cents off campus Tuesday, October 23, 197
Tuesday, October 23,1979
JEFF HETLER/Kansan staff
Psychic reflection
sandra Harper's psychic abilities enable her to see into the past, present and future of people who come to her for psychic predictions and analysis. Her clients are people from
all walks of life and from all over the country. Harper has one client who calls her regularly from Washington, D.C. for predictions over the telephone.
Psychic perceives subconscious messages
Staff Renorter
By TONI WOOD
The memories and impressions of a lifetime have been collected, filed and neatly packaged into layered images that most people don't know exist.
It's her way of getting to know a stranger. She doesn't have to ask about her client's past. She can see it.
she doesn't have to ask how he is feeling or what mood he is in. She can see that too, in the colors that radiate from his body.
But psychic Harper can see those cloudy dimensions, can get into a client's personal files, and can dredge up memories, painful events and harpy occaions.
She answers the questions without hestitation, speaking in a quiet, professional voice.
For $25, a client can spend 30 minutes with Sandra and can ask outrageous questions. "When will I marry?" "Will I live with Sandra or career?" "Is my house really haunted?"
SANDRA'S OFFICE is her kitchen, one of three rooms she and her cat occupy in the back of a large white house in North Lawrence.
ine setting is quiet and relaxing. Her appearance is also calming—long, wavy,
rou hair, a cotton dress that falls shapelessly to the floor and an Egyptian amulet around her neck.
But if the client pays money for dramatics, he is in the wrong kitchen. Sandra is lery of psychics who depend on too much energy, such as Tarot cards.
"I have a sense of knowing what someone else is thinking," she said. "I see visual images and I hear things."
"It's nothing unusual. It's something everybody has."
SANDRA'S CLIENTS include basically everyone, some who have become regular customers. She has one client in Washington and another in California, reading over the telephone.
"When I plug in, it just keeps coming,
sometimes I know what I want,
but sometimes I want to know everything. Most of the time, what I tell them is helpful and can help prepare me."
to be—healing, supportive or informative."
"I become whatever someone needs me
Sandra was recently hired to "read" the clothing of a woman who had been murdered. She said the clothes had a warm, bloody and nerve sensation.
By coming in contact with the clothing of victims, Sandra can sometimes tell the setting of the crime, who the victim was or other circumstances of the crime.
CLIENTS OFTEN bring objects, such as clothing or pictures, for Sandra to read. One widow brought a picture of her first husband and asked Sandra to contact him.
The widow was about to marry for the second time, and wanted her first husband's approval. Sandra saw the man's image as an oval shape by the woman's
Sandra is not frightened by contacting the dead, including ghosts in haunted houses. She said her first apartment in Brooklyn was home to a victim of a man who committed suicide there.
Sandra said the first husband gave his approval to the marriage, but was worried about the relationship between their son and the second husband.
Sandra often heard a tired, slow voice calling, "Sandy, Sandy." She also heard dragging footsteps outside her door and
many of her belongings were moved around.
She was recently in a house in Kansas City that at one time had been a nursing home. Sandra and the room was haunted by the memory of people that it was painful for her to be there.
SANDRA'S POWERS go beyond psychic readings. One of those powers is still undeveloped, but involves moving objects by mental concentration.
She was in her living room one night waiting for a phone call. She said she was in the middle of an intense concentration caused a Fertos bag on the other side of the room to pop open, and then she ran into the hallway.
"I'd like to fake my mind into cleaning up my apartment," she said.
Sandra says her an 85 to 10 percent accuracy rate. That level can be tested because Sandra readily offers predictions, especially those for people who may not be happy a person will be in 20 years.
Sandra said she predicted the date, place and event of Gov. George Wallace's attempted assassination in 1972.
In the early 198s, she predicted that Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass, would be elected president in 1980 and re-elected in 1984. She still stands by that prediction.
Suicides predictable, preventable
BY LYNN BYCZYNSKI
Staff Reporter
David is a junior, a pre-med major with good grades, many friends, close family ties. He's thinking about killing himself.
David never before had any doubts about his future—be would go to medical school and become a doctor as his father and grandfather had. But now his dreams are slipping away. He has been the chemistry last semester and now he's worried about his grade in biostatistics.
David is a fictitious character, but his plight is very real. And suicidal feelings seem to be much more common than in the past. The University of Kansas was in previous years.
no statistics on student suicides are kept at KU. Of the eight persons who killed themselves in Lawrence that month, 10 of the students whose names are removed from the enrollment lists each year, there is no notation of how many died by their own hand.
The only information on the student
Sydney Schroeder, a psychiatrist at alpine Mines Medical Center, told patients who had made suicidal "gesture" continued, it would mean an increase of 10 to 18 percent from
And, according to those people—psychologists, counselors, police officers—the cries for help that usually preceded them are increasing dramatically this semester.
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suicide rate comes from people who face the issue in the course of their jobs.
"I can't explain it. It goes up and down from year to year. This year it looks like it's going to be um." Scherdep said it.
"We've had six contacts in the past week," she said.
Ruth Mikkeison, associate director of residential programs, said four people had attempted suicide in KU residence halls so
Scott Jarsus, graduate assistant at the KU Information Center, said he had noted an increase in "personal assistance" calls, the category that includes potential suicides.
The fictitious student, David, however, illustrates traits that many counselors say are a common ground for most suicides.
far this semester, compared with 13 last year. All the attempts were unsuccessful.
David, first of all, is suffering from a loss of self-esteem. A great loss, be it of a boyfriend or girlfriend, or at something less painful, may result in a lack of confidence, can trigger a suicide depression.
WHAT HAS caused the increase in suicidal feelings among KU students this year? There are no definite answers to the question, and not even any theories.
"There are as many reasons as there are suicides," Gary Bachman, assistant director of Headquarters, said.
devil also is losing his dream of being a doctor and, in his mind, is letting his family down. The thought of disappointing others another trait shared by many asocial individuals
students. For example, studies show that suicide
rates are higher at the beginning of the semester than at other times and that suicides are more likely to occur among students than among others, Neeringer said.
"It seems to be a problem of adjustment," Charles Neuringer, a professor of neurochology, said.
And, contrary to expectations, mid-terms and finals do not boost the suicide rate.
"Everyone thinks exams are traumatic, but there really doesn't seem to be a problem," Neuringer said. "A test may be the last straw in, and of itself, it is not a crucial one."
OTHER STATISTICS offer no precise explanations, but can draw a profile of student suicides.
More women than men attempt suicide, but twice as many men are successful.
More graduate than undergraduate students kill themselves.
succents who live alone are more likely to commit suicide than those who have roommates.
See SUICIDES page three
Two Kansas legislators express serious doubt yesterday about the chances of formula funding being approved for use in Regents institutions.
Hayden, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said adoption of the present formula funding proposal would require schools to "chase an entrance fee."
Legislators skeptical about formula funding
BvJEFFSJERVEN
Staff Reporter
"We need to determine whether the formula would require cuts in funding for these schools or would call only for raising funds for schools where a deficiency was shown."
State Sen. Arnold Berman, D-DLawrence,
and State Sen. Katherine Hogan, both
legislators had doubt about using the funding levels of selected peer universities as benchmarks for the formula
"The Regents say they want to bring in more high school teachers to the average of their peers, Berman said. "They are two regents schools, Pittsburgh State and Emporia State, have funds that exceed the budget."
HAYDEN ALSO said it was dangerous to compare funding in Kansas with that in other states.
"Comparing KU's budget with the ones from other companies is anything," he said. "That doesn't take into account the different income tax rates, property tax rates and standards of living in the city."
"As we improve funding at our schools," Hayden said, "so does everybody else, especially in these times of severe inflation. Is that a good benchmark to base our fun
The peer institutions of the University of Kansas are the University of Colorado, the University of town, the University of North Carolina and the University of Oklahoma and the University of Oregon.
Formula funding does not fit well with many types of university programs, Hayden said.
HAYDEN SAID the legislature was not likely to approve formula funding for computing the fiscal 1981 budgets of Regents schools.
UNDER FORMULA funding, according to a report by the Regents task force on funding, each university prepares a budget request for programs already in existence. Each university also calculates a "benechmark funding at peer schools" from analyzing funding at peer schools.
"The intent of the formula funding proposal is to give a picture of how Regents schools compare to their peers," Lowman said. "Great care was taken in choosing the students in states with similar population patterns, academic emphasis and tax bases."
James Lowman, dean, at the KU school of medicine and a member on the Regents task force on funding, said the funding formula was based on the benchmark for determining school budgetets.
"The Legislature will move very slowly on this," he said. "At most, it might decide to use the formula to determine funds in one year." But that is a very openist outlook."
"No comparison is perfect. There is not another, Kansas."
However, the report said, the Legislature and governor are not obliged to adhere precisely to funding requests based on the new formula.
The benchmark is computed by considering the level of funding, the number of student credit hours and the size of each university.
Last year Regents schools calculated budget requests under the new formula. However, Gov John Carlin decided to use a full-time equivalent enrollment.
Late pay irks committee
The TIAM invests the retirement fund principal in mortgages and other annuities, while the CREF invests the principal in stocks.
By DAVE LEWIS Staff Reporter
The Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and the College Retirement Assistance Program pay 8% percent interest on the deductions for the faculty member's
Under University retirement programs, 5 percent of the budget is dedicated each month. The University then matches the deduction, making the total retirement contribution 10 percent of the budget.
"The loss per faculty member per month is in the range of $0 to $50 depending on the department." The report said, "However, cumulative losses are employer- statewide are considerable over time."
if the TIAA and the GREF do not receive the deductions within a 30-day grace period from the first of each month, they will not receive them from the faculty member's retirement fund
Each time a paycheck is late, the State Division of Accounts and Reports (DAR) can not send any deductions to the appraisal resultin resulting in the loss of a moll's interest.
some faculty use tax Shetterley and others. If the HAA and the CREF, TSA deductions are handled separately by the DAR, but must be used when the other retirement funds are used.
the committee recommended that the deductions be wired to the retirement companies instead of mailed.
the acuity members who participate in the faculty injury members who participate in the TIAA or the CAM companies that companies do not allow a 30-day grace period.
NEITHER COBLER or Martin were available yesterday to comment on the late paycheeks or the committee's recommendations.
"The U.S. mail service to TIAA/CREF is slow," the report said. "Perhaps payment could be wired, gaining time for institutions and risking of late payments."
The committee report said, "The State requirement that the basic and supplemental payroll must be recruited before the DAR results are released to the DAR results in all faculty risk loss.
"Second, changes in employment and the addition of new faculty increase the chance for error in record information."
The "payroll process contains several elements which may contribute to lateness. First, the state reporting requirements have a heavy load on University bookkeeping.
THE COMMITTEE suggested that the DAR include the retirement fund problem in its study of the State's payroll system.
The Faculty rights committee recommended that James Cobler, director of the DAR, and Martin Jones, KU's associate director of business affairs, seek to change the institution's policies to hold University staff deductions until all are received before sending them in.
The DAR began a study in August to determine the needs of the State's payroll system.
The committee further recommended that the University and state should:
- Inform those faculty investing or considering investing in private voluntary TSA
See PAYCHECKS page seven
Activity fee raise needed to keep pace with inflation
Staff Reporter
By ELLEN IWAMOTO
Staff Reporter
An increase in student activity fees is a benefit for students. The student organizations funded through the Student Senate Revenue Code, Margaret Berlin, student body president said.
"The increase would be at least 90 cents per student," Berlin said.
The increase is necessary, she said, to keep up with inflation.
Under tbl Senate revenue code, fourteen
of the 11.129 student set a percentage
of the $11.129 student enrollment. A portion of the fee also is set aside for other student organizations and
expenses.
"The maximum increase could be about $2." Berlin said. "But it will probably be only 90 cents."
ORGANIZATIONS are included in the revenue code if they serve a large number of students. We have well-established on campus and must have a record of spending their total allocation
Berlin said she did not think asking for an increase in student activity fees was unreasonable.
For example, she said, the KU Bands have not had an increase in their allocation in 10 years.
The Concert and Chamber Music Series
would like to include funding for its summer music series, Berlin said, and probably will request an increase in its allocation.
"We haven't had an increase in student activity fees for quite a while," she said. We're trying to be as cost-efficient as possible.
IF A STUDENT activity fee increase is needed, Bedin said, the request would have to be approved by Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and the Kansas Board of Regents.
During spring budget hearings, Berlin said, each organization in the revenue code must come before a Student Senate committee to justify its block allocation.
"These groups are deemed as being worthy and responsible to receive funding every year." Berlin said.
Organization funded under the revenue code and the portion each receives from the $11.10 student activity paid by each student are:
Recreation Advisory Board, $2.55
University Daily Kansan, $2.25
Theatre, $80; University Concert Series,
$125; Band, $30; KU Fonerics, $10; JKH-KF M-
Radio, $25; Legal Services Council, $12;
Associate Student Council, $8; Adjunct
Student Council, $41; Architecture and Urban Design
Council, $02; Student Bar Association, $02;
Student Senate, $58; student organizations,
$25 or the $5 for the Senate's unallocated
fund.