The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, September 17, 1980 Vol. 91, No. 18 USPS 650-640
StudEx panel praises ASK; Senate acts on report tonight
By DIANE SWANSON Staff Reporter
The Student Senate executive committee last night voted to accept its subcommittee's progress report on student membership in the report to the Senate of Kansai University and the report to the Senat for its approval tonight.
If the report is approved, KU will remain a member of the statewide lobbying group.
According to the Senate's revenue code, StudEx must prepare a progress report each year on ASK and submit it to the Senate for a vote on continuing or discontinuing membership.
THE NINE-PAGE report voices support for KU's membership in ASK and cities several pieces of legislation that ASK has lobbied for effectively.
Among ASK's legislative successes are:
killing the House bill to change the residency requirements for in-state tuition from one year to six months for those 21-year-old or older;
killing a House bill to raise tuition for foreign students to 60 percent of the budget;
and passing a House bill to give state aid to Washburn University and Kansas community colleges.
The report, compiled by Jim Borelli, Matt Keenan and Bren Abbott, StuDEx members, said "ASK is effective in lobbying for those issues it addresses. The continued funding of ASK also be contingent, however, on the effective application of the KU ASK organization."
The report then recommended that the Senate vote to fund KU's membership in ASK for 1980-81 and vote to approve several requirements concerning KU delegates.
The second recommended requirement calls for the Legislative Assembly delegates to be chosen by a three-member selection board consisting of the campus ASK director, the Minority Affairs committee chairman and the Student Rights committee chairman.
The first requirement asks for more effort at informing students of ASK Legislative Assemblies and the delegate selection, including advertisements before and after the assemblies.
Getting minority students involved in ASK and the Semester has been a problem the groups have with the program.
THE RECOMMENDATION originally called for the Services committee chairman to serve on the board. After some discussion and an unsuccessful motion to put the student body president on the board, the Minority Affairs Committee chairman was decided for the spot.
Jeff Evans, KU ASK campus director said the students involved would help "to encourage community involvement."
student body president assists in selecting the camus director.
Matt Davs, student body vice president,
dismissed the idea that the student body
president should serve on the selection board.
He said that it would be better to have more input in selecting delegates, and that someone with fewer time commitments should be chosen. The
The third requirement concerned KU issues. After lengthy debate, the committee voted to recommend that KU ASK delegates, with the guidance of the commission, establish legislation and lobbying for those issues that specifically effect KU, as well as issues on the state level.
BEFORE BEING AMENDED, the requirement made the campus director solely responsible for organizing lobbying efforts on KT issues.
Bob Frigo, graduate student and former ASK delegate, said that that was not practical, however, because the campus director was hired by ASK and was responsible for state issues first.
A sub item recommending that ASK's primary emphasis be on educational issues was struck
According to Evans, "You will find that 75 percent of what ASK works on is educational."
At the same time, he said, the proposed recommendation put undue emphasis on strictly educational issues and would have caused concern about whether lobbying on issues such as raising the drinking age was an educational matter
ASK is against raising the legal age for the purchase of 3.2 beet to 21.
Classified salaries on Regents agenda
The report concluded that the need for an annual review of KU's membership in ASK could have been avoided.
By CINDI CURRIE Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
One of KU's priorities at the Board of Regents meetings tomorrow and Friday is discussion of additional funds needed for classified employee benefits. The university also has a cooperative secretary of the University, said yesterday.
Salary increases for classified employees are based on a three-step merit system, whereby employees with the best evaluations receive the largest salary increases.
The Council of Presidents and the Board of regents will discuss which estimation to present (the report) at the meeting.
Von Ende said the state budget director allocated enough money to cover an estimated average increase of one and one-half steps per employee, but the Board of Regents had estimated earlier that it would need an average of a two-step increase per employee.
According to the new merit plan passed by the Kansas Legislature last year, a "three" evaluation would give an employee a 9 percent salary raise, a "two" would mean a 6 percent increase, a "one" would mean a 4 percent increase. An employee receiving a zero evaluation would receive no increase in salary.
Classified employees are evaluated annually.
and an employee may go up or down the evaluation scale each year.
Von Ende said the first merit increases would be July 1 and the University budget had to be doubled.
Martin Jones, University director of business and fiscal affairs, said the Board of Regents budget allocated $1.2 million for classified employees' salary increases and expected the state budget director's recommendation to be lower.
Von Ende said it was important to get the higher average allocation per employee app-
"We're going to do our best to get at least the average of two steps per employee," Von Ende
He said the other Regents agenda items of importance to the Lawrence campus were consideration of the banner policy and the approval of the school's increased number of hours for graduation.
The School of Education changed its program from tour to four years and increased graduation rates.
KU's banner policy will be examined Friday morning by the Legislative, By-Laws and Policy Committee, which will make its recommendations to the Resents that afternoon.
The banner policy has been under fire from
free speech groups at the University, who most recently opened up of 12 students at the University last May.
Von Ende said the committee had the report of the Blue Ribbon Committee on the Freedom of Speech. He did not know whether Acting Attorney General would be asked to report to the committee, he said.
rine Regents have some "housekeeping items" on the agenda for KU, Von Wonde said, including approval of the purchase of three new vehicles for the University.
The preliminary plans for the health science library at the University of Kansas Medical Center also will be discussed at the Regents meeting, Von Ende said. The Regents also will consider the proposed Med Center fee rate increases that will pay for the library.
He said the fee schedule had to be included in the legislation that approved the allocation of funds for the project.
The Regents also will discuss how to enforce legislation passed last session that authorizes any state agency to withhold paychecks if employees have outstanding fines or loans.
von Ende said he thought the Regents would let each university develop its own policy as long as it did not become a university.
The department of business and fiscal affairs would decide the policy for KU, he said.
Temperatures plummet; storms batter state
The unexpected wintry temperatures that swept through Lawrence yesterday were caused by a cold air mass that began in Canada and moved across the Dakotas and the central plains, David Rehlan, KU weather service forecaster, said yesterday.
The fronts that moved across Kansas and Missouri also produced storms that caused heavy rainfall and hail in some parts of the two-state region.
Relihan said the 69 degree temperature recorded yesterday set a new minimum high.
the northeast Kansas counties of Nermah Brown and Jackson. Pea-sized hail and heavy rain accompanied by gusty winds were reported by police in northeast Johnson County.
large region.
Severe thunderstorm warnings were issued for
The record minimum high temperature was 74 degrees and was set in 1895 and 1931.
Elihan said that temperatures recorded by 6 p.m. yesterday missed the record low by 14 degrees.
He said temperatures ahead of the mass were in the mid 10s, while directly behind it they were in the mid 30s.
The cold air mass extended from the central plains to the Texas panhandle, he said.
He said, however, that temperatures would not be as hot as they had been during the past few months.
The cold front will be moving slowly northeast, Reilhan said, and a warm front will be moving southwest.
BEN BIGLER/Kansan staff
Bob McReyer, Mission senior, twists and turns in an effort to kick a soccer ball during a recent practice near Memorial Stadium.
Breweries hire student reps to promote campus beer sales
Bv RAY FORMANEK
The campus representatives serve as liaisons between the beer distributors and retailers and a variety of things just short of giving the students an opportunity to get thrury KU students to drink their products.
Staff Reporter
"I spend about 15-20 hours a week putting up posters, fliers and making calls," David O'Hara, Shawnee Mission senior and Schiltz campus representative, said yesterday.
Breweries have been tapping college campuses in recent years to find representatives to help them promote their products.
O'Hara, who has been a Schiltz campus representative for more than a year, said much of his time was spent trying to improve the image of the beer on campus.
"The other reps have a beer with a good name to dae with on campus," he said, "I had to have a drink."
He said part of his salary of about $100 a month was paid by the brewery and part by the local distributor. Other KU campus representatives were also paid. He refused to disclose the amounts they were paid.
Another representative, Randy Knotts,
Leawood junior and campus representative for
Olympia Brewing Co., goes a bit further in his promotion.
Knottas said he made a point of asking for Kyle when he went out and had asked his friends to do this.
"If enough people ask for my beer, they'll get it," he said.
KNOTTS RECENTLY USED the tactic successfully at a bar that didn't serve Oly.
See REPRESENTATIVE page 5
Weather
It should be mostly sunny by this afternoon with south to southwesterly winds at 18 to 18 mph. The high will be about 75, according to the KU weather.
Service.
Service
Skies will be fair tonight with light southerly winds and low temperatures
KU prof interested in Creole culture
Tomorrow there will be mostly fair skies with the high in the low 80s.
About 15 years ago, he also fell in love with Harriet Croole, the language of Haiti's common people.
By VANESSA HERRON Staff Reporter
Bryant Freeman was reared in Connecticut, where he teaches college French. But he is in Paris.
This semester, Freeman rounded up scarce
materials and advertised a class on campus bulletin board.
"I've been at 60 countries, and Haiti is the most exciting and I freeman, professor of French." I wished to be there.
As a result, the University of Kansas is one of
Halton Universities in the country that teaches
Halton College.
A PROFESSOR AT Indiana University teaches Croole and wrote the textbook that
The class is open to all students, Freeman said, but he recommended that students take at least two years of college French before trying to learn Haitian Creole.
Once students know the basics of French, Creole is relatively easy to master, he said.
Haitian Creole is a stripped-down mixture of African dialects and French. It is spoken by six million people in Haiti.
There are no genders, few articles and no extra letters, he said.
For example, "eau," the French word for water, is both spelled and pronounced "o" in words like *eu*.
HAITIAN CREOLE was born 300 years ago when slaves brought from Africa to Haitian plantations formed a new language in order to understand their French masters as well as each
"It doesn't comply with the ridiculous spelling rules that still are hanging on in French," Freeman said.
"It combined several African dialects and French as heard by African ears," Freeman
Everyone in Haiti speaks Creole, Freeman said, but the written form of the language was not standardized until 1940. 1979 was the first year that Creole was taught in Haiti grade
Although Haiti won its independence in 1804, Frenchmen in the official Haitian language spoken by people in Haiti
"They realized it was ridiculous to hit these students with their language like French on first day of school, of course."
LAST WEEK, TIME magazine reported that teachers in some New York City schools would be required to learn Haitian Creole after
thousands of Haitian boat people immigrated to that city this year.
Hati is a beautiful, mountainous island with rich, dark soil. Freeman said, but it is also one of the nicest places in the world.
There are now about one million Haitians in the United States and Canada, Freeman said, and many of them fled their country to escape poverty and illiteracy.
Ninety percent of the people cannot read or use English language, and the average life expectancy is 80.
Duvailer kept order with the aid of a secret police force called "Ton Ton Mecoute."
The Haitian people are pessimistic, Freeman said. In Haiti, a common answer to "How are you?" is, "No worse." The people also have a saying: "Deye mon, gin mon."
Alexandre left Haiti in the early 60s when he was 17 years old. He has not seen his country
In the 68s, Haiti was ruled by Pressident-for-
life Francis Duvalier, Alexandre said.
"Literally, it means, 'Behind the mountains, more mountains.' " Freeman said, "but it also means. If you're not happy today, don't worry. You won't be happy tomorrow, either."
SOME HAILTANS left their country to escape persecution, said Mario Alexandre, a Haitian graduate student who helps Freeman teach Creole.
"The name is hard to explain, but the image is one of an uncle carrying an empty bag and you don't know what's in the bag." Alexandre said. "It's kind of like the booie, ie man."
Haiti is about 90 percent Catholic, Freeman said, but almost all Haitian believe in dark secrets.
"A lot of the people there who are into Catholicism are also into voodoo," he said.
Freeman said he had been to about 25 voodoo ceremonies and was a close friend of a voodoo priestess. He said the dark religion was used to control people who believed in it.
"I know that if you believe an Ouanga, or death curse, has been put on you, you could die," he
Freeman said he had seen many sides of Haiti since his first visit 22 years ago.
He has seen the manicured lawns of the elite and the mansions of President Jean Claude Duvalier. He also has visited the huts of the poor and understand their superstitions and their wisdom.
H I HIS SOUENEVI-cluttered office, Freeman wrote two Haitian Creele handbooks that he said were "well known."
Freeman said he probably would return to Haiti this year.
"It's only an hour and forty minutes from Miami," he said. "You can get there in a day."