KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, September 8, 1980 Vol. 91, No. 11
BEN BIGLER/Kansan staff
BEN BIOLEK/Ransan Haiti KU and K-State canoeists plunge into the Blue River near Manhattan to prepare for the start of the KU-K-State canoe race sponsored by the universities' residence hall organizations. The canoeists then traveled down the Kansas River to reach Lawrence.
Promises of trophy, beer lure canoeists down Kaw
Rv JENNIFER LISTON
Staff Reporter
A Kansas State University residence hall team may have won the hall division of the KU-KState canoe race yesterday, but an independent Lawrence team called the Rogues beat K-State's time by almost two hours.
And the Rogues didn't even get a trophy for their time of 15 hours, 34 minutes. That's because they are awarded only to be awarded ball teams. Of the event's five treenements went to Manhattan.
The first KU team to finish the race was a group of Joseph R. Pearson and Lewis hall See CANOE page 5
Beverly Zimmerman, Jody Metcalf and Jeff Greene, part of the K-State Van Zile residence hall team, rejoice after finishing first among the residence halls entered in the KU-K-State canoe race Saturday and Sunday.
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Canoe teams change crews and continue down the Kansas River near Wamego.
U.S. Senate vote tables proposal for loan program
By BILL VOGRIN
Staff Reporter
A conference committee report that would have created a new government-backed education loan program for parents and would have raised loan limits and interest rates on student loans was tabled and sent back to the governor to defeat last Thursday night in the U.S. Senate.
The report had been defeated by two votes but the senators voted against it asked for another. The senators
The conference committee was convened when the Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives pass a bill different bills on education matters. The committee will discuss to discuss the bills and work out a compromise.
THE COMMITTEE'S REPORT would have authored most major higher education programs through the 1985-86 academic year. Students from Kansas voted differently on the report.
"I have always been a strong supporter in higher education, and I want very much to see legislation passed in support of higher education, but this sort of thing is irresponsible," Kassebaum said last week from her office in Washington D.C.
"There were some excesses built into this bill that allowed them a hard time living with in the future," she says.
According to Kassabue, the house-proposed Legislation would have to loan an extra $2 billion in cash for the construction of a new school.
THE RE-AUTHORIZATION report contained 10 major provisions, including the loan program for parents and the higher loan limits and interest rates on student loans.
The conference report, according to David Bushong, a legislative assistant to Kassebum, would have raised the maximum Basic Equalization scale from 6.75 to 8.25 and creased it on a sliding scale to $2.600 by 1985-86.
The conference report called for an increase in the maximum on the Supplemental State Incentive Grant, up to $2,000, and raised the maximum available from the Guaranteed Student Loan to $3,000 for independent students, increasing the aggregate student maximum for four years to $12,000 and to $25,000 for graduate students.
The report proposed increasing the interest rate on charged borrowing with no interest charged while borrowing with no interest charged.
Bushong said the report would have increased the interest rate charged on National Direct Student loans to 4 percent and established an institutional loan program that would have additional funding to institutions that attracted a high percentage of minority students.
See BILL page 5
Plant sale avoids controversy
Staff Reporter
By KATHY BRUSSELL
With the temperature topping up at 89 degrees and the humidity seeming just as high, Friday afternoon had definitely passed the comfortable mark.
Inside the big red-and-white-striped tent just east of Memorial Stadium, however, the climate was even hotter and steamer than it was outside.
The tent was the site of the third annual plant sale sponsored by the KU Commission on the Status of Women. As the afternoon wore on and the last of the week's classes ended, business at the tent picked up and customers lined up at the single wooden table to make their purchases.
ON THE SECOND-TO-LAST day of the sale, the sizing temperature seemed to be the only hot aspect of the event, unlike last year, when it sparked criticism from a local businessman.
Last September, Fred Pence, owner of Pence Garden Centers, charged that the week-long sale was competing unfairly with local plant shops because the women's commission had no overhead or property taxes to pay and had no license to sell plants. Pence took his complaints to former Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, the Board of Regents, the Lawrence City Commission and Gov. John Carlin, but he received no official ruling on the matter.
Sally Turner, last year's president of the women's commission, sent a letter explaining the group's position to Pence. Dykes, Carlin, the University Journal-World and the University Daily Kansan.
THE LETTER SAID that according to local and state officials, the commission was a non-profit organization operating the sale on a short-term basis. The commission is not responsible for property taxes or the need for a vendor's license.
The commission did incur overhead costs from renting the tent, advertising and trucking in the produce, but it was still able to the plants at prices comparable to those of the local supermarkets and discount department stores, the letter said.
An employee of the store at 15th and New York Streets said Saturday that the sale already had been going on for three weeks, but another one would be coming soon, and the sale probably would continue this week.
Jim Freeman, general manager of the store, said Pence's sale corresponded to the women's commission sale only in that 'it was held at the time the students come back. We want to get
Pence said Saturday that he had no comment on what Mr. Clinton would do, he would raise the issue of unfair competition and
Pence Garden Centers have been running a half-price plant sale that was extended into last week.
WARM
Weather
It should be mostly sunny and hot today with a high around 94. Winds should be from the south at 10-15 mph, according to the KU Weather Service.
The chance of tundershowers will continue into Tuesday, with a 40 percent chance of rain. The high should be around 84 with mostly cloudy skies.
The extended forecast calls for a gradual warming trend, with highs in the low 80s Wednesday climbing to the upper 80s Friday. The lows should be around 60 Wednesday and in the upper 60s by Friday.
There is a 30 percent chance of there showers left tonight with a low near 85.
them to buy from us when they're decorating their rooms and apartments," he said.
Boaz, Prairie Village junior, said the commission made about $1,300 on this year's sale, which ran from Aug. 31 to Sept. 6. The group's profit last year was about $1,075, she said.
Gail Boaz, secretary of the women's commission, said the group had heard nothing from the judge.
"I think the final feeling last year was that if your sale was wrong then so were garage sales, (Kansas) Union food sales and any other fundraiser," said. "There was a very fine line between them."
THE COMMISSION on the Status of Women receives some Student Senate funding, but holds the plant sale to raise additional money to sponsor speakers, films and the annual Women's Recognition Night, a banquet and awards ceremony held each spring at KU. Boaz said.
"Iown all the plants in this tent; it is as simple as that," Nancy Wilson, owner of Anything Grows, said. "As they are sold, the commission makes a percentage of the top of the gross. The biggest role I play is assuming financial responsibility. The commission does the rest."
For the first time, the commission had a local grower, Anything Grows, 6, E. Ninth St., supply the crop.
Wilson said she thought that having a local dealer supply the sale might minimize complaints from area businessmen because all the complaints are being going in Lawrence, instead of going out of the state.
ASIDE FROM ONE case of minor vandalism, this year's sale went smoothly. Boa said.
The one incident, she said, occurred last Thursday night while Paul Lewis, another commission member, and a friend were spending the night in the tent to guard the plants.
According to Lewis, Schwab sophomore, two men came to the tent about 12:30 a.m. and lifted a ladder.
"I called out to them, and they said they were just looking for some other guys," Lewis said. "They put down the flap and then a few minutes later we saw the end of the tent collapsed."
LEWIS SAID THE men apparently cut the ropes at the north end of the 40-by-80-foot tent, causing one-third of the tent to collapse and pull out several stakes in the process.
See PLANT page 5
Senate has $17,337 available for budget hearings this month
By DIANE SWANSON
The Student Senate has $17,337 available for supplementary funding of student organizations this fall. Bren Abbott, Student Senate treasurer, said last Friday.
Organizations have until 5 p.m. Friday to submit their budget requests. The Senate Finance and Auditing committee will begin reviewing the budget for Sept. 22, and will continue the next three nights.
Abbott said he did not foresee a funding shortage but added that the Senate would not burden the budget.
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"We're not going to give out money just because it's there. They'll have to justify their own costs."
According to Abbott, about 20 forms had been
He said he urged organizations to take as much time as possible in filling out the forms, and said he didn't expect many applications to be returned until the deadline.
ANY STUDENT organization registered with the institution to participate in activities, is eligible to request funding.
Requests are submitted to the Senate treasurer, who reviews and submits the applications to the Finance and Auditing Committee. The committee then submits its recommendations to the Senate, which determines the final allocations.
The Senate treasurer designs the budget request applications. Abbott said a few changes had been made on this year's form.
picked up but none had been returned as of last Friday.
past, each organization must itemize See BUGET page 5
Director of admissions resigns post
By CINDI CURRIE
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
John Myers, director of admissions and records at the University of Kansas since 1974, submitted his resignation Friday effective Oct. 1.
Myers, 40, will be working for the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce as director of the convention and visitor's bureau, Glenn West, president of the Chamber of Commerce, said yesterday.
West said the bureau was a new division formed to attract convention groups and visitors to the fair.
MYERS GRADUATED from KU in 1982 with undergraduate degrees in math and chemistry. He taught advanced placement math and college classes at high schools in Hawitha and Horton.
In 1964, Myers returned to the University to work on his masters degree in counseling psychology. During that time he worked in the student personnel and service office.
Myers moved into the former dean of men's
office in 1968 as the associate dean of men. In that position he worked with scholarship hall programs and Corbin College, a former department of freshman-sophomore programs when the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences was broken into junior colleges.
He became assistant director of admissions and records in 1868 and in 1898 became associate
THE NEXT THREE years, Myers was director of school relations programs. The program worked with alumni and the admissions department at University and establish imprints which publish articles.
In 1974, Myers returned to the office of admissions and records to become director.
As director, Myers handles admissions to the University and programs for prospective students. He is also on the Student Affairs Research committee, the American College Testing Program research committee and is chairman of Parents' Day activities.
He is also adviser to the Alpha Kappa Lambda social fraternity at KU and is active in the Chamber of Commerce and the First Methodist Church.