University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, November 18, 1986
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News Briefs
Lawrence resident guilty of drug crime
A Lawrence man who was indicted in July on cocaine-related charges pleaded guilty yesterday in Douglas County, District Court.
Jack G. Houk, 34, 541 Arizona St., pleaded guilty to an amended charge in front of District Judge James Paddock
Hook pleaded guilty to one count of delivering cocaine. He was originally charged with one count of selling cocaine.
Paddock accepted Houk's plea and set Dec. 16 as the sentencing date.
Student reports rape
Houk was released on a $10,000 recognizance bond.
11. Charlie Greer, Lawrence Police spokesman, said the student reported the incident after she woke up unclothed at a fraternity house on Tennessee Street.
A 17-year-old KU student reported that she had been raped between 9:30 p.m. Saturday and 2:45 a.m. Sunday, according to Lawrence police reports.
The woman attended a party at the fraternity Saturday night and had become intoxicated, Greer said. She did not remember being raped, Greer said. He said the student received medical attention.
Lawrence police are in vestigating the case.
Historian to speak
A noted Vietnam War historian will speak on "Vietnam and American Military Policy" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Gallery West of the Kansas Union.
Alexander P. Cochran, head of research and analysis at the Center of Military History in Washington, D.C., will deliver the speech.
Cochran, who has a doctorate in history from KU, served during the Vietnam War as a historian accompanying troops into battle.
The Center of Military History is a government agency that researches military history. The KU department of education is sponsoring the speech, which is free and open to the public.
Kansan forms due
The applications for news staff positions on the Kansan are due at 5 p.m. today. Applications are available in 119 and 200 Stauffer Flint Hall.
Applicants should sign up for interviews beginning Thursday morning in the Kansan newsroom, 111 Stauffer Flint Hall.
Officials to meet
TOPEKA — Gov. John Carlin will meet today with Governor-elect Mike Hayden to discuss what type of emergency budgetary action must be taken to make up for staggering shortfalls in projected state tax revenues.
Carlin told a statehouse news conference that as a gesture of non-partisan good faith he would give Hayden a great deal of freedom in developing stopgap measures to keep state government in the black.
Economists and state budget officials predicted two weeks ago that tax collections at the budget year's end on June 30th would be $93 million less than the $1.86 billion forecast only eight months ago.
Weather
Today will be partly sunny but cooler with a high temperature in the upper 40s and northeastern winds at 5 to 15 mph. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a low temperature about 30.
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New laws to enlarge GSLs' size
By ALISON YOUNG
Larger Guaranteed Student Loans will be available to students who apply after Jan. 1, but fewer students will be eligible to receive them, KU's director of student financial aid said yesterday.
Staff writer
Undergraduate students now may receive a maximum of $2,500 per year from the GSL program. But because of new federal laws, which take effect Jan. 1, the limit for undergraduates will increase to $2,625 a year for the first two years of school, and $4,000 a year for each subsequent year.
Undergraduates may not receive more than $17,250 in loans.
The new laws also will increase the maximum amount graduate students may receive to $7,500 a year. In the past, the maximum amount received only $5,000 a year from the program.
A student's combined total of undergraduate and graduate loans cannot exceed $54,750.
With an 8-percent interest rate, a student with $2,500 in loans could be required to make payments of about $507 a month for five years.
Jerry Rogers, director of student financial aid, said yesterday that the increases were a mixed blessing.
Since Oct. 17, GSL eligibility has been calculated with the same formula as other federal aid programs: a formula that considers both family income and assets. Before the new law, the GSL program considered only family income.
"I think it's going to be a trade-off. Some will be able to have what they need," Rogers said, but they will be more in debt after graduation.
Although larger loans will be available, fewer students will be eligible for them. Rogers said.
Rogers said last month that about 900 KU students may not be eligible to renew their loans next year because the new GSL eligibility requirements
Five years is the usual maximum term for repayment, but shorter terms can be arranged with the student's lender.
The new laws are part of the Higher Education Amendments of 1986 signed by President Reagan on Oct. 17.
Dan Ruettimann/KANSAN
Clean jeans
features yesterday reaching into the 60s made the day perfect for Alpha Epsilon fraternity, 1301 West Campus Road. Today is expected to be partly sunny with highs in the 40s. These jeans were hanging on a balcony behind the Sigma
ASK outlines goals for 1987 session
Bv RFTH COPFIAND
Staff writer
TOPEKA — The Associated Students of Kansas included KU's "wish list" when outlining three priorities for the 1987 Kansas Legislative session at a news conference in Topeka yesterday.
As its first priority, ASK, a student lobbying group for the six state universities, will push for the release of surplus fees stemming from increases in student enrollment.
"Increases in enrollment put serious constraints on the quality of education," said Jason Krakow, KU's student lobbyist. "While we see the state facing budget cuts, those fees are money that KU has collected. Those fees are due to us."
Three universities, KU, Kansas State University and Pittsburgh State University, have requested fee releases. KU expects to receive about $1 million
Krakow, Prairie Village junior, said the other two priorities also reflected those of KU.
ASK opposes the present enrollment adjustment formula that increases financing when university enrolments rise and reduces financing when they drop.
Christine Graves, the group's executive director, said in a news release that the formula encourages universities to maintain or increase enrollment at the expense of educational standards. In short, she said, adjustment formulas encourage expanding programs, not improving quality of existing programs.
The six state universities are KU, Kansas State,
Wichita State University, Emporia State University,
Fort Hays State University and Pittsburg State
University.
All of those except KU's ASK delegation support an open admission policy, which admits students from all backgrounds.
Krakow said open admissions at state universities created an overlapping of programs because all the universities used a broad curriculum to attract students. Instead, he said, KU should limit its enrollment by admitting students on the basis of standardized test scores, high school class rank and perhaps high school grade point average.
The group's third priority, Graves said, would be to establish a program in which private employers would match state salaries for students in career-
related jobs.
Krakow said the University's ASK delegation also considered higher faculty salaries a priority.
The lobbying group supports the Board of Regents' request for an 8-percent increase in faculty salaries and and 1-percent increase in retirement benefits.
- supports the Regents request of an 8-percent increase for salaries of students employed on campus.
- In other areas of concern included in its platform, ASK;
- advocate a fund that would allow universities to provide more information on various aspects of post-secondary education.
- *supports expansion and improvement of academic advising and assistance for students.
- opposes mandatory drug testing in Regents schools.
- supports allowing immediate in-state residency status for persons and families who are recruited to Kansas by businesses or must transfer to Kansas to keep their jobs. The current residency requirement is 12 months.
Police raid taverns; 10 minors arrested
Staff writer
By RIC ANDERSON
Five of the 10 were arrested for being in taverns after 8 p.m., a violation of a city ordinance.
In routine bar checks this weekend, plain-clothes Lawrence police officers arrested 10 minors for alcoholic beverage violations, officers said yesterday.
Officer Ernest Gwin, Lawrence police spokesman, pointed out that a city ordinance required that people under 21, even if they were not drinking, could not stay in a bar past 8 p.m.
Two of the 10 were arrested after they tried to use false identification to purchase alcohol. Police also arrested another two for attempting to buy alcoholic beverages and arrested one for drinking beer in a tavern.
Gwin said police checked bars almost every weekend. Gwin said that the number of arrests depended on the number of officers doing the checks and the amount of time those officers had to investigate people in the bars.
Because of the KU-Nebraska football game Saturday, he said, more officers worked. Three or
four officers were assigned to check bars this weekend.
During a bar check, Gwin said, an officer will first make a head count to see whether the bar is overcrowded. If not, the officer will begin making spot checks to see whether minors are in the bar. Gwin said officers usually began by checking women because, in general, men look older than they actually are.
If enough underage women are found, he said, the officer can separate the women from the men and check everyone. If more than three or four violations are spoted, the manager of the bar will be given a citation.
Officer Jim Frink, also of the Lawrence police, said that although the number of arrests varied among weekends, police had cited many minors-
Frink said that because of stiffer drinking laws, which include stricter penalties for false identification, passed two years ago, he would advise people not to fabricate their identification.
"It's amazing the amount of driver's licenses we get that have been altered." he said.
Character drawn to race
'Zippy' is comic candidate
He's zany. He's a pinhead. And he's nationally syndicated.
"He's just a fun guy whose goal in life is to have adventures," Charles Munson, Leawood junior, said.
He's Zippy, a comic-strip character drawn by Bill Griffith, and he's a write-in candidate for student body president.
Munson, who along with a few friends started Zippy's write-in candidacy a few weeks ago, said Zippy's supporters wanted to poke fun at Student Senate and to protest the lack of important issues in the Senate race.
"We're having fun and trying to prod them a little, too," said Munson, who was a fine arts student senator this year but isn't running in this year's elections.
Munson said Zippy's campaign had received a mixed reaction from students.
He said he thought the Senate recently had concentrated on some important student concerns, such as lighting and campus safety.
But for the most part this year's candidates, like many candidates in the past, haven't tackled innovative issues. He has continued to recharge old issues, he said.
Zippy
If Senate were doing more important or exciting things, more coa-
tions would have entered this fall's
race and more students would vote
regularly, Munson said.
Zippy, who has appeared in alternative magazines and newspapers since the mid-1970s, is no stranger to KU student politics. In 1978, he was a write-in candidate for the presidency of the Association of University Residence Halls, said Dennis "Boog" Highberger, Lawrence graduate student and KU's student body vice president in 1984.
When he heard that Zippy was ignoring for student body president, Highberger said, "I thought, 'Zippy would be at least as good a student body leader as I was.'"
Munson said Zippy was an alternative candidate.
"Every year there's a coalition that's irreverent, off-the-wall, but this year didn't look too exciting," he said.
David Epstein, student body president, agreed that the two coalitions running this year were trying to appeal to the same kind of student.
Epstein said of Zippy's candidacy, "I think it's funny, and yet by the same token, it could be saying to these candidates that they needed to look at different ideas.
Munson said that most of Zippy's campaigning was being done through word-of-mouth and fiers and that his budget was less than $5.
Munson said he and others had started to consider campaigning for Zippy about two weeks before a group of Lawrence residents started to promote Agnes T. Frog, a northern crawfish frog, for county commissioner in the Nov. 4 general election.
Highberger said that when Zippy ran for AURH president, his results had never been released.
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