University Daily Kansan / Thursday, August 28, 1986
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News Briefs
Cocaine hearings to continue next week
Preliminary hearings for two former KU students charged in connection with last month's cocaine arrests were held over yesterday by Douglas County District Judge Ralph M. King Jr.
The hearings will continue Wednesday for Robert F. Bell, 35, 1900 W. 31st St., and Kevin Sommer, 22nd Tennessee St.
Bell is charged with one count of selling cocaine. Sommer is charged with one count of selling and one count of possession of cocaine.
The two Lawrence men pleaded not guilty to all counts in an earlier court appearance.
Bell and Sommer were two of 21 people indicted last month on state and federal cocaine-related charges. All of those indicted have pleaded not guilty.
Seven of the people indicted on state charges have completed preliminary hearings and face jury trials in October and November. Four others were indicted on federal charges; three are awaiting a second appearance in court and the fourth will have a jury trial in October.
The trial dates for Bell and Sommer will be set during their preliminary hearing. Both men were students at KU last semester.
Studv Abroad meets
The office of study abroad will sponsor an informal question-and-answer session for graduate students interested in studying abroad during the 1987-88 school year.
The meeting will be from 3 to 5 p.m. tomorrow in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
The program is open only to graduating seniors and graduate students, but undergraduates are welcome to attend.
Information about various grants, scholarships and fellowships will be distributed. The session will help applicants with their project proposals for grants and scholarships.
Union group to meet
The KU Faculty Executive Committee and the eight member committee on collective bargaining for faculty will meet at 3:30 p.m. today in the chancellor's suite in Strong Hall.
FacEx appointed the committee to study the possibility of having a faculty union.
At the meeting, Vickie Thomas, University general counsel, will explain the Public Employees Relations Act, which allows the faculty to organize into a collective bargaining unit.
Auditions to be held
Auditions for KANU-FM's radio drama series, Imagination Workshop, will be at 7 p.m. Sept. 5 and at 10:30 a.m. Sept. 6. The Lawrence Public Library Auditorium, 707 Vermont St.
Candidates will be given a short scene to read or may use their own scripts. Those chosen must attend all the rehearsals and the four live air shows.
The performances are financed in part by a grant from the Kansas Arts Commission. For more information, call Darrell Brogdon at KANU, 864-4530.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny with a high temperature in the mid-70s and southeastern winds of 5 to 15 miles an hour. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low temperature in the mid-50s.
From Kansan wires.
The only sound on the 10th floor of McCollium Hall last night was the turning of pages as graduate students studied in their tidy lobby.
Freshmen keeping quiet in McCollum
By NICOLE SAUZEK
Five floors down, it was close to the same. Only one strain from a steree partially filled the hallway as freshmen bowed over books in concentration.
And five floors back up, there were smiles.
Chris Moore, Junction City graduate student and spokesman for concerned fellow residents, said that he was pleasantly shocked by the change in noise levels in McCollum but that he was not ready to give his quest to move graduate students to another hall.
On Aug. 26, Moore met with Ken Stoner,
director of student housing, about the move
because of the high level of noise by freshmen
living on the floors below.
Now, only 389 upperclassmen and graduate students live in McCollum on floors eight, nine and eleven.
graduates only. Freshmen are permitted in the hall only if other residence halls are filled.
"The grad students are pretty content laterly," Moore said. "I think for now, the freshmen might behave. I hope."
But the peaceful halles below have not changed the minds above. The graduate students said they still plan to push for their own hall.
"I agree it's gotten quieter," said Tom Hatch, West Des Moines, Iowa, graduate student. "But, then again, we haven't had a football game yet either. I don't think the silence is going to last too long."
Fingers are being crossed by the graduate students until decisions can be made by student housing officials on whether graduate students can be moved to separate housing.
Graduate complaints, though, are not top priority with the residence hall office.
"Right now, all our efforts are spent trying to
get students out of residence hall overflow," said Fred McElhene, director of residential progams.
As of Monday morning, 227 students were living in overflow housing because of residence hall overbooking.
"We haven't taken any action on the graduate students' concerns because we haven't told me." McElhenee said. "When the dust settles, we'll have more time and more sense of who is involved in the problem before we begin to make some kind of decision."
Meanwhile, the housing office has agreed to pursue several options in solving the problem, but only after a two-week freshmen grace period.
"It's always pretty hectic the first week, but once classes start, it's more business as usual," said Stoner. "We want to wait a couple of weeks to see if things quiet down first before we make any decisions."
quieted down, not all of them have been entrenched in their books.
"I thought it had gotten a little louder," said Brad Chestler, Chicago, Ill., freshman. "I do my homework early and by eight o'clock I'm ready for some fun. There's always a cause for a party."
Though most of the 800 freshmen have
"If anything, it is gotten louder because of the complaints from the tenth floor."
Louder or not, the graduate students have no new complaints. They seem to agree that freshmen have settled down.
Only time will tell whether it is a calm before the storm.
"We're still waiting for the food fights and the fire alarms," Moore said with a shake of the head. "I'm not totally convinced it's going to stay this way."
Brenda Steele/KANSAN
Dog's best friend
Nancy Greenleaf, Kansas City, Kan, senior, shared a cool drink with her dog, Teddy, in front of Snow Hall on Tuesday, Greenleaf said Teddy accompanied her to campus every day.
Soviet lectures threatened after cuts in federal funds
Staff writer
By PATRICIA FEENY
The University of Kansas may lose its Soviet Writer's Lecture Series because of a cut in federal financing, the founder of the program said yesterday.
The program, established in 1975 by Gerald Mikkelsen, professor of Soviet and East European studies, brings Soviet writers to the University. Universities compete for grants provided by the U.S. Department of Education."
"The program is very good," Mikelson said. "The money is the important part."
According to Mikkelson, the Soviet Writer's Union pays for the writer's transportation from Moscow to Kansas. KU is the only university in the country with such an agreement.
He obtained financial support for the series from the office of the executive vice chancellor, Robert Cobb; the office of research, graduate studies and public service; and the office of academic affairs, Mikkelsen said.
In the spring spring when the department did not award the program a grant, Mikkelson turned to other sources.
Mikkelson said he thought his department lost the grant because some faculty members either retired or moved to other departments.
sas beginning in late October. The speeches are on topics of general interest and some of the writers use interpreters.
Joseph Conrad, chairman of the Slavic languages and literatures department, said that since the program began, 14 guest writers from the Soviet Union had visited KU.
Mikkelson said the speakers usually stayed two to three weeks in Kan
An invitation has been extended for this fall to Chingiz Almatov, a Soviet novelist. Aitmatov wrote "The Day Lasts More than Hundred Years." The English translation of the novel will be available in the Oread Book Shop sometime this semester.
Soviet writer Sergey Zalygin visited KU as part of the lecture series in the spring.
Because the Soviet Writer's program is a unique opportunity for KU students, Mikkelsen said, the educational experience of those will invite more than anyone else to be lost.
"The students have a distinct advantage over their conterparts," he said.
Increased paperwork may slow student aid
Bv KAREN SAMELSON
Staff writer
The KU student financial aid staff is wading through a pile of paperwork because of a recent decision to verify all aid forms, a move that may slow aid to some students, the director of student financial aid said yesterday.
"It's brought a lot of paper into our office," said Jerry Rogers, the director.
Nevertheless, he said, "I think we've kept pace well."
Starting this year, the staff now must check the information given on the ACT Family Financial Statement against students' and parents' tax returns, he said. In the past, the office had to verify the information only for certain students designated by the ACT processing center.
But staff members decided that if they had to verify the income information for some students, they should do it for all of them, he said.
The decision to do the 100 percent verification was a staff decision. Rogers said, and they are the ones who now are suffering from the increased workload.
The office has processed more than 9,000 applications for the 1986-87 school year.
"They're really taking it on with a great attitude," he said. "It has, we think, been a positive change. The verification is something that's been needed."
But Rogers also said he didn't know whether the office could continue the verification next year without more staff.
Employees of the financial aid of
fice aren't the only ones who have been affected by the change Students now must be extra careful when filling out their financial aid forms or their aid could be delayed.
Rogers said the verification was a problem particularly for Pell Grant applicants who estimated their income on the financial statement instead of waiting to put exact income figures on the form.
Paul Morris, Kansas City, Mo,
sophomore, said last week that he
had to take out a $100 emergency loan
from the Kansas University Endowment Association because his student
loan wasn't ready.
Morris said delays with his parents' tax returns meant that the paperwork for the loan hadn't been completed in time.
Pell Grants are federal funds given to undergraduate students who demonstrate financial need.
Because the KU office is not permitted to calculate Pell Grant eligibility, the correct figures must be sent to the federal Pell Grant processing office as well as the KU office.
The verification process also presents problems for students whose forms contain false information.
He said most of the problems with false information came when students or parents gave incorrect information on their ACT statements or didn't follow directions.
When a discrepancy shows up during the verification, the staff must contact the students to find out what is correct.
Staff write.
By KIRK KAHLER
Senate considering new freshman seat
A temporary Student Senate elections committee last night moved to form a committee of freshmen to give the freshman class a voice in student government.
David Epstein, student body president, moved to form the committee that would give freshmen one seat in Senate.
The move and the election committee's other recommendations must be approved by the full Senate before they are enacted.
"That would be a huge step for freshmen," Epstein said.
There was some debate among committee members before they unanimously moved to allow a freshman seat.
Betsy Bergman, Nunemaker senator, said she agreed with Epstein's recommendation because freshmen would be able to directly participate in University government.
The committee also recommended the elimination of special freshman elections scheduled for the fall, leaving only one election, which would be in the spring.
"The recommendation was made because of the whole election process," said Jason Krakow, Nunemaker senator.
But Woody Browne, ineral arts and sciences senator, said he thought the freshman seat would cause overcrowding because the Senate was big enough already.
Stephanie Quincy, chairman of the Student Senate Executive Committee, shared Browne's concern.
Quincy said it also would guarantee that freshmen would be included in the elections.
"Now the sophomores, juniors and seniors will demand their own committees," she said.
The committee also moved to amend Senate rules and regulations by counting only school days before candidate's filing deadlines for the elections in April.
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