University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, September 30,1975
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Selection for grant due shortly
The administrator for Douglas County's first community development grant should be chosen tomorrow or Thursday. Arthur Cohen, the Superintendent of the Board of Commissioners, said yesterday.
Heck said the commission was considering two applicants. Ernest Coleman, county federal funds consultant, submitted a proposal to administer the grant during the 13-month period ending in November 1978. A proposal submitted by Ochsner and Associates, planning consultants from Kansas City, Mo., requires $22,000 for administering the grant.
Pete Whiteitneng, county commissioner,
said the most important difference between
the applicants was their background
experience. He said the Ochser firm had
a long and a country plan, whereas
Coleman has hard experience with federal funds
and programs.
Coleman has been Douglas County's federal funds consultant since 1973. Whitentight said Coleman had a broad reach in the community and community needs.
Neither applicant has administered a community development fund, Whitengt
The grant is part of a federal program created by the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974. Coleman said the program replaced several older programs, including urban renewal and neighborhood development.
Eight kinds of development are being financed by the grant. They are housing rehabilitation, county planning, a county-wide solid waste landfill plan, senior citizen neighborhood centers, natural resources and recreation, dredging of Baldwin Lake, work on the Eudora swimming pool and administration of the grant.
Students' political interests down
By BARB HINTON Staff Writer
"I wouldn't want to call it apathy," John Connors, president of the KU Young Democrats (KUYD), said Sunday, "but not for the sake of being a Democrat in politics except in an election year."
Student Democrat and Republican party leaders agree that in off-election years, such as this one, student interest in political issues is down at the University of Kansas.
Cinnors said student turnover in the summer and at the end of each semester made it difficult to have a strong organization.
KUYD now consists of a few students that have a strong interest in political work, he said. During college years, he said, most of them were involved in working for a particular party or candidate.
KUYD had about 37 members last fall,
Connors said, but membership decreased
by the end of the spring semester. KUYD
members haven't met this semester, he
said, but the first meeting probably will be
in October.
Members from last year who are still at KU will be contacted by KUYD officers, Connors said, and the first few meetings will also be advertised.
Dee Nesse Wagner, vice chairman of the KU College Republicans (KUCR), said KUCR hadn't met or organized its members as students lacked enthusiasm for politics.
She said the KUCH membership last year was about 100 students, but many of the students are from other schools.
KUCR representatives will set up a membership table either in the Kansas Union later this semester or in Allen Field House during spring enrollment, she said.
The Kansas Young Republicans will sponsor a meeting with Gov. Robert Bennett at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
--registration program last fall in connection with their 1974 campaign drive for Bill Roy, former Kansas representative who ran against incumbent Sen. Bob Dole.
SENIORS Regalia Party
Friday, Oct. 3
3-5 p.m.
* Potter's Lake
T.G.I.F.
Free to Senior Class Card Holders
Free Beer, Music, Dancing to class card holders. Class card is attached to Registration card, Jersey shirts and mugs distributed at party. Class cards can be purchased at the party or at the Kansas Union Alumni Office. NEXT HOPE award voting will be in the information booth on Jayhawk Blvd. Oct. 8th, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
Wagner said she hoped the meeting with Bennett would bring together students interested in joining a Republican party group.
*In case of rain party will be held in Kansas Union Ball Room
Conners said the first priority for the members of KUYD this fall would be several fund-raising events to help pay for KUYD activities during the 1976 election period. Conner said he spoke in front of speakers to KU, he said, although no definite plans have been made.
Connors said the Douglas County Young Democrats had a massive voter
--welcome
Garth Burns, president of the Douglas County Young Democrats, said that almost 3,000 students registered during the program last fall in Hoch Auditorium.
Burns attributed the program's success to having the program at the beginning of his career.
Burns said he hoped to have another voter registration program at KU for the coming election.
Before the West had ever seen a White Man
HELD OVER AGAIN
15TH WEEK
"JAWS"
PG
Eve. 7:30, 9:10
Sat.-Sun. Mat. 2:30
White Hair
"Winterhawk"
had become a Blackfoot
legend.
Born: 7/10, 9/10
Daily 2:05, 7:15, 9:25
X was never like this
"emmanuelle"
From France with Love
Eve, 7:30, 10:30, Sat, Sun, Mt. 2:30
Varsity
JAMMIE HUSTON
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Hillcrest
Hillcrest
The Happiest Sound of all is back!
"THE SOUND OF MUSIC"
Daily 10:00 & 7:45
G
James Whitmore
as Harry S. Trummen in
GIVE'EM
HELL, HARRY
Daily: 1:30, 7:30, 9:30
All Seats
$2.00
Hillcrest
Jamie Band
"THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN"
Plus.
Enhanced
"THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT"
Showtime
Sunset
Be Creative With Plexiglas
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Henry's
6th & Missouri
NOTICE
Interviews for Committee Chairpersons for Higher Education Week
1. Living Group Coordinator
2. Extra Program Coordinator
3. Reception Chairperson
4. Ticket Chairperson
5. Food Chairperson
6. Hospitality Chairperson
7. Advertising Chairperson
Interviews will be held October 6 and 7
Contact Mary Lou Reece at the Student Senate Office 864-3710
Paid for by Student Activity Fee
K. U. Concert Series Presents
The Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra Friday, Oct.17—Hoch Auditorium—8:00 p.m.
Possibly the premier big-band in the world today—the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra has picked up jazz where the immortal Duke Ellington left it upon his death this past year. Everyone of the fifteen sidemen in this orchestra is a virtuoso artist in his own right, and guarantees this night to be one that jazz enthusiasts will never forget.
All Concert Series performances are free to KU students who present their I.D. cards: 1) when picking up their reserved seat tickets, 2) at the door on the night of the performance for general admission seats. Approximately 500 reserved seat tickets will go on sale, on a first come first served basis, two weeks prior to the night of the performance.
All reserved seat tickets may be picked up at the Murphy Hall box office. The concert will begin promptly at 8 p.m. the night of the performance. Non-student series tickets-orchestra $16.00, 1st balcony $14.00, 2nd balcony $10.00. Faculty-Staff-20 per cent discount. Pre-college students-$8.00. Anyone having questions please contact the Murphy Hall box office at 864-3982.