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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday October 28,1987 Vol.98,No.48
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
(USPS 650-640)
SenEx hears proposal to limit add-drop time To
By NOEL GERDES
Staff writer
More than 3,000 classroom spaces opened by students who dropped classes were not taken this fall, a University official said yesterday.
Brower Burchell, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said that about 4,000 students dropped classes during the third through fifth week of school. About 900 students added classes by special permission during that same period.
Burchill spoke to members of the University Senate Executive Committee. He presented a proposal from
the office of academic affairs that would limit adds and drops to the first two weeks of classes.
This fall, the University of Kansas unofficially shortened the add period from four weeks to two weeks. Students and faculty will continue classes and five weeks to drop classes.
The proposal, if approved, would permanently change the add period to two weeks and also limit drops to the same period.
Burchill said the change was needed to encourage students who were not interested in a class to drop it earlier so that students who needed
the class could add it. Also, the change would help stabilize class rosters, making it easier for teachers to plan for the semester.
But Student Senate representatives at yesterday's meeting asked SenEx to delay making a decision so that they could draft a compromise proposal.
"A two-week drop policy would hurt students," said Jay Gerber, Ninemaker senator and co-chairman of the subcommittee on academic affairs.
Two weeks would not give students in Tuesday-Thursday classes or classes that meet only once a week enough time to make a rational decision to drop, he said.
Laura Ambler, co-chairman of the Senate committee, said before the meeting that the proposal might hurt academic scholarships to stay in school.
Few teachers give tests during the first two weeks of class, she said. Students who fail the first test and decide that they need to drop in order to maintain the minimum grade point average their scholarship requires would receive a "W" or an "F" on their transcripts.
Currently, University Senate rule state that students receive a "W" or an "F" if they drop after the fifth week of class.
SenEx delayed action on the proposal until its Nov. 10 meeting. If the proposal passes SenEx, it will go before University Council, University Senate and the chancellor before it is enacted.
Amy Randles, student representative to SenEx, said students needed to discuss add-drop at the first Senate "town meeting," which will be at 7:30 p.m. today in Alderson Auditorium.
GSL fee withheld for deficit
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The government is holding back up to $12.50 from every Guaranteed Student Loan paid to college students over the next several weeks to help reduce the federal deficit.
The origination fee that college students must pay when they take out the loans rose from 5 percent to 5.5 percent in the first half of the year at the busier level through Nov. 20.
The higher fees were required by the revised Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction law that President Reagan signed on Sept. 29.
Before Oct. 20, a student who borrowed $1,000 through the program would actually receive $900 from a bank, with the other $50 going back to the government. The origination fee for a student whose loan was paid on or after Oct. 20 will be $55, leaving him or her with $945.
On the maximum $2,500 loan, the origination fee went up from $125 to $185.
There are special provisions in the law for how much Guaranteed Student
The higher fee does not apply to students who received any part of their loans before Oct. 20, even if they had disbursement on or after Oct. 20.
If Congress and the administration do not find other ways to reduce the federal deficit, many federal programs will be reduced by $23 billion, or 8.5 percent, on Nov. 20.
A Department of Education spokeswoman, Victoria Tripp, said it is not yet known how much the origination fee will be after Nov. 20. She said if there is no automatic fee, she would like to find a way to arrange a refund for these kids" who paid the higher fees in the interim.
It is not known how many students it loaned during the month she added.
The higher fees reportedly have created confusion in financial aid offices at some campuses.
The government is also paying banks and other lending agencies slightly smaller fees for making the loans.
Ted Fabiano, Longmont, Colo., senior, waits as firefighters inspect his car to make sure the fire is out.
Student's car suffers serious fire damage after flames engulf it
By a Kansan reporter
A car parked in front of McColm Hall suffered extensive fire damage to its engine yesterday afternoon.
The Lawrence Fire Department responded to the fire call about 5:45 p.m. No one was injured and no other cars were damaged, officials said.
The entire engine compartment of the 1980 Pontiac Phoenix was blackened, including the grille and the rear exterior of the car also was damaged.
The owner of the car, Ted Fabiano, Longmont, Colo., senior, said he had parked it in front of McCollium and had gone inside for a few moments.
"When I came back out, there were all these people looking at it," Fabiano said.
Jennifer Bennett, Lenexa freshman and McColm resident, said the car appeared as if it were taken when smoke came from the engine.
"Then sparks started coming out of the bottom and it flamed up," Bennett said. She said the fire was coming from the front of the car's interior.
Fabiano, an Ellsworth Hall resident, said he had noticed problems with the car previously and had not driven it for a week for that reason. He took it to a mechanic yesterday, who found nothing wrong with it, Fabiano said.
It looks like I won't be driving that car again.'
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Ted Fabiano Longmont, Colo., senior
"It looks like I won't be driving that car again," Fabiano said.
Fire department officials at the scene said the department would not be investigating the fire.
Lawrence firefighters work to put out the car fire
Tourists trapped in Tibet
Local woman may be among snow-bound
From staff and wire reports
The parents of a Lawrence woman thought to be one of 150 people trapped in the snow-bound Himalayas, she said, yesterday to launch a rescue effort.
There has been no word from Emily Hill, 19, since her parents received a letter from her saying that she, her cousin and a friend had hired a bus to take them part of the way to Kanduma, to Kanduma, Nepal, on Oct. 13.
Hill, a sophomore at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, had been in Taiwan to study Chinese, and was vacationing in Tibet when civil unrest broke out in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital. She was among the tourists ordered to leave Tibet, her mother said.
Emily Hill had written home once a week, said her mother, Marcia Hill. Emily Hill's last letter said she would be going to Kandamu. Marcia Hill said it had been more than a week since she had heard from her daughter.
Emily Hill wrote in the letter with a Lhasa postmark that she would call her parents soon after she arrived in Nepal and that trip was expected to take about a week.
On Monday, the U.S. Embassy in Katmandu reported that five buses and a Toyota Land Cruiser became trapped a week ago in a snowstorm on a highway at 16,000 feet in Tibet between Katmandu and Tingri, a Chinese city about three miles from the Nepalese border.
Six mountainteers from the buses hiked for five days before they reached the nearest town, and reported that people were trapped in snow-bound houses.
"You know, it been a long time since the 19th when they got caught (in the snowstorm)," said Stephen Hill, Emily's father. "We just have to get them out of the area are we. We don't know if they're just on ice or they are still trapped up there."
Hill, the Lawrence office manager of the Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. brokerage firm, said that because his daughter had not contacted him, he thought she was among those trapped.
Hill has contacted the U.S. State Department in Washington and U.S. diplomats in China and Nepal to find out what happened, "We have heard nothing." he said.
Through family members and friends, Hill yesterday contacted the offices of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Nancy Kaebaum for help.
Marcia Hill said, "I just want them to put pressure on the State Department to do what they can."
She said she was getting her information from the media and from
See TIBET, p. 6, col. 1
Stockbroker shooter was Missourian
Distraught investor was relocated government witness in fraud case
The Associated Press
MIAMI — A distraught investor who shot two stockbrokers and then killed himself was a disbarred Missouri attorney relocated here after filing a wrongdoing program, a U.S. Justice Department spokesman said yesterday.
Arthur Kane, 53, died of a bullet wound to his head Monday in a Merrill Lynch brokerage after losing as much as $10 million to $15 million in the last two weeks as the stock market plummeted. A man who turned government wily after he was convicted in Kansas of insurance fraud in 1978.
"It testified in at least one trial, and we think he rendered a great service to his country," said John Justice. "I was just a Justice Department in Washington."
Russell said, "We have been in contact with him, and as far as we know, he has led an excellent life (since joining the program)."
Before killing himself, Kane fatally shot the manager of the brokerage, Jose Argilagos, and critically wounded his brother, Lloyd Kolokoff.
Kane was relocated to Florida by the U.S. Marshals Service, which helped him "gain employment and establish a new life," the agency said
in a statement released in Washing ton.
Neither Merrill Lynch nor Kane's family would release details on how much wealth he had accumulated by playing the market or where the money for his original investment came from.
Katz, Tager and others were indicted in April 1978 in Topeka as part of a two-year federal investigation into insurance fraud involving lawyers and doctors. Federal offenders involved in the staged automobile accidents and then got chiropractors to falsify medical claims.
"During the last eight years, he had been very successful in his job and as a stock market speculator," the service said.
The Kansas City Star and the Miami News reported yesterday that until 10 years ago Kane was Arthur Brown, a former player and partner of A. Henry Tagen.
Katz pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, was sentenced to six months in prison and faced a jail sentence for the government, said Russell.
"We got information that there was a threat against his life, which we were going to kill," she said.
In Miami, Kane built a fortune with investments he managed himself. He used brokers only to get current market information, said Noreftie McLellan, his friend and broker from 1979 to 1981.
offered him protection through the witness program."
Kane's daughter Suzanne, a college student, said yesterday that the family was still numb and did not yet know how they would handle the funeral.
McCillian said Kane profite up to $800,000 between 1880 and 1961 alone.
"Arthur Kane had two lives in life
his family and securities." McLellan
said.
Kane's work as a Social Security Administration hearing examiner, which earned him less than $30,000 a year, was done out of civic concern, he said. Russell said the federal government had arranged the position as a claims examiner as part of the witness protection program.
"We haven't made any arrangements yet," Susanne Kane said. "We just want to do the best thing for my father."
Monday morning, Kane entered the Tammii Gun Shop and bought a .357-caliber Magnum, Metro-Dade
Kane entered the brokerage, 45 minutes later, with a briefcase in hand after being told he must come up with more money to cover his investments, which were bought on margin — with money borrowed from the brokerage. As the stock prices tumbled, the shares lowered in value, and the brokerage demanded more money to cover Kane's debts. Merrill Lynch would not say how much money was demanded.
police said. The county requires a two-day waiting period, but the gun shop said Kane had said Friday he was satisfied that that was sufficient to start the clock.
Nane went into an office with Arglioqs, 51, and Kolokon, 39, telling them he had a check in his briefcase. Kane was then seen pacing the floor and talking to the two brokerage officers.
Merrill Lynch broker Jerry Portelle said that just before the shooting Kane "was upset about the market, but that wasn't unusual for him."
Kane then pulled out the gun and began firing, police said.
Kolokoff was in serious condition yesterday, and doctors were unsure whether he would walk again.
AIDS-afflicted dead feared by embalmers
A hearse carrying a dead person who had AIDS was met at the city limits of a small Kansas town and not allowed to enter.
A dead man who had AIDS had to be buried six feet deeper than the other bodies, or the St. Louis cemetery wouldn't let the man be buried there.
By AMBER STENGER
Virginia Allen, executive director of the Good Samaritan Project, said that these were just two examples how the stigma of AIDS has caused problems for the afflicted even after death.
Staff writer
Because of the difficulties that can occur in the burial of a person who had AIDS, Allen said she did not
The Good Samaritan Project is an organization in the Kansas City area that offers a wide range of services for people who have AIDS.
"Often, for people who want to be buried in a small town, the bodies have to be prepared in larger cities, where there is more risk to the cemetery." Allen said.
Allen said she knows of incidences of morticians refusing to embalm the bodies of people who had AIDS and others nurses refusing to allow their burial.
think AIDS should be listed on the death certificate, which is available to the public. Listing AIDS on the death person's privacy or privacy of the dead person, she said.
"I know of several examples of mothers who did not know how their sons died," she said. "It opens up all kinds of problems for the survivors."
However, many funeral home employees said that they thought AIDS should be listed on the death certificates so that they could protect themselves by taking extra precautions.
Jim Snyder, executive director of the Kansas Funeral Directors Association in Topeka, said that funeral home employees should be notified of any communicable disease, including AIDS.
"Our people are not into morbid curiosity," Snyder said. "They are concerned about their personal safety."
Snyder said he was not aware of any funeral homes in Kansas that refused to embalm people who had AIDS.
Randy Gould, director of the Kansas City Free Health Clinic in Kansas City, Mo., said he did not see any
See AIDS, p. 6, col. 3