KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, January 14, 1983 Vol.93, No.76 USPS 650-640
Drinking age issue to be raised
Rv DIANE LUBER
Staff Reporter
A bill will be introduced in the Kansas House of Representatives early next week that would raise the drinking age for all alcoholic and cereal malt beverages to 21, a state representative said yesterday.
yesterday. State Rep. Ron Fox, R-Prairie Village, said he would introduce the bill because of his concern for public safety.
Fox said he was influenced by his experiences as a school teacher, the requests of his constituents and statistics for alcohol-related traffic accidents involving people from 18 to 21.
"I'm not sure it's the solution, but I think it needs to be debated." he said.
UNDER PRESENT Kansas law, 18-year-olds may drink beer containing up to 3.2 percent alcohol, but must be 21 before they can buy wine or hard linen.
Mark Boranyak, executive director of Kansas
Beer Wholesalers Association, said the passage of the drinking age bill might be determined by how politically active college students were.
"The students hold the key to this," he said. "There are 80,000 college students in Kansas. That's political muscle."
Mark Tallman, executive director of Associated Students of North Carolina, said ASK had always been a great asset.
ASK. A lobbying group for the Board of Regents institutions and Washburn University, has supported tougher drunk-driving laws and imposed stricter alternatives to raising the drinking age, he said.
"We oppose restrictions on a person's rights after they become an adult," Tallman said.
Some Kansas laws, including criminal and voting laws, consider 18-year-olds to be adults.
ASK is a member of an organization called BACHUS, an acronym for Boost Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the Health of University Students. The University of Kansas has a
BACCHUS chapter, and ASK is working to establish chapters at other Regents schools, Tallman said.
A report released in December by Gov. John Carlin's Committee on Drinking and Driving did not recommend raising the drinking age, he said.
Under present laws, people under 21 years of age can drink in "reasonably controlled environments." he said.
If the drinking age is raised,he said, those under 21 will probably still drink but under less supervision.
THE FACT is that people are always going to drink "he said.
But the Rev. Richard Taylor, spokesman for Kansans for Life at Its Best!, said, "That is a childish argument. You could say the same thing about any crime: shooping, rape, murder."
Enrollment lines test patience
Taylor's organization opposes raising the drinking age, pari-mutuel betting and liquor licensing.
By JENNIFER FINE
See BOOZE page 5
Staff Reporter
Students with frustrated, bored and angry faces in lines weaving around corners and down staircases filed into two doors in Strong Hall fetterings. Students who need assistance do juggle one drop from the computer.
The enrollments of students who failed to pay tuition fees on their scheduled day, so those students were forced to join those who had not yet received them, in order that they having to add and drop a class, or switch sections.
Pamela Drevet, Kansas City, Kan., graduate student, was at her parents home in Knoxville, Tenn. and was not able to return to Lawrence to pay her fees at the required time. She enrolled in
November and wanted to pay her fees early, but
was told she could not she said. When she
said she did, he was shocked.
"I just can't believe they cancel your whole schedule if you don't pay fees, but won't let you pay early." Drevets said. "Apparently, they'll call your fees at a specific table at one moment."
DREVETS SAID she liked the new system, but thought that fees should be paid at the time of enrollment.
"If you go through early enrollment, you should pay fees early. They should go hand in hand," she said.
Gary Thompson, director of educational services, said most of the students who were removed from school were not in grade 10.
registration time, or that they made plans to do something else.
Those who could not pay at their scheduled time because of an emergency were supposed to call the Student Assistance Center to have their schedules saved, Thompson said.
Many of the students who did not pay fees decided not to take classes, so enrollments had to be canceled to open spots for new students, he said.
"IT'S A tough decision to make, but you can't save spaces forever if you don't know if they're coming back." he said.
coming soon.
"Fee payment has been scheduled for several years on the 10th and 11th of January, even before the new enrollment system," he said.
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Debra Bates/KANSAN
The payment-in-kind program, nicknamed the "crop swap" by President Reagan, was enacted Tuesday without going through Congress.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny and cooler with a high in the low to mid-48s, according to the National Weather Service. Winds will be from the northwest and gusty at 15 to 25
Tomorrow will be mostly sunny with a blight in the low to mid-30s.
Tonight will be fair and colder with a low in the teens.
U.S. proposal accepted in Mideast negotiations
Israel and Lebanon accepted a compromise proposed by the United States yesterday to end their dispute over an agenda for talks, and agreed to discuss troop withdrawals from Lebanon, security arrangements for Israel and support of the state of war between the two countries.
By United Press International
The breakthrough in the sixth round of negotiations, held in the northern Israeli border town of Kiryat Shmona, came after about three hours of private talks with U.S. envoy Morris Draper and the heads of the Israelis and Lebanese delegations.
In Washington, State Department spokesman John Huges called the acceptance of the terms "clearly a steen forward."
"It is our conviction that the negotiations can, and must, now move quickly forward toward an agreement leading to the rapid withdrawal from Lebanon of all external forces," he said.
AN ISRAELI official said Draper went "above and beyond the call of duty" in helping to solve the problems over the agenda, which had been in dispute since the talks began Dec. 28.
The agenda compromise came as U.S. Middle East troubleshooter Philip Habib met with Prime Minister Menachem Begin in Jerusalem and offered a friendly letter from President Reagan.
Reagan sent Habib back to the Middle East to break the impasse, but Habib did not participate directly in the talks.
In Moscow, Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat said Soviet leader Yuri Andropov had agreed during their talks Wednesday to support PLO negotiations with
Begin's spokesman Uri Porath said no date had been fixed for Begin's anticipated visit to Washington. Reports from Washington said the group had not received a reply to requests in the negotiations with Lebanon.
ARAFAT SAID the Soviet approval extended
to a possible Palestinian-Jordanian confederation.
Araut contrasted Andropov's support with the actions of the United States, which the PLO leader said did not want a Middle East settlement.
Criticizing the current Lebanese-Iraeli negotiations, Arafat said they were "worse even than the Camp David deal. With the full blessing of the U.S., we will stand on the negotiations even before they started."
Arafat, commenting on his meeting with Andropow, said he had encountered "full understanding" of his three-day talks with Jordan's King Hussein before flying to Moscow.
The question arose because the Kremlin did not like the idea of improved relations between Jordan and the PLO, because it left both Syria and Moscow out of the negotiations, diplomats
REAGAN HAS proposed a Palestinian entity, not a state, under Jordanian administration, on the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Israel has rejected the proposal.
Despite the praise given Draper for achieving the Israeli-Lebanese breakthrough, Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharif showed up in Israel on Thursday to announce a news conference to claim his share of the credit.
"I am delighted the subjects we spoke about for weeks in secret contacts were accepted now above board," Sharon said of meetings he held before the negotiations got underway.
Israel's chief negotiator David Kimche read aloud the agreed agenda which contained something to satisfy each of the negotiating parties.
The delegations agreed to discuss the issues concurrently,趾steepening Israel's initial insistence that normalization of relations head the agenda.
THE BEIRU government demanded that the withdrawal of about 80,000 Israeli, Syrian and Palestinian forces from Lebanon take precedence over everything else and rejected use of the
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Reagan's crop swap program praised, criticized in Kansas
By JEFF TAYLOR
Staff Reporter
President Reagan's payment-in-kind program, intended to encourage farmers to keep their acres idle in exchange for government grain surpluses, received praise and criticism from local agriculture officials yesterday.
Harland E. Priddle, Kansas Secretary of Agriculture, said he expected Kansas farmers to participate in the "crop swap" at his farm, which accounted of grain as they would have if the land had not been idle.
THE CROP swap program, which Reagan announced Tuesday, will allow participating farmers to take up to 50 percent of their fields out of production in exchange for surplus wheat, corn, sorghum, cotton and rice. Priddle estimated that there were about 2 billion bushels of surplus grain in the country.
"It is kind of an innovative idea," Priddle said. "It's a kind of a gutsy thing at the national level." Rep. Dan Glickman and Rep. Pat Roberts, both of Kansas, explained the new program to the Kansas Board of Agriculture at a meeting that ended yesterday, Priddle said.
"Good medicine, I guess, doesn't usually taste good." Harris said. "I'm not objecting to it. We're going to have to survive with half the business we've had."
Some local agribusinessmen questioned the program's value for the farm industry, but they said farmers needed grain price assistance.
said. *nor Harris, manager of the Farmers Elevator Co. in Eudora, said that the cutbacks in grain production might cut his elevator business in half.*
business will have
Harris said he expected problems with freight
costs to farmers should the exchanged grain
hazards to be transported from other grain-
processing states.
grain or use it to feed livestock, Harris said. But if farmers were to sell the grain, prices would remain low, he said.
producing seeds.
FARMERS WOULD have the option to scill the
Farmers who already participate in federal price support programs by leaving 20 percent of their fields idle will be able to cut back farming expenses and increase the area of their acreage under the new program.
with cutbacks in farm production caused by the program, farmers would find better grain prices next fall, Harris said.
Bruce Krebhel, office manager for the Lawrence Farmers Co-op Association, said that the program would hurt the grain-elevator business.
"If you cut back on production," Kreibbel said. "the country economy is not going to sell as much grain or as much fuel. Everybody involved in it is going to take some kills if they cut back."
Theeron Karper, owner of Deems Farm Equipment Inc., said that the farm machinery business might suffer as a result of the new federal program.
WITHOUT CUTTING back on production, Krebble said, farmers might feel the effects of the sagging grain prices longer.
Harper said farmers would not survive without better grain prices, but he also said that the farmer he had talked to were confused with the program and were waiting for more information.
toorl program.
"If people don't use equipment, there's no way in the world they're going to need new equipment," Harper said.
"I feel we'd be a whole lot better off just giving this grain to some of the poor countries, the undeveloped countries," Nunemaker said. "There's a lot of ramifications to this program."
Gene Nunenfrau, a Lawrence area farmer, said the program hard its good and bad points.
"There's a lot of ramifications to this program, some detrimental."
Rush ends tonight amid tears, cheers
By ELLEN WALTERSCHEID
Staff Reporter
Shrieks of delight, a lot of yawns and choruses of "What'd you get?" came from a group of pa-jama-clad women gathered in a lobby of Corbin Hall at 6 a.m. yesterday in a scene that would have resembled Christmas morning, were it not for a few disappointed faces.
These women wanted to be in a sorority, and for the past two days at 6 a.m. they have been going through a process that is part of KU sorority rush.
"It's nerve-racking," said Amy Patton, Platte City, Mo., freshman, standing in her nightgown and holding the white card that was left on her door. "I'm so glad it's almost over."
Active sorority members left cards on the women's doors yesterday morning notifying them of the sororities decisions to consider them as members.
THE WOMEN, still blinking from lack of sleep and the bright lights in the lobby, clustered around tables to sign up for their last visits to the sorority houses in their bids to become
Some got the invitation they wanted, and some did not.
For a week the prospective pledges have attended parties at 13 KU sorority houses. While they tried to impress active members, ate horns d'oexuvres and watched skis performance, they decided to decide which houses they would like to join. They also learned which houses' members were considering them.
The prospective pledges have one more day of anxiety before they learn the sororities' final decisions. Tonight active members will visit the women and give them the news.
Connie Scavuzzo, Kansas City, Mo., freshman,
said the week of introducing herself and making
conversation at parties was fun but had been
firing.
"I'M GOING back to bed now" she said.
Some of the women said they were confused by the rush system.
Joy Diamond, Overland Park freshman, said,
"it's hard because you can leave a house feeling
great, and they'll cut you.
You're never sure.
Pam Jones, Overland Park freshman, said,
"It's real hard to see your friends hurt. There has to be a better way."
Rita Moley, public relations coordinator for the KU Panhellenic Association, which supervises the rush process, said that about 720
women had gone through rush activites this year.
JAN FINK, Panhellenic president, said that every girl that went through rush paid a $9 fee. The fee covered administrative costs and housing to accommodate the women, who returned a week before school started to participate in rush.
"Two years ago, the fee was over $70." Fink said. "We lowered the costs to encourage as many people to participate in rush as possible."
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Sheila Immel, Panhellenic adviser (left), and Panhellenic officers Susan Young, Lynn Ruse and Liz Ault get ready to take lists of sorority pre/recs from prospective pledges last night at the Ramada Inn. The rush participants will find out tonight which sorority they have been invited to join.