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University Daily Kansan, December 6, 1982
ASK picks new head lobbyist
By DON KNOX Staff Reporter
A 1979 KU business administration graduate will head the lobbying efforts of the Associated Students of Kansas beginning with next month's opening of the state legislative session.
Chris Graves, 24, was named to replace Steve Linenberger, who had served as ASK legislative director since 1980.
Linenberger, a graduate of Kansas State University, said he wanted to change jobs.
Mark Tallman, ASK executive director, said, "Steve was the association through the difficult transition period following the departure of Bob Binnard and presided over one of our most successful sessions in the Legislature.
"Obviously, we will all miss him, both professionally and personally."
Graves, named to succeed Linen-
kemp's last legislative assembly,
was said to be a key factor in
appointment and was ready to begin work immediately.
"RIGHT NOW, we're trying to gear toward the legislative opened," she said yesterday. "We have already drafted an onough draft for a state work-study bill."
Graves said the bill, which would channel some of next year's 20 percent tuition increase toward financial aid, was selected as ASK's priority issue. She said she and Tallman had spent the past two weeks approaching various legislators in an effort to get a representative to sponsor the bill.
"The financial aid problems, along with the budget cuts, are kind of indicative of the times as a whole," she said.
Although Graves' appointment came just a month and a half before the opening of the legislative session, she said her previous work with ASK as the organization's administrative assistant would help ease the transition.
She has also served as co-chairman of the National Women's Student Coalition, a caucus of the United States Student Association.
"WOMEN'S ISSUES are something that I think we should definitely concern ourselves with." Graves said.
Although no women's concerns were selected to be ask ASK's priority issues, she said she wanted to work with students in caucus, which is still being developed.
Graves said she hoped recent unrest at the University of Kansas about ASK were not a threat.
Graves said she hoped Lisa Ashner, KU's new student body president, would solidify ASK's base at KU and calm any fears.
"If a person is objective and sits down and tries to look at the Associated Students of Kansas, there can be no doubt that we should exist," she said.
Despite the recent problems, Graves said. ASK has narrowed its lobbying efforts to issues that affect students. Attempts in the past calling for a variety of "social issues," such as the leaks of marijuana, have fallen by the wayside.
"Students are more conservative today," she said. "They just don't belong to the radical culture that wanted marijuana legalized."
ASK to push work-study plan
By JULIE HEABERLIN Staff Reporter
To offset rising tuition costs and state budget reductions, the Associated Students of Kansas lobbying group will push legislators this January for a fairly program to increase student employment, an ASK official said recently.
If approved, the state-funded program will provide matching money for student wages on campus, and for home-based part-time jobs with private employers.
ASK, which represents the six Regents schools and Washburn University, focused most of its debate during a recent legislative assembly on student issues relating to money, said Tallman. ASK executive director
Delegates from the member institutions meet two or three times a year at
the assemblies to decide which issues the group will lobby for students.
DESPITE ITS concern for next fall's 20 percent tuition increase, Tallman said, the ASK delegation reaffirmed its commitment to ensure under which students are expected to pay 25 percent of the institution's operating cost for their education.
Tallman said that the vote proved students were willing to pay their fair share for better educational opportunities, and that ASK support of the policy would make legislators more receptive to providing other student financial aid.
ASK delegates also decided the lobbying group would oppose an increase in the legal drinking age for beer, and support increases in the State liquor license and 100 percent fee waivers for graduate teaching and research assistants.
ASK will seek restoration of Social Security benefits to students based on need, and additional support for
handicapped students. The delegates
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ASK ALSO will seek stronger state laws prohibiting sex discrimination in higher education and will back changes in the Kansas rape laws that were studied and approved by a legislative interim committee this summer.
The proposed changes in the rape laws are an attempt to make it easier for a woman to prosecute a man for rape, and for the first time in Kansas would allow a man to prosecute a woman on a rape charge.
In narrow votes on more controversial issues, Tallman said, the assembly opposed support of an Equal Rights Amendment to the state constitution and the drive to make Martin King Jr.'s birthday a national holiday.
Tailman said the student representatives were reluctant to back these issues because they were not clearly identified with students.
Workshop aimed at Christmas blues
The University is sponsoring a workshop aimed at making the family-oriented messages of Christmas easier to handle for people without families, a pastor at the Plymouth Congregational Church said recently.
vice, separation or death in the family.
Gary Bryant, associate pastor of the church, said that "Coping: The Christmas Blues" would especially help those who had experienced di-
The workshop, sponsored by the KU division of continuing education's Adult Life Resource Center, will be from 7 to 13 at Plymouth Church, 92% Vermont St.
Bryant said the workshops stressed that loneliness was not a terrible or unpleasant experience.
"HAVING A lonely time is not always bad," he said.
Rather than escaping loneliness through sex and alcohol, lonely people should get involved with helping others and developing a spiritual faith, Bryant
Beulah Duncan, program manager at the center, said the program was paid for by an anonymous donation.
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English to leave Med Center
By VICKY WILT Staff Renorter
KANAS S CITY, KAN—After 11 years of serving as an ambassador for the University of Kansas Medical Center, Jack English will retire at the end of this month from his job as vice president of the KU Endowment Association.
English, 70, will continue to promote the institution and will work with the Endowment Association in a consulting position, Todd Seymour, president of the Endowment Association, said recently.
English said that he would continue to work with charities and that he would keep in touch with the people at the Med Center.
"I've enjoyed being here and I've never met finer people," he said.
ALTHOUGH ALL of the projects he worked on were great, he said, he thinks his greatest contribution to the
Med Center was making people aware of the important medical work that takes place there.
"One of the best kept secrets of the state is what goes on at the Med Center," he said. "Many people think it's a big charity hospital. It's that, but it's a hell of a lot more than that." The doctors here perform miracles."
According to Seymour, another secret is that without English, the Med Center would not have many of the best hospitals in the country.
The establishment of the Gene and Barbara Burnett Burn Center is an example of one of those projects that would not have materialized without English's devotion to the project, Seymour said.
The closest burnt centers had been in St. Louis, Chicago and Denver before the opening of the one at the Med Center.
David Robinson, administrative
director of the Burn Center, stressed the need for a burn center, and English took over from there, Seymour said. English worked with Burn Center staff to build a burn center to help raise the money for the center.
SEYMOUR SAID he was sorry to see English retire.
"He is a marvelous, marvelous man to work with. I just wish he was about 50 years old," he said.
A successor has been chosen but Seymour said he would wait to name that person.
His retirement will mean that he will get to spend more time with his 'wife, Dorothy. Englishaid they were visiting them, their feeling and visiting their six children.
Englah, a U.S. Military Academy graduate, retired from the Army after serving for 30 years and then received his PhD in Business from the Harvard Business School.
Local residents injured in accidents
Memorial Hospital, Castellet was transported to the Med Center.
A Lawrence man was in critical condition yesterday at the University of Kansas Medical Center with severe head injuries suffered when he was hit by a car in Lawrence Saturday night, a law enforcement and Lawrence police said yesterday.
Casteel was hit by a car driven by Charles Boyd, 36, 1908 E. 19th St., police said.
Charles Casteel, 61, 1021 Rhode Island St., was crossing the street in the 1100 block of Massachusetts when he was hit by a car about 10:15 p.m., police
Castelle's arm and both legs were broken in the accident. After he received emergency care at Lawrence
ANOTHER LAWRENCE man was in serious condition yesterday at Stormtown-Vail Regional Medical Center in Topeka after he and the driver of the car he was riding in were thrown from their car in a three-car accident at Sixth and Kasold streets Saturday night.
Benjamin Willhite, 16, 1016 Sunset
Drive, was thrown from the car when it
were struck by the interior and collided with the
car.
Christopher Hale, 18, Route 1, driver of one car, was treated and released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital after he was thrown from the car.
Police said Hale's car was westbound on Sixth Street and entered the intersection when it was hit by a car driven by Michael Moore, 16, 20,280 of Lawrence. Police said third car driven by Randy Ledbetter, also of Lawrence, police said.
ALL-NIGHTER SPORT-A-THON
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All you Night Owls get ready for the FIRST Recreation Services SPORTA-THON on Friday, January 28. Robinson Center will be open until 3:00 a.m. for BASKETBALL, VOLLEYBALL, SOCCER, SWIMMING, BADMINTON, TABLE GAMES, MOVIES And more. Look for more details in January!
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