University Daily Kansan, September 30, 1982
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Panel passes debate funding
By DON KNOX Staff Reporter
The Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee last night initially approved a $5,000 emergency allocation to the KU Debate team, whose members say suffered exceptionally harsh weather. The University of Kansas this summer.
The proposed allocation will go to the Senate next Wednesday for final approval.
Mark Gidley, Houston, Texas, junior and a member of the debate team, told committee members last night that some would call a spartan existence.
"We're not talking about eating or staying at hotels," Gidley said. "We're talking about not going to tournaments because we just don't have the money."
The team also receives $1,258 from
upright $14.50 student fee assessed at
entrance.
THE SUMMER, the debate team's University allocation was halved by a new study.
Dom Parson, director of forensics,
said last night that there was no way
the debate team could survive under
the present allocations without damaging
its record of national competitiveness.
The team, Parson said, leads the nation in the amount of teams it has sent to the National Debate Tournament. KU has 42 teams in the 36-year history of the tournament, three more than the University of Southern California. Northwestern University sent 37 teams during the same period, while Harvard University sent 35.
BUT LOREN BUSBY, co-chairman of the finance and audit committee, said that he was
concerned that other financially- strapped organizations would also appeal for Senate funding.
"That has certainly crossed my mind," Busy said. "But to me, the distinction I can make is pretty much the survival of the debate program as its. Other groups were not cut back quite so much."
If approved, the $5,000 funding would be taken from the Senate's reserve account, which has a current balance of $82,000.
IN OTHER ACTION, the committee announced that it would begin supplemental budget hearings for student groups Tuesday. The Senate, in past years, has allocated an average of $20,000 during supplemental bearings.
Busby reiterated his intention that the Senate allocate less than the approximately $19,000 it allocated last [n]]
The reason for the decrease, Busby said Monday, was because of a Senate decision made last spring to make an effort to increase the importance of funding during the fall.
The Senate allocates at least $52,000 each spring.
The Senate received more than $55,000 in supplemental funding requests this fall. Requests over $500 include:
Alpha Rho Gamma, $1,207; American-Iranian
Friarship Organization, $255; Icahn, $1,300;
nation, $6,966; Counseling Organizations,
$4,846; Anthropology College, $705; Headquarters,
Icahn Anthropology College, $705; Headquarters,
Baidu Radio, $1,351; KU Conservative Forum, $4,700
Kansas University Crew, $2,500; KU International
University Crew, $2,500; KU Table Tennis Club, $800; KU Water Skate Club,
KU Table Tennis Club, $800; KU Pre-Med Club, $1,122; Recruitment $1,317; Recruitment
Advisory Board, $1,844; River City Women's Health
Association, $400; Business Council, $200 and Graduate Student
Business Council, $200
Organization requesting $500 or less were:
Amnesty International, #67; Board of Class Officers,
Workers, #82; Commission of Information Workers,
Workers, #185; Communication Studies Interaction,
Workers, #343; Communication Studies Interaction,
187; KU German College, #62; KU Gun Club, #159.
Volunteer firefighters get training from five-man team
By DAN PARELMAN Staff Reporter
Some doctors, lawyers, mechanics and wheat farmers share a common activity in Kansas.
Staff Reporter
They are all firefighters, the director of the KU division of continuing education's fire service training section said yesterday.
In fact, about 90 percent of the approximately 22,000 firefighters in Kansas are volunteers who probably would not be trained adequately without the division's training program, Max Thomas, director, said.
"Most of the training that our volunteer firefighters get comes from this office." Thomas said.
THE FIVE-MEMBER program staff travels across the state teaching mostly five-day courses to fire departments in subjects such as basic firemanship, pump operations, pesticides fire and spill control, and industrial fire protection.
The program has existed since 1949. Thomas said.
Thomas said the division, which schedules courses six months in advance, has a backlog of about 100 requests from various courses. He says he will also fire the nurses. The division also teaches fire prevention to convalescent homes, schools and
civic clubs, he said.
Industrial fire protection was the topic of last week's school in Topeka, Thomas said. Firefighters from throughout east Kansas, as well as representatives from about 25 companies in northeast Kansas, went to Topeka to learn about sprinkler systems, evacuation procedures and containment of chemical fires, he said.
THOMAS SAID that containing and extinguishing fires is much different today from the past because household and industrial chemicals and commodities, such as fire retardants, that are difficult to contain.
Many chemicals, such as magnesium and phosphorous, cannot be extinguished, he said. Firefighters are limited to containing these chemical fires by clearing the area, protecting the sides and roof of the building and containing the heat by spraying the sides and top of the fire with "water curtains" and "fog patterns."
The KU team will teach these fire prevention basics Oct. 11-14 at the 3rd annual Kansas Municipal Fire School in Wichita.
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Requests due tomorrow for study abroad grants
The application is the same for both programs, Am Oetting, adviser for the office of study abroad, said. Applicants must submit their transcripts, references, and a proposal of the study that can be carried in a year at a particular university.
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Four KU students won Fulbright grants last year. Oetting said that 516 grants were awarded nationally last year, and 2,811 students applied.
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