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University Daily Kansan, September 22, 1982
Caucus tries to get more blacks to vote
By JULIE HEABERLIN Staff Reporter
Lawrence, with one of the highest percentages of black voters in Kansas, is a target of Democratic leaders in what is thought to be the first statewide effort to bring black voters to the polls, a state legislator said yesterday.
The Kansas Black Democratic Caucus is organizing voting drives in 30 cities to meet a goal of registering 15,000 additional black voters before the State Rep. Norman Justice D-Kansas City Justice is a member of the caucus.
"What we're doing is re-dedicating ourselves, uniting black Democrats throughout the state so the candidates elected to be responsible to the black majority," he noted.
Justice said that in a study done by the caucus, Lawrence ranked seventh of cities in Kansas in its black population. He said the city had 2,919 black residents, 5.5 percent of the city's population.
Blacks make up 5.34 percent of the total state population, with the largest black concentration in Kansas City, he said.
Justice said groups would be working to elect the Democratic candidate for
secretary of state, Billy McCray, who is the first black nominee to run for a state administrative office in more than 100 years.
Blacks had not campaigned in those elections before, he said, because the majority of Kansas was Republican, the only one invisible black Republican coalition.
The Legislature's four black legislators, three state representatives and one governor.
Odessa Pierce, who is helping organize the Lawrence voter drive, said that a successful black voting drive could boost turnout and close races of the November elections.
EVEN TOUGH black voters are a minority — 75,000 out of the state's 3.2 million people — elected candidates will be more accountable to them if they recognize an organized black voting bloc. she said.
"Color is less of an issue here," said Pierce, who is also the state caucus publicity chairman. "We are working together to ensure that he will be responsive to minorities."
Pierce said the local steering committee would be working with black Greek organizations on the KU campus and Lawrence youth groups and churches in a door-to-door registration drive.
Gold nugget Brazil's best
By United Press International
BRASILIA, Brazil — A former baker who went to the heart of the Amazon jungle has found his fortune has discovered the largest gold nugget ever found in Brazil, state officials said Tuesday.
Clovis Tavares, the former baker at Sao Paulo, Aracuão, Pau, found the nugget at the Serra Palada gold mine in Minas Gerais. The Ministry of Mines and Energy said.
The ministry said the nugget weighed 615.6 Troy ounces and was valued at more than $94,000, but the largest ever found in Brazil.
The nugget was bought by the Federal Savings Bank, the state entity charged with purchasing all gold from Brazilian prospectors for
Serra Pelada, Brazil's largest mine, was discovered at the beginning of 1880 and sparked a massive gold rush. In less than five years, over 2 million tons of gold from all over the country converged on the site, hoping to hit the jackpot.
Tavares, however, will receive only 7 percent of the value of his gift mantel, or $27,198), because he is one of 12 other partners working his plot.
Legislators study Med Center's roles
Hayden said, because of financial problems at the Med Center. He said that the idea of separating the two administrations has been tossed around for a couple of years. Timing also is right for separating the administrations, Hayden said, because David Waxman, executive vice chancellor of the College of Health Sciences, is to retire in July.
A legislative interim committee met for the first time at the Med Center last week to study the possibility of establishing two administrations, one in the hospital and one in the educational operation. Rep. Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, said yesterday.
The new vice chancellor could then start, with the new administration format instead of switching to it later, Hayden said.
Possibilities are to separate the two operating budgets, to separate the two administrations with their organizations both remaining under the
University or to separate the two institutions completely. Haven said
Waxman, however, said last night that he thought it was important to maintain the impact education had on the hospital and that the relationship between medical education and the hospital should be left as it is now.
The question is being studied now,
By VERONICA JONGENELEN Staff Reporter
HAYDEN SAID that the pressure to maintain an adequate cash flow at Bell Memorial Hospital was greater than before. The Med Center has never competed for patients because it is an educational institution, he said. But now the Med Center has to market itself because the state reserves are low and cannot bail the Med Center out of its financial problems, Hayden said.
Special radio grant possible for KANU
By VICKY WILT Staff Reporter
"We hope to apply to fund a position that would concentrate on the reporting of local news and local affairs," lowland, director of RANU, said yesterday.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is offering training program grants for women and minores, and a radio station is considering the offer.
The grants, available to non-profit public broadcast groups, are to be used to train a station employee so that he or she is competitive with others in the same field, said Andrea Coney, a research specialist CPB Human Development Program.
The grant covers 50 percent of the total cost of a training program and is awarded on a competitive basis. Coney advises that students are dependent on the trainee's position.
Hill said he was attempting to collect $8,000 from private donors before applying for a grant. Once he gets that amount, he will seek a matching amount from CPB.
Hill said he tried not to use the grant money to build a up staff at the station. Other stations tried to do that, he said, and found at the end of the grant period that they could no longer afford the staff.
KANU received a grant in the 1970s to train both a minority student and a female student, Hill said. The station could match the funds out of its budget then and did not need private donations.
In the past, the station could afford to keep those who were trained in the grant program, he said, adding that he felt that being able to keep the next trainee.
Now, Hill said, the funds have to come from the private sector.
"We're roughly halfway there," he said. "It's difficult, but we're giving it up."
The purpose of the program is to facilitate the training of minorities and women in official, managerial, professional and technical jobs in public broadcasting, according to application information.
He said he would not apply unless he thought it was possible to keep the employee, however.
Individual students are not eligible for the grants, Coney said.
Applications, due Oct. 15, will be screened and then reviewed three times. Three-fourths of the grant will be awarded at the start of the training program, and the remainder will be distributed as an evaluation must be submitted.
KJHK, the KU student-run radio station, will not apply for a grant because it does not belong to the CPB, the campus manager and Goddard senior, said.
She said KJHK was an educational station that does not subscribe to CPB programs. Both women and minorities work for the station, she said.
"We're really open about that. Both have a really good chance with us," she
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