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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.103.NO.153
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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Shankel ready to pinch hit
Kansan staff writer
It's deia vu all over again for Del Shankel.
The professor of microbiology and biochemistry appears to be the choice to serve as acting chancellor for the University when current chancellor Gene Budig steps down on Aug. 1. John Montgomery, who is head of the Board of Regents, has been recommended for the position. The Regents will vote on this at their meetings on June 29 and June 30.
"My expectation is that he will be the only name for acting chancellor," said Stephen Jordan, executive director for the Board of Regents.
The job of acting chancellor is nothing new to Shankel.
In 1980 Shankel had just resigned from his position as executive vice chancellor and was planning to go on sabbatical when Chancellor Archie Dykes resigned. Shankle took the position as acting chancellor until Dykes' successor, Budig, was chosen.
In Shankel's 35 years of service to the University,
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he has had a variety of administrative roles in the University community. He was executive vice chancellor three times, acting dean of liberal arts and sciences in 1973-1974 and acting head of the department of microbiology in 1964-1965.
Even though he is an experienced administrator, Shankel said that he is not interested in becoming KU's 15th chancellor. *
"I absolutely will not be a candidate for the permanent chancellor's position," he said. "Having me serve in this role during this interim period would not give me any advantage in the candidacy for the position."
Shankel said that he enjoyed teaching and doing research but that he planned to retire "in a couple of years."
He said he plans to teach this fall along with his duties as acting chancellor.
Shankel said that he already had begun to look
into the status of the different areas of the University for his impending duties as acting Chancellor. He will meet with the vice chancellors of the Lawrence campus tomorrow afternoon to discuss the important issues facing the University. Shankel also plans to go to the KU Medical Center next week to meet with Charles Andrews, the acting executive vice chancellor of the Medical Center, and other staff. He also said he would be meeting with Budig for an hour each week.
Shankel said that some of his initial duties will be completing several projects that the University has been working on, such as the Dolph Simons Center for Biosciences Research on West Campus.
"Clearly, one of the major issues will be continuing to obtain adequate funding for the University and working with the Legislature and alumni to make sure that we continue to obtain adequate funding."
Del Shankel, professor of microbiology and biochemistry, is expected to become acting chancellor, after Gene Bidg leaves. Shankel is scheduled to teach BIOL 101, Principles of Microbiology; BIOL 308, Special Problems in Microbiology, Honors; and BIOL 701 Microbiological Genetics this fall.
Lisa Perry / KANSAN
Paying for KU, one dollar at a time
Some students find they're going broke as they go to school
By Roberta Johnson Kansan staff writer
Sometimes getting ahead means slipping behind.
Tony Jones wanted to find a new career that would allow him more time with his 5-year-old daughter, Dani.
But the divorced Lawrence junior — like many KU students — finds himself buried in loans and financial difficulties while striving to earn a bachelor's degree in psychology.
"Living in poverty is tough enough emotionally," he said. "And it's even tougher raising a kid in poverty."
"To me, the University is a for-profit organization," he said. "It capitalizes on the people who go to school here."
To Jones it may feel like poverty. Although he receives veteran's benefits and child support and his ex-wife pays their daughter's health insurance, he still barely makes the bills working part time at Watson library and Robinson gymnasium.
Jones said that KU keeps asking for money so it doesn't lose its professors. But in his three years at the University, he has been taught by more graduate students.
"Are we just paying professors $70,000 a year to write books?" he said. "In the timetables where they list staff, we should get a reduction in price."
Jones is one of many KU students who is becoming increasingly dissatisfied with what their education dollar buys. And when the cost of an education increases by at least 9 percent a year, students, at least the ones whose parents aren't paying the bills, are hurting.
"Eighty percent of the students aren't spending their money," Jones said. "This $15 for Watkins is nothing to them, but it’s all the less I can spend on my daughter."
Jones tries to make life as comfortable as possible for his daughter but sometimes finds it to be a problem.
"Every time when we're at the store she asks, 'Just one toy?' he said. "Nine times out of 10, I don't have the money. My ex-wife pointed out to Dani the other day that there is the money that Dad has to pay bills and food."
and fun money for candy bars and toys."
In addition to housing bills, Jones must pay for his daughter to attend Hilltop Child Development Center. Although the fees are based on a sliding scale, each day $q$, which could cost as much as $17.50, adds up.
"The University has got me," he said. "I can't quit with the debt I've accrued. I guess I should lift weights, strengthen my back, and carry the loans."
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said Chad Horsely, Scranton junior, who works about 20 hours a week for student housing. "I'd rather have the loans than have my parents strain. The first two years they helped me out, but my parents can't do it anymore."
Student loans are just one way to afford the annual increase in tuition and fees at the University of Kansas. With tuition and fees increasing by 9 percent for residents and 13 percent for out-of-state students next fall, many undergraduates must find sources other than the dwindling bank account to afford a college education.
Horsely work-study at one of the 1,175 jobs, including 390 work-study positions, available this school year, said Terry Glenn, director of the University Placement Center.
"I probably have $2,000 a year in loans."
But even with jobs and some financial aid, many students still have a hard time finding money.
The Warsaw, Poland, sophomore said it cost him a minimum of $10,000 to attend KU this year. In the fall he will attend a Universi-
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The lack of scholarships available to Mark Augustiney meant he could not afford to stay in the United States for another year.
tv in England, which will save him $3,000.
"I tried to get scholarships here," Augestinyak said. "I have a 3.5 G.P.A., and in high school I had a 4.0."
Augestinyak also applied to be a resident assistant in student housing, which would have given him free housing and in-state tuition, but was knocked out after the second of three rounds.
"Some R. A.'s told me they tried three or four times before they got the job," he said. "I don't have that much time. If I could afford it, I would stay."
Some students don't have Augistinyak's options. They are forced to take out additional loans so they can stay at KU. Even the ones paying in-state tuition.
"I used to live on savings accounts and scholarships, and I worked throughout the year," said Tiffany Poling, Wichita senior.
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Persistence pays off for aid-seekers
By Roberta Johnson
Kansan staff writer
Although financial aid is more scarce than a generation ago, scholarships for left-handers who study creative writing and biochemistry are not the only way to afford a college education.
Federal financial aid forms are available outside 50 Strong Hall. The application for the 1994-1995 school year is due May 3, 1995.
"We don't encourage students to wait that long," said Diane Del Buono, director of student financial aid. "There's a lot of red tape, and we'd want to process it as quickly as possible. The July billing date is almost here."
In 1992 the financial aid laws changed. A loan program independent of a parents' income level now exists, but students must pay interest during college on these loans.
The Kansas University Endowment Association also offers student loans, but several limitations apply, said Bill Shunk, loan director for the association. The student must have a 2.0 G.P.A. the parents must co-sign the loan and the Office of Financial Aid must approve the loan, he said. An undergraduate student can receive $1,000 a semester for two semesters, and graduate students can receive $1,500 a semester, also for two semesters. The interest rate on the loans is 6 percent, and payments on long-term loans begin four months after graduation.
For some who qualify, work-study is an option. But students can only work 20 hours a week.
Nearly 1,200 on-campus jobs, including 390 work-study-specific positions, were available during the 1993-1994 school year, said Terry Glenn, director of the University Placement Center. Most only pay minimum wage.
Because of high interest rates, charging bills on credit cards may not always be the best way to pay for college, Del Buono said.
"For students who are paying over time, they should examine it carefully and talk to someone to determine what way is better to save money," she said.
Jump in the lake
It may be smaller than Clinton Lake, but Lone Star Lake remains a favorite summer hangout with many students and Lawrence residents.
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Clinton unveils welfare plan in K.C.
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — President Clinton announced a $9.3 billion plan yesterday to transform welfare from a check-writing system into a job training program for tens of thousands of single mothers.
"I really believe that we have a chance finally to replace dependence with independence, welfare with work." Clinton told former and current welfare recipients. He spoke in the walnut and marble lobby of the historic Commerce Bank in downtown Kansas City, where Harry Truman found a job as a young man.
Eula Duncan, a mother of four who is trying to get off welfare and get a job, whispered "Amen," as the president promised to give women on welfare a second chance. He also promised to get tough with the parents who refuse to support their children.
"We cannot permit millions and millions and millions of American children to be
trapped in a cycle of dependency with people who are not responsible for bringing them into the world, with parents who are trapped in a system that doesn't develop their human capacity to live up to the fullest of their God-given abilities and to succeed as both workers and parents. We must break this cycle," he said.
The White House,proposal would cut welfare benefits to immigrants, drug addicts and alcoholics, and would slash subsidies to wealthy farmers to finance its scaled-back and often-delayed plan.
In Washington, Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, called the president's plan "limp" and said it does not meet the test of placing welfare recipients in "productive tax-paying jobs with a future."
slack." Gramm said.
"The plain effect of the president's proposal is to leave most welfare programs untouched while spending more on some and trusting bureaucrats to invent a handful of new welfare programs to take up the
The cornerstone of the president's plan is a two-year limit on cash benefits, an idea Clinton used to define himself as a new Democrat during his 1992 campaign.
But yesterday's plan to translate his popular campaign promises to "end welfare as we know it" singles out the youngest mothers on the rolls of Aid to Families with Dependent Children. The joint federal-state welfare program supports 5 million poor families.
Opposition also came from a Democratic senator. Tom Harkin of Iowa, who is sponsoring his own welfare reform bill providing for individual welfare-to-work contracts, said the Clinton proposal resembles a New Deal program that promises government jobs. "What kind of nonsense is that?" he said. "We don't have the money for it."
And at the end of the decade, fewer than 8 percent of welfare recipients would actually be enrolled in a work program, although
Clinton declared that his proposal would push 1 million parents into the work force by 2000.
The plan also pours far more money into child care, education and training — a total of $7 billion over five years — than into subsidized jobs, just $1.2 billion.
According to the proposal, women born after 1971 would receive the education, training, job placement and child-care services they need to become self-sufficient. Those who fail to find work before their cash benefits run out would be required to take subsidized or community service jobs that pay minimum wage.
Although they would be allowed to remain in the work program indefinitely, parents who refuse a private-sector job would be kicked out. Advocates for children and the poor say the plan does little to lift those participants out of poverty, and takes away the social safety net for children whose parents refuse to comply.