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University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 29, 1991
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Carter offers gulf peace plan
Former president Jimmy Carter speaks to a full house at Bramlagh Coliseum at Kansas State as part of the Landon Lecture Series.
K-State speech calls for probe into 1979 Iran hostage crisis
By Joe Gose
Kansan staff writer
MANHATTAN — Former President Jimmy Carter offered proof that there is life after the presidency when he spoke to an estimated crowd of 5,500 at Kansas State University on Friday.
Carter, the 88th speaker of the Landon Lecture Series, talked about his involvement in finding peaceful solutions to conflicts in Third World countries and in helping the homeless and the environment. He called on the United States and the Soviet Union to open a peace initiative in the Middle East.
Carter said that in his plan for peace, each Persian Gulf country
would be allowed to present its case and that the countries then would be allowed to vote.
"The war cost $70 billion. Peace might cost $20 billion."
"There ought to be a commitment from the superpowers that they will not interfere," he said. "But they raise money to sponsor the talks
Carter also addressed an accusation that former President Ronald Reagan and then-Vice President George Bush conspired with Iranians during the 1980 presidential campaign. In Iran, Reagan aides allegedly promised the Iranians weapons shipments in the event of a Reagan
victory.
"I pray that it's not true."
"I don't believe any American would delay hostages from being returned for anything," he said. "I think there ought to be a thorough investigation by a blue ribbon committee — not a congressional committee — on this.
"I pray that it's not true."
Carter added that he thought Bush should order the investigation.
Carter became a distinguished professor at Emory University in Atlanta in 1982. He also founded the Carter Center at Emory, a center that addresses world issues through nonpartisan and bipartisan study.
Gov. Joan Finney, who attended the lecture and who met with Carter after he spoke, said she was confused because Carter had been to Carter than were the years immediately following his presidency.
'I don't believe any American would delay hostages from being returned for anything. I think there ought to be a thorough investigation by a blue ribbon committee — not a congressional committee — on this. I pray that it's not true.'
Jimmy Carter Former U.S. president
Seven new members of GradEx will work under revised system
"He has a very broad perspective on the problems of our world," she said, believing that he will go down in history with the most able president in our time."
By Benjamin W. Allen
Kansan staff writer
The first members of the reorganized Graduate Executive Committee of the Graduate Representative Assembly were elected Friday.
The seven new members of the committee are Jim Danoff-Burg, Jeff Gardner, Catherine Kesner, "Alice" Gordon, Paul Berry, Doctor Jennifer Squirt, and Debra Eldera.
Last month the assembly revised its constitution to give executive recompensies to GradEx and all legislative recompensies to the Commission, one representative from each department offering a graduate program.
The new members of GradEx will be the first members of the committee to operate under the revised system.
Gardner, Salt Lake City graduate student, said he joined GradEx because he wanted to combat the despairing apathy grade students had for obtaining financing and representation.
Gardner said he wanted to make graduate students aware of the
opportunities available to them through travel funds for presentations and journals where they could publish their work.
He also said that with shrinking budgets at the University, graduate students would be relied on heavily to carry a greater instruction load.
"I think it's imperative that funding be maintained for good education," Gardner said.
Danoff-Burg, Lawrence graduate student who was elected in absentia, said it was essential to get a 100 institution waiver for teaching passhold.
Danoff Burg also said he would like to see unionization of graduate students.
"There's a lot more strength in collective bargaining," he said.
Oscar Quiros, current executive coordinator of the Graduate Student Council, said that it was not his position to tell GradEx what issues to pursue but that he thought it should continue to build lines of communication between different graduate bodies and Student Senate.
Balancing act
Kadi Huhn, St. Louis sophomore, leans over the side of her laser sailboat as she maneuvers to the finish line of the KU sailing regatta at Clinton Lake. Huhn finished third in Saturday's competition against Kansas State. The KU team defeated the Wildcats overall with Kansas' Stephen Rudy, Naperville, ill., sophomore, winning first place.
New group wants to see more student involvement in politics
By Michael Christie
Kansan staff writer
"We're advocating student empowerment," he said. "Young people today are not politically involved.
Students need to get more involved in politics, said the founders of a newly formed organization called Increasing Student Involvement.
"We're out to change that."
Students for Educational Empowerment in the state of Kansas, or SEEK, is mostly an informational resource, said its cofounder, Mike Schreiner, outgoing student body president.
Schreiner said that he and Greg Hughes, outgoing Associated Students of Kansas campus director, decided to form the organization after spending time lobbying on the state level for higher education
Schreiner said that being involved in student government helped one learn about the issues students but that it also was limiting.
Schreiner said that he and Hughes could provide information to groups that wanted to address issues on campus or at the state level.
Currently, Schreiner and Hughes are the only members of the organization.
"Any group that's addressing an issue on behalf of students will be able to access information," he said.
Hughes said that he saw SEEK continuing as an organization after next year, even though he and Schreiner will graduate.
The reins of power could be turned over to capable students, Hughes said.
'We're advocating student empowerment. Young people today are not politically involved. We're out to change that.'
Mike Schreiner Former Student Body President
Schreiner said that he would be happy if 50 more students got involved in ASK as a result of his and Hughes' efforts.
Students who lobby on behalf of KU cannot be antagonistic toward legislators. Schreiner said.
"ASK and the student body president have to keep a good rapport with the Legislature," he said.
"We won't be confined by the politics around student government and ASK."
Federal spending reforms may cut aid for research
By Amy Francis
Researchers at KU and the University of Kansas Medical Center may have to tighten their budgets in the future because of possible reforms in the government's indirect-cost system.
Kansan staff writer
The indirect-cost system is the program the U.S. government uses to help cover research costs, such as utilities. The government pays universities an agreed-upon percentage of the amount spent on research.
Some of the options proposed were giving universities block grants to cover all research costs, limiting funding for specific projects or requiring major research institutions to have standardized accounting systems.
Richard Kusserow, inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services, recently provided a list of options to a House of Representatives committee concerning predeath abuses in the indirect-cost system.
Mike Keeble, director of business affairs at the Med Center, said the center would not take action on the options immediately.
The committee will conduct hearings on ways to prevent abuses in the system.
"We will wait and respond to actual proposals as they come forward, as we do here," she said. See seashells floated by visible members of Congress in a year.
The Med Center receives indirect-cost payments of 48 percent of the amount it spends on research. That amount is $3.3 million last year, Keeble said.
If the indirect-cost payments were reduced, the same amount of research would continue. he said.
"It wouldn't limit the amount of research we could do. It would just make it tighter all around." he said.
The average percentage for indirect-cost payments for the top 100 universities is about 53 percent.
Kim Moreland, director of research at the University of Kansas, said the Lawrence campus received a 45 percent indirect-cost payment.
If a limit is placed on the payments, KU will not be affected immediately, she said.
Leo Langlois, assistant comptroller at KU, said, "We're locked in to 45 percent until 1993."
It is projected that the indirect-cost payments to KU will add up to $4.5 million for fiscal year 1991, Langlois said.
Moreland said the indirect-cost payments went into a general fund and were distributed by the vice chancellor's office among the many departments that conduct research at KU.
Moreland said KU was able to keep its indirect-cost payment percentage low because it maintained a conservative approach to the payments.
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