Tuesday, Feb. 9, 1965
University Daily Kansan
Page 5
KU Student Interns Assist Legislature
Three KU graduate students, Benjamin F. Barrett, Florence, and Stephen Staab, Hays, M.A. candidates in political science, and Barry A. Bennington, Cheney, of the law school, have entered "phase two" of a legislative internship program they began last September.
The students are on leave from the campus for the school year since the program requires they reside in Topeka while performing full time
assignments for the Kansas State legislature.
AFTER SPENDING THEIR first "semester" as aides for the research department of the Kansas Legislative Council, a group of 25 state senators and representatives who study legislative problems while the House and Senate are in recess, the students have been reassigned to working for committee chairmen and individual legislators since the 1965 session started.
While the students are unable to attend classes at KU, each receives academic credit. Barnett and Stab each will receive 10 hours credit under a seminar program administered by Earl Nehring, associate professor of political science, who is the KU coordinator for the internship program. Bennington will receive seven hours credit from the law school for his work.
The internship program began two years ago as an effort to provide
gifted students interested in politics with practical experience on the state level.
EACH OF THE interns receives $4,000 for their service, half of which is paid by the state and half by the Ford Foundation. The applicants are screened each year by a committee composed of faculty members from KU and three other state schools—usually Kansas State University, Wichita State University and Ft. Hays State College.
This year four students were given the positions, three from KU, and one, Stephen Wright, from Washburn University Law School.
Ellsworth Appointed
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Rep. Robert F. Ellsworth, R-Kan., was named yesterday as a new Republican member of the House-Senate Economic Committee.
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