University Daily Kansan / Monday, March 6, 1989
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Midnight Madness
Top six confirmed by official count
Surrounding an audience member, the Lazzi Faire Comedy Improvisa- cises to warm up the audience before performing. They began their tion Troop, a group of KU theatre students, try different acting exer- show at midnight yesterday at the Hashinore Theatre.
City Commission primary results
by a Kansan reporter
The names are the same, but the numbers are a bit different, said Patty Jaimia, Douglas County Clerk.
The six winning candidates will compete for three open spots on the city commission in the April 4 general election.
After several ballots were hand-counted Tuesday and the Douglas County Commission conducted a canvas Friday, James released the results of the Douglas County Primary selection for the City Commission.
David Penny, owner of Kaw Sand Co., received the most votes in the primary.
Shirley Martin-Smith is the owner and manager of Martin-Smith Personnel Services.
Robert Walters is the manager of research facilities for the University of Kansas Space Technology Center and he coached with Ruth Ahn a Smith Moving and Storage
Dennis Constance, the only incumbent, is a residence hall manager for the KU student housing system.
General election candidates
These six winning candidates will compete for three open spots on the City Commission in the April 4 general election:
David Penny 3,034
Shirley Martin-Smith 2,839
Robert Walters 2,496
Dennis Constance 2,340
Marcel Francisco 2,139
Jeff Arensberg 1,895
KU dean committed to a strong international goal
■ Marci Francisco, a former city commissioner and mayor, is the assistant director of facilities planning at the University.
■ Jeff Arensberg is a downtown businessman and part-owner of Arensberg Shoes.
by Thom Clark Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas has a long history of work in the International area, sending many students to universities abroad as well as attracting students to the university. The dean of international studies said Thursday.
George Woodyard was appointed as dean Feb. 17 and will continue to serve as director of the Center for International Programs.
"He has a tremendous background in foreign language and international programs," said Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs.
Brinkman said it was natural to combine Woodyard's position as director of the Center for International Programs with the dean position. Brinkman said the combination fits Woodyard's talents effectively.
"His promotion was an extension from his position as director of the Center for International Programs, where he served over the years." Brinkman said.
Woodyard said the position represented a major commitment on the part of the University to strengthen international programs.
"Reorganizing the program represents a determination on the part of KU to get back in a position of international field." Woodyard said.
Woodyard he already had established an agenda for the new position. He said he would work to strengthen faculty positions by making appointments related to intracational groups. He also said he hoped to expand opportunities for faculty to do research overseas.
"The University needs to provide opportunities for faculty and students." Woodyard said. "Primarily we have to give faculty time and resources to do research." Woodyard also said students should receive training to seize the many international opportunities in foreign studies programs.
"In a first hand experience they (students) can learn a lot more," Woodyard said.
After the Board of Regents created the Center for International Programs in 1984, Wooldoyard was chosen as director. He has been associate dean of the KU Graduate School since 1978 and has been the associate vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service since 1980.
Brinkman said Woodyard's added responsibility would make him more effective in his role as director for the Center for International Programs.
"With a greater emphasis resting on International programs, study at all levels is absolutely necessary," Brinkman said.
Woodyard said he had been charged to improve the status of international programming on cambridge to upgrade the level of activities.
"We need to raise the level of awareness of international opportunities on campus and in our region," Woodyard said.
Students can apply for energy benefits
Jayne Garcia, Topa-area Low Income Energy Assistance Program supervisor, said the program was designed to assist low- and fixed-income households with payment of their home heating utility costs.
According to the eligibility guidelines, a student who lives alone in an apartment or house and who has made payments on two of the three previous utility bills may be eligible for assistance. The student must have had a gross income of less than $2,163 during the past three months.
Recipients receive an average of $200 of assistance during the three months of the program, she said. Out of 900 applications in Douglas
County, 770 have been approved.
Garcia said disabled people, elderly people, welfare recipients and students were among those who had received benefits.
The initial eligibility guidelines include having made payments on utility bills in two of the last three months. If utilities are included in the final payments must have paid rent in two of the last three months, Garcia said.
The program, which began Dec. 8 and will close March 31, is federally-financed but state-administered. It has a national campus and the national program, Garcia said.
In addition, the applicant must meet income guidelines. For example, a household of two must not have earned a gross income of more than $2,898 for the past three months. A household of four must not have earned a gross income of more than $4,368 for the past three months to be
eligible.
Applications, which can be picked up at the Lawrence LIEAP office at 619 E. Eighth St., are reviewed by a staff member to make sure all the information is present. The applications must include proof of income and proof of payment of previous utility bills.
"That seems to be a common problem in any SR$ (Social and Rehabilitation Services) program," Garcia said.
Garcia said that there had been only a small problem with people falsifying their applications.
If the applicant is eligible, the actual financial award will be determined based on income, type of property, and whether the charge for the fuel, Garcia said.
The non-taxable benefit checks are issued either to the applicant or to the utility company on behalf of the applicant. Garcia said that cases
where the utility had already been shut off were processed immediately.
Brenda Moorhead, program technician for the Lawrence program, said other applications usually were processed within seven to 10 days. A staff member will call the utility company, though, and notify it that payment on a particular account will not so that utilities are not shut off.
Moorhead said that applicants were eligible once per season for benefits but they could reapply if they had been denied.
"It is important that people can apply and feel that their names are not going to be printed all over the place." Moorhead said.
Another local energy assistance program is Lawrence Warm Hearts.
Warm Hearts requires that a utility shutoff notice be issued before a person is eligible for benefits.
Right-wingers at a Massachusetts college speak out
The Associated Press
AMIHERST, Mass. — The state university that has played host to a Communist convention, CIA protests and a building takeover by angry minors is now a place where an unusual corner these days; archconservatives.
“This is a leftist institution,” said Republican Club President Ted Maravelais, a 20-year-old.
The right-wingers on the campus that they like to describe as "so far left, it's falling off" have accused the University of Massachusetts of violating their right of free assembly for stripping them of the privilege of renting meeting rooms because of their left-wing group, which lost the same privilege.
sophomore, who said he would file suit unless the 27,000-student school relented. "This administration does not want to hear the conservative viewpoint."
Club members brawled with members of the Spartacus Youth Club on Feb. 9 when the Republicans refused to leave a meeting of the Marxist group. One person was injured.
The scuffe was just the latest skimrash in the three-year history of confrontations between political extremists at the campus 100 miles west of Boston.
After the CIA protests of 1986, the university gained more notoriety in November 1987 with a
racial scuffle that injured 10 students and in February 1988 with a week-long building takeover by minority students. A month later the school was forced to move to a Communist as co-president of the student body.
Jason Rabinowitz, a founding member of the Young Communist League, has become a frequent target of The Minuteman, the conservative student newspaper.
"Certainly it is a progressive campus. For that reason, it is a target for far-right groups."
Student leaders say the campus is polarized between political extremes, and few in the middle take part or vote.
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