THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.89.No.146
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Monday. May 7. 1979
Democrats to appeal remap plan
By GENE LINN
Staff Reporter
Early indications are that KU student leaders and local Democrats will appear before a Federal District Court to try to reverse Saturday's Kansas Supreme Court ruling upholding the Kansas House reappointment.
Both the students and Democrats had told the court that the redistricting plan would split the KU student vote by moving Democratic State Rep. Mike Glove's 44th District to west of the KU campus and Oread neighborhood.
Glover's district now includes the campus, Oread and most of east Lawrence. The KU campus will form a new east Lawrence, the KU campus and the Oread neighborhood will form a new west Lawrence.
LAWRENCE DEMOCRATIC State Rep.
John Solbach and Douglas County Democratic leader David Berkowitz also charged before the court that the student's vote had been split in a deliberate attempt to hurt Glover's chances for re-election next year.
The court said the basic issue in the case was whether the House's reapportionment provided that one person's vote in an election be worth as much as another person's vote as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.
Both the student and Democratic leaders said yesterday that they had not read the Court's decision and would have to examine it. Both the student and the case to take the case to Federal district court.
However, when parts of the decision were read to them, they were critical of the decisions made by other people.
"FROM WHAT you've read to me, it
sounds a little bokey." Student Senate member Jeff Chaney said.
The decision said that although none who argued before the court was able to cite discrimination against college students held that "discrimination against college students may be equated with discrimination on the basis of age" under the Roe v. Wade case that gave 18-year-olds the right to vote.
According to the court, the issue was whether three precincts in the Oread neighborhood with heavy student populations were included in the 40th district and two shipping to the 48th
The court said the split did not discriminate against KU students partly because the three districts contain no more than 2,156,3,156 of the University's 22,228 students.
CHANEY SAID, "I don't see how they can
say that. I don't see how they can allow discrimination just because a small number of people are involved. Discrimination is discrimination."
The court also maintained that students did not vote as a block.
"If you look at the past legislative races, we see they've all been decided by less than 2%."
Glover also criticised the court's reasoning.
"The students come from different towns, and political backgrounds and are from different localities. It is extremely doubtful all will be of one party," the decision said.
"Considering modern trends in higher education, each student is trained for independent thinking. Unanimity among a student body seems unlikely."
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Aid director weighs closing office
Staff Reporter
Bv LESLIE GUILD
The director of financial aid said Friday that he might be forced to close the financial aid office this week because a flood of students inquiring about their aid applications had hammered the office's work.
The director, Jerry Rogers, said the large number of inquiries had slowed the process of notifying students of
"Right now we have so many students coming into the office and calling to check on their awards that we are unable to process awards during the day," he said. "That we've having to take the work home to accomplish anything."
"I know students are anxious to know if they are getting any money. In their place, I would be, too. But they are just worrying about themselves and we're worrying about 4,700 of them."
"It appears the funds will be up slightly," he said. "We are receiving more Work Study money and the Supplemental Grants and National Direct Student Loans are also up."
The office began last week to notify students of their aid
awards for next year. Although Rogers said he would not
know the total number of awards that would be made until
the end of this year, he said and amount of
some awards to be higher than last year.
Rogers said the Basic Grant program funding also had increased. Work Study, Supplemental Grants, National Direct Student Loans and Basic Grants are all federal aid programs.
"Since we are getting more money under the Basic Grant program, some students who have not received awards before are getting money," he said. "And in some cases, the grants that most modest amounts are now getting dramatic increases."
Rogers said funding had increased because of President Carter's Middle Income Assistance Act, passed by Congress.
The act allows students whose annual family income is less than $250,000 to receive钱. The previous limit was $150,000.
"We do award the freshmen first in order that they can make a decision sooner on whether they are coming to KU," Rogers said. "Most instances, students who are not freshmen, go back to KU. They aren't trying to decide between schools."
The financial awards to incoming fall freshmen were awarded last month. Rogers said.
Rogers said more than 4,700 students had applied for financial aid for fall. He said those students who had applied before the Feb. 15, 1979, deadline would be considered for financial assistance, he said, would be awarded the remaining funds.
Springtime strings
Staff photo by CHRISTTODO
Art in the Park drew more than just painters. Greg Allen, Lawrence special student, joined other musicians to "jam" the afternoon away at Lawrence's South Park.
Smaller fee increase sought
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes will recommend to the Kansas Board of Regents that the student privilege fee be increased by $1.50 a semester, instead of the $2.50 recommended by the Student Senate.
"We just felt that was too large a fee increase all at once," David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said last night.
The Student Senate approved on April 25 a resolution to increase the privilege fee by $2.50 next semester to cover a proposed curriculum construction system at the University of Kansas.
The expansion would have added an east. Lawrence bus route and a bus route on campus from 10:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. it also would have increased bus service to added students. The fee increase also would have covered inflation for next year.
Margaret Berlin, student body
president, said the east Lawrence route would have to be dropped if the fee were lower.
She said that adding the east Lawrence route would cost $29,744 and that the transportation board expected about $3,500 a semester from the new route. She said the bus would be the first to go, because the bus or disabled students had a higher priority.
"Specifically, even if we raised the bus pass to $30, we would be $8,658 short to increase the transportation service," she said.
A bus pass cost $23 this semester, and the Senate voted to increase its price by $2 next semester to help cover the cost of the expansion.
Ambler had suggested to Berlin that the ambler of a bus pass rather than the privileged man was better.
"A greater share of the burden should be placed on only those students who use the internet."
Berlin and the transportation board did not want to raise the price of bus passes too much because fewer students would buy them.
She also said she would like to ask members of the Lawrence City Commission to provide input.
"I think it's appropriate," she said.
"The bus service brings hundreds of students and their business to the downtown stores."
Ambler said he thought the $1.50 recommendation would have a better chance of receiving the Regent's approval than the $2.50 increase.
"The board members are concerned with the increase of the cost of going to school."
Bern said she was not surprised by Dykes' recommendation.
Dykes' recommendation will go before the Regents at its May 17 meeting.
Med Center won't cut class size
Bv PATRICIA MANSON
Staff Reporter
Despite warnings by the federal government that the United States is producing too many doctors, the University of Kansas is saying that the U.S. Department of Defense doesn't want them.
David Waxman, executive vice chancellor for the College of Health Sciences, said recently that the Med Center would continue to offer its services.
"I think we need that number to meet the needs of Kansas," Waxman said.
More than 15,000 students graduate from U.S. medical schools each year, twice as many as in 1980, according to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. By 1990, the department says, the country will be producing 20,000 doctors a year.
THERE ARE 205 students scheduled to graduate from the Med Center this month.
Kansas suffers from a shortage of doctors despite the increase in medical school graduates. Doctors tend to congregate in urban and suburban areas, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. Kansas loses many of its medical school graduates to other states because it is a rural state, the department saves.
Joe McFairland, academic officer of the Kansas Board of Regents, said, "While an oversupply may be true of the nation as a whole, Kansas has had it to increase the number of doctors educated in the state and the number who stay in the state."
JAMES LOWMAN, dean of the School of Medicine, also said Kansas needed to produce more doctors.
"I think until we assure ourselves that we are producing enough doctors, and even an oversupply, we won't cut back on our
classes," he said. "We are more concerned with what's going on in Kansas than what people on the federal level are saving."
Lowman said he thought the programs the Med Center and the Kansas Legislature had established would encourage many Med students.
Those programs include rural preceptorships, Rural Health Weekends and a scholarship program.
Fourth-year medical students are required to spend two months working with a rural doctor under the preceptorship program. Any medical student may attend a Rural Health Weekend, spending three days working in a rural area.
UNDER THE scholarship program, established by the Legislature last year, students receive a year's tuition for each year they agree to practice in Kansas. Students who receive an undergraduate month are required to practice in an underserved area of the state.
Lowman said the programs were beginning to help Kansas
"The evidence is that there is a growing interest in Kansas practice." he said.
However, according to HEW, Kansas and the rest of the country will have too many doctors if medical schools continue to admit so many students.
Joseph Califano, secretary of HEW, says that by 1990 the United States will have 242 doctors for every 100,000 persons, although it lacks a doctor for every 10,000 persons.
Waxman said, however, the Med Center was not going to cut back its classes.
"I suppose Mr. Califano has a crystal ball and can make statements like that," Waxman said. "I don't, so I don't make any
Prairie monk
Brother Thomas, a monk at Conception abbey, walks through one of the pastures that is owned and helps support the abbey after morning devotionals. The abbey owns about
Staff photo by RANDY OLSOH
1,000 acres, which, along with their printing service, support the monks in their retreat at Conception Mo.
By BRUCE THOMAS
Prayer and labors fulfill monks' lives
Staff Reporter
He is the only person who has come to listen to the monk's last service of the day, that is before his departure.
CONCEPTION, Mo. — Head lowered and strong, brown arms bare in the cool church, a man intermittently stands, kneels and sits.
The hard wooden pews are uncomfortable. A ridge in the back of the pew digs into a person's back. No one could fall asleep here.
One's attention is drawn to the back of the church to a painting of the Madonna on the ceiling, her arms gracefully reaching toward the congregation.
From outside, twilight and the sounds of birds filtr into the church and mix with the sound of a rainstorm.
The basilica at this monastery in Concep-
tion was built in 19th century Victorian
Europe. It is one of the most beautiful
monuments in Europe.
The small town of Conception is about 40 miles north of St. Joseph, Mo. Conception Abbey, established more than 100 years ago, is three miles from the town.
From a distance the abbey appears to rise from the surrounding corn fields like a kind
OVERHEAD ARE HIGH, arching ceilings, which are decorated with paintings that depict the life of Jesus. Many of the paintings have become worn and discolored from water leakage from the roof. The roof is often beautiful, but it is hauntingly attractive.
of giants. The large, red-brick buildings
outside of places around the rural farms.
Even though the abbey is beautiful and
the monastery is peaceful, the life of a monk can
sometimes be.
Brother Thomas Sullivan, one of the monks, said, "Sometimes the life here is very nice and you're wrapped up in prayer when you're away. But there are other times when it's just the pits."
MONASTIC LIFE exists for those who want a contemplative life close to God and separated from men. Abbot Anselm Coppermith, former a伯敦 of the monastery.
Sullivan entered Conception Abbey when he was 21. He is now 31.
Sullivan said, "There were a lot of things I gave up, but I chose to do it, just as my father gave up a lot when he chose to raise a child, with all the restricitions that brought.
"You make a choice and get locked into something, but locked in in a good sense, so you accept those responsibilities. But if you aren't into it, then you are better off not staying on, and I think that's the way most of the people feel here.
"I think we are eminently more practical than people assume we are."
The abbey in Conception is one of 35 Benedictine Monasteries in the United States. Unlike the Franciscan monks, the Abbey books enter on monastery and stay there.
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