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Thursday, April 19, 1979
University Daily Kansan
KU black symposium to be this weekend
By ELLEN IWAMOTO
Staff Renorter
Presentation of a Black Student Involvement Award and two distinguished service citations will highlight the Black Awareness Symposium Awards Banquet at 6 p.m. Friday in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
The symposium, which will begin 12:30 p.m. Friday and continue until noon Saturday, will focus on the theme "Success: A Black Perspective."
Samuel L. Adams, associate professor of journalism and director of Gannett-AEJ Project for Enrichment of Journalism Education, and Marc Henderson, associate White House press secretary will be required to request for their service to black proms.
The five finalists for the Black Student Involvement Award were selected from 12 nominees by members of the Black Faculty Committee and submitted to the Committee of Black Student Organizations.
THE FOLLOWING students were selected in recognition of their involvement in the project.
Dayna C. Eubanks, Wichita senior, was the chairperson for the 1979 Intercollegiate Association for Women Students and was a newscreator and newseditor for KJHK radio. Simon Monsard, Libreville, Gabon, senior is president of the African Dance Group to establish the African Dance Troupe and the Black Host Family Program.
Sharon Parker, Columbus, Ohio, senior,
is president of the Black Student Union and
was awarded the Outstanding Woman in
America Award by the Women's Recognition Committee.
Ross Quine, second year law student, Kansas City, Kan., is president of the Black American Law Students Association and a member of the Kansas University Academic Affairs Committee.
Reggie Robinson, Salma senior and 1978 student body vice president, is active in the team.
Issues and answers panels led by members of the RU Black Union Committee will be offered on topics including blacks in Higher Education, Blacks in Government and Politics and Blacks in the Social Services.
Student awareness workshops will focus on topics such as Choosing the Right Job, Black Women and Professional Status and Censorship, Minorities and the Media.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER for the symposium, Ragan Henry, will speak at a p.m. Friday in Woodruff Auditorium. Ragan is the president and owner of Broadcast Enterprises Network, Inc., the largest broadcast company owned by blacks in the United States.
Carlton B. Goodlett, president of the National Black United Fund and publisher of the Sun-Reporter newspaper in San Francisco, will speak on "Black Resources and Our Struggle for Survival" at the awards banquet.
Tickets for the dinner are $6.50 at the door and admission is free for the speech.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
has excused all black students, from their
classes, beginning noon Friday, to attend
the Black Symposium activities.
Police accident will be studied
An accident involving a Lawrence Police department squad car and a pedestrian Tuesday night is being investigated by the Lawrence Police department.
Maj. Darrel Stephens, assistant police chief, said yesterday that supervisors and the accident review committee of the Lawrence Police department would try to determine whether the driver of the squad car, Severeno A. Osborne, was the incident, was at fault in the accident in which David Tubbs, Topeka sophomore, was struck.
The review is to determine if the accident was avoidable in terms of the of the accident.
Tubba was reported in satisfactory condition last night at Lawrence Memorial
KU BAND MEMBERS 1978-79 Annual Spring Formal Banquet Sunday, April 29, 6:30 p.m. Union Ballroom
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Occasionally, in small groups of two or three, they ascend a flight of stairs to the House gallery or amble off to committee and testify vigorously for their causes.
Outside the chambers, a group of similarly dressed people appears to be lounging. Some sit at tables here and others rock on their heels, they talk among themselves.
It is 10 a.m. and the heavy wooden doors open to the chambers of the Kansas House, where you can close. Carrying rolled up newspapers and steaming cups of coffee, the businessman arrives.
Staff Reporter
THESE PEOPLE are lobbyists, men and women who represent every special interest in Kansas from Catholic Charities to the Chrysler Corporation. Neither constituents nor legislators, they make acting as go-betweens between the two.
Lobbyists find jobs rewarding backing legislation demanding
Because they are not allowed onto the House floor, they content themselves with listening to the proceedings over a loud-sneaker above their heads.
By TAMMY TIERNEY
Since the regular session of the 1979 legislative session adjourned two weeks ago, most lobbyists have been tying up loose ends at the Capitol and preparing to return to the jobs they hold during the nine months the Legislature is not in session.
One such lobbyist is John Mettner, a Topeka lawyer who works part time for Common Cause, a "people's" lobby group that supports issues like the Equal Rights Amendment and remapping of legislative districts.
Mettner got his job a year ago by an advertising an ed in the newspaper. He said it was the group itself and not the op-posed extra money that attracted him to it.
Mettner said he had spent a great deal of his time in the last year establishing a business.
"IF I COULD describe Common Cause in 'two words' they would be open govern- ment."
"The money is not that important to me. Compared to the $40 to $50 an hour I make as a lawyer, it's nothing. I figure I make about $4 an hour working for Common Cause, but it's very easy for me to work for it. I believe I have in the things they stand for."
"Common Cause doesn't really have a lot of money, so we can't throw our
weight around—we don't have it to throw," he said.
"Right now, we're concentrating on making ourselves known as a viable organization. We have a lot of prestige back east in Washington, but there are some people in Kansas that equate公务员 with the Chinese Liberation Army."
"YOU'VE GOT TO BE there all the time," he said. "You have to show you're interested. There were times this year when we had a committee meeting to go to the bathroom."
The key to effective jobbeting, Mettener said, is keeping legislators aware of the group's interests.
"I's not that I don't trust the legislators; I just want to be there to blow the whistle on any finagling. In fact, I'd saved pretty close to some of them."
And, although Common Cause was effective this year in lobbying for the ERA and reapportionment, Mattner said it was the friendships that helped to make his job successful.
According to State Rep. John Solbach, D-D Lawrence, who worked on the House reappointment bill, the feelings of friendliness and appreciation are mutual.
"We all already have our minds made up on the death penalty," he said. "I just don't think any group has an influence on how a legislator voted.
"I really enjoy the people at the Statehouse," he said. "It's good fun and a good education to just talk with them and do some good-natured arguing. There are some amazing personalities up there—some really interesting people."
"It's an old issue. Legislators get asked the death penalty questions at every election. Most of them take a stand and stick with it. Really, the hearings on law-and-order issues like the death penalty are just going through the motions."
"Every member of the Legislature has a stake in reaportionment, and associations like Common Cause are the ones who step in and say 'Hey folks, let's make sure that this is a legislative process, but let's look at the in best interests of the people.'"
"I WILL GUESS just by observing a "1" will have he a very high intelligence on our computer."
Solbach said that Common Cause's presence at committee meetings gave committee members a spirit of "kept them from each other's throats."
"There are often very bitter conflicts during reapportionment, and it's not unusual for one legislator to go after another through the reapportionment process. I think John Mettner's presence demonstrates those kinds of problems," he said.
A lobysty with another perspective on her job is Sister Broles Brinkle, a soft
A lobbyist whose job may serve as a school to political other jobs is Hanses Zacharias, executive director of the University of Assam, a statewide student lobbying organization.
A ONE-TIME HIGH school history teacher, Brinkel became interested in lobbying after working with several community service groups.
spoken sister of Catholic Charities in Leavenworth.
Like many lobbyists, Brinkel spends 10-12 hours a day working. What she says separates her from her colleagues, are the attitudes and beliefs she brings to her job.
She became a lobbyist in 1978 and since then has worked full time for Catholic Charities and the Criminal Justice Department, where she defends death penalty and community corrections.
"IVE LEARNED how to run a press conference, testify before a committee, go to a hearing and give advice to very good education. I guess I've also gained a greater appreciation of politics. It's a very involved process. it's one thing to get a law through and another entirely to make it happen."
"I think it's very important that the Church be visible in the Legislative arena," she said. "When it's not, that's really bad news. I also talk it's important that people realize I'm a sister—I shows us is here and that it's interested."
"I think being a nun gives me a sense of morals and principles," she said. "I also think it puts me one step ahead because all people remember我 because I’m different.
"Also, most people realize that I'm not here doing this for myself or to further my own ends, so they are probably less susceptible of me than they might be otherwise."
Brinkel said one of the most rewarding aspects of her job was the education she received.
A FORMER STUDENT body president at Wichita State University, Zacharias anges one day to become a government official. She says a good way to get acquainted with politics.
When their efforts are not rewarded,
acharias said, lobbies can become very frenzied.
"I suppose I will stay with it as long as there is a need," she said. "I not sure what's coming up. This is where the spirit of the world is, and I don't know where I will move me next."
Apparently, Zacharias' hard work pays off—at least as far as the Kansas Board of Regents schools are concerned.
"This is the best preparation I could get," he said. "I like trouble-shooting and taking the wind out of bureaucrate buffons."
She said her presence in the legislature also helped to bring the Church closer to her.
Although she has the approval and support of her church, Brinkel said she was not sure how long she would remain a lobbist.
"TREALLY HELPS to get constituents to call and write letters. Also, providing legislative counsel is a needed function. A staffer with experience at Statehouse comes from lobbyists. You have to be careful, though; your resume ruined if you give incorrect information."
"I think they do a pretty good job of representing students' views and making them more aware of their role, that only on system-wide issues. As far as individual schools like KU are concerned, they aren't that effective. But for some students, it might be up with a lot of needed information."
With his background in student politics at WSU, Zacharias said he had the intelligence to be a leader.
"You need to have a professional presentation with research behind it. You have to know personalities, know the rules and know who has influence and makes decisions. Then be there—get to know them and let them know you."
BCAUSE THEY lobby for moral issues such as the death penalty, State Rep. Mike Glover, D-Lawrence, said he did not want to lead the Catholic Charities were very effective.
"It's like being in the stands at a baseball game. You're not the coach, you you're not theump, you're not the coach, you just try to cheer your on to victory."
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The report said 13 percent of student loans made by one federal program and 17 percent by another are in default and the rate of nonrepayment of veteran's loans is 44.
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I also said that a survey found theft and mutilation of periodicals were serious problems at 8 percent of the institutions studied.
In addition, the report scolded students and professors for "a substantial misuse by students of public financial aid, infiltration of grades by faculty members and misleading advertising by some institutions in the search for students."
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