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Friday, March 23, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Social Security requires new verification report
Students who receive Social Security benefits may have their monthly checks stopped if they fail to verify that they are full-time students, Bill Piggot, public information director of the Lawrence Social Security Office, said recently.
In the past, students informed the Social Security Office of their eligibility before the fall term with a form that did not require a 'school's verification, labeling' or
"But the students must now report two times a year," he said.
About 850,000 students between the ages of 18 and 22 receive approximately $1.7 billion a year in benefits.
Students may receive Social Security if they have a dead or disabled parent.
Piggott said the Social Security Office had been mailing cards to students who were receiving Social Security. The students must take the cards to their school to prove that they are full-time students.
A person enrolled in 12 hours of class is considered a full-time student.
The veterans services office, 118 Strong Hall, is handling the verification process at the University of Kansas.
Piggott said that once benefits were cut off, it would take about two months to have them reinstated. The Social Security Administration has the information in the next two months.
Cards are available at the Social Security Office, 2210 W. Yale Road.
Jayhawker Yearbook
is now accepting applications for positions on the 1980 staff. Including Editor & Business Manager
Come by 121 B in the Kansas Union for applications.
LATIN WEEK: March 26 - March 30
Film: "CHAC"
FILM. CRAC
The search for a Mayan Holy man who can placate the gods to bring rain to a drought parched village.
Rated G
Monday, March 26
7:00 p.m. Strong Auditorium, 300 Strong
Sponsored by The Office Of Minority Atts
No Charge
Film: 'THE MONCADA PROGRAM'
The 20 years of struggle and development of Coca-Cola
Rated PG
Tuesday, March 27 7:00 p.m. Strong Auditorium, 300 Strong
MECHA CONFERENCE
No Charge
SPEAKERS. Dr. Francine Ruice — *Chaise Urban Problems* Abinger, Lakes Jr. — *Biburgel Education* Abinger, Lakes Jr. — *Biburgel Education*
Wednesday, March 28 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Sponsored by MECHA and Minority Affairs
SLIDE SHOW
SLIDE SHOW
History, tradition and current conditions of Puerto Rico
11:00 am - 3:00 p.m.
308 E Strong Hall
Thursday, March 29
Thursday, March 29 7:00 p.m. Strong Auditorium, 300 Strong
Sponsored by Florida Rean students and Musicier affair
Film: "PUERTO RICO"
Sponsored by Puerto Rican students and Minority affairs
No Charge
...
NOCHE VENEZOLANA
Rated PG
Staff Reporter
ERA arguments aired in Topeka
Venezuelan Night)
DINNER
Featuring traditional Venezuelan foods CULTURAL PROGRAM
By TAMMY TIERNEY
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HOSPITAL
CULTURAL PROGRAM
TOPEKA-Proponents and opponents of the Equal Rights Amendment met yesterday at the state capitol for what could be a final showdown.
Friday, March 30
Dinner: 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Cultural Program: 7:30-10:00 p.m.
Lawrence Community Bldg
Sponsored by The Venezuelan Club and Minority Affairs
Charge for Dinner: $3.00 Adults/$1.50 Children
Cultural Program Free
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Yesterday was the seventh anniversary of Congressional approval of the ERA, and supporters found little to celebrate because of the possibility that Kansas' ratification
All the above programs will be held at the University of Kansas. Lawrence, Kansas
More than 200 women representing both sides of the issue were in Topeka yesterday for hearings before the Kansas Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee.
Although the amendment specified that the states' ratification must take place during a seven-year period, Congress asked for a three-year extension because only three of the necessary 38 votes were lacking for ratification.
Since the time of the request, however, five states have rescinded their approval,
According to constitutional law, ratification by three-fourths of the states is required before the amendment becomes law.
Calling his bill a "document of freedom",
merrillion Kansans now were entitled
to vote.
State Sen. John Vermillion, R-Independent, author of the proposal to rescind the ratification, told committee members that Kansans had been "sentenced to a seven-year obligation to ratify the ERA."
"It's null and void." he said.
bringing the total of ratified states to 30. Kansas, one of the first states to ratify, may
Members of the Federal and State Affairs
committee heard pro and cons of rescind-
ment.
Sylvia Turnes, president of the Eagle Forum, an organization based in Wichita, said that a refusal to rescind the ratification would destroy constitutional integrity.
"You state legislators should be totally outraged and insulted by the federal government's attempt to make you puppets to rubber-stamp their wishes," she said.
Loud applause greeted another opponent,
Barbara Hanna, a Eudora homemaker.
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when she appealed to committee members "to demonstrate their integrity."
PROPONENTS OF THE ERA were equally demonstrative as more than 10 persons testified in favor of extending the ratification period.
State Sen. Jan Meyers, R-Overland Park, told committee members that the seven-year limit was an arbitrary number and that interest in the issue had not flazed.
Meyers said she was speaking for 80 percent of Kansas women in saying that the state's policies did not benefit them.
"All you have to do is look around this room to see that," she said.
"Unfortunately, the opposition has taken all the good words on this issue," she said. "Words like home, family and love. However, their arguments are erroneous.
The ERA has nothing to do with social customs, abortions, co-ed restrooms or co-education.
FORMER LEAWOOD mayor Margaret Jorden said she disagreed with arguments that the federal government was over-shadowing states' rights.
"I take issue with the statement that this
federal dominance over state
legislation is correct."
Eleanor Bell, a member of the Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, said to rescind the ERA would be an insult to Kansas women.
"There should be no debate on guaranteeing half of our citizenary equal rights," she said. "No one can be a little bit equal than they can be a little bit pregnant."
Most of the plaintiffs, including the survivors of two men killed in the blast, sought triple damages in lawsuits against Kansas government and the E.I. dU Pont de Nemours and O., manufacturer of a plastic gas pipe; and Dresser In-Tech Inc., the manufacturer of pipe coupling.
Triple damages denied in lawsuit
Douglas County District Court Judge James Paddock rued yesterday that 10 plaintiffs who filed suit in connection with a natural gas explosion 15 months ago are not entitled to seek triple damages under Kansas law.
Paddock said the 1832 Kansas law unnew which the triple damages were sought does not apply to utilities serving only one city, as Missouri Public Service Gas Company Inc. does.
The explosion in December 1977, which killed two men in an upstairs apartment at 747 Massachusetts St. and caused several hundred dollars in damage, has been blamed on a faulty pipe coupling by the National Transportation Safety Board.
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