SenEx drops idea for inquiry about infiltration
By JOHN LOGAN Staff Reporter
A directive to the University Foreign Students Committee that had asked it to check the possibility of foreign agents at KU and Senate committees to the University Senate executive committee.
SenEx had been asked to drop the charge, or responsibility for the investigation, by the chairman of the Foreign Students committee. The Foreign Students Committee is a standing committee of the University Senate.
The chairman, Joseph Conrad, professor of Slavic languages, told SenEx that foreign students said the charge discriminated against them because they would be the only students checked.
Apelebi Willako, president of the KU International Club, said, "To selectively subject one part of the student population to examination would be unjust.
"If secret police are on campus then you should investigate all faculty and students,
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However, Willabo said he was pleased that the charge had been dropped.
"If they had gone ahead with it, it could be used to selectively subject students with differing political views to repression," he said.
THE CHARGE DROpped by SenEx asked the committee to discuss with the University administration the possible penetration of our campus computer monitor administration efforts to deal with it.
The charge was a rewritten version of one given to the committee two years ago. At that time Iranian students alleged that they had received the Iranian secret police, were on campus.
The original charge urged that the committee discuss the possibility of foreign agents at KU with state and federal officials, as well as the administration.
The committee did not work on the charge last year and passed it on to this year's president.
THE ORIGINAL charge prompted concern by some students and faculty that the committee might conduct an investigation of foreign students at KU. One faculty member said that such an investigation would be liable to would violate students' constitutional rights.
SenEx members agreed that the committee did not have the authority to conduct an investigation and rewrite the charge last October.
But members of the KU International Club, an umbrella organization for KU's foreign students, said they were still op-posed to a written version because it was discriminator.
But a few SenEx members voted against dropping the charge. Mark Bernstein, Lawrence graduate student, said the intentions of the charge should not be ignored.
SENEX MEMBERS said at yesterday's meeting that although they did not think the charge was discriminatory, they would be willing to droa the matter.
"There needs to be a vehicle for complaints of this nature," Bernstein said. "The intention was to provide a way of registering a complaint.
"As it' s worded now, it is discriminatory,
but the problem is with the wording."
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Senate passes disputed bill to fund ASK, legal services
By CAROL BEIER
HOWEVER, AFTER more than two hours of debate, a last-ditch attempt by Berlin to take the city back was unsuccessful.
Berlin was far from alone in her opposition to certain provisions of the nine-mentary
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Although a complex bill to amend the Student Senate revenue code was passed last night, it received some loud and lengthy opposition during and after the meeting.
The meeting, which recessed at 11 last night, is to reconvene at 6:30 tonight in the morning.
The bill makes a series of amendments to the revenue code, which provides guidelines for Senate allocation of student activity fees.
Early in the meeting, Margaret Berlin, student body president, urged senators to pass the revenue bill so that its budget would be less than the beginning of budget hearings Monday.
The amendments establish line allocations for the legal services program and the Associated Students of Kansas lobby organization. They also provide for increased scrutiny of the budgets of some student organizations that receive Senate
Mark Bernstein, holder渡者, said the Senate meeting was handled like a high school class.
"We got this thing 20 minutes before the meeting." Bernstein said, referring to the revenue code bill. "Nobody had a chance to read it. They have mickey-moused and railroad through everything they've done tonight."
"If you put money away for ASK, you ought to have approved membership
Bernstein was particularly angry that the Senate approved Section 11 of the bill, which provided for funding of 25 cents a student for college. She added Students of Kansas lobby organization.
THE TOTAL amount for ASK, according to fall and spring enrollment projections for the following year:
The University of Kansas joined ASK for the first time last fall under a year-long provisional membership and a reduced membership fee of $2,500.
"We did what we thought was right," Schnacke, a journalism senator, said.
Geroge Gomez, student body vice president, and Greg Schnacke, one of the authors of the revenue code bill, said after the board's vote that Geroge was nothing but a mechanism for funding.
People are saying we cut corners, but, in effect, we just provided a funding program.
GOME2 AGREED with Schnacke's distinction.
"It is our interpretation that the provision is a funding mechanism only. Membership in ASK will come up in a separate bill," Gomez said.
Steve Cramer, Nunemaker 4 senator, argued with Schnacke and another Senate supporter of the ASK provision after the meeting in Section 11 violated a Senate rule.
Cramer said the ASK section had no place in the revenue code until KU's permanent membership in the organization was applied. The program would provide for短途 funding now would save time later.
"You've broken the philosophy behind budgeting and set a precedent just doing it."
"THEYVE CUT corners and insured money for ASK. The revenue code is traditionally a long-standing document," he said.
Steve Young, journalism senator and KU member of the Board of Directors of ASK, said he thought the way the bill was presented was confusing.
"If I could do it all over again, we wouldn't have let the ASK provision even go to the Finance and Auditing Committee last night," Young said.
Young, however, cast his vote in favor of a bill that would require that when he voted he was unaware that the funds for ASK had been amended out of two other accounts to form a separate line.
The bill takes 10 cents from the Student Senate internal budget allocation and 15 cents from the Senate's unallocated account.
THE UNALLOCATED account is fed by surplus funds, including funds from all student organization accounts and its own line allocation. All of the funds for supplemental budget hearings in the fall come from the unallocated account.
"I don't think that's right—to take money out like that." Youn said.
Bernstein said the revenue code bill probably would come up for reconsideration immediately after the meeting reconvened tonight.
Berlin also said reconsideration of the bill might be necessary.
"Revenue code is not something you can do in one night with inexperienced senators," she said. "We wanted to have more time to look at it."
She specifically questioned the bill's methods for funding of the unallocated
"I'm not certain that funds will not be spent all, at once during fall budget season."
no sunshine in the forecast, as the National Weather Service predicts rain showers for most of today and tonight.
conume and warm temperatures brought Anita Lubensky, 828 Arkansas St., outside and a porch pumphatch. The 5-year-old took a rest after a long day at school. But there is
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Official says students need med scholarship statistics
By PATRICIA MANSON
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The official, Jerry Slaughter, executive director of the Kansas Medical Society, announced a committee concerning a bill that would limit the number of Med Center scholar-
TOPEKA—The Kansas Legislature should tell students at the University of Kansas Medical Center how many medical students are enrolled in a year, a medical society official said yesterday.
The bill, which was passed by the Senate two weeks ago, would allow the Legislature to appropriate money for the scholarship in each year, beginning in the 1980-81 school year.
The Legislature already has approved an appropriation of $1.12 million for the program for the 1980-81 school year. Gov. Benni signed the bill into law yesterday.
Slaughter said that changing the number of scholarships available each year would increase the cost.
"I BELIEVE it's not really fair to the students, not knowing from year to year if they will be able to get scholarships," she said. "You should set a definite number."
Under a program established last year,
students receive a year's tuition for each
year they agree to practice medicine in
the program. The only Center is
eligible to receive a scholarship.
There are 426 students enrolled in the scholarship program this year, which is about four times the number expected by the legislature.
Joe McFarland, academic officer of the Kansas Board of Regents, said that if the scholarship money was limited, the board would receive a number of students who received scholarships.
"WE THINK it would be feasible to allow those who apply first to participate," McLaughlin said.
However, Slaughter said he thought that the system would not be fair to students.
"I don't believe that first come, first serve is the way to do it," Slaughter said. "If you are going to cut back on scholarships, give them on an as-needed basis."
No matter how the scholarships are awarded, Slaughter said he did not know if the scholarship program would increase the number of doctors in rural Kansas.
Singerther he said he thought the Legislature should continue with the scholarships;
"TIM STILL not convinced this program is the answer to the problem of the distribution of resources."
"The students need the program," Slaughter said, "especially since the Board of Regents saw fit to nearly triple the tuition for in-state students."
Last March, the board raised the medical school tuition from $1,125 to $3,000 a year for Kansas residents and from $2,500 to $6,000 a year for non-residents.
The tuition raise has been opposed by 234 medical students, who are suing the Board
Jim Hinton, president of the Medical Student Assembly at the Med Center, has asked that members of the Senate
Mexico's quake shakes visitor from KU
By LYNN BYCYZNSKI
Betty Lehman awoke and felt as if Bette were gently shaking her. But her brother was still sound asleep in the other bed. The full moon reflected off the ocean, to the ceiling, to light the quiet hotel room. As she drifted back to sleep, she noted the time: 3 a.m.
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"The lamp beside my bed flew across the room and smashed against the opposite wall. Suitcases flew toward me and things crashed to the floor," she said.
Two hours later, Lehman was awakened again, as the room began to shake and sway.
For two minutes, Lehman and her brother lay with their pillows across their faces, shaking inside as the world shook around them.
According to news reports, the earthquake and 18 aftershocks killed at least one person and injured 21. The epicenter was 198 miles southwest of Mexico City and 300 miles northwest of Tucumcari, 100 miles from the U.S. border to Oaxaca, about 250 miles south of Mexico City.
LEHMAN, A Lawrence student, was vacationing with her family in lxtapay a day. Her family met him at an
They were experiencing the first afar shock of the major earthquake that happened in June 2015.
But it was not the last time that Lehman would feel that clutching fear. Twelve tremorsExtraps that day, and many of them slipped over the coastal town in the days that followed.
To the people in the town, almost all to be on hand no one to turn to for advice or reassurance
A VIGIL THAT for many would last the rest of the week began on the moonlit beach as soon as the first tremor subsided. The water was cold or underwear, fed their crowded hotels
"I was sick with sickness, I never felt that kind of sick before in my life." Lehman said.
"They just didn't want to tell the gringes anything. Any time we asked, they said
"Almost without exception, everyone slept on the beach that night. Including my father, who is 64 and probably never sleep outside before in his life," Lehman said.
The tourists at itxapa were cut off from news about the earthquake until Thursday, when an Israeli airstrike killed them.
"And then the headline read, 'no grave'
ALTHOUGH THE airports were packed with people trying to leave Mexico, tourists continued to arrive for the vacations they had planned months earlier.
danger. But in Mexico City people were killed, buildings were demolished, water was leaked.
When the newcomers scaffolded to the Lehmans for sleeping on the beach, "we found out that they had been told it was only a slight tremor," Lehm said.
"We found out then that the Mexican government hushed this stuff because the tax was too high."
The Seismological Institute in Mexico City reported the earthquake measured 7.0 on the Richter scale. A reading in Golden, Colo., measured the quake at 7.8.
A one-digit increase on the Richter scale represents an earthquake 10 times more severe. The 1976 Guatemala earthquake, of which people, registered 7.5 on the Richter scale.
ALTOUH LEHMAN said she thought the government minimized the earthquake's damage, she acknowledged that the men and people were more accustomed to the tremors.
"Since January that country has had 130
earthhquakes the locals seemed rather unconcerned they just kept up and went on
Most of the hotels at Ixtapa have been built since the Mexican government ruled that all new buildings be able to withstand earthquakes up to a magnitude of 10 on the Richter scale. As a result, most of the hotels in resort suffered only cosmetic damage.
But for the one older hotel on the beach the damage was considerable.
"THE STAIRCAKE crumbed instantly. I spoke with a woman on the eighth floor of that hotel) and she told me her wall was gone. Her room was open to the ocean," she
The people in Ixtapa remained calm, if somewhat edgy, for the next few days. Lehman said. And no one in the resort town sustained serious injuries.
Allough the Mexican coast is a beautiful area where white beaches separate a blue ocean from towering green mountains, Lehman said, she doubled she would return.
"All your life you can at least depend on the solid earth you stand on," she said. "There it was a feeling of being so terribly out of control."