THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol. 89, No.106
Rock Chalk a KU tradition
Friday, March 2, 1979
Lawrence, Kansas
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Columnist urges conservativism for government
By BILL RIGGINS
Staff Reporter
George Will, nationally syndicated columnist, last night charged that liberalism had made the U.S. government the "servant of consumption" and urged a return to conservative doctrines to offset trend.
Conservative speaker
"The judgement of small minorities, in government and out, is almost decisive,"
Will, delivering the second lecture of the 1979 J.A. Vickers Sr. Memorial Lecture Serse, told about 250 people in Woodruff and Chelsea and mounted a "miniunt of very small, organized minorities."
"The great majority of the people"
"generally do not decide issue they decide,
but only those who have issued issue"
"are."
"BECAUSE OF the scale of modern government, the great majority of the people in our country are government is doing, at least until it has done it, and generally not even," he said.
speech last night in Woodruff Auditorium. Will was the second speaker of the 1979 A.J. Vickers Memorial Lecture series.
Conservatism was the main theme of columnist George Will's
The duty of conservatism, according to Will, is to change that situation.
"If conservatism until now has failed to engage itself with the way we live now, the time is ripe for a conservatism that does so," he said.
He said one of his goals was to make the welfare state more compatible with governmental values and more responsive to social values.
"Conservatives are leading the right for a welfare system that supports poor people and low-income families."
"To give one example, a conservative welfare state would give to individuals tax
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Graduate senators plan strategy
Staff Renorter
BvCAROL BEIER
A cluttered office in the bowels of Lindley Hall may not look like the headquarters of a potentially powerful student organization.
But that office is the gathering place for the Red and Black Cadre, made up of 21 of the 24 graduate student senators elected two weeks ago. All 21 students are in the department of geology.
Tim SALTER, chairman of the Cadre, said yesterday that the group intended to push for programs to benefit all families.
"If we can work within the system," he said, "we want to do it.
"If we can't work within the system, we have Phase II." Salter defined Phase II as programs that range from
FOR EXAMPLE, Salter said mild Phase II legislation would provide for a student dress code.
"What happens if we really mess everything up? People will come out against us," he said. "That's participation."
The apathetic graduate students put us in office, but we're very energetic. All of this political force is suddenly under attack.
Salter said the Cadre intended to take the Senate seriously unless nothing was accomplished.
"Phase II is designed to provide a little entertainment while we're in the Senate." he said
Sailer told Cader members and two other graduate student senators at a meeting yesterday that Phase II had
Meanwhile, the Cadre is down to the business at hand. Members appointed two graduate representatives to the University Council yesterday and discussed applications for Senate committees. The applications are due at 5 p.m.
RON MCDOWELL, minister of propanola for the
engagement, encouraged members to apply to the Finance and
Development Bank.
"My personal feeling is that we should try and pack the Finance and Auditing Committee because that seems to be what we need."
Other Cade members and they thought membership on the Sports, Academic Affairs and Student Rights community.
"We need to learn how to make the rules work for us—not instead of apauln us." Said she. "We're going to have to
The Cadre's unity was questioned, however, by Jim Bimber, one of the Cadre members selected to serve on University
"RIGHT AFTER the elections—we were giddy with power—everyone assumed that we would all think alike. We're finding out now that's not true. It depends on the issues." he said.
Berg said the Cadre was particularly concerned in Phase I with Senate spending.
"As a student without any power, it didn't bother me," he said. "It was just a few dollars out of my pocket. As a senator with some power, I'm beginning to think I can make a difference."
Margaret Berger and George Gonze, student body president and vice president, also said they favored critical thinking.
Berlin said yesterday that she was unaware of the Cedrus' Phase II plan.
"I don't feel that I know enough about this," Bernin said, "but I would object more to a group of seniors trying to block legislation just to form a seat of opposition than I would to a group that was trying to add the Student to
"However, I also hate to waste time with stuff like that."
Travel, teaching attract volunteers
By ROBIN SMITH
Staff Reporter
Diane Cronn works in a village water supply program in Kenya. Women often spend their time cleaning the streets.
Charles Crissman's job is in a tuberculosis control center in Korea, a nation trying to reduce the incidence of TB by two-thirds by 1980.
Robert Dira travels in Malaysia by riverboat, or motorcycle to reach rural farmers who, the government hopes, will join cooperative society.
A University of Kansas student might join these volunteers in a similar situation if he tells out an application and talks to one of the volunteers. They are also who have been on campus since Tuesday.
"Peace Corps is strictly a volunteer service for international jobs which provide underdeveloped countries with assistance," he said. "We are the Vistas representative, said yesterday."
THE PEACE CORPS, founded in 1961, was joined with Vista and other federal volunteer agencies in 1971 under an umbrella agency called Action.
"Most of the students who have come in for an interview have an idea about Peace Corps but more information about specific jobs and job openings," *Lotgens骑
Peace Corps volunteers teach, farm,
provide health services and do various types
of jobs to help countries develop. The
volunteers sign up for two-year terms.
“It’s kind of hard to judge a good volunteer during an interview.” Lokeng said. “I guess for a student who has a sense of justice, it helps give a few years of his life to help others.”
Susan Jones, a Peace Corps and Vista
Representative, agreed with Lokengamid
a judge.
"I LOOK FOR a student who would be committed to serving and helping other people," Jones said. "Also, I try to see how you interact with a student interested in Peer Pressure."
Kathy Gordon, Kansas City, Mo. senior,
talked with Jones about teaching in a
school in the city.
"I have been stuck in the Midwest for a long time," Gorton said. "Now I want to try out the things that I have learned—I want a job, I want to work in a community that I want to become involved in a community."
"My parents know that I plan to leave the Midwest. But I don't know if they thought that I would go as far as another country, or that I would help them; that they would support me, no matter what."
The Peace Corps has more than 6,000 volunteers serving in more than 60 countries. However, Jones said, the dropout rate is high.
"ABOUT ONE-THIRD of all accepted
volunteers drop out before they travel to
a location."
not sure why they drop out, I don't think that the Peace Corps ever follows that up. But at least 15 to 20 percent of the volunteers in the country sign up for another year to help him.
Loksenkard said, "The dropout rate varies from country to country. I think that 25 percent of the volunteers drop out within the first six months of training."
After a volunteer is accepted into the Peace Corps, he receives eight to 14 weeks of training, often in the assigned country. He then takes part in an effort to help to adapt their skills to the assignment.
"The training can be intense if you have to learn a foreign language that is completely new to you within nine weeks," Lokensgard said.
"A VOLUNTERER has to be flexible and be able to roll with the punches in the training. If you are used to having dinner at 6:30 and can't think of rearranging that time element--forget it. The Peace Corps isn't for you."
Lokengsdag said there were other reasons for the dropout rate among volunteers. Among the reasons she listed were medical problems, family problems and emotional drawbacks.
Although volunteers commit themselves to a two-year term in the Peace Corps, Lokengsard said, volunteers may pull out of their assignments at any time.
According to Jones, Peace Corps volunteers are chosen from applications and evaluation sheets that are sent to the main office in Washington, D.C. The Washington office tries to match a volunteer's skills and experience to a job that is requested by a foreign country.
*BESIDES BEING a lot of hard work and
hardship, the Peace Corps can also have
a lot of benefits.
“There is a lot of personal growth in Peace Corps. It also allows you to readjust your values and your career decision. And it helps you realize that, most important, it forces you to grow up.”
Peace Corps volunteers receive a monthly living allowance while they are working in a country. According to the United Nations, an equivalent to the country's standard of living and will vary from $80 to $500 a month. When a volunteer completes Peace Corps service, he will receive $12 for every meal he served, as a readjustment allowance.
Medical and dental care is provided and during Peace Corps service, a 48-day paid vacation also is offered to the volunteer. From the country is paid by the organization.
Lokengandr the majority of students inquire about working somewhere near the capital.
KU student audited; 1978 grant delayed
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By LESLIE GUILD
Staff Reporter
To be chosen out of a group of 1.8 million could make you feel special, but for one KU student, it cost five months of school to complete Basic Educational Opportunity Grant.
Randy O'Boyle, Topeka senior, was one of the 1.8 million students who attended the University of Kansas, including O'Boyle, were audited by the Office of Education in Waco.
Because O'Boyle was being audited, his BEOG for 1976 was withdrawn until the year he took one year, which delayed his receiving his BEOG from last year's language exam.
O'Boyle said the delay forced him to borrow $400 from the short-term loan program at the University of Kansas to pay his fall tuition.
"There are so many variables involved," she said. "It's really hard to find an average. But if the student sends the requested information right after receiving a letter telling him of the audit, he can be processed in a month a time."
Jean Saunders, branch chief of the Office of Education in Washington, said this week that the normal time for an audit was one to two months.
"EVEN WITH my Direct Student Loan, I didn't have the money for enrollment fees." he said. "So I borrowed from KU."
Saunders said the information usually requested was tax returns, income and family statistics or statements of financial need. She said that students were able for providing the information and that if they did not, no more BEOG
applications from them would be considered.
She said students who did not comply with the audit could be fined or sentenced by a federal court. The Office of Finance has a two-year backlog of audits.
O'BOYLE said his grant was delayed because of mail delays and a mix-up with the internal Revenue Service. And, he requested that information HEW needed for his audit.
He said HEW requested a copy of his 1976 income tax statement by Jan. 1, 1978. O'Boyle was given a one-month extension to his tax return, a copy from the IRS in Austin, Texas.
"That's what really upset me," he said, "I had understood that I had the right to refuse information requesting the tax information right away. In that letter, they not only said that I would not receive my 1972 BEGO, but that I would be fined or prosecuted."
O'Boyle said he was notified of the audit in December 1977, by mail. But he said, the letter was sent to his home address, and it is not a two-week address, which caused a two-week delay.
"The office at KU called HEW and straightened out the mess," he said. "They were able to clarify that I did have the extension."
Meanwhile, O'Boyle said, he received a threatening letter from HFW.
O'BROYLE SAID that with the help of KU's office of financial aid, he received the extension.
O'Boyle said the IRS sent him his 1976 tax return statement instead of his 1976 return. It took him until July to get the correct return sent to HEW.
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Group to renovate Eldridge home
Rv SHIRLEY SHOUP
Staff Reporter
John Knapp gets excited when he talks about renovating the old Eldridge-Topham house.
Knapp, Shawnee Mission junior in architecture, and his two partners plan to renovate the structure partly as a demonstration project. They are forming a coalition of local preservation Society to encourage the preservation of older buildings in east Lawrence.
Knapp said the renovation work, which is to begin within the next couple of months, could demonstrate what could be done to an apartment that is legitimate, contractor would want to handle.
The city also has shown an interest in the project by approving a $2,000 grant of Community Development funds as an interest subsidy for the project.
The Eldridge-Topharm home, 945 Bluete Island St., was built in 1857 by Colonel S.W. Eldridge, whom Knapp called "a real townbuilder."
THE HOUSE has been used for the past few years by both the local Jaycee chapter and the Frontersmen Drum and Bugle Corps of Olathe and as Dr. Demento's Haunted House during the week of Halloween.
Eldridge also bought and renovated the Free State Hotel after Sheriff Sam Jones burned it in 1856. He rebuilt the hotel again after Quantrill's Raid in 1863.
Eldridge also was the general contractor or Fraser Hall and built the Costes House in 1926.
The renovators' partnership was initiated when Knapp learned that John Morris, KU assistant professor of architecture and urban design, wanted to renovate the house.
"We were looking for a house to rehabilitate and Morris was looking for a
CHAN HORNER, a local builder, is the third partner in the group.
Knapp said Morris had trouble finding a contractor for the renovation.
"They came in with real ridiculous pries." he said.
So to keep the cost of the project down the three men plan to do the work themselves.
Knapp said the East Lawrence Improvement Association had been interested in developing a program.
"The ELIA sees it as a key demonstration rehabilitation house," he said. "If we can rehabilitate that house, we can rehabilitate any home."
He said the association liked the house and thought it could improve the area.
The house was sold by the Eldrider family in about 1890 to Joseph and Emma Tophm. Their daughter, Laura, lived in the house after she died to the Salvation Army after she died in 1794.
"The house is a real trash heap at this point," he said.
SINCE THEN it has been empty and becomes a blight on the area, Knapp said.
The house has been condemned and the Salvation Army had considered tearing it to make room for a new church since the land is directly behind the Salvation Army Church, 946 New Hamp-
But when Morris was looking for an old
The Eldridge home
Staff Photo by BILL FRAKF
home, Knapp said, "That house reached out and grabbed him."
One of the reasons the men decided to renovate the old building was to provide Morris and his family with a nice place to live. Knan said.
He said he thought the renovation was a good move for the house, east Lawrence and the downtown area since the house was so close to downtown.
"The renovation will eliminate a blight," he said.
the renovation the house
he had said the house had been the victim
BUT ONE of the first things the renovators put to do is clean out what is left in the house. Although some of the inside wood molding remains, Knapp said, it is not a problem.
"That's about all that's left," he said.
Krapp said the unique feature of the house was the proportion of the rooms.
The crucial repair will be on the walls of the house, which Knapp would require repair.
"If we can't do that, we won't be able to rehabilitate it," he said.
Eldridge built the house, but Knaps said Morris, who has spent some time in New Orleans, thought the house was designed by his great-grandmother, Anne. The decorative work on the front of the house.
KNAPP SAID, "The wrap-around porches caught mrw eye."
The partners are completing the final details of the paperwork for closing the real estate transaction and for obtaining financing for the project.
They said they planned to have the house completed in one year. Knapp said he hoped to have Morris and his family moved in by next Christmas.