Tuesday, March 4. 1986
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs
Man faces charge after police assault
A Lawrence man was arrested Sunday morning after he pointed a shotgun at two KU police officers who had stopped his brother for a traffic violation, KU police said yesterday.
John Richard Rasing, 1801 Missouri St., was charged yesterday with one count of aggravated assault on a police officer. He is being held on $5,000 bond at Douglas County Jail.
Rasing, 31, was arrested shortly after 5 a.m. Sunday by KU police officers after Lawrence police officers had talked to him at his home.
KU police said the officers had stopped Rasing's brother, a KU student, for driving without his lights on. When he pulled his car into a driveway in the 1800 block of Missouri Street, his brother came out of the house with a shotgun and pointed it at the officers, Lt. Jeanne Longaker said.
Lawrence officers arrived and talked to Rasing. He then was arrested by KU police and taken to the jail.
Activist plans talk
Steve Robideau, a member of the Leonard Peltier Support Group, will speak and answer questions about the legal effort to free Leonard Peltier at 2 p.m. today in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union and at 6 p.m. in the Gold Room of the Haskell Indian Junior College Student Union.
Peltier, an American Indian Movement activist, is serving a double-life sentence at the Leavenworth Penitentiary for the slaying of two FBI agents in 1975.
Peltier is awaiting a decision from the sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis on whether to grant him a new trial. His attorneys assert that evidence which led to his conviction was found to have been falsified.
The first in a series of three symposiums on the protection of children will be Thursday and Friday at the Adams Alumni Center.
Child talks to start
The symposiums are designed for child welfare professionals, lawyers, court officials and law enforcement personnel.
About 300 people are expected to attend the symposium.
Richard Fitzgerald, district judge of Jefferson County District Court in Louisville, Ky., will deliver the keynote address of the symposium. He will discuss the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980
Clarification
Because of a reporter's error, the deadline for applying for federal financial aid was not clear in yesterday's Kansan. Students should send their financial aid forms to the American College Testing program as soon as possible to apply for both campus-based aid and federal funds. Also this is the first year students have been required to submit the Family Financial Statement to ACT in order to apply for Guaranteed Students Loans.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny with a high temperature around 60. Variable winds will blow at 5 to 15 mph. Tonight will become partly cloudy with a low temperature of 35 to 40. Tomorrow also will be partly cloudy with temperatures in the 60s.
From staff and wire reports
Budget cuts may end Upward Bound
By Debra West
A program that encourages disadvantaged high school students to attend college may be eliminated or severely reduced financially by Gramm-Rudman federal budget cuts.
Staff writer
Paul Travis, director of Upward Bound, said the KU program was established three years ago and was financed all three years by the U.S. Department of Education. The original financing will be depleted Aug. 31.
Travis said he had submitted a new three-year proposal to the Department of Education, but would not know until April or May whether the program would receive funds. The proposed budget is $150,000 a year, which is the amount received now.
Upward Bound has 420 programs across the country. Twenty would be eliminated and the remainder would suffer severe budget cuts because of the Gramm-Rudman Act, Travis said.
The Gramm-Rudman Act requires across the-board budget cuts in most federally financed programs and a balanced federal budget by 1991.
Travis expects to receive some money, but thinks the Department of Education will ask him to cut the budget. He said he hoped to be able to come to an agreement on the amount to be cut but didn't know what the percentage would be.
The program identifies sophomores, juniors or seniors in high school who meet income guidelines or who are the first generation of college-bound students in their families. The students then receive tutoring and counseling and attend workshops designed to prepare them for college.
The program at KU works with students at three high schools in Topeka and five high schools in the Kansas City area, he said.
Another problem faced by Upward Bound is President Reagan's proposed budget for fiscal year 1987, which cuts Upward Bound finances by 50 percent. This is in addition to the amount that may be cut this year by the Department of Education, he said.
If this happens, the staff would probably be reduced and the program would have to quit working with students in either Topeka or Kansas City, Travis said. The program has only three full-time staff members and a smaller staff couldn't work in both areas.
The Department of Education estimates that the program spends about $2,400 each year on each student it helps, Travis said. Because of the expense, the number of students they could work with also would be reduced.
Travis said he expected the program to continue operation despite this problem.
"To be in education you have to be an optimist," he said. "I like to think the best will happen and we will continue to operate much as we have, but with budget restrictions."
Upward Bound was established in the mid-1960s to help students who might have difficulties in college.
"Its purpose is to give students who might not consider post-secondary education the chance to go to college." Travis said.
Meleitha Barnes, Topека freshman, said she was planning to go to college before she became an Upward Bound student, but the program had helped to prepare her for it.
"It coaxes you along and leads you in the right direction," she said.
The program also helps students who wouldn't go to college without the encouragement, Barnes said.
"It helps people who haven't been pushed toward college," she said. "The main goal of Upward Bound from the moment you enter it is to get you into college and get you thinking about your life."
Linda Clayton, counselor to. Upward Bound, said she thought the program really helped the students.
"I'm not saying they wouldn't make it to college on their own, but we certainly give them a chance to be better prepared," she said.
Only one class of Upward Bound students has graduated since the program started three years ago, Travis said. Seventeen of the 18 students — or 95 percent of the class — entered college and 14 of them came to KU.
Study abroad director brings ideas, prestige
Clayton said she met with the students twice a month after they entered college. She also helps them apply for financial aid.
By Diane Fillipowski Special to the Kansan
Mary Elizabeth Gwin arrived at the University of Kansas a little more than two weeks ago. And although her new office on the second floor of Lippincott Hall still is unorganized, KU's new study abroad director already has started to think about what she wants to accomplish in her new home.
"I want to make a whole-hearted contribution to this institution." Gwin said. "I love to see people travel, and I believe in the personal, economic and social benefits of the whole process."
Gwin came to KU from the University of Mississippi, where she had been the director of the study abroad program since 1973. She replaced Michael Doudorf, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, who had been the acting director for a year.
Mary Elizabeth Gwin, who recently was named director of the office of study abroad, is busy moving into her new office in Lippincott Hall. Gwin came to KU from the University of Mississippi and is replacing Michael Dudoroff.
Dudolforov took the position after Anita Herzfeld, the previous director, took a leave of absence from the University.
Students should be aware of the benefits of study abroad and not the misconceptions of costs and requirements, she said.
Gwin said she wanted to see the KU study abroad program double the number of students involved. About 400 people participate in the program compared to about 85 at Ole Miss.
"I see this office as a student service function," she said. "I am interested in hearing what the students want from the office because the people here want to do the best job possible."
To improve KU's program and make information more accessible to students interested in studying abroad, Gwin wants to use a national computer network that she helped form.
Gwin received her doctorate in higher education and student personnel in 1985 at Mississippi, where her dissertation work involved planning the national network. That work has brought her national attention.
When the network is complete, information from study abroad programs will be stored and evaluated in a computer system.
The goal of the project, Gwin said, is to help advisers direct students quickly and accurately to the program that suits their needs.
For example, if a student is interested in studying baroque architecture and also wants to live with a German family to improve his German, the system will indicate the best program to meet both of the student's requests.
The project, financed by a grant from the United States Information Agency, still is in its developmental stage. Gwin said she hoped to have it in place at KU within the next two years.
Gwin said she welcomed her move to KU because she was impressed with the quality of its program and the commitment of the faculty in supporting study abroad.
"In Mississippi, I was constantly have to prove the benefits," she
said. "Here, that has already been taken care of."
Along with Gwin's 13 years of experience, she brings national involvement. Nancy Mitchell, study abroad adviser, said Gwin was the best in the field.
"Her many national and international contacts will be an asset to KU." she said.
Gwin is a member of the National Advisory Board of the International
Student Exchange Program, a program in which KU is one of the country's biggest supporters. She is being considered for membership on the National Association for Foreign Student Affairs' team of the U.S. Study Abroad section.
"It's an advantage to be involved in national organizations because I know people across the country and can be hooked up to them by a computer or a telephone anytime I need
information," Gwin said.
Other goals for the study abroad program include starting a peer counseling program at KU for all exchange students.
An advisory board would be formed of international students in the exchange program at KU and KU students who have returned from study abroad. The program was designed to alleviate the fear involved with studying abroad.
Insurance offer is illegal
Attorney warns of GSL scam
Staff writer
By Lori Poison
Students should be wary of insurance agencies that promise to guarantee student loans in exchange for the purchase of a life insurance policy, a spokesman for the Kansas Insurance Commissioner's office said yesterday.
Ted Fay, attorney for the office, said that in the past month the office had discovered three companies offering such deals in Kansas.
Fay would not identify the companies involved. He said the practice was illegal and was misleading students.
The companies advertised they would finance a Guaranteed Student Loan under the federal financial aid program if someone from the student's family purchased a life insurance policy, he said.
Under state law, an insurance company cannot offer any type of inducement to attract customers, he said.
Many banks and savings and loan corporations will finance GSLs without additional requirements for the student, he said. Any lending agency approved by the federal government can finance GSLs.
"You don't have to buy the life insurance policy to get your loan financed." Fay said.
insurance policy, that would be illegal." Fay said.
GLSs are underwritten by financial institutions, Fay said.
Jeff Weinberg, associate director of KU's financial aid office, said some KU students had purchased life insurance policies before finding out whether they qualified to receive GSLs.
"They thought and were led to believe that if they purchased life insurance they would automatically qualify for a GSL." Weinberg said.
He said it was important for the students to apply for GSLs by filling out the financial aid forms, available at the financial aid office in Strong Hall, and sending them to the American College Testing program. ACT will then determine if the students qualify for a GSL as well as other types of financial aid.
It is impossible for an insurance company to promise a student a GSL if the student hasn't applied for one through ACT. Weinberg said.
Weinberg said the office of student financial aid noticed the problem within the first few days the companies had begun offering to finance GSLs.
Students and parents have contacted the office about such offers, he said.
The office made a complaint to the Higher Education Assistance Foundation of Kansas
Keopening of Cornucopia delayed until mid-March
The reopening of the Cornucopia Restaurant was delayed about a month because of time needed to complete the transaction of ownership, a co-owner said yesterday.
The restaurant, 1801 Massachusetts St., was scheduled to reopen in late February. The date now has been pushed back to the middle of this month, Ken Creasey, co-owner said.
"We are shooting to reopen the restaurant around March 17." Creasey said. "We didn't get the legal proceedings finished until mid-February. We didn't want to start work until the proceedings were completed."
Creasey and co-owner Michael Roark bought the restaurant from Todd Murrell in late January after the former owner closed the restaurant for personal reasons.
"If something fell through, then we wouldn't have to pay those bills." he said.
The new owners waited until legal matters were completed to make sure Murrell had paid all the restaurant's bills, Creasey said.
By Barbara Shear
Staff writer
He said that everything was taken care of and that he and Roark had started remodeling work.
"Right now, we are working on remodeling the kitchen and the dining room," he said. "We are putting in new carpeting and a new salad bar. Otherwise, things will look pretty much the same."
Besides keeping the appearance of the restaurant and the menu the same, many of the former employees also will return.
"We have the same management and most of the same employees that worked before the restaurant closed." Creasey said.