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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, FEB. 21, 1986, VOL. 96, NO. 102 (USPS 650-640)
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Carlin calls for changes in faculty tenure system
The Associated Press
WICHITA — Gov. John Carlin unveiled his vision for the state's educational system yesterday in Wichita that included a review of the faculty tenure program — a program that a KU official said already was changing.
In his speech at the Eisenhower Lecture at Wichita State University, Carlin also said Washburn University in Topeka should not be admitted to the Board of Regents as an independent institution, but as an arm of KU.
"The time has come in this state for higher education to have an overall comprehensive plan for its future." Carlin said.
One of his goals was to improve classroom instruction. He said strong university administrators must prevent the sometimes overly restrictive tenure system from choking off our ability to adjust and to compete.
"We can no longer wait for professors to retire before getting what is needed in the curriculum." Carlin said.
Sidney Shapiro, chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee, said he that thought the University of Kansas had been aware of the curriculum problems but that the tenure system may not be the cause.
"I think the governor is talking about a problem that we at KU have recognized for some time," Shaprio said. "But when you want to make changes, you have to make changes in light of personnel."
Shapiro said the nature of a university was to bring together a diversity
of courses, so that the sum of the parts was greater than the whole. Just because one department has a greater student demand, he said, doesn't mean another department should be cut.
"The support of universities has been declining in the state," said Shapiro. "You can't adapt without resources."
Carlin said each school should target its efforts, emphasizing its strengths and serving the particular needs of its area rather than trying to appeal to everyone's interests.
"For all our institutions, we need a focused, directed emphasis on individual roles that together best serve our state," Carlin said.
The need for practical, applied programs tailored to the needs of business must be balanced with the state's liberal arts tradition, he said.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said that there was a
See CARLIN, p. 5, col. 1
Regents duck ticket policy
Although season ticket sales to
Board members indicated that the request by the Legislative Educational Planning Committee put them in a ticklish situation.
TOPEKA — The Kansas Board of Regents yesterday dodged a legislative request that it take a stand on whether contributors to state universities should get preferential treatment in season tickets sales to athletic events.
athletic events should be handled in a fair fashion, board members said, they cannot deny the right of schools in the Regents system to use priority-seating season tickets as a reward or incentive for financial contributions to endowment associations and scholarship funds.
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Technical Institute in Salina.
Board member Bill Roy Sr. said he had purchased season tickets to University of Kansas events since 1955. Each year since then his seating has been pushed farther and farther back from the court. But Roy said he was not complaining.
The Regents' schools are the six state universities plus the Kansas
"It's a very common experience across Kansas that if you want good seats, you pay extra for them," said John Montgomery, a board member.
"I have now been delegated to seats without backs now that I am reaching a geriatric age, and I still think this ought to be left up to each of the schools," he said.
See REGENTS, p. 5, col. 2
Diane Dultmeier/KANSAN
Bundled up to avoid the chilly weather, Erika Blackshear, Kansas City, Mo., senior, walks briskly down Jayhawk Boulevard. Yesterday's cold temperatures kept many people inside. Today should be warmer with a high of around 30.
Senate may delay debate on pari-mutuel gambling
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — A resolution the Kansas House approved yesterday, which would give voters a chance to decide whether Kansas should allow pari-mutual gambling, may not be debated anytime soon in the Senate, according to kev officials in the upper chamber.
voted for final adoption of the proposal.
Senate President Robert Talkington and Sen. Edward Reilly, R-Leavenworth and chairman of the committee that will consider the proposal, made the remarks after the House adopted the resolution on a vote of 90-35.
The measure received tentative approval after about 45 minutes of debate and, in an unusual move, the House suspended its rules and
House Speaker Mike Hayden said he agreed to push the proposal through to a final vote because several lawmakers said they would be absent today, when the final action was scheduled.
"We're elated," said Jonathan Small, small lobbyist for Kansans for Pari-Mutuel. "Everybody's excited and pretty optimistic that we can get the resolution in a healthy form through the Senate."
The resolution, which would change the Kansas Constitution by liberalizing a prohibition against gambling on anything other than bingo, escaped without much opposition or any amendments.
See RACING, p. 5, col. 3
Gramm-Rudman cuts hole in KU veterans' educations
By Sandra Crider
Staff writer
Some KU veterans and qualifie dependents of veterans may find it difficult to pay for their college education after March 1.
Service mails 150,000 letters
The Gramm-Rudman Act, a plan to do away with the federal deficit through across-the-board cuts, will apply its budgetary刀 to the Veterans' Administration's educational grants.
Lorna Vickers, Huntsville, Ala., junior and a Vietnam veteran, receives benefits that enable her to go to school by paying for her daughter's day care.
Educational benefit payments for veterans and eligible dependents will be cut by 8.7 percent.
"The reason I'm going to school is to find a better job." Vickers said
See VETERAN, p. 5, col. 3
By Karen Samelson Special to the Kansan
The Selective Service System will mail letters today to about 150,000 students across the country to remind them to register to remain eligible for federal financial aid
"There won't be any problems if they register now," Sharon Messinger, a Department of Education spokesman, said recently. "But if they refuse, they're ineligible for federal financial aid and they're in violation of federal law."
KU students, like all students in the United States, are required to sign a statement of draft status to receive federal grants, such as Pell and Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, Guaranteed Student Loans, National Direct Student Loans, College Work-Study funds and State of Kansas scholarships.
But the use of financial aid programs for enforcing federal law has drawn criticism from some universities, including the University of Kansas.
KU and other universities lost their battle in 1984 when the Supreme Court rejected six Minnesota students' contention that linking financial aid with registration was unconstitutional. Ambler said.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said, "It makes the University a law-enforcing agency that it is not."
which mandates that universities require students to sign a statement of draft status before receiving federal funds.
Education Secretary William Bennett strengthened the cooperation in January when he agreed to give the names of 3 million federal aid applicants to the Selective Service to verify their registration.
Since 1982, the Selective Service has been sending out more than 50,000 letters each month to people who apparently are not registered, Barbara Cole, a Selective Service spokesman said. This is the first time financial aid applicants have been targeted.
The Education Department has been cooperating with the Selective Service since 1982, when Congress passed the Solomon Amendment
Selective Service officials plan to send at least one more letter to men who haven't registered before calling in the Justice Department for possible prosecution.
"We give them plenty of opportunity to register, but we won't dismiss the charges once the prosecution has begun," said Jack Williams, an assistant U.S. attorney in Wichita.
Conviction could result in up to five years in prison, a $250,000 fine or both.
The Justice Department has convicted 20 men, including one Kansan, since enforcement of registration began in 1982. Nearly all of the men prosecuted have refused to register on religious or moral grounds.
Other men don't register because they procrastinate, said Linda Stalvey, a Selective Service official. The compliance rate among 18 and 19-year-olds is slightly lower than the
99 percent rate among 20- to 26-year-olds.
The student financial aid office at KU uses a computer program to make sure that all federal financial aid recipients have signed a statement of draft status.
Students do not have to sign to obtain money that comes from the University.
Jerry Rogers, director of student financial aid, said that this month the program had identified five students, including two women, who had not signed the form. Women have to sign the form to declare that they are exempt from registration.
The purpose of the service's letters is to encourage compliance, not prosecution, service officials said.
"If the student hasn't registered, we will attempt to assist in straightening it out," Messinger said. "If he refuses to comply, his name will be turned over to the Justice Department for investigation and potential prosecution."
The U.S. attorney's office in Kansas then sends another letter to the person to make sure that no mistakes have been made, Williams said. The FBI then performs an investigation
Students who refuse to register also will be forced to pay back their federal aid. Messenger said.
People can get more information about the letters or registration by calling the Selective Service's toll-free number, 1-800-621-5381.
U.S. aids freedom, Caribbean
United Press International
ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada — President Reagan said yesterday that the commitment to freedom that led to the 1983 U.S. invasion of the island also demanded U.S. help to rebels in Nicaragua.
Speaking before about 20,000 people in Queen's Park in the capital of St. George's, Reagan put a rhetorical exclamation point on a five-hour visit to the tiny island by linking a pledge of economic help to impoverished Caribbean states with an assertion the United States must help the Nicaraguan people free themselves from communist tyranny.
"A freedom tide is rising in our hemisphere," said Reagan, who announced some steps to help shore up the fragile economies of the Caribbean islands. This effort is essential to promote the development of strong democracies in a region historically vital to U.S. interests, he said.
A 21-gun salute roared during the official welcoming ceremonies for the commander in chief of the assault by a 7,000-man force Oct. 25, 1983, that swept aside the remnants of a Marxist government.
Minutes after his arrival, Reagan paused briefly to lay a wreath at a memorial to the 19 Americans killed in the Grenada operation, bowing his head in prayer before the six-foot high granite monument representing parchment blowing in the wind.
Despite the enthusiastic crowd and banners proclaiming "Thanks a Million, President," security was tight across the island, which is just about twice the size of the District of Columbia. The U.S. aircraft carrier Guam was off shore.
After a local entertainer sang a song praising "Uuncle Reagan," Prime Minister Herbert Blazie introduced Reagan to the crowd as "our national hero, our own rescuer." Blaze thanked Reagan and the Caribbean leaders who supported the invasion.
Reagan — locked in a high-stakes struggle with Congress over providing $100 million or more in military and other aid to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua — said the U.S. invasion thwarted plans by Grenada's Cuban-backed rulers to turn the island into a staging area for subversion and aggression.
"I will never be sorry that I made the decision to help you," he said, drawing loud applause.
Despite the parallel he drew between Grenada and Nicaragua, Reagan told reporters earlier in the day that Nicaragua presented a different situation than Grenada, and when asked whether he was ruling out the use of U.S. troops in Managua, he replied, "We never had any plans for any such thing."
Reagan used his visit to confer with Grenada's leaders and eight other English-speaking Caribbean countries about how to strengthen the sagging regional economy.
He sketched plans to enhance the benefits of his 2-year-old Caribbean Basin Initiative through an expansion of trade and U.S. assistance, although the administration scaled back aid to the region.
But the program has not yielded the progress some expected, as evidenced by a 23 percent drop in U.S. imports from Caribbean Basin countries.
Bill makes urine tests necessary
By Abbie Jones
TOPEKA — Anyone suspected of driving under the influence of drugs could be forced to take a urine test instead of a breath or blood test, under an amendment now before a Senate committee.
Fees may increase to pay for renovation
Staff writer
Sgt. Jim Daily, of the Great Bend Police Department and initiator of the bill, said the amendment would eliminate one unnecessary step in nabbing people who drive while under the influence of drugs.
"If we suspect a person is driving under the influence of drugs we don't have to run the blood or breath test," Daily said. "We can go directly to the urine."
By Lori Poison
Tentative chronology of Phase One renovation
The renovation of the Kansas Union may cause an increase in student fees as well as a reduction in the number of student offices. Union officials say.
Staff writer
The increase would come out of the restricted portion of the student fees, Ambler said. Tuition is divided into instructional and restricted fees.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said Tuesday that the board of directors of the University of Kansas Memorial Corporation was considering a $5 increase in student fees to help finance the Union renovation.
The board will propose the increase to the Board of Regents in Anrill, he said.
"The increase is tentative," he said. "We won't know until it goes."
Jan. 1887 to Dec. 1967 — Level I security removals involve taking place with the systema* installed, Offices for staff and security may be moved to Burgeon Union.
Dec. 1865 to Jan. 1987 — Pre-
construction. Master plan chosen,
design developed, contract drawn,
bids taken and contract awarded.
Jan. 1988 to July 1989 — Level The completed; Level Two renovation The restaurant will be closed. The Oread restaurant will be booksored and will be combined.
Restricted fees include a health
fee, a union fee, a Student Senate fee and a non-revenue and women's sports fee. Instructional fees pay for all items used for course work including faculty salaries and equipment.
Kansas residents paid $615 in fees this semester and out-of-state students paid $1,517.
But there also are other sources of income for the renovation costs, Greg Benttson, president of the board of directors, said.
"A good portion of the funding was made possible by the virtue of the reserve fund." he said.
Some student organizations may face another type of problem while the renovation is taking place.
Warner Ferguson, associate director of the Union, said the reserve fund was the money that was left after the debt for the Burge Union was paid in 1983.
Plans call for moving all of the student offices to Level Four which will cause many offices which now are located on Level Three to temporarily relocate while the changes are being made.
Ferguson said he did not know where the offices would be moved
"We're trying to find a place," he said. "They are looking at the Burge Union, but there might be some other places, too."
during construction.
The offices will be moved in December or January, he said, and won't be moved back to the Union until about July 1987.
"The Burge is a less-centralized place on campus," he said. "Now
Dan Parkinson, Scott City graduate student and president of Praxis, said moving his office would be frustrating and time consuming.
people can just stop by and ask questions. But there is not as much traffic flow on that part of campus."
But a representative of the Board of Class Officers said temporarily relocating the offices might prove beneficial.
"It will be good because a lot of us don't get over to that part of campus very often." Janet Rodkey, Overland Park senior, said. "We'll get to see some things that we don't ordinarily see."
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When the offices are moved to Level Four, there may be some organizations that have to give up their private office space, Ferguson said.
"We can't guarantee that every group who wants it will get a private office," he said.
Although there will be single offices available, some smaller organizations will have to share work space in one larger area.