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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, JAN. 23, 1986, VOL. 96, NO. 81 (USPS 650-640)
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Peace is a conscious decision, Sadat says
Mark Mohler/KANSAN
Jehan Sadat, widow of former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, speaks at a press conference before her speech on the role of women in the Middle East. Sadat told about 2,000 people last night at Hoch Auditorium that when her husband was assassinated in 1981, she felt she had to carry on his legacy of peace.
The people of the world must work together in the process of peace if that process is to be successful, Jehan Sadat said last night.
By Grant W. Butler Staff writer
"Each one of us can make a difference," she said. "Peace is not only a state of mind, it is a conscious decision and an ultimate determination."
"It is in recognition of this common humanity that we can overcome scourges. It is by reaching out and communicating directly with people of all persuasions that we can bind ourselves together so that peace is not just another alternative or an option, but the only way there is."
Sadat, the widow of former Egyptian President Anwar Sarwat, spoke in Hoch Auditorium about the role of women in the Middle East. About 2,000 people came to hear Sadat, who was under tight security.
The speech was sponsored by Templin, Joseph R. Pearson, Ellsworth and McColm residence halls; Student Union Activities; the International Club; Student Senate; the political science department; the women's studies program; and the Association of University Residence Halls.
When her husband was assassinated in 1981, Sadat said, she felt she had to go on with his legacy of peace. She said that in order to strive for peace, one first had to be at peace with himself.
She said that although a lot had been said by the world's leaders about peace, forgiveness and rememberance, not enough had been
said about how an individual could make a difference.
"I never dreamed that one day I would be talking about peace and what one can do for it," she said.
When she married Anwar Sadat, she thought her duty was to stand by him, she said. She then found a love for her country, and decided that through education she could do more for it.
"I felt that my people had to catch up," she said. "I felt that if I was going to help, I had to be there at the forefront."
Sadat received her bachelor's degree in Arabic literature and a master's degree with honors from Cairo University. She is working on her doctorate while she is a visiting professor at the University of South Carolina and at American University in Washington.
Sadat was the head of the Egyptian delegation to the International Women's Conference in Mexico City in 1975, and she pushed for new civil rights laws in the Egyptian parliament that supported women's rights and emphasized family security.
Sadat said that as a first lady she could choose between two roles: She could either stay home, greet guests and throw parties, or she could get involved in women's and children's issues.
The S.O.S. Children's Villages in Egypt, which are designed to help orphans lead a happy family life amid a positive atmosphere, were started by Sadat.
She has earned honorary doctorates in the humanities from 10 institutions. She also received the Distinguished Public Service Award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 1982, and the Living Legacy Award from the Women's International Center in San Diego in 1984.
There have been many wars involving Egypt, she said, but what are really needed are wars against poverty, illiteracy and diseases.
Before her speech, in a press conference in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union, Sadat said women could play an important role because they were naturally for peace.
The United States could give more to the peace process, she said, but it needs to have a plan like her husband's, which strived for good relations not only between Israel and Egypt, but between all countries in the Middle East.
The Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel must recognize each other and reconcile themselves to solve their problems, she said.
Hosni Mubarak, president of Egypt, is doing his best to continue Sadat's plans, she said.
"To say the only chance of survival as a human race is peace is to state the obvious," she said. "It must be true and built on solid foundations of justice and understanding. I can also
She said Sadat "had the courage, the spiritual strength and the clarity of vision to see the world as a place of suffering that can only be redeemed by love."
See SADAT, p. 5, col. 1
Students face loss of aid with Gramm-Rudman
Staff writer
By Sandra Crider
Attempts on Capitol Hill to cut the federal deficit may result in a less accessible education on Mount Oread, the director of student financial aid and several students said yesterday.
Student aid probably will be among the programs most adversely affected by the Gramm-Rudman Act, a plan to eliminate the federal deficit by 1991.
Research programs could also suffer
See related story p. 6.
By Sandra Crider Staff writer
The plan sets yearly targets for reducing the deficit and provides for automatic across-the-board cuts if the president and Congress fail to meet the targets.
For 1986, automatic cuts of $11.7 billion will occur March 1, and if the projected deficit for fiscal 1987 is cor-
Research at the University of Kansas may be dealt a painful blow by a blind plan to balance the federal budget, several KU staff members and students said yesterday.
The Gramm-Rudman Act,
dopted in December, calls for
an inquiry into the use of
chemicals.
federally financed programs if the president and Congress are unable to reduce the deficit according to the plan's target schedule.
Research grants at KU are, for the most part, financed by the federal government.
Carolyn Cross, director of research support and grants administration, said officials in the research support office also were
concerned about losing financing on some of their programs.
"We're concerned because that federal support, in terms of research, represents a large part of total funds," she said.
About 75 percent of the $22 million the University of Kansas received last year for research grants and programs came from
the federal government, Cross said.
"The fact that we have as much as we have says they are good proposals," she said.
Jack Brown, associate professor of microbiology, recently received about $1,500 from the National Institutes of Health for his research
See RUDMAN, p. 5, col. 1
rect, another $50 billion will be cut within the year in order for the federal government to stay on track.
Jerry Rogers, director of the office of student financial aid, said that Gramm-Rudman may affect the
ability of students to obtain loans and grants.
bably be the first item to come under the government's knife, Rogers said. The program is the government's most expensive one because federal money must go to pay interest to lenders, he said.
Close to another $5 million goes directly to almost 4,000 KU students from the federal government in the form of Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, the College Work-Study Program and the Pell Grant.
Since August, about 4,500 KU students were given GSLs totaling almost $13 million.
"It might mean less accessibility to an education for a large number of people."
Rogers said the requirements for federally originating programs would probably stiffen in response to Gramm-Rudman.
can do to replace any of the financing for student aid.
Nearly half of the $18.4 billion education portion of the federal budget goes to student aid.
Protest groups square off over question of abortion
The group that would probably feel the worst effects of budget cuts would be lower-middle class students, he said. The extremely needy would retain most of their aid.
Rebecca Rogers, Lansing junior,
said that if her GSL was taken away,
By Frank Ybarra
Guaranteed student loans will pro-
See GRAMM, p. 5, col. 6
Pro and anti-abortion groups, in an emotional protest march yesterday afternoon, marked the anniversary of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.
Staff writer
"There could just be a lot better education by everyone concerned." he said.
Greg Nabors, Lawrence graduate student and head of the student organization, said members of Kansans for Life and Maranatha Christian Ministries were in the group of adults and young children who walked silently from the Chi Omega fountain to the lawn area between Dyche Hall and the Kansas Union.
Rogers said, "I don't know what we
During the march on the north sidewalk of Jayhawk Boulevard, some anti-abortion protesters carried pictures of aborted fetuses. Most pro-abortion marchers carried hangers which, according to one protester, symbolized the method of abortion women would have to follow if abortion was declared illegal.
He said that students weren't well informed about abortion issues and that he hoped the march would have some effect on them.
Another group of about 15 people marched behind the anti-abortion protesters carrying signs and chanting, "Keep abortion safe and legal."
About 45 people participated in the demonstration to protest the 13th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision. The anti-abortion march was organized by the Great Commission Students organization, a group of Christian students.
sophomore and pro-abortion marcher, said the anti-abortion groups were reactionary people who were trying to force their morality on others.
Craig Miller, Lawrence
"They're going about it in an attacking manner," he said. "We're not here to attack them."
The anti-abortion protesters asked passers-by to sign a petition which stated that abortion was a violation of a baby's constitutional rights and that they supported President Reagan's position on abortion.
Jim Ryun, president of Lawrence Kansans for Life, disagreed with Miller. He said he marched because he wanted to let students know that abortions were denying babies their legal rights.
Miki Madsen, Overland Park junior, said she marched with the anti-abortion group because she was adopted and thought adoption was a reasonable alternative to abortion.
Charles Munson, Leawood junior, said the pro-abortion marchers carried hangers to symbolize how abortions would be performed if the court ruling was overturned.
The protesters plan to send the completed petition to Washington in May, when a national anti-abortion march is scheduled at the Capitol.
Danette Knowlton, Lawrence junior, was standing beside the anti-abortion protesters who were handing out pamphlets south of the Union. She was passing out hangers to people who walked by.
"We want to make people aware of what abortion is." he said.
"I have children of my own who I love very much," she said.
4-year degree eludes more students
By Monique O'Donnell
Students who innocently project their college careers to last four years may not be aware of the odds against completing their degrees in time.
A September 1985 study, conducted by the office of institutional research and planning, indicates that only about half of the freshman class of 1978 graduated from the University of Kansas after 12 semesters.
But study does not tell the whole story, said David Ambler, vice chancellor of the school.
The numbers do not include students who had transferred from KU to finish their degrees at other universities, he said. Nor does it show how many of the students had transferred to KU from other schools.
"The four-year program statement is not necessarily true." Ambler said. "We now have five-year undergraduate programs, such as engineering, art and architecture, which we did not have in the past."
For example, 970 out of the 3,283 freshman of 1978 were still in school after four years. The number that started school in 1980 and were still there after four years climbed to 1,078.
The study is based on a computer data program which the institute designed about six years ago, Teeter said. The statistics are cumulative, counting the number of students at each college grade level.
Deborah Teeter, director of the office of institutional research and planning, said the study followed each freshman class through its college years, determining whether the students were enrolled now, graduated or dropped out.
Although the study shows that the number of students taking longer than four years to graduate is increasing, it did not explain the increase.
Ambler said there was a tendency for students to take longer to graduate because in previous years the student body was much more homogeneous then it was now.
"We used to encourage only good students to go to school," he said. "But in the last 20 to 25 years we have encouraged students from more diverse academic, ethnic and social backgrounds to attend college."
Ambler said that some minority students attending college for the first time had come from high schools which had not prepared them adequately for an academic career. He said that the University often encouraged these students to go at a slower pace.
The longer a student goes to college, the more it costs.
"If you put all those factors together, the figures on the report don't alarm me," Ambler said. "But it concerns me from a financial standpoint."
Jeff Weinberg, associate director of financial aid, said his office had tried to find grants and other financial resources for students who wanted to finish their degrees but were unable to finance it.
Non-traditional students usually go to school part-time and then gradually increase their hours to full-time, he said.
Another factor contributing to
Weinberg said there was a definite increase of non-traditional students at the University. Non-traditional students are usually older students returning to school.
"Generally, when non-traditional students decide to come back to school you better step out of their way, because they're really dedicated." Weinberg said.
Joe VanZandt, advising coordinator in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said he thought there was a greater tendency for students to work full-time jobs, which limited the number of hours they could take and when they could take them.
students being in school longer, Van-Zandt said, is that many students, in an effort to be practical, search for degree programs that they really don't have the aptitude for.
"They pursue business or journalism degrees," VanZandt said. "But they may not have any skill or aptitude in these areas, and then they try to make up for it later."
Lorna Zimmer, director of the Student Assistance Center, said many students faced a tremendous struggle finding an area that they were interested in and good at, while still feeling like the area would provide ample opportunity for employment after graduation.
Zimmer said switching degrees could prolong graduation. She said she recognized two categories of students. The first were students who went into an area of studies that they thought would ensure them a job after they graduated. But after a few semesters, they change programs
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