Kansan Summer Weekly/Wednesday, July 8, 1987
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Slattery helps to pass legislation to keep Haskell open, tuition-free
By KEITH ROBISON Staff writer
Staff writer
Since 1884, American Indians have attended Haskell Indian Junior College without paying tuition. Many of them couldn't pay it if they had to.
The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed legislation blocking a proposal from the Reagan administration that would have forced all Haskell students to pay an $850 tuition fee.
The action to block the tuition proposal was headed by Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kan., who visited the Haskell campus May 16 to view the deterioration of the buildings, said Cynthia Rapp, Slattery's press secretary.
The 1988 Interior Department Appropriations Bill gave Haskell $1.25 million for the next school year to improve administration's tuition proposal.
In a prepared statement, Slattery said, "The President's proposal represents a back-door attempt to close Haskell Indian Junior College."
A tuition fee would have had disastrous side effects, said Charles Geboe, Haskell's dean of instruction.
"The only way some of the students can get here is to hitchhike here and are ready for a ride."
clothes on their backs," Geboe said.
"The reservations are really economically depressed. There is just no way for those people to pull together money without leaving there."
Monte Joseph, Haskell graduate and Lawrence resident, said, "Most students there are dependent on school just to get by. It's either leave and go to school or stay home and try to get welfare.
"I knew a guy who had no way to get home. He had to call back to the Navajo tribe to get them to send him money, and they're not that rich of a tribe. He had to practically beg to get home."
"Haskell is a good school," he said.
"They really push you. If you're not doing so great, they've got tutors. They really help. Most Indians graduate high school with only a tenth-grade education. It takes most students two and a half years to get a two-year degree.
Joseph, who attended Haskell from 1985 to 1987, said he had attended Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding schools since the fifth grade.
Geboe said, "Haskell would have changed dramatically. We could no longer provide opportunities where no others exist. The money just isn't there. The most basic issues are the
treaty rights and obligations that say that educational services will be provided.
"I saw in the paper the other day where a reservation in Idaho had an unemployment rate of 96 percent.
"It really bothers me personally that they would be cutting out so many opportunities. They just don't have anywhere else to go to school. They are very bright and very poor."
Rapp said that almost 50 percent of new students came from families with a parent who had diabetes.
Geboe said, "I know Slattery has really been trying. Slattery was here this spring looking in buildings and seeing for himself the things we've had to neglect in stretching the funds."
Slattery testified several times before the Interior Appropriations subcommittee. Radd said.
"He was trying to make the members of the committee aware of Haskell," she said. "Many of them didn't even know where it was and what it was and what it meant to the Indian nation and how it had been suffering because of budget cuts. He wanted to make them realize the importance of giving them the money."
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