University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, March 11, 1987
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Summer energy bill aid suffers
By PEGGY O'BRIEN
Stafi writer
Douglas County residents unable to pay their utility bills won't be left out in the cold if they apply for the Low-Income Energy Assistance Program before March 31.
But officials who run the program through the state Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services are instructed to return the summer phase of the program.
The program, which was created by the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981, helps needy people pay utility bills.
Four factors determine the amount of a household's benefit. They are the amount of income, type of home, type of fuel and cost of fuel. Heating benefits issued statewide this winter have averaged $205 a household.
"The primary aim of the program is to help the elderly and disabled."
said Jayne Garcia, Topeka area supervisor for the program.
Because of the Gramm-Rudman balanced budget law, the federal government has cut all funds for the summer phase of the program, which helps pays for air conditioning.
"If they cut out that program, then the elderly and disabled are the ones who are going to suffer," Garcia said.
In Kansas, Gov. Mike Hayden's budget for fiscal year 1988 allocates $11.3 million to the winter, or heating, phase of the program, but allocates none to the summer, or cooling phase.
But money from an Exxon oil overcharge payback could be used to pay for the summer phase of the program.
SRS is requesting $2 million from Kansas' share of a federal Exxon Oil overcharge revenue to finance the
The governor's office is considering Kansas Corporation Commission recommendations for use of the oil overcharge revenues.
summer phase.
State Rep. Ken Grotewiel, D-Wichita, the ranking Democrat on the House Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said he thought the money would probably go to the energy assistance program.
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said she wondered why Hayden hadn't yet recommended using the money for the energy company. She said Kansas Legislature was running out of time to take care of the program.
If Hayden does not allocate the oil overcharge funds to the program, state legislators could choose to impose a program from the state's general fund.
Branson said that senior citizens
and others in her constitency who rely on the program were concerned about where they would be left for the summer.
To be eligible, applicants must have made payments on utility bills in two of the three previous months before they apply, Garcia said.
Applicants from single-person homes must have made less than $4,731 in the six months before they apply; from two-person homes, less than $6,187; and from four-person homes, less than $9,099.
Garcia said the program took a self-education approach to teach people to think ahead and know that they need investments to be eligible for the program.
The Douglas County office received more than 1,000 applications and approved more than 875 since winter began and has spent about $175,000 on the program.
Western Civilization outline to change
By PAUL SCHRAG
Staff writer
Six KU professors have met about twice a month this semester to iron out the details of sweeping changes that will take effect in the department of Western Civilization this fall.
The Western Civilization advisory committee in December chose the professors who will teach four large lecture sections of the course that introduces students to the Western intellectual tradition.
Beginning this fall, all Western Civilization classes will meet twice a week for lectures, and once a week in small discussion groups.
Now, most of the classes meet only in the weekly discussion groups. Some Western Civilization classes require a nightight by graduate teaching assistants.
The lectures will help students
understand their readings better,
said Phil McKnight, associate professor of curriculum and instruction.
McKnight is one of six professors who will be released half-time from his department for two years to teach Western Civilization lectures.
"They will be a great opportunity to get more background information on the readings," McKnight said of the lectures. "It's hard to provide the historical context in one-hour discussions."
James Woelfel, chairman of Western Civilization, said, "It's an experiment. We're going into it with a sense of excitement and anticipation. We hope it will enrich students' experience in Western Civilization."
Robert Friauf, professor of physics and astronomy, said, "It will improve the program to have faculty from different areas of the University contributing to it "
The professors have formed two teams of three to teach the sections. Teaching with McKnight will be James Hilesheism, professor of educational policy and administration, and G. Cameron Hurst, professor of history
Each team will teach two of four first-semester Western Civilization lecture sections offered next fall. Each student one second-semester lecture section
Teaching with Friedau will be Robert Anderson, associate professor of French and Italian, and Phillip Paludan, professor of history.
The four lecture sections will have about 250 students each, Woelfel said. The weekly discussion groups, led by Mr. Shen, will be composed of 10 students each.
The six professors are meeting to
decide what readings to require next year and how to divide lecture topics among the professors.
A $120,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, awarded to the department of Western Civilization in 1985, endowed with additional changes.
Also, beginning this fall, Western
Calibration will not be open to freshmen.
"Given the difficult nature of the readings, it's better if students have had a year of college before they tackle them," he said.
Although the University discourages freshmen from taking Western Civilization, he said, about 25 percent of them took the course in the fall were freshmen.
The Western Civilization courses will be renumbered 204 and 205, from the current 104 and 105.
Finance committee offers $14,400 to crew
Staff writer
By LISA A. MALONEY
As of 11 p.m. last night, the committee was still discussing budgets for the remaining eight revenue code groups.
The Student Senate Finance Committee passed a $14,000 bill for the Kansas Crew and set financing for seven revenue code groups last night.
Woody Browne, liberal arts senator and co-author of the crew bill, said that Brady Stanton, student body president, had co-authored the
bill because Stanton felt comfortable with the compromise. Crew originally requested $37,450.
The $14,400 bill consists of $12,400 for a new eight-man racing boat,
$1,520 for eight $150 oars, and one $400 corsair's amplifier system.
David White, committee member,
said, "I'm still not convinced that we
should give them money. It's not our
soul that their team's size has grown."
But Jim Jennings, another committee member, said, "If we have a
good team, we ought to give them the funding to keep them at the quality level they need."
Most of the seven revenue code groups that the committee considered early last night received subscriptions cuts in their requested budgets.
the revenue code groups and the amounts the committee set are: Legal Services for Students, $132,700; Associated Students of Kansas, $29,323; Douglas County Rape Victim Support Services, $2,345; Student
Senate Internal Account, $77,435;
University Theatre, $25,550; KU on
Wheels, $302,000; and the Concert
and Chamber Music series. $88,000.
Final budgets for these groups will be decided at a meeting of the full Senate at 7 p.m. today in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
Revenue code groups receive two year Senate allocations during revenue code hearings, after reestablishing their status.
KU schools reach halfway mark in alumni fundraising campaign
Staff writer
By TIM HAMILTON
The 1987 Greater University Fund telephone fund-raising campaign has reached its halfway mark.
Laurie Mackey, director of the Kansas University Endowment Association's campaign since 1981, said some of the university's professional schools had been soliciting alumni for donations since January. The campaign, which was created in 1953, will resume after spring break, and continue until the first week in April.
"The campaign is conducted for the purpose of raising unrestricted funds for the University," she said. "I am also interested for anything in the schools' budgets."
All schools have solicited alumni
with mailings, but only a few follow up with calls, she said.
The schools of architecture, pharmacy, business, law, education and nursing are participating in the telephone campaign.
Lois Clark, associate dean of architecture and urban design, said the Endowment Association organized the campaign and provided schools with lists of alumi and their addresses. The schools, in turn, agree not to solicit alumi independently.
"We tell the people when we talk to them on the phone that we'll use the money to sponsor scholarships, stu-
dies and programs in our community and lecture the series," Clark said.
the School of Architecture called more than 1,300 alumni in two days last week. The school exceeded its budget by more than 15 percent, Clark said.
Paul Haack, associate dean for the School of Education's graduate studies, said 45 students and professors had raised more than $23,000 in four days in February. Most of the money will be used for scholarships.
"We're more conscious of the needs of undergraduates because of our size and the need for new training."
John Herod, Water Valley, Miss., senior and a pharmacy student, said he volunteered to call alumni because the school helped him pay tuition.
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