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Monday, January 19, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
KU senate will lobby for fee release
Students to talk about finance issues in Capitol rotunda to explain positions
By BENJAMIN HALL
Staff writer
The Student Senate takes its show to the Statehouse tomorrow
A special session of the KU Senate, addressing state financing of higher education, will bring state lawmakers back in touch with the University of Kansas, said Brady Stanton, student body president.
"They can't just expect to keep kicking higher education in the teeth and cutting our suspenders so our pants are down," Stanton said. "The legislators are out of touch. We're going to bring them back in touch by bringing our people to them."
The Senate will occupy the Capitol rotunda in Topeka from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
"What we're trying to do is make the legislators much more aware of the students' interests and feelings," Stanton said.
The Senate's first priority is to push the release of $653,418 in income taxes.
The amount of a Board of Regents
school's state allocation is based on enrollment predictions. When enrollment exceeds predictions, as KU's has, the state receives the money from extra tuition fees.
The fee release would pay for 106 sections of classes that the University decided not to cancel despite a 3.8 percent budget cut ordered by Gov. Mike Hayden.
Martie Aaron, campus co-director of Associated Students of Kansas, said senators also would present resolutions addressing the Regents university financing formula, the state work-study program and tuition increases at the meeting.
The university financing resolution would protect the quality of education during enrollment fluctuations, Aaron said.
The state's three research schools — KU, Kansas State University and Wichita State University — now receive extra appropriations only when their enrollments grow at least 1.5 percent. The Senate will push to change this rate to 0.5 percent, Aaron
KU's enrollment grew about 1 percent last fall, and no funds were released to cover the cost, Aaron said.
said.
Under the proposal, the universities also would be protected from financing cuts in periods of enrollment decline until KU's financing reached the level of its peer institutions.
Aaron said KU's peer schools were the universities of Oklahoma, Colorado, Oregon, North Carolina and Iowa.
Another resolution seeks to protect the state work-study program, which pays about half the salaries of students who get jobs in the community, Stanton said. The employers pay the other half.
Lawmakers may cut the program, he said.
"I think they see it as a luxury, but it really not," Stanton said.
The tuition resolution seeks to maintain a 25-to-75 fee cost ratio.
Kansas resident pays 25 percent of the education costs, and the state pays the remaining 75 percent.
"If they raise tuition, then we are getting closer to 30-70," he said. "I'd rather pay for it."
At least 21 senators were signed up to the session, he said he hope the senators will be
"A lot of what affects student life occurs over in Topeka," he said.
Ambler, the Senate's adviser, said the session would help student senators call attention to what they含nce need to know and bring ability to support higher education.
Stanton said the Senate wanted to compromise with the lawmakers.
the meeting is not mandatory because it is in the middle of a school day. David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, wrote an open letter to the faculty explaining the senators' absence, Aaron said.
"I don't see how we're going to be able to save everything," he said. "We want to hold status quo. I think that's possible."
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WASHINGTON - Members of Congress investigating the tangled Iran-contra arms affair most likely will follow a related trail to the doorstep of conservative political operative Carl Russell Channel.
The Lowell (Mass.) Sun reported in December that $5 million in Iranian arms sales profits was diverted for conservative political purposes, and some of it was funneled to organizations that Channell either founded or controls.
From obscurity as a West Virginia motel operator in 1979, Channell, 41, has emerged as a national fundraiser for conservative causes. He also has founded or gained control of at least nine conservative organizations.
Among those organizations are two political action committees, a tax-exempt foundation and Western Goals, which has two subsidiaries.
Federal Election Commission and Internal Revenue Service records indicate Channel raised more than $5 million in 1985 and 1986, and through his foundations and political action committees has spent much of the money on a propaganda blitz to win public support for aid to Nicaraguan rebels.
Western Goals was founded by the late Rep. Larry McDonald and the John Birch Society. McDonald was one of those killed when the Soviet Union shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in 1983.
Government records indicate groups run by Channel bought political advertisements against candidate unsympathetic to the contra rebels. Channel denies he received any diverted Iranian arms money.
In addition, some of Channell's operations now are under investigation by the IRS, the FEC and, according to reports, the FBI.
Such inquiries may be the only way to answer questions about Channel's activities. Channel no longer grants subscriptions. The reason is that his organizations are skimpy.
Of interest to investigators are:
- Whether Channel used his tax-exempt National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty for partisan political work and propagandizing in violation of rules governing nonprofit organizations.
- Affiliations between the American Conservative Trust and the Anti-Terrorism American Committee, which are both political action committees. PACs that are controlled by a single entity may not raise money as if they were totally separate.
- Channell's acceptance of assistance and, according to at least one published report, money from Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North, the recently fired White House aide, to bolster the political action work
North is believed to have masterminded the diversion of arms sales profits to the contrasts and to have helped coordinate the public relations campaigning that centered mostly in the South and Westwest.
When Congress was considering appropriating money to aid the contrasts in April, Channell and other conservative group leaders conducted campaigns in favor of the plan and against congressmen who opposed the legislation.
One group that joined in the campaigns was the National Conservative Political Action Committee, where Channell earlier served as finance chairman, NCPAC leader John T. Dolan, Channell's former boss who died in late December, sought the defeat of 33 members of Congress who opposed aid for the contras.
Watkins seeing more students with the flu
Watkins Hospital is seeing about 30 people a day with symptoms of the flu, but the hospital staff must wait at least two weeks to determine whether these are cases of the Taiwan flu, a staff nurse said.
By a Kansan reporter
"There is a definite increase in the amount of students coming in with flus symptoms," said Lynn Heller, coordinator of health education and a staff nurse at Watkins.
She said Watkins staff was waiting for test results on blood samples and throat cultures which were sent to
the state medical laboratories to determine whether these were cases of the Taiwan flu.
The Taiwan flu, a variation of the influenza Type A virus, usually affects people under age 35. Three studies have been confirmed in Kaosas.
According to the national Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, 18 states have confirmed cases of the Taiwan flu.
Flu victims usually have two sets of symptoms: respiratory, such as coughing, nasal congestion and sore throat, or gastrointestinal, which in
cludes diarrhea and stomachaches. Some people have both sets of symptoms, Heller said.
"People usually feel like they're going to die, but most flus have to run a 48-hour course," she said. "It depends on the physical condition of the person, if they're run down, tired or haven't eaten well."
Heller said those who think they have the flu should rest, and take aspirin for the aches and pains. People with diarrhea should drink plenty of liquids to avoid becoming dehydrated.
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