University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 23, 1988
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Bill would help Rhodes Scholars
By Elaine Woodford
By Elaine Woodford Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA - A bill aimed at attracting Kansas Rhodes Scholars back into post-graduate programs at state universities was debated yesterday in the state Senate Education Committee.
State Sens. Jack Steineger, D-Kansas City, and Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, sponsored the bill, which would provide tuition money for Kansas Rhodes Scholars who have completed their undergraduate degree and returned to the state to enter a post-Winter program.
mittee in support of the bill.
Steineger testified before the com-
"We are trying to attract quality students to our state universities, and this bill will help to get them back into Kansas." he said.
There currently are three Kansas students who have been awarded Rhodes Scholarships for the next academic year, Steineger said, but none of the students are attending universities in the state. Each year, 32 students from across the nation receive the scholarship.
Several committee members questioned the wording of the bill. They were concerned that tuition money could be awarded to students who
then enrolled in graduate programs outside Kansas. They also feared that the bill would limit scholarship money only to Kansans enrolled in state universities.
"I would like to see this program apply to all students, not just students enrolled as undergraduates in state universities," Steineger said.
problems with the passage of the bill. Clantha MurCurdy, director of student financial aid for the Board of Regents, recommended several changes in the bill's wording to help make the award's requirements clearer.
Chris Graves, a lobbyist for the Associated Students of Kansas said ASK strongly supported the bill.
"This bill would make Kansas more attractive to Rhodes Scholars and offer them more than what we have available for them now," she said.
"At a modest cost it would provide a special recognition and incentive for Kansans who have achieved one of the highest levels of scholarly distinction," she said.
State agencies are allowed only to interview the top five finishes on civil service exams for each state job.
TOPEKA — An official from the agency that gives state civil service exams said yesterday that if the state gave all Kansans an automatic advantage on the test, some unqualified people might be hired.
Art Griggs, legal counsel for the Department of Administration, told members of the House Federal and State Affairs Committee that veterans and disabled veterans already receive extra points on the exams, which are given by the department. All applicants for state classified jobs take the exams.
Civil service exam scoring may aid unqualified applicants, official says
for test-takers who had graduated from Kansas high schools or from Kansas colleges, as a bill before the committee would require, some unqualified people could be among the top five finishers on the exam, Griggs said.
State Rep. Ed Rolfs, R-Junction City, said he thought the bill was designed to encourage the state to hire an average worker from Kansas, over an exceptional worker from another state.
The Associated Press
Griggs said someone who received just an average score on the exam but received extra points for being a veteran and for being a Kansan could score much higher.
jobs take the exam(s).
If the state also added extra points
ASK did not formally endorse the bill, but encouraged its passage.
"Combining those two sets of points could really skew things," said State Rep. Kathleen Sebelius, D-Topeka.
The bill's chief sponsor, State Rep Fred Gatin, R-Atwood, did not testify, and the committee chairman, State Rep Robert H. Miller, R-Wellington, said the committee will have more hearings on the bill.
House rejects bill to toughen state anti-smoking law The Associated Press
TOPEKA — The House rejected yesterday a bill designed to strengthen the state's anti-smoking law.
The measure would have closed a loophole that some restaurant and shop owners have been using to get around the law, which the Legislature passed last year. The law generally prohibits smoking in public places, except in specially designated smoking areas.
The House voted, 42-58, against advancing the bill to final action today. However, the measure is still technically alive because the House did not vote to strike it from its calendar.
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