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largest student employers on campus, has budgeted money for about 350 students this year, for a total of 135,000 hours. Ranz said.
"Cuts will have a bad effect on the library because of our dependence on students," Ranz said. "The students are almost an invaluable part of our workforce. Student assistants are probably the best bargain we have at the library."
Students make up almost one third of the library work force.
Decreasing library hours is one of many options that officials are considering if the 1991 budget is not approved. Ranz said. Other options include reducing student work hours or hiring fewer students.
KU library hours during the week are comparable with other Big Eight universities. On weekends, all Big Eight universities reduce hours, but half of them stay open longer on weekends than KU does.
Scott Gay, Iowa City, Iowa freshman, said the periodicals
department where he worked was already understaffed.
"I can't see them cutting back here because they don't even have enough people here now," Gay said. "They're not the money somewhere else."
"If we don't have materials, we can't attract good students or faculty." Gardner said.
Some areas of the library system are already experiencing student shortages as they compete with downtown merchants and other campus employers for students.
The Anschutz Science Library has cut back hours for many student workers, Neeley said. A lack of work-study funds has caused the library to decrease hours and transfer some students.
Jeff Gardner, Salt Lake City, Utah, graduate student, said library hours already were too few. But he would he rather see a reduction in hours than in materials acquired.
"It's a serious problem campuswide." Neeley said.
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percent of the bank's student loans were for students at Kansas schools, said Michelle Sirton, bank marketing assistant.
She said that although the bank had done a lot of business with trade schools in the past, it had been taking steps to improve its percentage of loans to those schools.
"We have been trying to do more business with four-year institutions to get a better portfolio," Stirton said. "Guarantee agencies want to see lenders with a balanced portfolio."
Hawk said the bank now was sending in more balanced percentages.
"They still deal with a high proportion of trade schools, but the percentage is getting better," he said.
Hawk said another problem originated at St. Mary of the Plains College in Dodge City. The college operates a correspondence truck driver training course in Texas, of which about half of the students default on their loans.
Students at the school borrowed nearly $30 million dollars last year, which was about one-third of the federal loans made in Kansas, Hawk
He said the findings of the Pelavin study should not hinder students seeking loans.
"The higher the default rate, the more it costs us as a guarantee agency," he said. "But it does not determine the availability of student loans."
Monday
5 p.m. — Deadline for Student Union Airbuzz Board applications.
tian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
5:39 p.m. — The Transcendental Meditation Club will sponsor a group meditation for practitioners of the TM technique at Alcove D in the Church.
6:30 p.m. — The Hispanic-American Leadership Organization will meet at the International Room in the Kansas Union
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7 p.m. - Emmanuel Halperin, senior editor of Foreign News and Jewish Affairs, will speak on "Israel and the Media: Freedom of the Press," at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union.
7 p.m. — Women's Transitional Care Services will provide counseling for battered women at Ecumenical Chris-
7 p.m. — A Reading for Comprehension and Speed workshop will be offered by the Student Assistance Center. Contact the Student Assistance Center, 123 Strong Hall, to register. 7:30 p.m. — The Learning Disability Support Group will meet at the Centennial Room in the Kansas University.
Tuesday
10:30 a.m. - Orientation tours will be offered at Watson Library. The tours last about 45 minutes and cover the new materials and services available at the library.
11:30 a.m. — Emmanuel Halperin
senior editor of Foreign News and Jewish
Affairs, will lead a discussion on "An
Israeli's Perspective: The Issues Surround
the Creation of a Palestinian State",
"at Alcove in the Park," and
"The Commuters' Club
luncheon will be at Alcove G. in the
Kansas Union."
**3:30 p.m. — The Office of Study**
abroad will have an informational meeting
at 7D Lippincott Hall for anyone interested in studying in an English-
Hill Room in the Burge Union. The workshop is intended to inform foreign students of their income tax obligations, and will answer any questions about income taxes.
4:15 p. m. — The Office of Study
Abroad will have an informational meet-
ing at 7D Lippincott Hall for anyone
interested in studying in Japan.
6 p.m. — Envira will meet at Parlors A and B in the Kansas Union. John Herron, special assistant for Kansas Wildlife and Parks and Parlors Ancestry Program.
3:30 p.m. — A Tax Workshop for
Prep Students will be at the Dalys
6:30 p.m. — Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd Ed. Play will meet at 4051 Wescoe Hall.
7:30 p.m. — Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders, a support group, will meet at room 20 in Watkins Memorial Health Center.
Wednesday
3:30 p.m. — Orientation tour will be offered at Watson Library. Tours last about 45 minutes and cover the new materials and services available at the library.
3:10 p.m. — The Office of Study Abroad will have an informational meeting at 220 Fraser Hall for anyone interested in studying in a Spanish-speaking country.
415. p.m. — The Office of Study
Abroad will have an informational meet-
ing at 220 Fraser Hall for anyone interes-
ested in studying in a French-speaking
7:30 p.m. — The KU Flying Club will meet at 2022 Learned Hall. Any students interested in getting their pilots' license or improving their flying skills are well-
5 p.m. — The Campus Vegetarian Society will meet at Alcove D in the Kansas Union
country.
6 p.m. — Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd Ed. Play will meet at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union.
8 p.m. — The Society for Fantasy and Science Fiction will meet at Alcove B in the Kansas Union.
Thursday
7 p.m. — BACCHUS will meet at the first floor conference room at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
Noon — An American Sign Language Table will be at 603 Dyche Hall. The lunch will be brown bag and informal.
7 p.m. The Navigators, Christians at KU, will meet at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union.
7 p.m. KU College Republics
7 p.m. — A Reading for Comprehension and Speed workshop will be offered by the Student Assistance Center, 123 Strong Hall, to register.
will meet at the Centennial Room in the Kansas Union.
7:30 p.m. — Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas will have an open informative meeting at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union.
Saturday
8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. — The Hite- the Kansas Union. The conference will panics of Today Conference will be at offer various workshops on leadership.
U.S. birth control research slows
Europeans enjoy more contraceptive options
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The birth control pill ushered in the sexual revolution 30 years ago, but there have been so few new contraceptives marketed in the United States since then that U.S. women now find their choices limited.
"We clearly have less available than other places," said Rep. Pat Schroeder, D-Colo, and named off a list of contraceptives unavailable in the United States that included long-acting hormonal implants and injectables, as well as the French "abortion" pill RU486.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America is trying to build support for more contraceptive research with a series of conferences across the country, including one scheduled for today in Boston.
Used correctly, the pill is 99 percent effective, but this does not mean that it can be used safely and effectively by everyone, said Rebecca Stone, director of public policy for the private Center for Population Options.
More than 13 million U.S. women use oral contraceptives, known collectively as "the pill."
The pill has some minor side effects, must be taken daily and it's not recommended for smokers more than 35 years old and women with a history of blood-clotting disorders, heart disease, breast cancer, estrogen-dependent tumors, undiagnosed bleeding and a few other conditions.
In 1987, more than 8 million U.S. women of reproductive age chose to be sterilized as a method of birth
control, while 6.9 million relied on condoms, 1.7 million used diaphragms, 1.2 million chose spermicides, 1.1 million had IUDs and 1.1 million used contraceptive sponges.
Also, 2.3 million relied on withdrawal before ejaculation, 1.7 million used periodic abstinence and 3.3 million used nothing, according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a private education and research group.
When the pill became available in the United States in 1960, researchers predicted it was just the beginning -- that soon there would be more options, including vaccines and a pill for men.
Factors slowing research include insufficient federal financing, high cost, a cumbersome government approval process and spillover from the anti-abortion movement.
maceutical companies — eight in the United States — conducted contraceptive research. Today, there are three, and only one is a U.S. company — Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp.
Thirty years later, the search for better contraceptives continues but the pace has slowed to a crawl.
In the early 1970s, 13 major phar-
The government — through the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Agency for International Development — will spend only about $20 million in 1990 on contraceptive research and development.
"Contraceptive development does not have too much political clout," said Gabriel Bialy, chief of the contraception development branch at the institute.
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