6A Thursday. November 14, 1996 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Alternative spring break trips available Students volunteer to work on poverty education projects By Cameron Heeg Kansan staff writer Although winter hasn't officially started, it's not too early for students to think about spring break. The Center for Community Outreach is taking applications for spring break trips that will send students to 10 U.S. cities to work on education, poverty and environmental projects. "We have been running the program for three years, and every year it is getting better," said Ron Chen, project coordinator. "This program gives students the chance to get out of Lawrence for the week and do something positive in a community that needs volunteer help." Chen said the program was looking for 80 students to send in groups of eight. Students chosen for the program are required to enroll in a one-credit-hour class, called Special Projects in Community, for the spring semester. The class, which will be taught by Glen White, assistant professor of human development and family life, covers the experiences students will encounter on their trips. The class will meet every Thursday from 5 to 6:30 p.m. In three of the cities — Detroit, Philadelphia and Tahlequah, Okla. Noah Musser/KANSAN - students will work on educational programs. In New York and Washington, D.C., students will work in homeless shelters and soup kitchens. In the remaining cities — El Paso, Texas, Elgin, Ariz., Cleveland, San Antonio, and a second Pennsylvania city to be determined -- students will work on inner city outreach and development. The trip costs $100. The price includes travel, food and lodging. Students who can't pay $100 may apply for a scholarship. Chen said students who had a strong desire to participate could receive need-based scholarships. "Whoever is interested in the program, I encourage them to turn in an application," Chen said. "We will try to give everyone the chance to be involved." The scholarship costs and other program expenses will be paid for with money raised by students enrolled in the special projects class. Students will raise money by cleaning Allen Field House after six men's basketball games. Participants are required to work after at least three games. Jamie Najim, Wichita junior, is not looking forward to cleaning after the games, but she is looking forward to the spring break trip. "I know it will be worth the effort because going on the trip to Philadelphia means I get a chance to work with children and education," Najim said. "That is what I want to do after I graduate. Trips like this give people a chance to meet others and find out more about themselves." Applications are due Nov.25. They are available at residence halls, the Multicultural Resource Center, the Office of Minority Affairs and the Center for Community Outreach office. Sex scandals plague military nationwide; Missouri man punished The Associated Press FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo A drill sergeant who had sex with three women recruits was sentenced to five months in prison and a bad-conduct discharge yesterday. Sgt. Loren B. Taylor, 29, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges of breaking the ban on sex between commanders and subordinates, having consensual sex with three women recruits and trying to have sex with another. Two other instructors at Forb Leonard Wood face similar charges. The charges were disclosed on Tuesday, five days after a sex scandal broke at the military's Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, where four drill instructors and a captain have been charged with raping or sexually harassing at least a dozen female recruits. The San Antonio Express-News also reported yesterday that female Army trainees from Fort Sam Houston kissed their supervisors during wild drinking binges and that one trainee performed oral sex on her supervisor. Five sergeants were disciplined. Taylor, who could have been sentenced to 14 years behind bars, asked the judge to spare him prison so he could support his 7-year-old son, who lives with his former wife. But prosecutors, bolstered by the testimony of two women who said they felt pressured to have sex with Taylor, asked the judge to send him to prison as a deterrent to others. "I was so confused," said former Pvt. Joy Paulsen, 21, in her testimony. "He was my drill sergeant. I was supposed to obey. On the other hand, I didn't want to do what he was asking me to do." Defense claims farmers accused of fraud were following orders The Associated Press WICHITA — A southwest Kansas farmer and his daughter, both accused of defrauding the federal government of more than $3 million in crop subsidy payments, were following their accountant's orders, according to their defense team. In opening statements this morning, Assistant U.S. Attorney Montie Deer told a jury that Dean Gigot and his daughter, Gina Herrmann, both of Garden City, set up four fraudulent partnerships so that they could receive more than the $50,000 limit in farm program payments. Witnesses will testify that the partnerships were made up of dozens of friends, family members and employees who participated because Herrmann or Gigot told them to, Deer said. But defense attorney Michael Hepperly said that Gigot was simply following the orders of his accountant, Charles Michael Lansdon, who participated in a partnership. Gigot had to hire Lansdon to make sure he was following federal rules for the federal deficiency payment program. Hepperly said. The program paid enrolled farmers the difference between a crop's market price and a government-set target price. Slamming his hand down on a more than foot-high pile of books with federal regulations for the program, Hepperly told the jury that Gigot had to rely on experts to help him figure out how to legally maximize his participation in the federal program. Gigot and Herrman, both present at the opening statements, still farm their 23,000' acres in southwest Kansas. They just finished harvesting their corn crop. Both were indicted in February, each on one count of mail fraud and three of making false statements. They face up to 45 years in prison if convicted in the trial, which began Tuesday with jury selection. Suspect in Salina murders to face charges The Associated Press SALINA — Alan White has agreed to return to this central Kansas town to face charges in the bludgeoning deaths of an 80-year-old woman, her daughter and her great-grandson. Authorities in Kansas filed capital murder charges on Tuesday against White. He was captured Saturday in White. Boston shortly after he was featured on Fox Network's America's Most Wanted program. White was arraigned on Tuesday in Boston on unrelated parole violation charges. He is accused in the slayings of Dolores McKim, 80, of Salina; her daughter, Carol Ambrcromble, 56, of Soddy-Daisy, Tenn.; and McKim's great-grandson, Christopher Abercrombie, 5, of Greenville, N.C. Their bodies were found on July 21 in McKim's home. Saline County Attorney Julie McKenna charged White with four counts of capital murder, one count of rape, one of aggravated burglary, one of felony theft, one of criminal deprivation, two of misdemeanor theft and two of criminal use of a financial card. One of the capital murder charges was filed because Abercrombie was raped before she was slain. McKenna said she could not comment on the evidence against White. She said Salina authorities had up to 15 days to make arrangements for White's return to Salina. 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