Tuesday, February 21, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
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Funds not being used
Work-study has money yet to spend
oy Kathy Walsh
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas workstudy financial aid program is having a hard time spending its money.
Jerry Roger, director of the student financial aid office, said more money was left in the work-study budget this year than in the past.
"We think students need to get back to work," Rogers said.
As a federally financed student aid program, work-study is awarded in the same way as a Pell Grant or Guaranteed Student Loan.
All students who want to receive financial aid must file the ACT Family Financial Aid packet to determine if they quality. A student's financial need is determined by subtraction of the cost of tuition from the budget and parents' contributions, said Julie Cordova, coordinator of student employment.
employment.
"College work-study has more jobs than it does students," she said.
Rogers said the work-study program had roughly $764,320 that could be awarded to qualified students in the '88-'89 school year. The ratio of federal money to money provided by it is 80 percent to 20 percent, he said.
KU is allowed to transfer 10 percent of the surplus money into grant programs, Rogers said.
He said juniors and seniors could get up to $4,000 a year in GSLs.
programs, Rogers is one. One reason why students are not participating in work-study was the policy change in GIS, Rogers said.
Cooper said one benefit of work-study was that it curbed student loan debt.
About 650 students were awarded work-study at the beginning of the year and about 350 actually were taking their awards, she said.
The maximum amount awarded this past year was $1,800. Cooper said She said that amount was based on a 15-hour workweek at $3.50 an hour, campus minimum wage, for 32 hours.
After students have been awarded work-study, it is their responsibility to find job, she said. The office posts a poster in a bulletin board outside its door.
Work-study not only assists the students but the University as well, Cooper said.
Work-study surplus
Because the federal government
The KU work-study financial aid program has a surplus of money and not enough students to spend it on*
Where the money comes from:
Who has been awarded the money:
Source: Student financial aid office
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pays 80 percent of the student's salary, the department the student works for only is responsible for 20 percent of their salary, she said.
Steve Travnor/KANSAN
EPA awards grant for waste reduction
by Max Evans
Kansan staff write
A $220,000 grant to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment will be used to reduce hazardous emissions generated by 4,000 Kansas industries.
The grant from the Environmental Protection Agency has been bolstered by Kansas financing and totals $779,642. The money will be used on a pilot project targeted at reducing the contamination of hazardous wastes in Kansas.
Tom Gross, chief of inspection and enforcement for the department, said that the project would be a joint effort among the University of Kansas, Kansas State University and the department. He said that he had been in contact with both institutions but never worked on the project still had to be worked out.
“It’s brand new, and I don't want to box it in,” Gross e-
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One three- to five-year project will supply information to the targeted industries, will provide technical assistance and will initiate one-to-one meetings between experts and industry leaders. Gross said.
The EPA awarded joint grants for the pilot project to Kansas and the National Environmental Training Organization in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Carol Kinlas, manager of special projects for the 12-year-old association, said that 14 states out of 40 applicants were given the grants.
Graphic lesson
The projects are designed as pilots and will be monitored by the EPA for feasibility in other states.
Kinas said the association had 850 members who worked as trainers in the environmental field. Those trainers give technical assistance to both government agencies and private industries and act as consultants, advisors and as part of the trainers initially will be involved with the Kansas program.
"We've conducted a model plan, and from that model they will modify it to suit the situation." Kinias said.
Three tiers
KU will conduct training programs for hazardous-waste generators. The seminars and conferences will be about changing production techniques and offering alternatives to some raw materials presently used,
which add to the hazardous waste problem.
The third tier, also to be carried out by K-State, will initiate one-on-one visits between experts in waste control and management and representatives of industries responsible for hazardous waste.
A second level of the project will go to K-State. It will be responsible for a newsletter offering the latest information on waste minimization and methodology derived from research done outside the university, and also within the K-State college of engineering.
KU as educator
Donald Bretthauser, a program manager in the division of continuing education and the coordinator for KU's portion of the program, said the University's role in the project would be primarily one of education.
The KU division of continuing education has conducted nearly 290 technical assistance courses around the state in the past, and Bretthaier said that he thought this was one of the first steps he was chosen to work with the project.
Brettheara said that the program probably would begin offering seminars and conferences this summer or later, and she might be a newsletter might be sent before then.
Gross said the project would involve all Kansas industries that produce more than 25 kilograms a month and classified as hazardous by the EPA.
Industry incentives
Gross said that reducing hazardous waste production not only offered environmental benefits, but also gave industries the extra incentive of fewer regulations by the EFA, which were complex and time-consuming.
He also said the industries would save money.
"It costs between $200 and $700 a drum to dispose of these wastes," Gross said.
Gross said that although these industries comply with all EPA regulations, the effort was to promote the reduction of wastes early, before disposal became an even greater problem.
"Land burial will be banned in 1991 entirely." Bretthauer said.
Bill would make possession or use of anabolic steriods a felony
by John P. Milburn
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — A bill in the Kansas Senate could provide stiff penalties for persons connected with use and possession of anaplastic steroids.
Testimony was heard yesterday by a Senate committee concerning the harmful effects of anabolic steroids or human growth hormones. The bill would make possession of or use of the substances a class E felony on the first offense. The second offense would be a class D felony and the third a class C.
Class E feliones carry a one - to five-year prison sentence and a fine up to $10,000. Class D feliones carry a two - to 10-year sentence and a fine up to $10,000. Class C feliones carry a three - to 20-year sentence and a fine up to $15,000.
However, the bill would not include the use of the substances for a valid medical reason.
A valid reason would include the control of growth of a child with glandular disfunctions and the reversal of severe osteoporosis, said Chip Wheelen of the Kansas Medical Society.
ap whether of the house affords
the bill states that steroid use for the
purpose of body building, muscle enhancement or increasing bulk or strength by a person in good health is not a valid medical reason.
Reason.
No one except pharmacists and practitioners would be allowed to possess more than 250 tablets or 16 cubic centimeters of an anabolic steroid or human growth hormone or any combination under the new statute.
State Sen. Roy Ehrich, R-Hoisington, said the bill was requested by the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts. He said the board wanted the Legislature to stiffen laws for the
Similar to the penalties for the use of illegal drugs, penalties for anabolic steroid use simply will drive price up and not deter drug users. (Richard Lichaed, owner of Dunkirk's Jvm, a health club.
use of anabolic steroids.
"People used to say that the drug did not enhance athletic performance, but then look what Ben Johnson did to Carl Lewis in the Olympics with steroids." Sells said.
"If people want it, they will pay for it."
Sells said.
"We are trying to tighten up the process of getting the drug," Ehrlich said. "The board feels that there is a problem out there with steroids."
Charles Kongsberg Jr., director of the division of health of the department of health and environment, said a recent study indicated that 6.6 percent of male high school seniors used anabolic steroids
said.
He said he received 20 to 30 calls a week
from people interested in the drug. Sells said he told them that he did not recommend usage of the drug and that he did not know where to get it.
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