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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, January 26, 1989
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Kansas legislators to meet with ASK
Members will discuss financial issues
by Mary Neubauer Kansan staff writer
All 165 Kansas legislators have Feb. 6 appointments to meet with Associated Students of Kansas members to discuss such issues as financial aid and the Margin of Excellence.
Chris Graves, executive director for ASK, said the group represented about 80,000 students from the seven Board of Regents schools. One of the schools was a school in the lobby in front of the Legislature to help the student financial aid cause.
Graves said ASK would propose an "educational opportunity through community service" bill. The bill would ask for money for college tuition and elementary and secondary schools and to start other community service programs.
Past ASK programs have included the YES program, Graves said. YES allows college students to tutor at secondary and elementary school; provides other services to atrisk girls with bordering grades, she said.
ASK also sponsored a Fall 1997 letter-writing campaign to Gov. Mike Hayden and state legislators to voice their opposition to the initial aid and the Marin of Excellence.
The Margin is the Regents three-year plan to increase financing at the seven Regents institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools in total financing and to 100 percent of their peers in faculty salaries.
"Feb. 5, we'll have workshops on student leadership and general information." Graves said. "We'll help the students decide how they will lobby and tell them what not to say to a legislator."
She said that last year, about 300 students lobbied for ASK and that the group was hoping for the same kind of turnout this year.
Kelly Milligan, Topeka senior and
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"Students in the past had taken groups to lobby in Legislature but never in a coordinated effort," he said.
ASK wants legislators to know that concerned students are out there, and it wants to know what the legislature is doing to offer higher education. Milligan said.
"KU students are automatically members of ASK because they pay student activity fees," he said. "ASK is iust an honorary membership."
Milligan said he hoped legislators would not try to tie the issue of Washburn University entering the Regents system to theMargin issue.
"There is a hard-core block of people that will try to make it tough for our lobbying just to get Washburn into the Regents system," he said.
"The Washburn issue is something that needs to be dealt with, but the people of Kansas need to settle the issues they feel about higher education first."
University planes save time for busy faculty
Kansan staff writer
Time is a precious commodity for administrators and faculty at the University of Kansas and for physi- cal medicine. University of Kansas Medical Center
by Kris M. Bergquist
That's why KU has two University planes that fly them wherever they need to go.
"If people consider that their time is worth anything, they couldn't do anything but use the planes," said Les Catlin, pilot for the University of Pittsburgh. The deans and chancellors. Their time is worth a lot of money."
The Lawrence campus plane, housed in a hangar at Lawrence Municipal Airport, north of Lawrence, can be by and at request. The other plane is owned and administered by the Med Center.
Cattlin said the five-passenger planes were used every day and occasionally on weekends. Three pilots are employed by the university: two operate the planes, and one is on standby.
"The one on the ground may cover for one of the others if he gets sick." Callin said. "We sometimes have 18- or 19-hour days. They get really long, so the standby plot may take some of the flights to lessen the load."
Each department that uses the plane must make reservations and leave early.
"It's a first come, first serve thing," Catin said. "Each department is charged a very good rate. You can get an outside airplane for the price."
Keith Nitcher, the University director of business and fiscal affairs, said the campus plane was purchased with private money about
10 years ago to be used for official University functions. However, KU used an old military plane before the campus plane; the University has had a plane for at least 30 years.
"It's impossible to cover all the places that the University needs to go by car or with public transportation." Nitcher said. "We've got to keep the coverage up in this 400-by-200 mile state."
The athletic department and the University of Kansas Alumni Association use the campus plane often.
"For one thing, it's a convenience for the athletic department," said R.D. Helt, recruiting coordinator for football. "Some of the small towns we go to don't have major airports, and it's a major waste to drive for 10 or 11 hours. Also, it's more impressive for the recruits to fly them on a plane rather than drive them in a car."
"Say the plane wasn't available and we had a Kansas Honors program in the Colby area," said Fred Williams, executive director of the Alumni Association. "We have entertainers, four singers and a pianist. We'd have to ask them to miss class so they could leave six or eight hours early to get there. Then, if the program was over at 9:30, we may have to lodge. It becomes more costly."
The Alumni Association uses the plane for the Kansas Honors Scholar program and for meetings. The program honors the top 10 percent of Kansas high school seniors by having banquets in their areas.
The Med Center uses its plane for Area Health Education Centers, an outreach program. The center has educational sites around Kansas where the Med Center faculty teach courses or sponsor conferences.
Barber of Lawrence: history's cutting edge
ABOVE: An early Lawrence barbershop at 1847 Massachusetts St. as it looked in the 1920s. Owners John S. Corp and Cicely Amy are pictured. BELOW: Barbers' tools are on display at Watkins Community Museum, 1047 Massachusetts St. The exhibit closes Feb. 2. RIGHT: At the turn of the century, a barber needed talcum powder, hair ionic and a razor to give a good shave.
Kansan staff writer
by Max Evans
It'll be a close shave, but there's still time to catch a display of antique barbering tools from Lawrence's past.
The exhibit, titled "The Razor's Edge: Lawrence Barbers and Their Tools of Trade," will close Feb. 2, ending a three-month showing at Watkins Community Museum, 1047 Massachusetts St.
Bottles from the past proclaim Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer as "The People's Favorite," and a sign lists the barber's daily fare: haircuts, shaves, baths and teeth pulled. All was done by burly men with handlebar moustaches, if the pictures of the barbers that operated such establishments are representative.
Most of the items on display are the property of Tom Amyx. Amyx should know the trade — he's been Lawrence for more than 40 years.
"I bought the shoeshine chairs from the old Adam's House, and started shining shoes in my dad's shop in 1942," Amyx said. He was 9 years old. The chairs are part of the exhibit.
At that time, Amyx's father, Cecil, who started barring at the age of 13, had a barbershop at about 19th and Massachusetts streets. The original storefront is another in the city. A partner item in the display is a
Another item in the display is a
parber pole that was salvaged from the bottom of Potter Lake when it was drained in 1958.
"I just happened to be there having a picnic with my family when they threw it up on the bank." Amyx said. "My father thought it was his but another barber in town had his stolen by some college boys, and he thought it was his."
The dispute was finally resolved when the pole was identified by some initials carved into it. It went out to belong to the elder Amnyx.
Tom Amxy has been collecting razors, mugs and other barring tools for years. "I've got Colonel Eldridge's military razor." Amxy said. "People have been born in the 1800s since they outlawed the brush and mugs (in barrier shops) for sanitary reasons."
Program provides tutors for students with difficult classes
by a Kansan reporter
It's that time again when students are faced with a new class schedule and possibly a class or two they find a little overwhelming.
The Supportive Educational Services could be the difference between a passing or a failing grade.
SES provides tutoring, counseling advising and study-skill development services for students. Lee said.
a program that facilitates the educational growth and development of students, primarily in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
rutors are available for just about every course in liberal arts
Director Richard Lee said SES was
Some tutoring services are free.
However, for students who do not
met federal grant requirements,
there is a fee of about $50 a month for
tutors in math, English, business,
economics and computer science
courses. Lee said.
and 15 hours in the subject they would be tutoring.
The majority of courses for which tutors are available are mathematics, English, psychology, sociology, foreign language and the sciences.
that one can legitimately be tutored in." Lee said.
Lee said that the 60-70 tutors hired
each semester were required to have
a minimum 3.0 grade point average
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