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Tuesday, December 9,1975
University Dally Kansan
DIGEST From the Associated Press
Pike files contempt action
WASHINGTON - Rejecting a compromise offer from President Ford, Intelligence Committee Chairman Otis Pike fired a contempt action in the House, saying he had "no business with it."
Pike, DN.Y., says he would ask for a House vote on contempt "in a couple of cases," the intelligence Committee opposes his position at a meeting today. "No one is seeing Kaiser in jail." Pike wrote in a letter to fellow members, "and the worst that can be said is that he might have to provide the documents subpoenaed to Congress."
Pike said that didn't comply with the committee's subpoena for all State Department requests for information on all covert operations, whether carried out or not.
Ford's compromise offer was to identify to the House committee all U.S. covert intelligence operations abroad since 1968 that were requested by the State Department and to identify potential threats.
IRA gunmen burrow in
LONDON -Aided by dogs, sharpshooters on rooftops and truckloads of electronic devices, police settled last night into their third night of a deadly waiting game with Irish Republican Army gunmen holding a married couple hostage in a barricaded apartment.
The four intruders rejected a Scotland Yard offer to send up soup to the cramped living room as 'a sign of good faith' in negotiating the release of the wife, 83-year-old Rachel Scott.
The gunmen earlier threatened to kill her and her husband, postal inspector John Matthews, 44, if police stormed the 12-by-14 room overlooking Dorset Sutton.
The gunmen told police they were members of the IRA's Provisional wing, which uses violence in its campaign to drive the British out of Northern Ireland and unite it against the government.
Final kickback trial set
TOPEKA-The last hurdle apparently has been cleared before the start Jan. 5 of the third and final trial in Kansag's architectural contract kickback case.
Last to stand trial will be Norbert Sidworcy, a Kansas City, Kan., architect who was among 18 individuals and five companies indicted nearly two years ago by a Shawnee County grand jury and accused of conspiring to kick back $50,000 into the hands of Mr. Fink, the founder and owner of award of a big University of Kansas Medical Center expansion contract.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined yesterday to hear an appeal by Sidorowicz and others seeking to overturn a Kansas Supreme Court rulings last June which ruled that the United States cannot force
Court nominee testifies
WASHINGTON—Supreme Court nominee John Paul Stevens told the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday that he believed in equality of the sexes but that he
Stevens also said he assumed the death penalty would be a deterrent to crime but didn't know whether it actually was.
Noting that the death penalty issue was before the court, Stevens said he didn't believe he should discuss the constitutional question involved.
Stevens also said his doctors had pronounced him fully recovered from open heart surgery performed in 1974.
Stevens was nominated by President Ford to fill the seat vacated Nov. 12 by Justice William O. Douglas,
Committee members in general seemed favorably inclined to the nominee. Sen.
Roman L. Hruska, R-Neb., said flatly he intended to vote for him.
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The need for a consistent, University-wide policy regarding the hiring and training of graduate assistants at the University of Kansas was the major topic discussed at the meeting last night of the Graduate Student Council (GSC).
Dennis Embry, graduate student in HDFL, said that the interim report of the Student Senate Commission on the Quality of Classroom Teaching had made some unsatisfactory recommendations concerning teachers at Assistant Teachers Teaching assistants (La). However, he said that some of the final report's recommendations had been sound.
For example, the training of graduate assistants, Emby said, should be a concern of the board.
Eighty five per cent of the required
assistance was taught by graduate
assistants, he said.
Torn Donaldson, member of the GSC executive committee (Gradix, as it was named last night) argued that such matters might best be left to the individual depart-
Embry then proposed that the GSC look into the possibility of forming an information service, providing "technical expertise" for any department wishing to set up such a training program for its AIs and TAs.
GSC looks at service for TA, AI training
A five-member committee was formed for that purpose.
GSC Executive Director Ellen Reynolds said that there had been encouraging response from the administration per- formance and staffing. On graduate assistance at KU,
The survey uncovered apparent discrepancies among most departments on the policy, or lack of policy, regarding payment hours and working conditions of TAS.
The Public Employer-Employee Relations Board, which is generally that KU faculty members could bargaining unit, but graduate students weren't included by PERB in the unit's
Reynolds said she had received letters
In other action, Evelyn Senecal, member of the Fee Structure Committee appointed by Vice Chancellor Del Shankel, distributed a questionnaire concerning various alternatives to the present KU fee structure.
She recommended that the GSC seek a ruling from Michael Davis, University Counsel, on whether Als and Ass should form a collective bargaining group formed at KU.
James Feldstein, director of labor relations at KU, is in the process of rewriting the employment manual for the University. He wants to include a policy statement on the status of graduate assistants, according to Reynolds.
from Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and from William J. Argerstang, dean of the Graduate School, expressing interest in his research on guidelines regarding graduate assistants.
In many matters, though, the status of graduate assistants in not clear, Reynolds
Senecal said that some students have suggested that a food baited charge for students would be more effective.
The committee, whose charisman is Jerry Hutchinson, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, is trying to determine whether KU should continue to charge a set fee to the student taking more than six hours credit, Senecal said.
Two other committees were formed—one to study problems of women and minorities in TA and AI biring, and another to inquire into issues involving library facilities at KU.
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