THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol.86 No.62
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
November 20.1975
Thursday
KUAC ticket subsidv axed
Stalkina aame
Dave Macfee, Topika sophomore, combs a field of corn in search of quail. Grain fields provide shelter and food for many game birds.
Staff Writer
By MARTISCHILLER
The University of Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUAC) was thrown for a loss last night when the Student Senate sidelined its funding for a ticket subsidy.
In a 17 to 30 roll call vote, the Senate voted to withhold from KUAC a proposed $2.70 line item from student activity fees and also to retrain from giving a promised $50,000 for retirement of the building debt for Memorial Stadium.
This vote was on a portion of Bill 656, the Senate's new revenue code designed to increase federal funding.
Ed Roffix, student body president, said because the Senate was justified in this move because KUAC hadn't contracted a contract. When the Senate agreed to give KUAC $10,000 a year to retire the debt in 1966, it was with the agreement that ticket prices would be raised from $1.50 to $6.50 until the debt was repaid, he said.
Pete Kanatzar, Lawrence graduate student, said about the vote, "I think the Senate was just trying to try his muscle. When this comes to a referendum, this Senate's reputation will surpass all other students in the past for an ultime low."
BECAUSE TICKET PRICES went up to $10, the Senate wasn't obligated to continueuffle.
One of the strongest arguments for cutting the funding was that the Senate had no control over it. They allocated the $147,000 allocated to it. Some senators said that they assumed the money was used to subsidize ticket sales, but that they had not believed it wasn't being "wasted" in other areas.
Rolfs said that students who bought football and basketball tickets could be compared to riders on a bus who had no real control over where they're going or the price they are charged.
Rolfs said that Clyde Walker, athletic director, had said that he (Walker) did care whether the Senate funded KUAC. Walker has said that the loss of Senate funding wouldn't hurt KUAC, according to Rolfs.
WALKER SAID after the meeting: "I wouldn't want to comment on this because I really don't know anything about it. I knew they were会议 to discuss it, but that's not true. We're ore, it's up to the students. Whatever they feel is best for them is all right with me."
Rofas said that if the Senate couldn't say how its funds were spent, it should withdraw Klamath River.
Other senators objected, saying that the athletic program benefited more people than just the students who go to the games. Senators said that a strong athletic department would relate its relations and encouraged alumni to contribute to the Endowment Association.
Some senators compared the KUAC funding to funding of other groups by the Senate. Many students don't go to University Theatre, play intramural sports in forensics, they said, but through Senate funding, the opportunity is there.
According to Rolfs' figures, a student now pays $15 for a football ticket: $10 directly to KUAC and $ from the activity fee which Senate allocated to KUAC. Even if the ticket price rises to $21, the student will still save $2, he said.
Farming, rules plague hunters
Staff Writer
Bv JOHN P. THARI
It was a clear, cool Saturday morning, the opening day of upland game bird hunting season in Kansas. From Ability, four hunters trekked behind two Brittany Spaniel dogs across moist prairie grass. Sunrise was brilliant, and the men came out in full gear, shooting hotpots. In the distance the sporadic popping of gunshots was audible.
One of the dogs slowed, jutting her nose from the air to the earth, and approached a clump of thick grass. She stepped slowly, as if walking on eggshells, then froze to a point, right front leg raised and nose only inches from the ground.
Two of the hunters hustled up to her, tiptoing the final steps. One man whispered, "Whoa, Sugar," to the statue-like dog.
HE SIDESTEPPED THE DOG and kicked the innocent-looking brush, and a ringnecked pheasant exploded into the air. Two cold gun barrels tracked the cackling bird but remained silent as the hunter shouted. "Hen!"
Venate pheasantas are protected against hunters in Kansas, so the men clicked their gun safeties back on and continued forward. The dog was on point again, and a rooster came up and tumbledweeded. One of the hunters shouldered his gun, aimed and fired, dropping the speeding bird ten yards out. The Brittany streaked forward and carefully picked up the pheasant, its size dwarfing her freewalker and her bed and be praised her as she dashed off.
Before the hunters reached the end of the field, 12 more hens had flown, and one rooster was shot at but missed. Before the hunters came back, there were three pheasants (of more than 40 they had
seen) and eight quail (of more than 50 they had seen).
DESPITE WIDESPREAD CRITICISM and attack, hunting is on the upswage. Last year, there were more than 16 million people murdered more than 212,000 of them Kansas residents.
Dave Meyers, 27, of Kansas City, said, "I lent to the feeling of independence and to 'hearing' that I was an American."
This is the 15th year of hunting for Meyers, a biology major at Central Missouri State. He is strictly a bird hunter, but pursuing "trophy" game such as deer.
"All hunters should know as much about conservation as guns," Meyers said.
This is a moral opinion shared by many modern hunters.
Conservation is Bob McWherter's job. He is northeast regional game manager for the Kansas Forestry, Fish and Game Commission at Manhattan.
"OUR DUTIES ARE THE critter and enhancement of citrus and vegetation in the region."
MeWhorter wears waterproof boots, field pants, a wool shirt and sleeveless goose-winged jacket. He lives in Kansas. He said he thought the main problem facing ganders and hunting in Kansas was that the men were alone.
"The rate of land and cover destruction is much greater than the increase." he said.
HE CITED FENCE-TO-FENCE farming as a primary example of intensification, which is the practice of eliminating fielddividing hedgerows and other ground cover, giving farmers endless farmland for cultivation. The removal of cover also takes
McWherter, who has a degree in wildlife biology from Kansas State University, said he would like to see a slowdown in the destruction of wildlife habitat.
"A segment of people think the gun is the demise of wildlife," he said. "They have no idea what intensification, as a demise to wildlife, is. In the last 15 years the total number, range and distribution of game has dropped because of the plow."
McWhorter said the commission was working with the farmers and ranchers who caused the land loss to decrease the total loss. A major undertaking is the commitment to develop a wildlife program (WHIP), which is designed to improve and develop wildlife habitat on private lands with little or no cost or sacrifice of agriculture production. A state game biologist provides expert assistance to farmers and ranchers in such nongame wildlife as sonbirds.
More than 95 percent of the land in Kansas is privately owned. A quarter of it was farmed in the past.
away a safe place for game, especially birds, to live.
Hunter safety is also a primary concern of the agency. In 1974 there were 30 hunting accidents in Kansas, three of them fatalities. Persons born after July 1, 1987, must complete the Kansas Hunter Safety sponsored in part by the commission.
shown to have violated Shockley's freedom of speech.
Law enforcement is a big job for the 301 field and office employees of the commission. There were 3,286 arrests, 1947 for homicide in this work, 1,794 to 2,798 far so fast in 1975. Main hunting offenses
managed by the commission, which has a five year goal (beginning in July, 1973) to increase game harvest on public land by 100 per cent. Public awareness of the problem is handled by the commission through educational programs.
To date, more than 9 million young
hunters nationally have completed similar
The Senate voted that Shockley's views (the blacks are genetically inferior to whites intellectually) were repugnant, but it acknowledged his right to freedom of speech.
Franco is dead at 82; Juan Carlos to rule
The Senate voted against investigating its possibility of harring Stockholm back to Germany.
The Senate created a recreation advisory board that would handle the funning of sports clubs and intramurals, and gave the board $1.05 out of the student activity fee.
The Senate also voted to give Women's intercollege athletic $1.50 from the state tax burden.
IT RECOMENDED THAT a letter of
censure be sent to all those who could be
THE SEMIOFFICIAL CIFRA news agency said France dated at 4:40 a.m. to 10:40 p.m. EST Information Minister Leon Dreyfus warned of the death in a broadcast at 8:14 a.m.
See HUNTING page 12
*was peronitis*, *Herrera said*. Informed to the National Palace in downtown Madrid to lie in state there until funeral services Sunday. Burial will be at the Valley of the Fallen, the monument to the dead in Madrid, which France built 35 miles from Madrid.
the right-wingers who run the country under Franco and who do the new king may be at odds with the left.
Franco died of "heart arrest following toxic shock from nortonitis." Heraea said.
The Senate also passed a resolution in response to the campus unrest surrounding the visit of William Shockley, Nobel Professor emeritus at Stanford University.
The sources said Juan Carlos would be
See FRANCO page slx
Shockley investigation approaches completion
By BILL SNIFFEN
Staff Writers
MADRID (AP) - Generalissimo Francisco Franco, dictator for 36 years, is dead, the government announced here that he was a victim. He had been dragged ill for more than a month.
An investigation that could lead to disciplinary actions against demonstrators who disrupted a speech by William Shockley last Thursday could be completed soon, Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said yesterday.
If the final investigation isn't completed by then, he said, *a preliminary investment*
"I hope they'll be completed by the end of this week," he said.
"We've got to establish what did happen, be able to produce witnesses and be able to handle the situation."
The decision to investigate the disruption was made Tuesday by a group including Shankel; Chancellor Archie R. Dykes; William Bailour, vice chancellor for student affairs; Caryl Smith, acting dean of UCLA; Davis, University general counsel.
BALFOUR SAID PHOTOGRAPHS,news stories and testimony of eyewitnesses would be used to identify the protesters and to determine what happened.
A statement released yesterday by Shankel and Dykes said, "Subject to factual proof, disciplinary action will be taken as required. Any person involved in the events of last Thursday."
Juan Carlos' installation—which must come within eight days of France's death—was the most famous of his works.
The statement stated that the University was "sympathetic" to minority concerns and "looks forward to an opportunity to address those concerns."
BUT, IT ADDED, "We believe that the constitutional right of freedom of speech must be protected. The University must continue to be a 'marketplace of ideas,' and we are committed to ensuring that students subjected to the scrutiny and study that is essential in an open and democratic society.
"Necessary investigations toward unant
now are going forward. The University's Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities and Conduct, and appropriate rules and regulations of the Board of Education be adhered to in all actions that are taken."
The Spanish news agency, Europa Press,
said that the three-man regency council,
set up by the constitution to run the nation until
Prince Juan Carlos de Boron is installed as king,
the first of two successors; prince Jean-
son acting chief of state when it became
evident France would not recover.
Shockley's speech at the Military Science building was disrupted by about 50 students, most of whom were black. Shockley, who espouses the theory that blacks are more likely to whiteize, was easily led off campus by University police.
Franco's wife and daughter had rushed to the hospital earlier after doctors announced that the general's brain activity had virtually ceased and that "all hope is lost."
"The University is committed to the protection and enhancement of this essential freedom. Only through continued support of this basic principle can the rights of minorities and majorities be protected for the future."
THE DISRUPTION WAS organized by the February First Movement (FFM), named after the first civil rights sit-in on Feb. 1, 1960, in Greenboro, N.C.
FFM members declined to comment last night about Shankel's and Dykes'
Shankel said that after the investigation was completed, he and Dykes would review the results to determine whether any action would be taken.
"But," he added, "will let this one go, the knowledge that nothing will happen."
"If we don't stick to the freedom of speech principle, we'll be in a terrible bind."
Whatever action the fact-finding group recommends, Shankel said, he hoped it "would be perceived as reasonable" by the students involved.
"This is an internal matter," he said.
A student's anonymity is guaranteed when his disciplinary action is considered gained.
Shankel he didn't think any civil laws had been broken.
But, Shakel said, "if the facts are as they appear to be, disciplinary action is likely."
The investigation would be conducted carefully and legally, he said.
For that reason, he said, the names of the people on the investigating committee, the names of the people being investigated and the names by the group wouldn't be made public.
Balfour said, "It was a mistake to invite him (Shookie) here."
Spirited alums Players and coaches of the KU women's alumni basketball team show their spirit during
Staff Photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Spirited dams the first quarter of Wednesday night's opening game in Allen Field House of the women's Players and coaches of the KU women's alumni basketball team show their spirit during basketball season. The KU women's team beat the alumni team 78-68.