THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.86 No.58
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
November 14, 1975
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Staff Photo by DON PIERCE
Shockleu turmoil
yesterday, Shockley had been lecturing to a small group in the building when he was invited by students to protest his appearance on campus. Shockley had been lecturing about his own experiences as a student at Cornell University.
Surrounded by protesters, William Shockley, professor emeritus at Stanford University and a.1966 Nobel Prize winner, walks calmly from the Military Science building
Administration gets budget cuts
Staff Writer
By SHERI BALDWIN
Proposed cuts for the University of Kansas 1977 fiscal year budget have been obtained from the office of James W. Bibb, director of the state budget division.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
said last night that a letter from Bibb
detailing budget cut proposals had not been
discussed in the committee. Proceeding
the budget cuts for over a week.
Shankel said, however, that staff members of the Office of Business Affairs had gone to Topeka during the first part of this month. She obtained details on the budget cut figures.
Bibb left only a few KU requests uncut in his budget recommendations. A 10 per cent merit salary increase in unclassified positions was recommended unchanged. Classified positions are to receive normal civil service salary entitlements. Unclassified positions are those not classified civil service; and positions are civil service positions.
Other unchanged recommendations included a 5 per cent classified and a 10 per cent unclassified salary increase for positions at KU Medical Center and a 12 per
cent operating expenditures increase for the Med Center educational program.
The salary increases are figured as a percentage of 1976 fiscal year base budget figures, according to Kieht Nichter, vice chancellor for business affairs.
Nicher said that most of KU's other cuties had been either cut drastically or cut quite tightly.
To meet enrollment increases, KU requested a 1:15 ratio of faculty to students, a ratio provided in the Board of Regent formulas suggested to all state schools.
Bibb increased the 1:15 ratio to 1:20. KU's present faculty-student ratio is 1:16.9.
A shrinkage rate of 5 per cent for classified positions and 2 per cent for unclassified positions was proposed. Shrinkage is a figure representing the reduction in the remain vacant because of employee deaths, retirement or other reasons. Shankel said.
"We usually have been granted the 1:15 ratio in the part." Shankal said.
KU had requested a 2 per cent shrinkage rate for classified positions and no more than 50 percent.
could drop if the University is denied extra funding as Bbb's student ratio and annual budget are both high.
Administrators and University governance bodies certify that assessed teachers are trained in the quality of teaching.
Shankel said Bibb had "pegged the shrinkage rate at a higher percentage than should normally result from employee turnover."
"We may have to leave some positions vacancy in the filling them. We normally fill up with other people."
Nitcher said budget requests for other operating expenses had been cut from 12 per cent to 5 per cent. Supplementation by the Regents in October, were cut, he said.
Within the other operating expenses, requests for educational programs were cut from $58,762 to $273,637. Buildings and cuts from $21,090 to $166,043 were cut from $213,060 to $168,075.
Supplementary requests to meet utility costs were cut from $1,029,018 to $491,500.
Requested research funding, including support for Kansas State Geological Survey services, was cut from $99,478 to $14,450. Funds for the expansion of public services such as the division of continuing education and Outreach were cut from $22,243 to
Nitcher said, "We don't think these are final figures. A great deal of utility cost."
estimates depends on utility rates, how cold it goes to be and how much of oil we need.
He said Bibb had proposed that the utility
See BUDGET page three
Protests mark Shocklev's visit
By LYNDA SMITH and BILL SNIFFEN
The decisions of two University of Kansas groups to invite William Shockley to speak here were mistakes, according to William Balfour, vice chancellor for student affairs. Shockley's presence precipitated a challenge yesterday morning by about 50 students.
"They could have talked to some black students ahead of time, but they obviously didn't."
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
said the decision to invite Shockley was
"I would not have participated in his sponsorship," he said. A debate Wednesday in which Shockley participated at Washburn University in Topeka was interrupted only because the Washburn audience was "one of the quietest audiences I've ever spoken to."
Shockley, who espouses the theory that blacks are genitically inferior to whites in intelligence, was invited by the history of science program to speak to a group of about 20 graduate students and faculty members yesterday.
Omicron Delta Kappa (Sachem Circle), a senior men's honorary society, also invited Shookley to speak here yesterday after yesterday's cancellation after yesterday's demonstration.
Shockey's speech in the Military Science building was disrupted by about 50 students, most of them black, who chanted, "Shockey is a lackey for the ruling class."
Before he was interrupted, Shockley outlined the main points of his theory on the intelligence difference between blacks and whites.
After the interruption, campus police escorted Shockley to an office in the building, where he remained for about 30 minutes.
Outside the office, the group continued to shout its protections of Shockey's presence on campus. "Black, brown, yellow, white," he said, followed by KU administrators who attempted to speak to the crowd were Shankel, Balfour and Donald K. Alderson, dean of men. Sachen members there were Ed Rolfs, student body member, and Jon Josenster, a student senator.
Shankel told the crowd that Shockley hadn't been invited by the University to play.
"then get him out of here!" one of the protesters shouted.
After efforts to talk with the protesters
failed, Shockley was escorted by the police out of the building and off the campus.
The demonstrators then moved to the chancellor's office complex in Strong Hall and demanded to see Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, but Dykes was out of town.
Repeated efforts by Shankel to talk with the crowd were frustrated by shouts of "Down with racism," and "We want Archie."
Also heard were comments that the Kansan was a racist newspaper. At one point, a protester stumped on a copy of the Kansan in which a story about Shockley appeared. The protester then pointed at Shankel and said, "This goes for you, too."
Another protester, Lawrence Whitman,
Louis sophomore, said the crowd wanted
to be removed.
"It was a sneaky underhanded tactic," he said. "The ruthless man was a result of the confusion."
Shankel again told the crowd that Shockley's visit wasn't sponsored by the University. He said the administration had only learned about Shockley's visit late
After about 20 minutes inside the chancellor's office complex, the demonstrators left. Many of them gathered in front of them, where Alderson attempted to speak to them.
But after 15 minutes he said, "We're getting no place in this discussion. This is not the place or time to discuss this because you won't stand still and listen."
Alderson said later that his efforts to explain the situation to the demonstrators failed because "it turned into a shouting match."
Four campus and four city policemen were there, but no arrests were made. No property damage or injuries were reported. Several newspaper photographers were at Strong Hall and the crowd attempted to stop them from taking pictures there.
However, he said he didn't know whether the code had been violated.
Possible disciplinary action against the demonstrators is being discussed, Balfour said. A decision will be made today, he said. The University Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities and Conduct specifically prohibits behavior that interferes with University functions, he said. However, he said he didn't know whether
Balfour said that he understood the blacks' feelings about Shockley's theories and that he wasn't surprised at their reaction.
Balfour said that today's demonstration
Council recommends ombudsman
Staff Writer
By SHERI BALDWIN
A proposal establishing an ombudman and an advisory committee to handle grievances at the University of Kansas was passed yesterday by the University Council.
The advisory committee will select a panel from which Chancellor Archie R. Dykes will appoint an umbdsman, serve as the umbdsman's advisory group and evaluate the work of the umbdsman's office.
The committee, to be appointed by SenEx, will include three faculty members, two undergraduate students and one graduate student.
Francis Heller, faculty council member,
said, "The crux of the ombudsman function is not that of a judge, not that of an arbitrator. The office of ombudsman becomes
The ambudsman's proposed duties would be to receive and attempt to resolve individual grievances of University community members and to recommend University officials to the University response to experience acquired in investigating individual cases.
Qualifications for the office include a comprehensive knowledge of University organization and procedures and at least six years' experience on the KU faculty. The ombisdman would serve for a three-year term and be eligible for reappointment.
The ambassador would have access to all administrative officials and, in accordance with the Convention, the ambassador wouldn't have authority to take disciplinary action, reverse decisions or circumvent treaties.
Campus Arabs support UN vote
an easily accessible, highly visible point to which matters may be brought."
Bv.JAY BEMIS
Staff Writer
Arab faculty members and students interviewed yesterday said they generally agreed with a resolution passed by the United Nations General Assembly Monday night declaring Zionism as "a form of racism."
"You have a movement called Zionism, which went into a country (Palestine) and established itself in the expense of a native population." Fawwaz Ulaby, professor of electrical engineering and advisor of the KU Organization of Arab students, said.
Jewish reactions Tuesday were opposite of the Arab view when Jewish students expressed sad and bitter emotions, about the U.N. resolution.
Ulabay said Zionism is a movement that subscribed to the idea that a Jew from Poland, the United States, or anywhere else could be entitled to automatic citizenship in Israel.
was born in Israel and whose grandfather's grave is in Israel, and he isn't entitled to the full privileges and obligations as anyone else."
"Whereas, you have the Palestinian," he said, "who was born in Israel, whose father
"Discrimination is color, as in South Africa," he said, "and religion, as in Israel. Both countries and both governments are racist."
Such a movement can't be described as anything but racist, he said.
"I disagreed with Golda Meir when I said any Jew was a Zionist," she said. "Judaism is a religion that is centuries old and Zionism is a definite rite, political
"These countries are made of people who suffered at the hands of colonial powers for many generations," he said, "but now they can understand and can identify with the Palestinians."
Mona Hamman, Alexandria graduate student, aid she supported the resolution
Uhaina said the countries that voted for the anti-Zionism act were countries that saw the Israeli attacks.
She said the Zionist ideology was an at-
tempet by a Jewish bourgeoisie of bankers and industrialists to secure a home market in Palestine for the European bourgeoisie. The British government, toward the end of the 19th century,
The European bourgeois aim was to completely uproot the population of Palestine, she said, and set up a social structure that would be exclusively Jewish.
She said Herzli planned to recruit Jews from all of Eastern Europe to supply the new society's labor force and to exploit that labor force for the bourgeois's profit.
Herzi's ideology succeeded when the Nazis began exterminating European Jews, she said, and the survivors emigrated to Palestine.
Israeli terrorist groups then began driving the Palestinians from their country in the 1940s she said. They then took over the land.
Hammam said she believed that countries had voted for the anti-Zionism act because "they recognized the legitimate struggles of the Palestinian people and the legitimate national claim of liberating Palestine from Zionism."
In '1948 the United Nations was primarily made up of big powers, but now it's the oppressed nations who have the majority and are recognizing other oppressed nations.
It's a funny thing, she said, that the United Nations, which now defines Zionism as racism, is the same international organization that recognized Israel as a state in 1948.
Susan Haster, Riyadh freshman, said he also thought Zionism is a form of racism. "If you trace Zionism from its beginnings, you can see there are many #assessors behind it."
Hasher said it should be taken into consideration that before Zionism had come to Palestine, Jews, Moslems and Christians lived together with no problems.
Mohamed El-Hodi, professor of economics and advanced mathematics, said he didn't think the doctor and he didn't think the
"When Zionism came to Palestine and starting integrating Europe, Jews, it was a mess."
See ZIONISM page three
The same proposal came before university Council at the end of last school year. The proposal was rejected.
vice chancellor for academic affairs and University counsel.
All procedures and individual cases are to be held in confidence by the ombudsman unless otherwise authorized by a complainant.
He said that financial support would be possible, but that it probably would have to be a regularly budgeted position in the 1978 fiscal year budget.
Del Shanker, executive vice chancellor,
said Jacob Gordon, faculty, Council
member, and asked him if funds could be found for the ambudman position.
In other Council action, Joel Gold, faculty Council member, reported that financial exigency would be discussed Monday with the chancellor, executive vice chancellor,
When Dykes arrived at KU in 1973, the financial exigency matter was termed "urgent," Gold said. In May of this year, the University Senate passed a document outlining a financial exigency policy and increased the policy to Dykes for approval, he said.
He said committee members and the administrators would meet "in a kind of mock bargain session" to reach an appropriate compromise.
Gold said financial exigency committee members "feel we have been patient, patient, patient."
Dykes delivered the committee a 24-point response July 16, assuring the members in oral comments that only minor suggestions had been made, he said.
Gold said his committee would send the financial exigency policy back through the department.
Gold said, "The proposals seemed to me far more serious than minor difficulties. The committee felt that many points could not be compromised."
"I think it's desirable for us to have a policy statement so that it's clear what it is, how it happens and how we get out of it," Shankel said.
Shankel described financial exigency as a financial situation in which the University is in such desperate straits that it has to some tenured members of its faculty.
Financial exigency is to prepare for what might happen if a situation arises in the future where enrollment drastically falls or of following its present upward trend.
More news inside the Kansan
Graduate Student Council budget committee allocates $327 to graduate student groups. See page nine.
A Student Senate committee finds that the KUAC board has discriminated against a student, but no recommendation is made to cut Senate funding of KUAC. See *Brown v. State* (1972).