THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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KANSAN
WEDNESDAY JULY 11,1973
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE,KANSAS
Wallace Pushes Transit System To Combine Road, Rail, Pipes
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Gov. George Wallace endorsed Tuesday the idea of a giant transport corridor and also said the federal government should turn loose highway construction funds. Six states—Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas and Missouri—are involved in the planning. They hope that the federal government will appeal to congress over years to complete. The corridor would include a four-lane highway, railroad track, pipeline, compressed air tube for cargo and other items.
Bahamas Get Freedom Symbols
NASSAU, Bahamas—Speaking on the Bahamas' first day as an independent state, Prime Minister Lynden Dindling said his nation would follow "the concepts of Christianity, democracy and the rule of law" in its development. But he added that country, Dindling received the constitutional instruments symbolizing freedom from three centuries of colonial rule from Britain's Prince Charles. An estimated 6,000 Bahamians and representatives of 52 nations cheered and applauded as Dindling, 43, a black, met Tuesday at Charles, the son of Queen Elizabeth II and he to the British crown.
Portugal Denies Slaving Report
LISBON—The government said reports of a massacre by Portuguese troops in the African territory of Mozambique "are absolutely untrue." An Information Ministry spokesman said his comment could be taken as an official denial of accounts in The Times of London and the women's women, men and children in the tiny village of Wiriyamu. "We cannot even locate the village of Wiriyamu," the spokesman said.
Shops Open in Uruguayan Capital
MONTEVIDEO, Urugua - Buses have returned to the streets of this strike-torn city and most shops have opened in defiance of orders by underground union leaders for a total shut-down. But many facets of the city remain unchanged; those who are donging arrest, ordered the general strike 14 days ago to protest President Juan Bordoray's dissolution of Congress and assumption of emergency dictatorial powers. They issued the new call to government demonstrators of the strike after thousands of antigovernment demonstrators fought a pitched battle Monday night with police and soldiers.
China Savs Wheat Crop Good
TOKYO—China reports that despite drought and hail, production in three important wheat-producing areas is roughly 10 per cent better than in 1972. The Chinese are recovering from a 240-million ton 1972 crop, down 10 per cent from 1971. To help meet their food needs, they bought about $88 million worth of U.S. agricultural products last year, mostly grain and soybean oil.
Congressmen Support Pipeline
WASHINGTON—Six members of the House Interior Committee, including one who said he had doubts about it before, say a first hand look at the Alaska pipeline route has left them convinced it should be approved in some form. The congressmen returned Monday from a four-day trip to Alaska during which they flew over the proposed route from Prudhode Bay on the Arctic Ocean to Valdez on the Gulf of Alaska. Young said it was an official Interior Committee trip at government expense.
Kansas Wheat Crop Rises 21%
TOPEKA-The 1973 Kansas wheat crop has been estimated at a record 381 million bushels, 21 per cent greater than last year's record crop. There was no change in the indicated record average yield of 37 bushels an acre. The previous high was 34.5 bushels in 1971. The change in the indicated acreage boosted the estimated total production ahead of last month's figure by 7 million bushels.
Youths Told to Support Nixon
ATLANTA—The nation's Young Republicans have been urged to take a formal stand supporting President Nixon in the Watergate controversy. The appeal came from Don Sundquist of Memphis, Tenn., national chairman of the organization, as more than 1,000 Young Republicans gathered for the start of their national convention. Four resolutions dealing with Watergate are before a convention committee. All express support for Nixon, but they call for different measures to counteract the effects of Watergate.
Divers Find Sunken Galleons
KEY WEST, Fla. — A treasure hunter has found the remains of two Spanish galleons thatank in 1622 with more than $600 million in gold, silver and jewels aboard. Mel Fisher displayed silver bars, gold and coins and piles of jewelry and artifacts he said were taken from the wreck of a ship on the Gulf of Mexico that his divers are working both galleons, their treasure mingled with storms and currents that swept the area in the last three centuries.
Only a Shade Cooler Today
The weather prophets say there is more hot, humid weather in store for us in the next two days. There are no signs of thunderstorms today and we should cloudy. The high temperature today is expected to be in the 90s.
Mitchell Kept Nixon in Dark On Scandal
WASHINGTON (AP)—John Mitchell testified Tuesday he kept what he knew about Watergate and its coverup from President Nixon because he feared his friend and former boss would take actions damaging to his own re-election campaign.
The former attorney general also denied much of previous sworn testimony before him on the charges, particularly the key charge that he personally approved the wiretapping of Democratic party headquarters. In fact, he said, he had vetoed all political espionage proposals.
Mitchell's deputy campaign chief Jeb Stuart Magruder has told the Watergate committee that Mitchler approved the break-in at a March 30, 1972, meeting in Key Biscayne, Fla. Tuesday, Magruder told newsmen he stood by his testimony.
MITCHELL CONCEDED HE cooperated in some of the subsequent cover-up to keep the lid on what he called "White House
He defended two previous statements he made under oath.
In a Watergate civil suit last Sept. 5, Mitchell said he had heard nothing about surveillance of Democratic party headquarters while he was campaign director. But Tuesday he said there were such discussions. The question, Mitchell
John Can't Explain Martha's Absence
WASHINGTON (AP)—John Mitchell's voluble wife, Martha, was not in the crowded Senate caucus room Tuesday when the former attorney general testified before a hearing of the U.S. House reporters, "She decided to stay away. I don't know why. You'll have to ask her."
insisted, was put in a narrow context in September dealing with the security group at the Committee for the Re-election of the President.
HE SAID HE had not been asked the right question.
And when he testified at a Judiciary Committee hearing March 14, 1972, that he had no re-election responsibilities while still attorney general, Mitchell said he was a Republican in the American Party responsibilities, not to his re-elections in behalf of Nixon's re-elevations.
"It seems to me that this committee has spent about six weeks trying to make a distinction between the re-election parties and the Committee for the Re-election of the President and I look upon it in the same light" told Sen. Herman Talmadge, D-Ga.
Q. No election campaign responsibilities?
I ask you who was running? It was Mr.
Kerry.
A. My answer to both those questions is yes.
Q. I concur with that. You testified a moment ago you did have election responsibilities, yet before the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate, March 14, 1972, you testified exactly the opposite.
A. I go back to the statement I made that this refers to the Republican Party.
Mitchell said that despite frequent conversations with him, he never told him that the woman was up against him.
"You have been probably more closely associated with the President than possibly any other man," Talmadge said. "Why on earth do you think President's office and tell him the truth?"
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Kansas Stan Photo by PRIS BRANSTED
John, No. 1 spectator, decides to go all the way up to watch the baseball game from where he'll feel a bit taller.
Nice Guys May Finish/
By KATHY HODAK
Kensan Staff Writer
Nationwide, the bane of correspondence course administers is procrastination. Most correspondence students procrastinate so long, in fact, that they never finish.
The correspondence-course completion rate at the University of Kansas is no exception, but at 47 per cent, it is relatively high when compared to the national average of 32 per cent completion, according to Wallace Clark, assistant director of KU's Extramural Independent Study Center.
The center is a department of KU's Division of Continuing Education. Its main function is to develop and implement credit programs for employees in the credit. A no-credit option is also available.
THE CENTER HAS BEEN serving Kansas since 1966 when the Board of Regents made KU the sole agency charged with coordinating independent study
But Correspondence Courses Usually Stay Incomplete
materials for the statewide extension academic organization.
Courses from other state schools have been integrated into Center offerings, and who are from another school sometimes approach the center at KU, Clark said. But the majority of independent study courses have been developed and staffed by KU
Clark attributes the high completion rate at the Center to Student Services. Directed by Vivian McCoy, Student Services provides professional guidance to students in an enrollment. It is one of the nation's few counseling centers for correspondence students.
Other factors contributing to a high completion rate, Clark said, include attractive course materials and content, good instructors and instructor accountability.
SALLY BRUCE, editor of instructional materials, said instructors of corpse-ron
dence courses were encouraged to write comments on student assignments.
"If we discover that an instructor is not taking the time to inform the student about what he's done or hasn't done, then we ask him to change his methods or cease to instruct the course. I'm sure this has an effect on the completion rate."
"We find that most instructors are commenting," she said. "When they don't, this is probably one of the biggest deterrents to motivation that I can think of."
Bruce said most non-computers were students who never really got started.
"WHY THEY NEVER get started is one of the things people around here are very interested in," Bruce said, "but it is one of the hardest things to analyze. Is he in charge of his class lesson? Can't he get his books? Because we did not hear from him, we never know."
At the end of May, there were $3,144 course registrations, according to the May report.
about 59 per cent of those enrolled were KU students.
Most schools of the University allow a student to apply a maximum of 30 hours of independent study through correspondence toward his degree. No more than 10 of the last 60 hours nor six of the last 30 hours of his work may be included.
VEDA GIBSON, assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said a student must have a grade point average of at least a C to get the dean's approval to apply credit from an independent study course toward his degree.
Students may enroll in a course at any time during the year. They then have 12 months to complete it. One extension of six months will cost $3 fee is paid prior to the exoration date.
Kansas residents pay $12 for each semester hour of college credit; non-residents pay $14. If a student wishes to drop a course within six weeks from the
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Cost Council Plans Broad Probe Of Oil Industry Price Increases
By R. GREGORY NOKES Associated Press Writers
WASHINGTON - The Cost of Living Council on Tuesday announced a nationwide
ALBERT GERKEN, University Carillonneur, will give a carillon recital at 8 tonight.
THE SWIMMING POOL will be open for recreational swimming for summer session students, faculty and staff members from 7 to 9 tonight at Robinson Gymnasium. The pool will be open for faculty swimming from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
investigation of the petroleum industry, from the refinery to the gas pump, to determine whether prices have been increased illegally.
James W. McLane, deputy council director, said price rollbacks would be ordered where violations of the government's price freeze were found.
He said that significant violations already had been found in the Atlanta area.
One violation the investigators will watch for, he said, is a reduction of the octane rating of gasoline without a corresponding decrease in price.
McLane also said that the new, Phase 4 anti-inflation program would not be able to stop an increase in food prices in the next six months. But, he said, the rated increase should be much less than the 22 per cent corded in the first six months of the year.
HE SAID that supplies of food items, such as fruits and vegetables and chickens and hogs, had not developed according to his expectations. Given a heavy foreign demand for U.S. agricultural goods, rises in food prices are inevitable, he said.
Administration sources said announcements of some details of the Phase 4 program, which will follow the freeze, may be announced.
Gary L. Severs, a member-designate of the Council of Economic Advisers, told a Senate committee that it was reasonable to forecast that the current price freeze would be lifted in stages, beginning with areas that had suffered most from the freeze.
President Nixon discussed economic policy with Republican congressional leaders Tuesday and scheduled a meeting with him to deal with the proposed Phase 4 program.
McLANE SAID that the Cost of Living Council would strive in its petroleum industry audit to identifying and eliminating black-market activities.
The survey will last for five or six weeks and will be carried out for the Council by Internal Revenue Service agents in 29 districts across the country.
It will start at the retail level and work back to producers, and will include refiners, carpenters, and builders.
A council spokesman said that another purpose of the audit was to check on the extent of the gasoline shortage and whether it was as extensive as recorded.
WATCHING THE BOSS is KU's new athletic director, Clyde Walker, as Charleterie Archie Dykes announces that he has named to the post. (See Story, Page 5.4.)