THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
83rd Year, No.141
Art Festival To Be Sunday
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, May 4, 1973
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Mail Ballot On SenEx Is Binding
By PETE RONSSE Kansan Staff Writer
A proposal to allow the entire Student Senate to select student members of the Senate Executive Committee was approved on the mail ballot, 195 to 17.
Although that total was four votes less than the 216 required for the senate to do business in regular session, the results of the vote were 1,100 senators had the opportunity to vote.
Gerhard Zuther, professor of English and preiding officer of the University Senate,
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"I've consistently opposed them (mail ballots)," he said. "I've foreseen that on most issues, relatively few participate in mail-ballot elections."
Zuther said that because all members of the University Senate received agendas in advance of the meetings, the mail ballot was not needed.
The mail ballot is needed only when members of organizations have not had time to consider all the issues or when the issues are extremely complicated, such as amendments to constitutions or bylaws, he said.
The use of the mail ballot to decide issues in the University Senate was approved last November. The week before the mail ballot was adjourned, it was time to adjourn because there was no quorum.
Since then, members have voted to use the mail ballot only once, to determine the winner.
Mert Buckley, Wichita junior and student body president, said he wished the mail
Kansas Staff Photo by CHRIS CANNELLA
He said senate processes were held up a year because no vote on the issue was taken at the April 3 meeting of the University Senate.
Student members of SonEx were elected the April 5 meeting of the University Council.
Relaxing
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Kansas State Photo by CHRIS CANNELLE
Thursday's graduation taking in a number of outdoor activities. Mary Jo Bugler, Mission freshmen, works at classes between classes to pot at Potter Lake.
With temperatures rising into the 70s on
Vote Set on Senate Budget
BY GEORGE STEWAR
Kansan Staff Writer
By GEORGE STEWART
A referendum to determine student approval or disapproval of the validity of allocations for organizations and school programs. An approved budget has been set for Tuesday.
This referendum was set by the senate Thursday night in response to a petition submitted to the senate by the Coalition of Concerned Student Organizations, a group of 12 campus organizations dissatisfied with the senate's allocations.
Before considering the referendum petition, the senate defeated a bill that required teachers to give students' opinions on increasing the activity fee by $1 for the fall and spring semesters and 25 cents for the summer session to establish the organizations belonging to the coalition.
Student Body President Mert Buckley, Wichita junior, said the bill was drafted Oldfather, professor of law and University of Kansas, who said the rules of the senate did not provide for a referendum. Buckley said oldfather's opinion merely a legal opinion, however, that would be a vote.
Buckley added that the bill calling for the opinion poll was worked out between members of the senate and members of the coalition.
KU Students Fight Ruling On Tenure
The bill failed by a vote of 28 to 22 with 2 senators abstaining.
In reference to the referendum, Buckley said he thought the senate was wasting its time because regardless of the outcome, the results would be declared invalid by the University administration. This was why he asked that the bill was submitted to the senate, he said.
The new policy is the basic 1972-73 policy with four changes, two involving the type of coverage offered and two administrative changes.
The two coverage changes are the extension of coverage for out-patient diagnostic laboratory and x-ray service to hospitals other than Watkins and the ex-
In other major action, the senate approved the student health insurance compaign.
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contract was awarded to Blue Cross & Blue Shield, which was the only company to be awarded.
Joyce Jones, assistant professor of occupational therapy, had just finished lecturing when she introduced Joane Wryrick, acting chairman of the occupational therapy department, said Ann Murgatroyd, Western Springs, III, senior.
Jones' students were "indignant" upon learning the news; Murgaroyd said They were shocked.
By JIM FREEMAN Kansan Staff Writer
North Viets Risking War, Nixon Warns
This fourth and strongest warning over claimed Communist violations of the Jan. 27 settlement came in Nixon's annual State of the World message to Congress.
"The first is to exploit the Vietnam agreement and press its objectives in Indochina. In this case it would continue to infiltrate men and material into South Vietnam, keep its forces in Laos and Cambodia and through pressure or outright attack renew its aggression against our friends," he said.
WASHINGTON (AP)—North Vietnam risks renewed war with the United States unless it lives up to the Vietnam cease-fire requirement and Laos, President Ngon said Thursday.
Vietnam was only one of the sections in Nixon's 232-page report. National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger in briefing them that they give the other sections attention:
This would mean total observance of the Vietnam settlement, including full accounting of missing American servicemen and civilians in Cambodia and Vietnamese troops from Laos and Cambodia.
He also indicated the chances of improved U.S. relations with the Soviet Union and China were threatened by what he called continued North Vietnamese aggression.
He indicated American tolerance had been tested to the breaking point and Hamiol
—The United States and the Soviet Union have taken the "essential first step in freeing" themselves from Cold War confrontation. This means, Nixon explained, that the obstacles are cleared for long-term, substantive agreements on limitation of nuclear trade, troops in Europe, and in efforts to end the Middle East conflict;
Efforts to improve relations with China should continue, even though Nixon realizes there will be frictions over ideology and views of history;
By picking this path, Nixon stated, Hanoi "would endanger the hard-won gains for peace in Indochina. It would risk revived confrontation with us."
-Western Europe has to realize its
"The second course is for North Vietnam to purse its objectives peacefully," he said.
This was the plainest language Nixon had used in dealing with North Vietnam since the war supposedly ended more than three months ago.
"Professor Jones left the room as Mrs. Wryrick began to speak." Murgatrod said. "Wyrick told the class that Jones had been denied tenure and that next year would be Jones' last year at the University of Kansas."
Students in the occupational therapy department, in which Jones specializes in.
If "North Vietnam chooses the peaceful option, the United States remains comfortable," Mr. Obama said in a statement.
frontation" that underlies American-Soviet relations.
"America's objective in the Middle East is still to help move the Arab-Iraeli dispute from confrontation to negotiation and then toward conditions of peace. " ." To achieve this state, Nixon stated, the United States will need to negotiate a neglected Arab-Iraeli settlement and for a recognition by Moscow of the need for restraint and the "avoidance of con-
This includes the U.S. economic aid he said was essential to a lasting peace.
The mark of Kissinger was evident all through the report, particularly in its theme of the independence of the various world problems and solutions.
This was most apparent in the relationship of a Vietnam settlement to a meaningful and lasting improvement of the nation, United States and the Communist powers.
"IIf the flames of conflict flare up again," Nixon wrote in his message, "there will be the danger of another war and a threat to our national relations among the major world nowers."
—The President personally will “underscore our deep interest in Latin America.”Nixon plans to make at least one visit to Latin America this year;
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In a radio broadcast made Thursday night to outline the report, President Nixon repeated his hard line determination concerning the fragile situation in Vietnam.
"We will not turn our back on our friends and allies when Hanoi makes a mockery of its promise to help keep the peace," Nixon said.
otherwise welcome drive for economic regionalism cannot be at the expense of the American trade position. Although Nixon said it was time to compromise the security of Europe or the interests of our allies," he said it was time to take action, members to stop debate and set one with us forward.
They began giving testimony in the afternoon. Erichlman testified first. Their lawyer, John Wilson, said neither would deny any protection against self-incrimination.
Ex-Aides Meet Jury For Bug Testimony
Haldeman, who had been Nixon's chief of staff, and Ehrlichman, Nixon's chief domestic adviser, spent the morning talking with chief prosecutor Earl Silbert;
Both men resigned from the White House staff Monday after news accounts and other sources linked them to an alleged coverup of a U.S. embassy attack, which has been tied to two other scandals as well, an alleged burglar in the Pentagon papers case and a Lebanese bank deal promoted by the group.
Wilson was asked by newsman if his clients feared they would be indicted.
"I don't know about that," he said. "But they have no fear of being convicted."
strichman testified for nearly four hours. Then Halideman, who had been waiting during that time, entered the grand jury room.
WASHINGTON (AP)—Presidential associates H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman began testifying before the Watergate grand jury Thursday. Their lawyer said they were confident of acquittal if indicted.
Erlichman said he answered questions "very fully." when asked whether he had
The ad, which criticized the newspaper's opposition to Nixon's mining of Haiphong harbor, purported to be the product of 14 citizens whose names appeared on it.
But the Federal Elections Office said the 14 had nothing to do with it. It told the Justice Department the ad was originated, produced and paid for by the Nixon campaign, an apparent violation of the campaign law.
It is the fifth apparent violation referred to the Justice Department. The campaign has paid an $8,000 fina on one violation, and an additional $16,000 charges punishable by up to $3,000 on another.
invoked the Fifth Amendment, he said, "Oh my no. Gracious no. I wouldn't take the Fifth Amendment under any circumstances."
Meanwhile former presidential adviser Charles Colson was accused by government auditors of handling, and probably editing, a phony advertisement placed by the Nixon campaign in the New York Times last May 17.
Meanwhile Thursday, reports, rumors and speculation mounted from many sides, saying that Elliott Richardson, named by the President to be attorney general, was about to select a special prosecutor to take over the case.
Richardson said only, "I have the whole question under deliberation."
Greek Veil Seems to Shelter Drug Users
Kansan Staff Writer
By PHIL McLAUGHLIN
When Gene awoke late one Saturday morning in the fall of 1970, he had the same shocking resemblance.
He had overtalked an early morning Kansas City connection with a suspected Mafia representative, where he had planned to buy many pounds of high quality marijuana for sale to fraternity brothers and other friends in Lawrence. They would be disappointed, but there would be other options. Dowe was easy to get and easy to sell.
Then, in February, Vern Miller landed on Lawrence with both feet.
With nearly 150 volunteer agents and officers, media representatives and several volunteers, Oread and Ohio streets area, even leaving a few footprints in Oliver Hall and Westside.
Gene escaped the first burst, but he unknowingly sold marijuana and hashish to an undercover agent on three occasions that March. When the second big bust came that summer, Gene was in Colorado. But officers came looking for him at the fraternity house where his girlfriend Bella brought him back from Colorado. He was convicted and is now on parole.
In this first of a series of large drug raids, the attorney general arrested approximately 49 persons for drug possession and sale.
HIS CASE IS UNUSUAL because he is one of only two known fraternity or sorority members living in a house who have been arrested on a drug charge. If there are more, they are not remembered by spokesmen for the Lawrence Police force, but the Kansas Bureau of investigation or the Kansas Bureau attorney general's office.
Jim Brooks, assistant dean of men in
charge of fraternities at the University of Kansas, an Interfraternity Council spokesman and several KU fraternity members couldn't recall one member of a fraternity ever being arrested on a drug charge.
To fraternal alumni and Kansas residents this may seem an indication that drugs may not have dramatically infiltrated the fraternity system and that the wave of drug use on campuses may be but a small ripple in course. But evidence indicates otherwise.
The magnitude of use varies from house to house, some reporting little interest in drugs, other more totally involved. Most houses have some rule against possession or use of drugs within the houses, although the rules vary depending on the penalties is less than stringent.
ACCORDING TO SOURCES in several fraternities, drug use in the houses is considerable and has been for the last three years.
Some sources say drug use in their houses has decreased recently, while others think it remains the same. From testing the fluctuating barometer of fraternity drug use in the UK, researchers have found that drugs exist and has existed in the KU fraternity system for at least three years.
THE FRATERNITY where Gene lived may or may not be typical of the other houses, but most of its members questioned whether this was representative of the whole system.
Martin was just a freshman when Vern staged his first big raid in the spring of 1971. During the two years he was in the house, he said, members used a variety of drugs, including "just about everything but smak."
"There were about 25 hard regular users in the house, and there were about two soft regular users."
marijana rather than ounces) in each class." Martin said.
A pledge brother of Martin's, Buf, agreed. "I'd say about two-thirds of the house we are regular at least," he said. "Most of the apartment areas, but a lot were doing acid regularly."
WHILE MOST of the fraternity members only used drugs, some also sold them, he said. He recalled some fraternity friends who had worked with him at Lawrence and sold it for a profit of $1,500.
Like Martin, he said that he had seen the spectrum of drugs use in his fraternity and
other houses, with the conspicuous exception of all opiates. None of the people interviewed had ever seen or heard of drugs lives in any fraternity or sorority house.
Another house member, Paul, said that he thought grass was the most prevalent narcotic died in the house. He said he had seen people with their bodies response like drinking beer in the houses because members smoke generally in such social circumstances as fraternity social events.
"Everyone loves downers to get high and
LIGHT OTHER KU FRATERNITIES, this one has a system of punitive sanctions for those caught with drugs in the house. Urged to action by the alumni-Control House Corporation in 1971, the house officers instituted a $50 fee for a first offense of possession and the policy of calling parents upon failure to pay or any second offense.
speech to study." Gene said. "They don't have to drink or to keep water taken, and their costs are very high."
According to Kurt, one of Gene's pledge brothers, several people have been caught.
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Job Discrimination Still Practiced In Lawrence, According to Blacks
By CHUCK POTTER
Kansan Staff Writer
In April 1970, Lawrence High School became the starting point for a chain of events destined to expose the smouldering resentment of whites by Lawrence blacks.
A group of LHS black students submitted a list of demands to the Lawrence School Board. The blacks wanted a black cheerleader, black counselors and more black teachers and administrators. The school board rejected the demands.
The series of disturbances, fires and shootings that followed brought Lawrence to the sudden realization that it, like many other civilizations in the 1970s, had racial problems.
Since the events of the spring and summer of 1970, when fire caused more than $1 million damage to the Kansas Union and two persons died as a result of shootings,
On the surface, it appeared that progress was being made and that Lawrence was moving out of the stage where racial violence was a constant threat.
"It's obvious the situation isn't as tense as it has been," said Joan Spearman, a former
efforts have been made to destroy Lawrence's reputation as a town resistant to change and slow to provide equal opportunities to blacks.
In the three years since the 1970 riots, has the relationship between blacks and whites in Lawrence really improved? Or have it really about blacks now that thinns have muted?
The Police Community Relations Program was started in December 1970, and the Human Relations Commission in 1972 defined its goals to become directed more toward helping racial minority groups.
things by components of the power structure I'm associated with, but whether they've been effective, I don't know," he said. "I'm sure I've made a great prove much in two or three years, do you?"
member of the Lawrence School Board,
before the recent school board election,
and then the governor.
Spearman earned the sentiments of several black interviews recently. While most blacks were willing to admit that they are poor, many did not employ opportunities for local blacks.
"Economic advancement (for blacks) is necessary first at this point." Spearman
Carl Johnson, assistant human resources director, agreed.
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