THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
83rd Year, No. 129
Cliburn Enchants Audience See Story Page 7
Wednesday, April 18, 1973
See Story Page 7
By ALAN HURLBUT
Kancan Staff Writer
Paul Revere And Ride Called A Lie
Disillusioned
Dear Sirs: Today is the 189th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride. Don't you think it's about time you told the truth before real truth about Mr. Revere's escapade?
TERRIFIC IDEA, Dizzy! Then next week we'll follow it up with a story on how cigarette smoking can be hazardous, or an expire of the Easter Bunny.
The present vicar of Boston's Old North Church, the Rev. Robert B. Golgele, replied, "It's no news to me that Longfellow's ball is full of holes."
Historian Richard O'Donnell wrote in this month's issue of the Smithsonian that Revere never saw the lanterns and never touched it. He thought Concord to warm the Minuteur.
Don't get us wrong, Dizzy. We're not above a little muckraking, but an inside story on Paul Revere's ride is not exactly a scoop on the Pentagon Papers. We can't back you try to rake 200 years old, you usually end up with nothing but blisters.
Incidentally, be sure to read next December's Smithsonian, O'Donnell is going to prove historically that Mary Woolnough had first class at the Bethlehem Hilton.
This whole business about Reverce's ride reminds us of the Battle of Bennington on Aug. 6, 1777. Historians tell us that just before attacking the Hesifen, John Stark told his militiamen, "We go to beat them if it kills me."
A historical plaque at the Vermont battle site quotes the colonel as saying, "Tonight the American flag floats from beds in molly or Molly Stark sleeps a widow."
Maybe he didn't say it that way,but he should have.
The point we're trying to make, Dizzy, is that we live in a world permeated with hard, cold facts. Good soulish patriotic stories are too sparse to be chucked aside for the sake of mere accuracy.
At least Paul Revere was out riding somewhere to warn somebody about something. He could have stayed nice and comfy back in Boston, telling the local pub how he would be the first to go if it got down to the nity-ritty.
P. S. If you want to hear a jucity bit of history, go over to the history department and ask about Washington's crossing the Delaware. Maybe you can explain it to tell you how George really got those petticos to muffle the oars with.
Nixon Staff to Testify In Watergate Inquiry
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Nixon said Tuesday that his aides would appear before the Senate committee investigating the Watergate affair and answer fully all the questions. The aides would reserve the right to ask further questions, and remain silent on some specific inquiries.
The President dropped his longstanding insistence that no administration officials were involved in the wristtapping case. He said he had an agreement with any federal employee indicted in the case.
The investigating committee has insisted, over Nixon's objections, that any White House aides summoned must give sworn testimony in public hearings.
"I can report today that there have been major developments in the case. It would be
Nixon said there had been major developments pointing toward the truth in the Watergate affair. He disclosed no details.
IN A THREE-MINUTE statement at the White House, Nikon said he ordered an intensive new investigation into the raid on the building where the attackers took place 17, because of serious charges in March.
improper to be more specific now, except to say that the level program has been made in accordance with the standards.
In recent weeks Dean himself, and others, have been implicated in hearay testimony reportedly given in secret by James McCord, one of seven men convicted in last year's breakin and bugging of Democratic offices in the Watergate building.
The President said he ordered the second administration investigation on March 21 because of serious charges which came to light, some of which were publicly reported.
THE FIRST WHITE House study was conducted by Nixon's official lawyer, John Dean III. Last Aug. 29 Nixon said Dean's investigation indicated that nobody at that time on the White House staff or in the administration was involved.
He answered no questions.
The President didn't explain the significance of the March 21 date. Two days later, McCord, appearing for sentencing on his conviction, handed Chief U.S. Diat. Robert Mueller over to the judge and said he knew of others involved in the case who hadn't been caught, that perjury had
SINCE THEN McCORD has testified in secret before the Senate investigating committee and before a federal gr jury. Reliable sources have quoted McCord as saying G. Gordon Lidy, a Nixon campaign official also convicted in the case, had told the judge he was an Atty. Gordon Mitchell and Jeb Magruder, who was second in command at the Nixon campaign, helped plan bugging and other related operations.
Demails have been issued all around, ladies have been tested to testify, and no sub-committee has been appointed.
been committed during the trial, and that political pressure was applied to silence
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2 Shot at Wounded Knee
Republicans Offer to Pay In Watergate
WOUNDED KNEE, S.D. (AP)-Two members of the Indian force held Wounded Knee were wounded Tuesday when heavy gunfire erupted between
Funding Suit Filed Against Senate
By GEORGE STEWART Kansan Staff Writer
A suit charging the Student Senate with misappropriation and mismanagement of student funds in University Judiciary. The suit was filed for Martin Waller, Ottawa graduate student, John Grayson, Overland Park senior and Joshua H. Kartei KU Karate Club, and the KU Karate Club.
prevent further distribution of funds from the budget for fiscal 1973.
The suit seeks a Judiciary order requiring the Student Senate to fulfill its allocation, commitments and agreements with Weller, committees and members of the Senate to seek an injunction against the senate to
This injunction would continue until all corporations, organizations and associations, including the Senate itself, complied with the financial accountability required by the Student Code and Kansas statute.
The suit also requests that the Judicary enjoin the senate from the distribution of funds to non student controlled institutions and to associations for use of top students.
An additional relief sought in the suit is the issuance of an injunction to prohibit the
use of any fees other than those allocated to the Daily Kansan and the University of Kansas Athletic Association until the deadline, submitted to a vote of the student body.
Harold Matney, Ottawa third-year law student and counsel for the plaintiffs, said 12 charges were listed in the petition submitted to the Judiciary. He said the charges were developed after a study of the fund allocations for the past three fiscal years.
The suit charges the Student Senate with:
- Funding of organizations which have discriminatory membership requirements;
-Conduct Senate business without a quorum and failure to provide the senators a hearing
-Discuss
- Failure to maintain financial accountability of activities fees;
funding for the busier process.
- Violation of the fiscal 1974 budget established for the fiscal 1974 budget.
The bill also would provide for use of the state's powers to condemn the property if deemed inappropriate.
-Violation of the senate rules and regulations concerning the budget process;
Building Veto Soundly Overridden
The New England Building in downtown Topeka is a proposed site for legislative office.
A short time earlier, by the narrowest possible margin, the Senate overrode. 27-13.
- Allocation of funds for purposes other than the support of appropriated student activities
TOPEKA (AP) - The Kansas Legislature handed Gov. Robert Docking a sharp rebuff Tuesday, overriding his latest veto in the bill. Building case by overwhelming votes.
The one-sided votes passed a bill that would provide for appointment of appraisers to establish a maximum price for English Building and related properties.
The House voted 119-0 to override the governor's veto. In the Senate the vote was 35-27.
the original New England bill, authorizing issuance of up to $1.3 million in revenue bonds to finance purchase and renovation of buildings Building and several nearby parking lots.
But the special committee criticized the actions of Tom Van Cleave, legislative chairman, for continuing to spread unsubstantiated rumors about the proposed transaction.
The special legislative committee which conducted an investigation of the facts reported by the state to purchase reported Tuesday if it found proprieties by legislators or anyone connected with the New England Building, or a space to the state, or state agency heads.
Docking's veto of the earlier bill called for an investigation by the legislature into the killing of Mr. Gates.
In his latest veto Docking said the bill did not make it clear when appraisers were to be appointed; that an advisory committee of legislators would determine the appraisers to be appointed, infringing upon the separation of powers of the branches of government; that there is no provision for any inquiry about the availability or desirability of any property other than the property provided for condensation does not include a finding that it must be in the public interest to condemn the property.
Docking said also that the exact price to be paid by the state should be submitted to the legislature for its approval or disapproval.
- Unlawful disposal of funds through contracts with private corporation and loss of interest in the sale
Both branches of the legislature acted Tuesday in overriding the governor's veto to lift a measure.
- Failure to provide required annual computations and reports of public money spent and public property distributed to corporations, associations and organizations;
see BUILDING Page 6
-The arbitrary application of required guidelines in the allocation of funds for all organizations and groups in fiscal year 1973;
The arbitrary application of the regulations concerning the fiscal 1974 budget.
The withdrawal of funds allocated to the KU Karate Club; and
- The denial of funds to Waller after he had acted in full reliance on a senate agreement to reimburse him for a University related trip.
Matney said an investigation of senate records indicated that $241,000 had been allocated in direct violation of the rules and records adopted by the Senate on March 1, 1972.
He said the charge involving the Karate Club was the result of the failure of the
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Patience Needed, Chalmers Says
BY BILL GIBSON
Kansan Staff Writer
Infinite patience is what Archy Dykes will need as a challenger of the University of Kansas, according to a veteran of the academic wars, E. Laurence Chalmers Jr.
By BILL GIBSON
Kansas State WI
Chalmers said Tuesday that although he did not know Dykes he hoped that Dykes will an easier time than he did in resolving the university's internal and external frictions.
Chalmers, the embattled 11th KU chancellor, steered the University through its most difficult course, 1969-1972, and left with a lot of tight funding, public suspicion and much more problems. He is now completing his first year as President of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Chalmers predicted that the new chan-
ne problems would be less explosive but
equally more difficult.
"It is my hope that the relative quiet of
"But the problem is not peculiar to Kansas," he said. "Isolation is the general rule for public universities. I felt isolated from the state when I was at Florida State University. It always be a discrepancy between the attitude of the school and the average citizen.
the campaigns will mean that the crisis type of problems such as arson, bombings and demonstrations are a thing of the past," he said.
"But I still think the big problems that public universities face, such as educating people in an atmosphere of declining state support, are just as challenging as ever."
Chalmers said that the isolation of the university might be reduced through stricter requirements.
"This is the challenge of the university which must not only educate but encourage scholarship, which is never popular in the citizen's mind."
The former chancellor recommended
He further recommended a zero-based budget, which differs from the request- allocation budget by formalizing the budget. At university, thus insuring that he be met.
further exploration of the college-within-a-college program. He said that he had not met
*'I think there needs to be an evaluation and a specific criterion set-up for allocation*
*'I want to do this better.*
"It takes a while to learn the capabilities of your new colleagues and to relate to new audiences," he said. "You have to learn the prevailing mode of operation in the area; the various committees, agencies and officials that you have to go through."
An administrator's transition to a new university is not difficult but takes time, he
Chalmers said that he was grateful to be at the Art Institute of Chicago which is well known for its art exhibitions.
have to appeal to the state assembly. The Institute's smaller size makes it more
"Here I can plan ahead literally two, five, even ten years into the future," he said. "I'm afraid that at KU every grass fire that linted must be dealt with right away."
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Nixon's campaign committee has offered to pay damages to the Democratic party to settle lawsuits over the Watergate raid, Democratic National Chairman Robert Strauss said Tuesday night.
Despite its pressures, administrative work gives vicarious satisfaction. Chalmer's issues are often related to
"The problem is that you are removed by two or three layers from the actual education that is going on. But it gives me a vicarious pleasure to facilitate that work."
Chalmers said that he was chancellor of kU in a serious transition period from the range of 1980-90.
Democrats had sued for $6.4 million, and officials of the Nixon campaign had counter-sued for a total of $7.5 million. The Committee for the Re-election of the President reportedly has offered to pay $255,000 and to drop its own suits.
"It would be inappropriate and unwise to give my last impressions of KU," he said, but had better not be any. The university shall be ever changed to meet new challenges."
militants in the village and federal officers surrounding them, a federal spokesman
Asst. U.S. Atty. Gen. Stanley Pottinger said there was about a 90-minute exchange of heavy gunfire Tuesday morning, followed by panicatic exchanges through the afternoon.
It was the first announced violation of a cease-fire that has been in effect for three weeks at the village, held by American Indian Movement members for seven weeks. However, government sources said they had no information on gunfire from the village almost every night.
Pottinger was he aware of two reported casualties one of them a serious blunder.
He said Indians brought the man to a federal roadblock. He was taken by helicopter from there to a hospital at nearby hospital, then flown to a Rapid City hospital.
Strauss said serious discussions about an out-of-court settlement had been going on for months, and that "it has become intense in the past several weeks."
"We won't settle it until we see what goes on in the public inquiry and are sure that our settlement does not diminish the scope of that inquiry," he said.
During the pre-trial maneuvering in the case, former Atty. Gen. John Mitchell and former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, gave sworn testimony about last year's Watergate burglary, as did some other GOP officials.
TOPEKA (AP) - Gov. Robert Docking finished signing test all bills to sent him by the legislature before the close of the regular 90-day session April 7.
Included were such major measures as indefinite extension of the tax lid, state takeover of welfare, penal reform, two-state integration and increased state aid to junior colleges.
In an appropriations bill for state colleges and universities, $23.44 million was allocated to the University of Kansas and $19 million was allocated for the KU Medical Center.
THE GOVERNOR also revealed he signed a bill authorizing construction of two segments of the proposed "Northwest Passage" turnpike in south-central Kansas on Tuesday, and asked the state to approve a turned pile from Winfield to Galena along the state's southern border.
Docking said he was allowing a bill to reapportion the Kansas House of Representatives to become law without his signature.
Docking Signs Last Of Bills Approved By Regular Session
Among the last batch of 26 bills announced as signed were those reorganizing the Kansas Consumer Protection Act and the Uniform Consumer Credit Code and increasing by 50 per cent the state's support of community junior colleges.
Also included in the final bunch or one were some major appropriations bills, including the one which provides operating funds for the state's colleges and universities and another for state hospitals for fiscal 1974.
Earlier Tuesday Docking said he had signed the bills extending the tax lid indefinitely and providing for state adoptions. The bill passed with 75% of the vote said the tax bill had been emasculated.
THE APPROPRIATIONS for operating expenses of the colleges and universities
Kansas State University, $26.64 million; KU's, $2.44 million; Wichita State, $12.11 million; Emporia State, $7.66 million; Pittsburg State, $6.26 million; Fort Hays State, $5.17 million, and the KU Medical Center's $14.09 million.
The penal reform bill revamps the state penal institutions and the state probation and parole board into a new department of corrections under a secretary of corrections. The parole board's duties are incorporated in a new Kansas adult authority.
The bill, termed the most sweeping revision of the state's penal system in over 40 years, will be passed.
See DOCKING Page 3
Applications Due Today
Applications for the positions of Kansan editor and business manager for the fall semester are due at noon today in 105 Flint Hall. Applications should be turned in to Dana Leibenstein, dean dean of the School of Journalism.
The fall editor and business manager will be selected on Thursday after interviews with the Kanan Board. Applicants will complete the time and place of their interviews.
The deadline for applications for the summer Kansan editor and business manager positions is noon April 25. The summer selections will be made April 26 after interviews with the Kansan Board.
Application forms may be picked up in the Student Senate office, the dean of men's office, the dean of women's office and 105 Flint Hall.