W MADE IN BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA
It was April weather,
And thou and I,
We knew not whether
To laugh or weep,
Be sad or gay.
from "April Weather," 1857,
by James H. Rogers
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Cooper Entertains Press Conference
83rd Year. No.128
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Tuesday, April 17, 1973
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Author Is Not Like Writer, Sontag Says
By JEANNE SMITH
Kansan Staff Writer
Literary critic Susan Songt drew a distinction between the meaning of *writer* and "author" Monday night when she wrote in 2013, this year's Humanities Lecture Series.
Somgan said that she thought the definition of author tied in with the particular way a word is used. For example, *barnacle*
"For most people," she said, "to know a body of work is, by definition, to know the author or the person behind it—the person of the author, the history of the author, the life of the author, the stories of the author, the love life of the author, the political opinions of the author."
Sontag said that the author's own personality and life was viewed as part of his work. All information about the author was provided by the reader in "deciphering" the work.
She said that modern capitalist emphasis on production was a part of the definition of "author" in that an author was viewed as a body of work that contained his personal style.
On the other hand, a "writer" was viewed, according to Sontag, as someone who wrote about something. The subject assumed more importance than the writer himself or that the writer's style or perceptions of the writer" was less important than what he wrote about, the "author" was more important than the subject matter.
Before the beginning of the Modern Era about a hundred years ago, a book was thought of as a "free standing object," that is, a work that is particularly concerned with whether the
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Kansan Photo by DON PFANNENSTIEF
Visiting Literary Critic Susan Sontag
Speaks informally in Kansas Union Monday morning.
B52s Hammer Laos As Fighting Flares
By the Associated Press
Pentagon spokesman Jerry Friedheim said the bombing was in response to a major
Vietnamese and Communist Patrice Lao forces over a town in Laos Monday, prompting the Pentagon to order U.S. forces to move country for the first time in six weeks.
Friedheim said Communist forces led by tanks and supported by heavy artillery had rumbled through and taken control of Thailla before the Allied Plaine De Jares region in central Laos.
DISPATCHES from Laos reported a heavy outbreak of fighting on the strategic Plain of Jars. A combined force of Patheu Lao and North Vietnamese overran three government positions, the Defense Ministry, Vuong Dinh said.
"There has been a considerable fire fight there for a couple of days," Friedheim said of the battle between Communist forces and Royal Loyal troops for control of the town.
In Washington, Pentagon sources reported U.S. warplanes had launched air attacks on the positions taken over by the Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese forces
The informants said B52 bombers and F111 fighter-bombers struck near The Valley American air strikes in Laos were halted by a cease-fire, and the conflict agreed to a cease-fire on Feb. 23.
PENTAGON OFFICIALS would disclose neither the number of sorts nor how long each sort was processed.
But one source said the presence of the tanks and heavy weapons was the primary reason why American bombers were ordered in for the first time since Feb. 23.
American warplanes are also being used
High School Principal to Be Chosen
By MARGIE COOK
BY MARGHE COOK
Kansan Staff Writer
William Bradley, president of the board,
reminded those attending Monday night's
board meeting of the special meeting this
Wednesday.
The next principal at Lawrence High School is expected to be decided Wednesday at a meeting of the Board of Education of Lawrence School District 497. The meeting will be at 8 p.m. in the school administration center.
The administration has interviewed candidates since last fall, when William Medley announced his resignation as principal to take a position in Wilmington, Del. Max Rifle has been acting principal since Medley left in January.
Carl Knox, superintendent of the Lawrence school district, said that two candidates for the school board has the choice of making a mission or requesting additional candidates.
AT MONDAY NIGHT'S meeting, Ken Fisher, assistant superintendent of business and facilities, spoke on the status of school finance. He presented to the board his tentative plans for applying to the State Board of Tax Appeals to continue transportation, vocational education and special education in the district at their present location.
Appeals of this kind cannot be made until June 1, 1973, and until the decision of the appeals board is known, final decisions on next year's school budget cannot be made.
"If all the appeals are approved, we will have a much better financial situation than we would have had under the present tax lid. I will have had to, I guess, our guiding word is patience."
Under the old district financing plan, 25
per cent came from the state, 36.37 mills (the
mills assessed valuation) from city property tax and 10 mills from the county foundation key.
THE NEW FINANCE plan, called the power of equalization plan, calls for the total costs of all Kansas public education, including school supplies, to be supported 50 per cent by state funds.
"This means the poorer school districts in Kansas will receive larger amounts of state aid while some of the very so-called aid will receive no state aid at all," Fisher said.
"The poorer districts will be able to increase their general fund by as much as 15
per cent per year until they catch up to the median cost of educating a student in
Fisher said the average cost for a student in the larger districts in Kansas was estimated at $738. The Lawrence district's estimated cost per student is $752.
Because Lawrence's cost per student is above average, the district is limited to 5 a per cent annual general fund increase. Kansas' 311 school districts will be able to at least raise their general funds by 5 per cent a year.
KENNETH ANDERSON, board member and professor of education at the University of Kansas, said he thought this would have districts monetary but not in quality.
Under the new finance plan, transportation, special education and vocational education can be maintained in two ways. Fisher said. Either a school district can transfer the needed money from the 5 per cent increase in the general fund, or a district can appeal to the State Board of Tax Appeals.
"If we were to transfer all of the money, we would maintain the three funds from one 5 per cent bank to another."
The Lawrence district now transports more students than the state's minimum requirement. The state requires that students who live more than two and one half miles from their school be provided transportation.
have very little money," Fisher said. "We could only maintain our present 1972-73 budget."
Fisher said that to maintain the district's additional service approximately a three-quarter mill levy to secure about $90 thousand would be presented.
TO MAINTAIN present programs, a $122 thousand budget lid increase for special education and a $10 thousand budget will be presented. Education will be presented, Fisher said.
If the appeals are approved, they will become part of the school district's base budget that will be increased 5 per cent yearly.
in Cambodia where enemy troops are closing in on Phnom Penh.
Sharp fighting was reported inside Cambodia between government troops and Communist command forces east of Phnom Penh. Thirty-two Cambodian soldiers, including three high-ranking officers, were reported killed.
South Vietnamese armored vehicles and helicopters swep back and forth across the river.
ABOUT 25 South Vietnamese armored vehicles wheeled across the South Vietnamese border near Tinh Binh into Cambodia in response to reports that a Communist division had moved into a nearby cluster of hills.
commands South Vietnamese forces in four border provinces.
He gave no explanation for the ban on newsmen, except to say that it had "come under his control."
Despite witnesses' accounts to the contrary, some local commanders and Saigon command spokesman deny their forces had been present. The border was later sealed off to newsmen.
Ninh reported his troops had captured and interrogated a North Vietnamese soldier. He said that elements of Hanoi's 1st Division had moved into the hills just inside Cambodia.
SEVERAL VILLAGES at the foot of the hills have been burned and hundreds of Cambodian refugees have fled into South Vietnam.
Under the terms of the cease-争
e agreement, the United States, South
Vietnam, the Viet Cong and North Vietnam
are to end all military operations in
Cambodia and Laos and withdraw troops from both countries.
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A cease-fire went into effect in Laos on Feb. 22 but there has been no truce agreement in Cambodia, where heavy fighting continues.
"We are conducting a screening operation," said Col. Hoang Duc Ninh, who
Nixon Gets Extension Of Economic Powers
WASHINGTON (AP)—The House voted 215 to 114 in favor of a one-year extension of President Nixon's economic powers proposal and will proposals for price freezes or rollbacks.
The House action, following passage of a similar bill by the Senate, gave Nixon a trumping triumph in his confrontation with the Republican Congress on the cost of living issue.
Some Democrats ruefully noted this during the debate.
The possibility remained that when the bill is finally enacted, after a House-Senate conference, it will contain a mandatory rent increase. The Senate bill was a limited provision.
In a related development, administration officials said that Nixon was considering wage-price controls and that a decision may come this week.
Sources said Nixon is weighing options ranging from a freeze to tightening of the present largely voluntary controls or allowing to a free market system free of control.
Nixon and the practically solid House Republicans held out for a one-year extension of the President's discretionary rule, which expire April 30, with no strings tied.
The House bill comes close to this one-year extension. One amendment adopted provides that when wage control actions result in a reduction in actual pay or in neglected settlements, a public hearing must be provided.
Funds Reduced for Five Groups
Projected lower enrollments could cause financial difficulties for the five activities funded on the basis of a fixed amount per fulltime student.
Budget Corrections Show Further Cuts
"The press is going to see this as a victory for President," Rep Richard T. Hamm D'Caillet, D.Caillet.
Rep. Henry S. Reuss, D-Wis., who proposed the freeze at current levels, said that to reject it and simply extend Nikon's power would be "a pat on the back for Phase 3."
Republicans answered all pleas for a Congress-mandated control program with the argument that the lawmakers should not deny the executive flexibility.
Elimination of the $2-per-semester student activity fee surcharge and decreased enrollments have cut anticipated incomes by $100,000.
Budget recommendations recently prepared by the Senate Finance and Auditing Committee reflected this reduction.
The five such groups are the University Daily Kansas, the University Theatre, the
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Democrats accused Nixon of letting in flourison sox by ending the more stringent legislation.
Various rent freeze proposals were defeated next.
The organizations listed with recommended allocations that are now recommended for no funds are the Arab Student Association, Chinese Students Association, India Club, Iranian Students Association and the KUTY Action Committee.
Correction of administrative errors in the Student Senate Finance and Auditing recommended budget has placed five additional organizations in the nonfunded category.
University Printing Service employees were given five per cent pay raises last year, Adams said. He said the increases were passed along to printing service customers but Kansan allocations were not increased correspondingly.
A proposal for a two-month extension of President Nixon's economic powers, with a mandate to Nixon to develop in that time a militaryization program, was defeated, 235 to 151.
Adams said the budget cuts could be temporarily balanced by reserve funds, but he warned that this could not continue without an increase in income.
However, groups funded on the p-
resident basis were not included in the
recruitment plan.
He said activity fee funds paid less than half the cost of printing the newspaper.
Republicans pushed on to offer the one-year extension as an alternate to a bill, already abandoned by the Democratic party, and provided a general rollback to Jan. 10 levels.
"Our allocation is based on the same pstudent figure we were given in, 1868," Adams said. "But our costs have more than tripled."
Democrats attempted a provision for a calling on all but farm prices of Monday's budget.
Kansan Business Advisor Mel Adams, associate professor of journalism, said the Kansan needed the funds to continue publishing a good paper.
Republicans sented victory early in the prolonged debate when they won a 187 to 147 procedural vote that derailed a painfully worked out Democratic compromise that would have rolled prices back to the March 16 levels and rents to the Jan. 10 level.
STUDENT SENATE ENACTMENT NO.
17 specifically designates approximately
$255,000 of the anticipated $390,000 in income for five activities. Any changes in these allocations would require new legislation.
ADAMS SAID that when the $1.35-per-
student allocation was established, costs
were $12 for a newspaper page. Today they
are $64 a page.
University Concert Course, intramural athletics and intercollegiate athletics.
The Kansan sustained the largest reduction, $8,596. Based on anticipated enrollment, the Kansan will receive $41,904. Last year it received $50,500.
The reduced number of productions will be augmented by five college productions from the Regional College Theater Festival, which the university will host.
The University Theatre's allocation would be cut by $1,306. An estimated $26,394 will be available next year. Last year the theatre received $27,690.
Davis said the cuts would not be critical in the coming year because the theatre was undergoing a renovation.
ACTING ATHLETIC DIRECTOR Dutch Lonborg he was pleased that intercollegiate athletics suffered only a small difference could be made up in ticket sales.
The intercollegiate athletics allocation would be reduced by $600. Next year's allocation would be $450.
THE DIRECTOR of the University Theatre, Jed Davis, said the fund cuts were significant because production costs did not carry with enrollment.
The fourth activity to receive a reduction,
the University Concert Course would lose
$10,000 in tuition.
Intramural athletics, the fifth group,
would receive $6,208.
Representatives of the intramural program recently appeared before the Finance and Auditing Committee to request an allocation of $14,082. The committee told them that the request would require special legislation by the senate.
Picnic
Kansan Staff Photo by LESLIE RISS
Young students air their opinions during lunch break on the university of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a class where a good cast in *Bronxia* goes to their school.