THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
83rd Year, No. 114
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
City Streets Scheduled For Repairs
Wednesday, March 28, 1973
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Pearson Hall Burglarized Last Week
By BILL WILLETS Kansan Staff Writer
About $2,300 in personal property, mostly stereo equipment and records, was stolen from Pearson Scholarship Hall during a bombing that targeted the security officials reported Tuesday.
The largest monetary loss was reported by Charles F. Puckett, Savannah, Mo. senior, who reported the theft of a stereo and records worth $927.
Nine rooms were burglarized. All were locked at the time of the theft and showed no evidence of damage.
Cleetis Watts, Traffic and Security investigator, said there were no suspects. He said that attempts to take fingerprints had failed. Traffic and Security is considering using polygraph tests to help in the case, he said.
"We have no suspects at all," he said. "It looks as if someone had a key."
Brent McFall, Fort Scott junior and proctor at Pearson, said Pearson Hall was
Pearson was the hardest hit of any University housing. Judd Haddad, resident director of Cortin and Gertrude Sellarski Pearson residence halls, said about $50 had been taken from the two buildings. She said GSP had been stolen from a resident of GSP
"And someone told me that there were other thetis I hadn't heard about," Haddad
Kate Otterling, housemother at Sellars
Scholarship Hall, said that four血脂
tests on patients at Sellars were
conducted.
Jean Bailey, Atchison senior, said that between $7 and $1 was stolen from a bank in her room in Douthart Hall. Bailey said that money in amounts from $1 to $20 had been stolen from five other Douthart residents. That there was no sign of forced entry.
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Capt. Bob Ellison of KU Traffic and Security estimated total campus thefts during spring break at $3,000. He said that in 400 in the thefts had occurred off campus.
Ellison said that the hardest hit off campus areas were the apartment comp
The past weeks of rain have made access to building sites difficult, but perhaps the weather has not been so bad.
Despite the inconvenience of wet grounds, last week's rules caused no delays to the two main building projects, Wesec Hill and the new Watkins Memorial Hospital, according to Keith Lawton, director of facilities planning and operations.
Final POW Release Thursday
CLARK AIR BASE, Philippines (AP)—U.S. hospital planes left for Hanoi Tuesday to pick up 49 American prisoners of war who are in the group being freed from Communist jails.
The rest of the last 116 captives will be returned Thursday. Like all released American POWs, the 49 returning Wednesday will fly to this Pacific check-in point.
Included in the 49 are nine Americans captured in Laos whose liberation by the army was delayed until April, held up withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam. Coming out with them is a Canadian missionary who was working in a refugee camp during poor when he was captured last October.
The freed Pathet lao prisoners left Hanoi for Clark Base aboard a C41 Starfiller at 12:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. Tuesday Lawrence at 12:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. p.m. - 1 a.m. Wednesday Lawrence time.
THOSE SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE will join 23 U.S. prisoners of the Viet Cong who feasted in freedom Tuesday night after aerial Air Base from Hanoi's Gia Lam airport.
"Today, 32 of us have regained our freedom and a chance to start again our life," said Benjamin Purcell, 45, of the Clark cheerleading welcomes at the Clark airport.
"In the years, our faith in our country, in our way of life and in our President has been unwavered. And we wish at this time to express our thanks to our President Nixon and to the American people for keeping faith with us."
"We are all well," he said, "We will be home soon. We eve you more than we can ever repay for the faith that you have had in us. But we shall try. And we ask you but one thing, and that is to keep the fort for just a few days longer."
THE 32 BEGAN calls to home to their families almost immediately after their arrival at 6:52 p.m. -4:52 a.m. Lawrence time. They feasted on chicken and steak and some were reported still eating at a snack bar shortly before midnight.
Purcell was captured Feb. 8, 1968, when his helicopter crashed in South Vietnam's Quang Tri Province. As senior officer in the group, he spoke on its behalf.
Emptying a glassful in a gulp, one returned prisoner said with a smile, "I'll take another one of those . . . that's just great."
All were declared in reasonably good shape doctors who gave them permission to wear it.
As the men waited in line for dinner in the hospital cafeteria, they received glasses of water.
Four flights are scheduled in the next two days to fly the 116 Americans and one Canadian from Hanoi to Clark, where they will join the 32 for medical checkups, debriefings and a trip the rest of the way home within a few days.
"Did you see that guy eat?" asked another. "They're going to kick us out of
The last 67 American POWs to be freed from captivity in Vietnam will board two hospital planes in Hanoi Thursday afternoon and return to Clark that night. They also are airmen downed in the 12% months following December 1971.
Their release brings to 187 the number of American military and civilian prisoners who have been released.
AIM Leaders Leave; Peace Hopes High
WOUNDED KNEE, S.D. (AP)—Two leaders of the militant Indians who are occupying Wounded Knee were reported Tuesday to have left the village, apparently injured.
The Justice Department said Tuesday it would meet with two separate groups of Indians from Wounded Knee today in an effort to reach an end to the month-long occupation.
Kent Frizzell, former Kansas attorney general now assistant U.S. attorney Derek Sprowl, who met with federal meetings were scheduled between federal officials and two groups—one representing American Indian Movement forces in the state of Oklahoma to take over the negotiating role from AIM.
Earlier, Sen. James Aboreuez, D-S.D., said he had been informed that a settlement had been reached in Wounded Knee and that AIM no longer was in a leadership position.
EARLIER TUESDAY, it was revealed that AIM leaders Dennis Banks and Russell Means had slipped past federal and tribal outposts and escaped from the village.
However, Frizzel said AIM members still were occupying the tiny hallet. He called Aborekul's statement "optimistic," but he also declared "athletic" in view of the scheduled meetings.
In another development, the government said that a light airplane had landed in the hamlet in the afternoon and delivered arms and ammunition to the militants.
"We think that Banks and Means are and have been out of Wounded Knee for two or three years."
However, an AIM member said the pair got through the blockade late Monday or early Tuesday and had a change of ganfre of the 28-day siege. A government spokesman estimated between 10,000 to 15,000 people.
A federal marshal was seriously wounded in the shooting.
Frizzell said the airplane landed during a brief cease-fire that was called when Community Relations Service represent the organization. We worked out an afternoon negotiation session.
"The delivery of the guns and ammunition was witnessed through field glasses," Fritzman said.
Sen. Abourezek said he was told that the AIM leadership had been replaced by four Oglala Sioux representing the reservation's civil rights organization.
RAMON ROUBEAUX, the Rapid City attorney who has represented AIM since the takeover, said Tuesday night be was optimistic about an early settlement.
"We're going to sit down and get these things ironed out. We're going to get it settled on the issues. This could have been terminated earlier if not for the shenanigans of AIM, but AIM is out of it now." Rubideaux said.
Abourexek said Anaron DeSera, editor of a
abourexek on the reservation, had assured
him that a civil rights group had taken over the occupation force from the AIM leaders.
The congressman said the civil rights organization demands included;
—A civil rights investigation
—A complete audit of the books of the Oglala Sioux tribe, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Office of Economic Opportunity.
—A new referendum on the tribal presidency and an agreement to stay by it.
FRIZZELL CALLED the demands
"reasonable negotiable items. They're
much more negotiable than what we've heard from inside Wounded Knee."
Richard Wilson, the elected tribal president, said he would not consider any negotiated settlement binding on the tribal council.
Wilson also said he would not take down the roadblocks he and his followers placed on him.
Wilson said he had 150 men at roadblocks behind the federal blockades. He said the Justice Department had asked him to help them, but that he did not intend to do so.
Architectural Goof
Ghost Firm Given $44 Million Contract
By DAVID BARTEL Associated Press Writer
TOPEKA-An architectural firm that did not yet exist was awarded the $44 million University of Kansas Medical Center expansion contract last year by the state senate chairman of the Kansas Senate. Ways, Means Committee disclosed Tuesday.
Disclosure of the information cast doubt on the reappointment confirmation of the staff.
Sen. Ross Doyen, R-Concordia, Ways and Means chairman, said his records showed that a contract for the massive expansion of the Medical Center was awarded by McLain on June 7, 1972, to the firm of Marshall and Cowanicz, Associated, of Kansas City, Kan.
That firm did not incorporate in Kansas until more than three weeks later on June 30, 1972 according to records in the secretary of state's office.
The firm could earn up to $2.4 million as its share of the project.
One partner ' of the firm, Norbert Sidorowicz, was a partner with McLain for 19 years before McLain was named state representative. Robert, Dickock on Nov. 1, 1971.
After the appointment, McLain and Sidorowicz dissolved their firm, except for ongoing projects, according to McLain, who would lead them in the Marshall and Brown-Sidorowicz firm.
Sidorowicz incorporated a firm associated with Marshall and Brown of Kansas, and papers creating the new firm, together with the secretary of state on June 30, 1972.
However, Doyen said his records—including a contract memorandum—and that he had learned that the biochemistry firm also had an agreement with the Medical Center on June 7, 1972.
The memorandum from McLain shows that the contract was drawn up on June 3, 1972, and signed three days later by Sidorwicz.
Incorporation papers for the firm were prepared by the law firm of Lughbom and Docking. One of the senior partners of that firm is "Dick" Docking, brother of the governor.
According to Doyen, the first $200,000 payment from the state to the firm was paid
The firm received the $200,000 check within 10 days may be hours" being being paid.
"I don't know if this is legal," Doyen said.
"I haven't researched the law on it, but I would say it's highly questionable. Highly improper."
Rieke Doubts Delav of Funds
William O. Rieke, vice chancellor for health affairs, said Tuesday night that he did not expect doubts in the Kansas legislature about the reappointment of the state architect to hinder development of an education center at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
He said he doubted that the Legislature would delay action on a bill to fund the $14 million expansion because of charges made Tuesday by Sen. Boss Doven, R-Concordia.
Planning by the architectural firm,
Marshall Brown and Wimery Associates,
will permit the project.
"I don't know why that would affect the planning," he said. "Every month we lose in planning we lose a half million dollars to inflation."
Business School Dean Resigns
By ERIC MEYER
Kansan Staff Writer
Clifford Clark, dean of the School of Business, has resigned to become vice president for academic affairs at the State University of New York, Binghamton, N.Y. Chancellor Raymond Nichols announced today—Wednesday.
Announcement of the resignation, which took place two weeks ago, was delayed at
"I wanted the faculty and those involved
with the school to know I was leaving from me, personally, before they read it in the book.
Joseph A. Pichler, 33, associate professor of business, has been named to replace Clark until a search committee can make a decision on the appointment of a permanent dean.
"I was confronted with a difficult choice." Clark said. "I am fond of KU and have respect for it. I did my undergraduate studies here."
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Clark Says Rising Costs Hurt KU Quality
Kansan Staff Writer
By ERIC MEYER
Clark is chairman of the Chancellor's Committee on University Funding, more commonly known as the Fiscal Analysis Committee, examining the adequacy of KU's appropriation.
If the University is to achieve its former place in higher education, he said, state appropriations must be increased about $5 million annually. Of this, he said. $1.6 million would be needed to adjust faculty salaries to competitive levels.
Clark recently resigned his KU position to become vice president for academic affairs at the State University of New York (see story on same page).
The University of Kansas has been forced to retreat from educational quality since 1986 because financial support has not kept up with the costs and the dean of the School of Business, said Timothy
"When you multiply this $9.50 decrease by the half million or so hours taken each semester," Clark said, "that amounts to a amount of money the University has lost."
were $71, adjusted to 1973 prices. In 1972-75,
she had fallen to $61.50 per student
begins. DB, 38.38.
Over the three-year period from 1963 to 1965, average expenditures per student hour
"We compared this data with data from all public universities nationwide," he said, "and we discovered that their expenditures were lower than those of the RU charted its own downward course."
He said the decreased expenditures were not the result of greater efficiency or cost.
Clark said the peer group with which KU was communicated did not change the findings
"The more advanced students need more expensive instruction. KU's enrollment of juniors and seniors has increased more frequently in the enrollment of freshmen and sophomores."
"The Regents' finance formula states that you can hire one full-time faculty member for every 15 full-time students," he said. "There are no distinctions of whether these students are freshmen or seniors or graduate students."
Clark said that if the finance formula was adjusted to compensate for the higher costs of educating upperclassmen, KU would need $250 million per 12 per cent increase in the faculty budget.
"This is a loss we've incurred over and above the others I've mentioned," he said. Chancellor Raymond Nichols said Tuesday that Clark's findings have "confirmed what we've been saying for years—that the University is underfunded."
"In terms of real or current dollars, credit hour costs, the level of support has dropped, both because the state hasn't and doesn't have to pay," she said. The state hasn't fully realized the situation.
"I hope people will say the University has been right all along."
Nichols said that because book costs, for
example, have risen 12 per cent each year while funds allotted for book purchases have been frozen, the University has been able to buy only 88 per cent of the books it would have, if earlier funding had been maintained.
Clark said that there were two reasons for the decline in summer.
"The first one was a deliberate
death," said said, "and the other was
inventive."
A large portion of the decrease resulted from a "negative response to campus manifestations of nationwide student unrest," Clark said. "The people became disenchanted with higher education, as well as with Franklin) Murphy said when he was here."
"The tremendous growth in student enrollment." Clark said. "was a barrier.
The remainder of the decrease resulted because there was no good method of fiscal analysis to determine how much buying power the appropriations had, he added.
He attributed most of this fiscal ignorance to 'staff work at the Board of Regents level which wasn't what it should have been. It didn't teach the techniques, the decline escaped attention."
Clark also criticized the Regents for becoming the regulator, instead of promoters, of higher education. He said the state legislature, however, should not be blamed for the budgetary decline because it was not adenately informed.
Clark credited Chancellor Murphy's "dynamic leadership" with the gains.
We couldn't see through the screen of that TV."
Statistics revealed three distinct periods in KU's recent history. he said.
second period was from the fall of See CLARK Page 10
"The first one began in the fall of 1957 and lasted until the spring of 1963," he said. "We had a period of educational goals, other aspirations and of this way for quality in education."
CLARK SAID his relations with the faculty, students and School of Business Board of Advisors all weighed heavily in his remaining at the University of Kansas.
However, he said that the position, which is second highest at State University of New York, offered him a greater challenge and an opportunity to become more effective.
"Despite frustrations associated with inadequate University financing," be said, "I have enjoyed the past five years in experience working at a company developed rapidly as a quality institution."
Clark, 48, is a native of Iowa. He received a B.A. in economics from KU in 1948. He also holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Chicago.
BEFORE ACCEPTING the position as dean at KU in July 1968, Clark had academic positions at Loyola University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University, Raleigh, and New York University.
At New York University, Clark was professor and associate professor of economics, head of the research office, which he founded, and associate dean and vice dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration.
He was a foreign-affairs officer with the Central Intelligence Agency from 1951 to 1955, and did post-doctoral research on the Soviet economy.
Clark is a member of the board of directors of Lawrence National Bank and of Interx, a Lawrence-based research corporation.
He was chairman of the executive committee of the Citizens' Tax Review Commission in 1971-72 and has authored numerous articles, monographs and reports in the fields of business, economics and finance.
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