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83rd Year, No. 110 The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Wednesday, March 14, 1973
U.S. Aircraft Hanoi Bound For POWs
CLARK AIR BASE, Philippines (AP)—American aircraft lifted off this morning to bring 108 more American prisoners of war, including a plane hijacker and an admiral's son, home from Hanoi through this Pacific check-in point.
The first of three C41 flight hospitals, whose departures were spaced over a 45-minute period, was airborne at 10:15 a.m. 8:15 p.m. Tuesday Lawrence time, for the 900-mile flight to Hando's Gia Lam Airport. An advance aircraft carries offroaders, ground technicians, medics and interpreters left Clark four hours earlier.
The first plenomel of released prisoners
was drawn at Clark at 4:15 p.m., 2:15
p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
Awaiting the military prisoners is the same hero's welcome given to three earlier groups of released POWs who stopped at Clark for medical checkups before continuing across the Pacific to the United States and their waiting families.
The most prominent of the latest returning prisoners are Air Force Col. John Plynn, 50, the senior-ranking POW, and John Cain III, 38, son of John McAin, John McAin.
Until he retired as commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific last year, Adm. McCain directed some of the heaviest air strikes against North Vietnam.
Sharing the attention is Bobby Joe Keeesey, the only civilian in this group. He hijacked a Thai charter plane to North Vietnam in September 1970.
A State Department official will fly to Hanoi to escort Keeese to Clark. Officials said this is regular procedure whenever a civilian is freed.
Military officials said they had no orders to jail Keesee. He has been identified as an Army deserter who went AWOL after 1982's service and flew a rented plane to Cuba where the Castro regime refused his request for asylum.
The 108 retiring prisoners will be joined by two military pilots being freed by China on Thursday and 32 American prisoners of war being freed by the Viet Cong on Friday.
Soggy
After almost daily rains for the past few weeks, the foreman of Wescow Hill may be getting a bit wet.
well, Overland Park sophomore, contemplates the situation. Maybe Tuesday's thunderstorms were a sign of the end of the debuge. There is only a five per cent chance of rain today, and warmer temperatures are expected Friday and Saturday.
Railroads, Unions Boost Wages
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP)—The railroads and 15 unions announced tentative settlement Tuesday on a new nationwide contract increasing wages and benefits by more than 10 per cent for 500,000 railroad workers.
The settlement was unprecedented in that it was the first time in railroad labor history that the parties reached agreement before they were struck or disruptions in service.
dustrywife contracts to be negotiated this year and is certain to receive close attention from both labor and the Nixon administration, which is trying to hold down inflation.
It also was the first of several major in-
Under terms of the agreement, wages and benefits would be increased by 0.7 per cent in line with the above.
Spokesmen for the industry and unions said this would include a 4 per cent wage increase.
pension system which would add $47.58 in monthly take-home pay for railroad employees.
The industry would pick up the payments now paid by the workers into the separate railroad retirement funds covering rail workers in place of Social Security.
Although the total wage and benefits package is above the government's voluntary pay standards, industry and union negotiators expressed confidence the new contract will sit well with the Nixon administration.
Polls Open to Student Voters
Polling places in the Kansas Union,
Strong Hall and Summerfield Hall for
spring student elections will be open
to students to 5 p.m. today and
Thursday.
The Union poll will be on the north side of the Union's main lobby. The Strong poll will be located in the first floor foyer, and in Summerfield the poll will be on the second floor near the School of Business offices.
They said that the 4 per cent wage increase, which adds about 21 cents to the $5.3 average hourly rail workers' pay, falls within the guidelines. The overall package amounts to about 7 per cent a year, the negotiators said.
Sterling Hall, Sublette sophomore and elections committee chairman, said Tuesday that nine special evening meetings were planned for the convenience of the voters.
The locations and hours of operation of evening polling places are: Naimuth Hill, 5:30 to 7:30; Oliver Hall, 4:30 to 9; Olivia Hall, 6:30 to 8; Sellars Pearson Hall, 6 to 8; Kappa Kappa Gamma House, 6 to 10; Delta Gamma House, 6 to 10; Alpha Gamma Delta House, 6 to 10; Chi Omega House, 6 to 10; and Phi Kappa Psi House, 6 to 10.
To receive a ballot, the voter must have a KU ID and a valid spring registration card. Each voter will receive a senate ballot for his school and an office card. Senate ballots are in the form of computer cards and must be marked in pencil.
A spokesman for the Cost of Living council said it was liked that the council would support a tax on meat.
The government's pay standard allows for wage increases of 5.5 per cent a year another 0.7 per cent in fringe benefits. But the government does not allow the employer to be applied flexibly on a case-by-case basis.
The agreement is subject to ratification by officials of the unions.
Virtually all of the nation's 500,000 railroad workers would be covered by the improved retirement benefits, which must be paid under an amendment to the Railroad Retirement Act.
Limitations Placed On Pearson Credit
By ANN McFERREN Kansan Staff Writer
The long, heated debate about the status of the Pearson Integrated Humanities Department at the University of Marylanders of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Assembly decided by mail ballot that the program would no longer be required for an normal freshman and senate committee.
The previous approval for six hours of work would allow the program remains valid, Shankar said.
Delbert Shankel, acting dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and chairman of the College Assembly, announced that Assembly that the assembly had voted 230 to 265 not to allow the program to substitute for English, Western civilization, speech and humanities requirements, but it had not elected an advisory committee for the program.
--and sophomores have been allowed to substitute the 24-credit-hour Pearson program for requirements in English, modern civilization, speech and humanities.
During the last two years, some freshmen
STUDENTS WHO already are enrolled in the program will be allowed to complete the program on the terms under which they enrolled, Shankel said. However, the decision by the assembly will mean that incoming freshmen entering the program requireyily freshman and sophomore requirements by taking the four courses, he said.
Donald Marquis, assistant professor of philosophy, said he agreed with Shankel. He proposed a resolution to be considered at the next meeting of the assembly.
"I hope the assembly's action on this matter is not directed at all innovative education programs, but rather that it is an indication of disagreement with the philosophy of this particular program only," Shankel told assembly members.
Congress Asks Aide to Testify
WASHINGTON D.C. (AP) — The Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimously Tuesday to invite White House counsel John Gray and former CIA director Greg Gray's nomination to be FBI director.
President Nixon has said he would not permit Dean to appear for questioning about an investigation he conducted for the president of the bugging of Democratic headquarters at the Watergate complex here last June.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., told newsmen that he hoped Nixon would reconsider. But Sen. Robert Byrd D-W.Va., another committee member, said it appeared the President already had closed the door to Dean's testimony.
The committee met after Senate Democratic leaders made speeches protesting the sweep of President Nixon's airstrikes on Iraq and Syria, and his sides before congressional committees.
Byrd, the assistant Democratic leader, said that if Nixon was unwilling to let Dean appear, he should withdraw Gray's nomination.
However, Sen. James Eastland, D-Miss., the committee chairman, said he was confident of approval of Gray's nomination because Dean accepted the invitation to testify.
Elsewhere, in a court proceeding, subponas were issued for Dean and six other present or former Nixon administration officials to give pretrial depositions in a suit brought by Common Force. Common Cause seeks to force disclosure of certain information about financing of the Nixon reelection campaign.
In the Senate, Democrat Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana joined Byrd in urging Nixon to reconsider the policy he set forth Monday of not permitting any members or former members of his personal staff to testify before a congressional committee.
The President said this policy was in line with established precedent and was necessary to preserve the constitutional separation of powers, but he said he would arrange through informal contracts between his staff and congressional committees to provide all necessary and relevant information.
Byrd said he was particularly disturbed by Nixon's precedent-setting shield of former staff members from congressional inquiries and by the fact that the judge who was issued during the judicial committee's consideration of Gray's nomination.
Mansfield said he recognized that there must be a degree of confidentiality between a President and his advisors, but he declared any assertion of executive privilege must "not spread too far, too wide or too far back."
"It is the will of the College Assembly that the administration of the College Assembly provide adequate administrative support for a pluralistic, responsible integrated humanities program at the University of Kansas," the resolution stated.
THE ASSEMBLY VOTED 71 of 68 to discontinue selection of participants in the pro-
Although the program will no longer fulfill freshman and sophomore requirements for a B.A. degree, it will fulfill distribution requirements for a Bachelor of General Studies degree, a new degree at KU, according to Shankel.
The Bachelore of General Studies is an unstructured degree, and the only requirement is a broad distribution of courses, Shankel said.
The Pearson program can be applied to B.A. distribution requirements other than the English, Western Civilization, speech and humanities requirements, he said.
"I have already said so many things. I'm not even interested in talking about it (the results of the mail ballot)," said Dennis Quinn, professor of English and director of the Pearson Integrated Humanities Program, after the meeting.
"I AM SURPRISED, and the assembly could take such an action."
Quinn said the program would continue exactly as it had in the past. He said he expected there would still be a significant number of students who wanted to take the program.
"I am especially sorry if this change makes it impossible for students who would really like to be in the program to participate," he said.
Discontinuance of selection of students by interview will mean that students will no longer have the opportunity to meet the professors firsthand, Quinn said.
"THIS WAS PERHAPS the only program at KU in which we meet and get meet"
"I AM ATTENTION TO"
"THIS WAS PERHAPS THE
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Little Confidence Seen
By DWIGHT DEAY
Kansan Staff Writer
Student Poll Indicates Disinterest in Senate
A majority of students at the University of Kansas who were interviewed Tuesday in an unofficial survey expressed little interest and confidence in student government.
A random selection of 50 names revealed a pupa toward Student Senate affairs is caught.
The poll indicated that the total number of voters Wednesday and Thursday would probably not exceed 35 per cent of the student body. Although a few of those who do not plan to vote expressed a mild interest in the election returns, they said they would not vote due to inconvenience and easy schedules.
NONE OF the students polled in graduate programs intend to vote in the Senate elections. Four of them said they were not even aware that they were eligible to vote, and those who were, said there was a lack of candidates.
Students disagreed about the value of the Student Senate. Forty-five per cent of the students said the Senate was a worthwhile organization. Forty per cent said they perceived no value in the Senate and 15 per cent expressed mixed emotions.
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Former Members Discuss Senate Decline
By JOHN PIKE Kansan Staff Writer
When students go to the polls today to vote for student body and class officers and student senate members they will be casting their ballots in the least competitive election in the five-year history of the senate.
The most obvious sign of the candidate shortage is the "race" for student body president and vice-president, which lists only one team on the ballot. This is in sharp contrast to past years, when as many as seven teams campaigned for the posts.
Individuals still on the KU campus who were involved in the early years of the senate, and who have participated actively in it since its birth, say that they don't know what to do because of apparent decline of interest in the body which required so much student initiative to found.
MOST OF THEM list such contributing factors as the general decline of student performance, decreased motivation, or
student government in general, a realization of the time required to be active in the senate and an increasing amount of student participation of, university administration, by, students.
The University Party of Mark Edwards, presidential candidate, and Rick Von Ende, vice-presidential candidate and now acting university, was defeated by eight votes by the parties of the Independent Student Party (ISP), in its second year of existence at the time.
When the student senate evolved from the All Student Council in the spring of 1969, two political parties emerged as the contenders for the president seat and control of the new senate.
David Awbrey and Marilyn Bowman, JSP student body president and vice-president respectively, led a party that was founded with the intention of gaining power within the university. The plies for one year and then disbanding, according to Gus Dizegena, now a Law-
rencent graduate student and senate member,
and a director of the ISP at that time.
ISP ran a candidate for president of the All Student Council in that body's last year, but he was defeated. Dilzeega said the ISP didn't expect to win the presidency that year and was pleased with the number of representative seats it managed to gain.
IN THE SPRING OF 1969, ISP carried out its campaign which, according to DiZerra, stressed ideologies and political activism. The effort paid off in victory by a narrow margin, and the new senate included a large block of ISP senators.
D'Orsola said that in the early days of the senate, ratified closeely along party lines.
In the spring election of 1970, ISP again supported a candidate and a state of senators, in spite of the party's original plan to disband after one year.
DlZerega said that by the time of this election, however, most of the original members of the ISP had left the party, and that most of the other members at that time
joined simply to attempt to take advantage of the parity's nast success.
The ISP candidate, Peter George, lost by a wide margin to Bill Ebert, running on the Alliance ticket. David Miller, who coached the team, was third in the 1970 race, following year, was third in the 1970 race.
THE ELECTION in the spring of 1971 provided the most competition for student electors. The first time since, Seven candidates, encompassing virtually the entire spectrum of political Dough on the campus, ran for the post and won by one, who lost the previous year, was elected.
Over 300 candidates ran for the senate and class officer positions in 1971, also the governor.
The election of 1972 saw only a slight slackening of competition for the student body executive offices. Five candidates competed for the student vote. David Dillon, now Hutchinson senior and outgoing student body president, won the election and over
50—nearly all—of his slate of senatorial candidates were elected.
The five-year course, then, from two major candidates in 1969, to seven in 1971, to only one candidate in 1973 is curious, to say why there are questions as to the reasons for the decline.
ONE OF THE POSSIBLE reasons for the lack of candidates that was mentioned by most of those students active in the past, is that the requirement required to be an active campus politician.
"Most students are not willing to spend the time participating in university government, now that they have a right to do so." DiZerega said.
Chancellor Raymond Nichols said that today students were more concerned about their academic work than they had been in the last few years, and that student government took too much time from studying to appeal to such students.
Tuck Duncan, Wilmette, Ill., senior who
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ONLY 35 PER CENT of the students surveyed considered the performances of individuals in the Senate as responsive to student needs.
About 50 per cent indicated that they thought the senators had acted irresponsibly during the past year. Twenty per cent said they did not know of what the senator's responsibilities were.
MOST STUDENTS indicated that they did not personally monitor the voting records of their senators. Only 20 per cent of those polled knew the voting records, and contributions of the senators representing their schools.
A slightly higher number, 35 per cent, said that they had devoted time to research of the candidates for senate and class offices.
Of 65 per cent who said they knew little about student government elections, most lived in off-campus housing. Those living in organized living groups said that much of their information came from the candidates who toured their residences.
The survey revealed that few of the students were really concerned about the election's outcome. Only 35 per cent of the students said they were concerned about the
MOST PEOPLE SAID they would base their votes on information passed to them by friends. However, most of those interested in the election results said they would vote for those candidates who showed enough incentive to visit their living groups.
The lack of presidential candidates can be traced to a certain aptity expressed by some of the larger campus organizations that declined to support a nominee.
Mermers of the Black Student Union do not think the structure of the Student Senate offers any real response to their needs, and they are dissatisfied. Anderson, undersville, Ga., junior and BRU president.
"We never had any thought of running a candidate at this time. It didn't seem feasible in terms of what we are doing," Dean said.
Casey Eke, assistant to the Dean of Women and a member of the KU Commission on the Status of Women, explained that the formal participation in another way.
"I DON'T NECESSARILY think that women should be aligned in a rigid coalition. Although I think University governance leaves something to be desired, I would encourage women to participate in the Senate, but as individuals." Elke said.