KANSAN
83rd Year, No.100
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
City Orientation For KU Students Is Proposed
Wednesday, February 28, 1973
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4,020 Rooms Now Filled In KU Halls
BY LARRY GOLDSMITH Kansan Staff Writer
For the first time in five semesters, the number of occupied rooms in University of Kansas residence halls has passed 4,006, J. K., director of housing, said Tuesday.
Wilson said that 4,920 rooms in halls were rented this spring, compared to 3,900 occupied last semester. In the fall semester of 1969, 4,596 students were living in residence halls, but only 3,841 rooms were occupied that spring.
The rentals this spring represent an occupancy rate of 85 per cent, a 2 per cent rise.
Wilson attributed the increase to adjustments and added variety in the facilities and operations of the halls, economic advantage of the school, enforcement and enforcement of full-year contracts.
Wilson said that the halls were becoming more varied, and that more options were being offered to residents. He cited Hashinger Hall as an example, saying it was now for students interested in two creative arts. Although it is more expensive to live there, he said, many students are interested in it.
Part of the increase might be due to 15 or 20 options available to residents, Wilson said. The options allowed the students to change their rooms as they saw fit as long as they did notifluff on the rights of the next occupant.
The use of full-year contracts was another reason occupancy in the residence halls was lower.
Although some students might be bothered by the fact that they have to pay a penalty fee if they decide not to live in a hall for a full year, he said, the contracts make
Kansan Photo by LESLIE ROSS
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Credit Cards Have Limited Uses Ellen Reimners, St. Louis junior, will agree
Halt In Releases Slows Withdrawals
SAIGON (AP)—The United States slowed down the withdrawal of its remaining forces from Vietnam Wednesday and may halt it altogether unless North Vietnam resumes the release of American prisoners of war, high-ranking U.S. authorities reported.
The sources said no troop flights left Vietnam Wednesday, as they have every day since the cease-fire began Jan. 28. The troop had been withdrawing about 400 troops a day.
The U.S. Command would neither confirm nor deny the report.
Maj. Gen. Gilbert H. Woodward, the senior MU delegate to the four-party Joint Committee, will attend a mount side in a stormy commission meeting for "clarification on an urgent basis" of the POW dispute, in which Hanoi and Paris expected to be freed early this week.
The United States also pressed its demand for the immediate release of more American prisoners of war and told North Vietnam to dismantle missile sites below the demilitarized zone or face action Washington "deems inappropriate."
He said failure of North Vietnam and the Viet Cong to release POWs at the time indicated by the Jan. 27 Paris peace agreement "is a clear violation of the agreement and all that the agreement is about."
Woodward also said the installation of missiles in northern South Vietnam by Hanou was a "clear and direct violation of the agreement."
He warned the Communists that if they refused to withdraw the missiles and
"We consider the construction of the missile base at Khe Sanh since Jan. 28 not only a violation of the agreement but a provocation to the U.S. government," he
It was the first time Woodward assailed the Communist side for installation of the Soviet-built surface-to-air missiles, which were deployed by U.S. sources and the Saigon government.
dismantle the base, "my government takes such policies as it deems appropriate."
The POW issue flared up Tuesday in Saigon and also in Paris, where Secretary of State William P. Rogers suspended his participation in the current 12-nation Vietnam peace conference pending action on the matter.
As Wednesday's meeting of the four-party Joint Military Commission got under way, the president said the government has a top deputy in the North Vietnamese delegation, was on his way back from Hanoi to Saigon with "new instructions" and possibly a list of American POWs to be sent.
Vietnam and the Viet Cong have released 163 American prisoners, and the United States had anticipated that about 140 more Americans would be killed. The Communist count, 422 remain to be freed.
The North Vietnamese said the second regular turnover of POWs would be postponed until resolution of Hanoi's complaints of cease-fire violations.
The spokesman repeated a statement made in Washington by the White House earlier saying the release of American President Donald Trump's principal obligation of the cease-fire agreement.
He said the agreement clearly stated these prisoners of war were to be released at a rate no slower than the rate of American troop withdrawals.
"We have now withdrawn over one-half of our forces," the spokesman said. "It is now time for the other side immediately to release the next group of U.S. POWs to total the all of those released up to at least two thousand." The total number scheduled for release."
Credit Cards Bittersweet Bargain
But Tin Tic, chief spokesman for the North Vietnamese delegations, said before Wednesday's Joint Military Commission meeting:
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Editor's Note: This is the last story in a three-part series dealing with credit cards. Today's story examines the advantages and drawbacks of cards to the consumer and to the merchant.
Kansan Staff Writer
The chief spokesman for the North Vietnamese delegation said Hoa "certainly will have new instructions for us and perhaps he will have the list."
Undoubtedly the benefits of credit card use outweigh the disadvantages. The big plus is convenience: credit cards give the consumer instant buying power, consolidation of all his charge purchases on a single monthly bill and simpler record
Perhaps the problem is not really nec,
just magnified. But since the boom in
card use began in the last five years, many
Americans have slowly discovered that
they are spending more money—and enjoying it less.
At the same time, however, more and more people are finding that credit card use is not always the easy, worry-free system it's usually denoted as being
For the businessman, the use of a bank credit card system provides a relatively easy way to pay for customers, and he doesn't have to worry about checking credit, making monthly billings, carrying slow payers or absorbing high volume of the concern of the card-less company.
THE MOST COMMON consumer problem is overuse. Many people simply are not
At the same time the chiefs of the American, North Vietnamese, South Vietnamese and Cambodian missions meeting, another full-scale conference of the subcommission on captured persons was under way in a separate room at the base of Saigon. The Tan Son Nhan Air Bass ground on Saigon's Tan Son Nhan Air Base.
The businessman, on the other hand, takes a discount on the cash he gets from the card companies when he turns in his credit sales slips, but this loss, technically, is made up by the time he saves in not having to do as much paperwork.
aware of how much they're spending until it's too late. And others do not realize that if they take a year to pay for an item, they may have to pay in interest charges almost 20 per cent more than what the item originally cost.
The most worrisome problem, not only to the customer and businessman but also to the management.
Although not the major trouble that it was
Candidates' Pact Questioned
By ERIC MEYER
Kansan Staff Writer
Three Lawrence City Commission candidates who are running as a team in the March 6 primary may be violating a Kansas law against local partisan elections, City
The candidates, Bob Elder, Gene Miller
and Fred Pence, have been endorsed by the Lawrence Support Your Local Police committee. They have formed a joint committee for Responsive Government.
Kansas School Bill Gets Tentative OK
Rose said the Support Your Local Police might midt qualify as a political party.
TOPEKA (AP)—The Kansas State gave tentative approval Tuesday to a Republican state's system finance plan to distribute the state's system allocation state and to local school districts.
The measure, approved on an unrecorded voice vote, comes up for a final vote today, with Republican leaders predicting that they have the 21 votes needed for approval which would forward the measure to the House.
In debate Tuesday, Sen. Jack Steineger, D-Kansas City and Democratic floor leader, and other Democrats attacked the bill as "fiscally irresponsible" and "the embodiment of the philosophy of 'spend the money,' then scramble to finance."
The bill would increase state aid to schools by $17.18 million distributed through a "power equalizer" formula to grant more "rich" districts than to "rich" districts.
Republicans asserted that the bill would fulfill the requirements laid down by a Johnson County District. Court to provide relief in the case, for all pupils in Kansas public schools.
The bill includes an optional 50 per cent income tax surtax to allow local voters to
Since the cease-fire agreement, North
requires that all municipal elections in cities of Lawrence's size and governmental form be nonpartisan. The controversy has been spawned by "nontapartisan" and "political parties."
decide whether to shift part of the burden of schools from property taxes to income
Other programs he listed as facing cuts were a 5 per cent pay raise for state employees which would cost about $10 million, and a 40 per cent reduction in retirement benefits costing $7 million, junior college aid of $10 million and capital improvements at state colleges and universities.
"I'm somewhat interested in how a group is tested to determine if it is a political party," Rose said. "That's something to my knowledge, has never come up before."
One program that would face a cutback, Steineger said, is the $28 million appropriation requested for the expansion of the University of Kansas Medical Center.
"IVE NEVER heard of an organization telling a state candidate," he said. "It's in the past."
The enactment of the bill would “apparently limit or eliminate other programs which have been recommended and are very badly needed.” he said.
However, Sen. Robert Bennett, R-overland Park and president pro tem, said that the state general revenue fund would be made up of mediate years ahead were ample for fun-
Steninger said that nobody had yet expained the details of what was going to be from to fund the plan.
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"I'm sure the three candidates would not intentionally violate the law, but I'd like to see it."
"It's just a citizens' group that's interested in good government," he said. "The only reason we're running three candidates is because that's how many it would take to make a majority on the commission."
The challenged candidates say they do not believe they are breaking the law.
William Lemesany, 900 Arkansas St., will also running for the commission, drums,
"TVE NEVER seen the Support Your Local Police party listed in a political party text," Lemesany said, "but it's a party just the same.
"If they really came right out and said they were running as members of the John Birch Society, there'd be a distinct liability they're violating the law," he said.
According to Miller, 35 Arrowhead Dr. the group is not a party.
Miller and Elder, who lives at 1821 W. 21st Ter., have said that they belonged to the John Birch Society. According to Miller, the John Birch Society does not support one
in the early stages of the credit card boom,
illegal use of cards is still a thriving
industry.
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In 1970 it was estimated that credit card fraud cost Americans $200 million each year and that mail fraud alone was up 700 per cent from 1965. About 1.2 billion cards are lost each year, and between 300,000 and 500,000 are stolen.
A 1971 FEDERAL law put a $50 ceiling on the amount of money for which a person can be held responsible if his card is stolen. If he notifies the company before any debts have been fraudulently incurred, he isn't required to pay anything. Most companies are not very strict about taking to get their workers they are entitled to it. Even if the were strict about paying, the till wouldn't be the biggest problem for the consumer.
That problem is the one encountered when one's card is used illegally again and again. The owner's credit rating can plummet, and it's no easy task to reestablish the credit rating after that happens.
An obvious reason for the growth of credit card fraud was the increase in the number of cards available, especially bank cards which BankAmericard and Master Charge
WHEREAS OWNERS of travel and entertainment type cards numbered only two per cent of the credit card population, the bank cards were issued to nearly every customer of each participating bank, which owns a marketing control, but on marketing and expansion.
As a result, illegal use of the cards mounted. In 1971 retailers lost about $15 million due to misuse. About 25 per cent of all money charged off an uncollectable was lost through intentional mistreatment. The losses were due to overextended accounts.
The bank card companies took action to halt mishaps, but their first step soon proved to be something less than practical. They regularly issued lists, or "hot sheets," of stolen or bad-risk credit card account numbers to participating merchants and
Btt no retail store of any size could check the list every time it received a card, much more quickly.
PERHAPS THE MOST effective method of eliminating fraudulent use of credit cards is one that has seen only limited use: the computer.
when a computer system is used, a store is connected to a central office with a computer center. A card presented at the store is inserted into a small terminal near the cash register, and the code number is checked automatically and is either cleared
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The disputes broke out after a morning in which the United States and Hanoi reported they had reached agreement on one important aspect of the 13-party meeting here to seal the Vietnam peace agreements signed a month ago.
PARIS (AP) - Disputes over a U.N. rule and North Vietnam's halt in the release of American war prisoners imperiled the international Vietnam peace conference Tuesday. U.S. Secretary of State William P. Pompey suspended all his activity conferences.
U.N. Role, POW Disputes Imperil Peace Conference
At the same time, the work of conference drafting experts also came to a halt because of a refusal by Communist delegates to sit in the main representatives of the United Nations.
These developments came as North Vietnam and the United States traded bitter charges over breaches of the uneasy ceasefire deal signed in Paris on Jan. 27.
Rogers sought an urgent meeting with Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh of North Vietnam in order to have the intelligence verified over the prisoner release program.
rogers was under President Nixon's orders to shelve all other conference business until the issue was resolved with Trinh.
At once this injected an atmosphere of concern, if not of crisis, into the conference programme.
Rejecting Hanol's charges that Americans are breaching the cease-fire, McCloskey returned the fire with an accusation of his own.
Robert J. McCloskey, U.S. spokesman, told newtown the Washington-Hanolie peace agreements had stated specifically that the conditional prisoners must proceed unconditionally.
In Saigon earlier the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong authorities on the Joint Military Commission announce their joint decision to quite free the prisoners.
"We have continuing evidence of gross violations by the Communist side, including the infiltration of several thousand North Vietnamese troops since Jan. 28 and the use of explosives in equipment such as 85mm artillery, trucks and other heavy equipment," he said.
McCloskey was asked if the prisoner issue could break up the talks.
"We did not come to Paris to see the conference fail," he replied. "We hope we can settle the question of the prisoners in talks with the North Vietnamese here."
Defendants Disclaim Discrimination Charges
By JOHN PIKE
Kansan Staff Writer
The parties charged with discrimination in a suit filed with the University Judiciary by the Black Student Union (BSU) denied permission in their formal answer filed Tuesday.
The Charged Parties also filed motions to dismiss charges against the individuals involved in the case.
The suit asked judiciary to order Martin to approve BSU purchase vouchers that were proper on their face and a declaratory judgment against the defendants.
The suit, filed Feb. 14, named the Student Senate as well as Roger Martin, Lawrence third-year law student and Senate treasurer; David Dillon, Hutchinson senior and student body president; and Kathy Meldonja junior and student body vice-president.
The BSU suit charged the defendants with discrimination and violation of the laws of equal treatment and due process in a Dec. 6 action of the Senate to take away $3,000 of the remaining $2,500 to the remaining $3,250 who submit a new plan for operation of the co-op.
The response, prepared and filed by KU second-year law students Frederick Stewart, Lawrence, and Harold Matney, Ottawa, claimed that the Senate had acted completely within its established powers and that the BSU had not acted within
the response also alleged numerous technical errors and errors of fact in the IBM system.
Senate guidelines in expenditures from their allocation.
The defendants requested that any further proceedings in the case be handled by former counsel.
Matney and Stewart, listed as Counsel for the accused, also a filed motion to dismiss the charge in its entirety, claiming that the Judiciary was without jurisdiction in the case. The BSU did not be exhausted. The dismissal motion contended that the BSU was required to attempt to regain its funds by submitting a plan for re-organization of the food co-op to the Student Executive Committee before it could be eligible to appear before the
The dammsal motion further alleged that the charge was vague and failed to state an
A separate dismissal motion to drop charges against Martin, Dillon, and Allen was approved.
The motion contended that Dillon and Allen were not named in the body of the charge and that no charges were in fact levied against them.
The motion also stated that Martin was listed in the charge only in his capacity as treasurer, a position which the dismissal motion contended bound him to any action of the Senate regardless of his presence or actions.