A LITTLE WARMER
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
83rd Year, No. 93
Regents Approve Med Center Grant
Monday, February 19, 1973
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Groups Miss Contract Date; Funds Frozen
Forty-two organizations funded by the Student Activity Fee that failed to sign Capital Disposition Contracts by a Friday deadline have had their allocations frozen.
The organizations will not be able to spend any more money until they have filed a contract with the senate treasurer's office.
Roger Martin, Lawrence third-year law student and treasurer, said Friday that the contract, which required groups to obtain approval from the treasurer before spending any of their allocations, would help the groups as well as the Senate.
Martin said the contract would help groups to know that sufficient funds were available before they made purchases, and that he could provide assistance for which they would be liable.
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The groups that had not signed by the deadline were: American Studies Undergraduate Association, Student Bar Association, Black-Tects, Business School Council, Chemistry Graduate Students, Committee On Indian Affairs, Community School (Yellow Brick Road), Concert Course, College of Arts and Sciences, Student Employment Referral Service, Student Court for Exceptional Children, Fine Arts School Council, Kansas Free University, French Department Play, Graduate School Council.
Pride
attended the Indian powwow at the Lawrence community Center Saturday night. Attendees were joined by Lawrence Indian Center, brought together different tribes of the area. Many of those who attended were traditional or ceremonial dancers and danced traditional Indian dances.
Funds were also frozen for Headquarters, Hillop Child Care, Graduate Association of History Students, Hockey Club, Intramural Games, Journalism School Council, Kansas Engineer, Karate Club, KU-Y, Law School Council, Law Students School Association Group, Music School Council, Arts School Council, Media Club, Music Educators National Conference, National Environmental Law Society, Pharmacy School Council, American Pharmaceutical Association, Amateur Radio Club, Rugby Team, Sailing Club, Scuba Diving Club, Club, Slavic Club, Student Voice Association and Supportive Education Services.
Four year old Eugene Big Goose, Wichita, sitting next to his grandfather Hollis Stabler, Sr., paused to refresh himself and look over some of the 500 persons who
Docking Tactics Evaluated
By ELAINE ZIMMERMAN Konson Staff Writer
Gov. Robert Docking has been attacking the Republican legislative leadership during the past several days, but how the attacks relate to Docking's attempt to get legislative support for his programs is open to question.
In Pittsburgh Saturday, Docking accused the Republican leadership of using strong arm tactics to dictate legislative policy. Docking said Thursday in Lawrence that the legislature was considering cutting funds from the higher education budget.
Republican leaders and a spokeswoman for the governor gave varying explanations of the event.
Senate President Robert Bennett, RPriature Village, said, "I suppose if he doesn't trust that a program has logical validity behind it, the program he can do is to resort to personalities."
Speaker of the House Diane S. (Pete) McGill, R-Winfield, said he thought Docking's comments were a "divide and conquer approach," an attempt create a
division between the House and the Senate. Docking and his staff members have been trying to divide the legislature for some time, he said.
Following a statewide tour by Docking during the last legislative session, Shaffer will participate in a conference.
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He said Docking was trying to do the same thing this year to enlist support for his circuit breaker properly tax and his school fee. The company has been on notice in the leisurature. Shaffer said,
on their legislators to pass the governor's tax lid program. The overwhelming popular support was that got the tax lid through an adamant legislature, he said.
Docking's latest attack on the Republicans came Saturday in Pittsburg.
He accused the Republican leadership of being outcidicat and dictating the fate of his campaign.
"In essence, the Republican legislative leadership has served notice on the rest of the Republican legislators that the leaders will use strong-arm tactics on the legislators to vote against the circuit breaker. Docking said. These autocratic misconducts better work when the consultation of the other Republican legislators."
"If a Republican legislator steps out of line," Docking said, "they simply put that maverick legislator's pet bills so far down on the calendar that they will never be voted upon—that is, until the legislator decides he will step into the tightly regimented procedure dictated by the Republican leadership."
He said the speaker of the House and the president of the Senate controlled committee activities and the calendar of each house.
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U.S. Files Charge Against Viet Cong
SAIGON (AP)-The United States formally charged the Viet Cong on Sunday with shootting down an American helicopter on a peacekeeping mission and asked the International Commission of Control and to undertake an immediate investigation.
The craft was downed Friday north of Saigon and its five crewmen were wounded. The investigation is the first the United States has sought from the commission on its own
Maj. Gen, Gilbert H. Woodward, chief of the U.S. delegation to the military commission, first sought an investigation by the military commission itself. but he said HeL. Gen. Tran Van Tra, the senior Viet Cong representative, refused.
Woodward's note to the international peace body went to Chairman Michel Gauvin of Canada. Copies also went to delegation chiefs of Canada, Indonesia, Hungary, which make up the International Commission of Control and Supervision.
The unarmed helicopter crashed in flames
Growing Pains Plague University Libraries
By DIANE YEAMANS
Kansan Staff Writer
Use of the University of Kansas libraries increased in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972, but the number of books purchased decreased by more than 14,000.
The annual library report, released last week, states that the increase in the use of services reflects increased academic activity among students. Fall enrollment at KU increased only 3.2 per cent, but the use of the library increased 15 per cent.
The report says many students and faculty members doing research cannot find the materials they need in the KU libraries. That problem is reflected in a 26 per cent increase in loans from other libraries.
Lending to other libraries is up only 2.7 per cent, compared to a jump of 27 per cent for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1971, the report states. According to the report, the Kansas Interlibrary Loan network offers other libraries in Kansas through the Kansas Interlibrary Loan Network.
David Heron, director of the libraries, said the libraries had the same amount of money as in the previous year but that increase was due to the cost of books has increased 13 per cent, he said, and the cost of periodicals has increased 10 to 15 per cent, a disproportionate decrease.
The increase in postal rates may have been a contributing factor. Heron said.
Space is another problem facing the libraries, and the report says that KU libraries have only 85 per cent of the space available. The report says that the Bareithe-Bschiller formula.
This formula, introduced a few years ago by E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., former chancellor at KU is based on the size of the institution, enrollment, faculty, academic programs and the various types of laboratories.
The KU libraries together have a total of 255,000 square feet. Using the formula, a linear projection in the report shows that the libraries will need 165,000 additional square feet, for a total of 420,000 square feet in 1980.
Depending on several variables, the increase may be limited to about 40 or 60 per cent.
The report says that the projected in-
crease in home price decreases, which would require less sapping
space in the library; if the prices of books continue to increase at their present rate so that they cannot be purchased; or if more space which require less space, are purchased.
According to the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education manual concerning the allocation of library space in institutions of higher education, cited by the教育部, the library is below half the standard reading station for every four students.
More stack space also will be needed in two or three years to meet the manual's requirements.
Heron said the Spencer Research library, a gift to the University, had presented a new database for research library. Although it has added about 9,000 square feet to the capacity statistics, he said, it hasn't absorbed much burden from the other libraries on campus.
shortly after it had dropped off a jeep and office equipment for a field headquarters of the Joint Military Commission at An Loc, the U.S. Command said. Spokesman it was hit with small arms and automatic weapons fire.
One crewman suffered critical burns and has been transferred from the U.S. Army Hospital in Saigon to a hospital in Okinawa for treatment for treating burns, the command reported.
The spokesmen said that although the CH47 Chinko helicopter was supporting the Joint'Military Commission, it did not carry the neutral orange markings of helicopters assigned to the commission. The CH47 had been requested by a civilian contracting agency setting up Joint Hillary Commission field sites, a command spokesman said.
The Saigon command alleged 167 violations of the cease-fire during the 24-hour period ended at 8 a.m. Sunday and an additional 55 alleged violations by the Communist side between dawn and noon Sunday.
An appeal to stop the fighting was issued at noon Saturday and broadcast over Saigon radio, the American forces Vietnam network. The vite Conn Radio and Hanoi Radio.
L. Col. Le Trung Hien, chief spokesman for the Saigon command, said the number of violations nevertheless was the same as the past week. He said the violations included rocket and mortar attacks, ground assaults and the penetration of hamlets and villages.
"It seems to us," Hien said, "the Communist units did not try at all to respect the appeal made by the four-party Joint Military Commission."
North Vietnam charged that Saigon itself had violated the cease-fire from one end of South Vietnam to the other and was causing obstacles and difficulties for North Narramese and Viet Cong delegates to the Joint Military Commission.
CLARK AIR BASE, Philippines (AP)—Twenty happy, ecstatic service flewmen from the Philippines.
2nd Group of POWs Looks Happy, Healthy
Senate Filings Due Feb.21
Candidates for Senate must pay a $5 fee when they file. Class officer candidates must present a petition with the signatures of 50 students supporting their candidacy and the $5 filing fee.
prisons on Sunday. They were the healthiest looking prisoners to return so far.
The filing deadline for Student Senate positions and class officers is 1 p.m. Wednesday. Candidates may file with Sterling Hall, Sublette someone and the elections committee, or in the Student Senate office.
About 1,500 greeters lined the flight line and cheered as the jubilant men walked on to a red carpet from a C141 Starflier that brought them from Hanoi.
Their early return was the second POW release since the Vietnam cease-fire. It came ahead of schedule as a goodwill gesture by the North Vietnamese.
"We're mighty glad to be here. It's been a long time," said Cmdr. James Glenn Pirre, 39, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Lemoore, Calif.
His description here defends his description in my emotion.
Pirie, who was captured in 1967, was the ranking officer among the returned prisoners and made a brief arrival statement on their behalf.
"We're proud to be American, we're proud of our commander-in-chief, President Nixon, and we're proud of the American Forces." See GUIDE Next Page.
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State Director Chastised for Lax Pollution Standards
By PHIL McLAUGHLIN Kenson Staff Writer
Kansan Staff Writer
A recent state of environmental protection bills in the Kansas Legislature, designed to put some teeth into the state's anti-pollution standards, has been in support as criticism of Melville Gray, director of the state's environmental health services.
Gray has been accused by several state senators, private citizens and a University of Kansas law professor of "dragging his foot in the mud" for violating environmental protection standards.
The charges against Gray range from allegations of general negligence to assault.
"We've fought him tooth and nail. Sen
Norman Gaul, R-Westwood, said. We think
he has served the polluters rather than we
public."
Gaar is one of the sponsors of the package of environmental bills in the senate. He said that both he and the other sponsors, Sen. Mike Munger, D-Kansas City, and Sen. Edward Leavandworth, thought that Gray was shuffling his feet rather than taking positive action.
politician, a bureaucrat who is doing a job half-heartedly.
In his own defense, Gray said that his job involved complex technical problems and economic realities that eliminated the need for equipment to pollute or to pollution problems. There are limitations on the ability of industry to comply, he said, because of a need for equipment never made before, economically unfeasible and technical problems of installation and time.
*HE FIGHTS all our bills.* "Gaar said. 'Don't think he's an environmentalist.' He is a
Gaar said Gray had opposed any attempts in the legislature to give his agency more teeth to deal with polluters. For this reason, he would vote against oppose the package legislation this session.
National pollution standards and compliance dates are set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), whose power derives from several federal laws, including the Water Pollution Control Act, the 1963 Clean Air Act and the 1972 Noise Control Act.
THE EPA gives each state the opportunity to submit plans for complying with federal standards. The plans of each state, their compliance deadlines and the standards they set, must all be approved by the EPA.
If a state fails to meet national regulations, the EPA simply steps in to take over whatever part of state responsibility is尼救ed.
In Kansas, the lion's share of the responsibility for setting state standards is held by the health department's division of Environmental Health Services. State law gives the Board of Health the power to set standards that require the authority to implement them.
For example, if the air pollution standards set by a state are not as stringent as the federal standards, then the federal standards will pre-empthem. The EPA has the authority to promulgate any regulations to fill a gap in the state protection.
THE WICHITA, Topeka and Kansas City, areas have been given the authority to regulate their own environments as long as they set and enforce standards comparable to state standards. Any local failure would result in the state pre-empiring the local authority.
In the case of air pollution, Gray said, the process for air control involves an individual consideration of each emission source in the state.
Each industry is given an individualized
schedule for compliance with the state standards by 1975. He said that if any industry violated a direct order by his agency, he was responsible. Kansas attorney general to try the case.
Gray said there were 5,000 sources of air emissions in the state, and with his limited staff and funds, there was no possible way to monitor each one.
"We have no way under the sun now to go around on an individual case basis," he said. "But we are concerned with rapid improvement. We want the maximum amount of good in the least amount of time."
"I think that we are doing a whole hell of a lot more than a lot of states," Grav said.
HE SAID that people who were hounding him for not doing a better job just didn't understand all the limitations with which he had to work.
Coggins said that the only significant positive action for environmental protection
George Coggins, professor of law at KU and chairman of the Lawrence Sierra Club, acknowledged that the Health Department's environmental division was driven by money and staff, but said that Gray was liable a poor job with his available resources.
"He's doing a terrible job," he said, "and one of the problems is attitudinal."
As an example of Gray's alleged lax attitude, Coggins said that as last summer, municipalities had permits to discharge waste into the waters of the state. He said this was in violation of a Kansas law which had been on the books since the beginning of the 1980s.
Both Coggins and Gaar were skeptical of
in Kansas had been the result of federal intervention or prodding.
Gray interpreted the law to mean that anything that he might release could make him liable for prosecution. An opinion from the Supreme Court held with that interpretation, according to Gray.
I retease any data on air quality that identified the source directly or indirectly. I would be guilty of a class C misdemeanor," Grav said.
GRAY HAS also been attacked for not releasing the data that his office collects on statewide emission sources. There is, in part, a reluctance to demand misdemenor to release any information about any industry that would reveal trade secrets in their competitive business dealings.
Gray's contention that he couldn't find any objective criteria for judging whether some data would be relessible under Kansas law and that he did not formation to protect himself. But an EPA spokesman said that Gray was probably justified by being cautious about any
"The state law is deficient in that area," said John Morse, EPA Regional Counsel. "They don't have the legal authority to give the name of the industry to the public."
MORSE SAID that this was in violation of the EPA's policy of releasing all emission
A bill sponsored by Sen. Wesley Sowers, R-Wichita, that has already passed the senate is supposed to remedy this situation. But Coggins said that both Sowers' bills and the present law were mackeries because they allowed the withholding of emissions data in certain circumstances. This would also mean that both Sowers' bills which states that such data cannot be withheld for any reason, according to Morse.
The Kansas plan for enforcing air stances was also altered to Morrill. He said the new plan, according to Morrill, He said the
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