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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
83rd Year, No.91
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Sanitary Landfill To be Completed By 1975
Thursday, February 15, 1973
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Kansas Staff Photos by PRIS BRANDSTEED
Roger Martin, Student Senate Treasurer, Examines Letter . BSU charges "invidious discrimination" in suit announced at Wednesday night meeting .
Rieke Urges Bill Passage
By MYLA STARR
Kansan Staff Writer
Topeka—Financial requirements for increased health care facilities and expansion of the physical plant at the University of Kansas Medical Center were discussed Tuesday by Dr. William O. Rieke, vice chancellor for health affairs, in a joint session of the Kansas House and Senate Ways and Means committees in Topeka.
During the committee hearing, Rieke recommended passage of Senate Bill 90, section 9, which would revise the Medical Center's expenditure authority and make
available additional revenue for the current fiscal year.
He also urged passage of Senate Bill 260, which would make $28.3 million from the state general fund available to the Medical Center to build new buildings on the Kansas City campus.
Senate Bill 280 should come before the legislature within the next month. Hickey is running for re-election.
Rieke said the increasing demand for health services and student training at the Medical center justified the legislative appropriation of funds.
He said that enrollment had been ino increase in both inpatient and outpatient demands also puts financial pressure on the Medical Center, he said, as do maintenance of the open heart surgery center and the interdisciplinary cancer research and demonstration center.
Secretary of State William Rogers will sign the agreement at the State Department, while a Cuban official will sign it simultaneously in Havana.
Cuba, U.S. Come to Terms On Handling of Hijackers
WASHINGTON (AP) -The United States and Cuba will sign an antihacking agreement at 11:30 a.m. today, U.S. officials sav.
As outlined by these officials, Cuba and the United States will agree to either extradite or prosecute persons guilty of blacking airplanes or ships.
U. S. officials said the agreement was very satisfactory and would serve as both a real and a psychological deterrent to blacking.
creased to meet increased demand, but that temporary measures were taken which could not be maintained without the current capacity of the currently proposed capital expansion plan.
However, the agreement does not affect the traditional American position concerning acceptance of respect by a Cuban may violate a Cuban law in escaping to the United States, if he does not endanger either himself or his country. If he would be unable for extradition, he would not be allowed for extradition.
Such a refugee would be liable to
prosecution under existing U.S. laws, which could lead to charges of illegal entry. An American official said that the agreement pledges the United States to enforce such laws, including the neutrality acts that allow for legal and property for attacks on other nations.
Because the United States and Cuba do not have diplomatic relations, a relatively complicated system of antihijack negotiations has been followed, with the Swiss ambassadors in Washington and Havana acting as intermediaries.
An additional $263,000 in general revenue appropriation was needed in fiscal 1973, he said, to support increasing numbers of residents and interns in Kansas City as well as satellite branches of the Medical Center in Wichita and Garden City.
But because the Czechoslovakian embassy in Washington represents Cuban interests in the United States, the state may be assigned by the commission to be addressed to the Czech ambassador.
The signing ended negotiations that opened Nov. 25 with a Cuban note expressing interests in reaching an antijihacking agreement. The last of seven notes exchanged in the protracted negotiations was received in Washington Saturday night.
The text signed in Havana will be sent to the Swiss ambassador in that city.
Major expansion of the Medical Center's physical plant was also reviewed by Rieke in the committee hearing. New facilities will include a $6 million basic science building, a $10 million medical funded by a federal grant, and a new clinical building, which would raise the potential patient load at the Medical Center to 800. The building would also provide additional facilities for medical service areas and specialized units such as intensive care and emergency service.
The cost of the new clinical building has been estimated at $48.3 million, which includes $2 million for fees and land acquisition.
Last year the legislature approved a $64 million bond issue for the expansion, but Governor Docking has recommended that $28 million of the funding be paid by the state to cut bond interest costs. Rieke said that cut taxpayer costs by $7 million.
Rieke said all funds appropriated would be used to improve health care throughout the state. He said 30 per cent of the inpatient counties and 25 per cent of the county counties judge, Johnson and Wondetoe.
Training of a physician at the Medical Center requires $12,000-$13,000 a year, he is
BSU Charges Senate With Discrimination
By JOHN PIKE
Kansan Staff Writer
The Black Student Union (BSU) filed an action with the University Judiciary Wednesday charging the Student Senate in its actions involving the BSU.
The suit also alleges "arbitrary and capricious taking of property" in the Dec. 6 senate action to remove $3,000 of the BSU's food co-op allocation and to freeze the remaining $3,250 until the co-op could be reorganized to the senate's satisfaction.
Roger Martin, senate treasurer and Lawrence third-year law student, announced the action during the senate meeting Wednesday night. Martin, both individually and as treasurer, and the three senators are named as defendants in the suit.
The BSU action further charges the data center attempting to force the BSU to spend a fraction of its cementments throughout the year and that no other funded organization has been so
The suit was signed by KU third-year law students Gary Jackson, Lawrence; Richard Jones, Topki; and Louis Sturk, Rekwal, Tex. All were listed as RSU advisers.
The suit, filed with the hearing division of the Judiciary, alleges that the action to remove $3,000 from the BSU “amounts to an arbitrary and capricious taking of property by the State.” The suit also demands of law and in contravention of the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution."
The suit also claims the senate did not hold fair hearings before taking the action.
Such action "amounts to invidious discrimination in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution." The suit says.
The action seeks temporary and permanent injunctions enjoining the senate from withholding BSU spring semester funds and mandatory relief to order Martin to approve BSU vouchers which are "proper on their face."
Martin has refused to approve couchers this semester for the BSU co-op because of their sexism.
In addition, the suit asks a declaratory judgment finding the senate actions "arbitrary and capricious" and "a taking of BSU property without due process of law."
The defendants have until Feb. 28 to
answer the suit. Should formal hearings
be allowed, also give the
location of closed on.
Four bills died on the floor of the senate when they failed to receive introduction into the Senate.
They were a bill asking the University attorney to determine the legality of senate appropriations, a proposed change in the method of electing members to the University Council, a proposal for senate impeachment guidelines and a request by the Secretary Graduate Student Organization for $200 to attend a convention.
Two other bills listed on the agenda were not discussed. They were a proposal to refund 40 cents from the contingency fund to each student and a proposal to allow each student to allocate his own share of the activity fee.
Five appropriation bills were passed by the senate. The KU Hockey Club received $200 of its $1,911 request. The money will be used to pay for ice rink rental.
The KU Amateur Radio Club received its entire request of $380 to pay for additional equipment.
The Jayhawk Jamboree received $1,000 for its annual spring program.
The Kansas Engineer, a magazine published by students in the School of Engineering, was allocated $500 for increased costs of printing.
The Volunteer Clearing House received two requests of $210 to pay for new programs.
In response to the Hockey Club's allocation for ice rental, several senators circulated a petition to recruit members for a new organization, the KU Mountaineering
Gus DiZerega, Lawrence graduate student and apparent chairman of the group, said the group would meet at 3 p.m. to discuss the plan and determine the size of its allocation request.
The group originally said it would ask for sufficient funds to build a mountain in Lawrence but later decided to ask only for the cost of the mountains it climbed.
A proposal to allocate $3,000 to pay for free beer in the Union "until the beer runs out or the fiscal year ends, whichever comes first," was defeated.
Only 1 Candidate Files For Top Senate Office
Only one team of candidates for student body president and vice president filed before the deadline of 5 p.m. Wednesday.
They were Mert Buckley, Wichita sophomore, president; and Nancy Archer, Anamosa, Iowa, junior, vice president.
Dave Ellen, Hutchinson senior and student body president, said Wednesday that the school's new policy
Dilson said write-in candidates would be eligible to win only if both candidates had been members of the Student Senate and were run together ran together in a write-in campaign.
The deadline for filing for Student Senate and class officers is 5 p.m. Feb. 21
Mert Bucklev
Hanoi to Help Decide Scope of Aid
WASHINGTON (AP)—Haniol and Washington announced agreement Wednesday on creating a joint economic forum between the U.S. and to rebuild war-battled North Vietnam.
The disclosure came in a joint commune unqueque outlining nearly four days of the Nixon administration's President Nixon's chief foreign policy aid. Ronald Ziegler, White House press secretary, said Kissinger and North Vietnamese officials had potential U.S. reconstruction assistance.
Predicting the joint commission would be set in up about a month, Ziegler said any dollar figures would first be discussed in a conference to further consultation with Congress.
The 700-word communique expressed hope the Kissinger visit *will mark the end of* that era.
It also spoke of "imperative measures" necessary to carry out the Vietnam peace accord signed in Paris on January 27. It did not elaborate.
Ziegler said in response to questions that one such item on which Kissinger and the North Vietnamese agreed was the need to set up a system for trying to trace Americans still listed as missing in action in Indochina.
The communique said Kissinger and Hanoi officials "also agreed they would continue to have periodic exchanges of views" with the aim of making sure the Paris accords "are strictly and scrupulously implemented."
Kissinger was en route to Peking via Hong Kong and will leave there next Monday, making an overnight stop in Tokyo, before returning to Washington the next day.
Ziegler said Kissinger would hold a conference on his hand and Peking talks soon.
The communiqué said Kissinger and Hanoi officials 'exchanged views on the manner in which the United States will contribute to healing the wounds of war and
to postwar economic construction in North Vietnam."
It said they agreed on a joint commission, with an equal number of representatives from each nation, to develop economic relations between the United States and North Vietnam.
There has been persistent talk of $7.5 billion to be distributed throughout Indochina over a five-year period to help repair war damages. Of the total, North Vietnam presumably would claim about $2.5 billion.
The United States would be but one of a number of nations and international organizations contributing to such a fund. Nixon's latest federal budget, for the bookkeeping year that begin July 1, combines money earned for North Vietnam.
Administration officials have indicated that if aid money is needed during the time span of the new budget, the funds would be used by some part of a section of the federal spending blueprint.
Austere Budgets Reduce Availability of KU Supplies
Editor's Note: This is the conclusion of a three-part series examining the impact of autereal budgets during the past few years on the University of Kansas faculty. Hearings for the fiscal 1974 budget begin this morning before a joint session of the Kansas House and Senate Ways and Means Committee.
Many University of Kansas professors must pay for paper, stamps and envelopes they use in their normal teaching duties. They absorb the cost personally because of a 10-per-cent reduction this year in supply and maintenance budgets.
By ELAINE ZIMMERMAN Kansan Staff Writer
Rising costs, reductions in revenue from student fees, small increases in state support, shifts in enrollment patterns that make some departments overcrowded and
Faculty members encounter countless situations in which the facilities in their buildings are not available.
reductions in research grants and federal
have contributed to the financial
involvement of researchers.
University office supplies are used sparingly by professors and are unavailable to students. Both sides of dittos are being used in the KU geology department, and no photocopying is done. Ernest Angio said, chairman of the department of geology.
Professors also face a shortage of secretarial help. The secretarial staff in the human development and family life department has not increased at a rate comparable to enrollment increases, as chairman of the department, said.
Charles Kiesler, chairman of the department of psychology, said he had been recruiting new faculty members and had reviewed the credentials of 1,000 applicants. The department also handles about 500 graduate school applications every year, he said, and all the paperwork must be done by three secretaries.
Howard Mossberg, dean of the School of Pharmacy, said federal funds enabled the school to prevent cutbacks of office materials. Office supplies, other than mailing materials, are supplied for faculty members in the chemistry department, said John Landgrebe, department chairman.
The work-study program, four-fifths financed by federal funds, has enabled the school to provide private and secretarial staff. It is the equipment budget that has affected the chemistry department most. Landgrebe said.
Laboratory experiments are being redesigned to use cheaper chemicals, Landgrabre said. He said that the chemistry department at one time wrote off lab equipment breakages of less than $1 but would be charged for all materials they broke.
The annual orders of chemicals and glassware have been reduced, said J. K. Lee, associate professor of chemistry, and inventories of expensive items are
becoming depleted. Three weeks ago the
electrodes for the first three years, he said,
were in good condition.
The effect of cutbacks in chemicals and equipment is subtle and long-term, and undergraduates often do not realize there are significant benefits, but the quality of education is lowered.
The Biological Sciences Administration needs $12,000 to meet "minimal standards for supply and equipment," Ronald McGregor, chairman of the administration,
Angino said the geology department had equipment and an equipment budget of $1.5 million.
The department also must reduce the number of rock samples it purchases. In the course of study, samples often get broken, but the department "gets by" by using
"Obsolete equipment does the student no good," he said. "He won't see this equipment when he goes on the job. Modern places just don't have it."
"Preventive maintenance is better in the run, but we can't afford it," he said. "We wait."
smaller and smaller samples, Angino said. Small pieces of equipment, such as geologic hammer, are beyond the reach of the department's budget, he said.
Maintenance of equipment also is a problem, Angino said. The University cannot afford to maintain service contracts on its equipment. Without contracts, he repairmen are in no hurry to fix equipment, and each service call costs more.
Angino said many geology classes took field trips. Some of the cars available to the department have more than 80,000 miles on them, he said, so professors often use their own cars at their own expense for safety's sake.
Arthur Katz, dean of the School of Social Affairs, and travel also was a big part of his career. He is survived by his wife, Julie.
were doing field work in many different parts of the state.
"It is absolutely necessary for the educational program that our faculty visit these students on a regular basis to discuss and evaluate their work," Katz said. "This results in travel costs which are part of the budget, as well as when we cut gets in trouble."
He said telephone expenses in the School of Social Welfare also were high because of the necessity for contact between teachers and their students in the field.
A freeze was placed on faculty hiring at the beginning of the academic year. In departments that had vacant positions at that time, professors have had to teach more classes and have had even less time to devote to research.
Professoras desire to use films for their classes often find them unavailable. Ross A. Johnson, a professor at New York University,
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