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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
83rd Year, No. 90
House Hears Testimony On Equal Rights
Wednesday, February 14, 1973
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Kansan Staff Photo by DON PFANNENSTIEL
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Museum until Feb. 21. Elaborate colors, paper and lettering characterize these "sentimental" valentines of the mid-1800s. Most of the valentines in the exhibit were made in the United States and England.
Valentines of the 19th Century are on display at the Spooner Art
8 Vie for City Commission
David Healv
and George Stewart Kansas Staff Writers
Eight candidates filed this week for the three city commission seats that expire this spring, bringing to 14 the number of candidates. The deadline for filing was noon Tuesday.
Three of the candidates filed more ceremoniously than the others.
The candidates were Fred J. Pence, 40,
415 East 15th St.; Robert L. Elder, 43, 2636
Arkansas St.; and Gene F. Miller, 40, 305
Arrowhead Drive.
After reciting a prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, the Lawrence Support Your Local Police committee presented Tuesday a slate of three candidates pledged to bring the Lawrence City Commission back to the tavern.
"We feel the only way to be effective is to offer a slate of moral and honest men for guidance."
Tom Hart Sr., chairman of the committee, who announced the slate, said that Support Your Local Police had not been fouled as a political organization.
Hart said that the committee's members
Student Filings Due by 5 p.m.
The filing deadline for student body president and vice president is 5 p.m. today. Candidates must file a joint statement in the Senate, or the mittee chairman or in the Senate office.
The deadline for candidates for Student Senate and class officers is Feb. 21.
thought that the basic function of govern-
ment was the protection of life and property
direction.
HART COMPARED the candidates' platform to a seven-course dinner and said they would serve one course at a time. The candidates did not simply announce their campaings Tuesday, but served their hors d'oeuvres, he said.
Pence, who owns and operates The Garden Pier, 15th and New York streets, and has lived in Lawrence for 11 years, complained of what he called the present power failure that exists in city hall. He calls the city official's absence without the consent of city taxpayers.
Among recent power plays that Pence enumerated were the annexation of Michigan to New York and Massachusetts St. improvements which he said people did not like, the misuse of city sales tax revenues, the mistreatment of city residents in state legislature and a recent sidewalk controversy.
He said, "Serious questions arise concerning the activities of one of the city commissioners who owns several of the beer joints in Lawrence (some of which are public nuisances) and a large number of the gaming machines in the area.
MILLER, a former Lawrence policeman who is a shift supervisor at DuPont Co., Tecumseh, has lived in Lawrence for 22 years and is a member of the John Birch Society, attacked a city commissioner whom he would not name.
"Is there a connection between the gaming machine business and illegal gambling in Lawrence? Does a city commissioner have an unfair advantage in obtaining a license to operate beer joints?" Miller asked.
plained that Lawrence City Manager Watford Johnson Jr. spent too much time traveling around the country attending meetings at the taxpayer's expense.
"HIS JOB is in Lawrence, Kansas." Elder said. "If he feels he should attend meetings outside the state, then our answer is for him to be in a position to so on his own, and we can be an administrator who can concentrate of job of administering the city of Lawrence."
Elder said that Kansas Atty. General Vern Miller had to come to Lawrence to arrest law breakers, not because Lawrence was a city administration unresponsive to the city administration was unresponsive.
Elder, a building contractor who has lived in Lawrence for 14 years and also is a builder.
Ending the formal pronouncement, Hart said, "We ask the citizens of Lawrence to
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Nixon Plans Strategy For Monetary Talks
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Nixon said Tuesday that he will ask Congress for authority to erect tariff barriers if the federal government follow up devaluation of the dollar.
Nixon took Secretary of the Treasury George P. Shultz that "devaulation of the dollar is at best only a temporary solution of the problem."
"That is why trade legislation must follow," Nick said. "Only by getting legalization and by changing or reducing the dollar, we can have pressure on the dollar be taken off."
In signaling a tougher stance, Nikson said that as part of an effort "to get a fair deal with the company," he had to
abroad" he would ask Congress "for the right for our negotiators to go up or down" with tariffs in trade talks with other countries.
HE SINGLELED out Japan and Europe when he bected of threats I.P.I.S. hustings.
women talked up a Panda Dose of businesses. In
other major trading nations of the world
had been too slow in eliminating the trade
and monetary surpluses that have thrown
the American international economic
position out of equilibrium.
State Department officials warned these trading powers, particularly Japan and the European Common Market, that they must work quickly to restore balances or face
Europeans Laud U.S. For Devaluation Move
LONDON (AP)—European governments praised the United States on Tuesday for swiftly and decisively bringing to an end the confidence crisis in the dollar.
The surprise American decision Monday night to devolve the dollar for the second time in 14 months was seen in Europe as almost certain to stop the unprecedented selling wave of dollars on world money markets.
But fears were voiced at the same time that what has largely been a dollar crisis may now turn to speculation against other currencies and a fresh round of monetary turmoil sooner or later. Adding to the confusion was the fact that five financially important countries are now allowing their currencies to float outside fixed exchange rates.
Furthermore all the new exchange rates, in effect changes in the price of money, were bound to affect world trade by revising export prices.
Italy is the latest to join this group. The others are Britain, Canada, Switzerland, Italy and New Zealand.
Most American business leaders expressed hope that the devaluation would help to boost foreign and domestic sales by making U.S. goods cheaper abroad and foreign goods more expensive in the United States.
The first hint of how well the devaluation
severe reaction by the United States in the form of U.S. restrictions.
In Washington, President Nixon warned that the dollar devaluation was at best only a temporary solution to the free world's trade and monetary problems. British Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber voiced the hope that the dollar would be lifted off the easier foot longer-lasting reforms in the world monetary system.
THE STOCK market reacted with an initial burst of enthusiasm and analysts predicted a fresh flow of foreign investment. But some economists were lakwearm about the decision of the Nixon administration and predicted it would heat up inflation.
Docking,Rep Trade Barbs On Taxing,POWs,MIAs
liabilities of the immediate families of the POWs and MIAs and said there was a question whether the tax exemption could apply to them.
TOPEKA (AP)—The governor's office and a key Republican House committee chairman traded charges of partisan politics Tuesday in a dispute over whether Kansas already has exempted returning prisoners of war and those previously listed as missing in action in Southeast Asia from paying back state income taxes.
He also said they should get immediate refunds of taxes paid the state during the years their husbands and fathers were prisoners or missing.
The governor's office insisted emergency legislation was needed to clarify law and principles of tort enforcement and prisoners' tax liabilities for the years they were held captive or listed as missing in court.
But Rep. Shelby Smith, R-Wichita, chairman of the House Assessment and Taxation Committee, was equally adamant that Kansas already had made provision for excusing the prisoners' state income taxes because its laws conformed with federal income tax laws that already have granted the exemption for the POWs and MIAs.
Gov. Robert Docking also asked the legislature Monday to wipe out tax
is likely to work was not expected before Wednesday when most of the world's foreign exchange markets reopen for the first time since last Friday.
American tourists caught by the rate change found their traveling money did not go as far as before the move. The German tourist saw his new costs 34 cents, according to exchange rates announced in Bonn. The French franc, which cost 19% cents before the crisis, has grown from 75 cents to hand, the British pound, which is floating, was expected to rise only marginally.
Multinational companies such as automotive manufacturers, steel markets, chemical firms and textile manufacturers, that have felt some pressure from low priced imports, stood to gain the most from the devaluation.
Monsanto Co., which makes chemicals and textile fibers, said the devaluation will benefit companies like it which have large export sales. An opposite view came from who said the devaluation would do little to offset the mushrooming domestic market.
Most analysts said the devaluation would have little impact on the average American consumer. But one area where a price hike is likely meant in international air force
One harsh critic of the administration's decision was economist Eliot Janeway, who called the move a disaster and predicted European oil prices will be influxatory against the United States.
"Inflation will get worse and interest rates will go up," he said.
By JOHN PIKE
Kansan Staff Writer
Dillon Views His Role As Being 'Nonpolitical'
David Dillon said that two people would not have enough time to easily handle the job of student body president, but that he was not spressing his duties too thin.
Dillon, Hutchinson senior, says that he is able to put out the time required of the office because of his strong commitment and the that he knows his job will last only one year.
As president, Dillon is automatically a member of the Athletic Board, the Board of Directors of the Union Memorial Coronation Hospital, and a director of denominating Committee, of which he is the elected chairman. The committee is composed of student body presidents of each of the six state colleges and faculty and staff of the Board of Regents, and three members of the Board of Regents.
DILLON SERVES, by virtue of his office,
on the Homecoming Committee, the
University Senate, University Council, and
is a member of the Student Senate.
Dillon is also a member of the Chancellor Search committee and was selected as the student member of the Athletic Director program. He is enrolled in 14 hours this semester.
Dillon says he considers his time better spent keeping abreast of administration business rather than running the Student Senate.
"In a normal form I will meet with one of the vice chancellors, the chancellor, the vice president."
"IVE NEVER tried to say that I could speak for the student body," he said. "Ive tried to pull out the different segments of the student body and say, 'This is what some people are saying, this is what other people are saying.'"
secretary," he says, "I usually will walk around just talking with these people finding out what's going on, making sure they are genuinely aware of what students are thinking."
Dillon stated his reason for preferring to devote more of his time to the administration and the Board of Regents than to the overseeing of the Senate.
"I last year when we ran for election, we had with us a group of candidates who we met at a summer camp."
"Because of that we said our job was not so much to run the Student Senate, but to make sure that student views were heard." The Board of Regents and the legislature.
"IN THE PAST, some student body presidents have looked at their role as being a political one, that of steering the Student Body in the direction they wanted it to be steered in.
"I guess I'm more a nonpolitician than anyone I've seen in this position in a long time," he said. "I don't like to play politics."
Some of Dillon's critics have charged that although Dillon might not like to play
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Loss of Grants Augments Departments' Budget Woes
Editor's Note: This is the second story in a three-part series examining the impact of austere budgets on University of Kansas faculty during the past few years. Today's installment examines the causes of the financial difficulties of schools and universities and concern the consequences of departmental finances for the individual professor.
By ELAINE ZIMMERMAN Kansan Staff Writer
A professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences says such domestic chores as fixing his plumbing have cut into his research time.
"it's not good to do these things," the professor, who asked not to be identified, said. "First of all, I don't do them very well, second, I should be doing research."
his purchasing power, and made it impossible for him to pay a plumber.
This professor wouldn't have to repair his own plumbing if irritation had not eaten away at it.
As it is, his insufficient salary gives him insufficient time for research, which reduces the University's ability to obtain research grants and federal funding. And such grants are what keep many schools and departments going.
"We have never had any equipment furnished by the state," said Frances Horowitz, chairman of the department of labor. "We have nothing." "Everything we have is through grants. The
Charles Kiesler, chairman of the psychology department, said that an enormous amount of grant money was received for educational purposes, such as funding graduate research and paying secretaries. Several faculty members said that a majority of equipment used by their departments was purchased with outside funds.
faculty, not the state, equips the University."
Howard Mossberg, dean of the School of Pharmacy, said his school should not have had to reorder priorities by paying for basic equipment at the expense of research. The state should furnish the funds for equipment, he said.
It is hard to distinguish the research function from the teaching function, said Ronald McGregor, director of the Biological Sciences Administration. He said professors often used equipment that was not well suited for research in their classroom demonstrations.
In the HDLP department, Horwitz said, even subscriptions to scholarly journals are free.
Clifford Clark, dean of the School of Business, said he anticipated spending about $20,000 in private contributions to help students with current present programs. The contributions
were made to expand and improve the academic program, but must be made more suitable for smaller students.
According to several professors, "soft" money, or money from sources other than the state, is beginning to dry up. Research dollars are harder to come by because of increased competition, and President Nixon's economic policy has reduced the amount of federal monies available to states for higher education have increased slightly, but no funds have been allotted for direct grants to colleges and universities.
Several professors said that science departments could acquire soft money more easily than many other schools within the University. Mossberg attributed this to the launching of Spatnik by the Soviet Union in 1967. However, the need for expensive equipment in these departments is greater than that of other departments, be professors said.
State support for higher education increased by an extremely small amount between 1970-1971 and 1971-1972. In the projected budget for 1972-1973, the increase is more than 10 per cent over state support in either 1970-1971 or 1971-72.
The ability to attract research money and federal dollars also depends upon the quality of the school or department. An austere budget can diminish the academic standing of a department and reduce its ability to obtain soft money.
The educational and general budget for
The financial plight that faces most departments and individual professors is due to several factors in addition to the driving up of outside funds.
Reductions in outside money make departments unable to maintain their quality and even less able to tap resources of soft dollars. A perpetual motion machine of deterioration is being created that can be stopped only by an infusion of funds.
the academic year 1971-1974 was $45,066,355.
The state supplied $22,555,549 from its general revenue fund, and $8,597,451 came from the department budget comes from research, federal funds and other sources. For 1972-1973, the University spent $44,754,909, which was less than in 1971. Fees from enrollment dropped significantly to the state support; increased slightly to $22,967,480.
The estimated budget for the current academic year is $4,683,793. Student fees are estimated at $9,595,000, and the state's part of the project is projected at $2,097,292. Projected student support this year is up by 10 per cent over the amount in 1970-71.
Revenue from student fees is less than anticipated, however. For fall 1972, the university had 18,546 students actually enrolled. Most of the decrease was in the College of Liberal Arts.
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