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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Faculty Members Fight Fat
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
83rd Year. No. 81
Thursday, February 1, 1973
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Kansan Staff Photos by DAN LAUING
Expressions Reflect Routine Senate Meeting . The mood of Zane Lewis, graduate student, changes as business proceeds .
Senate Elects 2 to Council
By JOHN PIKE
Kenan Staff Writer
The Student Senate Wednesday night elected Rick McLaughlin, Dallas sophomore, and John Beisner, Salina sophomore, to the University Council.
Travel Fund Recommended For Regents
TOPEKA (AP) — The Senate Ways and Means Committee today added $10,000 to a supplemental appropriations bill to give the Board of Regents a travel fund for conducting interviews in its search for a new chancellor for the University of Kansas.
Sen. Ross O. Doyen, R-Concordia, committee chairman, said the idea to give the money was his and was not a request by the resents.
"I just think they should have the money for these interviews and their work in connection with the search for a new committee and the committee agreed," Doven said.
"They're going about it much more systematically this time, and I think it good. I want them to find the best man available."
Doyen said from nearly 200 persons who initially expressed an interest in the KU chancellorship, the regents have reduced the number under consideration to about 30.
He said this list would be further reduced to about 10, some of whom would be asked to write another list.
Also nominated for the two seats vacated by graduates were Rick Laucer, Evanston, Ill., junior, and Gary Lasche, Overland Park junior.
The Senate approved an allocation of $650 to the Committee on Indian Affairs (CLA) after lengthy debate on the reasons for the fund request.
Tom Beaver, who heads the CIA, represented the group at the meeting, and told the Senate that the CIA requested the information to be provided to the team obtained from the Endowment Association.
Beaver said the CIA mistakenly thought the allocation was granted at that time, and therefore spent $16 on CIA programs before it was discovered that the allocation had only been approved by the Finance and Auditing Committee and not by the Senate.
Beaver said the money which was spent actually came from the Endowment Association loan, and was there therefore unencumbered by Senate procedures.
"Since we got the money on loan from the bank, we've been rewarded, we bypassed all the hassles," Reservoir said.
The CIA was still asking for $650, Beaver said, to pay off the $136 already spent and to cover the costs of telephone expense, office supplies, and out-of-state travel.
Beaver said 80 of the $156 had paid for the shipping cost on a large collection for Indian art which was exhibited last semester in the Natural History Museum. The art itself had been donated to the exhibit.
The International Film Series requested and received an additional $1,200 for its production.
to $800 without serious loss to the schedule, as only five films out of the planed 14 would be released.
Gus DiZerega, Lawrence graduate student, suggested that $800 be allocated to cover all the films but the five, and a donation requested of the patrons at the five films which would otherwise have been scraped.
Representatives of the Film Series told the Student Executive Committee last week that the film was on hold.
The idea of charging admission or ac-
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Nixon Claims Right To Impound Funds
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Nixon said Wednesday that the American tax payer already was overburdened and the government would fund if the spending would mean higher taxes.
The constitutional right to impound, or refuse to spend, funds appropriated by the government.
Nixon spoke out at a news conference, when he was asked to respond to critics who say that his impoundment of funds was the wrong action, that the constitution gave to Congress.
Claiming that Congress represents special interests, Nixon said that he would represent the general interest of the nation and that the interest "whether it be rich or poor or old, is not break the family budget by raising the taxes or raising prices."
"Therefore," the President said, "I will not spend money if the Congress overspends, and I will not be for programs that will raise the taxes and put a bigger burden on the already overburdened American taxmaster."
THE IMPOUNDMENT issue has stirred up Congress.
At a Senate Judiciary subcommittee Wednesday, Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, D-Maine, said that if Nixon refused to execute his will he would have less access to enforce its will are "cruel at best."
Sen. Sam J. Ervini Jr., D-N.C., author of a bill to bar impoundments for more than 60 days without the concurrence of Congress, said a cooperative effort by the President to improve conditions if we are going to put the financial house of the federal government in order."
House Speaker Carol Albert, D-Doka, meanwhile, said "no series of acts strike more directly at Congress' fundamental power over the purse than the usurpation of president's impoundment of appropriated funds in the final months of the 92nd Congress."
In a speech prepared for the 50th anniversary celebration of Time, Inc., Albert added, "The President has interpreted his re-election as a mandate to strike down the domestic programs passed by Congress over the past 30 years."
Another speaker for the Time celebration
was republican Senate Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania.
"Congress was happy to turn the depression over to a strong president," Scott said, adding that wars can't be fought peacefully achieved "by a committee of 53."
On other legislative matters, at the President's news conference:
—NIXON, who did not consult Congress on most of his major war decisions, said Congress would have to support any effort to lift the embargo. Indochina as “an investment in peace.”
—On executive privilege, the protection of administration officials from disclosing information on Congress, Nixon said that he did not want to abuse the privilege and that his general attitude "is to be as liberal as possible" in protecting information available as congressional witnesses.
Nixon Plans Incentives For Indochina Peace
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Nixon said Wednesday that he was sending Henry Kissinger to Hanoi next week to discuss postwar financial aid for North Vietnam and the personally would meet this spring with the Tetanase President Nguyen Van Thien.
Holding his first news conference in
Reform Would Jeopardize NDSL
BY CATHY SHERMAN
Kennedy Staff Writer
Kansan Staff Writer
Many University of Kansas students might have to seek student loans for fiscal 1974 from sources outside of the Office of Student Financial Aid if Congress approves the budget cuts President Nixon recommended Monday for two student financial aid officers. Jerry Rogers, director of the student financial aid office at KU, said Wednesday.
Nixon called for the elimination of funding for the National Direct Student Loan program (NDSL) and Educational Opportunity Grant (EOG), Rogers said. These two programs would be replaced by a "basic opportunity grant" which would be provided to students in the program. The program would provide grants to students not loans, Rogers said.
"Basically, the government just wants to get out of the loan business," he said.
If Congress should decide to eliminate further funding for NDSL, then the amount
of money the financial aid office had to lend would be drastically reduced. Roards said.
in fiscal 1973, $800,000 of the $1,100,000 loaned to about 1,700 students from NDSL. Rogers said, was from federal and state funds, he added, a lease of a loan up to $1,000 an academic year.
"All that we could lend next year would be money we collect from students making a living."
Rogers said that if students could not obtain the loans, many might have trouble getting loans from private sources, particularly those students from low-income families who did not have established credit or bank accounts. The NDSL is available to any students who shows need within the limits of the funds available.
Interest on the NDSL is 3 per cent and is lower than interest on loans from private sources, Rogers said. There is no payment on the loan until the twelfth month of termination, Rogers said, and the student has up to 10 years to pay.
Rogers said he thought that in many cases the new basic opportunity grant would be a better deal for the student than the NDSL, because it was a grant and not a loan.
Students who wanted more than the grant would provide them might have preferred a different option.
The basic opportunity grant recommended by Nixon would provide a maximum of $1,400 to any student who qualified, Rogers said, but the student must have obtained parental financial statement, as they do now, which could lessen the amount.
Each family's financial situation would be studied to determine how much the family could reasonably contribute to the retirement fund. The amount would then be deducted from the $1,400.
One of the differences between the old EOG, which involved 381 students and 40 teachers, compared to the opportunity grant, would be that the funds for the new grant program would be kept in a federal pool for distribution rather than individual universities as it is now. Roger G.
Rogers said that if Congress did approve cutting off the funds late this spring, after the deadline for financial aid applications, it would produce a considerable burden for both the financial aid office and the students.
nearly four months, Nixon said the intricate agreement signed Saturday in Paris could bring peace "in Indochina for a very long period of time."
Nixon said the once-warring parties needed "incentives to peace." He cited the Indochina-wide reconstruction program as a response to it, saying it "a potential investment in peace."
With the postwar aid, Nixon said, the North Vietnamese "will have a tendency to turn inward to the works of peace rather than turning outward to the works of war."
The visit to Hanoi Feb. 10-13 will open "vitally important . . . direct communication" with top North Vietnamese leaders, Nixon said.
Kissinger's mission as the first ranking American official to reach Hanoi in more than a decade was announced by the White House about an hour before Nixon appeared in the executive mansion's news briefing room.
Nixon announced he would meet with Thieu at the Western White House in San Clemente, Calif., at a "mutually convenient" time in the spring.
Fielding reporters' questions for 36 minutes, the President also;
- REITERATED THAT he would not grant anemity to those who "chose to desert their country" rather than serve in Vietnam;
—Bitterly chastised critics in the media and intellectual circles, declaring he had achieved peace with honor although "I" tags some of you to write that phrase.
Data 'Sandbox' Developed
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By MYLA STARR
By MYLA STARK
Kansan Staff Writer
To most people, a one-of-a-kind computer worth $1.25 million is an awesome machine. To Robert Nunley, professor of geography at the University of Chicago and co-founder of such a unit, it is a toy.
Nunley has developed a rather whimsical philosophy about the new Spatial Distribution Computer (SDC) which is used in the KU Space Technology Building.
BLACK AND WHITE trees of diminishing size give the walls an illusion of space, Nunley said, and the dropped ceiling and indirect light break up the space as does the computer. The deep pile carpeting is the self-explanatory color of sand.
The home of the SDC reflects this philosophy. Nurley and his associates worked for several months turning the University allotment of $3,800 for "equipping" the computer room into a information center about the function of the SDC.
"We know that we don't know all of the answers to the enormous number of problems, so we have developed a flexible set of tools to get into and build sand castles," he said.
"It is a big sandbox," Nunley said.
Nunley said the room was designed to promote comfort, so that people using the SDC could relax and enjoy "playing" with it.
"Most computer rooms have an antiseptic atmosphere," he said. "We emphasize playing rather than working with the computer—interacting with it rather than running it. I call it my cybernetic sandbox for scholars."
The SDC, which Nunley has nicknamed FACES (Facility for Analyzing Complex Environmental Spaces), is the only computer of its kind in the country. Its unique quality is the ability to analyze multidimensional concepts.
"MOST COMPUTERS are one-dimensional and are programmed by feeding individual numbers into them," are arranged in the form of a picture."
"Students in geography, fine arts, architecture, chemistry and physics will all be able to use the computer," he said. "It is useful with any information that is visual."
Nunley said the SDC was capable of analyzing any process which occurs in two or three dimensions, such as the spread of a cloud flow of a stream or the migration of people.
According to Nunley, the SDC combines the advantages of both analog and digital computers. By combining the strong points of both types, the time involved in setting up and finding answers by computer has been greatly minimized, he said.
THE SDC WILL be ready for limited use in one month, Nunley said, but will not be put into full operation for another six months. This will give the developers time to write programs and "tune up" the computer, he said.
But the computer's analytical capacities are not limited to working with artificial intelligence.
"The same problem that takes one minute
Future plans for the SDC system include construction of a second computer unit and a color television monitor to display program results.
on the SDC could require several hours or several days on a single dimension computer.
Nunley said that the SDC was the first general purpose multipurpose dimensional computer to be developed in the country. He said that the SDC specialized three-dimensional computers.
THE ORIGINAL IDEA for the SDC system was born seven years ago in Chicago, and the term was not begun until January 1972. In the interim, construction plans were finalized.
Working with Nunley on the project are Geoffrey Roper, Montreal senior, and Michael Fischer, a junior in geology and geography at Beltol College in Beltol, Wisc., who is involved in a work term program offered by the Beltol college. The program allows him to get credit for his work here. Fischer is the DCS systems analyst.
In July 1971, a $250,000 grant was received from the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C., and construction of the computer was begun six months later. The NSF also contributed $160,000 for preliminary research on the SDC.
The difference between the NSF contribution and the $1.25 million cost of the computer was contributed by Interpretation Systems, (inc., IIS) a custom electronics firm based in Lawrence. As a return on investment for its work with the SDC in their product line, Roper said.
According to Roper, ISI has already sold a similar system to a firm in Alaska for use in the analysis of remote sensing data from satellites. One component of the SDC will soon be used by the medical industry in the analysis of x-rays, he said.
Kansan Photo by FELICIA SMALLWOOD
Robert Nunley Works with FACES, a Unique Computer Worth $1.25 Million
His new Spatial Distribution Computer is housed in the Space Technology Lab . . .