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Tuesday, July 23, 1974
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Exigency Controversy
The preoccupation of the university governance system has been, for nearly a year, the discussion of financial exigency.
When reduced to simplest terms, financial exigency is the fiscal situation in which the University must eliminate the jobs of one or two faculty members who had been grafted lifetime job security, or tenure.
This situation could occur if state support of the University decreases as projected enrollment falls to about 14,000 by 1983.
The University Senate Executive Committee created an ad hoc committee to investigate financial exigency upon request from Chancellor Archie R. Dykes.
This faculty and student group produced a carefully reasoned report. It includes an expanded definition of financial exigency providing an equitable procedure for equitable compensation; the member might be terminated if it were warranted by the University's financial position.
That was in April. Unfortunately, a small group of faculty members, most of whom already have tenure, has prevented the report from being an official recommendation to the University administration.
These faculty members—many are members of the local American Association of University Professors (AAUP)—have used emotional pleas and dubious action by the University Council and University Senate on the report.
A response to the report by the AAUP Executive Committee contains two objections to the report.
First, they charge that the report was hastily prepared without authorization.
The ad hoc committee spent countless hours during almost four months preparing the report. Three public meetings were held.
afree public meetings were held to afford faculty and students an
opportunity to voice their concerns.
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faculty team.
Now several faculty members, coincidently AAUP members and calling themselves "a group of concerned faculty members," are preparing a report of their own, presented to the University Senate.
It is unusual that a group so concerned about faculty input would prepare its report during this brief summer session when many faculty members are away from campus.
It is also unusual that few persons outside the group have been asked for suggestions. These concerned faculty members had not taken the benefit of the experiences of the ad hoc committee members.
Second, the AAUP favors the declaration of financial exigency for the University as a whole, rather than in its individual units as was suggested in the ad hoc committee's report. An AAUP officer recently said that the University would have to give every buildings and grounds employee, every secretary and every untenured faculty member before any tenured faculty member could be terminated.
This position cannot be_defended to the student body, to the state legislature or to the public. Its logic requires that an excellent untenured faculty member in a department with growing enrollment be dismissed before a tenured, and perhaps less competent, professor in a program with declining enrollment.
Financial exigency should be declared in those departments or schools that are exigent—those with declining enrollment.
Hopefully, the will of a few self-interested faculty members will be overcome by the collective wisdom of the faculty and students in the University School of Law. The interests of the University are at stake.
—Richard Paxson
1974 Campaign Circus
The circus is coming.
As steadily and as predictably as a Barnum & Bailey troupe train rolling towards Peoria, that biennial big, big All-American show is coming to town.
The grand finale isn't until November 5, but the advance men are already here and hard at work. And if what the ballyhoo boys are putting out is any indication of how entertain us, this year's big top is going to be a big flow. Bigger than '72.
All the standard acts are on the bill. There will be tax shrinkers who promise somehow to make deficits disappear right before our very eyes. Famous celebrities will perform, and assess, expect more assets than there will be the usual budget balancers and fuel-shortage fire-eaters.
The most exciting act is the Great Deflatos, a group of daring men who say they can stop a rocket fired 30 years ago using only a knife made of intricately woven policies. It could bring down the house.
As usual—while the performances are going on out under the spotlights—up in the box seats, agents and aides and other hustlers will be peddling juice contracts, plump public installations and pretty actors. These hard workers don't get it right they should; the performers claim the show couldn't go on without them.
All of this would be pretty exciting if it wasn't for one thing. Each and every performer has incorporated into his act a gimmick that has become known as the Watergate position. This Watergate position is considered so essential by the performers that they think the turkeys won't watch their act if they don't have one.
Can you imagine the monotony?
The two basic positions, as the press describes them, are the Watergate Flip and the Watergate Reverse. All those who perform the
Flip go through similar motions but vary them in intensity, ranging from mild pique to complete outrage.
For those who perform the Reverse it's a matter of distance—anywhere from a quick backstep to a full departure. This full departure is especially impressive when done by the back of tumbling elephant.
The strangest part about the whole show, however, is the way the advance men are handling the publicity for the performers. Instead of telling us about all the good things we can expect if we come inside, they keep telling us about all the terrible things that will happen to us if we don't buy their ticket.
Maybe circus people really do live in a world of their own. They certainly don't seem to pay much attention. The same negative sell message of the Great Goldwater and McGovern has also looked and look what happened to them.
A negative appeal may work fine if you're selling toothpaste or warm indoor odor, but not when you're in a cold room. The greatest Show on Earth.
—Alan Hurlbut
By CLARK R. MOLLENHOFF Register-Tribune Syndicate
Hardin Dairy Affidavit Questionable
Former Secretary of Agriculture Reverses Stand
WASHINGTON, D.C.,—Former Secretary of Agriculture Clifford Hardin isn't in the clear yet on the highly questionable affidavit he signed concerning his reason for reversing himself and boosting dairy price growth to $ per cent of parity on March 25, 1971.
That affidavit, signed by Hardin on March 7, 1972, is at odds with hundreds of pages of testimony and documents compiled by the Senate Select Watergate Committee showing the strong currents of political campaign cash flowing from the dairy industry to the Nixon re-election committee.
Reliable sources also report the White House tapes of two of Mr. Hardin's meetings with President Nikon on March 23, 1977, are at variance with his affidavit that he had considered the considerations than "the statutory criteria" involved in his unusual decision to boost
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1. On March 12, 1971, after several months of compiling economic reports and dairy forecasts in the normal departmental manner, Hardin announced dairy support levels would be $4.66 per hundredweight, or 80 per cent of parity.
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3. On March 23, at 14:45 p.m., Hardin again met with the President, then Treasury Secretary John Connally, then Special Assistant John Ehrlichman and others from the administration. The President made the announcement that there was a discussion of having special counsel Charles Colson alert the milk producers to the decision.
2. On March 23, 1971, Hardin met at 10:30 a.m. at the White House with the President, dairy industry officials and lawyers in the Cabinet room to discuss political and economic arguments for higher dairy supports.
Many of the dissenters are university students. Although it was a mass student uprising that led to Park's rise to power, it is now a crime punishable by death for a student to miss class without "plausible reasons" to recent regulations initiated by Park.
Land of Morning Calm Now Land of Terror
A South Korean court sentenced 14 persons to death and 39 other persons to prison terms varying from 15 years to life last week. According to widespread interpretation the incident is merely the latest in a series of attacks on the South Korean peninsula.
Park, who assumed control of the nation after a military coup in 1961, has been continually cracking down on dissenters. Such acts include mass arrests, the complete expulsion of the Japanese press, police and CIA harassments, and the visa revocation of Elizabeth Pond of the Christian Science Monitor.
Relations between Japan and South Korea have reached a low point since the kidnaping of Kim Dai Jung, Park's opposition in the 1971 elections, from a Tokyo hotel room a year ago. The incident was out by South Korean government agents.
milk supports from $4.66 to $4.93 per hundredweight.
Two of those already sentenced are Japanese citizens, Masaki Tachikawa and Yoshihara Hayakawa were both given 20 years in prison for providing funds given to demonstrators.
In a recent letter to the New York Times, Prof. Jerome A. Cohen, director of East Asian legal studies, Harvard University, and Gregory Henderson, Fletcher School of Diplomacy, Tufts University, said "South Korean President Chung Hee Park's emergency decree" and subsequent detention of some 240 students. Christians who oppose the last move to our Korean policy. It is time to blow the whistle before we are mired in a serious blow up in the world's most dangerous 85,000 square miles."
To the Editor:
The presence of 38,000 U.S. troops in South Korea, along with the massive aid granted over the years, has led members of the American military to give up situation. It has been met with dismay that autocracy has bloomedmia a nation where the United States and 16 other U.N. members participated in a costly war. The United States paid $18 billion and had over 103,000 casualties.
AT THE HEART of Hardin's problem are these factors:
Senator James Aboreuez, (D-S.D.) told the senate "In Korea . . . and in scores of other countries whose governments are our 'friends,' the government of the United States sits idly by while grave acts of torture and murder continue to be committed.
Both nations have recalled their respective ambassadors
President Park maintains his power base, which includes a 600,000 man standing army, by employing a combination of strong arm tactics and constantly pointing
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out the North Korea "threat." However, a double standard exists. Park claims the country is safe for foreign investments, but unsafe for South Korean residents.
Another irony is that popular support for North Korea is growing abroad. It is biggest in Japan, where a significant portion of the Korean minority favors the North. Anti-Park activity has also been demonstrated particularly in New York City and Washington D.C.
Such activity is limited by the dread of the arrest in the United States, as well as visa rejection.
Park's iron hand over the 33 million Koreans living in the South, coupled with the occasional reality of the North Korean presence, leads most South Koreans to maintain an attitude of constant terror. This only can be reinforced by the recent court rulings.
"The Land of Morning Calm," Korea's title for centuries, will soon be shattered by the sound of the firing squad, an event that will become another dismal page of history in a nation that history has never smiled upon.
John England
Pueblo, Colo., senior
4. At 11 p.m. that day, Herbert Kalmbach, the President's personal lawyer and fundraiser, met with Murray Chouinier, a lawyer for dairy interests, and Harold Nelson, general manager for the Associated Milk Producers, Inc. The meeting was to contribute industry pledge to contribute $2 million to President Nikon's re-election campaign.
John England
5. ON MARCH 25, 1971, Hardin announced a boost in support levels to $4.93 per hundredweight- or 8 per cent of parity-with no consultations with any of the top universities. This Department of Agriculture and with no new economic reports for backup.
In your July 18 news article entitled "KU Departments Fighting Inflation" Prof. Lundsgaarde, of anthropology, is quoted thus: "The problem of the department of anthropology is similar to that of the department of classics," he said. "The classics seem unrelated to the job market, and thus students don't take them."
Classics Alive
To the Editor:
I advise him to get his facts straight before allowing himself to be quoted for publication. The enrollments in the Department of Classics have been steadily increasing at a rate higher than that for the entire university for all of the thirty-four years during which I have been a member of the class. This has enabled placing our graduate students in excellent Ph.D. programs elsewhere or in teaching jobs.
As to undergraduate majors, whose numbers have also been increasing recently, they should be heard any reports that would indicate a major has been any more of handicap in finding jobs which do not involve teaching or providing services for the communities subject they have studied at KU.
Prof. Lundsgaarde shares a common misunderstanding to the effect that classics are dead. I can assure him that they are very much alive even if anthropology is dying! Remember Mark Twain's famous remark about his obituary?
In his affidavit a year later, hardin stated erroneously the March 25 decision to boost supports "was based entirely on recommendations from the statutory criteria and that it was his personal decision" after normal advice from three named assistants. All three assistants have told the special prosecutor and the interategate Committee they weren't consulted.
L. R. Lind Professor of Classics
HARDIN, Mr. Nixon's first Secretary of Agriculture, resigned on November 17, 1971, to become a vice-chairman and member of the Ralston Purina Company, St. Louis, Mo.
The decision of Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate Committee not to have public hearings on the dairy deals saved Hardin and Gaines, who also announced his affidavit in the hands of Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, who also has access to the White House tapees of Mr. Nixon two meetings with Hardin on March 26th, and then announced the new higher support level.
After sticking his neck out a mile to assert that the White House had no part of the decision, Secretary Hardin was faced last January with President Nixon's admissions decision and involved in the dairy decision and that it was based upon "political realities."
In March, 1972, when President Nixon was still riding high and seemed invulnerable, Hardin had no problem in convincing the Senate to decide to boost dairy supports. He said, "The decision to set the price support level at $4.93 per hundredweight was based entirely on a reconsideration of the cost on the basis of the statutory criteria."
President Nixon's explanation, while admitting "political factors", stopped short of admitting the quirio quo for campaign financing, were amounted to a criminal law violation.
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Hardin, when questioned by Senate Watergate staff members on the March 23 afternoon meeting with the President during which the milk boost decision was made, said that it would be worth points. Later at the request of the White House, Hardin claimed "executive
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privilege" on what transpired at the meeting.
THE SENATE WATERGATE COMMITTEE didn't have presidential tapes of that meeting when it wrote its report. But the special prosecutor does have those house tapes as they prepare for further grand jury exploration of the dairy deals.
Since Hardin was the statutory decision maker as Secretary of Agriculture, any grand jury investigation of the legality or motivation behind that decision will make the former chancellor of the University of Nebraska a key witness.
At that point, Cliff Hardin will have to make a tough choice.
He can stand by his March 17 affidavit in which he put his name on the line to absolve Mr. Nixon and the White House officials from responsibility, but the controversial dairy price support boost.
This would be at odds with the admissions of the White House, the testimony of dozens of others and the common sense that economic conditions had not changed so much as it did between 12 and March 25, 1971, to warrant an adjustment of 27 cents a hundredweight.
Or, Hardin can decide, as others have done, that it is time to look out for his own hide and not argue with the White House that he has existed when he made his initial affidavit.
B. G. BARR and Glen Maratz, assistant deans of research administration, attended a National Science Foundation Workshop on the Improvement of Interdisciplinary Research in Southern California. Barr and Maratz went July 11 to NASA Edwards Flight Research Center to discuss KU research programs with NASA officials. They attended a National Research Center of the Environmental Protection Agency in Las Vegas, Nev.
THE U.S. BUREAU of Education for the Handicapped has awarded a $135,000 grant to the KU Habilitation Personnel Training Center at St. Clare Clark, associate professor of education.
THE COLLEGE of American Pathologists has accredited the pathology laboratory at the KU Medical Center. The American Medical Association Council on Medical Technology is continuing, approval to the School of Medical Technology for a five-year period.
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