University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, May 7, 1974
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Few Major Changes Expected for Next Fall
By DENNIS ELLSWORTH
Kansas Staff Reporter
If you liked this year, then you'll buy next year. Few drastic changes are planned for University of Kansas students and faculty members returning to campus. Students will participate in programs and facilities promises a better year.
Student Union Activities (SUA) is going to have an expanded program next year, according to the SUA board.
"We've got a really dynamite schedule proposed," he said recently.
SUA's Wilderness Discovery program will be greatly expanded with additional equipment that will be used for training workshops as well as for student rentals. Glish said.
With the equipment additions the program will be able to reach students with advanced skills as well as those without.
A recreation library will also be established so that students can find out almost anything they would like to know about all recreational activities, Glash said.
Michael Miller, SUA program director, said the Free University would be operated by SUA next year. The program will stress more involvement by students and will offer more classes and workshops
than before, he said.
trips to Hawaii, the Mardi Gras in New Orleans and to the Northeast and Northwest are planned next year in addition to the regular ski trips, Glish said.
More and better concertes are also planned, Miller said. Details aren't final, be said, but the concert line-up will be high-quality and will offer a wide variety of entertainment.
Other improvements to the field house, including the installation of movable bleachers on the floor of the arena, also should be completed by the fall, Dough Messer, assistant athletic director, said.
The installation of a new floor in Allen Field House should be completed by the fall semester, Keith Lawton, director of the Office of Facilities Planning and Operation, said.
Lawton said the expansion of Learned Hall probably would be about half completed by fall, depending on the weather and the progress of construction. He said the schedule to be completed until the fall of 1975.
Renovation of the third-floor attic of Flint Hall may be completed by mid-fall. Lawton said,
A multi-media lecture, room, two classrooms, two seminar rooms, three instructors' office, a student library, and a computer lab.
Leibengood, assistant dean of the School of Journalism, said.
Several minor modifications will be made in Snow and Linder both, but he said. These changes are being considered to make the system more efficient.
Improvements also will be made in Flint's air conditioning system. Lawton said
Lawton said that three temporary structures between Fraser Hall and the old hospital might be removed this summer and that some "very special" projects would be done in building near Fower Hall might also be done.
Search committees for a director of Outreach, a dean of the School of Social Welfare, a director of libraries and an attorney for the University are likely to be still searching when school starts in the
The University is scheduled to submit a report on the state of the University to the North Central Evaluation team in December and is to host the University's national conferences, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said.
"A really fundamental evaluation is being made of the University," he said.
Next year will bring requests for another 10 per cent increase in faculty salaries. It could also bring increases in other costs, such as housing.
The faculty isn't likely to resolve the issues of tenure and financial exigency by the fall, and unionization and collective bargaining are sure to remain big issues.
found better positions elsewhere and renewed efforts to keep them from leaving.
The Curriculum and Instructional Survey will have $120,000 to spend on administering and researching the program over the next two years if a federal grant proposal is approved. If not, the program will be funded—probably on a smaller scale than the state budget. The office of the Office of Instructional Resources, said.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will confront the issue of accreditation for ROTC
Mary will be watching the actions of the committee that is trying to resolve the problems of the Intensive English Center with regard to instructors, grading, facilities and methods of instruction.
Expanded outreach programs next fall include the Capitol Complex Management Program in Toppea and the School of Social Welfare graduate program to be offered in Kansas City.
With the establishment of an office of Outreach, more programs may be developed but they often fail to reach people.
Season ticket prices for football and basketball will increase to $13 and $15. Women's sports will increase to $20.
In football, the Jayhawks are said to have the best defense they've had in many years. In basketball, Coach Ted Owens lured up prospects to fill the role of last year's seventh-ranked team in the nation.
Student health fees will rise $8.50 next year, and student employees will get pay raises under the new minimum wage law. The Kansas Union probably expects to increase its final fee to be included in the student fee assessment.
The University's security consultant will make his recommendations, Project Whistleblower will be given a better chance to prove its validity and always a chance the campus rapist will be caught.
University of ficsla said not to look for much of a change in the student population for the fall semester. Enrollment in Allen Field House won't be a thing of the past by then, either they said.
The selection of a new state attorney general in November might signal an end to the extensive drug raids of the past, but it might be the beginning of what could be its success in the bid for the governorship.
1973-74 Marked by Too Much Politics, Too Little Oil
By JACK HAWKS
Kanan Staff Reporter
"Nixon's the One" has recently resurfaced on the bumper of the burgers car not as a campaign slogan, but rather as an in-character figure. President's guilt in the Watergate affair.
And although his role in Watergate has yet to be resolved, there is no doubt that Richard Nixon was, indeed, the number one newspaper of the 1973-74 school year.
Vying with other Watergate issues, Patricia Herrick, the energy crisis, the oil impatient Mr. Bush, and his Nixon trial and Henry Kissinger, Nixon consistently made headlines in connection with tapes, taxes and impeachment turnover, as well as the energy crisis.
Perhaps the most exasperating issue for Congress, (and annoying for Nixon), has been the President's reluctance to release actual recorded conversations with present and former aides who had any involvement in matters of knowledge surrounding Watergate.
The tapes controversy entered the national scene last August 29 when U.S. District Court Judge John J. Sirica issued an order directing the President to give him nine Watergate-related tapes. Sirica requested the tapes for examination and confirmation on the validity of the Presidential claim of the right to withhold the tapes.
That furor continues today with Nixon's decision to release edited transcripts of further Watergate tapes subpoenaed by the House Judiciary Committee.
sentiment. The President's general reluctance to release the tapes, the discovery that two tapes were non-existent, the 18-minute gap in one tape, Rosemary Woods' testimony, the "experts" exoneration of the author and over the edited transcripts all contributed to the lengthy tapes debate and talk of impairment.
A subject which has monopolized the news is the possibility of Richard Nixon's return.
The meandering trail of the truthfulness of the tapes has encountered many roadside surprises.
Serious talk of impeachment really began immediately after the weekend firing of special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox, former deputy attorney general Rod Rosenbaum and the resignation of former attorney general Ellot Richardson last Oct. 20.
Impeachment speculation grew when the President unveiled his personal finances in "Operation Candor," and it was determined that he owed nearly half a million dollars in back taxes—a all result of questionable accounting. He received an income taxes during his first term.
In spite of it all, it must be noted that Richard Nixon has been insistent, persistent and consistent in his proclamations of innocence regarding his own knowledge of the break-in or cover-up (prior to March 21, 1973).
Nixon has repeatedly denied any possibility of his own resignation. "I've no intention of walking away from the job I was elected to do."
Nixon's re-election campaign, with the recent exposure given by the press to Nixon backers may be a signal that the tide against the President may begin to turn.
This strategy of leaving no personal doubt about his desire to remain in office may be helpful.
Last Sunday, the CBS network's "60 Minutes" news show covered coverage of the speeches of John McGlothlin, a Jesuit priest being spoken in defense of the President
Still, the impeachment sentiment against the President remains strong in Congress where the House committee studying impeachment sent a letter to Nixon stating that he failed to comply with the House subpoena of the tapes.
The acquittal of John Mitchell and
Maurice Starr charges in connection
with the murders of 800,000 people.
The President's position in the public eye remains unsettled.
With all the unfavorable events that have occurred regarding Nixon, there is great doubt as to whether the President can everrove his innocence.
After Watergate and the President, the energy crisis took many of the nation's newspaper headlines during the winter months. Charges of a contrived crisis were leveled against the major oil companies, and the ensuing debate still rails. Oil profits continue to soar, and the consumer economy is likely high prices for gasoline and heating oil.
For most Americans, the crisis was, and is, a combination anoynausea and sacrifice. As you know, this is the result of
Discussing Nixon in a letter to Newsweek magazine, a resident of Buffalo, N.Y., said: "If he had evidence that he was innocent, I wouldn't play them on prime time, and anyone with
One harassed attendant in New York City put it this way: "I don't want to be unpopular. I don't want to be intimidated and made uncomfortable," he said, accompanied with my life over some lousy gasoline."
half a brain knows it."
The President is ever to "get off theook," much of this kind of thinking will be useful.
Since being kidnapped on Feb. 4, Patricia Hearst has captured the attention of millions, and each new revelation of her mind is a celebration of its predecessor in sensational wonder.
station attendants, it was much worse.
Her recent apparent allegiance to the Symbiontes Liberation Army has left many with feelings of resignation concerning her safety and sanity.
An earthquake in central Mexico caused the death of 500 people there, and Chile saw the ouster and death of the first freely held rebellion in the western hemisphere, Salvador Allende.
The decline and fall of Spiro Agnew was an event that shocked many Americans.
As the school year opened, several misfortunes, both personal and natural, came.
He was apparently rejuvenated with publication of his new book, but last week the state of Maryland administered a final blow: disarmment from the Maryland Bar.
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