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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
84th Year, No. 138
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, May 2, 1974
Panel Balks at Transcripts Letter Says President Has Failed to Comply
WASHINGTON (AP)—Sharply splitting along party lines, the House impeachment inquiry voted last night to tell President Nixon he has failed to comply with its subpoena for Watergate tapes.
The committee approved, 20 to 18, a letter to Nixon saying that he has failed to comply by publicly released editable transcripts rather than turning over subpoenaed tapes. Two senators and two civilians in no voting, no one Republican voted yes.
rep. Jeremy R. Waldie, D-Calfi, alud groundwork for the publication of noncompliance as an impasseable offence in the courts.
BUT REPUBLICANS CONTENDED that President Nixon had substantially complied with the subpoena by publicly releasing transcripts that they contended in some cases were better than the tapes themselves.
waime asked special impeachment counsel John Doar if the President's willful refusal to comply with the House subpoena was an impeachable offense and Doar replied: "I am be an impeachable offense under these circumstances."
"We should accept the material in good faith and make further representations in the future if necessary," said the committee's senior Republican, Edward Hutchinson of Michigan.
The President has supplied the committee with a great deal of information, said Rep. Robert McClory, R-IL.
"That is a substantial and adequate response to our suboena," McClory said.
But chairman Peter W. Rodino Jr., D-NJ, said "the President has not complied with the subpoena."
"We did not subpoena an edited White House version of partial transcripts of portions of presidential conversations," Rodino said. "We did not subpoena presidential interpretation of what is necessary or relevant in the inquiry. And we did not subpoena a lawyer's argument presented to我们 have heard any of the evidence."
THE LETTER APPROVED BY THE COMMITTEE was proposed, by Rep. Harold D. Donohue, D-Mass.
The one Republican joining Democrats in approving the final letter saying the President had failed to comply with the law is Senator John McCain.
The two Democrats who joined Republicans in voting against the final action were Conyers and Walck, who had been indicted.
Elsewhere yesterday, the White House moved toward a new court test with the special Wategate prosecutor by asking a federal judge to throw out the prosecutor's subpoena asking for tapes and records of 64 presidential
Nixon's lawyer, James St. Clair, filed a motion in U.S.
District Court asking Judge John Siricus to quash the subpoena by special watergate protector Leon Jaworski.
Nixon's lawyers hinted they were moving toward a Supreme Court showdown over whether the White House investigators, Jaworski's office said the White House motion would be resisted and a hearing was set for this week.
The White House also suggested it might try to clarify some of the passages in the Watergate tape transcripts which are muddled with such words as "maudible," or "intelligible," if House Judiciary Committee leaders deem some of this vital to understand what was being discussed.
Democrats and Republicans alike said before last night's meeting that their chief concern was to avoid a party split that could turn the impeachment inquiry into a political battle.
"IF YOU EVER FRAGMENT to this a partisan matter, you've really got problems," said Rep. William L. Hungate, D-M., before the night session. "That's what we want to avoid.
"I would hope the committee could agree that the President's response is short of full compliance with the subpoena," Hungate said, "without rushing to say this is contempt, or impeachable or bad manners."
I vote that unity wasn't his motive
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Senate Demands Ticket Price Cut
A resolution censuring the University of Kansas Athletic Association (KUAA) was passed last night by the Student Senate by a vote of 68 to 1.
The resolution charges that KUAA has little respect for students 'as shown in its textbooks,' and that the administration does not.
7 Arrested In Slayings In Frisco
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—Mayer Joseph Alito said yesterday that police had arrested seven blacks in connection with the Zebra street killings carried out by a black group dedicated to the murder and mutilation of whites and dissident blacks.
"The police have pierced the veil of a vicious ring of murderers called the Death Angels," Aikoto told a news conference. "He was a kind of revenge Ku Klux Klau," he said.
Twelve whites have been killed and six others wounded in San Francisco in random and unprovoked attacks over a six-month period.
The mayor said: "Nearly 80 California murderous assaults, principally in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Alameda and Oakland," he added. "In 1970 to date, have been characterized by the Death Angel pattern of operations—that is, unprovoked attacks involving random shooting of whites in the street or mutilation of blacks." He was attacked by neatly dress-*l*- young black men.
It asks that student season ticket prices for next year be reduced to $12 for both football and basketball. Ticket prices are currently $15 for football and $13 for basketball. The resolution calls those prices "unacceptable."
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes favors reducing the prices to $12, according to Richard Faxson, Baxter Senate senior and Chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee.
The resolution charges that KUAA raised ticket prices "without sufficient justification for its demand that the student body increase its financial support of
At the current ticket prices KUAA will have about $78,850 more from students next year.
A resolution calling for the resignation of Athletic Director Clyde Walker was withdrawn by its author, Rich Lauter, Evanston. Ill., senior.
The resolution that was passed embodied the spirit of his resolution and urged consent to ratify it.
"Just as it is the responsibility of every citizen of our society to call for the protection of our rights, so it is our responsibility as elected representatives of the student body to call to account the actions of a member of the University who violates our rights."
The resolution asks that Dykes form a committee to investigate KUAA. It also asks that the Athletic Board, the governing body of KUAA, conduct its business at public meetings. Meetings of the Athletic Board currently are closed to the public.
are paid by each student at enrollment,
were $30 this year. They will be $30.50 next
The senate, in its last meeting of the semester, also approved an increase of $8.50 per student.
the increase is necessary to assure continued operation of Watkins Hospital, Martin Wollmann, director of the hospital, said.
The hospital did not increase the health fee during the past few years even though costs were rising. The hospital had a reserve fund, Wollmann said. Now that the reserve fund has been depleted, students must bear the increased cost of medical care.
The senate passed legislation that would allow approval of a student health insurance contract with Blue Cross-Blue Shield. The plan would pay $13.04 more than last year's fee.
"We have the cheapest possible contract available in the state of Kansas," said Charlie Rhoades, Olathe junior and chairman of the senate's health sub-
Blue Cross-Blue Shield was the only
company that placed a bid for the KU insur-
gage contract. Rhodes said.
Other companies didn't respond to a letter of inquiry, he said.
The campus bus service will cost $1.50 more for operation next year than last year, and this year.
All students, however, will pay the same $1.30 a semester less as paid in the past. Bus
schedules are provided.
Steve McMurray, Norton sophomore and chairman of the senate's transportation subcommittee, said there had been a $20,000 surplus in bus funds this year. The increase in operating costs will make the system break even next year, he said.
The $1.50 increase an hour was the lowest increase the bus company would take and still continue the system, McMurry said.
We argued down to duck, and the Rape Task Force came from the Rape Task Force that calls for a uniformed police presence.
"We argued down to that," he said.
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Bicycle Patrol
Officer John Mullens panics during his campus patrol yesterday. Mullens said that the officer was surprised by the sight.
foot patrol this spring, he decided to fix up a bike and travel on two wheels rather than a motorcycle.
KU Officials Mum on Investigation Comment Should Be Withheld Pending Audit, They Say
Kanan Staff Photo by DAVE REGIER
Rich Lauer (left) introduces a bill calling for the resignation of Athletic Director Clyde Walker at the Student Senate meeting last night. Lauter later withdrew the bill. Todd Hunter, Senate vice-president watches the action from the background.
By DEBBIE GUMP And MARK MITCHELL Kansan Staff Reporters
University of Kansas officials yesterday refused to release information about the procedure or progress of an audit of the behavior analysis follow through program.
They also withheld comment on possible
Senate Action
actions to be taken if the allegations of misuse of funds prove correct.
Angersinger said that because the allegations hadn't been proven, any comment about possible punitive action by the University would be "inappropriate."
The University began the audit with "considerable misgivings," according to William J. Argersinger Jr., vice chancellor for research administration.
"Mrs. (Nancy) Swaininger made these instimations but refused to submit them."
"If there is proof of improper use of finances, then it is covered by regulations of Topeka or possibly state laws, but that's outside my province," he said. "I can't say what the University wants me to do. The responsibility of implementing the state regulations."
Argeringer also refused to comment on whether the use of travel cards to pay for airfares was valid.
Predicting the outcome of the audit is impossible, Argersinger said, because the auditing process isn't complete. However, be said, instances of wrongdoing will be subject to the penalties provided under state law and University guidelines.
Falsification and forgery of state travel
vouchers, as alleged in connection with the behavior analysis program, is a felony under Kansas law and subject to severe penalties.
However, Ronald Hamilton, university contr诉er, said Tuesday that even though nausea of federal grant money was illegal, the court ruled against violation would have to be considered.
He said the severity of the possible punitive actions depended on whether the person or persons "deliberately set out to get someone to do something they are trying to 'get by some red tape.'"
Del Shanker, executive vice chancellor,
said yesterday that the University had the "power and the responsibility" to take action on the allegations were proved true by audit.
"I think we can act if we find some of our employees haven't been following regulations," Shankel said. "I don't, on the other hand, want to prejudice any case that might be coming up, but the University says every employee to follow regulations."
Neither Shankel nor Argersinger would say what the penalties will be for paying salaries with money from accounts other than those specified for salaries.
Argersinger said he recommended last February that the Office of Business Affairs undertake an investigation after hearing allegations of misuse of travel vouchers from Nancy Swearingen, a parent formerly with the program.
The audit will review all the business transactions during the period in question and possibly for a longer period, Argeringer said. Sample verifications of trips involving the use of travel vouchers will be included in the audit, he said.
This recommendation was issued "with considerable misgivings," he said, because of Swearingen's "unsupported, unsubstantiated insinuations."
"I have seen only what is in the newspapers, but that's not evidence. An unsubstantiated, unverified statement is only that." Arersinger said.
He said that a completion date for the audit couldn't be projected because the audit was a very detailed and comprehensive process.
"This is a very large project and there are literally thousands of transactions involved," he said. "There are entirely legal transfers fund funds from one account to another."
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End of Follow Through Disputed
Approximately 35 parents who support the behavior analysis program at Woodland Elementary School met last night with their children.
Carolyn Hutchins, a spokesperson for the group, said the meeting was called to submit documented lists of parents supporting the program and to "mend any cracks in the wall" regarding the cancellation of the program.
Carl Knox, superintendent of Lawrence public schools, said it was unfortunate that Sieigstrat's letter stating that the program wouldn't be continued "wasn't interpreted as definitive as far as concluding the program."
Provided that an educational program involved only one school, Knox said, it was the right of the principal to make the decision whether to continue the program. The school administration would then support that decision, he said.
There was nothing requiring that programs previously employed in a school be continued after it was determined that the program no longer served the best interests of the community, Knox said.
According to Siegrist, the reasons for discontinuing the program were community unrest and doubts about the program, philosophical differences about the teaching methods and the learning process, and deserved to be singled out to receive money from a federal grant.
Knox said that many good and promising techniques had evolved from the program, but "to become a slave to one particular
He also said there was no definitive method to evaluate the results of the program.
Many parents gave specific examples of aspects of the behavior analysis program which they thought were important to their children's education. They primarily praised the positive reinforcement and variety of activities, as well as the constructive discipline and quality of the behavior analysis teachers.
Knox said that the program wouldn't be at Woodlawn next year but that many behavior analysis techniques would be combined with other conventional techniques to form "the best school we could possibly have."