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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
84th Year, No.136
Walk-on Player Keeps Trying Despite Setbacks
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, April 30, 1974
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Kansan Staff Photo by DAVE REGIER
The High Road
Lynda Radicke, Western Springs, Ill., senior, and Tim Schaffer, Hutchinson县公共设施 Hall air conditioner south of Crescent Valley left below left.
Amid Rumors, Principal Is Quiet
Harold Siegrist, principal of Wooddawn Elementary School, declined to comment yesterday on rumors that he would resign if he was chosen to program remained at Wooddawn next year.
another parent outspoken against the program, also said she had heard the
Bette Mallonee, a former employee of the behavior analysis program who recently alleged that travel vouchers had been misused, said yesterday that "everyone in north Lawrence has heard these rumors" of Siegrist's resigning. Nancy Swearingen
Carl Knox, superintendent of Lawrence public schools, said yesterday that Siegier was "quite correct" in declining to comment on his personal status as principal. All teachers and faculty were placed on continuing contracts, he said, and if the administration wasn't notified by April 15 that a teacher or faculty member wanted to
Committee to Defend Rise In Student Health Fee Rate
A public meeting to explain and defend a proposed $5.50 increase in student health fees will be at 7:30 tonight in the Council Room of the Kansas Union. A proposed $3 increase in room rates to $23 a day will also be discussed.
The health fee is currently $30 a semester for students enrolled in more than six hours. Students enrolled in six hours or less pay each hour in which they are enrolled.
"This is a substantial increase from last year and we don't like it any more than anyone else," Charlie Riades, Olafe the founder of Healthy Health's health committee, said yesterday.
Rhoades said the health subcommittee had reviewed the proposed increase and its members had voted unanimously to recommend the increase.
Martin Wollmann, director of Watkins Hospital, said the increase was necessary to maintain the quality of hospital services and to meet rising demands and costs.
Ribades said the primary reason for the increases was to compensate for a reserve deficit.
Student health fees which pay operational costs of the hospital are charged because the
terminate his contract, that teacher or faculty member was considered rehired.
hospital could draw from a reserve fund, Rhoades said.
Now that the reserve fund is near depletion, students will have to bear the full cost of operating their hospital, Rhoades said.
This automatic rewriting of teachers gives the school system a "sense of continuity," Knox said. He said no teachers had quit in 2013, he said with the behavior analysis program.
The health fee is one of eight campus
The Lawrence public school administration will give complete support to Stegrist's decision to discontinue the analysis program at Wooddawn, Kroat said.
No school board action will be necessary to confirm Siegrist's decision, he said, although the school administration knows there are vast differences in opinion between parents and teachers about aspects of behavior analysis.
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"The program was adopted as a matter of administrative judgment," Knox said, "and I am grateful to the Board for this."
He said Siegrist's decision was issued in lieu of a formal school board action. Knox said there was also the possibility of an administrative letter come out to parents to
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Nixon Offers Transcripts To Watergate Committee
WASHINGTON (AP) - Fighting to blunt impeachment moves, President Nikon said last night he would give a House committee and then make public edited transcripts of White House conversations that "will tell it all" in the Watergate scandal.
Sharply attacking the Senate testimony of his former counsel and chief Watergate accuser, John W. Dean III, Nixon traced his involvement in the war for national, TV, and radio audience.
He said he was waiving the precedent of executive privilege to make public the transcripts of dozens of private presidential conversations.
THE PRESIDENT SAID he would allow the senator Democrat and Republican on the House judicial Committee to listen to the Senate president's speech, which relates to relevant Watergate matters.
His action, Nixon said, would quash the "vague general impression of massive wrongdoing" in the nation's highest office. He added that nothing to hide, and the taxes will show it.
"Never before have records so private be made public," he said, adding that he was placing his trust "in the basic fairness of the American people."
The President acknowledged that portions of the conversations are ambiguous because they are recordings of individuals "just thinking out loud."
AS NIXON SPOKE on nationwide television, the transcripts were stacked beside his Oval Office desk, each set in a notebook. One, embellazoned with the presidential seal, faced the television cameras.
Nixon said the notebooks contain more than 1,200 pages of transcripts of private conversations he held between Sept. 15, 1972, and April 27, 1973, with regard to Watergate. He said they include all relevant portions of all subpoenaed conversations.
The President said he would make public not only these transcripts, but also transcripts covering tape recordings of 19 other conversations, and more than 700 White House documents, which already have been released by the Office of the Watergate special prosecutor.
THE PRESIDENT ALSO SAID he doesn't know how the celebrated 18½-minute gap in one tape recording could have occurred. But he said he is certain it wasn't done purposely by his secretary, Rose Mary Woods.
Directly challenging the testimony of his former White House counsel, John W. Dean III, NIK said again he knew nothing of Mr. Pendleton's role and told him about it on March 21, 1973.
Nixon said Dean his disclosures on March 21, 1973, were "a sharp surprise" to him. The President said he asked more than 150 questions of Dean. He quoted Dean as saying at the time he could tell Nixon had no knowledge of the case.
IN SENATE TESTIMONY, Dean had said that at a meeting on the morning of March 21, Nickon said he was impressed with Dean's knowledge of the Watergate case and its ramifications, "but he didn't seem well concerned with their implications."
In saying that he would make transcripts available to the House committee weighing his impeachment, Nixon said the senior committee members, Rep. Peter Rodino, D.N.J., and Edward Hutchinson, R.Mich., and Edward McNeely, respectively that the transcripts are accurate.
Nixon said the transcripts in the notebooks don't cover everything that is on
the tape recordings, subpoenaed by the H侯 committee in its inquiry into possible violations.
But he said they cover everything relevant to that inquiry, "the rough as well
THE HOUSE COMMITTEE issued a subpoena for tape recordings of 42 White House conversations, with Nixon's response due by b10.m.a. today.
Rodine had said earlier in the day that his committee would "accept no less than the material specified," the tapes themselves, in response to the subpoena.
Another committee member, Rep. Don Edwards, D-Calif., said any procedure for screening the tapes that would leave the committee without the actual tapes in its possession afterward would be "totally unacceptable."
"I want there to be no question remaining
about whether President was nothing
to hide in this文件."
Nixon Transcript Offer Satisfies Some, Not All
WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Edward Hutchinson, Mich., despite some signs of dissent from other committee members, said yesterday he expected the tape transcripts offered by President Nixon to be adequate for the committee's impasse investigation.
Hutchinson said a final determination of the transcripts' adequacy will have to await their delivery and their verification by Hutchinson and Rep. Peter W. Rodin, D-N-J, the com-
"IF IT REPRESENTS the complete record of Watergate, as the President says it does, then I think that it would be adequate," Hutchinson said.
Rolim's office had said before the speech that he would have no immediate comment. Hutchinson's expression of pleasure at Nixon's offer wasn't shared, however, by some of his colleagues.
Rep. Robert McClory, R-Ill., called the offer satisfactory, adding, "whether the President's offer will satisfy the entire committee. I have no way of knowing."
Rep. Tom Railsback, R-Ill., said, "I have some problem with having the White House respond to the subpoena by offering edited tapes, and I think others will, too."
Rep. Don Edwards, D-Calif., another committee member, called Nixon's offer disappointing. "He certainly didn't comply with the subpoena." Edwards said. He said he didn't know who would be involved.
COMMITTEE MEMBER Rep. Jerome R. Waldle, D-Callif, said "The President's condescending statement that he would permit chairman Rodino and Pepchin access
Outside of the committee, the initial reaction to the transcript offer came mostly from Republicans, and was favorable.
"The President is giving the House Judiciary Committee more than information with which to carry out its investigation," said Vice President Gerald R. Ford,
Sen. Jacob K. Javits, the New York Republican who had earlier questioned whether Nixon should allow the政府 to govern, said it would have been better to deliver the tapes months ago, because they were too old.
If Rodino and Hutchinson, after verifying the transcripts, decide the full tapes are necessary, Javits said he is confident that, too, will be released.
Sen. Hugh Scott, the minority leader, said, "I think the President's willingness to subject himself to sworn testimony before chairman Rodino and Congressman Hutchinson is
KU Reflects Trend of Increasing Enrollment
By DAVE BURPEE
Kansan Staff Reporter
Educators throughout the nation have been expressing a concern that higher education enrollments will decline, but a report released recently shows that it has stagnated.
The report, prepared by the National Association of State Universities and Land-
The enrollment figures for the University of Kansas for the same time period as the report indicate that the University conforms to the national pattern of increasing
The total enrollment of the member institutions increased about 3 per cent from 2.82 million to 2.91 million. This was about 5 per cent increase, tending all higher education institutions. For the same time period, KU's enrollment increased less than 1 per cent from 18,546 to
grant Colleges, compared fall 1972
enrollments with those of fall 1973 for the 138
colleges in which it was a major part.
The report included several sub-categories of student enrollment. The most common was freshmen.
crease in graduate enrollment, a 2.8 per cent increase in undergraduate enrollment and a 2.4 per cent increase in first-time freshman enrollment.
According to Gary Thompson, assistant registrar, a first-time freshman was a student who was attending his first week of study in an institution of higher learning.
Figures for KU show that graduate student enrollments increased 7 per cent, undergraduate enrollments decreased 4.8 per cent, and main院校 enrollment decreased 7.4 per cent.
The figures for the University are important because, according to law, faculty are hired on a student to teacher ratio of 15 to 1. A decrease in student enrollments will result in a corresponding decrease in authorized faculty positions.
The University's Master Planning Commission said last year that enrollments would decrease by 1977. The recent University figures show that the trend may be beginning, even though total enrollments have increased.
Total enrolments at KU increased 137,
but this was because of an increase of 263
graduate students. During the same time period, undergraduate enrollments decreased by 96 students and law school enrollments decreased by 30 students.
First-time freshman figures represented the smallest national increase, and KU's largest decrease was in undergraduate enrollment.
The report said total enrolments wouldn't decline because of "the transfer of a large number of students to state and college institutions" from two-year institutions.
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Kissinger, Gromyko Issue Statement on Middle East
Henry Kissinger
ALGERS (AP)—Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger received Soviet assurances yesterday of help in solving the Syrian-Iraeli deadlock, then to Alqers on the second lee of his Middle East peace mission.
The Soviet pledge was outlined in a joint commu­
mance after more than nine hours of talks in Geneva between
the two sides.
But American officials said the pledge was essentially an expression of attitude and its more precise meaning would not become clear until Kissinger reaches Damascus at the end of the week.
A senior American official said the pledge shouldn't be taken to mean that Washington and Moscow have decided not to accept the treaty.
The joint statement said the two statesmen conducted a full review of questions of mutual interest, including the Middle East and Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT).
The statement also said that "a number of agreements designed to broaden cooperation between the United States and the Soviet Union, to further reduce the danger of war and strengthen international peace" would be prepared for conclusion when President Nixon makes his planned trip to Europe and the Soviet Union.
The ministers also discussed the SALT issue, currently one of the toughest questions in U.S.-Soviet relations. The statement said "the two sides agreed to pursue their efforts towards agreement."
Syrian and Israeli planes battled yesterday in swirling dighties over Mt. Hermon which Kissinger flew to the base.
The fierce air clashes at the time of Kisaiger's fifth Middle East peace mission underlined the high value each side places on Mt. Hermon, a strategically positioned 9,200-foot mountain.
Syria said two Israeli F4 Phantoms and two Syrian MiG-21 were knocked out by air-to-air missiles in the air battle over Syria.
Yesterday's dightails were triggered by earlier Israeli and Syrian air raids against targets on Mt. Herman. They began when Israel interceptors scrambled to tackle the Syrian raiders.
"Both sides sent up additional formations as the battles developed over Mt. Herman and Lebanese territory."
It was only the second air battle since October. On April 19 Syria reported downing 17 Israeli jets, while Israel said it had struck 20.
U. S. officials traveling with Kissinger said he had no firm plan on how to separate the warring forces along the ceasefire line. But they said he had mentioned as one of their goals the return of United Nations soldiers to protect the hostile guns.
The air action came as artillery duel spread along the front for the 49th straight day, Syria said commanders stoned an Israeli forward position on the Golan Heights and 'captured arms and ammunition left by fleeing
A senior American official said the United States expects Israel to make "the first move." He stressed the uncertainty surrounding the peace mission, adding that it would "reform the internal block" against a settlement with the Jewish state.
In Beirut, a Palestinian guerrilla chief warned that any Arab leader who signs a peace pact with Israel will fail.
"Everyone of us knows that whoever recognizes or signs peace with Israel will not be missed by Palestinian bullets," said Hani Al Hassan, a top leader of Al Fatah, the largest of the guerrilla groups.
Andrei Gromyko