Students Lose On Prices Paid For Used Books
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, April 24, 1974
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84th Year, No. 132
Kansan Staff Photo By DAVE CRENSHAW
Where's the Wind?
The two students who were trying to fly this nine-foot kite found that it requires more what than a small kite to be airborne. Larry Bridges, Overland Park junior holds the kite and has been trying to fly it for years.
Rodino Expects Panel to Approve Nixon's Request
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said yesterday he expected the panel to go along with President Nixon's request for an additional five days to reply to a subpoena for 42 Watergate tapes.
Rep. Peter W. Rodino Jr., D.N.J., the chairman, said he and the ranking Republican on the committee had agreed to give Mr. Rodino his chairmanship members of the committee would so alon-
Rodino told a news conference the matter would be taken up formally by the committee tomorrow, the day a response to the committee's subpoena is due.
The delay requested by the White House would put off the response until next秋
At the White House, Deputy Press Secretary Gerald L. Warren attributed the request to "the pressure of business at the presidency" and the demands on the President's time."
Rodino said the delay was requested by James D. St. Clair, the President's chief Watergate attorney, in a telephone call to the judge, who chief counsel to the impeachment inquiry.
The chairman said he and Rep. Edward Hutchinson of Michigan, the ranking Republican on the committee, instructed Dear to ask St. Clair why at least some of the subpoenaed material couldn't be furnished tomorrow.
St. Clair told Dear that the President wanted to review all the material at once.
Rodino said St. Clair gave no assurance
Senate to Consider Asking Walker to Resign
By JACK McNEELY Kansan Staff Reporter
A resolution calling for the resignation of Athletic Director Clyde Walker will be considered by the Student Senate at its next meeting.
The resolution says the senate should ask Walker to resign because of his "capricious" connection with the recent increases in the cost of student season tickets to $13 for basketball and $15 for football. Last year football cost $5.50 and football tickets cost $6.50.
"Walker has failed in his concern for the future of intercollegiate athletics at the University of Kansas," Rich Lauter, Evanston, Ill., senior and sponsor of the resolution, said yesterday. "He has failed to recognize wishes and interests of the student body."
The resolution was introduced at a meeting of the Student Senate Executive Committee.
The resolution says that "the leadership of the KUA apparently feels it is no longer desirable to have KU students as spectators at its intercollegiate athletic events."
Richard Paxson, Baxter Springs senso and member of StudEx, said it had been rumored that, at a meeting Monday of the KU Athletic Board, Walker said he didn't care whether students bought tickets to football and basketball games.
The rumor, according to Paxson, is that Walker said he could sell tickets students wouldn't buy to University staff and faculty. "They would be sick," he wouldn't say who had told him the rumor.
The resolution also alleges that Walker gave assurances that ticket prices wouldn't increase.
John Beisser, Salma junior and student body president, said Walker told him two weeks ago that ticket prices would increase to $10 if KUAU received the same amount from student activity fees as it received last year.
According to Beisner, Walker said that if KUAA received only $83,519.91 from activity fees, which is the amount it did receive, tickets would cost $12 next year.
Beisner said the increases made KU's
ticket prices among the highest in the Big Eight.
Paxson suggested formation of a studentfellow task force to investigate all aspects of KUAA. The amount of University resources used by KUAA and the role of setting KUAA policy were among areas of investigation that Paxson suggested.
"It's extremely important that we don't back down on the ticket prices," Lauter
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Tall Grass Park Petition Delivered
By DIMA HELMES
Kansas Washington Correspondent
UMKENDELL
WASHINGTON~Student Coalition of the Tall -Grass Prairie, Inc., presented the Department of the Interior with more than 1,800 signatures yesterday requesting the establishment of a tall grass prairie national park.
Nine students from three Kansas colleges, including two students from the University of Kansas, presented the petitions to the deputy assistant secretary, Douglas P. Wheeler, in the office of Rep. Larry Winn, R-Kan.
The presentation was attended by all the Kansas house members, except Joe Skubitz. Representatives of Senators Pearson and Dole also were present.
Winn introduced a bill in the House last July to establish a tall grass prairie national park in Kansas. It was referred to the national park and recreation subcommittee of the Committee of Interior and Insular Affairs.
The petition asks that the federa-
gement set aside 60,000 acres of tall grass prairie in the Flint Parks of eastern Kansas for a national park.
Skubitz, in whose district the park would probably be located, is the ranking Republican member on the parks subcommittee. The bill, no action has been taken on it.
The National Park Service will begin a feasibility study of the project within 60 days, according to Richard Curry, its associate director of legislative liaison.
Atty. Gen.Candidate Burr Praises Vern.Law. Order
The study will consider a suitable area of Oklahoma as well as Kansas and recommend a site for the park on a certain number of acres.
Binda Sue Berry, Conshookonho, Pa,
senior, said the student coalition at KU and
the university's board of trustees.
Burr, D-Lawrence, is assistant attorney general and chief of the consumer protection division of the attorney general's office at the University of Kansas School of Law.
TOPEKA- Lance Burr, after announcing his candidacy for attorney general yesterday, praised the law and order stance of Attv. Gen. Vern Miller.
By GLENN MEYER
Kansan Staff Reporter
Fred Webber, an Ottawa University student and student liaison coordinator of Save the Tall Grass Prairie Inc., said that at least 80 signatures had been collected off camus.
Roger Cloud, Prairie Village sophomore, said a loosely knit group of 10 students at KU had worked on the petition, the coalition's first major project.
The coaition was started in January by two Otawa University students. It is part of Save the Tall Grass Prairie Inc., the major group pushing for the park.
"These people have missed the point of our operations," he said. "The moral fiber and general well-being of this state do not hinge on whether bishop is legal or illegal or
Burr said some people criticized the attorney general's office because it had enforced the laws against bingo and had stopped the sale of alcohol on trains and ships.
She estimated that the coalition had collected 1,000 to 2,000 signatures since it began.
last three weeks at its table in the Kansas Union.
"It does hinge on whether we respect and enforce the laws our elected officials have"
whether you can serve alcohol on trains or airplanes.
He said the attorney general's office wouldn't rest on its past achievements.
"We're going to do a better job, just as Vermi is going to do a better job as
we are."
Burr said he planned to take an active role if elected attorney general but didn't think anybody could "pull off the raids with him and grace and finesse of Vern Miller."
He said the role of the attorney general shouldn't be only to enforce his law, given that he is a lawyer.
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Besides students from KU and Ottawa were two Kansas State University students. E. Raymond Hall, emeritus professor of mathematics, assistant backer of the project, also attended.
Bob Mossman, a student at Ottawa and the group's research assistant, said that the Flint Hills were the only major remnants of an original 400,000 square miles of high grass prairie.
In presenting their petition the students cited the area's historic importance and scenic, scientific and educational value as reasons for establishing the park.
Mossman said it was important to establish the park quickly, before the area was destroyed or impaired by roads, powerlines and other construction.
Limestone outcrops in the area have prevented plowing the prairie. Most of it is
A 60,000 acre park would take one-third of per cent of Kansas' grass lands, acres.
The Kansas Grassroots Association, a major opponent of the Park, estimates that such a park will reduce Kansas beef production by 3½ million pounds.
Mossman said that this was one thousandth of Kansas beef production. He estimated the cost of park acquisition at $12 million to $18 million.
Campus Carnival
Jamboree, and proceeds will go to the Jamboree Committee.
Myers Carnival, which opened yesterday,
will run until Sunday night at 16th and low-
est rate.
that all the subpoenaed material would be given to the committee.
Warren would give no clue about the later mature of the eventual reply to the inquiry.
Asked about reports that the White House planned to give the panel transcripts rather than tapes, Rodino replied, "Transcripts would not be satisfactory."
Nikon also faces a second subpoena, with a May 2 deadline, for additional tapes and other materials sought by special Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski.
Nixon Plans To Request Aid to Egypt
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Nixon plans to ask Congress for about $250 million in economic aid for Egypt to strengthen ties in the two countries, U.S. officials said yesterday.
Prospective projects were staked out by a three-man American team during the last nine days. A joint U.S. and British military force was deployed to assist these and other debris from the Suez Canal.
Nixon will discuss the program with congressional leaders at the White House this morning. His request for assistance to Egypt, India, South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos may go to Capitol Hill later today.
Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, was im-
Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, was immediately critical.
"I am opposed to reverting again to that odal habit of trying to outshield the Soviet Union from its threat," he said.
Another member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Jacob K, Javits, R-N.Y., said he was "open-minded and sympathetic."
Confirmation of the program and Nixon's intention to include the request in his message to Congress came from sources outside the State Department.
John F. King, a State Department spokesman, responding to newsmen's questions, refused to provide a price tag or even to say definitely that the United States would provide a support program for Egypt.
Supreme Court Avoids Ruling On Bias Case
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Supreme Court recently avoided, at least for the present, a ruling on the constitutionality of a lawsuit filed by some students against racial minorities.
The court majority said the case that was to provide a basis for the ruling was now moot and therefore there would be no decision on its merits. The dissenting justice in the 54 action said the court was doing a disservice to the public interest.
The case was being watched for its potential impact on affirmative action programs to counteract past discrimination. The issue was raised by a policy that favored minority students' education at the University of Washington School of Law.
Although discrimination against minorities because of race is unconstitutional, the case asked whether it should discriminate to discriminate in favor of minorities.
The court indicated that another case that presented the same question would get its approval.
"If the admission procedures of the law school remain unchanged, there is no reason to suppose that a subsequent case attacking those procedures won't come with relative speed to this court, now that the governor has been elected," the majority said in an unsigned opin-
The state supreme court had approved the admissions policy, saying the state could consider the race of applicants "to achieve a reasonable representation within the study body" of persons from minority groups that have been historically suppressed.
The case on which the court acted was brought by a white student, Marco DeFunis, to whom admission to the law school was initially denied while minority students who didn't score as high on admission tests were admitted.
He went to state court but eventually lost.