New Plan Cuts Senate Debates Over Finances
By JACK McNEELY
Kanagan Staff Reporter
Hearings until midnight and deliberations until dawn, acid stomachs, ragged nerves and bloodshot eyes — that's what the Student Senate's new budget system was.
Too few people did too much work last year, Mike Steinmetz, Lawrence graduate student, den senate treasurer, said yesterday.
Under the old budget system the senate's Finance and Auditing Committee heard requests from student groups and recommended allocations, which were voted on in a committee.
"Last year it was the senate vs. Finance and Auditing. This year everybody knows the problems of making a budget," Dierck Cressman, Hawatha students and chair
Under the new system six of the senate's committees hear budget requests and recommend allocations for the senate to consider. The senate voted on some of these recommendations.
Besides spreading the work load, a purpose of the new procedure is to vitalize the senate's committee system, according to Joel Goldman, Shawnee Mission senior and vice president of the Senate Committee.
Goldman said the power of the senate was the power to allocate student activity fees. That power has been distributed among the committees, he said.
Because more people have an effect on the recommended allocations and understand the budget system, there should be fewer problems in getting a budget
Student Senate Enactment 17 (S.S.E. 17), the legislation that created the n.e.s. system, was passed last semester. It provides automatic funding for seven student groups-Intercollegiate Athletics, which comprises men's and women's intercollegiate sports competitions; Concert Series; Men's and Women's Intramurals and International Film Series.
An unfreezed effect of the legislation is that after the automatic allocations are given, a committee might not have much money left to distribute, Goldman said.
The Communications Committee, for example, received $44,649.42 to allocate among six groups that dealt with communication. After the Kanman received the funds, he reported that his team received $35,017.85.
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When the dust cleared and Umpire Bill Geegan came down to earth, Kansas City outfielder Jim Wilhom was safe at seacond base. Oakland short stop Bert Campaneris chewed the ball.
into shallow center field. See story page 8.
Nednesday. April 10. 1974
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
84th Year. No. 123
Senate Approves Allotments
Student Groups Receive Funds in Record Time
BY JACK MUNLEE
Kansan Staff Reporter
Bv JACK McNEELY
The Student Senate approved allocations for most groups requesting funds from the student activity fee in record time last night.
The meeting went quickly because every
senator had some knowledge of a portion of the budget. John Baseline, Salanna junior and assistant attorney general, said.
Recommended allocations for student groups whose requests had been heard by the Student Services Committee were passed without amendment.
Ticket Prices to Rise If Senate Cuts Allotment
Bv DAVID CROCKETT
Kansas Staff Reporter
Student ticket prices for athletic events will increase if the Student Senate votes today to cut the annual student activity fee allocation to the University of Kansas Association (KUAA). Doug Messer, business manager of KUAA, said yesterday.
In a recent budget hearing, the senate sports committee recommended that the activity fee allocation to the Women Intercollegiate Sports Association (WISA) be increased 700 per cent. This recommendation amounted to $690.99 to women's athletics. Last year, KUAA received $145,000 and women's athletics received $9,000.
The recommendation will be voted on by the senate tonight.
John Beairner, Salina junior and student body president, said the sports committee
"They are two different types of organizations," he said. "The KUAA is allocated money on the basis that students will receive lower prices for tickets, making it a subsidy, while WISA is merely a college program."
Although the women's program will be expanding because of state money, he said, it should be funded by the student activity fee.
Beinser said other universities were paying from $12 to $15 for football tickets.
Messer said, "I think it's appropriate that the women's program be funded; but the question is where the money will come from."
Case Against Mitchell Hurt By Magnate's Testimony
"There is no excuse for the lack of funding that women's programs have received in the past," said Marian Washington, assistant instructor of physical education. "I think the two groups should be considered separately in response to the ticket
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Vesso's secret cash contribution, the government charges, is the reason for the charges of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and perjury of which Mitchell and former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans are accused.
NEW YORK (AP) - Insurance tycoon yyon Clement Stone cast doubt yesterday on government claims that former Atten. Gen. John Mitchell warned a Republican presidential campaign ade to "stay away" from the $200,000 campaign contribution.
The testimony about the warning had come earlier in the trial from Daniel Cohen, who was accused of stalking.
Hofgren testified he talked to Mitchel at a reception that preceded a March 8, 1972, fund-raising dinner at the Washington Hilton. He also noted the "stay away" remark on that occasion.
Stone, however, testified for the defense that Mitchell was his guest at the $1,000-a
In an attempt to counter the testimony, the government, on cross-examination, drew from Stone testimony that there were a number of other receptures at the hotel that night at which Hofgren may have encountered Mitchell.
Stone, 71, a Chicago multimillionaire, was the largest single contributor to President Nixon's 1972 campaign, donating more than $350,000 for $10,000,000 tab for a table for 10 at the dinner.
plate dinner; that he didn't attend the reception, and that he arrived late for the party.
That left it up to the jury to decide whether Mitchell had the opportunity to talk with him.
Stans and Mitchell are accused of obstructing a massive Securities and Exchange Commission investigation of Vesco's financial empire, in return for Vesco's $200,000 contribution to the Nixon re-election campaign.
Minor amendments were made to recommendations of the Communications Committee, the Academic Affairs Committee and the Finance and Auditing Committe
Seventy-five of 106 senators were present at the meeting. Only a few left as the night went on.
Recommendations by the Sports and Culture committees, which include the debated allocations for Women's Sports and will be considered by the senate tomorrow.
Mike Steinmetz, Lawrence graduate student and student body treasurer, said the allocations had been approved too quickly. "It's kind of railroaded." Steinmetz
Pertinent considerations, such as underfunding in the committees' reu-
"It was kind of railroaded," Steinmetz said.
mendations for telephone service, weren't discussed by the senate. Stemmet said
Rules adopted by the senate to speed the meeting gave committee chairmen five minutes to present their recommendations and limited questioning to 15 minutes.
Speakers were limited to five minutes and two speeches. Several senators avoided the limitations by giving their speech time to speakers who had already spoken.
Women in Law, for which no funds were recommended by the committee that heard the application, received from the recommendation of $1,317 for Black American Law Students Association. The association received $1,142. All other group funding funds were recomposed no more.
The senate allotted itself $48,754.20, the
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White House Asks Delay On House Tapes Request
WASHINGTON (AP)—The White House informed the House Judiciary Committee yesterday that it wants to wait until after the Congressional Easter recess before deciding how to respond to a committee request to tape 42 presidential conversations.
The committee had set yesterday as the deadline for a reply to its request for the tapes. But a White House official, who declined to be quoted, insisted the only thing expected of St. Clair was to spell out at this meeting what he decided to do about considering the request.
James D. St. Clair, President Nixon's defense counsel, indicated in a letter that additional materials would be furnished after Congress returns from its Easter holiday on April 22 that "will permit the committee to complete its inquiry promptly."
"We expect that the review can be completed by the end of the Easter recess, and that the additional materials furnished to the children will be submitted to complete its inquiry promptly.
In a letter to committee special counsel John M. Doar, St. Clair said Nixon "has directed me to advise you that a review of the Clintonion is under way." The letter continued:
St. Clair's letter fell far short of promising to furnish all the materials sought by the
Chairman Peter W. Rodino, D-N.J., plans a committee meeting for today or tomorrow to deal with the possible issuance of a bill that would require Clal's response is deemed unsatisfactory.
Rep. Robert McClory, R-III., said he found the White House response disappointing. "They haven't replied forthrightly to our request," he said.
Rep. Jeremy Waldie, D-Calif., remarked, "we should no longer tolerate his (Nixon's) conduct of his office. We must now sub-commit to the way we require in the hands of the President."
St. Clair raised a second issue: his request for permission to take part in the committee's impeachment inquiry. He wrote Dear, "I hope that the committee will ensure my role in its proceedings before the upcoming recess," which begins Thursday.
Play by Play
Prof. James B., Caruthers records play-hyplay notes during HIH training action at the University of Iowa.
Kansas Staff Photos by CARL DAVA2
Caruthers, who teaches an English course, the Literature of Baseball, took his class to Kansas City as part of an assignment to play basketball in the fashion of sports writers.
AAUP Studies Faculty Unionization
Editor's Note: This is the first of two stories on possible unionization of faculty members at the University of Kansas and other state-supported schools in Kansas.
By DAVE BURPEE Kansan Staff Reporter
Although faculty unionization was authorized by law in 1970, it has only recently become a controversial subject to faculty members. The University of Kansas and the American Association of University Professors is currently studying faculty unionization.
The authority to form faculty organizations to negotiate with public employers was granted by the Kansas Public Employer-Employee Relations Act of
Kansas State College at Pittsburgh is the first school under the authority of the Kansas Board of Regents to attempt to establish a faculty bargaining unit.
Donald Hoffman, hearing examiner, said after the hearing that he would recommend that the faculty group be allowed to form a beringing unit.
The law requires that any proposed organization must first be recognized as an official unit by the Kansas Public Employee Relations Board.
A unit, after being officially recognized, must take steps to elect a group to represent the unit in government.
Recognition, however, is just the first of many steps required by law before an employee organization can begin discussions with its employer.
Last month 247 faculty members of Kansas State College at Pittsburg requested a fee for the entire bargaining unit. They were represented at a Public Employee Relations Board open hearing by the Kansas Higher Education Association, an arm of the Kansas National
According to the law, a group can be placed on the election ballot only by receiving the signatures of 30 per cent of the members of a unit. To win the election, a group must receive a majority of the votes cast.
The group that wins is certified by the employment boards to negotiate with employees.
There is no question about a faculty's legal right to organize. There is, however, divided opinion on issues such as whether faculty members should organize, whether organizations are the right to be organized or be the bargaining unit and who should represent the bargaining unit.
James E. Seaver, professor of history and Western Civilization at the University of Chicago.
"I am personally opposed to it in the sense that we would have the problems they are having but not," she added.
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