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Wednesday, February 20, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Environmentalist Lashes Professor
A University of Kansas engineering professor has made statements that "go well beyond the boundaries of appropriate criticism and reflect a fundamental drespect for law," according to the history of an Indiana conservationist group.
Thomas E. Dustin, executive secretary of the Indiana division of the Izak Walton League of America, Inc., made the charges against McKenny and McKenny, professor of civil engineering.
The controversy started when McKinney spoke at a meeting of the Manufacturing Council, where he said
Speaking in a panel discussion on the environment, McKinney was quoted as savey:
"CAREFUL EXAMINATION of the environmental movement in the United States clearly shows it to be a totally democratic devoid of any 'democratic feelings.'
"The ultimate aim of the environmentalists is to establish a complete federal control under a leadership of a few people who know what is best for all the people.
*Restrictive legislation and repressive force are means for the environmentalists to control the economy.*
He also said, "There is a real need to develop a realistic program for environmental pollution control that clearly identifies industry's responsible leadership."
Asked for his reactions to Dustin's letter, Mitmey said yesterday that he had expected
ONCE YOU TAKE a stand on an issue, it will be opposed, he said, and "you have to be ready" for the challenge.
McKinney's statements were quoted in an article on the chemists' meeting. The article appeared in "Water in the News," a published weekly by University of California, edited by a soap and detergent association.
Dustin said he regularly monitored such publications for anti-environmentalist
Statements such as those made by McKinsey need to be challenged, Dustin
"I WANT A WIDER团 to understand what this man has said." Dustin said. "I want a wider group."
In his letter to McKinney, Dustin wrote,
"If you are quoted correctly and in context.
your statement does not reflect the professionalism or detachment that should be exhibited.
"To state that the environmental movement is 'totally socialistic . . . devoid of any democratic feelings' is pure hysteria and frustrated emotionalism that casts the most serious shadows on your own credibility.
"There has been no organized citizen involvement in the history of America that has participated within the democratic system than in that in the environmental movement."
While commenting on the letter from Dustin, McKinney said that he had chosen to enter the environmental engineering field in 1948.
Back then, he said, the field was called callaln engineering and was rather looked at. He said it was a way of
THE CURRENT INTEREST in the environment was started by Nixon, McKinney said, to take people's minds off Vietnam and to make people feel that the government had had some beneficial side effects.
It has demonstrated the problem, he said, and if 5 per cent of society's total efforts are applied to the problem, the United States could have a clean environment.
McKinney said the pollution problem was serious but not acute.
You don't solve a problem like this in instantaneously. It's taken 1000 years to instantiate.
Lack of U.S. Citizenship No Longer Tenure Barrier
University of Kansas faculty members who do not want to become U.S. citizens now have the option of voting.
The possibility for tenure is a result of a policy statement adopted Nov. 20 by the Board of Regents which replaced the previous policy that all faulty members "must be removed from office" and made a declaration of intent to become citizens." That policy was adopted in 1948.
The new policy resulted, in part, from a ruling in a case by the attorney general's office, said Max Bickford, executive officer of the Board of Regents.
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The case involved a classified employee of the state and the Kansas Civil Service, which had a policy similar to the 1948 regents policy.
In the past, the University bypassed the 1948 policy by appointing a non-citizen faculty member a visiting professorship, according to June Michal, assistant to the president of academic affairs. The professors were then reappointed as often as necessary.
Michal said, however, that faculty members who had visiting professorships
There are 29 faculty members at KU who are now on permanent visas from other countries, said Clark Coan, dean of foreign students.
"The effect of the new policy will not be very drastic," said Michal, "as there are only three faculty members at KU who have not made a declaration that they intend to
become U.S. citizens, but now even these members have tenure."
Ambrose Sarics, vice chancellor of academic affairs, said that the faculty Tenure and Promotions Committee normally handled questions of tenure but that if a faculty member stayed at KU long enough, he automatically got tenure.
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MCKINNEN SAID THAT the environmentalist movement attracted sincere people who really wanted to improve the world.
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However, he said, they suffer from lack of background on the really complex issues in their schools.
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He said many of his students seemed to think that only the federal government was capable of solving the problems of pollution. Socialist countries such as Russia are
gative body." The Democratic leaders contended in their letter, "Confidence of the people in public of office holders and in government itself are the issues."
The British are still working on pollution control, he said, and none of the European countries have implemented it.
Socialist countries such as Russia are facing the problem also, he said.
In an article written for the alumni magazine, he wrote, "Environmental pollution has been with us since the beginning of time and will be with us to the end." We cannot escape pollution, but we do not have to live in a polluted environment."
Pollution isn't a new problem, McKinney said.
Steineger and Louis said the committee they were proposing should consist of persons of "established reputation for impartiality and responsibility."
They also said that no members of the committee should have any involvement in state matters.
DUSTIN SAID THAT MCKENNY was told to his opinion, but that statements like those McKenny had made in New York could be used against the environmentalist
"Critics will take statements like that, quote it out of context and use it against environmental projects. To extend the statement is irresponsible." Dustin said.
Referring to his own comments as quoted in the article in question, McKinney said, "I'd rather have it written on the cover," he wrote.
He also said, "Dr. McKimney has been a pawn of the soap and detergent association," he added.
StateSen. Jack Steinger, D-Kansas City, Senate minority leader, and State Rep Richard Leux, D-Wichita, House minority leader, sent a letter to President Robert F. Bennett and House Speaker Duane McGill, both Republicans, in which they proposed the creation of the committee.
THE ARTICLE QUOTED him correctly and in context, McKinney said.
TOPEKA (AP)—Prevent accusations or political play in Kansas hurled by both Democrats and Republicans have led Democratic legislative leaders to seek the governor to negotiate nonpartisan citizens' committees to investigate wrongdoing in all levels of government.
Copies of Dustin's letter to McKinney were sent to the Chancellor's office and to the University Daily Kansas. Dustin said he had sent the copies because he thought the university should be aware of what one of members in a responsible position had said.
Del Shakel, executive vice chancellor,
said that he had seen the letter and the article and that he did not think the security would take any action in the matter.
Steineger and Louis a proposed new legislative investigative committee with expanded powers, which is being considered. Bennett and McGill, didn't go far enough.
Both McKinney and Dustin were expressing their individual professional opinions. Shankar said, and the team criticized it, that Tait was McKinney and the Izaak Walt Lengeau.
Citizens' Panel Sought To Probe Corruption
Steineger and Loux said that all the charges and countercharges by members of both parties during this year has distorted the facts.
"Whether such accusations are of substance or actually political should be determined by the facts."
They said that the committee's investigation shouldn't be limited to allegations brought against the executive branch but that "the committee should have the authority to direct inquiries to all branches of government at all levels of government."
The committee Steineger and Loux are proposing would be composed of eight members, two to be appointed by Gov. Robert Docking, two by McGill, two by Bennett, one by Steineger and one by Democrats and four Republicans. They propose giving Bennett and McGill veto power over the appointees, while Docking, Steineger and Loux would have similar powers over the Republican appointees.
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