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How Important Are Finals?
84th Year, No. 80
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Thursday, January 31, 1974
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Kansan Staff Photo by DAVE CRENSHAW
Condemned Can this house be saved? Harry Puckett,
who owns several similarly dilapidated houses in Lawrence, says he thinks all of them can be "rehabilitated." City officials don't agree. See story page 9.
Nixon Vows Not to Resign, Lists Legislative Requests
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Nixon last night urged an end to the year of Watergate, vowed he would never resign and presented the Democratic Congress proposals he said could bring the nation "a year of unprecedented progress."
He spoke of Watergate in a dramatic address to his 44-minute State of the Union address.
"One year of Watergate is enough," he told Congress, the leaders of American government, the diplomatic corps and a national watchdog and listening on television and radio.
His talk of the scandals shadowing the administration came almost as a footnote. Some in the audience already had left their seats and were preparing to leave the House.
He said he wanted to speak of an issue of great concern to all Americans.
"Ireter, of course, to the investigations of the so-called Watergate affair."
NIXON SAID IT WAS *W* time to end them. He said he already had turned over to the Watergate special prosecutor all the information related to his actions and clear the innocent.
Then came his statement that one year of Watercate was enough.
Nixon then pledged to cooperate with the House Judiciary Committee, which was conducting a preliminary investigation into possible impeachment proceedings against
But he said cooperation must be "consistent with my responsibilities" to preserve all the prerogatives of the presidency.
He said he would never do anything that would weaken the office of the president. Nor, he said, will he ever leave that office voluntarily.
"I have no intention whatever of walking
Quorum Call Cuts Senate Short; Rolfs Decries 'Political Maneuver'
The senate was diamised because of a lack of quorum before any legislation could be passed.
Political maneuvering caused the early adjournment of the Student Senate last night, Ed Rolfs, function City junior and president of the student body, presiden- charged after the meeting.
Qiurium in the senate is 55 senators and only 53 were present last night.
"In all my experience in the senate, a quorum has never been called at the first of every session."
Richard Paxson, Baxter Springs senior and manager of the Beisner-Hunter campaign for student body president and vice president, said last night that he had asked Nancy Archer, the presiding officer of the school board, who were present after she had called the roll.
"WHILE THE COMMITTEE reports were being given up, came up and said a question didn't preclude it."
Paxson said he questioned Archer about the quorum because he didn't want to go through long hours discussing legislation if he wanted the credibility that a quorum wouldn't be present.
After Archer announced there was no quorum, "there was a long time before we got to this point."
Leroy McDermott,Welch graduate student and student senator, made the following statement:
Paxson said he had never known there to be so few in attendance at the beginning of a
"It was, of course, the chair's decision to ask for the motion to allow," he said.
ask for the motion to adjourn," he said. Rolfs said he had hoped to discuss the reestablishment of women's intercollegiate athletics in the University budget.
HE SAID MONDAY that unless the senate passed a resolution Wednesday night to support women's intercollegiate athletics, he would abandon the chance of being included in the budget.
"The fact that tonight's meeting did not have a quorum will probably hamper efforts to get women's intercollegiate athletics reinstated in the budget," he
"I think Beiner and Hunter may have been embarrassed because he (Wolfs) and his wife (Ruth) were so close to him."
sophomore) have been out fighting for women's intercollege athletics while the team is winning.
BEISNER SAID HE AND Todd Hunt, Oklahoma City junior and vice-presidential candidate, had been hired for restatement. He is the director of financial intercollege admissions.
John Beissner, Salma junior and candidate for student body president, said last night, "I unapthetically deny that charge. It sounds like you don't pay attention, paying anything that comes off his head."
"The things Ed was talking about (the issues he intended to discuss)," were the words. "I think he was asking questions."
Beisner said he was surprised that he was accused of political trickery.
"As far as I know, Ed has never talked with Sharon Devalsle, he said.
Rolfs also complained that a referendum stressed the student's need for input into decisions.
Beisner accused Rofls of trying to use the senate for his own political purposes.
away from the job the people elected me to do," he said.
"If a quorum wasn't present, I'm not appalled that app尔. Mofa wilt the sergeant."
THERE WAS A STANDING ovation, concentrated on the Republican side of the chamber, when Nixon repeated his vow that he wouldn't resign.
There was another ovation earlier when he addressed the same point obliquely by saying that a world of lasting peace was over. "We have lived from the eight years of my presidency."
Until the final moments, the Nixon address had been a summation of legislative proposals and of the record of his first five years in office.
He termed his administration "an agenda of truly significant progress." He said it would break the back of the energy crisis and brine a better life for all Americans.
As he discussed the energy situation,
Nixon disclosed that an urgent meeting
of the U.S. government would be
discuss the lifting of the Arab oil embargo which had cut U.S. supplies.
"THIS IS AN encouraging sign," he said. But the added that, even if the embargo was lifted, Israel still disengagement agreement between Israel and Egypt, the energy shortage wouldn't be
The White House said after the Nixon speech, that no information was available on Hillary Clinton's email.
Nixon repeated his call for action to make the United States self-sufficient in energy, "not only in this decade but in the 21st century."
He praised the voluntary conservation efforts of the American people.
"Let us do every thing we can to avoid gasoline rationing in the United States," he
He concentrated on a national health insurance program, a new system of
welfare reform, measures to guarantee the right of personal privacy and a new program to subsidize improved public transportation.
HE ALSO FORECAST improvement in the economic situation, criticizing those he believed would be ineffective. There would be a continuing inflation program during the first months of 1974.
But, he vowed, "there will be no recession."
Administration, Student Interests Added to CWC Program Failures
He said that there would be ups and downs in the "long and hard fight against inflation" but that if Congress cooperated "we will win the fight."
Nixon entered the House chamber, smiled during a round of applause, acknowledged more applause after he was introduced, then told the assembly of leaders of American government that while great challenges and problems remain, the
Editor's Note: This is the second in a three-part series examining the Colleges Within-theCollege at the University of Kansas. Tomorrow's installment will deal with the administrative characteristics of the colleges and with the future of the CWC
See NIXON Page 10
By S. J. WOHLRABE Kansan Staff Reporter
The purpose of the Colleges-Winith-the College (CWC)—to provide alternative planes for education—has been virtually phandoned.
In 1966 two curricular innovations were implemented, living-learning arrangements and special educational programs.
The living-learning arrangement was scuttled after two years because of extensive administrative difficulties. Now it will have special educational programs.
The purpose of the living-learning arrangement was to ensure that students would go to classes together and reside together, said Jerry Lewis, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and director of Centennial College.
Dennis B. Quinn, director of Pearson College, said the living-learning situation for Pearson College had been self-defeating and made students residential arrangements were too far apart.
The living-learning arrangement failed, said Quinn, because the CWCs had no control over the organization of living situations.
"THE MEN IN PEARSON College live in a primarily upper-class residence hall and the women in Pearson College are halfway across the campus at Corbin Hall", he said.
"Many students want a break from academic life at their living situation," she said, "and others don't want their academic life to be as the living-learning situation requires."
Emily Taylor, dean of women, said the living-learning arrangement would never satisfy all students because some students had academic intrusion of their living situations.
As the number of students has increased,
it has been more difficult to ensure students of getting into sections with friends from their living groups, said Ellen Gold, acting director of Olive College.
LEWIS SAID THAT A guaranteed system of pre-enrollment would strengthen the CWC learning-learning arrangement and that it would support classes for certain CWCs was still working.
Students have different opinions of the
failures and future of living-learning arrangements provided by the CWCs.
"I was glad the CWCs were assigned by living groups," said Jan Haver, Shawnee Mission sophomore in Oliver College. "There were many people from Oliver Hall in my classes when I was a freshman and I liked it better with those kids around."
yck, wichita senor, said he
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Miller Says Governorship Only Race He'll Consider
*Only under the most unusual circumstance will be a candidate for re-election.*
TOPEKA (AP) - Atty. Gen. Vern Miller said he wouldn't be a candidate for reelection this year and that he badn't made him the nominee to the Democratic nomination for governor.
Miller, the first Democrat elected attorney general in Kansas in 80 years when he won the office in 1970, said he had been so busy presenting evidence to a Shawnee County grand jury and attending to other cases before giving any thought to my political future."
However, he said he probably would have to make a decision by April or May whether
An organization was announced last December to promote Miller's candidacy for whatever office he decided to seek this year.
Miller said Gov. Robert Docking's decision on whether to seek the Democratic nomination for U.S. senator or a fifth term wouldn't dictate his decision.
But he added, "There's not any doubt that would be a factor."
DOCKING SAID Tuesday be hadn't made any decisions and wouldn't until after the current legislative session ends in mid-March.
"Governor is the only race I have considered entering," Miller said.
Miller's statement that he is looking only at the governor's race again raised news media speculation that a Docking-Miller fight is conceivable, although unlikely.
Evidence presented by Miller to a grand jury resulted last week in the return of indictments against 19 individuals and five architectural firms who supposedly schemed to lack back money to Docking's 1972 re-election campaign in return for the contracts on behalf of the University of Kansas Medical Center expansion project.
Docking said in an impromptu interview Tuesday he wasn't giving any thought to his future political plans. He said, however, that accusations made against his administration might tend to make him want to defend his record at the polls this fall.
DOCKING SAID he thought he could defend his administration's record by running either for the U.S. Senate or seeking a fifth term as governor.
He said he didn't think the impact of the grand jury's indictments, which included charges against his brother George R. Dick" Docking and a former administrator at the U.S. precluded his seeking either the senate nomination or running for re-election.
The indictments don't implicate the governor himself in the kick-back scheme.
Labor Negotiator is Author, Ex-Priest, Computer Buff
By LINDA A. HALES
BY LINDA A. HALLEY
Kansan Staff Reporter
Feldstein, 11, who took on the job of labor negotiator for the University this month, is former Roman Catholic priest of the Dominican Order, a philosopher and sociology. He is also a soon-to-be-published author and a computer buff. According to Feldstein, he started out to be a doctor.
Judging from the things he's already done, it should be nearly impossible to secondguess the future accomplishments of his team. KU's new labor relations director.
"Within that atmosphere, I just started to consider the situation in terms of Catholicism," he said. "What it was, was a decision that if there was such a thing as women and Hell and this sort of structure, then we sense in messing around with sidelines."
HIS COLLEGE CAREER, he said yesterday, began in his hometown of Minneapolis-St. Paul at St. Thomas, a private Catholic college
"It's more basic to my personality," he said.
His decision led him through eight years of study in River Forest, III., and Dubique, Iowa, where he earned master's degrees in philosophy and biology before being on-
"It's a very idealistic kind of reaction," said Feldstein, "A very total kind of
"THAT'S APPROXIMATELY 10 years of college for which I have college credits"
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He dropped engineering in favor of the priesthood.
Teaching assignments followed, at Chicago's St. Xavier College, Avila College in Kansas City, Mo., and the Newman Center at Northern Illinois University.
"(it's) when you actually can feel you've gotten something across to people," he said. "Feeling that you've at least taught them to thunk."
He said his philosophy background influenced his teaching methods.
Feldstein said "success" was what he liked most about teaching.
"I'd catch them (the students) with questions such as "if you say that you understand something, or know something as against believing someone else's word to it, it means that you've already seen or touched or heard the object", Foledeen said.
"I would say 'do you people know mathematics?' Where is a two?"
James Feldstein
THE REACTION from his students, he said, was one of dismay. He used to test his students' comprehension.
After more than six years of teaching, Feldstein returned to River Forest to work toward a doctorate in philosophy. It was only after reading "another one of my absolute decisions."
Through investigation for this thesis, which involved sociology and philosophy, he said, he changed his mind about his profession and his religion.
"I decided these religious structures that I held all my life weren't so hard and fast enough," she said.
"Much of the structure the Catholic Church was putting out as divinely revealed books, and much of the teaching," he said.
Foldstein and he reached the conclusion
that "if you don't believe the stuff, then get
out."
Feldstein he thought personnel management would be the logical field to invest in. But he said that
A PRACTICAL matter of survival, he said, he took a job as manager of a Western Auto store in Raytown, Mo. He said he had taught at Avila College in city area while teaching at Avila College.
He became personnel manager of Macy's department stores in Kansas City, Mo., a
The "strategies and maneuvering" of labor relations attract him to the job, he
Feldstein was working on computerization of the Macy's personal system when he answered the University's enrollment for a labor relations director.
"I do react to a creative situation, a situation where most of the work is not routine," he said. One thing that doesn't easily lead to a routine is labor relations.
So, the point of negotiating is to make (both aides) stay within the confines of the room.
In his spare time, Feldstein is writing a book adapted from his unfinished doctoral research.
THE NEGOTIATOR FOR the employer, said Feldstein, has to worry about both sides, controlling expenses for the employer and insuring a sense of justice for the employer.
it would publish the book, which is called the "American Folkologie of Sex."
Feldstein said that he had been involved in a public debate with the publishers of Playboy while teaching at Northern Illinois University and that he had kept up the
"IT'S BASED on a very simple concept that man plants his seed in a woman," Feldstein said, "and as you expand the concept you find all kinds of very, very nasty implications where women are concerned."
Folden lives in Shawnee with his wife, a
Kokanee Indian, and his children.
Kokanee Multi-Service Center in Meriam,
Missouri.
She, in fact, is one of the employees may wind up in a bargaining team, will win the contract, and he said.
They have no plans to move to Lawrence as long as his wife is working, he said, because, "she feels if one of us commutes, it might as well be me."
The Feldsteins have no children, and as
but it is. "There are enough children,
these children are enough."