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Tuesday, January 29, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Raises for Student Leaders Urged
By JILL WILLIS Kansas Staff Reporter
Student body officers will receive substantial salary increases next year if petition approved by the current Student Senate is ratified by the senate elected this
The proposed salary raises are: student body president, from $120 to $180 a year; student body vice president, from $120 to $150 a year; senate treasurer, from $120 to $120 a year; student executive committee, from $120 to $600 a year; and the three senate executive committee (SenEx) members from $765 to $900 a year.
Mort Buckley, Wichita senior and student body president, said years ago that he had a desire to be a teacher.
"When someone campaigns for student body president, it costs anywhere from $300 to $1200. If he wins he gets $85 a month to live on," he said.
Buckley said there were no problems in the past with the salary because the students who ran for offices were supported by their parents.
*This salary prohibits someone who has to work his way through school from runnig.*
Buckley said the 1973 senate initiated the petition for salary increases because "it
would be awkward for the new student body president to bring it up."
Communists Resist Cambodian Forces
Ed Rolfz, Junction City junior and candidate for student body president, said yesterday that he voted against the petition that was discussed in the last senate meeting.
Communists Resist Cambodian Forces
Cambodian government infantrymen and armor met sharp resistance yesterday in a drive against Communist-led insurgent forces that had broken through Phnom Penh's southern defenses, field reports said.
Four battalions of government troops, numbering 1,400 men and backed by 24 armored personnel carriers, failed to clear an area about seven miles southwest of Phnom Penh. Field reports said 30 government soldiers were killed.
Nixon Aide Pleads Guilty to Lying to FBI
Government forces around Prey Veng, about eight miles southwest of the capital, also reported no progress against the insurgents.
Herbert L. Porter, former scheduling director of President Nixon's reelection campaign, pleaded guilty yesterday to lying to the FBI in its Watergate investigation. He faces a maximum five years in prison and a fine of $10,000.
Porter admitted to the Senate Watergate Committee that he told a false story about the authorization of the funds used for the Watergate burglary on 23 February 1975.
He said he did so at the suggestion of Jeb. S. Magruder, former deputy director of the re-election committee. Jeb Murray had pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges.
Raise in GI Education Benefits Proposed
President Nixon asked Congress yesterday to vote an 8 per cent cost-taving increase in GI bill education benefits and to revamp the pension system.
He also asked that Nov. 11 be redesignated as Veterans Day, wiping out part of a 1984 law that switched Veterans Day to the fourth month in Oct.
"I don't believe the increase is necessary
I'm not in favor of an increase at all," he said.
U.S. Trade Surplus in '73 First in 3 Years
The United States finished 1973 with a 4.7 billion surplus in foreign trade—the first trade surplus in three years—the government reported yesterday. The U.S.'s second highest trade surplus of 849 million in December. Exports shot to record high levels during the month while imports declined substantially, except for oil.
The main factor contributing to the big turnaround in the country's trade, government economists said, was two deviations of the U.S. dollar, which made U.S. goods cheaper overseas and foreign goods more expensive in this country.
Bill Submitted on Atty. Gen. Requirements
The bill would require that future candidates for state attorney general have five years of active experience in the practice of law.
In Topeka, the Senate Judiciary Committee introduced a bill yesterday that Democrats suspect was attied at Atty. Gen. Vern Miller.
Miller, who obtained his law degree while serving as sheriff of Sodwick County before being elected attorney general in 1970, said the bill didn't
'Candidate' Won't Announce Until March 1
Don Concannon, Hugoton attorney and former state Republican chairman, said yesterday that he wouldn't formally declare his candidacy for the GOP.
Concannon denied a published report in Kansas City that he had declared his candidacy, but confirmed that his supporters were handing out printed his name.
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"I'm not sure that much of an increase is necessary," John Beinser, Salma junior and candidate for student body president, said. "My salary is really not a salary, as such."
"The salary is mainly to cover these expenses," he said. "I don't really think any student body president makes any money. I think the idea of having salaries is to give payment that has enough money to take the expenses out of their pocket the opportunity to serve."
Beirner said he was in favor of the pay increases, but he want to sure how much the company can afford.
Beisner mentioned the expense involved in occupying student body offices.
"That depends on what the Student Senate budget works out to be," he said.
Theft and vandalism are the biggest problems in Watson Library, David Heron, and Stephen Katz.
Book Theft and Vandalism Costly Plague for Library
Guards stationed at the exits are more a reminder to honest people than a deterrent to those who steal books. Heron said, "The books are of great official examination of persons leaving the building."
Chancellor Dykes
"To combat vandalism we might begin making spot checks of books," Heron said. "We would examine books before they went out, and when they were returned we'd check for damage. It takes time to examine a book or magazine carefully, but if we catch one out of four it might be worthwhile."
Heron also said marking in library books depreciates their value.
"I don't have any qualms about underlining in books, but not in the regents' books," he said. "It's a waste of state property."
He said the only enforceable penalty would be to change the person for惩罚.
Magazines also suffer abuse, Heron said. Besides writing in the margins of pages, people clip articles they need instead of making copies of them.
Replacing pages in periodicals is expensive. It costs about $4 in secretarial fees.
It is cheaper to get a microfone of an entire magazine than to replace a missing one.
A microfee is a miniature, filmed copy of the complete magazine, read with the aid of a special viewer. Watson Library now has about 24 microfee copies.
photostatic copy and paste the copy in the correct magazine, Heron said.
Herron said the cost of books had risen about 15 per cent in each of the last two
"We have about 20 per cent less purchasing power than we have had in the past," he said. "We spend money replacing that could be spent to buy new books."
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Relevance of Education Top Test, Dykes Says
By LINDA HALES Kansan Staff Reporter
The most important question before students and educators today is whether education has been and is relevant, Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said last night,
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"The supreme test of education is always relevance," he said. "Learning which contributes nothing to the enhancement of a person's life . . . which doesn't motivate one to work . . . but gives between things as they are and thing that is not relevant. Neither . . . is JEducation."
Dykes spoke to about 250 people attending the Humanities Lecture Series at a p.m. in the Auditorium on Wednesday, May 16.
Dykes suggested two criteria to determine the relevance of education: whether it had enhanced one's understanding of his surroundings and whether it had contributed to a sense of commitment to improve those surroundings.
However, he said, recent scientific and technological achievements are incongruous with the quality of life. The technology had peacefully hadn't kept pace with science.
"Our world today is a world of paradoxes," Dykes said. "It is a historical axiom that increases in man's knowledge and understanding have decisively influenced for the better the quality of human life."
Ralph Waldo Emerson's definition of the scholar as a "man thinking" described the duties of the educated person, Dykes said, regardless of the person's occupation. Dykes said "man thinking" was needed now more than ever.
"We will recognize that we can't make large gains in one area at the expense of another. And we will understand that our technological advances are rapidly outstripping our moral, spiritual and physical capacity to adapt to them."
"If our education has been relevant we will move . . . toward new and fresh understandings of the true nature of the world and of human experience," he said.
"Few large societies have demonstrated the enormous capacity for self-deception, illusion and myth which we find in our society today." Dykes said.
"One of the imperative current needs of our country, as in Emerson's day is for
men and women who can . . . act on the problems in a rational and legal way.
He said a sense of responsibility for *an-
wareness* surrounding environment was one of
society's greatest challenges.
"We can choose, in short, the kind of world we want; we can lift the quality of human life or we can destroy civilization. And we must remember that whether our great technological advances bring good or evil, whether they improve man's life or detract from it depends in the final analysis upon our values and our priorities."
New demands, he said, will call for the application of basic values in each person's life.
"Perhaps most important of all(is) an unwavening椎 to do what is right without regard to outside pressures or personal self-interest."
It is the responsibility of colleges and universities, he said, to foster those values and advance technological importance with an understanding of the basic values of civilization.
"It is obvious to the rational man that the "quality of our civilization in the future will be determined both by our knowledge and by the values which guide its application."
"Clearly, the problems which beet us at today, are their base, problems of values and human behavior. The only question is whether the values we believe in and live by are sufficient for the moral and economic commitments which must be made."
Dykes said that the college student's greatest responsibility was to examine the values by which he lived, and that a course in social work would provide that opportunity to its students.
"I would like to believe these goals are apprehensely the goals of the University and that we need to do it."
Hearst Winner at KU
Dan George, Lawrence senior, placed ninth in the William Randolph Hearst Foundation's national collegiate editorial writing competition. George won a $150 scholarship, and a similar award went to the KU School of Journalism.
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