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Friday, January 25, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Food Costs Predicted to Set New High
Consumer food costs are rising again, and January figures probably will average above the record set last summer, according to new figures.
Last month a retail market basket of U.S. farm-produced food cost an annual rate of $185, officials said. That was up $18 from the previous year.
Officials said that sharp beef price increases in January probably will push the indicator even higher.
Plumber Boss Gets 6-Month Prison Term
Egil Krogh Jr., the boss of the White House Plumbers, was sentenced yesterday to six months in prison for the burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. He was the first top-level White House staffer to be sent to prison.
Krogh said he was "sad and sorry" about what he did because "it represented an official government action."
However, he said. "In any event, I received no specific instruction or authority whatever regarding the break-in from the President, directly or
Nixon Proposes Increased College Grants
President Nikon sent a sweeping education message to Commissary yesterday推动更多资金 for programs ranging from pre-school to high school.
The message, which preceded submission of the fiscal year 1975 budget, proposed full funding at $1.3 billion for the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant Program for needy college students. Nixon said this would raise the average grant to $805 from the present $280 a year.
Egypt to Begin Withdrawal From Suez
Egyptian forces will make their first negotiated withdrawal along the Suez Canal front today, and Israel speed up its military pullback yesterday in Egypt, said the commander of the United Nations Emergency Force, LT. Gen. Enso Silasuvo of Finland.
Full-scale Israeli withdrawal from the west side of the Suez Canal and the first Egyptian movement from the east side is based on a technical military exercise.
Publishing World Not Ready for Spiro
Former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew offered the outline of a novel he writes to Random House, but the proposed book was rejected, the president wrote.
"It is absolutely and totally untrue that Random House will publish a novel written by . . . Agnew." Robert L. BERNstein, the president, said.
Berstein said the outline of the proposed novel "roughly" concerned a teenage girl who escapes from her parents and turns out to have been programmed for disaster by Chinese China.
By JILL WILLIS
Kansan Staff Reporter
Several University professors are unhappy about the management of textbook content.
Bookstore Reduces Prof's Orders
Professors complained yesterday that the bookstore intentionally ordered fewer books than the professors requested and didn't send the professors when books weren't available.
Richard Shawan, professor of chemistry,
said yesterday that the bookstore neglected
to re-order a chemistry textbook that was
used last semester because "their
assumption was that everyone that wanted
one had gotten one."
Sixty members of showan's class couldn't get books and he has advertised for used books.
"I think this is a serious problem," Steinem said in convince something on the other side of it.
HE SAID IT might be necessary to order books from another bookstore or to reorganize the management of the Union bookstore.
Gloria Vogel, office manager of the political science department, said yesterday that two professors had mentored her to become a booker of books for their classes this semester.
BSU President Says Whites Allowed to Join
Racial discrimination does exist in the Black Student Union (BSU), Michael Mason, president.
Moore's comments were in response to a white student's attempt to join the BSU
According to Moore, the application contains only routine information such as name, address and telephone number. Moore also said he would make the necessary application available to the student who wanted to join.
"It's open to anyone who wants to join," Moore said. "You just have to fill out an application."
Although any white person wanting to join BSU can do so, Moore said that some of the activities of the organization might not be of interest to whites.
Moore said a white member should have a certain interest in the black community and wouldn't be discriminated against on that basis.
"In the BSU, the majority of the people are black, so activities are geared to black people."
Rita Napier, acting assistant professor of history, said yesterday that she was having no problems this semester but that she had trouble getting the books for two classes last
"Most professors feel that the bookstore never orders what they've requested," she added.
"The problems in the past are they (bookstore employees) underestimate the size of the classes. They assume that you can overestimate the size of your classes."
THUS, THERE are never enough books at the start of classes, she said.
"I would consider it a major problem," she said.
James Seaver, professor of history and chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee, said yesterday that he received complaints about the bookstore.
"We are investigating the complaints, but we have nothing to report yet," he said. Seaver said the committee hadn't been able to find out what the problems were.
CHARLES BLLS, assistant manager of the bookstore, said the bookstore at times deliberately ordered 20 to 40 per cent fewer books than professors order.
"We may investigate this matter somewhere, but he says, 'particularly the problem and the problems we faced.'"
The bookstore estimates the size of the case before ordering the books for that class.
"If a class has never sold the number of jobs the professor requests, why should we demand it?"
Bills said the bookstore assumed complete responsibility for not filling the book request of the professor if his class was short of books.
"If we are short, the professor can bitch his head off," he said.
Bills said that when the bookstore ran out or books, the professor had usually allowed them to leave.
PROFESSORS ARE notified immediately if their books aren't going to be available.
"I'm damn concerned about getting enough books for the students," he said, "but I'm also concerned about over-ordering."
Calder Pickett, prefessor of journalism,
he consistently had a problem with the
advertising industry.
"My biggest problem is I will order a book but I won't be given notification until very late that the book won't be available," he said.
McPhee said he was unaware that the order was canceled until he went to the bookstore and noticed the book wasn't in stock.
McPee said another book he hoped to use had been lost in the mail.
Jack Orchu, associate professor of English, said yesterday that his main problem with the bookstore had been that he wasn't notified when books were unavailable or out of print or when recorders came in.
"I called the bookstore a day or two after the term started and was told a second consignment should be in any day now," he said.
"I wasn't told the order for the book was canceled. Perhaps they should have returned it."
"Surely if I ask for a book in October or November I should be able to know before early January that the book won't be available." be said
Two of the three books he ordered one semester were unavailable, Pickett said.
Pickett said this problem happened "too frequently."
IAN McPHEE, visiting lecturer in classics, said that he ordered a book this semester that hadn't been published, so the order was canceled.
Jan Jones, Kansan City, Kan., junior,
a copy of one book for an entire
semester.
ORUCH SAID HE knew of a professor who ordered 25 books and only received 15. "It isn't their place to estimate enrollment," he said.
"Finally towards the end of the semester I just gave up because there was no sense in it."
The shortage of textbooks is also a major inconvenience to students.
Jones said the book was supposed to be at the bookstore, "so I kept going to the bookstore and they kept saying, 'We're expecting it.'"
"For social psychology I never got the book with the case histories. I always had to go to the library in Fraser at night and read the assignments."
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Saturday, January 26
2:00-4:30-7:00-9:30
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Friday, January 25
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Monday, January 28
Experimental Film
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Horror Films
VAMPYR and THE
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Tuesday, Jan. 29
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Children's Films
THE POINT
Songs by Nilsson
Sunday, January 27
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