Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
59th Year, No. 48
Tuesday, November 28, 1961
KU Budget Cut $1.4 Million Budget Cut Not Final Budget Approva Until Legislature Acts Involved Process
KU administrators appear displeased about the $1.4 million cut from the State Board of Regents' requested budget of $24.3 million for the University.
However, they indicated that the budget as approved by the legislature probably will be higher than the present recommendation.
"KU's requests were minimal," said Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University. "Unless the budget cuts Mr. Bibb (James W. Bibb, State Budget Director) recommended to the governor are restored, the quality of educational service here will be seriously affected.
"For example, Mr. Bibb's recommendations eliminate that part of the budget intended for expansion of library operations.
"Furthermore, the director's action leaves out the funds necessary for the replacement of Blake Hall.
"Considering the number of students we are expecting in the next few years, we're going to need that classroom space badly. As it is we have had to reschedule classes for next semester."
(Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe on Oct. 16 announced that classes next fall would begin one-half hour earlier and end one-half hour later than at present. He said the measure was being taken to alleviate a predicted classroom shortage in the face of an enrollment of 10,700 expected next fall.)
Continuing, Mr. Nichols said this was not all the damage the deletion in the budget would do. He said it would put a strain on the KU staff itself.
Raymond Nichols
"IN CONSIDERATION of the enrollment jump that is coming, the Board of Regents allowed us funds in their budget for 41 new instructors. Mr. Bibb's budget cuts have reduced this number to 25."
He said the regents' budget proposal also had provided for hiring of 23 additional classified office personnel. (These were to be secretarial and administrative workers, not academic personnel.)
"Bibb's budget changes would limit the University to two such employees." Mr. Nichols said.
He said the state budget director's recommendation also would deprive the University of:
- All funds for faculty salary increases.
- $65,000 from the present routine repair figure.
- All special repair funds including those allotted for proposed traffic control stations.
(The latter had been proposed by the chancellor in his address (Continued on page 8)
He explained that a budget request must go through the following five steps before it is finally adopted:
The proposed KU budget is not in its final form by any means, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the University said yesterday.
- A budget request is made by the administration of the University based upon its needs. The request is then forwarded to the State Board of Regents.
(Continued on page 8)
- The regents' requests then go to a budget hearing committee headed by the state budget director. Here the budget is reviewed and again may be modified according to state resources. This is a joint meeting of the regents and the budget director's staff.
- The Board of Regents examines the request and attempts to fit it into an over-all minimal request for state institutions. Available state revenue resources are considered at this stage.
- The budget then is recommended to the governor. The governor reviews the budget and may make further modifications he deems necessary. The KU budget is now in this stage.
- The governor then submits the final formal budget to the legislature for its approval. This will be done Jan. 10. This budget involves all state institutions.
The budget (now a bill) goes first to the senate where it is sent to the Senate Ways and Means Committee. If passed by the Senate when returned from the committee, the bill is sent to the House of Representatives. Here it undergoes a similar process.
After approval by the House, the bill returns to the Senate for a final vote. If the Senate fails to approve any changes the House may have made, the bill goes to a compromise committee.
When the committee reaches a solution, the bill is returned to the governor for either signature or veto. If vetoled, the bill must undergo further legislation, otherwise the bill (budget) goes into effect.
Partly cloudy to clear today through tomorrow. Slowly rising temperatures. Highs today 40 to 45. Lows tonight around 30. Highs tomorrow 45 to 50.
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Wescoe Backs KU Crisis Day
A proposal for a "World Crisis Day" has been given enthusiastic support by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe.
A resolution presented to him by an ad hoc steering committee (eight students and 3 faculty) asked for the chancellor's approval to hold a special convocation followed by smaller seminar meetings.
The resolution said in part:
"There has been a growing concern for the need of greater awareness among students of this University of the present international crisis, the arms race, nuclear testing, and other factors imperiling the peace and security of all peoples." The chancellor said:
"The idea is good, but I would make one plea, that the speaker be first class. This is the way to create real enthusiasm.
"DECIDE WHOM you want and then set the date," he added. "I have no objection to Dec. 7 (the tentative date) if you can arrange it."
"I do think," he continued, "that whoever comes should plan to spend the whole day and should attend some of the smaller seminars."
Brian O'Heron, Torrington, Conn.
senior and co-chairman of the committee asked if there was any money available for obtaining speakers.
The Chancellor explained that the expenses could be handled by the University's convocations committee.
It was also decided at the meeting that classes would not be dismissed for the day. An earlier proposal called for suspension of all regular academic activities for a day, but the committee and the chancellor felt that too many students would be inclined to stay in bed rather than attend the meetings.
PRESENT PLANS for the convocation call for either two speakers, one representing the government view and one the alternative view, or only one speaker from the government.
There has been no definite confirmation on speakers at the present time.
More than 200 students, 50 faculty members and 40 organizations have signed a resolution supporting the concept of "World Crisis Day."
O'Heron commented that he was happy about the support but what is needed now is more student and faculty participation in making arrangements for the program.
He asked that all interested students attend the next meeting of the ad hoc committee at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas Union.
Moscow Publishes JFK Interview in Red Paper
MOSCOW — (UPI) — President Kennedy proposed an international administration to control traffic on the highway lifeline between Berlin and West Germany in an exclusive interview published today in the Soviet government newspaper Izvestia.
The interview was obtained by Izvestia editor Alexei Adzhubeh, son-in-law of Premier Nikita Khrushchev, at the President's vacation home at Hyannis Port, Mass., l.a.t Saturday.
"All we want is to maintain limited and numerically very limited forces of the three powers in West Berlin and have, for example, an international administration for the highway so that goods and people could go back and forth without hindrance," the President said. "Then we could secure peace in this area for many years."
IN SEEING ADZHUBEL, Kennedy granted the first exclusive interview ever given to a Soviet journalist by an American President. The two men were together for two hours, and Adzhubei, frequently advancing his own opinions, talked almost half as much as the President. Printing the
interview in Izvestia was an extraordinary event for the Soviet press which seldom carries remarks by Western leaders that are critical of Russian policy.
The President blamed the dangers to peace on the Soviet Union's efforts to "communize the world," and made these other points:
- East-West relations: The So-
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KU Student Dies In Car Accident
Thomas J. Loberg, Houston, Tex., freshman died in a two-car accident Thursday afternoon in Wichita.
He was killed when he was tossed from his small foreign car. The force of the impact threw the light car on Loberg's body.
Loberg had gone to Wichita over Thanksgiving vacation to visit his grandparents. He is a former resident of Wichita.
At KU, Loberg was a pledge of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. He was planning to study journalism, and was a script writer for the Rock Chalk Revue.
Kansas Football Fizzles in Final Game
By Fred Zimmerman
It happened with tiresome regularity.
John Hadl raised his arm to pass and was pounded to the ground by Missouri tacklers . . . Curtis McClinton took a handoff and started around left end, but the Missouri line never let him turn the corner.
Forty thousand Kansas fans took these images with them as they left Memorial Stadium Saturday after watching KU's humiliation by its most bitter rival.
Just a week ago, Hadl was being called "everybody's All America," and McClinton was "the best college back" one professional scout said he had seen all year.
Just a week ago, Kansas had won its sixth straight victory, piling up 53 points against a California team that had tied Missouri.
AND BEFORE THAT were the pre-season predictions of brilliance for the KU team. picked by Playboy Magazine to finish first in the nation.
But as the stadium emitted Saturday all anyone remembered was
that Kansas had been humbled in the final game of the season by a team that had entered the game as a 2-touchdown underdog.
But the players want another chance. Hoping for partial vindication, the team voted unanimously yesterday to accept an invitation to play Dec. 16 in the Bluebonnet Bowl in Houston. Tex.
"That's enough football for me," a disgusted alumnus said to his wife, whose chrysanthemum had wilted on her lapel.
If a vote had been taken immediately after the game, however, the team probably would have rejected a bowl invitation. In the locker room, defeat and frustration prevailed as players dressed in silence.
"AFTER MISSOURI, we were ready to just give up," Hadl said today. "But I think we'll go down there now and play our best game of the year."
The 40 or 50 alumni, who always jam into the dressing room after a game to congratulate the players, pound Coach Jack Mitchell on the back, and watch the team dress, did not seem to know what to do after Saturday's game.
Many of them looked slightly embarrassed as they shuffled aimlessly from one end of the room to the other, occasionally being pushed gently aside by players trying to get to the showers.
A man in a gray topcoat dragged his 8-year-old son through the
A sad walk home . . .
dressing room mob and introduced him to Rodger McFarland.
"Say, Rog, this is my boy, Jimmy."
McFarland, sitting in dejection before his opened locker, looked up.
"Hi, Jimmy," he said, and shook Jimmy's hand. There was an uneasy pause before the father steered his son back into the crowd.
One boy whispered to his friend:
"Did you see Hadl's eyes? He's crying."
HADL. naked and dripping from the shower, slowly made his way back to his locker, trailed by five or six small boys wanting autographs.
In the middle of the room, Kent Staab knelt at the knee of Jim Mills and offered him a drink of water. For three minutes the two players — both seniors who had just played their last game in Memorial Stadium — bowed their heads and whispered to each other.
Nearby, Coach Bernie Taylor—who Coach Mitchell had said was most responsible for KU's surprising comeback after a slow start at the beginning of the season—stood lifelessly in front of a locker, staring into space.
Gradually the crowd noticed, and pulled back from the two to watch in silence. Staab and Mills finally separated, not knowing 20 persons had been watching them.
GRADUALLY THE CROWD thinned. The grade-school boys got their autographs, and the alumni decided they had seen all there was to see.
On his way out, an alumnus in a plaid sport coat stopped to pat a player on the shoulder.
"You're still champs," he told him.
He then walked out the door, past the hand-written slogan someone had tacked to the bulletin board.
"Your greatest handicap is fear."
t said. "Your best day is today."