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THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
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Newspaper Says Eagleton Offered To Withdraw
82nd Year, No. 30
Wednesday, July 26,1972
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
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Kansan Photo by JOHN REED
Girls Practice Stepping Out
Participants in a four-day drill team camp, sponsored by the In-ternational Cheerleading Foundation of Overland Park, run through drills during a practice session Tuesday. The camp, at Naismith Hall, is scheduled to end Thursday.
City to Share Drug Treatment Bills
By BOB LITCHFIELD
Kenner Staff Writer
Kansan Staff Writer
The methadone program operated by Watkins Hospital was authorized by the Lawrence City Commission Tuesday to charge its bills to the city, up to a $1,000 maximum, subject to monthly commission review.
Municipal funding of the Watkins program was proposed in the Mayor's Committee on Drug Abuse report presented to the commission June 27 by Howard M. Eossberg, dean of the School of政法 and chairman of the committee.
Buford Watson, city manager, said that Dr. Raymond Schwegel, director of health services of the University of Kansas, had reported that the Watkinsville City Council requested that the city appropriate $1,000 to keep the program alive.
ALLOCATION of the methadone funds followed adoption of a resolution indicating support for Headquarters, Inc., a crisis and drug abuse center in its appraisal of the need to head Headquarters director, said that the center had been invited to participate in
the federal application being made for the entire area by the Shawnee County Health
Silber said that Headquarters would seek to help implement the program outlined by the Mayor's Committee report, with special emphasis on the methadone program and the need for a treatment center.
Headquarters would become the Douglas County base in the drug treatment and crisis counseling operation should the grant be approved. Silber said.
Under the proposed program three major services would be made available through Headquarters: hospital service, an out-patient clinic one week a week and a diagnostic treatment center operated by the Meninger Foundation in Topeka.
IN ADDITION, the funds would provide for one, or possibly two, staff workers for Douglas County. Silber currently supervise the huntter staff and direct services himself.
Action was deferred for one week on the proposed subdivision and development regulations passed by the Douglas County Board of Land Use, being put in final form by the Lawrence-
Douglas County Planning Commission in a special July 12 meeting. Tuesday's meeting was to have been the last public hearing on the proposal, but Mayor John Emick said that new developments had caused the deferral.
Constant Construction spokesman John Scanion came before the commission with a request that an exception be made to the construction project which would allow Constant to open up the street on the 1000 Massachusetts Street before scheduled.
The specifications require that no more than two city blocks are unearthed at one time. Currently both the 800 and 900 blocks of Massachusetts are opened up.
SCANLON SAID that the amount of utility work left incomplete would hold up the project. The water department and gas employees repairing the sewers and mains under the street are doing a good job, Scanlon said, but the vast deterioration of the utilities was unanticipated and the work is very time-consuming.
Group Chosen to Study Wants of East Lawrence
Two representatives of the Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) regional office in Kansas City spoke to East Lawrence residents and an eight person team at the Neighborhood Development Planning (NDP) meeting Tuesday night.
HUD representatives Martha McCarthy, community services specialist, and Harold Bernstein, community development specialist, explained to East Lawrence will work and the purpose of their steering committee.
Bernsitn said that one of the purposes of the committee was to make a survey of what the people in East Lawrence wanted. He said that the committee should counsel and assist East Lawrence residents about the NDP.
Under the NDP, East Lawrence residents, depending on their income category, can receive up to $3500 in a grant to bring their homes up to the minimum
house code standards. Grants can only be used on owner occupied property.
East Lawrence residents can also take out loans with a 3 per cent interest rate. These government guaranteed loans are handed out through public lenders
Jack Rose, Lawrence city commissioner, and that the possibility exists of a mayor's involvement.
Loan repayments are based upon the person's ability to pay. Under some conditions, rental property can get a 3 per cent loan. Bornsen was quick to point out that HUD would not allow rental owners to profit from the 3 per cent loan.
The Constant request was deferred for one week to enable the commission to notify merchants on the 1000 block and 85th Street to that utility work was not completed in the 800 and 900 blocks next week he believed it would cause work to grind to a halt to let the workers work up. Tenth Street was opened until ninth Street was opened, he said.
Berntsen said that there will be occasions when people will have to be relocated. He said that once an area is chosen to rehabilitate it is compulsory for all residents in that area to rehabilitate their property.
According to Bentnets houses in industrial zoned areas cannot receive loans or
Although not on the agenda, the methadone treatment program at Watkins became the chief item of discussion. Watson characterized the program, which has been maintained for over a year, as a "medicine chain" and clinic, and pointed out that only direct costs of the hospital are charged; the urinalysis and the cost of the methadone.
Commissioner Jack Rose said that the program was "very well run and dirt cheap" when compared with similar programs in other states for each individual undergoing treatment.
The program has served as many as 18 heroin addicts at one time, Watson said, although only three persons are currently enrolled. The commission was eager to promote the program is not for KU students, but for indigent non-students in the community.
"I CAN'T THINK of a better way to spend $1,000," Commissioner J. R. Pulliam stated, "in view of the cost advantages of the Watkins program."
See COMMISSION, page 5
Chalmers Says Suit Hurts Anti-Bias Plan
By RALPH NICOL
Kansan Staff Writer
Reacting to the charge of sex discrimination against the University of Kansas by the Women's Equity Action League (WEAL), Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., said Tuesday that WEAL's actions would make orderly progress toward the elimination of sexual and racial discrimination more difficult.
Chalmers said, "IF HEW orders a compliance investigation we will be able to staff and fund to that review at a timely date, our resources could be used much more productively in the development and action programs."
The charge was made to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, asking for an immediate investigation and suspension of all current contract negotiations until an acceptable plan of affirmative action is implemented.
"It is unfortunate that the WEAL organization, which has no known representation at KU, has taken this action without any cognizance of the positive steps which have been made here during the past two years." Chalmers said.
CHALMERS said that the letter had called for a "blanket" investigation of inequities, without firm knowledge of any existing discrimination.
For example, Chalmers said, the letter
CHALMERS said that the writers of the letter did not appear aware of the positive steps KU had taken in regard to ending discrimination. These positive steps include re-designing the office of urban affairs, creating a new office of minority affairs, creating a new office for women with affirmative action for women and appointing an affirmative action board.
Chalmers also said that procedures had been issued February 15 for positive efforts to identify qualified women candidates for faculty recruitment and May 4 for handling complaints by faculty, staff, students, and other individuals.
The Chancellor stated that where there was discrimination and imbalance, the University should and would take steps to rectify it. However, it could not do so in an orderly process when under a threat by a national organization.
Film to Present University's Picture
called for an examination of financial aid to women students, while KU gives proportionally more aid to women than to men. The letter also asks about admission policies, but Chalmers said that KU was one of only three public universities that must accept all high school graduates from the state.
North Viet Resistance Weakens at Quang Tri
By evening, Army spokesman Lt. Col. Do Dang Bo said, "Enemy resistance is weakening." There was no word on casualties.
Some of WEAL's information was apparently based on the University's actions last year, he said. He pointed out that last year the University's budget was frozen at the preceding year's level and the modest budget increase authorized this year did
Spokesmen in Saigon said a third brethren was made Tuesday night by South Viet-
SAIGON (AP)—South Vietnamese paratroopers battled in the night Tuesday in their drive to recapture Quang Tri's 19th Battalion, which received a mount of a North Vietnamese occupation force.
In the air war, American jets flew more than 260 strikes on Monday against bridges, rail lines and supply depots in North Vietnam, the U.S. Command said.
Bo expressed hope that the South Vietnamese flag could be raised over the old walled fortress Wednesday to symbolize the end of enemy rule. Quang Tri has been occupied by North Vietnamese forces since May 1.
South Vietnamese planes dropped napalm into the Citadel before the initial assault by two airborne companies of about 400 men. American planes blasted two holes in the Citadel's wings with smart bombs guided by lasers.
Scattered clashes broke out south of Quang Tri on both sides of Highway 1 leading to Hue. Shelling attacks and ransacks swept southwest of the former imperial capital.
There were conflicting claims on the recapture of the Citadel. South Vietnamese military spokesmen in Saigon said it had been retaken.
"THEREFORE," he said, "it has been very difficult to make substantial increases in the salaries and numbers of our faculty and ethnic minorities on the faculty and staff."
Chalmeris said that WEAL had apparently called most area newspapers to the event.
"The charges by WEAL were brought without any apparent contact by their staff with our Affirmative Action Board or Office of Affirmative Action for Women," the first notification that I received of the charge was from the local newspaper."
A film showing various phases of KU student life in its final stage, according to the Linton, professor of journalism and director of the radio-telевision-film department.
An army communique issued in hue said that government troops entered the fortress at 10 a.m. 2020. But newsman at the front could not verify this because South Korea did not have warning shots over their heads when they tried to approach the battle zone.
Chalmers said he was irritated that WEAL was playing a "media game" with its charges.
The command also reported the loss of two more fighter-bombers over the North and said one crewman was rescued and another is missing.
Chalmers said that he would try to see that all faculty and staff got equitable treatment as rapidly as KU's resources would permit.
By PAM VINDUSKA
Kansan Staff Writer
The interviews were conducted by four students who assisted Linton in making the cases. They are David Morgenstern, Rick Marsh, and Michael Griard Priest, who are all 1972 graduates.
THEIR casual approach prompted many spontaneous answers to questions about student living, classes, student dormitory, Lawrence and the University.
Students also helped with photography, writing, filming and lighting. Peter Dart, associate professor of journalism, speech and drama, helped with camera work and attended some of the planning sessions, Linton said.
The 20-minute film is made up of interviews with students in residence halls, sororities, fraternities, apartments and on campus. Comments and answers to the questions were all unrehearsed and spontaneous, Linton said.
not even compensate for two year's inflation.
The film was requested by the administration to try to remedy some of the distortion that has existed since trouble at KU two years ago, Linton said. It will be shown at alumni towns in towns across the country and students will be invited to learn about KU.
Work on the film began last September, and Linton and the students worked on it throughout the school year. This summer Linton has edited the film. He hoped to have it completed by the first week in September.
"We tried to make a very honest film," Linton said. "We didn't try to dress up KU, but we wanted to show that it is not the place some people think it is.
"And we tried to make it cinematically interesting something more than just a set of images."
For example, at the end of the film, he said, there is a series of shots about KU activities; and music was provided by The TIDE, a local jazzk-rock group.
The Chancellor said he was unsure how HEW would treat the charge by WEAL. He said that KU had never even received guidelines from HEW concerning the kind of affirmative action expected by the department. For one thing, Chalmers said, HEW order referred to discrimination on the level of the faculty in the local area, but most of KU's faculty and staff are recruited from a national and international market.
"PERIHAPS a local TV station count may
it or maybe it could be shown at local
TV stations."
Linton said the film was not limited to use by alumni meetings.
The completed part of the film was shown to some of the high school summer campers, and their reaction was "very positive," he said.
"Out of 22 journalism campers who saw the film, 21 expressed very favorable comments. They felt it was honest and representative of what they knew about KU. The one who complained said there was not enough in the film about KU accusations that is the part we haven't completed yet, the part they didn't see," Linton said.
"We think it has turned out pretty well," he said.
The number of American planes downed over the North has risen to 68 and the number of missing aircraft to 74, since the resumption of full-scale bombing on April 6.
The reduction order struck 19 Army units from the rolls, including a combat infantry battalion and an assault force responsible for security around Saigon.
The command announced another cut in American troop strength in Vietnam and said it was phasing out more than 3,000 additional men.
A 700-man cut last week reduced U.S. troop strength to 46,500, but about 100,000 other U.S. servicemen are fighting from the coast of Vietnam and from ships off the coast of Vietnam.
HEW had a small staff to handle the complaints they received, he said, and had only begun to seriously investigate a few colleges and universities. At the University of Michigan and Columbia University, Chalmers believed, HEW had started out based on complaints, but had never cut off Federal funds for a significant period.
Chalmers also commented on the problems involved in holding a university hearing for Wilbert Matthews for his defense in the case against the ball. He said that under KU's disciplinary policies, a student was usually suspended for having a gun at the University, but in the Matthews case, there were no witches to who brought the weapon on campus.
So far, Chalmers said, Mathews' attorney had not allowed him to speak, so a University hearing might not solve anything. Thus, KU might have to wait for the result of a civil or criminal action to terminate if Mathews should be suspended.
See CHALMERS, page 5
Kansan Photo by STEVE MLAH
Film Captures KU Cross Section
Bruce Linton, professor of journalism, edits movie ...