BLAZING
82nd Year, No. 27
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, July 20, 1972
Labor Holds Out On Endorsement
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KU Handles Research Despite Fund Squeeze
Editor's note: This is the first story in a two-part series on the effect of reductions in grants for research at the University of Kansas.
By KENT PULLIAM
Kansan Staff Writer
Federal grants for research at the University level have been decreased over the last three years, but at the University of Kansas research has gone on.
According to W. J. Argeringstein Jr., vice chancellor for research, there has been a shift nationally in what types of projects were receiving funds to continue research. He explained that when the national funding was cut back, the University and the state have had to compensate for some of the money to keep the programs going.
He said that KU was not hurt as much as some of the larger colleges because there was a lot of diversity in the areas where the funds were cut.
The government has had a change in emphasis in awarding grants. There is a trend toward applied research rather than theoretical research. The Rand Program is research that is applied to national needs and there are specific areas in which the money is awarded.
ARGERGINGER thought that the change was due to the variety of economic and political pressures of the Nixon administration. He said they were working more on the short range projects and that many of the KU researchers were working on long term projects.
"If the government is funding 80 per cent and the state only 20 per cent, when the federal money is cut in half, the state has to make up for it unless you want your program to be cut in half," he said. "That puts a bias on our University and its money. If we spend it in research, it can't be put somewhere else."
Another concern is that federal money was used to help set up new people in the departments and get them started with their research and equipment. With the federal money now becoming more scarce, Argersinger said, it was harder and harder to purchase new equipment.
The equipment that only one man previously used is now shared by a number of people.
EVEN with the federal cuttacks, Argersinger said, most of the funds for research come from sources outside the University or the state.
The department of biological sciences was affected when the federal grants began diminishing. According to Ronald McGregor, director of biological sciences, there were no more grants for the study of these organisms.
New people had less chance at getting an outside grant to do any research on their own because they had not established a reputation. Some of the ones who were getting
McGreger said that as the number of grants diminished at KU, there was a corresponding loss in overhead money that had been used to purchase new equipment.
He said that during the '50s and the '60s much of the money that came from federal grants also helped to finance some of the graduate programs and upper division courses. There was no mismanagement of funds, but the subject matter of the grants happened to be in the same areas students were interested in studying.
THE CUTS in federal funding reduced remodeling and construction of new buildings, and the loss of funds from national grants cut back some of the programs
"We have been fortunate because we have not had to drop anything from our research yet, but if it doesn't improve in the next couple of years some things will happen."
The biggest problem in the biological science area was the maintenance and purchase of new equipment. Some of the equipments is wearing out and there are no spare parts available.
As the federal monies decreased, each of the departments had to look for other ways of financing their projects and research. According to McGregor, the depart-
See Research, page 2
Veterans Recieve Benefits Plan Fall Social Events
By BOB LITCHFIELD
Kansan Staff Writer
Units Near Fortress
Veterans on the University of Kansas campus this fall will be eligible for a wide variety of benefits. In addition, the KU Campus Veterans organization is already at work planning a full schedule of events for veterans enrolled at KU.
Ed Bruns, Leawood freshman, Campus Veterans president, said Tuesday that although the organization is experiencing financial difficulties it will go ahead with
installments due October 1, November 1
and December 1, 1972. Brus explained that because the payment presented to veterans were forced to pay later payment veterans were forced to pay later payment
Viet Forces Thwart Attacks
See Veterans, page 6
By HOLGER JENSEN Associated Proce Writer
By late afternoon some airborne units were reported within 50 yards of the 19th century fortress, which bristles with North Vietnamese gun emplacements.
SAIGON (AP)—Enemy infantrymen and tanks attacked in Quang Trien on Wednesday but failed to halt a steady South Vietnamese paratroop advance toward the provincial capital's old walled Citadel.
A midnight artillery barrage of more than 300 rounds preceded a ground attack by 10 tanks and an estimated battalion of North Vietnamese infantrymen.
Construction on the new health center immediately southeast of Robbins Gym in Waco.
Rain Drenches Construction
ditional. 31 inches of early morning rain.
The new rainfall brought the area's two
countries together.
House-to-house fighting raged until dawn in the southern sector of the city. Associated Press press contact Michael Putzel said South Vietnamese artillery fire and shelling on the tanks and the North Vietnamese tanks rested westward across the Thach Han River.
North Vietnamese losses in this and other battles on the Qiang T1 front were listed as 295 killed, three captured and two tanks destroyed. Government casualties for the day were 27 killed and 131 wounded, according to a communique issued in Hue.
Arrangements for a Veterans Day banquet on October 23 in the Union Bruns and Bruns said that Sen. James B. Pearson, R-Kan, Second District Rep. William Roy, D-Kan, and Third District Rep. Larry Accepted invitations to attend the banquet.
The Communist command is believed to have committed a sizable tank force to the defense of Queng Tri. South Vietnamese more than 100 enemy tanks since June 28.
Putzel said the North Vietnamese had mounted recoilless rifles, machine guns and antiaircraft artillery on the Citadel walls. South Vietnamese jets bombing
enemy positions in Quang Tri are taking heavy fire from these emplacements.
Allied commanders have expressed growing concern that the North Vietnamese might try to cut Highway 1 behind the advancing South Vietnamese troops, trapping them without supplies inside Quang Tri.
More than 320 U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine fire-bombers swept across North Vietnam on Tuesday, wrecking warehouses, cutting runways at MIG air bases, dropping bridges and leaving fuel lines from a large, $4,000 floor into the air, spikes seamed said.
The biggest strike of the day was the first raid of the war against the Nguyen Khe military complex, a sprawling area nine miles north of Hanoi.
They estimated the complex held about three million gallons of fuel and most of it was burned. Recommenceance photographs taken after the strike showed fires still burning.
House Panel Approves Nixon Antibusing Bill
WASHINGTON (AP)—A House education subcommittee approved President Nixon's antibusing bill Wednesday, he requested to upgrade schools.
The subcommittee rejected, to 9 of 7, the administration's request for $2.5 billion to improve the quality of inner-city education, then sent the stripped bill to the State Department and Labor Committee by voice vote. The vice committee is expected to take it up next Tuesday.
The bill's main purpose now is to limit the remedies the courts can apply to overcome segregation. Busing could be imposed in school level, and then only as a last resort.
The bill would permit school districts now under busing orders to bring students to school.
There are seven remedies that must be considered by the courts, in the order listed in the legislation, before any busing can be required.
They include assigning pupils to schools closest to their homes, permitting them to transfer to schools where their race is in the minority, revising attendance zones, building new schools and establishing so-called attract pupils from all over a district.
Most of the discussion in the subcommittee centered on the administration's proposal to concentrate funds in predominantly black inner-city schools as an alternative to trying to upgrade them through desegregation.
The provision was eliminated by Rep. Albert H. Quie, R-Minn, whose substitute
bill was adopted. Quie said consideration of the provision now would complicate it.
Congress already has passed and Nixon has signed into law a provision that puts the new court busing orders from take effect until all appeals have been exhausted.
BRUNS said that he is now trying to contact the office of presidential candidate Sen. George McGovern, D-S.D., in an effort to help him win his vice-president running mate, Sen. Thomas Eagleton, D-MO., to address the Members of the Veterans Administration, Kansas Veterans Commission, American Legion and the GL Forum will also be invited to speak.
Sadat Expected To Give Reason For Expulsion
CAIRO (AP)—President Anwar Sadat will make a major speech Sunday, and it is possible he will enlarge his decision to the military upon advisers and technicians.
Safat will be speaking on the 20th anniversary of the start of Garmal Abdel
In announcing his decision Tuesday, Sadat stressed that it was not a rupture in relations. The Soviet Union provides most of the economic and technical assistance
VETERANS will be able to pay in equal
Dispatches from Israel reported the first official reaction came from Cabinet minister Israel Galli, who told a stat e radio interviewer:
"Even a serious event like this does not
pay a change in the general policy of
larva."
Bruns said that veterans on campus would have to pay one or two dollars a plate, if at all, with other guests paying $10 per person going to the veterans' scholarship fund.
Campus Veterans will operate a booth at enrollment for the fall semester. Information on GI Bill benefits will be available and a brochure on the Campus Vets organization will be distributed, among the group's goals and programs. Veterans will be required to complete a questionnaire to aid the group in planning programs.
Several of the Campus Vets' projects and recommendations have already been realized. The Kansas Board of Regents at their May meeting accepted a Campus Vets proposal submitted by Vice Chancellor for Business Affairs Kitchner Mitcher for veterans attending KU on the GI BJ院校 tuition in three installments, rather than at the time of enrolment, as will be the procedure beginning this fall.
Student Remembers Experiences in Ghana
By MARY PITMAN
Kansan Staff Writer
The green and misty African rainforest; the rhythm of drums; and forbidding slave castles, built by slave traders along the seacoast; these are some of the things that Linda Evans will remember about Ghana, Africa.
Evans, a Topaek senior at the University of Kansas with a special major in African studies, spent her junior year abroad at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana.
LOUISE KETO, former advisor in the Foreign Studies Office, made the junior year abroad possible. Evans said. The year was sponsored by Keto's office and American Institute in New York KUHU, American Institute by paying her closely round-trip airfare.
Ghana is a country of 7,800,000 people, nested between the Ivory Coast and Togoland on the curving west coast of Africa.
"It was to be that all university students in Ghana went to school (free of charge). Evans said, adding that tuition is still relatively inexpensive in Ghana.
Shirley Fanuel, KU graduate student from Calgary, also spent her ten years at Cape Coast with
Including transportation, her year abroad cost $3,000.
BOTH GIRLS were housed in a dorm. On the campus of 1,000 students, men outnumbered women by approximately seven to one.
Evans took seminars in African culture and a complex of African history classes. Historic events happened in Ghana during her year there, including a bloodless d coup. On January 15, 1972, the prime minister of Ghana was overthrown and
replaced by a military government, the National Redemption Council.
Evans has mixed feelings about the new government. It is beneficially attempting to motivate the economy of Ghana, which exports 60 percent of the report of cocoa. Ghana contains musts under land. Evans explained, and under the auspices of a program called Operation Feed Yourself, the government is suggesting the idea of using the land for crops.
"All political parties" were outlawed after the new government came in power.
But the new government has some aspects that are less popular.
ALTHOUGH Ghana is divided into numerous sections and linguistic groups, it does not have as much of a problem with traditional other African countries. Ghana was the first black country in Africa to earn its treasury after the colonial period. Evans said.
Like a former leader of Ghana, Nkruma, who died in exile this year, Evans believes in the ideal of Pan-Africa, or the unity of all African nations.
"I don't know whether it is possible," Evans said.
She feels that living in Africa has taught her to be politically realistic.
"I never was much of a romantic, but I am less of one now," she said.
Referring to Africa, Evans said, "It's not a romantic dream and it isn't a home place some place to run away to and think you are running away from all the problems here."
SHE FELT, in general, that the people of Ghana were "laughing behind the asphalt" during the war.
"It's easy to make someone content if we are used to existing in a village," Evans said.
Evans loved, in particular, the hospitality and the wonderful sense of humor of the rural people of Ghana, and the market place women. She said that these women were fascinating and shrewd businesswomen.
"They hold the country together," Evans said. By selling their goods in the market, many of them become wealthy, "with although you wouldn't know by looking at
Women in Ghana are generally economically independent, Evans said.
"One of the first duties of a married man is to set his wife up in business," she ex-
THE OTHER KU student at the University of Cape Coast, Shirley Famuel, met many rural people, because of her love for Africa. Ghana, the people of Ghana are famous around the world for these funerals. Red is the chief mourning color in Ghana. The funerals are colorful and important to the people, different from their American counterparts.
Evans helped Shirley's research problem in talking with the most important men in a village. The chief of a
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Kansan Photo by LINDA SCHILD
Student Relates Experience in Ghana
...Linda Evans, top senior, spent junior year abroad ...
"It can be very expensive to talk to the chief. Evans says, "You have to bring so many people."
Evans said she believed that people in former English colonies, like Ghana, had managed to retain the richness of their culture more successfully than had the African nations, which were formerly under the dominion of the French.
Blackmagic is still extremely powerful among the people of Ghana, Evans said.
A *LOT* OF people don't go to the police; Even students, around exam time, go to the police.
Juju, Evans explained, is the common word in Ghana for blackmagic or evil. National Redemption Council, made it illegal to consult a juju man, Evans said.
She is highly doubtful that legislation could ever affect a belief as powerful as juju, which "has existed since time immemorial."
Evans, a skeptic before her trip to chan, is convinced that juju is a real god.
THE PACE of Ghana is easy and slow
Evans said
"If you're used to high power and efficiency and instant service," she said,