THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Rogers Disputes Arms Restrictions
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
82nd Year, No.10
See Page 2
Tuesday, June 20, 1972
Judge Strikes Down Rule for Delegations
WASHINGTON (AP)—State delegations to the Democratic National Convention do not have to be proportioned by race, sex or race. The U.S. Court district judge ruled Monday.
Neither individual delegates, groups or slates of delegates shall be barred because of race, age or sex of individual delegates, groups or slates, said judge George L. Hart Jr.
He ruled that persons who formed a slate on the floor, the right to put anybody on it they were.
Democratic officials immediately began appeal procedures. It was not known how the ruling would affect the party's control which opens July 10 in Miami Beach, Fla.
The ruling came on a suit filed by Chicago Alderman Thomas E. Keane, one of 59 uncommitted Illinois delegates to the Chicago Mayor Richard J Daley.
A Chicago group, headed by civil-rights activist Jesse L. Jackson, challenged the 59-member uncommitted delegation on grounds it did not have the proper tools to conduct the charged the party officials picking the delegation were elected before Jan. 1.
Hart struck down two party reform rules requiring delegations to be fairly proportioned and also ruled against a third guideline which required all party officials choosing delegations to be elected in the year of the convention.
Under Hart's order, Democrats may require state policies to "take affirmative action" to increase participation in the political process by blacks, women and minorities, specifically ruled out any challenge to a delegation on the basis of race, sex or age.
Party guidelines, adopted since the 1968 convention, had required that convention delegates include blacks, women and young people in 'in reasonable relationship
Tass Says Soviet Aid To North to Continue
MOSCOW (AP) -The Soviet government dampened rising Vietnam peace hopes Monday, reaffirming its hard line by demanding that the United States stop military action against North Vietnamese ports and return to the Paris peace talks.
A report on Moscow radio annu-
ncial news agency Tass said the Soviet
There are at least 54 different challenges to convention delegates affecting 25 states. According to the Democratic National Committee, of the 2,512 delegates already selected, 43 per cent or 1,082 are under challenge.
to the group's presence in the state population."
Most of the challenges are based on delegations not having enough women. Many of the others involve blacks or young people.
Union would continue to give North Vietnam "all necessary aid."
President Nikolai Y. Podgorny triggered renewed peace hopes Sunday by saying the Paris talks would resume soon and that the US would be willing to take a role for desecration of the Vietnamese war."
MONDAY'S radio report was the first disclosure to the Soviet people that Podgorny had gone to Hanoi. The previous silence perhaps indicated Moscow's desire to keep Russian diplomatic efforts on Vietnam in low key.
Podgorny spoke during a stopover in Calcutta after four days of talks in Hanoi. He conferred with Xuan Thuy, North Vietnam's chief negotiator in Paris.
A flurry of diplomatic activity preceded the weekend optimism. President Nixon's advisor, Henry A. Kissinger, was heading for Peking. North Vietnam's representative, Norbert talks with Kissinger, Le DuC, returned to Haitian to meet Podgorny.
New Degree Is Approved
New restrictions were placed on Kansas pawnbrokers under a bill recently passed by the state legislature. A local pawn-brokers' reaction is featured in a story on page 5.
A proposal for a Bachelor of General Studies degree has been approved by members of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Assembly for recommendation to Chancellor Chalmers and the Board of Regents.
Since the recommendation will not come before the Chancellor or the Board of Regents until the fall semester, Jerry Lewis, dean of Centennial College, said that even if the degree was approved, it would not become effective before the fall of 1973.
In an mail ballot, 273 voted for and 189
were against it. Ballots on the
receiving end werewegged.
If the degree is approved, said Lewis, a year would be needed to complete plans.
Lewis did not foresee, any financial difficulty in implementing the program, since he was unable to implement it. He said that the degree program would be of no additional cost to the state or the city.
But if the degree is approved, Lewis said that advising policies in the College would have to be strengthened. A special subcommittee of the Educational Policies and Procedures Committee in the College Assembly has already been given the task of finalizing advising procedures in the College and recommending improvements.
Advising must be strengthened, Lewis said, because the requirements of the new degree are minimal. A student will have many more questions, he said.
Kansas Photo by RAY TOTTEN
Dog Days at KU
A dog found the heat Monday too much Omega fountain at the west end of to endure and took a cool dip in the Chl Javahawk Blvd.
Parking Fee Will Remain Unchanged
Student residence parking and parking in University of Kansas will cost £25. Student residence parking is also available.
Parking permit prices will not be increased this fall despite earlier projections for increases, Chancellor E. L. Laurence Chalmers Jr., said Monday.
Chalmers said that the only real change proposed in the parking pattern for this fall was the use of color zoning, which allows companies to park their full to park in another lot of the same color.
This modification is all that remains of the controversial proposal made by the Parking and Traffic Board at the University of Kansas last fall. The original proposal also proposed parking meters at certain campus areas and the tran- porting facility of Jayhawk Blvd. and Memorial Drive into one-way thoroughfares.
The diluted proposal was developed at a meeting called last week by Chalmers, and attended by the University Senate Executive Committee, the executive board of the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors and others concerned with changes in traffic and parking patterns at KU.
Chalmers also mentioned that a committee to investigate safety conditions on the campus had recommended that ad hoc investigators work on the area of carcass injuries to work on the area of carcass injuries.
Those ideas were dropped, however,
after they generate the opposition
from a higher point of bearer.
Said Chalmers: "They encourage us to build into our budget requests for additional positions related to campus safety but the question is whether to pull positions from other activities to make this possible."
Honeycutt Gets Life Term
By MARY PITMAN Kansan Staff Writer
"I still prefer the death sentence," Drury Honeycutt said moments before Douglas County District Judge Frank Gary sentenced him to life imprisonment and a fine of $10,000 for slaying of his 11-year-old cousin and Ivy Marie Honeycutt, last October.
Kay Joins GOP Governor's Race
Bv BOB FULKERSON
Kansan Staff Writer
State Rep. Morris Kay, Lawrence Republican, announced his candidacy for the GOF gubernatorial nomination Monday at the Downtown Dammann Inn in Topeka.
The 38-year-old House majority floor层
he planned to run "a positive campa-
gism."
"Kansas people want strong, courageous leadership," he said. "This is why today I am announcing my candidacy for Governor."
Wearing a red, white, and blue tie, Kay entered the press conference to the sound of "Ruffles and Flourishes" and the applause of about 100 supporters.
Kay spoke of two factors that helped him make the decision to run.
Kay said he had instructed his campaign staff to re an aggressive and high level campaign.
"Men and women from virtually all of our 105 counties tell me it's time for a change," he said, in announcing for the county to take this encouragement and thus need."
His second reason for entering the race, he said, centered on a survey conducted by Civic Service Inc., a St. Louis firm. Accessibility questions were stuff at the press conference, the survey indicated in interviews with $30 Kansas voters "who vote in a Republican Primary, nearly two-thirds were uneducated" and of a Republican nominee for Governor."
About the results of the survey, Kay said it indicated to him that the candidates "who were announced did not turn the people on."
Kay said he planned to file before today's noon deadline.
Kay said he waited to file because he
wanted to give the people what they wanted and not add the "people do not want" word.
After his prepared statement, Kay answered questions. He revealed that he had authorized the survey and that it had distributed to the publicans, Democrats and Independents.
After the press conference, Kay said he was not prepared to support any candidate in particular for the representative spot he will be vacating.
When asked what kind of campaign he would wage, Kay repelled, "I plan to run a team."
Kay is the fourth Republican to announce his candidacy for governor. Others who have already filed are former Gov. John Anderson, Deslote; LG. Reynolds Shultz, Lawrence; and former State Farm Bureau president Ray Frisbie, Manhattan.
Gov. Robert Docking filed Monday in his bid for a fourth term as governor,
Druy HenryCruitty, 20-year-old resident of Haven, Kens., plumbed Friday's Friday to a new home.
The Honeycutt girl disappeared Oct. 29 from her rural Lawrence home. Six days later, her body was recovered from a wooded area west of Kansas City, Kan.
By switching his plea to guilty, Honeycutt waived his right to a jury trial. But before sentencing the defendant Monday, Judge Gray heard the testimony of two witnesses, including a psychologist from Topeka, to determine the severity of the penalty.
THROUGHOUT the hearing Honeycunt sat slumped in his chair, sometimes leaning his head against the railing behind him.
Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent James Woods and W. D. Davidson, a criminal investigator from Arkansas, both testified that Honeycutt had confessed to hitting the child but could not remember killing her.
Davidson told the court that Honeycunt had confessed after being fully advised of
DAVIDSON quoted Honeycott as saying that on the night of Oct. 29 he visited the home of his cousin Ivy Marie, hoping to learn the whereabouts of his wife Susie.
Ivy Marie's mother, Mrs. William Honeycutt, testified that she had refused to
Ivy Marie echoed her mother's refusal to tell Honeycutt the whereabouts of his wife. But Davidson told the court that on the basis of his interview with Honeycutt,
it was learned that the little girl arranged with her cousin to show him where his wife lived.
BUT WHEN Honeycutt picked up the child later that night, he told her that he wanted to kill his wife, Davidson related. Honeycutt told Davidson, his testimony continued, that the girl refused to show him where his wife was.
Davidson told the court that Honeycunt had confessed to knocking the child unconscious but could not remember killing her.
Coroner James G. Bridgers of Kansas City, Kan., testified that an autopsy evidence of sexual intercourse and fixed evidence of sexual intercourse and fixed the cause of death as strangulation.
THE SOLE defense witness, Dr. James Nelson, psychologist from Topeka, told the court that his four hours of testing and interviewing the defendant had indicated that he might easily be "over the vague line where we divide neurosis from psychosis."
In his closing statement, County Attorney Mike Elwell explained that if Honeycutt received a life sentence he would be eligible for parole in 15 years. Elwell asked the court to invoke the death penalty.
He said that although the penalty would likely not result in death for the defendant, it was the only penalty that would ensure you receive a sentence of life imprisonment and the opportunity to commit another crime.
Baby Boom, Specialization Ail Teaching Opportunities
By DEANNA VANDERMADE
Kansan Staff Writer
the 1971-74 school year, of the 2,316 certified teachers from KU who applied through the Placement Bureau for the 1971-72 school year. Many persons were placed in teaching positions. Although the annual report for the 1971-72 school year will not be published until August, Lodhi Newcomb, assistant director of the program, will show that the problem had increased.
Like many other occupational areas, education is feeling the effects of the Post World War II baby boom and over-specialization. In the last two years the University of Kansas's Educational Placement Bureau has experienced more difficulty than ever in placing its certified applicants in teaching positions.
The difficulty in placing teachers is most blamed upon the sudden population shift.
the bumper crop of babies was growing up, schools increased enrollment and expanded facilities, and the demand for teachers was great. Many future job holders looked toward a vocation in this field.
NEWCOMB explained that many schools were having to cut back on the number of teachers who had decreased rapidly and funds were tight. At the same time, the number of teachers applying for jobs has reached an alarming level, particularly true of the elementary schools.
BUT AS population leveled off the number of students decreased. Schools have fewer students, funds and positions just as the peak of post-World War children are being hurled into the job market.
In the 1970-71 Annual Report, director of placement Harold Reger said, "Since the death of Mr. Reger in 2004, we have been very
during 1970-71, candidates had fewer opportunities than previously and had to be quite aggressive to secure positions. In the past, students geographically were unable to secure teaching positions and resorted to seeking other kinds of employment. Some prospective teachers employed in non-profit organizations, and made applications until school began in August.
Eighty certified teachers reported to the bureau that they were employed in non-office positions. Finding a job, could not relocate or had another job preference. The positions taken ranged from secretaries to cocktail servers from camp counselors to lab technicians.
BUT THE BABY boom is not the only problem facing the prospective teacher. Part of the problem, Newcombs said, is that the students are also becoming too specialized.
She said that concentration in a particular area reduced a teacher's chances of making good grades.
There is an over-abundance of teachers on the elementary level as well as language arts teachers and social studies teachers on the secondary level. People in these fields have found competition for teaching positions, so they demand for reading teachers, speech therapists, physical science, industrial arts and math teachers.
The increase in the number of teachers applying for jobs should be an asset to the teaching profession. It should cause teachers to be more concerned about their positions and therefore be more qualified. But some fear this will not happen.
teacher with experience or a higher degree.
WITH FEWER children in the schools to teach, there is also less money in school districts. Many districts are forced to hire teachers for these students and teacher before they hire the more qualified
Regler say that a higher degree or specialization in education may be necessary.
In the 1970-71 Annual Report, he said,
"The undergraduate students who selected one of these fields and launched on a doctoral program found in 1971 that there were few vacancies and much competition.
This may cause a switch in the philosophy prevalent a few years ago that all teachers would be required to have a master's degree to keep their jobs.
"The demands for PhD graduates appear to be limited. From this report one can conclude that the number of graduates who are admitted should be carefully considered. It is also made it extremely difficult for the master's candidate and the PhD candidate
just starting a dissertation to find employment."
NEWCOMBA SAID that it did not seem likely that the over-abundance of teachers in Newcomba may take several years to strike a balance. The School of Education has discussed several ways of working out the best remedies are still in the talking stage.
The School has discussed making stricter the requirements to obtain certification. One idea is initiating a new screening process. Some screening is done now, but it is mostly on the basis of grade point averages. Anyone making the grades and fulfilling all of the requirements will be evaluated in the future. In personal qualities, classroom rapport and professional attitudes will be examined more closely in an effort to get the best possible teachers applying for the limited number of jobs.