Connally Given Diplomatic Duty
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
82nd Year, No.2
Tuesday, June 6. 1972
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Sports Plan Would Raise Ticket Cost
By KENT PULLIAM
Kansan Staff Writer
The Athletic Board of the University of Kansas will recommend an increase in the price of student season tickets for sporting events leading to Wade Silson, director of athletics.
The proposal would raise the price of student football tickets from $5 to $10 and increase the cost of basketball tickets by one dollar.
The proposed raises came when the Student Senate did not allocate the funds which the finance and auditing committee recommended for the athletic department.
The Senate originally recommended a department but that figure was trimmed along with other allocation requests. The final appropriation to the department was
An increase of one dollar was recommended at a meeting of the athletic board April 11, but it was raised to $1.50 at a May meeting of the athletic board. That was which lost in the $7,000 cut.
The $6.50 ticket will be split in the following manner. Five dollars will go to the Endowment Association to pay off the $15,000 loan from the stadium. This is not any different from the old system. However the extra $1.50 will go directly into the operating budget of the club.
A resolution from the Senate concerning the allocation of seats to the visiting team for football and basketball games was passed by the Senate, and discussed at the Big Eight meeting.
The proposal called for a certain number of tickets to be reserved for the visiting team. The committee was taken to the Big Eight conference by Charles Oldfather, KU faculty representative. The faculty representatives then referred it to the athletic department.
After some study, Stinson said they decided that it was not a workable solution to the problem because of the different situation at each school.
*Each school in the conference likes to teach its of home fans before the visit.*
Summer Student Carries Heavy Load
Linn Kovar, Lawrence graduate student, started summer school Monday by relieving himself of a good deal of the spring semester at Watson Library.
Omits Encore Debate
McGovern Expected To Win in California
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sen. George McGovern, the pollsters' favorite in the crucial California presidential primary today, wrapped up his hunt for votes Monday and arranged to meet with skeptical Democratic governors.
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey was covering the state from San Diego to San Francisco, battling for the victory that could stall or secure Bern's drive for presidential nomination.
It was evident Humphrey would have to it without the encore debate he sought.
In a nationally televised interview Sunday, he challenged the South Dakota
senator to meet him head on election eve, sharing the cost of the TV time so they wouldn't have to share with minor candidates. McGoverson said he'd try to work it out.
MOMENTS before he set out on his Monday campaign schedule, McGovern announced he was going to Houston, Tex., where he is running for the Democrats at the National Governor's Conference. He said he wanted to demonstrate that the governors would have communication with his as the chairman and "easy access" if he became president.
Southerners among them said they
North Vietnam Admits Bombing Toll Serious
SAIGON (AP)—North Vietnam acknowledged Monday that two months of intense U.S. air strikes were exacting a serious toll. American pilots continued their raids over the North and bombed two more major rail bridges, severing the northwest train line to China, the U.S. Command announced.
Radio Hani, quoting the official Communist party newspaper, Nhan Dan, said North Vietnam is having "very difficult economic problems because of the bombing.
"But our people can . . . still defeat the U.S. aggressors," it declared.
The broadcast, monitored in Hong Kong clearly referred to damage inflicted by super-accurate "smart" bombs on the country's transportation, power and railways. Both the northwest and northeast rail lines to China have been cut by the raids.
THE U.S. Command said more than 260 strenues were flown Sunday, and eight Air Force aircraft were deployed to Dong Khai bridges, 50 miles south of the Chinese border. Flying in two formations the Phantoms directed five 2,000-foot bridges on Wednesday about 85 miles northwest of Hanol.
"Those laser-guided bombs don't miss," said one officer. U.S. aircraft also hit a highway bridge south of the key port of Vinh, the command said.
Coalition to Review KU Research
In South Vietnam, government forces reported some gains in Konkay, saying they reopened the airstrip for the first time since December. The attack occurred in the capital headquarters provincial capital.
Kansan Staff Writer
THEERE WAS scattered fighting along the central coast and in the north, but bad weather had them up.
By MARTHA NORDYKE
Korean Staff Writer
The Haiphong Coalition will hold an open meeting of its research committee at 7 tonight in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union, Steve Hollis, a spokesman for the Coalition and member of the research committee, said Monday.
Holly said main objectives of tonight's meeting included finalizing the recommendations which the Coalition would recommend to the University aim of an ad hoc committee to investigate current research policies and procedures and to review research and progress at KU. The Coalition will also discuss its research independent Coalition research committee.
Some of the specific concerns of the Coalition regarding KU research include the need for a laboratory, in the psychology and anthropology departments under Project Themis, in the microbiology department or two more done through the Computation Center.
PLANS FOR THE Coalition's research project are (1) Critical investigation of university research to insure that the research is honestly with the problems; (2) Development of general public education concerning research so that those who want to do research understand and control it; (3) Upright scientific and technical workers to take
IN RESONSE to demands made by the Coalition during the May 9 and 10 sit-in at Strong Hall, SenEx issued a statement in which it agreed "to the appointment of an ad hoc committee to investigate current research procedures and review research and progress. In the appointment of the committee include students, faculty and staff, SenEx, its custom, will consult with appropriate bodies concerned with this issue."
He said that while this committee was being set up by SenEx the Haiphong College of Engineering and Political Action (ESPEA), were organizing a long-term research project which would run parallel to identify the work of the SenEx committee.
Coalition was now working to avert the lack of focus on particular targets or people linked to U.S. involvement in the Indochina war.
Hollis said the second weakness the
"IN TALKING to people in the community and on campus following the protests, we've been able to identify two major weaknesses in our efforts which we are moving to correct. One was the lack of organization and any leadership with the ability to lead or respond to crisis in an organized way, he said.
"Many persons," he said, "feel the need to exert some sort of pressure on institutions or authoritarian persons in order to obtain a genuine voice in decision-making processes, particularly those involving the war.
"But one of the most exciting developments," Hollis added, "is the fact that probably 1,000 people stayed in the city in recent years involved in the continuing development of this protest movement. Of the people that left Lawrence, several are working in Kansas City, Wichita, Chanute and other areas." And he said for future summer and fall actions".
"About 100 persons have met off and on early since May to build an organization, a hard core group, that will be able to lead well-planned actions in the fall," he said.
GENERAL PLANS for summer activities by this committee include setting up discussions and films in living groups, classes, and in labor and community settings. The programs carried out by the education project committee would serve the dual purposes of passing on information to concerned persons as well as broadening the senses of the Haiphong Coalition for the people it comes in contact with.
Another committee established by the Coalition is the education project committee to "raise the issue of the war in Iraq" and assigns it to educate ourselves and others.
"During the negotiations, SenEx vocally promised the negotiators for the Haiphong Coalition that they would consult us before making their recommendations to the chancellor for the ad hoc committee," Hollis said.
"I think too many people have reached the point where they're thoroughly dischanced with the long established menagerie of museum and others for a voice in decisions."
HE SAID that from communication with persons in the community and on campus, more organized civil disobedience such as arresting law enforcement or the traffic blockades was possible.
steps to increase their own say in the research progress and helping them do so; (4) Development of ways to change the direction of research and to insure that the research areas are not missed; (5) Carrying out actions designed to bring about changes.
Hollis said the research committee was one of several work committees established by the Coalition since the May protests.
"We hope this will be a means of working from the bottom up, rather than on the top."
In neighboring Cambodia, early presidential election returns showed incumbent Lon Nol holding nearly 60 per cent of the vote in a surprisingly narrow lead. Cambodians voted Sunday for the first time since Prince Norodom Shanouk was deposed two years ago and a republic is expected to unexpectedly large vote was going to a dark horse candidate who campaigned for Shanouk's return.
feared a ticket led by McGovern would fare poorly in their region in the Nov. 7 election. There was no evidence of a real stopMcGovern effort, Gov. Robert W. Scott of North Carolina said it was a little late for that.
Rockets slammed into Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital on Monday, killing six—including three girls—and wounding 11. One was a direct hit on the Defense Ministry, and other exploded by Lon Nol's villa.
IT WAS the first daylight rocket attack on Phnom Penh in more than two years of war. Associated Press correspondent Robin Mannock reported.
U. S. military sources in Saigon said a seventh aircraft carrier, the Ticondao, was expected in the Tonkin Gulf off North Vietnam within a week. An antisubmarine warfare ship with sonar-enabled aircraft and helicopters on board, the carrier was dispatched from Vietnam to support against submarines, sources said. There was no indication a specific threat was feared, however.
McGOVERN evidently hoped to allay the concerns of governors who believed his personal platform was too liberal for Democrats and some Democrats elsewhere.
Humphrey planned to go to Houston
welcome, after the pivotal primary in
California.
The Ticcondera and its four-destroyer escort will be bring to about 70 the number of aircraft from Europe.
THE MAN who wins in California will get 271 votes for the Democratic presidential nomination. Eighteen votes are at stake in New Mexico.
New Jersey Democrats will elect 109 convention delegates. McGovann campaign managers said they expected to pick up about two-thirds of them.
The California voting hours are 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. CST.
CALIFORNIA is the one that counts, and an independent poll by Mervin D. Field rated McGovern the leader by 20 percentage points among a sample of voters interviewed a week before the election.
In California where the candidates spent their time and money trying to persuade 5.1 million registered Democrats, a turf war over whether or not the party's voters was forcest.
THERE ARE eight names on the Democratic ballot in California, plus a write-in effort for wounded Alabama Gov. Rick Wallace. It is a winner-take-all primary.
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537 Delegates Now Pledged To McGovern
George. Gov. C. Wallace of Alabama lost a few as a result of official distribution of funds to the students on 67. On the basis of primary returns he had been accorded 72, but the adjustment came when the state's delegation was apportioned among its congressional dis-
He added delegates from Oklahoma, Kentucky, Connecticut, Colorado and Illinois in caucuses and conventions at the law firm of Baird from the official canvass in Nebraska.
WASHINGTON (AP)—George S. McGovern pushed his Democratic National Convention delegate total to $577 on the eve of the big California primary on the strength of new delegates picked up over the week end.
Wallace remains the second-place Democrat in votes lined up for the July 10 convention, with 318 delegates. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota is third with 296 and Sen. Edmund S. Muskie of Maine. There are 44% uncommitted delegates.
It takes 1,509 delegate votes to win the Democratic presidential nomination at the Mugabe rally.
Money Shortage Slows KU Computer Use
Editor's Note: This is the second of a two-part series on computers and their use at
By SCOTT SPREIER Kansan Staff Writer
Although the growth of computers at the University of Kansas has mushroomed in the last 15 years, its immediate future is uncertain. The university now common at KU—shortage of funds.
This year for the first time, the KU computation was not able to end the year with a balanced budget. The authorized expenditure budget for fiscal year 1972 is $123,000,000 as come so far has amounted to only $1,320,000. In short, the center ran out of money.
Paul Wolfe, director of the computation center, said recently that the problem was not normal, but consistent with the way computing had been funded at KU.
Guaraneed investment of the computation center comes from state appropriations, student fees and research overhead. Cash grants and contracts are supposed to make improvements to a recent computation center document, "at no time have the cash grants and
WOLFE SAID that in the past the center had a service clearing account, which was similar to a revolving fund. When the center performed services it would collect the money through this year. Wolfe said, there were still bills, but no money coming in to pay them.
contract funds been forecasted to be sufficient to cover the balance needed."
Wolfe said that as a result, in the last six months expenditures had been reduced by leaving a position vacant, reducing the cost of supplies on supplies, travel and other activities.
One of the major reasons for the computation center's shortage of funds is a lack of research overhead. Francis Heller, vice chancellor of academic affairs, said the problem originated in the 1950s, when the University began its computing program.
Research overhead is money given to a university by the government to offset expenses incurred by the university when it is given a federal grant. For example, it must be given to pay the cost of finding a temporary a professor who had received a grant.
AT KU THE money is pooled into a
single fund. The University is then allowed to use the money for anything related to research or teaching.
Heller said that at the beginning, the main computing push came from people interested in research. As a result, he had to devise a way of amounting the amount of the computer center's costs.
The overheard was used in this way until last year, when the state legislature struck, putting a ceiling on the amount of overhead which could be spent during a year. Heller said that if it were not for that ceiling, there would be no problem.
However research overhead isn't the only problem. There are many smaller troubles. The National Science Foundation (NSF) for example, stopped directly supporting university computation centers in 1970. Wole said that made a significant difference, because the grants helped UCSO get to its computing KU's last grant, in 1968, was for $425,000, half of which went directly to the computation center.
departments to develop a tri-level computer network on campus.
THE CENTER still gets money in-
crease through such as through a re-
great change in the way the customer.
The computation center is also faced with the problem of controlling variable costs. Wolfe said that in the past there had been a number of different departments a department could use a computer.
Each department is allocated funds for a certain amount of computer time. Some departments have less computers and spend less. The result has been a general balancing out effect. This year however, departments that have more computers must find different sources of funds.
An additional cost this year was restoration of the facilities that were damaged by a fire. The restoration was funded by the state, but renovation connected with the
IN ORDER TO aid such departments, the center recently began a "bargain basement" project. For 10 cents, a department could obtain 99 cents worth of computing time. Wolfe said the 10 cents covered the additional variable cost, and although it was expensive to compute more slowly, it did allow people to complete their projects on schedule.
restoration, and security changes cost the University $39.700.
The effect of the financial squeeze will be felt by everyone, including the students. For example, students may be required to buy their own basic supplies such as punch cards.
Although a box of 200 cards costs less than $2, the University spent $8,000 on cards on tapes.
THERE MAY also be a cutback in student personnel. The proposed amount for monthly, hourly and work study for students next year was $83,000. But the amount for students this year was $15,000. Wolea said that amount would get the center through almost three months.
"It's a fact," Wolfe said, "we can't run this computation center without students."
Wolfe said that every university he knew of had been faced with similar problems at different stages. He said he thought KU was at a different and more advanced stage than most, "because of funding from the University, which is very small here in Kansas."
He said state funds were not sufficient to cover either the money spent by the
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