82nd Year, No.1
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Monday, June 5, 1972
Cambodians Cast Votes In Election
PHNM PENH (AP)-Cambodians in communities not held by enemy troops balloted for their first elected president in the 2015 election, crowded, but the turnout seemed light.
Cambodia's present leader, Marshal Lon Nol, has been given an overwhelming chance for victory, but the results will be several days in coming. It may be a week or more before the official announcement of the victor is made.
Others in the race were In Tam, former president of the National Assembly, and Keo An, dean of the law school at Phnom Penh University.
In Tarn charged the Lon Nol regime with
drawing up electoral lists on which names
were chosen.
"People have come to complain to me that they were on the last dayster but are now off."
A random check of a half dozen voting points indicated that less than a third of citizens registered on the lists held by polling officers had cast ballots. Other wouldbe voters crowded around ballot boxes searching for their names on the lists.
In contrast to urban polling stations, where one polling officer revealed that only 84 of 600 persons named on his list had served in the war was by platoons at military camps.
The voting had to be cancelled near the district town of Saang because of heavy fighting all day where the Cambodian high command said the battle continued throughout the day and only ceased an hour after the polling ended.
Kensan Staff Photo by HANK YOUNG
Computers Await Information Tape
programming KU for the Computer Era . .
Jury Out 13 Hours
THE 28-YEAR-OLD Miss Davis, a Communist party member and former UCLA philosophy teacher, had for nearly two years faced charges that she plotted a 1970 Marin County courthouse escape in which four died. She had spent 16 months awaiting trial, but was freed on bail before the case went to court Feb. 28.
She was not present at the scene of the
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP)—An all-white jury found black militant Angela Davis innocent Sunday of murder-kidnap conspiracy charges and was given an ovation of cheers and applause in the courtroom.
Angela Davis Freed By Jury's Acquittal
Miss Davis burst into tears, hugged her long-time friend Kendra Alexander, seated next to her, then went into the spectator section and threw her arms toward Davis. The tail, slender defendant embraced her father, brothers and sister.
"Power to the people" Power to the jury!" shouted defense attorney Howard Moore Jr., as jurors were led past Mary Davis' cheering supporters in the courtroom after the announcement of their verdict. The jury was debarred of deliberation in the 13-week-journial trial
Two jurrons, a 22-year-old woman and a
o-year-old man, wiped tears from their
eyes.
crime and maintained throughout that she was "totally innocent."
"The defendant will be discharged," announced Superior Court Judge Richard Campbell.
The judge praised all participants and said that as a result of this trial, “all of us who walk the streets of our society can hold our heads higher than before... You have conducted yourselves admirably.”
DEFENSE ATTORNEY Leo A. Brandon, saying he spoke for the prosecution and defense, praised Arnison for "the even-banded manner in which you have handled this trial." He called Arnison's credit to the judiciary and the country.
Miss Davis, still tearful with joy, told reporters, "this is the happiest day of my year."
Asked if she thought she had got a fair trial, she said, "the very fact of an acquittal means that there was no fair trial and the fair trial would have been no trial at all."
Of her future plans, Miss Davis said she probably would remain in California
"I guess we're going to celebrate some, and steel ourselves for the struggle. We can begin to give all I have to three political prisoners and oppressed people," she said.
Subtle Computer Revolution Grows at KU
Editor's Note: This is the first of a two-part series on computers and their effects at KU.
By SCOTT SPREIER
Kansan Staff Writer
There is a quiet revolution going on at the University of Kansas. It is a revolution that involves cybernetics, information systems, memory banks and third generation computers. It is a computer revolution.
It's not a dramatic revolution, but rather a very subtle one that began in the 1950s when KU obtained its first computer system. However the revolution has grown quickly and today involves the students, faculty and administration of KU.
One goal of the system is the simplification of administrative transactions, for the benefit of both students and faculty. Hitt said that this might "permit people to
Today every student at KU is related to the Honeywell 635 computer on the first floor of Summerfield Hall. They are part of KUIS—the KU Information System.
support to the University. He said KUIS was simply an organized attempt to use the present computer most effectively in support of those activities.
JAMES K. HITT, director of systems development at KU, said recently that KUIS was fundamentally devoted to providing institutional and student service
KUIS began its first stage of operation in fall, 1971, when it incorporated student registration into its system. For the first time, students could obtain data sheets instead of the older cards.
Tuition Due June 14 To Avoid Penalty Fee
Payment of fees for the summer session is due on or before Wednesday, June 14. Enrollment is not complete until fees have been paid in full.
An itemized fee statement and directions for payment will be mailed this week to each student at the address he gave during registration. Any student who does not follow this statement by June 9 should obtain a copy of the Registrar's office, 123 Strong Hall.
Students on scholarship may complete payment of fees by presenting their fee cards and verification that their fees will be paid. Students at the Office, 36 Carrubh-O'Leary Hall.
and June 20 a $10 penalty fee will be charged. This fee will rise to $25 during the summer season.
Penalty fees for late payments will be assessed after June 14. Between June 14
After July 5 payment of fees will no longer be permitted.
Refunds must be requested at the Registrar's Office.
Full refunds will be given for withdrawal from the University or courses dropped on or before June 14. From June 14 to June 23 half refunds may be requested. No refund of fees will be given for courses dropped after June 23.
Students who withdraw from the University for military service may be eligible for partial refund and partial credit. They should contact the registrar.
About 1% Use Withdrawal Option To Protest War During Finals
By MARTHA NORDYKE Kansan Staff Writer
He said 186 students withdrew from classes during the exam period out of 17,630 students enrolled in classes. One student withdrew from three classes, six withdrew from two and 179 withdrew from one class.
John Conard, director of university relations and development, said about one per cent of KU's students used the option of withdrawal from classes during final week to formally protest and show opposition to the war in Indochina.
Of 88, 150 classes, 194 were affected,
Conard reported. Totals showed that 99.78
per cent of the classes were finished
without the use of the withdrawal options.
The proposal allowed a student to withdraw passing from a course that he was passing on the last day of classes. The withdrawal period was extended from the last day of classes to the time designated for each final exam. A student exercising the option received nor credit and no grade in the course.
The University Senate passed a proposal on May 10 in response to demands made by antiwar protestors then occupying Strong Hall.
OTHER EVENTS of May 10 included the continuation of the occupation of Strong which had begun Thursday afternoon in Allen Field House to discuss the war, in Allen Field House to discuss the war, in
Indochina. David Dillon, Hutchinson senior and president of the student body, announced that the student executive committee voted money to send two students to Washington, D.C., to speak to congressional delegation about the war.
ON MAY 27, 27 arrests resulted from the late night and early morning four-mile march around campus. Kansas Atten. Gyn. Vern Miller arrived and let two charges into crowds blocking streets after he and the other groups to disperse. Capt. Merle McCurray, the aeward Police Dept. and Col. William Tendent of the Kansas Highway Patrol, turned in low key performances during the demonstrations. Chancellor E. Laurence
On May 11, 11 persons were arrested by Lawrence police and Kansas Highway Patrolnet for refusing to comply with a lawful order of a police officer in connection with marches through the campus and into downtown Lawrence. The only violence from either side during the demonstrations occurred when a small splinter group of protesters, accompanied by high-school age persons, damaged and stabbed $500 worth of property in the Military School Station. The protestors moved to vacate Strong Harms and moved to downtown Lawrence, where they focused their attention on the Douglas County Selective Office and the military recruiting stations.
Chailmers Jr. praised them for preventing any violent disruptions between the an-
gels and the police.
MILER SAID he went to Lawrence MAY 11 while anti-war demonstrations were taking place and found "a reluctance on the part of everyone to take action to meet what I considered to be threatening violence." Chalmer called Miller's remarks "unjustified criticisms of the law in Kansas Highway Patrol) law enforcement officials' performances" and added that the comments were "unfair and injurious."
Chalmers charged Miller with "undermining three days and nights of superb law enforcement efforts" by local authorities in Lawrence. According to Chalmers, Miller was not called into the court as a responsible officials here felt his coming as an inflammatory effect on groups which had assembled for the demonstrations.
Local law enforcement officials, on the other hand, commended protesters for their generally responsible attitude during the marches.
Leaders of the protest declared a temporary end to the Nairobi session at May 13, 2015, from the front of the main hall.
As the second week of final exams neared an end, the KU Coordination department of the antwar movement here can claim a construed construction efforts to end the war.
focus on the main reason they came here, which is to get an education."
For example, he said, this would take some of the problems out of enrollment and permit students to concentrate on the subjects they courses rather than standing in line.
Hitt appeared sold on the system, although he admitted that the initial cost was high. Transitional simplicity should at least equal, if not reduce, costs, he said, and thus leave more money for faculty and books.
"WE'RE NOT interested in running a cheap university," Hitt said, "we are interested in putting the money where it belongs."
Hitt said another important purpose of the system was to provide a readily accessible source of management information for managers at all levels of the organization. It would also computer, and decisions could be made by consulting the computer for information.
Management information, according to Hitt, is information that would help a manager make correct decisions. The information would enable him to make more refined decisions than if he depended upon luck or tradition.
Hitt admitted that at the present time University management information was
"We're trying to rig this computer so you will remember what it did in case anything happens."
"If that silly box can just remember and tell you when you ask, then as time goes on, you're probably going to develop your skills and be able to manage your management information needs.
THE COMPUTER really doesn't have all that much to do with it. It is really hard to keep up with new technology.
The next stage of KUIS to be implemented will be a payroll and budget system, which will begin July 1. Hitt said most of the payroll information, which is stored in a series of lapes and punch cards, would be incorporated into a large disc file.
The new system will permit a better analysis of where University money is being spent, Hitt said. Presently 75 per cent of the funds are by the University is allocated for wages.
There has been talk, especially in Topeka, about starting a network of computers for state institutions. Hitt said. There are drawbacks to be considered.
Such a network could possibly have a leveling effect on state schools, making all institutions alike. Hitt said. Taxpayers could save money under such a system, but in the process some schools would improve while others went downwell.
ANOTHER PROBLEM is that each
soul has its own system of doing things,
so it
"I can show you schools that have a lot better enrollment system than we have," Hitt said. "I'm not sure whether their teaching in the classrooms is as good as ours because they spend so damn much money making a nice enrollment system."
KUIS is still in a very early stage of
development. According to Hitt, by July the system will be only one-twentieth complete. It could take five or 10 years to complete the program.
Although everyone at KU seems to be linked to computers in some way, the computer science department, which is in its fourth year at KU, remains fairly small. A number of students are enrolled in the master's program this summer, but the department offers no undergraduate degree.
Floyd R. Horowitz, acting chairman of the department, said recently that the future of an undergraduate program at Texas Tech would take additional faculty and
See COMPUTER, page 5
SHE SAID that her personal safety may be a problem in her future travels and朋遇.
"Over the last week or so, we've heard of numerous threats that have come in," she said. "But I'm not going to allow that to occur. I'm going to active in the liberation struggle."
Atty. Atty. Gen. Albert Harris Jr., who prosecuted Miss Davis, declined comment and left the courthouse. he did not ask for a hearing. The jurors after the verdict was announced.
Brandon called the prosecution case "weak" and criticized the state for
Angela Davis
keeping Davis davis jail for 16 months "when they had no case against her."
THE DEFENSE and Miss Davis' supporters apparently had hints in advance that the verdict would be acquittal. Grimming and jubilant, they gathered in the courthouse corridor beforehand, clapping hands and singing a spiritual with the words "We've got our minds set on freedom. Halluelaigh!"
He said he still considered the case 'a frame-up that resulted because Miss Dillard was a black woman.'
Miss Davis, in a blue mini-skirt and bright print blouse, joined in the singing.
See ANGELA, page 7
Kansan Staff Photo by PRIS BRANDSTEI
Students Wait in Enrollment Line-up
Summer school enrollment began Friday in Allen Field House in alphabetical order. Although lasting only one day, the process of getting into classes was a familiar one of long lines and long faces.