A LITTLE WARMER
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
82nd Year, No. 139
Last Issue Of Semester
Tuesday, May 9, 1972
Kansan Photo by T. DEAN CAPLE
In Nationwide Address
Karl Menninger Lashes at Criminal Codes
Nixon Orders U.S. Blockade Of North Vietnam Harbors
... "Look for self-destructiveness and root it out" . . .
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Nixon Monday night ordered North Vietnamese barbars to Soviet shipping by air-dropped munitions used to activate in three
The President went on nationwide television and radio to tell the American people he had also directed U.S. forces to interdict all North Vietnamese supply lines, including "the internal and claimed territorial waters of North Vietnam."
According to notification sent by the State Department to the United Nations Security Council the entrances to Haiphong and other barbars were mined on Tuesday. On Monday the mines were to explode in contact beginning at 6 a.m. EDT Thursday.
This would be coupled with continued bombing of the North—which was extended earlier Monday to the Hanoi area for the first time in three weeks.
THE PRESIDENT'S ACTION, ranking with the toughest of all American military operations in the Vietnam war, also involves bombing of all other supply lines, including railroads that carry the bulk of both Soviet and Chinese military aid.
The President called on the Soviet Union to realize the intensified U.S. military action was not directed against its people or interests.
But the towing question of the Soviet reaction to moves that no doubt will be charged to at least a near act of war, is the question of the hours immediately after the speech.
Declaring intensification of military force was the only choice left to the United States, the President coupled the action with this call on the Soviet Union:
"LET US NOT slide back toward the dark shadow of a previous age. We do not ask you to sacrifice your principles or your friends. But neither should you permit Hanoi's intransigence to blot out the same together have so patiently prepared."
The White House switchboard was jammed with calls, however, and leading political figures were starting to issue regularly elaborate about predictable and party lines.
"We are on the threshold of a new relationship that can serve not only the needs of our community but also the cause of world peace. We are prepared to continue to build this relationship. This is an important step."
Looking toward his scheduled visit to Moscow later this month, the President and
After outlining what he said were the determined American efforts to negotiate
Menninger Impeaches Legal System
By SCOTT EATON Kansan Staff Writer
The criminal codes and the legal system in this nation have become a huge, unfair, and dangerous weapon for some Meningenians, founder and chairman of the board of trustees of the Meninger Foundation in Topeka, told a capacity crowd in Woodruff Auditorium Monday afternoon.
Menninger, whose talk was sponsored by the Student Union Activities Featured Speaker Series, told the crowd that the problems facing the criminal system in this nation were, in part, the result of legislative attempts to turn the old ideas of things that were considered sinful into legal codes that made them punishable by law.
Meinenger said that when churches became too weak to stop the things they had considered wrong and sinful, the church could defend itself to declare these same things illegal.
"I just always thought it was bad taste," Meninger said.
Menninger pointed out that today being drunk in public was a criminal offense in many cities.
MENINGER BROUGHT UP the question of public drunkenness. He said that when he was younger, public drinkers not considered illegal, but rather a sin.
Menninger said that the word 'sin' had almost its use in the English language. He said that words meaning "illegal" had more or less replaced it.
Menninger said that a thought had found its way into our society which imparted the feeling that there were only two types of action in the world. One type he called illegal action and the other he said was simply looked on as alright.
Menninger said this created a feeling that just because something was not termed illegal, it was acceptable for someone to do.
"There is still such a thing as sin," Menninger said.
MENNINGER SAID there were many laws today which simply shouldn't be. They were passed years ago to aid the women who worked in laundry members. He cited a law on the Massachusetts statutes which forbids women from hanging wash out to dry on Sunday. He also made reference to laws in Georgia that required women to activities and purchases on Sundays.
Menninger said much of the outney about violence and crime was based on the fact that there were no other officers.
"The fact is that the actual number of 'murders' in this country was about two and one-half times greater 50 years ago, and almost all kinds of crime have diminished."
"There is much agitation in the air about the abundance of crime and violence," Menninger said. "There are current statistical confusions in all of this.
Menninger said that crime also had to do some degree with what was fashionable
that were unheard of 50 years ago,"
Menninger said.
Menninger said much needed to be done to improve the penal establishments in this country. He said that while conditions had improved remarkable over the last ten years in both prisons and mental institutions, much remained to be done.
Many persons are in prisons who would probably be much better off if they were on the street.
Meninger said that many persons were convicted and in prison, after having been sentenced on laws passed according to someone's guesswork 30 years ago.
CERTAIN CRIMES are popular today
Menninger said that only a very small minority of persons committee crimes were ever sentenced to a term in prison. He argued that the only cases, only about six convictions were made.
BEING BEHIND WALLS and bars is simply not what some of the people convicted of crimes need. He said, however, the way the system was implemented dictated that for certain crimes, a period of time should be spent in prison.
Meenninger said that if the prison wardens throughout the U.S. were asked, most would probably say that about 80 per cent of prisoners the prison would be better off out of prison.
Menninger said that about 80 per cent of the persons in jail were there on convictions of crimes against themselves, or for small robberies, what Menninger referred to as "minor property acquisitions."
Recent Changes Join with Tradition To Flavor 100th KU Commencement
Therefore, Nixon went on, "there is only one way to stop the killing, and that is to keep the weapons of war out of the hands of international outlaws of North Vietnam."
"In full coordination with the Republic of Vietnam, I have ordered the following measures which are being implemented as I am speaking to you.
"1. All entrances to North Vietnamese ports will be mined to prevent access to these ports and North Vietnamese naval operations from these ports.
a settlement, Nixon said North Vietnam had made it clear it had no interest in
2. United States forces have been directed to take appropriate measures within the internal and claimed territorial waters of the Namtam to interdict the use of supplies.
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Kansan Staff Writer
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3. Rail and all other communications will be cut off to the maximum extent possible.
Evening exercise, now also the custom,
did not begin until the following year.
Before 1825, commencement exercises
were began at 10 a.m. as they did in
1873.
After the completion and dedication of the Campainel in 1981, KU graduates began marching through its doors on their way to school. This tradition brought another tradition still practiced today.
commencement, soon after the stadium was completed.
Old Robinson was also the sight of the commencement dinner following graduation exercises until 1228 when the completed Union ballroom was available.
Nichols said, "Until Allen Field House was completed, we really had no other place in which to hold commencement ceremonies other than Hoch, and the big enough that was that it was hardly big enough to even hold all the parents of the graduates."
By CANDY HERBERT
RAYMONT NICHOLS, executive secretary of the University, said the main problem brought on by the move to Memorial Stadium was that of deciding what to do in case of rain on graduation day.
in University Hall, which was renamed Fraser Hall in 1897, and later was replaced by the hall now known as Fraser. He then presented diplomas to the first four KU graduates; Flora Richardson, Ralph Tosh, Tush and Murray Harris, KU's engineer.
Because of the rapid growth in the number of KU graduates, in 1907 commencement ceremonies were moved to newly completed Robinson Gymnasium, which used to stand where Wescoe Hall is now being built.
When commencement ceremonies were held to award degrees to the first four graduating seniors of 1873, 1874, 1875 and 1876, Dr. Hillee and Chancellor John Fraser dreamed that 84,377 more degrees would be granted to 73,785 students during the University's next 98 years.
"Now if we decide to have commencement ceremonies indoors because of the weather, we have a duplicate stage already set up in Allen and will be used." He accomplished with very little trouble and we still have plenty of room. he said.
Today's tradition of marching down over Mount Oread from Strong Hall to Memorial Stadium for the presentation of diplomas was initiated in the 1924
Following a speech by Kansas Sen. John J. Ingalls, the audience was served a commencement dinner in the chapel of University Hall.
Menninger also pointed out that recent statistics show that 87 per cent of the personnel employed by banks in this country have probably embellished. He said that about 60 per cent of people involved in banking stocks have stollen at one time or another.
MENNINGER CONTRASTED this to the persons often sent to prison for gambling, betting, or other similar offenses, in inconsistency these statistics presented.
SAIGON (AP)—U.S. Navy planes on Tuesday began carrying out President Nixon's order to mine the entrances to North Vietnam's ports.
ON WEDNESDAY, graduation day, the crowd of students formed a procession and marched down Jayhawk Boulevard. After following the procession down Jayhawk Boulevard, Fraser opened the first commencement program with a brief talk
Menninger said it was up to the generation now involved in schools across the country to change much of the unfairness that exists in the world today.
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The following Tuesday was Class Day and the members of the graduating class were presented to an audience of a thousand. The three Liberal Arts and Science graduate students gave orations, and the senior's first presentation presented drawings and a model of a bridge.
AS A RESULT of this change in location for the next 16 years, the annual procession of faculty and graduates wound its way from old Fraser down the drive and into Robinson for the awarding of diplomas.
Planes Unleash Mines Sealing N. Viet Ports
May, 1972 will mark KU's 100th commemoration, and the ceremonies of his death.
The planes dropped mines into the entrances to North Vietnamese ports, and the initial phases of the operation have been completed. The U.S. Command announced Tuesday.
Vietnam's chief port, and Vinh were among the targets.
Since President Nixon in his broadcast announcement of the new escalation of the war said foreign ships in the North Vietnamese harbors had "three daylight hours" to enter, it is likely that the mines contained a timing device that armed them at 60 or 72 hours.
All American planes were said to have returned safely Monday, from the raids around the North Vietnamese capital, but American planes were downed west of Hanoi.
"U.S. Navy aircraft are carrying out the orders of the commander in chief. The initial phases of the mining operation have been successfully accomplished," the command said in a statement shortly after the completion of his new escalation of the war.
The command said that all planes returned safely to their carriers and that one North Vietnamese MIG interceptor was shot down during the operation. It was the first time that a plane plotted since U.S. air raids in the Hanoi area Monday and the seventh since Saturday.
The statement gave no further details, and there was no information from other sources on which harbors were mined or what types of矿es were dropped.
According to KU chemistry professor Robert Taft, in his book "The Years on Mount Oread," commencement ceremony of a legan on Sunday, 8, with a baccalaureum preached by Rev. Richard Cordley of the Plymouth Congregational Church.
"ALL PLANES have returned safely," the statement continued. "One MIG aircraft was shot down during the operation."
THE U.S. COMMAND said, air strikes continued today against North Vietnamese supply lines, railroads and highways. But in South Vietnam's central highlands, in the Tao river, an government base and penetrate another, increasing the threat to Kontum.
In other action, a helicopter crashed in the Tonkin Gulf Monday night from apparent engine failure, killing the first U.S. Navy admiral to die in the Indochina war. Two high-ranking members of the admiral's staff were listed as missing.
Presumably, however, Haiphong, North
The dead man was identified by the U.S. Command as Rear Adm. Rembrandt C. Colbeswalt, a U.S. Navy commander and destroyers bombarding North Vietnamese positions along the coastline.
KU Year Marked by Demands
BY ANITA KNOPP
Kansan Staff Writer
Pettitions and handouts seemed to be the fare of the 1971-72 school year, as groups ranging from bicycle riders in September to the Peace Coalition in May tried to convince the KU student population and administration that their causes were just.
Among the more convincing demands were those made by the February Sisters. The Sisters, on the evening of Feb. 4, after occupying the East Asian Studies Building demanded the establishment of a free day care center directed by the February Sisters, the appointment of a woman to assist with the naming of a woman to fill the then vacant vice-chancellor of academic affairs position.
ALTHOUGH THE SISTERS did not succeed in gain, they demanded, the same easily succeed.
Plans for the establishment of a day care center were finalized April 26 when the Student Senate approved the center's $20,000 budget request.
Shirly Gilham, director of the KU information center, was named as the director of the Affirmative Action Program.
The Sisters were not successful in gaining the appointment of a woman as vice-chancellor of academic affairs. Chancellor E. L. Laurence Chalmers Jr. named Ambrose Saricks Jr., former dean of graduate studies at Wichita State University, to fill the position at the end of March.
THE RESULT of the February action was not entirely beneficial for the women. On Feb. 21, Peter George, Lawrence special student, filed a complaint with the University Judiciary against the Sister's actions the night of Feb. 4.
Five women and 15 Jane Does were named in the complaint for violation of the Code of Students Rights, George dropped the complaint March 6 because he had decided that no purpose could be served by the action.
The University of Kansas saw a rejuvenation of anti-war sentiment this spring. Following the announcement by President Nixon of the escalation of the Vietnam, various peace groups on campus joined forces at a meeting April 19.
ONE OF the more controversial issues facing students and administrators this year was a proposal to convert Jayhawk Boulevard and Memorial Drive into one-way streets and place four to five hundred parking meters on campus. After a month, April 19 in which strong opposition was vowed to the plan, the proposal was scrapped.
The coalition again voiced its protest April 27 at a speech by Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan, chairman of the Republican Party, in which he called for the week, the coalition conducted teach-ins to inform people about the facts of the Vietnam War. May 4, the Peace Coalition led a march from the campus to downtown Washington to promote moratorium to protest the Vietnam War.
McCollum Hall was forced to remove its skit from competition, when the Judiciary Board ruled that the skit was unacceptable for the review.
Obscenity became an issue in the 1972 Rock Chalk Revue, when objection was raised to McColm Hall's entry, "Sex and Violence," in The New Yorker. Gabriel isn't the Only One That's Horry."
THE NEWLY formed Peace Coalition first planned a protest at the KU Relays demonstration in support of demonstrators stadium in the afternoon, but were allowed to read a statement opposing the Vietnam War as the fall over-looking the stadium.
Leading 80 law enforcement officers into Lawrence in the early morning hours of Sept. 24, Miller arrested 17 people. Twelve KU students were among those arrested.
On Sept. 25, Miller threatened to the Gaslight Tavern because he thought "drugs were being sold there." On Oct. 22, Miller filed an injunction which cited the Gaslight Tavern as a public nuisance. As a result, the tavern was closed.
Vern Miller, attorney general of Kansas, caused news in Lawrence when he held a hearing on the state's marijuana law.
A TEN DAY strike by the Classified Civil Service Employees Union, Local 1132, in mid-February brought demonstrations of support from faculty and students. The workers, employees of Buildings and Grounds and the Food Service, returned to work on Monday. A Chancellor resulted in a "mutual understanding about working conditions."
THE GAY LIBERATION Front fought a year long battle for recognition by the University as a legitimate student organization. Chalmers twice refused to recognize the group despite Student Senateulations that the Front be reconsidered.
The front was denied its motion for an injunction against the University of Kansas at the district court of Janki. Jan, the co-counselor, was also denied the right to defend in court. The front has not been given permission to the 10th Circuit Court in Denver.
The front decided to take their case to court in mid-September. On Sept. 30, the Student Senate appropriated $800 to the Front for court costs, but apparently to no
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The University of Kansas summer school session will begin May 31 with orientation for new students. Registration and enrollment will begin June 28, and the course will be born June 5 and last until the end of the session. July 29.
Summer Schedule Announced
The Law School summer sessions will run from May 23 to June 23 and from June 26 to July 28.
Timetables of summer courses are available now in the registrar's office.
Kansas resident tuition for the summer session will be $1.95 an hour for the first five hours, and $2 for each additional hour. Out of state tuition is $3.95 an hour for the first four hours, and $2 for each additional hour.
Two dormitories will be available for student housing during the summer session. Oliver will be coed and open upon the west wing for women only.
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