THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
82nd Year, No.133
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Monday, May 1, 1972
Rand Issuance Questioned
Legal Doubts Delay Med Center Project
By ROBERT DUNCAN Kansan Staff Writer
The Kansas Board of Regents delayed Friday a study of the economic and program projections of the proposed expansion of the University of Kansas to accept students until they receive clarification as to the legality of issuing bonds for the project.
Doubts about the Regents' authority to approve the issuance of bonds, after the passage of the 2016 proposed expansion is completed, were brought to the Board's attention by Regent Johnson.
Bubb said he did not believe the Kansas legislature had provided for backing of the bonds. He said would like a legal opinion from the attorney general's office.
Max Bickford, executive secretary for the Board, said he had discussed the issue of how to prevent fraud.
DR. WILLIAM O. RIKEE, vice-chairman of m^all^ airlines, said he had been assured by the legislature that Medical Center revenue could be used to cover bond debt. Medical Center revenue is now used to cover several operating costs, and future legislatures would have to move more for operating costs, Rikee said.
had indicated that the legislature had not provided any guarantee to back the bonds.
The Regents reaffirmed their support for the expansion project, but decided to delay approval of the study and of the sale of the bonds until discussions with bond experts had occurred and a written opinion from the general office had been obtained.
Asked about delaying approval of the proposed study, Rieke said they could wait
THE REGENTS were concerned that
Senate to Conduct Survey On Marijuana, Bus Service
A student opinion poll concerning the campus bus system and the legalization of marijuana will be conducted Wednesday by the Student Senate.
The four-question survey will be available at polling booths in Strong Hall, the Kansas Union and on Daisy Hill between it and the building to John House, Ravtown, Mo. senior.
The first two questions will ask students if they favor the use of student funds to support the campus bus system, and whether they favor an increase in student funding not more than $2 per semester to support the bus system, if it should be necessary.
House said the poll would end at 4 p.m. to provide enough time to tabulate the survey's results on the bus funding issue so that voters can attend the Senate meeting, Wednesday night.
At that meeting the Senate will consider
a proposed enactment submitted by the Senate's Housing Committee that would give that committee authorization to "contract for and administer a campus bus system subject to the approval of StudEx" to the Senate's Student Executive Committee.
The enactment also would give the committee the power, subject to the approval of StudEx, to determine an increase of up to $2 per semester in the campus privilege fee to help finance the bus system.
The second half of the survey will ask students whether they favor legalization of marijuana or not. Will whether persons currently in prison for marijuana-related convictions should be
The marjana questions stem from a resolution passed by the Senate April 5, 2014.
Kansan Staff Photo by ED LALLO
Kanan Staff Photo by ED LALLO
Mud Cools Heated '500' Contestant
Although the bill is billed as the *Phi Psi Shi* , the name might more appropriately be . . . 500 and Mud Fight . . . the Kappa Pi fraternity each spring invites all sororities and induce halls to teach four-four girls teams to the "500" , a tricycle race. The race is held near the Athletic Building on Sunday, Sunday. Alpha Delta Pi sorority won the "500" just everybody (or nobody) won the fight.
they would have to use other sources if future legislatures did not allocate funds to cover operating costs while hospital revenues went to cover bond debts.
In other action the Regents adopted guidelines to be used in developing next year's budget requests. The guidelines include:
a - provision for allowing $ 4 \frac{1}{2} per cent raise in faculty salary money.
— provision for a 5 per cent raise in incentive labor salaries, anticipating an increase of $20 million.
> provision for a 1/4 per cent raise in the state's contribution to the faculty's retirement.
—a provision for requesting new faculty positions based on one new position for each additional 15 students at K.U. and the 10 students at F.U.
Pittsburgh, Fort Hays and Emporia,aqd.
-a provision to hire as necessary new personnel in areas of traffic and security, purchasing, assistants to the presidents, employ relations and industrial safety,
JAMES McCAIN, president of Kansas State University, who presented the guidelines on behalf of the Council of Presidents, said the provision to increase the number of retirement plans would put Kansas in with other states within a ten-year period.
McCain also said the Regent's institutions were presently operating at a 1:32 faculty to student ratio and this faculty was to be corrected. The Regents agreed.
The Board also approved minor repairs at the University of Kansas, as well as the conversion of 13 first-floor rooms at Hashinger Hall to art studios.
The Regents delayed for another month a discussion of the Political Activity Policy for faculty. The policy will determine whether a faculty member can or cannot run for office without having to resign his position.
State GOP Convention Supports Nixon's Re Election
Kansas Photo by RON SCHLOERR
. Lt. Gov. Ren Shultz, gubernatorial candidate, calls for party unity . . .
In the central highlands, South Vietnamese forces pulled into a tight ring
Convention Backs Nixon
By STEVE RIEL Kansan Staff Writer
More than 1,000 delegates to the Republican state convention in Topekaaska will be voting for President election bid of President Richard M. Nixon, elected the remaining Kansas delegates and alternates to the Republican Convention and selected two presidential candidates.
Three University of Kansas students made unsuccessful attempts to win $1 million.
Terry Reynolds, Lawrence graduate student and member of the Douglas School.
North Vietnamese Stop All Out U.S. Effort
SAIGON (AP) - South Vietnamese marines and rangers fought savagely with the might of U.S. air and naval power behind them Sunday in an effort to reopen the front. A. North Vietnamese regiment stopped them cold.
South Vietnamese forces and their Cambodian allies along the border fell back from other fronts apparently leaving Saigon, the Mekong Delta.
As the enemy's offensive moved through its 32nd day, the United States marshalled every available warplane and warship in the Indochina theater for massive attacks. U.S. vessels bombed North Vietnam's Balkan and enemy positions in the South; BESI and their heaviest strikes of the war around major battle points in South Vietnam.
around Kontum, said to be a principal objective of the North Vietnamese. U.S. helicopters began evacuating military dependents and civil servants.
A third district town in coastal Binh Dinh Province to the east was in peril. The fall of Tam Quan would extend enemy control to the better part of 200,000 inhabitants in coastal Binh Dinh and give the North Vietnamese Cong a rich rice harvest of 5,000 tons.
Landing Zone English, a South Vietnamese regimental headquarters and the only strongpoint in northern Binh Dinh, came under a two-hour rocket attack at dusk. Aircraft were unable to land and the base was being resupplied by parachute drops from an aircraft.
Reports from Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital, said South Vietnamnames troops abandoned Kongmeng Trach in the southern tip of Cambodia.
national committeeman McDill Boyd from Phillipsburg for a delegate slot at the convention. Reynolds ran as a delegate uncommitted to Richard Nixon to allow for "expression of conscience" by the convention.
IN A VOICE VOTE, he was onewildly defended by party regular BOWN
Larry Cook, Meriden freshman, was nominated for a position as alternate. He was challenged by Carol Bell, a Kansas State University student from Wichita, Both Cook and Bell are members of College Young Republicans.
The Cook-Bell contest was the first at the convention that necessitated a roll-call vote. After more than 45 minutes devoted to a caucus of the larger delegations and the actual vote, Bell was declared the winner.
The third KU student who tried for a position on the delegation, also as an alternate, was Vicki Myers, Newton freshman. Myers, who was active in Kent Frizzel's 1970 campaign for Kansas governor, opposed Marie Gregg, First District Republican co-chairman from Hugoton.
MYERS CONCEDEED the election after most of the delegations had been polled.
The only other contested position at the convention was that of the seventh presidential elector. Jennie Hoy of Lyons, formerly of the Kansas Legislature, defeated an opponent from Wyandotte County in the roll-call vote.
Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., opened his keynote speech at the convention with an assessment of his Thursday speech at KU in the Vickers Lecture Series.
Dole said that he was not in any great difficulty at the time and that he was not disturbed by the war protesters who attended.
HE SAID he imagined that many of the people who were heckling would vote for him.
"They have a right to be concerned,"
"they are concerned," he said, referring to
the protesters.
Dole criticized the Democrats for attacking the President when, he said, they were responsible for Vietnam involvement. He said that a Democratic Congress had fostered escalation of the war.
The Democratic presidential contenders, Dole said, had poor voting records in Congress and a choice between the Democratic candidates for president would be choosing "the least incompetent."
"When you come down to it," he said,
"that's no choice at all."
Dole also was critical of the media, claiming that the New York Times and the Washington Post were "praying every day for their Vietnamization program would fail."
THE REST of the morning at the convention was devoted to convention business. The chairman of the convention appointed the delegates who participated on four committees: resolutions, committee rules and order of business and credentials.
Following the noon recess, the actual election of alternates and delegates occurred. At that time, a slate of five delegates and five alternates were gathered at-large by the district conventions was ratified by the convention.
Various party leaders and officials called for more than lip service to the Republican party and asked those attending to actively campaign for them. They said their immediate goal was a clean sweep of state offices by Republicans.
THE CONVENTION became a forum for the Republic's contenders for state office.
State Sen. Dave Owen, R-Overland Park See NIXON. Page 5
International Club Sets Voting Date
By MIKE MOREY
and
ELAINE ZIMMERMAN
Kansan Staff Writers
During an emergency meeting of the International Club Sunday, members set May 7 as the date for election of the club's new officers and suspended the vice-president, pending an investigation of a dispute which arose at a meeting Tuesday.
According to Ronnie Sookhoo, Trinidad senior and president of the club, in order for them to vote, their names had to be registered with the treasurer for at least two years. Members had membership cards, but were not the treasurer's official list of members.
The dispute originated when 40 new members, who thought they had the right to be president, insisted.
After the new members, mostly Arabs and Iranians, ignored requests to leave the room, Sookhoo said the meeting would not continue and he and the registered members left. The remaining 40 students remained, and he reached the president on the grounds that the imperialist, an enemy of the third world people, and a puppet of the administration.
Sookhoo said the 40 new members had obtained their memberships from the vice-
president, Sohail Latif, Quetta, Pakistan,
junior. Latif did not inform him of the new
members, Sookhoe said, until the night
before the meeting.
Sookhoo said Latif claimed that a list of the new members had been placed in the treasurer's office two months ago. Sookhoo said this was impossible because he possessed the only key to the office, and he nor the treasurer was aware of the list.
Sunday's meeting, which was not attended by the 40 new members or the vice-president, was called in response to Tuesday's meeting.
The rules concerning elections were suspended, enabling the election of new members to be held and concerning the election will be sent to all registered, voting members. Voting members will be determined by the results of no vote not by possession of membership cards.
Two other motions concerning the election were defeated. One called for
The club's constitution says eligibility to vote is determined by either the official list or possession of a membership card for at least six weeks. But since the rules had been suspended, the second criterion could be dropped.
A statement released by the Iranian Student Association Thursday said that the International Club general assembly meeting Tuesday was legal.
Tula Tossavainen, Joutsa, Finland, junior and cultural chairman of the club, said she favored a universal vote in order to elect a national group from dominating the club.
suspension of the rules and conducting the election immediately. Objections were raised that such a move would antagonize absent members.
The second defeated motion involved suspending the rules, holding the elections this week and allowing the entire student body to vote. Students would be informed that members of the student members expressed sentiments that use of this procedure would solve the membership problem. Others objected that most students were not concerned with members of the club and that it would be better to empower powers to those who were interested.
The statement said, "When the membership rights of some students were challenged, the steering committee of the school recognized and recognized the memberships of all those
carrying membership cards. The former president, Ronnie Sookhoe, refused to abide by the steering committee's vote. In a very democratic manner, Mr. Sookhoe showed his contempt for both the steering committee and the general assembly. He expressed insults and slander toward members of the assembly.
"The vote to impeach Mr. Sookhoo was made by 33 members among whom were Americans, Latin Americans, Pakistans, Arabs and Iranians. The attempts by Sookhoo and Tosavainen to isolate and slander the sanguine and hinting to both the iranians and other international students present."
Sookhoo said that Latif had sold memberships illegally and that Latif's suspension would last until an investigation of his activities could be conducted. He said after the meeting that a neutral third party, perhaps the Senate Foreign Students Committee, would conduct the investigation.
Sookhoo said he did not want the International Club to become a political organization. This was the aim, he said, of Latif and the new members.