The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
82nd Year, No.131
Critics Indict U.S. System Of Education
Thursday, April 27, 1972
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Kansam Photo by MARC MAY
Committee Proposes Activity Fee Incentive
Senators Face Stormy Protest
Jerry Slaughter, Salina senior, fights for $2 hike.
Senate Postpones Decision On BSU Budget Allocation
By CATHY SHERMAN Kansan Staff Writer
After more than an hour of heated debate, action on a request by the Black Student Union for an allocation of $35,350 was deferred until May 3, in the annual Student Senate budgeting session Wednesday night.
The action came after approximately 40 representatives from BSU packed the back of the Kansas room to protest the cut. The BSU members and other interest groups had waited three hours while the Senate debated the activity fee like before. The committee, including Audit Committee's budget recommendations, organized organizations were opened for discussion.
The BSU had originally requested a yearly budget of $3,350, but the amount was cut by the Finance and Auditing Committee, which recommended $1,075.
Mickey Dean, a representative from the company, drastic cut in the budget examined by the budget.
"When a drastic cut is made." Dean
The BSU allocation will be discussed by a special committee of seven non-finance and auditing senators and seven members of the BSU and Blackteet. The full Senate will then meet next Wednesday to take action on the request.
Nixon to Continue Bombing
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Nixon said Wednesday night he will withdraw another 20,000 American troops from Iraq. The president also will continue U.S. air and naval attacks on North Vietnam until it ended its "naked and unprovoked . . . invasion" of the
The speech, delivered in stern tones as he sat behind his desk in his Oval Office.
AS HE ANNOUNCEED over radio and television that U.S. troop levels would be cut in the next two months to 49,000-500,000 below the level when he took office from 1967. Xinsen solicited public support for his determination to "be steadfast . . . not falter."
The chief executive said the United States is returning to the Paris peace talks today with the aim of halting the month-old invasion and "with the firm expectation that productive talks leading to rapid acceptance follow through all available channels."
The President spoke shortly after dispatches from Saigon told of a renewed North Vietnamese drive against the city of Quang Tri south of the démilitrated zone, with military helicopters and Highlands of South Vietnam remained uncertain under heavy offensive pressure.
"We will not be defeated," Nixon declared in a nationally broadcast report to the nation, "and we will never surrender our friends to Communist aggression."
He said, "The Communists have failed . . . their one remaining hope is to win in the Congress of the United States and among the people of the United States the greatest victory among the people of South Vietnam or on the battlefield in Southeast Vietnam."
was Nixon's first report to the American people on the war since the enemy trump led him to renew bombing of North Korea in air attacks near Hanoi and Hainong.
Barbi Dower, Topeka junior and chairman of the Finance and Auditing Committee, said there were two main reasons for the drastic cut. The first, she said, was that student activity fee to fund duplicate programs such as the proposed BSU draft and drug abuse counseling programs, which were already covered in other Senate committees such as Draft Help and Headquarters.
He said the chief Communist negotiator, Le Duc Tho, is returning to Paris and
Shortly before Nixon's address, his chief foreign-affairs adviser, Henry Kissinger, briefed newsmen at the White House and, although declining to talk about specific private negotiating, said "Notable diplomatic actions are going on . . ."
Dower also said the committee did not have enough information concerning BSU programs and use of funds to adequately consider the BSU request.
added, "He doesn't return for trivial reasons."
said, "it is usually caused by the invalidity of programs or rumors based on other than the invalidity of programs. So after all the problems was the budget chopped off like that?"
NIXON'S THREE decisions—continued withdrawal, a return to the Paris peace talks, and continued air and naval attacks on North Vietnamese military targets—major impact on the domestic election-year acae as well as on international relations.
In his prepared address, Nixon did not renew his previous criticism of the Soviet Union.
She said the committee had recommended enough money for operating expenses until further information was received and discussed.
See NIXON, page 3
It was moved that action on the request be deferred until the BSU request could be studied more thoroughly, but representatives from BSU protested that the optionalusal less than enough money would be served to adequately cover BSU requests.
At first, Bill O'Neill, Ballwin, Mo, junior and Student Senate treasurer, said the college would support money because there was no way of knowing much money would remain in the contingency fund. The contingency fund is designed that was not spent by campus organizations.
O'Neill said the Senate would probably have to retain the present contingency fund of approximately $10,000 as a pad in case the estimated revenue from the student activity fee was not sufficient enough to cover senate allocations.
He said that based on past years it was fair to assume that there would probably be a cash balance of $40,000 by July 1, when the fiscal year begins.
Muskie Cancels Ohio Trip, Aides Report Senator to End Candidacy
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sen. Edmund S. Muskie Wednesday suddenly canceled a campaign trip to Ohio, the next big battleground in the Democratic Presidential fight.
The Mutual Broadcasting System quoted Muske aides as saying the Maine senator should stay in Washington.
Muskie's press secretary denied the report. Some supporters in Congress predicted the senator would pull out of the debate and remain a candidate for the nomination.
Meanwhile, Sen. George S. McGovern, propelled by a Massachusetts landslide victory, and Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, saying he had won "a decisive battle" for the party's center in Pennsylvania, gave the campaign to Ohio without Muskie.
Muskie had been scheduled to appear at an evening rally in Toledo, but the trip was canceled so suddenly that when the word "cancer" came out, Muskie was already on the way to introduce him.
MUSKIE'S HEAD QUARTERS said he is "evaluating the political situation" and will hold a news conference Thursday morning.
Earlier he had vowed he is in the campaign to the end, despite his batting failure.
George C. Wallace of Airbnb said his second-place finish in Pennsylvania indicated he had "a better chance to be the nominee than ever before."
Wallace confronts Humphrey next Tuesday in the Indiana primary, while Humphrey, McGovern, Muskie and Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Washington compete
Dispute Erupts in International Club
By S. ARTHUR COHEN
Kansan Staff Writer
There seems to be some controversy among International Club members as to whether there should be a separate member.
Ronnie Sookhoo, Trinidad senior and president on Monday of the organization, said Wednesday that a regular meeting of the International Club was held Tuesday in the Kansas Union to discuss an amendment to the constitution to allow all students on campus to vote in the next election of the International Club.
He said that the vice-president of the International Club, Sohail Lafif, Quetta, Pakistan junior, had a list of names of 40 new members Monday who had paid their
Latif never said anything about the new members before Monday and he and Sookhoo had been working together, Sookhoo said.
Sookhoo had at the meeting Tuesday that those 40 persons could not partake in the meeting. In order for them to vote, the candidates had six weeks before the election date, he said.
THE 40 entered the room and when the union security was not able to get them to answer, they called for an emergency.
The registered members left, Sookhoa said, but the 40 remaining students, mostly Arabs and Iranians, stayed and moved to impeach the president because he was an "imperialist," an enemy of the third world people and a puppet of the administration.
"I made no attempt to stop the meeting," Sookoho said. "As far as I'm concerned the meeting was called off by the police and the legal transaction could not take place."
not be held because of the disorder in the room.
LATIF SAID that by a vote of 33 to 3, the General Assembly decided to impeach Sookko on charges of his misconduct toward members present at Tuesday's meeting.
An Iranian student who wasn't a member of the International Club, he said, motioned that the vice-president become the president until elections in the fall.
Sookhoo said elections would be held shortly.
According to Latif, he was asked to preside until elections in the fall and at the meeting membership of present members was to be extended until the fall elections.
Tuula Tossavainen, Joutsa, Finland, junior and cultural chairman of the International Club, said Iranian students who are part of it will be members of the International Club.
Both Dean of Foreign Students Clark Coan, adviser to the International Club, and Chuck Friedricks, assistant to the adviser, declined to comment.
"I UNDERSTAND the International Club can't avoid becoming political and it seems most of the foreign students who come to KU have already formed rather than just as students. American students who deal with dates and sock-hops at the same age," she said.
The vice-president didn't submit names and money of the new members to the treasurer or to the executive committee, and that was where the trouble began.
"We don't need to have two Iranian clubs. The money we have could be better used to help those foreign students who come here to study. Tuesday's meeting was a one-man ego trip. It was frightening to see how easily the crowd became excited, almost to the extent of using physical force," she said.
at the same time for Ohio's 153 delegate votes.
The South Dakota senator picked up a surprise bonus in Pennsylvania, where he earned $30. The vote gaining 74 more convention delegates.
HUMPIREY WON the Pennsylvania primary with 38 per cent of the vote and earned 65 more separate delegate competition, winning 57.
McGovern emerged from Massachusetts with a clear majority, 52 per cent of the vote in a 12-member primary, and with a 73 per cent plurality at the Democratic national convention.
That made Muskie a hit at his own game, for he had concentrated his campaign effort in Pennsylvania and, as a result, he was the best competition. He nicked up only 29 delegates.
Wallace won two Pennsylvania delegates, and 23 were uncompetitive to any
Tuesday's balloting sent McGovern into the lead in committed delegate votes for the first ballot at the Democratic national convention.
He emerged with a total of 234% of delegates, sweeping past Muskie, who wound up in the top three.
Humphrey's delegate count after the Tuesday balloting was 81. Wallace had 77.
President Nixon walked away with the Republican preference vote in Massachusetts, gaining 82 per cent over two GOP congressmen. One of them, Rep. Paul N. McCloskey Jr. of California, had asked for GOP ballots to protest Nixon's renewal of the bombing of North Vietnam. He was getting 14 per cent.
there was no Republican contest in Pennsylvania.
JOHN N. MITCHELL, the former attorney general, now managing Nixon's re-election campaign, said the Massachusetts primary indicated that he "has the ability to undeclared support" of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.
He said Kennedy's failure to endorse McGovern might mean he wasn't sure the South Dakota senator could win the nomination.
"If this is the case, his past and present support may only foreshadow the emergence of a more personal goal between now and then," he gathers at Miami Beach," Mitchell said.
David Miller, Eudora senior, concurred with O'Neill and said that his best guess was that there would be at least $40,000 left remaining from Senate allocations "if organizations don't spend money as usual."
Members of the special committee to study the BSU budget request were then elected. The seven senators and seven members of BSU and Blacktet will all have equal voting privileges in making the recommendation for BSU funding to the committee. The committee plans to meet Tuesday afternoon to discuss the recommendation.
Following the deferral of action on the BSU request, action was taken on 17 February before the Senate's adjournment at 3.30 a.m. Thursday. More than half the allocations have not yet been considered and on when the meeting continues Monday.
The senate also approved changes in the
line apportionment distribution to seven university areas.
The seven areas are as follows
Organization
Evaluation Code
RU Sailing Club
University of Houston
Turkish Students Organization
Kansas State University
Iranian Students Association
Michigan State University
Organization of Arab Students
Kansas Lutheran Mennonite
Association
Douglas Co. Legal Aid Society
Oklahoma State Office of Women
Oklahoma State University
Hilltop Child Care
Women's College present contingency
Women's College present contingency
2,000
3,000
4,000
5,000
2,000
3,000
4,000
5,000
2,000
3,000
4,000
5,000
**Line Item**
Student Senate Operating Budget $1.50 $68,700
Staff Senate Operating Budget $1.50 $68,700
NI Ubicational Association $1.50 134,000
Ubicational Association $1.50 134,000
University Daily Russian $1.50 185,000
University Daily Russian $1.50 185,000
Мерседес в Интернете $0.30 9,000
Mercedes in Internec $0.30 9,000
Budget requests were approved for the
Budget requests were approved for the
Senate Passes $2 Hike In Student Activity Fees
By HAL RITTER
Kansan Staff Writer
The Student Senate approved, disapproved and finally reapproved a $2-per semester increase in student activity fees to meet its budget at its budget meeting. Wednesday night.
The increase will raise the activity fee to $14 for each fall and spring semester, the increase will be in effect only one year unless it is reamproved the next year.
The amendment to Senate Enactment No. 17, which was passed by the Senate last December, also includes a fee increase for part-time students from $1.20 to $1.40 per hour enrolled, and an increase for summer students from $3.50 to $4.
The Senate's final decision on the increase recommended by the Finance and Auditing Committee after it held its budget hearings last week, came following several hours of debate on the $450.58 deficit attributed to the Senate by the committee.
THE SENATE's meeting began when Barbie Downer, Topeka junior and assistant director of the Committee, moved to suspend the rules so an amendment to Enactment No. 17, which included the activity fee increase, could be agreed because it was not on the agenda.
Before deciding whether to suspend rules, the Senate defeated a Finance and Labor bill that would have made changes in Enactment No. 17 possible by a simple majority vote.
Dower then spoke in favor of the amendment and its increase, which she said was needed to give the Senate enough power to adequately fund student organizations.
The Senate then voted not to suspend rules and thus supposedly end any changes.
Jerry Slaughter, Salina senior and member of the committee, then criticized the Senate's lack of consideration concerning the committee's proposal.
"THE ABSURDITY of this body just kills me," he said. "I can't believe that you guys are afraid to vote even to consider changing this enactment."
A motion to abolish the activity fee and another motion to send the committee back to work with instructions to present a budget without a deficit at the May 3 Senate meeting were then made and defeated.
Finally, Debbie Ebeling, Chesterfield,
Mo. jumor, responded to Slaughter's plea
to the league committee.
See $2 FEES HIKE. Page 10
Kansan Staff Photo by TOM THRONE
BSU Leader Seeks Allocation Review
Senate postpones funding decision until next week.