THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Senate Hearings On Budget End
82nd Year, No.128
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Monday, April 24, 1972
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Kansan Photo by SCOTT SPREIER
War Protestors Demonstrate Outside Memorial Stadium
Demonstrators remained peaceful despite unfriendly crowd
Hundreds Voice Protest at Relays
Rv KEVIN SHAFER
Kansan Staff Writer
With competition from the boos and jeers from part of the 32,000 people attending the ceremony, several hundred students, faculty and interested participants held a peaceful demonstration at Memorial Stadium in U.S.'s renewed bombing of North Vietnam.
The demonstration was the culmination of a week's planning.
At 11 a.m., several hundred demonstrators marched silently into the stadium carrying banners pledging their opposition to the war.
David Dillon, Hutchinson junior and student body president, made a brief statement to about 10,000 people that had gathered for the day's athletic events.
DILLON THEN introduced John
Marmot to the Vietnam
Veterans Against the War.
Dillon said that KU's student senate had passed a resolution expressing its opposition to the re-escalation of the Vietnam war.
Musgrave expressed his gratitude and the gratitude of all the organizations participating in the demonstration for the war, "we express their feelings toward the war.
Mugrave said the demonstrators had gathered to exhibit a "peaceful visual representation" of the protest, and said that if the American public were made aware of the growing concern for the environment, they would certainly step back.
The Vietnam veteran said although de-
escalation of American troops in Vietnam was supposed to be taking place, only the ground troops were being pulled out. He said the decrease in ground troops was being countered by increased numbers of air and naval forces.
MUSGRAVE THEN produced what he said were facts that the American public knew.
1. Over 300 Indonesian civilians have been killed in the war each day.
2. Over one ton of bombs have been
minute the Nixon administration has been off.
3. Over two thirds of South Vietnam's
towers have had to be relocated because of
the war.
4. The Plain of Jars in Laos has been made an uninhabitable desert because of its arid conditions.
5. More bombs have been dropped in Vietnam that in either World War II or Krieg.
Mugrave said the Nixon administration had challenged the other two world powers, Russia and Red China, to "put up or shut up in the Indochina war."
During Musgrave's presentation, several hundred demonstrators lined the fence surrounding the track. Many had shouts and signs voicing their protest to the war.
When asked to stand up and join hands to show their support to the demonstration, many of the people in the stadium complied with the request.
SUCH WAS NOT the case, however,
when the second statement was read at
North Viets Cut Highway Overrun Critical Outpost
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SAIGON (AP)—North Vietnamese forces cut highway 14 in the central city before a Monday and a column of government base camp at Tan Chan. The outpost was considered critical to the conflict in Pleiku, the area's two largest cities.
The enemy's long-range 130mm artillery also shelled a series of South Vietnamese fire bases south of Tan Chanth that guard the northern approaches to Kontum. The U.S. Army conducted the assault on an engineered computerized AC130, was unable to stop the tank column, although crewmen reported knocking out three tanks and South Vietnamese forces claimed destroying four north of Tan in an eight tank was reported captured.
Before the tank assault on Tan Canh, North Vietnamese forces cut Highway 14 from Saigon to Vung Tau and seven miles below the base camp, isolating it. A rocket attack earlier set afire and completely destroyed the Tan Canh command post, killing one South Vietnamese soldier.
Field reports said 20 tanks were involved in the attack on Tank Canh, forward line and rear of the battlefield. 22nd Infantry Division, just west of Highway 14 and opposite the district town of Dak To. The reports said at least seven vehicles were destroyed and one was captured.
The North Vietnamese took more than 300 U.S. air strikes, including about 50 by giant B52 bombers carrying about 30 tons of explosives each. The enemy waited for overcast skies, then the provincial capital of An Loc from four directions.
March 30. A South Vietnamese infantry battalion was scattered in the central highlands, with 15 men killed, 19 wounded and 120 missing.
Two American advisers were slightly wounded.
But the U.S. crewmen in the AC130 reported that the rest of the column continued down Highway 14 at high speed toward Tan Canh, then entered the village.
The Saigon command whilemean was reshuffling its thinly spread forces. Much of its strategic reserves have been chewed up in the enemy offensive that began
three o'clock. By then, about 32,000 people had sated for the Relais.
Enemy forces launched the assault on Tan Cah, and dealt new blows Sunday to government units at An Loc, 60 miles north of Tampa, the most intense U.S. embattles of the war.
Mona Harmman, assistant instructor in Western Civilization, read the second statement which was drowned out several times by booing.
Hamman's request for a moment of silent prayer for the men who had died in Vietnam received response mainly from the student section. Boos and complaints against him surfaced after he interrupted by the protest continued throughout the moment of meditation.
Mmusgrave, an ex-Marine who was wounded three times during his tour in Vietnam, said he was very upset by the bombing and took place during the moment of silence.
"Those people who booed and jeered are worse animals than I was when I was a child."
Following the reading of the statement,
REPRESENTED IN the demonstration were the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Union local 1123, Women's Coalition, KU faculty, several foreign students' organizations, KU-Y, the Athletic Youth Conference, Gay Luberty Liberal, and Theizations. The organizations said new groups were showing their support every day.
The coalition said they had complied with the University administrations' request to limit the size of the demonstration.
In a press release, the coalition listed some of their goals and demands.
a group of demonstrators marched from the campanile to the restraining fence of the stadium and began yelling antiwar chants.
The coalition condemned the Nixon administration's escalation of the war and the occupation of Kosovo.
Orion Begins Return Trip
"What a ride, what a ride!" Duke called as Orion climbed into space. The two astronauts left the moon at 7:26 p.m., Lawrence time, and speed on toward a linkup with the command ship Casper, plotted by their crewmate Thomas K. Mattingly
The astronauts gathered 245 pounds of rock and soil, including one small boulder weighing 40 pounds. Scientists at the Manned Spacecraft Center believe the samples include rocks of volcanic origin, both near the time of the original lunar crust.
with astronaut W. John. W. Young and Charles M. Duke Jr. at his control, Orion, the lunar module blasted upward into the black lunar sky, and sped into moon orbit. Scientists on earth praised Duke and Vayner for their accomplishments on the moon.
SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP)—Apollo 16 exploded rockets away from the Descartes Mountains of the moon Sunday, carrying with them rocks formed by early lunar volcanoes. The two men thus achieved their primary goal.
"I believe we got everything we went for," said Dr. Tony England, a scientist-astronaut at the Manned Spacecraft Center.
Young and Duke were on the moon for 71 hours, and with them they brought a pocket full of records, the amount of rocks brought from the moon, time on lunar surface and speed travelled in the moon vehicle.
The astronauts roamed a field of black and white boulders—some of them building sized and the largest moon rocks ever seen—and walked to the very edge of a crater so deep they could not see its bottom.
A FAILURE in the command ship's back up control rocket engine control system forced officials to cut one day out of the mission.
TOGETHER THE three will rocket out of lunar orbit Monday night and start toward earth and a Pacific Ocean splashdown Thursday.
The engine worked perfectly Sunday when Mattingly fired it briefly to make a slight change in the orbit of the command ship. It will not have to be fired again until
The lunar surface expedition Sunday lasted 5 hours and 40 minutes, giving Duke and Young the record of 20 hours and 14 minutes in total time exploring the lunar
With Lunar Cargo
KUGraduate Student to Announce Candidacy for Secretary of State
By JIM KENDELL
Kansan Staff Writer
Mike Manning, Emporia graduate student, said Saturday he would announce his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Kansas secretary of state
Manning and several of his staff members stressed in an interview Saturday that his candidacy was more just a candidacy for secretary of state.
Manning said his candidacy was part of a project started last December to make the voice of youth felt in Kansas by a group of local activists and candidacies of "good and decent people."
If he wins he said he hoped to draw people together into an organization which can work informally to get more 'good and decent' people elected in Kansas.
Manning said he would try to win without compromising his principles and his ideals to show that the system does work, as he believes it does.
MANNING SAID he hoped to reach these people off campus in his campaign and urge them to register and vote. Most Kansas colleges have already been the object of voter registration drives like the one conducted by KU Student Vote.
According to Manning, 304,000 new voters will be eligible to vote in Kansas in 1972. Two-thirds of them are not connected with a college campus.
The young candidate said good and decent people didn't get involved in politics because they saw politicians corrupted in and by the political process.
The 22-year-old political science student said he was a serious candidate. He intends to campaign hard and professionally. In the process he and his staff hope to create a lasting "neopolitical" coalition in Kansas.
He sees his campaign as a catalyst which will furnish the experience and
organizational models necessary to get even poor people into office.
Manning noted, "Poor people find it very difficult to run for office."
HE CHOSE to run for secretary of state rather than governor or attorney general, for example, because he is a serious politician and wants to spread his message statewide.
Manning pointed out that there were no special qualifications for secretary of state, like there for attorney general. The secretary usually has a background in law.
He said if he were running for governor, a very prestigious and powerful position, people would not take him seriously. This might destroy the project.
Manning graduated from Kansas State University in June 1971. He has spent a year in Washington, D.C. as vice president of the National Association of Student Governments.
He organized the "Countdown 72" voter registration conference in October in Manhattan. He has also organized similar finances and some other registration drives.
MANNING TALKED about three of the issues he hopes to raise in the campaign: the power of the secretary of state to register and certify corporations, influence voter registration and register lobbists.
The secretary of state meets with election officials throughout Kansas and instructs them where to set up voter registration facilities in their counties.
The secretary of state registers and certifies all corporations in Kansas. If a company does not comply with state laws, it is deemed to have done so, does not have to register and certify it.
By putting tighter controls on
the machine, Manning
bags in airtight seal in Krause.
Though the only formal control the secretary of state has over voter registration is the power to appoint the election commissioners of the four largest
counties in the state, he has a lot of informal power.
MANNING WANTS to know why the voter registration books are kept in middle class areas of Wichita rather than in black areas of the city, for instance.
"We think it's the responsibility of the government to register people to vote. Traditionally it's been a game between the two sides. It's where we learn the books are," Manning said.
The secretary of state registers
Mike Manning
lobbyists and records who they work for. For example, lobbyists might be men with tightly controlled
Manning will announce his candidacy officially May 1 in a series of airport press conferences in Kansas City, Topeka, Wichita, Hays and Emporia.
surface since their landing last Thursday night. They drove their moon buggy at a speed of 11 miles per hour, beating Apollo 15's eight m.o.h. record.
Dr. Harold Masursky of the U.S. geological Survey, said the rocks and soil from that bed at the moon between 4 billion and 4.5 billion years ago. I think in these samples we are going to find pieces then when the original lunar crust was formed."
In their final minutes on the moon, the spacemen leaped about in what Young said was an abbreviated "lunar olympics."
THE 245 POUNDS of moon surface gathered by the astronauts was a record by a wide margin and 50 pounds more than 16,000 pounds. The astronaut had to get an okay from Mission Control to bring it home aboard the lunar module which must be within prescribed weight limits for the lift off. Apollo 18 rock total 50 pounds more than gathered on Apollo 18.
"We were gonna show a guy could do, like jump flat footed straight in the air three or four feet," Young said. He demonstrated by leaping upward in the slow motion typical of movements in lunar gravity.
Throwing things was Duke's best event in the impronta olmics.
"Sorry about that." Duke said.
DUKE TRIED IT, too, but not with the same grace. He leaped and then fell on his
"Charlielee," "Young said in disgust
"That isn't very smart."
The astronauts worked together closing out their final visit. They loaded bags with rocks, film, experiments and core samples and used a clothesline-like arrangement to transfer them to the front porch of the lunar module Orion.
The Student Senate Executive Committee (StudiEx) decided Sunday to limit the agenda for Wednesday night's Student Senate meeting to consideration of the student activity fee budget for fiscal year 1973.
StudEx to Limit Senate Agenda To Activity Fee
The Senate, at its annual budget session Wednesday, will consider for approval the Senate Finance and Auditing Committee's recommendations for the funding of campus organizations from the student activity fee fund.
In budget hearings Monday through Friday of last week, the Finance and Committee considered the budget requests. The requests organizations. The requests totaled approximately $122,100, nearly four times that is allotted to campus organization.
IN ADDITION to the budget, a proposal that would add to the campus privilege fee a charge of up to $2 per student per semester to finance a campus bus system to begin next fall will be presented to the Senate. The Senate will be asked to either approve the proposed fee or refer the Senate at its May 3 meeting or refer the issue to the students as a referendum.
StudEx approved a request for $75 toward the publishing cost of an intensive study of the feasibility of mass transportation in Lawrence. The School of Engineering costs. The Senate commissioned Francis Winterberg, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, to make the study. One hundred copies will be published and used as text books and distributed to the Chancellor, members of the Senate Housing and members of the Senate Housing and Transportation Committee.
STUDEX APPROVED a line item transfer of the KU Curriculum Instruction Survey of $40 remaining from the printing program. The program will be a permanent part time computer programmer. The programmer is to begin work on this semester's results of the teacher evaluation survey so that the fall enrollment back will be available at fall enrollment.
StudEx also approved a request of Intercollegiate Women's sports to use $300 to $400 from their open allocation of $4,000 for the purchase of numbered lerses.
A $700 semester salary for the director of the Human Relations Committee's Racial Awareness Center was also approved. The Committee's open allocation of $1,300.