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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
82nd Year, No.127
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Friday, April 21, 1972
KU Vets Make Bid for $10,000
By HAL RITTER
Kansan Staff Writer
Sixteen more student organizations or student-related groups were questioned Thursday as the Finance and Auditing Committee of the Student Senate held its fourth night of hearings.
The largest budget request came from the Campus Veterans. That group asked for $10,258 after receiving $1,775 this year.
Ed Bruns, Leawood freshman and president of the organization, said the Campus Veterans had not received funds until last December, making the new request the first for a full fiscal year.
BRUNS SAID that when the first request was made he had not known if the group would last and the funds were "just to get the thirst rolling."
The Concert Course Series was a larger request than the Campus Veterans, but its funds have already been provided by the Senate's activity fee apportionment enactment.
According to the enactment, the series will receive 80 cents per student per semester or an estimated $26,065 in fiscal 1973.
Other groups that requested funds were the Association of Mexican-American Students, $8,372; Kansas Latinamericanist, a monthly publication by KU students in conjunction with the Center of Latin American Studies, $290; Oread Daily, $5,618.
The KU Handball Club asked for $520;
Engineering Council, $2,600; Ombudsman
Office, $1,291; Graduate Association of America Studies Students, $75; Humar Relations Committee, $1,200; Undergraduate Social Work Organization, $300.
The Law Students Social Action Group requested $2,215; People to Ube, $4,397; Slavic Club, $565; KU Bands, $2,962; American Institute of Aero and Astronautics. $445.
After meeting from 6:30 to 11 p.m. the past four nights, the committee will hold shorter meeting tonight at 6:30 with earphones scheduled to end at 9 p.m.
The committee will meet at 8 a.m. Saturday and meet again Sunday as it prepares recommendations on each budget request to aid the Senate in its budget meeting Wednesday night.
In Monday's sessions, 13 organizations requested a total of $59,599. Tues. ten groups requested $24,664. On Wednesday 15 requests, totalling $164,408.40, were made. Thursday's requests from 15 groups totalled $38,705.
The amount requested so far in the four sessions of the Finance and Auditing Committee meetings is $286,337.35.
Awbrey Backs Protest Resolutions
. Senate veteran pleads case to representatives
Student Senate Backs Protest
By CATHY SHERMAN
Kansan Staff Writer
As a protest against the continued U.S. involvement in Vietnam and the U.S. escalation of the bombing at Saigon, the Student Union in a special session Thursday night, passed three resolutions calling for the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Vietnam and supporting any peaceful and unarmed accommodation at the Kansas Saturday.
The resolutions also directed the student body president or any other office of the student senate to read the resolution calling for the termination of U.S. citizenship and the deem to the assembly attending the speech to Sen. Robert Dole on April 27, 1972.
The first resolution, passed by a roll call vote 65-8 with 3 abstentions, is to be presented to the Kansas delegation to Congress and to President Nixon. It is to be read during the protest at the Kansas Relays and before the Dole speech.
THE FIRST RESOLUTION calls for the immediate cessation of the air war and the withdrawal of all economic and military forces to the South Vietnamese government.
It asks that President Nixon recognize the self-determination of the Vietnamese
people. It also asks that President Nixon comply with the Articles of the Geneva Convention and the Mansfield Amendment.
The resolution also asks that "President Nixon no longer ignore 71 per cent of the American people who are in favor of a change in government," and commitment, in any form, in Indochina.
Dave Dillon, Hutchinson junior and student body president, called the special session of the Senate in response to a report of the Senate that he dealt with the anti-war resolutions.
Dillon, who proposed the resolution with Ed Bruns, Leawood freshman and Vietnam Veteran said that the purpose of the resolution was to affirm the Senate's opposition to the war.
DELLON SAID that "my feeling is that the Student Senate is not the place to voice opinions on national issues," he thought that enough student Senators and students had expressed interest in protesting the amendment to the law, the instrument of the Senate's opposition to the war.
"We ought to deal with this issue," he said, "if it has any effectiveness at all."
For some opposition, the second resolution called for planned protest at the Kansas Relays, passed in a roll call vote, 49-19 with 8 abstentions.
N. Viet Troops Sweeping to Saigon
David Awbrey, Lawrence graduate student urged the Senate to support any planned and peaceful war protest at the Kansas Relays.
SAIGON (AP)—Waves of enemy troops in overpowering strength seize a 50-mile stretch of Highway 1 in eastern Cambodia and threat to Saigon, 40 miles down the road.
1970 Burning of Union Remains A Mystery
He expressed concern at the reluctance or some Senators to discuss or commit to such an action.
After two years, the identity of the person or persons who started the fire that caused an estimated $2 million damage to a building at night of April 20, 1970, is still a mystery.
Officials from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and Traffic and Security said Thursday there had been no leads to establish the identity of the arsonist.
The fire, starting in the late evening, caused extensive damage to the roof and third floor of the old part of the Kansas Union which has since been restored.
Thomas said it had been established that the fire was the work of an arsonist who had used some type of flammable petroleum product. He said police had not been able to discern whether the incendian was a bomb.
John Thomas, director of Traffic and Security, said all clues had been followed up, but the majority of those leads had been eliminated as possibilities.
Leads on the arsonist had gone in two directions, Thomas said. Some clues had indicated that the fire was started by someone in the university. Others
indicated that someone outside the fire. He said both and resulted in nothings.
The case was still classified as active, Thomas said, and would probably remain so. There is no time limitation on the investigation of the case, he said.
A representative of the KBI said that there was no way of knowing whether the case would ever be solved. He said there were only two people who had information would talk.
Since the fire two years ago, extra security precautions have been taken in the Union, according to Frank Burge, director of the Union.
At the same time, North Vietnamese troops and tanks struck savagely at An Loc in a renewed attempt to seize that central capital, 60 miles north of Saigon.
Electronic smoke and fire detection systems have been installed in all the rooms and the staff has been increased to patrol and monitor the Union, Burge said. All but three of the eight seats are closed at night while the office coming only through major entrances.
"HOW CAN STUDENTS continue to support the Vietnam War?" he asked. "It's not an issue any more, it is a tragedy of US allies politics. It transcends discussion."
Cambodian officers suggested that the enemy aim is to seize all of Svay Rieng Province in eastern Cambodia, thereby reestablishing border bases for joining the offensive in South Vietnam. The Viet Cong has made no secret of the fact that the ultimate aim of the offensive is to capture Saigon.
Burge said he thought student unrest at that time was one of the factors in the decline.
The collapse of a large part of Svay Kiang Province opened a new route for enemy forces either to threaten Saigon or to attack south-eastward into the Mekong Delta.
patrolled by Saigon troops until March 30, when the North Vietnamese opened their general offensive, forcing the pullback of South Vietnamese forces.
Much of the Cambodian sector had been
In the battle for An Loc, enemy troops attacked South Vietnamese rangers and paratroopers north and southeast of the city following a day-long, 1,600-coup
The loss of several South Vietnamese outposts and villages is be assessed by some officials as a diversionary move to draw off reinforcements and open the way to Communist command strikes at Dak To, to town and Koun, a provincial capital.
John Paul Vann, the senior U.S. adviser in the 2nd military region, said the campaign is expected to last about two
Apollo 16 Lands on Moon
SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP)-Two American astronauts landed safely on the moon Thursday night be begin an expedition that was temporarily threatened by a failure in the main engine of the Apollo 16 command ship. Casper.
"Orion is finally here, Houston," exclaimed Charles M. Duke Jr., moments after he and John W. Young achieved man's fifth landing on the moon and began a scientific exploration of a plateau high in the lunar mountains. They became the 9th and 10th Americans to make the lunar landing.
Young and Duke are scheduled to deploy an atomic science station near the landing site. They will also use an electric car to roam the surface in search of evidence of volcanoes thought to have convulsed the moon billions of years ago to form the bright, rugged mountains which cover most of the lunar surface.
James McDivitt, the program manager at the space center, said at one point, "I was very skeptical about it."
THE SIX-HOUR DELAY of the landing caused a likely cancellation of the third moon walk, originally scheduled for Saturday and forced postponement of the first walk until 12:12 p.m. (Lawrence time) today.
The landing was only possible, officials said, because engineers were rapidly mobilized to study and solve the engine problem in less than six hours.
Some officials see the North Vietnamese simply bypassing fire bases and moving more heavy equipment.
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months. He predicted it would concentrate on three provinces: Kontum and Pleiko in the highlands and Binh Dih on the central coast, 75 miles to the east.
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War Protesters Plan Peaceful Relays Rally
At a meeting of the coordinating committee of war protest in Lawrence Thursday night, a statement was released explaining the group's goals and details of events planned for the Kansas relays this weekend.
Members of the coordinating committee were scheduled to meet with Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. at 9 a.m. today to participate in rally to rally at the Kansas radoss on Saturday.
The proposed request read as follows: "We, as members of the following or as members of our Memorial Stadium on Saturday, April 22, for a half hour during the KU Relays, while no other events are taking place, for the purpose of peacefully demonstrating our interest."
THE PETITION to Chalmers named 17 campus and city organizations as its
A rally was planned for 1 p.m. today in front of Strong Hall at KU, following the victory over Michigan.
"We are a broad coalition of members of various local organizations who feel that we will always be against the war. One of the ways that we have chosen to display this feeling is to make a peaceful, visual representation of Memorial Stadium during the KU Relays. And there will be people there, too, who will always be against the war."
"Our first action is 'Project Haiphong,' which will take place on Friday and Saturday, April 21 and 22. Its purpose is to broad crosssection of America in opposition to the war. On Friday a delegation will meet with Chancellor Chalmers to request permission for a mass march into the stadium Saturday between KU Relay's units, to peacefully demonstrate against the war, urging athletes and spectators to join."
A time was to be announced for the stadium protest if it had been approved. THE STATEMENT of intent released Thursday said:
The first full day of competition in the Kansas Relays Thursday was also a full day of rain. Since the Relays became a four-day event in 1970, it's been almost a sure thing that rain would fall on at
Full Day of Rain Dampens Spirits at Opening of KU Relays
least part of the Relays. Whether today and Saturday will be as miserable for spectators as Thursday was for these at Memorial Stadium, though, is uncertain. Weather forecasters optimistically
have said the weather would clear this afternoon, but they reserve a possibility for more showers Saturday. The trainer at left, who is walking away from the outdoor training room set up at Memorial
Kansan Photos by ED LALLO and BICK KERSEY
Stadium, donned a combination of coat, hat and towel to keep out the wetness. Contestant-observers at right huddled under umbrellas and ponchos at trackside.