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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
REIN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
82nd Year, No.126
Chicano Leader Stresses Need For Involvement
Thursday, April 20, 1972
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KU Senate Schedules War Debate
Action on four resolutions concerning the war in Vietnam will be taken at a special session of the Student Senate at the Joyhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
The first resolution on the agenda, requests the student body president to voice University of Kansas students' opposition to major escalation of the Vietnam war to the Kansas Congressional delegation and asks him to urge the president to call on the President Nixon end the bombing and continue to de-escalate the war.
A resolution supporting an anti-war presentation at the Kansas Relays on Saturday is the second item to be discussed.
Third on the agenda is a resolution that would prohibit military recruiting at KU. The debate has been long and bitter.
The last resolution on the agenda would rescind a speaking invitation to Sen, Robert Dole, R-Kan, because of his pro-Nixon stance on the bombings.
Dale is scheduled to speak here as part of the Vickers Lecture Series on April 27.
Kansan Photo by DAVE. BLISS
John House, Raytown, Mo. senior and chairman of the Student Executive Committee, said Wednesday that the special session had been called because the Student Senate office had received the necessary and proper amount of funds for the construction of the Student Senate, pursuant to Article 3, Section 10 of the Senate Code."
Over 200 Convene at Westminster War is not healthy for children.
Board Drops Traffic Plan
By RICHARD COOLEY Konson Staff Writer
Plans to convert Jayhawk Boulevard and Memorial Drive into one-way streets and install parking meters at selected locations on campus were scrapped Wednesday by the University of Kansas Traffic and Parking Board.
Robert Malinowsky, assistant director of KU librarians and chairman of the board, said the "violent opposition" expressed by students and faculty at an open hearing on the proposal Monday night had led to the decision.
"I don't anticipate any major opposition to the new plan," Malnowsky said, "because all of the controversial aspects have been deleted."
THE NEW PLAN would retain the color zone containment in the original proposal. The only change would be that the price on permits for Red Zone would be increased to the price of Blue Zone permits, Malinowsky said. Permits for both zones would cost $30, $20, and $10 for the fall, spring and summer terms.
The less controversial aspects of the plan would be incorporated into a separate office for approval, Malinowsky said. He said it would be up to the chancellor to decide whether additional public hearings would be held on the new version of the plan.
The traffic control stations would remain in operation at their present locations, although an effort would be made to recruit more students rather than security personnel.
Improvements would be made on Memorial Drive to create more parking
O Zone would be converted into a gate-
net with a 25-cent ieee charged
between 7 and 13.
The provision for temporary parking permits that could be purchased daily, weekly, or monthly would be retained as stated in the original proposal.
Malinowski cautioned that the traffic and parking problems that would have been alleviated by one-way streets and parking meters would continue.
"I THINK the provisions of the original plan would have created a partial solution," he said. "The problems are going to get worse as time goes on."
A new KU Traffic and Parking Board will be appointed by the Senate Executive Committee to give it the responsibility of devising a solution to the problem next year, he said.
Malinowsky said he had been surprised by the reaction to the original proposal. "expected opposition," he said, "but I didn't want it to be or to be organized to the extent it was."
He said he had thought of some the opposition would disappear when details of his life were known.
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., speaking at his weekly press conference, praised the work Malinowsky and the board as a responsible board lead come up with a feasible plan.
CHALMERS discounted the charges made by some students that there had
been an effort to "ramrod" the plan through at the end of a semester without consideration for unfavorable student reactions.
"Theoretically, students were represented on the planning committee," he said. "If the student representation was it wrong, then I think that would be quite complaint, but there was definitely to conscious effort to exclude students."
Chalmers said that it was imperative that some "rather drastic" action be taken to solve the traffic and parking problem by the fall of 1973, when Wescove Hall, the new humanities building under construction, will be opened.
He said the traffic and parking board next year would have to grapple with the
Kansan Requests Increase In Fees Budget Allocation
Printing costs were rising, Adams said, and a change in the format of the Kansan from a tabloid to a full size paper had widened the news coverage and reduced the advertising percentage and advertising revenue
If the Kansan were no longer published, Bassett said, it would affect the School of Journalism, but would more directly affect the University.
Chalmers said that an eventual goal was to close Jayhawk Boulevard completely.
EDWARD P. BASSETT, dean of the School of Journalism, said the Kansan Board was committed to making the Kansan as good a paper as possible, but he also continued to continue the downward cycle of increasing that it had been experiencing.
By CATHY SHERMAN
Bassett told the School of Journalism could produce a laboratory newspaper
BY EMILY BARNES
Kanean Staff Writer
"The University of Kansas is a major institution and should be able to support a management team."
A request was made by the University Daily Kanas to the Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee for budget hearings. The committee will budget bearings held Wednesday night.
According to Bill O'Niel, Ballwin, Mo.
Junior and Student Senate treasurer,
this increase would raise the $1.35 allotted to
the Kansan per full time equivalent student to
$1.65 and would entitle reducing the line
apportionments in the other seven areas.
Adams said the Kansan had not received a raise since 1958, when it received $1.45 per student. He said publishing the Kansan was becoming more costly and was continually losing money, but the paper was receiving less per student.
He said the project loss for the Kansan this year would be between $20,000 and $30,000 and the Kansan had lost $50,000 in season when the Senate had not allocated any money.
The request is an increase of $9,770 over the $43,990 allocated the Kansean by the Senate line apportionment enactment, which distributes the $12 semester student activity fee on a standard basis to eight University areas.
MEI. ADAMS, business adviser to the Kansan, said the Kansan had a budget of $152,000 for the 1971-72 fiscal year and less than 50 per cent of printing costs.
the School, but he said, this was not the ideal for either the School of the University or the College.
The Black Student Union made a request to the committee for $80,330, nearly twice that amount.
GILBERT DEAN, Sandersville, Ga. junior, said the increase was due to additions of several new programs, to BSU activities, including draft counseling, legal aid, drug abuse counseling and craft workshops.
See KANSAN REQUESTS, Page 2
Escalation Sparks Meeting
Local Groups Plan Relays War Protest
By STEVE RIEL
and DONNA DALE Kansan Staff Writer
A possible renaissance of large-scale, organized war protest in Lawrence began Wednesday night in Westminster Center at the University of Kansas, as more than 200 people convened to establish groundwork for immediate and continuing action to protest increasing U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
A consensus of those present supported the proposal of a rally and statement of protest to occur this Saturday at the Kansas Relays to show widespread discontent with President Nixon's increased bombing in Vietnam and escalation of U.S. air, naval and logistical support.
Earlier in the week, representatives of campus and city organizations formed a coordinating committee to organize war. Among groups represented on the commission were Women's Coalition, Science for People, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, the Peace Action Coalition, a local labor union representing of foreign students at KU.
VARIOUS SPEAKERS supported the relays proposal as a means of reaching a large number of people. In addition to communicating discontent to the people they said national coverage of the relays would increase the number of people affected.
The specific course of action adopted at the meeting included presentation of antivirus software, which have been circulating on campuses. The course was taught by Laurence Chalmer Jr. on Friday. At that time, the students will ask for approval of proposal to speak and rally at the relay.
The purpose of the rally, which is designed to be totally peaceful, is to reinforce the anti-war statement that in an era of meeting hoped would be read at the relays.
The demonstrators want to march into the stadium during the noon hour, carrying placards and banners and present a 15 minute speech against President Nixon's decision to resume the bombing.
The proposal calls for the statement to be made at a time which would not conflict with the letter.
THE PURPOSE of the weekend activities, as envisioned by those at the meeting, was to get people to support and identify with a stance calling for U.S. withdrawal rather than escalation in Vietnam.
At the meeting, an organizational structure was formed for the protest. The structure consists of a coordinating committee, a committee to organize the relay's action and seven other committees to be maintained on an ongoing basis until United States has withdrawn from Southeast Asia.
A committee for education plans to have workshops on the war and also plans to extend its activities to include discussions in classes at the University.
Other committees will be involved with publicity, financing and the legal aspects
Information on the committees will be available from University information
THE MEETING began with statements made by three speakers who had been contacted by the coordinating committee. They were also assigned as assistant professor of social welfare, John Musgrave of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Manuel Fierro, head of a group for minority employment and a minority candidate for governor of Kansas.
Forer said that the American people were angry with continuing U.S. involvement in Vietnam and actions in and around Haiphong by the United States reflected general contempt of the Nixon administration for the American people.
"The American people are angry at the Nixon administration—all its sycophants, toadies and those who profit from the war in Vietnam," he said.
He said that Nixon had ignored the U.S. Senate's recent legislation which expressed opposition to executive commitments.
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HE CALLED this a "perversion of legitimate governmental process."
The escalating air war in Vietnam, he said, was murder without the realization that killing was occurring. He said that because American soldiers had been withdrawn in large numbers from Vietnam, people tended to overlook the killing that continued as a result of the automated airwar.
Forer said the American people did not want escalation and for this reason would support actions for withdrawal. Current opposition to the war, he said, would be the last leg in a long struggle to end involvement in Vietnam.
Musgrave spoke on the evidence of U.S. escalation in Vietnam. He read a long list of indicators of this escalation, which was military installations here and abroad.
THE LIST included mobilization of air and naval craft, full alerts being posted at U.S. installations in the United States and abroad and the possibility of a nuclear-armed air-craft carrier being sent to Vietnam.
Mugrawe said protest at KU was part of national action to end the war.
"Most college campuses and large cities have activities planned," he said.
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College Students Plan Strikes Against War
NEW YORK (AP)—The presidents of the eight Ivy League schools in a joint statement issued Wednesday condemned renewed bombing in North Vietnam and criticized coercive student strikes. At the nation's colleges and universities, meanwhile, students planned votes on a coordinated antwar strike for Friday.
Maryland State Police fire tear gas late gase Wednesday to clear portions of U.S. Route 1 blocked for the second day by about 300 antwair protesters from the University of Maryland, the most serious clash in demonstrations at a handful of colleges around the country.
About 500 students at Columbia University in New York voted Wednesday to approve a proposal and succeeded in cancelling a number of classes by barricading some buildings and picking.
They ignored or burned copies of restraining orders issued by a State Station.
The Ivy League statement, which noted the presidents were signing their names "personally" and not for their institutions urged full disengagement and opposed troops other than immediate protection of U.S. troops in the process of withdrawal.
The Ivy League schools are Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale. Also the University of California and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In Wisconsin, 2,000 antiwar protesters massed at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and marched to the state capitol several blocks away.
No one was arrested, although the demonstrators broke into groups in an unsuccessful attempt to penetrate a line of county police encircling the building.
While some students bodies have already voted to strike on Friday, as urged by the Student Mobilitization Committee and other groups, students at MIT, Brown, Dartmouth, Dentmouth, Yale and several California schools have scheduled strike votes.
In Eugene, Ore., an apparent antiwar protest took the form of what authorities said was a firebombing attempt at the airfield of Airborne's Air Force ROTC BUILDING.
Two liquor bottles filled with gasoline and wicked with a partly-burned rag were found at the building early in the morning Eugene police reported.
Kantan Photo by DAVE BLISS
Speakers at War Protest Meeting Propose Rally at Relays
Protesters will present Chancellor Chalmers with a petition and request for approval of rally