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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
82nd Year, No. 125
Wednesday, April 19, 1972
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Kansan Photo by ARCHIE SOLSKY
Refreshing Things Often Come in Little Packages
While walking to class, Jenelle Johnson, Humon semen, ... unexpected means of refreshment. JH McIntosh, 1510 Crest Road, and his neighbor, Karen Bradley, 1511 Crest Road, had, unexpectedly, stopped by the sidewalk to get up a roadside stand. Breaking away from the lemonade,
traditional beverage for such stands, they served Kool-Aid. The stand's location along Crescent Road was convenient, as many students from the Daisy Hill dorms use this route to campus and many others use the nearby streets to park close to campus.
Panelists Dissect the Presidency
Kansan Staff Writer
By MIKE MOREY
Kennan Staff Writer
In the first of a series of two panel discussions sponsored by the Student Vote and titled "What is the American Presidency?" there was a consensus among the panelists that the presidency always would be found to be wanting because it is a human institution and, as long as could never be perfectly fulfilled
Tuesday night's panel, which comprised Francis Heller, professor of political science; Donald R. McCoy, professor of history, and Earl A. Nebring, assistant professor of political science, discussed, "The Presidential Job."
Heller said the president's job was an extremely complex one. The president, he said, is the prime minister, the leader of the country, the head strategist, the commander-in-chief, the head of the army, the prime minister and party and the champion of the people, since he is one of the only two officials elected by all of the people.
The other official who is elected by all of the people, he is, said the vice-president, Mr. McConnell.
McCOY AGREED with Heller and said that the office was one of 'awesome places'
could piece all of these jobs together into some
something, would have
Heller said the job of assessing the consequences of any president's actions was difficult. This is the case, he said, because the people are too close to the situation to make valid comments about the long-range effects.
Heller said people could not really tell whether a president had done "the right thing" until some time later when they could "look at it in historical perspective."
McCoy said the same was true of the presidential candidate. He said it was impossible to get a true evaluation of a presidential candidate because, oftentimes, a man changed rapidly when he took office.
HELLER SAID the media had even made the government more responsive to the people. It is clear, he said, that the media have an impact on the president and makes a more rapid response possible, and possibly even necessary.
The panelists agreed that the media had become increasingly more important in national politics and could become even more important in the future.
With the possibility of a national primary sometime in the near future, Nehring said, the job of the "image builder" would be even more important.
projection" in order to promote their presidential candidates.
A national primary, Nehring said, would probably necessitate a nationwide campaign conducted, to a great extent, by the various media.
McCoy said the national committees had concerned themselves with "image
Nehring said the role of senators in presidential races had increased in recent years. Heller agreed and said that before 1960, governors and former military men were more important than senators in presidential races.
HELLER SAID a national primary could change the entire political system by weakening the organization of the political parties in the states.
Heller added a nationwide campaign would probably mean that "the campaign is going to work"
McCoy said senators were more important now probably because the big sources of support and organization were members of the governors were more or less isolated.
The presidency, McCoy said, was not always the way it is today. At one time, he said, the president was more of an "elected king" than anything else.
Day Care Seeks $20,000
$5,300 Requested By 'The Whomper'
By HAL RITTER Kansan Staff Writer
The KU Reclamation Center asked the Finance and Auditing Committee of the Student Senate for $5,300 to cover operating expenses for fiscal 1973 during the second session of budget hearings held Tuesday night.
Gary Jacobs, Shawnee Mission sophomore and director of the center, appeared before the committee and explained the center's need for the funds which will come from the 1972-73 student activity fee.
Jacobs said the center needed $3,800 to rent the north half of the former Firestone building at 8th and New Hampshire streets, $750 for salaries and $750 for supplies that include gasoline for pickup trucks.
Jacobs学院 the cumference of sewer
laboratories the year after in the
these are
Reclamation Center's operating system that included the elimination of a director and retention of two paid employee positions. The center separates bottles and cars at the center.
JACOBS SAID the center hoped to expand its service to include the pickup of newspapers which could be sold to a Kansas City firm for $8 a ton.
More deposit centers for Lawrence residents was another change planned that Jacobs said would increase patronage of the reclamation center.
Beginning next fall Lawrence public schools will provide space for recyclable materials and each school's Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) will undertake the chore of separating metal from glass at the deposit sites, he said.
Jacobs said the center previously had spent three-fourths of its salary money to buy a new house.
this expense will be eliminated except for the expense of having materials which are not disposed of.
PICKING UP already sorted materials at Lawrence schools will cost only about one-half what the center has been spending to have materials sorted, he said.
REPRESENTATIVES of nine other groups presented their proposed budgets to the committee Tuesday night. The KU Sierra Club asked for $1,200; KUTY Action Committee, a group formed to improve Chinese-American relations, $500 Undergraduate Anthropology and Yellow Brown Road School, $7,000.
Tribe Recruiting Workers For Newly Returned Land
The Scuba Diving Club asked for $235,
KU Chapter of Douglas County Legal Aid,
$6.30, KU Business Council, $810; KU
Society, $602.50, and International Law
Society.
By JEANNE ELLIOTT
By JEANNE ELLIOTT Kansan Staff Writer
In an effort to recruit volunteers to revamp the nearly 12,000 acres of land recently returned to the Pottawattomi tribe, Lester Jessepe, tribal council chairman, and Francis Hattehe, council vice-chairman and business manager, will host a luncheon Tuesday in Blake Hall to explain the history and future bones of the project.
The land contains St. Mary's College, Leavenworth and adjoining farm and pasture land. Jessepe said the return of the 1800s was to "stagger the imagination."
He said now the tribe had to begin the task of fund raising, restoring the buildings on the college campus to use and triving to improve education for Indians.
The project began when the Jesuits decided to sell the land and some of the older tribe members recalled the agreement that said when the church no longer used the land, it would be returned to the tribe.
Dwayne Evans, a member of the tribe and at that time a KU graduate student, began to research the question along with Norman McKay, assistant professor of wolf biology.
Also present at the press conference were Forer, Daniel Elash, Lawrence graduate student, and Diane Zuch, Ft. Riley graduate student, all members of an advisory committee involved in research and planning for the tribe.
JESSEPE SAID he and Batttes were planning to go to Los Angeles to begin soliciting funds to develop the programs and resources the students college used as a seminary by the Jesuits.
Forse said the trile had received much support from Kansas State University and Rockhurst College. He said he hoped KU people would get involved with the project now because they could provide some expertise in proposal writing and
housing project, health clinic and other community improvements.
The tribe has made plans for a 110-unit
KU students and faculty could also provide some additional manpower this summer in repairing the college, Jessepe said.
ELASH SAID the level the project had achieved was important. He said that reached 100%.
there was much to do and he believed this
good place for people to get
involved.
Both Forer and Elash said that the tribe welcomed volunteer assistance.
Forer said anyone interested in the project could contact him in 306 Blake, or Dan Elash in the psychology department at Fraser.
Black Women Rate Race As Number One Priority
Kansan Staff Writer
By DONNA DALE
Kansas Staff Writer
"Essence of a Black Woman," a project sponsored by the black women of Hashinger Hall, featured a speaker and a guest Tuesday night at Hashinger.
The speaker was Stella Smith, a black registered nurse at the KU Medical Center. She spoke about women in nursing and especially black women.
Karen Saunders and Cynthia Robinson, Kansas City, Kan., sophomores, and Rose Webb, Kansas City, Kan., senior, made up a panel which discussed "Is Women's Liberation Relevant to the Black Woman?"
Smith said the nurse's role was changing from a technical one, such as operating equipment, to more frontline roles.
"Nursing education is geared more toward talk-talk and healing social needs than physical ones. Public health and the nursing profession require a high level of nursing education," she said.
Smith said she had encountered few cases of racial prejudice in her profession. She said that she had no trouble getting into the nursing education program at the Med Center and that with her degree the wife was highly valuable as an enmuele.
attitudes might be toward you if you are black." she said.
"It's dangerous to generalize what
The reason an individual is not selected for employment could be other than racial, social or religious.
She said black women might have an edge over white women in employment opportunities. Institutions which are funded by federal money may have requirements to hire both blacks and women.
"By burying a black woman, they kill two birds with one stone. Executives feel it is safer to have a black woman in a position of power than a black male," she said.
The generalization of a downtrudden black is just as detrimental as one of a clear reds.
Smith described her attitude: "I am a manain being. Don't give me a beast, just someone to love."
The panel gave a basic description of the goals of Women's Liberation movement in three areas: career, the University and in general, and sexual liberation.
The program will sponsor a modern dance group and style show tonight at 7 in Hashinger. The group is lead by Irene Townsend, an interior instructor from wastown City, Kan. Models the fashion show shows be girls from KU with fashion supplied by local merchants.
Vet Groups Work for More Jobs. Benefits. Hospitals
By KENT PULLIAM
The Campus Veterans, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and the American Legion all have the needs of the veteran at work. The Veterans are working for added benefits for the veteran.
Kansan Staff Writer
All three of the organizations are involved in a program called Jobs for Vets, and their activities are coordinated with the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce.
One of the major problems facing the veterans of the Vietnam era is finding jobs in the United States.
Wayne Strong, RFD2, commander of the American Legion Post here, said he thought the problems of veterans had been solved. He also noted that only difference was the time period and that each generation of veterans had problems which were cited to some of good books.
BRUNS SAID, "We always grew up with the idea that vets were heroes, and when you become one yourself you find out it is not always true.
Miller, commander of the VFW, and Strong is that he is returning from an undeclared war and most other veterans returned from a declared war.
One of the major differences the Vietnam veteran has to face, according to Ed Bruns, Leawood freshman and president of the Campus Veterans. Ellis
"Employment is nearly impossible to find, the GI bill is totally inadequate and you get no real help from friends or other people whom are supposed to be there to help."
According to Miller, the reception of the World War II veterans was not entirely different from that of the Vietnam veteran.
'I can't remember any parades or celebrations which occurred when we rebuilt the city.'
accustomed to the transition of high school seniors to college, but not prepared for the adjustment from the military to the cultural shock is what is called a cultural shock."
According to Strong the different reaction to the Vietnam veterans returning is just the difference between a victory and defeat. In an undeclared state, of the war in Vietnam,
Another source of problems is with the GI bill. According to Bruns the bill is inadequate and in Kansas is not up to the standards of some of the other states.
STRONG SAID, "We didn't get enough when we came back from Korea, and they did."
Bruns said, "The university is
He attributed this to the increase in the cost of living and a lack of increase on the interest rate.
Each of the groups had a different reaction to the Vietnam Veterans against
According to Miller, "a majesty of the older veterans did not like it."
Bruns said, "With their May Day demonstration they not only brought attention to the war but more importantly to the people in vets that are a product of this nuisance."
Strong said, "None of us ever wanted
war, and it is their privilege to demonstrate against this war. I would be more up in arms if they were protecting me against that happened at a very urgent time.
"Destroying or mistreating the flag is on our bigger side because that is what the military has for you."
ANOTHER PROBLEM that veterans of this era face that others did not face is a drug problem. Drug usage is more prominent in the service now that ever
According to Strong, "There were drugs overseas before but the soldiers didn't use them. It's more the social trend to use it now and that's part of the problem."
According to William Boswell, 932 Arkansas, American Legion member,
"The hospitals can get the finest equipment available and they use the best
The hospital facilities available to the veterans returning are among the best equipped in the country. The problems with the hospital have there never been enough of them.
facilities, but there just aren't enough of them."
Miller said, "The V.A. hospitals are experiencing the same growing pains as any other hospitals, but they are better equipped to handle the problem. I feel they are very good and handle the situation very well."
The American Legion also has a visitation program in which members of the group visit the hospitals in Kansas City and Topeka.
BOTH OF THESE organizations visit the hospitals regularly and help those veterans who are in them. The VFW sponsors a trip to the hospital on the weekend of the first KU home football game and brings some of the patients of the hospital to the football game. They also make a trip to the hospital once a month.
Membership in the Campus Veterans organization only requires that you be a veteran attending the University of Kansas. One is not required to give input into the organization to receive the benefits.
"We are a service oriented group, but we have not been trained by the steering committee. Bruns said."
TO BE ELIGIBLE for the VFW you must have served in a foreign war and during some of that time you must have been in a war zone. The VFW decides which dates they will accept for the United States to have been in a time of war.
The American Legion has adopted the dates that Congress has set for the U.S. engagement in war. Its members need not be citizens of any country outside the continental United States.
Each of these groups have some members who are of the Vietnam era, and the American Legion even tried to recruit from some of the returning veterans.
All three of the groups now have national programs which overlap to help veterans make the adjustment from military to civilian life, and to combat some of the problems that are unique to the Vietnam era vets.