THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
82nd Year, No.116
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Rock Chalk History Examined
Thursday, April 6, 1972
See Page 5
KU Moves To Increase Pay May 1
The University of Kansas is proceeding with the implementation of civil service pay raises for the May 1 payroll, even though Gov. Robert Deckham has not yet signed the omnibus appropriations bill which includes funding for the raises. Philip N. Rankin, director of Personnel Services for KU, said Wednesday.
"As of last night (Tuesday) he had not signed the bill," Rankin said, "and he will have to sign it before the checks can be made out."
Rankin said paperwork was being processed to be sent to Topeka as soon as possible.
Raymond Nichols, KU executive secretary, said he did not think there was any chance of Docking using his line-item veto power to eliminate the pay raises.
"It is our understanding that the governor is opposed to some of the items added to the measure toward the end of the session," Nichols said. "The pay-raise item was in early and we have been assured that it will not be cut."
The demand for the pay raise was among the issues which precipitated a 10-day walkout by some KU civil service employs earlier this year.
The governor has authority to delete individual items from appropriations measures, and his criticism of excessive legislative spending has prompted many to think he will use his veto power to dissuade the appropriations in the omnibus bill.
The bill includes funds for a five per cent salary increase for classified civil service workers at KU. Some employees have been eligible for the raise since November 1970, but have had to wait until now because of a shortage of funds.
The increase will affect clerk-typists in University offices, food service employees, building and grounds workers and other civil service classifications. Rankin said the exact number of workers eligible for the raise had not yet been determined.
Kansas Staff Photo by ED LAILLO
Kansas Staff Photo by ED LALO
Tuek Dunean Counts Votes
To Petition for Legalization
KU Senate Approves Marijuana Resolution
Senate elected 10 to University Council
By CATHY SHERMAN
and HAL RITTER Kansan Staff Writers
A petition urging the state government to remove criminal penalties for the possession, sale or use of marijuana in Kansas was passed by the Student Senate Wednesday night by a roll call vote of 46-37.
Besides removal of criminal penalties, the resolution which will be sent to state legislature is not yet final. "that immediate pardon be granted in Kansas to all persons convicted of possession, sale or use of marijuana and other illicit substances such offense be immediately released."
Out-State Fees Challenged
By JUDY HENRY
By JUDY HENRY
Kansan Staff Writer
The easing of voting regulations has allowed the majority of college students to vote. We have also made students who registered in their university community have filed suits in three states to challenge the legality of out-of-state voting, according to a recent Associated Press report.
The article said the suits were filed on the basis that registration and voting rights in the campus community made the students residents of that state.
This is the first year that people in the 18 to 24 age group could register and the first year that students could register.
more, and in their parents' district which may be out of state.
A VOTER registration drive at the University of Kansas this week has enabled many students to register to be Candidates for the presidential election in November.
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary,
said the presentation was too long to
consider at SenEx's last meeting of the
1994 Board. He said all likelihood byp-
pass SenEx completely.
Traffic Control Plan May By-Pass SenEx
The University Senate Executive Committee (SenEx) did not consider Wednesday a controversial traffic control effort, and did not guard and Memorial Drive one-way streets.
Douglas County Clerk D. E. Mathia said Tuesday that KU students could register to vote in Douglas County if they had lived in Kansas six months and in their precinct 30 days, and if they considered Lawrence their home. He said many students didn't have a degree and had to consider Lawrence their home to be eligible to register in Lawrence
a new SenEx will be chosen today at a combined meeting of the University and
It was hoped that SenEx would hear the KU Traffic Control Board's plan, which would also place four to five hundred parking meters on campus, and then allow an open hearing for suggestions by students and faculty.
Alterations in the Senate Code are now being formulated in the Organization and Legislature.
The traffic control plan and restructuring of University government are the major problems that will continue, according to William M. Lacas, associated with the School of Architecture and Urban Design and outgoing SenEx chairman.
University Council.
Lacas said that during his year as SenXen chairman he had seen a deepening concern for issues on the part of students. At the same time, he said, he has seen students putting more effort into effecting long-term changes by working within the system.
Lucas said that SenEx recommended a comprehensive study of all University committees. It is uncertain, he said, whether some committees are still valuable or whether they should be eliminated.
Lucas said that the one example of failure to work within the system—the February Sisters—indicated some of the pitfalls of this kind of activity.
Strengthening of the role of SenEx as a faculty-student advisory board to the chancellor is good. Lucas said. It provides an alternative for both students and faculty, he said.
Mathia said he estimated that 1,500 persons between the ages of 18 and 21 had registered in Douglas County since January. The estimate included KU students and Baker University students, he said.
Although the registration process requires students to sign a statement to the effect that Lawrence is their home, establishing Kansas residence for the purpose of paying in-state tuition is more difficult.
Lucas said that the cooperation between SenEx and Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. had been excellent. They worked closely with each other on a number of issues, and a relationship produced positive results, he said.
CHARLES OLDFATHER. University attorney and professor of law, said a student was presumed to be out-of-state unless the student could rebut to the contrary with clear, convincing and polite evidence. He said there were several tests in the university applied to students seeking residency for the purpose of paying in-state fees.
Presently, the regulations say a student must be an adult, 21 years old, although Oldfather said he thought the Board of Education had followed after the Majority Age Bill was signed.
To attain residency, a student must live in Kansas for six months, either as a student or a non-student. He must also be virtually self-supporting and not be dependent on someone else for his sustenance.
OLDFATHER SAID all disacceptable ties with another state had to be broken before a student could be considered a Kansas resident. A student had to do what any other resident would do before he would be considered for residency, Oldfather said.
This means working in Kansas, paying Kansas income tax, buying Kansas license tags and having a Kansas driver's license, be said.
Oldfather cited the recent Supreme Court decision that struck down Tennessee's one-year residency requirement for voter registration as an example of concern for those people who are registered to vote. The voter election, making them invisible to vote
He said that concern about a change of possession caused the relaxation ofwithdrawal.
THE AP ARTICLE cited the Tennessee case as a possible precedent in ruling unconstitutional the one-year residency requirement for in-state tuition.
The resolution also urges a student opinion poll to be held this spring "over the issue of whether or not marijuana should be legalized."
Oldfather helped the Shapiro case had more bearing on the question of tuition. In this case the Supreme Court struck down a Connecticut one-year residency regulation allowing a woman to receive immediate welfare benefits.
The resolution was passed after a lengthy discussion that centered on possible repercussions that might occur in the state because of the Senate's stand.
Charges may soon be filed against two or three University of Kansas students for defrauding Southwestern Bell Telephone, Westfield Northwest Bell, Myrlen James, said Wednesday.
Phone Co. Investigates Fraud Cases
"We're investigating a total of 15 cases involving K. U. students who use false calling numbers or false credit card numbers to make long distance calls," James said. "We've identified about seven of them." He then the opportunity to clear the matter by making an appointment with them or writing a letter."
"Some cooperate and others have been given the opportunity to make restitution, but haven't come around, so it's a matter of locating the students now," James said. He is an alternative, according to James, is filing charges with the Douglas county attorney.
Single Tax Service Error Reported
About two years ago, a traveling salesman registered a complaint with the Consumer Protection Division of the Kansas attorney general's office. He charged that a major income tax preparation service had accrued him the most instead of paying interest on his return. He should have received a BIR refund for the complaint.
"It will definitely have a political effect," said Gus di Zerega, Lawrence graduate student and one of the co-authors of the resolution.
Kansan Staff Writer
The salesman also charged that he had to lose $30 in travel expenses because of and out-of-waiting.
The attorney general's office recovered the $16. It could not prove that the company was responsible for the information about his travel expenses and so could not recover the $500.
By MARTI STEWART
"It was just his word against theirs," said Lance Burr, assistant attorney general. "He said he had given them the information, but their files had nothing to do with it. And he had. There was nothing we could do about it because we had no evidence."
He also said there was often a time lag between the filing of an income tax return and auditing. Sometimes, he said, people did not know they "were being taken" until several years after they had filed their returns.
The Better Business Bureau of Northeast Kansas has received few complaints about preparation services. Marilyn White, an employee of the bureau, said the complaints that were received concerned slow service.
BURR SAID that this was the only complaint they had received about income
tax return preparation services, but that he suspected there were some services in the state that were dishonest or incompetent.
Burr said that unless the attorney general's office had several complaints about a specific service there was no cause for investigation.
He said people in the state might not know that they could direct complaints about these services to the attorney general's office.
"WE GET CALLS of inquiry on all the services that advertisers, she said, "but very few."
White said many people thought the services were responsible for any errors
made in filling out the returns. The taxpayer is ultimately responsible, she says. "It's not a job that you want to do."
"It is important for the taxpayer to know," she said, "that preparation of an order requires attention on the returns. It also is important for them to know that the services are not able to represent them before the Internal Service in the event they are audited."
According to federal law, any person wishing to represent a client before the IRS must pass an examination and have a tax filing. The IRS practices the Practice of the Treasury Department. Unless an agent has this card, it is illegal for him to imply in advertising that he can file an audit.
WHITE SAID, "The calls we get are usually about small services. We have very few complaints about the larger, well-known firms."
She said that, to her knowledge, there had been no indication of dishonest preparation services in northeast Kansas. However, she said, the bureau encourages taxpayers to fill out their own returns unless they have special tax problems.
Robert Fuller, director of the zone office of the IRS in Topeka, agreed that taxpayers should at least try to fill out their own returns.
"Most preparation services are reputable," he said. "But they can only work from the information the taxpayer gives them. Errors in tax returns usually result from a taxpayer's failure to inform the seller about certain income or exemptions."
Di Zerega said Douglas county candidates and possibly state candidates would have to take a stand on the Senate's resolution because of the large number of young people eligible to vote in Douglas county.
Fuller said that last year a man had gone to every preparation service in the city.
"You can't expect the services to be able to draw everything out of you. You have to tell them as completely as you can about your earnings."
**HE GOT COMPLETELY different totals from almost all of them**, Fuller added. Then he brought the cookies and the services were crooked. I tried to explain to him that it didn't mean anything because he might have withdrawn some information from her.
Brian Bauerler, Lawrence graduate student and another of the resolution's authors, said the resolution would force legislators to begin "address themselves to questions that students have."
Fuller said that only the taxpayer himself knew everything about his own
Di Zerega argued against the fear some senators expressed that adverse publicity about the resolution might affect state funding of higher education.
"I may be naive," he said, "but I thought one of the purposes of education was to learn."
The other co-authors of the resolution were graduate students Leroy McDermott, Daw Awbrey and Richard Mackenzie, but Awbrew decided at the meeting that the resolution was not a strong enough stand for the Senate to take
"We ought to go all out and get together early in May and sponsor a smoke-in at Potter Pond, get a few people arrested and really publicize the issue," he said.
Before the new Senate passed the marijuana resolution, the outgoing Senate, which was also present at the meeting, elected three special representatives to the 1972-73 Student Senate: Jerry Slaughter, Salina saliner; John House, Raytown, Mo., senior, and John Wulf, Morton Grove, Ill. sophomore.
These representatives are elected from members of the outgoing Senate who were not re-elected and are chosen as hold-over senators to serve in the in-coming Senate. They are also chosen to serve on the University Council.
Seven Senators from the new Senate were also elected by the incoming Senate to serve on the University Council: Louis Scott, Lawrence senior; Richard Mackenzie, Hutchinson first year law student; Susie Cowden, Kansas City, Mo. junior; David Miller, Eudora senior; Molly Lafflin, Lawrence gene; Gene
Dorris, KU graduate student, and Bill Noell, Ballinw, M. junior.
The new Senate elected three members to the Committee Board: Molly Lafflin, Lawrence senior; Richard Mackenzie, Lawrence junior; Roberto and Les Schwartz, Overland Park junior.
The Committee Board will interview Senate committee applicants and choose
The Senate allocated $300 to the Emporium, the Senate sponsored book exchange located in the Union. The allocation is in addition to the $600 allocated to the Emporium in December of last year.
Bill O'Neill, Student Senate treasure,
said the original allocation to the
Emporium had not been large enough to
maintain the Emporium and to pay the
salaries of those who had been working
there.
There was discussion whether the Emporium was providing an effective and valuable service to the students and whether it deserved further funding.
Molly Laffin, Lawrence senior, said the allocation was not as much to continue the Emporium as to insure back pay to the Emporium staff.
Kathy Allen, Topeka sophomore and body body vice-president, said she reached the position of administrator had been very successful in spite of her lack of facilities and flaws in original organization. She said over $2,000 had been exchanged between students since the fall semester.
A motion made by Peter George, Lawrence graduate student to eliminate the $1,000 Senate allocation to the Jahawkhawk has been allocated by StudEx in March.
O'Neill said the Jayhawk Jamboree Committee had already planned its program with the $1,000 in the budget. He said that it wouldn't be fair to leave the bands without any rehearsals in a bind, since the bands, publicity and beer have already been arranged.
O'Neill said the funds, which remain from the old All Student Council social fund, were collected with the purpose of throwing student parties. These funds were then financed fines imposed on various organizations for social infractions, he said.
Mohammed Amin, Ralsenjan, Iran senior and chairman of the Academic Affairs Committee, made a suggestion that his committee be eliminated.
"I don't see any reason for this committee, anymore," he said. "With the title it has, there really isn't much it can do."
Kansan Staff Photo by ED LALLO
Beer Beersed at Senate Meeting
Debbie Eblinger, Chesterfield, Mo., junior, imbies