A LITTLE WARMER
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
82nd Year, No.105
Federal Ruling Liberalizes Abortion Law
Tuesday, March 14, 1972
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Kensan Photo by JAMES EATON
Student Candidates Debate Before Both Spectators
One candidate walked out in the middle of the forum . . .
Tax Defeat to Affect City
By MARK BEDNER
By MARK BEDNER
Kansan Staff Writer
City officials remained bewildered today at the Kansas legislature's surprise defeat of the local half-cent sales tax option renewal last Friday.
The local sales tax approved by Lawrence voters a year ago permitted the city to hire an additional 42 policemen and to enact a cost between $400,000 and $450,000.
But the House of Representatives voted Thursday 58 to 14 to kill the bill extending the sales tax option beyond the present expiration date of Dec. 31, 1972. An attempt to revive the bill Friday by the Senate failed to narrowly defeated. It took 63 votes to reconsider the motion, the supporters could muster only 61.
City officials plan to descend on the legislature en masse during the one day wrap-up session March 20 in hopes that the House will once again reconsider the local policy.
If the option is not renewed in some form before the legislature adjourns on March 20, the 42 police and firemen will be 'laid off' the end of this year, officials predict.
CITY MANAGER Buford Watson said Monday the city would work with area legislators in preparing a program to submit to the House on March 20.
"we hope to appeal to the nober
natters in giving us the needed authority
to take action."
Watson said his office was "very surprised at the lacklusterness" of the agreement. According to Watson,
Democratic Hopefuls Blast Wallace on Primary Eve
MIAMI. Fla., (AP)—A corps of Democratic candidates hustled through campaign springs Monday, chorusing criticism to Gov. George C. Wallace on the state's abortion bill and expected to draw a record turnout of voters to unscramble an 11-way race.
Who wins may be less significant in national political impact than the order of the least influential states.
Alabama's Wallace ran through his libyan campaign themes in Orlando, hamming at his opposition to school integration and order and a strong national defense.
"NOT ONE of the other candidates
What the Lawrence officials were not ready for was the bill's becoming a representative of representatives Morris Kay and John Vogel, both Republicans, contended the bill was defeated by rural representatives and supported or Governor Docking's proper ability.
Watson, the bill had been followed closely through the Senate committee that approved it with little debate. The feeling was that the Senate should accept the Senate's approval of the bill.
"I find it hard to believe in my heart the voters of Florida are going to vote for a wormout demagogue like George Wallace," said Sen. Edmund S. Muskie of Maine, campaigning among senior Democrats, who door in to door in St. Petersburg and Miami.
stands a chance of beating George Wallace except Hubert Humphrey." Hubert H. Humphrey, the senator from Minnesota, told 300 Jacksonville longshoremen.
Humphrey said Wallace was never going to the Democratic nomination for the White House.
The Governor's office replied that the supporters of the local tax extension had agreed to allow them to have permitted the cities of Lawrence, Manhattan and Topeka to retain their half-cent sales tax and would have given other counties a similar improve a similar tax by Sept. 1 of this year.
IN TAMPA, Sen. Henry M. Jackson of
Washington picked up Muskie
in the first playoff startings.
The supporters ignored the compromise and during a late session Friday directed their efforts towards reviving the House bill. The bill failed by a margin of two votes.
A spokesman for the Lawrence police department said Monday the department had hired 26 patrolmen with the funds provided by the sales tax. In addition the creation of the office of police-community relations was established through the half-event sales tax. Both the patrolmen and the relations face the possibility of being held hostage by the tax officer to pass the House. The spokesman only said that the police department was working with the city manager's office on the tax bill extension.
THE SALES TAX had been earmarked for the police and fire departments when it was approved last April in the city of Oakland. The city approved the tax the city hired the men.
The revenue from the sales tax now brings in between $400,000 and $450,000.
Candidates Debate Platform Proposals
By JIMKENDELL Kansan Staff Writer
Two Students Hear Views
Candidates outnumbered spectators by more than three to one Monday night at an SAU forum for candidates for student body president and vice president.
Only two spectators listened to three presidential candidates outline their platforms before the candidates answered questions from the audience.
One presidential candidate,
D lyer, J朋, Mo. , senior, walked out of
R dyer, J朋, Mo. , senior, walked out of
as he left he said, "This is unmitigated bullshit, and I refuse to mess with it."
Dwyer's running mate, William Jacoby, Lawrence senior, announced at the conclusion of the meeting that there was a plan to send four students to attend the University of Kansas next year.
IF DWYER is elected and does not
return to KU, Jacoby would automatically
kill DWYER.
Dave Dillon, Hutchinson junior and University Commitment presidential candidate, injected a new issue into the campaign Monday night.
Dillon said one of the things Student Senate could influence was the campus police force. Dillon said he would try to get the students up with a walking police force at night.
He said, "Traffic and Security ought to be concerned with security as they are with traffic."
The increasing number of rapes and assaults, which have occurred on campus at night recently, prompted Dillon's concern.
The two spectators, Steven Campbell, Lawrence sophomore, and Randy Sayer, Topika freshman, listened as Dillon made the evening's opening remarks.
DILLON SAID his three priorities were greater funding of the University, academic betterment and increasing student services.
Dillon said that he and his running mate, Kathy Allen, Topika sophomore, were proposing that a Hospital Operating Board be hired to put into the administration of the hospital.
Allen said that one of the things the board would look into was the insurance policies of the firm. The question recently whether pelvic examinations should be covered by
Dillon said services had improved at Watkins hospital. Pregnancy tests and birth control pills are now available free to students at Watkins, according to Allen.
JOE LANOULT, Kirkwood, Mo., junior and presidential candidate for the Birthday Party, told the audience that his sister, Lauren, was to break through the abyss at KKU.
Llandtolt told the group that if he was ejected he would try to organize students to form a club.
Llandtand the Student Senate had no real power. The only way students can get to the school was by bus.
Allen said, "I doubt very seriously that any girl want birth control pills was turned away from Watkins unless she had a medical problem."
the legislature, by-passing both the chancellor and the Board of Receits.
Jacoby told the audience that he and Dwyer were running to try to force the other candidates to take stands on issues. Jacoby said they had been unsuccessful so far,
Jacoby said they were running on a platform of reducing and possibly eliminating the activity fee, reducing the number of Student Senate representatives and using student government as a tool in getting students elected to the legislature.
JACOBY SAID reducing the number of senators would make each senator more well known and more accountable to his constituents.
Mohammid Anun, Rafsanjian, Iran,
senior and presidential candidate of the KU Student Party, said he was running on a platform of limiting each student senator to one position in the senate, reconsidering priorities for the activity fee and studying
Campus Buses To Continue
The current bus service on campus, which was to be funded through March 17 will be continued for the rest of the semester and during finals, David Miller. Eudora senior and student body president, said Monday.
Miller said he had discussed the continued funding of the service with the Student Transportation Commission and decided there would be sufficient funds remaining from the Senate appropriation to continue the semester. He cited a duration of the semester, unless there was a dractic reduction in riders.
The 10 cent fare would be continued, he said.
the feasibility of more night classes.
Amin said the senate needed to be reformed to make it an effective body. The greatest problem with Student Senate is that many senior senators aren't involved in it, he said.
Amin said new senators expected too much of Student Senate and become quickly dischernished when they found out it couldn't accomplish very much.
To correct this problem Armin wants to limit each student senator to one position on the senate. This would get the maximum number of senators involved.
AMIN SAID he would like to conduct another referendum on the activity fee to fund the military training their money. He criticized past referenda as imprecise and of little
Amin said he thought women were not getting their fair share of the activity fee because much of the money which funded them was to male dominated organizations.
Anim wants to study the feasibility of increasing the number of night classes for working students. He said as a working student he has decided to suit schedule both a job and classes.
The low attendance at the forum reduced the questioning period to a kind of "no" on Monday.
Dillon criticized Amin's plan to reorganize the Student Senate saying that it had spent three years reorganizing itself and now it should do something.
Amin responded that the Student Senate was not nearly as effective as it could be and said more efforts at reorganization should be made.
Dillon criticized Landolt's plan of going directly to the legislature saying that he would rather play his cards with the chancellor and the Board of Regents.
Landolt responded that the only way students could hope to get any power was by going to the legislature and by trying to get students elected to the legislature.
Racial Implications Raised In Selection of Davis Jury
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) The prosecution in the trial of black militant Angela Davis dropped the only black member of the potential jury Monday, drawing gasps from spectators and participants.
"We are now confronted by the spectre that Miss Davis may be tried by an all-white jury," defense attorney Howard Moore Jr. told newsman. Moore noted that she could not resist any reason, but added, "In this case it is apparent that the reason is racial."
Astt. Atty. Gen. Albert H. Harris Jr. used the state's fourth peremptory challenge to remove from the panel Jane Hemphill.
The government's earlier questioning of Hemphill had brought accusations of a conspiracy to remove the governor.
attorneys claimed Harris purposely embarrassed Hemphill by revealing that her husband had been arrested in a gambling raid.
As Harris emerged from the courthouse after court recessed for the day, a group assembled outside shouted taunts at him. The defense earlier Monday dropped from the potential jury an anti-Communist witch and he'd had little contact with blacks.
Defense attorneys, who had tried unsuccessfully to oust William O. Hotaling for cause, used their first peremptory move to remove him without having to state a reason.
The state, meanwhile, removed the only student on the panel—a 26-year-old who said he didn't quite understand the theory of circumstantial evidence.
Gay Lib Issue Highlights Third Student Senate Term
By HAL RITTER
Kansan Staff Writer
By Friday a new student body president and vice-president and 91 student senators will have been elected to office at the University of Kansas for one-year terms.
Since that first meeting of the third Student Senate session since the All-Student Council was ended in the spring of 1969, the Senate has experienced frustration, feelings of accomplishment and gratitude that have served those that have lasted until 3 or 4 m.
These newly elected representatives will take over the reins of KU student government from the body which was formed in 1972. The Student Senate meeting, March 24, 1971,
At that meeting David Miller replaced Bill Ebert as student body president, and Molly Lafflin, student body vice-president, presided over the first of 12 Senate meetings which have spanned three semesters.
At its second meeting, April 4, the Senate passed a proposal that was to have repercussions in the fall. That proposal added three non-journalism students and one journalism student to the University Daily Kansas Board, eliminated a Student Senate representative on the board, and took away voting powers from two board members managing editor and business manager. The voting powers were later resigned.
THE FIRST two meetings of the Senate were spent appointing committee members, reorganizing the standing Senate committees, introducing bills for first readings and taking a preliminary vote on them, and submitting it to the Finance and Aguding Committee.
The motion was called "a testimonial to the responsibility of the student body" by the administration and was lauded by Gov. Docking and state legislators, Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., and KU administrators.
It was not until its third meeting, April 21st, that the Senate really made the headlines.
Nevertheless, the referendum was defeated April 27 by a vote of 2,151 to 1,878 in what Miller termed it "vote against the minimum level of financial support for
higher education in Kansas and against the burden on the students' shoulders.
The Senate held its last meeting of the spring April 28 and approved the Student Activity Fee allocation from the Student Activity Fee before adjourning at 3:35 a.m.
FROM ITS BUDGET of $399,850 the Senate allocated $389,257 to school and departmental groups, inmatsurals and student senates. The Kansan, the KU Athletic Department and the University Theatre, Approval of a budget left unaccounted for.
At its first meeting of the 1971-72 school year Sept. 15, the Senate recognized the Lawrence Gay Liberation Front as a legitimate student organization, touching off one of the most controversial issues at KU during the fall semester.
Chalmer's was invited to attend the next Senate meeting to discuss the recognition because he had refused twice before to give his Lib descendant *Lib desi* Senate recommendations.
ALSO AT THE MEETING, Miller proposed a bill which called for an all-University vote on eight options concerning the activity fee.
At its meeting Sept. 29, the Senate acted on both measures of the previous meeting. After Chalmers defended his stand against a proposed law that colleges and universities should work "to remove ourselves institutionally from involvement in the individual sexual proclivity of our students," the Senate adopted an appropriation of $600 to the Front.
The Senate also approved Miller's student poll on activity fees that contained eight options ranging from the present $24-a-year student fee to no activity fee.
On October 20 the Senate passed a bill creating a committee to study All-Student Council Statute Five that dealt with the dispute between the Senate, Kansan and Jawahhar.
ATTACHED TO the bill was an amendment cutting all funds to the Kansan in an attempt to make the Kansan Board comply with the enactment passed April 8 that changed the composition of the board.
Studying the problem of conflicts of
A week later the Senate restored funds to the Kansan and passed a bill that added one student, who was not to be a senator, to the Kansan. Of the four included in the earlier bill,
interest within the Student Senate was the purpose of an ad-hoc committee created by the students.
THE SENATE ALSO decided to subsidize the Lawrence Bus Co. during finals and from Jan. 17 to March 17 by an allocation of $15,184.
These were the highlights of the Senate
Three Senate meetings held since the spring semester began were spent approving numerous allocations of funds for the Watkins Hospital Methadge Clinic.
Also at the meeting the Finance and Auditing Committee presented a report made after the opinion poll on October. Although students voted in favor of the present activity fee in the poll, the Senate voted against it. The $3 a semester to provide for increases in necessary funding. The Senate voted against the increase in fees.
This semester the Senate has passed legislation limiting campaign expenditures by candidates for student offices, has created a Student Publication Board to oversee the financial management of student publications and has approved rules that ensure if matching funds can be obtained from a federal or state grant.
meetings of the past year, and they do not attempt to touch on all work done by senators outside the Senate meetings or by committees.
CHANGES HAVE also been made in the past year in the structure of the Senate itself, including a trimming of the standing committees from eight to six, creation of a new Senate Judiciary committee and reorganization of the Student Executive Committee to increase its effectiveness.
The latter committee was also involved in an amendment to the Senate rules that allows the first reading of a bill to come in, before passing, speeding up the legislative process.
In February the Senate passed 11 pages of legislation comprising the revised Rules and Regulations of the Student Senate. These regulations completed the reorganization program, which began in the All-Student Council was abolished in the spring of 1989.
The Emporium, a book-selling service for students, was opened by the Senate Dec. 13, a bike week was sponsored Oct. 11. The Senate Workshop was held on Nov. 13 and 14.
ANOTHER WORKSHOP is planned for after elections, and expenses will be paid.