THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
82nd Year, No.98
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Student Loans Discussed
Friday, March 3, 1972
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Second Team Drops Names From Ballot
A second team of candidates for president had selected the student who was dropped out of the
Bill O'Neill, Ballwin, Mo., junior and student body treasurer, announced Thursday that Charles Orlbe, Clay Center graduate student, and Leonard Grotta, Wichita junior, have asked that their names not appear on the ballot.
Kansan Staff Photo by ED LALLO
Another team, Chris Boyle, Lawrence sophomore and Tracey Egbert, Dighton junior, withdrew Feb. 23 as candidates. Five teams remain in the race.
Grotta said, "The mainstay of our platform was to separate Student Senate from the control of the chancellor and Board of Recents.
McCollum Skit Lampoons Sex
"We researched the senate code, talked to two lawyers and found out that it's impossible. The only way is to bring them together." The powers of the chancellor and the regents.
"So we decided to work on more positive activities outside Student Senate. Student Senate really is like a high school student council," he said.
R. L. "Puf" Bailey, Atchison graduate student and elections committee chairman, said Thursday that Lewis and Naismith Halls and Interfraternity Council will sponsor polls for the spring election.
In keeping with the 1972 Rock Chalk Revue theme of "Life's Lossers", a distraught girl complains to her father about her date the night before in this scene from the McCollum Hall skit. The presentation will also feature interviews with God and Satan
on the topic of sex, and is appropriately titled, "Sex and the Single Dingle, or, When It Comes to Sex, Gabriel Isn't the Only One That's Horny." The Rock Chalk 'Revue begins at 8 p.m. tonight and plays again Saturday night.
Area Legislators Voice Concern For Disputed Revenue Measures
By SALLY MORGAN
Kansan Staff Writer
Until Kansas drastically changes the means of raising money, the state is going to have difficulties. Sen. Arden Booth, Lawrence said at a meeting Thursday evening of the Kansas chapter of the Association of University Professors.
Topeka than it has been in a number of years," said Voelk.
"The atmosphere is much better in
Three local members of the Kansas Legislature, Rep. Morris Kay, R-Lawrence, Rep. John Vogel, R-Lawrence and Booth discussed the progress of the 1972 legislative session. They agreed that the session had been fairly successful.
Booth said revenue measures would be discussed today in the Kansas Senate. He said attempts would be made to amend from the floor the $4 million cut from the 1973 budget by the appropriations committee.
Booth said the property taxes should be drastically reduced and other means of raising money should be drastically increased.
"The people of Kansas will reject anything which will raise property tax,"
Kay said the legislature had passed an
Lawrence Receives Grant To Fund Naismith Park
Lawrence has received a $46,817 grant to purchase land for a 20 acre park located along the Nassau drainage ditch, one mile north of St. Road between 24th St, and 29th Terrace.
Kansas senators Bob Dole and James Pearson and Rep. Larry Winn announced Tuesday the state's appropriation of federal funds for the park. The city will match grant funds to buy the land. Funding federal grant approval, a approval that must be done between the Lawrence City Park and Recreation Department and Four Seasons Inc., said Wayne Bly of the Lawrence City Park and Recreation Department.
The park, which will probably be named Naismith Parkway, according to Bly, will be developed when federal funds are appropriated. The ditch will be cleaned to make a running stream, said Bly, so the area would no longer be a "mimoso haven." Walk areas and children's play facilities will also be installed, he said.
Since this area is a flood plain, the facilities will be designed so nothing will be washed away when the area does flood. One reason money was granted to purchase this land, Bly said, was to develop it into a flood control area.
As part of the perimeter plan, most of the Kansas River front would be developed into a park within the next four years. Bly said. Children's play facilities, overnight foot trails and a boat landing are included stages for the river front park area.
City Park and Recreation Department was developing the school-park concept. A school would be located inside or beside a park, so the students could use park facilities.
The purchase of this park site was another step toward a long goal to establish a perimeter of parks to surround Lawrence. Bly said.
"Maybe by the year 2000 we'll have the perimeter compiled" he said.
accelerated road project which would be highly advantageous to the Lawrence community. The project, which includes a variety of projects in the development of the Lawrence area.
Commenting on University funding, Kay said the amount of money allotted to the University depended on the amount of cash the university had set aside for budget. He said the legislature was faced not just with allotting the budget money, but also with raising the money to put into a new program.
After the three legislators had spoken, Richard Zinn, chairman of the Committee on Taxation and Legislation of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, Richard J. Douglas County legislators last fall to discuss any legislation which might affect the University of Kansas. He said the committee had also sent a resolution supporting the University's requests to the legislature, to all legislators and to the
Steve Hill, chairman of the KU Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Commerce, said his committee had continued working on town-cown relations.
The various other committees of the AG gave their report at the end of the meeting.
America's Pioneer 10 Blasts Off to Jupiter
CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP)—Bearing a message for alien civilizations, America's Pioneer 10 rocketed away from earth Thursday night to start the longest space flight ever attempted—a 21-month odyssey to giant, baffling Jupiter and eventual escape to travel forever through distant galaxies.
A 13-story, Atlas-Centaur rocket flashed brilliantly in the night sky as it burst away from its launch pad at 8:49 p.m. EST to thrust the payload away on a high altitude wind. The shot had been postponed three times this week by strong high altitude winds.
The three-stage rocket was to accelerate the spacecraft to more than 31,000 miles an hour, nearly 7,000 miles faster than any previous space vehicle.
"All systems look good. We're proceeding on the normal program," the launch control center reported as the rocket rose toward space.
THE NATIONAL Aeronautics and Space Administration said it expected to know about an hour after liftoff if Pioneer 10 reached its orbit, the largest planet in the solar system.
If all goes as planned, Pioneer 10 will set many space records.
It will be the fastest man-made object in space. It will be the first to penetrate the asteroid belt, the first to explore Jupiter and the first to leave our solar system. It will relay radio data from a record distance.
Unless it crashes into a space body or is capt_red by outer space beings, scientists say it will wander for eternity through the universe, stepping even farther from Earth.
ON THE REMOTE chance it might one day be intercepted by intelligent creatures of another civilization, it bears a gold plaque that tells in drawings and scientific symbols when and from where it was launched and by what kind of people who made it. A male man and woman, the man's right hand raised in a friendly gesture.
Four months into the flight, the 565-pound payload, which is powered by four nuclear batteries, is to fly into the asteroid belt which is composed of billions of pieces of debris that orbit the sun at distances from 170 million to 345 million miles. They range from dust-size to a 480-mile-diameter rock named Ceres.
The probe is to reach the vicinity of Jupiter on Dec. 2, 1973. As it skims to within 87,000 miles during a four-day pass, 13 instruments are to probe many secrets of Jupiter's atmosphere concealed beneath dense, swirling clouds which form pink and blue bands to give it
"The purpose of the forum," according to Cameron Jones, Pittsburg junior and director of SUA forums, "is to help acquaint you with the candidates."
Candidate Forum Offered
Student Union Activities will sponsor a forum to permit candidates for president of the Student Senate to express their views and answer questions from students. The forum will be held at 7:30 p.m. March 18 in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
"Students who live in organized housing will probably have several opportunities to meet and talk with the candidates," said Jones, "but for students living off campus, this may be the only chance to become familiar with them."
Each of the presidential candidates will briefly present his ideas regarding the student senate and various issues of the United States, and be able to address questions to the candidates.
the appearance of a brightly-colored beach ball
SCIENTISTS AREN'T even sure Jupiter has a surface. Some feel that because of its high gravity, it may go from a thick gaseous atmosphere, down to oceans of liquid hydrogen, to a slushy layer and then to a solid hydrogen core.
It has more than twice the mass of all the other planets combined, and it has violent, hot springs.
chemical analysis might shed some light on a theory that Jupiter may be in a stage paralleling an early phase of Earth's -the stage when life began to appear-
In 11 or 12 years after launch the craft would become the first manmade device to escape the solar system after it passed beyond the orbit of Pluto. NASA hopes its mission will provide radio data on interstellar space for five or six years after it leaves Jupiter.
Key Financing Faces March 10 Adjournment
As the March 10 adjournment date for the Kansas Legislature approaches, the key unresolved issue is the funding of a program to help citizens or will pass in this legislative session.
Highway expansion, welfare payments, penal reform and higher education will all require revenue for the coming year. It is estimated that finance needed to finance legislative programs.
The problem in the legislature is choosing which tax or taxes to increase or decrease.
The decision is complicated by two factors. One is the sharp difference between the revenue policies of Gov. Robert Docking and those of the predominantly Republican legislature. Because it is an election year, the passage of certain taxes could also be politically damaging.
The legislative reaction to Docking's tax reform program is representative of the problems faced in designating revenue sources.
The program called for funding based on three sources of revenue. These sources were a proposed increase in interest rate, an extension to the loan banks, an exemption from the sales tax for
consumables” and the removal or corporate income tax income tax of certain income tax payments.
The first two measures of this program were killed in committee, and the third is still under consideration by the legislature.
The sales tax has also been considered as an additional source by the legislature. The proposal in committee is to implement a one-cent sales tax increase.
Public opposition in western Kansas has been cited as one of the factors that has delayed this bill. Also, Docking has said he will be the bill if it made it through the legislature.
Other proposals for alternate revenue sources have been considered in the legislature. A proposed increase in the severance tax on gasoline has been rejected and other revenue proposals have not received sufficient support.
Action on the remaining revenue bills is expected within the next week. If financing is not provided in the final six meetings of the legislature, money will either have to be transferred to the legislature will have to go into special session to reconsider the issue.
Graduates Leaving Kansas Net Loss, Steineger Says
Sen. Jack Steineger, D-Kansas City told members of Alpha Delta Pi sorority Thursday that the status of Kansas as a state is being discussed, and has led to a net loss for the state of Kansas.
Eighty per cent of the graduates leave
eighty per cent another state where they can
them their destination.
"When these trained people, in whom the Kansas taxpayer had an educational investment of some $20,000 leave the state, he says the business will pay and sales tax producers," Steiner said.
Steineger predicted that within five years Kansas would move toward the nation's most populous state where junior colleges and independent colleges become the point of entry into the universities which would be concentrated in third and fourth year courses and graduate programs.
Steinger said the Tuition Grant Bill that passed in the Kansas Senate Thursday, is the most affordable option.
could show a financial need, to receive a tuition grant up to $500 per semester. The state would appropriate $1 million in the first year of the program.
He said that these grants would be used at any independent college that had an open enrollment and was not primarily a religious institution.
Opponents to this bill argued that it was unconstitutional because it violated separation between church and state. Supporters of the bill argued that it was unfair to students who were made to students who would be allowed to exercise their freedom of choice.
Steineger, author of the Kansas Clean Air Act passed in 1876, which established a framework for health departments of Health and gave health officials the authority to establish pollution controls, has seen several ecology bills pass this session by big business interests.
Critical U.S. Policy Change Linked to China Detente
Editor's Note: This is the second of three interviews with University of Kansas professors on the effects and implications of President Nixon's trip to China. Eaton interviewed Thomas B. Larson, visiting lecturer in political science.
It was largely change on the part of the United States rather than change on the part of the People's Republic of China that made it possible for the U. S. to begin to work with Chinese in communist Chinese, said Thomas B. Larson, visiting lecturer in political science.
By SCOTT EATON Kansan Staff Writer
"I think the change was much more profound on the part of the Americans than the Chinese," Larson said. "It's the U.S. that has not been willing to have relations with the People's Republic, rather than Peking burning down contacts with the U.S.
"As far as the U. S. is concerned, there are both domestic and foreign situations which have seemed to lead to this change."
Larson said some of the situations were the timing of a President Nixon's trip to China, the changing role of the U. S. in the world, and the so-called Guam doctrine.
"1 THINK HE REALLY STOLE the man on opposition in 72," Larson said of McGregor.
Larson said Nixon had placed himself in a position that was largely invulnerable to insult by domestic opponents in the 1972 presidential election.
alarmed the Chinese, and made them inaccessible but that was not the case.
The change in U. S. policy was also contingent with the re-evaluation of the American role in the world and particularly in Asia following the essential defeat of U. S. operations in Vietnam, Larson said.
Larson said that greater success of the Johnson policy in Vietnam would have
"Vietnam was a political and a military defeat for the U. S." Larson said. "It was a very large political defeat, and did a great deal of damage to the government's status and hold on the population of this country, and its image in the world."
"In the military sense, it wasn't as though we were always defeated in battle, though we did suffer losses. It was more difficult than in the sense of our military objectives."
Larson said the attempt by the Johnson administration to put the blame for the Vietnam war on the Chinese also slowed relations with the Pacific Republic.
"THE GOVERNMENT KNEW then that China was no more directly involved in the Vietnam war than the Soviet Union," Mr. Obama said, fighting China, and even less Russia. It
was a question of expediency on the part of Washington.
"In a war that large, with that many American troops involved, the government must present the enemy as being a danger to the U. S. It was hard to make the Vietnamese look very dangerous when Washington picked China as the aggressor.
Larson said that while it was the U. S. which changed its policy the most to open diplomatic talks with China, the Chinese also had to make some changes.
Larson said the Guam doctrine was also important in showing the change in U. S. policy. The Guam doctrine suggests the U. S. government should give direct role in Asian affairs. Larson said.
"The decisive factor for China seems to have been the passing beyond the cultural revolution and the ensuing growth of its economy, in contrast with the outside world," Larson said.
"THAT WAS COMPLETELY independent of the U. S. China has shown a much greater interest in solidifying its position in world affairs," he said.
"I didn't find a lot of interest in the
"I didn't find a lot of interest in the
descriptions of each side's individual
descriptions of each side's individual
"The traditional position of the U. S. has
Larson said he was somewhat disappointed with the text of the commune the U. S. and Chima released following the visit by President Nixon to
Larson said that the announcement of the U. S. intent to withdraw its troops from Iraq was a significant part of the communique. He disagreed, however, with what he felt was the stress placed by American newspapers as a consequence by the U. S. of a one-China theory.
"The U. S. based its argument on the fact that the Chinese Nationalistist China was supported by the U. N.," Larson said. "In U. N, debate, the U. S. pursued a kind of a two-China policy, supporting the entry of the Peoples Republic into the Chinese Nationalist China be kept in the U. N."
"BASICALLY, HOWEVER, the U. S. has always pursued a one-China policy which includes both mainland China and Taiwan." Larson said.
Larson, who served several years as a Soviet authority with the state in the Caucasus, and American emissary in Moscow, thought that Nixon's trip to China has probably
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