THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
82nd Year, No.92
100 Residents Join Protest Of Annexation
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Friendly Talks Presage Course For U.S., China
PEKING (AP)—President Nixon and Premier Chou En-lai held another long session Wednesday, and more friendly Chinese overtures lent hope that the leaders were charting ways for improving relations between their nations.
Before the opening of the second four-hour meeting in as many days, Chou indicated some American correspondents could stay in China after Nixon leaves next month.
After the meeting. Chou escorted the
Retailers Cite China Interest
Ping pong players, Henry Kissinger,
President Nixon, and KU students all have
something in common—a growing interest
in China.
Enrollment in History 151, Modern China, and History 152, China since 1949, has almost doubled since last year. He is a Bayes, acting assistant professor of history.
Bays attributed part of this growing interest to the events of last spring and the "culminating anticipation of what will come of Nixon's visit to China."
"Students interest may also be to gain an understanding of the establishment and growth of the Communist movement," Bays said.
Re-evaluation of the American values, he said may be another factor
"Students are taking Chinese values and their way of looking at the world and finding that it is a point of view that may have some validity," Bays said.
The managers of the Oread Book Store and the Took Crier are also aware of this.
Stuart Nowlin, manager of the Oread Book Store, said there were two completely distinct interest groups in East Asia. Studies philosophy and political theory.
David Baird, manager of the Town Crier, thought this current interest in China was part of a continuously changing trend.
President and Mrs. Nixon to a sports show at Capital Stadium and about 18,000 waiting Chinese applauded as the team announced the largest live audience to see Nixon since he arrived Monday. This added to his public exposure, already underscored by the sell out of the People's Daily when it gave lavisch display to the first accounts of his
Another gesture regarded as friendly was the fact that the day's meeting between Nixon and Chou was held at the guest house where the Nixons are staying. The two previous sessions had been held in the Great Hall of the People.
No word of what was under discussion had come from behind the closed doors. But it seemed certain they had covered ideas for cultural and scientific exchanges, a Nixon goal, and perhaps had discussed Vietnam.
No one expected the Chinese to give on Nixon's peace plan for Indochina. Chou made clear before the President arrived in China that the plan was unacceptable.
Possibly reflecting Hanoi's certainty on this, George Wald, a Harvard antwar professor, said in Hong Kong on his arrival Wednesday from North Vietnam: "I think the Chinese are going to hold the line on Vietnam."
But Wald added that the North Vietnamese "have had the same feeling of uneasiness as the American peace process about which way China might go."
Mike Blitch Speaks at Rally
KU workers will continue strike and picking
Pickets Remain; Faculty Reviews Labor Problems
By ROBERT E. DUNCAN Kansan Staff Writer
Employees of the University of Kansas will continue to picket until agreements have been reached between Local 1122 and the University for solving the worker's issue, Lloyd Rose, union business agent, now no longer. Wednesday north of the Kansas Union.
"Basically we feel the purpose of this rally is to explain our problems to you, the students and faculty of the University." A crowd of approximately 175 persons.
Kenneth Brohard, a University steamfitter, talked of the six miles of tunnels beneath the KU campus. He said steam filters were expected to work an eight hour day in 95 to 100 degrees temperature.
Brohard said two years ago he complained of the bad physical conditions
"The after I got burnt (by hot steam) them, they started to fix them," Richard said.
WHILE THE RALLY was going on, approximately 14 faculty members were discussing the laberor's problems with Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr.
The faculty members discussed 13 issues with Chalmers which included policies on promotion, tardiness, docking of pay, lay offs and specific needs such as day care requirements. The faculty also maintained an equitable ratio between job load and the number of employees.
Committee Refuses Hike for Kansan
Kansan Staff Writer
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The recommendation came after Chip Grews, Lawrence senior and Kansan
Repeating a decision made at its Feb. 3, meeting, the Finance and Auditing Committee of the Student Senate recommended Wednesday night that $1200 be allocated for a proposed expansion of the Summer Session Kansas.
Penal Reform Debate Goes to House Floor
By JUDY HENRY
Kansan Staff Writer
Rehabilitating convicted criminals and reducing the crime rate are the purposes of a bill on penal reform to be debated soon in the Kansas House of Representatives
Norman Forer, assistant professor of social welfare, speaking for the faculty committee said. "We feel that we are not alone in the administration the importance of the strike."
Rose said "viewpoints were closer together" but still no resolution of the difference.
Rich Porter, Topeka graduate student,
has been helping Madden write the bill.
Porter, a former assistant chief probation
official of Shawnee County and a student in
social welfare, was assigned to add
Madden as part of his graduate field work.
PORTER SAID he been working about two hours a week since January in an advisory capacity to Madden. He said that he would work a social work prospective to the bill.
CHALMERS SAID Wednesday afternoon the University had been cognizant of these issues. Chalmers said that members of the University administration had met with union representatives since last summer.
Rankin said he was hopeful of better legislative appropriations which would be made.
Rep. Robert Madden, D-Wichita,
replaced House Bill 2030 earlier this month, and the bill was reported out of the House on Tuesday. The bill would revise the existing system, incorporating part of the present law into the proposed statute.
The faculty group reported to the crowd that in his effort the chancellor was in front of the prince.
Chalmeri said he was concerned with acting now to solve the procedural problems. The hope for better salaries and conditions with this legislative session, he said.
Madden has been researching the bill for
REPRESENTATIVES OF THE Union and University administration met in Topeka Wednesday to discuss items of common concern.
Philip Rankin, University personnel director, said, "We're making definite progress on the employment conditions. We will continue a good faith effort."
adviser, for a for $200 allocation to help defray expenses in increasing the number of issues published each week from two to eight pages of number of pages each issue from four to eight.
RANKIN ALSO cited the state civil service five day absent-without-leave-rule. He said the rules stated that if an individual did not communicate with an agent, they would be dropped from the payroll. The prolonged absence indicated resignation.
Chalmers said the University has established a grievance procedure, a safety committee and has not laid workers off.
MADDEN'S BILL would reorganize the present system, creating a Kansas Adult Authority, an advisory board and a legal authority. The Advisory Authority and the secretary would be appointed by the governor, and the nominations would be confirmed by the Kansas Senate. The advisory board, to consist of two citizens, two professionals (lawyers, psychiatrists or psychologists) and one attorney, would be appointed by the governor.
the last two years. He said that after being elected representative for the first time in 1966, he took a tour of the Kansas penal institutions.
"I was surprised at some of the things I saw in the penal institutions," he said. "I thought it was very real."
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Most of the union's requests involve money. The University and the State Board of Regents have recommended that the commissioners educate from the legislature, he said.
He said he thought about 90 per cent of the legislators would vote in favor of the bill.
Madden said the present system included a director of penal institutions and a board of probation and parole, and qualified personnel trained in penology.
The bill proposes that all people working in the penal system be under the jurisdiction of the civil service. Madden said the people would be nonpartisan rather than bipartisan and not subject to political changes in Kansas.
"I feel quite confident that the bill will be passed this year," he said.
UNDER THE PRESENT system,
Madden said, a man was sentenced to
the penitentiary and could be released on
parole after a two-year period, or he was
The present penal system, Madden said, is a patchwork process. He said there was no organization, and most of the officials who changed with each new governor, with each new governor,
Madden said the present penal system was too expensive and in need of revision. He said the cost of maintaining a prisoner cost $400,000 a year, the cost now had risen to $4,111 a year.
recommend an allocation of 860 to the Ombudman Office for its work in
the area.
THE COMMITTEE also decided to
The committee denied the request of $2400 for the same reason it gave when the issue was discussed two weeks ago. Dave Krantz, the chair of the committee, said the committee believed that $1200 had been budgeted for summer operations in the $40,000 allocated to the Kanman by the Senate for the 1971-72 budget and that $2400 would satisfy the $2400 request.
Dave Dysart, Lawrence third-year law student, said the office would soon have 14 trained ombudsaim, and the office was now involved in a mediatory role in the court's policy problems in Elsworth Hall besides offering legal aid to students.
"I can't say there is any indication it will be used at this time," he said.
Brinkman also said an expanded summer Kansan was needed if certain journalism classes were to be offered in the summer for the first time.
A request for $900 by the Kansas Youth Caucus for funds to be used until elections in November was reduced to $200 by the committee. The funds allocated are for the remainder of the fiscal year, which ends June 30.
The money sought from the Student Senate would not cover all additional expenses involved in summer expansion, since the Kansan anticipated a loss of $11,015 this summer compared to a deficit of $2 169 last summer.
BRIKMAN SAID the $40,000 had been budgeted for the Kansan for the fall and spring semesters and no funds had been earmarked for the summer.
Brinkman said the present summer paper was "not good for the reader or the people working on it," and it would be unfair to improve the summer paper with funds paid by students in the fall and spring.
Allocate $2,234 to the KAM Aurateur Radio Club to buy additional radio equipment. The group is a service organization which has not received funds from the Senate.
"OUR MAIN GOAL is to insure that the young people of the state are not disfranchised through the democratic process," he said.
The committee also decided to recommend that the Senate;
Allocate $200 to the Handball Club for transportation to the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
Lane Bailey, Lawrence sophomore and state president of the caucus, said the organization was trying to educate young voters about what they involved in the political process in Kansas.
Allocate #75 to the Sailing Club for transportation to an intersectional regatta
Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., will speak at the University of Kansas March 14, in the Class of 1974 Lecture Series, Jim Harrell, who will present and class president, said Wednesday.
Bayh to Speak on Future Of U.S. Political System
Tickets will be sold March 10, 13 and 14 at the information booth on Jayhawk Boulevard, with members of the sophomore class receiving first priority.
Bayh will speak on "The Future of the
Civil War" at 8 p.m. in the
U.S.A. Ballroom, Ballroom
Allow the Rugby Club to use $150 that was allocated for entry fees and transportation to repair bleachers for the rugby field.
Sophomores who have paid class dues will receive complimentary tickets, Doug Boehm, Hutchinson sophomore and Speaker committee chairman, said.
Allow the Soccer Club to use $80 allocated for transportation for Heart of America Soccer Association fees and to pay referees.
Union representatives and University administration members will meet later this week. The union plans to report the results of the walk-out at 8 tonight at the Westminster Center to those who attended the rally.
Bahy is the second speaker in the class lecture series, which was established last fall. John Forbes Kerry, national leader of the anti-War Alliance Against the War, was the first speaker.
In 1962, Bayh was elected to the U. S.
Senate by defeating 18-year incumbent
Sen. Homer Capehart. In 1968, Bayh was
re-elected to the Senate.
Bayh began his political career at 25, when he was elected to the Indiana House of Representatives. He served eight years in office and was Democratic leader and two as Speaker.
Bayh, considered one of the U. S.
Senate's constitutional authorities, was a leader in the passage of the 26th Amendment, which lowered the votar age
He was also active in insuring passage of the 25th Amendment, which dealt with presidential disability and vice presidential succession.
to 18.
Concerned about the nation's domestic needs, Bayh has called for a mobilization of national resources to deal with such issues as inadequate health care, poor schools and inadequate health care.
Bahy is currently seeking constitutional amendments to provide equal rights for men and women, to provide for the direct election of the president and vice president and to lower the qualifying ages for the House of Representatives and Senate.
By RICHARD COOLEY Kansan Staff Writer
Chalmers Disclaims Two Strike Charges
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr, said Wednesday that much of the controversy surrounding the walkout of University of Kansas civil service employees stemmed from a "confusion between fact and rhetoric."
Speaking to reporters at his weekly press conference, Chalmers referred specifically to charges by some striking employees that $500,000 which allegedly could have been used to increase salaries in university employment and be used for other administrative expenses. He said such appropriations for salaries this year were exactly the same as last year.
"in that situation," Chalmers said, "the only way you can raise salaries is to fire the manager."
He said that due to the shortage of money the administration had not filled some vacancies in the housing department.
"We have received criticism for that, too." Chalmers said.
Chalmers said he had met again Wednesday morning with a group of faculty members to discuss the strike issues.
"We clarified a great many points," he said. "Confusion seems to be more common among our readers."
Chambers said it was difficult to use regional guidelines because they were
Chalmers said he had not been contacted by Lloyd Rose, business manager of local 1132 of the striking Classified Civil Service Employees Union. But he pointed out he had never refused to meet with union representatives in the past.
"We will just have to proceed as best we can on a good faith basis," he said.
Chalmers also said his office had received no correspondence from the Department of Housing, Education and Finance. He says these finances for the Affirmative Action Program.
confusing and some had been challenged in the courts. The University would have to proceed with its own program to eliminate any "perceived under-utilization" of women and to "hope we hear from HEW in the meantime." Chalers said.
In reference to the proposal that a mall ballot be established to allow faculty to vote, the University Senate, Chalmers said he sympathized with students who feared such a plan would lead to under-representation of those that the proposal had not yet been adopted.
Commenting on the recent proposal by the Student Executive Committee (StudEx) of the Student Senate relating to recognition of student organizations, Chalmers voiced agreement with Charles Oldfather, University attorney.
Oldfather termed the language of the StudEx proposal too inclusive. Chalmers said the StudEx proposal did not conform to his forth by Oldfather in his original proposal.
E. Laurence Chalmers Jr.