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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
COLDER
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Council Proposes Resource Office
82nd Year, No. 88
Friday, February 18, 1972
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Kesey Advocates New Third Party For Malcontents
By RIVIAN BELL Kansan Writer
In a surprising move, Ken Kesey, counter culture leader and author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" announced Thursday the formation of a third political party "for everybody who doesn't want the other two."
More than 1,000 people attended a Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Symposium at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where Kesey snoke.
“The only way to change the structure (of American society) is to do what we’ve never done yet.” Keevyn said, “and that is why we have chosen an executive office that we have a say in.”
The 37-year-old author was the organizer of the 1980s acid tests and the original book *Wetland Plants*. In California, a group noted for its wide-scale promotion of LSD and what they consider to be its creative powers. Keesy is the author of his wife's book "Electric Boat Aid Test."
IN A SOFT but serious voice, Kesey said on the new party would be founded on democratic principles and would work with the people to order to beat what he dubbed the present "fried ice cream" American system, Kesey suggested actions "of energetic progress and goodness," and not bombing and goodness," "which only feeds the enemy."
"To fight the evil in these ways is only to lend evil power," Kesey said. "We can't indulge ourselves anymore—they're ready and defensive we haven't even thought of yet."
According to Kesey, the new party's platform would consist of one or two issues on which most people could agree. He said that the party could free of religion could be potential bases.
He suggested that this party be formed by all those present at the symposium, including "the cop who's guarding the door" and "he sweeps up—just whoever is amongst us."
HE SAID members of the party could be Republicans, Democrats, young or old. Kesey seemed particularly concerned with his former colleague the elderly people in American society.
"Old people gotta stand up and bitch," the young people are doing all right," he said.
Keesy suggested that interested persons assemble at UMKC Saturday morning to nominate a state party chairman. This committee will review the organization and for a convention to
nominate candidates for the election ballot.
Kesey said that if party organization were successful in Missouri, he would carry the idea to other states, specifically to college campuses.
The author admitted he knows little of what he called "the political milu," but it is clear that he has
Kesey has recently returned from a five-week stay in Mexico, where he visited Allen Medlin, former professor of political science at San Jose State College in northern California. Medlin is said to have greatly influenced Kesey's switch in location and concentrated drug involvement to concern for a broad-based political organization.
"WE CAN'T get it on just by doing dope or breathing exercises," he emphasized, "and we want to be the country and to this community before we can find maturity. When we can get down to resolving the differences in our own hearts, we have a chance for such
Kesey said that the basic problem lies in man's relations to the earth, not merely in relations between men and women. He said he thought man tried to possess things instead of placing himself in relation to things.
This possession results in the destruction of the divinity of earthly objects, whether animate or inanimate. According to Kesey, the danger is not to be found in an external enemy, but rather within man's heart.
When questioned if he were happy with his present existence, Kesey replied, "This is the way I want it."
Kansan Photo by RIVIAN BELL
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Nixon to China Sunday
Hawaiian Stop Is Start Of 'Journey for Peace'
HONOLULU (AP)—President Nixon set Thursday—a historic mission he said he was undertaking for all mankind in search of a cure. He also hosted a hostile and isolated Chinese Communists.
There be boarded his blue, silver and white presidential jet, "The Spirit of '76," for the 18-hour nonstop flight to Kaneohe on the Air Station on the northern shore of Oahu.
His departure, which came as light snow fell from slate-gray skies, was televised live nation wide, a prelude to the extensive live television coverage planned for his
From the White House, where school children, Cabinet officers, congressional leaders, government employees and tourists bade him farewell from the South Lawn, Nixon flew by helicopter to nearby Andrews Air Force Base, Md.
The President arrived here on a clear sun-drenched day for a two-day stopover before continuing to Guam and to China. The President's jet touched down at 7:30 p.m. Lawrence time at Kaneohe after a ten-hour flight from Washington.
As he embarked for the first face-to-face summit meeting between U. S. and Chinese Communist leaders, he tempered his words of hope with words of caution.
"We are . . . under no illusion that 20 years of hostility . . . will be sweep away by one week of talks," Nixon told 8,000 people attending farewell ceremonies at the U.S. embassy in Mexico, and Mrs. Nixon wined westward to Hawaii's first leg of his 20,395-trail, 13-day journey.
"WE WILL HAVE great differences in the future," he said. "What we must do is find a way to see that we can have our differences without being enemies at war."
eight days in China
WITH HIS WIFE and an official party of 13 White House and State Department advisers, Nixon will arrive in Peking on Monday—Sunday night U. S. time—and become the first American president to set foot on Chinese soil.
Before returning to the United States Feb. 28, he will have an open-ended series of talks with Chinese leaders Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai, attend a round of four banquets in three cities and visit the Great Wall and other Chinese shrines and
Seven Teams of Candidates File; Distortion, Voter Confusion Feared
Seven teams of candidates filed for student body president and vice-president before the 9 p.m. deadline Thursday, Oct. 13, in the Statehouse. Mo., junior and student body treasurer.
After a 48-hour stay in Hawaii, recommended by his physician to readjust to time zone changes, the President flies to Guam on Saturday for an overnight stort.
KU workmen lay the groundwork for Wescoe Hall, across from Strong Hall. Lawrence's unreasonable weather has cooperated in speeding its construction. The workman, smoothing the cement
By JIM KENDELL
Kansan Staff Writer
The candidates, in the order of filing, are David Dillon, Hutchinson junior and Kathy Allen, Topeka sophomore; Joe Landolt, Kirkwood, Mo., junior and Mike
into a two-dimensional art form, is left kneeling in the middle of his efforts. If footprints later appear on the floor of Wecoe Hall, we'll know who to blame it on.
Fair Weather Speeds Wescoe Hall Construction
'We came in peace for all mankind.'
Reapportionment Plan Gains House Approval
historic sites.
Nixon met for 45 minutes Thursday with Democratic and Republican congressional leaders, giving them what House GOP Leader Gerald R. Ford of Michigan described as "a realistic appraisal of the situation," which promised to brief them upon his启交.
BEFORE TURNING to walk across a red carpet between a military honor guard and the astronaut, "If there was a postscript I might be written in regard to this trip, it would be the words on the plaque on the moon by first astronauts when they landed there:
Schoenleer, Wichita, sophomore; Mohammd Amin, Ralsenjan, irian senior and Mike McGowan, Western Springs, Ill.; sophomore; Joe Green, Rapid City, S.D., sophomore; Robert Hook, Kan, sophomore; Richard Dwyer, Joplin, men, and William Jacoby, Lawrence senior; Charles Ortleb, Clay Center graduate student and Leonard Grotta, Wichita junior; Chris Boyle, Lawrence junior and Tracey Egbert, Dighton junior.
TOPEKA (AP)—The Kansas House gave stronger than expected endorsement to its resaploitment plan Thursday, then waded through a third of the bills which had been awaiting debate before calling it nuits for the day in early evening.
In the senate, a move to consider a 2 per cent severance tax on natural gas, killed Wednesday in the Assessment and Committee, failed on 27-11 vote Thursday.
TWO CANDIDATES filed for class offices Thursday. As a team, Warner Lewis, Topeka freshman, filed for sophomore president and Jon Neff, Topeka freshman, filed for sophomore vice-president,
The amendment, proposed by Peter George, Lawrence, special student; Rinkeorge, second student; and John House, Raytown, Mo., senior, would require a runoff election a week after the general election if no candidate received a majority of the votes
Bailey thought that the limits placed on campaign spending by the Student Senate would have little effect on the election, but O'Neill expressed concern.
At the Senate meeting Wednesday night three senators proposed an amendment to the Senate Code which could remedy the problem.
Neither O'Neill or R. L. "Puf" Bailey, Atchison graduate student and temporary elections committee chairman, were surprised at the number of candidates.
Four candidates have filed for Student Senate. The deadline for candidates to file for class offices and Student Senate is 5 p.m. Feb. 23.
The Senate will vote on the amendment at its March 1 meeting.
*I think that the limitation could prevent an effective debate among the candidates.*
"It's a similar situation to last year. The campus is not divided in terms of two or three major groups anymore," Bailey said.
surrounding student government and the University, "O'Neill said.
Both thought that the large field of candidates would have a detrimental effect on the election. In 1971 there were two teams of presidential candidates.
BAILEY SAID he expected fewer candidates to file for Student Senate this year than last. He also expects fewer students to cast votes in the main election.
*'1 think this is going to be a very confusing campaign, unless the number of applicants is high.*
"The better organized you are, the more people you're going to reach and the more people are going to learn about you," he said.
O'NEILL SAID, "The number of candidates could distort the issues and confuse the voters. It's unfortunate that we don't have a procedure to take care of this."
The elections for president, vice-
president and class officers will be March 12-16.
Bailey said he expected organization to be a definite factor in this year's election.
A record 287 candidates filed for Student Senate last year. Only 26 per cent of the student body, 4,074 students, voted last year.
The Senate had earlier passed a highway
ballboard control act and a Revenue
Duty Act.
The vote on the severance tax came on a motion by Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Prairie Village, to debate the vote on the tax which was passed by the House last session. The tax would have raised between $2.1 and $2.6 million.
AMONG 23 bills given tentative approval by the House was one designed to prevent slum landlords from evicting tenants who complain about conditions of living quarters and another one to create a Sports Authority in Johnson County.
The House passed its reapportionment bill 75 to 39, with Democrats, who general opposed the plan, admitting that it was necessary in the overwhelming vote of approval.
the Senate to the Senate was a bill dividing the state into 125 House districts, just as the House Apportionment Committee had drawn them. Errors failed in floor debate Wednesday to amend the bill despite Democrats and some Republicans.
Twelve Democrats and 63 Republicans voted for the reapportionment bill, while 25 Democrats and 14 Republicans opposed it.
Given preliminary approval was a bill offered by P. Jerry Harper, R-Wichita, which deals with conditions under which landlords can evict tenants.
The bill sets forth the conditions under which landlords can reclaim their dwellings from tenants, banning specifically evictions based on complaints about conditions of dwellings which are substandard.
REP. Richard C. "Pete" Loux, D-Wichita, House minority leader, said following the vote he is unceded whether he was a Republican or bucking veto the House apportionment plan.
However, Loux said, Democrats would see what happens to the bill in the Senate and study it some more before making a recommendation to the governor.
Loux said the fact the bill provides for a 12 per cent population deviation from the most populous district to the least populous and the fact it spits numerous county, ward and precinct lines "makes it seem a little wilt."
THE 23 approved will be up for a final vote Friday.
The House had 78 bills and resolutions on its debate calendar when Thursday's session began, and marched through debate on 25 of them—tentatively approving 23, killing one and sending one back to committee.
Among other bills given tenative House approval was one to increase the size of the Kansas Highway Patrol from its present 280 members to 320 in fiscal year 1973.
In the final senate voting on the highway billboards control law, Sen. Jack W. Robinson, R-Wichita, explained his negative vote and said that the bill "marks a new low in our judicial oligarchy that benefits for a democracy in the United States."
Legislator-Student Rapport Sought; Relations Improving, Vogel Says
By HAL RITTER
Kansan Staff Writer
Improving communications between the University community and state legislators was the purpose of a dinner held Tuesday night in Templin Hall.
Following the dinner six members of the Kansas Legislature, several University officials and about 50 students divided into small discussion groups which met more than an hour, talking about financial and social issues involving state colleges and universities.
John Beisner, Salina freshman, coordinated the meeting, which was attended by Emily Taylor, dean of women; Donald Alderson, dean of men; J. Wilson, director of University housing; Richard Wintermorte, director of the Alumni Association; Mike Sandermeyer, president of the Art Students Union; David Miller, student body president; and Molly Lafflin, student body vice-president.
LEGISLATORS ATTENDING the meeting were Sen. Joseph Harder, R-Moundridge; Sen. Steadman Ball, R-Atchison; Sen. Jack Robinson, R-Wichita; Rep. James Cultt, R-Garnett; Rep. Ernest Jones; and Rep. John Vogel, R-Lawrence.
Perhaps the most encouraging statement he might bring is by Vogel he should be regular.
A 1 per cent increase in the state sales
relations were improving.
"I do believe the low ebb was reached
that I should be able to support
mass support education. Wog said
UNRUK SAID a sales tax increase was impossible because "Docking has already said he is going to veto any sales tax increase."
"The attitude in the legislature is changing and I can sense that they (the legislators) realize we've just got to support education," he said.
He said the two houses had had "more give and take this year" concerning tax increases and that the increases "now ride on the governor."
"In years like this when money is hard to come by there are very few things that will get more money than the governor is asking for," Vojel said.
Unruh agreed with Vogel and said that the only way any additional money would be obtained would be through a compromise solution.
Vogel said that traditionally the Kansas Senate had favored increased sales taxes while the House favored more income taxes.
THE OTHER LEGISLATORS at the meeting agreed with Vogel, but none was too optimistic about any funds being appropriated for higher education above that asked by Gov. Robert Docking in his proposed budget.
tax would raise about $63 million in additional revenue. Robinson said.
He said the rural element was strongly opposed to an increase because farmers spent large sums of money on equipment and worked harder than other groups by the sales tax.
VOGEL SAID there were three big sources of revenue—property, sales and income taxes. However, Robinson said a similar case that would include pari-mutuel betting.
Deadline Today To Register Credit/No Credit
Today is the last day for recording credit-no credit options and it is also the deadline for the free dren trip.
Juniors and seniors in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences interested in the credit-no credit option should go to Window 1 of the Registrar's Office. All other students should register in their school offices.
Any class dropped after today will be recorded as a withdrawal passing or withdrawal failing.