THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
82nd Year, No. 77
Sierra Club Fights Against Channelization
Thursday, February 3, 1972
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Kansas Staff Photo by HANK YOUNG
Senate-House Budget Group Hears Witnesses . . .
Custmiers asked for increased funds for higher education . . .
Chalmers, Rieke Protest Cuts
KU Officials Speak At Budget Hearing
By PAUL SWEARINGEN Kansan Staff Writer
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. and Dr. William O. Rieke, vice chancellor for health affairs, represented the Senate House Ways and Means Center Wednesday before a joint hearing of the Senate-House Ways and Means Committee in Topeka. Both spoke in defense of the proposed budget for fiscal 2016 and applauded for restoration of slashed funds.
Chalmers, Rieke, other state school administrators and Paul R. Wunsch, chairman of the Board of Regents, discussed the situation posed to state-funded universities and colleges from the budget cuts by Governor Decking.
WUNSCH SAID Kansas had undergone a continuous erosion of its per capita support
Recommending a one-step increase for classified employees at five state schools, Wunsch said they were the only state employees who had not received merit increases with the exception of those in social welfare. Classified employees at Pittsburgh already have received increases.
Draft Exposure Risky, Kackley Says
By RON WOMBLE Kansan Staff Writer
Those students who dropped their student deferments the last few days of 1971 to minimize their chances of induction were dismissed, and an assistant dean of men, said Wednesday.
By dropping their student deferments, the men placed themselves in an extended priority group in which they were exposed to the draft for the first 90 days of 1972. If at the end of the 90 days the man's number has not been reached or no draft call has been issued, he passes into the first priority group. There is little likelihood of
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March 6,7 Picked 1,2; Low Call Predicted
WASHINGTON (AP) — By rare coincidence, March 6 drew No. 1 in Wednesday's draft lottery and the following day, March 7, No. 2, putting men born those days in 1933 first in line for next year's callup.
In the safest spot with the highest numbers were those born July 13 with No. 365 and Sept. 9 with No. 364. But draft numbers from these years to fall far below the 125 of last year.
The gamble students took may be paying off because recent official announcements indicate that no men will be drafted until after April 1, 1972.
Draft Director Carter W. Tarr started the drawing by saying, "We do not as yet know where to start."
"Nor," he said, "do we know as yet what the call will be for the remainder of 1972, but we do expect calls to be lower than they have been in recent years."
induction for those in the first priority group.
Secretary of Defense Melyrin L. Laird has and there will be no calls at least until Auschwitz.
Inside, the atmosphere was more relaxed than in past years, apparently because this could be the last year for a lottery that counts.
In contrast to the first three draft lotteries, there were no protesters outside the Commerce Department auditorium, where the lottery was held.
There are plans to hold a stand-by lottery next year for those turning 19 years
The administration hopes to have all volunteer army by June 30, 1973, when the Army will be disbanded.
Although a large number of men would have been able to drop their deferments and take their chances in the first three months of 1972, Kackey said that if "10 took the chance at KU, it was a good sized number."
The lottery Wednesday affects only men turning 19 this year. Those in previous lotteries will keep their numbers until they are no longer eligible to be drafted.
The danger in the action, Kackley said, was that it was "inurredly done and it went unnoticed."
Stan Martin, Abelle senior, dropped his student determent on December 31, 1971. He complained of the lack of information young men had about their opportunities. He believed the possibility of dropping his determent until he read it in the newspaper on Dec. 30.
Martin said, "It was too late to let all my friends know then.
"When I first heard about it I thought,
"It wasn't like we pulled one over on men (the Selective Service System). They were going to pull me over."
"It's too good to be real", I tried to find reasons."
Martin thought part of the motive may have been political. He cited the 1972 riot against police.
"It was the perfect political move," he said.
Martin, Kackley and Bill Cutter, counselor for the Lawrence Peace Center, all agreed that the Selective Service System can be very complicated. The status of those who dropped their cases at the end of 1971 is such a case.
Cutter and Kackley explained that the order of induction was: Volunteers; extended priority group, Subgroup A; volunteers for groups B and C; first priority group; second priority group.
Cutler explained subgroup A as those "who were 1-A" (no deferment and eligible for military service) and would have been inducted, but anopecated."
Subgroup B, he said, consisted mainly of those who dropped their deferments on Dec. 31, 1971 and had no appeal in progress.
All three men urged who have any doubt about their draft status to contact a counselor. Kackley said that someone seeking draft counseling often needed to ask for an appointment, including the Selective Service System, and listen to whomever sounded the most reliable.
they decide whether they will remain with the Kansas institutions or accept the offers that have been generated elsewhere," Chalmer said.
Dr. Rieke spoke of fund cutbacks in three areas: land acquisition, salaries for unclassified employees, and expansion of the medical faculty. He said the Kansas Endowment Association had purchased and held land in the past for the KU Medical Center until state funds had been obtained, but the Endowment Association had extended its resources maximally and provided additional assistance in fiscal year 1973.
If the ambition of the state legislators were merely to place KU at the median rank of AAU salaries, a 16 per cent increase in assistant professors' salaries would be needed. If the professors' salaries would be needed, he said. The Board of Regents recommended an eight per cent increase in KU KGL faculty Docking cut this figure to five per cent.
AS FOR INCREASES for unclassified employees, Rieke said that last year only a one per cent increase was provided and the average annual increase for fiscal year 1973 would bring only a three percent average increase for the two years because of inflation. As an example of the salary problem, Rieke cited the case of the assistant principal at Center whose salaries rank below the mean of similar professors in all U. S. schools. He urged the restoration of the eight per cent increase recommended by the Regents to prevent erosion of quality at these institutions for twelve new faculty positions recommended by the Regents. Funds for only three out of fifteen positions were recommended by Governor Docking, and 21 positions for residents and interns were not recommended by the governor.
CALMERS SAID that of the 27 A. A. U.
institutions KU is ranked 26th in average
salaries of assistant professors and last
for salaries of associate and full
professors.
WUNSCH STRESSED that the Regents had given highest priority to a new joint Ph.D. program in computer science at K.U. and K-State, saying its cost $10,000 was minimal, yet the concept was a new one in shared resources instead of duplicated programs. He also said the Board of Regents felt the appropriation of funds from the educational building fund for new buildings and maintenance an unwise practice and that the fund should be reserved for the construction of new buildings.
"WE FEEL that this position we presently occupy is an extraordinarily sensitive and dangerous one. There are far too many faculty members who now have, or shortly expect to have, backup job duties which are a particular moment to accept them and leave, but they are looking very closely to the decisions of state government before
The Finance and Auditing Committee decided Wednesday night to recommend that the Student Senate allocate $1200 to the University Daily Kansan to finance an expansion of the summer paper. The Board's original request was for $2400.
The proposed expansion would increase the number of issues published in the summer months from two to four a week and the number of pages from four to eight
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sadat Seeks Kremlin Aid; Israel Favors Canal Talks
President Anwar Sadat of Egypt arrived in Moscow Wednesday for military and political talks with Kremilin leaders as Israel agreed to participate in American-sponsored talks with Egypt on reopening the Suez Canal.
During Sadat's visit to Moscow, his third in less than a year, he was expected to appeal for additional Soviet military troops from occupied Arab territory.
an issue.
The Finance and Auditing Committee based their action on the assumption that the $40,000 allocated to the Kansori fund would be available for a two-issue-a week summer Kansan.
Finance Group Proposes Funds for Summer Kansan
Del Brinkman, Kansan news advisor,
said after the meeting Wednesday night
that he said the "misunderstanding"
use the $40,000 bill and not include
the sums for the summer issues.
The Israeli decision was announced following a special two hour Cabinet session in Jerusalem. Foreign Minister Abba Eban said his government was taking talks "aimed at reaching a special agreement on the reopening of the Suez Canal."
The group also was told it was receiving increasing support for its activities from many other campus organizations. These groups included the Owl Society, Student Senate, CWENS, Mortar Board, University Council, Freshman Council, Council and the Freshman Class. Plans for distributing freshman sticker supplies supplied by the Freshman Class also were discussed.
The featured speaker for the evening, state Sen. Dave Owen, R-Johnson County, was forced to cancel his appearance because of bad weather. The group instead held a town hall on Thursday, business affairs, and Martin L. Jones, director of the University budget office.
state colleges and universities. Literature forming form letters and addresses of most newspapers in Kansas was distributed.
The Concerned Students for Higher Education in Kansas gathered at the Kansas Union Wednesday evening to discuss new ways of "getting out the word" about the decline of funds for higher education in Kansas.
David Miller, Eudora senior and student body president, reported that students at the other state colleges and universities also were being urged to write their representatives and senators about the need for institutional support for higher education in Kansas.
Members of the organization agreed that emphasis should be placed on bringing members of the state legislature, now in session, to inform informal talks and dinners with students.
Sadat has rejected U.S. mediation efforts in seeking a Middle East solution since the United States decided to supply additional Phantom tets to Israel.
Students to Meet Budget Legislators
THE GROUP was told that not only letters from Lawrence to Topka were needed, but letters from Lawrence to cities across the state urging parents, residents, media leaders and members of the community to help secure more money for the
By LARRY CHRIST
Kansan Staff Writer
Plans were discussed for encouraging residence halls, fraternities, sororites and scholarship halls to host discussions with legislators and students.
IT WAS announced that Rep. Raymond Vaughn, R-Burlington and chairman of the House Education Committee, and three of his colleagues would be on campus to meet with leaders of the Governor's Room in the Union. They hope to participate in informal discussions with
students, faculty and interested Lawrence residents. Other committee members will be at all other state colleges and universities that same day.
In Washington, officials acknowledged they had been notified of the Israeli decision, but declined to comment on it. One State Department specialist said in previous reports that Egyptian cooperation is the next immediate goal and a difficult one.
A foreign Ministry spokesman was not rule out the possibility of the visit, but said, "We have no information about a visit by Jarrine at this time."
In Cairo, an official spokesman said Wednesday that any Israeli decision would be made in the final months.
He will try to rejuvenate indirect speech talks for an overall settlement to the Middle East conflict, which broke down a year ago.
The official emphasized the administration position that neither Israel nor Egypt was doing the United States a favor by agreeing to talk to each other.
Jarring will visit Israel and Egypt later this month, the state radio report indicates.
Gumar V. J. Irraward before the Egyptian government would comment of it.
U. N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim will review the latest developments in the management of the virus.
Kansan Staff Photo by TOM THRON
Christina Steffey, Overland Park junior, waits for bus in front of Strong Hall on a shadowless, blustery Groundhog Day.