That's All
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
This is the last day of publication for the University Dalrymple during the second week of summer, resume publication on a twice a week basis during the summer. The first regularly-scheduled paper in the fall is published on the second day of classes, August 31.
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
That's All Folks
Friday, April 30, 1971
See Left Ear
81st Year, No. 137
Kansan Staff Photo by JIM FORBES
Childs Play
senior, seemed to enjoy it more than her daughter Monica as they listened to a rock concert in front of Allen Field House Thursday afternoon. Three free concert was provided by board of class officers.
Blowing bubbles is a child's delight, but Mona Hubert. Garden City
Re-Educating Rewarding for Dean
By CARLA RUPP
Kansan Staff Writer
T. Howard Walker is 67-year-old
dean who knows that it is like to be ignored on
Letter Claims Setting of Fires
The Kansas received a special delivery letter Thursday afternoon from the "Kansas Revolutionary Army" in which the 'Army set up for setting two fires Wednesday night.
The letter said, "On Wednesday night, the Kansas Revolutionary Army firebombed the East Asian Studies Center in solidarity with the National Liberation Front of Vietnam and a KU pig in retaliation for pig Miller's raid on our car Lawrence community. This is only the beginning of the spring offensive! POWER TO THE PEOPLE!"
The letter was addressed to the editor of the *kanan and was postmarked Thursday afternoon.*
The fire at the East Asian Studies Center caused approximately $4,000 worth of damage and the burning of the KU traffic and security car caused about $150 damage.
almost unknown to more than 17,000 regular students on the KU campus.
But Walker, dean of continuing education since 1953 and director of statewide academic extension, could well be known by an average of 50,000 persons off-campus who annually attend conferences, conferences, short courses, correspondence and various types of training from KU.
"Nothing to me is more exciting or rewarding than helping to re-educate the students."
A certain amount of dedication to that end emanates from the neatly-dressed man. He is convinced of the relevance of educational outreach programs for all age levels.
He said, "The very best educational resources must be available for individuals' lifelong learning opportunities. Learning environments must be made more readily available to those who do not live near a campus."
Programs offered are civil defense, firemanship training and community development. There is a library of materials on hundreds of topics that can be mailed from Lawrence on request, an audio-visual center, an institute of public affairs, an extramural
K MAINTAINS centers at Colby, Garden
Wichta, Kansas City, Kau, and,
Lawrence.
independent study center, a media center and instructional television.
His committee assignments include being chairman of the National Advisory Commission for the Civil Defense University and chairing the National Advisory Committee on Education of the Deaf, chairman of the Advisory Committee for Title 1 of the Higher Education Act, State Education Commission of Kansas and chairing the National Advisory Education and research in vocational education.
Walker's administrative duties require frequent travel to other parts of the state and the county.
OBVIOUSLY, WALKER is a man in a burry. He always seems to be on the way to a deans' meeting or to an out-of-town appointment.
On one occasion Walker offered to discuss his position during a drive from the Continuing Education Building, located next to the McDonald's in Walnut hill where he had an administrative meeting.
Docking Vetoes Cut; KU Gets $130,148
Budget at 1971 Level
"Continuing education is definitely one of the top three or four areas of discussion in higher education today, be it in Washington, or in education circles elsewhere," he said.
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Topeka-Gov. Robert B. Docking restored $130,148 to the KU budget Thursday by line vetting part of the legislature's last minute omnibus bill.
By ERIC KRAMER
Kansan Staff Writer
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., said a referendum, defeated Tuesday by KU students, which would have taken the amount from the student activity fee and given it to the University, did not affect the governor's decision. He said Docking had said that he wanted to restore the funds before the referendum was planned.
Docking was waiting for a legal interpretation, Chalmers said.
If the referendum had passed the governor's action would have made it inappropriate to deduct the sum from student activity fees. Chalmers said.
Kansas State College at Pittsburg gained $230,000 and Kansas State Teachers College at Kansas.
Docking proposed a higher education budget. The legislature proposed a 4.2 per student fee and the state were changed to their 1971 level. The money was redistributed among the state's colleges and universities, KU, Pittsburg and Emporia. Docking also proposed Docking's action Thursday restored the funds.
Jim Shaffer, Docking's press secretary,
said Kansas State University, Fort Hays
State College and Wichita State University
to declare the deadline for the veb was midnight Thursday.
*Voting these items-on the surface is subjective paper work but more significantly, it can be expensive and financial hardship in operating the state colleges and universities during the next decade.*
"Instead of providing austere but adequate
badges, the legislature provided masters and inadequate badges?’ Docking in a road
"This is not a time for state government to turn its back on higher education," Docking said. "To do so would destroy the confidence of the people of Kansas—who own and support higher education with their tax dollars—the students, faculty and alumni in the elected
officials."
Signing of the bill, with the line vetoes, completed executive consideration of measures enacted by the 1971 Legislature which adjourned April 20.
The omnibus bill also included $985,574 to provide 69 beds for male juvenile offenders at two state hospitals and the state vocational rehabilitation center at Salina.
Printing Service Rejects Issue of BSU Harambee
The University Printing Service refused Thursday to print a special memorial issue of the Black Student Union newspaper Harambee.
Fake Diplomas To Be Given At Commencement
The paper was a memorial to Dowdell, who was shot and killed last summer by LL William Garrett of the Lawrence Police Department.
In a press release, Monty Beckwell, manager of editing the Harambee, said, "By refusing to present our special memorial issue, we are telling the truth about the murder of Rick Tier. Dowdell."
Plans for the 99th annual commencement exercises are being completed, according to members of the commencement committee responsible for organizing the exercises.
Chancellor and Mrs. Chalmers will host a reception for graduating seniors and their parents from 10 a.m. to noon on May 17. The event will be held at a 1 i.p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Smith said Thursday night that he had contacted University attorney Chuck Carrion to help him obtain the paper. Oldfather studied the paper, Smith said, and then said that the paper contained
Post baccalaureate degrees will be awarded at 8 p.m. on May 16. Baccalaureate exercises will be at 8 p.m. on May 17. Both exercises are to be held at Memorial Stadium, but in case of bad weather, they will be moved to Allen Field House.
The special issue of the paper was rejected by the printing service, according to William T. Smith Jr., director of the printing service, because it contained "libulous material."
Lodging for commencement guests will be available in McCollam Hall from May 14-17. Reservations can be made through the Alumni Office, 103 Kansas Union.
Smiad said the section of the paper that was considered libelous was one out of effect said Smiad. The paper was not found to be libelous.
Conferring of degrees will be awarded in groups by schools within the University. Each graduate will receive an aerial photograph of their exercising exercises and diplomas will be mailed.
Beckwith was notified by Smith, and Beckwith picked up the makeup sheets for the
On Sunday, May 16, there will be an all-annual luncheon in the Kansas Union Ballroom. It will feature Chancellor E. L. Hare, F. J. and representatives of the reunion classes.
Smith said the printing service had printed several issues of Harambee earlier in the school year and this was the first one that had been rejected.
Beckwith could not be contacted for comment.
SEMESTERS END always catches some students off guard, especially when term begins.
Kansas Staff Photo by DAVID HENRY
Heights, iii. sophomore; did some last minute research in the stacks of Watson Library
Ling Cites High Maintenance Cost
Landlord Denies Huge Profits on Housing
By DICK LARIMORE Kansan Staff Writer
Daniel S. Ling, associate professor of physics, is one of the landlords who owns housing in the area east of the University campus. Many persons have been critical of his teaching; housing has been the subject of several articles in the local press in the last few years.
Ling said he thought his reputation as a landlord was caused by several factors. He said that he had received biased press coverage, that many people did not know enough about his real estate operation to understand it and that many students held
Ling met last Monday with several members of the Kansan and other interested persons to discuss the various aspects of his operation. He requested the meeting, he said, "We hold of dispelling the misunderstandings which had plagued him in the past.
"naive" beliefs as to both the number of properties he owned and the profits he made. Ling said he thought that landlords had exerted their power over the cave man rented out the back half of his cave.
"FRANKLY, I don't think there's anything a landlord can do to maintain a respectable public image. I've made no effort to hide my identity." "I'm as visible as a person can be," said
"Many of the photographs which you (Kansan) manage to take frequently are not so much photographs of the bad conditions of the house itself, but of the bad living conditions of the people who are living there," Ling said.
Ling said that his reputation was caused in large part by biased press coverage.
"I find it very curious with all the publicity, all the talk that goes around about me, how bad I am as a person, how bad my housing is, that I'm still in business after two years of
effort on the part of the Daily Kansan to change the situation."
LING SAID that the students moving out of residence halls, fraternities and apartment complexes come to him for housing. He noted that he had seen some of his daily Journal World or the Kansas, and that he thought the students came to him for housing because he gave them what they needed.
"I give them quarters which many students
suit their needs better than anything else
does."
Up until three years ago, Ling said, his relations with students had been on a roll.
"I did not set out to squeeze very last penny out of the students I rented to. I didn't think I had too bad a reputation until about three years ago, but the situation on university campuses changed rather drastically about three years ago."
*ANYTIME THE student activists want to start getting active, I can't think of a more
natural target than a landlord who owns lots of low-cost housing and is a university faculty member. I've got everything going for me as a target," he said.
Ling said he did not think students realized the costs involved in maintaining his properties. Part of his problem, he said, was that he was operating on limited resources, had to continue paying bills in the summer, and had trouble collecting part of his rent.
LING ADMITTED that some of his properties did not look "real good." He said that he did not have "the money to go around and paint all of them," but added that he would do his "damnedest to get anything which is unsafe taken care of." He said he
Ling said that for the last year alone his net cash flow had gone several thousand dollars in the red. He said that he had to pay for taxes, insurance and some major repairs on his home. He said many students just were not aware of the high cost involved in maintaining property.
planned to accomplish a lot of work on his houses during the coming summer.
Several times in the course of the meeting Ling criticized the coverage he had received from the Kansan. He said that there was nothing seriously wrong with "Pooh Corner," one of the houses featured on the Kansan's April 14 picture page.
"I would let my daughter live in 'Posh Corner' because I don't think there's anything better," she said.
He also said that the Kanaan had inedr in their estimates of the utility bills for the heaters.
Ling showed the Kansas reporter utility receipts amounting to $168.56 for 1000 Ohio Street "Poor Chorn" and $115.15 for 1325 Tennessee Street. The Kansan had reported the utility bills as being about $6 and about $4 respectively.
He said that the Kankan article had implied that he rooped huge profits from the operation of the two houses, and that this was not the case.