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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
81st Year, No. 132
Polling Places
Friday, April 23. 1971
Polling places for Tuesday's referendum on whether or not to approve the Student Senate's allocation of $130,148 to the University, will be in strong hall, Summerfell hall and the Kansas Union from 9 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. From 7 p. to 10 p.m. polls will be open at Gertrude Sellars Pearson, Hashinger and Olive halls.
Debate
Robert Martin, president of the Kansas Bar Association, and William Kuntler, defense attorney for the Chicago Seated, both seated at the
table), discuss law and dissent as it pertains to contemporary America last night in Bachio Auditorium. Both men gave opening remarks to the audience which were followed by a rebuttal period for those who were presiding officer of the Student Senate moderates the discussion.
Boggs Continues Attacks on FBI
WASHINGTON (UP1)—House Democratic leader Hale Bogg, citing a long list of alleged FBI abuses of freedom, renewed his demand for the ouster of Director J. Edgar Hoover Thursday and called for a top level inquiry into the agency's actions.
The Louisiana lawyer said the 76-year-old Hoover had built the FBI into a secret police force "which threatens and places in danger hundreds of thousands of essential to the survival of our system."
FBI defenders promptly protested that Boggs, in an hour-long speech to the House, had failed to substantiate his earlier charge of sexual misconducts, including those of any other House or Senate members.
"I am shocked, disgusted and nauseated by the stench of red herring in this chamber," said Rep. Lawrence J. Hogan, R-Md., who served 10 years as an FBJ agent.
ducted improper surveillance against members of Congress.
"He talks in a whole series of innuendos." said Hogan. "Don't Mr. Hoover and the FBI have any rights? Can any member of this organization along and besmilch their reputation."
He said Boggs had failed to supply any evidence to back up the charge he first made on April 5 that the FBI had tapped congressional phones and other con-
Devine, R-Ohio, also criticized Boog's speech, saying he dealt in "semantics, immuno and playing with words" in attempting to substantiate his original charges.
Another former FBI agent, Rep. Samuel L.
Boggs cited a long list of cases, dating back many years, in which lawmakers "had reason to believe" that their conversations were being bugged or tapped by the FBI.
House Approves Bills To Spur Employment
WASHINGTON (UP1) — The House approved a $2 billion measure Thursday that would create construction jobs for the state's largest employer in southeastern Idaho of siderealization of another make-work proposal to
provide a half-million public service jobs
University Senate Leaves Council Power Unchanged
"It appears that we have a quorum," declared Louis Scott, Lawrence junior and new presiding officer of the University Senate. "He's the student's first and last University Senate meeting."
After Scott's announcement, Senate members, relieved that a quorum was present, backed in their chairs to finish old business left on the agenda since December. The Senate tried twice this semester to conduct its regular business, but failed on both occasions because of a lack of a quorum.
Most of this meeting focused on the fate of the University Council, whose value to University government had been questioned. Mr McKinney, assistant professor of history.
McKinney introduced a motion in the University Senate last October that called for the council to act only in emergency cases, which the university has auxiliary body to the University Senate and
handled Senate business between regular Senate meetings.
The full House passed and sent to the Senate a $5.5 billion public works authorization bill included the $2 billion for a crash program public projects to give jobs to the unemployed.
A committee headed by Elizabeth Banks, assistant professor of classics, has studied the matter and recommended that the council's power be left intact. The Senate voted overwhelmingly to support the committee's recommendation.
In other Senate business, a group of amendments to the Senate Code were unanimously passed. One code amendment called for an assistant presiding officer to be elected. Anticipating the passage of this resolution, the senate voted to hold a previous meeting, elected Lawrence Heeh, associate professor of physical education, to fill the post.
A House labor subcommittee, meanwhile, approved a $4 billion, five-year program to pay the salaries of public service workers that would be hired at lower levels of employment. The board requested to reach the Labor Committee on Tuesday and the House floor sometime after that.
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmer Jr. spoke to Senate members at the beginning of the meeting. Chalmer praised members of the Senate for their role in over $130,148 in activity fees to the University.
The accelerated public works portion of the $5.5 billion authorization measure provides that the Federal government would pay 80 percent of the costs of a backlog of state and municipal construction projects that have been put off for lack of money.
The measure was promoted by congressional Democrats as an answer to what they called the Nixon administration's policies which they charge have resulted in job losses and employment rates. A nearly identical bill is now pending before the Senate Labor Committee.
The measure approved by the sub-
committee would authorize $750,000 im-
mEDIately to provide about 150,000 jobs,
with the remainder of the $500,000 jobs cor-
ning with full authorization of $4 billion over the next five years.
Under the bill as approved by the House on a 319-67 vote, an area would have to have an unemployment rate of 150 per cent above the national rate in March was 6 per cent. The national rate in March was 6 per cent.
Maturity, Responsibility Cited
Chalmers, Legislators Praise Senate Action
BY MATT BEGERT,
ERIC KRAMER
and
JAN KESSINGER
Kansan Staff Writers
Students will vote Tuesday on whether to give $13,484 from the student activity fund to the 2016 election.
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. called the action a "most fantastic thing." He said he did not think there was another public school where he could have responded in such a way as they had at KU. He said that less money would be available for student activity fees, but that students would have to pay.
He said he was sure the referendum would pass, but the big question was how many of them will vote?
Chalmers said that students' voting money to the University was "bound to generate comparable support" among citizens and legislators.
HE DID SAY, however, that the extra funds might not be necessary if Gov. Docking utilized his power to item line veto budget matters.
State Rep. John Vogel, R-Lawrence, said the action by the Student Senate was "very tough."
THE SENATE approved the bill anyway and KU's budget fell from $2,659,284 to $2,259,136. KU suffered the cut because it had the largest budget and the legislature did not
The House Ways and Means Committee formulated a budget originally giving KU $130,148 more than that proposed by an omnibus bill passed the last day of the legislative session. Vogel explained that the original bill was signed by both houses and signed by the Governor.
Senate President Pro Trem Glee Smith of Larned called the approval of the omnibus bill
After the bill's passage, some state universities protested that they had not been appropriated enough. Kansas State in particular was upset by the budget. The omnibus bill dropped an and effort to "equalize budgets" and budget cuts" was worked out by the House.
TOPEKA IA —The conflict of interest charges brought against Thomas J. Griffith, a Kansas Board of Regents member, were dismissed Wednesday in County District Judge Judge Robert Hobrann.
Conflict Charge Is Dismissed
Judge Rebrahan said the sections of law under which Griffith was charged were unconstitutional, although he did not strike down the statute.
"The law is an invasion of Griffft's right of privacy," Robakraan said in his 13-page opinion, that brought to an end the criminal charges against the Manhattan banker. The court's ruling was precisely limited to the under which the defendant was charged."
"The Kansas Supreme Court will have to make the decision about the total law," Hobrahani said. "My decision pertained only on the special charges brought against the defendant."
Robahan said there were provisions of the law that were constitutional.
wish to increase the state budget for the Regents.
Vogel said the governor had not signed the omnibus bill yet. The Kansas governor has the power to strike any line from a budget matter and approve it with those items struck. Vogel suggested that Docking strike the lines concerning KU, Emporia State and Pittsburgh State, the three state schools that suffered cuts in the omnibus bill.
Griffith, now serving his second term as a regent, was charged with failing to list all his financial holdings in the disclosure statement required of all state officials under Kansas law.
SEN. ARDEN BOOTH, R-Lawrence, said the action taken by the Student Senate did not happen.
If Docking did this, Vogel explained, KU would receive the $2,693,258 appropriated in the original bill written by the Ways and Means Committee that Docking signed earlier. Kansas State would keep its increase in legislative busidie bill, resulting in an overall legislative budget decrease. The legislative budget would, however, be far below the suggested budget of Docking.
"This is the kind of people we've got at the University," he said. "It shows the responsibility and maturity of the University students."
Booth attributed the reduction in education allocations to many things, including a 'conflict between the governor and the secretary' (Booth 2015), philosophies of the Senate and of the Houses.
"I don't feel higher education is in that much trouble," he said. "People aren't怕麻烦."
LI Gov. Reynolds Shultz said the end result might be negative. He said the action might decrease the budget that much more next week, and that legislators might say, "Let them do it again."
SHULTZ SAID he was pleased with the students' effort.
"It is too late now to do anything," he said. "The legislature has adjourned."
David Miller, student body president,
approved of the student referendum.
"It's the only justified way to do it." he
Faculty Senate Gives Approval To Rights Code
The Faculty Senate passed the Code of Faculty Rights, Responsibilities and Conduct on Thursday for University of Kansas faculty members.
The code incorporates several statements made by the American Association of University Professors that attempt to limit the degrees of professional university educators.
Information about student views and political beliefs that professors acquire through their work as instructors, advisers and counselors is confidential under the code. However, it does not protect judgments about a student's abilities and character.
The code states that no disciplinary sanctions may be imposed on a faculty member before he receives the charges against him and an opportunity is presented for a hearing before the University Judiciary or the Faculty Senate Committee on Tenure and Related Problems. The code specifies guaranteed faculty rights at such a hearing.
Marston McCluggage, professor of sociology and chairman of the Corpteeon on Faculty Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities, and one reason for writing a faculty code was that KU students had a code Also, across the country have caused faculty members to demand statements of their rights.
said. "It will expand the commitment of the student body and show more over that" even if students did not attend.
Bill O'Neill, Lawrence sophomore and Student Senate treasurer, called the proposal "an emergency measure to prevent long-range harm to the University."
"It may hinder the operations of student organizations," he said, "but it will help the
The Kansas Board of Regents must approve the student activity fee budget. The executive officer and five members of the Board of Regents were unavailable for comment, but a request from Wichita, said students for the referendum, said she nothing wrong with it.
Chalmers said student funds could not be transferred into the state budget, but employees in certain areas could be transferred to the student budget.
Regent Says Cuts Hurting Education
CONCORDIA (UPI)—The Kansas Legislature has “put a heavy penalty on our system of higher education,” a member of the state Board of Regents said Thursday in deverifying drastic cuts in budgets of the state’s universities and colleges.
William C. Danenbarger, regent from Eunior Corda, said, "I do not believe any of us understand the reasons that apparently stem from political bickering between legislative bodies and the Governor and, even more discurcring, between House and Senate leaders.
"The Board of Regents," Dannerbauer said, "and its highly competent professional staff spend a considerable amount of time making reasonable and equitable budget recommendations. Our recommendations obviously are for the consideration when the bickering starts."
He described action of the University of Kansas Student Senate in voting $130,148 from student activity fees "to keep faculty from leaving" as heartening.
But he said, "The situation is not healthy in the long view. Students already are being forced to pay increased fees to build buildings, even utility tunnels. This is far from the Kansas concept of making higher education available to everyone who is capable of absorbing it, regardless of wealth."
Dunnbarmer, a University of Kansas alumnus, said "Kansas has been known for its willingness to support higher education. I am proud to be a part of backwards in this progressive attitude."
Manson To Death Row
SAN QUENTIN--Hippe cult leader Charles Manson became the 9th resident of California's death row Thursday—with a warning by a fellow convict that he might "get the fire knocked out of him" by other inmates.
Manson, sentenced to death last Monday for the Tate-LaiBlaanca mass murders, was driven to San Quentin Prison in a Los Angeles County sheriff's department van with its windows painted over, and whisked into the back entrance.
Crowd on Kunstler's Side in Debate with Martin
William Kunstler . . . "Dissent is honorable"
By KATHY SEIFERT
Kansan Staff Writer
William Kunster, New York lawyer and defender of unpopular clients, met Robert Martin, president of the Kansas Bar Association, in a modified debate on the subject of "law and Dissent" Thursday night in Hoch Auditorium.
Martin tried to clash with the issues that Kunstler presented, but failed to make much of an impression on the audience. Most of Martin's presentation was in agreement with Kunstler, but deviated when he quoted his colleague as being more focused. Judging from audience reaction, Kunstler was more popular than Martin as he built his case and emphasized the immediacy of several problems in our society. Martin's only defense was to reiterate some of his previous statements and to quote Kunstler. Martin's use of the arch-conservative to the semi-liberal
KUNSTLER OPENED the debate with an approximately 35-minute presentation. He
that he was going to discuss law and disasert as they pertained to our common country in
"Essentially what I want to say is that dissent in the United States should not be confined to conventional methods," he said. "Dissent on certain issues requires more immediacy than what we call normal dissenting processes."
"I don't want to exclude these processes from the common struggle when I talk of unconventional dissent. I do not mean to say that I support any of them, but I protest should not enlarge in some other way."
"It would be nice if we didn't have to have lavaracious dissection and disruption. It would be more difficult, and fairly, if they weren't dying in Vietnam, stand here, if the ghetto wasn't kinkshed. But it is not a nice world in so many areas. It offers millions of its cities."
TO DISPONE OR try to rationalize with a person living in a cold-waterflat in Harden, N.J.
fashion, or to try to tell a Chicago that it's not right to block the entrances to courthouses.
"The law fails and ordinary protest fails in this country for one prime reason, it does not resolve or even attempt to resolve the burning issues of the United States.
"Dissent is honorable if it is motivated in conscience, if you have a certain morality about it, and there is a simple morality about it. Whoever people do in the immediacy of a situation, they do only after they have consented to it; not when exhausted by someone else; when they feel in the gut that they must move or be forever ashamed of themselves; and where they move from one plateau to another only after they have reasonably exhausted the one and then, overriding it all, nothing happens." This means that we cause a drop of blood to flow from human skin.
"If that is the mortality, and if people feel that mortality, then these things that people do are the mortality."
on May Day last year for example; if they are so motivated, they are proper and good, even
"The Boston patrons were illegal, Jesus was illegal, and so were hundreds and millions of others who took their chances. The women who chained themselves to federal buildings in the 1900's to take that first great step against women's slavery that still persisted. The women who were illegal, and so were Eugene Debe for the support of the pullman strikers.
"JUST BECAUSE it is illegal, don't mean it is immoral. In fact, that which is legal is the right thing."
Kunstler said that there were great immediations in the United States. They include the war in Southeast Asia, an economic system that creates chronic poor and chronic treatment of political disasters, and the attempts to put everyone under surveillance.
He said that there were times when people must act, and there were times when they didn't.
Robert Martin . . . "Dissent has limits