THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
81st Year, No. 126
Pollution Model At Exposition
Thursday, April 15, 1971
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Kansan Photo by ROR HARTZLEE
Donna Moritz Explains the Needs of the Community School
Senate Budget Hearings Continue
BY JAN KESSINGER
Kansan Staff Writer
The Student Senate budget hearings conducted by the Finance and Auditing Committee continued Wednesday night in room 305 of the Kansas Union. Requests for funds were heard by the committee for three hours and subsequent observations gave reasons for proposed allocations.
Separate enactments will be presented for each allocation that the committee recommends. Dave Dillon, committee chairman, said this would prevent the entire budget from being veted by a referendum on a particular allocation. The student fee for sports spending is directed at funds for the athletic department, but cancelled the entire budget.
The French Play, sponsored by the French department, asked for $235 to support a production for next year. Robert Anderson, acting associate professor of French and German at CUNY, helped the play involved students from beginning French courses as well as French masters.
BY PARTICIPATING in the play, the students benefited more than if they sat in an audience at a play put on by French actors elsewhere, Anderson said.
paying only a token $5 or $10 royalty, Anderson said.
"we begged for money last year," he said when asked how the play was put on last year. Should the public be charged an admission fee, he said, a royalty of several hundred dollars would have to be paid the author or publisher. Free admission plays go off by
Another $285 was requested to send a delegation to a French play contest at Tulsa
Community School applied for an allocation of $7,000. It was not funded by the Senate last year, but received $5,000 in tuition to defray costs.
SPOKESMAN FOR the group, Denna Miritz, called the school an "unofficial flock" of students.
The school is taught by four teachers, two o
whom are certified elementary teachers, an
serves as an alternate school to the pubi-
system. Children of ages four to 13 are
accepted to the school, but enrollment is
to 40, Mrs. Moritz said.
Money would be used, she said, to buy toys and to pay teachers' salaries. She said the four teachers at the school developed the curriculum by coaxing no strict age divisions on the students.
Chalmers Outlines Plan
KU Budget Uncertain; Deans' Council to Meet
By GAYLE TRIGG
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and JOYCE NEERMAN Kansan Staff Writers
Although changes in appropriations to the University of Kansas are not likely before the legislature adjourns next Tuesday, the Council of Deans of KU schools and colleges will not meet to decide the administration of the KU budget until Wednesday.
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., outlined his expected Wednesday for the administration of the University's budget for the adjacent meetings in the next week.
Chairmen said that the University might be forced to reduce the number of students employed by the hour and might not be able to fill faculty positions now vacant or ones that would be vacated. However, he said he did not be invited to see any salary cuts, or raises.
The last matter, the question of raises, may not end up in the province of University decision making. Still alive in the Kansas Senate is House Joint Resolution No. 1055 that would require the states to issue any officers or employees of the subdivision thereof in the classified exempt
service under the Kansas civil service law and all state officials or employees in the un-
The resolution was proposed to help establish the required balance between expenditures and revenues of the state. It would become effective immediately upon passage by the Senate and would continue through June 30, 1972.
The House has already passed the measure. According to informed sources, the resolution was approved on Wednesday.
"We hope the promotions will be made even if they are dry promotions with no salary incentives."
Chalmeris that despite the fact the resolution might pass the Senate, the presidents of the six state colleges and universities to the Kansas Board of Engineers赖弗
Approval of the promotions is dependent on three factors. Max Bickford, Regent executive secretary, said. One factor is a minimum salary level that exists for each professional rank. Another is the current tight fiscal situation. The third is the possibility the legislature may decide to freeze all state employees' salaries at their present level.
Chalmers said that he would prefer to make the cuts from all KU schools proportional to their budgets rather than as an across-the-board cut in one area of spending. This would allow them to decide - making and allowing each school to decide from which area it could best afford a fund.
Bickford said that he did not know how a conflict between the minimum salary levels and the maximum benefits would be handled.
For example, if an assistant professor received a promotion to associate professor but was not allowed the corresponding raise in pay, his salary after the "dry promotion" would not meet the minimum salary level for associate professors.
In regard to the University's spending deficit for this year, Chalmers said that the Council of Deans will meet next week to discuss more money to meet the deficit will come from.
Chailers said it had been a long-standing idea of the Regents that "promotions, to be significant, should carry with them salary increases. Obviously a re-evaluation of that idea is necessary if no salary increases are available."
The final action of the legislature last week, left KU with about the same appropriation as this year, John Conard, director of University relations and operations, said. What remains now is an administrative problem of determining how to make this year's budget fit next year with more students and an inflated economy, he said.
Art Garfunkel Teaches School
LITCHFIELD, Conn. (UPI)—Art-Garfunkel of the folk-rock singing team of Simon and Garfunkel began teaching geometry Tuesday at the Litchfield Preparatory School, southwest of Master William Stevenson said Garfunkel was working with Bantam Lake, applied for the teaching position and will remain at least through next semester.
Nixon Opens Direct China Trade
WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Xionon announced Wednesday that a broad relaxation of the embargo that had barred U.S. trade with Communist China for 21 years.
The announcement came just hours after Premier Chou Emalai proclaimed in Peking "a new web in relations" between the United States and Mainland China. The White House said Chou's remarks made it "an appropriate time" to announce Nixon's program.
Press Secretary Ronald Zegler and other administration officials said the President ad decided to relax trade restrictions before China's admission of an American table tennis team and Chou's reception for its members earlier Wednesday.
The five-point program, which Nationalist
Imports into the United States of designated items" from China also will be delivered.
This would allow the first direct trade between the two countries since it was cut off by the Export Control Act of 1950, which required that it halt U.S. commerce with Communist nations.
In addition, the plan would ease U.S. currency controls to permit use of dollars by Japanese emitters eliminating the Treasury Department's requirement required to send American money into China.
Nixon said the State Department had been instructed to expedite visas for individuals or groups of visitors from the Chinese mainland seeking entry into the United States.
The President also ordered an end to restrictions against American oil companies providing fuel for ships or aircraft proceeding to and from China, except for those carriers bound for North Vietnam, North Korea or Cuba.
Work Piles High for Whomper
Also ended was a prohibition against U.S. ships and planes carrying Chinese cargoes between non-Communist ports and against non-Communist flag vessels calling at Chinese ports.
By JAN KESSINGER
Kansan Staff Writer
Work isilling up for the University of Kansas Reclamation Center, a joint project among the Student Union, Student Senate and the Kansas City area Coca-Cola bottles. The center, located in the southwest corner of the campus, contains of glass and metal ready to be shipped to recycling centers.
"We grossly underestimated how much we had," Steve Etterson, Tepecka junior and director of the project, said last fall. "It was a bit messy."
Emerson spoke as he maneuvered a forklift loading steel barrels full of glass onto pallets to be sent to Oklahoma. "I was pessimistic in the beginning, but now things are going much better than expected. A lot of fraternities, sororites and residence halls are involved. A group from Ellsworth Hall and the First United Methodist Church have six or seven pickup trucks that make more than 200 steps a week to pick stuff up. They also help us sort it."
**'WE'RE A LOT MORE efficient now than when we started. More people are coming down to sort their stuff and to talk. Our team is doing much better.'**
"The only problem is we have to sort huge amounts on Saturday morning that have been dropped down the chute."
"Public opinion has accomplished a lot, Emerson continued. There are now reclamation centers all over the country. American Can Company was not interested when we started in December. But, when the Coca Cola Company, which buys its ingredients from Gates and Dreyer, measures on them, several good programs were set up. American Can has a city-wide reclamation center in Kansas City."
More volunteers are needed for Saturday because of a greater and greater response every week, Emerson said. The
Emmerson listed three factors which caused the action on recycling containers. They are public pressure, concerned companies and fear of legislative retaliation. He said that many corporations were convinced a great problem they were creating by not resisting their own actions.
He said the people who were bringing things in were not only KU students, but Lawrence citizens as well.
**INDUSTRY NEEDS PUBLIC support if the public expects industry to clean up the environment. "Emerson said. As soon as we get the answer, he says, it's not a priority."**
soaps and other low pollutant products, then they can demand industry clean things up. The public must help, because they are often the most vulnerable.
RECLAMATION PROJECTS involve more than buying a whopper and feeding it glass and metal. Crushed, splintered glass and smashed, flattened metal slither out into huge barrels at the end of the green machine. These are moved to storage areas under the stadium. When a bayer for the waste has been found, the barrels are shipped by rail or truck.
Interest throughout the state has grown, too. The KU center has been contacted by groups from Manhattan, Emporia, Topka, Erie and other cities. Boy Scouts and the city fathers of Erie hope to buy whoapen soon. Faper and metal are crushed, and they make
Persons have told Emerson that they were using certain products primarily because containers were made of reclaimable material. He also noted that people who were bringing cans and glass to the reclamation center are taking paper to the Zero Population Growth Paper Reclamation Center and the Bess Stone Center for Retarded Children.
Most encouraging, Erenson said, is a plan by a man and woman in Topeka. They hope to put a reclamation center under construction.
Steel cans without paper labels are sent to the American Can Co. in Kansas City in a truck borrowed from the University. Six tons of material have already been sent and another eight tons are ready for shipment early this week. The cans sell for $24 a ton.
Glass, the most common material found in the noisy confines of the whomper stomping grounds, is bought by the Coca Cola Company and sent to Sepulpa, Okla. Transportation costs are shared by the Coca Cola corporation and the project backers at the University. Each barrel of glass weighs about 400 pounds. It is sold for $20 a ton, and it costs $60 to transport a ton.
Cans with paper labels still on are a problem. It is more expensive to process them and buyers are hard to find. These cans will probably have to be sent to Chicago by train, a money losing venture, Emerson said.
Vast quantities of bottles and cans are available from bars, but a lack of cooperation prevents the center from taking advice.
ONLY ONE BAR, The Stables, takes bottles and cans to the reclamation center. Burdens tucks up the week's supply each day.
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The White House said none of the moves required congressional approval. Nixon discussed his plan Monday with Ambassador Chow Shu-kai of Nationalist China, and Ziegler said "we feel they have a general understanding on this matter."
Chou said in Peking that because of the American delegation's visit, "a new page has been opened in relations between our two peoples."
State Department officials said Nikon's announcement was not prompted by the Chinese premier's friendly remarks, but a timing of the announcement "appropriate."
Officials here were unable to identify items that might be suitable for future Chinese
Rally Starts A Canvass For Peace
By DAN EVANS
Kansan Staff Writer
A South Vietnamese student spoke at a rally Wednesday in Woodford Auditorium in the Kansas University to kick off a canvass of support for an end to the war in Vietnam.
The student, Sonny Pian, South Viet-
ese freshman, expressed his feelings on
their experiences.
"We (Vietnamese) really like peace but we love freedom." Phan said.
He said he would not be able to express his feelings as he did Wednesday if he were in South Vietnam because there were no opportunities to do so. The 27 year war, Phan said, is something the Vietnamese cannot afford.
Phan said he did not like the presence of American soldiers in South Vietnam. He said Vietnam could repay the United States the billions of dollars spent on the war but the 45,000 American soldiers that have died in the war could never be revalued.
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Oooh!
Oklahoma's deathman man, Andrew Pettes,
soaks his feet in the water of the steeple
Kansan Staff Photo by JIM FORBES
chase, Petites had just won the 404 yard run. He was also a starter for the Sooner's basketball team this past season. Wednesday will be one of the last days he will run through Saturday.
Administration Denies FBI Spied at Earth Day Rallies
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The administration rejected growing suggestions Wednesday that the FBI was conducting clandestine surveillance of private citizens and called the suggestions "unfounded and repugnant to this administration."
Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler responded pressedly to a charge by Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, D-Maine, that FBI agents had spied on Earth Day rallies in Washington and across the country. The rallies were held a year ago to dramatize the need to clean the
Ziegler, who said he had discussed the matter with President Nixon, told newsman that if FI agent were at the Washington Monument ceremony last April 22, they were there only to "observe persons who have records of criminal violence."
Maukie, who spoke at the Washington rally, told the Senate Wednesday that the FIR had been set up by Mr. McDonnell.
were protecting pollution where "no crime or threat of crime was involved nor any
Muskie, a leading contender for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination, proposed that Congress create an independent board of review to monitor all government agencies that gathered intelligence on civilians.
Ziegler said statements about FBI surveillance of private citizens were politically motivated and made for "grabbing a headline."
The press secretary insisted that FBI wretaking activities relate only to those who had been involved.
"If antipollution rallies are a subject of intelligence concern, is anything immune"? Muskie asked the Senate. "Is there any evidence that we do not a potential subject for an FBI doser?"