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81st Year, No. 124
Grading Change Voted Down
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
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Tuesday, April 13, 1971
Ghettos Stressed
Nixon to Help Viet Veterans
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The Nixon administration announced Monday that a $1 million experimental program to try to help some of the 350,000 unemployed Vietnamese find jobs by making fuller use of the GI bill and other benefits available to them.
President Nixon ordered officials to make the ghetto and slums the first target of the program, saying the veterans living there "deserve an edge."
The 14-month project will be conducted in 10 cities and states. Los Angeles, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago and Indianapilave have been awarded the program, and the others will be announced later.
Nixon said that unemployment among veteran veterans was significantly greater than in other states.
Administration officials said there were about 350,000 unemployed Vietnam veterans,
Nixon said many veterans who could profit from veterans programs are not making full use of them. He said the pilot program would seek to acquaint them with the educational and job training benefits available and encourage them to participate.
an unemployment rate of 12 per cent for them compared to 9 per cent for others in the 20-29
"We weave men a debt of gratitude for their service," Nixon said. "But we also own them something more. We owe them an extra tax, and we owe them the difficult transition back to civil life."
OEO will provide a grant of $1,016,375. The program will be co-sponsored by the National Urban Coalition. It will be administered for the National League of Cities and the U.S. Corps of Engineers. The Veterans Education and Training Action Committee will oversee the project.
Kansas Staff Photo by JIM FORRES
Egypt's Air Force Bolstered By Russians, Say Israelis
By United Press International
An Israeli source in Tel Aviv said Monday that the Soviet Union had bolstered the Egyptian air force with new types of combat planesmen powered by Russian crews. Reports from Caro said Egypt's cabinet would meet on Wednesday to preparations for a possible renewal of war.
Commenting on press reports that Cairo had acquired MIG28s and possibly an advanced version of the Subkho7 fighter-bomber, the source said "it constituted a qualitative contribution" to Egypt's military strength.
The source said Egypt was preparing for a resumption of hostilities, although still
The Israeli source, who refused to be identified, declined to specify the new types of aircraft had said he had sent to Egypt. But previous reports said they were the ultrasonic all-weather MIG28s which could outperform Israel's U.S.-made F4 Phantoms.
Education Cuts Pose Problems For Presidents
The monthly meeting Monday of the Council of Presidents of the state colleges and universities served as an initial discussion of the proposals on the appropriations for higher education.
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., said the presidents considered routine matters but that the bulk of their discussion dealt with the need to improve company the deflated budget for fiscal 1972.
Chalmers said they "agreed that in view of the actions of the Legislature we would not be able to increase any salaries." He also said he was confident that he would induce the number of student hourly employees."
He also said the presidents think the budget would create a situation in which any "unfilled positions would have to remain unfull."
Chalmers that it looked like any new programs requiring additional funding would be better off using more data.
pushing diplomatic efforts to the Middle East conflict. He said the latest Soviet armaments to Egypt also were meant to counter the acquisition of modern weaponry by Israel.
Defense Minister Moshe Dayan told a televised news conference Sunday he could not deny reports that Egypt had acquired MIG28s, which are capable of flying three times the speed of sound and at greater ranges and higher altitudes than earlier models.
"Soviet involvement is one of the reasons we must explore every opening to bring the war to an end or even an interim arrangement" Dyaan said.
Tax Returns Losing Race With Penalty
WASHINGTON (UPI) - With the deadline less than three days away, an estimated one-fifth of the 72.5 million tax returns that the government will receive this year still have not been filed.
That means that many of those who wait until the last minute to file the government form.
That means that millions of Americans are still struggling with Form 1940 in the annual race to beat the April 15 deadline and the penalty and interest late returns incur.
The best estimate was that 15 million of those still had not been mailed as of last Monday. More than half of all taxpayers get back their money, and about 66 per cent had applied for refunds.
The taxpayer who owes additional taxes but don't have the money to pay them will not receive any of their benefits.
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr, at Monday night's Program of Recognition sponsored by the Commission on the Status of Women, Elizabeth Schultz, assistant professor of English was named the 2017 Teacher of the Year by the Education educator of 1971 after a vote of KU women students. See page 2.
Internal Revenue Service figures as of April 2, the last date available, showed that 46.4 million returns had been submitted, and 10.7 million to be filed in the final week and a half.
Emily Taylor, dean of women, is honored for her work in women's education and in the cause of legal and economic justice for women by
Players Talk Politics with Chinese
PEKING (UPI)—A group of American table tennis players who are traveling in the People's Republic of China visited a university Monday and for the first time discussed the subject of politics with their Chinese hosts.
The Americans appeared to be most interested in the fate of Liu Shao-chi, former president of the republic, and in the future of national legislative assembly.
Liu was dismissed in 1968 during the Cultural Revolution.
The discussion awaile the 15 Americans, seven of them players on the U.S. table tennis team, sat around a table chatting about their experiences, and took a hour visit to Changhai Technical University
in Peking
One American asked about the fate of Lal and another asked when the National Guard was to leave.
"His thought is dead, but he is alive," said Chia Chwan, 37, a member of the university's Revolutionary Committee, in response to the inquiry about Lin.
"What we criticize are his revisionist ideas. He must get some re-education. All this is true."
The deadline for convening the National Assembly has passed and, in response to a question about when it would open, another student replied:
"When the time is rine."
Among the faculty members who ac
companied the Americans on the university tour was Prof. Chen Wei-chang, who worked in the jet propulsion laboratory at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena from 1941 until 1948 before return to the University. He taught a number of other teachers, all between 30 and 60 years of age, who also studied in the United States.
Student Arrested, Charged With Marijuana Conspiracy
Students and teachers joined the Americans at a luncheon.
A preliminary hearing in the case was set for April 12. Ditirro was still being held in lieu of a motion to appeal the decision.
A University of Kansas student has been arrested in connection with the arrest Thursday of a Lawrence couple who were charged with illegally importing hiship into Alabama. States he is Raymond M. Ditrino, 21, Prairie Village senior, of 923 Alabama.
He was brought before the U.S. Magistrate Court there Monday and charged with conspiring to receive and conceal marijuana drugs, and had been illegally imported into the country
According to U.S. Customs information officers in Chicago, Millstein and his wife were placed under surveillance after it had been learned that they were planning to smuggle the contraband into the United States.
National Surplus Sales, 815 Vt. Mills, Millstein is a clerk in the store.
Mullstein and his wife are scheduled to appear for a preliminary hearing Friday. They were held Monday in lieu of their court appearance by the U.S. Marshall in Kansas City, Ky.
Ditrio was arrested about 3:15 p.m. Saturday in the 800 block of Vermont by federal narcotics officers and taken to Kansas City, Kan.
After the meal, Graham B. Steenhenow of Detroit, president of the American Table Tennis Association, rose and toasted the growing "friendly relations" between the Americans and the Chinese. The Americans then stood and applauded their hosts.
David Millstein, 26 and his wife Elizabeth Ann, 22, of 667 Louisiana, were arrested Thursday in Lawrence by federal narcotics enforcement police on a charge of allegedly trafficking drugs.
Millstein and Ditirro are partners in
During the visit to the university, the Americans also saw a truck manufacturing plant and Steenboven drove one of the vehicles for a brief time. They also stopped in two gymnasies, picking up some pointers on table tennis from the Chinese in one of them and giving the Chinese some tips on playing basketball at a court in another.
Warning Plan Set for Raids
"The Telephone Tree," a warning system or future mass drug raids in Lawrence, is evidence of its failure.
Each person or house whose number is on the 'Telephone Tree listing' is required to call two other specified numbers in the event of a drug raid.
The spokesman said that the Telephone Tree was an outgrowth of the town meeting March 3 when possible defenses against future "busters" were discussed.
U.S. Planes Blitz Jungle With Bombs
SAIGON (UPJ)—U.S. warplanes dropped more than 500 tons of bombs on Monday in Vietnam forces that were forcing Fire Base 6 on South Vietnam's Central Highlands. The biggest conventional bomb in the U.S. was a 37mm .40 caliber "wars" used for the first time against troops.
Ministry sources reporting the blitz in the jungles around Fire Base 6 said two "Daisy Cutters" were dropped from four C130 transport planes in an attempt to crush North Vietnamese units which had been trying to take the bomb outforce for nearly two weeks.
Flights of BS2 Stratfortresses dropped their 30-ton cargoes of 500-pound, 750-pound and 1,000-pound bombs in 23 sorties around the outpost.
The "Daisy Cutter" has been used before in the Indochina fighting but not as a tactical weapon against troop concentration. The big bomb has been used extensively as a warhead to create "instant" landing zones for haloing Allied troops into battle in remote areas.
There was no immediate assessment of the "Daisy Cutter" damage around Fire Base 6 on Monday, but military sources said the explosive power of the bombs was demonstrated during the South Vietnamese offensive into Laos earlier this year when the area caused landslides that blocked Community supply roads in mountainous regions.
The effect on people was believed considerable. Even if troops were well outside the immediate blast area, the concussion of 7.5 tons of explosives would disable them by causing bleeding from the nose and ears, military sources said.
The bombs are dropped by parachute and detonated above ground level, blasting clear an area as big as a football field. Military sources said the target for the bombs was a coastal island in Vietnam; tempeh troops were reported missing. Spokesmen in the field said that as many as 10,000 Community troops had moved into the Fire Base 6 area as part of a local Hanoi offensive to prove that the South Vietnamese had defeated them and back the North Vietnam's war machine.
Saugan communiquies the Monday reported 2,648 communities killed in the Fire Base 6 and 7 of Fort Hood.
AEC to Study Waste Disposal At Lyons Site
The Atomic Energy Commission has agreed to begin a systematic program for the study of problems of waste disposal at the stored atomic waste repository near Lovens.
William Hambleton, director of the Kansas Geological Survey, said in an interview Monday that the ABC is supposed to submit a report on the possibility of the studies to be undertaken in connection with the site. Hambleton said the commission would be able to make the investigations that the survey has had.
The AEC's decision came last week during talks between members of the Kansas State University football team and AEC's AOC's Oak Ridge, Tenn., facility. About 35 geologists, physicists and engineers participated in the meeting.
"I couldn't ask what effect the studies had on the AIC's plans to develop the site."
Dean Clifford D. Clark
Kansan Photo
. . . pleased with business school program:
Business School Has New Outlook
By NOBLE COSGROVE Kansan Staff Writer
The School of Business at the University of Kansas has been in the process of change over the last several years, and part of the change in outlook and responsibilities the school has undergone is the leadership of the man in charge, Dean Clifford D. Clark.
Before coming to Kansas, Clark was Vice Dean at the Graduate School of Business Administration at New York University. Now, as the head of the KU School of Business, he is constantly evaluating the programs offered at Summerfield Hall and he quietly admits that he is pleased with what they have accomplished.
"I think our undergraduate degree in business administration is exceptionally good," he said. "With the fine relations that exist between schools at the University and the colleges in town, we acquire many varied backgrounds in countless areas."
The requirements for all schools on the hill have become more strenuous, but this is particularly observable in the past.
*STUDENTS ARE required to have junior status and a
*grade point average above the norm in order to be ad-
mitted.* Students are required to see if one is prepared to do the work is in the number of
bours of mathematics that are not required. Twenty
When he took over in 1968 as the dean of the School of Business, Clark said the one of his main goals was to bring
the business community and the classroom closer together. Over the past few years this has been done in a
THE SCHOOL OFFERS a number of degrees for prospective graduates and Clark said he thought to each
"We have spent two and three years reorganizing our board of advisers that help in the organization of the school," he said. "About 75 per cent of our activities have been what you might call 'cross-generation' discussions between students and area businessmen. Both sides learn something in these sessions."
"ABOUT ONE; third of the large firms that usually conduct interviews here have cancelled us this year," he said, "but on the whole I think the opportunities are still better than in many other fields."
"Besides the undergraduate degree, the school offers a M.S. for students that have an undergraduate degree in business, and a M.B.A. for those who hold an undergraduate degree. Students who have a Ph.D. program in which the first class just graduated last year, but this has a very restricted enrollment so as to keep the quality quite high and the cost of tuition relatively low."
Business opportunities for all college graduates is of course at a low level and the business graduates are likewise affected However, Clark said the market was weak for the students of business than in most other areas.
One particular area that pleases the dean is that his students are not as interested as past generation business graduates in joining the large corporations, but instead there is a move for them to be involved in smaller operations where individual talents are more easily recognized. Interest in individual growth and freedom has been recorded in this area because the businesses are small and they fit the needs of many students perfectly.
"It is true that students today are not as satisfied in joining the large corporations," he said, "and in many cases they are not."
THE ONLY REAL shortcoming for the business school is in the facilities and the mounting enrollment. The increased enrollment of 20 to 25 per cent from the previous year will lead to the school officials, but other needs take precedence.
"It is unfortunate that we are having to restrict enrollment," he said. "But if there were two things the school really needed it would be an improved library and better computations facilities. This school has led in the inventive use of the computer as a teaching device and this must be kept up."
To date there are nine men to every one woman enrolled in the school, but this fact, too, is changing.
"As I see it this is really a school that provides an educational background that allows the student to enter the economic world from many corners," he said. "The teacher really sounds too restrictive to be all encompassing."