THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
81st Year, No. 122
KU Relays Dedicated To Retired Prof
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, April 9,1971
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Budget Cut Distresses KU Officials
The passage of an appropriations bill which cuts $3 million from fiscal 1972 funds for state colleges and universities has aroused concern in the University of Kansas administration. Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr, said Thursday that the 4.4 per cent budget cut would have severe financial effects on the University.
He said that the $1 million deficit caused by the bill could prevent the hiring of teachers for unified faculty positions, and reduce library funds, computer funds, faculty salaries, and employment of graduate and undergraduate students.
Francis Heller, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the bill had "serious implications for the University in long-range terms."
A meeting of the deans of the various schools to discuss the immediate effects of a new curriculum.
The bill passed the House late Wednesday afternoon by a vote of 106 to 11. It has been sent to a conference committee which will bring the House and Senate versions into line.
The Senate bill exempted junior colleges and Washburn University from the cuts, but the bill was amended on the floor of the House to include all state colleges and universities.
Newswoman Is Missing In Cambodia
Kansan Photos by GREG SORBEE
PHNOM PENH (UP1)—Phnom Penh bureau manager for United Press International, Catherine M. "Kate" Webb, and four other persons were listed Thursday as missing after Communist forces overran the Cambodian troops they were with Wednesday on Highway 4 about 56 miles southwest of Phnom Penh.
Cambodian paratroopers moved up to within 900 yards of the area Thursday but there was no word on the fate of Miss Webb, one of the assistants. No fighting was reported Thursday.
The five disappeared Wednesday shortly after troops identified as North Vietnamese regulars attacked and inflicted heavy casualties on a unit of Cambodian soldiers just below the Pach Nil pass on the highway, north from Penh to the seaport of Kompong Sok.
Several other correspondents escaped the Communist assault and took shelter over Wednesday in a brigade command post near the airport where the missing persons were last reported seen.
One reporter who escaped the assault, quoted Miss Webb as saying: "I'm just going up to have a look, and then I'm going back to Phnom Penh."
Hikers
with the arrival of spring, the popularity of hitchhiking is increasing,
although it's not an uncommon occurrence any season of the year.
Students are less reluctant to stand and wait for a ride on a warm spring day than on days of not so favorable weather. Campus bikers seek rides to class, downtown, or some just for the fun of it. At any rate, it seems to be an economical mode of transportation especially if the hiker is a pretty ced. Here two students successfully thumb a ride in front of Allen Field House.
California Fire Damages Hall
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (UPF) — A roaring fire caused up to $800,000 damage Thursday to the administration building of the University of California's new experimental Santa Cruz campus, it is located in a redwood grove overlooking Pacific Ocean. Police suspected arson.
Arson Suspected
"You'd have to be nuts to blow this place," a student activist recently told a reporter. Besides its idyllic setting, Santa Cruz boasts architectural awards for its buildings.
Irreplaceable student records concerning academic achievement, bans, loans and other data were destroyed. However, a copy of the account was added to ashes on a computer tape.
Council Rejects Grading Proposal
The fire was spotted about 2 a.m. by a campus policeman. University and city firemen quickly but it took two hours to control the flames.
"I feel dismaimed and awful, but the show must go on," said Chancellor McDhayen, who made the damage estimate. Earlier, official estimates the loss at $2 million.
If the blaze was arson, it was the first notable vandalism to occur on the five-year-old campus even though its students are notorious for their radically radical of the huge university system.
Hours later, Santa Cruz Fire Chief Teo McFenew waved at the steam and smoke still rising from the twisted metal desks, molten glass and ashes of the chancellor's office and
"We'll just have to go through this stuff on our hands and keep it out if it is an arrest."
The Santa Cruz camps are one of the most innovative state schools in the nation. It has been named a National School of Excellence.
BY BAKRANA SI OMROU
Kansan Staff Writer
Police Clear Comp Center After Threat
By BARBARA SPURLOCK
A proposal to change the University's grading system to A-B-C-No-credit was rejected Thursday by the University Council. The proposal, made by the council's staff, stated that the procedures, was defeated because some members of the council opposed the grade
experiment on the grounds that it would not be valid. It has been proposed that the experiment be set up next year in the College of Medicine and will be carried throughout the entire university in 1972.
So far, five colleges, with a total of 3,700 students, are operating. A sixth will open in the fall, and addition of more "cluster events" eventually will increase enrollment to 15,000.
In other action, the council voted to recommend to the chancellor a plan which would waive tuition fees for faculty members' dependents.
coast. Little violent protest has occurred there partly because, as some students say, there is little on campus about which they can complain.
The Computation Center in Summerfield Hall, scene of a bomb blast last December, 11 was the target of a bomb threat last night. After searching the building for about 30 minutes without finding a bomb, Traffic and Security responded Summerfield for routine business.
The call was received at 7:10 p.m. at the Computation Center. The dispatcher said that the first part of the warning was garbled but the second part was a bomb would no off in Summer for 15 hours.
No student gets letter grades. Instead, they are subject to a pass-fail plus written evaluation system placing great emphasis on independent work.
The Attorney General has ruled that bingo is a lottery and therefore prohibited by the state constitution. A move early in the session to get that prohibition repealed failed.
There was little debate on the report, but it was asked again if he thought the bill was correct.
A fire alarm sounded and the building was evacuated before the search.
TOPEKA (UPI)—The conference committee report on a bill to remove the criminal penalty on bingo gambling was adopted in the Kansas Senate Thursday.
The report was adopted on a vote of 31 to 8. If the House adopts the report, the bill will go to Congress.
Steen. Sedadman Ball, R-Atchison, chairman of the Senate committee and a member of the conference panel, explained the report to the Senate.
Committee's Bingo Report Adopted by State Senate
Warrants for the couple's arrest were prepared at the request of customers by James A. Pusateri, assistant U.S. attorney for Kansas.
He said this would probably include games such as cakewalks, which attorney General Vern Miller has said are lotteries prohibited by the state constitution.
Milstein and his wife were arrested near the Ramada Inn, Sixth and Iowa streets. They were held in Douglas County jail until federal officials picked them up at 2 p.m. Thursday for transfer to Kansas City for the arraignment.
Ball said the conference committee did amend the bill again, however, to remove the penalty for gambling on bingo and games of similar characteristics.
The hashish was allegedly concealed in the roof and glove compartment of a Volkswagen car, but the driver was not arrested.
Lawrence Couple Charged With Hashish Smuggling
A Lawrence couple was arraigned Thursday on a federal charge of smuggling 66 pounds of hashish into the United States from Europe.
He said the committee removed a controversial Senate amendment that inserted "Calcutta pools." The amendment would also have removed the penalty for these "pools."
The couple, David Millstein, 25, and his wife, Susan, 22 of 607 La, St., were arraigned in Kansas City, Kan, after their arrest early Thursday by federal, county and city police. Bond was set at $20,000 each with a hearing scheduled for April 16.
The council decided to divide the parking and traffic staff from the security staff, and to separate their budgets as soon as possible. The council also passed a proposal which sets parking fees and send it to the chancellor for his approval.
The council's committee on planning and resources suggested that criteria for sabbatical leaves be better explained in the faculty handbook to prevent continued unqualified applications by some faculty members.
Jouston after its shipment from Europe. The whaleish was valued at about $200,000.
The council endorsed an amendment to the Senate Code that would change the number of Student Executive Committee members from seven to eleven.
"From what I understand, it is the students' own doing," he said. "If the students themself knew that, we would be happier."
Cancellation of the ROTC Tri-Service review will have a negligible effect on relations between the street community, the city and the University of Kansas, Rick Walker, assistant to the vice-chancellor for student affairs, said Thursday.
11. Gov. Reynolds Shultz said he was disappointed because the review was "very low."
He said that he knew of no plans to disrupt the review, but that he thought the cadets that attended the course were prepared.
Gov. Robert Docking said that for four years it had been his policy not to interfere with the administration of the University. He refused to comment on the cancellation.
Opinions Vary On Cancelled ROTC Review
Fireworks
Kansas Photo by ROB PARTZLER
Buildings and grounds workmen spent
several hours Wednesday night repairing and welding the hammer throw cage located northeast of the stadium. Work continued on the 14th floor at 10 a.m., opening the upcoming 46th Annual Kansas Relays.
Committee Hears 6 Organizations' Budget Requests
By MATT BEGERT
Kansan Staff Writer
Representatives from six student organizations met with the Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee last night in a meeting to discuss next year's proposed budget allocation.
The Finance and Auditing Committee also tentatively adopted budget guidelines used by the company.
The committee policy as it now stands includes no allocation for social functions, refreshments or awards; no appropriations for sending delegates from student groups to conventions; no funds for speakers unless no other source of funds is available; and no money for mainstays. The budget for this is further stipulated that all student activity fee funds must be under the jurisdiction of students.
The KU Media Club requested $7,457 for ac-
activities which include a weekly forum series involving films, tapes, literature and speakers. The group was funded last year primarily by contributions. Student Union Activities has granted $300 for the Media club for next year. Activities of the club also include the production and distribution of pamphlets and association with the Liberation News Service.
The Lawrence Legal Self Defense Club requested $1,510. The Club included in its request allocations for office space and installation and maintenance of a telephone. The purpose of the club is to help any student with legal problems and to aid the student with legal rights instructions. Representatives from the group said seismic equipment used to bail students out of jail, though this money would be returned to the group after the case involving the student was tried.
The Free University, an organization which offers instruction to anyone in Lawrence.
renuested $3.150.
The organization is not affiliated with KU, but, according to the group's spokesman, about 75 per cent of the participants in the program are KU students. The organization prefers not to have a campus location and remains outside the jurisdiction of the KU administration. The Free University offers 55 or 60 classes which are held at the Wesley Foundation, in conjunction with church organizations and in private homes. The group proposed to allocate the purpose of buring an organizer for the project.
The KU-Y submitted a request of $1,150 for general operation, $415.50 for the Big Brother—Big Sister project, $1,556.50 for Freshman En counter and $25 for special projects. A request of $747 for the Model UN, a branch organization of KU-Y, was also included.
Spokemen for KU-Y said they are in need of office supplies and funds for transportation.
The special activities of the KU-Y for which funds were requested include community service such as working with and providing activities for retarded children.
They said they had been refused funds in the past because KU-Y was a religious organization. They stated that there was now very little information included in the activities of the organization.
The funds for Freshman Encounter, which was described as a "hurricane encounter type of thing," were to help pay for individuals who wish to participate. Freshman Encounter is a camp conducted during one weekend during the school year.
The KU Sailing club asked for an appropriation of $297. The activities of the group have been limited because of lack of funds. The group, which involves about 80 students, provides instruction in sailing as well as sponsoring a team which competes with other
universities' sailing organizations. The club received $25 from SUA last year. The remaining costs which were incurred as a result of the university's financial assistance were paid for by the individual members involved.
The committee heard a final request for funds from the American Pharmaceutical Association. It is a professional organization which is requesting money from the Student Activity Fund in order to present drug abuse programs at local high schools and junior highs. The group requested $500 for the purchase of instructive materials, supervision and transportation. Other possible fund sources for the group include drug companies and state associations involved in drug abuse.
The next public hearing of the Committee on Finance and Auditing is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the Council Room of the Kansas House according to Dave Dillon, committee chairman.