KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
81st Year. No. 120
Campus Zoo
Wednesday, April 7, 1971
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Voters OK Sales Tax, Budget Hike
BY LAYNE CREASON
Worson Staff Writer
Lawrence voters approved by a wide margin Tuesday the half-cent sales tax to improve the city's police and fire depart-
The measure consisted of two questions; both were approved. The first which authorized the city to levy a half cent retail sales tax within the city limits of Lawrence, the second which asked the other question which save the city permission to raise its budget pass 5.985 to 3.417.
The tax is expected to raise about $450,000 in revenue. The money will be used to hire 26 additional policemen and 15 more firemen. In addition the police will be able to add four dispatches, one community relations officer and two other force. One more patrol car will also be purchased, allowing the police to increase the number of patrol districts from six to seven.
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FBI Denies Spying Charges By Hale Boggs
WASHINGTON (UPI)- House Democratic Leader Hale Bogg, suddenly stepping to the forefront of growing criticism of J. Edgar Hoover, charged Tuesday that FBI agents him under personal surveillance. The FBI told the charge "absolutely, utterly false."
Kansan Photo by MATT BRADY
As the new controversy over the 76-year Hoover grew, the White House endorsed Mr. Brown and N. Mitchell's denial of charges by Boggs Moss. His PHI was tapped congressmen's telephones.
The Louisiana Democrat, who said Monday Hoover should resign because of the Hitler-like tactics he said he sank had adopted, has latest charge in a CBS radio interview.
1'charge categorically that the FBI has
his one under surveillance, my personal
record.
"I know because of reports that have come back to me."
How did he know this?
back to the Why?
"Because we're living in a police state today. The only reason I'm saying what happened to me is that if this would happen to the major leader of the House of Representatives, what do you think would happen to the ordinary citizen?"
new members to the city commission and three to the school board, Douglas County voters, along with the rest of the state, also approved a constitutional amendment allowing 18-year-olds to vote in state and local elections.
A Douglas County poll worker stuffs a
compleat ballot into the ballot box during
the counting.
Splitting of Police Force In Berkeley Voted Down
BARKELEY, Calif. (UPI) - A radical attempt to split Berkeley's police department into three separate forces along racial lines has displeased the defeated Tuesdays night by the city's voters.
With 40 per cent of the votes counted, the ballot measured back by the Black Panthers and other radical and activist groups was trailing by more than a 2-1 margin.
However, radicals apparently were going to win two, and possibly three, of four hotly contested seats on the seven-member city council.
Mayor Wallace Johnson said the election, pitting the radical "April Coalition" against traditional Republicans and Democrats, is an effort to first revolutionary government in America."
Gov. Ronald Reagan has taken the coalition over enough to warn that "it could happen here."
The main interest was focused on proposition No. 1 which would break the police force into three independent districts, one each for the black and white neighborhoods and the student community at the University of California.
Voting Amendment Passes
From Kansan Press Services
Kansans, turning out in heavier than expected numbers, overbelieving approved Tuesday a constitutional amendment to allow burglaries from 21 to 18 in state and local elections.
With nearly all the 2,899 precincts in the state reporting, the vote was 240,948 in favor and 145,182 against. A simple majority was needed for passage.
The measure apparently carried in at least 103 of the state's 105 counties.
Lawrence voters approved the amendment, but by a much narrower margin than in other cases.
The unofficial returns for Lawrence were
5.854 for the amendment and 4.001 against
the amendment was overwhelmingly approved by voters living in areas
surrounding the University of Kansas campus. In areas east of the campus to Massachusetts Street and north of the campus to Ninth Street, voters approved the amendment by more than a two to one margin.
Votes against the amendment were heaviest in the sixth ward in north Lawrence and in the fifth ward directly south of the Kaw River and to the east of Massachusetts Street.
"For several years, this administration has endorsed aged 18 years old the right to vote in New York and all other states."
Gov. Robert B. Docking, elated about the passage of the amendment, said it was a 'victory for the young people of our state—undoubtedly the best informed, best educated and most involved generation in the history of the world.
"Giving them the right to vote will remove much of the confusion and extra expenses which would have existed with dual voting," Docking said.
18 to 20 year olds the right to vote in state and local elections.
The amendment carried by big margin in the state's urban areas, getting the largest boost in Shawna County where late returns were 21,506 in favor, 8,946 against.
The amendment was the only statewide issue on the ballot, although numerous local issues and city and school board races were being decided.
The secretary of state's office at mid-day Tuesday said it had received reports from the state's four largest counties—Johnson, Sedgwick, Wyandotte and Shawnee—
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Commanders Vote To Cancel Review
Poll Prompts Cancelation
BY ERIC KRAMER
Kansan Staff Writer
The ROTC Tri-Service review was cancelled today by the ROTC commanders, Rayburn Lancaster, professor of military science and Force ROTC commander, said this morning.
The review, which was scheduled for April 25, was rumored to be canceled earlier this
week, but the official announcement did not come until this morning.
Lancaster said, "While it has been traditional, most of the cadets feel, after careful consideration, that the ceremony isn't relevant to campus conditions and shouldn't unrest, particularly with any campus unrest, particularly with the new existing. After careful analysis, the
3 Candidates Connected With KUAre Elected
By DICK LARIMORE
Kansan Staff Writer
Two University of Kansas faculty members and the wife of a third faculty member were invited to present their work.
Kenneth E. Anderson, professor of education and former dean of the School of Education, received 4,000 votes and ran third in a local school board unified School District 497 Board of Education.
Jack Rose, assistant instructor in chemistry, got 4,334 votes and was second of the three candidates elected to the Lawrence City Commission.
Mrs. Nancy Hambleton, wife of William Hambleton, director of the Kansas Geological Survey and professor of geology, received a fellowship from front-runner in the commission content.
Other winners in the school board race were Mrs. Allan Hack, 2216 Massachusetts St., 6.45 miles; John Spearman, Sr., 1245 Penn William St., 7.30 miles; Richard m歇斯特, 1788 W.厚, 12.47 miles; James L.万德斯特, 1788 W.厚, 12.47 miles;
The third winner in the city commission contest was Charles Fisher, 2048 Orchard
Lane who received 4.273 votes.
Fisher beat our Edwin Stine, professor of political science, by only 15 votes. County Clerk Delbert Mathia said he expected that a recount would be requested by Stine.
First runner-up in the school board race was Jack Landreth, B19 Avalon Road. Landreth trailed Holzmeister by 78 votes at the final tally.
Others who lost in the city commission election were J. Oliver Harris, 1940 Mississippi St., and Peter Whitenight, 1930 Madeline Lane.
Besides Landrhet, those losing in the school board race were John Chaney, 222 Louisiana St.; Dwayne Pearlee, 614 W. 27th Terr.; and Odell Shayer, 251 Arkansas St.
Unofficial returns showed that about 11,000 voters turned out for the election.
Unified School District 497 Board of Education
Candidate
Anderson+          Votes
4,600
2,952
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cadets and midshipmen simply determined it wasn't 'practicable.'
The review has been canceled both in 1970 and in 1968.
Lancaster said the decision was reached by the commanders after a poll of ROTC students showed that the officers opposed having the recruits vote. The college had been canceled both in 1970.
The review was scheduled for May 8 last year, but the Senate Executive Committee and the ROTC commanders voted on May 3 to cancel the Tri-Service review in light of current problems in many of the nation's university and college campuses.
Four students were killed at Kent State on May 4, while protesting the American inbetween two traditional University of Kansas symbols, the Campanile and a bronze Jayhawk bust. The photograph captured an unusual lighting effect—the student silhouetted against the Campanile on the hillside and the Jayhawk partially shadowed in the foreground.
KU's memorial stadium was used on May 9 for a mass concession rather than the review. Students voted in the concession, to adopt a plan of alternatives, one of which included skip finals so they could protest the invasion of other universities followed similar plans.
On May 9, 1980, SDS and war demonstrators defied the administration and succeeded in cancelling the ROTC review. The demonstration was a gate at the stadium and ran onto the field.
The demonstrators listened to administration speakers asking them to leave, but joined hands and prevented the cadets from marching. Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe saw the 156 demonstrators on the field and the signal, flanked for the review to be canceled.
Proceedings to impeach Marilyn Bowman, who was then student body vice president, for her part in the disruption failed when a resolution for her impeachment was tabled by the Senate. She was suspended from the university, and semester but regained her vice presidential
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This unique picture shows a KU student resting in the Kansas Union.
Kansai Staff Photo by JIM HOFFMAN
Journalism Dean Advocates Total News Coverage
Dean Bassett
BY DAVID BARTEL
Kansan Staff Writer
... wants total coverage
Ed Bassett sits in his office amid orderly chaos. Books, papers, folders and magazines sprawl across his desk in seeming abandon as Bassett, dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information, leans over his typeriver.
As one enters the office, Bassett looks up from his work. He has a handsome, boyish face, and brown hair at that age 42 is beginning to gray. His frame—tail and lean with a slight, forward tilt as he walks—hints of athletic accomplishment.
Bassett has a very expressive face. It can light up with a smile from brow to chin or be a model of intellectual sobriety. Its flexibility matches the man beneath.
ED BASSETT TIED his life to journalism 17 years ago as a general assignment reporter. Since then he has worked for eight newspapers as reporter, assistant editor, city editor, editorial writer, columnist and copy editor. From 1962 to 1967 he was publisher of
the daily lawn at the University of Iowa, where he receives his Ph.D. degree in mass
Bassett's skill in the profession was not unnoticed. In 1966 he won the New England general excellence award and in 1969 the national leadership award. He is honored him for state and local reportage.
"I THINK THAT IF I can contribute to a good one journalist each year I will have accomplished more than if I had stayed in the profession." he says.
In 1959 he taught a journalism course at a junior college during his lunch hour and liked it so well that he decided to enter journalism education.
Bassett is concerned by trends he sees leveling in journalism.
"The adversary role has decreased and the advocate role has increased," he says. "This is not a positive trend. The press should be more active, particularly vis-à-vis the government."
Charges that the media distort or slant the
news are only partially true, Bassett says. The press may slant the news if it doesn't.
"Government officials ought to level more with the press and not be so ready to use it for their purposes," Bassett said. "We have a lot of manipulators in the government today."
He cites the Laos incursion as an example of the government withholding information from the press and using the media to "soften" public opinion.
"I'ts too bad we have to give sure ... fragmentary view of the new work which I have on it."
IN ORDER TO DEAL with such manimation, the press "must sharpen its own vision."
"The media must try to provide as complete a picture as possible." Bassett said, but few journalists will content that they have the elements of a story at hand at a given time.
The development of "specialists" in journalism also concerns Bassett.
"The purpose of the media is not for experts to talk to experts. We are going to have to find answers."
benefit that we do not have the complete story and then hold on to what we have until we are ready.
"SPECIALISTS BEcome so absorbed in their own subject that they soon become more expert than the experts," he said. "It is dif-ferent or them to bridge back to the lay public."
Another weakness of the media, Bassett says, is that they pay "too much attention to entertainment and too little attention to what happens." This is particularly true of the broadcast media.
In Bassett's view journalism can provide these ways of involvement, and it is this sense of involvement, he says, that attracts students to journalism.
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Expressive Face
... matches flexibility