The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
81st Year, No. 115
Go Fly A Kite
Wednesday, March 31, 1974
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Biff Tempel, Lawrence senior and centerfielder for the KU baseball team scrambles back to first base in time to avoid a
pick-off attempt during Tuesday's doubleheader with the Washburn lachions in Quigley Field. Temple was on first base after he hit a single in the second game. KU shutout the lachions in both games of the twinnib by scores of 11-4 and 2-1.
0. KU's season record now stands at five wins and seven losses. The hawks open conference play this weekend when they travel to Oklahoma State for a doubleheader Friday and a single game Saturday. See page 6 for game story.
War Referendum Possible
House Opens Draft Debate
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Antiwar forces, seeking easy House votes to end the draft, charged Tuesday that conscription led America into Vietnam and would allow President Nixon to continue what they called an illegal and immoral war.
But proponents of a two-year draft extension, led by the powerful chairman F. Edward Hebert of the House Armored Services Committee warned that either draft abolishment or a one-year continuation would jeopardize the all-volunteer Army convenc
Open debate on a bill to raise military opening and allowances by $2.7 billion came after a series of House speeches charging the murder conviction of I. William L. Calley, a Marine army morale and possibly wreck Wickman in hopes for an all-volunteer Army by mid-1973.
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public galleries with a speech blaming the draft for American involvement in Vietnam.
"It shows a hardness and callousness true to un-American" to continue the draft, she said. She said it permitted the continuation of an effort that was against which the American people have rejected."
Except for the podium-pounding speech of Rep. Abzug, the debate on the draft was confined to low-key arguments for and against the policy revisions and revival even in the Selective Service Act.
The ranking, Republican on the Armed Services Committee, Leslie Arends, R-III, said the military plan and allowances would be more than what President Nixon had requested.
Waggoner—Liberal Traditionalist Callev Makes No Plea
Bv MIKE MOFFET
Kansan Staff Writer
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences provides 72 per cent of the instruction at the University of Kansas, George R. Waggoner dean of the college, is trying to tackle the problems of an oversized and still growing branch of the University.
"A liberal education," said Waggoner, "more important now than in the past. And we certainly don't want to reduce the number of students to meet the problem of size."
An increase in the amount of available leisure time, Waggoner said, accounted for the growing importance of a liberal society. He said he was indeprived with more than getting a job," he said.
Waggoner outlined this philosophy of education in an interview in his office last week. His key, personal appearance, and key number of speaking emanate a feeling of authority with volumes of English literature (he is also a full professor of English). He wore a gray heringbone suit, matching his gray hair and moustache. He answered questions well spoken, carefully guarded answers. But he was not always the first to impressions alone to describe Waggoner.
HE IS PERHAPS a traditionalist. As he said, the college of which he is the dean is concerned with the "traditional academic disciplines." And his curriculum reflects his
interest in the traditional disciplines. He graduated in English with honors from KU in 1936, went on to get his masters degree in 1939, and then went to the University of Wisconsin where he received a Ph.D. in English with a minor in philosophy in 1947
Waggoner returned to KU in 1954 to assume the positions of Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of English. Before coming back he was an associate, then assistant, dean and professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University.
Waggoner's interest in finding new and perhaps even non-traditional ways of meeting the problems of his school tend to contradict conventional connotations of traditionalism
"The COLLEGE-WITHIN-THE-COLLEGE program is a step in this direction," Waggoner said. "And we're interested in moving further with this idea, extending it to students who need the support. Right now there is a joint College-Graduate School committee working on this idea."
For instance, Waggoner sees decem-
tralization as the answer to the college's
challenges.
With the decentralization, Waggoner said, reconsideration of graduation requirements, an issue much emphasized by students, would be more feasible than it is now.
Hijacked Philippine Jet Released by Chinese
The airliner was hijacked Tuesday morning.
HONG KONG (UPI)—A Philippine line passengers jet hijacked to Communist China is being released by Chinese authorities and is expected to return to Hong Kong shortly, aviation department officials here said today.
The plane, hijacked by a group described as radical students, refueled in Hong Kong and fleed to Canton with 29 persons aboard, at least four of them Americans.
It was presumed that all the passengers, except the hijackers themselves, were being driven away.
Senate Refuses More Benefits
A spokesman for the government aviation department said the plane was to have departed from Canton at 10 a.m. Hong Kong and arrived in Hong Kong at 90 miles northeast of Hong Kong.
Opponents said the plan was so flawed that long-time workers in only 10 states could have benefited even though the proposal would have imposed higher taxes, equal to 2.7 per cent of their payroll costs, on companies in 31 states.
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The Senate Tuesday turned down, on grounds it was faulty drafted, a proposal to pay 13 weeks of additional unemployment compensation to laid-off workers who have exhausted their benefits.
The plan was offered by Sen. Birch Bayh, D-InD, who is expected to lean heavily on labor support if he decides to seek the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination.
Even if approved by the Senate, it was unlikely the proposal would have been accepted by the House, which claims first jurisdiction on all tax matters.
Bayah acknowledged that flaws existed in the amendment, but said he hoped it could be fixed.
"The Civil Aviation Department has received through the normal air traffic communications channels from Canton a flight plan giving an estimated departure hours today Wednesday for the plane hijacked Tuesday," the department announced.
"There is no indication whether the plane will necessarily come to Hong Kong," the said airline official.
as they are. I think Western Civilization is the most interesting course we offer. I like the idea of a comprehensive exam, the language requirement and speech requirements, and I like to see it as a way to be exempted from some of these requirements by taking proficiency exams."
The plane, a twin-engine BAC111, was blacked earlier Tuesday by five young Filipinos while on a domestic flight in the Philippines from Manila to Davao City.
"I think this is the first time we've had to cut the College budget since we've been here," Waggoner said. "The 1 per cent faculty will tempt people to look for other opportunities, but I must say that our facultyown a good level of morale despite the cuts."
IN ADDITION to the long run problems of size and curriculum, the College this year faces the financial squeeze imposed by budget cuts.
MOSCOW (IP1)—The Soviet Union opened its 24th Communist Party Congress Tuesday with a new peace offensive calling for a world disarmament conference and a series of meetings of the atomic powers, including China, to ban nuclear arms.
The plan for world peace was made by Party General Secretary Leonid Breshnev in a six-hour keynote speech covering the challenges and foreign policy in the next five years.
As is the case with his feelings about graduation requirements, Waggoner's view on the subject of student unrest betrays the more conservative side of his outlook.
"I like order, I don't like disruptions. But I think considering the kind of students we have we are inevitably going to see them react in a way that would make way most good universities would. I am
USSR Makes Peace Plea On Armaments
U. S. Embassy spokesmen in Manila said at least four Americans were aboard the plane.
He offered normal and improved relations to all countries from the United States and Europe.
"Our glorious armed forces are prepared to repel an enemy attack at any time of the day on our bases and will be able to aggressor is fully aware that in the event of attempting a nuclear attack on our country he may lose control."
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But the peace call was accompanied by the customary rhetorical muscle-flexing:
Another member of the Armed Services Committee, Rep. Samuel S. Stratton, D-N.Y., said continuation of the draft to mid-1972, which will be proposed in an amendment today "would jeopardize the volunteer Army before it gets a fair deal."
Total Now Ten To Stand Trial For Drug Sale
Four more persons arrested in connection with Vern Miller's Feb. 26 drug raid on Lawrence were bound over to the district court in Douglas County District Court on Monday.
The four were Open Opel, 20, Leawood sophomore, of 1800 Naismith; Seth Bendersky, 18, student, of 1530 Missouri; Mark Burakman, 18, Derby freshman, of 1530 Naismith; and Mark Harmerson, 19, Ottumwa, freshman, of 1815 Naismith.
Opel is charged with the sale of hashish, bendersky and Hammersly with the sale of LSD and Barackman with the sale of marijuana and LSD.
Ten of the 35 persons arrested in connection with the raid have now been bound over to district court for trial. Two arrested in the raid have pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges and the charges against another have been dropped.
Bond was $150 for each man except
Barackman, whose bill was $2.000.
Four of the 35 arrested are juveniles whose cases will be handled in juvenile court.
PT. BENNING, Ga. (UP)—LL. William L. Calley Jr. stood sobbing Tuesday before a military jury that could sentence him to death and said he would not "plead for my life or my freedom," because his only crime was killing his troops over those of the enemy at Mv La.
"Yesterday you stripped me of all my honor. Please, by your actions today, don't strip future soldiers of their honor, please, I beg of you.
"I never knew a solider, nor did I ever myself, want only kill a human being in my neck."
"If I've committed a crime it was because I valued my troops' lives more than enemy
The 27-year-old defendant was convicted Monday of the premeditated murder of 22 Vietnamese civilians during an American infantry sweep through My Lai on March 16, 1988. He was also found guilty of assault with intent to kill a child.
A crowd of about 300 persons, including uniformed servicemen, school children and housewives with infants, gathered across the street as they waited when Calley emerged flanked by men.
The six-officer jury that convicted him now must set his sentence, and has the choice of sending him to the gallows or to prison for life.
After a few sentences, however, Calley's voice began to crack, and as he proceeded, his
stocky 5-foot 3-frame was wracked with sobs and tears rolled down his cheeks.
"I not am going to stand here and plead for my life or my freedom, but I would like to ask you to help me go back to being to be lost in Southeast Asia and in hospitals all over the world as amputees from Iraq."
Still he stood, facing the jury with a microphone in his hand and trying to convey
Cap, Abubray D, Daniel III, the prosecutor,
called Calley's statement that the jury had
been indicted.
"You did not strip him of his honor," Daniel declared. "He did he stripped his of his honor."
Daniel urged the jury to return a verdict that it "commensurate with your findings."
After hearing both sides, Col Reid Kemedy, gave his instructions to the jury and the case was placed back in the panel's hands it: 2.17 p.m.
Calley's defense attorney, George W. Latimer, made a plea to the court before Calley spoke on his own behalf He said his lawyer told him to "hang from a hangman's nose."
In a voice that was barely audible and breaking badly when he ended his summation, Lafatier叫 Calley was a "good guy" taught by the army to "kill, kill, kill."
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House, Military Angered
"The verdict constitutes a very dangerous step toward destruction of morale in the Army and of the Army itself," Rep. John J. Flynt, DGA, told his colleagues. He predicted it would wreck the administration's plans to create an all-volunteer Army.
Because the Calley case will be appealed automatically, the Pentagon had no official comment other than to say "the verdict speaks for itself. But unformed opinions in the pentagon who requested anonymity expressed feelings as mixed as those of the civic public."
One career noncommissioned officer said there had been talk among other professional sergeants, "probably just barroom talk," of refusing future assignment to Vietnam out of fear that a decision on the battlefield might result in a court-martial.
WASHINGTON (UPI)—L. William Calley Jr.'s conviction of premilitary murder at My Lai three years ago split the ranks of the professional military down the middle Tuesday and provoked angry protest on the House floor.
Districts Will Reapportion Without Docking's Approval
Docking also signed a bill to provide statewide voter registration in Kansas.
TOPEKA (UPI)—Gov. Robert B. Docking today allowed the congressional reapportionment bill to become law without his signature.
The governor said he was not signing the repositionment bill because it split counties, and if the bill did not become law now would be little time for a court test.
Docking said he objected to the bill which split Sweetgrief and Wyandotte counties. "The county laws should be based on counties should have the same consideration as equal representation in congressional districts."
Docking also said it was apparent the
legality of the bill would be tested in the courts;
All the state's congressmen favor the bill passed by the legislature which realigns the state's budget.
"Ample time is needed to allow for a possible legal determination as to whether the bill meets the equalization of representation criteria. If this bill does not become law at the time of passage, the resuppportment act would be passed by this legislative session. If the legislature waited until next session to pass a congressional resuppportment act, there would not be ample time after the next session for a court decision on cases in which may be involved in the bill." he said.
In the House, Rep. William L. Dickinson, R-Ala., said he would ask President Nixon to pardon Calley until there could be changes in the law which permitted another soldier-in-fact in the case to go without prosecution because it already had been released from the Army.
Debate about continuing the draft may be shaping up into a referendum on the Vietnam
In the words of Rep. Jerome R. Walde, Casilf, "I am going to vote to end the draft. I am going to vote to shut off the money for the war and I am going to vote to end the war in Vietnam."
President To Announce Pull-out Rate
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (UPF) - President Nixon will announce on April 7 that the American withdrawal from South Vietnam will proceed at the current withdrawal rate of 12,500 troops a month or faster, Ronald Ziegler, press secretary, said Tuesday.
Despite some disappointment expressed by ranking Nixon advisers about the performance of South Vietnamese forces in the recent Laotian operation, Ziegler said there had been no change in the outlook that the President gave last week of a continuation of the American withdrawal at least at the current rate.
"The President will be completing his assessment of the situation in South Vietnam this week," Ziegler said. "His decision to engage with the North in South Vietnam will be based on an estimation of future enemy activity in the area . . . the impact of the Laotian operation and the ability of the South Vietnamese forces to respond effectively to the nature of the responsibility in South Vietnam."
The President had earlier indicated he would disclose the next troop withdrawal plan on April 15, but Ziegler said Nixon had decided to move up the date in order to avoid a potential conflict and make it in an address to the nation from Oval Office in the White House, Ziegler said.
Warm temperature Tuesday triggered an early attack of spring fever for many students.
Kansan Photo by ROGER SNEEGAS
including Steve Flacus, Hawkins junior, and Alan Pudacher, Lawrence graduate student, who found that throwing a frisbee was too hard. Why would quantity they could engage in on a warm day.