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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
81st Year, No. 103
Nixon Clarifies U.S. Position
Friday, March 5, 1971
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Kansan Photo by GREG NORBER
4,704 Votes Cast
Dave Miller Flashes Victory Smile
... vice president, Molly Laffin, happy too
David Miller Wins by 85; Referendum Voted Down
By CAROL JACKSON
Kansan Staff Writer
Dave Miller and Molly Laflin have been elected student body president and vice president. Miller, Eudora server, received a $200 award from Tom Slaughter, Salma senior, by 85 votes.
He said that he thought the proposal for the optional activity fee influenced his victory. The referendum on the enactment on appropriations was defeated 2.855 to 1.671.
Miller, shortly after the results were posted in the Hawklet, attributed his victory to the "desire for change and the general belief on the part of the student body that student government is worthwhile and serves a function that will serve them."
Miller said he was not pleased that only 4,794 students voted, 438 more than the number of students in his district.
"I hope and I believe that enough will be accomplished this next year that more than $10 billion can be invested."
Miller got 22 per cent of the total votes. His 1,065 votes were followed by Tom Slaughter, Salina senior, with 929 votes and Brad Smoot, Sterling junior, with 918 votes. Lewis Wall, Roeland Park junior, received 75 votes, Gretchen Miller, Wichita senior, received 533, Gertrude Miller, Park junior, received 377 and Bob Myers, Lawrence senior, received 74 write-in votes.
Miller said he personally supported the repeal of the referendum.
The complete results of the Student Senate elections will not be completed until early next year.
Fewer than one of every eight KU students cast a ballist for Dave Miller, newly elected student body president, in this week's election. In the next year he will serve as the head and for the entire student community, although he may be selected by a less than impressive minority.
Only 26 per cent of the student body bothered to make a selection, a number which seems to represent the amount of interest camps politics at KU. This per cent is less than the proportion whom neither voted for student body president nor the referendum on activity fees.
Miller received only 22 per cent of the total number of votes cast. That is certainly much less than a mandate, either for Miller's resignation or his moderate viewpoint.
KU President Elected by Minority
A number of reasons might account for the outcome. One of the more obvious is the larger
By JEFF KENNEDY
Kansan Staff Writer
group of candidates which necessarily split the state into distinct categories.
Brad Smoot and Tom Shaughter represented the liberal elements of the student body, their emphasis on action, rather than on Senate passage of meaningful resolutions and exploitation of a popular student image, led them to the same place. The competition between them kept a more liberal president out of office.
Gretchen Miller and Walker Hendrix symbolized two important political groups which might have benefited from an alliance. The left-wing images that the women'
The comments of the losing candidates would bear out these observations.
Sarah Scott, Gretchen Miller's running-mate, said, "I believe there is a greater constituency of the Left than this election "indicates."
leaver candidates Smoot and Slaughter probably would have drawn many of these
Analysis
Smoot saw a division in the middle and left sectors of the field as being important in the election. He described the turnout as "very high" because a result of the referendum which brought on higher taxes. He said the outcome would have been different if there had been fewer candidates.
movement and the New Left ideologies left to these candidates were not strong enough to stand alone. Between them they pulled over 90 votes, a sizable portion of the whole. With
Bob Myers, who received only 74 votes from a conservatively run write-in campaign, was placed with the results. He said he would have chosen Miller if he had not been a candidate.
Both Myers and Miss Scott did not expect to win. She was not as satisfied with the results as Myers was. She said it did not really express the political attitudes of the campus.
Miller said that he did not think would be handcapped because he won by a lot.
that the best ideas that would serve the greatest number of students would be the ones which are most popular.
Miller said that he would first try to reorganize the Senate to make it function better.
He said because the things that he brought out in his campaign would benefit the Senate.
About 90 student senators were elected in
SENIOR CLASS PRESIDENT
The following are the results of the class office elections. The first person listed in each section was the winner. The breakdown of the candidates' names
'71-'72 Officers and Senators Listed with Vote Tabulation
"It won't keep me from going ahead and doing the things that I talked about in my campaign and the things that are important to the University," he said.
"For the 800th time, the system has failed," Friedman said. "We could have done it by hand, if we had started early enough but we had planned on the computer working."
He said it became apparent at 4 a.m. that the computer was not counting the ballots. Friedman and the election committee helped to help count the ballots by hand at 5:30.
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Hawkett in Summerfield Hall. About 80 people were in the Hawkett when the announcement was made, including Miller, Lafin and George.
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Prairie Village senior and chairman of the Senate elections committee, said at 3:30 this morning that the program for the computer that had been made to count the ballots was not working. Consequently, the Senate ballots had to be counted by hand.
Because of the defeat of the referendum, diller said that he would draw up a new
Friedman said earlier in the evening that the results of the presidential race and the referendum vote would be the last announcements. However, after the class of fliers had been announced the presidential and referendum announcements were made
Lewis Wall was not willing to analyze the results so soon after the election. He at-tended his victory to his campaign last year when he said he would never be heard said he thought Miller would do a good job.
John Y. Burtsey, Lakewood, Colo.
SECRETARY Mary Ippig, Lloydaw
Mary Ippig, Lloydaw
Doreen Hartman, Tupelo
Doreen Hartman, Tupelo
SENIOR CLASS TREASURER
Nancy Pile, Wesley-Brooks
Nancy Pile, Wesley-Brooks
JUNIOR CLASS PRESIDENT
Doug Hook, Lakewood
Justin Jones, Pittsburgh
Justin Jones, Pittsburgh
kevin Harris, Rock Park
kelvin Harris, Rock Park
SENIOR CLASS PRESIDENT
Joseph Mize, Salem
Hawkesbury, Wash.
Benjamin S. Hulbert,
Wilmington, N.C.
Fred Willemson, Overland Park,
N.C.
Joe Karp, Albany, N.Y.
SECOND CLASS PRESIDENT
Elaine Milne, Elmira
Pennsylvania, Prattville Village
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Earlier in the evening the Hawklet had been jammed with interested students. The first results announced were class officers. Senior class president was announced at about 12:30.
Slaughter and Hendrix were not available for use.
Sudguthier Hendrix were not available for the outcome of the election. Too nearly 3,000 voted to the total vote Thursday was only 1,790. The numbers of voters were about equal at the Kansas University and Strong Hall. The polling place at Summerfield attracted more voters than it did when located at Murphy Hall last fall, business students, traditionally conservative individuals with their own polling place and may have been a significant factor in Miller's election.
Miller said the new enactment would include an optional activity fee and a man-
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"Miller said he would first try to re-organize the Senate to make it function better."
Each student could pay the optional activity fee of $18 a year. This money would be allocated to the Concert Course Series, University Theatre, International Film Series and would allow students to buy football and basketball tickets at the present price, he said.
enactment for the student activity fees that would be voted on by the newly-elected
The ballots were counted by the computer. Friedman said that for the past two years attempts had been made to use the computer, with years the ballots had to be counted by hand.
"A lot of good ideas were brought into this year's campaigns and there were also a lot of good ideas in campaigns of the past two years," Miller said.
George ran against Miller in last year's election for student body president. Both were elected to the state senate.
Miss Lafinif said that the new enactment would be put to a vote of the student body, protesting.
Miller said that after being defeated last year, he faced a difficult decision as to whether to continue the fight.
the elections. The student body president, vice president and student senators take office immediately. The old and new Senates will meet jointly on March 17.
He said these ideas would be evaluated and
The mandatory activity fee would require each student to pay $3 each semester which would be allocated to the Kansan, student organizations and the Senate.
Peter George, Miller's campaign manager,
credited the success to the candidate. He said
he thought the University needed a change
in curriculum to better accommodate uncer-
nosed with issues and not ideology, he said.
"The campus will realize a year from now that they made an excellent choice. Molly was a tremendous asset to the campaign." George said.
He said he thought he could accomplish many things this year.
The candidates that ran with Miller contributed to the victory, George said.
The announcement of the presidential race came at about 1:30 this morning at the
Gretchen Miller, another loser, seemed unconcerned about the election Thursday afternoon. She spent the evening at home reading a book she would read he results in today's newspaper.
Chancellor E. Laurence Chailmers Jr. was at the Hawket at about 1 a.m. He said that he had hoped the turnout would be greater than it was. He was optimistic, he said, but dislaborated from the turnout on Wednesday. Approximately 3,000 people voted on Wednesday.
Thursday afternoon Miller was optimistic of his chances. He said a large turnout of his supporters had occurred. One of the losers, Brad Smooth, was somewhat pessimistic before the returns were in. He said that Miller and Slaughter had both gone to war than he had. The polling on Danny Hall had also risen.
Tom Slaughter, who was runner-up, adopted a "wait and see" attitude Thursday afternoon. He said that he thought he had heard that he could and would find out if that was enough.
Chalmers had 4,700 students would tell a great deal about the candidates and the referendum. Chalmers left before the presidential results were announced.
Running-Mates Congratulate Each Other in Summerfield
after awaiting computer's final count
Professor Works to Solve the Pollution Problem
By BOB WOMACK Kansan Staff Writer
The cluttered nature of Ross McKinney's laboratory office in the City of Phoenix has belies his concern over the increasing clutter in our air and
There should be little doubt, though, about his area of concern: the black-and-white photographs of belching smoketokes and swirling liquid smoke.
McKinney, a professor of civil engineering, hadn't given a design course to enter the decided to enter the field of sanitary engineering while doing graduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
According to McKinney, "The engineer is the key to the problem in pollution control."
McKINNEY'S specialty is biological sewage treatment. His work in this field recently came to the attention of President Nixon who sent the professor a note of commendation praising his educational efforts to fight environmental pollution.
"The scientist can show us
concepts", he says, "but the engine has to take the idea and translate it to a full-scale unit that really works."
IN OTHER research being conducted at his environmental health laboratory, McKinney and his students are developing a new test method using algae. This is one theory that failed to make a successful transfer from test tube to the field. The researchers are now able to do this, so can be done to make the system succeed on a larger scale.
McKinney is now working with a consulting engineering firm in Michigan, where he is logistical sewage treatment plant that could handle 100 million calories of sewage in a day. In this role, McKinney acts as which he acts as a consultant, McKinney is attempting to translate scientific theory into
gallons of sewage a day from now to eternity? This is what the engineer does."
"How do you take the idea the scientist has in a little flask and make it work on 100 million
In addition to his work as a teacher and researcher, McKinney is involved in state environmental health committee of the Kansas Comprehensive Health Planning Board. He also serves on the Solid Waste Administration Quality Control Advisory Board.
According to McKinney, "Our primary problem in Kansas is
agricultural pollution," although it has not yet reached the level of crisis.
"Our water pollution problem by and large has been handled fairly well," he said.
Silt was washed from land-under-cultivation is the biggest source of nitrate, though feedlots have become another source of pollution in urban areas.
Yet, for McKinney there is a worse problem, what he calls "noise pollution" -generated by cars and trucks, how bad the pollution is without having any direct information." MCKINNEY BELEVES the claim that has been overplayed not only in Kansas but on the national level.
"We've convinced the American public is dumb and so the only way to get their attention is by illuminating the problem of pollution."
While decrying the predictors of impending doom and their lack of suggested solutions, McKinney also acknowledges that "we're in serious trouble because we've been treated with more and further, but fears that the American public "doesn't really want do anything about it."
McKinney believes that the party has hard work to realize that poll data and hard work, both of which the average American will demand
In Kansas, most of the fight against pollution has been waged by a few dedicated people at the state level who, in McKinney's opinion, have caused what they have "in spite of Kansas and not because of Kansas."
IN 1907, KANSAN passed a water pollution act requiring that every public water supply and sewer system have permit from
However, the western Kansas for whom clean air is a way of life has yet to feel threatened by Mr. McKinsey's policies. McKinsey is, reluctant to assume the expenses of fighting crime in a reality eastern Kansas
the state health department. This act gave the health department more flexibility in quality and as a result, the state has sewage treatment facilities
McKinney said many owners of feedlots in western Kansas don't realize the magnitude of the waste problems a feedlot operator faces. In one county, 5,000 head of cattle produces the same amount of pollution as a city of 9,000 people. Some feedlots in Kansas and Colorado have produced a pollution load equivalent to six million persons.
McKinney feels strongly that two "totally radicalized" forces are propagating and the American public on the problem of racism on the one hand, who screams we've got to have a priateen environment, and the industrialist on the other who controls it. Neither one is taking the story and the public are confused."
TO COUNTER this confusion,
McKinney believes there is a
need for better education. "Our
The feuded operator who has done nothing to deal with such pollution is suddenly faced with a real task that, in a situation in which 'pollution becomes the final straw. We put the total blame on that, with the thought that you can scare people by saying, Look, pollution comes to hurt us economically.
greatest difficulty today in environmental pollution is a lack of environmental education—and one thing we've got to have."
There is a role for the federal government to play in combating crime, and it disagrees with those who want Washington to police the states; he believes enforcement of the federal law on the local level. The federal government, he said, should plan economic assistance to states, sponsor environmental education on a national basis, and fund a state-based policing team.
Mekimey has developed and is strongly pushing a plan that would computerize the pollution data would be fed into a data base the state level. That information in turn would be transmitted to a
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