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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Regent Courter Discusses His New Duties
Monday, February 22, 1971
81st Year, No. 94
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Kansan Photo
Snow These two persons were among the few who braved 30 mile an hour winds and 27 degree
remained opened from Kansas City to Emporia. The Douglas County Sheriff's office reported no injuries on the highway but cars had run off the road and into ditches.
weather Sunday. By 11 p.m., there were 4 inches of snow on the ground and the snow turning to sleet. Despite the adverse weather conditions, Lawrence area were closed. The Turnpike Lawrence area were closed.
New Vice Chancellor Post Filled
By KATHY DONNELLY
and JOYCE NEERMAN Kansan Staff Writers
The Kansas Board of Regents met Friday in Topeka and the main issues discussed were the future of Wescoe Hall and the introduction of a new vice-chancellor for health affairs.
"Yesterday we gave birth to a bouncing, baby humanities building after the longest period of labor in the state." Counchellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. said.
A report by Spencer Depageh, the Board of Regents bond attorney showed the $2.5 million revenue bonds for construction to be in excess of the actual construction costs.
"We cannot sell in excess of the project cost," Depugh said.
The Regents finally approved the motion of Paul R. Wurchell, Kingman regent, to reject all new laws.
The public opening of the new $1.7 million in revenue bond bids will be March 19 in Manhattan at the monthly Board of Regents meeting.
The appointment of William O. Rieke as the University of Kansas vice chancellor for health affairs was approved by the regents. He is currently a professor, and head of the department of anatomy at the College of Medicine at the University of Iowa.
Rieke will be the first to hold the title of vice chancellor for health affairs. The University of Kansas School of Medicine originally was headed by a dean, and during the past year Charles E. Brackett has acted as dean and vice chancellor for health affairs. Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs will be a new dean. The selection of the new dean will be one of Rieke's first responsibilities.
Also approved was the appointment of Loren J. Humphrey as professor and chairman of the department of surgery at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He is also the professor of surgery and microbiology at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.
Brackett, in recommending Humphrey's appointment, said, "He brings to the position great potential for research and patient care in the field of cancer therapy, as well as
Chancellor Chalmers and Raymond Nichols, KU executive secretary, suggested that the council recommend to the Karassis Legislature of France concerning state employee health insurance.
potential for the development of the department."
Nichols said changing the law to its original form would primarily offset those agencies that grant leaves of absence. The law formerly allowed employees on leaves of absence without pay, continued coverage at their own expense.
"Now any employee on leave of absence without pay for six months or a year loses the right to carry state health insurance coverage," Nichols said.
Chalmers said this has resulted in many unfortunate incidents. Faculty members leave of absence and in need of coverage have found themselves without health insurance.
The Board of Regents also approved the motion to recommend to the legislature the reclassification of student health service physicians to unclassified.
"We have the funds, but because of the low pay ceiling are not permitted to use them to hire needed physicians on the campuses," Chalmers said.
William Danenbarger, Concordia regen
and chairman of the State College Coordinating Committee, discussed the recent ruling requiring students at Kansas State College at Pittsburgh to live in residence halls.
Danbarger burgared there seemed to be a lack of communication between administrators and students at Pittsburg, and that the problem should be settled before being brought back to the Regents for further discussion.
Dnambernago also talked about the controversy concerning residency and fee payments that was brought before the committee. The policy states that a non-resident woman who marries a resident Kansan is allowed to pay in-state tuition fees, her marriage said. But, a non-resident man who marries a resident Kansan is not entitled to in-state fees. The controversy revolves around the fact that often the woman is the breadwinner, he said.
The appointment of Joseph McFarland as academic officer was also approved by the Heppens. McFarland was the associate head of the Education Association (NEA) for four years.
One of the two recently named reps, Carl
Drexler of Wichita, attended his first meeti
d.
The Regents will meet again on March 19 in Manhattan.
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Regents Move to Accept Wescoe Construction Bids
Wesco Hall, the proposed humaneities building so long plagued by financial woes, was hit with a new turn of events following the Friday meeting of the Board of Regents.
Apparent low construction bids for the facility totaled about $800,000 less than expected and revenue bonds which were to have been let to finance construction proved to be much than was required for the bargain building bid. The company also executive secretary, said. The construction bids were accepted but the revenue bond bids were rejected by the Regents.
"It has been a very successful weekend." Nichols said. The building, which was expected to cost the state about $8 million, was bid at about $7.2 million.
The construction bids remain preliminary figures until the state architect rejoices final approval.
"There is a state law which says that revenue bonds can not be sold in excess of their value."
Public opening of the new revenue bonds will be at the March 19 Reunion meeting.
Fighting is Toughest Yet
Rangers Falter in Laos; Major Resistance Seen
SAIGON (UPI) - The few better survivors of a badly manhandled South Vietnamese ranger battalion pulled out of a rocketeer-packed hill base in Lusan Sunday and fought way, 1,200 feet to join fellow rangers for their life on another embattled hill.
The retreating, 450-man battalion virtually ceased to exist after five days of the most intense fighting South Vietnamese forces have run into their drive against the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos, according to U.S. military sources.
American advisers at bases along the Laotian-Svietnamese border said the maudled unit lost at least 50 killed, 100 wounded and 250 "unaccounted" for nearly 90 per cent of the battalion was knocked out of action.
The dog-tried survivors fought their way through enriched Communist attackers to escape.
American helicopter pilots who flew into the abandoned base Sunday to take out the fire said the survivors appeared demoralized and confused. They their own injured to get seats on the chopper.
Pilots told UPI correspondent Robert Salvam at the operations base in Khe Sanh that the heavy Communist fire shed down two of the crews were rescued by the other aircraft.
U. S. military advisers to the South Vietnamese named and at least 250 South Vietnamese Rangers were unaccounted for in the siege of "Landing Zone" ranger base, one section of which was abandoned Saturday. The base is located near Laos and 12 miles northwest of Highway 407 south of Southeast Vietnam spokesman said casualties at the base were 23 dead and 40 wounded.
Field reports said South Vietnamese armored units remained stalled on the highway 14 miles inside Laos, halfway to their objective of Sepone, a major transfer point on
the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The highway outside of Sephone was reported to be heavily mined, and the North Vietnamese were defending the city in approximately 40 Bomb-Soya-made PTBs and T34 tanks.
North Vietnamese have put up their first major resistance against the South Vietnamese in Laos at the Landing Zone Ranger base.
Their concentrated artillery and small arms fire forced the Rangers to evacuate one section of it Saturday night and carry their wounded, estimated at more than 100, to the other section 1,000 yards away on the other side of its hilltop position.
Helicopters which had been unable previously to get to the base to evacuate wounded or bring in fresh supplies reached the occupied section Sunday on a medical evacuation mission, swooping in through intense Communist fire.
"They crawled all over the wounded to get to the helicopters, and some of them were hanging on the landing skids to get out," said
one American pilot after returning from the mission. The pilot said the South Vietnamese were, still getting hit badly by Communist fire on the base.
Hiep told Bradrickd he did not wish to speak with newsmen, and an aide wrote that he was insulted.
The authors of a Student Senate resolution passed last week calling for the boycott of businesses because of discrimination and that never had applied to the Draught House.
Col. Nguyen Van Hip, commander of the Ranger units in Laos, was close to tears at his command post just inside South Vietnam and was wounded in action. The UPI correspondent Kenneth Braddick said
In addition to the two American helicopters shot down in the medical evacuation mission Sunday, eight others were reported by the U.S. command to have been shot down or killed on Saturday and Laos within the past 48 hours. A total of 11 Americans died in the eight incidents.
A statement issued by Bill Ebert, Topeka senior and student body president, and Larry Rosen, Topeka senior, stated that the minutes of the Senate meeting clearly showed that the
The Draught House Found Not Guilty of Discrimination
The latest helicopter losses have pushed total American aircraft losses in the Indochina war past the 7,500 mark. The company has said it had been destroyed in the war since Jan. 1, 1981.
Marchers Cold But Message Hot
amendment regarding the Draught House would not be accepted until an investigation was completed.
Lawrence Velvet, professor of law, began the rally with remarks concerning the spread of racism and homophobia.
Approximately 200 persons shivered and shouted, "Vietnam is a racist war, no more ROTC any more," at the rally held on the front steps of Strong Hall.
The investigation showed that the Draught House did not discriminate. The statement says, "The Draught House has made an attempt to provide service to members of all ranks to make up the Lawrence community, and that fact should be acknowledged."
Cold blustery weather Friday chilled the participants of the demonstration by the Students for a Democratic Society, but their message came through hot and angry. They wanted ROTC off the University of Kansas campus.
"I don't ascan't work because China and Russia won't permit the North Viet Cong to lose the war."
"WHAT THEN ARE THE South Vietnamese going to do when we are gone?" Veluel asked. The obvious answer, he said, was "the United States just won't *epo* herein."
March did not offer any solutions for ending the war or for abolishing ROTC, but he said the American movement for change in the war was still not ready of the Vietnam war and the Cuban conflict.
South Vietnamese, Velvet said, want the Americans to leave so they can make their own peace. He said the only thing United Nations could do is to free was the fighting, so it might continue.
The next speaker, Bill March, associate professor of Slavic languages, declined the use of the microphone because he said he was afraid that everyone could hear his shouting.
*Demonstrations don't work, and bimbings don't work, but spatty is working for Nixon,*.
March said that if the demonstrators did
Vern Miller
. . . decries hypocrisy
not do something soon, they would be ex-
periencing war for the rest of their lives.
At the open microphone persons talked about various tactics to inform people of the need to eliminate ROTC. The tactics concerned the formation of radical art groups, showing movies and talks with campus living groups.
He said the task for SIS was to spread antiimperialistic politics over this campus, and to eliminate KU's direct link with those who he said made war: ROTC.
Eric Nyberg, Lawrence graduate student, said the war was profitable only to U.S. companies and that students should build their own company who are being exploited by these companies.
The demonstration then moved to the
military science building where about 10 ROTC students were waiting on the front steps. Several other speakers emphasized the need to eliminate ROTC and then the demonstration moved back to the open microphone at Strong Hall.
Vern Lands in Lawrence for Talk
By DOUG EVERLY
Kansan Staff Writer
Kansas Attorney General Vern Miller spoke on "Programs and Goals as Attorney General." at a noon lunch in the Kansas Union Saturday before about 150 lawyers, judges and law students attending the Institute on Criminal Procedure.
Miller said the responsibility of all law enforcement personnel should be guardians against any violation of any state law. These included "minor and major gambling laws, minor and major drug abuse laws and minority citizens." But, he continued, it is also their responsibility to see that such laws are enforced equally and fairly.
Miller said he was concerned about the hypocrisy of some persons concerning law enforcement. Reading from various letters he had received since being elected, Miller showed that many persons favored enforcement of laws not affecting them directly.
He cited an example of a prominent Karass legislator, who said that everything was fine until Miller began enforcing the lottery statutes.
Although changing times dictate changing law enforcement priorities, he said, "The remedy to this problem is not lax law enforcement, but instead a concentrated effort through our legislative bodies to effectively make desired changes."
the Consumer Protection Act.
"With this type of attitude, we should only expect the young people to cry that we are hypocritical." Mither said, "thereby making us feel vulnerable against criminal activity much more difficult."
Miller said one area of private concern in the state was the eradication of consumer fraud in the next two years. This is an area which is especially preying on the poor and middle income families he said. To initiate an effective crime control program, he said, it is necessary for the attorney general to be able to fine companies violating the provisions of
Crimes have increased 120 per cent since 1960 in this country, he said, and he called upon all persons to help fight the rising crime rate.
Drug abuse is an important factor in the rising crime rate, he said, and up to 75 per cent of the street crimes can be attributed to drug addicts. Juvenile arrests involving drugs have risen 800 per cent in the United States between 1960 and 1967.
Miller said his philosophy on complete law enforcement also applied to drug abuse. Since being elected, he has set up a narcotics control unit of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation to provide effective means of controlling the problem.
"One of the most saddening statistics we have noted," Miller said, "is that 75 per cent of the serious crimes are committed by those under 25 years of age."
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SDS Protesters
Kansas Photo by GREG SORBER
. . . the crowd was sparse