KANSAN
81st Year, No. 91
Bids to Open For Wescoe Hall
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, February 17, 1971
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UN Formula For Mideast Splits Israel
By United Press International
A formula for Middle East peace put forth by U.N. mediator Gumar V. Jarring has joined the Israeli cabinet, Israel newspapers said the Israeli government has already reps favored to the plan.
According to the newspaper, Maariv, a cabinet majority supports the stand taken at last Sunday's meeting to ignore Jarring's proposals and demand that Egypt declare its readiness to sign a peace treaty and grant recognition to Israel as a sovereign state.
It ita said a minority, by defense Minister Moshe Dayan, wants formal and public rejection of Jairing's proposal for Israel from the Egyptian Sinai as part of a settlement.
Kansan Staff Photo by JIM HOFFMAN
Maariv said American public backing of Jarring meant Israel could hardly reject his initiative formally. It said the conviction was growing within the government that Israel should have to discuss boundaries in the Jarringo table currently with the nature of a peace settlement.
The cabinet scheduled a special meeting for Thursday to continue deliberations on how to respond to Jarry's move. Israel contends Jarry had no authority to make proposals of his own, a stand that brought disagreement from the United States.
Political sources in Cairo said Egypt had formally handed a positive reply to harring in the West, and that the United States.
Deputy Egyptian Premier and Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad, meanwhile, called in the Big Four power representatives in Cairo and outlined the text of Eropt's reply.
No specific details were released on the Egyptian message, and no official outline has been given of the Jarring proposals. Carlo Sini received a letter from the Egyptian suggested a withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Sinai and the stationing of an international police force at Sharm El Sheikh, a strategic location occupied by Israel that the Truman Stratside entrance to the Gulf of Agaba.
Breadnought
relay race in a meet at Stillwater, Okla. Kempi, a former high school All-American from Bartlesville, Okla., is a standout freestyle performer on the KU swimming team that is undefeated in Big Eight dual invitations and beats the Southern Collegiate Invitations at Athens, Ga. Feb. 18-20.
KU freshman swimmer Tom Kempf strains to hold the lead during a
Egan Says Oil Alaska's Only Hope
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Alaskan Gov. William A. Egan said Monday that the prosperity of his state and its people hinged on approval of the controversial trans-Alaskan oil pipeline. Alaskan, Indian and Eskimo representatives, however, joined conservationists in opposing the $1 billion dollar pipeline.
Prudhoe Bay to Valdez for shipment by tanker to the U.S. westcoast.
It would carry oil 800 miles south from
Interior Secretary Rogers C. B. Morton, hosting a public hearing on the projects environmental hazards, promised to weigh the value of Alaskan wilderness as heavily as the potential riches of the development before ruling on the issue.
He promised stringent safeguards bu
added: "I cannot endure the philosophy we must impose. A moratorium on resource management will undermine our mission."
Egan said oil revenue was the state's sole hope of providing services and opportunities for its people. He said the $900 million Alaska-based sales in 1980 would be gone by mid-1976.
Stinson Says Athletic Cut Unfair
"I think athletics make a great contribution to this University," he said at a Student Union meeting on Wednesday.
Wade Stinson, director of the KU Athletic Corporation, said Tuesday night he thought the athletic allocation cut from student ac tivities fees was unfair.
"I don't like to see athletics pulled out of all the activities that receive extra benefits. If you cut out athletics, cut out the student activity fund."
While discussing the corporation's financial situation, Stinson said the corporation basically operated on revenue it generated. He explained the revenue came from ticket sales, television and bowl appearances, and contributions and the student activity fund.
He said that if the student activity fund money was cut off from the athletic department, the department would have to commit for the loss through increased ticket prices.
He was referring to a recent Student Senate action cutting $180,000 in student activity fund money from the Senate budget. KU students were involved in reverse the decision in a March 34 referendum.
The student revenue loss, Stinson said, would force the athletic board to raise student season ticket prices for football and basketball to $18 and $15.50.
Stinson explained that the revenue from ticket sales and television and bowl appeal will be used to fund the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Contracts require that a flat guarantee from ticket sales, usually of $0 per cent, be made to the football or basketball team's corporation.
Stinson said that if the increased prices did not compensate for the activity fund revenue loss, a change would have to be made elsewhere.
Money received by a Big Eight team from a televised game or bowl game must be turned in to the conference office. The money is then divided among the eight teams, with those teams contributing the money receiving double portions.
6. "We must have royalty oil flowing before that time or face bankruptcy." Egan
"We are not in business to stick the students," he said. He said that the department is basing its actions on the experiences of a school in Colorado in a similar situation.
Adding to costs, during night games and activities, police and groundmarch charge overtime. Also, medical operations for inpatients may be conducted without a chance at KU as they are in some schools.
Saintenson heads the athletic board, a policy-making body and advisory group. It is composed of five alumnus, three students, including the student body president and two appointed members, and others such as the chancellor's administrative. Allover, there are 20-21 members.
Stinson is responsible to the chancellor and to the Board of Regents.
"" we could lock up all the vast natural resources of the state of Alaska and every corner of the land, ignoring the cry of the people and the disease which it is in our power to cure."
many of the Eskimo, Indian and Aleut peoples of Alaska live on a level of poverty below those in the rest of the country.
But Richard Franklin, second chief of Mento, an Indian village 20 miles from the pipeline in northern Utah, is the director of the Arctic Slope Native Association which represents 5000 Alaskan Eskimos, argued that the pipeline would ruin the trapping, hunting and fishing which supports the river.
"The Eskimo is the forbidden man," Edwardson said, "... why is it that the western civilization worries about things and does not worry about people?"
Edwardson said that if the line must be built Eskimoes must share in the profits and be responsible for them.
Frank said Mento's 160 residents feared the oil men would damage Indian land, lakes and streams like prospectors did in the arctic gold rush of decades past.
Force Numbers 3,000
CIA Trainees In Laos Fight
SAIGON (UPI)—A force of about 3,000 Laotian mercenaries trained by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has moved into position to counter a Communist buildup near Sepone, a key objective of the South Vietnamese in combat into Laos, military sources said Tuesday.
The Communist buildup near Sepe, 27 miles west of the South Vietnamese border, and an even larger assembly of Communist troops reported to the south on the Boloenas, prompted Luong Lao officials to anticipate attacks on major cities and air fields in the area.
In Cambodia, military spokesman said in a South Vietnamese column clearance Highway 7 Kampong Cham and Soul swolw northward from the province, opening a new front in that offensive.
Military sources in Phnom Penh said the move might be a new attempt to locate and destroy the elusive Communist Office for South Vietnam (OSNV), the Viet Cong's high command of South Vietnamese forces and NVA, the prime objective of the U.S. and South Vietnam forces into Cambodia last year, but the Communist nerve center was never located by the Allies.
U. S. military spokesmen in Phuong Penh and Saigon said a U.S. Army UHU Hue helicopter was shot down Monday night in Kratie province, wounding one crewman on board. The entire crew was rescued, they said.
The U.S. Command in Saigon also said an Air Force F4 Phantom crashed Tuesday in Laos, both crewmen being rescued in good condition, and three other helicopters were
seven in Laos and South Vietnam with 12 killed. Seven Americans were killed in the crash of an Army medical evacuation helicopter in Laos, where they were injured, and five were killed and one listed as in the crash of a CH47 helicopter in Laos. Both crashes were due to unknown causes, spokesman said. An Army OH6 observation plane was also on the ground at Saigon, but there were no casualties.
The command reported the second protective reaction strike in two days Tuesday by an Air Force F105 Thunderchief aircraft in an aircraft missile site in North Vietnam.
American pilots flying support of South Vietnamese troops in Laos said the Communists were putting up heavy antiaircraft fire in defense of their Ho Chi Minh supply lines, as they were also fighting a loathing Lovatian military spokesman, Gen. Thongphan Knockney, said in Vientiane that a force of 16 North Vietnamese and Pathet Luo guerrilla battalions totaling 9,600 men believed to be in Vietnam. Luo Ngam, 75 miles south of Sepone and 32 miles north of southern military headquarters at Patxeu.
He said another force of four Commissi-
battals totaling 2,400 troops had entered an
area 40 miles west of Sepone, a key
crossroads on the Ho Chi Minh trail.
In northern Laos, fighting continued Tuesday in the area around the headquarters of the CIA-trained Mee tribesmen army at Long Cheng Thongphan said the fighting on a ridge between Long Cheng and the Sam Thong refugee centers xa miles to the north.
Chancellor Is Concerned About the Coming Election
Chancellor E. Lawrence Chalmers Jr, expressed concern about the upcoming student election and stressed its importance for students in an interview Tuesday.
"I cannot understate my desire to see the students of the University of Kansas in large numbers actively participate in the elections," Chalmers said.
"in order for a representative government to work, a sufficient number of candidates with diverse points of view must be willing to serve. Additionally there must be a substantial portion of our students who will vote in the elections," he said.
The Chancellor said that although there seemed to be an abundance of candidates for student body president, he was very comfortable with the vacancies in the Senate had been filled for.
It is often the assertion, he said, that student government is not representative, and clearly that will be so unless many more candidates file for positions.
Rather than move unilaterally againt student or faculty government because it is more difficult to maintain control,
make it representative and not deprive it of its responsibility or authority.
"I think that the whole apparatus would have to be reexamined if there are insufficient numbers of students willing to run for office within all governing organizations," he said. "I think the University Senate and Council must sit down and consider what it would do if the Student Senate simply didn't fill."
"There should be little doubt in any student's mind about the importance of his or her vote. In the past 18 months student elections passed the student rights and responsibilities policies, and funding of the humanities building, determined which student organizations would be eligible for financial support and recommend levels of funding for all such organizations.
"If you are concerned about how any of these decisions will be made in the future, there are only two certain ways to determine this. Run for office and vote. Your vote will determine the future course of your University."
Student Body Presidential Candidates Give Views
David Miller
By JEFF KENNEDY
Kansan Staff Writer
Dave Miller, Eudora senior majoring in political science, is making his second try for student body president. His running mate was John C. Kavanagh, who has relations and colleague in the Student Senate.
broad reorganization of the Student Senate. Miller said, "we propose some reorganization of the Student Senate to try to make our function more effectively within itself."
Changes that Miller and Miss Laflin propose include a familiarization period for newly elected senators to acquaint them with the organization of the senate and individual senators.
Their plans also include proposing amendments to the Student Code to change the structure of the Senate. They would like changes to the student body, approved by the senate, to act as chairman of the Student Senate Executive Committee. This person, the vice-president of the student body, the three student members of SenXen, and the three student members will form a committee, under their plan.
Their campaign will be based on a plan for broad reorganization of the Student Senate.
This committee would appoint members of six standing Senate committees instead of the present eight committees. These committees would be Finance and Auditing; Rights, Elections and Institutional Services; Student Services; Off-Campus Housing; and Communications under the Miller-Lafin
Miller said he thought these changes would open communication between SenXE and the standing committees and between the student Senate and the senate. He believed it would make it possible to have fewer Senate Senate meetings and take care of the week-to-week work of the senate.
plan.
Under their proposal SenEx would be composed of the presiding officer, vice president, three student members of SenEx and a standing committee chairmen.
He called campus-wide political parties simple marriages of convenience but said he
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Bob Mvers
By MARTY SLATER Kansan Staff Writer
Bob Myers, Wichita senior, filed for the office of student body president because he saw a need for "more effective student leadership and more effective student leadership."
Cathy Waechter, Overland Park junior, was to be Myers' vice presidential running mate but has had to drop out of the race for personal reasons. Myers is in the process of searching for a suitable replacement for the position left vacant by Miss Waechter.
"1 last year's campaign dealt with too many national issues and neglected the role that staff members played in the problems of the average student, 'Myers said. The focus of his campaign will be on the day to day situations facing the majority of students, than a heavy emphasis on minority groups."
"The president of the student body should be more of a mediator than a proponent and more of a communicator instead of a vocalist," Myers said. In the past the people who held this office were bogged down in issues involving national and controversial issues and weren't left free to tackle the everyday concerns of students, according to Myers.
Myers sees the relationship between the Student Senate and its constituency in as need of considerable improvement in the area of communication.
He is strongly in favor of giving student
senators more duties and less power. The duties of the senators would consist largely in an attempt to reach a greater number of people by expanding their departments and keeping them informed.
Myers also sees a need to take some of the power, such as that of dismissal, away from the senate and put into the hands of the officers. He advises average student more say in student government.
A teacher evaluation plan is also favored by Myers. This plan would give students the advantage of knowing in advance the quality of teaching and the importance of evaluation by students in previous classes.
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Gretchen Miller
Gretchen Miller, Wichita senior and women's Coalition candidate for student body president, describes her candidacy in terms of her ability to differ from other people's bids for office.
By CARLA HENDRICKS Kansan Staff Writer
"We're trying to run a non-political campaign, as much as that term can make sense," Miss Miller said. "We're one group of friends who decided that what's needed for us is unity." And this unity, we're running as women backed by women to make our point clearly clear."
One of the "different solutions" Miss Miller
She expressed a distrust for easy answer; and said, "I'm not pretending that I have a whole lot of solutions to problems. If you're moving in the right direction slowly and hastily maybe you're doing it the right way."
Lack of organization is another difference between her group and others. Miss Miller said. She didn't know how many women were running for office, backed by the women's group, Sarah Scott, Prairie Village junior, in the courthouse. Truth candidate for vice-president.
The group has a name, Sojourner Truth, but has no platform. Miss Miller said that each woman who had decided to run for office and made an individual decision and would be either better or rather than platform papers. She plans to issue position papers explaining her own views.
proposes is deciding important issues by mass student meetings. She said meetings would have advantages over referrals—at a meeting people could hear both sides of an issue and be more informed before voting than they are in a referendum.
Mass meetings would be held two or three times a year, or more if necessary, to decide issues like allocation of student fees. After the vote, the decision would be turned over to the Student Senate for implementation. Details of the plan, such as what percentage of students would have to attend to make a decision remain, to be worked out, Miss Miller said.
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