THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
81st Year, No.90
Hawks Squeak By Oklahoma
Tuesday, February 16, 1971
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Government May Freeze Price Hikes
MIAMI BEACH (UPI) -- The Nikon administration is strongly considering a freeze on construction wages, prices and profits to support the building industry. UPI learned Monday.
The freeze would not apply to other sections of the economy, where inflation is not as severe, but it still would be a departure from President Nixon's refusal so far to impose any government income controls to curb inflation.
Kansan Photo by JOHN GRAM
There had been earlier reports that Nixon would propose limiting construction wage and price increases to modest levels, but this was the first indication that he is considering an absolute freeze of wages, prices and profits at present levels.
Other sources said the proposed freeze would be kept in force only until management and labor agreed voluntarily to set limits on wage and price increases in the industry.
Congress has given the White House authority to impose controls on all types of income and on profits and prices, but Nixon so far has said he does not plan to use this power and instead will continue relying on monetary and fiscal controls to curb inflation.
Wage increases in building industry agreements negotiated last year averaged almost 16 per cent a year, about twice that of the rest of the economy. Stage levels also rise in the industry, with about one out of every three new jobs created in a walkout. Unemployment also is high.
Concern
Construction union leaders last week offered general cooperation with the government in any efforts to stabilize conditions in construction, saying they would apply equally to prices and profits as well as to wages. Union leaders had been assured Monday that this would be the case, but they did not appear convinced and were unwilling industry or a complete freezing of wages.
Under the proposal being considered by the administration, a board would be set up to administer the freeze. It was conceded that prices would be more difficult to control than wages since they are based on bids on entire projects rather than on specific commodities. However, prices could be controlled by limiting profits.
Local concern about two much-publicized events last week are reflected in this sign at the University of Texas.
Apollo 11 astronauts safely landed after a nine-day moon trip on the same day that a tragic earthquake rocked Los Angeles. Quite naturally the safety of "my kids" rated equally with the safety of America's moon men.
Israel Ignores U.N. Proposals
By United Press International
Israel has ignored a peace initiative by United Nations envoy Gunnar N. Jerring and cannot accept Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's latest proposals for reopening the Suez Canal, Israeli officials said privately Monday in Jerusalem.
There was no official Israeli reaction to Sadat's Suez Canal proposals but officials said privately Israel could not accept them because they meant total withdrawal from the Sinai Desert and the fortress at Sharm el-Sharif which guardes the entrance to the Tiran Strait.
Premier Golda Meir's cabinet issue... statement after a meeting in Jerusalem Sunday saying Israel would continue talks only in line with its own proposals. The statement made no reference to Jarring's release. The statement also claims he is authorized only as a go-between and not as a mediator. The United States has approved the Jarring ministerial role.
Few Candidates Declare For Student Senate Race
As of Monday afternoon only 19 students had filed for an estimated 92 Student Senate seats and no one had filed for class officer positions, according to John Friedman, Overland Park senior and chairman of the Elections Committee.
Friedman said he thought that most of the seats would be filed for before the 4 p.m. Wednesday deadline. If not, he said, the seats could be filled by next year's election candidate could call another election or the schools could appoint their own senators, he said.
To file, a student must pick up a declaration of intent from the Student Senate office and have it signed by the dean of the school he wishes to represent. A candidate for class office must get $5 signatures from members of his class. Anyone who runs for an office must pay a $5 filing fee to help pay for the cost of the elections. Friedman said.
Friedman estimated that 15 Senate seats would be available to students from the university system.
bases his estimate on tentative information released by the registrar. One senator described the case as "an open case."
Three students have filed for senate seats from the College. One of the estimated two seats from the School of Architecture and Urban Design has been filed for. The School of Education has had one of its estimated nine seats filed for.
The School of Business has had one of its estimated three seats filed for and the School of Pharmacy has had one of its two seats filed for. Two students have filed for seats from the School of Engineering, which has an estimated five seats.
One student has filed for a seat from the Law School which has an estimated two seats. Two students have filed for Senate seats from Centennial College which will elect four senators this spring. Centennial will elect a freshman senator next fall.
Four students have filed for Senate seats from North College. North will elect four of them.
Many U.S. Copters Downed
General Reports Cutoff Of Enemy Supply Route
SAIGON (UPL)—The commander of South Vietnamese troops in Laos said Monday his men had cut the main artery of the Ho Chi Minh Trail and halted North Vietnamese supplies to the south—the life blood of Communist armies in South Vietnam.
U. S. military sources said 10 per cent of the American helicopters supporting the South Vietnamese drive into Laos have either been destroyed or badly damaged.
In the Laotian capital of Vientiane, western diplomats noted repeated Communist Chinese warnings about the South Vietnamese, some express fears of a possible military invasion.
LAMSAID, however, that he expected stiff resistance from the North Vietnamese and Virus Cong who have to get their supplies and arms south to feed Communist fighters in South Vietnam. "They have to keep their supply routes open," Lam said.
The commanding general said the Laos operation has met with tremendous success so far since South Vietnamese ground troops crossed the border on Feb. 8. Estimates of Communist casualties since the South Vietnamese incursion have ranged from a low of 10,000 to an official spokesman in Saigon, to Liam's own estimate of about 760 Communists killed.
"I have cut their road—the main supply road. We are now there. Every day we catch enemy supplies and ammunition," L4. Gen Hoang Xuan Xam told UPI correspondent Robert E. Sullivan at the main forward base of Kbe Sanh.
KU Enrollment Set at 18.481
IN THEIR DRIVE to cut the Communist supply complex in Laos, the South Vietnamese have reported capturing 36 Soviet built trucks used by the North Vietnamese to
There are 18,481 students enrolled at the University of Kansas for the spring semester, according to final figures released Monday by William L. Kelly, KU registrator. Kelly said the total represented the enrollment for both the Lawrence and Kansas City campuses.
He compared this figure with the 19,932 students enrolled in the fall of 1970 and the 18,061 students enrolled in the spring of 1971.
Kelly said that this spring the Lawrence campus had 17,945 students compared to 17,497 last fall and 16,638 last spring. Kansas State's last spring was 1,446 last fall and 1,426 last spring.
Kelly said universities usually had an enrollment drop from fall to spring, but KU had shown an increase over last spring's enrollment.
This semester KU has 519 freshmen, 3,024 sophomores, 2,894 juniors and 3,785 seniors. There are 159 fifth-year students, 391 special students, 361 law students, and 3,265 graduate students. This spring KU has 156 new freshmen to 63 new freshman last spring.
When asked if the University had shown a decline in projected enrollment because of recent campus unrest, Kelly answered that if there were fewer students on campus, it was due to economic difficulties resulting from the strain on the automobile and construction industries.
gets supplies south, more than 400 bicycles apparently used for the same purpose, hundreds of tons of ammunition, hundreds of rifles, and thousands of cases in Communist staging and training areas.
The western diplomatis in Vientiane cited a statement from the Chinese Foreign Ministry broadcast by Peking radio last Saturday night which said "the Chinese people will take all practical measure to furnish assistance and provide help to the three Indochinese peoples to put an end to the invasion of the American aggressors and their running dogs."
THE DIPLOMATES said they had also learned that Chinese Charge d'Affaires Yueh Taibeng had approached a high-ranking Laoist office last Friday and told him that
China would 'never let the Americans get with this,' in reference to South Vietnam's drive to cut the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
Lam said Sunday that about 20,000 Communist troops are facing his 16,000 men in Laos and that another 10,000 North Vietnam nage were on their way in. Asked Monday drought South Vietnamese forces were spread too thin, Lam said "we are very strong here."
Military sources indicated tank battles may be in the offing along the Trail. Lam said his units have already knocked out five P776 Soviet-built tanks and a number of smaller tanks, also manufactured in the Soviet Union. Two South Vietnamese tanks, supplied by the Americans, have also been destroyed, military sources said.
Freedom of Protest Bill Stirs Debate in Hearing
By JAN KESSINGER
and MATT BEGERT Kansan Staff Writers
The revised Bill on Freedom of Protest was presented last night at a hearing sponsored by the student Senate Committee of Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities.
Kevin LaGree, Hutchinson senior,
moderated the meeting which was attended
by about 10 people. Les Schwartz, Overland
Park sophomore and co-author of the bill,
introduced the new version of the
controversial enactment.
SCHWARTZ SAID the revised enactment as "written in this form because of all the operative changes."
Steve Emerson, Topek junior and one of the members of the committee charged with revising the bill, said the bill had three main arguments. It states that rights of groups to peacefully protest, it holds the supported group responsible to the Student Senate and it does not establish a new bureaucracy, but defines the rights and responsibilities of the Student Senate and the University Judiciary.
In the revised form, the bill calls for supported groups to abide by the Board of Regents code of conduct as well as the Code of Rights, Responsibilities and Conduct.
It also requires that punitive damages be assessed against a group which violates its agreement with the Senate. Actual damage claims will be made against the individuals involved. This clause replaces a previous one which had enabled the non-violent group to be financially supported by the Senate in amounts up to $3,000 a day.
FULL COOPERATION is required by the Student Senate with the administration and Board of Regents "for use of campus materials, arrangements," according to the new bill.
the chairman of the Rights, Privileges and responsibilities Committee, and an omnipotent leader.
Senate and the protest group would be responsible for bringing charges against individuals who caused damage during a demonstration.
Major opposition was offered by Bill Elert,
Toppea senior and student body president.
EBERT SAID, "I disagree with the whole principle of the enactment."
"The same process and procedures mentioned here are allowed for in the methods we have established. We would be making decisions we are not qualified to make. I'm not sure anyone is qualified to make them," he said.
Ebert continued, "My objection is that the classic sign of bureaucracy out of control is that it does not work."
LAGREE CALLED the meeting to an ad after appointing Schwartz chairman of an ad agency.
LaGree charged the committee with the task of explaining the specific points in the bill which differ from the Code of Conduct, defining negligence and provocation, and investigating present provisions for University security arrangements.
In addition, the committee was asked to determine whether or not the whole Student Senate should discuss sponsorship of a group, and to determine procedures the ombudsman and the chairman of the Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities Committee would use in bringing charges against an individual or group.
Go-Go Slowed
the defense and prosecution wound up their cases in the general court martial of a full council accused of smoking marijuana with a fire. The judge sentenced him to Air Force "After final summations, a panel of seven colonels and a brigadier general began deliberating the fate of Col. V. Kelblir of Wilimar, a veteran of 40 years in the military, tried in Vietnam for drug violations.
Presidential Candidates Seek Better Representation
Slaughter
Tom Slaughter
Senate a joke
By SCOTT SMITH
Kansan Staff Writer
Tom Slaughter, a Salina senior running for student body president, is determined to conduct a campaign that is not aimed at any one segment of the University community.
"I'm not a freak; I'm not a conservative;
and I don't YAF. I'm just like everyone else.
I don't want to get votes from any special
party. I just can't be identified with a select few."
Several persons had approached Slaughter months ago, about running, but he said he declined their offers because none of them was the the right person.
Then the right person did approach Slaughter; he was Gene Roberts, Ravena, Neb. graduate student. Slaughter said "yes" to Roberts because in Slaughter's opinion he should be accompanied with the Senate, a social psychology graduate student and a responsible person."
The Student Senate is becoming a joke, according to Slaughter. The Senate Code calls for teachers to be more than most realize." Slaughter called the present Senate "bangling and inefficient."
Slaughter said, "platforms only serve to make headlines and buy votes, and I think
a party, which Slaughter and Roberts claim only serve to buy votes and then disintegrate, they are developing a philosophy based on the government should relate to the students.
*Editor's Note:* These stories on Shaughter and Wall and their running mates are the second in a 3-day series on the seven episodes of *The Lost City* body and their running mates for vice
By JEFF KENNEDY
Kansan Staff Writer
Instead of presenting a platform or forming
Wall
Among the candidates for student body president and vice-president are Lewish Wall and George Pierson. Both are juniors from Mission.
president, Stories on Brad Smoot and Walker Hendrix appeared in Monday's Kansan, and stories on Robert Myers, and stories on Danielle Herwer will appear in Wednesday's Kansan.)
student are tired of this kind of pandering cheap, party politics."
He also said, "The president and vicepresident need to be sensitive to what's going on, but they also have to remain fairly prudent and judicial.
"The students can't relate to the Student Senate now, because it is entertaining only its own ideas and has forgotten the majority of students who aren't 'members.'"
Slaughter and he thought the majority of students at KU like the academic institution because it is a place for them to learn.
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Wall says he senses danger in student ac-
Wall noted several reasons for his decision to run. He thinks problems have accelerated, and this spring could be a turning point for the University. He also thanks there is a problem of balance in the University community due to a decline in academic quality and freedom.
He said, "We must return the rule of reason to the University and remove the emotional burden."
In order to end this problem of balance, he says he advocates a change in attitudes toward the United States.
invists using the Student Senate and the University as a political tool. He says the University must assume its own problems or accept outside problem-solvers.
The presidential hopeful said that he is presently formulating a platform and philosophy. He said candidates for the Student Senate will probably run with him, but no formal party organization has been established.
Wall opposes the University taking political stands which thrust KU into the realm of state politics. He also dislikes the use of positives for the university's athletic fee cut. Wall said the cut was probably pointed at the academic department rather than at having students subsidize it.
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One issue Wall and Prison's campaign will be centered on the improvement of Watkins Hospital. Wall explained that the hospital's staff pay is based on the state civil service pay scale which is much lower than comparable pay scales in private institutions. He also noted that Watkins has hospital employees, which understates the successful operation of Watkins. The can-
Lewis Wall
... balance needed