KANSAN
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
81st Year, No. 70
Tuesday, January 19. 1971
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Potter's Ice
weather brought a frozen laid to Potter's lake. For the inexperienced the ice is as much of a physical hazard as source of enjoyment, however. Kathy Allen, Topca freshman, doesn't appear to be in much trouble, as she is helped up from the ice by Dian Winkle, Kingman freshman.
Ice skaters found recreation close to campus when cold January
Semester Break Hectic
Editor's Note. Lawrence was not dormant during semester break. The following is a recount of the major events of the last month. Many of the stories can be found throughout the paper.
DEC. 14—Arden Booth, Lawrence businessman, is named by GOP prescient workers to replace Reynolds Shultz in the government. Shultz was elected lieutenant governor.
15—KBI director says he believes a clock device was used to detonate the bomb in Iraq.
16—KU officials appear at budget hearings in Topkapi and request reinstatement of a campus police officer, campus director. Campus police are taken to traffic station duty to begin night patrols. Five persons are arrested on campus for vagrancy. Charles Oldfathar, professor of law at KU.
18-Gene Olander, Shawnee County attorney, says he will not prosecute Regent Thomas Griffith on a conflict of interest charge unless a complaint is filed. Joha Eberhardt, Wichita lawyer and former attorney is named chairman of KU athletic board.
21—"Street people" sing carols and deliver special Christmas cards to Lawrence Johnson.
22—Douglas County attorney's office announces it will handle protection of all persons involved in the Dec. 9 disturbances in the Chancellor's offices. Warrants are people who have been alleged violation of the state role in connection with the disturbances. The Committee for a Better Board of Regents requests an investigation into the regents and their ability to act on behalf of the people of Kansas in educational matters. 24—Official estimate of damage at Sumner is $23,900 by Vice Chancellor Keith Lawton.
28-Early morning fire causes an estimated $60,000 damage at Krazy Karl's Restaurant, 1811 W. Sixth, Gene Olander prepares complaint against Thomas Griffith on conflict of interest charges. Complaint is requested by Bill Black, James Barnard Bailley, KU student body vice president, complaint against Griffith, Keith Gardenhire's lawyer asks KU judicary to reinstate Gardenhire to KU.
29—Damages during the last week of
classes of the fall semester by vandalism
are estimated to be $800.
$150. Vulnerable to attack by basket
30-KU wins Big 8 preseason basket-
ball tournament.
JAN. 4-4 A hearing on Gary Jackson's case against Chalmers and the Regents, the judge gives Jackson until Jan. 14 to prove that allegations made by the Regents were false. If he is unable to disprove them, his case will be dismissed.
6- John Spearman is arrested on charges of "rious conduct" during a demonstration Dec. 9 in the Chancellor's offices. New warrants are issued for the arrest of three people besides Spearman bringing the total number of people being sought for the incident.
Robert Docking to the Kansas Board of Regents. Ketle Gardiner, former KU freshman from Wichita charged in connection with the shooting of Harry Snyder, senior from Topeka, files a suit in Wichita against the Regents, Chalmers and William Gardiner for student affairs. Gardenhire asks that he be instructed to KU and given $13,000 damages.
9-Thomas Griffith reappointed by Gov.
Calls for Priority Change
11—Director of Purchasing in Topake sends
bids on Weson Hall. The bids are due by Feb.
10.
15—Board of Regents meet in Topeka and
for $38,000 for repairs to Summerfield.
13—Enrollment begins.
McGovern Enters Race; Pledges Full Withdrawal Of Forces From Vietnam
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (UPI)—Sen. George S. McGovern announced his candidacy Monday for the Democratic presidential nomination, promising to quickly pull every candidate from the field and calling for "a second American Revolution to overhaul the nation's policies and priorities."
Charging President Nixon with deepening "the sense of depression and despair in our land," the South Dakota Democrat predicted voters would send the Democratic presidential nominee to the White House next year.
McGovern, 48, said he was "uniquely qualified" to lead the nation, and he said his nomination offered "the best chance of heading off a fourth party movement by Democrats still fuming... over the mistakes of past leadership."
The South Dakota senate, he made Monday's early announcement which beat the traditional timetable for presidential declaration by many months, because he would like to establish himself as the leader of the Republican party. His efforts will be in the national primaries."
When asked about political observers' assessment that the present front-runner is Muskie, Humphrey's vice-presidential rummate mate in the losing campaign of 1968, McGown said: "At this point to say one is in the lead means very little."
McGovern's long-anticipated announcement was made in a radio and television broadcast here and in a letter to 275,000 potential contributors to his campaign.
Under questioning by newsmen, McGovern said he could think of a possible half-dozen rivals for the Democratic nomination. He gave the names of former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, Sens. Edmund S. Muskie of Maine, Birch Bayh of Indiana, Mike Pence of Wisconsin, Henry M. Jenkins of Washington and possibly Ted Kennedy."
McGovern, who ran as a "peace" candidate for the 1986 presidential nomination after the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Hillary Clinton, plans to enter every state primary next year.
In answer to a question about Muskie's recent trip abroad to broaden his knowledge
on world affairs, McGovern said that he had no plans for a similar trip at this time.
"I've traveled rather extensively throughout the world over the past few years and see no particular need at this time to make a special trip," he said.
Griffith 'Conflict Case Scheduled for Thursday
A hearing on a conflict of interest charge against Regent Thomas Griffith has been set for Thursday in Shawnee County Magistrate Court.
The charge is the result of a formal complaint filed Dec. 28 against Griffith, a Manhattan businessman. The complaint was signed by Raymond Bailey, Ad孝逊学 and student body vice president at the the University of Kansas.
The complaint was signed two weeks after Bill Black, Kansas City, Mo., junior and Dick Mather, Kansas City, Mo., senior, discussed that they had information indicating that Griffith had failed to his statement of what he said he did in which he had interest or was an officer.
Olander turned the case over to his assistant, Harlan Rieger Griffin or his attorney has been ordered to appear in Shawnee County Magistrate Court on Jan. 21.
The complaint signed by Bailey alleges that Griffith failed to list FI. Riley Investments Co. Inc, and B. and P. Investments on his statement; Both are Manhattan companies.
Black and Mather turned their information over to Shawnee County Attorney Gene Olander. Olander said that while he thought Griffith was technically in violation of the law, he would not prosecute unless a complaint was signed against Griffith. Olander called Griffith's failure to list the companies an oversight.
Griffith's attorney, Charles Arthur, said, "I believe the only reason the charge was filled because the students didn't like ideas expressed by T. J. Griffith as a reent."
Railey said he had no personal interest in the case but thought that the case should be handled by the court.
Griffith was reportedly one of the three regents that voted in favor of firing Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. last summer. His term as a regent ended Dec. 31 but Gov. Robert Docking has reappointed Griffith to the board.
The conflict of interest charge is a midsomemean which carries a maximum of $10,000. The case is
A Lawrence businessman, Arden Booth, was named Dec. 14 to replace I. Gov. Reynolds and Senator John R. Kennedy; Douglas and Jefferson counties. Booth, owner of radio station KLWN, was chosen by Republican committee and from the precincts in the two counties.
Booth Enters State Senate
Senate to Meet in Special Session
By BOB DICKSON Kansan Staff Writer
An enactment on appropriations will be the major item of business at the special Student Senate meeting called by Bill Ebert, Topeka student and student body president.
The meeting, to be held Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Big 8 room of the Kansas Union, will deal first with the appropriations and then consider two pieces of new business.
The enactment on appropriations, authored by David Miller, Eudora senior and student senate treasurer, as amended by R. L. Bailey, Aitchison graduate student, vice-president, will allow the last Senate meeting, will allocate student funds following the precedent set this year, with one major exception. The allocation that has gone to the Athletic Association Board in past years to subsidize student season tickets and basketball games was cut entirely.
The cut would reduce the individual student activity fee, included in tuition, from $12 per week.
A similar athletic reduction was proposed in the allocation of funds this fall, but the Board of Regents, in their final review of the senate budget rescinded the cut.
If the enactment passes and is approved by
the Chancellor and the Regents, each student will individually elect whether or not to purchase athletic season tickets. The price of a ticket is $18, and the cost of proximately $18 and a basketball ticket would cost about $15. Wade Stinson, KU athletic director, commenting on the proposed senate action, suggested that a student would probably be able to purchase both tickets for 130.
The price would reflect a slightly larger increase than the $5.50 per semester savings of the student fee reduction. Only those students actually attending the sporting events were charged with supporting the team under the new plan, according to Bailey.
The first resolution, submitted by Mohammed Amin, from Centennial College, and Surendra Bhana, South African senator representing the graduate school, outlines the immigration laws concerning employment of foreign students and urges the University to prevent any abuse or discrimination against student students when applying for employment.
The two items of new business are resolutions calling for employment interviews for foreign students and a University-wide Code of Conduct.
David Abrey, Hutchinson graduate student, proposes that an ad boc committee
be appointed by the University Senate Executive Committee to draw up a code of conduct that would be applicable to all members of the Army, including the Athletic department in particular.
Also, an announcement concerning the Student Activities Center, still under development in the old Wesley Center, is expected.
Strikes Stagger New York City
NEW YORK (UPI)—Amid court actions, job action and inaction in city employees' contract talks, the nation's largest city staggered on Monday with minimal police protection, no fresh fruit or vegetable stock and the threat of slow garbage collections.
A state court justice made an attempt to end the five-day old patrolman's wildcat strike, but no one knew if his attempt would be successful. Justice Edward Saypoll convinced leaders of the Patrolman's group that the attack ported the strike, that he would bring immediately the police pay parity issue to trial if the patrolman would return to work.
Kansas' new attorney general, Democrat Vern Wichita, is sworn in January 11 at the inaugural ceremonies in Tonka. Miller
is the first Democrat to be elected Kansas attorney general during this current year. Miller, who pledged to clean up Lawrence, was elected on a platform of law and order.
Legislature To Decide On KU Budget For '72
By JEFF GOUDIE
Lysel Goodlie
Assistant News Editor
Wednesday's joint session of the state legislature will decide the outcome of the University of Kansas for the fiscal year 1972.
Keith Nethner, vice chancellor for business affairs, said Friday that Gov. Robert Docking would present the proposed KU budget to state lawmakers and needies for the state. Nither said that all anyone could do at this point was speculate and hope that the decisions would be restored.
The proposed budget will be a tailored version of the one designed by the Board of Regents last summer by Nither and Martin Jones, the authors.
Bibb then did some more trimming and the budget which came out of the budget review session Dec. 16 was the one which being received, Nitcher said. He said Docking would incorporate the revised budget to chose into his state address in a 11 a.m. mission of the legislature.
Regents considered the original budget requests, made some deletions and sent their approved budget to Bill Bibb, Docking's budget director
and unclassified faculty, student help and overtime help. New rates were requested for faculty training in these areas according to Jones and Nitcher. None of the increases were from the review session, Nitcher said.
Wage and salary increases were requested in the Regents' approved budget for classified
Nitcher said the national increase for faculty salaries had averaged 6.4 per cent over the past ten years. He compared this to the rise in Kansas during the same time period. He said that in the Big Eight Conference KU stands fifth in the pay scale ranking of professor, associate professor and fourth at instructor. He added that among 48 state universities in a list of leading Ph.D. granting
institutions, KU was below the average salaries at all four ranks. He said the greatest diffrence was at the rank of full professor.
The Regents' budget recommended an 8 per cent increase in the faculty salary scale, which the Regents approved. The regents also approved a 147,498.00 heaf, no increase was approved in the budget review session. The Regents requested $36,893 to carry the minimum wage increase of $1.60 per hour for a five-month period, he said. The 1970 legislative session granted funds required to increase the minimum wage for a five-month period, he said. The funds were approved in the review session to carry it for the
balance of the 12-month period.
Nichter said the Regents requested $210,100 to pay for any time spent in excess of 40 hours a week by University employee employees. The federal law calls for time and one-half the normal rate for time spent in state but state had not yet provided funds for any overtime pay and the University had covered these costs above the above required by the above 2 per cent. There was no money recommended toward these ends in the budget.
The only funds provided for new personnel in the review session were for information and training New York said. He said the University
University would lose 12 faculty members.
would gain 10 new security employees at the cost of $50,225. This was the Regents' recommendation request of Nitcher and Jones in their budget draft. Nitcher said they at first asked for six new members, then saw how the firm trimmed and withdrew the request.
The University will lose 12 faculty members and four civil service employees, Nichter said. He said the number of faculty members was determined by ratio of positions to match the anticipated enrollment for the University. The anticipated enrollment was 182 persons under what the University forecasted, the
The University also requested money for two faculty members in the Aerospace Dept. needed to be conducted jointly with Wichita State University. No funds were received for two faculty members, he said.
A request was also made to provide funds for disability insurance and the insurance member of the T.I.A.L. retirement program. Nitcher said the KU faculty did not believe that Rechts recommended this as a matter of equitable compensation, and said the Regents recommended
however, in the budget review session, he said.
Nitcher said the University needed $6,000 to meet its matching requirement for the student fund. The NDSL program. He said the University was required to pay for one ninth of the NDSL grant. Another request would reduce loan resource by more than one-half million dollars. The request was in the review session he said.
In addition to these requests, the Regents asked for restoration of funds for several items deleted from the budget, money for capital improvements.