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Regents for KU be trimmed to $41,531,504, a reduction of five per cent.
"The budget is pretty generally trimmed severely by the Budget Director," Nichols said. "Bibb's recommendations to Docking will not necessarily determine what Docking recommends to the Kansas legislature."
Nichols called the budget cuts "completely unrealistic." The budget cuts eliminate all new faculty and staff positions. Proposed salary increases were cut from eight per cent to four per
cent. Capital improvements were cut by 60 per cent.
"I am sure the Governor's budget presented to the legislature in January will recognize our needs. Kansas has always provided good support for higher education," Nichols said.
"But this year state agencies are requesting funding increases greater than the increase in state revenue. The Kansas legislature will be reluctant to increase taxes," Nichols said. "This will affect the budgets of all state agencies."
Fees at state universities are
determined by the Board of Regents. The Kansas Legislature cannot directly regulate fees.
"In effect, the legislature can tell us that we won't have the necessary funds unless we increase fees. This is an indirect way of increasing fees," Nichols said.
The fee increase will probably be considered by the Board of Regents before the first of the year because Docking will need to know before he submits the budget to the legislature." Nichols said.
The Board of Regents will hold
budget hearings November 19. The monthly meeting of the Regents will be November 20.
Chancellor Chalmers feels the fee increase will have a particularly strong impact on the small number of students now dependent upon the University for financial aid.
"The increase will bring some students not now in need of assistance into situations where they will need assistance also" Chalmers said.
"Another group that will be affected will be the graduate stu-
College deferments defended
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The Nixon administration defended draft deferments for college students Wednesday despite Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's charge that they let wealthier youths "avoid the shooting for four years" while hoping the Vietnam war would end.
"I think it's very appropriate for that boy to finish his education, then go into the service and contribute a little something extra." John G. Veneman, undersecretary of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), told Kennedy in a subcommittee hearing.
But Kennedy, D-Mass., impatiently puffing a thin cigar, said neither money nor brains—the tools for entering college—should favor one youth over another in a government policy which sometimes means life or death. About 30 per cent of U.S. servicemen killed in Vietnam have been draftees.
Kennedy, conducting hearings on alleged draft inequities before his Senate subcommittee on administrative practice and procedure, said Nixon should abolish Student deferments by executive order. He said students frequently parlay a student deferment into an occupational deferment and
dodge military service altogether.
"The basic requirements of our society require a reservoir of college trained people," Veneman said. He urged quick Senate passage of Nixon's draft lottery bill, under which draftees would be picked by random choice, with the selection limited almost entirely to 19-year-olds.
Drawings of Union to begin
Architects were given the go ahead to begin work on working drawings for the proposed Satellite Union at Wednesday night's meeting of the Union Operating Board.
The board also approved a resolution calling for a feasibility study on cooperative food and sundries ventures at KU and a study of traffic conditions near the proposed Satellite Union site.
greatest impediment to full student approval of the Satellite Union is the uncertainty of the amount of fee raises that might occur as a result of state legislative action and improvement of KU health facilities.
A fee increase of $6.50 per student per semester is presently considered essential to fund the Satellite Union.
Board members voting for the resolution, which originated in the Student Senate, believed the
dents, particularly graduate assistants and teaching assistants. If fees are increased but salaries remain the same, the net result would be a decrease in their income," Chalmers said.
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Students finalize moratorium plans
Final preparations for the November war moratorium, scheduled to begin Friday, were made Wednesday night by the KU Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam.
Meeting in the Kansas Union Jayhawk Room, the group was told that protestors would march in Topeka regardless of weather conditions.
Tom Ashton, Lawrence graduate student and steering committee member said, "We will definitely go if it rains, so people can't say we would just come out on a nice day."
Ashton emphasized the need for an orderly and peaceful demonstration because of expected media coverage.
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"We want to show them that we aren't just a bunch of rabble rousers" he said.
The Topeka Police Department is expected to take only routine precautionary measures during the parade, Ashton said.
Protestors will begin the Topeka march at 2 p.m. Saturday at 2nd Street and Van Buren Avenue. They will march down Van Buren to the south steps of the State House where a rally will be held.
Thirty-nine people will leave by chartered bus tonight for Washington, D.C., where they will take part in the national anti-war demonstrations on Saturday.
Louis Wolfe, program director for the Lawrence Peace Center, said that at least 150 persons will leave by car and six may attempt hitchhiking to Washington.
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