University Daily Kansan, February 22, 1963
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use it, because we don't want to have to draw up a blank statement each month.'
"I KNEW THERE was a penalty for private use of the meter, like if I used it to send a call."
"But the university gave us the go-ahead. They authorized the use of the postage meter. How was I supposed to know there could be a problem?"
Fort Hays State University and Pittsburgh State University have the same type of system.
"We just sent the most cards to the legislators, so they noticed us," she said. "Even if we used stamps, we would still be using money from the same pot.
SCOTT SWENSON, KU campus director of
"We sent over 300 postcards. We'll have to wear out our tongues lickstamp cards for awhile."
"I don't know what happened at Emporia State," he said. "We've never had this problem before."
ASK, said that the KU branch of ASK used a non-profit organization postmaster, not a
ASK is financed by the student activity fee, which goes through the state, he said.
"If you call tuition state money, state you could say that ASK is funded with state funds."
ASK has been an established organization for more than 10 years and the attorney general has been supportive of ASK in the past, Swenson said.
"It's no big deal."
"There is a law that says state moneys cannot be used for lobbying," he said. "But it was just an error or oversight on the part of Emporia State; an isolated incident."
Training
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popularity and that it threatened American minority groups in the same way that the Ku
"Hitter's fledgling Nazi party is what I suppose our old group could call paramilitary troop."
KATCHEN ALSO TESTIFIED that European terrorist groups had been tied to U.S. extremists;
Ralph Tice. Adjutant General of the Kansas National Guard, told the committee that the National Guard would face a war-like confrontation with other groups if those groups created a civil disorder.
Tice said the bill would not affect training at military schools and was not intended to infringe on the rights of hunters and rifle club members.
However, Louis Elliott, of the National Rifle
Association, said the bill would cramp the recreational activities of members of gun and
The state already had laws prohibiting ownership of bombs and automatic weapons, and new laws are not needed, he said. And the state also restricts ownership of bombs and detonators.
"WHAT YOU'RE TRYING to do here is legislate morality one more time," he said. "And gosh, we've done it time and time again."
"Enforce the laws you've got on the books, and let people who belong to hunt clubs and club clubs
Elliott was one of several gun proponents who spoke against the bill in the packed hearing room at City Hall on Thursday.
Theatre group earns trip to festival
Seven KU theatre students have earned the opportunity to perform at a national theatre
The students, the stars of the KU production of Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, "Buried Child," will perform at the National American College Theatre Festival, which will be April 11-24 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
The KU performance was selected for the national festival on the basis of the students' performance at the regional festival hosted by College in Kansas City, Mo., the weekend of Feb. 16.
"I'm just delighted," said Kenn Wessel, Lawrence doctoral student and one of the play's stars. "It's just a great feeling to know that we'll be going to nationals."
THE PLAY, DIRECTED by Jack Wight, professor of speech and drama, was selected to perform at the regional festival in October when a committee from the American College Theatre Festival came to the University of Kansas to evaluate the play.
The KU production of "Buried Child" is one of six plays selected for the national festival. The plays were selected from 13 different regional competitions in the United States, each of which
featured at least four plays, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska make up one region.
"It's one of the really fine shows I've seen in
University theatre, and being a doctoral student,
it's always been my dream."
IN THE PLAY, a prodigal grandson, played by John Andert, St. Louis sophomore, returns to his family's farm in Illinois after an absence of six years.
He returns to find that everything about the family's life has gone sour. All of the characters in the story are unaware of what is happening.
They represent the American family gone to seed, and the symbol of the family is the buried child from the title, an infant who has mysteriously disappeared.
The other cast members are Rusty Laushman, Lawrence special student; Melissa Godfrey, Overland Park junior; Stephan Grimm, Overland Park senior; Bryder senior, Kevin Barnett, Witchita tauri.
The University was selected to attend the national festival once before. in the mid-1970s
TA dismissal notice discussed
Temperms flared last night as graduate students met with KU administrators to discuss the placement of a 30-day dismissal notice in graduate assistant teaching contracts.
By ELLEN WALTERSCHEID Staff Reporter
About 50 students met with Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, and Frances Horowitz, vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, to discuss contract options in light of a Board of Regents proposal that would require a 30-day dismissal provision in the contracts of all Regents university graduate assistants.
THE CONTRACTS NOW being used contain no provision for notice of termination, and both students and administrators have said they were not required to bind themselves not be specific enough to be legally binding.
Tacha said the administration preferred year-long contracts that would allow teaching appointments to be canceled 30 days before the beginning of each semester.
Such notice, she said, would be given only if the Regents ordered the University to cut its
Last summer, administrators added a 30-day notice clause to teaching contracts when the University volunteered to make a 4 percent reduction in response to a request from the Regent.
Students were angered by the new clause and, last November, KU administrators agreed to
but students last night balked at Tacha's suggestion for two dismissal periods in a year-long contract.
THE ADMINISTRATION, they said, was using the dismissal notices as an excuse to cut graduate assistant positions when budget requirements actually if they occurred during the academic year.
Many students said one notice period, at the beginning of the academic year, was enough.
"What if a budget rescission comes down in October?" Rebecca Pyles, teaching assistant in the department of biological sciences, asked. "Then is it 'Merry Christmas. you're fired?'
Because many departments begin in early March to recruit teaching assistants for next year, both students and administrators said they wanted to decide as soon as possible about the curriculum.
Tacha said she expected to receive individual base budgets from departments this week.
The group came to no decision about contract terms last night but scheduled a meeting of the Graduate Student Executive Council, along with other fellows, in 127 Strong Hall to decide on the contracts.
THEY WILL DECIDE on the wording of the contract in regard to a provision that notice of termination can be given only if the state mandates a budget reduction.
They will unsuccessfully both the 30-day notice and a suggestion made last night for a 30-day notice before the fall semester and a 10-day notice before the spring semester of a one-year contract.
Many students at the meeting said they thought the administrators already had decided on contract terms and were merely humoring them by asking for their suggestions.
"Does it matter at all what we prefer? Can't you tell the Regents what we want, too?" said John Lomax, teaching assistant in the department of history.
Tacha said she thought she could work with the Regents staff on the wording of the contracts.
SHE ALSO RESPONDED to students' accusations that graduates assistants were being treated unfairly by saying that operating expenses, student hourly employees and part-time and visiting professors would be cut before students' wages would in case of further budget reductions.
"But when the recessions come, the pressures are on us to find all available dollars," she said.
Horwitz said that much of the success of the University depended on whether it could recruit good graduate students and that the University realized the importance of supporting them.
on us to find all available dollars," she said. Horowitz said that Chancellor Gene A. Budig had agreed to appoint a committee to look for students at the University's support of graduate students.
She said that the committee, which is to be composed of graduate students, faculty and representatives from the offices of the vice chancellors for academic affairs, student affairs and research and graduate studies, would have five goals:
- to build the graduate assistant fee waiver,
which is now 60 percent, up to 100 percent
- to also implement a 100 percent fee waiver for research assistants
- to increase scholarships and fellowships for graduate assistants
- to review stipends for graduate and research assistants as compared to other universities
- to look for non-traditional support for graduate assistants, including 100 to 150 unused graduate assistantships that might be available on campus
Equal rights in danger, speaker says
Staff Reporter
Re ANNE FITZGERALD
The U.S. Constitution is not unchangeable, and that can be both good and bad for blacks and other minorities in the United States, a senior fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies at Harvard University.
"The Constitution is not today a perfect document governing a perfect society," said Roger Wilkins, a senior fellow at the institute and also a noted writer and journalist. "It is the product of political process and a lot of political compromise."
Wilkins spoke to more than 150 people in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. His speech was sponsored by the Office of Minority Affairs of KU's celebration of Black History Month.
WILKINS, NOW A commentator for the CBS Radio Network, shared a Pulitzer Prize for editorial coverage of the Watergate conspiracy with three other Washington Post writers.
In the original Constitution, blacks were defined as three-titles of a person, said W. H. Johnson, former chairman of the Senate.
general under President Lyndon Johnson's administration.
But in its 1954 landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the U.S. Supreme Court interpreted the 14th Amendment as giving black people equal rights, a step taken to help ensure their fair treatment and rectify past deprivations, he said.
Although blacks are still considered equal under constitutional law, Wilkins said that that could be changed to the detriment of blacks and should not be taken for granted.
"That definition is under attack by forces that champion the lowest common denominator."
TWO SUCH FORCES were intellectual neo-conservatives and President Ronald Reagan's administration, he said.
Affirmative action, which was designed to correct constitutional inequities, was one program under fire by those forces who say that it is bestowing undeserved benefits on groups such as blacks and women, Wilkins said.
But affirmative action was just one way of allowing those groups to compete for education and jobs.
have previously been excluded, he said.
"Affirmative action is a very frail reed against racism, sexism, old-boy networks and family ties." Wilkins said. "People who opposed the principles of constitutional equity found in the constitution since 1954 are fighting and winning."
He said that they were doing that by isolating blacks and using their poor as a scapegoat for the nation's economic woes. Wilkins said that the administration was destroying entitlement programs, such as affirmative action, by appointing incompetent people to run them.
THE END RESULT, he said, will be hostility
the only link between a totally isolated black
tire on the surface.
Wilkins' advice to blacks was to make their own institutions, whether they be churches or service organizations, more functional and to continue pressuring the government to change.
And he said that white people could not ignore racism and escape its implications.
White people across the country call racism a dead issue and are bored with it, he said. Ignoring the problem of black underclassies is not going to help him, the doctor and ignoring his doctor's advice, he said.
Join the BLACK STUDENT UNION
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For a change, support the BSU.
Today the House Ways and Means Committee will take action on a proposed Work Study Program. Such a program could mean jobs for more than a thousand students.
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