ROTC decision postponed
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(Continued from page 1) ships, with the board making recommendations to the Chancellor's office;
4. Provide other advice and goverance on ROTC affairs as may from time to time appear necessary or appropriate; and
5. Serve as a liaison between ROTC and all other elements of the University, and to report by September, 1971, on the extent to which the above program has been carried out.
Nixon firm on nominee
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move himself as the nominee
"Recent contacts we have had with Judge Haynsworth—that the attorney general has had in the last few hours—indicate that this report is absolutely untrue," said Ziegler.
Griffin gave Nixon an assessment of the mood of the Senate, but Ziegler denied that this included a request for the President to withdraw the nomination.
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The minority report, by Professor C. S. Griffin, of the committee, dissented, calling the general premises of the majority report "unclear, unscrutinized and untenable."
Before stating specific objections, Griffin's report said, "For the good of society, for the good of the University, and—curiously, I admit—for the good of the armed services, I think the University authorities should cancel their contracts with the Departments of Defense, expel the ROTC units from campus, and rededicate themselves and the University to the life of the mind and the life of peace."
"the essence of the report which we really find meaningful" will need a two-thirds vote to be untable Thursday.
In the only other business on the Council agenda, the Council voted to adopt a policy statement regarding classified research.
Rick von Ende, Abilene, Tex. graduate student, submitted an alternative to the committee's suggestion that the governing board consist of nine faculty members, the senior officer of each ROTC unit and an individual selected by the Chancellor. Von Ende's plan would have the board consist of four faculty members, four students (both selected by the University Senate Executive Committee and confirmed by the University Senate), the senior officer of each ROTC unit and an individual appointed by the Chancellor.
George's motion to reject the majority report in order to establish a plan using what he called
David S. Awbrey, Hutchinson senior and student body president, told the Council he had not told any reporters there was a consensus of the 11 student representatives.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (UPI)—The United States exploded an underground nuclear device with the force of more than a million tons of TNT Thursday on a barent Aleutian island, apparently in a test of an antiballistic missile warhead.
widely reported to be part of the development of ABM warheads
Speaking in reference to a University Daily Kansan article saying the student members of University Council would vote as a bloc, proposing an alternative to the handling of the committee reports, George assured the Council, "There is no student bloc."
In Washington, the AEC said the test did not trigger tidal waves or a damaging earthquake and that no radioactivity was released into the atmosphere.
Henry Vermillion, an AEC official at Amchitka, reported initial readings indicated only "background radiation" around the test site, indicating no radiation escaped from the bottom of the 4,000-foot shaft where the device went off.
Students who have not applied for football tickets or picked them up will have the final chance to do so Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 6 and 7, Monte Johnson, assistant athletic director said Thursday.
The shot was first of a series planned for Amchitka, now mainly the home of some rare species of wildlife, in which the AEC may later set off the largest U.S. underground explosion ever.
The AEC said the force of the blast was computed at 6.5 on the Richter earthquake scale, about that of a major earthquake.
Last opportunity to obtain tickets
Rejecting protests that it might cause an earthquake or tidal wave, the Atomic Energy Commission detonated the device at 5:06 p.m. CDT on the island of Amchitka, 1,400 miles southwest of Anchorage.
There had been widespread fears in Hawaii that the force of
Nuclear device exploded
Sen. Alan Cranston, a California Democrat, joined San Francisco Mayor Joseph Ailoto, Republican congressman Don H. Clausen, and others in an 11th hour appeal that the shot be postponed following the severe northern California quake Wednesday.
Purpose of the tests has never been revealed, but they were
the blast might possibly set off a tidal wave, but civil defense officials at Honolulu said the magnitude was not sufficient to do so.
Students may pick up their tickets between 8 a.m. and noon and 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. in Allen Field House.