KU Student Senate meets
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a $1,000 special contingency for operations and unexpected allocations. The budget totals $6,600.
Students are urged to address comments and suggestions on the budget to their senators.
No allocations were made for KU membership in either the National Student Association or the Association of Student Governments. The five members of the Student Senate Executive Committee who drew up the tentative budget felt that KU had derived no benefits from membership in either organization.
Limit put on troops
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Sen. John Sherman Cooper, R-Ky., sponsored the measure as an amendment to the $20 billion defense procurement bill, which contains $2.5 billion for support of local forces in Vietnam, Thailand and Laos.
But Chairman John Stennis, D-Miss., of the Senate Armed Services Committee said he had checked with the Defense Department and officials there were in agreement that the Cooper measure would not affect "current activity" in Laos or Thailand or the future use of U.S. troops there.
Cooper was incredulous, since Stennis and other allies of the Pentagon had loudly opposed the amendment when he first brought up the subject last month.
"It's my amendment," an exasperated Cooper told Stennis. "I've stated what I intend for it to mean."
But Stennis insisted that for the measure to have any real effect, it would have to be reworded along the lines that no U.S. troops could be assigned to defend Laos or Thailand without a declaration of war.
Cooper said a change of the language would make it meaningless. Stennis said it was meaningless as it stood.
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Neither were allocations made to organizations for what were felt to be merely "social get-togethers."
Several senators who felt that the 1969-70 budget should be greater drew applause for their queries on the question of "where every penny of student fees goes." A full report on this question is expected to be made at the next Senate meeting.
Senator Gus DiZerega, Wichita special student, proposed that because of the need for University autonomy over its internal affairs, some response is absolutely necessary to the "unprecedented attack" on University autonomy led by State Senator Reynolds Shultz (R-Lawrence).
After much discussion it was decided that two representatives of the Students' Rights and Privileges Committee, chosen at the discretion of committee chairman Bob Demeritt, Lawrence
graduate student, would attend Friday's meeting of representatives of interested campus groups to discuss appropriate responses. They will report the proceedings of the meeting to the Student Senate.
Dean of Student Affairs William Balfour and Charles Oldfather, professor of law, will attend the meeting, and Senator Shultz has been invited to attend at his convenience. Representatives of the Students for a Democratic Society, University residence halls, and other groups will be contacted.
Election of new student senators to replace those who did not return to KU this fall will be held at the next Senate meeting, scheduled for Sept. 24. The positions will be filled by students from the academic areas in which the vacancies occurred. Nominations were made Wednesday night and will continue at the next meeting.
Senate committee appointments were also made.
The committees and their members are: Finance and Auditing; Keith Nitcher, vice chancellor in
charge of finance; Marilyn Hall, Frontenac graduate student; Ken Gale, Lawrence graduate student; Dave Miller; Seth Weston, Wellesley, Mass., graduate student; Tom Coleman, Wichita sophomore; Donald Alderson, dean of men; Mark Retonde, Kansas City, Mo., graduate student, chairman.
Health: Susie Bocell, Kansas City junior; Frank S. Bangs, Wichita junior; Raymond Schwegler, director of Watkins Hospital; Marty Fankhauser; Lyons sophomore; Brad Smoot, Sterling sophomore; David Blahna, Lawrence graduate student, chairman.
Student Publications: Linda McCreary, Honolulu, Hawaii; senior; John Lee; Brian Sulkis, Prairie Village senior; Suzanne Kelley, Prairie Village sophomore; Richard Louv, Wichita junior; Jeff Lough, Salina junior, chairman.
Draft to reduce
Elections; Brad Smoot; Linda Allen, Overland Park junior; Barbara Nash, Hinsdale, Ill., senior; Andy Anderson; David R. Miller, Hays senior; and Tom Gleason, Ottawa senior, co-chairmen.
WASHINGTON (UPI) — U.S. troop withdrawals from Vietnam, which now will include the entire 3rd Marine Division at the Demilitarized Zone, will result in lower draft calls in the months ahead, Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird made clear Wednesday.
He told a news conference he would advise the Selective Service Friday of changes in draft calls as a result of President Nixon's decision to pull an additional 35,000 troops from Vietnam.
The administration's policy of getting South Vietnam to assume a greater share of the war effort, Laird said, "will have a very significant effect upon programmed draft calls for the months immediately ahead." He left no doubt he meant lower draft calls.
Laird gave no figures on draft reductions. The present draft call is for 29,000 men each in September and October. The calls so far this year have fluctuated between a high of 33,700 in February to a low of 22,300 in July.
Laird disclosed that the 3rd Marine Division, sent to Vietnam in 1965 during the Johnson administration's big troop build-up there, would be among the 35,000 involved in the latest withdrawal.
Laird said the identity of other elements to be withdrawn would be announced soon by Gen. Creighton Abrams, U.S. commander in Vietnam. Military authorities will meet at Honolulu Sept. 25 to plan details of the shift.
Off-Campus Housing: Clark Coan, dean of foreign students; Halina Pawl, Topeka senior; Frank S. Bangs; Carol Scheier; Mark Corder, Highland senior; William Balfour, chairman; and three people to be appointed from the Faculty Senate.
Appointments were also made to the Calendar, Film Series, Financial Aid to Students, Foreign
Students, Human Relations, Lectures and Convocations, Library and Scholarly Publications Committees, but the names were not immediately available.
Zilm elected Student VP
The Senate rejected an initial motion to delay the vote until a committee could investigate and report on the fairness of the University Disciplinary Board hearings which resulted in the suspensions.
Zilm, a candidate for student body vice-president last spring, has been a major figure in discussions among administration officials and university committees concerning the proposed location of the new satellite student union. He has said the $75 million facility should be built in a spot more centrally located to the campus than the area northwest of Allen Field House, the present choice.
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Zilm said that the outlook for effective participation in university affairs is cause for optimism. He has said that activity within established institutions is usually the most effective means to change, and that disruptive tactics are not a good first step toward improvement of existing conditions.
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