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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Grassman Explains Motives
81st Year, No. 63
Friday, December 4. 1970
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Kansan Photo by DOUG SCREPENER
Seasonal Sign
It's a sign of the times—seasonal times, that is. The Christmas lights are lying on trees and shrubs on campus and give out a cheerery, colorful glow at night. The sight is even more cheering to many students as they recall that this year the Christmas break signals the end of the semester and a nice long vacation before coming back to the books.
Hoch Auditorium Called Inadequate But Replacement Seems Unlikely
By MELISSA BERG
Kansan Staff Writer
With a fandance of publicity, KU's rival viral door opened their new multi-facility auditorium earlier this fall. Kansas State's new staircase and concerts, as well as musical performances at the university
With the construction of this facility at Kansas State, denouncements of Hoch Auditorium as a suitable facility for such cultural events have increased and the question has been raised as to why KU doesn't have a comparable facility.
Thomas Gorton, dean of the School of Fine Arts, said Hoch was built in 1925 as a compromise between the needs of the fine arts and the need for more traditional form, and as a result it was inadequate for both.
THE BUILDING WAS originally intended to house a slant theatre and a concert hall, but the athletic department went to Topeka at the time it was under consideration in the legislature and pressured them into a combination theatre and basketball facility."
As a result, Gordon said, the present stage is too shallow for a symphony or a road show, and are no dressing room facilities, only three theatrical acclimatry, poor lighting and no orchestra pit.
Gorton said it wasn't desirable to put a new auditorium ahead of classroom needs, but that money should at least be appropriated for the modernization of Hoch.
"At one time we had the funds to bring the Metropolitan Opera here, but they refused when you learned of the specifications of the house," he said.
ALTHOUGH some say KU needs and auditorium with a seating capacity somewhere in between the 18,000 capacity of the Field House and the 3,700 capacity of Hoch, Gorton said he thought the present size of Hoch was adequate.
"Any larger and the audience would be too far away from the performers," he said. "The fact is to hold more than one performance rather than拼多料人 into a larger auditorium."
"Eventually we'll need new auditorium equipped for both theatre and musical events." Gordon said. "A university of this kind would have fine facility for culture events."
Bob Johnson, Prairie Village senior and chairman of the SUA cone committee, said that because the size of the house dictated the location, the conservancy cone committee had been handicapped
"During basketball season we have to stay in Hoch which puts a cramp on us," he said. "Because of the small seating capacity, we have to worry about having to charge a ridiculous price for a ticket."
stadium seating 50,000, the Field House,
18,000; Harch, 3,700; Woodoff, 500, and the
Field House, 4,000.
BECAUSE OF THEIR new auditorium facilities, this year Kansas State is having four Broadway shows and two fine arts series, which includes appearances by Van Cliburn and the Kansas City Lyric Theatre, Johnson said.
RAY NICOHLS, executive secretary of the University, referred to a tenyear building plan submitted to the Board of Regents last spring, and said that no replacement for Hoch was being considered because of higher priorities.
William Lucas, associate dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Design and co-chairman of University Planning Board, said the board had requested that collecting operation last year to investigate the physical status of KU. This included a review of the school's school and department had and would need.
"Half of our facilities don't meet national standards because they're either fire hazards or have a high risk of fire."
"WE ASKED EACH division of the University to assess their own needs and projected needs and present them at planning board hearings last year," he said. "The School of Fine Arts expressed a need for an auditorium."
Locus enumerated the present auditorium facilities on campus, which include the
The plan involved an $85 million dollar request for the Lawrence campus alone.
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No Money to Send Men to Cambodia
Committee Restricts U.S. Troop Funding
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The Senate Appropriations Committee voted unexpectedly Thursday to bar use of funds to support U.S. ground troops in Cambodia.
The committee voted to include the prohibition in approving a $66.4 billion bond.
"In line with the expressed intention of the President of the United States, none of the funds appropriated by this act shall be used to finance the introduction of American ground troops in Laos, Thailand or Cambodia," said the committee's restrictive language.
Use of funds to support American ground troops in Laos and Thailand was prohibited in the previous military appropriations bill and has not been approved. The bill has already been approved by the House.
But the committee chose to陪 Cambodia to the list, even though acting chairman Allen J. Ellender, D-LA., said he did not believe the language could prevent President Nixon from giving ground troops to attack Communist sanctuaries boring, Vietnam, as he did last spring.
"He 'he' commander-in-chief and I guess he 'nobly' overlook this," Elledge said.
The 2016 banon out, which flow goes to the Senate floor, was cut $2.9 billion below administration requests despite urgent pleas from Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird.
Attender said the committee decided to entitle the Cambodian restriction to the bill because of the Senate's $6.37 bill last July in response to a request by the Military Sales Bill, now stalled in a Senate-house conference. This amendment has triggered a heated two-month debate after the senate rejected the bill.
The Senate committee bill would appropriate $2.3 billion less than the proposed package, submitted by
Because of the size of the committee cuts and inclusion of the Cambodia restriction, the bill is expected to sail through the Senate will little debate or opposition.
to Congress last February. The cuts were $64.8 million under the bill approved by the House earlier in the year, which Lord had said was potentially harmful to the national security.
The Appropriations Committee, however,
did manage to restore some items cut from
the House bill. It did this by cutting $653.9
million included by the House for defense
programs the administration had not
requested—including $417.5 million for new
Navy ships on which Hop. L, Mendel Rivers,
D-S.C., had insisted.
By subtracting this amount, the committee was able to restore $766.1 million of the $1.1 billion in weapons and manpower items Laird bad sought to revive after the House cut them. However, some critics of military spending below $200 million be in illusion. Many of the reductions, including "Rivers' ships, probably well be restored in a Senate-house conference.
FLQ Releases Cross; Take Flight to Cuba
MONTREAL (UP1)—The Separatist kidnappers of British diplomat James R. Cross, who decided to bargain when they were surrounded by an awesome ring of firepower, released him Thursday and allowed their only ration—a flight to exile in Cuba.
Cross appeared tired, but was apparently unharmed after 60 days as a hostage of the terrorists.
The release of Cross appeared to mark the beginning of the end of worst peacetime.
"It was the first time I've seen the sun in eight weeks," Cross told Quebec premier Rober BOURRAIS by telephone. Bourrais said that she had always been held in darkened rooms.
Cross, 49, remained on St. Helen's Island in the Lawrence River, in the custody of the Catholic canon who was chosen to oversee the bargain with the FLQ—Cross' life for their safe arrival in Cuba. He was to be turned over to the US government as plane arrived in Havana early this morning.
He said the full committee would meet as soon as possible to act on the report.
Critics of Douglas Unhappy With Committee's Decision
WASHINGTON (UPI)—A House subcommittee concluded Thursday that there were no grounds for impeaching U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who has critics vowed to press the campaign to have him removed, from the court.
House Judiciary Chairman Emmanuel Celler, D-N-Y, who also headed the subcommittee, declined to confirm the action. Told what other subcommittee members reported, he said, "That's pretty good speculation."
The subcommittee, its members said, adopted a report ending an eight-month investigation into charges that Douglas, 72, had associated with gamblers, advocated revolution and written for a pornographic magazine.
One subcommittee member, who declined to be named, said, "There just was not enough evidence to come to a firm, hard conclusion."
Members of the special panel appointed by the House Judiciary Committee split along party lines on the finding that available evidence did not warrant impeachment against Democrats voted for the report, one Republican against, and one GOP member abstained.
Rep. Joe D. Waggoner J, Dr. L.A., who was not a member of the panel, denounced its report as a "whitewash" and said that he must continue his own investigation of Douglas.
Another critic, Rep. Louis C. Wyman, R-NH, said he would revive earlier proposals a special, independent investigating committee of members when Congress convenes in January.
"This is making a mackey of the responsibility of the House." Wryman said of the governor.
"No witness were called, no testimony was taken under oath, there was no cross-examination and no hearings. This was not a meaningful investigation," he said.
Cross was kidnapped Oct. 5 by the FLQ which demanded $300,000 in gold bullion, the release of 23 jailed separatists, passage to Quebec to explain its dissent to tell their story to Quebec residents.
The FLQ wants French-speaking Quebec to secede from the rest of Canada.
When the government failed to meet the demands, Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte was kidnapped, apparently by a dif- ferent officer of the F.L.Q. he found stranded to death.
The government then invoked the War
Measures Act which suspended most of the
policies of the previous government.
The end of the drama began when police apparently acted on information from inquiries into a brawl that stakeout on the FLJ Hideout house where Cross was held, in a quiet residential neighborhood.
The terrorists inside, catching sight of the police observers, threw out a message stuffed in a pipe. They said they were willing to surrender Cross unharmed, avoiding a gunfight and gabble, if the government would stick to the earlier offer of safe passage to Cuba for them.
The government sealed off the neigh-
borhood with more than 1,000 heavily armed
police and army troops, and sent a negotiator
into the hideout to bargain for 'Cross' life.
The negotiations ended with the kidnappers painting a defiant "FLQ" on the front window of the house and driving Cross, in their beastly outfit. The kidnapping occurredBonneau at the wheel, to St. Helen's Island in the St. Lawrence River, escorted by a siren and a palanx of police cars and motorcycles.
They turned Cross over to the Cuban consul on the island, earlier declared temporarily "Cuban territory" for just such an occasion, and were taken by helicopters to Montreal airport, where an air force Yukon took off with them for Cuba.
SST's Fate Is Doubtful After Vote
WASHINGTON (UPI)—In a stunning reversal of sentiment, the Senate voted 21 to 41 Thursday to hire development of the giant supersonic transport plane (SST), cornerstone of the United States' bid to maintain its superiority in world aviation.
Opponents mounting their most determined campaign yet succeeded in gaining control of the air. Nikon's request for a $280 million installment for development and flight testing of two SST
The Senate's vote last year to continue development of the SST was 59 to 22. Thursday's vote did not preclude the possibility, however, that funds still might be appropriated for the 1,800-mile-per-hour craft in the current fiscal year.
The House already has approved the $290 million appropriation. The dispute will now have to be resolved in a House-Senate Conference, total or no finance on the committee total, partial or no finance at all.
The vote crossed party and section lines, as Republicans and Democrats, Northerners and Southerners voted on both sides of the issue.
Nineteen senators who voted for continued development a year ago switched to opposition this time. The wide margin was not only even the most hopeful of SST opponents.
Western Civ Exam: Pro and Con
By FRANK SLOVER
Kansan Staff Writer
This Saturday, Dec. 5, between 1:30 and 4:30 p.m. students will have the opportunity to write the Western Civilization Comprehensive Exam in one of three locations, Woodruff Auditorium, 303 Bailey or 411 Summerfield.
The Comp covers work taken in the Western Civ discussion sections held during the student's sophomore year. The sections are followed by a historical selection of readings required for the exam that may be waived if the exam can be passed without them. Only the Comp is really required and it can be postponed as long as a test is completed, or postponed, just as long as it is taken, and passable.
By taking, and passing, this exam a student in the School of Journalism or the College can fulfill his Western Civilization requirement by removing one more barrier to graduation.
"THE COMP is universally hated by the student," Steve Cromwell, instructor in the program, said. "They see it as a thorn in their sides."
students see the Corp as a great psychological hardie. They come to hate
He would like to see the Comp replaced by an exam given at the end of each semester. Although he sees the idea of a comprehensive exam as a valid educational experience in the classroom, he sees the benefit of a liberal education, he says the American education is not just geared for that sort of exam.
Calder Pickett, professor of journalism,
who has been associated with the Western Cus-
tom Journalism Association.
He added, "It's incredibly hard. I've been told that one has ever gotten 100 per cent on it. It seems that on any exam some of the best students should score one hundred."
Pickett would choose to administer the exam himself because, "I know what the exam will be like," he observed, where the readings have failed and where I, perhaps, have failed to react to the exam.
The point of the exam, as Cromwell sees it,
is to "in the in a wide range of work covered in
CROWSWELL SAID that he understood and agreed with a justification for the Corp. but, in the process, he became more involved.
this country the Comp would not be seen as an obstacle, but it is perceived as an obstacle
He believes that semester exams womens be a better method of testing and that they should not be departmental, but be given at the discretion of each instructor. His own instructions be to use "mini-courses," as he called them, such as take-home exams and papers.
Don Marquis, assistant director of the Western city program, said he thought that the Comp is "an extremely good exam," but he also noted that he played a large part in its preparation.
"I think it impedes my teaching by producing a student who wants to be tutored for the exam," he said. "I don't see it as a burden." He added that he works with a different educational atmosphere, in
HE EXPLAINED that the exam was divided into three parts: matching of quotes to their authors, multiple choice and an essay section.
The quotes, he said, were to further one purpose of the course which is "to know some of the most important ideas of the most important thinkers."
To do this, we give the major idea in a
and ask the student to identify its
crea.
He gave three reasons for the use of our quotation. First, it is easier to make up an answer to the exact words are used. Second, paragraphs are easier to write. Third, those responsible for the program
want the students to read the books, not just the notes which are available.
"The exam is based in favor of those who have read the books," he said, "Most authors have a certain style which can be recognized."
CERTAIN QUOTES are not used because they are dead giveaways, he explained, citing the examples of phrases that contain the word *lust*. For example, "pursue" or *mussolin* and "prince" to *Maccavelli*
The multiple choice questions are used to show whether the students have learned the arguments behind the ideas. The options give alternate reasons why the writer thought the way he did. In this section, care is taken to cover the material examined in text and on the material examined in exam. It is not a favor of those students who have had heavy history or philosophy concentrations.
I think there would be a lot fewer
observations, if there was a rule that the Comp
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Marquis noted that although a student could put off the exam, the readings change constantly and the Comp is always given on the current selections.
The objections to the Comp, as Marquis sees them are that it is a longer exam than most and "you are asking for trouble if you let the students put off taking it."
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Cood Takes Notes During Review Session for Comp ... exam is "universally hated by the student"