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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Arts Festival To Feature Six Performers
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
81st Year, No.62
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Thursday, December 3. 1970
Senate Group Votes Down Welfare Rule
Officials from Justice Department Answer Student Questions
at KU to explain positions of the Justice Department
WASHINGTON (UP1) - A Senate committee voted Wednesday to bypass Supreme Court decisions which declared unconstitutional state laws denying welfare aid to new state residents and to households in which men reside.
The Finance Committee also took a slap at the federally paid poverty lawyers who filed the lawsuits that resulted in those Supreme Court judges' death. Congress forbid the use of federal funds to pay the salaries of lawyers who file court challenges of federal welfare laws and other matters.
The lawyers who filed the suits werepooled by the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) program which provides legal services tothe poor.
The Supreme Court decisions which the committee sought to skirt may have added as many as 700,000 persons to the nation's welfare roles, according to a government study. The welfare roles grew by 1.7 million persons between August, 1969, and August, 1970.
The residency requirements which the court struck down discouraged welfare families from moving from states that make low welfare payments to those that pay more, and to force a man to support the offspring of a woman in whose home he lives.
Under another controversial provision approved by the Finance Committee, a mother could be denied welfare if she refuses to identify the natural father of her children. All three proposals will face still more opposition in the Senate.
In 1968 and 1969, the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional state laws setting residency requirements for welfare recipients and denying welfare to households headed by a man. The court said they violated the 14th Amendment.
Critics of the man-in-the-house rule contended it causes husbands to desert their families in order to make their wives and children eligible for welfare payments.
Athletics Dropped from Budget
The man-in-the-house law which the court declared unconstitutional were intended to force men to support the children of women in whose home they resided, even if they were not the children's natural fathers or did not marry the children's mothers.
Student fee allocations to the KU Athletic Department may be discontinued next year if the Student Senate follows through on a proposal passed Wednesday night.
The major topic of discussion during the regular Senate meeting in Dyche Auditorium was the proposed 1971 budgeting of the $12 fee students pay each semester.
Although the full budget was not voted on because of a lack of a quorum, the Seante did amend the budget proposal to throw out the $8 athletic allocation.
If the full budget passes, students would only pay a $6 fee activity, and 50 cents extra for "minor sports"—all sports other than football, basketball and track.
Attorney Files $400 Million Suit Against Calley, U.S. Government
BT. BENNING, Ga. (U+11)—A Hong Kong attorney disclosed Wednesday he had filed $400-million suit against 1st Lt. William L. Calley Jr., and the United States government on behalf of 59 survivors of the alleged Meyer L. message.
The disclosure by Paul Narkin came shortly after military Judge Col. Reid W. Kennedy closed the Calley court-martial to all newsmen and spectators when a witness took the stand and refused to answer any questions relating to My Lai.
Narkin, who filed his suit in U.S. D.C.’s Inner City in nearby Columbus, Ga., and the beard he wore when he was a teenager, called for Calley for 10 days, giving him an opportunity to bring witnesses here from
Calley is charged with the premeditated murder of 102 South Vietnamese civilians on the day his platoon conducted a search-and-dive sweep through the village of My Lai.
Narkin's suit names as defendants Calley, Secretary of the Army Stanley Resor and Secretary of the Defense Motion laired. The suit seeks $260 million in damages and $300 million in punitive damages.
"The 323 victims Narkin's figure were by the personal actions and direct order of LL Calley, shot, wounded, killed, assaulted, beaten, remembered and murdered," the action alleged.
Narkin, who also maintains offices in Amsterdam, said the list of dead and surviving was compiled by the central office of the United Buddhist Congregation of Vietnam.
He said the survivors are now living at a community refuge camp at Sugay Me, near my hometown.
Reid did not explain his reasons for excluding spectators. It apparently was for the purpose of resolving what, if anything, would be done with the witness.
The reluctant witness who brought about the death of Bryan Hirschi, Jr. was Alain Boyes of Bradley Beach.
Kennedy promised the trial would resume on an open basis Thursday morning.
The proposed fee reduction would cost the athletic department an estimated $179,000 and
Boyce gave his name and address to the court, and thereafter pleaded the 9th
Amendment to all questions asked by prosecutor Capt. Aubrey DAILY III.
Prior to Boyce's appearance, a former machinemaker who accompanied Calley on the My Lai lai testified he heard automatic weapons fire a near drainage ditch
and later saw the riddled bodies of 30 to 40 South Vietnamese civilians.
"They were in piles at some places, just sprawled out, blood coming from all parts of their bodies," Charles H. Hall, 23, of Columbus, Ohio, told the court-martial board
The full appropriations proposal, which included funds for the University Daily Kansas University Theatre, the Concert Department and the department groups, intramural and extramural sports clubs, and the Student Senate meeting next week.
Kansas Staff Photo by MIKE RADENCIC
Subterfuge
The lack of a quorum at the end of the three-hour meeting halted any further action. The decision was made to go forward.
What appears to be the sun peeking feebly through the tops of trees in a tropical rainforest.
photograph is merely a picture of a photo flash unit laid on the ground under a clump of bushes behind Flint Hall. The small white spots in the lower right hand corner are the focus of the focusing camera and the flash unit. The connecting points to the lower left from the ball of light.
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This summer, the Senate attempted to cut the athletic allocation from the budget, but the Kansas Board of Regents overruled the attempt.
student, for a student referendum on the budget was squelched by the quorum call. The referendum will also be discussed next week.
The Senate's only other action was to approve a bottle and can reclamation center for
Steve Emerson, Topeka junior, said the center would be patterned after a similar program in Madison, Wis. He said bottles and cans would be pulverized and sold to packaging companies for recycling for new bottles and cans.
The program has already received backing from the Coca-Cola Holding Co. of Kansai, Japan.
Justice Department Visit
U.S. Attorneys Explain Actions, Hear Students
By MIKE MOFFET Kansan Staff Writer
Four Justice Department representatives visited KU Wednesday to "explain the actions and operations of the Justice Department and how it can be used to say about what the department is doing."
Audience response in two seminars held by the representatives differed. When the four speakers were in session held in Green Hall, there was no response from the audience other than to them.
At a later meeting in the Kansas Union, the same introduction invoked laughter and jealousy.
However, the evening meeting did not turn into the "Kaw Valley Hemp Pickers First Annual Hag Calling contest," as the street vendors distributed carrots and other distributions distributed on campus before the form
Bruce R. Wilson, special assistant to the assistant attorney general in the ant-trust division, and the team leader, said he felt that the discussions the afternoon one was more valuable.
Questions concerning changes in policy of the Justice Department with the new ad- dress code.
Wilson stated after the seminars that two issues of repression, pollution, and civil rights were the most important to the students he had attended and the two other campuses he had visited.
In response, all four attorneys said that they did not feel that action had department were politically motivated. J. Robert McBrien, special attorney in the organized crime and racketage section of the department said that such criticisms were "absurd."
Of the repression issue he said, "The fear is very real, but how rational this threat is is open to debate. The government's statements made by high government officials that he described as "counselors" are invalid."
During the second seminar, when questioned as to why he thought some people were turning to violence to gain their ends, they said "They are impatient, and justifiably so."
However, he said that he thought violence was self-defeating because of the polarization
John Lesby, trial attorney in the civil rights division, section relating to school desegregation, fielded questions on civil rights.
He said he was pleased with the progress his section had made in the South, characterizing the dual school system as virtually dead there.
The pollution issue was handled by James Glasgow, trial attorney in land and natural resources division. He too was optimistic about the prospects for success. He attributed the troubles they've had to the lack of sufficient legislation to act under. He demanded that the statute they use most often is the 1894
The visit was part of a series of similar visits being made to 50 universities by the C.I.A.
Kansan Staff Photo by JIM HOFFMAN
Kansas Staff Photo by JIM HOFFMAN
George Kimball
... questions officials
U.S. Attorney Says No-Knock Law Good
J. Robert McClaren, special attorney of the U.S. Department of Justice, and Tuesday that he thought the no-knock law was an excellent one.
MeBrien is a member of the organized crime and racketeering section of the department and is also secretary to the National Council on Organized Crime.
"Many people do not understand the law. They think that it is a new idea, but it is not," she said.
"The no-nock law," McBrien said, "has been around for a number of years. It just hasn't gotten as much publicity as the new no-knock law.
"Under the old law, a policeman could, under certain circumstances, decide to enter a building and contact a search. The new law prohibits the policeman from making this decision himself."
Many Factors Curbed Enrollment
By JOHN RITTER
Kansan Staff Writer
Violence on the University of Kansas campus last summer and summed up the state's response to that violence in plannings that hayter offer for a drop in the KU enrollment below predictions made in the study.
The administration had expected 18,376 students this fall. Instead, enrollment was 17,947, or 429 of the prediction. The actual enrollment represented an increase of 371 over last fall's enrollment of 17,576, but was 2.3 per cent below expectations.
Whether or not campus unrest and the condition of the economy actually discouraged enrollment this year is a question George B. Smith, vice chancellor for institutional planning and the man responsible for the predictions, finds impossible to answer.
"It's really hard," he said, "to determine a specific cause because of the number of variables involved in making the predictions. The number of things could limit enrollment."
One starting place for determining enrollment predictions, Smith said, is figures released by the federal government telling students that it will predict in college in a given year.
means used to help determine predictions.
Recent enrollment trends throughout kansas as well as population trends both in the state and across the country.
Besides these, Smith said there are other more visible factors that have to be considered. For example, higher tuition discourages enrollment for some.
The 19 Kansas junior colleges have also lured many students away from the four-year universities in the state in recent years, Smith said.
College enrollments also vary with the number of job opportunities that are available to students.
Thus it isn't easy, Smith said, to determine a single factor that might limit enrollment in the program.
"During the depression in the 30s, Smith said, "KU's enrollment was much larger than most expected, simply because there weren't any jobs available."
"There are just too many things we have to consider. Any one of a number of factors could either increase or decrease enrollment, but I don't know if there will be an effect during a certain year." he said.
Smith said world conflict that affects the draft status of students also has bearing on how colleges select their mission selectivity, such as shortages of classrooms or lab spaces, also limit
Smith said that since 1967 he has been in charge of an enrollment prediction study for all Kansas schools, private and state supported.
"We made the original study in 1967, using the fall of 1966 as a base. We enrolled an enrolment in our services care course for the fall of 1968. Actual enrollment was 16,482, which is an error of about one tenth of the actual enrollment."
In 1969 enrollment surpassed the prediction
17,000 by 576, an error of 3.4 per cent.
The trend continued.
According to Smith that's just about as close as anyone can get employing the team.
"We were right on the button in '88. "Smith said, "and just a little off in '69 and 70. Really fun."
Smith said the State Education Commission uses his figures for Kansas schools to determine the amount of money to seek from the federal government for building projects. Commission uses projected enrollment figures to determine future needs of the various schools.
Smith said his predictions for next year show an increase of 609 students bringing the total enrollment to 18,600. For 1972, enrollment hit 15,900, for 1975, 20,500 and 20,600. He said these figures will change some years but the percentage of error is considered
Smith said that with few exceptions all Kansas institutions showed a drop below enrollment predictions this fall. For that reason, he said, this year's drop at KU to campus unrest.