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BSU Statement
81st Year, No. 23 The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Thursday, October 1, 1970
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Firm Draws Final Plan of Wescoe Hall
By DAN EVANS Kansan Staff Writer
From the look of the gaping hole that still exists across from Strong Hall, it appears that Wescoe Hall has been forgotten. But University and state officials stated Wednesday that work is indeed progressing on the new hall.
A Topeka firm, Horst, Terrill and Karst Architects, is busy drawing up the final, working plans for the hall. A secretary in the State architect's office said the plans should be completed in about two to four weeks.
After the state architect's office receives the plans from the architects, the state architect and various University officials will have to approve them.
Rick Von Ende, graduate student from Abilene, Tex., and a member of the University Relations staff, explained that after the plans had been approved,
bids would be let on contracts for construction. He said bids would be accepted at about the start of the spring semester.
After bids have been let, Von Ende said, they have to be inspected and the one that is most feasible economically must be determined. Construction could begin late in the spring semester.
Barring a lengthy construction strike or other difficulties, the new humanities building could be finished sometime in the fall of 1972.
The hall has been a topic of much discussion and the cause of several headaches during the past few years.
Financing for the hall has been the biggest problem. Last year the Student Senate approved a plan that provided partial funding for the building through student fees. The plan called for students to pay an additional $7.50 per semester to pay off the bonds
that would be needed to finance Wescoe Hall.
Because the senate had approved the plan without conducting a referendum, student leaders were criticized for not consulting students on the issue. Subsequently, a referendum was held in which students voted not to pay the additional fee for the building.
In spite of this, the Student Senate Executive committee decided that the fee would be levied. Von Ende said federal funds could not have been obtained if StudEx had not approved the plan.
William Balfour, vice-chancellor of student affairs, said that the $7.50 was not yet being charged to students. He said the fee would not begin until the semester during which the building was to be finished, which would probably be the fall of 1972.
Balfour said the fee was delayed so that those students who would use the building would have to See WFSCOF page 6
Kansan Photo by JOHN BROWN
EVERYTHING HAS AN EXTREME, and littering is no exception, as the governor would certainly agree the next morning. But them—it all just might be gone by them.
Jordanians Break Truce Say Arab Palestinians
By United Press International
Palestinian guerrillas said that the Jordanian army launched heavy attacks Wednesday against guerrilla positions in northern Jordan under cover of mortar fire and machineguns and that the guerrillas were fighting back to repel what they called a serious breach of the cease-fire
Peace returned to Amman and Arab truce officials began moving Jordanian army and guerrilla troops out of the capital city as part of a three-stage agreement signed in Cairo by King Hussein and guerrilla leader Yasser Arafat.
Stage one was the removal of the armed forces from each side from Amman and stage
Israel watched developments closely. The third stage of the peace plan calls for the guerrillas to take up positions along the border with Israel, and Premier Golda Meir said such a plan was unacceptable. The implied threat was in Israeli strike at the new guerrilla bases.
two was the disarming of the guerrillas. Already the arms collection had begun, although guerrilla militiamen armed
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Chalmers Discusses Improvement Plans For Campus Security
By JOHN RITTER
Kansan Staff Writer
One week after a campus security meeting called by Gov. Robert B. Docking and soon after the President's commission report on campus unrest, plans to bolster security at six Kansas institutions are being worked out.
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. said Wednesday he and the presidents of five other state colleges and universities met Tuesday with Max Bickford, executive secretary of the Kansas Board of Regents, and offered specific recommendations to improve security at their respective campuses.
THE CHIEF PURPOSE of the Tuesday meeting, Chalmers said, was to "arrive at a reasonable basis for determining what is necessary in terms of security."
At the meeting the administrators established some general guidelines, but left specific determination of the new security precautions up to Bick-
ford and his staff.
The meeting Tuesday was the product of an earlier meeting between Docking, the college and university administrators and student leaders of the six institutions. Improved campus security was one recommendation that brought consensus at that meeting, especially among the students.
Docking responded last Wednesday by calling the Regents and the administrators together to discuss security. The meeting came in the wake of several disturbances on the KU campus, although Docking said that KU was not the only Kansas campus where acts of violence had occurred.
AT THE MEETING last week it was agreed to provide additional training for campus security personnel, to update communications, to increase security forces on campuses and to hire students to perform routine traffic duties so that security officers would be available for increased patrol duty.
Mitchell Offers Discussion
The University of Kansas has been extended an offer for discussions between students and a representative of the Department of Justice on issues of concern to students, University officials disclosed Wednesday.
The offer was made to Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. by U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell in a letter received Tuesday. Similar offers were made to 51 other universities in an attempt to improve communications between students and the department.
The only other university in this area to receive the Attorney General's letter was Washington University in St. Louis.
The letter stated:
"As you know, the Justice Department's areas of responsibility—such as law enforcement, civil rights and environmental quality are also subjects of deep interest today to
many young Americans.
"For that reason we are planning a series of visits to representative campuses in which top officials of the department can meet informally with interested students, in whatever forum you deem appropriate, and answer questions about the department's policies and programs.
"We hope that this kind of exchange of information and views will be beneficial to all concerned."
Chancellor Chalmerls said he would meet with the student body president and the cochairman of SenEx (University Senate Executive Committee) to get their recommendations on the offer.
Chalmers said that he believed the University was open to this kind of discussion and that the offer would be accepted.
As far as security measures at KU are concerned, Chalmers said two limitations, money and the number of qualified persons available to fill new security posts, would determine how many new officers are added.
Another consideration would be the number of students, faculty and staff at KU and the number who actually live on campus. For better traffic control, improvements would be based on the number of cars registered to students
CHALMERS EMPHASIZED that new measures at KU would depend on actual need relating to the environment on campus. Other schools in the state, he said, have other needs and added security would be made on that basis.
"One of the presidents," Chalmers said, "wanted a woman on the security force. He thought that in some cases it would be easier for a woman student to talk to another woman instead of a man. It was something the rest of us hadn't considered."
Chalmers referred to four incidents of racial fighting that occurred on the KU campus last week and said he thought added security could handle such problems, especially ones arising around the residence halls.
At the Tuesday meeting the administrators exchanged ideas about campus security.
"Our present security staff is inadequate," he said. "We need more vehicles and more men. We have a distinct responsibility to safeguard the people of the University against anyone who would use the University community to stir up trouble.
"THE BASIC function of a campus force should be protection. But we need the resources to provide maximum protection for students, faculty
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