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81st Year, No. 10 The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Monday, September 14, 1970
Standing Ovation Greets Chalmers
Chancellor Stresses Need for 'Re-examination of Procedures'
Chalmers Asks for Student Cooperation
Kansan Staff Photo
... expresses confidence in students, faculty
UAW Selects GM as Strike Target
By RICHARD McFARLAND
BY MCHARDT
DETROIT (UPI) — The United Auto Workers selected giant General Motors Sunday as its sole strike target unless a new contract is agreed upon by midnight Monday. UAW President Leonard Woodcock predicted Saturday that a strike is "quite certain."
The UAW originally had picked both GM, world's biggest manufacturing corporation, and Chrysler, smallest of the Big Three auto makers, as twin strike targets. But Woodcock said the union executive board decided unanimously to make GM the sole target.
WOODCOCK SAID that GM was the "architect of the industry offers and Chrysler was its stooge" and that the board did not want Chrysler employs to be "exploited" as a result.
Ford, hit by a seven-week strike in 1967, already had been exempted by the union from a strike.
GM Vice-President Earl Bramblett, the company's chief negotiator, said a strike would be "unnecessarily costly to the company and its employees"
"A long strike would be a tragedy for General Motors, our employees and the country. No one wins a strike; everybody loses," he said.
A STRIKE against GM at
The GM headquarters building and 27 GM plants would be exempted from a strike because they supply parts to other auto makers and produce products for the Defense Department.
11:59 p.m. EDT would take out about 350,000 UAW workers in 136 plants and warehouses in the United States and in seven in Canada.
"The executive board unanimously has decided that the strike target on midnight, Sept. 14, lacking an agreement, will be the General Motors Corporation in the United States and Canada.
The most recent time GM was struck was for 10 days in 1964, although it was not the target at that time The corporation also was hit by a 119-day strike in 1945-46.
AT A NEWS conference late Sunday after the union executive board meeting, Woodcock said in part:
"There is no point in saying we still hope for an agreement because the attitude of General Motors Corporation is that an agreement is a practical impossibility in the hours left today, Sunday and Monday.
Woodcock said UAW negotiators would resume talks with GM Sunday night and Monday, but if there was any hope of a settlement before the strike deadline it will mean GM must "abandon the hard and
tion in the U.S. and Canada at midnight tomorrow night (Monday)."
fast adamant attitude they have taken."
"I THINK it is quite certain that a strike will begin against the General Motors Corpora-
Both sides said they were a "long, long way apart," ranging from 20 to 30 cents an hour apart.
Woodcock said he hoped for a short strike but with a $120 million strike fund is prepared for a long one.
Insurance of a "more responsive" University in the future is the single greatest challenge facing KU, Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. said Monday in the annual fall convocation address.
Addressing a crowd of about 9,000 students, faculty and staff members in Allen Field House, the chancellor said this challenge, with the necessary reexamination of academic procedures, must be met.
"This undoubtedly means change, thoughtful, humane, encompassing, significant change," he said, "and this is the single most difficult task a University faces in the immediate future—difficult because there are so few sign posts to guide us—difficult because the need and the desire to change, to improve are almost entirely within our institution."
Though these ideas may question the status quo, he said, they are necessary to fulfill the goals of education.
"We can, in fact we must, reexamine our use of arbitrary blocks of time, the 50 minute hour, and the 16 week semesters, and seek orderly ways to compress or elongate our educational processes to better accommodate students who learn different areas of knowledge at different rates," Chalmers said.
He said questions that must be answered in facing this challenge involved reexamining institutional values and purposes to include more than the single value of academic freedom and the single purpose of quality education.
Efforts to assess learning letter grades, grade point averages and credit/no credit op-
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HUD Approves Hospital Funds
The U.S. Department of Health and Urban Development recently approved funds totaling almost $3.5 million to aid the new University Health Center, Dr. R. A. Schwegler, head of the University Health Service, announced Friday.
The grant, as described in HUD correspondence, takes the form of interest subsidization and will allot $99,000 to the interest payments each year for 35 years. The building initially will be financed by the issuance of bonds which are to be retired from a portion of student fees set aside each semester.
Rick Von Ende, vice-chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee, said it was first believed that up to $10 per student per semester would be needed. With HUD
aid that figure is now estimated to be between $5.50 and $6.
"The subsidization." Von Ende said, "cuts the interest rate from 7 $ _{1/4} $ to 3 per cent. In effect, they (HUD) are picking up 4 to 4 $ _{1/2} $ per cent."
The bonds will be issued next year after the legislature in Topeka gives its stamp of approval.
The grant is tentative until the plans are submitted to HUD.
ANOTHER POSSIBLE source of income for the new hospital was introduced last week when the Student Senate recommended that $47,800 of the $179,400 earmarked by the Board of Regents for the athletic department be used for the new health service.
"The $47,800 has been sent to the regents unencumbered,
"The Senate was showing that it places a higher value on the student health facility for that $47,800 than on the athletic program. This move forces the Board of Regents to take the responsibility of stating positively that the money should go for athletics."
with the recommendation that it be used for the health service," Von Ende said. "The Student Senate did not feel that it wanted to pass the entire allocation on to the athletic department.
VON ENDE SAID he expected that the athletic department would receive the full original allotment, which amounts to about $6 per semester per student.
"The money has already been given to the athletic fund," he
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