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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Some Students Stayed Here For Vacation
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
82nd Year, No. 60
Tuesday, November 30, 1971
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Chalmers Deep in Thought at Hearings Flanked by Robert Helman and KSTC head John Viscer
Penal System Hurt by Bad Image
By JOHN BAILEY
Kansan Staff Writer
In 1970, the Kansas Legislature passed and endorsed a bill that would authorize the director of penal institutions to allow prisoners nearing the end of their terms to stay at the homes. The program was to allow the prison staff contact with life outside the penitentiary.
At home, the prisoner could begin making the necessary adjustments with his wife and family while seeking employment. By contacting prospective employers, the prisoner increased his chances of obtaining employment upon his release.
The home visitation program is just one example of badly needed reforms in the penal systems in the United States. Recent prison uprisings in New York and New Jersey have demonstrated the need for these programs, while rising crime rates in many countries have demonstrated that the present system is not doing what it is supposed to do.
ROBERT A. ATKINS, consultant to the director of penal institutions in Kansas,
system to improve, more public concern and support for penal reform programs
Alkins said that he thought the public was more concerned with incarcerating criminals than rehabilitating them. He attributed this attitude to the public's misconception of the purpose of the penal system.
Robert N. Woodson, director of the penal system in Kansas, said that he would like to have a more effective public relations service for the penal institutions so that they could be made aware of what the system was doing to accomplish and had accomplished
Woodson also said that he thought Waugh Gaffenfy and his staff at Lansing attended the ceremony.
"We're not happy," Woodson said.
"We're not satisfied. We've got a long way to go, but I think we've come a long way from what it was."
THE MOST IMPORTANT job right now, according to Woodson, is to sell the people who need it.
"We have people running around over the state saying what terrible dens of
Determination Not Affected By Budget, Says Jackson
the question arises: Do we want to help rehabilitate criminals so that they become productive members of society, or do we want to punish them?
inquity, what dungeons we have," said Woodson. "Other people say if they (criminals) wouldn't violate the law, they wouldn't be there."
By T. DEAN CAPLE
Kansas Staff Writer
Woodson advocates reform for three reasons. First, he thinks that people should be able to tell whether they are married or not.
Editor's Note: This is the sixth in a series of interviews with the Kansas Board of Education.
Jackson said he found the position "interesting and satisfying." He said that knowing he was "rendering a much needed service" was rewarding.
"THE STATE IS just about broke," Jackson said. "The legislature must arrive at a formula for raising additional funds." He said that more tax money would have to be raised or there would be trouble financing schools.
"I pledge," Jackson said, "all I can do to urge the legislature to respond." He said he would appeal to members of the legislature about the necessity of additional funds.
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Regent Elmer Jackson Jr., of Kansas City, Kan., said that in the knowledge of cutbacks in funding to the University, the "administration, faculty and students have all displayed a great deal of determination and inner strength."
Jackson said the proposed "formulated budget" wouldn't come soon enough to solve financial problems of higher education. He said that although he didn't know it, he would "was a serious problem now, it would be soon if legislative help is not received."
of arts degrees in 1933 and a bachelor of law degree in 1933 from the University of Chicago.
Jackson, a practicing lawyer, was appointed to his regency position Jan. 15.
Jackson, 59, was born and raised in Kansas City, Kan. He received a bachelor
Elmer Jackson Jr.
Jackson said his motion that beer should be allowed on campus indicated his view on that issue. He said that although the Kansas Union was "within full legal rights," there were six other schools that would be affected by the decision.
After hearing the opinions of the other schools, he said, he felt that a compromise
Cayson said he had no comment on the Jackson Liberation Front's action to be revealed.
School Budget Proposal Shocks Regent Wunsch
By JOYCE DUNBAR
Kansan Staff Writer
'Reputation Can Be Lost'
A 1 per cent increase in general revenue support for Kansas' six state colleges and universities, and the Budget Director James Bibb, provoked shock and amazement from Paul Wunsh, chairman of the Kansas Board of Regents, and Governor's Budget Hearnus in Topeka.
Following Wunsch's speech concerning the critical situation in financing higher education in Kansas, the heads of the university board had to appear before Bibb, appealing for about $32 million in the fiscal 1973 budget requests. Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. and his wife, Ann, were present.
"We do feel however that our present problems have become more severe because of the changes in society, the past, and as a result of those decisions, we now face the most serious situation to which we are subjected."
Wunsch said that the present recommendations follow two years of practically no increase in state funding for higher education.
In Bibb's recommendations regarding the budgets for the fiscal year which begins July 1, he is suggesting a cut in state expenditures and Lawrence campus' total educational and general operating budget, and a slash of more than $3 million in the state's general budget.
In his opening presentation, Wunsch said, "The Board of Regents is well aware of the problems faced by state government. We know that there are many those needs must be considered and we realize that the regulations are not the only ones faced by the state.
WUNSCH SAID in a prepared statement, "There is no way to measure what these recommendations say to our faculty members and to those who have been charged with the responsibility of ensuring quality higher education in this state."
"WE SERIOUSLY ASK, 'What does Kansas intend to do with higher
The rate of increase will vary with the residence halls. All halls will increase their rates $50. Wilson said, But, he said, there will be an additional $15 fee to cover housing costs for students in $40 fee of $50 for students in Hashinger Hall, the proposed co-ed hall for students interested in fine arts. The added fee for Hashinger residents would cover use of new facilities, the cost of converting the school to a student institution and the extra staff members required.
"I don't have much doubt that the proposal will pass," Wilson said, referring to the decision of the Board of Regents. "I would not hesitate in neither do I. But it has to be done," he said.
The increase will help to cover rising costs of operating the halls and improve facilities.
Dale informed KU officials that he would not be able to make the speech because of the scheduled Senate vote on the concession Earl Butk as secretary of agriculture.
Higher Dorm Rates Planned for Fall 1972
Dole Cancels Tonight's Talk
Rates in the University residence halls will increase in the fall semester of 1972, pending approval by the Board of Regents, according to J. J. Wilson, director of
Dole, who became Republican national chairman in 1970, was to follow Lawrence O'Brien, chairman of the Democratic Party, to spoke in the lecture series at KU Nov. 2.
Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., has canceled a speech he was scheduled to make in the Vickers Lecture series at 7:30 tonight in Detroit, KU officials said Monday.
By MIKE BICK Kansan Staff Writer
Wursch said, "National economists who have studied the relationship of the economy to institutions in the economy and the expense of normal growth and inflation is to be met,
If the present recommendations stand, Wunsch said the general revenue funding for three years would average about 1 per cent per year.
Bricker said that his job would be per-
forming the demonstration before visitors to
the museum.
education? "We really need the answer to the question." Winsch said.
He cited increases in general revenue fund for fiscal year 1974 of 2.6 per cent, increases in the current fiscal year of 1.7 per cent, and increases in general revenue fund for fiscal year 1973 of 1 per cent.
"They wanted me to go on a tour in 1970, but classes had already started. I told them that I could not go at that time but would be glad to go on another tour if they would let me know in advance. So they knew me well ago and I said 'yes,' he said.
Briker received official confirmation of his part in the exhibition last week and he will be joined by Mr. Briker Jan. 10. The exhibition will open the last part of January in the eastern Russian city
Clark E. Bricker, a professor of chemistry at the University of Kawasaki, will tour the University union next semester with awill be in charge of a science demonstration.
The exhibition will tour six cities and will stay for four weeks in each city. Bricker said he was not sure is he would visit every city. For the exhibition closed in the fourth city.
Bricker said that the tour was sponsored by the United States Information Agency and that he had wanted to go for quite a while.
Bricker to Tour Russia WithExhibit
budgets may be increased at least 10 per cent per year just to maintain a static
"This does not provide for any catch up at all—just enables us to stay even. three years of very small increases as against a need for at least 10 per cent per year—do you wonder why we ask, 'Where are we going?' "
WUNSCH SAID that Kansas had maintained a fairly consistent pattern of financing higher education over a long period of years, which had resulted in a far better than average system of colleges in Kansas.
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Nixon to Begin His Trip To Red China on Feb.21
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Nixon will begin on Feb. 21 a historic visit to Peking, the White House announced Monday. The chief executive has described the broad aim of the unprecedented mission as the "normalization of relations" with mainland China.
The announcement was made simultaneously here and in the Chinese capital. Press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said American officials would provide additional information on the trip within the next 24 hours.
He said he would be able to disclose Tuesday the length of the President's stay
Nixon Issues Veto Warning On Tax Bill
WASHINGTON  (AP)—President Nixon declared Monday he would veto the pending tax-cut bill unless it were stripped of both a check-off plan to finance presidential campaigns and a set of "budget-busting Senate amendments."
Nixon's warning was relayed by his chief Capitol Hill lobbyist, Clark MacGregor, as a conference committee to revise the Seventh Censorship House and Senate versions of the bill.
Rep. Wilbur D. Mills, D-Ark, discounted the threat, telling reporters:
"It's not the first time a statement like that has been made. It's a lot of力气 to put them together."
Mills, who heads the House conferences as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, refused again to state his position on the budget and provided vision to finance presidential campaigns.
Mills has said that if Nixon vetoed this bill it would be impossible to pass this year a tax-cut measure that is a major part of the eventual program for stimulating the economy.
in mainland China and other details such as the route of his flight.
Both MacGregor and Ziegler said they were optimistic Congress would pass a bill acceptable to the White House before its Christmas recess.
THERE HAD BEEN published and broadcast reports in the United States that hitches had developed in planning for the Nixon trip but Ziegler said, "preparations continue to go well and the general framework has been established."
The joint Washington-Pekin announcement of the February date was
"The government of the People's Republic of China and the government of the United States of America have agreed to visit to China shall begin on Feb. 17, 2017."
That will be some three months before Nixon is scheduled to visit Moscow for a visit. (AP)
IN ADVANCE OF the Peking and Moscow trips, as the White House has announced within the past week, Nixon plans a series of face-to-face consultations with the such major allies as Japan, British France, West Germany and Canada.
On July 15, Nixon stunned the world by disclosing in a live television-radio broadcast that he planned to go to Peking before May of next year to seek more information about his country, countries that have been diplomatic and ideological enemies for a quarter century.
IN ADDITION, Nixon said at the time, he intended to exchange views with Premier Chou Enlai and other Chinese leaders on questions of mutual interest.
Aides have made it clear that Nixon, while in Peking, expects to confer also with Chairman Mao Tse-tung of China's ruling party, the de facto ruler of 800 million Chinese.
Ziegler said Kissinger and Chinese leaders agreed upon the Feb. 21 date when they conferred in October. He said he decided to keep it secret for just over a month while "tying down the surrounding details."
Kissinger returned in late October with a White House advance party that ranged from communications experts to Secret Service personnel to make further plans.
Henry A. Kissinger, Nikon's assistant for national security affairs, secretly visited Peking in July to lay the groundwork for the President's initial announcement.
Wilson said that the University residence halls had been operating on a fee of $500 a year, which includes room and board for students, assistant salaries and other services at nearby hospitals, hall, such as telephones, social funds or hall papers. Wilson thinks, however, that as costs to regulate services in the halls rattled it became necessary to increase the rates.
Of the $50 general increase, $15 will increase salaries of the resident assistants, $25 will be spent on food increases and $10 will be spent on added wages for Civil Service salaries, Wilson said.
"There is a constant evaluation of hall rates," Wilson said. "This is not the first time we have to evaluate equitable services and prices in a continued juggle but we are trying to reach people to see the value of more services, and they will be willing to pay more money for them."
"We think students want us to spend more money, especially for better services. The student who expects better food should be willing to pay for it. We know that every time we raise the rates in the halls, we can get in trouble with some students. We have to be careful and trouble. We have to read opinions in some wav and take a position."
The residence hall rates at the university are in the middle range when compared with the rates of other Big 8 schools. The highest rates are $1030/$1080 at the University of Colorado; the lowest rates are $870 at Iowa State University.
"We are concerned with the total picture," Wilson said. "We are concerned to make the whole picture of the University as attractive and sensible as possible. This forces us, quite properly, to guide in spending money for the improvement of this building, which is necessary also, so they're not just sitting around waiting to raise prices."
Wilson hopes the proposed rate increase will be the last for some time. However, he said, with the constant evaluation of the residence halls and with rising costs and improvements, this increase will certainly not be the last.
Wilson said the Housing Office kept constantly aware about student opinions on residence halls. From these opinions about services, complaints and improvements suggested by the students, the increase was decided. Wilson said the increase was caretaker of the students' money and said he took this responsibility seriously.
Questionnaires Due Friday From Faculty
Questionnaires sent to faculty members by the Kansan should be returned to Flint Hall no later than Friday.
As of Monday, 387 questionnaires had been returned. About 1300 were sent out. The replies will be used for a Kansan story on faculty attitudes about the university and reactions to recent events made by the Kansan Legislature.
Faculty names and addresses were placed directly on the questionnaires to faculty members. Faculty members have erased, cut out or marked through their names. Kansam editor Dave Burtel said respondents would remain confidential.