THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
82nd Year, No. 59
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Last Issue Until After Thanksgiving
Friday, November 19, 1971
U.S. Planes More Active In Cambodia
SAIGON (AP) - With the military situation becoming critical in Cambodia, U.S. warplanes have stepped up their attacks on Gaza and Egypt, the official American sources reported Thursday.
Reports circulated in Saigon that the South Vietnamese government was considering a Cambodian request for infantry and heavy weapons for the defense of their homeland to hand fighting was reported near the eastern outskirts of the Cambodian capital.
Dispatches from Phnom Penh reported U.S. Cobra helicopter gunships have been thrown into the battle raging from 10 to 12 miles west of the capital.
The U.S. sources said the Cambodians have been getting substantially more aid.
The increased support has been mainly from U.S. fighter-bombers flying from bases in South Vietnam and Thailand, the informants reported. The planes have been active on Cambodia's northeastern front.
A Cambodian officer on the front west of Phnom Penh said the rockets of the Cobras were unable to penetrate the jungle cover of enemy bunkers and added that heavy weapons were needed. This would account for the request for South Vietnamese heavy guns.
A dispatch from Pinom Penh said Cambodian and enemy troops fought with knives and rifle bites in flooded rice fields from the downward section of the capital.
A high command spokesman in Phnom Penh said 11 Cambodia soldiers were killed, 88 wounded, and 80 enemy bodies were found on the battlefields Wednesday. He had no estimate of Thursday's casualties.
Little new action was reported from Cambodia's northeastern front, where the enemy has cut off the main highway supplying 20,000 Cambodian troops.
In another development in Cambodia, sources said police had prevented a second bombing attack by theadorador Emory C. Swank. They reported as well that was arrested while stringing a detonator-type wire near where a bomb-laden vehicle may have missed Swank's car in September.
Fighting in Vietnam was light and scattered.
The U.S. Command announced that last week five Americans were reported killed in action, the sixth consecutive week of fewer than eight combat deaths.
Meanwhile in Paris, the American delegate to the Vietnam peace talks changed tactics Thursday in an effort to move the talks off dead center. But he failed, in what was the shortest session yet in the 3½-year-old conference.
Ambassador William J. Porter, supported by the South Vietnamese delegate, said, "Ladies and gentleman, we have repeatedly made our position clear, we are awaiting a constructive reply and, therefore, have nothing further to say."
Kansan Staff Photo by GREG SORRER
Bickford, Van Sickle, Harper Discuss KU Finances
Debate with students at forum
'You Have to Play Politics'
Legislators Urge Students To Lobby for KU Budget
Bv NANCY JONES
and SALLY CARLSON Kansan Staff Writers
"If you want to raise more money for the University, you're going to have to play politics," State Rep Jerry Harper, member of the House Ways and Means Committee, said Thursday at an SAU forum on the university budget. State Sen Tom Van Stickle, R-Fort Scott and Senator Steve Browne, and Means Committee, and Max Backford, executive secretary of the Board of Residents, also spoke at the forum.
Van Stickle said that if students really wanted to influence legislators they should talk to the tax payers who basically make the decisions.
Bickord called for a united effort from students lobbying for more money for the arts.
Harper said that for the "fiscally conservative legislature" "students must have a certain level of 'little bit of their hide would be left' if they raised taxes, Harper said that at least $50 million to $80 million would be needed by higher education, penal reform and welfare.
He said that if students wanted to see these changes fulfilled in the legislature, they would have to convince legislators that the students' opinions on proposed budget requests were indicative of a substantial number of citizens' viewpoints.
He said that he hoped the students would work for the Board of Regents' budget and not just the University of Kansas' budget. The separate state university and college budgets are all included in the board's budget.
"You'd better talk to some of the people in the street as well as legislators," Van St. Sauve said.
Bickford said that the budget hearings
for the educational institutions will be heard by the budget director on Nov. 29 and 30.
The regents' $13 million increase will be proposed at the hearings.
During the question and answer period Van Sickle said that a factor in the rising cost of education was because of the increase in fees (for state junior college enrollments).
"We are paying a fantastic amount for these junior colleges," he said.
Van Sieckle also said that he did not think that the 75 students present at the forum were interested in the topic.
A student responded to Van Sickle's remark by saying that only the foolish students had attended the meeting because according to an earlier statement teachers should spend more time talking with the students should spend more time talking with the general public rather than their legislators.
Van Stickle said that there was no discussion between this legislative session and the Senate.
When asked if more revenue money could be raised by legalizing paramutual betting in Kansas, both legislators said that "sin taxes" weren't the answer mainly because they would not bring in a significant amount of money.
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Chalmers to Present KU Budget Proposal
All of the state-supported institutions of higher education will have hearings to defend their budgets and answer questions. They will present their cases to the members of the Ways and Means Committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives and the governor's budget director and his staff.
By DEBBIE BAEDER Kansan Staff Writer
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. will defend the proposed budget for four years and will nominate Governor's Budgetary hearing Nov. 29. The request he will present was approved by the Board of Regents last July, accusing him of inappropriate Nicholas, KU executive secretary.
Bubb Wants Less Involved Regents
By TED BYBEL
Kansan Staff Writer
Regent Henry Bubb of Topka sapa recently in an interview with the Kansas that he thought the Regents had too much control over the University of Kansas.
"They hold too much power," Bubb sah. "My idea of the Board of Regents is to hire the chancellor or president, which ever it might be at the various state schools, set the policy, approve the budget and shut up."
When asked if he thought that the Repeats had maintained this position in line with his earlier views,
Defense Budget Trimmed; European Command Cut
WASHINGTON (AP) - Voting to carve $3.3 billion from President Nixon's defense budget, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved Thursday, bringing 50,000 American troops home from Europe.
Chairman AJ. E. Ellender, D-LA,
dismissed as 'No hogwag' Defense
Manager.
Men with lottery numbers 126 to 366 who wish to drop their 2-3 classifications and enter this year's draft pool should write their local boards requesting 1-A classifications, Eiddith Cordell, executive secretary of the Lawrence Selective Service Board, said recently.
Reminder Issued On Draft
The request for a change of classification may be made anytime before the end of December, Mrs. Cordell said.
All registrants not called in December, classified I-A with numbers 12, can expect to be called for induction three months of institution, 1927, Mrs. Cordell said.
The highest lottery number expected to be called this year will be 125, Mrs. Cordell said.
enforcing a 250,000 limit on the number of U.S. personnel in Europe would irresponsibly damage the American defense position.
The committee rejected, 14 to 10, another in a long series of moves to use the power of the purse to force withdrawal of U.S. troops from Indochina and, among a number of other specific cuts, it voted to trim spending for military intelligence by The House voted earlier to trim intelligence funds by an additional $181 million.
The committee approved 1972 defense spending of $7.2 billion, a figure that was $800 million less than the House-passed budget and less than the administration wanted.
things aren't going as we think they should, and I'm not so sure it's a good thing. That's human nature though.
"Therefore this is an opportunity time to cut back unnecessary military spending," Ellender said, suggesting the savings be used to reduce costs in schools in education, poverty and pollution.
Elender said the recommended troop cut in Europe, which was approved on a narrow 14-13 committee vote, also would not affect U.S. security.
Ellender said the cuts would not affect national security in any manner and added, "We are confident the military can operate effectively with this huge sum."
Bubb attended Washburn University in Topeka and the University of Kansas. He holds an honorary doctorate from Washburn and has received the Citation for service from the KU Alumni Association. KU's equivalent of an honorary degree.
"I think we have our major responsibility to the citizens of Kansas to operate good schools. Our responsibility is to the voters and the voters of this state."
Elendor noted the Nixon administration said the war was practically over in Vietnam and that the nation would not get invaded in any Vietnam-type conflicts.
"We simply do not need 300,000 American troops there any more." Ellenider said. "Our allies must take on a core of the defense burden in Europe."
Hubb has been with the Board of Regents for more than 10 years and is the board's senior member. He was originally appointed in 2008 as reappointed by Gov. William Avery, and appointed to his third term by Gov. Robert Docking. Having been appointed by two Republicans and one Democratic governor, Hubb is not politically controlled.
"There are no partisan politics played on the Board of Recents." Bub said.
Many of the problems which have surrounded KU in recent years, Bubb thought could not be directly attributed to the University.
"I think things are much better at KU for two or three reasons," Bubb said. "One, I think they've gotten rid of a lot of the trouble they were having with the street people north of the campus. I think they caused a lot of the trouble. They'd been fanned, so they'd be off. Then some more radical students would take over.
The situation has been somewhat calmer at KU in the past months, and Bubb named several things that he thought had contributed to this mood.
"Number two, I think that the students have found out that if they want a good university they've got to have money to run it. If they're going to tear it down, we're not going to get the money from the people, we have the money to re build it and run it."
"Number three, I think that we have more responsive and better student leadership under Dave Miller than we had in at least his last two foredecessors."
Bubb then elaborated on his views of the administration of *Student Body President*
"I think Dave went in with a platform of peace and harmony and I think that has had a great deal to do with helping the situation." Bub said. "I think it's just the thing. I think Dave has a better attitude, and I think that thinks into peace and harmony."
The student activity fee has been an issue of controversy at KU, andBU.
"I think they be better off if they didn't have an activity fee." Fails said. "As long as they have an activity fee it's all right with me if the Student Senate controls it as long as the Board of Regents has the final say on it, which they do.
"Now that doesn't mean we're going to do something on it every year. Two years they appraised an adj of the committee of Boston, Boston University and work with the finance committee, and I was one of the three. I felt at that time ungrateful for the guidance, but this year I have no complaint."
Huth acknowledged the fact that some teachers have been leaving KU and many others have expressed displeasure with his teaching. I think that this had crippled the University.
"It hasn't so far and I hope it doesn't in the future," Baum said. "No, I don't think there's any mass exoskeleton. I think you're always going to find faculty members that do better somehow else, just as you do in the business world. People just move on."
"There are several things that enter into it other than just pay. I don't know why some of them have left. I hope that we can move forward together," he hopes we can get more money for them.
"I think the average person wants to have good higher educational institutions in the state. But I think they want something that they can earnmark so it won't get over into something such as welfare."
Kansas Photo
Bubb Says KU Better for Miller's Leadership
- Reject calls Miller's platform peaceful, harmonic . . .
Nichols and Keith Nichter, vicechancellor for Business Affairs, also will attend the hearing and aid the chancellor as he justifies the Regents' budget. The budget director will have sent a letter to the university recommending, and the chancellor may ask for the restoration of items that have been eliminated or reduced.
The Regents authorized a salary increase of 8 per cent for faculty members. The University had asked for a 10 per cent increase. Under the approved system civil service personnel would receive an increase of 2 steps or 8.6 per cent. The new would create 40 new faculty positions in the program and enrollment increase of 1,000. This figure may be revised down. The 1971 fall enrollment did not meet the projection.
The new faculty members would create 13.3 new civil service positions in the University. This figure is derived by dividing the total number of position for every three faculty members.
The classified personnel would receive 11.5 members to operate the buildings and physical aspects of the University. Five security positions would be financed. The 1971 legislature authorized 10 positions last year, but allocated finances for only 5.
One new clerk would be hired to handle the records for the new unemployment insurance program.
The chancellor plans to ask for a 5 per cent increase to cover inflationary costs. This would be a $259,554 increase in the budget.
The University is requesting $19,830 for
1,100 new students to cover operational
Other budgetary requests are:
$26,578—utilities for new buildings
$10,000-for a new Ph.D. program in computer Science (unsupervised jointly with the IBM Research Center).
$2,980 - office expenses for the unemployment compensation program going forward.
$126.29—additional support of the computer. The Regents' action is based on the philosophy that state money should be used for research and administrative costs of the computer.
General revenue for capital improvements (this includes repairs, im-
pairs, or replacement of equipment) will be $800,000. An addition to Learned Hall would necessitate $16,000 for plans and $1,500,000 to cover Phase I of con-
struction. Additional funds will be $12,000 for Visual Arts facility planning.
The University submitted its requests June 1, and following certain guidelines and regulations. The Regents acted in July and indicated what level of support KU could request. KU submitted an answer that was to cut the number was cut to $5,510,737 by the Regents. This was after reductions on various segments of the University were made.
The chancellor's office presently is waiting for the recommendations of the governor's budgetary director. After the bearing, the governor will submit his own recommendations to the legislature. This will allow him to serve on the Senate Ways and Means Committee.
It is not known what relationship the recommendations of the Board of Regents will have with that of the budget director or the governor.
There was no money allocated for salary increases for this year and no increase of operational expenses except to offset inflation.