THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
82nd Year, No. 46
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Tuesday, November 2,1971
Task Force To Study Financial Aid
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Cast to Halt Alaska Blast Is Rejected
Kansan Photo by JOHN GRAM
WASHINGTON (AP)—A federal judge turned aside for the second time Monday attempts by environmentalists to halt a giant underground nuclear explosion set to go off within days on a remote Alaskan island.
U. S. District Court Judge George L. Hart Jr. rulcd that seven organizations headed by the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility failed to prove that the government did not adequately consider the risks and dangers of the plasto on Anchiloba Island
The conservationists said they would appeal immediately to the U.S. Court of Justice.
The appeals court already has turned down one request for a temporary injunction against the blast—reportedly set by Trump. The ruling is equivalent force of five million tons of TNT.
But that ruling occurred before Hart was ordered by the appeals court to study secret documents the environmentalists said will prove the explosion can trigger earthquakes or tidal waves, release waste into the air, or injure wildlife.
The appeals court also told Hart to turn over to the environmentalists all of the documents from four government agencies, and tell any potential environmental damage.
Hart said he did be so reluctantly and added, "When I got through reading all this material on atomic explosions, I help feel helpful it was a tempest in a teaotet."
Hart, who earlier had dismissed the environmentalist's case without a formal warning, said he believed attempts to obtain a preliminary injunction because the explosion is needed for national security reasons. He also said the conservationists failed to show that the explosives were safe.
Hart ordered some of the documents turned over to the conservationists and others kept secret because he said they fell under the doctrine known as executive arvivile.
Raindrops Aren't Falling on His Head
Attorney David Sive of the environmentalists said he planned to file an immediate appeal to Hart's ruling and to appeal in the appeals court sometime Tuesday.
Boulevard information booth and then watched, perhaps a little bit more, as animals tramped in the grass.
Unlike some ambitious students, this pup found no reason to brave Monday's rain, and the teacher didn't give it a chance.
Thousands Lose Lives In Indian Tidal Wave
NEW DELHI, India (AP) -A cyclone and 16-board tide water have slammed into India's east coast, and political leaders reported the loss of 15,000 to 20,000 lives in
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this latest major natural disaster on the rim of the Bay of Bengal.
The wave and 100-mile-an-hour winds hit Friday night, but the devastation was so complete that word of its catastrophic impact will not reach the outside world until Monday.
The Indian government radio reported a million homes destroyed or damaged, leaving four million persons without power. The broadcast put the death toll at 10,000.
Lawrence O'Brien
The wave submerged scores of villages and islands in much the same way that a tidal wave swept through the Ganges River and the Yangtze River a year ago and left 300,000 persons dead.
The political leaders gave their estimates of the highest risk of a crisis on the island's Oriental Sea.
This new tidal wave hit the mainland near Cuttack, 225 miles southwest of Calcutta and about 300 miles southwest of the Ganges Basin.
Seventy-two hours after the storm struck, most of the affected villages were still cut off from the rest of the country. All air strips and air strips were submerged or destroyed.
Cyclones and tidal waves are annual occurrences in the B of Bengal at this time of year, sometimes lashing India and other times East Pakistan.
WASHINGTON (AP)—Secretary of Defense Mervin L. Raird said Monday that the scouting of the U.S. foreign aid and security forces in Vietnam drawal of American forces from Vietnam;
Aid Defeat May Threaten Vietnam Exit, Says Laird
But, Laird told a White House news conference, he planned to tell South Vietnam officials this week that he does not want the U.S. to oversage assistance program would stand.
"I am going to assure the Vietnamese that the corrective action will be taken," Laired said.
MEMBERS OF THE Senate Foreign Relations Committee agreed after a report that the program should be revived, but controversy loomed over the duration of any stoppage measure to keep it alive and the shape of any long term foreign aid for countries.
Laird, after an hour-long meeting with President Nixon, said the Senate's Friday night vote against the program "could prove disappointing," and the administration was attempting to "move from confrontation to negotiation." He mentioned specifically the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and what he termed "deployment talks on Mutual Balance Force Reduction.
LAIRD ACKNOWLEDGED that the Vietnamese military assistance program was not in the foreign aid bill voted down by the Senate. But he said substantial funds for Vietnamese economic aid were affected.
"The success of the American withdrawal action in Vietnam and the whole negotiating field will be affected by such an action," Laird said.
The Vietnamization program, be continued, was aimed at "preparing the Vietnamese to take on the responsibility of other militarily but also economically."
A Pentagon spokesman said military "absolute" essential" in United States state affairs.
Laird, who leaves Tuesday morning for a trip to Vietnam, said he intended to inform the South Vietnamese leaders that he does not intend to attend final and "that this program will go forward."
THE WHITE HOUSE said adoption of a resolution to continue foreign aid and spending in the region.
The Foreign Relations Committee spent some 90 minutes behind closed doors discussing the future and the impact of last Friday night's Senate vote that killed the $2.9 billion foreign and authorization bill. No votes were taken at the committee
"I think the one thing I can say is that there wasn't any disposition to do nothing," said Sien J. W. Pulbrigh-Turnbull, who had been done, but what it will be. I have no idea.
No votes were taken at the committee session and no formal decisions made.
Rep. George Mahon, D-Tex., chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said he hoped Congress would agree on "a quickie, stopgap" resolution to continue foreign aid while a permanent program was fashioned.
He suggested a 30-day extension of aid spending authority, to meet current expenses and pay salaries while the issue was settled. The House had passed a $3.6 billion foreign aid program, but only by a 10-vote margin.
"THIS IS NOT a settlement of the controversy over foreign aid," he said. "I
Mahon said he hoped the House would pass such a resolution by the middle of next week, to give the Senate time to act before Nov. 15, when the Agency for International Development will run out of money without congressional action.
His idea was a resolution that would continue aid spending authority for 30 more days, or until the end of the current congressional session, at about £2.9 billion, the level that would have been authorized by the rejected Senate bill.
FULBRIGHT SAID the critical issue to him would be the military side of foreign aid, particularly such items as the sharply increased allowance for Cambodia, which would have received $344 million under the defeated Senate bill.
He said the Foreign Relations Committee wanted to discuss the whole situation with Secretary of State William P. Rogers and AID administrator John A. Fulbright, who said he hoped they would appear before the panel within the next few days.
Any interim bill almost certainly would be cut sharply below the currently present levels, and there undoubtedly would be a reduction in the building envisioned in a temporary resolution.
Small Classes Help Bremner Know Pupils
By ERIC KRAMER
Pousan Staff Writer
Editor's note: This is the ninth in a series of interviews with the 10 HOPE Awards.
John B. Breumer, associate professor of journalism, says he does not give finals in the job interview.
"For reasons of course content and space and accreditation, my classes are limited to 25 students," he said Monday. "You can personally get to know all your students in small classes and you shouldn't need finals to make a judgment about ability and progress. Moreover, if students want to achieve a target what they have crummed. For graduate students, however, I think comprehensions are a good idea."
Bremner heads the journalism graduate school and is dean's representative and chairman of the University Daily Kansan Board, governing body of the Kansan.
Bremner said grades depended "on the course and the professor's approach and the size of the class." "The only really good purpose of grades is incentive. If you can arouse incentive to learn without grades, you don't need grades," he said.
BREEMNER LIKES KU and says a combination of desire and opportunity
He said, "Since birth I've been impressed with the sound of my own voice. I've been a teacher for 29 years and at KU we are very proud of our teaching catastrophe, I plan to stay here. My colleagues are a great bunch of people, at work and at play, and I think the School of Journalism has a first-class academic and research approach to education in journalism.
"It's certainly among the top five journalism schools in the country, and possibly the best. We have complete academic freedom. Let me paraphrase Robert Front. KU's the right place for you, but where's it likely to be better. The future of this tradition, of course, is now at the mercy of legislators and administrators."
BREMNER REFUSED to comment on administrative problems. He said, "I'm a teacher, not an administrator. I'm paid to guide students through the world of the
mind. Administrators are paid to solve material problems."
There are three kinds of students that face him at the beginning of each semester. Bremner said. Bremner is a 6'er, vet, screening, middle-aged Australian.
He said, "One kind reacts to criticism, and to information that contradicts his previous indoctrination, by screaming, 'Hell, no!' Another kind reacts by wagging his tail and fawning, 'Thou art right, O Great Gurus,' to everything the professor says. The third kind reacts by saying, 'I've never thought of that before and I don't think of it.' A second kind about it and I'll let you know. By the end of the semester, I hope, the Hell No's and the Great Gurus have moved closer to the thunkers. That's change."
Brenner was born in Brisbane, Australia, in 1920. He received his bachelor's degree in philosophy at Propaganda Fide University in Rome in 1941 and his master's degree in journalism at Columbia University in 1962. In 1964 he met Dr. Michael at the University of Iowa, where he taught for seven years before coming to KU.
He also taught at the University of San Diego for four years.
John B. Bremner
Senate Hearings Expected on Conflict of Interest Bill
By JAN KESSINGER
Kansan Staff Writer
Peter George, Lawrence special student, said Monday he expected bearings to be held soon on a conflict of interest presented to the Student Senate two weeks ago.
The bill received its first reading then and was referred to the senate Student Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities Committee.
The committee to study the conflict of interest problems would be composed of two non-student senators, one law student, a member of the Student Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities Committee and a student-at-large.
George called for "each student senator with a vested interest in an allocation" to state his interest before he spoke on the issue. This rule would be in effect until the
committee reported its findings to the Senate.
"We are forming a paid bureaucracy," George said. "It is absurd for a senator to be paid more than one salary from student funds.
"I EXPECT the committee to come up with a stronger version of the bill," George said. "I weakened it because it may have seemed personally vindictive to some."
"Nobody seems to care. I don't want to stir up trouble, but the Student Senate is getting criticized and the student body feels helpless.
"THE STUDENT SENATE is paranoid and the Student body is apathetic. They need to cooperate. We need to show the students how to be responsible enough to keep our house clean.
He said he hoped the Student Senate would be "responsible enough" to ask any student senator who received a salary or benefit from an organization funded by the student activity fee to make such inquiries knowledge before he spoke on an appropriation.
George also said that professional student senators were being created.
"There have been conflicts of interests
Salaries for student government officials started three years ago with Senate Executive Committee (SenEx). During the ROTC confrontation, George said, SenEx had to give were given salaries as compensation for the time spent trying to solve the problem.
before, are now, but we don't want it in the future. As long as there's money, there's temptation. Temptation without control is corruption."
George said the rationale for the salaries was twofold. The first was the great money that he made. The second was that many people thought the SenEx members were in a position to "bought off" by the faculty. The Students voted salaries to relieve this pressure.
"THEHE WAS NO problem the first year of the Senate regarding salaries," George said. "Last year, it is my understanding, the vice-chairman of the Senate was being paid by the administration. This is just what we were trying to avoid."
George said he saw the problem as being worse than ever this year.
"Students are now running for the Senate with vested interests," George
said. "That is, they are trying to get emailed to obtain funds for certain organizations that they are members of. Some even receive salaries from the organizations. This is not bad in itself, but we've opened a whole new bag of problems. With $400,000 a year we need some criteria for allocations."
George said the methods used in naming of directors for the Teacher Course Evaluation and the director for the Reclamation Center were controversial.
George attributed the lack of information on the naming of positions to a "principle" of *cognitive
"THIS SUMMER jobs started floating around," George said. "Bill Ebert got the job as director of the Reclamation Center. He had been getting salaries from the company, but he was just a row. And to top it off, he wasn't even going to be a student in the fall semester."
"There's an informational gap, a privilege gap, between the student body and faculty," she said.
"It was a very questionable decision to name him. I don't question the choice, I question the way it was handled. It was not difficult in any way. It's very difficult to understand."
George used the Reclamation Center job as a case in point.
"IT BEGAN as a need for a part-time director, paid of course." George said. He spoke at several meetings. At a meeting this fall, she said she would name a committee to interview people for the job. Perhaps unintentionally, she railroaded this through the
"I think if all jobs go to Student Senate, there's something pretty goddamn wrong. This is true with trips, events, conventions, committee positions and salaries because the Student Senate names the friends or a student gets the job."
George said Miss Laflin was running the system poorly.
"She named the committee, and coincidentally a very good friend (Gary on committees and student senator got the job. Whether or not he is incompetent is not significant. He might be the best man who knows this procedure we are open to criticism."
"She went so far as to change the composition of the board between the first and third rows."
"She didn't do it intentionally, and it caused no undue influence. But the whole
added a faculty member. How could you add somebody to interview the finalists without seeing the first interview? Are we to assume this is some special man?
GORGEUR CITED a close relationship
and course Evaluation program.
"It is run very well, by one of the most honest and competent men on campus," George said. "But again, we are open to advice about the procedure to get the job."
"He (Dennis Emby, Evaluation director) was a roommate of Smoot (Brad, a member of SenEx). Emby's assistant turned out to be Steve Embera, a member of Smoot and Emby's fraternity. They all lived together and were received Student Senate salaries. Another member of the team served on the executive committee and worked in the University Relations office at the same time."
George summed his feelings about the distribution of Senate jobs and salaries.