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The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
82nd Year, No. 29
Homecoming Schedule Of Events
Section 1 Friday, October 8, 1971
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Kansan Photo by JOHN GRAM
Gas Light Tavern Takes Step to Stay in Business
tended classes or visited the tavern. The Gas Light is just of campus north of the Kansas Union.
The day after his raid, Attu, Gern Vermil, Vermil said he would be watching the Gas-Light to see she sheer dregs were being sold then he would be watching the Cave-Master's return.
Former Kansas Attorney Generals Question Miller's 'Policeman Role'
By SUE ANNE STOUT Kansan Staff Writer
After the recent raid that produced 40 slot machines, 13 gaming tables and about 3000 illegal punch cards in Great Bend and Hoshington private clubs, the office of attorney general has undergone much criticism as to its actual functions.
William Ferguson, attorney general of Kansas 1961-65, and Kent Frizzell, attorney general of Kansas 1969-71, agreed that they had different concepts of the office than does present Atty. Gen. Vern Miller.
In the General Statutes of Karsas, Art 7, Chap. 75, Section 702, the duties are described as: "The attorney general shall appear for the state, and prosecute and defend all actions and proceedings, civil or criminal, in the course of the state shall be interested or a party, and shall also, when required by the governor or either branch of the legislature, appear for the state and prosecute or defend, in any other court or before any officer, in any cause or matter, civil or criminal, in any state may be a party, or interest."
'In the past we have had 'offices-lawyer'
'types of attorney generals who have acted'
'in the law without official supervision.
associate professor of political science said. He said non-non had practiced "overt law enforcement" and had such self-awareness, education and apprehension as Vern Miller.
Criticizing Ann Vernier's use of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, William Ferguson said that the K.B.J. is a highly reputed police officer, and he assists local police officers in major crimes.
If a citizen doesn't have the means to prosecute or the grievance does not warrant a lawsuit, he may bring it to the attention of the attorney general. This function of the office "protects the people from bureaucrats," he said.
Kent Frizzley said he didn't think the founding fathers, legislature, constitution and statutes of Kansas meant for the attorney general to be a policeman.
"If local and county officials fail to act or if they are involved; then it is the attorney general's duty to head a police force," Frizzell said.
Frizzell found the office of attorney general to be the "courtroom" where complaints in city and
criminal actions." The two years Frizzell held office, he rendered more than 750 opinions. He worked primarily at on-site law firms and provided $4.5 million in damages paid to the state.
President Says Freeze Successful
Nixon Sets Up Agencies To Run Post-Freeze Plan
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Nixon pronounced his wage-price freeze "remarkably successful" Thursday night and announced plans for continuing a program of economic restraints after the current freeze ends Nov. 13.
"We began this battle against inflation for the purpose of winning it," he told a nationwide radio-television audience. "We are going to stay in it until we do win it."
"We will permit some adjustments of prices and wages that fairness demands," Nixon said, "but we will not permit inflation to flare up again."
The President said he was turning over the job of fixing specific wage and price standards to two newly created quasi-judiciary committees. The committee will be subject to governmental veto.
Nixon announced that Secretary of the Treasury John B. Connally, who heads the Cost of Living Council, will go on radio and video to explain how he is explaining explanations of the continuing program.
Key features of Nixon's post-freeze program include:
Nixon did not specifically mention it, but the administration's over-all objective is to hold the annual rate of inflation to from 2 to 3 per cent by the end of 1972.
"this interim goal for the end of 1972," said the document, "would be an inflation rate about half of the rate that prevailed in 1971 before the freeze."
The White House made available a "background paper" that cited such an objective, as measured by monthly living cost statistics, and said continued reduction of the rate would be the goal thereafter.
—Appointment of a 15-member Pay Board, giving equal representation to management, labor and the public, that will set wage guidelines and, if it so decides, prohibit, or defer pay deems inconsistent with its standards.
- Establishment of a Price Commission of seven public members to administer the system.
—A presidential request for standby authority Nixon said he does not plan to use—to regulate dividends and interest rates.
— A request that Congress extend the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970—the legal basis for the entire Nixon program—to allow its and its scheduled expiration next April (38).
As of now, the stabilization measures will remain in force indefinitely.
The White House refused to provide even an approximate guideline for permissible wage settlements; an official said the Pay Board will have to provide "standards or guidelines" before Phase 2 begins on Nov. 14.
However, some economists estimate that wage increases of up to 5 to 6 per cent a year would meet the President's goal of inflation down to 2 or 3 per cent a year.
The only exception to price curbs will be raw agricultural products, which were exported to India.
Violators of the stabilization program would be liable to a maximum fine of $5,000 for each infraction, the same as for other crimes. The government could seek federal court injunctions against specific wage or price violations, or bring additional penalties if not observed.
The president's speech left unsettled the crucial question of whether previously contracted wage increases will be per se to take full effect when Phase 2 begins.
Wage and price standards will be applied most rigorously to businesses and labor unions which, although not yet specified, were described as being of critical importance for the control of inflation.
In these instances, the new board or commission must be notified in advance of a decision to approve, reject or defer them. There will be no appeal from them.
Nixon also announced he was appointing a committee on Interest and Dividends to
Activity Fee Poll Confuses Some
By RON WOMBLE
and
MARY WARD
Kansan Staff Writers
Less than 50 percent of the 100 students questioned were aware that a poll was to be taken. Of those who knew of the poll, only a few understood the options well enough to have made a decision on how to vote.
After reading the options, 46 percent of those who said which option they would vote for said they favored the first option, a continuation of the present $23-a-year option than 10 percent wanted option eight, which is to discontinue the student activity fee.
Students were reluctant to cut activity fee allocations because they feared increased admission costs to such activities as athletics and concerts. Many students must attend most of their money. Others did not think that students should be required to pay for activities in which they did not participate. Activity fee allocations to the athletic department were most often cited as an issue of student safety, so an activity in which they were not interested.
Many students are not aware of the all-student poll on activity fees, according to a small sampling of the student body taken this week. Students will receive ballots listing the eight options for the poll in the mail next week.
Few of the students questioned had considered how student organizations would survive without allocations from the Senate. Some thought that members of organizations should pay for expenses through dues. However, no one had any solutions for those organizations that sponsor events for the whole campus.
optional $18-a year activity ticket. These options were favored because they gave individuals more choices, yet they assured that certain activities would be funded.
Options six and seven were popular with some students because they include an
Even after reading the options many students did not think that they had all the information necessary to vote. Some wanted to know how much admission costs to University events would be before they expressed their opinion on the options. Another student organization does were increased, many students would not be able to participate.
Student senators said that although the activity poll had received much publicity, many students would not understand the poll until they received it and had a chance to think about it. Until then, they said, student attitudes can not be assessed.
A letter will accompany the poll expaining the reasons for it and giving a slant on the result.
be headed by Arthur Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. This group will administer a continuation of a present plan for the currentaint in interest rates and corporate dividends.
Also, Nikon is setting up a Committee on the Health Services Industry which will advise the Cost of Living Council on medical standards in the medical and hospital fields.
Calls by some Democrats for a stronger congressional hand in shaping the future economic controls mungled with generally anti-democratic views. Nikon's announcement of his Phase 2 plans.
Community Study Result Presented
BY GARY NEIL PETERSON Koneon Staff Writer
Formal response was made Thursday by the Lawrence City Commission about the Mennonite Police-Community Relations Department report, which was made public last June.
Though the written response was very general in nature, not giving names, dates or specific proposals, there were two items outlined in the report which will be implemented into the 1972 budget. These are the report title and an additional relations officer and an additional staff member for the city human resources department.
Some of the other things which the study points out as necessary and recommended are: (1) curtailing the tensions between police and minority groups in Lawrence by establishing recreational activities in police-citizen patrols where a citizen company officers in squad cars as an observer; (2) the establishment of several foot patrols to better acquaint the patrolmen with their individual districts outside of their automobiles; (3) a continuation of attempts to improve relations with the police and Haskell Indian Junior College, and (4) construction of low-income housing.
Most of these recommendations will not become effective in Lawrence because of the light budget and the 5 per cent tax laid on have to wait until funds are available.
The City Commission wishes to have a continuation of this type of program in Lawrence for further study. Therefore, a proposal is being made to Buford Watson, Lawrence city manager, and to the city commissioners to begin a program of racial awareness in Lawrence. The proposed department will be held at Blubaugh of the continuing education department at KU, now is being considered by the city commission.
Watson says that unless the proposal is similar to the Meningue Program he will
Approval or disapproval of the proposal by the commission will probably be common.
Chalmers Turns to Faculty Unrest
Bv GAYLE TRIGG
and JOYCE DUNBAR Kansan Staff Writers
"The major problem we face now is not student unrest so much as the financial crisis. This translates more readily into faculty and staff unrest.
"If I can't change with the changing problems," Cancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. said in an interview last summer. "University needs a new chancellor."
Chalmers said that rapport with the faculty had been one of his weak areas for a time because the demands of the students and citizens in the state left little room to form a group. His fall calendar reflects the emphasis he now places on faculty concerns.
"Mine is a trouble-shooting role. By law I'm responsible for the entire enterprise. I must rush off to that part of the University which isailing the most.
'My values haven't changed one bit. The problems have changed. Sometimes when someone is in an administrative position too long, he reamins fixed on yesterday's plans. I feel that flexibility, I hope that I will be wise enough to realize that I'm no longer helpful.
"It was clear when I arrived that my purposes were temporarily derailed by the enormous credibility gap that had developed between the campus and the state. There was a tremendous amount of concern, apprehension, and anxiety on campus. Until we addressed ourselves to our new energy environment, our energy to move on from there to academic problems. This lasted almost a year and a half."
"What I would have liked to have done when I first arrived here is what I am finally finding time to do now because it was impossible without adequate support of the University. My administrative style is heavily on the judgments of others."
As regards academic plans, Chalmers spoke of the need for greater coordination among the six Regent's schools and the community two-year colleges in the state.
Chalmers acknowledged that this now had the effect of making it appear he had gone from the role of a leader to his spokesman, coordinator and mediator.
He said there are two thruchs in the new system'1 of higher education. One is to be taught in a multi-instructor manner.
what is unique to each campus, he said, and the other is to increase coordination through voluntary cooperation, rather than to have the state impose upon higher education a kind of "super board." This would all be done on a committee basis.
The need is apparent, Chalmer says, for coordination between the three types of institutions. We at KU have established an office in which we affairs in recognition of that need, he said.
The Kansas Association of Independent College plans to meet with the Council of Presidents this fall. The Council of Chief Academic Officers will meet in October with representatives of community two-year college. The junior colleges are trying to achieve better coordination among themselves, too.
Chalmers said it was hoped this would result in the elimination of overlap—overlap referring to areas of specialized raining.
Other evidence can be seen in recently begun cooperative programs between the six state institutions. The engineering schools of Wichita State University, Kansas State University and the University of Kansas recently were requested to study how maximum use of available resources could be made. The
University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City will have a branch in Wichita for work with WSU. KU and KState have an affiliation with a computer science program.
The shift in student mix—the number of students in each classification at each school—shows the real need for more teachers and staff. This will lead to a differential state data, Chalmers said.
The planned decentralization of the KU Graduate School stems in part from this change in student mix, and also is representative of the higher educational system, Chalmers said, but even more important, the excellence within the department has made the "hard-riding" of the present Graduate School no longer necessary.
"Judgments about the quality of programs and of people and the use of limited dollars are better made locally by the various departments and units in the departments to focus their internal resources on graduate studies research and to look to other types of structure for undergraduate education—less departmentally oriented than more oriented and longer focused education philosophy and styles," he said.
Kansas Staff P photo by HANK YOUNG
Chancellor's Role Evolves to Meet New Issues
. . . Financial crisis replaces student unrest as prime concern . . .