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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
82nd Year, No. 25
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Supreme Court Begins Term
Monday, October 4.1971
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Kansan Photo by JORN GRAM
Students Brave Elements In Architecture Project
Instant City, a city of goodies designs, was constructed at Lake were limited to a $5 to $10 budget. The goal was to get the most out Perry Saturday by 95 architecture students. The structures are of the resources and finances available.
Drug Laws 'Harsh, Unreasonable'
BY LANET CHRIST
Kansan Staff Writer
By LARRY CHRIS'
Although revised in recent years, Kansas laws regarding drug violations remain harsh and unreasonable in some cases to Mike Ewell, Douglas Court attorney.
For example, be said, the sale of LSD, amphetamines and other hallucinatory drugs is considered to be a class C felony for first time offenders. This is punishable by up to 20 years in prison, or up to a $10,000 fine, or both.
However, the sale of the so-called hard or dangerous drugs—cocaine, heroin, opium derivatives and other narcotics—is listed as a less serious class D felony for those who are not a said. This can result in a prison sentence of up to 10 years, or up to a $500 fine, or both.
"It was an oversight by the legislature," he said. "On that hopefully will be the legislation."
ELWELL SAID It was preposterous to consider the sale of hallucinogens as a more serious crime than the sale of narcotics.
Possession of marijuana, LSD.
amputethumps and other hallucinatory drugs is classified as a misdemeanor if it is a first time offense. The misdemeanor carries a penalty of up to one year in the county jail, a fine of up to $2,500, or both, according to the County Attorney.
"We've been pretty successful so far," he said, regarding his record of winning matches.
Many students convicted for possession of Marijuana for the first time do not go to jail if they can prove that they are good students or have a job, Elwell said. If the students are not committed, but not proof that the students sold drugs the sentence would be worse, he said.
MANY STUDENTS spend time in jail and many are fineed up to a
halfway house.
However, he said, an extremely large possession of these drugs may be considered by law officials as an attempt to sell.
For each repeated violation, Elwell said, the seriousness of the crime is increased by one level. For example, second time off or first time off is equivalent and third-time possession is a Class C
"Your fifth conviction for possession of marijuana would be a class A felony,"
"or even a class B felony."
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Thieu Gets 95 Per Cent Of South Vietnamese Vote
Officials Claim Record Turnout
SAIGON (AP)—President Nguyen Van Thieu was assured Monday of an overwhelming "vote of confidence" far in excess of what he had asked in his unproposed but violence-marred bid for re-election.
With final results tabulated in 45 of South Vietnam's, 56 voting constituencies, authorities and the Tien had won an average of three per seat and that poll cast, with 4.45 per cent against them.
Thieu, the only presidential candidate,
had specified 50 per cent one-man
elections. He had said he would resign if
he did not get many votes.
Election officials claimed that nationwide, a record 87.7 per cent of the more than seven million registered voters cast their ballots.
THE ELECTION was marred by enemy shellings, terrorism and bloody street rioting that left more than 21 persons dead and more than 100 wounded across the country.
South Vietnamese could vote against him by multilingual or defending their ballots or by putting an empty envelope in the ballot box.
The day-long clashes between protesters and police tapered off by late afternoon
The lowest figure recorded was 64.3 per
Hurley, long a center of antiquity
(early)
Sadie province in the Mekong Delta had the highest pro-Thieu vote, with 99.8 per cent and Thieu's province of Ninh Thuang 60.2 per cent of its ballots for the president.
'Checks' Resumes Calling After Compliance on Tax
Lawrence Golden Cheeks resumed operation Friday after making arrangements with the state sales tax authorities and agreeing to change its telephone sales pitch, according to Emery J. Foster, the motion investigator for the Attorney General.
Thursday before Asst. Atty. Gen. Lance Burr.
The operator of Golden Checks, a telephone solicitation of coupon books, is Southern Advertising. The company agreed to halt business after a hearing
At the hearing the firm told it was
satisfied that merchandise without a
salary be accepted.
Golden Checks agreed to stop calling people and telling them they had been "selected" when there was no selection of students. The institution also agreed to sell only 2,000 books, he said.
and Da Nang was reported quiet overnight.
Thieu cast his own ballot at Saigon's City Hall. He told newsmen that winning the 50 per cent margin would not guarantee that he will accept another them.
"I will consider all the factors," he said, speaking before the size of the vote in his party.
He repeated that he planned to retire when he achieved peace.
"Another four-year term is less important to me than the previous one," he said. "I will be able to import important thing is that I achieve peace, whether that be in three five months or seven."
IN A SIDEWISH to the Presidential elections, four American pacifists set up their own "American Embassy" on Sunday "to represent the people."
"We feel there should be some kind of alternate presence which really does not exist."
people, " said Father Harry Burry, who Saturday had chained himself to the U.S.
"... 'We went to see Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker yesterday and we tried to express this to him," he added. "We made it is alive and well and living in the 1950s."
Father Bury, along with two other Roman Catholic priests and a Jewish professor, outlined plans for their ad boc embassy to newsmen outside the Election Information Center before a shooting police captain chased them off.
The four had chained themselves to the embassy gate Saturday to protest what they called a "terrorist attack."
In the hours just before the polls opened, enemy forces launched rocket and mortar attacks on at least 12 cities, towns and military installations, killing 17 Vietnamese and wounding 33, according to South Vietnamese officials.
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Thieu's Win Proves Ability in Viet Politics
SAIGON (AP) - If President Nguyen Van Thieu wins a "vote of confidence" from South Vietnam's voters, as he appears certain to it, will confirm what he says of the country. That he is the country's most astute and powerful politician since Ngoc Diem Diah.
A colonel and army division commander, Thieu was a peripheral figure in the 1963 coup which overthrew Diem. Although Thieu agreed to participate in the coup, his troops to move on Saigon until he was certain the coup would be successful.
Theu was sufficiently astute and—preferably aloof—to survive several subsequent coups. Between 1633 and 1656 he was promoted from colonel to lieutenant general, and in 1656 became chief of state under a junta headed by Air
Vice Marshal and Premier Nguyen Cao Kv.
in 1967. Thieu successfully outmaneuvered Ky and eliminated him from the presidential race even before the campaign began.
When both Ky and retired Gen. Duoun Van 'Big' Mink withdrew from this year's race, however Thieu became the lone presidential candidate. The other two pulled out of the race charging that Thieu had rigged the election.
HIS UNCONTESTED candidacy caused the gravest political crisis of his career, uniting his enemies and giving rise to violent street demolitions.
Theiu, however, survived. He either suppressed or ignored his critics, and spurned efforts by the Nixon administration and U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker to maintain an image of a more democratic election.
Kanan Photo by JOE COLEMAN
Whatever Happened to ...
Students Capitalize on Flower Power
Six KU students have come up with a different way to make a little money—selling flowers. The flowers sell for a quarter each and arrive daily from
Denver, here; Susie Van M. Mol, Kansas City,
Kan., freshman (in plaid and gray) on a low street.
Bill Ebert Living Here, Hunting Job
By CATHY BROWN Kansan Staff Writer
Although no longer a student nor directly involved in activities at the University of Kansas, Bill Bebert, last year's student, is now taking care to keep inform about activities at KU.
He lived in the San Francisco Bay Area five weeks and decided it "left a bad taste in my mouth." He said there were too many small an area so he returned to Lawrence.
Ebert had planned to attend the University of California at Berkeley this fall on a grant to study Oriental philosophies and religions.
EBERT SAID he might eventually attend law school. In the meantime, he is living with some people in a house on Louisiana Street and is looking for a job. He said he wanted to save enough money to pay his debts and possibly buy some land.
"I'm here because I feel there's a pretty good community of people here," he said, "as good a people as you'll find any place."
When questioned about the Student Senate, Ebert said if he could do away with it, he would. But he doesn't think that will ever happen.
Ebert said he would like the University to have student body convolutions that would convense several times a year. Those students who participated would make the decisions.
Ebert's main reservation was whether the Student Senate had the ability to allocate money for students. He doesn't think it does.
"There are lots of problems with that,
sure, "Ebert said. "But things wouldn't
be as bad if I did."
"I don't want to sound like the typical 'kick-the-Student' Senate-in-the-ass," because there are a lot of things it could do." Ebert said.
BUT STUDENT senators, he said, often make decisions on matters they know nothing about. He admitted this was not their fault. However, he said he does not think a group the senate's size should handle the amount of money it does.
Ebert said that the senate usually seemed more interested in form than in substance, and this resulted in power and personality conflicts.
"They are game playing," he said. Concerning his experiences as student librarians, he said he wished he could have done something to prevent the crises that occurred.
"THE MINUTE we started to do something," he said, "something else came up and we had to deal with those problems."
Ebert referred to money appropriated last year to the athletic department as a "major flaw." He said the senate had tried to find an equitable manner to assess the activity fee but he said there was no way to do it.
He said the fee should be abolished and the students allowed to use their money
Although he offered a number of
great ideas, he had learned a
deal great while in office.
"I learned a lot of things about people and the political-institutional framework."
Ebert said he had hundreds of meetings with "concerned people" who, for personal or economic reasons, were interested in Lawrence. He said they were not, however, as interested in the poor or in discrimination against women.
"There was an incredible attachment to seeking peace without people rubbing *ddf*
HIS EXPERIENCES. Ebert said, gave him a chance to grow and to develop a more precise understanding of what there were problems in Lawrence—and in the
Asked what advice he would give the present student body president, David Miller, Ebert said, "read a book on imperialism."
Ebert said he and Miller had an uncrelible difference in the performances he watched. He approached them.
The issue last October concerning student representation on policy-making bodies at the University was, to Ebert, an important one. He said he thought 20
Ebert said he be considered that kind of action a waste of the students' money and
"Miller is the type who would go get a steak with the faculty and discuss the research."
percent student representation (he
advocates 59 per case was a token and
not a user)
of his own time.
"I'm not on a personal vendetta against Dave Miller," Ebert said. "He ought to resign and let Molly Lafflin be president." According to Ebert women have always
"It's way past time to change that," he said.
Bill Ebert as President
'Events controlled me that year'
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