THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WARM
82nd Year, No.24
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Friday, October 1, 1971
Oliver Hall Tries New Governance
See Page 10
SenEx OKs Dance Set By Coalition
By PEG RILEY
and BARBARA SPURLOCK Kansan Staff Writers
In a late night meeting, the University Senate Executive Committee decided to uphold a decision of the University Events Committee to allow the Women's Coalition to hold a dance Friday night, Chancellor Chaulner Challens Jr., said this morning.
The meeting was called by Chalmers. Chalmers approved a statement written by SenEx which said, "In response to allegations the University Senate Executive Committee has reviewed the approval by the University Events Committee of the dance to be sponsored by the Women's Coalition in the Kansas Union of Writers and no compelling reason to question or recommend reversal of the approval."
The statement came after members of the Women's Coalition and Gay Liberation Front assembled in the Chancellor's office in Strong Hall to explain the dance to the Senate Executive Committee (SenEx) at SenEx's request.
As about 50 people waited in the administrative's office for a comment about the dance from SenEx members who were meeting behind closed doors, William M. Lucas, associate professor of architecture and urban development and SenEx chairman, emerged and said no decision had been reached. Some people awaiting the decision appeared to be smoking marijuana. Some left强 chanting, "Ho, ho homosexual, ruling class is ineffectual."
Chalmers had requested that SenEx review the University Events Committee's decision Wednesday which approved a plan for a public hearing to members felt that the public given the dance was deceptive because the posters and publicity implied it was a Gay Liberation Front function. Since the Gay Liberation Front is a branch of the University, it cannot hold a dance here.
Earlier, the University Events Committee said the Women's Coalition could have the dance in the Kansas Union ballroom and give the funds to the Gay Liberation Front. It stipulated that the dance was to be publicized as a Women's Coalition event, said Sharon Mayer, Roskill university's Women's Coalition committee, which identified the dance's financial purpose prompted Chalmer's request for review.
Candida Howard, New York City senior and Coalition member, said proceeds from the dance would go toward court costs of the Gay Liberation Front's suit against the Berlin office. The group in its suit against the University for recognition.
Kansas Staff Photo by GREG SORBER
Chalmers Addresses Faculty Questions
. . . Stresses need for flexibility . . .
Withdrawal Deadline Approved by Senate
WASHINGTON  (AP) — The Senate renewed Thursday its call for total U.S. withdrawal from Indochina by setting a six-month deadline, after Democratic leader Neil Mansfield of Montana proposed for action to "bring this horrible war to an end."
"Why not try?" Mansfield appealed.
"Why have we got to lose?" You've got a lot
of money.
The vote was 57 to 38 in favor of Mansfield's amendment to set a six-month deadline, which would not be binding on American prisoners in contingent on release of American prisoners.
"You can't stop the war by an act of Congress of this kind," Republican leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania said, expressing the Nixon administration's contention that the Mansfield amendment states the time—and potentially harmful.
Spoil's plea was echoed by Chairman John C. Stemnis, D-Miss, of the Armed Cormorant.
Stennis noted that Mansfield's amendment to the $21 billion military procurement authorization bill, like one with a nine-month deadline passed last June, House opposition and a possible conference stalemate. Stennis said it would be better to pass the amendment as separate legislation.
"Every time we pass this amendment in this way, we put obstacles in our path and lend encouragement to the enemy," Stennis said.
Thursday's vote was closer than the 61-38 margin last June when the nine-month withdrawal amendment was attached to the draft extension bill.
The touchy issue of the American prisoners swirled through the debate.
Chalmers Speaks to Profs
By GINNIE MICKE Kansan Staff Writer
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers J,
expressed his views on the University's
internal organization and faculty status,
and the relationship of the University to
a meeting on Thursday night at a
meeting of the American Association
of University Professors (AUHP).
Chalmer's answered questions of the faculty that had been compiled before the meeting. The faculty at the meeting asked her and offered opinions during the discussion.
Telephone Solicitors Halt
Southern Advertising, operators of a telephone solicitation in Lawrence, agreed to halt business when they appeared to be hearing earlier by Asst. Altg. Lee Lance Burr.
The company was informed that they were selling tangible merchandise. They were also told that they did not have a state sales tax license, according to Emery Goad, consumer protection investigator for the Attorneys General.
Goad said an investigation would be held to see if the company was violating the consumer protection act which deals with deceptive business practices. The hearing was called under statutory provisions of the consumer protection act.
The company was conducting a telephone solicitation called Lawrence Golden Checks. Goad said he had been trying to find the base of the operation for several weeks. The Lawrence Police had been alerted, he said. He found the address through a Kansan story on student complaints about the firm, he said.
More books could be sold than promised, Goad said. This would make it impossible for the merchants to provide the services promised in the books, he said.
Earlier this week, Mrs. Jeanne Edmonds, manager for Southern Advertising, said Karen stories on the company's distorted view of the company's operation.
Guan said there was nothing illegal about the concept of the book book, but, he said, both the customers and the sellers must be careful. If the soliciting company was not honest.
He said the company had promised to sell only 2,000 books. The telephone pitch given by the firm will also be investigated, be said.
Mrs. Edmonds said the portraits were done by professional photographers on
One complainant quoted in the Kansan said portraits available through the coupon book were negatives of black and white photos blown up to portrait size.
quality stock paper and were valued at $20.95 each for 18 and 29 prints and $10.95
for 30 prints.
Though the coupon book is worth over $175, the telephone solicitors quote its value at $150, she said, "because not everyone uses every certificate."
All of the certificates are for free merchandise she said, except for one pizza cup.
"We are sponsored by 22 local merchants, of all them highly reputable," Mrs. Edmonds said. "We have nothing to hide."
Since the articles appeared in the Kansan, however, there has been "a rash of complaints" over the Golden Checks, she said.
"In this kind of operation, a company goes into a town, puts together the checks, markets them and then they're gone," said Diane McKay, again until they're ready to do it again."
Bill Gaut, executive director of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, said he thought the Golden Checks operation was legal.
Gaud said he did not think local merchants were "sponsoring" the checks, but rather that they were participating by offering the special offers in the certificate book.
The Chamber of Commerce has received about 70 inquiries about the company since the Kansas stories, Gaut said, and two or three others have contact to contact the Better Business Bureau.
He compared it to magazine sales clubs that temporarily solicit business in towns where the audience is small.
He said the chamber had received several inquiries before the Kansan printed its stories on the Golden Checks. Mrs. Edmonds said, Southern Association was not a member of the local Chamber of Commerce and belong to the national chamber. The company started business in Lawrence on Sept. 14, she said.
The Chancellor said that when he came to the University, he found the structure "too monolithic." Since then, he said, he actively tried to decentralize decisions.
"One of the great dilemmas we faced with massive student confrontation," he said, "was that there were no convenient outlets for highly specific concerns that may have related to an internal matter of a department, school or college.
"I continue to believe that one of the reasons this year was calmer is that these people are less likely to take action."
Chalmer also expressed a need for "greater flexibility."
The status of the faculty was of major concern at the meeting. The questions ranged from collective bargaining to the need for faculty members to change and innovation.
Asked what his stand was on collective bargaining between faculty and administration, Chalmers said he had not yet been persuaded that it had produced any more money from state governments that had implemented this policy.
The faculty members were concerned with the idea that such a policy might result in higher wages, in keeping with the rising cost of living
The Chancellor said such a policy, to his
Pentagon Seeks Draft Quota For 3 Months
knowledge, had only produced the rearrangement of funds within the institutions. Collective bargaining, he said, resulted in either increased tuition for students or curtailment of the number of faculty positions.
Meanwhile, spokesman Jerry W. Friedheim disclosed that Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird had ordered the Army to reverse the policy under which Army recruiters rejected veterans seeking to re-enlist.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon Thursday set a 10,000-mann draft quota for the next three months and indicated next week about 17,500 applicants to the 1971's nine-year record low of 98,000.
Friedheim denied that the low draft call for the remainder of this year suggested that Laired was crying wolf when he predicted during Senate debate that Army readiness would be damaged significantly and therefore protective Service law were revived quickly.
The policy conflicted with Laird's recent public warnings of a dangerous military
Because Kansas ranks low in faculty salaries compared to other Big Eight schools, some faculty members suggested that the institution would management processes to get pay raises.
The Pentagon spokesman argued that, low as it is, the new draft call for October, November and December would generate voluntary enlistments in the armed forces.
"I cannot find the equivalent to the wage-profit split that characterizes the whole process of labor-management negotiations in business," the Chancellor said. "I cannot find that split at the University."
Chalmers praised the faculty for their attitude on innovation and change.
"This faculty is more responsive to change than almost any I know about," he said. For examples, he pointed out the development of the Senate Code and the introduction of students into the decision-making processes.
When Scott said the amendment would give up a valuable U.S. bargaining card, Mansfield shot back: "What is that card—the POW??"
Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., Mansfield and Sen. J. W. Fulbright, D-Ark, argued over whether the amendment sought to place blame for the war.
"I'm not shifting the blame to anyone. Failures insisted. All I want to do is stop them."
Dole said, "What we do effectively undercuts the President."
Before turning to Mansfield's amendment, the Senate rejected 51-42 an amendment by Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee for
additional research on a new tank
The committee had added the funds to a $27.5 million House allowance for work on the Main Battle Tank, but additional funds sought by the Pentagon to start production had been denied. Eagleton said, "Blind congressional acceptance of blair Army assurances have kept this highly questionable tank rolling along." Committee members said its development was essential.
Mansfield's amendment faces the same obstacles as his earlier proposal, which was rejected by the House and then diluted by Senate-House conferences into a call for Nixon to negotiate an end to U.S. involvement in Indochina "as soon as practicable."
AEC to Dump Lyons For Nuclear Disposal
U. S. Rep. Joe Skubitz announced in Washington Thursday night that the Atomic Energy Commission would abandon Loyals电壁 as a site for abandonment of a nuclear plant.
The AEC said in a letter to the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy it had already commissioned the Kansas Geological Survey to begin a search for other "more desirable" salt bed sites in Kansas.
The letter advised the joint committee that the AEC had "serious questions" about the geological integrity of the old Carey Salt Co. mine workings at Lvons.
"Although the AEC is understandably reluctant to admit that the Lyons site is finally unacceptable," said Skibitz, "I have good reason to believe that the Lyons site will indeed be completely abandoned."
Skubitz, 5th District Congressman from Pittsburgh, said the AEC was motivated to look elsewhere for a site by two factors, including the fact that it pulled out in the letter to the joint committee.
One factor was the problem of plugging numerous deep oil and gas wells in the region.
The other was data from the American Salt Co., he said, whose nearby mining operations "proved that large water flows were taking place through the salt."
"The AEC learned this latter fact early last spring." Skubitz said, "but apparently decided to carry for additional funds in an effort to carry forward its Livons project."
Skubitz said an evaluation of five other sites in Kansas was currently under way and that a preliminary report was due Nov. 1 from the Karsas Geological Survey, with a more definite evaluation scheduled for Dec. 1.
William W. Hambleton, director of William K. Geological Survey, said he learned that a large portion of the city is underwater.
Hambleton said that no specific sites in the state were being considered, but that general sites around the state were being studied.
Hambleton said they would look for salt beds of the appropriate thickness and depth, and for locations with no salt mines, no underground storage of gas, no ground water, no towns nearby and no oil or gas wells.
He said that preliminary evaluation of possible areas would not be defined as to location exactly, but would give locations in the general criteria the general criteria AEC had for a site.
"There are still other areas in the U.S. that could be considered, but the AEC would have to change its criteria for the site," Hambleton said. "For example, they said they didn't want salt more than 1000 feet deep. The reasons were that it would cost more to mine and bury the wastes in deeper salt and if the salt was too deep it would be more difficult to get the wastes out if trouble developed."
"If the AEC would change the maximum thickness to 2000 feet, areas in Michigan and Arizona could also be considered," he said.
Hambleton said the cancellation of the Lyons site came as no big surprise to him. He said the AEC had undergone "a big people change" in the last few months.
Two of the three AEC commissioners had been replaced and a new division of waste disposal and transportation had been created.
Hambleton said the Survey would be working with this new division, and said he felt this division would be more sensitive to problems of the environment than the division of nuclear reactor development, and the Survey had worked with before.
See LYONS, page 5
Kansan Staff Photo by HANK YOUNG
Hot Rodder Prepares for Takeoff in N-Zone Gymkhana
The Jayhawk Sports Car Club held a Gymkhanas Sunday in N-Zone parking lot. Their next event is a beginner's car rally and zone
Sunday. Registration will begin at room in O-Zone parking lot. Each entrant must have a car, a driver and a navigator.