The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
82nd Year, No. 22
Voter Registration Goal of Program
Wednesday, September 29, 1971
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Chamber of Commerce Addressed
KU Fund Woes Shared By City, Says Chalmers
By GAYLE TRIGG Kansan Staff Writer
"The sum total effect of University-related business volume last year is estimated to be $7.19 million more than a quarter of the total estimated business volume of Lawrence." Chamberlief E. Chamberlief, University of Lawrence Chamber of Commerce this morning.
Chairmen, using an analysis recently completed by Darwin Waite, professor of economics, outlined facts that demonstrate the interdependence of KU and the city of Lawrence. He addressed her on the "State of the University."
Chalmers compared the relationship between the city and the university to symbiosis, "the close association of two dissimilar groups where the association is
usually advantageous and often necessary for survival."
"Thus," he said, "KU's financial problems become financial problems for the City of Lawrence, and the effective consequence of these problems is found to be mutually beneficial."
CHALMERS cited the changing population at KU, often called the "student mix," and the erosion of state support of higher education as sources of KU's financial problems. He used slides to illustrate that a unique situation to this region exists at KU; there are more sophomores than freshmen, more junior students than freshmen, and more graduate students than freshmen. Chalmers said that because the upper levels are more costly to finance, the overly simple state formula for
He noted that the older students, of which there are more and more, have different contributions to make to the city and different expectations, too, as some
funding education is less than adequate.
Chalmers mentioned the common allegation that there is "too much fat" "in the University's budget." "Too much fat" ("tat") Chalmers asked, "Nonsense. The run off long ago. We are cutting into more meat and we—and nerve tissue doesn't regenerate."
$5.64 Million Bond Issue Defeated by County Voters
By GARY PETERSON
Kansas Staff Writers
and
LARRY CHRIST
Karen Staff Writers
The issue was defeated in every area except the Hillcrest precincts. These include the third and fourth precincts of the second ward. The majority of registered KU voters live in this area, according to city records.
Douglas County voters overwhelmingly defeated Tuesday the proposed $5.64 million bond issue for construction of a city-county government center.
The unofficial results from 35 precincts showed 3,306 for the measure and 5,385 for the measure.
"It certainly doesn't look good," County Arthur Arthur Heck said, as he watched the early results. "We presented a grave need to the voters. One that needed to be corrected. This need will only grow worse as time goes on."
The most opposition came from voters in the third, fourth, and fifth precincts of the fourth ward, located in southeast Minneapolis where the measure was rejected 433 to 134.
WILLIAM WOMACK, Co-chairman of the Citizens Committee for Lawrence-Douglas County Governmental Center, cited many possible reasons for the defeat. These included the failure of the KU faculty to receive pay raises, the continuing selling stock market, the wage price increase and the architectural design of the building.
"It might have been better not to have bad an architect," he said. "We should have just let the voters form an idea of building a building would look like in their minds."
Kansan Photo by RON SCHLOERE
Womack said he believed the drawings of the building shown to the public conveyed images of unnecessary expenditures.
THE CHANCELLOR said that 76 percent of the total University income is from part-time student help. He gave statistics, where available, that show the University is not only understaffed, but salaries are compared to those at other comparable schools.
K.U. RECLAMATION CENTER
Feeding Time for the 'Whomper'
Leanna Dumler prepares a scrumptious dish for her pet, the "Whomper." It cat glass and cuzz twice well, from noon till 6 p.m. on Thursday and Sundays. Miss Dummer is a junior chef at the restaurant.
Most of the other University expenses, Clients said, are operating expenditures of $20 million annually (principally funded by outside grants), maintenance of the physical plant, the maintenance of equipment.
He said inflation has affected some of the areas adversely. No more cuts could be aimed.
"When the library begins to degenerate," Chalmers said, "the best faculty members in the world lose their effectiveness as contemporary scholars." He also noted the current $900,000 - seeded renovation and repair
"I warn you," he said, "if you drive on the campus this fall, look out for the pot hole."
He also noted the current $000,000
lavender innovation and repair
on the Lawrence campus.
"HOW SERIOUS are these problems of University finance for the city of Lawrence?" Chalmers asked. He referred to the study done by Diaoff of the economic impact of the University on the city during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1971, to show why the Chamber should be involved with the financial strafs of the University.
It also estimated that in addition to the 3,300 men and women on the University payroll, 3,735 local jobs are created by the presence of KU. Moreover, faculty, staff and students, together with state aid related to the presence of the University, contributed $1.5 million to the town last year in taxes.
The analysis showed that each of 1,100 faculty members spends an estimated $7,500 per year within the community. This amount is about 26% of staff members and $1,688 by each of the 8,873 students living off-campus. Adding the expenditures of students in organized housing, the study determined that student expenditure for more than $23 million per year.
IN THE FOUR Lawrence banks, $7 million in checking and savings accounts result from University account and those of individuals related to KU.
Chalmers urged the Chamber members to use the facts he had presented to convince skeptics that the economic problems at KU interact with the larger community and that help is needed to achieve an effective solution.
400 Pounds of Flour and a Watermelon
Kansas Staff Photo by ED LALLO
It's not winter yet, but the living room of John Ritland's apartment is very white, the result of 400 pounds of flour. Ritland, of Overland Park and Jel Thomas, Wilmette, III, both sophomores, were given the opportunity to watch a performance by Ritland and Thomas built a cardboard sphere in which they put the
Lansing Disturbance Still Tense
flour and a watermelon. The class then went to Ritland's apartment to view the project. Now that the project is finished, Ritland is not sure what he will do with the flour. "I would like to sell it to a fraternity for a prank," he said.
LANSING (AP)—Kansas Pentient officials confirmed late Tuesday that an unspecified number of inmates were placed in isolation and 200 others were moved from a dormitory inside the walls at the prison continued for a second day.
Warden R. J. Gaffney said the 200 inmates were transferred to a recently renovated cellhouse after an "incident" described it only as "a minor disturbance."
The prison has been unsettled since Monday morning, when about 100 inmate cooks refused to report to their jobs. No meals were served Monday.
WOODSON SAID penal officials "are trying to be as humane as possible."
Some prisoners ate breakfast Tuesday, but many others declined, and meal service was discontinued for the day. The president would be made to serve breakfast today.
Virtually all activity in the prison, including industries, was at a standstill Tuesday. Women employees, including those were seen departing about midday.
Gaffney and Robert N. Woodson, state penal director, said guards had been issued helmets, night sticks and other riot control equipment Tuesday, but they said no physical force had been directed at inmates.
In a meeting with newsmen late Tuesday, the warden said one prisoner had been hospitalized with injuries suffered in a fight Monday night. He declined to identify the man or to disclose the nature of his injuries.
Gaffney said no outside assistance had been requested.
In Topeka, James Shaffer, Gov. Robert Docking's press secretary, said, "It's all quiet, everything's under control, and there is no reason for concern."
Shaffer said Docking was in close contact with Woodson, who told the
governor that prison officials don't know why the inmates are "striking or killing" someone.
Earlier, Gaffney told a Leavenworth Times reporter that the unrest apparently involved "petty grievances" including the slaughter of a cow and serving of too much pork to inmates.
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Nixon signed Tuesday the bill extending the military draft until June 30, 1973. But he did not extend military pay raise included in the measure.
Nixon Signs Draft Bill; Postpones Military Raises
The act, passed Sept. 21 by Congress after a five-month battle, contains the largest military pay raise in history and authority for Nixon to order an end to funding for college undergraduates, effective with this year's entering freshmen.
The President had said he would use the authority to **to** end undergraduate students.
The measure also includes a statement calling on President Nixon to terminate U.S. operations in Indochina "at the earliest practicable date." This is a diluted
The $2.4 billion pay raise in the bill was to have taken effect Oct. 1.
version of Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield's Senate-passed amendment for total U.S. withdrawal in nine months if American respondents are freed
OTHER MAIN provisions of the draft extension measure include:
—a ceiling on drafteres of 130,000 in the year ending June 30, 1972, and 140,000 in 1973.
—An authorization for armed forces
manpower of 2,553,409 men in the current
civil war.
- Extension of procedural rights for drafters before their local boards.
Two years' alternative service for conscientious objects, to be served under direct jurisdiction of the Selective System Systep's national headquarters.
A limit of 20 years on service on a local draft boards with boards required to reflect racial and religious breakdowns of their communities.
Phone Company Fighting Deceit
By LARRY CHRIST
Kansan Staff Writer
Southwestern Bell, losing tremendous sums of revenue because of deception by some of its customers, is starting a new business called Fraudulent long distance telephone calls.
The program, originated in July, resulted from a nationwide study by the parent American Telephone and Telegraph公司. that attempted to analyze telephone fraud, according to James F. T. Wilson, an assistant professor of Southwestern Kissel's Kansas operations.
"It's alarming and completely out of hand," Garner said. "We find it completely unsatisfactory to our company, our customers and our stockholders."
This fraud, Garner said, occurs mainly in the form of persons billing long distance to non-existent credit cards and to commonly referred to as third number bills.
Although once not considered to be a problem requiring a great deal of time, personel and equipment, the abuse, Garner said, has grown slowly but steadily. "We've had it become a problem of major concern to Bell System administrators," he said.
The nationwide study resulted in a coordinated practice among all companies within the Bell System for investigating and identifying fraudulent use of telephone
facilities. Former FBI agent Garner and his staff of six head the investigation team
The procedure for making fraultulent
milk is quite well known, in
according to Garner.
It's a matter of public knowledge for all nurses who want to participate in this kind of work.
Garner said most underground papers have carried the format of the telephone credit card and have encouraged its fraudulent use.
Although credit cards and third-number billing are the two most-used methods of placing illegal calls, Garner described a method that includes elaborate code-calling schemes, fraudulent use of coin telephone stations, abuse of watt's line service and false student billing code numbers used by students on college and university
The main concern of Southwestern Bell, Garner said, is to provide the best service possible.
Southwestern Bell officials are using many methods in attempting to identify the source of an outage.
"We do everything possible to accomplish this," he said. "We give uninterrupted service, fairly priced, with special night and weekend rates. And this service hinges on our trust of the customer."
other highly technical equipment are used thoroughly.
A list of "100 most wanted telephone numbers" has been compiled and programmed into computers. As a long distance call is placed, a charge ticket filled out by the operator is quickly detected and an abused number. As a case of fraud is detected, authorities are notified and an investigation begins.
Garner cited examples of operators who detected a fraud in the making thus "the need to have a way to deal with it."
"But there is a segment of our society that feels that so many calls are made that they won't be detected. This is being naive to the point of being ridiculous," he said.
Garner said all long distance calls have a record made for billing purposes.
The centre telephone system, currently in operation at KU and other university campuses, also causes problems of fraud for Southwestern Bell officials, Garner
"As many ways as there are to cheat the system, there are that many ways of detecting and investigating fraud," he said.
Deception of this system involves the
"We have more cases of toll fraud to investigate in Lawrence than any other city in Kansas," he said. "But KU is the largest school in Karas."
student who gives a false billing code number when he places a long distance
Garner said most students who participated in this type of fraud were unaware that they were committing a crime.
"I refuse to believe that the student at the University of Kansas is a thief," he said. "Very few would knowingly commit a criminal act."
Garner said that it was an injustice to the students that they didn't realize how hard it is to succeed.
"Just one call could place them in jeopardy," he said.
He said that many state and federal laws are broken when fraudulent calls are made. These include credit card information, include credit card by wire, and in some cases, fraud by mail.
"If they would just stop and think what would happen if they were caught and prosecuted," he said. "The results of a study showed that, I don't even want to think about it."
Southwestern Bell is not pointing its finger at any one group, according to Tiger.
"The student pays for his service and long distance calls and, as a customer, we want to give him the best service possible." he said.
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