New IDs Draw Mixed Reactions
Over 5,000 students got their first look at the pictures taken during enrollment week when they picked up their new KU. Students will then continue with Cheryl Besser of Topka, (fee), Cheryl
Brewer of Belleville, Ill., and Diane goodfellow of Minneapolis admire their new cards. Students with names beginning with K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T pick up the IDs in strong Hall.
Threatened with a student sit-in, the administrators of Watson Library Wednesday tried to explain the problems that caused a reduction of library hours.
Budget Blamed for Watson Hours
A person who refused to be identified said Wednesday that a group planned to meet in the Library at 12:30 p.m. Saturday to discuss the library's plan to prevent the library from closing.
Arrests could be made to break up a demonstration as a last resort, Mike Thomas, director of KU Traffic and Security, said.
The library now closes at 1 p.m.
Saturday and does not open until 6 p.m.
Sunday. Last spring it closed at 5 p.m.
Saturday and opened at 2 p.m. Sunday.
Thomas pointed out that the library hours must be restricted because of a shortage of funds. He said that the library could be kept open only a certain number of hours each week and that the library staff must adjust to student needs.
The cost to resume full schedules and services for the fall and spring semester is $1,400.
Malinowski, assistant director of the library. This estimate includes needed student and full-time staff wages in Watson Library but did not include restoration of services that have been curtailed in the branch libraries.
IF MORE STUDENTS could be hired,
Malinowsky said, the librarians and other full-time staff members could be replaced with student assistants during the week.
The librarians could then work on weekends, officials said.
The student assistant payroll has been cut, said 1, Martin Jones, the budget Affairs Office; the reason was that the University received approximately the same amount of money to work with this year, but there was an increase in expenses that took away a large portion of what is usually allotted to library salaries.
The increased expenses included Civil Service pay raises of $130,000, added Social Security premiums of $34,000, and higher health insurance premiums of $40,000.
At a result Chancellor E. Laucera camers Jr. worked with the Council of Delegates.
Heller, William Baifour and Keith Nitcher in cutting expenses that bit into the wages that were available for the student assistant salaries of the library. Money assistant schools last year. The present allotment stands at approximately $9,000 students hour.
"WE HAVE ENOUGH money to keep the library open both semesters, the current amount of hours," said John Glinka, associate director of the library, or change the hours around to suit our needs. "We're flexible with the money we have."
Suggestions to which the library officials were receptive included closing at 10 p.m. on weekdays, switching the manhours on Saturday mornings to Sunday morning, and operating on a 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. break to enable the break instead of 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.
One possibility "would be a gate between sections so that only the Serials
and Reserve Reading room could be open while part of the library was closed. Both officials said they would be reluctant to open the library without full services.
The branch libraries have also suffered. Some have had their student wage allotment cut in half. The housekeeping and service chores in the branch libraries are in a worse state than in Watson, officials said.
THERE ARE AREAS from which the library is looking for more money, officials said. These include the base budget which arises from the student fee payments for this fall and projected for next spring, and also from salary savings which could possibly rise if library personnel took leave without pay or a job is vacated.
The feeling in several departments in Watson right now is that they are not keeping up with their housekeeping and not giving the services they would like to give, because of the present staff limit they said. Malmowsky said that some departments are even as far behind as three days in their work.
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Dream Crumbling, He Says
Thursday, September 23, 1971
Kerry Cites Fear in Nation
By BRAD AVERY Kansan Staff Writer
John Forbes Kerry, in a speaking style that was reminiscent of a JFK of another era, told an estimated audience of 500 and imagined the dream is crumbling "Wednesday."
Kerry, a national spokesman for the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, told the audience, "There is a fear and paranoia that exists in this country today." He cited recent disturbances at Attica State Prison as an example.
Kerry, who has testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said that a significant portion of the younger generation's political awareness was damaged in the conflicts, and he listed the deaths of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King as examples.
"But more than that," that凯, said, "we've lost an entire generation who simply couldn't stomach the plastic, the risk of war, and the President all in one swallow."
Kerry said that the United States was entering an unprecedented era of social and economic choices that until now had been avoided.
"THE OVERALL QUESTION," Kerry said, "is whether or not expansion and
growth will be allowed to dominate our lives."
Kerry said that America had used its philosophy of growth and expansion to obscure the real problems that existed in the country.
He said governmental institutions that were meant to deal with the problems had failed, and as a result the American government was about the possibility of solving problems.
"If the government doesn't take care of it, you have to consider alternatives that will have a consider alternative that will have
Kerry said that the lack of credibility was the government's major failing and cited the war in Vietnam as the major example.
"He said 'We Vietnam veterans cannot convey the sense of obscenity we see in Taiwan.'"
"How do you tell a guy that there is a sense of honor in dying in a war he doesn't"
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He criticized President Nixon's handling of the war and said the war could be over and the American prisoners in North Carolina home if the President really wanted to.
Kerry said that many veterans felt a
750 Hear Vietnam Veteran Against War
... Told that America obsures real problems ...
Kansan Staff Photo by HANK VOUNG
bitter disappointment because they lacked jobs and veterans benefits.
"I CANNOT BELIEVE that with all the things there are to do in this country, that we are unable to find jobs for veterans," he said.
"We will not be quiet," he said, "until we make this country see what they've done in the past."
He called hypocrisy the government hypocritical for arresting leaders of his organization for camping in Washington, D.C. and ignoring the municipal workers strike in New York, which hampered the city's traffic flow and caused millions of
gallons of raw sewerage to be dumped.
When asked at what time he began to question American involvement in the Vietnam War, Kerry replied that he had doubts during his senior year in college, but he said he had gone into the Navy because of a sense of duty.
"The President had made the decision and I felt I had to go with it," he said. "I certainly wasn't among the first to question our involvement," he said. "But this was back in 1965 before any draft cards were burned."
"I guess the McCarthy campaign really put it together for me."
UN Votes for Hearing Of Two-China Policy
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) - The United States won endorsement of the U.N. General Assembly's steering committee to support a full hearing on its two-China policy.
It lost another test, however, when a 25-
nation committee rejected a U.S. proposal
that the two-China formula be discussed
between China and to give China's U.N. seat to Pekin alone.
In three separate votes, the committee agreed 17 to 2, with 4 abstentions, to include the socalled Albanian proposal on the agenda of the 136-nation assembly. It voted 11 to 9, with four abstentions, to include the U.S. plan.
On a proposal by U.S. Ambassador George Bush to debate the questions together, however, the United States lost 9 to 12 with 3 abstentions.
THE EXACT FORM of the China representation agenda still must be determined by the assembly itself, but only rarely does the assembly reverse recommendations of the steering committee.
The full assembly will take up the committee's recommendations Friday morning, said he would not attempt to raise the recommendation against merging the rival items.
A PRELIMINARY CLASH in the steering committee came as the United States and 15 other countries called on the assembly to seat both Chinas and to put Communitist China on the Security Council. This would give Peking the Big-Power veto.
He said the Japanese agreement to join in cosponsoring the U.S. resolutions was helpful, adding: "They made a very difficult decision."
Albania and other long-time supporters of Peking had insisted the debate should be restricted to their plan, which calls officially for the expulsion of Nationalist China.
The fight against taking up the U.S. proposal was led by Albania's vice-minister of foreign affairs, Rails Mille, which announced it as an anti-Chinese maneuver.
Bush later described inclusion of the American item on the agenda as "a forward step . . . given the makeup of the committee." Many of the steering committee members are Communist-bloc or nonaligned nations
Mallie asserted that the U.S. resolution was intended to delay a solution of the 21-year-old controversy over who should occupy China's U.N. seat.
MALILE  SPEOK after U.S. Ambassador George Bush proposed that the U.S. item and a rival proposal, sponsored by Albania and 18 other countries, be debated concurrently in the 130-nation assembly.
"We think it is clear," Bush said, "that the General Assembly will not wish to hold two such meetings."
Sponsors of the so-called Albanian resolution are seeking to seat Peking and at the same time expel the Chinese from there. There is only one China, Mallee said.
John Forbes Kerry Speaks in Union
John Forbes Kerry Speaks in Union U.S. entering era of social and economic choices'
Kansan Staff Photo by HANK YOUNG
Jury of 5 Acquits Medina
FT. M.PHERSON, Ga. (Ap.)—Capr. Ernest Medina, the career officer who commanded U.S. troops at My Lai in 1988, was killed on all of all charges from the operation.
The jury of five Vietnam veteran officers deliberated for about an hour before acquitting the captain of murder, involuntary manslaughter and assault.
The verdict was read by the jury president, Col. William D. Proctor, of Atlanta, as Medina stood at stiff attention before the jury with his lawyers.
"It is my duty as president of this court to advise you that the court in closed session and upon secret written ballot, has received an order for specifications and charges." Proctor said.
Medina, 35, a slight smile on his face,
snapped a smart salute to the jury, made an abouffe, and resumed his seat at the defense table.
Army officials at the Pentagon indicated disciplinary action still could be taken against Medina in the form of administrative punishment such as official enure or demise in rank, but a court opinion is unlikely since Medina has indicated his intention to resent them.
At the reading of the verdict, there were several loud gasps among the spectators.
MEDINA'S ATTRACTIVE blonde wife, dressed in a bright orange dress, burst into tears and rested her head on the shoulder of Kenneth Howard, hands to her face and wiped at the tears. Col. Kenneth Howard, the military judge, in an attempt to restore quiet to the courtroom, looked toward the spectators who will be no outbursts in this courtroom."
Medina sat without expression as Howard dismissed the jury and the spectators filed out of the cramped, industrial hall has been in progress since last month.
When the courtroom was empty, Medina walked into an adjoining room, drank a glass of water and, with his wife beside her, looked up at the bright sunshine to face a throne of newmen.
The captain, speaking into a battery of microphones, said, "I am extremely happy. I—just don't know what other words can express my feelings at this point."
The *trim Mexican-American officer's* voice shook as he talked to the newsmen, "I'm not going to say that."
Withdrawal Bill To Go Before Congress Again
A previous amendment, carrying a nineteen deadline, was passed by the Senate in 2014.
A new amendment, expected to call for a total U.S. pullout in six months if American prisoners are freed, will be offered as an amendment to the measure authorizing funds for military hardware and research.
WASHINGTON (AP)—Senate majority leader Mike Mansfield said Wednesday that he was hopeful the House would support a new effort, expected to be launched next week, to set a date for total U.S. withdrawal from Indochina.
Taking a deep breath, and then exhaling,
Medina said:
time he would be convicted.
that I would be convicted. I never felt that.
"Men, three years is a long time—I'll
Medina was accused of premeditately murdering a woman by shooting her as she lay wounded in a rice paddy outside My Lai. He also was accused of involuntary slaughter in the death of 100 civilians during the operation and with assaulting a Viet Cong suspect by twice firing a rifle over his head.
Juror C. Robert E. Nelson Jr., told newsmen the verdict does not indicate the jury felt no war crimes were committed at My Lai.
"I am certain war crimes were committed," be said, "In the case of Capt. Medina the jury was convinced that he committed no war crimes."
Nelson, a veteran of 21 years in the Army, was asked if the jury gave special consideration to the nature of the war in Vietnam.
"I don't see how we can distinguish war in Vietnam, front war, in other circumstances."
"I think the general public will support the decision of this court."
THE OFFICER said he personally was convinced that Medina had no knowledge of the activities of Calley and the other soldiers at My Lai.
"We all began this trial with the assumption that Capt. Medina was innocent. We were waiting for the enemy to convince us otherwise. They did not do so."