KANSAN
Renters' Group Being Organized
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, September 21, 1971
82nd Year. No.16
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Capacity Crowd Heard Birth Control Arguments
... Had several questions
Compulsory Birth Control Debated
In a lively debate Monday night two cases on possible solutions to the problem.
Edgar R. Chasteen, president of Compulsory Birth Control for All Americans, Inc., and Merle Zirkle, director of education for Zero Population Growth, Kansas City, Mo., talked about their efforts to prevent childbirth capacity growth in Decade Hall Auburnium.
volunteer system in which it would be up to people to voluntarily submit to birth
Chasteen said, "The trouble with the volunteer system is that nobody voluntar
Chasteen thinks that birth control should be compulsory and that there should be a certain amount of risk.
The title of the debate was "Should Birth Control Be Made Corpsealary." Zirkel made the claim.
Zirkle said, "The bookkeeping system to accommodate Chastene's system would not
THE MEN agreed that contraceptives
StudEx Loan Stand Defended by Members
Members of the Student Executive Committee said Monday that the action they took this summer, denying a loan from the Legal Self Defense Fund to Randy Gould, former student senator, was justified because the Student Senate upheld their decision in a vote taken last Wednesday.
Brad Smoot, senior senator, vice-chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee and StudEx member, said, "The Student Senate voted in the spring of 1971 to allocate $800 from university fees to the Legal Self Defense Fund.
"Since student activity fees are considered state money, the state informed the Student Senate that there were questions concerning the use of state money for bail and therefore refused to provide at, that time, use of the state funds.
"Because we are in favor of getting the money for the Legal Self Defense Fund, we
provide our clients with this legal defense."
"WE THEN returned the state money to our contingency fund."
which are not collected from our activity fees, and give it to the Legal Self Defense
“This summer,” said Bill O'Neill, treasurer of the Student Senate, “I received a request accompanied by a demand promissory note signed by Gould for $750 to help pay bondmiles fees on an indictment for a felonious charge.
According to Smoot, StudEx then debated the issue of whether loans were to be used for felony charges and whether the total sum could be used by one individual.
"Because I wasn't sure the fund was to be used for felony charges, I took the rollback."
should be made freely available to everyone. They also agreed there was a need for increased use of contraceptives, the legalization of abortions and more research for the development of reliable and reversable contraceptives.
Some of the consequences of the population explosion are increased pollution of oceans, cities, air, airing crime rates and ugly manmade sites that reduce the natural beauty of our country, they said.
A member of the Finance and Auditing Committee assured StudEx that the original application for funds suggested that the money was to be used for minor offenses, by as many people as possible and on a short term loan basis, they said.
There was a question and answer period at the end of the debate, in which several questions were asked, followed by a social hour and informal reception in the
The next meeting will be Monday, Oct.
11, in the Union Ball Room.
30 Stations To Issue IDs In Strong Hall
Students should pick up new KU-Ds Wednesday and Thursday in front of Strong Hall. Those with last names beginning with letters A through K will receive ID cards from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday. Students with last names with letters L through Z will receive ID cards from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday.
William Kelly, registrar, said that with 30 separate stations issuing the ID cards, he hoped most students would be able to find their IDs 'in DID' while passing to and from classes.
Peace Center Still Alive
By BRAD AVERY
Kansan Staff Writer
When the U.S. Army offered the Eldridge Hotel $125 more a month than it had been getting for its basement office on the campus of Lawrence Peace Center was forced to move.
Far from putting the center out of business, however, the eviction merely forced a relocation.
Founded in the fall of 1967 as a part of the American Friends Service Committee, the center has played an important role in the war against the Vietnam War, demonstrations and draft rights.
"It really surprised us," said Louis Wolfe, program director for the center, "but the important thing is that we're still here and beliniing people."
"But counseling about the draft doesn't mean telling people what to do. We can only orient them with the realities of the situation."
"Any time we're able to help anyone with a draft problem," said Wolfe, "I know how to handle it."
Wolfe said that if a man wanted to resist the draft, the decision was entirely his.
Wolfe estimated that as many as 150 men came to the center for draft court cases. The number would double when more draft counselors are available and the center
"But it just so happens we have information about life in Canada," he said, saying that many of the immigrants
He said organizing muzz demonstrations was not the only way to work for peace, and that education, although less glamorous, was just as important.
"The peace movement has brought back more prisoners than the government has, and without command raids," he said in a written opinion of the handling of the POW issue.
"We aren't dead, but other people have given up," he said.
"A lot of people are still unaffected by the war," he said. "Not only have mothers lost a lot of sons, but inflation as a result of the war is hurting people's nokookels."
Some say the peace movement is dead. Wolfe doesn't think so.
Wolfe said he had sympathy for the prisoners as human beings but he doubled
that the American people would be hospitalized to men who had bombed their schools and hospitals either, if they were in that position.
Woife said he believed that although the North Vietnamese were wrong in not allowing prisoner communication, the government committed offences against the North Vietnamese.
"They knew what they were doing when they dropped their bombs."
"In a way the prisoners are victims of their own game," he said.
"We've allowed prisoners to be paraded through the streets and tortured," he said, "and both of these are in violation of the Geneva accords."
"Peace involves many things besides ending the war in Indochina," he said, whether it means finding a black conspirator worker in Denver a job or whatever."
Wolfe said that the Center had set up local committees to deal with problems such as Indian affairs and racism, and that committees were working with the committees are needed.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) — The seating of Red China as a U.N. member is a top item, but the Middle East still is likely to be the most critical issue before the 28th annual session of the General Assembly opening Tuesday.
Spotlight on Rodgers, Gromyko
China Seat, Middle East Top UN Session Issues
Another task before the delegates is the search for a successor to Secretary-General U Thant, who is retiring Dec. 31 after a decade in the post.
Attracting almost as much attention will be the talks behind the scenes here between Secretary of State William P. Rogers and Prime Minister Andriel A. Gromyko of the Soviet Union.
Gromyko is here and Rogers is due Friday.
The first show of strength on the China question will come either late Wednesday or early Thursday when the assembly meets to vote the allocation of the items on its agenda.
The 25-member committee must decide how each subject is to be handled.
Two items subscribed on the agenda—one submitted by the United States, the other by Altham—a will bring the first induction of assembly feeling on the China issue.
The United States seeks to seat Peking in the United Nations while insisting on a cease-fire.
question," on the expulsion of Nationalist China. The U.S. stand also provides for Taiwan's Security Council seat to be given to Peking.
ALBANIA'S RESOLUTION calls for the admission of Communist China and the admission of Peru.
Although the Middle East rates priority, Rogers intends to cover many other items on its list.
new secretary-general, the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks-SALT-between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Kremlin's call for a European security conference and reduction of troops of East and West in Europe.
Senate to Vote to End Debate on Draft Bill
Three new member states-Qatar, Bahrain and Bhutan-will be admitted and will join the G8.
WASHINGTON (AP)—Fresh allegations of huge cost overruns on the Air Force CA plane were made Monday while the Senate prepared for a vote today on a move to cut off debate and force a decision on the long-stalled draft extension bill.
Preparatory to demanding cuts in a pending $21-billion military procurement bill. Sen. William Proxmite, D-Wis., said the budget has not been approved and the air force now has so $80 million in funding.
Northern Ireland Turmoil Causes Alarm in Britain
LONDON (AP)—British officials are reported convinced that the situation in Northern Ireland is near a breaking point and the area is set to years of turmoil is urgently needed.
This war, aimed at the downdfall of the province's Protestant-based government, has in this year alone cost 75 deaths, 24 of the killers, and unaccounted economic damage.
The team lost unsuccessful impression in their thinking that was the guerrillas of the outlawed Irish Republican Army are at the heart of the war of sniping, sabotage and bombing.
This somber judgment on the Northern Ireland strife came as the British
British sources said Monday night that their assessment of the situation as critical was not affected by last week's withdrawal of 400 men from the British garrison in Northern Ireland, now reduced to 12,000 men.
This withdrawal, it was explained, was possible only because the army now has capability for quick reinforcement acquired from its two-year experience in Northern Ireland action. The garrison can and should be added to as required, the res said.
First is an emergency debate in the House of Commons, scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would certain to come under attack from opposition leader Harold Wilson, who charges the British army has become the unwilling tool of Northern Ireland's allies against the Roman Catholic minority.
government neared two testing political confrontations.
Second is a three-way summit meeting Bringing Heath to private talks with Prime Minister Theresa May, Mr. Ireland and Jack Lynch of the Irish Republic. This meeting is scheduled for the following day.
contrast to an original estimate of $28 million.
Another is the possibility of offering opposition Roman Catholics a share in running committees to supervise government planning and administration, a prospect canvassed by Faulkner but not taken up by the opposition.
One topic the British are ready to discuss is the possibility of new elections for Northern Ireland's domestic parliament under proportional representation, rather than the straight vote system that now exists.
He said in a statement the over-all costs of the program have risen by $300 million in the past year but the Air Force has withheld this information from Congress.
As soon as it disposes of the draft bill, the Senate is scheduled to take up the measure to authorize funds for a wide variety of missions, including missiles, planes and ships.
The Senate is to vote today at noon on a move to apply its debate-closing cloture rule to halt a threatened filibuster against the bill to extend the draft for two years and give the Armed Forces a $2.4 billion pay raise.
WHILE THE draft extension issue goes before the Senate, the administration's plan for an all-volunteer Army by mid-1973 was called impossible under current conditions by the general in charge of the operation.
The compromise bill, already approved by the House, survived a key test in the late last Friday when a motion to bury it was defeated. D-Dont., was rejected by a 47-36 vote.
In remarks the Pentagon
acknowledges first trust to censor, LI.
Gi Goffe. *The Journal*.
"Although we're going to try and do our level best, we are not going to make it, I don't believe, in the time that has been set or to us to do this. That's just too short a time."
"We're going to try to do it, but a lot more support and a lot more help and understanding has to come about before we could ever make that."
The general's comments were in an interview taped Friday for broadcast to U.S. troops overseeas on the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
Forstie is a special assistant to Chief of Staff Gen. William C. Westmoreland
Forsyth the expressed nasus about ending reliance on the draft when he was asked to state what his real conviction was on the possibility of eliminating the draft.
Lazy Snooze Could Be Last of Season
Kansan Staff Photo by GREG SORBER
After a drizzly Parents' Day, the weather was warm enough for Monday on Chuck Campbell, Norman, Oka. freshman, to take off his jacket. He took advantage of the change in weather by closing his eves for a lazy snooze on the campus lawn. But it will probably
be one of his last this season because summer could quickly turn to winter. Because Lawrence are temperatures much lower than normal