82nd Year, No.13
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Swimming Team Starts Workouts
Thursday, September 16, 1971
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Next Week in Union
Senate to Hold Hearings On Fee Poll, Gay Libs
Bv RON WOMBLE
and MARY WARD Kansan Staff Writers
The Student Senate decided Wednesday night to hold open hearings on a proposal to give the Gay Liberation Front financial support for their court battle against the University and a proposal to take a student onion poll on the activity fee.
The hearings are intended to allow students to express their views and learn about them.
The hearings, to be held next week by the Finance and Auditing Committee, will allow participants to express opinions on the eight options contained in the poll on activity fees proposed by David Miller. Eudora senior and student body officials may also propose options of their own.
Miller's bill, which calls for an all-University activity on poll activities, would give students a chance to express their opinions on the amount of money assessed for activities and how it should be appropriated.
The Senate passed a resolution to recognize the Lawrence Gay Liberation Movement.
The hearings will be concerned with the proposed appropriation of Senate funds to be used by Gay Lib in its legal battle for official recognition.
TWICE BEFORE Chancellor E.
Laurence Chalmers Jr. has refused to recognize Gay Lib as a legitimate campus organization despite Senate recommendations to do so. Because it is not a
See SENATE, page 7
Awbrey, Bailey Debate StudEx Funds Action
3y JAN KESSINGER Kansan Staff Writer
Debate was heated in the early goings of the Student Senate meeting last night. As R. L. "Pul" Bailey, Atchison graduate student, gave the Senate Executive's Committee's minutes from its meetings during the summer, Dave Abrey, Hutchinson graduate student questioned an action by StudEx.
Awbrey challenged StudEx's right to dictate how a group funded by the senate could pay for their research.
Senate to Vote on Draft Military Pay Raise Today
WASHINGTON (AP)—Opposing sides seemed uncertain of the outcome Wednesday as the Senate approached today's key vote on a bill combining two-year draft extension with the most costly military pay raise ever proposed.
Chairman John Stennis, D-Miss., of the Senate Armed Services Committee, backed by the Pentagon's top brass, appealed to all senators not to turn their backs on the measure fashioned after weeks of debate and negotiation.
The vote expected today will be on a motion to table and thus kill the bill worked out over a period of five weeks by a Senate-House conference committee from separate versions previously passed by each branch.
The House already has approved the bill, and Stennis said that if the Senate reject it, the result may be no draft bill and no military nay raises this year.
If forced to, the government could reach into a draft pool of about half a million dollars.
graduates to prevent dangerous depletion of the armed services.
Selective Service officials estimate there are about 500,000 young men whose educational deferments ran out last June, although the Selective Service law has expired.
PRESIDENT NIXON was reported to be deeply concerned about the impact on national security if the Senate rejects the bill.
The Nixon administration may have to face up to a politically unpalatable decision to go this route this year if the bill is tabled by the Senate.
Selective Service officials said they were
solicite "reasonably optimistic" the bill will
be passed.
he named the case of Randy Gould, former student senator.
But Pentagon authorities are pessimistic.
At a background news briefing a White House official said Nickerson personally may some senate before the vote if added to the list of people paying for the bill decide it would be helpful.
Kansan Saff Photo by GREG SORRER
Douglas County Courthouse After 68 Years
No privacy, no space
Gould, who was named in a conspiracy charge and had to meet Missouri bond, asked for $750 from the Legal Self Defense Bureau to approve the allocation this summer.
Minutes were missing from that particular meeting and Bailey could not give me the details that happened there. He did say the secretary gave him the allocation of $800 for Legal Self Defense, but with a stipulation that the money be spent on connected with minor crimes and small bonds.
Awbrey accused Bailey of lying to the senate and said StudEx had interfered with a function of an independent organization. He elaborated by saying that StudEx was try to manipulate the funds to be used as they saw fit.
BAILEY COUNTERED by saying the money was intended to be used by several members of his legal Self Defense loan out $70 of the $800 it had for such purposes, he said, it would not be fair to others if several small businesses like one person beld all but $50 of the money.
Brad Smoot, chairman of SenEx asked for a ruling from the Finance and Auditing Committee. Unprepared for the question on the funds, Dave Dillon, Hutchinson and McGraw were to know if the allocation to Legal Self Defense had any stipulations on its use.
Awbrey again challenged Bailey to back up the StudEx action.
She defended her motion by arguing, "when people spoke of helping as many people as possible, it meant 'as far as the car is available.' It might mean as far as two people."
“It’s insane to say the money should apply to misdemeanors only,” he shouted. Marcia Walsh, Lawrence second-year law student, moved that the Legal Self Defense be allowed to use its funds as it sees fit.
MISS WALSH'S motion failed by a wide margin in a hand vote. This was preceded by the failure of an amendment to set a $100 limit to the amount of bond money loaned to each person by Legal Self Defense.
Cooler heads prevailed after the failure of the two motions. Bailey's StUexE report finished without a hitch. But from the look of their faces, the issue was not entirely dead.
Kansan Staff Photo by GREG SORBER
Vote Ends Awbrey-Bailey Debate
Steve Davis, Mike Gowan were for limit
Bailey Discloses Misuse of Fees Of '70 Election
By PATMALONE
Kansan Staff Writer
Bailey divulged no names or details but said that the missing money had been
At the end of a lengthy and mucu-
debated Student Senate Executive
Committee report Wednesday evening, R.
Puff "Bailey read a brief statement
Rud" from the tables in handling of filf
fee money from the spring 1970 Student
Senate elections.
There was little reaction from the Senate when Bailey read his brief statement. There were no questions and Bailey did not elaborate beyond saying that some money had "disappeared" but was now restored to Senate funds.
Apparently, a cardboard box with about $1,000 in cash and checks sat unguarded on a desk in the Student Senate office for about a month in the spring of 1970. The money disappeared sometime just before Kansas Union fire, April 20, and after 17 minutes, final recovery of it was made a week ago, according to Senate officers.
THE MONEY was collected as filing fees from students running for Student Senate, class officers or student body president and vice president. If all filing fees were paid—and no records were kept to find out if they were—about $1,120 was collected.
First indications that the filing fee first money had not been deposited to the Software Company.
More Students Help Plan Policy
Although some students in the College or Liberal Arts and Sciences go to the polls today to elect representatives for the College's new governing body, the College Assembly, much of the University will be unaffected by the outcome of the election.
Charles Kahn appoints the fourth.
However, students in the Schools of Architecture and Urban Design, Fine Arts, Engineering and Education are being affected by quiet changes within their schools governing bodies. All of the schools have reorganized their internal government bodies to student representation policy approved by the University Senate in the fall of 1970.
The School of Architecture and Urban Design renamed its governing body the Faculty-Student Council. The council, which includes 25 faculty members and 10 students, decides upon all policy and decision-making. Each of the five student classes (students are classified according to year in the program) elects two representatives.
When the school switches to a four-year program with a graduate division, students will elect eight representatives from their divisions and two graduate councils.
TWO SUBCOMMITTEES, the operations coordinating and the academic coordinating committees, provide recommendation. Each has four members designated by student number to the previous committee and faculty members elect two members and Dean
In the School of Fine Arts, the basic organization of government has changed very little, Dean Thomas Gorton said recently. Each department has student representatives. Some departments are still conducting elections.
The various departments prepare recommendations for final policy decision at faculty meetings at which "student invited" to participate," Gorton said.
The faculty meetings rule on courses and regulation of enrollment.
The School of Engineering, Dean William Smith, said Tuesday is much smaller than the College of Liberal Arts or the University of North Carolina old faculty council. The present council includes 19 students and individuals from other departments, such as English and Computer Science.
THE COUNCIL decides on all major policy and curricula involving students. A separate committee made up of faculty members leads to departments consider promotion and tenure.
In the School of Journalism, a nine-member faculty committee handles internal affairs and long term planning for the school. Students are allowed to participate in all decisions directly affecting the school, but not as part of the committee. This body is made up of three faculty members, three students and three administrators.
The bylaws for the School of Education are being re-written by a faculty committee headed by William Sears, associate Dean, and Stephen O'Reilly, said Dean Dale Scanell Wednesday.
Presently, recommendations on policy and curricula are delivered to the School of Education meetings for final action by the school's executive committee.
The executive committee consists of six faculty members serving two year terms (three are elected by the faculty each year) and two students. The students are selected by the student advisory board for one year terms.
SEVERAL STANDING committees assist the school meetings in decision-making. Students are allowed to be in school committees except those dealing with personnel.
There are undergraduate and graduate councils in the School of Business, which elect representatives for the School of Business assembly, Dean Clark Clifford said recently. There are four undergraduates and three graduates in the assembly. They make suggestions to the major policy committee which is the legislative committee. The executive committee is made up of elected faculty members. This committee makes all the formal policy and curriculum changes. There are also three committees which make recommendations to the executive committee.
Tax Load to Be Related to Services
Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part series on the upcoming city-county bond election. The first explored the present county facilities. This deals with the government complex that would be built if the mill levy were approved and the opinions of concerned citizens on the proposed expenditure.
By GAYLE TRIGG Kansan Staff Writer
One would be hard put to find a Douglas County resident who does not think the county needs new administrative facilities.
Whether the city needs new facilities is a different question. The Lawrence city government proposed government complex, last year vacated the old bank building across the Douglas County Courthouse and signed a new bank building.
There have no complaints about the city facilities, except that the city police station is not adequate. The building was meant to be headquarters for 20 police officers, but 80 officers are now centered there.
As is the case with evidence stored by the district court and the county sheriff's office, material confiscated by the museum may be locked away. The space is not available.
Most opposition to the proposed city-county complex is based on questions of favoritism or neutrality.
How much of the building will be financed by the people of Lawrence and how much will be funded by other sources?
BUFORD WATSON, Lawrence city manager, explained that "although population figures show that Lawrence makes up 80 per cent of the population of Douglas County, only 28 per cent of the complex will be for city use."
"However," he said, "what people forget is that city residents have two governments. They have available the total assets and also 80 per cent of the county government."
Therefore, when the bonds are paid off, the city will own 28 per cent of the building, but Lawrence residents, as 80 per cent of the county, willown 80 per cent of the rest of the building. too. The cost to the city taxpayers will therefore be proportional to the services the government complex will provide.
Taxes to retire the bonds will decrease each year that payments are made because the principal being retired shrinks as payments increase and the tax rate. The tax would begin in December 1972. By 1993, the city and county would have paid
In dollars and cents figures, city residents will contribute approximately one thousand of their personal property valuation, or about one mill, toward the cost of a home insurance policy. Honors valued at $2,000 would pay $2,94 more than usual the first year in taxes.
off the bonds and would own the building.
'All we would have to show after 20 years is a pile of rent receipts,'
rent and the upkeep of the police station toward the new government center, we would own 28 per cent of the building in 20 years."
"All we would have to show after 20 years is a pile of rent receipts. If we reapplied the money now going toward
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WATSON, discussing the decision of city councilors last February to join with the county to pound the new ballboard stressed that Lawrence has not constructed a city hall in the past 100 years. The old city hall was designed as a bank building; the present city hall will never be owned by the city.
Watson also said he regarded the proposed joint endeavor as a step to eliminate overlapping facilities of the two governments. The new complex is located at 134th Street and the centers of the county sheriff's office and the city police and to combine the two jails.
Watson noted that the city's lease with the First National Bank ends in 1975, the projected completion date of the government complex.
The center would be located on county land just east of the existing courthouse. The design will accommodate expansion for all departments to a point of a 100 per cent increase in the population of Lawrence and Douglas County.
THE GOVERNMENT COMPLEX was designed by a Lawrence architectural firm, Robertson, Peters and Williams. It was planned to be a unified complex of administrative office agencies, courts, and administrative offices of both county and city governments.
There are two wings to the planned building. One would be for law enforcement, detention facilities, County, Courts, county attorney, and any related federal office; another would be for the County and City Commissions and all administrative offices.
Security in the new building is of primary importance, according to schematic designs drawn up by the architects. Special security elevators and staircases will be used to prevent prisoners from coming into contact with other offices from the complex.
WATSON SAID many questions posed by opponents of the complex are based on specifics as described by the architects. He stressed, however, that bits for actual construction of the building will not be provided in a bond issue is decided at the polls Sept. 28.
See CITY. page 6