THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
82nd Year. No.11
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
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Tuesday, September 14, 1971
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'X' Marks the Spot
Efforts by clouds to hide a full moon were of no use on a recent highlight the hazy ball of illumination.
Indian summer evening. An optical illusion served to mark and
Few File for Assembly Positions
By REES OLANDER
Kansan Staff Writer
By Monday evening, only 14 freshmen and sophomores in the five Colleges-within the College had fulfilled nomination commitments for the College Assembly election.
Students who wish to file for candidacy in the CWCs must submit a petition signed by their candidate, and CWC offices by 5 p.m. Tuesday. Pearson and North colleges each had two petitions submitted, and Centenial had one. The candidates registered and Oliver has had five.
What will become of these empty seats? Associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Deibert Shankel said he will not specify additional election procedures.
The College Assembly bylaw call for the election of 11 representatives from each of the five CWCs to serve one year terms, unless elected to one of the four Assembly committees which would elect the president. By day-evening, 41 seats had been sought.
"The College will turn to student advisory boards and ask them to generate new electoral procedures and nominations," Shankel said. "All decisions about filling the seats will be made by the Colleges within-the-College," he said.
SENIORS and juniors must be present at their department meetings on Thursday evening to be nominated and elected as members of the Assembly. The nearly 35 departments were allowed 110 of the representatives.
The number of undergraduate and graduate representatives would be based on the number of faculty members.
ment. No department is allowed more than six nonfaculty representatives.
Graduate student instructors will be elected at the same departmental meetings. Their total number will equal 10 per cent of the 550 regular College faculty members, who are automatic Assembly members.
The new Assembly will set freshmen-
sophomore and graduation requirements
for the College, will approve proposed
courses for credit and will review all
material that is presented by a petition of
25 assemblymen.
Four committees within the College Assembly will review education policies, faculty promotion and tenure, budgetary issues and financial advancement of instruction. These committees will be made-up of nine faculty members, two graduate students, three undergraduates, and either the dean or a professor in a designated executive who will be a novice member.
No undergraduate student will be permitted to be a representative for more than one class.
Students Termed Apathetic About Registering to Vote
Voter registration among 18 to 21 yearolds has increased during the past week, but student apathy towards registering is widespread, according to Bruce Molholt, chairman of a local voter registration committee.
Molhott, assistant professor of microbiology, termed the drive to register people for a September 28 bond election "disappointing." He said he thought the low turnout of students was the result of a lack of interest, and the fact the election was so close to the time people were coming back to school.
"We didn't have the time to educate them," he said, "but the bad turnout is still surprising."
Only a few hundred students have registered.
Even though it was too late to register
"Legislative committees are drawing up plans to make it hard for students to register where they go to school," he said, and students might have had will be nullified."
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for the bond election, Molholt, it is important that students register now,
"There is no better time to register to vote than now, when county clerks and commissioners of elections office are not present in the town where 60% of voters that occurs near election time."
He said they could provide "a fresh outlook and new vision" for Kansas.
In a statement issued at Topeka in connection with an exhibition seminar for business, the chairman of Topeka
9 Hostages, 28 Prisoners Dead
Massive Force Crushes Rioters at Attica Prison
ATTICA, N. Y. (AP) — A four-day riot of mostly black convicts was put down by mashed forces at Attica prison Monday. Four whites were found dead, 9 white hostiles and 28 prisoners.
A task force of 1,000 gas-masked, ready-to-shoot state troopers and sheriff's deputies, backed in reserve by 70 truckloads of New York National Guardmen, liberated 29 other hostages, 25 of whom were injured. The survivors filled shakily through the massive prison gates one by one as the firing subsided.
"They had lined us up and were proceeding to cut our throats," said one of the captive guards, Frank Wall, who said that sharpshooters saved his life. "They got the man who was going to cut my hand, and began to pull the knife across." he said.
One state trooper estimated that most of the action covered an 8-to-10-minute span, although the assault continued for an hour and a half. The police resisted was killed—and I didn't see anybody get away with anything," he said. "We had a job to do," said another officer.
THE ASSAULT began at 9:45 a.m. shortly after the expiration of a one-hour ultimatum urging the 1,200 rebellious officers to surrender and surrender. The riot originally extended from an alteration between a guard and an inmate. The prisoners later expanded their grievance list to include a series of wide-ranging demands. Authorities had to shut out two demands—complete amnesty and removal of the prison superintendent.
"It resembled the aftermath of a war," said a medical aide, Richard Smith, 30, after the forces of the law shot their way along tunnels and catwalks into a single Attica cellblock still in the hands of rebel convicts.
By late afternoon, the violence had subsided and authorities had regained control of the prison. A roll call showed nine inmates being—ither hiding or dead, officials said.
A spokesman for Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller said some of the hostage guards and civilian employees appeared to have been killed hours before the all-out attack, which left the slayings of the hostages 'cold blooded killings' by revolutionary militants.
Two of the slain prisoners were found subdued in a death in their cells after the execution.
PRESIDENT NIXON telephoned Rockefeller on Monday to express support for the governor's actions, the White House said in Washington.
Warren said the President talked to Rockefeller by phone later, expressing support for the governor's handling of the situation.
One death was recorded prior to the final storming of the prison yard. A guard, injured in the early hours of the riot Thursday, died Saturday.
A state spokesman said several of the
hostages "had their throats slashed."
However, amid the rampage involving about half of the aissa 2.284 inmates, one of the hostages, E. Huehne, found his life by a briquet assigned to kill him. Huehne the captive wispered, "I don't have the heart to do it. I'm only going to prick you."
Hueben said the prisoner nicked him enough to draw blood, then lay down on top of him so other convicts would not notice he was still alive.
About 85 per cent of the convicts in the 40-year-old prison 40 miles east of Buffalo are Negro or Puerto Rican. Their guards are white.
When Oswald's ultimatum to release the hostages was ignored, he unleashed the state's armed forces. They were armed with rifles, and had bellcopter support.
THE PRISONERS, driven back early in the riot to Cellblock D and its adjoining yard, had started out with only clubs and their fists as weapons. But they had since fashioned homemade knives and a state-of-the-art weaponry. They found some who had fear gas guns. They had erected barricades and had electric wire fences."
National Guard helicopters dropped can after can of tear gas into the yard. Their crews ordered the prisoners over loud speakers to "Place your hands over your heads and surrender to the nearest police officer. You will not be harmed."
The riot began following breakfast last Thursday. It apparently stemmed directly from an altercation the night before when a suspect confronted the convict landed in solitary confinement.
But wide-ranging purported grievances of the convicts were reflected in a series of demands, of which 28 were agreed to by the magistrate. Further, the application of state minimum wage laws in prison workshops and a reorientation of prison facilities under understanding of prisoners' problems.
THEN ON FRIDAY, the convicts made their demand for total annesty, and freedom of transportation for any person killed in a skidmur in a "nonimmensalistic country."
A so-called mediation administered to Attica at the roiers' request was Black Panther chairman Bobby Seale. He returned to California, Sunday, and said he was in danger of a message from Attica prisoners to the Black Panther Central Committee.
Simple Grave, History Receive Khrushchev
With those words spoken by his son, Nikita K. Shruschura was laid to rest on Monday in a simple grave at Novodevichy Palace. A memorial to him and Moscow, about 300 mourners looked on.
MOSCOW (AP)—"There were few people who were indifferent to him. There were many who loved him. There were many who could pass him by without looking his way."
Absent was the pomp that Khruzhchev commanded during his 11 years as premier of the Soviet Union and chief of its Communist party.
THE MAN whose word was once law in the Kremlin was buried in a wooden coffin and practically ignored by the men who toiled him from power seven years ago.
The only official acknowledgments of Khrushchev's death on Saturday were a one-paragraph announcement on the front page of Monday's Pravda and a funeral wreath sent by the Communist Party Committee and the Council of Ministers.
In his brief graveside eulogy, Krushchev's son, Sergel, an engineer, also told the mourners: "We will not speak of a great statesman. I should not be the one to evaluate the contribution—whatever it was—made by my father Nikita Sergeyevich. I have no right to do that. This is being done by history."
THE WIDOW, Nina Petrovna, wearing a gray coat and a black face lace over her head, sobbed softly as her son delivered his remarks from a mound of earth beside Daughters Yelena, Rada and Julia, also sobbing, tried to comfort Mrs. Kruschevish.
"We know him in different ways, but he is ours," said Sergei Krushevch, 36 "He is in our hearts. He remains in our hearts, and we do not wish to give our hearts away,
"Speech is meaningless. But there is one thing I'd like to say. From us has departed a person who had the right to be called a teacher, unfortunately, there are so few real men."
MRS. KHIRUSHCHEV had maintained a stoic composure of the morning as mourners offered their condolences, but she broke down and wept when the time came. She cared for her husband's forehead and then put her hands together as if in prayer.
A small band played Chopin's funeral dirge as the gravediggers placed a wooden lid covered with red and black cloth over the coffin. They then drove nails along the side to seal it and moved it off a graveside table over the gaping hole.
The band played the Soviet national anthem as the gravediggers briskly shattered it.
Cable TV in City Presents Golden Opportunity to KU
By JAN KESSINGER
Kansan Staff Writer
The University of Kansas will soon have an opportunity to feature the best school television
Peter Dart, associate professor of journalism in radio-TV-film, gave that opinion Thursday when asked about KU's involvement with Sunflower Cablevision, a cable TV system in Lawrence.
Dart, a member of the committee, the work had mainly been in an advisory capacity to Dolph Simons Jr., owner of Sunflower Cablevision. The consensus of opinion was that the new corporation could benefit by hiring the trained and skilled students at KU and that in turn could benefit from the experience, Dart said.
The opportunity has generated a great deal of talk among University officials. Last spring, Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. appointed a committee to investigate the use of cable TV by KU.
BUT THE WORK by students may be in jeopardy. The chancellor's committee has done little more than act as consultants, Dart said. Max Falkenstein, general manager of Sunflower Cablevision, said he has been charged with the committee. And the University has not contributed any money to development of any system for KU.
Simons hired two graduate students to work at the station full-time. Students in advanced-radio teleconference courses will act as crew for many of the local programs that Sunflower Cablevision plans to produce. Dart said. A film criticism class will review movies for the week and present their reviews on Wednesday nights.
Obviously irked by the University's action, Dart spoke for the need for more action.
"It's time for KU to make its contribution. We need more contribution than just warm bodies, too. It's a skill."
"I hope I can be patient enough to wait a year for the
University to get moving." Dart said.
John Conard, University relations director, also said KU had a great opportunity.
Falkenstien said Wednesday, "We hope to work very closely with KU, not as a program source, but to give an opportunity to radio-television students to further their experience in cablecasting.
Money is already a shortage in radio-television-film. The department requested $40,000 to repair its present lab, but was denied. Dart said lab exercises have often been interrupted while repairs were made.
"The University has a great opportunity to extend itself to Lawrence. This would provide a better understanding of the University and its work," he said.
"It (use of the cable by KU) will bring expenses, but with a tight budget it will be awhile before we can carry out our end of the bargain."
"We eventually hope to have closed circuit television teaching, possibly with a two-way system where the teacher could see the students and answer questions," he said.
Dart in some respects is optimistic though.
Falkenstein will talk about cable TV in Lawrence at 7 p.m. sept. 12 in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union. His appearance will be sponsored by Sigma magazine's journalism society, but will be open to the public.
Dart apparently did not know of the plans to set up a distribution system from the University.
"We can't use the channel this year. We have no equipment here that can broadcast with good enough quality," he said. "Of course film and processing cost money, too."
FALKENSTIEN SAID KU has a "fantastic opportunity, if they take advantage of it."
The University's obligation would be to organize and prepare programs or to work with Sunflower Cablevision. The school would provide the talent and coordinate and produce the programs, he said.
"We will provide physical facilities and time,"
"Kalienken said. It would be a super training ground
for the team."
In addition to the distribution system, Sunflower Cablevision is installing without charge the cable in many of the buildings on campus, such as the Kansas Union.
Falkenstien expressed a hope that KU would act soon.
"We hope that KU will reciprocate in kind our interest. Some KU people have an intense plan and desire. Some aren't so enthusiastic. We will go ahead with installation anyway."
If things go as Sunflower Cablevision has planned, it will maintain a Lawrence area channel. The station will provide twice-a-day newscasts with films of the KU productions to be shown and the KU productions, should they come off.
FALKENSTIEN SAID the facility will feature many KU sports programs, both delayed and live, involving football, basketball, volleyball and soccer.
"We hope to show KU theater presentations, musical concerts and speakers, all broadcast from KU," he said.
Nearly 30 of the 130 miles of wire required to cover Lawrence with the cable have been installed. Falkenster estimated that East and West Lawrence would be the first areas to be "turned on" to cablevision. These are the areas closest to Sunflower Cablevision's 200-foot receiving tower on East 15th Street.
Another program Sunflower Cablevision plans to show, and is probably the nearest to reality, focuses on track and field techniques. Coaches and squad members use tape and explain a single track during each show.
General Manager Max Falkenstien
* "Super training ground" *