THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
82nd Year. No.5
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
KANU Has New Ideas
Friday, September 3, 1971
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Kansan Photo
Daisy Hill Above a Hazy Valley at Sunrise
Citizens' Tax Commission Warns of Reform Problems
TOPEKA (AP) — The leader of a blue-ribbon citizens' tax review commission set up by the Kansas Chamber of Commerce warned Thursday that the state could be faced with a complete revolution in taxation.
Former U.S. Sen. Frank Carlson said this could come about if the U.S. Supreme Court upholds a recent California state Supreme Court decision that ruled unconstitutional that state's system of using public property tax to finance public education
The commission began its long-range look at possible Kansas tax reform Thursday. Carlson cautioned against expecting any quickfire remedies.
"the timeliness of the organization of the citizens' tax review commission to face this problem and many others confronting our state is most propitious," said Carlson.
"We're kind of looking forward to a long-range study," the former governor (1947-50) and senator (1956-60) from Concordia University and commission's organization meeting here.
"This is a matter you don't solve overnight. "Carlson added."
The commission will study the state's
"This committee hopes to be helpful to every branch of our state government," Carlson said in outlining the commission's plan not going to get into politics in any way."
Only action taken by the 25-member commission, named this summer by the state chamber at its initial session, was to authorize Carlson to name a five-member executive committee which will formulate procedures, decide on recommendations and set the date of the commission's next meeting. The commission is made up of representatives of business, industry, labor, farmers and consumers.
Soviet Arms Strength Increasing
Compiled by experts in 46 countries, the survey showed the world's military
LONDON (AP) — The Soviet Union now has almost 45 per cent more land-based intercontinental nuclear missiles than the United States has and it is building up its capabilities while American forces decline, an authoritative research institute reported today.
A growing confrontation also was reported between Russia and Communist China, with three new Soviet divisions poised on the 5,000-mile frontier and China building itself up as a nuclear missile power.
In its annual survey of world military power, the International Institute for Strategic Studies estimated an increasing "marked numerical disparity" between East-West forces in Europe, with the Warsaw Pact deploying three times as many as it did 2-500 more tactical planes than the West's North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
In an extensive modernization program,
the United States has not increased its intercontinental missile launchers, but is replacing its Minutenman 1 missiles with powerful Minutenman 3's, each with three independently targeted warheads. By 1975 this replacement program will effectively double the number of possible Minutenman targets.
The survey listed the following developments;
The Soviet Union, having matched the American total of offensive strategic missiles, has increased its intercontinental ballistic missiles on land to an estimated 1,510, in contrast with 1,654 for the United States. The position of about 100 Russian missiles indicates they may be for use against targets in Europe and Asia.
The U.S. conventional forces' manpower strength has declined from its 1968 peak of 207,435 (2,105,878) to 165,627 (138,332).
balance, excluding Latin America, as of July.
The institute, founded in 1958 as a center for defense, world security and disarmament research, says it has international sources of finance, that it is independent of all governments and that it advocates no particular interest.
tax structure and see whether it wants to recommend changes to the location
Former Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson is president of the institute, Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, President Nixon's special assistant for security, is a member. Nixon in the past has consulted the institute on security matters.
State Rep Shelby Smith, R-Wichita, chairman of the House Assessment and Taxation Committee, was the only person in committee to present testimony Thursday to present testimony
Smith said he will be willide by whatever the citizens' group decides.
"The situation has got to change sometime; we are at an impasse," Smith said. "You can't just be against taxes and ignore the needs of the state."
Smith outlined what work the legislature's special tax study committee had done during the interim since the 1971 session ended in April, and urged the commission to make a recommendation as to whether the 1972 legislature should act
on extension of the property tax lid law which expires at the end of 1972.
Smith said he views the citizens' group as the last hope in breaking the tax-spending impasse which bogged down the Obama administration's funds in welfare and higher education funds.
However, Carlson said the committee took no action on Smith's request. He said it will be up to the executive committee which Carlson will appoint whether the group recommends what is done about the property tax lid.
"If they think we should act on the property tax in the 72 session," he said, "I will be there."
"I don't know how we'd do it in the 60-day session. But if they recommend that, I'll try some way to make the time available to do it."
Permits Available Sept. 7
By GAYLE TRIGG Kansan Staff Writer
Temporary parking permits will be issued beginning Monday, Sept. 7, Mike Thomas, director of Traffic and Security, will receive a package issued over a two and a half week period are those printed by the printing service because of the failure of the regular stickers to arrive in acceptable condition. The permanent sticker may be available Nov. 15.
Students who applied for parking permits during registration and faculty and staff who applied by mail should pick up their temporary stickers according to the schedule below. All persons must be prepared to pay the $10 fee at that time. Other new features of the annual parking assignment program from employers are expected—the need for temporary stickers and the price freeze are a workable schedule, a change of place, and a table to be set up for making appeals of zone assignments.
H. Robert Malinowski, chairman of the KU Traffic and Safety Commission, emphasized that zone stickers are not replacements for the registration stickers received during enrollment. The temprature of the pavement in the same manner as the permanent ones were last year, for most vehicles in the lower left corner of the back windshield. He asked that all vehicle operators please check the new 1971-1972 parking and regulations handbook given out at enrollment. Anyone buying parking permits for zones and residence halls must wear a sticker next to his registration sticker.
Faculty and staff should have received
their registration stickers by mail, Thomas said, but anyone who did not receive his sticker, or who has not applied for it, can be the Traffic and Security office at Hoch.
Students, faculty, and staff who have requested zone parking should go to Allen Field House between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. according to these alphabetical lists: Sept. 7, F-K Wednesday; Sept. 8, L-R Thursday; Sept. 9, S-Z Friday; Sept. 10
For those who can not make it during the designated times, the Traffic and Security office in Hoch Auditorium will be open from 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Sep. 11
Students and staff who have applied for residence hall zone stickers will receive their permits the following week, Sept. 13 to 17, between 2:30 and 4:30 p.m. according to the following schedule: McColum and Ellsworth, Monday at McColum; Lewis, Templin and Hashinger, Tuesday at O'Rourke; Wednesday at One-Row scholarship halls, GSP and Corbin, Thursday at GSP; JRP, Friday at JRP. Those who can not make it according to schedule should go to Lewis Hall, Monday, Sep. 20, between 7 and 9 p.m.
Residents of Stouffer Place may pick up their stickers between 7 and 9 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 21, in the laundry room, building no. 1.
Students, faculty and staff with motorcycles will get both their registration stickers and permits at Allen House according to the above schedule.
Those who have not yet made application for permanent disability permits may pick up application forms at Hoch. The applications must be accompanied by
a statement from Dr. Raymond A. Schwauer, director of Walkins Hospital.
dropping an empty envelope in the ballot box, or he could abstain from voting
Political analysts interpreted Thieu's offer to step down as an offer to resign between the Oct. 3 billoting and the end of his current term Oct. 31.
percentage of the vote would give him "a vote of confidence," or how that percentage would be determined. Such a percentage could be based on the total number of eligible voters, or on the number of ballots cast.
Thieu to Quit if Voters Reject Him
Mike Thomas . . . Helptul . . .
A voter could vote against Thieu by
SAIGON (AP)—President Nguyen Van Thieu, acknowledging that he will be the only candidate, promised his people Thursday night that he would step down if the South Vietnamese fail to give him the chance of confidence in next month's elections.
His televised speech did not specify what
Senate To Meet Sept.15
The first meeting of the Student Senate this semester will be at 7 p.m. Sept. 15, the University Senate Executive Committee decided Wednesday night.
R. L. "Puf" Bailey, who heads the committee, said the meeting would be primarily for a report of the senate's activities over the summer.
The committee decided it would hold its own regular meetings on Sunday nights. Agendas for the committee's meetings are posted on public on the Friday before each meeting.
Greek System Still Thriving, KU Leaders Claim
By MELISSA BERG
Kansan Staff Writer
For years observers in the University community have speculated that the Greek system was headed for the rocks. They pointed to the increasing exodus of ancient apartment and the use of outdated fraternity rituals.
But fraternity and sorority leaders and advisers at KU say the forecasts of doom aren't accurate Results of rush weeks held last spring and in August
Martha Ward, Panelline adviser, said that 575 girls participated in the 1970 spring rush and that the figure dipped to 475 girls this year. Girls going through transfer rush decreased slightly, from 95 to 82.
"I think a lot of this was due to the sudden change of rush week last spring," Mrs. Ward said. "Girls might be more worried than boys."
Results of rush weeks held last spring and in August indicate that there has been no appreciable decrease of
Only 40 of the 82 girls going through the August rush to transfer students is pledged, but she said that this was the most important.
Mrs. Ward said that only two houses were not at capacity, but anticipated filling vacancies in informal rush, which will last until the next formal rush in January.
We would've been satisfied with anywhere from 80 to 100 going through rush," said Pam Reusser, Cincinnati, Ohio senior, and Panhellenic president. "With so few vacancies we wouldn't have wanted any more."
The story's a little different for KU fraternities.
The story's little different for KU fraternities. James Brooks, who is starting his first year as Interfraternity Council (IFC) adviser, said in an interview that the need to fill up the houses needed quite a few to fill up their houses and that others hadn't taken as many as they had expected in rush week, that several houses were full.
"As far as basic finances go, many houses are going to have to cut corners this year," he said. "But I know of no house that contemplates folding. Even some of the highest-income homes are full enough to meet their financial obligations."
Brooks said that the number of men pledged to the 28 draternates during open summer rain and informal games was about one-third.
Some fraternities have objected to having to return to school early for the formal rush week when so few pledges are taken during this time. Brooks maintains however that the formal rush week is necessary because rush chairmen can't reach the out-of-state students.
"The houses pledged 150 in formal rush last year and only 105 this year, but we pledged more during the pandemic."
Some of the houses that are not at capacity will pick up more pledges during open rush, Brooks said. One house that has been reduced to seven members is being held by its national office to increase membership, he added.
"Formal rush gives the men a chance to see all the houses, too," he said.
Considering the number of men available for fraternity rush, Brooks said, the houses had done well. "The underclass enrollment is diminishing, but we're still drawing the same percentage."
Two fraternities, now living in apartments, the Piappa Alphas and the Theta Ches, are planning to build
Chris Cook, Coffeyville senior, and Pi Kappa Alpha president, explained that the Flies had come up with a plan to improve the community.
"We'll have an L-shaped building with separate
ceilings, building eating and living spaces so
as to cut down on the noise."
of the fraternity members will live in the house and those not living in will eat their meals there. $^2$ Cook
Brooks noted that *t* when there’s too much noise and the thing is nothing to really hold people’s interest, they’re hard to hear.
He added that there were other reasons for men moving out of the house.
"Some guys just want more privacy. Today there are more options as to the choice of living conditions. Just as many upperclassmen have moved out ten years ago if there had been enough apartments to
"There's a process of maturation involved in wanting to move out of the house," Brooks said. "I can't be convinced that men move out for wine, women and song."
Rich Dwyer, Joplin, Mo., senior, and IFC president,
said that upperclassmen weren't moving out in any
greater numbers than they were two, three or four
years ago.
Although there were rumors last spring that fraternity houses would be targets of Atty. Gen. Vern Miller's raidails, Brooks said he didn't think drugs in the building belonged in fraternities than in other university housing.
"The increase in the number leaving varies as much as the diversity between the individual houses. I'd say from 25 to 75 per cent of the seniors live in the different houses."
"I'd say that most drug usage stays under cover. It hasn't become a tag problem. At least I don't know of any other cases."
Drew Forayth, Medicine Lodge senior, and Sigma
Alpha Gamma Delta, his attitude adoption
bureau had been that outside the outside
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Kansan Photo by MARILYN KING
IFC Adviser Brooks Checks Rush Figures
- Fraternity system at KU is stable .