3 KU Professors Favor UN Entrance for Red China
By MARILYN KING
Kanean Staff Writer
Thomas R. Smith
Attended Chinese high school . . .
Three KU professors have been cited by Sen. Edward Kennedy as being part of a group of 110 China scholars who favor the admission of mainland China to the United States.
The three are Robert Burton, lecturer in East Asian area studies, Thomas R. Smith, professor of geography and chairman of the geography department, and Robert McColl, associate professor of geography.
Burton, on a leave of absence from KU, is now in Washington serving as executive secretary of the Concerned Citizens Committee to Change China Policy.
Burton, Smith, and McColl were recognized by Kennedy after they signed a letter drafted by Alan Whitening, professor of education at Michigan State University in Michigan. Smith said the letter was circulated among China scholars throughout the country, but added that he did not consider himself a China scholar. He gave his opinion to the historian and passed the letter along to McColl.
SMITH WAS in China during the 1920's as a high school student. He said he remembered it as being a country of great contractual justice and hard work, but he said he believes China has changed for the better since the Communist government took over in 1950, and said he is convinced that should be legitimate representative of the Chinese people.
Smith said there had been little discussion of the letter among his colleagues, and that he had encountered no animosity because of his position.
amitosity because of his position.
“There are many China scholars who could not sign the letter because of ties with Taiwan,” he said, and remarked that
his stand might prevent him from being able to visit Taiwan next year.
Though Smith said that he thinks that the government of China has flourished, he said that no government can really raise the standard of living of the Chinese people until it is able to cope with the population and its workable means of mass birth control.
McCOLL SAID he signed Whiting's letter for two main reasons. First, he said, he felt it was a rational statement on China policy which came at a very good time.
"The statement said that representation of the People's Republic of China was overdue, but should not come at the expense of Taiwan," he said.
He explained that the statement called for the mainland and Taiwan governments to reconcile their own differences without help or influence from the United States.
"Taiwan should be represented in the
UN," he said, "but not on the Security Council as the official government of China. Taiwan cannot possibly represent the People's Republic."
McColl's second reason for signing the letter was that he felt government officials published this on academic reports. He said that because the letter was published in the New York Times, that it would be a violation of the state's academic statement of policy opinion.
McColl said he reached his conclusion after observing operations in the State Department during the first week of May. The letter arrived at KU in June, and was sent to Sen. Kennedy, who presented it before the Senate.
MCCOLL SAID The State Department and presidential adviser Henry Kissinger began to elicit academic opinion on the
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Robert McColl
. . . 'Representation overdue'
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82nd Year, No.4
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Chalmers Sees Stronger Ties For KU, KUMC
Thursday, September 2, 1971
Rick Walker Resigns City Aide Position
By BARBARA SPURLOCK Kansan Staff Writer
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Rick Walker, administrative aide to the city manager for community relations, resigned Wednesday night at the meeting in Chicago and announced that, part of the Lawrence City Commission.
Walker, who took the position Nov. 1, has received a combined Fulbright and University of Kansas direct exchange scholarship to do graduate work in psychology at the University of Tubingen in Germany.
Walker said, "My experience with the woman been a singularly frustrating experience."
He said it was difficult for him to see any accomplishments he had made. However, be said his association with certain individuals had been personally rewarding.
"I'm not giving up on the problems we faced. I hope others will attempt to work with the things I attempted and with new and better methods," he said.
Walker was part-time assistant vice-chancellor for student affairs and part-time aide to the city commission. He helped instigate programs such as the Summer Team Employment Program, which supplied summer jobs for local youth.
walker said he thought his most positive action toward bridging gaps in Lawrence had been the Menninger program. He helped the Menninger Clinic organize workshops that brought together several students and Lawrence community to exchange views.
ONE MUST FOCUS on the future needs of the disadvantaged in the city of Lawrence and the nation, he said, and those are being denied of rights should be helped.
Sturms said Walker definitely had made an impact on the ideas of some Lawrence
Vern Sturrs, human relations commission member who has worked closely with Walker, said Walker had done a great deal to improve communications between the Lawrence community and the city government.
He said he hoped the Lawrence community and the United States would not enter into inner conflict again as they had in the past. He said that signs of conflict had not diminished satisfactorily and that more work was needed.
Kansas Staff Photo by GREG SORBER
Rick Walker, Right, Resigns as City Aide
. 'A frustrating experience'
Labor Leader Still Angry
Meany Promises To Talk About Post-Freeze Plans
BY NEIL GILBRIDE AP Labor Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - AFL-CIO President George Meany, bitter critic of President Nixon's wage-price freeze, said Wednesday he would bargain on labor's cooperation in Nixon's after-the-freeze planning.
The delay also will lack on more costs and could push the final Montana price tag
"We must seek to do business with the executive branch," Meany said. "To telegraph our positions in detail now would not be good negotiating strategy." Meany said when he declined an offer on conditions that might肘 labor's hand to the White House.
Informed speculation continued meanwhile that Nixon administration thinking was moving toward creation of a labor-management-public stabilization board to limit wage and price hikes after the freeze ends Nov. 13. Labor cooperation in such a plan is deemed essential by White House strategists.
Meany, who has denounced the wageprice freeze, calling it unfair to workers and favoring big business, said in a letter to Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., chairman of the congressional Joint Economic Committee, that he believes Americans would go along with economic controls if they are fairly applied. He has
Safeguard Takes Cut in Cost War
The first ABM base near Grand Forks, N.D. is half finished, but work at Great Falls, Mont. has been stalled since early last spring. Army engineers say the latest delays mean construction will stay halted until the long, cold Montana winter is over.
WASHINGTON (AP)—The $8-billion Safeguard ABM system, already soaring above original costs, has suffered a direct hit in the government's new war on Internet.
A year's delay in construction of a major missile site near Great Falls, Mont. is conceded by officials who have turned down a second contract package as too
rast the first bid that was rejected.
"Any school kid can sit down and figure
that one out," said an Army swimmer.
THE GREAT FALLS complex is the largest single construction package ever built.
Faced with the delay, the Senate Armed Services Committee has voted to cut the ABM budget and block any start on construction next year at a third site near Warrensburg, Mo. The bill is expected to come up before the Senate sometime this week.
Inflation has already showed the Pentagon totals to $8 billion for the four ABM sites, now planned, compared to its predecessor, for 12 proposed sites just two years ago.
The Army tried to negotiate a new package, but that proposal was tossed out in August by President Nixon's own creation, the Construction Industry Stabilization Committee. That Labor Department panel ruled that $2.60-an-hour pay raises written into the package over the next three years were too high.
Engineers. So far all bids have been higher than the government wants.
Less April, the Army turned down a low bid of $70 million because it was nearly 20 percent less expensive.
William A. Christman, a building trades official, replied that the unions simply had given the Army an estimation on how much they would normally rise in Great Falls by 1974.
shurply assailed Nixon for not freezing
and interest rates along with wages, prices,
and taxes.
THE 77-YEAR-OLD chief of the 13.6 million member labor federation repeated the AFL-CIO's request that Congress take control of the economy away from Nixon.
"We would of course be delighted to testify before the committees considering such legislation," Meany said, but added that short of that, he did not want to testify at this time for fear of tipping off the White House. "We would also accept in the pre-freeze period."
Earlier, a high AFL-CIO official earlier was still angry at Nixon's wairies-prior冻
"That anger still prevails and it is as strong as anything I've ever seen in the labor movement," said Andrew J. Bardell, civil congressional lobbyist for the AFL-CIO.
But Biomierl said Meeny is willing to talk with Nixon about post-freeze plans for the economy. Speculation continued to flare, as the government-public wage-rise stabilization board.
"We know there will be some kind of
conference that will take place in a
recorded interview with WIFE."
But organized labor won't tip its hand about possible cooperation until it has a firm proposal from the White House, he added.
IN ANOTHER development Wednesday it was announced at the Western White House at San Clemente, Calif. that President Nixon has halted wage increases for governmental blue-collar workers until next Feb. 15.
At the same time, the President asked Congress to let stand his proposal to freeze wages for federal white-collar workers and the military until July 1, 1972. Congress would have 30 days to veto such a move after it reconvenes next week.
About 600,000 blue-collar workers, 1.3 million white-collar employees and 2.8 million armed services personnel would be affected.
Nixon, in a message to Congress, said his aim was for the federal government to take action against the drug trade.
American people in our striving to achieve prosperity in peacefulness."
Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler was asked if this meant Nixon might want private wages frozen beyond the Nov. 13 expiration of the general wage hike and price freeze. He said he could not predict how the President might take on that question.
In his message, Nixon also said he would review next year the scheduled October 1972 wage increases that would affect most federal employees.
THE SAN CLEMENTE announcement drew immediate criticism from Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota who called it shocking and unwarranted. McGovern is seeking the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination.
Biennier also criticized Nixon's action. In overseas foreign-exchange markets the dollar was stronger versus the German mark and French franc but off somewhat in terms of the British pound and Japanese yen.
Fee Statements All Mailed Out
All student fee statements should be in the mail, William L. Kelly, registrar, said Wednesday. Students who do not receive their statements by Friday, Sept. 3, should go to the registrar's office to get duplicate copies, he said.
Paul Wolfe, director of the computation center, said delay in the mailing of fee statements were caused by minor problems that occurred in adapting this system to the new system. He put the punch card system to the new student registration data sheet system. He said information on the data sheets did not match enrollment information for 500 students. He decided to take the extra time necessary to correct the error rather than produce class rosters and fee statements without including the 500 students.
No Box for '72 Yearbook
Wolfe said the deadline for fee payments would probably be moved back to allow for them.
By PATMALONE
BY PAT MALONE
Kancon Staff Writer
There won't be any bubble gum cards in this year's Jawhawk.
"We're not experimenting with 'we're producing a yearbook'," Rick McKernan, Salma Jainna and editor, said. "This is not the hardest thing to do."
McKernan referred to an opinion poll taken on last year's
cardboard-bound book. Only two persons out of the 200 queried
were able to read it.
He said the theme of the 1971-72 Jayhawker would be "a *t*ime for living, which would involve a time for learning. " a time for learning
"We're going to follow a format more acceptable to the people at KU." McKernan explained. That format will include four softback issues bound in a hardback post binder like the one used by cardboard box just isn't the style this year," the editor said.
Reflecting this theme will be the book's cover design, which will picture a gold hourglass on a blue background. The cover and the first softback issue will be available to subscribers during the week of Nov. 8.
McKernan is emphatic that the Jayhawker will be on out time. The second issue will be available before Christmas, he said, and issues three and four will be published before spring semester finals are over.
Issue one will include new students, issue two will cover organized living groups, and issue four will have senior pictures and senior-related activities. Most campus activities and organizations will be covered in issues two and three.
"The emphasis will be on pictures with sufficient copy to make the meaningful clear. I can explain the feelings, but I want to know."
we'll need to cover as many of the different campus activities and organizations as we can pack into the space we have," McKerrell said.
"Time almost controls your life," he explained. "We're not passing judgment of whether time is good or bad, but it definitely affects everything you do. We're sort of stepping back and seeing how it affects different situations."
And for Rick McKernan the feelings will often include a sense of time.
He has his problems, though. Subscriptions are down to about 5,000 from last year's 7,000 because of an unfavorable reaction to last year's bookmark, the editor said. More subscriptions, which cost about $30 each, and advertisements are planned for each of the four issues, he said.
To accomplish this, the Jayhawker will have a budget of about $70.000—"if all zoos well." McKernan said.
But McKernan seems confident of a good Jayhawker.
His final and unpretentious goal is to make something that will please the students and have a little meaning for them."
Kansan Staff Photo by ED LALLO
Rick McKernan, Jayhawker Editor, Contemplates New Cover
...Yearbook will have a theme of time ...