THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
82nd Year, No. 3
Drug Abuse Center Moves
Wednesday, September 1, 1971
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Bike Riders Circumvent Parking Rules
Parking may be prohibited along Jayhawk Blvd, but the bicyclists on campus seem to be immune from prosecution. An added benefit to the bike riders is the "No Parking" signs themselves. They provide a convenient place to chain the bikes down.
Southern Busing Gets Underway; Northern Disturbance Investigated
By The Associated Press
Chief Justice Warren E. B. Burger, meanwhile, refused to stay a court-ordered busing plan for the schools of Winston-Salem, N.C. But he coupled his commitment that the Supreme Court had never required racial balance for every school.
Yellow school buses, long a familiar sight on rural Southern roads, brought more integration to the region's urban areas. But some residents off a few minor protests in scattered areas.
In a 10-page decision Burger refused to stay a busing plan for Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, N.C., but said he is disturbed by the school board's apparent belief that it was required to balance each of its schools.
BURGER'S DECISION served to underscore what he evidently considers a widely overlooked overlap of the court's landmark decision of last April 20. At that time the court held that large-scale busing would be necessary to implement desegregation plans.
"The constitutional command to desegregate schools does not mean that every school in every community must be compartmentalized composition of the school system as a whole."
Winston-Salem was one of numerous school systems placed under court-ordered busing plans in the wake of the school shutdown which centered on schools at Charlotte, N.C.
But at the same time Burger wrote also for the unanimous court:
UNDER ORDER of U.S. district judge, the Winston-Salem board had submitted a busing plan under protest, saying it was tendered to "accomplish the required objective of achieving a racial balance in the public schools," . . . but it not a sound recommendation should not be required . . . " The district court ordered the plan into effect.
Winston-Salem, apparently anticipating the rulers of the Chief Justice, opened its schools last week, complying with court orders to bus an additional 16,000 pannils.
The city is one of several in North Carolina where extensive busing was
decreed after a Supreme Court ruling to release students from segregation in charlotte-Mckennon schools.
IN ONE of those cities, Winnings, about 150 whites opposed to busing rallied in a park Tuesday before departing in a motorcade to Raleigh to seek a meeting with Gov. Bob Scott or the lieutenant governor.
About 10 per cent of the 20,000 pupils in the Wilmington-Nanover County schools were to be bused Tuesday for the first time, but many rode with their trainers or mission over increased school integration last year led to a weekend of disorders.
The cost of insuring the Kansas Union dropped from $130,000 to $20,920 with a new insurance policy announced today by Union Director Frank Burge and Albert E. Haas, chairman of the board of Haas and Wilkerson, insurance agents.
Urban schools across the South have been opening since early last week under court orders to wipe out segregation fostered by housing patterns.
Many districts, caught unprepared by the ruling had only a few buses and have been scrambling to buy more. The Chattanooga, Tenn., district obtained a slay of its busing order because it had too many buses and be unable to obtain more before multiyear.
School officials have reported that sand was dumped into the gas tanks of 17 buses over the weekend in an attempt to sabotage pup busing in the coastal area. DESEGREGATION via bus proceeded smoothly over much of the South on Tuesday, but blacks in some areas bovetted schools.
Cost of Union Insurance Plunges
damage to the building on April 20,1970.
The new policy is still more than twice as expensive as the $25,000 policy the Union wants.
Almost all of the federal court orders issued since the Charlotte-Mecklenburg ruling have required cross-busing between white and black neighborhoodhouses.
damage to the building on April 20, 1970.
HaaS said the new policy was cheaper because the clinic owned the university had impaired it. Had the administration was responsible for the improvement.
William Balfour, vice-chancellor for student affairs, said that students also responsible for the change in climate and that the reduction in price was part of
Burge said, "Hass and Wilkerson effectively negotiated a policy with United States Fire that is beneficial to the Kansas state by significantly significant dollar saving to the student body.
a national trend of decreasing campus insurance rates.
THE UNION policy did not have a deductable clause before the fire. After the fire, $150,000 was deductable on each loss. Now the policy is $25,000 deductable on each loss. The policy is $25,000. The policy will pay all lightning, winters and hail damage except for the first $1,000.
Vietnam Vote Was Rigged Claim Defeated Candidates
SAIGON (AP) - Allegations of vote rigging in South Vietnam's National Assembly election emerged Tuesday as the first serious post-election issue. Supporters of President Nguyen Van Thieng held a slightly reduced majority in the house, according to final official government figures from Sunday's balloting.
Another deputy defeated in the election tried to set himself afire in front of the National Assembly building Wednesday in a gesture of protest against Thieu's government. Passersby and police stopped them from entering a match to his gasoline-soaked clothes.
U. S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker again conferred with Thieu P. Presumably they discussed the lower house election and what effect it will have on the Senate. Act 3. Then is the only contestant. It was their seventh meeting in two weeks.
BUT TWO-THIRDS of the incumbents seeking re-election were defeated, and informants said their ouster reflected the failure to配合 with the performance of the house.
THE CHARGES of vote rigging in the Mekong Delta by two defeated opposition deputies marred an election that many voters find relatively fair by Vietnamese standards.
Wednesday is the deadline for filing appeals on election returns. Appeals can be filed online at www.election.gov.
The new policy on the building is for $6,007,994, which is 90 per cent of the replacement cost of the Union, Haas said. The contents are insured for $1,400,000.
The new policy is with United States Fire, the firm that paid for the $1.3 million cost. The year after the fire, the firm took only 5 percent of the policy and other firms took the rest.
BUSING HAS NEVER been an issue in the rural south, since buses have been used for transportation children to school. The U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) has reported that desegregation reached its peak in the rural areas of the South last
Government sources also disclosed that at least two other candidates, one in Saigon and one in Binh Tuy Province, are planning appeals.
THE TWO DEFEATED candidates said they are planning to appeal.
If the court rules results invalid, the law states that new elections must be held within three months in the disputed locality.
Nixon Blocks Release Of Military Aid Details
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Nixon invoked exclusive privilege Tuesday and ordered the State and Defense Departments not to supply Congress with future details of the administration's foreign military assistance program.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, under Chairman J. William Fulbright, D-Aark., voted last month to request the Pentagon's five-year foreign aid plan. The committee invoked a little-used law requiring the head of any agency to provide Congress with all requested documents within 35 days.
The President's action prevents the possibility of a cut-off of this year's military foreign aid program. But it is certain to open a new fight between Congress and the administration over "executive privilege," the claimed right of the executive branch to withhold certain information from lawmakers.
Many of the larger urban school districts in the region will begin classes next week, when students will be required to attend Teen. Schools in both cities are under orders to bus unprecedented numbers of children between black and white neighborhood and antibus sentiment runs back to schools.
REFUSAL without a presidential decision to invoke executive privilege, would have meant an automatic cut-off in aid funds by midnight Wednesday.
State William P. Rogers and Secretary of Defense Mervin L. Raird, Nixon said "it would not be in the public interest to provide to the Congress the basic planning data on military assistance" as requested by Fulbright in letters to Laird.
Nixon said his basic planning data and internal staff papers requested by the committee "reflect only tentative intermediate staff level thinking . . . and do years, reflect any approved program of this administration.
"I AM CONCERNED, as have been my predecessors, that unless privacy of the personnel is maintained the personnel of the executive branch can be maintained, the full frank and healthy expression of opinion which is essential for the successful administration of government."
In a two-page memo to Secretary of
"This decision of the President I find hard to understand, especially since the information was requested on a confidential basis and in the light of earlier discussions," he said. "A ministration to be open and fordcoming." Fulbright said in a statement.
In the North, Pontiac, Mich., officials went ahead Tuesday with plans to put a federally ordered school integration-by-busining program in effect despite the dynamiting of 10 school buses Monday night.
THE DYNAMITING added to the tensions in the northern industrial city of 85,279 persons already divided over whether more than a third of the city's 24,000 public schools should be bused to achieve racial balance.
School Supt. Dana P. Whitner, summoned from a school board meeting to see the ferry pile of buses, said, "I am concerned that I will have to schedule next Tuesday despite all the future."
School officials announced recently that monitors, mainly parents, would ride the school buses. Whitmer said Tuesday that they would help patrol the city school bus parking area.
FBI AGENTS spearheaded the hunt for the bombers who struck in the middle of the night at the fenced and lighted parking area containing about 52 buses. Forty new ones have been on order for some time and are due for delivery Friday.
Pollice bomb experts gathered bits of wire and bombs from the 10 buses which were classed as destroyed and two which were scorched in the series of five explosions. No one was injured in the blasts.
Police Lt. John De Pauw said preliminary investigation indicated that
the bombs placed the dynamite charges on the buses, between the gas tank and the chassis. In a couple of cases, a trail of wires led police to theorize that some of the bombs were detonated simultaneously but no detonator was found.
MAYOR ROBERT F. JACKSON said of the bombings: "I hope this will wake the people of Pontiac to the fact that they have helped help—radicals that they don't want."
The school board has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a school busing order issued by U.S. District Court Judute Dawson K. Seith in Detroit.
School board members said 'a disaster of rank and file' was taking place in the district to the suburbs from the city.
"In the opinion of counsel for the Pontiac public schools, the basing program which is ordered to be put into effect will cause a white flight that will convert the City of Pontiac into a black community," the board said.
Twelve of the city's 36 public schools have pupil populations which are more than 90 per cent white, and in 7 schools, blacks make up more than 90 per cent. The city's population is just over 27 per cent non-white.
California Legislators Seek New Financing Method
SACRAMENTO (AP)-Education officials looked Tuesday for a new way to finance California's school system after the state's unconstitutional method was declared unconstitutional.
Several legislative experts on education said a statewide property tax was the most expensive.
The state Supreme Court ruling was expected to have a wide effect on many other states which have similar school financing.
"I think it's almost inevitable that we'll have a statewide property tax, with additional money from an increase in the sales tax," said State Sen. Albert Rodda of Sacramento, chairman of the Senate Education Committee.
A STATEWIDE TAX is apparently the
only practical, legal way to finance schools in California, Assemblyman Greene Groeve of Sacramento, chairman of the Assembly Education Committee. said.
The California Supreme Court ruled 6 to 1 Monday that use of property taxes to support local school districts was unconstitutional because children in districts with a low tax base did not have the same rights to education as children in richer districts.
"This decision will have a tremendous impact across the United States," Green
"California has a school finance system not unlike that of many other states. If California's system is unconstitutional, it would appear the same system would be
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First Days Are Tiring
Maybe it's because of the heat of the hot late summer sun or exhaustion from thinking, but KU students this week have made good use of the lawns and benches on campus. Below Patricia Tischman of The New York Times, we talked of the more pleasant days just followed while others just rested.