Senate Recall of Food Co-op Money Sets Precedent
By JOHN PIKE
{ansan Staff Writer
When the University of Kansas Student Senate acted Wednesday to take away nearly half of the food co-op allocation of the Black Student Union (BSU) and freeze the long and controversial chain of events stretching back into April of this year.
From the disputes over the original BSU allocation during budget hearings last semester to the precedent-setting action Wednesday night, the recent history of the Senate-BSU relations has been repeatedly strained.
During the spring budget hearings last April, the Finance and Auditing Committee (F&A) received a request from the BSU for $5,350. Barble Biddle, Topeka senior chairman of F&A and by the BSU for Friday that the committee by the BSU had rough breakdown" of proposed programs and that the committee requested additional information.
BIDDLE SAID the BSU told F&A that they would be unable to meet with the committee again, and that the first allocation request would have to suffice.
On the basis of that original proposal, F&A recommended to the Senate on April 24 that the BSU be allocated only $1,075, the amount requested for office supplies.
&Fa' based their recommendation on what they said was duplication of proposed BSU programs with existing campus programs, such as draft counseling and drug abuse help, and the lack of specific information on other BSU proposals.
About 40 members of the BSU appeared at the April 26 Senate meeting to protest the in their allocation request. When the Senate rejected the F&A recommendation several hours of debate, they rejected the F&A recommendation and elected a committee composed of seven senators and five representatives to chitects group, to study the BSU request further and make a new recommendation.
THE ACTIONS OF the committee itself aroused some controversy, particularly over the use of the term.
Biddie said she was called to testify before the special committee, but was told when she arrived to speak to the closed session that her testimony was not needed.
A half-hour later the committee again requested that she appear, Biddle said. She was told, though, that she was not to talk about the BSU.
"They wouldn't even let me mention BSU," said Biddle. "I was only to talk about Blacktet. I had no information for them as far as they were concerned about the BSU allocation. They apparently had already made up their minds. Either that or they gathered all the information they intended to."
The special committee recommendation to the Senate on May 3 was to raise the BSU to $1,030. Again there was long debate, but the end the recommendation was accepted.
THE CURRENT RUN of controversy was sparked several seeks ago when a group of Mexican-American students complained to F&A that they had been treated unfairly at the Supportive Educational Services (SES) because they were not black.
SES refused, though, to an in-
examination of their financial records by
the Senate or the press, and in several cases
refused even to comment on the situation
SES, a BSU-related tutorial agency started by blacks but supposedly open to all minorities, responded that its $30,000 per year budget, received from the Kansas Union Bookstore rebates and controlled by the Union Memorial Board of Directors, was insufficient to cover inclusion of minorities other than blacks.
DEBATE OVER action to be taken increased with each meeting of Senate Committee on Education and the Union Board announced that,Not only that they had notified SES that their funds
would be frozen Jan. 10 unless the agency opened their financial records to the Board for examination and submitted a plan for improvement. The board will review their program by the fall semester 1973.
The problems with SES prompted several senators to take a closer look at the practices of the BSU and from their examination of the BSU food co-op expenditures came the actions of the Wednesday Senate meeting.
Of the $18,030 allocated the BSU in May,
$8,500 was put into a line item labeled
"subsistence (food)" to be used to establish
a food co-op.
SEVERAL WEEKS ago Roger Martin, Lawrence three-year law student and Senate treasurer, advised the Student Committee (StudEx) that the BSU had submitted its application to Aforms, to his office for the required treasurer's approval before payment.
The three A-forms, one to Rusty's Food Centers for $2.61 and two to Joe's Bakery
for $9.21 and $23.38, were to pay for such items as doughnuts, napkins, paper cups,
spoons, powdered cream and sugar.
Martin told StudEx he had at first declined to approve the expenditures from the food account, because he thought they were too restrictive to the line item.
Martin said he called Duane Vann, Lawrence sophomore and BSU member, to tell him that the bills could not be paid out of the BSU's food allocation but was told by Vann that previous A-forms for the same type of items had been approved by Bill O'Neill, Ballwin, Mo., senior and former Senate treasurer.
MARTIN SAID that when this proved to be true, he approved the A-forms and then went to StudEx to determine whether he should continue to approve such expenditures.
StudEx decided that the purchase of such items was not within the limits of the food
See BSU FOOD CO-OP page 12
83rd Year, No. 71
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Monday, December 11, 1972
Energy Crisis Hits KU
Kansan Photo by DAN LAUING
See story page 3
Fire at a west campus research building caused extensive damage Sunday
Firemen stated that the cause of the early morning blaze is unknown . . .
Cause of Sunday Fire Not Known
Arson has not been eliminated as a possible cause of the fire that caused an estimated $175,000 damage early Sunday morning to the pharmaceutical research campus in Ameswest campus, according to Fred Sanders, chief of the Lawrence Fire Department.
It is standard practice, Sanders said, for
Sanders said Sunday evening that he would call the office of State Fire Marshall Robert Wolf this morning and that it was hoped the cause of the fire would be determined sometime today by investigators from that office.
The loss estimate was made by the building's director, Takeru Higuchi.
The fire, according to Sanders, was confined to a 12' x 16' room, one of the six individual research laboratories, but the explosion of a small refrigerator in that room caused damage to the other laboratories.
professor of chemistry and pharmacy, who said the building was valued at $650,000 and the contents at $150,000. No injuries were reported.
The contents of the refrigerator, other than a bottle of ether, were not known, he said, but it was "a pretty good guess" that the fire originated from the explosion.
the state fire marshal to investigate major fires that have no apparent cause, but Sunday's fire is under unusual scrutiny due to an unlocked door on the building's south side.
All doors in the building, he said, are usually locked.
The fire was discovered at 3:30 a.m. and treenem had it under control within one hour. The one-story building is owned by Inter-X Capital, based from the KU Endowment Association.
By RANDALL BECKER
Bibb Suggests Cut In KU's Budget Plan
and GARY ISAACSON Kansan Staff Writers
Chancellor Raymond Nichols has begun organizing strategy for Thursday's budget hearings in Topnea after receiving official notification Friday that the state budget director has suggested cutting $1.8 million from the proposed fiscal 2014 KU budget.
Nichols said Saturday he would be meeting with Keith Nitcher, vice chancellor for business affairs, and L. Martin Jones, budget officer, this week to discuss ways of refuting cuts, particularly in new improvements, suggested by James Bibb, state budget director, for the Lawrence campus.
In a letter received by the Chancellor Friday, Bibb said he would suggest trimming the total educational and general budget. His request is $50,414,861 to $48,209,492.
WITH THE suggested cuts, over $1 million dollars of new products and impressions.
Nichols said the University would be receiving the same amount of money allotted in the fiscal 1973 budget in the areas of operations and maintenance of the plant, research and extension, except in the amounts for utilities in the new buildings.
Nichols said the cutback would give the University only 95 per cent purchasing power because of the inflationary economy. He referred to the cuts as totally "unrealistic" in light of inflation and the increases in operation costs.
Another proposed cut is to lower the pay increases for faculty members from $5\frac{1}{2}$ per cent to 5 per cent. The University asked for a proposal to be part of the Board of Regents guidelines.
IN OPERATION and maintenance of the physical plant, Bibb suggested cutting
Toys Unsafe; Dealers Want Refund
Local merchants said Saturday they would ask toy manufacturers for a refund on the 300 toys removed from their shelves last week that were in possible violation of the Food and Drug Administration guidelines on safe toys.
The possible violations were brought to the attention of local merchants by a survey conducted at least 12 stores last week by Patricia Weikert and Lawrence resident. Protection Agency and Lawrence resident.
If the manufacturers will not accept the returned toys, the toys will simply have to be destroyed, said Dan Sites, manager of the T.G. &.y. store at 711 W. 23rd St. He also said the stores would have to accept a loss if the manufacturers would not refund their money.
All the managers contacted said they were unaware that the toys removed from
Judge Orders New Trial For Ellsberg and Russo
The CPA, aided by high school volunteers was working in cooperation with the EDA.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Pentagon Papers case, initiated more than one year ago in angry controversy over the Vietnam war, is ending and beginning again.
"ONE TOY WAS bought recently on a recommended toy list from Chicago," said Dale Kearney, owner and manager of the Ben Franklin store. *805 Massachusetts St.*
U. S. District Court Judge Matt Byrne, presiding at pre-trial hearings for Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo, says he will preside at the minstery Monday and order a new jury chamber to judge the matter. No testimony was taken at the pre-trial proceedings.
Sites also said that some of the toys removed were new, bought especially for the Christmas season. Others, he said, had been on the list since 1969 though he had not been notified of that before the CPA's survey.
their shelves were on the FDA's list of banned toys.
Ellsberg, 41, and Russo, 35, former researchers on secret government projects, have admitted roles in releasing to news media the Pentagon study of the Vietnam war origins. They said they hoped to help end the conflict. The government has charged them with espionage, conspiracy and theft.
Ellsberg and Russo have said they will waive their protection from double jeopardy in order to get a new jury and a fresh start.
Although the law forbids the trial of any defendant twice for the same crime.
One might understand how some of the imported toys may not meet federal requirements. Kearney said, but some of the toys removed from the factory were established and well-known manufacturers.
It is the manufacturer's responsibility to notify the store manager if the toys are faulty or against the FDA's regulations, Stites said.
Art Cromer, manager of Gibson's Discount Center, 2025 has seen he had no problems. A survey,
HOWEVER, WEISS said that during the survey Cromer had called two of the toy manufacturers about the toys removed from the shelves.
Weiss said he told her that one company was aware that the particular toy had been banned but had notified only its 42 largest manufacturers. Weiss said, that some of the products may
have been relabelted, but did not say what he had to and been redesigned to the FDSD staff.
None of the managers said they had access to the FDA's list.
All the managers received notice once in a while from their companies that an item should be removed from the shelf, they said.
It may be that the retailing companies are not receiving current information on the FDA's list, said William Reichman, a consumer safety specialist at W. Woolworth store at 911 Massachusetts St.
The CPA PLANS to supply the managers
supply them monthly, as the quarterly
supply, Weiss said.
Regulations should be placed on the toy industry. Reichman said, just as they are on toys for children.
"I sure wouldn't want to manufacture toys that wouldn't pass inspection," Reichman said. "You'd think they'd be policing their products."
Regulation of toy safety should not be forced on local merchants, Stites said. The standards should be worked out between the parent and retailer, theurer, be said, and enforced at that level.
"If they can control how the toys are played," Stites said, "then I can control how they are played."
$496,735 from the University request, which would
be $4,947,846.
The budget would not allow, for example, for any increases in telephone rates or possible use of oil instead of natural gas to cool the cold season, according to Nichols.
Cuts in organized research would amount to $428,621 less than the University's request of $8,984.36. Nichols said the cuts would affect the State Biological Survey, the State Geological Survey, the Bureau of Child Research, and aerospace research.
Extension allocations, which are used
pardly for Buildings and Grounds, were
slashed from $2,449,974 to $2,355,229 in
Bibb's proposal.
Also cut out of the budget were a labor relations director, a safety engineer, increased janitorial service for west campus and two members for night and weekend operations.
THE CHANCELOR will have to rejustify plans for preliminary work on an addition to Learned Hall, a visual arts building and a law school facility, along with renovation of four campus buildings, which were all eliminated by Bibb.
While faculty members were allotted a 5
BIBB ALSO made no provision for the state to pay for a share of the administration and instruction costs of the location of the computer center, Nichols said.
Nichols said that he would definitely fight to restore the one-half per cent lost for salary salaries, but he stressed that any gain in salary salaries should be considered a victory.
One-half of one per cent was also cut from the faculty retirement program increases.
per cent increase, pay in the recommendations, they lost in their efforts to gain personal disability policies because the program was cut entirely.
Bibb excluded a University request, calling for a 25 per cent increase in student help salaries. Nichols said the request was in response to possible increase in the minimum wage level, which the previous Congress failed to pass.
The only requests for capital improvements and new construction that were made by bus request were for improvement in the partitions in partnership renovation of the Kansas Union. These two
See BIBB page 10
Astronauts Preparing For Moon Exploration
SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP)-Apollo 17 swept into orbit about the moon Sunday and commanded Eugene A. Cernan an arrival on station for the challenge ahead."
A 6% minute burst of command ship America's engine propelled Cernan, geologist Harrison H. Schmitt and Ronald E. Evans into a perfect orbit and set them on their way to explore exploration and man's last chance for perhaps decades to probe lunar mysteries.
Cernan and Schmitt on Monday will detach the lunar ship Challenger for a descent into a mountain-ringed volcanic valley named Taurus-Litrow.
The astronauts were excited at arriving in lunar orbit and Schmitt remarked, "We're breathing so hard, the windows are fogging up on the inside."
For Schmitch, it was a geologist's dream. Cerenan, who had orbited the moon on Apollo 10 in 1969, said the sight "is still just as impressive."
The spacemen ended their quarter-
million-mile journey from earth and slipped
behind the backside of the moon, out of
radio contact, at 2:36 p.m. EST.
Eleven minutes into the backside pass the astronauts fired their big spacecraft engine for 6½ minutes to slow their speed by more than 2,000 miles an hour, enabling lunar landers to climb them into an orbit ranging from about 151 miles above the cratered surface.
"Thumbs up," were his first words. Then he beaded, "Houston, you can breathe easier. America has arrived on station for the challenge ahead."
Mission Control waited in suspense another 22 minutes until Apollo 17 reappeared around the moon's eastern rim, once it had been completed. It played the word of the successful ignition.
Cernan, Evans and Schmitt caught their first glimpse of the moon since their launch from Cape Kennedy Thursday when they were 11,500 miles away. The
angle of the spacecraft prevented them from seeing it out their windows sooner.
"We can finally see it out there," Cernan reported.
Cernan and Schmitt are scheduled to touch down at 2:55 p.m. and four hours later are to begin the first of three outside excursions, each lasting seven hours. They are to spend a record 75 hours on the moon, three hours longer than Apollo 16 last April.
After breakfast Sunday, the astronauts jettisoned a 170-pound metal door covering science instruments and cameras in an equipment bay at the rear of the command ship.
The removal of the door, called the world's largest lens cover, uncovered two cameras and three multimillion-dollar scientific instruments.
The three astronauts of Apollo 17 were in lackadaisal in their response to the University of Kansas fight song Saturday morning as the KU basketball squad was preparing for Iowa's Saturday night. It took three rounds of the IU fight song to wake the crew.
Fight Song Can't Wake Apollo Crew
The first round was transmitted to Ron Evans, KU alumnus and night duty officer, from Mission Control at 8 a.m. Saturday, where Control was to the wake-up music.
Seventeen minutes later, the fight song and the Rock Chank Chant again blared at the crowd.
More than an hour after the first call, the song was transmitted by Mission Control.