VOTE NOV. 7th VOTE!
83rd Year, No. 51
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Tuesday, November 7, 1972
Campaign Spotlight
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Culture
Garw Wright, Alexandria, Va., seni,
inspired intrigued by a Russian Bala-lakaa
and a South Slavic one-s string fiddle, called a 'gusie'. The instruments and the tapestries are just a part of the Slavic Festival in Novi Sad, known in the Kansas Union through Nov. 13.
White House Rivals Finish Diverse 1972 Campaigns
By the Associated Press
Democratic presidential nominee Sen. George McGovern spanned the continent Monday in a final, eve-effect effort to beat the landside odds against him. president last the day of his last campaign in the isolation of his Western White House.
It was a finale in keeping with the campaigns waged by the presidential candidate.
For the weary McGovern it was the final sprint in a long-distance run.
For the heavily favored Nixon, hoping for his first landslide in what he was his
DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. (AP) — President Nixon disvice Diville No 16-3 over Democratic rival Sen. George McGovern Tuesday morning as voters went to the polls at midnight to be the first in the nation to cast their votes. Four years ago, Nixon lost this northern hamlet to Hubert H. Humphrey 8-4.
last election campaign, there had been no rigorous campaigning, only rationed, ballot counting.
And on Tuesday, the voices of the candidates—for the White House, for 33 Senate seats, for the 435 House of Representatives—will be flashed by the verdict of the war.
Nixon's only scheduled campaigning Monday was in a taped, election-eve statement to be televised nationally, and even that was only five minutes long.
Demos Gain in Kansas
BY DIANE YEAMANS
BY DIANE TEAMANS
Kansan Staff Writer
Going into today's election both political parties say they realize that the Democrats have made a dent in Kansas politics this year.
"One reason is that we were successful last year and people have faith that we can."
"The image of the party has changed," said Dan Lynks, executive director of the Kansas Democratic party. "We're not a minority party any more," he said.
The success of Gov. Docking also has been a positive influence. Lvkins said.
"People are more at ease voting for Democrats now," Lykins said. "They're proud to be Democrats, which hasn't been the case in the past."
There still are more registered Republicans than Democrats, Lykins said, because of the Republican races in the primaries.
THE CHAIRMAN of the Kansas Republican party, William Falsted, indicated Monday that the unpredictability of a vote had hurt the Republican party.
"I don't think either party holds a clear majority in Kansas anymore," said Falsted. "There must be an appeal to the shifting block of voters. We have been successful on some levels, but not on others."
Falsted said the Republicans had been successful on the senatorial, congressional front.
Senator Pearson and President Nixon should get 70 per cent of the votes in Kansas,
The Republican party has not been successful at the gubernatorial level, he said, with 45, 46 or 48 per cent of the vote in the past.
"I THINK THERE is a broad basis of
The races for Kansas secretary of state and state treasurer may prove to be upsets in favor of the Democratic candidates, Lykins said.
The governor probably will get the largest margin of votes in his career, Lykins said. He said he expected the governor to win at least 100,000 votes.
support for Kay, "Falasad said," but part of the vote is shifting with the undecided.
Lykins said that he expected a lot of voters would cross over between the two panels.
But for McGovern, the time zones blurred in a jet-propelled wind that took him from New York City to Philadelphia to Wichita, Kan., to Long Beach, Calif., and then home to South Dakota for a midnight rally in Sioux Falls.
Atty. Gen. Vern Miller also may win by 100,000 votes, Lvkins said.
The unusual apathy that has greeted the ejection has proved to be a problem to the doctors.
"People just don't seem to be concerned about the political parties," Falstad said. "They don't care how their government is being run.
"I believe we are going to prevail," he said.
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If he loses, McGovern said, "I'll be a
this country and I want to oppose it"
and I want to work for it.
In Philadelphia, as he had on well over 150 campaign platforms before, McGoverson summoned the voters to help him make sure they would be good and decent country that it can be."
"I . . . believe we want, and indeed must have, a President who will summon this nation to a higher standard, and rekindle the American promise," he said.
The Democratic nominee stresses issues that have become a liancy; the demand for peace in Vietnam, for an end to inflation, for tax reform, jobs for every American who wants to work, defense budget cuts to what he said was wasteful Pentagon spending.
For McGovern, it was a campaign that covered well over 200,000 miles, touched down in 28 states—many of them over and over again.
Nixon had put in parts of 12 days, campaigning in 15 states.
Not since the wartime re-election of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944 had an incumbent conducted so limited a campaign.
He delivered 13 network radio broadcasts, and one half-hour nationally televised
In record number, 80 to 85 million were expected to cast ballots today in what Nixon described as the "choice of the century." McGovenn said that description was one of the few in which he could concur with the President.
An estimated 108 million Americans are registered to vote in the first national election that opened the polling booth to all U.S. citizens 18 and over.
More than 173,000 precincts and polls will be open, most of them for 12 or 4 hours, a few for 8 or 6 hours. m.AST in the east and extending to as late as a 2 m.AST in the states of Alaska
The national public opinion surveys put Nixon ahead by towering margins.
"Keep your fingers crossed," McGovern to campaign aides in New York as he began to campaign.
Despite the presidential outlook and the efforts of Republican candidates to seize President Nixon's coattails, the GOP has been able to capture partial control of Congress.
They need a net gain of five Senate seats.
There are 14 Democratic and 19 Republican seats at stake in today's balloting.
A Nixon victory, its magnitude, and the amount of tick-splitting, which analysts said would be a pattern across the nation, held the key to that outcome.
A five-seat Republican gain would deadlock the Senate at $50,50 and give a reelected Vice President Spiro T. Agnew the decisive vote.
All 435 House seats are at stake, but control there appeared to struggle of both parties.
Kansas Election Polls Favor Nixon, Docking
Republicans talked of gaining about 26 seats in the House, while Democratic strategists conceded a GOP pickup of 12 to 15.
TOPEKA (AP)—A record voter turnout of nearly one million is expected Tuesday as Kansans go to the polls to decide whether to give the state's electoral votes to President Nixon or George McGovern, and whether to appoint Robert Docking a fourth two-year term.
Final public polls all pointed to a Nikon
tundslide victory of a quarter of a million
voters in the first round.
Polls in most counties open at 7 a.m. and
close at 7 p.m., and a weather forecast of
clearing winds and temperatures in the 90s
and early May's rain was favorable for a large turnout.
Secretary of State Elwil Shanham has forecast a voter turnout of between one million and 11 million, with the influx of an enfranchised voters 18 to 21 years of age.
MGOVERN, THE Democratic nominee,
made an 11th-hour stop at Wichita late
Monday in a bid to bolster his slender hopes
for capturing Kansas.
However, his only campaign appearance in the state wasn't expected to make much of a dent in the Nixon vote. Polls consistently gave the Republican President between 60 and 70 per cent of the Kansas vote, and there were indications Nixon would win triumph over Adalai Stevenson's 3,343,000-vote tilt against Kaiser in 1952.
Kansas handed Nixon a 175,000-vote victory over Democrat Humert Hapurum four years ago, and Nixon also carried himself over the late John F. Kennedy in 1960.
DOCKING WON by 75,000 users in 1966 in his first bid for governor, claimed a 83,000 vote triumph in 1968 in the face of a Nixon landslide, and won by 71,000 in 1970.
The polls also showed Docking, the only three-term governor in state history, a solid choice over Republican Morris Kay, who had the endorsement of Nixon and national GOP chairman Bob Dole, Kansas' junior senator.
Republicans made their strongest bids
with Kay and Topea attorney Charles D. McAtee, GOP candidate for 2nd District against Bill Roy, the only Democrat in the ten-member congressional delegation.
Final poll showed Roy substantially ahead, but McAtee maintained he would win because his campaign has succeeded in luring a portion of a Republican vote in Topela back from Roy and in gaining the support of undecided voters.
U. S. Sen. James B. Pearson, the state's senior senator who has been in Washington nearly 11 years, appeared a shoin-to in a Telfair Tetzlaff and two minor party candidates.
THE STATE'S four Republican congressmen-Keith Sebellus, Larry Winn Jr., Garner Shriver and Joe Skubitz—appeared headed for easy re-election.
Atty. Gen. Vern Miller has maintained a solid, public opinion polls over the past month.
State Auditor Clay E. Hedrick, Insurance Commissioner Fletcher Bell and Printer Bob Sanders also appear likely to win handily.
Mrs. Shanahan also is favored, but 25-year-old Mike Manning of Lawrence has run a hard campaign against her and was given a chance if there is a heavy youth vote and apathy among Nixon supporters cuts into the Republican turnout.
State Sen. Tom R. Van Sickel, Fort Scott and Topeka, is expected to win the state Democratic nomination for governor Taylor and incumbent Republican Walter H. Peery, who tried to organize a late write-in.
THE TIGHTEST race of all may be for lieutenant governor, with 68-year-old Democrat George Hart, a former state senator. He joined 34-year-old state sen. Dave Dawn.
Also on the ballot are 165 state legislative seats, with Democrats given a chance at lessening the Republicans' margin in lower courts. The GOP has the House is not expected to change much.
Mexican, Indian Students Allege Unfair KU Programs
By MIKE BAUER
Kansan Staff Writer
A charge by the Association of Mexican-American Students (AMAS) and the Committee on Indian Affairs (CIA) that the Supportive Educational Services (SES) and the Office of Minority Affairs catered only to black student interests and excluded them because the bureau with silence by the directors of the two SES is a tutoring and counseling program for disadvantaged University of Kansas students.
Jo Ortiz, a member of AMAS said that four Mexican-American students had tried to get tutorial services, but were refused aid by Capella Taylor, director of SES. The program was also be said, that the program did not benefit money to serve all KU minority groups.
Last year, when the AMAS was first organized and funded by the Student Senate, AMAS used the tutorial services of the SES to a limited extent. During the second semester, AMAS was given $500 by the Student Senate for its own tutorial service.
drop the classes in which they had wanted tutoring.
ORTIZ SAID that this year the Student Senate refused to fund AMAS because, senators said, the SES was centralized to include all minorities.
Ortiz said that because of the refusal, three Mexican-American students had to
Neither the SES nor the Office of Minority Affairs would answer questions about their backgrounds.
Last week the SES office was contacted by telephone for information on the framework of SES. A woman who answered the telephone said she was the director, but refused to answer questions about the program.
At the SES office the next day, Taylor said, "We don't give publicity for the good of our students. If we feel it is necessary to give publicity to the program, we'll initiate the statement."
There is confusion about whether the SES was originally set up for blacks or all minorities, Kathy Allen, Topeka junior and student body vice president, said that SES, the Student Senate and the Kansas Union are always has been for all minority groups.
THE OFFICE of Urban Affairs, which was exclusively for blacks, was changed in 1972 to a more inclusive office for the purpose of helping all minorities according to Rick Vone End, Executive Director.
Barbie Biddle, Lawrence senior and chairman of the Finance and Auditing Committee of the Student Senate; Bill O'Neill, Ballwin, Mo. senior and former
Student Senate Treasurer; and Allen agreed that the Student Senate intended for SES programs to include all disadvantaged students.
The SES received $30,000 from the Kansas Union bookstore rebates for the fiscal year ending last June, according to J.D. Edwards. The amount of the amount SES has received this year will be unknown until bookstore profits are tallied, but the minimum amount SES could receive would be $30,000, depending on the bookstore profits, Christman said.
THE PERCENTAGE RECEIVED by rebates from student blue slips, and the percentage going to the SES is not determined until the end of the fiscal year, but as long as Union bookstore profits are stable, the SES will get the full $30,000 Christman said.
Biddle said SES also received $5,776 from
the Student Senate to finance the summer SES program.
ACCORDING TO Chrestman, the program was organized last year by a committee.
According to the budget for fiscal 1973, Taylor receives a salary of $12,000 which is paid out of the Office of Minority Affairs, and not by SES funds.
Records about SES at the Student Senate office are scarce. After the summer of 1970, the senate moved to a new building.
Christman said the student Senate made the first payment of $15,000 to the SES in June 1969. The Student Senate started a summer tutoring tutorial program in the summer of 1970.
Jerry Rogers, director of the Office of Student Financial Aid, said that many of the SES students received National Defense grants in addition to the tutorial services.
program evaluation was done by Zeima Bond, last year's director. Since that time the senate received only one letter from Bond.
Taylor has not communication with the Student Senate during this year, according to O'Neill, who was treasurer until he resigned this fall.
In a directive sent to each organization funded by the senate, O'Neill wrote, "I strongly recommend a letter accompanying this (budget) request indicating the nature and purpose of your organization, its value to you, and any other information about the group."
The letter also asked the organizations being funded to list their membership.
BIDDLE said that the Student Senate did not know what SES did or whom it served, because the director refused to communicate with the senate.
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