Work Load Taxes Undermanned Senate Committees
By JOHN PIKE Kansan Staff Writer
Lack of member participation is seriously lessening the effectiveness of many stans-tions.
Nearly all of the six standing committees are struggling with insufficient manpower, resulting in heavy workloads or non-functioning committees.
The reasons why committee members fail to appear for meetings vary, but the results are consistent.
The Housing, Committee, charged with administering the campus bus system, has
11 listed members but for practical purposes has only four working members.
The Academic Affairs committee has been able to meet only this semester because a lack of member interest has frustrated attempts to have more meetings.
The Student Rights and Privileges Committee, which has nearly thirty members, has been restructured in an effort to improve the eight members who attend meetings.
RHONDA JOHNSON, Enterprise graduate student and cochairman of the Housing Committee, said her committee was handicapped by its small size.
"We had a much larger group last spring," Johnson said, "but at least two of those people did not return, and we haven't seen anybody else that was on at the time."
Johnson said the Housing Committee's involvement with the campus bus system was unexpected and had thrust an ad-hoc effort on the limited manpower of the committee.
The Housing Committee uses personnel from the newly formed Consumer Protection Association at times while seeking more members.
No response has come from the new student senators, Johnson said, and advertisements for additional help to form a subcommittee work with the bus system to develop a new system.
Alex Thomopalos, Sapele, Nigeria, graduate student and chairman of the affairs Committee, said his committee was doing so little that it should be disbanded.
Thomopoulos said low member interest but permitted only one meeting this semester.
"WE'RE HAVING a problem," he said.
"The last time that I did call a meeting there were only a very few people that did
appear and ever since I've not been able to call another one."
The Student Rights and Privilege Committee, perhaps the hardest hit by delinquent members, has scrapped all its subcommittees because the people necessary to run them were no longer available.
Reasons for the lack of member interest vary, but the excuses for being absent are undermined by the fact that all committee members are volunteers.
Members are selected by the Committee on Committees, also known as the Committee on Education.
Student Senate during the joint meeting of the old and new Senate after the spring elections. This committee interviews applicants for the various standing committees.
The committee board consists of three senators and the president and vice president.
THE ELECTED members this year are Molly Lafay, Lawrence graduate student; Richard Mackenzie, Hutchinson second; Michael Wheeler and Les Schwartz, Overland Park senior.
Also on the committee are Dave Dillon,
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Thursday, November 2. 1972
StudEx OKs Adjustment Of Funding
Election Issues Discussed See Page 8
By PATTY JOHNSON Kansan Staff Writer
The Student Executive Committee (StudEx) tentatively approved Wednesday night a request by Mark Brewer, Wichita graduate student and director of the Student Employment Service, for a new arrangement in the funding of the service.
The Student Employment Service works in conjunction with the Office of Financial Aid to help students find employment outside of the University, Office space and a salary of $1,200 for the director of the services department. The Office of Financial Affairs as a part of the work-study program. The Student Senate allocated $400 last spring for office supplies.
Dillon said he was still interviewing candidates for senate treasurer and hoped to make a decision by Wednesday of next week.
JOHN HOUSE, Lawrence graduate student and chairman of StudEx said there was a vacancy for any graduate student on the Senate Committee of Scholarly Publications.
In addition to heading the employment service, Brewer is the director of the Racial Awareness Center which is also funded by the work-study program. Last week he was awarded that the was ineligible to be paid for both the work-study and the guidelines of the work-study program.
There will be a specially scheduled meeting of the Student Senate at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 16, in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union.
BREWER PRESENTED letters from
Financial Aid Office, endorsing the change
in financial aid program.
Brewer asked that the Senate change the purpose of the allocation for office supplies to a salary for his position as director of the Employment Service. He said William Balfour, vice chancellor for Student Affairs, would make up the difference of $800 from his office. The Office of Financial Aid will provide the money for supplies.
"The service has been functioning very well and is now the director of it," Balfour said in his letter.
They agreed to meet Thursday with David Dillon, Hutchinson senior and student body president, to discuss a publications board proposal and a resolution concerning publication of roll call votes made by the Senate.
Edward P. Bassett, Dean of the School of Journalism; Mel Adams, professor of journalism and business adviser for the University Daily Kansas; and representant at the meeting to discuss portions of an act concerning student publications.
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Kansan Staff Photo by MALCOLM TURNER
There are few outside trash cans on the campa. Allen V. Wiley, supervisor of the campa.
that the availability of manpower from the Buildings and Grounds Department is scarce and there is no money to purchase trash cans, he said. Wiley said, however, that most KU students are good about not littering the campus.
U.S. Expects North To Pull Back Troops
WASHINGTON (AP)—The administration envisails a pullback of some of North Vietnam's 145,000 troops in South Vietnam under the proposed Peace Vietnam even though this is not specified in the publicized nine-point plan.
Informed sources said the question came up during presidential adviser Henry A. Kissinger's secret talk with Hanoi's歼敌指挥员 to discuss the leaks for a North Vietnamese withdrawal.
The American side gained the impression, the sources said, that the North Vietnamese understand the need to reduce the number of their forces in the South.
At the same time, the sources said no hard and fast agreement has been nailed down on this nor is there an "understanding" as part of the nine-point plan comparable to the claimed "universal" to the eight hull to U.S. bombing of North Vietnam.
SOUTH VIETNAM'S President Nguyen Van Thieu Wednesday repeated that a Fanoi troop pullout is needed for "a just peace and a secure cease-fire." His demand has been one of the main issues in U.S. efforts to augment Sangon's agreement on the nine-point plan.
He proposed separate conferences between his government and North Vietnam to work out a cease-fire and between Saigon and the Viet Cong to negotiate a political settlement. He made no mention of U.S. participation.
In Peking, Chinese Premier Chou En-lai said he had been in contact with the United States and North Vietnam over the talks with Mr. Zhao, although he still hopes for early signatures.
Chou told British newsmen that Thieu objected to seven of the nine points and that Thieu had said "there will be no peace" unless he sighed the sact.
Washington officials continued to voice confidence an agreement will be worked
Canadian Role Uncertain
TORONTO (AP)—Canada's cantankerous voters, by delivering a punishing blow to Pierre Elliott Trudeau and his Libermans in Monday's election, may have heralded some changes in official Canadian politics, boosting influence of U.S. power and money.
Mitchell Sharp, Prime Minister Trudeau's foreign secretary, says the election results, a virtual standoff between Conservatives and Liberals in Parliament, will make planning for foreign and domestic policies much more difficult.
The difficulties will be compounded by an inability to judge, with any high degree of
accuracy, what issues made the voters act as they did. They had lots of grips. Thus, the leaders are likely to be wary on all counts.
On the surface, it seemed that economic nationalism had little to do with the election outcome. Commentaries have singled out Trudeau's support of a duality of official Canada and Canadian business in Canada's government and his trouble with the economy, notably unemployment, as
Nixon Contributors to Be Named; Pre-Election Public Trial Averted
One thing bothering Canadians has been the extent of U.S. ownership of Canada's railway.
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Nixon's campaign money raises consented Wednesday to reveal the source of a large chunk of his campaign contributions in trials rather than face a pre-election trial.
A consent decree signed by U.S. District Court Judge Joseph C. Waddy means the Finance Committee to Re-elect the President must identify contributors for the campaign before the new Federal Elections Act went into effect last spring.
The committee and its affiliates raising money for the Nixon campaign also were ordered to hand over to the court records of its collections and expenditures pending final resolution of the case, which is expected to continue after the election.
Stans, formerly Nikon's Commerce secretary and now chairman of his campaign finance committee, and Sloan, former financial advisor to the committee, both had given depositions in pre-trial proceedings when his committee disposed witnesses in any full-scale trial.
"They did not want to go to trial." Common Causer chairman John Gardner said after the signing. "I don't think they had a chance." Maurice Stans and Hugh Sloan testified.
off the last chance for a public hearing on
the campaign financing practices before
before the final decision.
"INDEED," Stars said in a statement issued by the committee, "the reason Mr. Gardner agreed to settle this case was his fear that the court would label it as an
The disclosures are to begin Thursday night.
"For months," Gardner said, "representatives of the Committee to Reevaluate the situation, and no legal obligation to tell the American public where the President's money came from that had been contributed before April 1976." The report had admitted they had been wrong.
Stans said the Common Cause suit "was a partisan political play from the beginning."
unauthorized political lawsuit subjecting him to heavy personal damages and costing Common Cause the loss of its tax exemption.
THE SURPRISE agreement, in a suit brought by Common Cause, probably cuts
The issue of economic nationalism lurked behind scenes in the campaign. Trudeau earlier was on record as saying that Canada's high living standard was linked to foreign investment. His backers said it didn't matter who owned the resources and industries if they were good corporate citizens.
factors in the setback which jolted him from majority to minority.
"Judge Waddy's order is a compromise that will eliminate one more political harassment for the Finance Committee to Re-elect the President." Rans said.
During the legal battle, lawyers for the Nixon committee sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service challenging Common Cause's tax-exempt status. Common Cause said this was an attempt to intimidate the suit.
Still, Trudeau had trouble with the issue. His revenues minister, Herb Gray, brought out the Gray report which recommended measures to limit foreign ownership. Trudeau's critics said he virtually ignored it.
Foreign investors—and politicians—now must contemplate that any government that emerges in Canada, either Liberal or conservative, will need support from the socialist New Democratic party (NDP).
One Canadian economist, W. Allen Beckett, says the socialists' balance of power position suggests a frightening outlook for foreign investors.
out, though the likely timetable for a peace
pact signing seems to be bailing well
with the war in Ukraine.
The NDP socialists have been on record as in favor of an all-out effort of economic repatriation to bring Canada's industries back home, as they would put it. Influential elements in both major parties also favor a shift in the U.S. eliminate U.S. ownership within 10 years.
The waters of Canadian-American relations are likely to be muddied, at least for a while, in a period when economists predict that Canada will experience confusion and indecision because of the closest election in her history.
Presumably, Kissinger is seeking reassurance from Hanoi on the force withdrawal at the same time he presses for a common position with Thien.
KISSINGER is expected to do more negotiating with the North Vietnamese in Paris, and perhaps go again to Saigon, before all details are wrapped up.
The nine-point plan worked out by Kissinger and Tho as published last Thursday provides for a U.S. withdrawal from the war, advancing North Vietnam's forces must go too.
President Nixon nixoned reciprocal U.S.-North Vietnam withdrawal as a specific purpose. He also asked the United Nations to
THESE SOURCES also cited portions of the nine-point plan providing for potential North Vietnamness force reduction in the war. In addition to this, the tenetnamnes troops specifically. They are:
—The provision for future negotiation between the two South Vietnamese sides on "steps to reduce the military numbers on both sides."
As explained here, the North Vietnamese do not acknowledge they have forces in the South so as a practical matter it would be virtually impossible to negotiate an agreement under which they would publicly agree to withdraw.
The private indications from Hanoi about a partial withdrawal, the U.S. sources said, applied generally to North Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam and not just to the 35,000 who are estimated to have crossed unmobilized zone in the spring offensive.
The sources said Thieu, with 1.1 million men under his command, would have a far larger force to bargain with than the Communists.
—the ban on reinforcements which, if strictly observed, could lead to attrition of the North Vietnamese troops remaining in the South over a period of time.
The sources gave no figures, and said the matter was apart from the nine-point plot.
It was suggested also that under ceasefire conditions, with the shooting war over, there would be a growing demand among men to recruit to retain for return of men sent to the front.
Canada is one of the four countries proposed for an expanded international control commission. The others are Indonesia, Poland and Hungary.
Meanwhile, the U.S. effort to shape up an international supervisory body for the cease-fire suffered at least a temporary backset from Monday's Canadian election,
A Canadian diplomat said that the Trudeau government was positively inclined toward partaking in the proposed ceasefire supervision. But with its defeat at home, she said the question is now an open one to be weighed by the new government.
Kansan Staff Writer
Candidates Questioned On Education Support
By DIANE YEAMANS
Most candidates running for Kansas state offices support higher education but differ in the methods of funding according to a recent survey released Wednesday by Concerned Students for Higher Education in Kansas.
Though increases in the sales or income taxes were generally favored to increase revenue available to higher education, the candidates also wanted to lower property taxes.
Parimutuel betting and liquor by the drink were generally favored by the candidates to increase revenue if they are presented as constitutional amendments. Of 268 interviews sent to candidates for state offices, approximately 140 were returned.
THE SURVEY questions the candidates on their feelings about the present admission policies as well as the funding and administration of higher education.
The candidates were also asked which ways they preferred to increase state revenue. The last question asked if the candidate felt that students should assume bonded indebtedness for finance capital construction.
Concerned Students for Higher Education in Kansas compiled the survey in an effort to determine the stands that candidates are taking on higher education and relating it to how they have been working to improve and maintain their educational standards for over a year.
Morris Kary, Republican candidate for governor, said he supports the present admission policies allowing any Kansas applicant to admission to a state supported school.
"I would recommend that necessary steps be taken to bring faculty salaries in line to maintain competitive position with comparable educational institution," Kay said.
THE SALARY LOSSES suffered two years ago by classified employees should be reinstated, Kay said in his response to the survey.
Kay said that as governor he would stress economic development and a reordering of the economy.
Sales and income tax increases would not be proposed by his administration, Kay said. Kay said he would not be opposed to the government setting and liquor by the drink agreements.
"OUR EDUCATION to the public is our greatest resource," Kay said, and "a Kay teacher can be a great educator."
No response to the survey was received from Gov. Robert Docking.
In the race for Lieutenant Governor, Dave Owen, Republican, and Gary Hart, Democratic, agreed in the survey that all Kansas high school graduates should be allowed to enroll in state supported colleges and universities.
However, Owen favored more emphasis on the junior colleges and vocational-technical schools for those students as an incentive to some students to a four year college.
The student tuition grant program for higher education should be extended. Hart
BOTH CANDIDATES agree that quality education can be insured by the best teachers.
Owen emphasized in his survey response that the taxpayers must receive the best pay.
Though Owen favors a balance between sales, income and property taxes, Hart does not favor an increase in these forms of revenue.
Parimutuel betting and liquor by the drink would be a viable source of income in the hotel industry.
The property tax on producing gas and oil wells should be eliminated in favor of a development that is less costly.
IN THE LOCAL contest for state senator, Arden Bohren, Republican, and Harold Keltz, Democrat, disagree on the admission effect for the state colleges and universities.
"I would like to see a 'B' average in high school as a prerequisite for admission,"
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