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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Monday, October 23, 1972
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John F. Michel, Selected by 600 Seniors, Receives 1972 HOPE Award
. The single winner from 930 nominees.
John Michel, Professor of Speech Named 1972 HOPE Award Winner
John F. Michel, associate professor of speech and drama, was named the winner of the 1972 HOF Award Saturday during a ceremony at the Kansas-Nebraska football game.
The award was presented by Mark Shockey, Wichita senior and chairman of the HOPE Award committee. HOPE stands for "Honor Outstanding Progressive Educators" and is the only student-initiated award to recognize the efforts of teachers who are outstanding in their field.
Michel said, "I am very pleased and honored. I think there are few institutions where an award such as the HOPE Award could carry any more significance."
The award was founded by the class of 1959 through a $2,500 endowment. The annual award is the interest drawn from that fund each year.
Last year awards were given to John B. Brenner, associate professor of journalism. Amo Mapper, mapper of business, and Elizabeth Schultz, assistant professor of English.
This year only one award was given.
About 930 faculty members were nominated for the award by seniors this fall. In September, the seniors selected 11 students from the 25 nominees with the most votes.
The HOPE Award committee chose the five finalists from this list after home interviews and unannounced visits to the classes of the semifinalists.
The finalists were Edward McBride Sr., professor of mechanical engineering;
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Kissinger Announces 'Productive' Sessions
SAIGON (AP)—Henry A. Kissinger left Saigon for Washington today and said that his intensive talks with President Nguyen Van Thieu in search of a peace formula had been productive.
President Nixon's chief foreign policy adviser did not elaborate.
Kissinger met for 2½ hours early today with the South Vietnamese president amid a host of unconfirmed reports that a cease-fire agreement was in the offing. It was their sixth meeting during the American's five-day stay.
Kissinger also met with Thieu on Sunday morning, flew to Cambodia for a three-hour conference with President Lon Nol and then returned to Saigon for another meeting with the South Vietnamese president that lasted nearly two hours past dusk.
In a related development, Premier Hang Thun Hak announced shortly before Kissinger's visit to Phnom Penh that the Cambodian government had "reached agreement in principle" for peace talks with the Khmer Rouge, the Communist-led Cambodian insurgents allied with the Viet Conq and North Vietnamese.
Only a few months ago, the Cambodian government had refused to acknowledge the existence of the Khmer Rouge. But the Khmer Rouge strength has increased from a little more than 5,000 last March to about 40,000 now.
The premier of Laos, Prince Souvanna Phouma, said in Paris that peace may come soon in Indochina and that negotiations in his country had got off to a good start. The Pathet Lao is the adversary of Souvanna's government.
The prince made his remarks in a statement at the airport while en route to the United States. Before leaving Laos, the prince conferred with one of Kissinger's aides.
Kissinger has held five conferences with Thieu since he arrived last Wednesday
Kansan Staff Reporter
By GARY ISAACSON
Nichols Named 12th KU Chancellor
TOPEKA- The Kansas State Board of Regents officially made Raymond Nichols the twelfth chancellor of the University of Kansas at their meeting here Friday.
Henry Bubb, regent of Topeka, made the motion to remove the word 'acting' from Nichols' title. He said that Nichols had spent 40 years serving the University
and that he thought Nichols should retire as chancellor.
Nichols, who said that he was completely unaware of the move, said that it made no difference to him what his title was.
The vote was 5 to 2 in favor of Bubb's motion. Two regents abstained and two were absent. Regents Elkinson of Kansas City, Kan, and Robert Helman of
Kansas Board of Regents Seeks Report on Colleges
TOPEKA - The Kansas State Board of Regents may have copies of a controversial report on state-supported taxation in time for their November meeting.
The report was compiled by the Council of Chief Academic Officers (COCAO) of the University of Oklahoma.
James McCain, president of Kansas State University and chairman of the Council of Presidents, told the regents Friday that the presidents have finished reviewing the report. He said the results copied in the recommendations made by COCAO had made some style and editorial change.
McCain said that final copies of the report would be prepared by Joe McFarland, regents' academic officer, within a week to ten days.
The report recommends that an average of five degrees be awarded each year for a masters program and an average of two degrees for a bachelor's degree given by each state school with a graduate program. Schools falling below this level would be put on probation. Programs above this level would be recommended for discontinuance, according to the report.
THE REPORT will then go to the regents' academic committee, which may submit it to the full board at their November meeting.
The controversy of the report centers on production criteria for the justification of a project.
In other action, the regents gave Max Bickford, executive officer of the regents, the authority to seek an arrangement between local and national bond counsels concerning the issuance of $64 million in bonds to finance major expansion at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City.
DISCUSSION OF a project manager for the medical center building program was deferred until Vice Chancellor of the KU Medical Center, William Rieke, discussed the possibility with the state architect.
The board has sole authority to name heads of institutions and all other appointments are made by the president of the school, he said.
Goodland abstained. Jackson said that while he was in accord with Bubb's sentiments, he thought that the legalities of the move were unclear.
JACKSON SAID that because Nichols had been appointed interim chancellor, a legal opinion should be sought concerning the change.
Bickford said, "Administrators made such appointments as authorized by the
In other action, the board approved adjustments in the expenditure authority of the medical center that would enable the center to spend hospital revenue which could not be spent in the past because of a budget limit.
Absent from the meeting were chairman Jess Stewart of Wamengo and Dr. James Brown of Kirkland.
THE BOARD approved the policy change on the condition that they would be informed of such appointments in writing before they are announced.
The regents also rectified a discrepancy between their policy and the law on appraisal fees.
The policy said that presidents brought these administrative appointments to the office.
Nichols appointment will not affect the Campus Advisory Committee's search for a new candidate because Nichols will not have tenure because his appointment was cancelled. December he will be 70, which is the mandatory retirement age for faculty members. To continue as chancellor after December, he will need approval from the State College Servi-
In other business, the regents voted to seek a supplemental appropriation from the 1973 Kansas Legislature to cover the difference in fee incomes between KU's projected enrollment and the actual count. The difference was approximately 600 students. The board will seek $857, $636 from general revenue funds to cover the deficit.
The board will also ask the Legislature to adjust KU's budget by authorizing an increase in the spending limit of the research overhead fund. This would enable the University to spend an additional $100,200.
The board also will ask the Legislature for a 5.5 increase in payments to faculty who retired under an old regents' plan, and for a 747 requests would provide KU with $1,813.49.
THE BOARD also approved an adjustment to decrease KU's general enrollment to 58,000. The come for fiscal year 1974. Both motions affect all schools in the regents' system. No school in the system reached its predefined enrollment except Kansas State University.
FOR THE KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., the board approved the purchase of several plots of land for future expansion of the Medical Center. The funds for the purchases will come from the KU Endowment Association.
Preliminary plans for a basic science building and an addition to the medical building.
board's building committee and will go to the board next month.
A new law concerning collective bargaining by public employees was discussed at the meeting. The board recommended to the state Public Employees Relations Board that two bargaining units be established and that each would contain KU and the KU Medical Center and one unit would contain the other five state institutions.
Four Turks Hijack Plane To Bulgaria
Over landing at the Sofia airport in a snowstorm, the hijackers threatened to blow up the Boeing 707 unless Turkey freed 12 leftist prisoners and met demands for reforms by noon today. Informed sources said the Turkish government decided to dismiss of the demands but not to oppose political asylum for the hijackers in Bulgaria.
"Our struggle is a revolutionary struggle," one of the four said at the airport, according to the Bulgarian news agency BTA. "It has been our purpose to free our comrades. We warn that we are under attack on any concessions concerning our terms."
ANKARA, Turkey (AP)—Four young Turkish terrorists hijacked an airliner with 77 other persons aboard Sunday, the forces traced the trip from Turkey to Bulgaria.
The other demands were for repeal of a law prohibiting workers to strike in Turkey, improvement of peasants' lives, better conditions in universities and a promise not to make any antidemocratic changes in the Turkish constitution.
The news agency said the hijackers demanded political asylum in Bulgaria for themselves and for the 13 prisoners. An apparently conflicting report from a Turkish government spokesman said the terrorists wanted to go to Cuba.
night, underscoring the intensity and seriousness of the peace talks. North Vietnam's premier, Pham Van Dong, said in an interview with Newsweek magazine that the three-way secret negotiations "are in an extremely important phase."
The U.S. Embassy declined to say what Kissinger's next move would be. His schedule appeared flexible. There was no
immediate word when he would return to Washington to report to President Nixon.
But the flurry of conferences, Dong's statements and reports that some military bases in the United States were on special alert in preparation for possible evacuation of American prisoners of war from North Vietnam touched off a new round of speculation.
Two Magazines Claim Viet Agreement Made
NEW YORK (AP)—Time and Newsweek magazines reported Sunday that the United States and North Vietnam had reached agreement on a peace settlement in Vietnam under which South Vietnam's President Nguyen Van Thieu would remain until replaced by a caretaker government.
The magazine commented that this part of the United States-North Vietnamese agreement met a demand by President Nixon that he not participate in the downfall of Thieu whom Nixon has promised never to abandon.
Time said, "Hanoi has agreed to negotiate directly with the Thieu government while the South Vietnamese had made contact which it has said that it would never do."
Both magazines said a cease-fire would be in effect when the necrotises went on.
ACCORDING TO Time, once a ceasefire is established, three committees would be formed:
-An expansion of the International Control Commission to supervise the cease-fire.
—A composition of representatives from the Saigon government and the Provisional Revolutionary Government maintained by the National Liberation Front in South Vietnam. This committee, consisting of Communist, neutralist and Thieu government factions would create the caretaker government to replace Thieu.
—A committee composed of the United States, North Vietnam, the Thieu government and the Provisional Revolutionary Government.
It would work with the International Control Commission—which is made up of
India, Canada and Poland—and would arbitrate who controlled what territory at the time of the cease-fire, negotiating the withdrawal and the release of the prisoners of war and the other large overall problems of ending combat in Vietnam.
NEBWEEK SAID that after the ceasefire and a short-lived interim government, there would be a national election supervised by France in South Vietnam.
According to the account in Newsweek 3' Oct. 31 issue, a weak executive was expected to be central to a new constitution for South Vietnam. Gen. Duong Van "Big" Minh was listed as a logical candidate.
The magazine said it still was unresolved whether the interim government in Saigon would have two or three segments.
South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thien wants only two parties, his supporters and the National Liberation Front. Hanoi wants a third faction of neutralists included, according to the article.
A smaller executive committee would run day-to-day affairs. Under the agreement negotiated in Paris between Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, the magazine said, neither Thieu nor any covert Communist would be eligible to serve on the executive committee.
NEWSWEEK SAID whatever its composition, the interim government would function as a coalition committee, probably consisting of 18 to 30 members.
It would have the same proportion as the coalition committee and be chaired by an individual acceptable to all sides.
The White House declined to comment on the Newsweek report.
Navy Attempts to Adapt Frisbee Flights to War
From high stop Hurricane Mesa in Utah, scientists sent Frisbees and clay pigeons spinning into the air. Tracking cameras monitored the flights from the base.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Over a period of four years, the Navy spent $750,000 in a scientific study to determine the high characteristics of these plastic bottles that could be adapted for water but were not.
As with all flight testing, the experiments were preceded by extensive wind-tunnel tests at the Navy Ammunition Depot at Crane, Ind.
The results of the test were reported last month in a paper entitled "Adaptation of the Frisbee Flight Principle to the Delivery of Special Ordinance."
in international paper, one navy was careful to note that Friebee was a registered trademark of the Waho Manufacturing Co. of San Gabriel, Calif.
Hardt, who took over the program two years ago, the Naval Air Systems Command was looking for a new way of delivering flares. This, he said, led in 1967 to investigate, "an accident in the airplane using a gyroscopically stabilized disc," in other words, a Frisbee.
Navy ordnance experts at Crane used the data from the Flight Tracking System to disc-shaped flare which could be launched at night from airplanes
to light up battlefields as the disc spun through the air.
Flares now used by the military burn for three to five minutes as they float to Earth by parachute. Hardt said the Nazi hope the Frisbee-type flare could be a target on land.
nowhere, he said, the Navy ran into problems. The scientists, he said, found that their burning characteristics caused them to develop thrust and takeoff difficulties.
Although it was felt this problem could be solved, he said the flares required a monstrous and expensive launcher which would have made the idea im-