THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
83rd Year, No. 38
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Profs Say Spark Missing In Politics See story page 5
Thursday, October 19, 1972
Kissinger, Thieu Review Peace Talks
SAIGON (AP)—Henry A. Kissinger, President Nguyen Van Thieu and more than a dozen other U.S. and South Vietnamese officials began a review today of the Indochina situation and the Paris peace talks.
The North Vietnamese say peace is no nearer despite their own secret talks with Kissinger, President Nixon's national security adviser.
After a session Tuesday with the North
Valley High School left for Salmon,
arizonne,Wednesday night.
Kissinger and six other Americans—diplomats, National Security Council aides and military officials—went to Independence Palace in Salam at 9 a.m. to meet with Theun and seven other South Africans, including Theun's national security council.
The large number of military and political officials attending the meeting was seen as an indication of serious and comprehensive talks.
A U.S. embassy spokesman said the American officials included Ellsworth Bunker, ambassador to South Vietnam, Jonathan W. Abrams, the Army; chief of staff.
The South Vietnamese included Foreign Minister Tran Van Lam and Ambassador Pham Dang Lam, chief of the South Vietnamese delegation to the Paris peace
In Paris, Nguyen Thanh Le, spokesman for the North Vietnamese delegation at the Paris peace talks, told reporters, "Up to now Vietnamnese problem is not yet settled."
Indicating no change in the Communist position, he added: "Up to today, Oct. 18, the truman administration has an end to this war of aggression, refuses to abandon the traitor Nguyen Van Thien."
Kansan Photo by MALCOLM TURNER
Chancellor Speaks on State of the University . . . Local economy affected by K.U. budget . . .
Nichols Terms KU Healthy But Hungry
By GARY ISAACSON Kansan Staff Writer
Nichols spoke at a Lawrence Chamber of Commerce luncheon at the Holiday Inn. The meeting was attended by about 180 persons who gave Nichols a warm, lengthy standing ovation after he was introduced as part of the Lawrence Daily Journal-World.
Nichols said items facing the University this year were readjustment to a new enrollment trend; adoption of a new budget preparation and presentation method; compliance with new federal regulations, especially Affirmative Action laws; increased financial program; and continued cooperation between the University and the city.
Acting Chancellor Raymond Nichols termed the University of Kansas "well and healthy, although lean and hungry" in his state of the university address Wednesday.
Nichols put major emphasis on the budget. He said the current enrollment situation was not the only reason that the University was lean and humry.
Nichols said a national leveling off of enrollment and a switch by students to part-time studies were the reasons for the inaccuracy of the University's predictions.
"Multiply 15 by 18,000 and you can see why we are short $900,000." he said.
"THERE ALSO HAS been the general recognition for some years that we are underfunded in relation to our mission and in comparison with support received of other state-supported universities," he said.
Nichols said the reasons he instituted a freeze this year were that projected enrollment missed the estimates and the average tutoring fee per student was down
Nixon Rebuffed Twice by Congress
WASHINGTON (AP)—Congress administered President Nixon two defeats Wednesday by overriding his veto of a $24-billion clean waters bill and by rejecting his $28-billion spending limit, then adjourned.
That ended two years of work for the 92nd Congress, in which highlighted were the enactment of a $30.2-billion revenue-shapling bill, the extension of voting rights to 18-year-olds and a legislative standoff on the Vietnam War.
A $-billion, one-year highway bill that would also have provided $3.4 billion for mass transit was also resurrected and was passed. Mr. Cruz cited it died in the House for lack of a quorum.
The result, he said, is an unbalanced budget situation that will continue through the decade.
The elections only three weeks away, many of the congressmen didn't wait for Congress.
BECAUSE OF THE leveling off, Nichols said, KU projection up to 1980 will have to be revised downward. However, he added that the leveling did be less than in other areas of the state.
Sen. Jacob K. Javits, R-N-Y, threatened at one point to sniar the adjournment rush by demanding a roll-call vote, knowing a vote of 51 senators couldn't be mustered for one.
MORE THAN two-thirds of the 435 member House had departed by evening, leaving the House without a quorum to act. The House rejected an authorization $3.4 billion for mass transit.
President unrestricted authority to trim the budget by $7 billion to meet the limit. The Senate had voted to prohibit cutting any one program more than 10, per cent.
EARLER, THE House joined the senate to enact the water-pollution control law.
Kansas Representatives voting to override the veto were democrat William R. Roy and Republican Garner E. Shriver. A second Republican, Skubitz and Larry Winn Jr., were absent.
Nixon, who had asked for $6 billion for water pollution control, called the bill a budget wrecker and said those who support it would increase the likelihood of higher taxes.
clining major leader Gerald R. Ford of Michigan, joined 153 Democrats in his run for governor.
But 94 Republicans in the House, in-
Only 14 Republicans, six of whom are seeking re-election, and 9 Democrats have not won.
proach the average of the state-supported members of the Association of American Universities. Last year, he said, KU was $2,700, $2,100 and $1,400 respectively below the average for the three professional ranks in the association.
THE MOST IMPORTANT result of improved funding. Nichols said wages up in response to the demand.
The new law authorizes $18 billion during the next three years in grants to states and municipalities to pay 75 per cent of the built sewage and waste treatment plants.
Referring to the difference between incidental fees in 1956 and those now, Nichols said the rising cost of higher education was keeping many of the state's students away from KU's reputation as a rich man's school as "gross unfairly" and acknowledged that many KU students came from families whose incomes were below the national minimum. Nichols said expanded federal funding was needed to keep these students
IT ALSO CALLS for strict limits on industrial discharges into inland and coastal waters. By July 1, 1977, plants will have to meet limits based on the "best technology," and by 1983, limits based on the "best available technology."
By 1983 all pollution is supposed to be eliminated from the nation's rivers, lakes, and reservoirs.
The Senate and House rejected the spending ceiling despite Nixon's assertions that doing so would place the blame for inflation and a possible future tax increase.
The program also authorizes funds for loans to small businesses to help them comply with the law, payments to municipalities that built sewage treatment plants under an earlier program, and funds for antipollution research.
"It is time to abandon the tail-end position we now hold," he said.
Improvement in the University budget, especially in salaries, will have a profound impact. He said a study done last year showed that the University family, faculty, staff and students, accounted for one-fourth of the total business volume in Lawrence in 1974.
ALL SUMS in the law are merely authorizations, however. They set the maximum amounts that can be spent, and thus should be provided in separate appropriations.
Discussing the funding of KU, Nichols expressed the hope that improvement was immune. He said he hoped the funding would be extended and in part, from federal revenue, shuffle.
Nixon, anticipating in his veto message that he would be overridden, said he would not give over spending to hold down expenditures under the program as much as he could.
Both the Senate and the House acted by voice vote.
NICHOLS SAID AN official affirmative action plan now was being developed in 1997. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW). After a site visit by the Kansas City office of HEW sometime this fall, the department will plan a follow during a period of years.
"We look to the Kansas Legislature to provide resources to meet requirements of our state."
The House originally voted to give the
See NICHOLS Page 9
However, he said that the polls operating in residence halls Wednesday evening were split.
Voter Turnout Slight In Morning Balloting
The poll in the Kansas Union has the largest number of voters during the day when voters are most active.
About 100 persons voted at the Kansas
anum poll, Hail said, compared with about
70 in previous elections.
Sierling Hall, Sublette sophomore and chairman of the Senate Elections Committee, said the number of voters was low, than expected through Wednesday afternoon.
The first day of voting in the fall elections for Student Senate and Freshman Class officers Wednesday produced a light rain that day, but a heavier response that night.
"They (the polla) were awfully dead until about 10 a.m. this afternoon," Hall said. "I saw them before."
Today is the last day of the election.
Polls will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. only in Strong, the Union, and Summerfield Hall.
Hall said the poll in Gertrude Sellarski Pearson Hall had been used by about 150 voters one hour after opening Wednesday at a local church. A response at the other residence halls.
In addition to the candidates listed in yesterday's Kansan, seven graduate students are running as write-in candidates for the seven graduate seats in the Student Senate, according to Gene Dorris, Stillwater graduate student.
The seven write-in candidates are Barb Coffman, Lawrence; Jan Lohnmann, Lawrence; Joe Storrs, Lawrence; Ken Voss, Seward, Neb. Zane Klee, Victoria, British Columbia, Donald Rabiner, Long Great Bend, Neb. and Tony Whitelhorn, Great Bend, Neb.
Hall refused to say where the ballots would be counted.
The ballots for the election will be hand counted by the Elections Committee after voting.
Results of the election will be posted in summerfield Hall as soon as they are announced.
Dorris said Wednesday that the seven, who form a group called the Graduate Student Alliance (GSA), were waging write-in campaigns because they did not want to pay the $5 filing fee and because students must be recruited candidates, but Dorris said they had had problems getting women to run for office.
Spending Lid Removal Sought by University
The University of Kansas will ask the State Board of Regents to recommend an adjustment in its budget to the 1973 session of the Kansas Legislature.
The request, which will be made by Acting Chancellor Raymond Nichols, will be introduced at the Regents meeting Friday in Topeka. KU will ask for an increase in the expenditure of the research overhead fund of $100.00.
"The money is already there," said Jess
Band Asks StudEx to File Complaints Against K-State
The Student Executive Committee (StudEx) has received a request from the president of the University of Kansas band for help from the Student Senate in filing a formal complaint with Kansas State University. The KU band will treat the KU band by KSate fans at last Saturday's football game in Manhattan.
Kathy Allen, Topeka Junior and student body vice president, submitted the request in behalf of Gary McCarty, Jacksonville, Ill., junior and KU band president, during the StudEx regular meeting Wednesday night.
No specific suggestions for Senate action were contained in the request, and StudEx decided not to recommend action until the student government had been contacted.
According to McCarty, two band members were injured when pieces of fruit and other objects were thrown at the KU band by the crowd.
student body president, said he would contact K-State for its reaction to the
Dave Dillon, Hutchinson senior and
McCarty said one of the band members received a fractured jaw when she was hit in the face with a piece of fruit. The other injured person received facial cuts.
In addition to the injuries, McCarty said so uniforms required cleaning, and some wounds were cut.
Three bills concerning the student activity fee may be ready for discussion at that meeting, according to John House, a special student and chairman of StudEx.
In other business, StudEs set the agenda for the Oct. 25 meeting of the Student Senate.
Stewart, chairman of the Regents. "We would like to support the Legislature to make the majority in the legislature."
Other items on the agenda concerning KU are a request for an increase in the major repairs and special maintenance works on the geological Survey Building.
The Regents will also look at the preliminary plans for the Basic Science and Chemical buildings at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City;
"The discussion of the project will include a target date, a bond council, and a project plan."
Max Bickford, executive officer of the board, said this action would bring into line the hourly charges for part-time employees as the increase that is expected next year.
The board will also discuss the adoption of a common per credit hour fee for all the clients.
Stewart said the board would be in committee meetings today and it would meet at 1:30 p.m. with the Campus Advisory Board, and be prepared for the selection of a new chancellor.
Richard Von Ende, executive secretary for KU, said that about 50 nominations for the post have been received by his office. But, he said, the nominations are not scheduled to be discussed at the meeting, and the Regents will probably follow the format reported after last Sunday's congressional committee and the board became acquainted and had a short, informal question-answer period.
Van Ende said that the next official meeting of the committee would be on
Kansas Politics
Spreading President Nixon's political campaign throughout Kansas is Republican National Chairman Robert Dole. Dole got down to grass roots politics Wednesday when he spoke to wishers in Oksalaose as part of his swing through middle-America.
Kansan Staff Photo by PRIS BRANDSTED
He expressed confidence in Kansas support for the incumbent President and referred to recent administration scandals as the result of bad press. Campaigning with Charles McAtee, candidate in the 2nd U.S. Congressional district, Dole said he and the Obama administration opposed candidates such as Rep. William McAtee's opponent, who were against defense expenditures. See story page 2.