BIG EAGLE FISHING
A LITTLE COOLER
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
83rd Year, No. 36
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Last Day To Register To Vote See story page 3
Tuesday, October 17, 1972
Kapsan Photo by DAN LAUING
Ant Shelters
in the midst of civilization, about six feet away from a busy city street, the four sixioli soldattoad stands. Mushroom lovers who
live on Kentucky Street, where these toadtools grow, should beware of these "hobiles," as they are nicknamed, because they are poisonous. These toadtools are among the last of the early fall predators that were out of sight. They treason they too will die if an unwary picker doesn't get to them first.
Prostitution Reported Thriving In Large Eastern Kansas Cities
Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part series about prostitution in Kansas. This part deals with prostitution in Junction City, Kansas City, Kan. and Topeka.
By MYLA STARR
Kancan Staff Writer
Prostitution is entrenched in the larger cities of eastern Kansas.
Topeka's prostitution market, fed by Forbes Air Force Base and Ft. Riley, is centralized near the downtown business district. Kansas City, Kansas prostitution, traditionally on the eastern edge fringes of the city, is beginning to spread. The downtown City's prostitutes still work out of shine parks and cakes on lower E. 9th Street.
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation and agents of the attorney general's office in Topeka who are concerned with the control of drug markets have a problem never will be wired out completely.
Capt. James Free, special investigator with the Topeka Police Department, considers prostitution a problem in Topeka.
"We HAVE made 20 or 25 arrests here since January," he said, "but this is not our first."
"Maybe we are going at the wrong way. Maybe we should be going after the people who were there."
Under the law, customers may be arrested for frequenting such 'bawdy houses,' but intent is difficult to prove, Freel said.
"They tell you they were in there selling vacuum cleaners." Freel said,
"and you know that isn't true. But you have to prove it."
Current public emphasis on drug abuse has turned police attention away from misdemeanor prostitution violations in cities throughout the two crimes are often related.
"These types of crimes are overlapping," he said. "Prostitutes who are addicts are generally held into this (prostitution) by their need for drugs. Men steal to support their habits; women do this by shoofling or prostitution."
THERE ARE 180 bars and private clubs in Topeka which are periodically investigated for prostitution, drug, gambling and liquor violations, Freel said.
Arrests in one downtown bar may be forcing the bar out of business, Freel said, because police threats to close the bar have singled prostitution activity there.
"It isn't a nice enough place to attract legitimate customers without the girls, so I want you to stop."
All of those arrested were in a group of 11 female and 9 male prostitutes who live and work out of three apartments on the block.
There have been eight prostitution blocks in the 1300 block of Jackson Street, Ford said.
Another bar, on lower Kansas Avenue, is also under surveillance for prostitution, he
There are also two houses of prostitution in Topeka, Freel said. Both are operated by a single company.
"They have all been arrested before," Freel said.
A COURT injunction to close one of the houses is pending, Freel said. To force the house to close, the landlord must
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Senate Votes to Cut Foreign Aid Funds
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Senate voted a sharp cut in foreign aid appropriations Monday, adding another potential roadblock to the $45 billion business of the 92nd Congress Tuesday night.
The Senate stripped $513.4 million from the $4 billion annual foreign aid spending level voted by the House Saturday night in a tense showdown that continued spending until next Feb. 28.
The amendment was proposed by Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, D-Hawaii, chairman of the Senate appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations, and adopted by the full committee and the Senate by voice vote.
Chairman J. W. Fulbright, D-Ak., of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, warned that if the bill comes back from House-Senate conference with substantial increases over the Senate's $4.2 billion increase, it's anything possible to prevent its adoption."
The Senate, with little else to do,
recessed for several hours waiting for its
appropriations committee recommendation on the foreign aid issue.
The House, meanwhile, was in recess until Tuesday with action scheduled on compromise versions of the big Social Security bill with its welfare reform
Senate Refuses Funds For Computer Tally
By JOHN PIKE Kansan Staff Writer
The University of Kansas Student Senate, Monday night tabled an elections resolution to require senators to work at the polls during the fall elections Wednesday and Thursday. The Senate met in a special session in the Jayhawk room of the university.
The allocations bill, submitted by the Student Executive Committee at the request of Tuck Duncan, Wilmette, III., senior and former elections committee chairman, would have allocated an ad- ditional $2000 to the Student Senate for elections.
The additional funds would have allowed the fall ballots to be counted by computer. The votes will be counted by hand because the cost of the computer tabulation this year.
Duncan estimated that counting by computer in fall and spring elections would cost between $5,000 and $6,000. The present Senate allocation for elections is $3,800, most of which will be used for spring elections.
The reason for the cost increase for computer tabulation is that the senate has not yet approved the hours needed to run the computer during the tabulation process as well as for the actual computer time. The University previously had paid the cost of the man-
A motion was made to open the resolution to reconsideration before the full senate. The move to reconsider failed to pass a 41 vote, with 10 senators abstaining.
Several senators said they objected to the resolution requiring all senators to work one hour at one of the polls during the election.
It states that a senator who does not work at the polls will be charged with an unexcused absence unless he has obtained permission from the Student Rights Computer.
In a special meeting for poll workers Monday night in the Union, Cindi Buxton, Alton, Ill., sophomore and elections committee member, instructed poll workers on voting procedures for the fall elections.
Air Force Searches Alaska Coast For Two Missing Representatives
"We assume that the airplane is down," a Federal Aviation Administration official said.
radio range, that could cause us to lose contact, but the plane has passed its fuel exhaustion time and we assume that the airplane is down," the FAA spokesman
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Air Force launched a search for an overdue small plane carrying House Majority Leader Hillary Clinton and U.S. Rep. Nick Bickert Monday.
The twin-engine plane, carrying four persons, was due to land at Jateau on 4:30 p.m. Lawrence time on a nonstop flight from Seattle. Boats had been campaigning for Regieh.
The plane would have run out of fuel at 7 p.m., the FAA spokesman said.
The flight plan called for visual flight rules and followed the rugged Alaska coast, lined with mountains 5,000 to 7,000 feet high.
There was no radio contact with the plane after the pilot filed a flight plan 12 minutes after take-off from Anchorage, he added.
"There could be many circumstances, like a malfunctioning radio or being out of
A search of airfields where the plane might have landed turned up no sign of the aircraft.
In Anchorage, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board said, "Some have suggested because it was a campaign trip they may have stopped along the way but we have no reason to believe that and really don't."
The other persons aboard the plane were Russell Brown, an administrative assistant to Begich, and the pilot, Don E. Jonz.
The FAA spokesman said the plane, a Cessna 310, carried crash-location equipment but no signal had been received.
The air search was launched from Elmendorf Air Force Base near Anchorage, 600 miles northwest of Juneau as the crow flies.
Bogggs, 58, was first elected to Congress in 1940 at the age of 27. He was defeated two years later and served with the Navy until 1964 when he won re-election to the House.
He was an ally of the late House Speaker Sam Rayburn, and on Rayburn's death became Democratic whip under Speaker John McCormack in 1962. He ascended to the No. 2 Democratic leadership position in 1970 when McCormack retired and Majority Leader Carl Albert succeeded him as speaker.
provisions stripped in conference, and the controversial bill to increase the national debt limit and impose a $250 billion spending ceiling for this fiscal year.
Boggs chaired the 1968 Democratic National Convention Platform Committee. He was a member of the Warren Commission that investigated the assassination President John F. Kennedy on the grounds of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence.
The House must act first on both bills before they go to the Senate where Mr. D-Mont, D-Mont, conceded that "considerable conversation" could be expected.
A prior resolution continuing the programs since July 1 at a $2.9 billion annual rate expired Saturday midnight.
He has three children. One, Thomas Hale Bogggs Jr., made an unsuccessful race for Congress from Maryland's 8th District where the Boggs family lives.
The dispute over the level of foreign aid appropriations cropped up on a resolution continuing authority for foreign aid and authorization bill for military assistance.
The President's budget for foreign aid the U.S. government year '13 appropriation was $1.1 billion.
The effect of the house-passed continuing resolution would be to continue foreign aid spending until next Feb. 28 at a $4 billion annual rate.
High Court Will Decide School Issue
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court Monday agreed to rule on the constitutionality of revenue bonds issued by the bank to help finance church-affiliated colleges.
The test case, from South Carolina, was one of seven new appeals added to an already crammed docket for hearings and decisions this term.
At the same time, by a 7-2 vote, the court allowed a Nebraska school district to operate a publicly financed remedial program at a Roman Catholic high school.
The two dissenters, Justice William O. Douglas and Justice Thurgood Marshall, contended the First Amendment and recent decisions by the court prohibit the use of government funds for instruction in parochial schools.
But Justice William J. Brennan who usually agrees with his fellow liberals in church-state cases, said the reading and mathematics program would operate completely independent of the Catholic school administration in Hartington, Neb.
—Ruled unanimously that federal welfare regulations do not authorize Maryland or other states to bar striking workers from assistance.
The government has advised the court that the regulations are being revised to permit the exclusion of strikers. According to Maryland officials, striking workers were barred from welfare in four other states as well.
—Unanimously turned down a plea by memphis school officials for delay in the decision.
The action was significant in that the officials based their request partly on the recently enacted Broomfield Amendment, which states that desegregation orders for the purpose of achieving racial balance take effect when an appeal is pending.
-Unanimously rejected a plea by the Richmond, Va., school board for preliminary moves toward the consolidation of the city's mostly black schools with two adjoining white suburban systems.
Intensive English Programs Defended, Called Flexible
In an interview last week, Edward T. Erazam, director of the Intensive English Center, responded to student's accusations and complaints against the Center.
Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part series on the views of administrators and students on the use of AI.
Erazman was recruited from the University of Michigan in 1864 to be the Intensive English Center at Boston College. He was a professor.
He said that while the major purpose of the center was to improve all foreign language learning, it also focused on the students.
In response to a student's charge that the center was run primarily as a lab for linguistics graduate students with no regard for the improvement of service to the students, he said, "It's kind of silly."
He said that the center made the University distinctive in the language field, permitting great flexibility in the handling of foreign student programs and providing a set exchange programs started with other countries.
developing teaching skills for those who plan to teach languages. He said the peripheral research done at the center was of great importance to educators because it provides a lasting ground for methods and theory.
One of the major student complaints was that the center gave final grades rather than numerical scores for the proficiency exam on which the semester evaluation is based. One student claimed that students in lower sections of the Intensive English Center had little chance to pass the exam so the grade was punitive, sometimes costing the student his financial support.
"I think they're comparable to any program in the country in number of hours offered, number of students enrolled."
Erazmus said that the center provided economic aid to graduate students and was a lab for
Erzamus said the center gave grades on the proficiency exam because the center was part of the University, and as such, it must provide the University with a course grade. He said that grades weren't given in class because most of the class time was spent in drilling sessions, a procedure that couldn't be used for evaluation. He said that each student was given individual feedback by contact
with the instructor in class and by an individual proficiency report to each student.
"We can provide explanations if we have to (to the home countries or sponsors of the students)," he said, referring to possible withdrawals of financial support.
erazmus said the reason the center had only a few textbooks for all the sections was that there was a problem in availability of materials. To ease this problem the center is flexible in allowing each section to follow its natural path in learning, he said.
“Our use of materials is really free,” he said. We don’t try to follow an original plan. But there is a great chance that we can do it.
Many foreign students have complained that the Intensive English Center's policy of reducing a student's semester grade to an F if he has missed one third of his classes is unfair.
Erazmus defended the policy saying that past experience had shown that students wouldn't come to class if it wasn't required. He said that it was a disciplinary measure to keep up attendance.
"There has to be a certain degree of discipline in the University," he said. "If not attendance ex-
exists a certain level, we assume the average of a student's classwork and homework will go down."
"One problem is that these students get into national groups and converse," he explained, "and converse in convoy."
"We assume the students have ample opportunity to converse outside class." he said. "We hope they are using the language. I don't see how they can help it."
Erazmus admitted that the method, the material and the logic of the program used in the classroom didn't allow many opportunities for conversational practice. "It is one of the major complaints of the teachers."
The recent program for foreign students at McCullum Hall to supplement the Intensive English Center's program is agreeable to the English Center's director. Erazmus said that the students needed support in integrating into residence hall and community life, and that any help given to the
To complement the work done in the English Center, the student should have his own program of study to cope with the language. Erazmus said. He said if they were serious, they would work out their problems.
center to achieve that goal was welcome.
"This is an excellent idea," he said. "One of the major problems with our students is what they do."
In principle, he said, he has approved the use of the center's material and any support they can give. He has promised the organizers of the program that the center will use these materials for use for practics by participants in the program.
This fall, the Intensive English Center has 27 half-time assistant instructors, all graduate students, who are selected from among applicants from many departments, although priority is given to the linguistics graduate students. According to Eraz mus, this fall 14 of the 27 instructors are linguistics teachers.
He said that special consideration was given to those in linguistics because there were only four assistant instructing positions in the linguistics department. This provision between linguistics and teaching language.
Many students in the Intensive English Center have criticized the inexperience of the instructors,
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