KANSAN
83rd Year, No. 30
'Hawks Whip Gophers, 34-28
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Monday. October 9. 1972
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Death Count In Rail Crash Reaches 187
SALTILLO, Mexico (AP) -- Rescue teams worked Sunday to extricate more bodies from the tangled wreckage of a train that derailed near here Thursday.
On Sunday morning the death toll to pass 200 by the time the operation is finished.
While the teams used cranes, blow torches and other tools to cut and pry their way to bodies trapped when the cars piled on top of each other, other victims, many of them still unidentified, were buried here.
Bodies pulled from the wreckage Sunday were sent directly to the city cemetery. Many could not be identified because they were mutilated or burned beyond recognition when a spread of four recognition marks came after the derelation two miles south of Saltillo.
Some families mourned the deaths of as many as five relatives. Flags here were at half mast and local businesses hung black to above their doors as a sign of mourning.
Families with relatives still missing crowded the cemetery to try to identify them among the dead. Officials urged residents to stay away in an effort to alleviate the crowding.
The governor was meeting with the director of national railways, Victor Aurelius, to discuss compaction for the disease family the dead. Most of the victims were poor religious pilgrims returning from Real de Catorce in northern San Luis Potosí state.
Six members of the seven-man crew of the train were under arrest and one is still at large, police reported. Railroad officials said gauges showed the train was traveling at twice the permitted speed when it dared on a downhill curve.
Officials also said blood tests showed there was alcohol in the blood of the engineer and his assistant. Officials of the national railroad company said in testimony by experts disproved the crew's claim that the brakes on the train failed.
Kansan Staff Photo by T.D. CAPLE
McGovern Speaks to Enthusiastic Crowd Calls for America to come back home, away from the years of Nixon
KANSAS CITY, Mo-Sen. George McGovern brought his campaign to an enthusiastic crowd of 25,000 Friday night at Union Station, in one of the largest inpatient facilities.
McGovern Greeted By 25,000 in K.C.
McGovern remained in Kansas City Saturday morning for a news conference before he flew to St. Louis for a fundraising dinner.
McGovern was interrupted frequently by applause during his 20-minute speech at the rally, as he reected reasons that he would not be reelected for four more years.
He reminded the crowd of a statement Nixon had made four years ago when he was a Presidential candidate: "Those who have had a chance for four years to restore peace and who have not done it, don't deserve another chance."
HE SAID that at Miami, the Republicans had taken up the battle cry of "four more
"Nixon wants to give us four more years, I ask everyone in the room to think of the last four years. I ask if we can afford four more years." McGovern said.
He asked if those at the rally wanted four more years of young black and white men dying in Vietnam and received a strong chorus of "no."
MGovern charged that Nixon had made special under-the-table deals with grain speculators in the Russian wheat sale, and he later paid an indictment had denied wheat producers.
He criticized Nixon's appointments to be Supreme Court's lawyer. Nixon is resting appointments to the Supreme Court, but this is the man that demaned the Supreme Court by the worst appointments in history.
McGovern said Nixon had defied the constitutional system, which gives him authority to veto legislation.
"EVEN IF CONGRESS passed an amendment to end the Vietnam War, Nixon has said he would ignore it," McGconn said.
He warned the crowd that a party that
KU Deans Accept Funding Freeze
By GARY ISAACSON
BY GARY LAKESON
Kansan Staff Writer
The deans of 10 of the schools of the University of Kansas recently said the freeze on hiring and equipment purchases instituted by Acting Chancellor Raymond Jenkins was a necessary measure in view of the financial status of the University.
"I am distressed and disappointed by the freeze but the chancellor had no alternative," said Charles Kahn, dean of Architecture of Urban Design.
The School of Architecture will lose one teacher at the end of the semester, he said. That position will have to be filled or there will be 20 students without an instructor.
Kahn said he had no alternative
suggestion and there was nothing to do
beyond asking.
"THE ISSUE right now is what can be done next year," he said.
Clifford Clark, dean of the School of Business, called the freeze "almost an emergency measure" and said it that liked the only alternative open right now.
He said that if the freeze continued into the spring his school would definitely be in
"One or two teachers may leave for one reason or another. Clark said, "We are not in danger."
Clark said the leveling off of enrollment pressure on booming for some years, was a
THE SCHOOL of Education will be hurt by the cut of operating expenses, according to Dale Scannell, dean of the school.
"Most of our teaching faculty are on board right now so there are no great problems there, but the hold on operating equipment and equipment in the purchase of new equipment." he said.
Biggest Political Contributor Has Trouble Paying Debts
If anyone should leave the faculty in the
Walter T. Duncan, a land speculator who was unknown to political fund-raisers and little known even to his neighbors, burst into prominence in June as a $300,000 contributor to the Minnesota senator's presidential primary campaign.
BRYAN, Tex. (AP)—The year's biggest listed political contributor gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to Hubert H. Humphrey and to President Nixon. At the same time he had trouble paying bills and faced legal and federal difficulties.
Before Duncan made his contributions, federal agents were quietly investigating his role as the second-largest borrower from National Bankers Life Insurance Co., which collapsed along with Sharpstown State Bank of Houston in a 1971 scandal that toppled leaders in the Texas Democratic party.
As Duncan was distributing $6,000 checks to the Nixon committee in August, he was sued in state court at Dallas for $2.27 million arising from the same land dispute. Duncan权承 on behalf of a federal corporation. Duncan so far had not responded to the suit.
school, Scannell said, he thought the ad- request for a supplemental a reasonable request for a supplement.
"Our main problem right now will be assessing priorities concerning expenditures in maintenance and supplies," be said.
The maintenance budget was also the major concern of the school of Business, where costs were higher.
Two months after Humprey lost the Democratic nomination, Duncan showed up on Nixon financial reports as consultant and a witness to the President's fund-raising committee.
Dozens of interviews with persons in six states and an examination of public records in locations from busting Houston to west Texas town of Marfa show:
"The freeze hit everyone hard, but I realize that it is an emergency measure," said Thomas Gorton, dean of the School of Fine Arts.
Smith said the days of rapid expansion are over for this university as well as other universities across the country. In light of priority priorities would have to be looked at.
"THE CUT BACK in funds means that you won't be able to purchase any laboratories."
Four days after Duncan handed a $20,000 check to a Humphrey fund raiser in Chicago, he left the check on the outskirts of Austin was sold on the courthouse steps because Duncan failed to make all of a $140,000 installment he had paid $25,000 of the amount due.
Journalism will have to delay the purchase of vital office equipment because of the freeze according to Edward Bassett, dean of the school.
"We are amshardan right now," he said, and the salaries for our life drawing classes were up.
"We have 90 new majors and we would like to grow but we will not be able to add to our staff."
Concerning the future, Bassett said, the University must develop better methods of music instruction.
ALL FACULTY positions are filled in the school of Journalism. Bassett said, but it wasn't until 2013 that he was hired.
THE FREEZE will make it especially difficult for the School of Law, Dickinson said, because the school still has a rising enrollment.
"It is too early to name specifics, but the cut in maintenance and supply funds will be made."
Martin Dickinson, dean of the School of Law, said the freeze was the only change that would be made.
Total enrollment will level off during the 70s, Dickinson said. Many people at universities across the nation were surprised this year. The method of projecting student enrollment definitely needs some changes.
"It will hurt us but it was a necessary action," he said.
college. The college was accustomed to under-staffing.
George Waggoner, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said he was sure that the problem was a real one and he chancellor completely in his decision.
Waggoner said the freeze on hiring would not create new problems for the
THE FREEZE has reasonably limits, he said.
"We had one or two vacancies, and after pastifying the need, they were filled," he chaired.
"We had some last minute faculty changes and we are absolutely understaffed but the freeze is an unfortunate necessity," said Arthur Katz, dean of the School of Arts. "We have confidence in the chancellor and believe that he has examined all possibilities."
Katz said that he wanted to wait until
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would allow members to wiretap Democratic Party Headquarters would be able to wiretap McGovern was referring to the Watergate incident in which seven members of the Re-declare the President Committee were wiredtapping the headquarters with wiretapping equipment.
He said that Nixon was sitting on a $10 million secret campaign fund from unnamed contributors which he would not disclose to the American people.
"I ASK whether you think this free
book is good, and then four more
years of this kind of thing."
McGovern also criticized Nixon's program for the elderly, "Although most of you are young, we're all going to be old by the end of this year," the ministration has turned its back on senior citizens. After doing everything he could to kill a 20 per cent increase in Social Security benefits, Nixon sent a note in late January that read, "I'm the president who signed the bill."
"I can't prove that the board of directors of '11, the big grain dealers or corn producers in Iowa, are listed as contributors of that $10 million fund, but if they aren't they represent the most remarkable political ingrates in American history," McGoventry said.
McGovern said he wouldn't raise taxes
but would close loop tax laws, but
would close loop tax laws that
He said it was time to change a tax structure that allowed a $200,000 corporation executive to deduct the price of a bus ticket from his gross income as a farmer couldn't deduct a bologna sand-
Former Student Tells Of Frat Drug Business
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By CHUCK POTTER
Kansan Staff Writer
The testimony was part of the two-day bearings in the U.S. Federal Building in Kansas City. The committee was in Kansas City, where one of its members, Rep. Larry Winn.
The committee was repeatedly told Friday that drug usage had reached more than the 50 per cent level in Kansas City area schools.
A former University of Kansas student told members of the U.S. House Select Committee on Crime in Kansas City, Kans., Friday that he and a fraternity president operated a drug selling business funded by the fraternity's treasury.
Other members of the committee were Rep. Claude Pepper, D-Fla., chairman; James R. Mann, D-SC.; Rep. Sam Sleger, M.D.; and Joseph A. Phillips, chief counsel.
Kelly also said that in his years of involvement, drug traffic he has never been arrested.
Johnson County school officials told Committee members on Saturday that a lack of
"On concert nights a $75 investment would bring a $300 profit in front of Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City," he said, adding that a $500 investment in marijuana would easily bring four to five dollars an amount on the campus in Lawrence.
DR. ARZELL BALL, superintendent of Shawnee Mission Schools, told the Committee that many programs designed to teach self-respect and empathy in Johnson County because of a lack of funds.
THE FORMER STUDENT, who identified himself as Kelly, said that he specialized in the sale of drugs at businessmen's conventions in Kansas City and that he spent most of a semester studying drug returns and returning drugs to Kapsas.
Committee Chairman Pepper replied that the Committee had discovered a lack of initiative in applying for federal aid in several other cities.
federal financial assistance to schools contributed to drug abuse in Johnson
"We don't qualify for several funds because we're in a middle-tier to upper-middle class area," Hall said, adding that the district had not applied for the funds.
"nobody is demanding federal aid in studying the drug problem," he said. "You (Ball) should have been clamoring at Mr. Winn to get something done. It seems that this Committee had taken the initiative in fighting this problem."
Ball said the unavailability of federal funds hindered the district in many areas.
The district needs funds to fight the drug problem on all fronts, he said, since motivation is at the root of the drug problem.
"STUDENTS SHOULD be "turned on" by education," he said, adding that this was the objective of the district's work-study program, among others.
Ball said the district's general operating budget allows for only $800 per student and that the district could not get "categorical funding" for school needs.
"We simply do not have funds to hire a large staff of drug experts, even if they were available," he said. "We're not coping out."
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HDFL Professor Wright Praises Associates, Morale in Department
Editor's Note: This is the ninth in a series of interviews with the 10 HOPE Award
By JIM KENDELL Kansan Staff Writer
"I don't think there a university in the country with more for less money," said John C. Wright, associate professor of human development and family life.
According to Wright, a member of the Executive Committee, Blake is also liable to be prosecuted.
Wright said Kansas must either support higher education or watch it decline. The University of Kansas cannot maintain its "eminence" on its current budget, he said.
Cognitive Development, double listed under HDFL and psychology, and a research seminar in attention and learning are currently taught by Wright.
Wright has high praise for the HDFL department and especially the professors in the psychology and development of children, his speciality.
"PART OF MY delight with KU is that the moment of contention is with it and together "Weight is
According to Wright, the department was recently ranked number two in the nation by the Society for Research and Child Development.
Wright attributes the high morale in the department partly to good cooperation in seeking grant money and other partners in the nation in the area of child development are at KU.
CONTRACT GRADING is used by Wright and the HDFL department. A student agrees to do so much by a certain amount of work on promptness and sometimes quality.
"It is really quite surprising that we can keep such high morale with such low salaries," Wright said. "Nobody here old, only the day; everybody works a 12 hour day."
John Wright
"The grading system produces an un-
necessary of interfering pressure on
the water."
The contract system, according to Wright, gets rid of adverse pressures on students and keeps the pressures beneficial to students.
In Wrights's cognitive development class the students take periodic quizzes and a final and a do term paper. Quizzes will be given but they must be passed by a certain date.
The term paper is graded. Any student with an A may decide the final may decide the final. Take the final.
THOSE WHO DO take the final have the choice of an essay or multiple choice test. A number of essay questions are given out during the exam, and the right chooses a few of them for the test.
On the multiple choice final half of the questions originally appeared on Wright's
As chairman of the HDFL Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Wright has supervised the shift in the HDFL department away from large lecture classes and toward personalized instruction.
Wright said that motivating students was no problem as long as a teacher kept them in touch with practical problems and real children.
He sometimes brings infants and toddlers to class for demonstration. The students also read articles from current journals.
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