DREARY
KANSAN
83rd Year, No.29
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Watson Shows Signs of Age
Friday, October 6, 1972
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Nixon Won't Guess On Viet Settlement
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Nikon said Thursday that Vietnam peace negotiations "are in a sensitive stage" but the country would not whether a settlement would be reached.
In a news conference of broad scope, he also shrugged off his election opponents' corruption charges and condemned the attacks to his pledge not to increase taxes.
The President said that his personal re-election campaign would be limited until Congress adjourned but that he would make a nationwide radio address Saturday on taxes. It will be broadcast on networks at 11:08 a.m. Lawrence time.
Responding to a question about the possibility of a negotiated Vietnam settlement before the election, Nixon said the campaign began with "what we do in Iraq" in negotiating table.
HE MENTIONED a "possible negotiation of, or unilateral action with regard to, a bombing halt." Later he recalled that Johnson ordered the unilateral bombing halt ordered by Lyndon Johnson in 1968 because it came without agreements from the other side.
"We are not going to make that mistake now." Nixon said.
He referred to "very extensive" private meetings and had agreed not to discuss their content.
"It only say that the negotiations are in a sensitive stage," Nixon said. "I cannot predict and will not predict that they will not predict when they will succeed."
Nixon did not elaborate on what he meant by similar phrasing about private
The President's comments came about 12 hours after his deputy assistant for National Security Affairs, Maj. Gen. Robert Browder, spoke of days of secret consultations with South Vietnamese leaders in Saigon. They followed by one week an unusual two-day private negotiation session that informed the president of with North Vietnamese officials in Paris.
The President said he was "not going to dignify" Sen. George McGovern's charges of corruption in his administration by responding to them.
"1. THINK the responsible members of the Democratic party will be turned off by Mr. Obama."
"There will be no presidential tax increase." Nixon said.
He said he would forego campaigning and stay close to the White House "until that very great danger of a tax increase is realized, professional overspending is rent and defiled.
Nixon also defended as good for America the Soviet wheat deal but pledged to take
action if investigation shows grain dealers made illegal profits.
Other comments made by the President were that:
—He had no personal knowledge of the alleged bugging of Democratic headquarters in the Watergate office building.
—He would ask Congress next year to reduce property taxes on the elderly, pledged to continue to press for welfare reform and said he would consider the constitutional amendment approach if Congress doesn't act to check forced busing.
"THERE WILL be no tax increase in 1973." Nixon said.
He then tempered his commitment by saying, "there will be no presidential tax
But, Nixon said, "There could be a congratulatory tax increase" if the
Democratic-controlled House and Senate will tell that substantially exceed the budget."
He said he would veto these spending bills and he predicted his vetoes would be sustained. But the fight over spending, Nixon said, is "one of the reasons why it is important for me to stay on the job here in Washington until Congress adjourns."
As for charges that big grain dealers used advance information to make big profits to the detriment of grain growers, Nixon said the FBI was making an inference that "if that did happen, we are going to find out and we will take action against it."
He also said the FBI had made a massive investigation of the Watergate case, using 133 agents to check out 1,800 leads and conduct 1,500 interviews.
A grand jury has handed down in-documentation against seven men, including two.
Social Security Bill Clears Senate,68-5
WASHINGTON (AP) —The Senate early Friday passed an $18.5 billion bill increasing numerous Social Security, Medicare and welfare benefits but delaying for years reform of the program for welfare families.
The bill, one of the most important revisions of the Social Security and welfare laws ever passed, was sent to conference with the House which cleared an $8.2 billion version of it June 22, 1971. The vote was 68 to 5.
Sponsors said they are confident Senate-House conferences can reach agreement on the 80-sheet measure next week in time to meet with Senators. Nixon before the 92nd Congress adjourns.
The Social Security provisions would benefit them: all men; disabled persons; the economically ill elderly who need maintenance drugs; persons desiring to retire at age 60; those who want to work beyond 65, and many other groups.
It also would raise Social Security taxes substantially to pay for the benefits, the second boost in payroll levies to go through Congress this year.
The bill would establish a national level of benefits for the first time for the three million persons in the adult categories of welfare—the aged, blind and disabled. In most states this would raise payments substantially.
the 92nd Congress, was submitted originally by President Nixon as a welfare-reform measure to deal with the problems of families with dependent children. The numbers drawn under this report were under this skypecketing, with the total now about 11 million.
The bill, designated as H.R. 1, since it was the first House measure introduced in
However, the Senate was sharply divided about what to do about these issues.
In the end, it decided not to try for a solution at this time. Semen voted to shelve the three $600 million plans and inundated the $360 million a year for a test of all three.
The testing process could take up to eight years. Meanwhile, the present program of Aid to Families with Dependent Children will continue.
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Kansan Staff Photo by DAN LAUING
Modern art and sculptures give the new Lawrence Public Library an enjoyable atmosphere for its users. The old library building at
9th and Vermont streets was an unsolved problem, John Emick, mayor of Lawrence, said the building could be sold, renovated or demolished. A public meeting was held Thursday to consider the plans for two citizens attended the meeting and no decisions were made.
Nonacademic Budget Cuts Are Proposed to Nichols
By VINTON SUPPLEE Kansan Staff Writer
Carl Leban, acting chairman of the Oriental languages and literature department, submitted Wednesday a memorandum to Acting Chancellor
42 Freshmen, Sophomores Win in Assembly Voting
Forty-two freshman and sophomore representatives to the College Assembly were announced Thursday night after afternoon balloting in College within a month. All of the representatives have been elected, but will not be announced until today.
Michel: Teaching Lies Makes the Students Think
Editor's Note: This is the eighth In a series with the 10 HOP Award semifinalists.
By JIMKENDELL Kansan Staff Writer
One day this semester John F. Michel, associate professor of speech and drama, will walk into his class and begin teaching, but he won't be teaching the
He'll tell one lie after another until someone challenges him and proves him wrong. This is one of the ways Michel forces his students to think.
Michel teaches Principles of Speech science, a course that all speech pathology students must take.
Asked why he was a teacher, Michel said, "cause I get a kick out of it for one thing. I'm a teacher because I have some degree of pride in my field and research."
MICHEL SAID he was not impressed with teachers who had not done extensive research in their fields—teachers who merely taught what they had learned.
Research, not teaching, was Michel's original reason for coming to KU in 1965. He did not become a faculty member until the fall of 1971.
Questions about material not covered in classes are sometimes on the question because students complain not covered in the course in real life and they should know how deal with those problems.
Weekly quizzes in Michiel's speech class are designed to make students think, not to make them regurgitate what they have learned, he said.
If a student can present a reasonable argument for another answer besides the
"correct" one, Michel said he accepted the answer.
IN MICHEL'S required course, students learn how the voice works. The mechanism cannot be seen so each semester Michel takes his class to KU's anatomy lab to look at a cadaver's voice box.
The class studies the sounds the voice produces. One way they do this is with a machine that shows sound waves visually as the voice produces the sounds.
"The whole point of teaching this is to get an understanding of the system across
Michel is not fond of grades. When eight or 10 students once crowded his office waiting for their grades, Michel handed them a stick to cut-off point between each letter grade.
MICHEL WAS reared in Ohio and graduated from high school in 1951. He attended Ohio State University. In 1963 he became a speech pathology and audiology in 1959.
John F. Michel
The next year Michel received an M.A. from Ohio State in speech and hearing science. In 1964 Michel received a Ph.D. from Ohio State in speech and hearing science in speech and hearing science.
"Grades are hell," he said. "If you want to quote that I don't care."
While at Florida, Michel had the opportunity to devise a course of his own and taught it.
ANOTHER REASON Michel came to KU was that there was a possibility that his wife might eventually teach. She now speaks in the department of speech and drama.
Michel's research is centered on developing a body of normative data about the impact of exercise.
"I came here because the Bureau of
Civil Research offered me the kind of
experience I need."
He is currently participating with nine other researchers in a $600,000 to $700,000 project funded by the National Institute for Neurological Diseases and Stroke.
His part of the surgery is concerned with the effect of surgery on a person's voice. A researcher at the KU Medical Center gathers the data for Michel to analyze.
See MICHEL on Next Page
Nunemaker was the only college to elect fewer than the 12 allotted representatives. Six candidates were elected from Nunemaker. Two filed late petitions.
The first College Assembly meeting for the new representatives will be Oct. 17. The Sept. 19 meeting of the assembly voted to conduct business as usual, although freshman and sophomore representatives had not yet been elected.
New representatives to the assembly include:
Centennial College: Debbie Booker, Kansas City, Mo., freshman; Sandy Camp, Kansas City, Mo., freshman; Dennis Ellsworth, Osawatome sophomore; Klim Flanagan, Kansas City, Kan., freshman; Andel Gelaub, Wilmette, III, sophomore; Larry D. Johnson, Salina sophomore; Robert C. Warner, Salina sophomore; Michael L. Moore, Salina freshman; Paul Sherbo, Des Maines, Iowa, freshman; Ken Stallard, Leawood freshman; Tony Steffes, McPherson freshman; and Kevin White, Sawnee Mission sophomore.
NORTH COLLEGE: Carolyn Auslander, Hutchinson freshman; Julie Beetcher, Evanston, Ill., freshman; Clinton "Buck" Bull, Witchah sophomore; Rick Butin, Wichita freshman; Marvin Cox, Kingman sophomore; Dana Harris, Olathe sophomore; John Hoffman, Parsons sophomore; Robert Reshes Hugues, Parsons sophomore; Patti Lysaang, Topekia freshman; Robert Emmett, Parsons sophomore; Ellen Wakasa, St. Louis, Mo, freshman; and Tona Wilson, Leavenworth freshman.
Nunemaker College: Kerry Bower,
Lawrence freshman; Merry Bower,
Lawrence freshman; Tom Grushny,
Wichita sophomore; Marc Kuemmerlein,
Lawrence junior; Debbie Seward,
Lawrence freshman; and Karen Schwartz,
Lawrence freshman; and Karen Schwartz,
PEARSON COLLEGE: Kevin Carver, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore; Darrell Hanson, Elkader, Iowa, freshman; David Hersh, Shawnee freeport; Mary Jolohan, Oregon, Neb. freshman; Rob Lane, Overland park freshman; Debbie Langdon, Kansas City, Kan., freshman; Paul Mosher, Hiawatha sophomore; Eugene Rainwater, Ft.iley freshman; Stephen Kovich, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore; and Daryl Thach, Wichta sophomore.
Raymond Nichols detailing his
expenditures for cutbacks in University
capabilities
Leban suggests that the University:
Entitled "Austerity implementations at KU: Phase I," the memo contained a 10-point program for dealing with the state's expected deficit in the fiscal year 1973.
Addressed to Nichols, all vice chairmen, deans and department chairmen, Leban's memo outlined his proposals to the school to reduce IU by reduction of academic spending.
- Declare an immediate moratorium on all long-distance calls. Emergency calls would be permitted to faculty on permission of the deans of their schools and on permission of the chancellor, each case being decided individually.
All individual telephones would be emailed to department offices would be resplays.
—CANCEL all Xerox contracts, except for one in the Registrar's Office, and reinstruct all typists on the use of carbon paper.
-Cancel all service contracts, and designate a drop area for defective equipment which would be collected until sufficient for a single economical service
—Reduce paper proliferation by restricting access to mimeograph and duplicating equipment. All memoranda more than a single page distributed faculty-wide would require justification. Recycle paper, and collect totally used sales or donation rather than continue plant ecologically around disposal.
—Inist on composite mailting of all bulletins, memos, advices, newletters and other documents to the same recipients. A record would be kept of the daily weight of such material and daily accounting of its cost would be maintained with a view to planning future expenditure.
—Declare an immediate and total moratorium on the appointment of new
- REDSTRIBITHE the University's eleventh class of those areas with inadequate staffing.
administrative personnel new vice chancellors, associate and assistant deans and on the creation of new directors, instructors, supervisors and other officers.
Leban said Thursday that he wrote the memo in response to other proposals for financial cutbacks discussed at a meeting of department chairmen Sept. 27. He said the proposal, which suggested integration that cutbacks be made in the University's supply and equipment budget.
If cuts in the budget are to be made, Leban said, they should be in nonacademic areas. Departments dependent on lab would be especially hard hit by cutbacks.
Leban's proposals came a day after the University announced it expected a deficit of $750,000 because of a decrease in the fall enrollment.
He also suggested the following measures:
—Raising of the ambient temperatures of all campus buildings 10 degrees in the cooling season and lowering them by the same amount during the heating season.
- EXTINGUISHING interior lights,
building and hallways, in all campus
buildings.
- Raising the cutting blades of all Buildings and Grounds lawnmowers two inches, and similarly widening the schedule for other routine maintenance. The plan also would reduce all coffee breaks to a maximum of 60 minutes.
Nichols said Thursday that he received Leban's proposals but declined to take any action on them other than distributing them in groups to which the memo was addressed.
Nichols expressed appreciation of Leban's ideas. Examination and implementation of the suggestions, Nichols said, is a matter for each department to individually. No further aid from the chancellor's office is planned, Nichols said.
Proponents of Consumer Bill Accept Its Death by Filibuster
WASHINGTON (AP) - Backers of a consumer agency bill thursday failed for a third time to halt a沸沸usb by opener. The practical purposes, was dead for the year.
The vote on cloture was beaten again by a minority of senators since the 20-32 tally was three short of the necessary two-thirds present needed to close off debate.
Technically, the measure establishing a consumer protection agency had a chance since it could be called up again during that period—the best estimate of that being Oct. 14.
However, one sponsor of the CPA趴
however, a friend of ours, up, subject
to further filibuster in remote
east Asia.
With the administration's blessing, the House had already passed its version of the consumer agency bill, weaker than the Senate draft.
Under the Senate bill, the CPA's lawyers could act as full parties in regulatory agency cases because the CPA is a cross-claiming witness. They could appeal decisions in the courts.
The House bill would confine CP,
lawyers to filings in court presenting
their evidence.