THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
83rd Year, No. 27
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Interview With Salinger See Story Page 10
Wednesday, October 4, 1972
Pierre Salinger Addresses Audience of 400 in the Union Ballroom
... Calls for formation of committee for declassification of tos secret material ...
Chancellor Decrees
Tuition Loss Causes KU Spending Freeze
By BOB SIMISON Kansan Staff Writer
Indications from the office of William L. Kelly, registrar, were that enrollment would be "some hundreds" less than the number of 18,717 predicted last year. Nichols said.
Acting Chancellor Raymond Nichols has imposed a freeze on hiring and on equipment purchases because tuition will fall to short of last year's projections.
Enrollment figures were to be released today, Kelly said. He said his staff worked all day and into the night Monday correcting computer compilations.
Nichols said he informed the four vice chancellors of the freeze last week.
"We needed to take measures on this right away," Nichols said.
Salinger Says McGovern Not Down
By JIM KENDELL Kansan Staff Writer
In an afternoon press conference Salinger said that if McGovern could close the gap to 15 points by Oct. 15, he would have a chance to win.
Salinger is the former press secretary to presidents Kennedy and Johnson and is a
Sen. George McGoventry trailed President Nixon by 28 points in the Gallup Poll published last Sunday, but Pierce Salinger, national coachman of Citizens for McGovern, said Tuesday that his man could win.
Salinger said that polls reflected the country as a whole and not the big industrial states where McGovern must do well to win.
HE SAID that in many of the large industrial states McGovern now trailed Nixon by only six to 15 points. He said that his victory would popular vote and win by electoral vote.
The great amount of activity on MGoverner's behalf was cited by Salinger as follows:
"Democratic leaders have said they've never seen so much activity on behalf of a candidate."
Salinger said McGovern forces were much better organized than Humphrey's were in 1968. He said there were more officers and state coordinators in every state.
Sailor said that a 15-point gap was not unbridgeable because the electorate was so volatile this year. In the Ohio primary he lost all 10 points in California he lost 15 points in 10 days.
Salinger was not extremely hopeful for a McGovern win in Kansas. Democrats have won presidential elections only three times in this century: 1932, 1936 and 1964.
The regular Democratic organization
not been extremely helpful to McCain.
He was also a strong supporter of
board for Hubert Humphrey in 1988, Salmner said.
THERE COULD be an upset, though he said, if the wheat farmers in Kansas wake up to the fact that they've been taken in the recent grain deals with Russia.
Salinger said the Democratic party was forging a new coalition which would dominate American politics for the next 20 years, even if McGovern loses.
Sailor said the new coalfaction consisted of working people, the young, racial minorities.
"The reason we may have not put it together this time is that some of the blue collar workers have defected," Salinger said.
SALINGER SPOKE Tuesday night to about 400 people in the Kansas Union Ballroom on the relationship between the press and the government.
Salinger called for the establishment of a government committee to declassify as much classified material as possible without endangering national security.
Sailinger said the government should not hold back nonsecurity information, as
some agencies have in the past at the request of business.
As for security information, Salinger said that the tendency was to classify and then never declassify. He said review records within the government were of doubtful value.
HE SAID the government should only classify information which would harm national security if it were published at that time.
He proposed that the committee consist of newmen, national security specialists
Salinger said that sometimes the government was justified in absolute security. He cited the Cuban missile crisis as an example.
Part of President Kennedy's success in that situation came from the fact that Russia did not know the United States' allies were in Cuba, according to Salmier.
THE PENTAGON PAPERS should not have been classified, Salinger said. He called the President's attempt to stop their release from the slab at the First Amendment in history.
THE FREEEE use not only to hire faculty and staff members to fill vacated positions, but also to the equipment which is said in a press conference Monday.
Terrorism Increases in Thailand; Officials Wary of Mortar Attacks
"This rule applies across the board, but in operation you have to look at the hiring situation. If there were only one secretary who would have to hire someone," Nichols said.
Although he could not estimate the extent of the shortage in expected student tutions, Nichols said the University had a plan to cover half the year to cover about half the shortage.
"I believe that the publication of those papers was essential to a partial understanding of the war at the time," he said.
KELLY CONFIRMED that enrollment this year was several hundred short of last year's estimates. He said exact figures would not be available until this roaming.
The Kansas Board of Regents imposes a limit on spending of student fees, Nichols said. Not all that was collected last year was spent.
The balance carried forward should last through the first semester, Nichols said. After that, he said, he hopes for relief from the state.
Nichols said 19,200 students had been expected to enroll this year. That figure exceeds the predicted full-time equivalent
SAIGON (AP)—Terrorists launched another attack on a U.S. air base in Thailand as reports said Tuesday that Thailand-based aircraft had switched from targets in central North Vietnam to head off an enemy buildup in Laos.
Max Bickford, executive officer of the Board of Regents, said yesterday that he expected enrollment at the other state schools to fall short of predictions.
Sailor questioned the value of covert operations, such as the Bay of Japan's intelligence operations.
Kelly's office said Aug. 28 that 17,608 students were enrolled on the Lawrence campus for the first day of classes. Late enrolments were expected to bring the total to 18,673, still 527 short of the predicted 19,200.
ALL SIX schools are expected to file with the enrollment boom on the Board of Regents.
figure because not all students are classified as full time.
The Air Force announced that Thailand-based U.S. fighter-bombers attacked North Vietnamese airfields and military bases along the Laos border west of Hanoi.
HE SAID that the Central Intelligence Agency once commissioned a study of U.S. defense capability with the stipulation that no classified material could be used.
The Thais insist that most attacks on the air bases have been performed by North Vietnamese. Americans describe the attackers as unidentified.
The Thai government has ordered a team of army officers to Ubon to investigate Sunday's shelling. All bases have been put on full alert.
Salinger said that Castro didn't need spies to tell him that an invasion was coming. All he had to do was read the American press.
"Why didn't we anticipate this?" Nichols said. "You have to remember that we make predictions 18 months ahead of them." Some things have happened since then.
fighter-bomber base at Ubon Sunday night.
"According to magazines and newspapers, the 70s are apparently a period of adjustment in enrollment, a period off across the state and the nation."
Informants in Saigon reported the swing-wing Fill Fighter-bombers, which fought against a series of combat after the loss last Thursday of one of the planes in North Vietnam. U.S. Command spokesmen refused to confirm deny the report of the pullback of the Filles.
tfer six months of study a "think
See SALINGER Page 6
Factors for the stabilizing enrollment, he said, are that there are fewer high school students, that changes in selective service rules have made college no longer a refuge from the draft and that college degrees no longer guarantee jobs.
Danes' Vote Assures Strong Role of EEC
In Bangkok, Thai officials reported that security forces, sweeping the area around Udorn air base, killed two terrorists involved in the Monday night raid on U.S. Air Force headquarters in northeast Thailand.
THE NORTH VIETNAMESE said they shot down one FILL on Thursday, the first day the planes returned to combat in Indochina since 1968. The Pentagon said it was unable to explain the plane's disappearance.
The Pentagon said the jets would continue in combat.
There were no casualties in the Ubon attack, which was the first base in Thailand ever shelled by mortar fire. Four previous attacks on the bases, dating to 1968, were with small arms and satchel charges.
Thai sources said one of the attackers was captured. He was said to be a Meo tribesman, one of a group of nomadic mountain people who have been in revolt against the central government for several years.
One of the attackers and a Thai guard were killed in the initial attack, which took place around midnight, when seven snipers broke into the base complex.
all bases are situated in rough, thinly populated country that gives good cover to mortar teams. Although most aircraft are kept in embankments, well directed mortar fire could still cause havoc, as on American air bases in South Vietnam.
BRUSSELS (AP) - Denmark's 2-1 vote to join the European Economic Community (EEC) assured the appearance Jan. 1 of a strong new community of nine countries, which would portail in world affairs alongside the United States, the Soviet Union and China.
The attack on Udorn, 300 miles northeast of Bangkok was the second assault on U.S. Air Force installations in 24 hours. The first was a mortar bombardment of the
The decision restored confidence to leaders of the organization who had been discouraged by Norway's negative vote last week.
TWO AMERICAN and two Thai security
were wounded in the firefight that
follows.
Sicoo Mansholt, head of the community's executive commission, said Tuesday he hoped that Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and Spain would eventually join.
"It takes a pretty sophisticated level of training to get the mortars in place without being detected, then fire them accurately when it something," one senior official said.
THESE RAIDS were poorly executed and easily driven off, so that for seven years the Thai bases have been a battleground. The US Air Force planes used in the Vietnam war.
AMERICAN counterinsurgency advisers to the Thai government anticipated that the Communists eventually would use heavier, longer range weapons. The puzzle was why they had not brought them to bear before. The generally accepted view was that insurgents in Thailand were not likely to use U.S. officials call crew-served weapons.
He made it clear to British Labor party leaders that they would have a tough job negotiating with their counterparts to negotiate a better treaty. Nine countries have ratified the treaty, he pointed out. The Labor party has criticized terms of the treaty and called for a conservative party and ratified by Parliament.
So far the EEC, also known as the Common Market, has concerned itself mostly with setting up a customers union and a joint farm policy. Mansholt urged more attention to such matters as ending border checks by men in uniform at frontiers
Although American officials said Sunday's 36-second barrage did not significant damage to Ubon, the prospect of damage and casualties in future attacks is real.
The introduction of mortars puts 48,000 American airmen and hundreds of fighters-bombers, B2a2s and assorted electronic weapons, against enemy guns for the first time in the war.
UDORN, Ubon, and Nakorn Phanon bases are particularly vulnerable. They are situated close to the Mekong River, for infiltration and supply from Lags.
In Denmark, the first effects of the vote showed in the relief and satisfaction of government. The average government rate was dropped to 7 per cent from 8 per cent. Foreign currency trading resumed. Stocks soared on the Copenhagen exchange, exchanging the biggest spurt in world capital in the world.
The original Common Market consisted of France, Italy, West Germany, Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg. They will be on 1 by Britain, Ireland and Denmark.
Takihil, Korat and Utapao are farther south. The mountain would be vulnerable to accurate mortar fire.
Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag, a strong supporter of membership in the Common Market, resigned after the referendum in June. Krag said it was a personal decision.
within the EEC, and arranging for university students to earn credits in their own countries for courses taken in other Common Market countries.
A summit meeting of Common Market representatives will be held in Paris, Oct. 17. The meeting probably will be to set up a European monetary fund to help bring the values of the member countries' assets to the bank. It shouldport any one of the currencies in trouble.
Pickett Paints a Picture of Culture
By JIM KENDELL
Kansan Staff Writer
When Calder M. Pickett, professor of journalism, came to the University of Kansas in 1951, there were just 6,003 students enrolled.
"I think the kids are, by and large, about the same," Pickett said.
This semester Pickett is teaching Reporting I, Editorial and Interpretive Writing and the History of American Journalism.
"We've been led to believe that the 1985s a time of quiet—alooffness. I don't remember it."
Students get as excited now as they did in the 1950's, although they get excused for a long time.
"I think I try to make my students see that journalism is more than a lot of other things."
He said journalists should have broad and deep cultural interests. He tries to motivate his students by interesting them in the subject matter
It is impossible to force a student to learn, Pickett said. He doesn't use the threat of grades to motivate students either.
"I MAN EASY grader. I think I give too many high grades." he said. "I believe in making them do a lot of hard work, and if they do the work, it doesn't hurt."
Pickett said that his classes were larger than they should be and that he sometimes makes them harder.
"I don't find discussion helpful in a class like history. I have not found that discussion is always a terribly successful thing to do," he said.
He said that even though his classes are too large, he does not restrict their size because of the demand for them. He would say that the size of the University though, he said.
"I don't see how it can continue to get bigger and bigger unless we can get some more faculty and more support," he said. "It's a challenge, but the University, so things could be done."
Pickett praised the surroundings and academic degree at KU. He called it a 'marvel'.
"IT'S AN exciting educational atmosphere. We get good students here," he said. "It's a lovely campus. It's a nice place to be."
"One marvelous thing I've always had at the University of Kansas—I've always been able to teach how I want, what I want."
"I think it's desirable for teachers to be accountable in some way," he said.
Pickett said that Feedback, the student evaluation teacher, published each week.
Pickett entered newspaper work at age
In 1944 he received his B.S. in journalism from Utah State University. While at Utah State University, he was a co-editor of the newspaper
He said that he didn't know whether Feedback quite served its purpose, though. In the last feedback he had worked on the 4.0, 3.9 and 3.7, based on a five-point scale.
16 as a printer and reporter on the Franklin County Citizen, an Idaho weekly.
After graduation, he worked on the Salt Lake City Tribune. He then went to Northwestern University, where he received a B.A. from the Medill School of Journalism in 1948.
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THAT YEAR he went to work on the
Calder M. Pickett
state and copy desks at the Desert News in Salt Lake City. He had been a member of the faculty of Utah State University from 1946 to 1948.
In 1949 Pickett joined the University of Denver faculty for two years. In 1951 he came to KU as assistant to the dean of the School of Journalism.
Pickett was adviser to the Kansan for two years and editorial adviser for a number of years. He has also been adviser to the KU chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism society. In 1890-61 he devised the book of the Deacon of Journalism.
In 1959 Pickett received a Ph.D. in American studies from the University of Minnesota by applying credits from there, northwestern and the University of Denver.
Now 51, Pickett said that he was not interested in going into administration or other work.
Pickett said he tried to live with the gap between his students and strove to understand it.
"In my opinion there's been too much made about this generation gap," he said. "What is slier than a middle-aged man who lives in the kids' do? It's embarrassing."
"Since I've decided not to worry about
since like that I'm a happier human beetle."