The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
83rd Year, No 25
Profs Foreseee Nixon Victory
Monday, October 2. 1972
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Anticipation
Although tickets for the Elton Johnson concert will not be sold until 3 p.m. Monday, ticket buyers began to gather outside the outside
Union 48 hours early. John Hackney, Honeywell senior and class president, did not expect such eager ticket buyers. The ticket buyers devised their own first come-first served number system. Despite the hard ground and the long waiting hours, the ticket buyers have the conveniences of sleeping bags, tents, and TV sets. See story page 2.
House to Vote Today On Political Funding
The new law, as the old one had, prohibits corporations and unions from giving directly to political campaigns, but it allows them to give out money voluntarily given by employees the same as they would corporate funds.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A House vote has been quietly scheduled for Monday on a balancing corporations and labor unions with government contracts from the ban on campaign giving through affiliated political funds.
If it passes Congress, the measure would mark the first rollback of the new federal tax law.
However, the new law prohibits the use of affiliated political funds by government
A ban on the affiliated political funds, a principal cover through which corporations and unions manage to give to the state and to workers general ban on corporate donations, withstood a court test this past summer. TRW Inc. dissolved its fund, considered a prototype and model for most others, and argued against a court suit by Common Cause.
after the TRW case was settled, numerous companies began to dissolve similar funds through which employees traditionally contributed to a general fund managed and distributed by the corporation.
The House Administration Committee, meeting in closed session, reported out a repeater Sept. 19, sponsored by Rep. McCormick R-Ohio. No public hearings were held.
Common Cause, the self-styled citizens' lobby, protested to both House Speaker Carl Abert and Minority Leader Gerald Ford. Both house leaders had promised to fund a new campaign finance law would get public bearings, Common Cause said.
contractors, which covers most big corporations.
Neither Albert nor Ford has responded to the complaints, but the proposal showed up on Monday's House calendar listed only as a measure "to amend Title U 18.US."
Is Private Football Parking Illegal
"The Whip's notice does not even mention that it is the campaign spending law which is being amended, let alone describing what this bill will specifically do," complained Fred Wirthstein, chief of his campaign's cause of campaign spending monitoring.
Common Cause said it would have 10 lobbyists on the Hill Monday to tell
the board that the investigation is underway.
As carloads of parents and football fans streamed into Lawrence Saturday, they were faced with a pregame parking battle between the tradition at the University of Kansas.
TOKYO (AP)—Communist China celebrated its 23rd anniversary Sunday with parties in parks, a scorching denunciation of the Soviet Union and a word that the way is open for "friendly contacts" with Americans.
China Fetes 23rd Year Under Mao's Regime
Residents surrounding Memorial Stadium have found a profitable and greatly appreciated solution to the lack of parking in the stadium by selling parking on their property.
Thanks to recent achievements in Peking's foreign policy, an anniversary editorial in the three major publications added, "the policy of those who dreamed of isolating China has gone bankrupt and the still extant counter-revolutionary schemes to encircle China are falling apart."
At least 50 persons were observed Saturday selling parking places on driveways, garages, lawns and even gardens.
The only problem is that it may be a violation of city zoning ordinances.
Prices ranged from one dollar in less desirable areas to $2.50 in yards across the city.
EVERY BLOCK within punting distance of Memorial Stadium was lined with persons sporting signs which offered parking. Solicitors waved, pointed and shouted in a freerzen attempt to fill their yards with automobiles.
nose who shouted invitations to park at
parking lot for football fans. His sign read
Parking -10.
Stan Grewing of 946 Illinois was one of
"This is the easiest money I've ever mad, be said. 'It's kind of like an in-your-face game.'"
When informed of the city zoning ordinance which prohibits commercial activities in certain places and purposes, Grewing continued to shout at passing cars while commenting on the
itimate the number of cars driven by
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property," he said. "If they start that, that might as well keep the town." City and University officials were unable to estimate the number of
Louise Silber, another resident of the Louise Silber, was another of the neighbors said she was at the first.
Grewing said that people in the neigh-
borhood were more likely to be 14 or 15
years old, but they were the age.
From Shanghai, Associated Press correspondent John Roderick report that electric lights outlined tall buildings and under arches of lights over main roads.
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"THE CITY COULDN'T tell you to not park cars in your yard. There's no way," he said. "If they did, the city would be in so much trouble it would be ridiculous."
"In fact, the police even used to help us by diverting traffic down the alleys. There was nothing the people could do except park."
Prominently displayed, he noted, was the slogan, "We have friends all over the world," no longer an empty boast, as it was four years ago when the violence of the cultural revolution alarmed other nations.
sold parking in her yard. It was possible, she said, to park about 20 cars in her yard and at the first games of this season she collected from $15 to $30 each game.
From Peking, the official Haina news agency reported that "hundreds of singers and musicians" revolutionary songs, watched live and theatrical productions and enjoyed
sporting events. The capital was decorated with flags and festions, it added.
PERHAPS ONE of the most unique parking salesmen in the neighborhood was Matthew H. Mitchell of 1001 Illinois. He is one of the back of his house for the past 20 years.
THE CITY WOULD have to pay the taxes to tell us what we can do on our
Mitchell said that he was "vaguely aware" of the zoning ordinance but he didnot expect anyone to say anything about the sale of football parking.
"I don't get out and sell parking anymore," he said. "I've got regular cars."
Mitchell said that he charged $1.50 for parking as compared to 50 cents 20 years ago. For big games such as Kansas State and Missouri, he said that although his prices were always the same, he knew of places near the stadium which charged as much as five dollars for a choice parking place.
And foreign policy discussion took first place in the anniversary editorial in the Communist party newspaper People's Daily, the armed forces' Liberation Army Daily and the theoretical journal Red Flag.
Newport News Sets Out With Dead for Philippines
SAIGON (AP)—The Newport News, largest cruise afloat, steamed out of the Vietnamese war zone Sunday and headed for the Philippines with the bodies of 19 sailors killed in the worst U.S. naval disaster this year.
Ten other men in her crew were wounded by the explosion in an eight-inch gun turret that rocked the 21,000-ton warship off the northern sector of South Carolina after midnight. Many of her 1,300 crewmen were shaken from their sleep by the blast.
plosion accidental, announced that it had started an investigation to determine the cause.
The Navy in Saigon said the exact extent of damage had not been determined. But if just one of the big shells exploded damage could have been extensive.
APPARENTLY the explosion was confined to the gun turret, one of three main batteries which house two rapid-fire, eight-inch, 55-caliber guns.
Repair crews will assess the damage at the naval base in Subic Bay of the Philippine Sea.
The editorial said China was following a flexible policy toward countries previously hostile to it, and its "foreign policy has challenged sympathy and support in the world."
"Twenty more countries have established or restored diplomatic relations with China in the past year," said the editorial, broadcast in full by Hsinhua.
The editorial noted that "U.S. imperialism" still is fighting in Vietnam and contending with the Soviet Union over the Middle East and Europe. Despite the two suitors, the limitation agreement, charged, "they created a new stage of nuclear arms race."
The Soviet Union, in its birthday greeting to Peking, returned the compliment, lashing at Mao Tse-tung for his "competence" and anti-Soviet policies.
Hainhuh did not say how 78-year-old Mao
celebrated the anniversary this year, but it
was a great honor.
Besinger's Interest in Education Lured Him from the 'Real World'
Editor's Note: This is the fourth in a series with the 10 HOP Award nominated finalists.
By JAN KESSINGER
Kansau Staff Writer
Curtis Besinger, assistant professor in the School of Architecture and Urban Design, brings a wealth of architectural knowledge to the University of Kansas.
From 1939 to 1955, Besinger worked as a Tailiesin Fellowship member. Tailiesin
Curtis Besinger
OTHER MEN at Tailiesin were able to get farm deferments because part of their work was farming the land around the town. The men, however, notion of the war and was granted CO status. He worked in several camps. The first was in Colorado where he worked as a draftsman and a member of a survey team and had dam built by the Bureau of Reclamation.
compresses two complexes near Phoenix, Aziz, and Spring Green, Wis., where Frank Lloyd Wright worked. Bessinger was the architect who he left an architect in Kansas City.
Besinger was graduated from KU in 1838. He said his work with Wright was unusual, and he was a work his work at Talesim was interrupted by World War II. Besinger, along with several other men at Talesim, went to another object camper until the war was over.
He then went to upper Michigan to work for the wildlife service. Bessinger was transferred again, to California to work as a ranger in a forest service camp. He was released in the summer of 1946 to return to Taliesin.
"I didn't see my future at Tailiesin. I was always interested in teaching, I had made one inquiry and had received others," he said. "Part of my interest came from my senior apprenticeship at Tailiesin as a teaching activity."
For nine years he acted as a senior apprentice and worked with Wright on many projects. Besinger left to teach at a university in the city, where of future he had envisioned for himself.
BESINGER credits his nomination for the HOPE award not to his work in lecture.
studio classes. That is, he feels that the rapport between students and the teacher are much better in the smaller classes, he said.
"I don't consciously develop a technique for teaching. An architect needs to learn to think when he is involved with attempting to solve problems related to design," he said. "The basic approach is to get the student to think.
Armitage Quits HOPE Contest
Besinger said he tried to teach his students to think and solve their own problems as well as foresee ones that might occur.
"He must figure out what he nees to see BESIGNER'S on Next Page."
The field of HOPE Award semifinalists was narrowed by one Friday as the HOPE Award committee announced the withholding for Kenneth Armitage, professor of biology.
Mark Shockey, HOPE Award chairman and Abilene senior, said Armitage notified the committee Thursday that he wanted to withdraw his name from consideration because he was going to London on a sabbatical leave.
HOPE Award committee members currently are interviewing the remaining five finalists and the five finalists by the middle of next week. King for the five finalists is to be announced in 18.
The HOPE Award winner will be announced during hard time of the KU-Net conference.
Milestone
Friday afternoon, Governor Robert Docking, Rep. Larry Winn Jr., and Acting Chancellor Raymond Nichols cut the ceremonial ribbon
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at the dedication of the Space Technology Center. Also speaking at the dedication was James Fletcher, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This is the largest site of NASA's research last program of its kind by NASA. See Related Story Page 5