THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
83rd Year, No.24
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Friday, September 29, 1972
KU Expert Speaks On China Policy
See story page 2.
Bond Speaks
Jalian Bond, Georgia democratic state legislator predicted Thursday night at a rally.
that Senator George McGovern won the presidency "by a hair." Bond, who stopped at Kansas City's Muehlenbach Hotel to speak for the Congressional Accuser group were wrong. He told the crowd that he had predicted that Johnson would win in 1968.
Faculty, Alumni Named To Search Committee
By CAROLYN OLSON
Kansan Staff Writer
Five more representatives were added Thursday to the Campus Advisory Committee to select a new chancellor—three candidates, the council and two by the Alumni Association.
James Rosser, associate professor of education and pharmacy, was elected as a chair of the American Association.
The three Lawrence faculty representatives on the Search Committee are Ronald Calgaard, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and professor of economics; Jacob Kleinberg, professor of mathematics; Jacob Stokstad, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and professor of art history.
Dr. Ned Smul, Shawne Mission, and Roy A. Edwards Jr., Kansas City, Kan., are the two newly appointed alumni representatives on the Search Committee. They will join William Hagman Sr., Pittburg, president of the Alumni Association, and Jordan L. Haines, vice president of the Alumni Association.
The three faculty Search Committee members and the alternate were elected to the position.
meeting through a series of primary elections.
EACH FACULTY COUNCIL member voted for "up to three" of the 52 faculty member nominees to get a list of 11 semifinalists.
From the list of 11 semifinalists each Faculty Council member voted for one nominee. The first place nominee had to be a vote of two votes or there would be a run-off election.
The second Search Committee member was elected by voting for one of the 10 remaining semifinalists. The second winner also had to receive a majority, or or two more votes. The committee followed for the election of the third Search Committee member and the alternate.
The fourth faculty member on the Search Committee is to be elected from the University of Maryland to nominee or nonnenees to have been voted on by the Faculty Council Thursday, but the nomination from the Medical Center was not submitted, according to the University of Maryland.
The Faculty Council voted to defer action on the election of the Medical Center representative until next Thursday's Faculty Council meeting.
See FACULTY page 5
Three POWs Don Uniforms For Reunion with Military
By PETER ARNETT AP Special Correspondent
NEW YORK—Three American prisoners of war came home from Hanoi in full uniform Thursday night, displaying their military award as combat pilots in North Vietnam.
They landed at Kennedy Airport at 6:54 p.m. and 30 minutes later voluntarily entered Defense Department cars to be driven away. By so doing, they submitted a reunion with the government whose long car drilled during the long trin from Hanoi.
Behind they left a quartet of American antwar activists, into whose hands the POWs were delivered 12 days ago in North Vietnam.
"WE HAVE just witnessed a recapture scene," said one of their former chaperones, Cora Weiss, "one incarceration replacing another."
Another chaperone, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, said, "It's quite clear the Pentagon and State Department want men on duty there, are in uniform and speaking their lines."
However, the three POWs were represented as having voted among themselves and agreed to do the uniforms while en route from Copenhagen aboard a Scandinavian Airlines System transporter. They had been put aboard during a ston in Moscow.
THE THREE freed prisoners were Navy LT. J. G. Mark Gartley, 24, imprisoned for four years, Navy LT. J. G. Norris Charles, 27, captive a nine months ago, and Air Force Major Edward Elias, 34, shot down five months ago.
Prior to flying out of Copenhagen for New York, one of the trio had said the American people must bear the "responsibility" for bringing the remaining 400 men out of captivity, by bringing an end to the Vietnam war.
The destination of the three following
departures of the airport was not impaired by terminal.
reading, "Release all prisoners of war on both sides in all Vietnam."
The remark about responsibility came from Charles. It was the toughest, most political statement to come out of an airport news conference. None of the three pilots would endorse a U.S. presidential nomination, and support for American tactics in Vietnam.
"It was my belief and the belief of the men with whom I lived in Hanoi," said Charles, "that if the war is terminated their return home will be certain. I have committed myself to do everything in my power to work for their return home.
ADDRESSING HIMSELF to Americans, Charles said. "I pondered the question who can help me or is responsible for bringing these men home. It dawned upon me that it was you, the American people. If you really want to bring these men home you can do it. If you really want to end the war you can do it."
"I and some of the men I left have a great deal of faith and hope in you, the American people. I call on you to help me in helping to bring these men home."
Referring to a statement by actress Jane Fonda that she found the POWs backing the presidential candidacy of Sen. George McGovern, the flier said, "Miss Fonda is not qualified to speak for the general opinion of all the prisoners of war."
"The number of opinions among the prisoners of war are as many as the number of prisoners themselves, and I personally cannot speak for the general opinion of all the prisoners and I'm sure it just can't be done."
ASKED ABOUT his own choice, Garley said. "The issues and policies are not completely clear to me. What is clear to me is that the men who are still there must be trained, but never policy is the one that can bring them here as the one I can support the most."
Gartley said, in response to a question, that if he should choose to support President Nixon for re-election he saw no reason why it should result in "reprisals" against the prisoners. Elias, who plans to return to the Air Force, said he wanted to
do more reading on the issues in the campaign before stating his opinion.
Gartley rejected the position held by some Americans that the prisoners were propaganda tools, saying, "If a person can tell the truth as he sees it and is consistent and continues to do this, propaganda has a nasty connotation."
THE TUG-OF-WAR between U.S. officials who wanted to fly the POWs home in military aircraft and the antiwar activists to whom they were officially delivered by the Vietnamese government on Sept. 17 quitted down considerably in Coochenhua.
An American Air Force medical evacuation plane was on the runaway at Kastrup Airport when the filers arrived Thomas Dunneen, U.S. charge d'affaires.
Gartley said, "We appreciate your concern but that going back this week will be better than this."
Ellas added that the flies' decision to use commercial aircraft was "the best thing for all of us and the men we left behind."
THE PILOTS DENIED that they had been selected for release because they may have made a bargain to campaign against them. No North Vietnam had set no conditions.
Elias, he said he did not expect to go back on combat duty and Charles said he saw no reason for their military careers to be jeopardized by what they were doing. "I don't believe the military holds truth against anyone," he said.
Asked to characterize the attitudes about the war of the men still in captivity, Charles said, "I can say the feelings are just like in America, pro and con. Well, they all agree that the war should be authorized, that the war should be ended."
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Released POWs to Have Time Off, Secretary Says
Laird, as chairman of the President's Interagency Economic Adjustment Committee, made a brief stop in Wichita to check conditions here.
WICHTA (AP)-Secretary of Defense Melnir Lavin denied rumors Thursday that three prisoners of war were being considered AWOL for not turning themselves over to U.S. officials in Moscow while on their way home.
He said he was late in arriving because he had been meeting in Fort Worth, Tex.
Laird said the three returning POWs, L.L. Norris Charles, L.I. Mark Gargley and Maj. Edward Elias, would have time to spend with their friends and relatives and would go to military hospitals for physical examinations.
"We have no charges along that line at our office in a news conference." I don't know what.
with relatives of U.S. servicemen missing in action and of prisoners of war.
LAIRD SAID as long as he is secretary of defense he will continue to "challenge the North Vietnamese to live by the laws of their country" in treatment of American prisoners of war.
Laird said progress on Phase 1 of the Vietnamization program was on schedule, with removal of the vast majority of American ground troops. He said Phase 2, turning the air war over to the South Vietnamese, was now in progress.
Without mentioning Sen. George McGovern, but in an apparent reference to him, Laird said people who talk about the security of this country "sparezarding the security of this country."
McNish: Teaching a Joy
At Sidney, McNish practiced general law, acting for the defense or prosecution and dealt with corporations. In 1970, McNish returned to KU to teach full-time.
Editor's Note: This is the third in a series of interviews with the 11 HOPE Award winner.
By JAN KESSINGER
Kansan Staff Writer
Jess McNish, adjunct professor of business, terms himself "a special hybrid and
What he means by that is that he has a title equivalent to a professor, but does not get the pay or fill the slot of a professor in the school of Business. He earned his way to his position with 22 years of experience as a lawyer in western Nebraska.
McNish has taught at the University of Kansas at two different times. He worked as a research assistant at the law school at the University of Nebraska until he came to Sidney in 1948. McNish then left the campus and went into law practice in Sidney, Neb.
KU Could Lose Nonresident Fees
He said South Vietnam was operating 200 airplanes when he took over as defense chief. Now, he said, they are operating more than 1200.
Attendance is not required in McNish's classes, but he said that most of his students came to class every day. He said that while the attendance was not required and he would not count off for missed work, it was important to directly attributable to poor attendance.
more serious than the younger students. They all dressed to the limit of their income. It was easy to spot the banker's son, and its appearance now is a change for the bettler.
LAID TOLD a group of local officials that he wanted to 'salute the community for a job exceedingly well done,' in response to the loss of aerospace jobs.
Acting Chancellor Raymond Nichols said Thursday that the University of Kansas could lose as much as $2 million in nonresident fees if courts ruled that out-of-state students could qualify for resident rates by voting in Kansas.
Mayor Jack Shanahan reported that unemployment in the Wichita area has dropped from nearly 12 per cent to less than 6 per cent. He said employment has grown by more than 35 per cent of new jobs resulting from expansion and relocation of business in the area.
"Wichita and Sedgwick County are now in their greatest construction boom, with $215 million in new construction under way or planned." Shanahan said.
On grades, McNish said, "It's helpful if the instructor can do anything possible to
By ROB SIMISON
Whether the University will face such a dilemma is uncertain, Nichols said. So far, no challenge to residency requirements has been filed in Kansas, he said.
Laird said it was "just amazing" how the community has worked on implementing the interagency committees, the interagency committee, and he said credit should go to local forces.
By BOB SIMMONS
Kansan Staff Writer
The extension of voting rights to 18-year-olds by the 26th Amendment to the Constitution has raised the question of lost parental privileges in colleges and universities across the country.
Speaking at the university conference, Nichols said the university could either cut programs or raise tuition rates for all students to absorb the loss.
He said he planned to finish his career as a professor at KU.
See McNISH page 3
A RECENT SURVEY by Robert F. Carbone, dean of the School of Education at the University of Maryland, concluded that changes in charges would have a staggery effect.
In Kansas, voting residence is not a criterion for qualifying for resident tuition, NIL.
"Now, Kansas law says that a minor receiving the majority of his support from his home that is out of state cannot establish residency," Nichols said. "But who is a minor, and how do you prove residency?
The Kansas Board of Regents has estimated that the six state colleges and universities could lose $5 million if all students now classified as nonresidents qualified as residents Max Bickford, board executive officer, said Thursday.
"The feeling is that the courts probably will rule in favor of students. That is, that a student can establish residency by voting and is entitled to pay residents' rates." Nichols said. "If a court makes a decision, then that's a new policy."
"It's a joy to teach," McNish said when asked why he left the law profession. "That's the reason I came back when I could afford it. I'll finish as a teacher."
“BEING A teacher was the last thing in the world that I figured to be until after the war when the opportunity at KU came up. I couldn't imagine how I could do it.”
"But when would it go into effect? That's a question that would have to be answered."
A RESIDENCE committee headed by Charles H. Oldfather, University attorney, reviews applications by students for resident fees.
"The law further says a student cannot establish residence while he is in school,"
"or the student has no property."
Residents pay $243 a semester this year,
nonresidents pay $538.
there are two alternatives. We could cut the budget, and I sure we wouldn't want to do that now, or we could change it. That might hurt the instate students.
Students are encouraged to speak out in classes by what McNish calls a "bonus."
And would the Kansas Legislature come to the rescue to the tune of $4 or $5 million?
About the search for a chancellor to fill the position of E. Laurence Chalmers Jlr. Nichols said at least one application and several nominations had been received.
NICHOLS SAID he had not heard from Chalmeris since it was announced Monday that Chalmeris had been named director of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chalmeris apparently will be paid the $10,000 voted by the Board of Directors for resignation as professor of psychology
Bickford said the names could not be released. Release the names of candidates prematurely compromises their positions with other institutions. he said.
"It's modified. Principly, I'm asking questions rather than answering them to me."
"That was a gesture of appreciation by the board." Nichols said.
The University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City should announce Monday its faculty and student committees to the search committee, Nichols said.
Jess McNish
feel that students learn more from themselves than from me in discussions. Business law applies to factual situations. Business law requires you to apply the anatomy to the next situation."
Although McNish likes to stimulate discussion, he is somewhat hampered by large classes. His smallest has 30 students. One semester he had 66 students and had to try to divide the class. McNish blames the overcrowding on a lack of funds.
Mneish said students were different only in appearance from when he first visited.
"WHEN I taught after the war, several students were on the GI Bill and were
"Students aren't basically different at all," he said. Superficial appearances are different. But we had marvelous students then and do now.
PEKING (AP) - China is ready to establish diplomatic relations with Japan, opening the door to a new era and ending the Cold War between East Asia's most populous nations.
China Ready to Begin Relations with Japan
Premier Chou En-Lai announced the decision Thursday night at a banquet ending his summit talks with Kaukei Tanaka, the Japanese prime minister who dared to step into negotiations his predecessors had shunned.
"We are going to end the abnormal state of affairs that has existed up to now." Chou
Taiwan is crucial to a Tokyo-Peking understanding. Japan ruled the island for
Agreements by Peking and Tokyo end their state of war and go beyond the consulting relationship set up by Chou and President Nikon last February. There still are no formal diplomatic relations between Washington and Peking.
A communique Friday may specify just how Japan proposes to treat Taiwan. The expectation is that this statement by Chou and Tanaka will rupture the diplomatic relations with Taiwan that Japan has maintained for 22 years.
The Nixon administration has continued to deal with diplomats representing Chiang Kai-shek, an archrhinmal in the eyes of the Communist government that opposed his visit. And the United States has made it clear that it considers Taiwan to be part of China.
many years after defeating China in war. Japan has about $4 billion invested there, but the company is slowing.
The success of the Chou-Tanaka negotiations had been forecast Wednesday when Mao Tse-tung received the Japanese leader for an hour's tete-a-tete. On a Saturday night, Tanaka tendered Chou a banquet in the Hall of the People.
Tanaka said that normal relations are only the first step, and that he will try his best to continue the trend of rapprochement.
Chou said: "The termination of the state of war and the normalization of relations between China and Japan—the realization of the long cherished wishes of the Chinese and Japanese peoples—will open a new era for peace, prosperity, security in countries and make a positive contribution to the relaxation of tension in Asia and to safeguard the world peace."
He noted that China and Japan have fundamentally different social systems.
"However," he added, "the fruitful talks between our two sides prove that, so long as both sides have confidence, problems are avoided." He went on through consultation on an equal footing.
Tanaka, 54, is the first Japanese prime minister to set foot on mainland China since World War II, the allies, including Chiang Kai-shek, defeated Japan.