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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
83rd Year, No.11
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
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Tuesday, September 12, 1972
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Hot Spell
As if the 90-plus temperature Monday wasn't enough for most people, especially in the middle of September, marvin Marvin
Conner had to make things even hotter. Conner is helping construct part of a new power system south of Flint Hall. His hot afternoon task will be appreciated in the future when temperatures in the campus will help supply the power to air condition the new Wescoe Hall.
Kissinger, Russians Open Secret Talks
MOSCOW (AP) - Henry A. Kissinger with Soviet leaders Monday—the first day of a journey to Moscow to discuss Ukraine's limited limitation, trades and European security.
There was no immediate word from either the American or the Soviet side on which Kremlin leaders took part in the first day's meetings with President Nixon's national security adviser on what specific subjects were discussed.
Kissinger was to see Party General Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev, Premier Alexei N. Kosygin and Foreign Minister Andrei E. Gromykio in talks that will continue through Wednesday. Both sides kept mum on the proceedings.
U. S. sources would say only that the talks opened with a broad review of AIP.
The White House apparently was placing the Kissinger visit in the framework of the continuing contacts that were to follow Nixon's May summit meeting in Moscow.
There had been speculation Kissinger might meet with Le Du C厚 Tho, adviser to Hanoi's delegation to the Paris peace talks on Vietnam. But Tho went on to Paris and did not heed Kissinger in Moscow. He said he met Kissenger, who has met with Theo several times; may see the North Vietnamese Politburo member in Paris on his way home.
When reporters met him in Paris, Theo noted no reference to a Vie Cong state legislature.
purporting to clarify its previous proposals.
The statement said the Viet Cong was "prepared to accept a provisional government of national concord that shall be dominated by neither side."
The Viet Cong essentially restated the peace plan it submitted to the Paris peace talks last July. In elaborating on that plan, the UN envoy said the government would dominate a coalition government.
The latest statement reiterated Viet Cong demands that the United States unilaterally end the fighting, that the United States abandon all support of President Thieu, and that Thieu be deposed before a coalition government is formed.
The Viet Cong said two factions—the Viet Cong and the Saigon government—would each pick its own representatives to serve on the coalition government. But it specified that Saigon government representatives would have to be selected by "a Saigon government without Nguyen Van Thien."
Representatives of the third faction in the coalition, a combined political third force composed of organizations and individuals outside the Viet Cong and the Saigon government, would be selected by negotiations.
The Viet Cong statement was under study by the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, the White House, and the State Department.
Burn Center Is Launched
By MARGE LEVIT Kansan Staff Writer
With a hefty swing of a sledge hammer, William O. Rieke, vice chancellor for health affairs, smashed into a wall of the old pediatrics ward at the University of New York to begin the demolition necessary for remodeling the area into a new Burn Center.
When completed in about seven months, the center will be the only treatment facility.
Speaking to 50 hospital staff members
Annexation Called City's Logical Extension
Editor's Note: This is the second of a two-part report on the issues involved in the city's annexation referendum on Sept. 19.
BY BOB LITCHFIELD Kansan Staff Writer
When the Lawrence City Commission announced its intention to annex the 1,700-
acre tract near the turnpike along Kasold Drive to the Kansas River, Feb. 8, she expressed a desire to annex the entire growth area and develop it as an industrial growth area.
"that part of the city north of the kansas turnpike, much of which is now on state highway 109," he wrote.
Senate to Deliberate New Funding Requests
By LINDA SCHILD Kansan Staff Writer
One of the first orders of business will be an address by Acting Chancellor Raymond
Fund allocations for Student Employment Services and the Consumer Protection Agency will be considered at the first fall semester Student Senate meeting at 7.p.m. Wednesday in the Kansas Union.
Old business will follow the address and will include the proposed allocation of funds to the Student Employment Service, Finance Department, Mark Brewer, Wichita graduate student.
The employment service works with nonwork-study students who want jobs at the University of Kansas or in the Lawrence community, Brewer said. Students can check on the bulletin board outside the Office of Student Financial Aid or talk to Brewer in the office from 1 to 4 p.m. weekdays.
Because his service is funded through the work study program, Brewer said, he is limited to 15 hours of work a week. He spends this time talking to students or calling KU departments or local merchants to locate job openings.
Student Senate funds are needed to buy office supplies, a desk, chair and typewriter. Brewer said his present office was temporary, but he expected the University would find another office for the employment service.
Funds for office supplies and salaries of the Consumer Protection Agency will also be considered by the Student Senate. This agency, which is not yet in operation, will educate the student and college community to consumer problems, according to Nick Herrick, third-year law student from Ames, Iowa.
Herrick, who helped plan the agency this summer, said its purpose was to deal with problems concerning out-of-town merger and their products in this area, local businessman and landlords. If the occasion arose, the agency would ligate such problems.
If the funds are approved, the Consumer Protection Agency should be ready for operation within the next week. Herrick said.
A resolution requesting that an instructor prohibit smoking in his classroom upon the request of any student in the class.
piece by piece over a period of time," the commission stated. "Piecemeal annexation resulted in piecemelal sewer and water systems, as no one could predict the next need for these services would be. Annexation of the 1,700 wells would require future development and afford control over the location of new construction."
A special election will be held to fill three University Council seats vacated by David Miller, John Wulf and Jerry Slaughter, who did not return to KU this fall, according to Kathy Allen, Topeka junior and student body vice president.
Nominations for replacements for the seats will be taken from the floor, Allen said. Any student senator may be nominated.
The University Council is a branch of the University government that comprises Student Senate and Faculty Senate members.
COMMISSIONER Jack Rose said the city's land area had grown 117 per cent.
IN RECENT YEARS B. F. Goodrich, Packer Plastics, S. K. Skegeg, Lawrence Paper Company and Gustin-Bacon have built plants and come into the city. The growth in the area has caused problems, the commissioners said.
"With a history of growth such as this, I believe that an annexation of 1,780 acres (an increase of 15.3 per cent) is reasonable when the past pattern of growth," he said.
City officials said the northwest area, which has been growing rapidly, included the primary industrial growth area and in the path of logical extension of the city.
If the area is to be a fully developed industrial park, they said, there is a need to plant new or expand existing buildings.
"We are rather restricted in industrial development sites in our city, and this area is logical for a growth pattern to the north-west," a commission statement said.
Despite the fact that much of the area is farm land, about three-fourths of it is zoned for medium or heavy industry and only a small amount of acreage along the river bank the floodplain and unsuitable for development. City Manager Buford Watson said.
THE AREA also contains two residential areas, Miller Acres and Willey Acres, which the commissioners said should have the city in front now, and some farm land.
WATSON said that because of the growth pattern of the city the land soon would be surrounded by the city and would be annexed at a later date if not now. According to a state law, if the annexation ordinance were repealed, it would be 10 years before the land could be annexed without an election.
Mayer John Eminck said most of the area was excellent for industrial growth. "You should have more than just what you need tomorrow to really plan ahead," he said.
It is necessary, the commissioners said, to run an additional water supply into the area because the industries are on a dead water line, to build a sewer lift station in the area to replace the one which is now owned by the Callery Chemical Company, and to improve the transportation system and the highway access to the area.
water and sewer systems, on a comprehensive basis.
Thousands of Students Lose Aid In Federal Loan Program Flop
A foul in the federal guarantee loan program has left thousands of college students returning to campus across the country, this month without money to pay tuition.
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Some students may be turned away, others will have to come up with the money for the course.
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hastily arranged delayed payment plans for students whose loans have been secured.
The Office of Education of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare has operated a program for $5/2 years under which it insured tuition loans from banks to individual students. The Education Act Amendment that became law June 21 changed the ground rules for those loans.
Tuition loans were previously granted to any student whose adjusted family income was less than $15,000. The new law required schools to confirm the "demonstrated financial need" of all students seeking the low-cost loans.
Regulations implementing the new law were not published by the Office of Education until July 18, and immediately required that students, schools and lending institutions.
"Frankly, we came to a dead stop in processing loans," said Carol Wennerdahl, director of the student loan program in Illinois. "The number of loans we got through was pathetically low compared to previous years."
At the end of July, the number of loans granted under the new regulations was less than 10 per cent the number outstanding at the end of July 1971.
The Office of Education responded with a proposal that the new rules be dropped until March 10 next year and the old rules reinstated. A joint resolution was passed by Congress in three days and signed by the President on Aug. 19.
Though colleges and banks could now scrap the complicated "actual need" requirement, the delay created a tremendous backlog of loan applications. At the end of August, 25,700 loans totaling $283,100 were made and at the end of August last year, more than 99,000 loans amounting to $113 million had been granted.
"The emergency legislation eased the crunch considerably, but there are widespread delays in getting applications processed," said Dick Tombaugh, executive director of the National Student Financial Aid Administrators.
The slowdown is fantastic. It will be October or November before a lot of glitz and glamour arrives.
Most colleges and universities have responded by allowing students to register and take courses without paying tuition until their loans come through.
This will cost the schools money—the interest they would have received by collecting the tuition money and banking it.
Some schools simply won't be able to let students defer tuition payment, said Robert Pappaloni, vice president of division of insured loans in the Office of Education. In some cases, he reported, students are being asked to sign short-term promissory notes or their parents' loan documents.
There are probably some students who have dropped out of school because they were not aware they could get loans under the reinstated rules, said Simmons.
The mayor and other commissioners repeatedly have denied a charge that the annexation was aimed at increasing the city tax base by taking the Kansas Power and Light Company (KPL) generating plant near the river into the city.
"The fact that the city of Lawrence has grown to a point that this facility is no longer needed," said Dr. McDonald. "Prior to annexation, the city limits touched the KPL property on parts of its south and east sides. It, therefore, seemed appropriate for an annexation. The city should be included in the annexation."
"I THINK IT should be pointed out," Watson said, "that KPL's growth is related to Lawrence's growth, that KPL presently benefits from the city services in that area, even more from an orderly development of the area and the Lawrence community."
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and guests assembled for the brief ceremonies, Rieke said, "This Burn Center represents a unique combination of private effort and state facilities."
All of the money to be used in constructing and equipping the center will come from private citizens, organizations, charities, and corporations. No state or federal funds will be involved.
All but $50,000 of an estimated $500,000 needed for the center has been raised, Rieke said. He said the center would be able to support the Burnett, the largest single contributors.
The Burn Center will have a capacity of 10 patients, Rieke said. It will provide specially designed equipment to facilitate treatment of the patients, intensive care staff and nurses. The department will reduce the risk of infection. Every year, 60 people die of burns in Kansas. Rieke said.
The unit will utilize the entire sixth floor of the building and will extend to an adjoining building, for a total floor space of 7.000 square feet.
Besides providing patient care, the Burn Center will serve as a training center for medical students and paramedical per- sonants and as a research center for burn treatment.
John English, Medical Center director of the Endowment Association, which coordinated the fund-raising efforts, said he was disappointed by "a lack of" total community involvement." He said one of the hardest-working moneyraisers was Grace Legger of Robinson, who is the grandmother of Kathy Khm, a KU graduate who aged in an off-campus apartment fire.
Dr. David W. Robinson, chief of the surgery division,医教中心，The Burn Center
Kansan Photo by STU BEALS
Carl Knox, superintendent of Unified School District 497, addresses members of the Lawrence Chamber of Com
merce and new members of the University of Kansas faculty at the sixth annual Chamber of Commerce-KU Faculty Mixer, held at Broken Arrow Park. See Page 59.