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Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
57th Year, No. 74
Wednesday, Jan. 20, 1960
Hults Sees $28 Million Loss in Proposed Tax Cut
The state will lose $28,000,000 if the legislature passes the Docking-supported one cent reduction of the sales tax. State Senator Donald Hults said last night. Hults is a member of the Ways and Means Committee. He spoke to members of the Young Republican Club at a meeting last night in the Kansas Union.
Governor Docking, by attempting to cut the budget, will not allow for appropriation increases in some major categories. Sen. Hulns emphasized. The cut would reduce appropriations to the elementary and high schools; to the five state colleges and universities and the schools for
the blind and deaf; or to the mental institutions.
Kansas Below Average
Kansas Below Average Sen.Hults said the state of Kansas now pays 25 per cent of the cost of running the local elementary and high schools.The national average is 40 per cent.
The Board of Regents has asked the administration for a seven per cent increase for the operating budget of the five state colleges and universities. Gov.Docking has suggested that the sum be cut to three per cent.
The Board has asked for $750,000 for the KU operating budget. The administration proposes to cut the
sum to $250,000 according to Sen-
Hults.
No Increase for Mental Health
The proposed budget would allow no increase in appropriations for mental health. The Senator said that last month the state lost five psychiatrists because it had no money to pay them.
Sen. Hults said the property tax payer is already overburdened. The proposed budget makes no provisions for relieving his burden, the Senator said.
He assured the group that the Republican party in Kansas will not repeal any part of the sales tax.
Legislature Hears School Aid Bills
TOPEKA — (UPI) — Two bills making changes in school aid laws and one appropriating $4 million for a state employees retirement fund were introduced in the Kansas House today.
Reps, Thomas Van Cleave (D-Kansas City) and Jack Glaves (D-Wichita) sponsored one of the school aid bills.
It would appropriate a total of $83 per pupil this year to Kansas elementary and high schools. This would replace money presently distributed under a complicated formula and would increase an emergency appropriation from $6 to $25 per pupil.
Van Cleave said the formula was "designed to help the small counties as opposed to the larger ones" and his bill would take out "that inequity" and "put the money where the need it."
Rep. John D. Bower (D-McLouth), meanwhile, introduced a bill that would have somewhat the opposite effect.
It would replace emergency distributions under the formula for regular aid. It would appropriate $7,650,785 to elementary schools and $3,174,215 to high schools to be distributed by the State Education Superintendent under terms of the formula.
Rep. Jim Mangan (D-Dodge City) was sponsor of the Employees Retirement Fund Bill. It would appropriate $4 million for the fund this year, but the legislation setting up the fund and its administration would have to wait until the regular session of the legislature next year.
Rep. E. R. Woodward (R-Oberlin) introduced a measure that would reduce the state sales tax from $2 \frac{1}{2}$ per cent to 2 per cent.
Gov. George Docking had asked for a one-year one cent reduction in the tax and a raise back to the pre-1958 level of 2 per cent on July 1, 1961. Democrats already have introduced a bill that would carry out his proposal.
First Beethoven Concert Tonight
The first concert of a three-concert series featuring all ten of Beethoven's violin and piano sonatas will be held at 8 p.m. tonight in Swarthout Recital Hall.
The musicians will be Raymond Cerf, professor of violin and chairman of the string department, and Roy Hamlin Johnson, assistant professor of piano.
Andrews to Prison
KANSAS CITY, Kan. —(UPI) Convicted murderer Lowell Lee Andrews, 19, will probably be taken to the Kansas Penitentiary today to await his scheduled hanging April 18.
Wyandotte County Undersheriff Wayne Hahn said yesterday that the former University of Kansas student will be confined in a cell by himself and will not be allowed recreation or other normal concessions to prisoners.
Andrews was convicted Dec. 22 of fatally shooting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William L. Andrews, and his 20-year-old sister, Jennie, at the family home at Wolcott in Wy-andotte County.
State Senator Donald S. Hults "Here's what our budget looks like."
Prof. Predicts Kennedy To Enter Wisconsin Race
A University of Kansas instructor of political science said today Sen. John Kennedy (D-Mass) has no choice but to enter the Wisconsin state primary election.
Others Have Discipline Problems
(Editor's Note: This is the last of a series of three articles on KU's discipline system.)
By Carol Heller
KU is not alone in its student discipline problem.
Closed disciplinary hearings, secrecy of disciplinary actions, failure to consult student disciplinary committees as outlined in student government systems — these are some of the problems encountered by other Big Eight schools.
Colorado System Deplored
The Colorado Daily, the student newspaper at the University of Colorado, has repeatedly published articles deploring the university's disciplinary system.
The university is now revamping its discipline code. An administrative committee has drawn up proposed changes to which the student government has suggested amendments.
Jurisdiction of disciplinary cases at CU is determined by the administration on authority from the Board of Regents.
According to the Colorado Daily, the CU administration feels that the disciplinary committee involved may close hearings to the public at its discretion.
The new code is expected to be taken before the regents for their approval in January.
However, 1,700 of the 10,000 students on the CU campus have signed a petition asking that hearings be opened to the public at the request of the persons involved in the case.
The University of Oklahoma also has experienced controversy about student discipline policy.
A student senate constitutes the student government at the University of Oklahoma. Senators are elected in proportion to the number of students in each college. Decisions which concern the whole university are approved by the faculty senate and the university president. On the student level, measures must be approved by the office of the dean of students.
All Cases But Traffic
According to OU's judicial system, all disciplinary cases except traffic violations are first heard by a student group through a system of judicial boards acting on authority delegated from the dean of students.
This is directly opposite of KU's disciplinary system, where cases are originated at the administration level and then referred at the deans' discretion to student committees.
According to the Oklahoma Daily,
This is the cause of one recent student disciplinary controversy at OU:
A fraternity's pledge class was suspended by the administration after two members were charged with having women in the house at an unauthorized hour.
the students felt the case first should have been heard by the Inter-Fraternity Council Judicial Committee. Later, the pledge class was referred to the IFC and was reinstated.
Set Pledge Rules
A second controversy arose because another fraternity pledge class complained of pledge training practices. The administration laid down strict rules concerning pledges, including specified hours for phone shifts, work details, and other duties.
"The administration has the upper hand in disciplinary matters beyond the point indicated in the official outline of the university's student judicial system," pointed out a Daily Oklahoman spokesman.
Again, the students felt the case first should have been heard by the IFC.
Other schools in the Big Eight Conference which have had disciplinary issues are the University of Missouri and Iowa State University.
Like KU, MU's administration has a policy of keeping its disciplinary actions in confidence, according to the Columbia. Mo., newspaper, the campus publication.
Iowa State has had disciplinary problems in the past, but the campus newspaper reports that although a general dissatisfaction with the disciplinary system exists among the students, no controversial issues have occurred recently.
Kansas State University, Oklahoma State University and the University of Nebraska report that they have had no serious student disciplinary problems this year.
No NU Problems
According to the Daily Nebraskan, campus newspaper, there have been no big issues the past two years since the student government system was reorganized.
Cases are now heard by a student tribunal which makes recommendations to the dean of student affairs. Individual cases are heard by the tribunal and groups cases by the administration.
This disciplinary system illustrates the set pattern which Jim Austin, Lawrence senior and student body president, says KU's disciplinary system lacks.
"There is no consistency in the procedure of disciplinary cases and there are no records available to students which outline the procedure they can expect even for an ordinary violation." says Austin.
The campus newspaper at K-State indicated that the disciplinary system could be improved, but felt that no serious issues have taken place this year.
Kansas State also has a tribunal system to hear disciplinary cases. These hearings are closed unless the person or groups involved request the hearing to be open.
The University of Nebraska permits no disciplinary actions to be printed in the Daily Nebraskan, although the paper feels that the students should be informed of the more important cases.
Mr. Nehring stressed the importance of the Wisconsin primary to both Sen. Kennedy and Minnesota Sen. Hubert Humphrey, who already has thrown his hat in the Wisconsin ring.
Earl A. Nehring, responding to a United Press International release reporting 98 to 2 odds that Sen. Kennedy will enter the Wisconsin race, said the lack of choice comes from the "challenge to all presidential aspirants bidding them to enter primaries."
He said in 1944 Wendell Wilkie dropped from the race completely following a primary loss in the dairy state. Since then, the slogan in political circles has read:
"If you lose in Wisconsin, chances are you'll lose the election."
A loss by Sen. Kennedy in Wisconsin would not necessarily kill his chances nationally, but if Sen. Kennedy should win he could effectively torced Sen. Humphrey's presidential hopes.
Sen. Kennedy—or Sen. Humphrey—could win in Wisconsin and still emerge with only 13 of the state's 31 convention votes.
Under the new Democratic National Committee regulations, there will be $2\frac{1}{2}$ votes for each congressman and $2\frac{1}{2}$ for each senator at the convention, in addition to the half vote for each of the two National Democratic Committee members.
That means that only five of Wisconsin's 31 votes will be decided by total statewide popular vote in the primary.
Since the majority of the state's Democratic ballots are cast in two counties, Sen. Humphrey—or Sen. Kennedy—could win a popular victory and still lose control of the delegation.
Weather
Fair tonight, partly cloudy tomorrow. Low tonight 5 to 10. High tomorrow in the 30s. Low last night was minus one.