The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, December 16, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
79th Year, No. 60
The University Senate Council passed the proposed Senate Code Friday with no major differences between their version and that of the All-Student Council (ASC), Charles Oldfather, a member of the Senate Executive Committee, said.
Code gets okay
The ASC passed its form of the proposed Code Nov. 6.
To go into effect, the Code must
Budget plea by Wescoe
TOPEKA-Armed with charts and statistics, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescole Friday asked the State of Kansas to throw a life jacket to KU and other state colleges and universities.
Speaking to State Budget Director James Bibb and aides to Gov. Robert Docking at budget hearings, Wescoe said Kansas was in danger of falling even further behind other states in education if the budget requests submitted by the Board of Regents are not accepted over the budget director's recommendations.
The Board of Regents request for KU was $49,489,390, which was slashed to $43,791,900 in the budget director's recommendation. The University of Kansas Medical Center requested $35,173,647 which was cut to $29,601,042 in the budget director's recommendation.
He showed charts on salaries at the state's colleges and universities, noting that Kansas today is about 25 per cent below the national average.
The fiscal 1970 budget recommendation, which is expected to hit a record $702 million, included a $134,758,349 figure for the six state colleges and universities.
Wescoe placed particular stress on the need for a seven and one-half per cent hike in faculty salaries rather than the five per cent hike recommended by Bibb. He estimated that Kansas' faculty salary
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be approved by the University Senate, and then in a student body election, and finally by the Board of Regents.
Oldfather said the only major difference between the two proposed forms of the Code would be the addition of a Faculty Council, a smaller group that would meet more often and do much of the work of the larger Faculty Senate.
Oldfather said there are approximately 550 members on the University Senate, provided for in the proposed Senate Code.
He said the Faculty Council would exist in about the same manner as the present Senate Council to reflect the wishes of the faculty.
The Senate Council is a 42-member body that meets once or twice a month to do much of the work of the University Senate, which meets once or twice a year.
The Senate Code proposes student membership on the University Senate for the first time in University history. It provides for about 15 per cent student membership—a Student Senate—on the University Senate, the rest of which is composed of the Faculty Senate.
Ambrose Saricks, chairman of the Senate Executive Committee, said, "In discussing the Senate Code, the University Seante passed amendments to the proposed Senate Code, just as did the ASC. The conference committee, which is a joint committee of the ASC and faculty members, ironed out many of the differences of the two versions of the Senate Code before we (the Faculty Senate) voted on them."
He said there will have to be some compromises made in the conference committee, but after it irons out the two versions, the Code will have been thoroughly discussed.
After the conference committee irons out the differences in the proposed Senate Council, it will have to return the revised version to the ASC and the University Council for approval.
Photo by Mike Gunther
'Joy To The World . . .'
Members of the University Choir carry candles through a darkened Hoch Auditorium in Sunday's annual Christmas Vespers.
Columbia SDS leader slated to speak here
Mark Rudd, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) leader at disturbance ridden Columbia University, will speak at the University of Kansas next month.
Jay Barrish, Kansas City, Mo., graduate student and chairman of the SUA Minority Opinions Forum, said Rudd will speak at 7 p.m., Jan. 7 in the Kansas Union Ballroom. His topic will be "Revolution on Campus."
Barrish said Rudd, who is currently involved in legal controversy concerning the Columbia disturbances and also his draft status, will appear at a reception immediately following his speech.
UDK News Roundup By United Press International
VC travel to USSR
The Viet Cong negotiators came to Moscow from Peking, where they had consultations with Chinese Communist leaders. Diplomats in Paris, however, said despite U.S. optimism, the continuing wringle over conference seating arrangements would probably stall the talks until after Jan. 20, when President-elect Richard M. Nixon takes office.
PARIS—A Viet Cong negotiating team arrived in Moscow yesterday en route to the expanded Paris talks on Vietnam.
Terror threats told
LONDON—Scotland Yard said last night it is examining a tape recording threatening increased bombing incidents by Welsh nationalists unless the investiture of Britain's Prince Charles as Prince of Wales is postponed.
The plan had been out less than a day when it came under attack from both sides. In the school crisis itself, another confrontation is expected today in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville section of Brooklyn, and possibly one at Public School 39 in East Harlem.
NEW YORK-A new controversy waxed Sunday over a Board of Education plan to break up New York City's 900-school, 1.12-million pupil school system into 33 separate districts.
New rift in NY schools
WASHINGTON-J Edgar Hoover will retain his job as FBI director. President-elect Richard M. Nixon has asked the veteran lawman to stay on and Hoover has agreed. A formal announcement is expected to be made today.
Hoover to continue
--sentences, sometimes not exceeding the time they have been held awaiting trial.
KU offers aid for K-State
KU's department of radio-television-film and KANU radio might furnish materials to Kansas State University to temporarily replace equipment lost in Friday night's fire.
The fire, which broke out during the second game of the Sunflower Doubleheader, destroyed Nichols gymnasium on the K-State campus.
Loss in the fire to two radio stations, KSAC, an educational station, and KSDB-FM, a training station similar to KU's KUOK campus radio, was estimated at $100,000.
Heavy losses in rare musical instruments, new band uniforms, recording equipment and material in eight music libraries were also recorded.
Bruce A. Linton, director of KU's department of radio-television-film, said KU had offered K-State any records, turntables or other equipment that would assist them in resuming classes.
Jim Stanley, engineer at KANU said K-State will probably accept the offer.
While at least one of the K-State
Youths who have already been tried in traditional courts on similar charges have received minor jail
Threats hit Paris trial
PARIS (UPI)-President Charles de Gaulle's government today sent riot police on to a Paris university suburban campus to check leftwing student agitation.
The black leather-coated National Riot Police took positions at the doors of the faculty building on the annex at Nanteree, backing up guards checking incoming students' identification cards.
In Paris, political observers said it is unlikely any of the 14 would be executed if convicted.
The action came as the government brought 13 young men and a woman to trial on charges of trying to violently overthrow the government. De Gaulle's government also warned students they will suffer if they try to seize campuses.
The trial, in which conviction could bring death on the guillotine, marked leftover trouble from student agitation in the spring. The get-tough order formed De Gaulle's answer to current unrest.
But the timing of the trial and the significant reactivation of the tribunal which was originally set up to try secret army terrorists who tried to take over Algeria in 1960-would not be missed by student militants who are today threatening the nation with the same near-revolution as last spring.
Pueblo rumor false
SEOUL (UPI) - A foreign ministry spokesman today denied a published report that the United States had informed South Korea of a "certain move" to secure release of the 82 crewmen of the USS Pueblo by Dec. 31.
"We know of no such move," he said. "We have no facts to substantiate the report."
The daily newspaper Dong-A Ilbo said Saturday the U.S. plan was revealed when American Charge Wade L. Lathram met Vice Foreign Minister Chin Pil-Shik earlier in the day.
Kenneth Bloomquist, director of the KU Band, said he had not been contacted concerning any musical equipment loans.
stations resumed broadcast today. Stanley said, KU will probably send some records to the neighboring campus. K-State's record library was completely destroyed.
If K-State should request any aid, Bloomquist said, "we would do whatever we could."
Bloomquist said KU has an extensive supply of equipment. He added he would have to take an inventory of KU's equipment before he could list articles that can be spared.
"They are welcome to anything we have." Bloomquist said.
The two schools did work out an instrument loan four years ago when K-State's auditorium was destroyed by fire.
While the two schools are making arrangements, Kansas Bureau of Investigation officials are investigating arson as a possible cause of the blaze.
K-State president James A. McCain said an earlier fire had been discovered the same day. As a result of that fire, McCain said, extensive precautions against a further fire had been taken on the campus.
Weather
Fair and warmer was the Weather Bureau forecast for today with increasing cloudiness and warmer weather tonight and tomorrow. Chances for showers late tomorrow. High today upper 30s, low tonight in 20s. High tomorrow near 40.
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