KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, October 24, 1968
79th Year, No. 28
Work-study program at KU broke
Sirhan trial will introduce seized notes
Photo by Gary Mason
LOS ANGELES (UPI) - The prosecution in the trial of Sirhan B. Sirhan intends to introduce as evidence certain writings of Sirhan, who is charged with the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.
Superior Court Judge Herbert V. Walker, who will preside at the trial scheduled to start Dec. 9, Tuesday denied a defense motion to suppress the notebooks and other belongings taken from Sirhan's bedroom without a search warrant.
Walker said he was not ruling on the admissibility of the evidence but only that it should not be suppressed. Defense attorney Russell E. Parsons said he would not appeal the pretrial ruling, but would fight against introduction of the notebooks during the trial.
Autumn leaves
Parsons argued unsuccessfully during the hearing that police had no right to enter the home in Pasadena.
Sgt. William E. Brandt of the Los Angeles Police Department testified he and another officer entered the home with the permission of Sirhan's brother.
Mary Sirhan, the mother, also called as a witness, testified she
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Caught in the swirl of October winds, the autumn leaves of red and gold drift by.
Trial for Greek tax suit scheduled for December
A tax suit, from which fraternities and sororites hope to save up to $5,000 per year for each house, is slated for trial in December.
Greek houses claim they are exempt from real estate taxes because they exist for educational purposes.
A Kansas statute says organizations which exist "exclusively for educational purposes" do not have to pay real estate taxes. The Greek houses filing suit believe they are included in this category, Bob Sears, Kansas City second year law student, said. Sears is assisting the Kansas City attorneys handling the plaintiffs' case.
Attorneys in the case have 20
days to file orders or statements of their preliminary contentions, Sears said.
"At the end of that time the court will set a date for the trial. Hopefully that will be early in December, but if Thanksgiving and Christmas vacations interfere, it may be some time in January before the case comes up," he said.
House corporations are financing the case.
In a similar case ruled invalid in District Court last spring, KU Greeks claimed exemption from personal property tax.
Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity is the official plaintiff, and the Douglas County Treasurer, represented by the county attorney, is the defendant.
The real estate suit was originally filed against the Douglas County Treasurer, the Board of County Commissioners, and the State Board of Tax Appeals. Judge Frank Gray, of Douglas County District Court, dismissed the latter two as not essential to the case.
"Between 75 and 80 per cent of all KU fraternities and sororities are being represented by AKL," Sears said.
In a pre-trial motion Sept. 20, County Attorney Dan Young asked for immediate dismissal of the suit. Judge Gray overruled the motion.
By STEVE HAYNES Kansan Staff Writer
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Copyright 1968, The University Daily Kansan
KU's $182,500 college work-study program has been scrapped for this semester. The program ran out of funds because administrators made no attempt to budget its allocation.
Before the money ran out—sometime during August-University departments and divisions had employed 498 students with work-study funds. How these financially needy students are now paying school expenses, University officials do not know.
While some students have been able to stay at their work-study jobs because department heads squeezed money out of already tight department budgets, administrators say most students have had to find work elsewhere.
University officials said the program should be resumed January 1, when the University can secure a fresh federal appropriation.
The Bureau of Higher Education, Department of Health, Education and Welfare—which supplies 80 per cent of the program's funds—originally allocated $133,777 for 1968.
Bernard Taylor, assistant director of the office of student financial aid, said his office did not know how much work-study money had been spent in any given month—until the various departments hiring work-study students turned in their navrrolls.
Realizing they would run short of money, KU administrators said they applied for and received a $10,878 supplementary appropriation last summer. They admit, however, that they still made no attempt to budget the funds remaining.
Those departments, Taylor explained, determined how many hours each student worked.
Explaining that students can work only 15 hours weekly during school but can work 40-hour weeks during vacation, Taylor blamed an unexpectedly high summer payroll for difficulties.
Because his office knew neither the number of students employed nor the hours they worked until departments turned in payrolls, Taylor said, the money was spent before the aids and awards office knew it.
University officials did not know precisely how and where the money had been spent until a Kansan reporter requested a breakdown of work-study expenditures during mid-September.
Taylor said the aid office asked for a second supplementary appropriation during August, when administrators discovered they were out of funds. Unlike the first request, this one was rejected.
This was the first time the KU program had run out of funds. During 1966 and 1967, the first two years of work-study here, money was left over at the end of allocation periods a foreboding development for the KU program.
Hoffer charges students 'behaving like hoodlums'
At the end of the 1967 funding period, the KU work-study program returned about $32.000. Tavlor said.
A federal program administrator from Kansas City explained that when a program sponsor returns money to the federal government, its grant is usually cut the next year. Because of
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UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Increase patrols
near Wichita East
WICHITA, Kan.-Police patrols were increased yesterday around Wichita East High School in hopes of quelling any possible racial flare-ups which might arise.
The school and a hamburger stand across the street were the scene of rock-throwing and bottle-smashing incidents Tuesday which sent a number of students to hospitals.
Police quickly dispersed about 150 students, both Negro and white, who had gathered in the area and no arrests were made.
Paris negotiators
resume peace talk
PARIS-American and North Vietnamese negotiators met today for the 27th time with U.S. diplomats expressing hope Hanoi might use the meeting to reply to an American plan for moving the Vietnam War from the battlefield to the peace conference table.
W. Averell Harriman, chief American negotiator, told newsmen before the session he had no sign any such Hanoi reply was coming. But the roving ambassador said, "I am always hopeful."
North army units retreat from war
WASHINGTON—In the past five months, North Vietnamese army units totaling 12,000 or more men have retreated so far north of the demilitarized Zone that they are now "out of the war," military officials said today.
In the phrase used by military men, they are "not now in a position to influence" the war in the South.
Defense officials do not believe these withdrawals are part of any peace move. There is doubt just what their significance is.