Simon Wiesenthal
StudEx head quits; criticizes coverage
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By MARY ERNST
Staff Reporter
Phill Kaufman resigned last night as the chairman of the Student Executive Committee after a 10-minute speech in which he emphasized at the news coverage of his resignation.
Kaufman said at the Student Senate meeting that he thought a story about his resignation in Tuesday's University Daily Kansan was unnecessary and sensational.
He was referring to a story that reported that he would resign at Tuesday's StudEx meeting, and not at the full Senate meeting last night.
Kraauf said he had made an agreement with Mike Harper, student body president, last week to resign at the Senate meeting last night.
THEERE WERE some management problems in the Senate, he said, but they were not all the fault of the senators in management positions.
"We had agreed that it should be done with as little publicity as possible," Kaufman said. "We had hoped that a smooth transition could be made."
"Many of the management problems result from the inability of the current administration to delegate authority to those management positions." he said.
He said apathy was not a problem in the Senate, but that it could be if Senate leaders
"Apathy happens when boredom arises," he said.
Kaufman said he had never told a Kansan
reporter that he would resign on Tuesday and that he had made all of his comments off the record.
"The majority of the quotes attributed to me in the story Tuesday were accurate, but not true."
Kaufman said that because of problems he had seen in the Kansei, he would propose a review board, composed of students, to evaluate the program. He was supported by Del Bluelock, executive vice chancellor.
"THIS BOARD is not designed to limit First Amendment privileges." Kaufman said. "The purpose of the board would be to recommend methods for better fiscal management and improved reporting of campus and non-campus activities."
Kauffman said he expected a front-page apology from the Kansan in today's paper.
But Steve Frazier, Kansan editor, said he stood by both the story and the reporter.
"The story was not sensational in its writing, editing or placement in the newspaper. It is a legitimate coverage of what appeared to be a resignation that was not entirely Kaufman."
Frazier said that Kaufman had not approached him with any complaints about his behavior.
He said the reporter had clearly identified herself as a reporter and told Kaufman midway through the conversation that the story probably would be printed.
Nazi hunter won't give up search
By BRUCE A. WELLS
Simon Wiesenthal was liberated from Auschwitz, the German concentration camp, by the American Sixth Army.
'AFTER SHE said that, Kaufman con-
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Last night, the founder and director of the Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna, Austria, spoke to more than 200 people at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. During the one-hour speech Wiesenthal told listeners why he and their Jews continue to pursue Nazi war criminals more than 33 years after World War II ended.
"They were in uniforms, but not soldiers. They fought against defenseless people," he said. "Ninety-five percent of them were unarmed."
According to Harvey Cottie, chief of UMKC campus police, an undisclosed group is rumored to have issued a death threat against Wiesenthal on Tuesday. Wiesenthal arrived in Kansas City, Mo., yesterday.
As Wiesenthal spoke, more than a dozen police and campus security officers watched and waited.
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Oblivious to the possible danger, Wiesenthal calmly
"Several names were mentioned, terrorist-type," Cottle said. "We felt that the threat was serious enough to provide us with a chance."
presented his speech, "The Murders Among Us." He criticized several governments that, he said, hinder efforts to get justice.
"Since the war," Wiesenthal said, "I'm fighting with
organizations. I'm fictional with politicians."
Wisenthal was particularly critical of the United States' handling of nee-Nazi organizations. Because America allows groups to publish anti-Semitic propaganda freely, it is important that new materials be produced and results in the United States being condemned, he said.
Germany also received Wiesenthal's criticism. He said the West German government had a moral obligation not to forget the war criminals. A statute of limitations on concrete criminals is scheduled to expire by the end of next year.
"We could not accent such a big injustice." he said.
Less than two weeks ago an organized appeal went out to "individuals all over the world" to buy picture postcards of various war criminals from the "International Resistance Movement," said Wesilianth is vice president, is asking people to send the postcards to Helmut Schmidt, chancellor of West Germany. The organization's Schmidt to extend or eliminate the statute of limitations.
"One-hundred Fifty thousand German and Austrian Nazis committed crimes," Wiesenhald said. "Two-thirds are missing and between 20,000 and 25,000 are living under false names. The problem cannot have an absolute
Wiesenthal has brought to trial nearly 1,000 war crimes since 1915. Among those was Adolf Eichmann, who the Austrian Nazi in charge of the extermination of the Jews committed by the Einsatzgruppen agents, brought to trial at Tel Aliv; and hung in 1862.
Wisenthal related several events he had experienced or heard about Nazi concentration camps.
A criminal county was a dark place.
"We lost 11 million witnesses," he said.
However, Wiesenthal said, actually identifying such war criminals today was a difficult task.
The concentration camp Auschwitz, which claimed more than three million lives during its four-year operation, had a Nazi staff of more than 6,000 members of the SS. Gerrit Zimmermann was executed by Nazi enemies were tried and convicted of war crimes.
Today, about 25 witnesses remain to identify the surviving war criminals, Wiesenthal said.
KANSAN
"They know that for them, there is no rest," Wiesenthal said.
Vol. 89. No.44
Thursday, October 26,1978
KU plans to avert financial crisis
By JAKE THOMPSON Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Lawrence, Kansas
r financial exigency would be a crisis situation for the University in which—faced with declining enrollments, an increasing number of tenured faculty members and decreased state and federal funding—the university would have to cut the number of its faculty.
Careful preventive planning could insure that financial exigency would never occur at the University of Kansas, Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said yesterday.
"It's inevitable that we will have some decline in enrollment during the next 10 years," Shankel said. "The high point is that we're doing better, something to speed preventive planning."
The chancellor would be required to announce financial exigency one year before the faculty cuts began. The faculty must sign a binding contract of some non-denied faculty.
KU FACULTY ARE ranked, from tenured to non-tenured, baased on the number of years with the University and services provided.
However, in a letter to the University Senate Executive Committee, Shankel outlined several efforts by the administration to avoid financial exigency.
He reported the progress of the administration's plans to change the basis of
Election'78
Local candidates speak at forum
Watch tomorrow for Election 78, the special election issue in the University Daily Kansan. Kansan reporters have compiled 24 pages of candidate profiles, analyses and voter information to help you choose among candidates for local, state and national elections. An enhanced will be information for the homecoming weekend, expanded sports coverage and the Kansan's regular package of news and comment.
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Staff Renorter
Eight local candidates for state and county positions explained their campaign stands to about 40 people last night at a public meeting.
The candidates were those running for the three Kansas House of Representatives seats from Douglas County and the two men who came third in the primary.
Although the candidates stressed differences in philosophy and experience, they appeared to have the same views on nearly all the issues.
"I feel that Mr. Ernie Coleman's services as federal funds consultant will suffice in gaining advice for the commission," he said. "But to hire a county administrator full time, you're talking about spending a lot more money for salaries."
The two men running for the 1st District County Commission seat, Democrat Walter Cragan and John Suder, Republican, both stressed their business backgrounds and a need for long-range planning in the county.
The biggest difference in their stands on the questions asked by the audience came when they were questioned about the use of an AI tool.
"I THINK we can render good, solid decisions with the advice we now have. I didn't think we had any problems when I used it."
Suder said an administrative assistant might be necessary.
CRAGAN AND Suder are running for the commission seat vacated by current County Commission chairman Peter White-
The candidates for the 43rd Congressional District, incumbent
Cragan, who served on the commission four years ago, said the current use of consultants probably would be sufficient.
"I don't think three commissioners, elected by their friends, can do the job any more. We need some good solid professionals in can
"The county commissioners wear many hats," he said. "We need some policy makers, not just day-to-day caretakers. We need them."
Cragan concluded, "I've sat in those chairs before. I don't think I was a great commissioner, but I think I was a damned good one."
John H. Vogel, Republican, and Jim Supica, Democrat, appeared to differ on more issues than the other candidates.
Supica also differed with Vogel's support of use value taxation for farm land. He said use value taxation for farm land would be unfair without the taxation of personal property and real estate by the same use value system.
upcaa said he would favor the elimination of sales tax on food, but Vogel said he would have to see proof that the revenues lost were due.
running for the 44th Congressional District seat were incumbent Michael Glover, Democrat, and Willie Amison,
A USE taxation bill that would have allowed agricultural land to be taxed on the basis of the land's productive value died in 1958.
Supices backed increases in training for nursing home aides and a stiffening of regulations for nursing homes. Vogel informed us that the nursing home aides have been encouraged to
Amison stressed his lack of political experience as his biggest advantage.
"Politics is not my life," he said. "I don't want to be a politician, I want to be your representative. I want to be a person you can trust."
Glover, on the other hand, listed his experience and knowledge of the issues as his best qualification. He also said his openness and ability to "get things done" enabled him to represent the district.
"I've been in the Legislature for six years," Clover said. "I hope I've established a record of integrity, honesty and openness."
KEN WRENTENIGHT and John Solbach, contenders for the 48th Congressional District seat, agreed that education should be the priority.
"My goal is to retain our lifestyle—to keep taxes as low as possible and to keep government spending as low as possible."
Both described themselves as "fiscal conservatives."
The biggest difference between Solbach and Whitengirn arose when they discussed the role of the state funding of social services.
Whitenight said, "The state cannot take care of everyone to the extent of all of their needs and desires.
Under formula funding, the University would request funds based on comparisons of research output.
stituitions, rather than on the total number of students enrolled. The peer institutions have similar programs, enrollems, state legislatures and community sizes.
called formula funding, has been approved by the Kansas Board of Regents and will be presented to the Kansas Legislature in the University's budget request for fiscal 1980.
funding for the University, a voluntary early education program, state-created cooperative programs with high school schools and internal changes tightening the number of faculty members at the Universi-
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THE OTHER INSTITUTIONS are the universities of Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina and Oregon.
The University's new basis of funding.
Stairway to heaven
Sell Photo by ALAN ZLOTKY
Construction workers from B.B. Anderson Co., Topeka, began Hall yesterday. The crane will be used in constructing the outer putting together the pieces for a large crane tower behind Malott for a wall of the Malott hall addition.