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Thursday, August 31, 1978
University Daily Kansan
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Fully open meetings few,study says
WASHINGTON (AP)—Less than 40 percent of the meetings of 47 federal agencies covered by the Sunshine Act were fully open to the public in the act's first year of operation, according to a Common Cause study released yesterday.
"Government agencies are thumping their noses at the American taxpayer," said David Cohen, a professor of public policy at City citizens' lobby. "They are often cloning their doors to the public even when open discussion of the subject matter is clearly in the public domain."
THE SUNSHINE ACT, passed in March 1977, is designed to reduce the number of government meetings closed to public scrutiny. It permits meetings to be closed under certain exemptions, such as when they concern national security or information obtained confidentially, or when a case is being decided before the agency.
Common Cause issued a list of what it called the "seven secret" agencies which it said had the most records of secrecy. But Cohen said a few of them engage in law enforcement and litigation and this might just justify closed meetings.
THE LIST INCLUDED the Export-Import Bank, the National Labor Board, the Federal Safety and Health Review Commission, the U.S. Parole Commission, the Federal Reserve Board, the Commodity Futures Exchange, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board.
William T. Bagley, chairman of the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission and a champion of open meetings, said "We are the most open agency in town." Some meetings are closed by law, he said, but the com- mission is open public policy meeting once a week.
"RECENTLY I found you had some 'confidential' stamps around," Bagley told a reporter. "I gathered them all up and I threw them into the Potomac River. Simply as a symbol that governs us, exist without confidential stamps."
Since G. William Miller took over as head of the Federal Reserve Board last spring, he has made a policy of one week on Thursday or the next week. FRANK B. O'Brien, spokesman, said.
At the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, Robert Gombar, general counsel, said the only function of the commission is to review it, a function exempt from the open meeting act. The commission is encouraging more oral arguments in open session, he said, but requests for open hearings must come from the parties involved.
THE NLRB ALSO said most of its meetings concern deciding cases.
The Common Cause report cited three agencies for outstanding compliance with the requirements of the nessesee Valley Authority held all 27 of its meetings in open session; the Interstate Commerce Commission held 86 percent of the Civil Aeronautics Board 82 percent.
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There are no residential facilities in Kansas specially designed for the handicapped, Gary Condra, a director of Independence, said yesterday. The handicapped live at home or in an institution, he said.
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population and determining what the needs were for housing and transportation.
Help also could come from the Kansas Legislature.
LILOYD BUZZI, vice president of Management, Inc., and state representative from the 45th district, introduced a bill to the Legislature that resulted in the foray of an interim committee. The committee is responsible for services available to the handicapped.
The Legislature will follow up the committee's study with a pilot project residence for the handicapped. That project may be done in Lawrence or Toonek. Conraid said.
Some Independence members have visited residences for the handicapped in Texas and California. Condra said he had visited handicapped living facilities organized in Houston by the Texas Medical Center. He also visited residences in California and Minnesota.
ROGER WILLIAMS, the organization's president, is a paleontologist at KU and has
One reason for the length of time required on "Moses" is its unusually large size. It has had to be shifted from building to building during its construction.
The finished sculpture will be in front of the Kansas School of Religion, probably by fall 1979. Tefft said He has worked on the project for 12 years.
Dick Royse, a graduate student at KU who is confined to a whelchair, is one of the students.
A 10-foot tall sculpture, "Moses," will be moved down 18th Street sometime this year.
The sculpture will be moved from its temporary home in Learned Hall to the sculpture foundry in the Visual Arts Building, where a plaster cast will be made.
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to be a sounding board for the handcapped. It could be a place to go for advice and a means of contact with elected officials, he said, and handicapped people from other parts of Kansas also could get help and information through the group.
Buzzi said the organization also would like
Tefft said the arduous moving of "Moses," has had its humorous moments.
'Moses' statue to move
Tefft, the director of the International Sculpture Center at the University of Kansas, has bent his rule of working alone on the casting of his sculptures. He has a plaster casting specialist, as well as sculpture students, to observe and work on the casting.
"It is a wonderful opportunity to work on such a large piece, and would be very beneficial for sculpture students to participate in some way," he said.
One of its moves took place on Sept. 25, 1974, the same night that X-rated film star Linda Lovevel and evangelist Bill Glass taught on different sides of the KU campus.
"Then along came old 'Moses' being moved right down the middle of them," Tefft said. "You might say he really parted the waters that night."
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