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Friday, November 30, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Decline of Science Cited
The influence of scientists and engineers in national affairs has suffered in recent years, according to Edward E. David Jr., former science adviser to Presidentixon Jr.
David, seventh in a series of Kenneth A. Spencer Memorial lectures, spoke on "Whatever Happened to Science" last night in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas City metro.
Science and engineering are playing a supporting role. David said, and are working on it.
"Science has been replaced in the driver's seat and is now in the rider's seat," he said. "Scientists are only one of many advisers on the national level."
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the shortages to be borne mainly by consumers, who must cut down on nonessential driving and on thermostat setting in their homes, he said.
Stein said the economy's growth next year, as measured by *Gross National Product*, might be only 1 per cent, compared to the normal growth rate of 4 per cent.
He said that the worst impact would come in the first six months of next year and that economic output could possibly decline from January through March.
The chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, Robert D. Timm, put the economic impact in more precise terms. He said it will help the air force of all scheduled air services to some cities.
The fuel shortage could cause an even more depressed housing market next year, said economists at a conference sponsored by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board in Washington. They said housing starts could be up per cent from the 2 million starts this year.
Despite anticipated fuel shortages at home, the nation is continuing to send reduced amounts of oil to allies in Southeast Asia. a Pentagon spokesman said.
Many of Stein's economic forecasts have missed in the past. In January, his council said that consumer prices would be rising at the rate of 2.5 per cent at the end of the year. They are now going up at a rate of about 8 per cent.
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Equality . . .
A sentence review system has already adopted Wilson's advice. Wilson said he would have never used a review system.
"Kansas isn't a very innovative state in respect to court procedures," he said.
Wilson said, however, that fft 1910; Kansas placed a maximum limit on the sentence a judge could impose for each class of crime. Wilson said he had worked with were graining probation more often in place of a prison sentence. He said a combination of more probations and more liberal parole policies had resulted in a drop in the population of the Kansas state prison.
"Fifteen years ago there were about 1,800 prisoners in Lansing. Now there are about 700, and the figure continues to decline," he said.
David Berkowitz, Douglas County prosecuting attorney, said his office often recommended probation to a judge if a convicted person was a first-time offender, cooperated with the police or needed some form of treatment unavailable in prison.
He said that judges should have leeway to consider the circumstances of a crime and that the present sentencing system was working well in Douglas County.
"There does seem to be a tendency in courts here for students to be put on probation where nonstudents aren't," Berkowitz said.
"One student who was a second-time felon was put on probation because the judge felt society was better off in the long run to keep him in school. The student was black."
Berkowitz also said similar lewis was a person who had jobs as operatives to government.
He said he thought many crimes had penalties that were too severe.
"I don't think the punishment for the possession of heroin should be as severe as for the selling of it. This could encourage a person to sell as well as use it."
Berkowitz said certain criminal should carry fines instead of jail sentences. He said he thought resitiation for a criminal act could also be applied in cases involving poor people because the resituation could be paid over a period of time.
David, who resigned as science adviser to the President and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology in January 1973, was replaced after his
David said that a loss of communication between the President and his science and technology advisers caused the abolition of the office.
Science and technology are at the mercy of society, he said. The public attitude toward science and technology has changed because of a trend to reject rationality.
Many people question technology's power, David said. He cited Marshall McLhanus as a major influence on public attitudes.
"Most people think, 'We must not become children of technology. Technology should serve the people, not vice versa,' he said. The presentation was foreseen in the book."
It was difficult to get action before a crisis arose, he said, because society prevented people from getting involved.
DAVID SAID that the Energy Office, a department established by the Office of Science and Technology, had proposed a solution to the energy problem in the early 1970s. The first presidential policy on energy was made in 1971, he said.
"Although the present situation is a crisis, we would have been much worse off without the steps taken by the Energy Office," David said.
The United States could be self-sufficient in energy by 1800, he said, through the increased use of coal, oil shale, and nuclear fuel. But that would require new solutions, he said, because people must
Edward E. David Jr.
worry about safety and environmental restraints.
David said that science and technology would gain greater influence in the future through the emergence of civil research and development as opposed to military and space research and development. Givilan said he already outstrips military and space spending, he said.
The present crisis is a civilian crisis rather than a military crisis, said David, one that will help put science back in the driver's seat.
Political dominance is eroding, David said. He said the executive branch of the government was having a hard time managing it.
Shuttle Bus Planned For KU Commuters
If you're a student commuting to KU from Kansas City or Topahe and you're becoming fearful because of increasing talk of gas rationing, you might be relieved to learn that a commuter bus service for students is being arranged for next semester.
This service would be available to students for as little as $1 for a Lawrence-Kansas City round trip, according to Cindy Steineger, Kansas City, Kan., senior and chairman of the Student Senate's transportation committee.
"We can charter a bus for a total cost of $4 a day," Steineger said, "and since the bus can hold 44 people, the cost would be very nominal for each student."
Steineger said that a group of students formed the Crisis Transportation Committee (CTC) last Tuesday to find a cheaper way of commuting to KU.
"The meeting last Tuesday was attended by students from Kansas City, Topeka, Leavenworth and the Sunflower district," Steineger said, "and since then, there have been many other students who have shown interest in the idea."
Ray Berman, Kansas City, Kan., junior and a member of CTC, said he was optimistic about the chances of the commuter service getting started by next semester.
or we have to do is get the information service out to interested students to get it in.
Berman, who is a commuter himself, said that many graduate students who commuted to the campus two or three times a week had shown an interest in the service.
Berman said the CTC wouldn't ask for an allocation from the senate, unless for an appointment.
"We'd like to do this thing ourselves. We think it can be a self-supporting deal among us."
Steineger said that the CTC was investigating bus companies from Kansas City, Topeka and Lawrence to find a bus that could be chartered for the service. Berman said the group was also thinking of creating jobs overseas which weren't used during the week.
Besides benefiting students who come to Lawrence for classes, Steineger said, the service could also be used by people who live in a city for a day to either shop or see friends.
Steiniger said that another meeting on the commuter service would be at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Kansas Union. She urgled all staff and those who were interested in the service to attend.
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--billionaire Howard R. Hughes, State Atty. Richard G. Gerstein said a Miami Herald news story, which said a bank official had told him about the certificate, is not inaccurate. Gerstein said he has issued subposas for any records the bank may have withdrawn from the account previously unreported $10,000 campaign donation once despatched there.
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—Informed sources said the White House has told federal investigators that full disclosure of a still-secret project of the so-called plumbers unit could endanger the life of 4,000 workers in the United States inside the Soviet Union. President Nixon has said publicly that one of the activities of the plumbers, who were responsible for burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsbury's psychiatrist in 1971, was involved without endangering national security.
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MIAMI'S CHIEF prosecutor confirmed that he has evidence Nixon kept a $100,000 certificate of deposit in the same bank that deposited his funds. Rebeko, who kept a secret $100,000 cash gift from
-SPECIAL Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski told newsmen he is considering asking the White House to turn over all presidential tape recordings for safekeeping, "so that there couldn't anything happening to them." Seven subpoenaed tapes already are under court guard, but the White House still holds the
—the federal court hearing into an 18-minute gap in a crucial Watergate tape continued and White House lawyer J. Fred Buzhardt succeeded in duplicating a humming sound obliterating conversation on the tape. But Bushardt testified that experts summoned to the White House to conduct similar tests reported they cannot duplicate the sound.
—Presidential press secretary Ronald Ziegler, in a briefing at the White House, said Jaworski's idea "is just nonsense." He pointed to the two letters on one of the tapes, all other conversations under subpoena "are intact." And Ziegler lashed out at Jaworski's staff lawyers, saying they have shown no demeanor in this President and this administration.
Officers Respond To Fire Report
Units from the Lawrence Fire Department were called to Jayhawker Towers apartments at about 11:30 last night by a report of a fire, according to KU Security and Parking. No fire was found by the officer by officers from Security and Parking.
Sounds of explosions were heard by people at the scene, the report said, but a search of the campus failed to determine the source of the sounds.
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