University Daily Kansan
Mondav. November 19. 1973
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Efforts to Solve Energy Crisis Seen as Threat to Environment
Rv BILLACKERMAN
Kanan Staff Reporter
There is danger in using the current energy crisis to destroy work already done in the last five years to preserve the environment, according to Jim Harrick, assistant professor of botany and chairman of the Lawrence Sierra Club.
"laws repealing that work will be regressive," Hamrick said. "Reducing pollution standards will ultimately cost us more in life, health and quality of living."
The energy crisis has proved beneficial in Congress into passing the Alaska pipeline bill.
"The pipeline bill won't do any good in the next five years, due to delays in contracting."
The energy crisis has proved beneficial in several ways, he said. People are learning they can get by with thermostats turned lower, reduced road speeds and limited air travel. Mass transit will also benefit from the crisis, he said.
RESTRICTIONS should be placed on vehicles that waste gasoline, Hamrick said, such as recreation vehicles that get only four to five miles a gallon.
People in rural areas could freeze this winter, he said, because gasoline for automobiles instead of propane or natural gas for home heating was produced.
James McNish, instructor in biology, agreed with Hamrick on the need to conserve fuel. Laws restricting the production of certain leisure vehicles will never be possible, McNish said, but strict regulations on their use are possible.
In 1970, Congress passed the National Environmental Policy Act, under which the federal government required an environmental impact statement on projects with major federal involvement. The courts interpreted the law to mean federal agencies must receive an impact statement from all industries in the industry, McNish said. This has slowed drastically the development of new sources of fuel and resources.
CONGRESS passed the Water Pollution Act of 1972 which rejected the courts' strict interpretation and restricted the extensive powers of the earlier act, McNish said. The courts have also placed strict interpretations on this law, he said.
The laws need to be amended to make clear Congress' intentions, temporary powers could be given to the President, he said. McNish said the emergency powers bill proposed by Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash., would have this effect.
Agencies are needed to find replacements for coal and oil fuels, McNish said. People can ration for a short time, he said, as demonstrated in World War II, but no lasting changes will be made in our life-styles.
"NIXON'S record for research in alternative energy sources has been way too low," Hamrick said. "Atomic energy isn't come to save us."
Some legitimate concern exists over the use of atomic energy, but more so over the possibility of a nuclear war.
Part of Sen. Jackson's emergency powers bill requires electric generating plants to convert to coal if possible. The western states have the biggest coal reserves, but
Limit of 50 on State Cars Called Unenforceable Here
No steps will be taken by the University of Kansas to enforce a state directive ordering 50 m.p.h. speed limits for all state-owned vehicles incident to L. Martin Jones, KU Rivera.
The directive, issued Nov. 8 by the
Reversed Vision Is Prof's Topic
Ivo Koher, visiting professor of psychology from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, was the featured speaker at a psychology conference Friday and Saturday on the recombination procedure as an aid to studying visual perception.
Kohler began studying recombination, the adaptation to rearranged vision, in the latent state.
Robert Welch and Charles Hallenbeck, associate professors of psychology and chairman and cochairman of the conference respectively, sponsored the meeting in the Kansas Union. Approximately 75 people attended.
The result of the experiment was that after a few weeks, Kohler's brain readjusted to the goggles, and everything appeared to be right side up.
In his experiments in recombination, Kohler put on goggles that made everything appear upside down. Kohler left the goggles on for several weeks.
Kohler then took off the goggles, and everything appeared upside down to him until his brain could readjust to normal vision.
Charles A. Kiesler, professor of psychology and chairman of the KU psychology department, opened the conference and welcomed the eight speakers, who came from as far away as California and England.
Department of Administration, said, "State employees using state-owned vehicles will not drive in excess of 50 m.p.h. except in an emergency."
Law enforcement agencies were excluded from the directive.
The directive asks the citizens of Kansas to report any marked state automobile that is involved in an accident or agency the vehicle blonged to. These reports will be forwarded to the head of the agency who will investigate the charge and the Director of Administrative Services.
Jones said last week that no one had dealt with the question of penalties and enforcement.
Charges would be forwarded to the chancellor, Jones said, but the law is not clear.
"It is, in many respects, a request," said
Mary Mullen, the signature of the
Department of Immigration.
"Personally, I doubt if very many people will stay under 50, but even if they stay under 40, it would be better."
Some of the state vehicles used by KU are assigned to specific departments at the University, Jones said. Others held in a room behind the door out through the Office of Business Affairs.
The use of state cars from the pool is used to travel in Kansas or Arkansas during holidays.
Although faculty and staff members can be reimbursed for the travel expense of private cars used for state business, they are required to take state cars when they are available because they are less expensive to operate.
"The electric companies haven't done much thinking unless they think they'll have the use of the entire water supplies of those states," he said.
Hamrick and McNish both criticize the emergency measures as having only short term effects. They said there was a need for more term planning to prevent further crises.
insufficient water supplies to cool the electric plants.
Jones said he didn't anticipate that the speed limit law would affect the use of state-afforded vehicles.
1" still think most staff members would prefer to take a stair case than a private elevator.
The Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) has agreed to review Chicago grievances against the University of Kansas, Becky Mendoza, Topeka Hines, and board member of the Association of Mexican-American Students (AMAS), said last week.
Mendoza said that J. L. Thomas, contract compliance chief of HEW in Kansas City, Mo., had requested that AMAS send a specific list of its grievances to him.
Mendoza and AMAS was in the process of drafting proposals for the chancellor and
The AMAS has threatened to suit against the University alleging discrimination in admissions.
She said AMAS would forgo a suit until the University received the proposals.
HEW Will Review Chicano Grievances
"We'll have to see how the chancellor reacts to us. We hope we don't have to go to Berlin."
Also at the convention, Bob Simison,
Wichita senior and editor of this newspaper,
received the 1973 Bernard S. Kilgore
Award.
KU won in a region comprising Kansas,
Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa and South
Cathay.
usposit Due Nov. 30—Full Payment Due Dec.12
Thomas confirmed Friday that he had agreed to review Chicago grievances to see whether any information could be added to a report he had been preparing.
The University of Kansas chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalistic society, was named the best chapter in its history to be a national convention in Buffalo, N.Y.
san francisco
Simpson, selected from a field of five finalists, received $42,500 cash award. The winner, Jennifer Kelley, received $37,500.
Thomas said he had conducted a routine review of the University's employment practices in February and would send a report of findings to the University in a few weeks.
KU Chapter Wins SDX Regional Title
for more information contact SUA office - 864-3477
Balfour said a full-fledged Chicano studies program was unlikely at this time. He said, however, that there already were programs to form in California enough together to form a limited program.
He said only one Chicano had applied for the directorship of the Supportive Educational Services (SES). Alice Reid, a black, was chosen director Nov. 9.
As for a Chicago administrator in the Office of Minority Affairs, Balfour said there hadn't been an opening there for several years.
Balfour said that there weren't any Chicano applicants for assistant director of SES, but that there were Chicano tutors and a Chicano counselor in SES.
vice president of the KU chapter, reported also that the organization had changed its name from Sigma Delta Chi to the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi.
AMAS has requested a full-time Chicano recruiter, administrative representation in the office of Minority Affairs and a Chicano studies program.
William Balfour, vice chancellor for student affairs, said Saturday he hoped to get the president involved.
When an opening does materialize, Balfour when, a full time Chicano recruiter will be hired if it is still the University's highest priority.
He said this would depend upon a resignation so that a job position could be established.
Wall Street Journal and honorary national president of Sigma Delta Chi and recognizes outstanding qualities in college journalists. Carolyn Olson, McPherson senior and
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