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KANSAN
84th Year, No. 52
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
KANU Seeks Tower Site
Thursday, November 8, 1973
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"ONE SMALL STEP FOR A MARTIAN~A GIANT STEP FOR MARTIANKIND!"
Nixon Seeks Energy Cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Nixon asked Congress last night for emergency powers by December to combat the growing fuel shortage, including lower speed limits, year-round daylight save time and exemptions from anti-pollution laws.
"We are heading toward the most acute shortages of energy since World War II," Nixon told the nation in a broadcast ad. He cited the Midwest crisis as the cause.
Nixon disclosed that he was preparing plans for gasoline rationing only as a “contingency plan.” He said that users of gasoline were encouraged to spend less cent fuel than they used last year.
Nixon asked for, among other things,
authority to reduce business operating
hours, to curtail outdoor electrical ad-
ministration, and to impose energy conservation taxes or fees.
He said he was ordering all federal vehicles to travel at no more than 50 miles
per hour. Legislation would be necessary to make the provision apply to all drivers.
"The fuel crisis need not mean genuine suffering for any American," he said. "But it will require some sacrifice by all Americans."
The Arab shuttle of oil shipments to the United States had made the situation acute, Nixon said, and petroleum supplies this could be short by as much as 17 per cent.
Nixon might some school and factory schedules might be realigned and some jet flights cancelled. His proposals would expand the government's powers to adjust the schedules of planes, ships and other carriers.
IN ADDITION to seeking new legislation, Nixon said, he was asking everyone "to lower the thermostat in his home by at least six degrees so that we can achieve a national daytime average of 68 degrees."
BY ROT CLEVENGER
Kansas Staff Reporter
UFOs Still Perplex Man
Since prehistoric times, men have looked into the sky and wondered about the bright objects they saw. At first, they couldn't understand the moon, planets and stars. Although these objects are somewhat unusual, they were very useful in upward and still seeing unusual lights.
BY ROY CLEVENGER
Korean Staff Reporter
In the last month, police around the nation have received hundreds of reports of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), which claim to have seen, teached or even ridden in.
There have been government investigations of UFOs, but they have been almost as controversial as the UFOs themselves.
Ohio Gov. John Gilligan told reporters that he had watched a cigar-shaped UFO for 30 minutes Oct. 15 as he drove near Ann Arbor, Mich.
FOUR UNIVERSITY of Kansas professors expressed varying views on "flying saucers" yesterday, but all agreed in a scientific investigation of the phenomenon.
Two Pascagola, Miss., fishermen told police in mid-October that they had been captive by red-skinned creatures and taken aboard an alien spacecraft.
Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., said Tuesday in a speech at Central Washington State College that he believed some UFOS were spacecraft from extraterrestrial life.
"It is the responsibility of science to find out just what people are seeing," said Edward J. Zeller, professor of geology, physics and astronomy and space technology. "It's obvious that theyre seein something."
In 1949 the United States Air Force began Project Blue Book to assemble and investigate reports of flying saucers. By 1969, when the project ended, the Air Force had developed a method that concluded that more than 90 per cent of all reported UFOs had been natural
phenomena such as planes, stars and clouds. Those that could not be explained offered no threat to the United States, the project found.
In 1966 the Air Force appointed Edward Condon, a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, to conduct a definitive study of UFOs.
THE PROJECT'S report, issued in late 1968, said a very small fraction of UFOS couldn't be satisfactorily explained. The FOFO "believers", as biased and incomplete.
"THE CONCEPT of extraterrestrial volcanism is very painful and frightening to a human mind."
"There hasn't been a definitive study, and there must be one, conducted by a governmental agency so that no one stands to gain from the results." Gisela Dreschhoff, research associate in radiation physics, said.
If there is no life in outer space, she said,
UFOS are psychological or sociological
tools.
Zeller cited two reasons why people were trained to report or investigate UFO sightings.
She said she believed UFOs were one of two possible worldwide phenomena.
'In our times and our technological
people should be more open-minded
about new ideas.'
I'll use a single line for the whole paragraph.
'In our times and our technological
people should be more open-minded
about new ideas.'
Let's re-read the first word.
'In our times and our technological
people should be more open-minded
about new ideas.'
Wait, the 'in' is on the left.
The 'our' is on the right.
The 'technological' is between them.
The 'people' is between them.
The 'should' is between them.
The 'be' is between them.
The 'more' is between them.
The 'open-minded' is between them.
The 'about' is between them.
The 'new' is between them.
The 'ideas' is between them.
Let me re-examine the text carefully.
'In our times and our technological
people should be more open-minded
about new ideas.'
Yes, it's all on one line.
Final check:
'In our times and our technological
people should be more open-minded
about new ideas.'
Yes, that's it.
Let me re-read the second line.
'I would like to say that I think technology
is a powerful tool that can help us improve
our lives.'
Yes, that's it.
Let me re-read the third line.
'A new way of thinking about
technology could help us become
much more aware of its impact on our
world.'
“If there is extraterrestrial life, you have to assume that the reports over the years have been correct.” Dreschoff said. “If there is extraterrestrial life, absolutely necessary to investigate this.”
Dreschoff said the government should investigate reports from qualified objec-
Also, he said, the press and scientists have used ridicule to suppress UFO reports.
"There are a lot of reports from people who are known to be normal, like pilots," she said. "If they're all fantasizing, I want the government to investigate why. And if it's the government that is into an empire, if they are not trusted, they should be out of their positions."
"I's respectable to make comments about UFOS," he said, "but it isn't quite respectable to say you believe in them. When it's no longer political or professional suicide to report sightings, there will be a great cascade of information."
The greatest problem with UFO sightings in the lack of concrete, measurable data, according to Thomas Armstrong, associate professor of physics and astronomy.
"You need authenticated photographs and data from instruments," he said. "You've got to take the human observer out of the picture." He sampled a sample of something extraterrestrial.
Armstrong discounted theories that UFOS were the spacecraft of alien civilizations. He said the presence of aliens in our solar system would have been detected.
"Any civilization that could send out vehicles would use lots of energy," he said. "Someone would detect radio waves or other signatures of their civilization."
INITIAL CONTACT between planets would probably be by radio waves or some other form of communication, not by vehicles, Armstrong said.
Armstrong said that other planetary systems were so far from earth that travel between them was a statistical improbability.
Among his proposals is one that is sure to arouse controversy on Capitol Hill. He asked for power to explore, develop and produce from the naval oil reserves at Elk Hills, Calif. Some powerful congressmen are against use of the reserves.
"There are lots of natural phenomena we don't really understand," he said. "This causes some real problems."
"Statistically, there probably is intelligent life somewhere in our galaxy," he said. "But, by the same statistics, it's not that only two civilizations are near each other."
Earlier in the day, Nixon briefed governors and congressmen on energy questions.
"If you're a skepic, you say it's mass
evidence. If you're a skepic, you say it's mass
evidence, you would expect sighings."
Armstrong suggested two reasons that flying saucer sightings occurred in clusters.
—"There will be reductions of approximately 15 per cent in the supply of heating oil for homes, offices and other establishments. To be sure that there is enough oil to go around for the entire building, we should strive to live and work in lower temperatures."
"We are allocating reduced quantities of fuel for aircraft. This will lead to a cutback of more than 10 per cent in the number of flights scheduled in arrival and departure times."
Gov. David Bumpers of Arkansas told newsmen that the drive for self-sufficiency, which Nixon compared to the nation's successful effort to send men to the moon, would cost about $20 billion in federal funds, largely for research.
—"Efforts will also be made to convert power plants from the use of oil to the use of coal." Love said some pressure could be applied in a program until authorized legislation is passed.
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oil in the immediate future." Love said this regulation would be forthcoming in about 10
Nixon said it was imperative that an emergency energy act be considered by Congress with administration cooperation in the preparation before Congress recesses in December.
Nixon said that stronger actions might be required if the fuel shortages persisted.
The President also said he was ordering that federal agencies reduce their heating that the Atomic Energy Commission speed the licensing and construction of nuclear plants and that governors and mayors take fuel-eaving measures.
Nixon's top energy adviser, John A. Love, told reporters that mandatory allocation of propane and heating oil at the wholesale level will be imposed on all petroleum products, including gasoline.
After calling for a reduction in home-bearing temperatures, Nixon added:
—In offices, factories and commercial establishments, we must ask that you achieve the equivalent of a 10-degree temperature or curtailing working hours. $^{1}$
"Incidentally, my doctor tells me that in a temperature of 66-68 degrees, you're really more healthy than when it's 75-78 degrees, if that's any comfort."
—"We must be prepared to take additional steps, and for that purpose, additional authorities must be provided by the Congress."
To meet the energy shortage, Nixon announced these steps:
"I am directing that industries and utilities that use coal—our most abundant resource—be prevented from converting to
Gov. Robert B. Docking said rationing might be necessary by the beginning of next year.
Gov. Robert D. Ray of Iowa said nonessential businesses and industries might be persuaded to reduce their operating hours voluntarily as a fuel-saving measure. But, he said, Nixon wants authority to impose such restrictions if necessary.
Nixon Rejects Resignation
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Nixon said in a nationally televised speech yesterday that he had "no intention of walking away" from the presidency.
Departing from his prepared text about national energy policy, Nixon said he would attempt to remove any doubts the American people might have about his integrity.
After listing what he said were his major achievements this year, Nixon said, "I would be less than candid if I were not to have not been an easy year in some respects."
Nixon noted requests that he should resign but said, "I have no intention whatever of walking away from the job I was elected to do. As long as I am physically able, I will continue to work 14 hours a day in the world and prosperity at home."
The President, speaking without notes, said the American people "will come to realize that I have not violated the trust of the United States." He also met me president of the United States."
Course Survey Gets Full Funds
An alternative bill submitted by the Finance and Auditing (F&A) committee would have given CIS only $2,750, which would provide for printing costs for Feedback.
This motion was defeated when Nancy Archer, Anamosa, Iowa, senior and student body vice president, broke a 27 to 27 tie by casing the decisive negative vote.
The Student Senate voted last night to fund the full $5,000 for the Curriculum and Instruction Survey (CIS) that won't be funded by the University.
FSA argued in presenting the alternative bill that it was uncertain how the actual income from activity fees would compare to which this year's budget was based.
FBA circulated copies of a letter from Nancy Harper, Lawrence graduate student at Purdue.
the reduced allocation on the condition that feedback is taken from next year's budget to print Feedback.
Archer she thought the University had provided the $5,000 for CIS on the assumption that the senate would provide the remaining $5,000.
Rich Lauter, Evanston, III., senior,
defended the full allocation on the grounds
that CIS provided the systematic and
representative student evaluation
recommended by Chancellor Dykes in his
report on tenure.
The senate also passed a petition to the Board of Regents supporting a reduction of the transportation fee for next semester from $2 to $1.50.
The senate passed the petition despite the opposition of transportation committee.
Cindy Steineger, Kansas City, Kan,
senior and chairman of the committee, said
the bus system faced numerous problems from inflation and the energy crisis.
She said that if any expansion in service was attempted with a reduced transportation fee, there wouldn't be enough money to run the system past 1976.
Proponents of the petition argued that the bus system was a service that should be provided by the public.
"I firmly against the principle of making students pay for the bus system."
After lengthy discussion, the senate voted to send a bill for a pro-rated replacement fee for lost or destroyed bus passes back to the committee committee for further discussion.
The senate also send back to committee a resolution to change committee reports presented at senate meetings from oral to written.
Tenure Report Requires More Study, Dykes Says
By BETH RETONDE
Kantan Staff Reporter
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes accepted most of the first section of the tenure report by the University Senate Executive Committee (SenBx) but said recommendations should be followed third of the report would require additional study before any action could be taken.
SECTION TWO recommends actions that in SenEx's view should be formally considered by the governing structure of the University. Section three includes matters related to the University or action by the Board of Regents or the state legislature.
Dykes gave his reaction yesterday to the committee's report in a letter sent to James E. Seaver, professor of history and chairman of SenEx.
Section one of the report recommends administrative actions and decisions that could be made immediately. The report identifies the reasons for clarification and procedural details.
The SenEx report had recommended that some form of systematic and representative student and peer teaching evaluation be done in the dossier of each tenure candidate.
Dykes accepted the recommendation and said the relative importance assigned to the evaluations would be determined by those during the granting of tenure or promotion.
Dykes said the committee's recommendation for a checkback procedure would have to be clarified concerning cases in which contradictory recommendations are made to the University Committee on Research. The UCPC or another department or school committee.
The SenEx report had also suggested that Dykes define the term financial exigency in his definition of "financial exigency." University would have to dismiss a tenured professor for financial reasons. SenEx said it would request action on this item by the senate and could be discussed on Organization and Administration.
THE CHECKBACK PROCEDURE suggested by SenEx would require the UCPT to inform a committee of any contradictory tenure recommendations. The committee could then discuss the case with UCPT before a final decision was made.
"CLEARLY, IT IS not synonymous with 'budgetary convenience' and normally will involve demonstrated financial inference or the University as a whole." Dykes said.
Dykes reiterated the University's commitment to the basic principles of academic tenure. He said, however, that changing viewpoints on tenure and pressure arising from the decline of a long period of growth may require adjustments in tenure policy.
'lives and it wasn't feasible to try to define financial exigency in terms of a set of conditions.'
news capsules / the associated press
Congress overrode Nixon's veto of bill to limit presidential power to commit troops.
Longress handed President Nixon a major defeat yesterday by enacting law over his veto a historic hill that will put a 60-day limit on presidents' power to veto legislation.
power to commit an attack will be opposed by a coalition of Nixon supporters and antiawar congressmen who contended it would grant president new power to attack the US.
wage will up to 20 days without a statement after the House vote that reiterated his opinion that the nation's ability to act decisively in international crises will be undermined by the bill.
Over 50 South Vietnamese bombers
blasted Viet Cong administrative capital .
Loc Ninh, the capital, was hit in the heaviest air blts since the cease-fire, the Saigon military command announced. The raid was called a punitive action retaliating for recent Viet Cong attacks.
A Viet Cong spokesman said 120 bombs hit Loc Hien's airstrip, a market, a hotel and residential areas in the city's 75 miles north of Saigon.
A Sejun military spokesman said the closest targets were more than half a rule from the '1990'
tale from the field. In Washington, U.S. intelligence analysts said they thought intensified Companion attacks were aimed at seeing important rice crops.
and Egypt renewed possibility of war.
Talks moved toward peace as Israel
After conversing three hours with President Anwar Sadat of U.S., U.S. Ambassador of State Henry Kissinger said, "We are moving toward peace." Sadat adjudged.
Kissinger immediately dispatched his top assistant on Middle East affairs, Joseph Cisco, to Tel Aviv to fill in Israeli Premier Golda Meir on what
In a separate development, the United States and Egypt announced plans to soon resume diplomatic relations broken off in 1967 and to exchange
Meanwhile, Syria charged Israel with violation of the coerce-fire for the second day in town on official Middle East News Agency said the group and expelled.
White House aid John Bennett testified before U.S. District Court Judge John Sirica that President Nixon's personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, called him in her office Tuesday to give her advice about the conversations. Bennett said she also told him that she wasn't transcribing the tape as he had testified earlier.
Testimony of Nixon aide raised question of whether part of another tape is missing.
Exactly what tapes Woods was listening to may be found out when she testifies, which is expected to be today.
The White House said, meanwhile, that Nixon was expanding his legal staff to deal with Watergate problems.
The Senate Watergate committee heard testimony, in a related development, that a Florida homebuilder was promised an end to his legal problems with the Federal Housing Administration in exchange for a $100,000 cash campaign contribution. The builder said the deal fell through.
Former presidential aide Krogh asked California court to subpoena Nixon to testify.
Egi Krogh Jr. asked for Nixon to testify about conversations between the two men, court records disclosed. It was also discovered that Krogh and former preside-alate John Ehrichman have asked for recordings of his conversations and Nixon for use in defending against burglary and conspiracy charges.