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KANSAN
84th Year, No. 42
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Food Survey Indicates Prices Stable
Thursday, October 25, 1973
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Nixon vetoed war powers resolution that limited President's power to commit forces.
Nixon said yesterday that the resolution was unconstitutional and "would seriously undermine this nation's ability to act decisively and convincingly."
The measure would have barred the President from committing U.S. forces to combat for more than 60 days without specific approval from Congress.
Group said presidential use of television was threatening system of checks and balances.
The group, which includes former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton N. Minou, told a news conference there was an urgent need to correct what it termed an imbalance among presidential, court and congressional access to national television.
Included in the groups five suggestions was a suspension of political "equal time" requirements by the FCC to allow at least four "great debates" a year in Congress, tailored for live broadcast by the major networks during prime evening time.
With such debates, Minow said, "we think the President won't have an uneven edge in access to the electorate through television."
Chinese Communists opposed intervention by big powers in Middle East conflict.
Peking's Hsinai news agency, spelling out the Chinese position yesterday, said the Soviet Union and United States had been consulting behind the backs of the Arab people to "plot jointly to put out the blazing fire of this just war." The Chinese didn't vote on two cease-fire amendments in the United
The news agency repeated an old Chinese charge that Moscow and Washington were engaging in big political politics centering on Middle East
Butz is helping Justice Department look into charges of milk fund concessions.
Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz said his department was helping investigate charges that concessions were made to dairy farmers after large milk cooperatives pledged a $2 million contribution to President Nikon's 1972 re-election fund. He said the USDA was only providing some assistance.
It was disclosed Tuesday that the dairy industry promised Nixon $2 million in campaign contributions two weeks before he imposed import quotas on ice.
Canada's largest newsprint producer said it raised newspaper price 14 per cent.
Canadian International, the producer, said the price of newsprint to U.S. customers would go up $25 a ton to $200 Nov. 1. For American newspapers, the major consumers of newsprint, the increase will mean a sizable addition to fixed costs.
Davis also said that a telegram would be sent to Rep. Peter Rodino, D-N.J., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, impetch an impeachment proceedings against Nixon.
Several other Canadian producers have also announced price increases.
At the meeting Ed Rue, professor of English and committee treasurer, said
Volkswagen of America filed suit against
National Lampoon for mock advertisement. The suit, which is for $30 million, was filed because of an advertisement that says Sen. Edward Kennedy might have avoided the Chappaquiddick
The suit alleges that readers of the National Lampoon have protected the "advertisement," saying they will never again buy a Volkswagen. But the complaint is unsuccessful.
Impeachment Sought By Citizens' Group
BY ROY CLEVENGER
Kansas Staff Reporter
AN ASSISTANT to Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan,
will meet with the committee at 11:30 a.m.
tomorrow in the South Park recreation
center. Committee members will talk to
a staff member of Rep. Larry Winn, K-Ran,
and Director at Winn's office in
Kansas City, Kan.
Despite President Nixon's announced decision to release tapes of disputed Watergate-related phone conversations, the Douglas County Citizens for Constitutional Government yesterday decided to proceed with a court proceedment to begin impeachment proceedings.
About 250 persons discussed impeachment last night at a meeting called by
John Wright, professor of psychology,
announced that the committee had collected
approximately 2,000 signatures on petitions
urging Congress to impeach Nixon. Wright
he expected 10,000 signatures would be
gathered by the end of the week in
Lawrence and in similar petition campaigns
in Wyandotte and Johnson counties.
Mike Davis, associate professor of law,
said that the committee would meet with
assistants to area Congressmen this week.
A representative of Sen. James Pearson, R-Kan,
will meet with his 11 committee members
afternoon at the senator's Topical Office.
Ruhe said, "Nix is the least competent and most dangerous executive in American politics."
Nixon should resign "for the good of the country."
"We must wonder if we are the victims of
He said Nixon's policies were aimed toward one goal, diverting the public's attention from a problem.
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Nixon Cancels TV Speech
By JEAN HELLER Associated Press Reporter
WASHINGTON—Saying he was too busy with the Middle East crisis to write a speech, President Nixon last night missed a planned address to the nation on the Watergate tapes controversy. He promised, instead, a news conference tonight.
Acting Atty. Gen. Robert Bork, vowed yesterday that he would fight the White House in court if necessary to obtain confidential records for the Watergate grand jury and would resign if he felt his hands were being tied by the White House.
At the same time, the House proceeded with an inquiry on impeachment of Nixon, and the Senate Judiciary Committee scheduled a hearing next Monday to question Archibald Cox, whose ouster created the impeachment furor.
DURING A 45-minute news conference, Bork, who fired Cox, the special Watergate investigator, was asked for structures by letter and in a personal conversation Saturday night. Bork quoted Nixon as saying, "I understand that you are devoted to the principle of democracy in prosecutions fully."
"I am ready to follow any procedure, by agreement or otherwise, to get the evidence . . ." he said. "If we have to use judicial processes—no procedure is ruled out."
THE WHITE House announced Nixon's speech cancellation less than two hours after the President returned here from a night at the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md. It was reported that Nixon had gone there to compose a speech.
Bork said he didn't think he was bound by Nixon's order to the former special Watergate prosecutor to stop trying to obtain White House tapes and records.
But the deputy White House press secretary, Gerald Warren, said yesterday that the Trump administration has made a deal.
consumed completely by Middle East developments and Nixon had thus opted instead for the broadcast news conference at the three time in the East Room of W. White House.
In addition to Watergate, the news conference would deal with the Middle East war and other issues, a White House spokesman said.
Sources disclosed that Senate Republican leaders had protested to the White House about Nixon's handling of the Watergate tape controversy.
In a phone call to a Nixon aide, the GOP leaders also called on Nixon to name a new special prosecutor and to pledge that he would acted investigations be pressed vigorously.
MEANWHILE, Speaker Carl Albert said the preliminary House inquiry on impachment of Nixon would proceed. Albert did not say he would approve decision Tuesday to compay with a court
order to turn over nine White House tape recordings and assorted documents which may furnish evidence to a Watergate grand jury.
The tapes initially were subpoenaed for the grand jury by Cox. The firing of Cox, coupled with the resignation of Aty. Gen. Elliot Richardson and the dismissal of Asst. Atty. Gen. William Ruckelhaus, triggered the impeachment inquiry.
"I hope it is expeditious," Albert said of the inquiry. "And I hope it has this thing to do, and I'm ready."
ALBERT SAID the House Judiciary Committee had been mandated to make inquiries into impeachment resolutions or other matters. The committee's chairman, Rep. Peter Rodino J., D-N.J., said it was possible that his panel would subpoena administration officials.
The Senate Judiciary Committee, after a two-hour closed session, said it did not
discussion calling other witnesses besides Cox,
but chairman James Eastland, D-Miss,
said he thought the panel would also want to
question Richardson and Ruckelshaus who
were forced from office after refusing to
carry out Nixon's order to fire Cox.
During the session, action was blocked on a resolution by a group of Democratic liberals on the panel. The resolution called on Nixon to remand Cox temporarily until he could give him more time to pass a law an independent Watergate prosecutor not subject to presidential dismissal.
IN ANOTHER development, AFLC1-P President George Meany charged Nixon with emotional instability and called again for either his resignation or impeachment. He also passed a resolution demanding that Nixon resign or be removed from office.
"The events of the last several days prove the dangerous emotional instability of the
Cease-Fire Still Elusive
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BULLETIN
U. S. armed forces at home and abroad were placed on alert before dawn today, informed sources said that the Strategic Air Command some National Guard units were placed on alert after the Soviet Union indicated that some of its troops might be sent to the Middle East as a peace-keeping force. There was no confirmation from the Pentagon.
Israel said yesterday that its forces had a stranglehold on a big Egyptian army along
By the Associated Press
the Suean Cause in the third day of an elusive cease-fire and the 19th day of the latest war.
Egypt said the United States and the Sao Paulo Union should send troops to enforce the rule.
Both Israel and Egypt reported heavy fighting in the skies and on the ground along the southern sector of the Suez during the day yesterday.
The Israeli command said the guns had fallen silent last night but the Cairo command's communiques after nightfall told only of continued fighting.
Egypt's plea for U.S.-Soviet military
Chairman Says Grade Committee Failed on Inability to Compromise
KansanStaff Reporter
By NANCY HARPER
Kennedy Staff Reporter
That chairman, David Holmes, associate professors of psychology, said the company was ready to launch.
After spending nearly two years discussing the practices and philosophy of grading in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the ad hoc Committee on grading and evaluation has foundered and its chairman has resigned.
"we needed to compromise but could not," he said recently. "A compromise
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between the abolition of grades and the expansion of the present system would be much less efficient.
Holmes said he advocated the use of a nine-point system of grading that would award numerical points to plus and minus grades.
"HOWEVER," he said, several committee members had drafted initial reports which were compiled into one draft that all of the original charges to the committee."
Arthur Skidmore, assistant professor of philosophy and a committee member, said that before Holmes' resignation the group realized it couldn't produce a detailed, written situation in the college because the committee lacked financial resources.
development of empirical evidence to discover whether grading was necessary for learning, the expanded use of the credit scale and the increased of more levels in the grading system.
The report included most of the arguments put forth by various committee members. It discussed the objectives of the committee that were or weren't served by grading.
It suggested that self-criticism was of primary importance in undergraduate education. Assigning a letter grade is less important, the report said, than written comments by the teacher on the student's work.
It presented to the College Assembly as drafted, the report would recommend further study of specific grading practices in the College. The report also recommended the
"THE FUNCTION of submitting a course grade for the student would seem to be quite irrelevant for the purposes of criticism as it merely reflects a summary evaluation of all the work submitted by the student," the report said.
It further said that motivation was unquestionably served by grading because students were motivated to seek rewards and avoid punishment.
Harmful side effects of grading outlined in the drafted report included:
—The competitiveness of grades, which can destroy creativity and love in learning.
- Making the teacher an evaluator of a student's worth rather than a guide for learning.
...the practice of selecting courses and majors that maximize a student's grade point average.
—The tendency by students to learn only the material that is to be tested.
The report said, " (Grading) alienates the
student from his own work, which is a product submitted for certification and payment rather than a part of himself to be corrected and improved."
According to the report, the value of grading for motivation can be evaluated at two levels.
assistance in assuring a cease-fire along the canal zone came last night an emergency team was deployed.
THE REPORT said the grading system could be justified only if it could be shown that grading was necessary to stimulate students to learn.
THE SOVIET UNION said at the meeting that Egypt was justified under the U.N. charter in asserting its sovereignty and not to whether it would send the requested troops. And the idea got a chilly reception from the United States, which said such big power intervention at this time is necessary.
A second major section of the proposed report dealt with the usefulness of grades to safeguard the quality of the degree awarded.
Generally, the report recommended the expansion of the credit-no credit option whereby "instead of rewarding students for their successes and punishing them for their failures, one can simply keep track of positive attainments."
"THE QUALITY of the degree would be maintained," the report said, "because degrees would be awarded upon satisfactory accumulation of 124 credits."
Therefore, the proposed report said, in the case of a course taken under the credit-credit no credit option, a student's transcript could only be if he achieved credit for the course.
The report acknowledged a need for further study of its plan and recommended that an experiment be conducted by a committee of the College Assembly. The student would take a semester of courses entirely under the credit-credit option.
Earlier, the White House had said the United States would not send its troops on a visit.
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In another development, a State Department spokesman said the United States had suggested to Moscow a joint reduction by the two superpowers of emergency arms shipments to the Middle East.
On the battlefields, Israel said calm prelaived last night on all fronts after a day of fighting on the Suez Canal front's southern sector. The Syrian front was reported quiet all day after acceptance by Damascus of the first U.N. truce appeal.
THE ISRAELI command claimed earlier in the day yesterday that its armor had completed a pincer movement that trapped Eggy's 3rd army in a southern pocket of the Sinai front. Ensuring aerial combat taught Egyptian planes planed, the command said.
A Cairo command communique issued at 8:30 p.m. yesterday; "Our forces are fighting enemy forces west of the Suez Canal. The enemy suffered serious losses. Our resistance is ferocious and we are counterattacking boldly."
The Egyptians claimed eight kills in the dogfights, and the command said the 3rd Army's pontoon bridges across the canal were intact.
The communique, broadcast by Caro radio, didn't make clear whether the battle report was prepared during the day and broadcast after nightfall, leaving open the possibility that the fighting eventually stopped.
ISRAEL'S DEFENSE minister, Moshe Dayan, said in a Tel Aviv radio broadcast that Israel had won the war. He said he hoped the U.S. would better match it and better now than after the 1967 conflict.
In Cairo, a U.N. spokesman said truce team representatives sent to the front to try to ensure that a cease-fire was kept were having difficulty determining where the cease-fire lines were supposed to be in the central and southern Suez sectors.
Newsman saw U.N. observers on the Syrian front.
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