Wednesday. October 24,1973
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1.300 Sign for Nixon Impeachment
By VINCENNE SMYTH Kansas Staff Reporter
More than 1,300 signatures on petitions calling for the impeachment of President Nixon were obtained between 9 a.m. and p.m. yesterday at tables on campus and at various locations in Lawrence, said John Wright, professor of psychology.
Wright said last night that the Douglas County Citizens for Constitutional Government planned a meeting for $p.m. tonight in the courthouse on St. Paul's streets. President Nixon's television address will be broadcast over a public address system before the committee's vote.
The petition drive was suggested by John Holmes, Atchison sophomore, at a meeting of the committee Monday night. Holmes did not comment only after Nixon's Saturday actions.
"I don't think he should be convicted," he said, "but this should shake him up enough."
ACCORDING TO TESLA Perkins, Lyons first-year law student, who was in charge of residence hall petition tables, the purpose of the petition is to "show Nixon that we care about what he is doing and that he is under pressure" to show that we are part of the government."
Perkins said the petition drive wasn't directed at Nixon personally, but was in connection with his plans.
Nixon Withdraws Compromise Offer
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Nixon's so-called compromise plan to give the Senate Watergate committee an authenticated summary of the Watergate tapes evaporated when White House Chief of Staff Henry B. Wilson received that the offer had been withdrawn.
Nixon's agreement with the committee was clouded yesterday when committee lawyers appealed Sirica's decision to throw out their lawsuit seeking the tapes.
Committee chief counsel Samuel Dash questioned whether the President's offer
Gina Kaiser, Prairie Village first-year law student, said it would be particularly noteworthy if a state such as Kansas—often opposed to better-known states such as New York or Massachusetts—showed overt action to the President's actions.
People who menaced the tables collecting signatures were generally just interested in the subject matter.
CHRIS INTAGLIATA, St. Louis sophomore, and that in the hour she was at the table in front of the Union about 60 people signed petitions.
She said that paper, envelopes and addresses were available for students who
wished to personally write their congressman.
The table near Wescop Hall was set up at 9 a.m. and showed a slow early response. About half of the persons who passed the table signed the petition, Kaiser said.
"I am amazed that 100 per cent of the people aren't signing it. Even the greatest conservatives should be morally outraged by Nixon's floating of the law. Anyone who has any respect for the law should work to get him out of office," she said.
BY 12:30, the Wesco table had about 500 signatures and about 60 per cent of the passing students had signed the petition, Kaiser said.
Karen Edmiston, Tulsa, Oklah., senior,
said the committee was a group of
concerned citizens that weren't just University-
oriented.
A major drive was to begin at 5 p.m.
yesterday in the residence halls and at the
dorm.
About 120 signatures were collected at tables in Lawrence stores by the end of the
Student Senate to Vote OnSpring Election Date
The Student Senate will vote today on a bill to move spring senate elections from the week before spring break to the fourth week of the spring, semester.
The bill would also change the filing deadline for student body president and vice president candidates to Wednesday of the first week of classes of the spring semester.
The senate will meet at 7 p.m. in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
The senate will also discuss a petition to the University Parking and Traffic Board sponsored by John Beinner, Salina sophomore and president of the Association
of University Residence Halls. The petition asks the board to reconsider any plans to increase parking fees and fines for the 1974-75 school year.
The senate Finance and Auditing committee will ask for recommendations for the disposal of senate equipment that isn't being used.
KU Bus System Seeks Additional Funding
This will be the first senate meeting for new senators elected last week.
By SUZI SMITH Kansan Staff Reporter
"If the federal government is giving money for public transportation, I think we should get it."
nort Buckley, Wichita senior and student body president, said yesterday that he had asked the senate Transportation Committee to investigate the possibility of obtaining federal funds for the bus system because it has been disaffected frequently in the post two years.
Funds for the KU bus system from sources other than the Student Senate is probably impossible, at least in the near future, to manage. The owner of the Lawrence Bus Company.
Dennis Kallen, assistant city manager, said he didn't think the federal transportation department would approve a grantee bus system that wasn't community-wide.
ACCORDING TO OGLE, however,
universities and private bus system
providers may grant grants to
heap pay for the cost of new equipment
for mass transportation systems.
Ogle said he didn't know of any way the senate could obtain money for the bus system other than from the people using the service.
Kallsen said he didn't think it would be
practical for the city to join the student senate in funding the bus system.
The senate currently has a contract with the Lawrence Bus Company for $9 a bus hour. Receipts from passenger fares are credited against this $9.
BUCKLEY SAID city commissioners told him at a recent meeting that providing bus service on a city-wide basis would be proportionally more expensive because there wouldn't be as many riders on some streets between the intersection between residence halls and the campus.
He said a plot program for a bus system in north and east Canada, subsized by the Canadian government, would be improved.
What the fares don't cover is paid from the $2 campus privilege fee paid by all students at enrollment or from the $16,400 collected from the sale of bus passes that
Buckley said that the number of riders had increased this fall but that fares had
She said that for the same period last year
the cost was about $10,000 but that there
were more bus hours and more routes this
year.
CINDY STEINEGER, Kansas City, Kan.
senior and chairman of the transportation
committee, said that the bus system had
cost the senate at $1,300,000 from Aug. 27 to
decreased because of the sale of passes.
He said he thought the bus system would cost the senate about $22,000 this fall, approximately what it cost last fall. This cost could be met by the more than $30,000 collected by the senate from campus privilege fees, Buckley said. That would still leave money collected from the sale of bus passes available, he said.
campus privilege fees, carried forward to next semester or given to curriculum and research staff.
Money left over could be used to lower
He said the money left in the transportation fund from campus privilege fees couldn't be used to fund CIS and LA& 88 without special permission from the Board of Regents. He thought the proceeds from the bus passes could be used without regent action, however.
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