Loss of Senate Funds Advanced Death of Free U
By KATHLEEN HODAK
Kansan Reporter
Crippled by incept leadership, waning student interest and Student Senate policy, the Kansas Free University slipped quietly into oblivion sometime last spring. Five persons other than those directly involved are of its absence from the KU campus.
Loss of senate funding帮助 dealt the fatal blow to an already allied organization; Free U was one of the few organizations that delivered its grant to a subunit for the 1974 fiscal year.
Since the Free U first appeared at KU six years ago, its philosophy has continued to attract many followers. Arthur Skidmore, former adviser to the Free U and assistant professor of political science, is the primary value of the Free U was its ability to provide an alternative to the
authoritarian structure of most university courses.
"The Free U is an anarchic organization having an anarchic function, destroying the academic bureaucratic structure that separates students from teachers," Skidmore said. "I can force how students can go through an authoritarian institution like a school or light in learning for its own sake because they have never been confronted with it."
So strong is the belief of some students in the principles of a Free U that a second edition of the Free U has recently emerge on campus. The new Free U is called the "first grader" and it often follows after a disgruntled teaching assistant who taught the first Free U course at KU.
Resurrection of the Free U began last
Lominska, an employee of the Information Center, said the main task of the coordinator of the Free U was to be a clearing house of information.
summer with a plan by Susan Lominska,
Savviller, Y.N., senior, to incorporate the
coordination of the Free U into the activities
of the University Information Center.
"At the Information Center, we have a 24-hour telephone service. It is pretty easy," Lolniska said, "to list the Information Center as the place where people can call to leave information about courses they would be interested in teaching or would like to learn."
At a boat set up in the Kansas Union during the first week of fall classes, Lominska gathered personal interest data from approximately 300 persons who were enrolled. The information was then compiled and used to determine 37 course offerings, an outline of
It is too soon to judge whether the fate of the Hamilton Sausage Free University will be different from its predecessor, but one thing is certain. Without funding, the prospects of overcoming severe financial limitations are bleak.
which can be obtained at the Information Center in Strong Hall.
Although the Information Center has agreed to disseminate the Free U information, it can't defray the costs of advertising, supplies or a director's salary. The team also widely contributed more than 100 hours of service in reorganizing the Free U.
Because the Free U courses are only one to three weeks old, student interest hasn't yet had the opportunity to prove itself. Skidmore said that declining student interest played a decided role in the Free U's dissolution last year.
The Free U's heyday on this campus.
according to Skidmore, was when there was an extraordinarily large number of idealistic people whose interests were highly specialized. These included schooling and political and social activities
"The pool of idealistic students here has shrunk," Skidmore said. "It is no longer feasible with the economy the way it is for students to be taught in school and halt out." It could be a decision whether they are going to be full-time revolutionaries or full-time students.
But even more than waning student interest, an apparent lack of leadership within the organization itself would better explain the demise of the Free U.
Demian Mundi, a former Lawrence resident, was the unsalaged director of the Free U when it folded. Mundi became involved in the Free U while she was working for Hilltop Day Care Center last fall. Both the Free U and Hilltop had offices in the
Wesley Foundation building. Mundi said she wanted to teach a class for the Free U but it was too expensive.
The person paid by the senate to coordinate the Free U activities was Chuck Hand, Lawrence graduate student and the assistant professor of history learned that Hand had moved to Topeka. He told no one that he was moving, and continued with his 150 monthly director's salary until January.
In Hand's absence, Mundi began to coordinate the Free U. She first approached the senate shortly before Christmas break and asked to be appointed as director.
When the Student Executive Committee (StudEx) met after Christmas, it voted to drop Hand from the payroll and told Mundi that she would have to get a consensus of the
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84th Year, No. 30
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansa
Much of Israel didn't sleep on first night of war as tanks and i.eems clogged roads.
Tennessee Nips 'Hawks, 28-27
At 2 a.m., yesterday, the roads were as busy as a normal afternoon. But this morning, in turn caused of as many as 20 vehicles,
In Tel Aviv, housewives formed long lines at supermarkets and neighborhood grocery even though the government has said food supplies could be limited.
Cairo seemed calm in war. People walked about in the streets as they normally do. Officials said the main hotels were fairly full of tourists. But at times, the air was chilly and dusty.
In Syria's capital, Damascus, reports said the city was calm but that explosions could be heard throughout the night from a distance.
Officially the State Department declined to blame a side for starting the war.
U. S. officials expressed admiration for Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's skill in camouflaging his intentions.
Administration officials are convinced, however, that the Arab nations insulted the current Middle East fighting, which, they say, caught Washington off guard.
The war shattered the three-year-old cease-fire that Joseph Sisco, assistant secretary for the Middle East, and former Secretary of State William Rogers arranged in August 1970 without help from the Soviet Union or European allies.
More than 10,000 Jwa massed outside the United Nations headquarters in New York shettling their support for Israeli forces. Earlen, Ark and Jewish devotion to Israel were among those involved.
Retail food prices in 14 world capitals decreased last month from summer peaks.
Price comparisons, collected by U.S. agricultural attaches abroad, showed sirloin steak—one of the major indicators—at a median price of $2.76 a pound in mid-September. Shoppers in Washington, D.C., paid $2.29 a pound.
Barring unexpected complications, the revised guidelines for picking national convention delegates, rolling back most of the 1972 quota system, are expected to be accepted for the most part by the reform commission later this month and the Democratic National Committee after Jan. 1.
Congress to Approve Bill Restraining War Powers
Newsdav said Agnew negotiated $10,000
New reform rules for Democratic party were unanimously adopted by drafters.
for friend's campaign from billionaire.
Newday, the Long Island newspaper, reported the money was obtained from the cashier's cage of Howard Hughes' Silver Sipper casino in Las Vegas and donated to the campaign of C. Stanley Blair, who ran unsuccessfully for governor of Maryland in 1970.
Newsday reported the money could be legally contributed to an election campaign because the Silver Slipter is wholly owned by Hughes and isn't incorporated. Federal election law prohibits political contributions by corporations.
By JIM ADAMS Associated Press Reporter
The war powers bill would prohibit president from committing U.S. troops abroad for more than 60 days without the approval of Congress.
THE WAR POWERS BILL dominates a congressional calendar that includes Senate action on strip mining and House action on a tar sands oil pipeline, to force emergency allocations of fuels.
WASHINGTON--Forcing a showdown with President Nixon, Congress is expected to approve landmark restraints on presidential-missing powers by the end of the week.
Any time during the 60 days, Congress, under terms of the bill, could halt a president's war commitment by approving a resolution to prevent his resolution not subject to presidential veto.
The bill, worked out by House-Senate conferences last week, contains two restraints that Nixon has called dangerous and unconventional. It also which he unalterably opposes and wVOte.
Nixon told the House in a telegram July 18 he would veto an bill with such features.
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The Senate is expected to pass it today or tomorrow and the House is expected to approve it. The president has 10 days to veto the bill after Congressional approval or it will become law.
Israel said its air and land forces took the offensive in the second day of the new Middle East war yesterday, hitting throughout the day and into the night at Egyptian and Syrian forces that crossed Suez Canal and the Suez Canal and in the Golan Heights.
By the Associated Press
The military command in Tel Aviv claimed Israeli airmen destroyed nearly all of Syria's antiaircraft missile bases in the Golan Heights theater of operations and attacked ISIS headquarters in a central sector. One Israel report said Egyptian armored units were in a trap.
Middle East War Intensifies Both Sides Claim Success in Bitter Fighting
But the Egyptians and Syrians issued communiques saying that their units continued to press forward on both fronts and that jets and antiaircraft defenses had knocked down a total of 100 Israeli planes in the two days of hostilities.
THE ISRAELI MILITARY command made no mention of aircraft losses but said Israel's air force had taken command of the skies over the battle zones and that attacks were made inside Egypt and Syria for the first time in the renewed combat.
israeli took the Sinii and the Golan Heights areas in the six-day war in 1967. Egypt's official spokesman, Anwar Salam, might that Col. Muammur el-Qaddati, the strongman leader of oil-rich
Libya, had pledged to finance the Arab battle against Israel with oil and money.
Libya nearly **82** billion a year from its oil. The Egyptian government hadQaddafi as saying in a speech in Tripoli that funds necessary to consolidate the war effort of Syria and Egypt would be transferred at once.
AN ISRAELI COMMUNIQUE identified the Syrian missile bases it said were knocked out as Soviet-built SAM sites. It also reported that they are capita- l, Damascus, in air to attack.
The commuque said the Israeli air force concentrated on four objectives: Military airports inside Egypt, missile sites in Syria, the ground and support of Israeli ground troops.
Arab nations rallied to the support of Egypt and Syria, some pleading troops and armeni. Iraq announced the nationalization oil operations owned by the United States.
The Israeli state radio said early in the day that most bridges placed across the canal by the Egyptians on Saturday were cut off, and the Israeli troops were cut off and "foundering."
AN EGYPTIAN communique said "isaf
lach jets attempted to strike our
Israeli air force"
fenses, and our armor and infantry are still crossing into Sinai."
The canal has been closed since the 1967 Middle East war.
Israel's state radio said Israeli aircraft inspected inside Egypt and Syria for the first time since 2014.
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Senate Begins Probe Of Union Donations
Associated Press Reporter
By BROOKS JACKSON Associated Press Reporter
WASHINGTON - The Senate Watergate committee has begun investigating presidential campaign contributions controlled by the nation's largest labor unions.
The panel's investigators have sent questionnaires to top officials of more than 80 large unions—those claiming 50,000 or more members.
The questionnaires ask, among other things, whether any funds were illegally donated from union treasuries. Federal law allows individual union members to donate to a central fund controlled by union officers or uses of union dues in political campaigns.
are letters indicating that subscriptors might be used to tell the information if it isn't spelled out.
ACCOMPANYING THE questionnaires
The questionnaires are similar to those sent earlier to the heads of more than 100
The letters also point out that federal laws prohibit making false statements to official officials.
The panel, focusing its public attention upon political dirty tricks, will resume its hearings tomorrow. Testimony is tentatively scheduled from two former spies for the Nixon campaign, Michael McMainow and John Buckley.
HOPE Chance Surprises Tollefson
Few responses have been received from the union inquiries which were mailed more frequently.
Ed. note—This is the first in a series of profiles of the 1934 sem-finalists for the 1973 HOF award. The field will be narrowed to 8 players. The tournament banquet. Final voting will be Nov. 6 and 7, and the award will be presented Nov. 10 during half-time the KU-Color football game.
By JEFREY HILL Kanaan Staff Reporter
John Tollefon, associate professor of business, is a quiet, 35-year-old man who teaches a lot of business mathematics. He has been kicked out of his him, and somehow he strikes one as an unlikely candidate for a HOPE award. Tollefon was on assignment any when you see his nomination.
"I've always thought of the HOPE award as something of a popularity contest," he said last week. "I've never found that I was particularly popular, but the feedback I get from my students about the way I teach tells me I must be doing a good job."
Tollefson, who came to the University of
Kansas in 1967 from Tulane University, has taught mostly business courses involving mathematical problem solving, such as probability and statistics for business. He said that making math interesting was a major problem in teaching his courses.
"I WORK HARD to combat boredom."
Tollefson said. "Students come into the course with expectations that it's going to be a bad course. Math is difficult and boring to some, and it is necessary to overcome this."
Tolleson said he attempted to relate his enthusiasm for the subject to his students.
"I'm the kind of nut that finds some math in business interesting and kind of fun. The reaction to a lot of it is that I'm a little bit strange.
"By preparing hard for my lectures and showing my own excitement for the subject, apparently I've been successful in changing students' minds about math." Oljarson said.
"THE OTHER THING I try constantly to
do is let the students know that I'm on the same side they are. It's both of us against them.
Several of Tollefson's students agreed that his preparation for classes was excellent, and that his enthusiasm was evident, considering the difficulty involved in presenting the subject in an interesting way. Three of his interviews interviewed said they had been bored.
Tollefson said he was interested in providing extra help for students only if she was able to speak.
"I've tried to maintain a lot of office hours. I spent a lot of time with those who work here."
"I don't socialize a whole lot with my
11 students, I usually assume that they are
not very social."
TOLLEFSON, who worked for a year as an assistant logging engineer for International Operations in Oregon when he began as a teacher when he graduated from Oregon State University
with a degree in forest engineering in 1958.
"The nature of my job there had very little to do with what I teach, he said. "It was my original intention to either return to International Paper or find some other job in the office." Purdue, I found that math was not only interesting but just plain fun for me. I started thinking in terms of teaching after I taught a few courses as a graduate assistant.
Tolletsson said that several firms had offered him positions in recent years, but that he found it difficult to leave the University.
"THE BIG THING that keeps me here is freedom. Academic life spouts you for *BREATH*.
"You have the freedom at a university to follow the things you're interested in, a freedom that you just don't have in an industrial position. In industry, there's a greater demand to do what somebody tells you to do.
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Karsan Staff Photos by CARL DAVAZ
John Tollefson, Associate Professor of Business, Works to Combat Boredom in Classes