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84th Year, No.1
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Welcome Back Edition
Section A
Thursday, August 23,1973
Kannan Staff Photo by MARK V. MAY
Fourth Floor of Wescoe Ready for Students
Fourth floor classrooms in Wesco Hall will be ready for use Monday, according to Jim Canole, assistant to the director of facilities planning and operations. Only minor work remains to be done to the fourth floor classrooms.
Rrestrooms on the fourth floor have been completed but the study lounge will not be finished until late fall or early winter, Canole said.
Foreign language, English and history faculty offices should be ready by Thanksgiving, he said. The two large lecture halls won't be available until late in the month.
When completed, the hall will have about 50 classrooms, ranging in capacity from 10 to 90 students, the two large lecture rooms and two multi-purpose rooms.
The new building will also have many informal areas where students can smoke or take a break, but still remain in the building.
There will be a large opening under Wescoe for easy access to buildings on the south part of campus.
The building was named after W. Clark Wesson, who resigned as chancellor of the University of Kansas at the end of the 1988-
o school year. Wesco became a vice-president of Sterling Drug Inc. of New York. He was named vice-chairman of the board of directors of the company last March.
Nixon Defends Self, Agnew on Scandals
By GAYLORD SHAW
JY GATFOORD ML
Associated Press Writer
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.—President Nixon stoutly defended his actions in the Watergate scandal Wednesday, declared the case is "water under the bridge" and said he would not resign but rather would get on with the "people's business."
Standing in the hot California sunshine for 50 minutes, as he held his first news conference in five months, the President also:
—Announced that the lone remaining member of his original Cabinet, Secretary of State William P. Rogers, had resigned effective Sept. 3 and that he would nominate presidential assistant Henry A. Kissinger to succeed him.
—Voiced confidence in Vice President
Spiro T. Agnew's integrity, assailed "outrageous leaks" on the investigation involving the vice president, said he personally had ordered an investigation of the leaks and would fire anyone found responsible.
But the bulk of the questions asked at the nationally televised news conference held on a parking lot at the Western White House office complex dealt with ramifications of the Watergate scandal which has plunged the nation into recession to the lowest point of any president in 20 years.
In responding to a dozen Watergate-related questions, the President:
—Predicted that two former high-ranking aides, H. R. Halideman and John D. Ehrlichman, would eventually be exonerated for their actions in the case.
What's Inside
Special features in today's Kanan:
—Analysis and comment on Watergate game
—In-depth analysis of the game
-KU and Lawrence features -Section D.
How the University works -Section F.
- Football schedules and outlook-
Section C.
-HC and University features -Section D.
-How the University works -Section E.
-KU's foreign students, other KU
features -Section F.
Comics Page2
Editorials Page4
Reviews Page5
Sports Pages8,9
Regular features, Section A;
Watergate prosecutor and Nixon's lawyer argued in court about tapes.
President Nixon's lawyer, Charles Alan Wright, argued yesterday in Washington that the President is beyond the reach of a court order compelling the production of White House tape demands by Waterrate prosecutors.
Arguing to the contrary, special Watergate prosecution Archibald Cox asserted that the U.S. has no special right to reject a demand for the extradition of a criminal.
After hearing two hours of polite debate, U.S. District Court Judge John Sirica said he would decide within a week whether order production of the tapes.
Agnew committee was indicted for election law violations.
The Sahte to Ted Agnew Night committee, which last year sponsored a fund raise for the vice president, was named in a single four-count indictment stemming from the concealment of a $49,900 loan to the Finance Committee to Re-elect the President gave to the Agnew group.
Seven key committee members were named as co-conspirators but weren't indicted.
In Annapolis, State's Attorney Warren B. Duckett Jr. told a news conference that the maximum potential penalty for the committee is a
Two-thirds of money spent on food last year went to middlemen.
Kanan Staff Photo by CARL DAVAZ
Consumers paid a record $77.2 billion in middleman costs last year to get food from the farms to dinner tables, with processors getting the money they needed.
The total middleman expense, up $1.8 billion from 1971, was not as great, however, as the increase received by farmers. Farmers received a record share of $39 billion from consumer food spending in 1972.
The fires were out of control over 78,000 acres of four western states and were being fought by 10,000 men. At. arther 101,000 wooded acres were reported incinerated by 42 fires, which were under control, in the worst fire season in 20 years.
fire-stricken Northwest.
Ten major fires burned in the
Archie R, Dykes: Man on the Move
Scores of new, small fires were reported to have been started by lightning yesterday, and predictions of high, fire-spreading winds were issued for the remainder of the week.
Man sought for allegedly threatening Nixon's life surrendered peacefully.
Edwin Gaudet, sought nearly three days in the mountains of northern New Mexico, drove to a police base camp with his wife and cousin, to whom he had surrendered. He told newmen the "governmentized crime" and was then taken to Albaquere for arrangement.
'Hi, I'm Archie Dykes'
Nixon's popularity rose after
by BOB SIMISON
Watergate speech last week.
and showroom* in the popular now it registered in early August. However, the public held that a majority of Americans still disapproved of his performance in office, were disaffected with the explanation of Watergate in his latest speech and believed he either knew about plans to bug the Democratic headquarters or was involved in the cover-up of the Watergate break-in.
The latest Gallup poll showed Nixon's popularity up from the alltime low it registered in early August.
Kansan Staff Writer
A short, mostly bald man wearing a neatly tailored brown suit strides purposefully down a deserted Jayhawk Boulevard as the Kansas sun climbs above him in the east, his chin clear eyes behind wind-mirrored glasses taking in every detail.
He swings up the walk leading to Strong Hall then, suddenly, he veers across the dew-wet grass and marches up to a man riding a lawnmower. "Hi, 'I'm Archie Dykes, the new chancellor," he shouts over the roar of the machine, flashing a wide, toothy grin and thrusting for his hand. "It looks like you're doing a good job."
The man on the machine stares in stunned silence as Chancellor Archie R. Dykes turns toward the front steps of the administration building a few minutes later.
That, at least, is one story about the University of Kansas' new chancellor that Clayton Stone of the Office of Facilities Planning and Operations swears is true. Clayton Stone met an impressive number of other people since he took over as chancellor July 1.
"This is typical for a new chancellor," says Raymond Nichols, chancellor emeritus, who was right-hand man to KU chancellors for 43 years. "But Archie Dykes has made a fabulous performance in getting acquainted."
Dykes has met with Gov. Robert Docking, legislative committee chairmen and other legislators, KU deans and department heads (at four dinners he hosted), students and many alumni and Kansas citizens in speaking engagements, and plans to meet many more in engagements nearly every night until January.
For many observers, the list of contacts Dykes has already made (which Nichols says is "probably unequaled") bodes well for the University in Dykes' first academic year and is therefore an official installation at the annual vacation Monday in Allen Field House.
DYKES PRIMARY concern this year, he will, be getting the payment $30.1 million KU budget for the fiscal year starting in July 1974 approved by the Kansas Legislature. That proposed budget, $4 million larger than the current one, includes 10 per cent increases in faculty salaries and operating expenditures as part of funding by the Board of Regents to improve funding of Kansas colleges and universities.
And Dykes, himself, says he is optimistic that people in Kansas will support his pleas for improved financial support of higher education. He has promised that KU will serve the people of Kansas" and has ascribed responsibility University holds much of the state's future.
Archie R. Dykes will be installed as KU's 13th chancellor during the annual opening convocation at 9:50 a.m. Monday in Allen Field House. Monday morning classes will follow an abbreviated schedule so students will be able to attend.
Induction of Dykes Heads Convocation
Paul R. Wunsch of Kingman, member of the Board of Regents, will conduct the installation of Dykes after an introduction by Dr. John H. Perrine, who is expected to deliver a 20-minute address.
Here is the adjusted class schedule for Monday morning: 7:30 classes will meet 7:30 to 8:00; 8:30 classes, 8:15 to 8:50; 9:00 to 9:45; 10:00 to 10:45; 11:35 to 11:35; 11:35 classes, 11:45 to 12:20.
"This is the most critical thing I know of now," Dykes says. "You can identify almost any problem in the University with the availability of resources. We've lost ground in recent years. Of 23 schools in the American Association of Universities, we rank 23rd in two areas of funding, but in many educational areas we're in the top 15."
"And our equipment needs are just tremendous. Our students are being taught with equipment that is obsolete. When you get out, you'll have to compete with young people educated in New York and overseas. Your obsolete equipment is sure to be a handicap."
Dykes says he hopes students can become "spokesmen for the University" by making parents and legislators aware of KU's commitment to student organizations in such a campaign.
"The effort has to be made because it's too important not to make it," he says. "If higher education in Kansas gets no more support, the University will deteriorate."
"And it can be done if a sufficient effort is made by enough people. But if we're all students first, last and always or faculty members first, last and always or administrators first, last and always, then the University will deteriorate."
IN THE SHORT TIME he's been here, Dykes has developed a reputation for an ability to "make things happen," as Executive Secretary Rick Von Ende said. "I've never seen a guy come in so fast and laden him up and spread so far," another observer says.
For example, by July 5 (he was in his office at work a day early, on June 30), Dykes was meeting with the athletic director search committee to consider four nominations to be chosen. He was named November Clyde Walker was named to the post five days later.
And, says Von Ende, it was decided after Dykes' series of dinners with deans and department heads that faculty input would be solicited in open meetings early in the budgeting process. So such meetings have been handled with a variety of formulation of the fiscal 1976 budget.
Dykes most recent demonstration of how
to get things done in a hurry has come about in the last two weeks. That is the set of "Easy Access" classes offered in early mornings and at night for which a special enrolment has been scheduled Sunday in the Kansas Union.
"Two weeks ago, he said to have an evening program ready to go," Von Ende says. "A lot of people said we couldn't do it, but his approach is that you decide you're going to do it, then you work out the problems."
"This program is a response to an important educational need—that is, adults,"
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"Said he taped conversations of White House meetings and telephone calls because he wanted an accurate record, agreed that such taping "is not something that particularly appeals to me," and said it wouldn't be done again. He repeated he would cover the tapes to Watergate investigators unless ordered to do so by the Supreme Court.
- Insisted that he tried to "get the truth out" in the months following the June 1972 bugging of Democratic national headquarters but that until March of this year was laid by since-fired White House counsel John W. Dean III that there was not "a scintilla of evidence" that anyone on the White House staff was involved.
A-knowledge he met briefly with U.S. District Judge W, Matthew Byrne Jr., while Byrne was presiding at the Pentagon Papers trial, but said the controversial case was not discussed and that no attempt was made to prove the outcome of the since-dismissed charges.
"Said 'I would have blown my stack!' for former campaign director and Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell had given him the facts of the case, but he did not have done if the President had asked.
- Repeated that he viewed as "illegal, unauthorized and completely deplorable," the burglary of the office of the psychiatrist of Pentagon Papers figure Daniel Elsberg by a squair directed by White House aides. He said under former President John F. Kennedy's administration, "burglarizing of this type" took place on "a very large scale," but did not elaborate
"Said his Democratic predecessors at the White House authorized far more wirestaps than he had, and added that he wished wirestaps had detected the plot to kidnap the murder he said followed 'a terrible breakdown in our protective security."
The news conference was held as part of Nixon's campaign to overcome the Watergate scandal's impact on his administration. As he fielded questions, at times joking with and at other times briskly sparring with newsmen, the President himself shifted to foreign and domestic issues.
The fact that the first 30 minutes of questioning was devoted exclusively to Watergate "shows you how consumed we are by government," the business of the people." Niak said.
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Get It While You Can; Beer Shortage Spreading
Kansan Staff Writer
By BUNNY MILLER
Frank McDonald of McDonald Beverage Inc. in Lawrence has a piece of advice for beer enthusiasts:
"Live life every golden moment and drink Bud even golden drop while you can until it's gone, it's a dry wave is going to hit," he said.
McDonald was referring to the spreading beer shortage alarm being felt in Lawrence as University of Texas (UTexas) colleges to local lakes and supermarkets.
Several local supermarkets reported difficulties yesterday in obtaining sufficient quantities of some brands of beer.
"We've been running out of Coors recently and that's never happened before," said Bill Elkins, office manager for Rusty's Hillcrest. "We've been trying to limit sales to two six-packs of Coors per customer."
Safeway Manager Charlie Dallas said the Coors company had been limiting deliveries for the last six months.
Dale Hoffman, relief manager for local Seven Eleven food stores, predicted that a cut-back delivery of
25 cases of Coors to one store would be completely sold out by the next day.
"We'll sometimes stock up for a two- or three-day period when our distributor tells us we may have to leave," a spokesman for the brokerage said.
Daily operation remained normal at some taverns, but several showed signs of a shortage.
"And once you get short," he said,
"it's hard to catch up."
James Connellly, manager of the Harbor, said he was told to expect a six-week shortage beginning the first week after the price of cans of beer five cents and had reduced the volume of a draw by one ounce.
The problem seems to go back to the fundamental law that when demand exceeds supply a shortage occurs.
Bill Keeney, manager of LapekA Inc., Coors distributors in Lawrence, said the company was putting out an effort to try to expand facilities,水库s
"We hope the shortage won't last past September," he said. "We feel we should be stocking at a reasonable level by then."
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