Vol. 85-No.91 Friday, February 14,1975
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Rolfs-Reece coalition scores clear victory
By JOHN JOHNSTON Kansan Staff Reporter
Ed Rolfs, Junction City junior, won a decisive victory Thursday night over three other candidates in his race for student body president.
Rolfs, who was defeated by John Beisner in last year's presidential election, and Rolfs' running mate, Mary Lou Reece, the sophomore, won by a margin of 415 votes.
The Rolfs team collected 1,220 votes. They were followed by Lewis Gregory, Wichita senior, and Tedde Tasheff, Wichita sophomore, with 805 votes; Paula Sherbo, Colorado Junior spring, and Gerald Long, Kansas City, Kan., junior, with 310 votes; and Steve McMurray, Norton junior, and Steve McMurray, Norton junior, with 294.
A total of 2,703 votes were cast in the election, but some were declared void and rejected by the election committee. The vote total represents less than 15 per cent of the student body. Last year's vote total was 2,344.
ROFLIS HE WOULD move into his new office today and would soon release specific plans of action for the next few weeks.
Rolfs and Reece campaigned on a platform that stressed the need for improved classroom teaching, an expanded curriculum and development of new programs, the posting of names of faculty members, the sharing of tenure and a closer relationship between the athletic board and the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation.
They also promised to work at improving the Security and Parking Department, developing a new advising system and reestablishing Concerned Students for Higher Education, a student group supportive of the University.
The Kansas Union Ballroom was the scene of jubilant celebration as the results confirmed a Rolfs-Reece victory. But the outcome was marred somewhat as charges of dirty politics were exchanged by the top vote-getters.
GREGORY SAID he had enough evidence of questionable campaign tactics to contest the election. However, he said that he believed such action in questioning Rolfs' victory.
"This was a pretty dirty campaign. There were things that we didn't participate in, and there were others."
Gregory said some of his posters had been torn down, Rolfs-Reice buttons were worn on them and the posters to Rolfs' campaign posters were too close to the polling places. There were other problems with the campaign that might have been avoided, but he wouldn't discuss them at this time.
Rolfs and Reece both said they had run a clean campaign. Rolfs said he didn't want to make a statement until he could see some specific alterations.
"Gregory was the man who initiated the smear campaign and he's in no position to file a complaint in any way whatsoever. He was beaten fair and square."
Bruce Wenger, Rolf's campaign manager, was more vocal in his response to the
WONER SAID THAT Rolfs didn't win by such a large margin because of dirty campaigning, but because he had a better organization, had started earlier and his campaign had peaked on Wednesday and Thursday.
"Gregory is a poor loser," Won said, "but he him by over 400 votes, which is a solid."
Sherbo didn't use posters or an organized
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Newcomers corner many Senate seats
Coalitions and new faces led the way in Thursday's election of student senators and class officers. A large number of first time candidate elected senators in the 84 vacancy.
There was an obvious lack of joke votes in this year's election. For the first time in several years, there were no votes cast for Donald Duck and Albe Lincoln.
There were several ties in the balloting. The election committee will devise a selection plan sometime within the next week.
The following is a list of candidates and the number of candidates received. Winners are listed in bold type.
publicity campaign. He based his campaign solely on personal contact. He said that he hadn't noticed any irregularities, but that the campaign was the type of campaign run by the Rolls' firm.
"I hope that in future campaigns more people will try to take the approach I did, and then these questions won't arise," he said.
O'Brien wasn't contacted last night.
Joyce Hudson, elections chairman, said the election had been conducted without any serious problems. This year's counting of 150 candidates was the 1974 tabulations. The results in the race for president were released about 10 p.m., because the ballots only had to be counted
See ELECTIONS page 8
Last year the results weren't released until much later. The 1974 tabulations had to be counted twice because it was found there signatures. The election wasn't contested.
Rofls and Reece both credited much of their success to their organization. They said that they had at least 100 students working closely with them in their campaign. They said they concentrated their efforts on getting students out to vote.
Jon Josserand, Rolf's assistant campaign manager, said he thought the election had been won through support from the freshman residence hall. He said the voting for the college would be decisive because of the low participation in other University living groups.
The combination of door-to-door visits and campus-wide public were coordinated very well by their organization, the winners said.
By Staff Photographer ROD MIKINSKI
Thrill of Victoru
Ed Rolls, Junction city junior, big a smile and the sign of victory shortly after receiving the news that he had been elected student body president.
Beisner to ask group to reconvene
John Beisner, former student body president, will request today that the administration reconvene the chancellor's call to join the Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUAC).
The committee, which completed its work last semester, failed to fulfill its original charge of defining the corporation's relationship to the University community and the corporation's policy-making power. Beisner said in a statement Thursday.
Reconvening the committee is just one of a large number of concerns regarding KUAC that Beisner will be discussing today in a meeting with Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and Executive Vice Chancellor Del Shankel. The meeting was originally scheduled for last Friday but was cancelled because Dykes and Shankel both were ill.
Beisner said that the committee's report and dealt only with the structure of the agency.
Some studies need to be made to develop larger range planning or both the men's and women's bodies.
ANOTHER SUGGESTION Beiner made in a detailed outline was that the athletic director increase in his role would not allow a lack of knowledge on all matters of policy. A lack of knowledge is an important reason
for the board's ineffectiveness, Beismer said.
The outline also called for the creation of an executive board for the corporation's board of directors, the new board, which would act in place of the KUAC's Finance and Budgeting Committee, would consult on a more regular basis.
The board would be composed of two faculty members, one alumni representation and one chairman of the athletic board. The athletic director and the assistant athletic director, who is in charge of women's athletics, are the board's owners of the executive board, the outline said.
Beisner said the executive board would propose the proposed budget of KUAC in consultation with the athletic director. The board should intensify efforts to find areas where cuts can be made, he said, because areas do exist if the board wants to find them.
Beiser's outline called for a specific list of subjects on which the athletic director would have to consult the board before policies were made or money was spent. This list would include: exceeding of the budget, approval of any capital improvements not included in the budget or considered routine maintenance, approval
By Staff Photographer ROD MIKINSKI
stage adaptation of "Free to Be" *You and Me.* The play will be in the Hashington at Theatre Feb. 14, 2018-12.22.
The list of suggestions also included a recommendation that all current University policies regarding KUAC be outlined and printed for the public. This might help prevent misunderstandings in the future, Beisser said.
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Dir Arrington, Roanoke, Va., freshman; Elale Orch, Chester Field, Mo.; freshman and Kevin Kilsad, Missouri sophomore.
The final proposal was for the creation of an internal KUAC committee to discuss the proposal.
of any new positions or the filling of any old positions by new personnel, any imminent resignations, any contemplated furlings and all ticket prices.
A special subcommittee of the athletic board also would be formed to suggest additional areas where this policy should apply, according to the outline.
Bennett predicts minimal city aid
BY DAN HAWTHORNE
Kansas Staff Reporter
"We realize that cities are facing financial crises." Bennett said. "But the place to solve these crises is locally and not in Tooneka."
Local governments can expect minimal state financial support for municipal improvement projects for fiscal year 1976, Gov. Robert F. Bennett told about 150 city clerks and municipal finance officers here Thursday.
Bennett spoke at the 25th annual city clerks and municipal officers school sponsored by the Division of Continuing Education
HE SAID MUNICIPAL FINANCE officers should use all options available to them to raise funds for local projects before turning to the state for subsidizing.
"The citizenry is no longer going to accept government and the expense of government without some selling being done," Bennett said.
He urged the officials to stop being civic servants and to start being civic salesmen.
The state legislature could help provide the means to help local municipalities with their budget problems. Bennett said, but he is expected to subsidize the projects.
Bennett said local governments should try to solicit community support for these projects.
A proposal now before the Kansas Legislature would increase local governments' authority. This would reduce taxes a maximum of one per cent, Bennett said.
"It's difficult to fight inflation and recession at the same time," Bennett said.
HE SAID THAT RAISING local taxes had never created a perceptible trade loss where it had been done before, and that he was no reason to believe that it would now.
"People aren't going to travel that far for a barnyard in total sales prices," Bernie said.
He said that although there was a sizable unappropriated balance left over from income tax revenues of a few years ago, this balance be used for financing local projects.
Bennett said that to plan ahead was imperative because of the problems caused by climate change.
recession at the same time," Bennett said. He said that when the state government looked at plans to aid cities it must consider the revenue available. If enough money was available, some of it would be shared with the cities.
The needs of the state budget in the future won't be satisfied unless there is a substantial increase in state revenues or in federal revenue sharing, he said. Since
severance of these can be expected, Bennett said, it is necessary and the unappropriate to be conservative.
Brennett said the state wanted to be as helpful as it could to municipal governments but that it could help best by helping the local governments to help themselves.
KU will file complaints with HEW
By DEBBIE GUMP Kansan Staff Reporter
A protest to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) will be filed by the University of Kansas because of the disturbance surrounding the Buckley Amendment.
William Balfour, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said Thursday that the "stupid" application of the amendment to higher education had led to the protest.
Davis has been formulating University
guidelines and would follow the guidelines
issued by HEW.
Mike Davis, the University general counsel, will file the protest while in Washington this week on other business. He will return Saturday.
HOWEVER, BALFOUR SAID, if names of students are given to the Lawrence police department, the press can bypass University police records and publish those
The latest University interpretation of the amendment said that beginning March 1 student names on Security and Parking databases couldn't be released to the news media.
If a student and nonstudent are arrested together by Security and Parking, Balfour said, the nonstudent's name can be released.
"That's where discrimination comes in," he said. "A private citizen doesn't have the same protection as a student. I don't think it's fair
"It puts the student in a different class from the private citizen, which I don't like." Names in campus police records include inmates, but also victims, witnesses and suspects.
THE AMENDMENT WILL also hamper the University's counseling efforts, Balfour said. The names of crime victims had previously been obtained by University officials so that an offer of counseling could be made to those who wouldn't ask for it, he said.
Baffour said the University was trying to devise a method to obtain such information without breaking the law, but he wouldn't presuppose it until the method was finalized.
Mike Thomas, director of Security and Parking, said some students who would have been arrested and criminally charged by the county attorney were instead turned over to the Office of Student Affairs for but. But now that may no longer be possible.
"It's going to be difficult and tricky to it," he said. "The student may end up sad."
HE ALSO SAID a student might encounter hardship in applying for state or federal jobs because his student background could no longer be easily
The Buckley Amendment was passed early this year and allows students to see their own school records. However, it prohibits anyone else from seeing the records without the student's written permission.
Balfour said the University had been trying to lose its reputation as a student sanctuary which it had received during the late '60s.
He also said that instead of increasing the rights of students, the amendment had interfered with communication within the University.
"I don't see that the Buckley Amendment is doing the students that much good," he said.
Charges ending in school case
No additional charges will be filed in connection with the Woodland Elementary School Follow Through program, David Douglas, Douglas county attorney, said Thursday.
Donald Bushell, associate professor of human development, pleaded no contest in Douglas County District Court Tuesday to a charge of aiding and abetting the presentation of a false claim in connection with his activities last summer as director of the Follow Through program. The charge is a misdemeanor.
Follow Through, a continuation of preschool Head Start programs, is financed by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The program was begun in 1987 as part of an effort to help disadvantaged children in kindergarten through the third grades. The University of Kansas Office of Research and Graduate Studies oversees a federal grant program that provides programs to be established in Work场所 and other elementary schools.
Complaints last summer by an employee of the Woodland program and a mother of a
student in the program prompted an audit by the KU comprother. The audit revealed that about $3,000 had been illegally entered on travel vouchers for the program.
An investigation by the Kansas attorney general's office followed.
Mike Malone, assistant county attorney,
said the county attorney's office had contacted the attorney general's office about the possibility of filing additional charges. The attorney general's office was satisfied that the commission of Bushell would be enough prosecution.
"There are several others involved, but we don't think we can prove criminal intent against them," Malone said. "They were just following Bushell's orders."
Malone said Tuesday that Bushell have been charged with other offenses, but the intent of the county attorney's office was that the illegal activity was discontinued.
Ambrose Sarickes, vice chancellor of academic affairs, said Wednesday that the University would have to study the situation surrounding Bushell's conviction before a decision could be reached about the University's taking any action against him.