THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol. 85-No. 87 Monday, February 10, 1975
KANSAN
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
IRA declares truce in unexpected move
DUBLIN (AP)—In a surprise move, the Irish Republican Army said Sunday that it had agreed to a new cease-fire effective this week. The UK-backed group has been British in Northern Ireland and England.
There was no immediate indication why the IRA had decided to declare a trace at this time, and observers said a major change was on the horizon. Catholics and Protestants would abide by it.
In Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland were killed and a third was wounded when worshipers leaving St. Bridget's Roman Catholic church, were sprayed with bullets.
"People seemed to be falling all over the place," said a witness. "Most dived, like me, though some, especially the older folk, seemed to have moved." Everybody seemed to be screaming.
The shooting follows a pattern of recent killings that officials speculate are the work of splinter groups from paramilitary organizations of both sides.
The IRA statement said that the renewed cease-fire came in the light of discussions with British officials on effective treatment. There was no breakdown of a new truce.
After the IRA's 25-day-oid Christmas cease-fire was called off Jan. 16, Britain's minister for Northern Ireland, Merlyn Jeeens, said that only a genuine and sustained cessation of violence could lead to major distractions and the release of IRA prisoners.
British government sources said there had been no new concessions to prompt the cease-fire renewal, which came as a surprise to security forces.
The Christmas truce brought Northern Ireland its first prolonged respite from terrorism since the sectarian war broke out in 1969. After it ended, 11 persons were killed in Ulster and nine bombs were exploded in England.
The over-all death toll in the 1,152-year struggle now stands at 1,154.
There was no immediate British response to the IRA declaration. The British are wary of angering Northern Ireland's armed against a sultan from Rome, against a sultan to Roman Catholics.
Earlier Sunday, a leader of the Protestant militants' Ulster Volunteer Force said that his men were prepared to paralyze the province indefinitely if politicians tried to merge it with the Irish republic, which was predominantly Catholic.
Despite renewed violence since the Christmas truss collapsed, representatives
of the RA's political front and the British
regulations, it continued to meet in intense
peations.
Sources within the IRA repeatedly indicated that the ruling Army Council wanted to restore the truce in a shift from warfare to political initiatives in the campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland.
Outward signs had indicated little hope for a new peace. Twenty-two IRA inmates at Dublin jails have been on hunger strikes, some for over a month, demanding that they be treated as political prisoners rather than animals. The Irish government has refused.
More than 2,000 IRA sympathizers demonstrated Sunday outside the jail and military camp where the hunger striker's family was held. He gave up hints of an uprising cease-fire.
The brief IRA statement, issued to Britain's Press Association news agency from the Irish Republic Public Bureau, states that a group of IRA members has be suspended from 6 p.m. on Feb. 10, 1975.
"In the light of discussions which have taken place between representatives of the Republic movement and British officials on effective arrangements to ensure that there is no threat from terrorism, the council of the IRA have renewed their order suspending offensive military action."
Outgoing student body president John Reisner
By Staff Photographer DON BIEBRUE
Beisner gets satisfaction from platform fulfillment
By JOHN JOHNSTON Kansan Staff Reporter
Woodlawn case report ready today
Campaign promises are often forgotten the day after an election. But the administration of John Beiniser, student body
Berkowitz said last week that investigators needed to interview a few more people before a decision would be made on whether criminal charges were filed.
A statement reportedly related to the filing of criminal charges in connection with the Woodland Elementary School Follow Through program will be released at 11 a.m. today, Douglas County Attorney David Berkowitz said Sunday.
The program was an attempt to solve the learning problems of underprivileged children in kindergarten through third grade. It was discontinued last spring.
Berkowitz wouldn't comment about the Woodland program, but it is known that an audit of the program has been investigated by the Kansas attorney general's office.
The investigation began last July following a University of Kansas audit that showed violations in the filing of travel expense employees of the behavior analysis program.
Follow Through was financed by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and administered by the KU department of human development, which used a behavioral analysis model of education.
According to the audit, $3,000 was paid during the period July 1, 1972, to March 31, 1974, for trips that were never taken. The auditor also stated that the payments had been in violation of Kansas travel regulations and University policies.
Watkins Pharmacy for student use, not for profs' families, board says
The investigation being made by the attorney general's office was to have been completed by the end of November. However, the investigation was slowed because of the number of people to be interviewed and because these people were located in various parts of the country, officials, said.
By CINDY MORGAN Kansan Staff Reporter
Families of University of Kansas employees shouldn't be allowed to use Watkins Hospital Pharmacy according to tentative regulations. Please contact Student Health Services Advisory Board,
The board, made up of student senators, nonsenates and Martin Wollmann, director of the hospital, will make its recommendations official this week.
The recommendations are a result of an inquiry by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) about the feasibility of allowing employees' families to use the pharmacy as University employee fringe benefit.
The Watkins Pharmacy isn't stocked to
The benefit would be in savings and convenience, Frances Ingerman, president of the company.
"I would gather that since Wattkins is a nonprofit organization there would be a savings in the cost of the prescription," Ingemann said.
The use of the pharmacy wouldn't constitute a tremendous savings to the employees and their families, Wollmann said, which would be valuable and vary within the local community.
University employees may use the pharmacy as a fringe benefit, Wolmanman.
The board questioned whether the use of the pharmacy by employees 'families would be better.'
At its meeting, the board said that Watkins was a student health center paid by the students, not by state or University employees. Students pay $38.50 each to the pharmacy and the health services, including the pharmacy, Mark Holland, board chairman. said
fill prescriptions for children and older persons, Wolmann said. The pharmacist now must call a retail pharmacy and have them, fill and deliver such prescriptions when they are ordered. As a result the full price must be charged.
The Watkins Pharmacy now fills about 68,000 prescriptions a year, Wollmann said.
The board said that the volume of prescriptions filled would probably double, causing stress on the physical facilities. More storage space for drugs and more space for additional personnel would be needed to handle the increased volume.
The AAUP said it didn't want the students to pay for the University employee's benefits.
state to pay for the cost of allowing the employees' families to use the pharmacy.
If this plan is implemented, John Beisser, student body president, said, the state should help pay the bond payments for debt retirement on the Watkins facility as well as additional pharmaceutical personnel, business personnel and additional stock.
The board suggested that the employees should consider some type of cooperative discount with retail pharmacies or the insurance companies to discount costs in their insurance policies.
The board said it would reconsider the AAC proposal if retail prescription prices skyrocket.
Application unsure in building use fee
University of Kansas officials will meet today to discuss uncertainty about the application of the new usage fee for University buildings.
Kethi L. Nitcher, vice chancellor for business affairs, said Friday that he planned to meet with William M. Bailour, vice chancellor for student affairs, and Del Rocco, vice chancellor, to determine the applicability of the usage fees to SUA events.
SUA questioned whether the usage fee SAU would apply to the production of promoter-guaranteed rock concerts that it sponsored. The policy charges non-University, nonstudent, commercial groups $50 a day for the use of Allen Field House and memorial Stadium and $20 a day for Hoch Auditorium and University Theatre.
Negotiations with promoters will be more difficult if SUA concerts are subject to the new policy, Dave Murfin, SUA board president, said, the promoters may want to
raise ticket prices if their costs for concerts at the University are higher, he said.
In a concert guaranteed by a promoter, an outside promoter pays the entertainer's fees, all production costs and contracted amount above the production cost or a tax on the profits. The SUA handles all the transactions of production, including hiring of security personnel, buying and setting up materials for the stage and publicity. Whatever is left from the profits of the business is promoted's profit. Rich Lindemann SUA special events chairman, said.
Murfin said Balfour told him that he thought shows backed by promoters could be considered as student activities because the university has a large committee actually produced the concerts.
Nitcher said the usage fee could be waived if the University administration determined that the promoter-quaranteed students' interests. The University's and the students' interests.
president, ends this week with a record of fulfilled pledges.
Last spring, Beiner and his running mate Todd Hunter campaled on a platform that stressed academic policies, security and parking reform and Affirmative Action. As a result, the team took in all of these areas and in many others that were a part of their platform.
Beisner said Sunday that he was basically satisfied with the accomplishments of the State Department's top president. These achievements were based on a good relationship with the administration.
Two of those he worked with in the administration were Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor.
"My drawer is just full of responses from Chancellor Dykes and Dr.ANKel, who were very meticulous about responding in the first place, but not petition the Senate passed." Beersman said.
There was definitely a cause and effect relationship between the Senate and the University administration, he said. The administration took some kind of action on 90 per cent of the issues the Senate dealt with, according to Beiser.
Beisner, who plans to attend law school next year, said one of the major accomplishments of the Senate this year had been his successful enrollment plan, which is scheduled to go into effect next fall. The pre-enrollment system will also improve the highly criticized advising program, he said. This is not a bad time and promised to investigate if he was elected.
"The new system will have a tremendous effect not only on easing the enrollment procedures," he said, "but also on bringing about what I think will eventually be a much more effective advising program for students at the freshman and sophomore levels.
"These programs will have to change to bring themselves in line with an early entry date."
Beisner said the problem was that students all wanted to be advised at the same time. Pre-enrollment would allow advising to be spread over a greater period of time, he said, and students could plan their curricula more thoughtfully.
Another accomplishment that Beissner noted was the improvement in recreational programs. Under the guidance of the Senate's Sports Committee, funding for the intramural program in fiscal year 1976 will be almost three times that of 1974.
The committee worked to open up the new facilities in Allen Field House and to build a new facility in East Meadow.
in the nation in support of women's athletic programs from student activity fees.
Support was also increased for women's sports. KU ranks among the top 10 schools
Beisner said parking problems were frustrating to deal with because so many special interest groups wanted privileges. He said he was meeting with the chancellor and discuss the problem of inequalities in the collection of faculty parking fines.
The teams running for student body president and vice president are: Lewis Gregory, Wichita senior, and Tedde Tasheff, Wichita sophomore; Barbara O'Brien, Bonner sophomore; Steve Murray, Norton junior; Ed Rohlman, Junction City senior; Paul Shaver, sophomore; and Paul Sherbo, Colorado Springs, Colo., junior; and Gerald Long, Kansas City, Kan., junior.
Also, the parking and traffic board has recommended a reduction in the cost of parking permits for O-zone, X-zone and residence halls. If the recommendation is approved by the University Council, the price of permits on on-campus parking would be increased. These areas are generally used by faculty members.
Beisner also said improved security was a major accomplishment of this year's Senate. A consultant was hired to examine the campus security system last fall and operations are now being implemented, with ideas developed in the Senate.
More personnel are being hired, better facilities are being sought for the campus security offices and a communications night is being developed on the campus.
The final achievement Beiser mentioned was the development of a job placement program for students organized next fall. As a stop-pap remedy the Senate organized Work Force 75, which attempted to match graduates with employment by about 50 per cent of the senior class.
The polls will be in Summerfield Hall, Wesco Hall, the Kansas Union and off campus at various residence halls, fraternities, sororities and scholarship halls. A complete list of places and times will be listed in Tuesday's Kansan.
Elections to be Feb.12 and 13
Although there were few campaign filings, interest in the elections peaked just before the filing deadlines. Four 2-man teams are running for student body president and 10 students for Student Senate and 20 students for class offices.
Two other areas that Beisner and Hunter discussed in their campaign were Affirmative Action and the foreign language requirement.
The ballots will be counted in the Kansas Union, and results will be posted in the Big G room at the ballpark once they become available.
An affirmative action program was established, and as a result, the Senate had more applications for committees member positions. There is also a percent of the senators are now women.
Beisner said there was still a need for improvement in the representation of Japanese people, top cop this problem would be dealt with next year, but said he wasn't sure how it could be
Election of the student body president and vice president of students and 12 class officers will be Wednesday and Thursday.
The language requirements at KU were studied extensively this year. The Senate's Academic Affairs Committee did research into the requirements of other universities and found that KU's were comparatively high.
Beaister said he thought students should have more options than they currently have. He said the committee's proposal, called a College Assembly, is a good one.
Under this proposal, the language requirement would be 10 hours of basic programming.
See BEISNER page two
Rebates build sales, buver interest
By KEN KREHBIEL
Kansan Staff Reporter
tually, as well as nationally, consumer response to rebates on new car purchases has resulted in increased sales for automobile manufacturers.
On Jan. 12, Chrysler Corp., defined Ford Motor Co. and General Motors, who had said they wouldn't offer cash rebates, by offering rebates to new car buyers in an attempt to stimulate consumer interest in the automobile industry.
Over-all car sales have increased, buyer interest has increased and, if the trend continues, many of the industry's workers are laid off in December may go back to work.
Ford and GM soon followed with rebate programs of their own, American Motors, Chevrolet, Ford Motor Company.
sales, was the last to offer rebates. Ford,
and AMC now all offer rebates of up to
9000.
The four corporations' rebate programs are an effort to pull the industry out of its worst sales slump in 14 years. The daily sales average of 16,391 cars during the first half of January was the lowest since 1961, when the daily rate was 14,851.
Ford started its rebase program four days
after Chrysler, and GM and AMC started the
program five days later.
Before the rebates went into effect, all four major corporations reported declines in total sales for the period covering Jan. 11 when compared to the same period last
GM sales were down 7 per cent. Chrysler,
down 8 per cent. Ford, down 25 per cent.
Six other brands saw little change.
dusty's new car deliveries declined 15 per cent.
Since the rebate programs went into effect, local dealers have reported an increase in sales and in general buyer interest.
Chrysler reported small car sales of Valiant and Darts up 127 per cent over the first period of the month and up 13 per cent from last year, he said. Chrysler also reported the highest market penetration in 18 years with nearly one out of every five
1. Brubeck Jr., sales manager at Jim Clark mortgages, said last week that he didn't have any statistics for the local dealership, but cited corporation statistics that showed a 90 per cent increase in sales the second quarter compared to the first half of the month.
Brubeck said the maximum rebate of $300 was a strict benefit to the customer.
buyers through the Jan. 11-20 period buying a Chrysler.
Chrysler is also the only one of the four major corporations that doesn't offer higher rebates strictly according to higher new car sticker prices. Their rebates change every few days and, although the $300 maximum Chrysler rebate is the smallest of the four company companies they are a part of additional $100 for trade-ins of certain selected models.
George Schuler, assistant sales manager at Jack Ellen Buick, Oldsmobile and GMC, said people were feeling apprehensive about the state of the economy, but they looked at a car more or less as a necessity because of their need for transportation.
also said he thought GMA's proud
See REBATES page five