Death penalty seen as questionable leash on crime
Editor's Note: This is the last of a two-part series on capital punishment.
By MONADUCKWORTH
Reporter
The arguments pro and con on the death penalty range from questions of a religious or ethical nature to legal questions on the application of the death penalty.
Jack Fochi, vice president of the Wichita War Association, said recently that he opposed the death penalty.
"I guess it is partly a religious belief," Focht said. "I cannot feel it is right to believe in the same thing." Wing said, "I am not sure I can end up agreeing with you."
"I think it is constitutional," he said. "We can kill
legally if we want to, but it's a moral issue we have to resolve."
Paul Wilson, professor of law, also said he opposed the death penalty.
"Tve always believed that we don't need the
I're always believed that we don't need the
Whose sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be bled.
—Genesis 9:6
death penalty as an effective system of law enforcement," he said. "I think my objection to that penalty is mainly upon ethical and moral grounds. I object to killing people."
Keith Sanborn, district attorney of Sedgwick
County, said the death penalty was not only constitutional but also expressive of the high value people place on human life.
"To say that no facts could be had enough under which the death penalty could be the appropriate verdict for that conduct would be to deny some fundamental values which do in fact exist in our society." Samborn said. "My feeling is that the laws of the United States are the laws of Kansas provide for the death penalty in decision in the hands of the juries. The most civilized method of handling it is that such a penalty is imposed only when left to the wisdom of 12 people."
Another argument for the retention of the death penalty is that even though capital punishment doesn't restore the life of the murderer's victim, neither does any other punishment.
Though the end of punishment is to deter men from offending, it never can follow thence that it is lawful to deter them at any rate and by any means.
—Sir William Blackstone
The death of the murderer, however, does protect society against him. The elimination of those who menace life and society is one of the most common justifications for the death penalty.
"The death penalty is the good old revenge theory that's been part of criminal law for years," Focht said. "Once you say you're going to kill someone and you're going to be convicted, then you're giving up on rehabilitation."
Wilson agreed that rehabilitation, not elimination, of criminals was the answer.
"There are some difficult questions, some questions that I can't answer," Wilson said, "because there are people who apparently can't live in society without being a menace to it. There are people in the penal system who have committed and continue to commit murders."
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KANSAN
Vol.85-No.68 Thursday, December 5,1974
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
By Kansan Photographer JAN SEYMOUR
Sen-elect Gary Hart, D-Colo, said last night that the present economic structure was inadequate and inflexible to changing conditions. Hart spoke at about 150 people as part of the conference.
Have a Hart
Bookstore to stop changing price tags on unsold books
The Kansas Union Bookstore's controversial practice of marking up prices of books left from old shipments to the inflated price of new shipments has ended, at least temporarily.
The policy change was announced yesterday by Ann Dillon, chairman of the Merchandising Policies and Practices Committee of the Union's board of directors.
The committee's action is a direct response to complaints about the policy that were reported in the Kansan in August, according to Frank Burge, director of the union. The original complaint about the museum was submitted by John Dagenais, Wichita graduate student.
This new buy-back practice will be a "distinct advantage for students." Burge
Burge said the committee's action was "just what the students wanted in August," and the committee's recommendations were a very happy result of the matter.
The committee's recommendations will be presented at the January meeting, pending final approval by the board of directors at their January meeting. Burge said he expected the board to appraise the recommendations.
A second policy change is in the bookstore's buy-back practice of paying 50 per cent of the original price on books brought back. Acceptance of the recommendation will mean that the bookstore now buys back at 50 per cent of the current price.
said. For instance, if a student bought a book for $10, he would expect to get $5 in the back-buy. But now, Burge said, if the $10 were for $5, he would expect to get $5 if he sold it to the bookstore.
The committee's announcement noted two possible results of the new practice: (1) The
particular book could have different selling prices and equipments it may require to be marketed up to new prices.
plain lucky," Burge said. "The other guy will just be the victim of inflation."
Burge said there might be a few books on a shelf priced at $10, for example, with several hundred volumes of the same book priced at $12.
"The guy that gets the $10 book is just
Another possible result is that the revised book buy-back practice could cost the bookstore more than $8,000. Burge said, so much that its refund might be slightly lower next spring.
AAUP disputes bargaining units
By VALERIE J. MEYERS
College Reporter
M. E. Bickford, professor of geology, said yesterday that he didn't want to be a part of a faculty union, and he didn't want a union "crammed" down his throat.
Bickford voiced his opposition to collective bargaining, which will be the subject at a meeting tonight of the University of Kansas' chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP).
The AAUP'S MEETING has no official say on whether collective bargaining units should be set up. That would be decided by a majority vote of all faculty members, whereupon a bargaining agent would be selected.
The bargaining agent would deal with the administration in much the same way that labor unions deal with the management of private corporations.
BICKFORD SAID HE thought this was the wrong time to begin discussing collective bargaining units. He said that because communications were fairly open, because faculty members weren't grossly disinterested in such discussions would be divisive.
"I'm a member of AUAP," Bickford said. "We were polled, and I think 51 per cent indicated that they didn't want any bargaining agent."
"It seems to me that the state has been threatened by the university lately," Bickford said.
He said collective bargaining would not only allow faculty to make demands on the administration, but would also give the department a chance to make counter-demands upon the faculty.
These counter-demands could cause departments' schedules to become more rigid and teaching workloads could be increased. he said.
Faculty members had fought for years for the right to participate in decision-making, he said, and collective bargaining might be crucial to faculty and administrative collaboration.
"I feel very strongly, as I indicated in my campaign and I felt in 1972, that the country faces an agenda and a series of decisions of the seriousness and the likes of what have
Senator warns of internal perils
Committee of the AAUP, said that the meeting was solely to prepare the AAUP in case the faculty should vote in favor of change. He said the AAUP should be ready.
"IDON'T SEE how anyone could object." The AAUP has not asked for unit determination.
Americans have reached a point where contemporary energy and economic lifestyles have run out, Sen. elect Gary Hart, D-Colo., said yesterday.
not been seen in the history of this country," Hart said.
"The most important reason is that I view myself as a professional." he said.
Krider said the Executive Committee See AAUP Back Page
Hart, who is a native of Ottawa, spoke to about 150 people in the Kansas Union ballroom. He was one of Sen. George McGovern's managers in the 1972 presidential election. Last month, Hart defeated incumbent senator Peter
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"We're not organized, and we don't do anything about it," he said.
Retirement debated
A resolution requesting that Don Fambrough reconsider his decision to resign as head football coach will be introduced tonight in the Student Senate meeting, John Beiser, student body president, told the Kansan last night.
Beisner, who said he was endorsing the resolution that will come from the floor, said he "doesn't think we can find anyone that Famibrough has for Kansas football."
By CARL YOUNG
Administration Reporter
A faculty retirement plan was rejected by SenEx vesterdav
Fambrough said last night that the resolution was “the most flattering thing that’s happened to me on this whole thing. It means a lot to me. I mean that sheerly.”
The plan, developed by the Regents Committee on Redemption, would the faculty retirement age from 70 to 65. It would also provide for an e-unit.
He declined, however, to say whether he would reconsider.
The University Senate Committee on Faculty Rights, Privileges and responsibilities (FRPR) and the regents' report are reported in this chapter and amended to include the following:
"It may have 'serious legal implications in respect to the provision for mandatory early retirement."
- It ignores important moral, psychological and practical consequences.
—It involves a "number of questionable assumptions."
-It fails to consider "published data that are central to the issues of the report."
Charles Krider, assistant professor of business and a member of the Executive
SenEnx送 Dykes a statement that the regents' proposed 10 per cent raise in faculty salaries isn't enough to reach the regents' goal of improving faculty salaries and won't keep pace with the present double digit inflation.
Fambrough announced Tuesday that he would resign because his contract wasn't extended after the 1973 football season and he didn't want to be a lame duck coach next year. Fambrough had one year left on his contract.
SenEx sent a copy of the FRPR report to Chancellor Archi R. Dykes and placed the report on the agenda of the University Council meeting in
The regents will present the budget for the state supported colleges and universities to the state budget director on Dec. 19 and 18.
"In sum, we believe that the Regents Committee on Retirement report isn't beneficial to the faculty," the FRPR report says.
- It poses questions that might concern the status of tenure.
SenEx discussed two proposals that would change the procedures of the University Senate.
Francis Heller, faculty member of SenEX, suggested that if a quorum failed to appear at the scheduled meeting, the Senate should be able to reconvene a week later and conduct business whether or not a quorum was present.
The second proposal was suggested by Richard Cole, professor of political science, Sept. 13 letter to Senka, he argued that the University Council be empowered.
The University Council can make changes in the Rules and Regulations of the University.
Dominick, a Republican in the campaign to represent Colorado in the Senate.
Hart said the contemporary economic structure wouldn't be responsive to the needs of Americans for the next 25 years. Hart cited the failure of America's institutions, public and private, to adjust to changing conditions as one of the problems.
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"THE BULK OF the manufacturing capability has gone from 400 to 500 companies to 200 to 300 in the last few years". Hart said. He said there had been an unwarranted degree of concentration of power in the private sectors of business.
He said a trend toward concentration of economic power, which had taken place since World War II, had been a factor in American economic problems.
"We must change the way people finance their campaigns," Hart said. He said he
"We don't have the type of free enterprise economy we are taught to have." Hart said.
Hart said that before economic and energy changes could be made, however, America must change its methods by electing public officials.
He said he would first encourage antitrust laws that would prohibit price fixing and promote competition. Hart said industries should regulate monopolies should be rigated regularly.
Hart said a third step would be to enact campaign reforms to release politicians from the stranglehold of special interests. Fourth, Hart cited tax reform and compulsory present tax system with Swiss cheese bestowed on the holes for special interest groups.
Hart suggested five methods of reestablishing a free enterprise and citizen government.
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Hart said that none of these economic reforms could be enacted if the country didn't set out to conserve energy and natural resources.
In his fifth point, Hart said federal funds must not be lost through loopholes or
America, Hart said, must adopt an energy program. He said America must conserve rather than use energy, and provide active energy sources must be explored.
"WE HAVE TO adjust our lifestyles to the fact that cheap, inexpensive energy is not affordable."
"We can free ourselves of foreign oil dominance in 15 years using the power of oil."
A foreign feeling
Susan Parham, Little Rock, Ark. ark.senior, Inspected a stuffed animal from Guatemala since the at the International Gift Museum (IGM). KU-1234567890.
By Kansan Photographer DAVE PETERSON
Moroccan leather to Christmas decorations. Friday in the last day for the fair, which is in the Big Eight room of the Union.