Observers comment on Democratic victory
Most political observers in Lawrence disagreed yesterday with the theory that Democratic gains in Tuesday's elections would lead to a negative, inactive Congress.
"The thing to watch is what happens in Congress. It's "going to be a live, issue-debating body, whereas the presidency is a weakened, ineffectual institution," said yesterday. an assistant professor of political science, said yesterday.
Getter said he wouldn't be surprised if Congress forced wage and price controls and a public works program to fight inflation and unemployment. He said he had already seen the effects, which would have to continue to exceed 10 per cent.
Harold Keltz, chairman of the Douglas County Democratic Central Committee, agreed with Getter
and said he thought the legislative branch would take the initiative to work to turn the economy around.
The local analysts also agreed that Republican Sen. Bob Dole's re-election campaign was successful because the state has a strong economic base, Watergate. Dole capitalized on several key issues, such as abortion and agriculture, late in the race and his opponent, Democratic Rep. Bill Roy, wasn't able to secure Nehring, chairman of the political science department.
I. J. Stoneback, county commissioner and a local Democratic precinct committee member, cited Dole's allegations that Roy had received campaign funds from the House as another reason for the Republican's victory.
A key factor was Dole's ability to emphasize successfully his seniority and role as ranking Republican on the Agriculture Committee, according to Francis
In the race for governor several of those questioned said they thought Democratic candidate Vern Miller had defeated himself. Stoneback said the state committee should never have allowed Miller to debate Bennett because Miller performed poorly in the face-to-face clashes.
"The more exposure he got, the more people found he was unqualified," Stephen Hill, chairman of the Republican Douglas County Central Committee, said. Getter said he thought the race for governor was a
Getter said he thought the race for governor was a referendum on Miller.
"I think a lot of people were afraid of him. A lot of
Getter tiled the defeats of Miller and Roy togner. he said it was evident Roy didn't want to be associated with the Miller campaign, and this dissociation was detrimental to both of them.
attorneys I've talked to thought his breed of law was the worst kind possible," he said.
Heller said that although Bennett was far behind in the polls at one time, he had planned and timed his campaign wisely so that on election day he was as widely known as Miller.
Despite Miller's defeat in the gubernatorial contest, the observers said they thought his policies as attorney general had been major factors in the election of his former assistant, Curt Schneider.
presented an "I will continue Vern
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Vol. 85—No. 52
Thursday, November 7, 1974
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
By Kansan Photographer DAVE PETERSON
Bennett did win it
Although be refused to issue a victory statement at this news conference in Topeka Tuesday night, Senate President Robert F. Bennett finally was declared winner in the election, which he won by 37 votes.
Gen. Vern Miller, conceded defeat late yesterday afternoon after final unofficial results showed him trailing by nearly 5,000 votes.
Dykes explains KU's priorities
By BETTY HAEGELIN Administration Reporter
Teaching excellence is the primary goal of the University of Kansas, despite its low priority on a list of goals compiled by the NCAA to recognizeancellor Archie R. Dykes said yesterday.
The list is included in an internal report compiled by Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, after discussion with campus and faculty groups and consultation with the chancellor. In it improvement of teaching was sixth in a group of 11 goals.
These priorities include:
Dykes said this didn't mean that teaching wasn't a consideration in the first five years, and assumed that improvement of teaching would be inherently involved in all of these.
pointments or through visiting appointments.
— A continued commitment to affirmative action in hiring and related policies.
—To retain flexibility in staffing. This may be achieved by requiring that the majority of faculty appointments made in fiscal year 1976 be such that they won't lead to overtime. (For example, a specified term appointments, teaching assistant or assistant instructor ap-
-Continued service to the needs of the nontraditional students through the use of multimedia and technology.
include expansion of staffing and the increased availability of resources.
-Improved counseling and advising including academic advising, career counseling, job placement services and other services.
—Improved services for faculty and staff, including personnel offices, research and
teaching service offices, business offices and district areas of importance to faculty members.
Dykes said the initial paragraph of the report, which states general goals for the University with regard to teaching, was more definitive of the University's position.
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Kansas GOP enjoys victory of the decade
From the Associated Press
TOPEKA-Kansas Republicans, who had chafed for eight years under Democratic control of the statehouse and feared they might lose one of their U.S. senators, rejoiced yesterday over their greatest election victory in at least a decade.
Senate President Robert F. Bennett and U.S. Sen. Bob Dole, who both uphill battles in recent weeks, pulled off narrow victories that will put Bennett in the governor's chair for the next four years and a mole in the Senate for the next six years.
Bennett called his triumph over Democratic Atty. Gen. Vern Miller a victory for "nonpartisan government" in Kansas.
Dole, former national Republican chairman who had to overcome the stigma attached to many GOP congressional candidates, said he thought a key factor in his win was that the Democrats "overplaved Waterrate."
Miller conceded defeat yesterday afternoon. He said he thought a large college vote turnout, which mostly went against the conservative raids, was the key factor in his defeat.
"That's probably where the defeat really came from," he said. "They really turned
Bennett, 47-year-old Johnson County attorney and state government expert, should wind up a margin over Miller of $200,000. The state convassing board meets in two weeks.
Democrats salvaged the other two top races, sending Martha Keys of Manhattan to Congress to replace Roy in the 2nd District and elect Curt Schneider of
Coffeyville as attorney general to succeed Miller.
Keys defeated Teepunan State Ave. John C. Peterson of Topeka in 17,000 votes. Schneider, who has been Miller's chief of litigation, beat State Treasurer Tom Van Meeuwen and governor Mercy general's race. For Van Sickle is the first time out of public office in 16 years
Democrats also won the state treasurer's post when Joan Finney of Topeka defeated State Auditor Clay Hedrick by 58,000 votes. Finney became the first woman treasurer of Florida. She also is the first Democrat to hold that office since George Hart in 1959-61.
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From the Associated Press
Democrats face inflation
WASHINGTON—Democrats have
amassed political weaponry for the 1976
White House challenge, but they also have
concerns about dealing with the nation's economic ill.
The same off-year election victories that tightened their grip on Congress and the nation's biggest states confront Democrats with a situation in which they must make headway on the pivotal issues of inflation and recession.
Otherwise, they face a 1976 presidential race against an incumbent President sounding the "do-nothose Congress" theme carried by Harried S. Truman to victory in 1981.
Letters, magazines halted by French strike
A French postal strike that has halted the circulation of mail from inside and outside France has caused the United States to enclose an embargo on all mail to that country.
The result is that some French exchange students have been cut off from com-
Bernard Beck, a University of Kansas graduate student from Amiens, France, said he hadn't received a letter in three weeks.
StudEx seeks to regulate groups funded by Senate
From National Chairman Robert S. Strauss down, Democratic leaders declared that yesterday's mandate provided an opportunity for national leadership in key areas, primarily in dealing with the nation's economic crisis.
By DAVID OLSON
The legality of four bills that would beef up Student Senate's power to oversee administration of the funds it allocates will be announced at Finance and Audit Committee next week.
Senate Reporter
"The opportunity begins tonight."
"She's celebrating Democrats at party headquarters."
"All these measures are a package to ensure that the Senate's wishes in their Rules and Regulations are carried out by security, committee chairman, said last night.
Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota, the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate, and Sen. Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota, who hopes to be the next standard-bearer, warned of a 1976 backlash if Democrats failed to produce.
StudEx voted last night to refer the four bills to the Finance and Audit Committee.
Gregory said he would meet with Michael
guest, general counsel, to get legal advice
and discuss his work.
According to Donald A. Wetzel, assistant postmaster for the Lawrence post office, all U.S. post offices were instructed Oct. 29 to return mail headed for France to the senate and return it to the treasury. I want to complicate matters in France by sending mail that would only stack up.
Bek said a letter required five days to get to France from Lawrence, and the Lawrence post office refused to send any letter to France.
The first bill would amend the Student Senate rules and Regulation's definition of a school.
Some Republicans seemed inclined to
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Another bill would either adopt an open meetings policy for all Student Senate committees and its affiliates, or force any group, organization or corporation that is a recipient of Senate funds to comply with the Kansas Onen Meetings Law.
appropriation process and the recipient's actual expenditure of the funds.
Stipulation that funds allocated by the senate be used in accordance with the rules set forth in section 421.
A fourth bill would give the Senate the power to withhold or cancel funds of groups that don't comply with the rules and regulations of the Senate.
That measure would include the Kansas University Athletic Corporation, according to
"We're not trying to point at any one group," said Gregory, "but we feel groups are important."
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their wages because wages hadn't increased enough to keep up with inflation.
According to the Express article, the average postal worker makes the equivalent of $260 a month working a nine-hour shift. This is equal to the government asked for $340 a month.
Bryant Freeman, chairman of the department of French, said, accompanied by a colleague sent to French, been returned. Freeman also said French magazines and periodicals used by his clients were being released.
Officials in both the Kansas City and New York French consulates said they had no indication of how long the strike would continue.
Freeman explained the situation by interpreting a recent article in Express, the French equivalent of Time magazine. The strike, he said, is a result of a breakdown in negotiations between the Postes and Telephones (PTT) and the government.
calling or sending a telegram. But telegrams were so expensive that she might as well call.
Cazalas said strikes of the PTT weren't common. The more common strikers, she said, were the railroad workers. The PTT strike isn't the only strike in France now, she said. The railway and harbor workers are also on strike.
She said the French were dissatisfied with
Helene Cazalas, KU graduate student from Paris, has temporarily resolved her problem of no correspondence with her family and a difficult distance. She said she had a choice of
It was sparked by a petition presented to the government by the principal mail sorters in Paris. The petition condemned the killing of the prisoners and heavy workload. Freeman said.
The article said the government had refused to consider the requests of the petition. As a result, the mail sorters walked off their jobs Oct. 17 and were promptly joined by nearly every postal employee in Paris and many telephone offices within a week, the entire country's postal service was at a standstill, the article said.
Out to launch
Some French exchange students have been cut off from communicating with their families because of the French mall
By Kamaan Photographer JOYCE MENDELSOHN
strike. An embargo has been placed on all classes of mail being sent to France to alleviate a backlog of unmovable mail.