Student input ignored, McCollum president says
By CINDY MORGAN
Housing Reporter
Decisions are made throughout the University without proper student input, according to Thomas R. Schwehey, president of McColm Hall. The Communications center is an example of this, he said.
Schweitze's comments yesterday were prompted by a story in yesterday's Kansan in which J. W. Wilson, director of housing, defended himself for being an unseasonal employer that made McColm a communication hall.
Yesterday's story was prompted by a letter from Alan Katz, former chairman of the McColum Foundation.
plementing the "ill-conceived" plan and announcing Katrin's resignation as chairman of
"Since my academic workload is extremely heavy, I cannot afford the time to play futile games and suffer continued abuse for the hall senate's indiscensiveness. I have therefore resigned the chairmanship of the McCollim Hall Senate," Katz wrote.
"It's another case where the administration wanted to look down on them." Katz said westernd.
Jonathan Fishbain, vice president of McCollam, said Katz's letter expresses his agreement with the statement said in the letter that the
"The McCollum residents and government were not consulted when the decision was made. A recent survey has shown that about 15 per cent of the residents live here because of the 'communications' facilities; the rest live here despite the facilities and the increased cost," Katz wrote.
idea for a communications hall came from the housing administration.
The increased cost Katz referred to is the extra gad added onto each client's contrast this year to his current gad.
A survey, based on 100 responses, showed a 54 per cent agreement with the rules, but 86 per cent and they would use the rules. However, 86 per cent did not.
communications hall equipment this year enough to be worth the extra $20 they paid for it.
Wilson said yesterday he thought there had been adequate student input last year when the decision to award commencement certificates hall. The coordinated commitment of the Association of University Residence Halls (ARH) was in on the discussions concerning MCQ, which encouraged the communications hall, Wilson said.
"No one objected to it last year," Wilson said. Fishbish said Katz resigned out of frustration from trying to work with Wilson and the McColum Senate.
"He resigned from not being able to work within
the system with a large part due to Wilson," Schwetey said.
Katz said yesterday that the students were more or less told to contribute input on what should be in the center or not have voice in it at all. He said the students weren't asked but were told.
The students should have but did not have a say in the hiring of the program technician for the center.
Robert and Juanita Wherele-Einhorn, directors of McColm, said the first time they heard of the idea to make McColm a communications center was held last year in Revamp, a letter sent out by AUHR.
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KANSAN
Vol. 85—No.41 Tuesday, October 22, 1974
By Kanaan Photographer JOYCE MENDELSOHN
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
A member of the Black Student Union showed her support yesterday of the BSU protest against the appointment of Gian Flamay, director of the Supportive Educator Unit.
Sounding off
BSU marchers protest SES director appointment
About 75 members of the Black Student Union (USB) protested yesterday the appointment of Gary Flanagan as director of Supportive Educational Services (SES).
SESS is a branch of the Office of Minority Affairs that offers tutoring and counseling to students.
"This rally might not get him out, but if we continue to struggle, we can get him out of there." Sherry Jones chairman of BSU, said to the group.
The group, which assembled in front of Strong Hall and marched to Carnuth-O'Leary Hall, protested Flanigan's appointment for about 40 minutes.
"(i) SES) may not be affecting you, but
it affects a) its effects or b) it
pretty soon there is no way out here."
Last night, Gilbert Brown, BSU vice chairman, said Brianan had limited
contact with black students. He said the ISU wanted an SES director who was more involved in their work.
Demonstrators shoted "Get rid of Garry" and "Black student power" as they marched toward the building.
"A director is supposed to work in the interest of black students. Gary Flianganian works with black students, but work with black students," Stanley Williams, Wichita freshman, said at the conference.
Williams said another disagreement BSU had with Flanagan's appointment that it was not a necessary one.
"We are here to get a voice in the choice," Williams said.
After the march, Flainigan he thought the ISU hadn't taken a firm position toward him.
"I have yet to find something concrete, something other than conjecture; they are not clear."
"I don't think it (the demonstration) represented the majority of black students. It's the opinion of one group, and I don't see why a large number of black students of campus," Flanagan said.
Flanigan said that he met with the leaders of ISCU 9 and 10 and that he asked to meet with them in the conference.
"The idea was received somewhat positively," Flagan said. "But to this day, I haven't had any correspondence cross my desk which says, "This is our complaint."
Flanigan said he thought the demotion was based more on personality than training.
"It is not based on the office or its programs," he said. "It seemed to be based
on personality, and I won't respond to personality."
Flanigan said that the demonstration was regrettable and that if any organization had a complaint about SES, it should contact SES.
"If anybody has a concern about the direction this office will take, I think you should at least talk with the person," he said.
Flanigan said he thought it was interesting that MECHA, the campus Chicano organization, and CIA, Committee on Indian Affairs, had protested in the past that the office had placed too much emphasis on helping blacks.
Legal aid tactics decried
Senate Reporter
The Douglas County Legal Aid Society has used scarcity tactics in its protest of a proposed rejection of funding for the group. Doug Searle, who was representing student body president, said last night.
By JOHN JOHNSTON
"It's interesting in my mind that MECHA and CIA have had some serious concerns and considerations because of the operation of this office in the past saying it hasn't concerned itself with others than blacks," Flanigan said.
Beisner was referring to statements made by Deaneall Tacha, director of the society, in a Kansan story yesterday. In the story Tacha said the legal aid society might have to reduce the number of student cases it handled because of the budget cuts.
The legal aid society had requested $4,085 from the Student Senate's fall budget allocation for Auditing Committee rejected the organization's request and StudEx approved the committee's recommendation. Work on the budget requests tomorrow night.
"The threat to cut off legal assistance to students by the Douglas County Legal Aid Office must be eliminated by the Student Senate," Beiser said. "I don't think the chancellor of the University would allow the University to participate in a program that would discriminate against students."
"I think the county commission would
Plight of laborers lamented
By BILL GRAY Reporter
Reporter
The only way out of the current problems in American society is for workers to fight uncompromisingly for their own interests, Barbara Mutnick, Socialist Workers party candidate from Missouri for the U.S. Senate, said yesterday.
Mutnick
She also was critical of politicians who had come out recently against forced busing and accused him of supporting neighborhood schools is only a suppression for keeping black people down, Mutnick said. She said the violence occurring in these schools was busing was a racist attack on the black community.
Flanigan said one of the allegations made by the demonstrators, that he had limited contact with blacks, was a gross generalization.
Mutnick said the 5 per cent tax surcharge, recently proposed by President Gerald R.
He also said the society had changed its figures and statistics on several occasions. The society had originally presented its figures, but now the group says it is $25,200. Beisner said.
Beisner said the Senate already had paid $3,350 in support of the program. He said he hoped the Senate was intelligent enough to have done its share in supporting the society.
have a difficult time justifying the use of federal funds in a program that would discriminate against students and I think it would be better to fund Fund's contributions to the program."
Ford, would only cut further into the spendable income of working families.
Mutnick called President Ford "the Boy Scout in the White House," and said his administration had widened the credibility gap. She said the economic summit designed to fool workers into thinking something had been done about the economy.
The strict guidelines the society uses to determine those who qualify for legal aid were mentioned by Beisner as discriminatory against students.
"I'm just kind of concerned that these tactics are being used," said Reiser.
Beisner said he discovered yesterday in the legal aid society's Oct. 1 newsletter that the organization had a $2,000 carryover in funds from last year. He said the society paid this money in its hearing before the Senate's Finance and Auditing Committee.
discussions would be conducted in a professional manner.
If every group threatened to "kick students in the teeth" when their贮容ions were cut, the Senate would face an unbelievable budget, he said.
Mutnick spoke to about 25 persons who attended an SUA Forums Series. She was introduced by Robert Means, treasurer of the University Alliance of the University of Kansas.
Mary Townsend, director of minority affairs, said she couldn't speak about the allegations because they concerned her. She was a resident director at Elswick Hall.
Eagleton has recently become a Wallace supporter, Mutnick said, and might even support the Alabama governor for the Democratic vice-presidential ticket in 1976. She was critical of Eagleton's support of the reinstatement of wage and price controls.
"Those who are saying 'He didn't have any contact with black students,' what are they basing that on-personality?" Flanigan said.
Beisern said the newsletter stated, "The real crunch will not be felt this year because of a carryover balance of almost $2,000, but if the economy picks up problems in the pot very distant future."
The 'wage-price freeze was the biggest payroll robbery, the biggest rip-off, in
the city.'
"Ford is trying to sell us a bill of goods for which we will not pay or can't pay," Mutual said.
The government has to be replaced by a Socialist society organized democratically, based on human needs rather than profit, Matnick said. She said workers would have to mobilize, demonstrate and protest to further the Socialist workers' revolution
She spoke mainly on the national plight of American laborers, but mentioned her opponents in the Senate race. Republican Thomas Eagleton, and incumbent Democrat Thomas Eagleton.
Mutnick said basic freedoms, such as freedom of the press, would be decided by the Socialist workers' movement. However, the Communists' membership of anticolonial writers in Cuba.
Calling herself a feminist, Mutuck said she supported the women's movement in three basic areas. She said she had worked with a group of women to equal rights amendment and for the Coalition of Labor Union Women, an attempt to organize working women
In response to Beisner's accusations, Tacha said that the society had made every attempt to present the facts in good faith and that she hoped the truth would be a shouting match. She said she hoped future
"Any time you make a gross
money you lend yourself to error."
Flanigan吉安
"The Socialist Workers party does not claim to represent the interests of all the workers."
"To say that I haven't had any contact with black students is first of all putting every black student into a mold," Flanigan said.
"The allegations are based on his former employment, and I can't address myself to him."
Townsend said she was responsible for Flanizan's appointment.
Mutnick said she was one of 125 Socialist Workers party candidates in 16 states.
"I consulted with the Dial Stenkel, but I made the decision with his approval," she said.
Marching to Carruth
About 17 members of the BSU奔来 from one rally at Sugiyama Hall yesterday afternoon to another one at Carruth-O'Leary Park.
By Kanaan Photographer DAVE PETERSON
SES. The demonstration began at 1:30 and lasted for about 40 minutes.