THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 85-No.31 Tuesday, October 8, 1974
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
By Kansan Photographer JIM THOMAS
And the trucks go on
The 45.m.h. limit on Iowa Street between Harvard Road and
West Dearborn Avenue of about 60 area petition to lower the limit to be 35.m.h. night
the lawrence Traffic and Safety Commission by two KU students.
Petitions urge speed cut on Iowa
Two University of Kansas students presented two petitions last night to the Lawrence Traffic and Safety Commission asking for a lowered speed limit on Iowa Street between Harbor Blvd. and Cedar Creek where were signed by almost 40 residents of the affected area.
The students, Carol Rittenhouse and Marsha Feinberg were standing in for Ann Ruth Willner, professor of political science, who collected the signatures. Willner was out of town at the time of the meeting
The two women told the Commission that people generally traveled at speeds of up to 55 mph on Iowa, made most left-behind routes and worked on trails.
The 18 persons who signed the second petition stated that on at least one occasion their cars had almost been hit from behind while they were trying to turn left from Iowa.
The Traffic and Safety Commission voted to table the issue until their November meeting.
Rittenhouse and Feinberg said they planned, along with Willner, to canvass the neighborhoods along Iowa in the next few weeks, urging residents to sign the petitions and to show up for a commission meeting in support of a proposed 35 m.p.h. speed limit.
Butz blames himself for grain confusion
From the Associated Press
WASHINGTON—Agriculture Secretary Earl I. Batz said yesterday he was partly to blame for any misunderstanding that might have led the Soviet Union to buy $500 million worth of corn and wheat when the U.S. supply was so tight.
Earlier, Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger said bureaucratic mis-understanding might have prompted the Soviets to place the large orders. The orders were suspended during the weekend as the result of White House pressure.
"I think there were errors made," Butz said. Butz criticized himself for not being firm enough in his representation of the U.S. grain situation to Soviet officials.
Butz told a news conference he also hadn't been tough enough to private exporting companies in impressing how important it is to learn more about information before taking large new orders.
The firms involved were Continental Grain Company of New York and Cook Industries of Memphis, Teen. About 125,000 people worked at the company ordered by the Soviets from the companies.
In his earlier remarks, Kissinger said, "I believe that a strong possibility exists that we may have misled the Soviet Union as to what we could deliver over a period of time."
Butz said he thought the Russians had acted in good faith in placing the orders. However, other government officials indicated that Moscow might have moved quickly into the U.S. market in anticipation of a further decline in 1974 croop prospects.
New Agriculture Department harvest estimates for corn, soybeans and other crops will be issued Thursday. Butz predicted that production would be down further as the result of recent freezes in the Midwest.
Department officials announced a supplemental voluntary system for keeping track of export sales of wheat, corn, sorghum, soybeans and soybean meal, soybeans and soybean meal, approvals for approval for large orders. In some cases, officials said, clearance might
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Dickinson said, however, that he thought the bar examination itself was sound.
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The Kansas bar examination is under attack by a black law school graduate who is charging that discrimination is preventing him from practicing law.
Dwight E. Murphy, a 1972 graduate of Notre Dame, fell suit against the Kansas Supreme Court and the state Board of Law Examiners. Murphy said he has failed the third examination three times because it was wrongly assigned and was biased against nonwhites.
The suit also charges that the Supreme Court and bar examiners have implemented policies designed to limit the practice of nonwhites practicing law in the state.
Minority graduates have a more difficult time in passing the bar examination, said Martin B. Dickinson, dean of the University of Kansas School of Law.
Claim of bar-exam bias studied
Murphy asks in the suit to be admitted to a bar without being required to take leave.
Dickinson said that both the methodological and substantive qualities of
the bar examination appeared objective and free of discriminatory practice.
He also supported the content of the exam, calling it fairly straightforward and following the important points of law covered by most law schools.
"I'm convinced that the grading is generally done on an anonymous basis," said Bess.
The content of the bar examination is determined by the State Board of Law Examiners. The members of the board are appointed by the Supreme Court.
James Posey, president of the Black Law Student Association, said that the suit was a good way to find out whether the bar exam is discriminatory.
Posey said that although the bar exam might not have been designed to be predjudicial, there were a number of ways in which it could be more difficult for minority law students because of their different cultural backgrounds.
approval from the White House and other departments.
The way questions are phrased may also change the meaning for a person with a thought process different from that of the white bar examiner, Posey said.
Francis Heller, professor of political
The plan was explained at a joint meeting involving about 400 exporters, farm representatives, government officials and farmers, who little open discussion by the private trade.
Foresay said that a black persons modes of expression might be different from those of the bar examiners and that it could be that they are less aware of cases and identify the person as being black.
Study in France reconsidered
Export orders of 50,000 metric tons or more in any one day to a single country will require prior clearance by the government. Prior clearance will also be required if the goods are in commercial supply by a firm to a foreign exceeds 100,000 tons in any one week.
Benjamin Franklin, lecturer in law, said that although there was an extremely high percentage of blacks failing the bar examination, he saw no reason why blacks should have a more difficult time writing the examination. Franklin said he had no idea how the board determined the questions to be asked on the bar exam.
science and law, law described the board as a group of top-notch lawyers. Heller said that the bar examination in Kansas placed a heavy premium on expressing oneself in writing. He said that minority students often have a more difficult time answering questions for their examination questions because of slightly different language characteristics.
Student Senate begins hearings for contingency fund allocation
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor.
"There is no use kidding ourselves, this is a modified form of controls." Butt said. But
Organizations requesting funds range from the Hilltop Twirler Square Dance Club to the Snob Hall Review of Contemporary Art. The amounts requested range from $4,068 by the Douglas County Legal Aid Society to "anything" by the K.U. Sailing Club. And the reasons for requesting funds range from inflation tothe development of a donut concession stand.
The Educational Policies and Procedures Committee (EPPC) will reconsider tomorrow its disapproval of the proposed new policies. Mr. Robert Schupper, chairman of the EPPC,
Hearings will begin next week on distribution of $2,000 available in the Student Senate's fall contingency fund among campus organizations.
Squier said he had agreed to hold a
meeting with the majority of the
members also nared.
Sankel said he had also been asked by Pearson students to write a letter in English.
"We very strongly believed that the negative aspects (of the program) could be overcome," Barker said. She said that if the program were to be carried out, the airline contract for transportation to France would have to be verified soon.
The first-year class of the Law School has requested $250 to set up a donut concession in the basement of Green Hall. The application stressed that the allocation would only be a loan and would be repaid in the spring after the concession is fully developed.
The $32,000 available through the contingency fund is derived from a 30 cent portion of each full-time student's activity fee, according to Lewis Gregory, chairman of the Finance and Auditing Committee. He said the students would be able to get allocations and also added new organizations get started on campus.
"So we're also involved in a race against time," Barker said.
Barker said she and her brother Brad, both PHI students, had investigated the "pros and cons" of the EPPC's decision against the program.
Squier said he had been contacted by Betty Barker, a student in the Pearson program, who asked whether the EPCP was going to have a last week to, in effect, veto the program.
Several organizations are working for recognition within the University. The judo, soccer and hockey clubs requested funds to improve their programs through competition, equipment and publicity. The organizations have presented their requests in great detail, supplying estimated food and lodging expenses for travel to tournaments and contests around the country.
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Squier said that the EPPC also had been rushed into last week's decision.
sided yesterday he had drafted a letter to the EPCP in favor of the program. However, he said his recommendation of the program wasn't "blanket approval."
Both of these actions were precipitated by concern expressed by students of the Pearson Integrated Humanities Program (PHP) on the Lawrence campus.
"We had to decide much quicker than we would have liked." Ssuard said.
Barker said there had been much opposition to the Pearson program ever since.
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By MARK HESSE
Ford's grain decision disastrous, prof says
he added that “we’re going to remain in the export business. We intend to keep that
it was established at the University of Kansas.
Butz said the two firms, Continental and Cook, acted in agreement with existing federal rules requiring large export orders to be reported to the USDA within 24 hours. That was done last Thursday and Friday, he said.
The Ford administration's decision to suspend shipment of 123 million bushels of grain to the Soviet Union is a "diastoic act" that has no professor of political science, said yesterday.
"It does not mean the Soviets are being shut out of our market," he said.
The new voluntary plan calling for prior approval of larger export orders was not used.
Barker also said that delay of the program for one year, as recommended by the College Committee on Studies Abroad, was better to solve. She said that arrangements had been made to provide hotel accommodations at $a$ day for each student. Such an arrangement would be improbable next summer and the "rampant" inflation in France.
Laird, a noted expert of Soviet agriculture, said, "I think the whole thing is that we are building people in agricultural states have got to band together in a massive campaign to reeducate Washington, D.C., which is engaged by the eastern establishment elite.
She said many professors and ad-
ministrators had been "unjustly critical" of her.
"There are people on campus vehemently against the program," Barker said. "Every step of the way it's encountered opposition."
"We won't be able to get a TWA charter next year," Barker added.
"We've encountered more obstacles than any other foreign studies group," Barker said. "Others had people along the way that used them iron out the minor problems."
is also unsc closed yesterday that if
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"It is so totally agriculturally illiterate that it repeatedly pushes policies that will be disastrous to the American farmer and, ultimately, to the whole economy."
Other students, she said, had made extensive revisions in their class and work schedules in preparation for the trip, even though she was not prepared that the program would be approved.
Barker said that the 160 students who had planned to go to France had made many personal sacrifices. She said that some of them were working overtime to earn money for the tris.
He said the latest downward trend in wheat and feed grain prices was an effect of what he thought the Ford administration's efforts was doing to American agriculture.
Laird said agriculture was the stabilizing force in the American economy.
"I have learned from bitter lessons in the soviet Union that the people at the head of the revolution must be fed."
Laird said the best estimates put out by the Department of Agriculture indicated that, given proper encouragement, by 1855 he was expected to eat 60 percent more food than he does today.
"The basic incentive is to get more return," Laird said. "Thus he needs customers—the world, not just the United States."
"Last year, for the first time in a long time, the U.S. balance of trade was in the black," he said. "What we do effectively is said, 'We excite farmers to agriculture for oil and minerals from other countries. We must encourage the farmer to approach a high level of productivity. We must be smart."
ignorance of what it takes to get an increase of production from farmers," he said.
more seed, fertilizer and machinery and put in an extraordinary amount of labor to prepare the crop.
Laird said the suspended shipment of U.S. grain would reduce the market for farmers and thus lower profit incentives. Farmers have to work a larger amount of land, buy
'The decision is a repeat of Nixon's stupidity in past agricultural policy.'
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Heels over head
By Kanaan Photographer DAVE PETERSON
When she's in the mood, Kathy Schoal, Overland Park sophomore, practices her yoga outside. Despite the wind and chill of recent days, she kept on with her exercises, this