Faculty, SenEx financial exigency reports conflict
By DENNIS ELLSWORTH Administration
Administration Reporter
Discussion of two conflicting proposals for dealing with financial exigency will be the main business of the University Senate at its meeting Thursday.
An ad hoc Committee on Financial Exigency was established by SenEx to write a report that will be discussed along with an executive committee prepared by a group of faculty members.
Financial exigency is a fiscal situation that could necessitate eliminating the positions of tenured faculty members, both reports agree.
The report of the ad hoc committee specifies that the situation is one in which "the University is no longer able to carry out its educational mission and goals without eliminating the position of one or more tenured members of the faculty."
The alternate proposal of the group of faculty members defines the situation as "the most appropriate position would be clearly and substantially impaired unless faculty positions are eliminated to the point where one or more tended faculty positions had off or dismissed other than for 'causes'."
THE AGENDA BEING prepared by
SenEx for the Senate meeting lists seven "major" differences between the two reports. These differences are expected to be centers of controversy when the Senate meets as a committee of the whole to discuss the issues involved.
According to the agenda, "the fundamental and most important difference" concerns the problem of whether a declaration of financial exigency would be made for the whole University or for single units within the University.
The report of the ad hoc committee said that financial exigency would have to be identified before the vote could proceed.
Yet, the report said, it differs with the common concept of financial exigency in that it recommends "that Financial Exigency be determined with respect to a particular unit rather than applied to the entire institution."
University and not just by the unit or program immediately affected."
THE PROPOSAL OF the group of faculty members stresses that every attempt be made to avoid financial exigency and that if financial exigency required faculty should be dismissed only on such basis.
A declaration of financial exigency should
be viewed as a "grave danger" to the well-being of the University, the proposal said.
The faculty proposal "marks a substantial change (from the ad hoc committee report) in the concept of Financial Exigency, setting it apart from financial stress or reduced funding," the report said. "It rejects the concept of unit Financial Exigency, and it takes into account the paramount need to avoid any step which could undermine its wellness and balkanization among different units in a crass attempt for survival."
"A state of Financial Exigency is a
condition descriptive only of the University as a whole," the faculty proposal said.
FINANCIAL EXIGENCY "undermines tenure, it promotes insecurity, and it fosters jealous and destructive competition among units in the hope of protecting their faculty positions—all of which are detrimental to quality education," the proposal said.
The proposal said that its definition of the situation would mean that the University, when faced with exigency, would have "no reasons" to eliminate tenured faculty members."
Further, the proposal said that the See EXIGENCY Page 3
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.85-No.11
Tuesday, September 10, 1974
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Making a point
Students, faculty astonished by Ford's pardon of Nixon
Charles A. Heller, a petroleum consultant to the United Nations, said yesterday the day after he achieved a milestone. Heller spoke at a forum sponsored by the Kansas City Metropolitan Survey. See story here.
By MARK MITCHELL
Reporter The honeymoon's over
President Gerald R. Ford had been sailing along in a national wave of good feeling and hopefulness after assuming the presidency last August.
However, his decision Sunday to grant pardon to former President Richard M. Trump, who had supported Watereau coverup may signal the end to his "honeymoon" with Congress and a lessening of confidence in Ford, at least as President Obama has Kansas students and faculty are concerned.
Amazement and disbelief were the most common reactions of KU students and faculty interviewed, and there was a general feeling by many that Ford's decision had been untimely, if not uncalled for.
Earl Nehring, professor of political science, said yesterday that he was compelled to leave Nixon's grant pardon to Nixon. An eventual pardon might have been Ford's preogative, he said, but the pardon was expected to have been the judicial processes had taken their course.
Nehring said he had heard that one legal interpretation of the President's ability to pardon might be the provision to pardon a person before he came to trial, but he said that even if he would answer to the question of equal treatment under the law of John Erlichman, Bob Haldeman.
John Dean and other government officials charged with Watergate-related crimes.
"My personal impression is that it is illogical and inconsistent to pardon someone before he has been convicted," Nehring said.
J. Elden Fields, professor of political science, agreed and said that a pardon be made for her.
If my name were Holdem, Ehrlich-
ment, Dean, I would be most unhappy,
Fields.
John Murphy, professor of law, retired the pardon as "one of the most unique in our history." The decision to pardon Nikon is "unfortunate and unwise," he said, because it never knew precisely what happened in the Nixon administration without a trial.
Although Murphy said he had no desire to
see Nixon go to prison and he was symathetic to a possible eventual Nixon sardon, he termed the pardon as "premature."
The pardon is unfair in a way, he said, because other Nixon officials such as John Dean are beginning prison sentences for those who have been charged cover up, essentially to protect Nixon.
Ford's decision also is unwise politically, Murphy said, because it will end prematurely the Congressional "honeymoon," with Ford and hurt the Republicans' chances in the coming elections.
"It is unfortunate that it (the decision) came this soon because bipartisan efforts have been unable to work such as inflation, and this action may create divisiveness in the country," Murphy said.
Student reaction ranged from surprise to
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Pardon stirs controversy
From the Associated Press
WASHINGTON—The backlash of President Gerald R. Ford's unconditional pardon of Richard M. Nixon hit the White House yesterday, abruptly ending the political tranquility that marked Ford's first month in office.
The White House said its switchboard was swamped with telephone calls, disapproving Ford's decision by a margin of two to one. Ford was greeted with a spattering of protest signs and boos en route to a speech in Pittsburgh. Here, Democratic senators took the Senate floor to denounce the pardon.
Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr., D.N.C., whose committee investigated Wagera a year ago, called the paradox "inexpedient, inactionable, and unanticipated" and a bad precedent for the future."
Pawnshops hold treasure of trivia
By BRUCE.JANSSEN
Are you in the market for a couple of used cash registers, a set of 1966 commemorative coins from the Bahama Islands, enough to cover a room-sized room, a Paymaster check protector, an antique clock, or a used Timex watch? If so, the pawns in Lawrence may have been stolen.
Bill McCain, owner of the midLim City Pawn Shop, 1392 Massachusetts St., is quick to give his philosophy as a pawnbroker. "There are a thousand places you can go to below $1,000 or $2,000. But sometimes five will get you by. That's Why I'm here."
Ralph B. Freed, owner of the Traders
Association #22 Massachusetts ST., refused
to carry out a warrant.
"If I was the old-time pawnbroker I have out it on sale the day it was due."
McCain charges 10 percent for every 30 days that a pawned item is left in the shop. The first 30 days the ownership of the item is retained by the customer. The next 60 days is what McCain calls a "grace period." You have to be careful with sales but interest, continues to accumulate.
After 90 days the item is placed on sale, unless the owner has made other arrangements with McCain. Selling price is usually the amount originally loaned on the bill.
McCain said. "They (the old-timers) used to make a living on other people's bad luck."
"Pawshops have a bad image. A lot of them are dark, dingy little places. But that's beginning to change. And, let's face it, some of them were just fences."
McCain said that he way trying to put forth a new image at his shop.
A fence is a person who knowledgeably stores stolen goods for the purpose of removal.
The decision probably will hurt Ford's backing, she said, because the nation wants someone "firm and strong" and many of its partners are moving to the pressures of the presidency."
By VALERIE MEYERS
"I thought he should have been prosecuted, gone to trial and the whole works," Bryers said, "because of all the misery he has caused others who have been prosecuted. It doesn't seem fair that others were prosecuted and Nixon won't be."
Fantasy: author's tool
Two men from the Agency—it is never more specifically identified—are driving through the Great Plain toward Dodge City one January day. They decide to stop for lunch at one of the Squat n' Gobble restaurants west of Topeka.
anger to approval, but none interviewed
that the pardon was entirely correct
At length, the Agent reveals that he has been told to kill the driver—"I'm sorry. A job is a job."—but the driver turns the tables, un emotionally shooting his companion. The Agent protects coily, wet shoes and coat, and turns "The driver, wearing the Agent's shoes and coat, travels on."
Susan Bryers, Elimhurst, III, sophomore, expressed surprise at Ford's decision because she said she used Nixon was to be kept "on pins and needles" for a while.
The driver orders chill hearts, a mysterious dish that never materializes, and both drive on, only to be trapped in a snowstorm.
According to Bill Cantrell, Overland Park junior, Ford's move to pardon Nixon "wasn't within his right," but rather the right of the American people and Congress.
"I always write about desolate people—so far," Ole said yesterday, and he described his characters as being "dead flat."
That is the plot of a short story, "Chili Hearts," published in th September issue of Harper's Magazine. It is the first chapter of a book by David Ohle, assistant instructor of English at the University of Kansas.
Joel Gopalvant, Jr., "Batman," *Indiana*; who originally came from New York, came to graduate work at KU. He received his master's degree in English in 1972, at about the same time his first novel, "Motor Man," was published by Alfred A. Knopf.
"The only way Ford got into office was because Nixon had committed crimes and he (Nixon) should be prosecuted for these crimes." Cantrell said.
Returning from the Pittsburgh speech, Ford announced through a spokesman that the negotiations leading to the pardon had occupied so much of his time that he had decided to postpone his decision on amnesty for draft dodgers and evaders.
The decision brings into focus the Vietnam amnesty issue, he said, because Ford had pardoned Nixon, who was responsible for Vietnam policy and had allegedly been involved in the bombing of Canada would be required to serve some kind of public service sentence.
Don Bimbs, a substitute school teacher, said the pardon "pointed out further that all people in the United States aren't equal under the law."
"The main thing is not to embarrass people. Because you never know when you and I are going to need money," he said, "and I'm in the position I know how I'd want to be treated."
Brita Grady, Border Springs junior,
expressed anger and disgust rather than
complaining.
"They're (Nixon and Ford) all crooked. It thought it was wrong for Ford to do it. In essence, he's saying there are different laws for different people," she said.
Yet not all were unsympathetic to Ford's act of conscience. Peggy Hattfield, Kensington's chief counsel, Nikon's resignation had served as an admission of guilt and that Nikon had suffered
"That was like my master's thesis," Ohlie said. The first chapter of "Motor Man" was printed as a short story by Esquire magazine. It was the first work of Ohlie that had been printed in a medium other than a university literary magazine.
"I mean whether the Nixon pardon had been considered more important by Ford, Hushen replied. "That seems to be a conspiracy," he said. "because he announced one the other."
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"The pardon is good for the nation because Nixon has gone through a lot of distress and embarrassment, but it's going to leave many questions unanswered, such as how Nixon was involved and how he might have abused government powers."
That announcement had been planned for today, but was "indefinitely postponed because he (Ford) hasn't had time to come in." I will refer to John W. Hushen, deputy press secretary.
without use, something in it can go bad.
Then you're stuck," McCain said.
"In the case of a color TV it often costs to get it treated if I can get out of it when it gets damaged."
"The last thing a guy who is down on his luck needs is to go into a place and have someone say to him. What do you need the money for?" he asked.
As McCain spoke he pointed to Karl Renstedt, Wellsville senior, who was testing a Fender amplifier and matching power speaker.
“There’s something wrong with it that we got and I’m just trying to sell it for what we’ve got.
When he does receive stolen goods McCain said that he stands the defense. The police visit his shop every Saturday and McCain said that they have free access to the shop to retrieve the stolen item is found by the police the item is confiscated and McCain is given a reward.
It is usually a simple process to pawn an item. The customer presents the item, fills out a ticket, shows one piece of identification and receives the money. The amount loaned is usually one-fourth of the new selling price.
McCain said that he experienced little difficulty with persons trying to pawn stolen merchandise. "You get a feeling for those kinds of people. I've been working with the public for 30 years and I just have a feeling for it."
In Pittsburgh, speaking to delegates at an international transportation conference.
There are some items which McCain is hesitant to accept, such as TVs and other capitulated electronic goods, and one category of items he the completely resists to accept—guns.
McCain offered this advice to property owners, "If you have stuff that might get legs, it's a good idea to mark it somewhere with your social security number."
"A TV can work perfectly when it comes
and then, after sitting in for 90 days
"The police try to get my money back.
Sometimes they do," he said.
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Checking out the goods
Lawrence pawn shops offer a wide variety of both household and unusual items. One occasion a宽browser, Lester Look, W. 27th
By Kansan Photographer JOYCE MENDELSON
St., explores Trader's Pawn Shop, 822 Massachusetts St. Trader's is one of the two pawn shops in town.