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TELEPHONE TIE-UP—Byron Edmondson, Lanham, Md., junior, left, and Ernest Isadore, Lambard, Ill., freshman, try to keep up with the McCollum calls, with 26 different lines.
By Judy McGhee
Lack of Extensions Snarl Hall Phones
Countless relationships have been strained or broken because of misunderstandings caused by phone and intercom tie-ups.
One Ellsworth resident, indignant because she thought her date had arrived 45 minutes late, found that he had been waiting in line 45 minutes to have her paged. She had given him up by that time and decided not to go out.
THE STUDENT who has not experienced phone tie-up frustration is rare. Yet, a behind-the-scenes look at KU's phone system reveals that operators are undertaking a huge job to speed telephone calls to the hundreds of hall residents.
"I've seen every line busy and every extension connected," said Tony Jachim, New Buffalo, Mich., senior and resident in charge of switchboards. "Calls just come in too fast."
At McCollum Hall operators handle ten to 20 calls per minute when the switchboard is busiest. Most of the congestion occurs from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
The 28 operators are all residents of the hall and work for 80 cents an hour. Three are used during the day but an extra one is added at night.
ALTHOUGH McCOLLUM has 26 incoming lines and the same amount of extensions, it is under-equipped. There is only one phone for every forty men.
ALTHOUGH ELLSWORTH Hall has only 20 lines, 35 operators are employed. Some of these work part-time, however.
Two operators manage the switchboard while one handles the intercom.
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Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
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76th Year, No. 22 LAWRENCE, KANSAS Tuesday, October 19, 1965
Logan Says -
No Law School Merger Seen For Present Time
Any combination of Kansas' two law schools is impossible at the present time, according to James K. Logan, dean of the KU School of Law.
By Maury Breecher
"Such a combination would be entirely up to the state Legislature," Logan said. Washburn University would have to enter the state system of higher education before a merger could occur.
MEXICO CITY —(UPI)— A three-judge court has sentenced Mrs. Sharon Kinne, Kansas City, to 10 years imprisonment for the pistol slaying of a tourist here in September, 1964, court sources said today.
In an article in the "KU Law Review" Logan discussed whether the two schools should be merged, where such a school should be located in the event of such a merger, and if the State Supreme Court, the Office of the Attorney General, the Office of the State Bar Association, or other legal functions should be located in the same building.
Logan pointed out that Washburn is dependent on state aid and can be made to give up its law school if the Legislature so desires. "One combined law school would not save the State of Kansas money," Logan said.
STUDENTS IN THE KU School of Law pay $90,000 in fees but approximately $210,000 is the law school's annual budget. Thus each of KU's almost 300 law students cost the state $400 to educate. Every law student who would have gone to Washburn, instead
Mrs. Kinne Gets 10-Year Sentence
Mrs. Kinne said she had not been notified of the sentence.
"I have heard rumors that I have been given 10 years, but I have not been out of this jail since June," she said today.
Court attendants declined to give details of the sentence until Mrs. Kinne is formally notified. Under Mexican law, she would be taken to the courtroom to be notified of the decision.
of a combined school, would cost the state an additional $400. Logan said. Increased maintenance costs and general university services would further increase the load the state would have to pay.
KU'S LAW faculty, said Logan, feels that an ideal law school student body should be about 500. One large, merged school with an enrollment between 700 and 1,000 by 1970, would not be ideal. A degree of individual attention to students would have to be sacrificed.
In the event such a merged school should come about, it should be located on the KU campus, Logan maintained. The idea of a University of Kansas Law Center on the campus of Washburn University is impossible, Logan said. Such an arrangement would tax the facilities of Washburn beyond the breaking point. New facilities would have to be built in Topeka to handle the influx of students, Logan added.
**THIS WOULD** cost more in Tooncka since land would have to be
condemned and the owners paid. KU already has land on which new facilities could be built, thus lessening the cost. Easy access to University services such as the Kansas Union, administrative offices, and residence halls are another advantage of a KU site. Logan said.
TOPEKANS ARGUE that a combined law school or law center should be located in Topeka because of access to government buildings in Topeka. A KU location would not provide a hardship to law students, considering the turnip between Lawrence and Topeka, Logan said.
Lawrence has a district court to which students have as easy access as any court in Topeka. The KU School of Law has a trial judge clerkship program which is facilitated by the central location of Lawrence, in relation to Topeka, Kansas City, Ottawa, and other eastern Kansas cities, Logan said.
Council to Consider Budget Allocations
A $10,000 budget appropriation will be presented to the All Student Council at the budget session at 7 p.m. today in the Sunflower Room of the Kansas Union.
Don Vossman, Beloit senior and ASC treasurer, said besides ASC expenditures, the budget includes allocations petitioned for by campus organizations and approved by the student body Finance and Auditing Committee.
Members of the finance committee are: Larry Geiger, Mission senior (Vox—Men's Large); Martha Stout, LaGrange, Ill., senior (Vox — Education); and Dave Trotter, Bartlesville, Okla., senior (UP—Business).
VOSSMAN SAID the budget was approved by Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University.
Copies of the budget with explanations for each allocation will
be distributed to every member of the council before voting begins.
The allocations are listed under three headings: ASC disbursement, People-to-People, and Organizational.
The ASC disbursement covers the council's administrative and executive committee expenditures.
THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE allocation covers the money requested by that organization.
The organizational allocations cover petitions made by the following campus groups: Mortar Board, the American Pharmaceutical Association, Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity, the Engineering School Council, the Business School Council, the Student Bar Association and the College Bowl Committee.
KU-SDS Splits With National Group Strategy
Bv Lee Byrd
A fundamental split in strategy between the national Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and its KU chapter was revealed last weekend.
While the national SDS staged marches and pickets against U.S. involvement in Viet Nam in nearly 100 cities last weekend, involving an estimated 300,000 students, the KU-SDS gave its support to a teach-in at the Kansas Union.
Although the KU Student Peace Union joined the nationwide demonstrations with a picket at the Lawrence draft board, KUSDS members did not show up.
SEVERAL LEADERS OF the local group explained their "absence" by stating that KU-SDS feels that its position in "conservative Kansas" does not allow it "especially profound opportunities to change basic power structures and social attitudes."
The national constitution of SDS states that the organization is "... an education and social action organization dedicated to increasing democracy in all phases of our common life. It seeks to promote...the constitution of a national and international order that is free from poverty, ignorance, war, exploitation, and the inhumanity of man to man."
John Garlinghouse, Salina senior and SDS president, said that the KU chapter emphasizes most heavily the educational role of the organization.
TEN DAYS AFTER KU-SDS was founded last April, nearly 600 students heard Norman Thomas, Social Democratic Party
leader, deliver an address with KU-SDS's sponsorship.
"KU-SDS voices its concern with the fixed, narrow view of dissent in general which it feels dominates the Kansas personality," Garlinghouse said. "It vehemently disagrees with the notion that anyone left of Harry Truman is either a harmless, confused 'kook' or a dangerous conspirator of atheistic communism bent on butchering babies or committing atrocities on motherly old ladies."
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"Contrary to these pat, casyout patterns of non-thought," Garlinghouse said, "KU-SDS feels that the democratic left can be a sane, constructive element in a free society. To implant that feeling upon the Kansas scene, to evidence it by KU-SDS actions; that is the foremost goal of KU-SDS."
Masters said that the magazine will carry news of SDS projects, campus news, and articles of opinion by KU-SDS members.
GARLINGHOUSE announced that KU-SDS magazine, titled the "Outlook," will begin publication this week. James Masters, Lawrence graduate student, will edit the publication. Richard Hill, Lawrence junior, is assistant editor.
Since the speech by Norman Thomas, KU-SDS has sponsored
the following activities, listed in chronological order:
A discussion on "The Relevance of British Socialism to U.S. Activism" led by Professor Aldon Bell of the history department.
A seminar on "Modern-Day Imperialism," featuring Luis Mayor, graduate student in economics.
Participation in last Spring's nationwide Teach-In on Viet Nam, held in Washington, D.C.
An offer of support to the Lawrence Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) on a proposed multiracial community help program.
A Viet Nam Seminar with Todd Gitlin, national SDS leader, as principal speaker.
Sponsorship of the Viet Nam teach-in last Saturday.
A campaign to raise funds for the United Fund in Lawrence.