THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 77 of its 101 Years
77th Year, No. 44
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, November 17, 1966
AAUP supports right to challenge loyalty oath
Bu BETSY WRIGHT
KU faculty members last night advocated the right of a professor to challenge a state law.
About 60 members attended a meeting of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) participated in an extensive discussion before voting to release a statement supporting this belief. The statement came in answer to a few state officials' recently publicized criticism of KU professors who are challenging the state loyalty oath in a lawsuit.
Voter turn-out average
Slightly more than 10 per cent of the eligible voters voted yesterday in the first day of voting in the fall All Student Council (ASC) elections.
Polls will be open until 6 p.m. today in the lobbies of Murphy Hall, Strong Hall and the Kansas Union.
DOLPH JOHNSON, Wymore, Nebr., senior and one of the tri-chairmen of the ASC Elections Committee, said 1,823 students voted. He called the turn-out "about average."
"The voting should be heavier today." Johnson said. "We expected that 65-70 per cent of those voting will do it today."
Party car pools today between living groups and campus are expected to help raise the vote totals.
Controversy over the statement centered around fear of misinterpretation of the release. Some faculty members feared the statement implied a professor should not be criticized on any stand he takes.
OTHERS SAID that the release simply states that a professor should not be criticized for taking the same stand legally open to all citizens.
The statement says:
"The University of Kansas Chapter of the American Association of University Professors wishes to make public its view that members of the faculty of the University have the same right to challenge any law by legally constituted means as do all citizens.
"As obvious as this principle is to most people, recent criticism directed at those professors who are challenging the loyalty oath of the State of Kansas suggests that there are some who would deny it.
"WE REJECT THE idea that a person loses any of his rights as a citizen merely by accepting a teaching position with a university or college. We recognize that there are honest differences of opinion concerning the desirability and the constitutionality of the Kansas loyalty oath statute, and we do not wish in any way to interfere with the free expression of such opinions."
Marston McCluggage, professor of sociology and AAUP president, also revealed preliminary results of an AAUP poll distributed to 925 faculty and staff members.
The survey states the Kansas statute which includes the loyalty oath. It then gives the respondent
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Regents set top budget
A record budget of $112 million was approved this morning by the Kansas State Board of Regents at their November meeting which closed at noon today.
KU is to receive $29,698,767.of this amount. Kansas State University received about $1 million more than KU and was the largest. Other state schools in the budget are Wichita, Hayes, Emporia, Pittsburg, the Medical Center and the Schools for the Deaf and Blind.
Three other items for KU were approved besides the budget.
Three other items for KU were approved besides the budget. THEY APPROVED a total of $8,600 for repairs and improvement to add more office and educational facilities. Two thousand dollars is for remodeling of a residence at 1332 Louisiana as more office space for faculty. Also approved was the remodeling and adding of area west of Hoch Auditorium for additional facilities of the KU television operation. The last $1,600 is for the erection of partitions in Bailey Hall for the use of the School of Education.
They also approved the recommendation by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe that the 1966-67 Legislature request establishment of the authorization of the 1965 Legislature for the construction of a printing building at KU at a cost of $350,000.
They approved the $39,000 appropriation continuing the education and community development program at KU. This must yet go to the Legislature for final approval. This part will match Federal Funds, from The Higher Education Facilities Act of 1965.
New U.S. role noted
Jessee stated that he interpreted the President's conduct at the Manila conference and during the trip as evidence of the new role the U.S. in Asian affairs.
A new US. role as "partner and not patronizing papa" was noted by Randall Jesee as the predominant outcome of President Johnson's recent Far East journey.
Jesse, assistant director of the United States Information Agency (USIA), spoke last night in the Kansas Union Forum Room to about 50 student at the Student Union Activities (SUA) Current Events Forum.
THE SPEECH was his first public report of observations on the presidential journey. Jessee accompanied the President on the trip as liaison officer between the White House staff and USIA posts abroad and as "handyman" to Bill Moyers, presidential press secretary.
The President gave them hope that they have attained the respect of the American people to an extent they hadn't hoped for a few years ago." Jessee said.
"HE (PRESIDENT Johnson) went out of his way to avoid the limelight. He squeezed no arms, slapped no backs. He even tried to obscure his physical dominance over the small Asians," the former Kansas City television personality said.
The Asians have a "growing sense of regional pride," Jessee said, "and were clearly gratified by the United States' pledge to be their partner and not the dominant power.
"We have been like a colonial power and this is the first time we have approached them on equal terms."
THE FAR EAST journey, Jessee explained, was conceived after President Marcos' U.S. visit. Marcos, recently elected in the Phillipines on a pro-U.S. platform, has committed himself to increase the strength of his country's role in the Asian situation.
Jessee spoke Wednesday afternoon in Flint Hall on the USIA and its available careers as part of the organization's recruiting campaign.
He gave similar speeches earlier this week at Central Missouri State College and at Missouri University. Friday Jessee will be at Oklahoma State.
First part of a series
Air pollution: a city death trap
By JAY COOPER and JOHN KIELY
EDITOR'S NOTE: Does Lawrence have a smog problem? This is the first part of a three part series discussing Smog in general. This deals with what is smog. The second will cover the Lawrence area. The third will conclude with what can be done to correct this problem.
A man can live without water for about three days. He can live without air for about three minutes. And, at this minute, as the world's watering holes are drying or fouling, clean air is getting dirtier—and deadlier.
And there isn't much air to get dirty. Last year, U.S. Public Health Service member Thomas F. Williams noted, "Since 1940 our urban population has almost trebled. Our use of energy has increased more than four-fold; our net per capita disposable income after taxes and in constant dollars has increased by 60 per cent.
"While these and other similar trends of contemporary life continue to rise, one critical factor, the available supply of air, remains constant."
Public Health Consultant Howard R. Lewis, in "With Every Breath You Take," wrote: "The air we breathe is, in reality, only a tiny band of oxygen standing a little higher than our tallest mountains; or, put it another way, it can be compared to the single coat of varnish on a child's globe."
"We are," said Tony Resnik, director of environmental health for the Kansas City—Wyandotte County Health Department, "fish at the bottom of the fishbowl and the water is getting muddier each day."
The mud can be taken out of the fish bowl. It can't be taken out of the air.
"Polluted water can be purified and thereafter safely used for drinking purposes," said Vernon G. MacKenzie, an assistant surgeon general and chief of the U.S. Public Health Service Air Pollution division. "But, it isn't practical to purify polluted air.
"As with other major problems of public health," observes MacKenzie, "prevention-rather than cure—must be our aim."
If prevention is the aim, the public must know what air pollution is and what it does.
It is, says MacKenzie, "Aerial garbage."
"It's the shadow-side of prosperity and progress," wrote Wolfgang Langewiesche in a Reader's Digest article.
The U.S. first noted air pollution in the Pennsylvanian coal-burning steel-town, Pittsburgh, in 1912. Twenty-six years later and 30 miles to the south of the first site, air pollution killed.
The quiet town of Donora, Pa., almost hidden in a deep river valley, lost 17 citizens in five days. In a 1964 report to the Royal Society of Medicine, U.S. Public Health Service officer Dr. Harry Heimann recalled the autopsies carried out on five of the victims. Three showed acute irritative changes in the lungs.
In 1958, ten years after the pollution killings in Donora, Heimann reported: "Those who had been affected adversely in the episode in 1948 were especially likely to have had poor health records in the subsequent years."
In the late 40's Los Angeles saw smog. Angelenos and citizens from adjacent communities have combatted it ever since.
In 1953, air pollution killed about 200 New Yorkers during a two-week smog invasion. Ten years later New York was again attacked. At that time rapid wind changes dissipated the deadly clouds of heavy pollutants.
All of these incidents are in big industrial towns in the United States. Smaller towns have gotten hit too.
A cement plant southwest of Fredonia has scattered cement dust over the town and cause thousands of dollars of damage to automotive finishes.
Polk County, Fla., was once that state's leading cattle county. Flouride emitted from 12 phosphate fertilizer plants settled on pasture land. Ranchers have lost thousands of cattle.
Lewis cites a survey that showed 71 per cent of the cattle grazing in a specific area had dental flourosis, a decaying of teeth sometimes followed by thickened bones and stiffened joints.
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