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Wednesday, July 2, 1975
University Daily Kansan
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K-State has new president
MANHATTAN—Kansas State University has a new president for the first time in 25 years.
Duane Acker, who was on the Kansas State staff for four years in the mid-sixties, assumed the position he succeeded James A. McCain, who retired 25 years in the state.
Red River valley flooded
Acker, 44, spent the day with administrators and faculty members. Acker said he planned to review the school's programs to pinpoint K-State's unique mission. He said school officials had conveyed to him a belief that K-State had unique missions but that it would have to be selective in any new areas it developed.
BISMARCK, N.D.—A million acres of fertile Red River valley farmland were under water after four days of torrential rain.
More than a foot of rain has fallen in some parts of the valley and in other areas of southeastern North Dakota since Saturday.
The waterlogged soil is sofucating the roots of the wheat, corn and soybeans grown in the valley. Farmers said it would be too late to plant another crop when the soil is dry.
Nearly 3,000 garbagemen were in city employees laid off by Mayor Abraham Bean in an effort to balance the 1975-76 city budget that took effect at midnight in 2008.
NEW YORK—About 30,000 tons of garbage pulled up at curbsides in 80-degree heat as sanitation workers struck to protest 19,000 layoffs by the city.
Hundreds of the dismissed police officers blocked traffic for about 15 minutes on the Brooklyn Bridge, which links Brooklyn's downtown section with lower Mile 2.
WASHINGTON—Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger said the United Right wing militant strategic nuclear weapons against selected targets in Russia was a very low level of threat.
U.S. might use A-bombs first
Some congressmen and others have been under the impression that the United States long ago renounced any first use of strategic weapons such as long-range artillery.
The confusion apparently arises from a distinction between "first use" of nuclear weapons on a limited scale and a massive "first strike" that could disarm
Uganda's Amin pardons Hills
KINSHASA, Zaire—President Idi Amin of Nigeria pardoned Denis Hills, the area a village tyrant in an unpublished book, as a village tyrant in an unpublished book.
Radio Uganda said Amin had decided to spare Hills. British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan said in London he was ready to visit Amin to discuss British-Israeli relations.
Orientation enrollees expected to top 1,600
By ALISON GWINN
Kansan Staff Reporter
More than 1,600 freshmen students should be enrolled by July 12, the date of the final freshmen orientation session, Jeanne McCullough, head of Admissions and Records, said yesterday.
This would be an increase of about 260
students from last year's total of about 1500
students.
"I think that's why we've had so many late registrants." Gorman said.
"I think the increase is directly related to the fact that students have gone home with a duplicate copy of their schedules in their hand," she said.
This is the first year in which freshmen have left with a schedule of classes that listed the classes' location and time, she said.
Students, who mainly express interest in enrollment and academic advising, have been encouraged to plan their schedules before they arrive for orientation she said.
This is the first year, incoming freshmen
in meet with faculty from the professional
school.
"I think the advisers and the students are enjoying it," he said. "I kind of gleam from a mutual satisfaction."
"The problem is the number of faculty available. It is a little deceptive in the summer, because even the department has to have to draw on the people who are here."
Gorman said parents seem to be most amazed at the friendliness of the staff and staffing of the clinics.
"The bus tours are going really well," she said. "The students tell the parents all sorts of tickets about campus life, such as what to eat and where to stay in the spring. It's really, really informal."
Gorman said parents frequently commented on the availability of administrators. During the parents' program, they eat lunch with either Chancellor Archie Foster or Del Shankel, and one or both of them has to answer a period with the parents
more period with me the parents.
Parents also meet Vice Chancellor
"Parents can ask questions all day long about the myths and rumors they've heard," she said. "For many of them, this is why they ever have to meet administrators."
William Balfour, either Kala Stroem, dean of women, or Donald Alderson, dean of men, and someone from the financial aid office, Gorman said.
"Probably on any given day of orientation, between 75 and 100 people from the University participate in enrollment, with between 15 and 30 advisers, plus student staff and students who volunteer their time," she said.
German said that orientation was a very basic responsibility for the University to institute.
Incoming freshmen from all over Kansas have attended the program, as well as a large number from the Chicago and St. Louis areas. Several others have traveled from areas as far away as Wisconsin and New Jersey, she said.
More than 50 per cent of freshmen are expected this summer, even though it takes a while to get the job.
"I'd like to see it get up to 75 to 80 percent," she said, but added that she didn't know how the program would change in the campus, since it responds to changes in the campus.
If Don H. Homan had his way, Kansas City would be decked out in red, white and blue for America's 200th birthday—rednocks, white socks and blue ribbon beer,
Holman, a Shawnee businessman, recently proposed forming a posse comitatus, or band of armed citizens, to patrol the streets, fighting crime.
Holman's posse would maintain an arm
sure of weapons and practice on private
Right wing idea in left field
pistol and rifle ranges. The group wouldn't begin patrolling until a riot erupted. Then the group would defend its own members and their families first.
COMMENT
One of Holman's objectives is to solve the drug problem by means of "a phone number for kids to call in and pop off on other kids and adults." Another is to remove two Kansas City police officials, Joseph McNamara, police chief, and Ilus Davis, chairman of the Board of Police Commissioners, from office.
When I began to read Holman's proposal, I couldn't believe he was serious. I envisioned cowboys riding off into the sunset through a field of lynch mobs stringing up their victims.
My disbelief increased when I learned that he called the Kansan in May and said that he had devised a three point plan to cure all the nation's economic aliments.
Before policemen are allowed to bear deadly weapons, they are trained not only how to use them, but how to avoid using them. They are taught to exercise judgment and not to fire unless it is imperative. Police mentions no such training for his posse.
Holman wants his posses to be allowed to keep and bear arms at all times and to use these weapons to enforce the law, but the rule of training he mentions is target practice.
A group of citizens have no expertise in matters of law enforcement. Rather than basing their actions on rational judgement, they would rely on instinct and emotion.
Instead of helping the police eliminate crime, the blunderning efforts of a self-appointed band of crusaders against crime probably create more work for police.
There is something very nightmarish about the thought of Holman and his posses getting a hot tip on their drug line, grabbing their guns and bursting into the home of a high school kid who sold someone an ounce of marijuana.
This is perhaps my strongest objection to allowing a bunch of untrained citizens loose on the streets with deadly weapons and the power to use them.
Clerical workers' status examined by study group
Unfortunately, as I read further, it began to dawn on me that Malton was serious.
By JAMES EISELE Kansan Staff Reporter
In my home state, Nebraska, we used to have something called the "shoot your
Clerical workers aren't classified as high as they should be, he said, and there is a great variation between employee classification. There are currently six classifications for head secretaries because they have so many different duties, he said.
A committee headed by Charles F. Sidman, chairman of the history department, is studying and gathering data aimed at changing the classifications of clerical employees in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Charles A. Klesler, chairman of the psychology department, who is chairman of the workload subcommittee, said his staff was comparing the work loads for secretaries of other colleges with the work loads of liberal arts secretaries.
Sidman said his committee would attempt to determine how clerical classifications are differentiated. Two factors his committee will consider in determining work and degree of skill required for jobs.
"The classifications we have now are not based on a rational analysis," Sidman said more than once.
Sidman's committee and three subcommittees, he will gall data this summer and submit a report to the dean of the College on Aug. 31.
"We feel our classified employees are not paid equitably," he said.
Professor Philip S. Humphrey, director of the natural history museum and chairman of the uprating subcommittee, said most civil service employees are underpaid.
"I think most employees could be emplayed under more favorable conditions,"
a third subcommittee, headed by Ernest A. Angino, chairman of the geology pooling arrangements within the College. Angino, who is on vacation, and his staff will study better ways for the College to use its initialized secrections, according to Sidman.
Because some departments of the College only have one secretary other secretaries may be used to transcend departmental boundaries, he said. He said that one secretary usually wasn't qualified to handle technical work that must be done for a department.
Laurel Wise, president of classified office and clerical workers advisory unit, said the reclassification of clerical workers was needed because for a long time
secretaries thought they were doing work outside their classifications.
"I think it's a good idea and will set some priorities for the rest of the University," she said.
neighbor," law, which allowed a citizen to legally shoot anyone who was trespassing in their property.
Sidman said that after the study was completed, University personnel would present the classification change proposals to the Civil Service Commission which will approve, reject, or revise any changes suggested.
If an armed posse was permitted, the "shoot your neighbor" law could become a reality in Kansas. Citizens could shoot people if they did not claim they did it to protect their families.
Law enforcement is the duty of trained law enforcement officials, not private citizens. If a posse was formed, I firmly reject it, rather than law and order, would result
Jain Penner
Holman's proposal is nothing new, either. In fact, the only things missing are the inquiries about what is being done.
The source said the internship was arranged by White House photographer Dave Kenney and Rich Clarkson, photo credit. He will last through July and part of August.
Posses and vigilantes are newing now. They have been used for centuries not only to fight crime, but to spread terrorism and control citizens.
Miss Ford will probably stay with a Topeka family, the source said. She is expecting to be "loosely followed" by Secret Service agents while working in Topeka.
Her duties will include photo lab work and use of pictures assigned by editors. She will begin
Susan Ford, daughter of President and Mrs. Gerald R. Ford, will arrive in Topeka Monday to begin a student internship for the university, where she will be a source at the newspaper, said last night.
"The whole thing, hopefully, will be pretty low key," Clarkson said. "She'll be doing the same work as our other photo interns."
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