THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Enrollment increase
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
No.143
See page 3
Wednesday, June 11, 1975
Under the weather
Finding ways to keep dry kept occupied Tuesday as intermittent heavy rainfall and cool temperatures swept Lawrence. At least one person on campus found a
relatively good way to avoid the rails. He placed a cardboard box over his shoulders while driving his tractor across Javhawk Boulevard.
Congress sustains coal bill veto
WASHINGTON (AP)—The House failed by three votes yesterday to override Ford's veto of a controversial bill imposing tariffs on reclamation controls on coal strip mining.
The vote was 278 to 143. One member, Rep. Tom Steed, D-Doka, "pressed." The parliamentarian rulden the "present" vote couldn't be counted to determine who would hold margins needed to override the veto was reached. That made the total three reached.
Voting largely followed party lines, with Republicans supporting the veto.
It was the third consecutive veto Congress has sustained this year and was viewed as a major defeat for the Democratic leadership.
"It's safe to say the President's pleased," said Nessen said in response to the vote.
Rep. Morris K. Udall, D-Ariz., blamed the outcome on what he called misleading figures used by the administration and energy industry lobbyists on the bill's impact on utility costs, coal production and employment.
"This thing isn't dead, the fight has to on," Udall told reporters. "A large majority of Congress and of the American people still want this bill."
Ford vetoed the bill May 20 claiming it would reduce coal production by up to 182 million tons a year. He also said it could not hurt the economy. Appalachia, Backers denied these claims.
Voting to override the veto were 100%
Democrats and 56 Republicans.
When the House sent the bill to President Ford on May 7, the vote was by 283 to 115 more than a two-thirds margin. At the time, the House and 77 Republicans voted for the bill.
Thus, while the legislation picked up some votes among Democrats, the main erosion in congressional support was among publicans who previously supported the bill.
"If the White House had laid off, the bill would be on the way to enactment right now."
He said attempts might be made to tack the strip mining bill on to a "must-fill" Ford Bison and wouldn't veto, but said no specific theory on future movement had been planned yet.
The vote was a setback for environmentalists, who have tried for more than four years to get Congress to impose environmental curbs on strip mining, which accounts for about half of all the coal mined in the United States.
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How Kansans voted
On the roll call by which the House sustained the Presidential veto on the strip mining bill a no vote is a vote to pass. There is how Kansas congressmen voted:
Democrat—Keys, yes.
Republicans—Sebelius, no; Shriver, no;
Skubitz, no; Winn, no.
Report alleges unlawful activity conducted by CIA
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Central Intelligence Agency conducted a number of "plainly unlawful" domestic operations, including opening of mail and surveillance of U.S. citizens, which violated the rights of those according to the Rocketfeller Commission.
In a 300-page report made public yesterday, the commission disclosed that he had administered drugs to unsuspecting inmates and suspected long-distance phone calls, infiltrated a congressional campaign and contributed its secret funds to a White House political
Some of these activities, which have all been terminated, "were initiated or ordered by presidents, either directly or indirectly," the commission found.
However, the eight-member panel concluded that the great majority of the CIA's domestic activities complied with the agency charter barring it from internal security functions. The commission offered 30 recommendations, including creation of a national committee to oversee all CIA operations designed to prevent future violations.
A CIA spokesman declined immediate
citation on the report as agency officials
stated that the investigation was in progress.
The report described in detail operations already reported, such as the gathering of information by the departmental dissidents. However, the report also described the following previously undisclosed domestic activities which the commission said were either illegal or unsustainable.
"A clearly illegal" program to test the influence of drugs on humans, including the elderly.
their knowledge. The program lasted from 1963 to 1963 and on one occasion an Army employee was killed when he jumped from a 10th floor window several days after being given a dose of LSD. The commission received other reports of test subjects becoming ill for hours or days and of one person requiring hospitalization.
—the infiltration of a CIA agent into the White House, a candidate sometime during the 1970s.
- A 20-year program of mail surveillance between the United States and the Soviet Union, which involved the handling of up to 4.3 million pieces of mail a year and the opening of as many as 13,000 letters a year.
A second, more limited, project involved the surveillance of mail passing between the United States and the Far East. A third program, involving the opening and photographing of 200 items in international mail passing through the United States. The CIA "was aware that the program would be viewed as violating federal criminal laws" that prohibit obstruction or delay of the mails, the report said.
- For a six-month period in 1973, the CIA monitored long-distance telephone calls between the United States and Latin America an effort to identify narcotics traffickers.
At the request of the White House, the CIA contributed more than $33,000 from its secret budget for payment of stationery and postage costs for replies to persons who wrote President Nixon following the 1970 invasion of Cambodia.
A Justice Department spokesman said officials had begun an informal review of laws which might apply to the domestic activities.
Kansas Staff Reporte
Lewis ousted from class
Steven Lewis, former assistant professor in the School of Social Welfare, was escorted from a social welfare and society class yesterday morning by campus police after he refused to leave at the request of a student. He also was ordered by an assistant professor of social welfare.
The incident started when Forer asked Lewis whether he was enrolled in the class and Lewis replied that he wasn't yet. Forer then asked Lewis to leave the class and according to Debbie Hamilton, Lawrence sophomore, Lewis replied "I can't do that."
Calgaard will stress openness in new job
By STAN STENERSEN
Kansas Staff Reporter
Openness and candidness about the University's policies and priorities should be at the center of an administrator's approach to his job, according to Ronald K. Genderson, incoming vice chancellor for Academic affairs at the University of Kansas.
"I want be outspoken, sometimes blunt,
"hope have never said," Calgary said in an interview.
Calgaard, 37, will assume his new position July 1. A member of the KU faculty since 1963, he has served as associate dean of Oliver College and chairman of SenEx, and was appointed associate vice chancellor for outreach in May 1974.
"If you don't tell them what they need to know, they start imagining myths of hidden money and things like that," he said. "I think it's important to tell people what happens in the world there and who makes the decisions. Then you can debate the important issues."
Calgaard said he hoped to create more specific ways to allow his office to plan programs three to five years in advance. The University is too often forced to deal with staff and during days's programs, he said, and as a result there is too little planning for the future.
Lack of understanding about how and why administrative decisions are made is a frequent reason for frustration among faculty and students, Calgaard said.
Such planning often represents the ideal rather than the real, but stronger attempts are made.
"We're always sticking our fingers into this hole or that hole to plug current leaks," he said. "That approach may not affect us." But I should be careful, the total habanade people on the outside."
Caigaard said he expected the University's emphasis on teaching excellence to hea-
ce. He said the emphasis wasn't so much a response to complaints that faculty members were spending too much time on research as it was a sign of change in higher education itself.
Universities were engaged in building graduate programs in the 50s and 60s and they usually hired faculty members with an interest in research programs with the result that evaluation of teaching ability was often downgraded, Calgaard said. Too often departments gave teachers good or excellent real attention to their abilities, he said.
Because the reduction in the size of graduate and research programs is creating greater emphasis on teaching by itself, Calgaard said, major changes or programs from his office won't be necessary.
Calgaard said, however, that his office would work on more specific guidelines for faculty promotion and tenure. Criteria for assessing a faculty member's teaching, research and service are too vague, he said, and there are detailed written guidelines are needed.
"When that happens, you begin to debase the currency," Calgair said. "No one pays any attention to teaching except in the extremes on either side."
Calgaard said that for the time being, he would continue his duties as associate vice president of the new position. A search committee for a new head of the outreach program is being formed, he said, and administrators are being appointed to be appointed by the start of fall semester.
"We need ways to separate more committee membership from active participation on a committee," he said. "Right now, we do that individually the same activity on a data sheet."
Nuclear energy debated
By JACK MCNEELY Kansan Staff Reporter
Some people turn their faces, hands and minds toward the earth to dig, dig, dig for the fuel to run our country. Others are in skyward and bathing in the sun and wind.
The controversy that rages between the two groups came open to Lawrence last night when 20 persons met at the public library to start what they hope will become a groundwell of opposition to the coming of nuclear power to Kansas.
During the next decade or so this nation will spend a trillion dollars in an attempt to guarantee energy for the future. The government will invest in space program seem pale in comparison.
At the public meeting last night, arguments against a proposed nuclear power plant at Burlington were presented by members of the People's Energy Project, a group based in Lawrence and Topeka whose written statement of principles says it opposes a system that controls and distributes energy for corporate profits, not human needs. Burlington is 60 miles south of Topeka.
Both sides—the exponents of sun, wind and more exotic forms of energy, and the exponents of nuclear power—pile up charts, charts and experts to make their points.
Almost without exception the two sets of statistics, charts and experts contradict each other.
But how that trillion dollars will be divided is a source of bitter dispute.
At issue is a proposal by Kansas Gas and
Electric and Kansas City Power and Light to build a 1500 megawatt nuclear power plant.
The People's Energy Project charges that nuclear power is the least socially acclimated source of energy.
"There are sensible and usable alternatives to nuclear power available at our fingertips right now," said Paul Johnson, president and moderator of last night's meeting.
"If sufficient amounts of money were allocated to develop wind and solar power, we could be self-sufficient in energy from those two sources within 20 years."
Since the early '50s the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) has allocated percentages of the nation's energy budget for nuclear, solar and geothermal as nuclear, solar, wind and geothermal.
Invariably, the AEC has allocated a huge percentage of the energy budget for nuclear reactors.
In 1974 Congress split the AEC into the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
The NRC was to handle regulation and licensing of nuclear power plants, and the ERDA was to divide the nation's energy research budget among the energy areas.
The purpose of the reorganization was to reduce the emphasis on nuclear research, because the ERDA would have no vested interest in nuclear power.
But the staff of the ERDA came almost entirely from the old AEC.
In 1975, the ERDA allocated 90 per cent of the energy research budget to nutraceuticals.
As Johnson puts it, "It's essentially the same people doing the same thing."
Lack of research money, not technical impracticability, has hold up development of new products.
Mark Kaplan, a member of the People's Energy Project, said, "Little money has gone into alternatives to nuclear power because Westinghouse and General Electric can't buy out the wind and can't buy out the sun."
Westinghouse and General Electric control about 70 per cent of the market for nuclear plant equipment. Westinghouse will supply the reactor and General Electric will supply the turbine and generator for the Burlington plant.
Don McPhee, vice president of productions for Kansas City Power and Light, said last night in a telephone interview from Kansas City, Mo., that generation of vast amounts of energy was impracticable and no amount of research money would make it practicable.
"That's a lot of nonense," he said. "We have no reason for being in business if we don't serve the best interests of the consumer. If we were interested only in the sales, we'd not the rate fare, we couldn't stay in business and shouldn't stay in business."
"There is no point in pouring a lot of money into something in which there is no price."
McPree said the notion that nuclear power was being developed so that large corporations could keep control of energy ownership and distribution was ridiculous.
Predictably, scientists can be found who disagree with McPhee. Some say that solar energy can be developed sooner and more cheaply than was previously thought.
Cheryl Tomaselli, Pittsburg senior, said Forer then swore at Lewis and stated he would call the police to have him removed. Tomaselli said that Forer then left the classroom while a movie that was scheduled that day was shown.
After the movie was over, campus policeman Ronald Lewis walked into the classroom and, according to Hamilton, he "Mr. Steve Lewis, please come with me."
Lewis left with the officer.
after the incident, Steven Lewis said he
asked the officer what would happen if he
went back into the classroom. He said the
officer told him that he would obtain a
warrant and charge him with criminal
trespass on state property.
Walta J. Medlin, Paola senior, said that Forer refused to discuss the incident with the class when asked, saying that he didn't want to talk behind someone's back.
Lewis said that immediately after the incident he went to the admissions office and straightened out his enrollment in the course and paid his fee.
Asked whether the campus had any legal authority to remove Lewis from the class, Michael Davis, university attorney, replied, "Steve was not enrolled, and the instructor should not ask him to leave. I understand he's now entitled and has every right to be in that course."
"Monday there was a complete harassment of Forer," Hamilton said. "I think Lewis was trying to make him look like a king, but it got to class. Lewis was criticizing Forer."
Medlin concurred, "Steve Lewis dominated the class yesterday (Monday). There was some disagreement and the class too dominated with questions."
Forer said, "I think this is a case of delinquent, malicious, total harassment of the school by this individual. And it's been going on for two semesters. My attitude is for legitimate student involvement in class. This is not a free speech issue. There's a limit to anyone's patience with regard to harassment."
Ferer said he thought his action was appropriate given the context of all the past
Lewis was convicted on a charge of battery this spring and his nine month contract with the School of Social Welfare wasn't renewed for the summer session.
"I think he feeds on publicity and I don't want to wash our织衣 in public." Fereeran wrote.