THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol. 85-No.135 Monday, April 28, 1975
KANSAN
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Brief respite
By Staff Photographer GEORGE MILLENER
sunny's warm and humid weather gave Diane Allard, Kansas City senior, a chance to enjoy a novel in the perfect reading
atmosphere at South Park, before she was driven away by an oncoming thunderstorm.
Summerfield Hawklet will close
As the South Vietnamese attempted to counter the sappers, the National Assembly was preparing to install retired Gen. Duong van "Big" Mung as president, replacing Tran Van Teng. Mung is a neutralist and it is said that he would adopt a settlement with the Vien Coin.
MINIST INAUGURATION was scheduled for today. It was expected that he would call for an immediate cease-fire and condone the withdrawal of most of the American mission, seeking to reduce it to the level of other diplomatic missions.
By RACHEL LIPMAN
Yverson Staff Reporter
BY RACHELL MAN
Kansan Staff Reporter
Expansion of the computation center in Summerfield Hall will cause the Hawklet, a concession area operated by the Kansas Union, to close this fall.
The loss of revenue caused by the closing of the Hawklet was discussed at Saturday's quarterly meeting of the Kansas Union Memorial Corporation Board. The Hawklet is operated by KU Concessions, a part of the company which is responsible for $40,000 of sales annually.
Tanks near Saigon; Minh to take over
At the Board's last meeting, a committee was appointed to study alternatives to providing food service to that area of campus.
John Beisser, Salina senior and chairman of the committee, said his committee hadadmitted him to the club after the snack bar in adjacent Murphy Hall;establishing a temporary concession area in Allen Field House; or erecting some tempeh at the club's corner in merfield that would house a concession.
Field reports said 30 to 50 Viet Cong sappers shelled militiamen who were holding the bridge and then made a ground attack. The sappers seized a section of the highway and an old warehouse of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
It was the closest fighting to Saigon since the 1960 TEF offensive.
SAIGON (AP) — Fighting broke out three miles from Saigon Monday along the key Newport Bridge, and traffic on the highway to the Bien Rou air base was blocked.
Ann Dillon, Hutchinson senior and a member of the Committee, said that she had discussed the alternative plans with students at Summerfield and that all were opposed to location of a concession area at the field house.
"The field house is too far out of the mainstream of campus activity," she said. John Seitz, assistant director at the computation center said recently that a portion of the Hawklet could be retained as a study area.
A report released Friday by the Lawrence police department said a female University of Kansas student told police she was raped in the room where she entered the residence hall room of a student on a blind date. The female student told police in the report that her date, a foreign exchange student, had offered $10,000 for her to go to his roca to discuss the proposal.
No charges have been filed in connection with either incident, Berkowitz said Friday. Information about the incidents that the man was charged with on Friday was somewhat confusing be said.
The report by the Lawrence police about the alleged rape said that the female student who reported the rape told police that friends of hers had gone to the foreign exchange student's room to retaliate after they heard that she had been raped.
Police continue inquiry of rape
An alleged assault of the foreign exchange student was said to have taken place after he was sent to Capt. Robert Ellison, security and parking officer. Ellison said the foreign exchange student told Security and Parking that three people were in a college hall room and struck him in the face.
The Douglas County Attorney's office is continuing an investigation of a rape reported to Lawrence police Friday and an apparently related assault reported to the KU Security and Parking department, according to David Bokertz, county attorney.
According to the Lawrence police report, one female student told police that the blind child was in her bedroom.
The foreign exchange student was treated at Watkins Memorial Hospital for facial injuries.
The female student told police in the report the foreign exchange student had told her that his visa would expire soon and that he would pay $10,000 to marry any American citizen in order to remain in the United States.
According to Setz, two computers will be installed in Summerfield next year before a contract with Honeywell Information Systems expires.
One computer, scheduled to be installed in May 1975, will be used for University administration; the pupil will be scheduled for installation by May 1, 1976, will be used for instruction and research.
Although other campus locations were considered for the new computers, he said, Summerfield was selected because of existing air conditioning and lower sources.
Seitz said half of the area occupied by the Hawklet would be needed for staff offices. The rest of the space will be reserved for people preparing computer programs.
Seitz sets a committee that is studying allocation of space to be used by the computation center until construction of a new building is completed. The building will house all the computer hardware located in Summerfield.
The proposed completion date for the two-story structure is April, 1978, he said. In other business the Board reviewed the Union's financial statement for operations through March 31. Projected figures for the fiscal year ending June 31, 1975, indicated
that the net profit from operations will be in the neighborhood of $30,000 to $40,000. The Board of Directors of the Memorial Corporation has established a general guideline that net operations each year should result in income over expenses of $20,000 to $25,000.
Sales were up in the food department, KU Concessions and the Bookstore. The only area that experienced a decrease in sales this year was the recreation department, in which sales were down 12.4 per cent from last year. The Union management attained a decrease to the fact that students have less money to spend on recreation.
Hundreds of South Vietnamese militants dropped their weapons in a pliie and fled in the path of the two-pronged assault by Communist-led forces.
Although food department sales were up 12.2 per cent from last year, the food department experienced a $20,000 loss. That is due to the cost of sales and higher wages.
Warner Ferguson, associate director for finance, said that the Union had hired a new manager. The progress has been made towards decreasing expenses, although figures haven't changed.
Ferguson explained reasons for submitting a request to the Board of Registers for a $1.50 increase in the union fee. Students presently pay $13 each semester to the
more than 100,000 fleeing refugees were in a 15-mile line in the path of the advance.
Union as part of their tuition, Ferguson said the Board of Regents had approved the request because the Union would either have to decrease its existing level of services or close one day a week if the increase hadn't been approved.
Saigon was hit by six rockets during the first such attack on the capital since the signing of the cease-fire agreement in January 1973. Four rockets hit before dawn, killing six persons, wounding 22 others and setting about 200 homes ablaze. Two more hit just before midnight, but police reported no casualties.
Frank Burge, director of the Union said the increase was necessitated by an increase in the cost of utilities that became effective march 15.
In other business the Board;
- Announced that a five year contract between KU Concessions and the Kansas University Athletic Corporation (KUAC) would be signed within the next week.
- —Changed the Memorial Corporation Bylaws to read "Members of the Board, except ex-officio and student members shall serve three year terms and shall not be eligible to serve more than two successive terms. student members may serve successive terms if appointed." Members are required to serve three consecutive one-year terms.
- Voted to invite nominees from minority groups and foreign students to serve on committees of the Board as a means of affirmative action. A committee will also be appointed to assure representation on the Board from minority groups.
StudEx discusses bus fare hike
Bv JIM BATES
Kansan Staff Renoter
StuEx戈先 first reading to a bill Sunday
from 10 am on campus buses
from 14 am to 20 pm
John Conners, a member of the transportation subcommittee which recommended the bill, said the increase was justified by the Student Senate should take a close look at the bus contract before considering the increase or consider the increase at its next meeting.
In other business StudEx approved item changes for the Senate and several other groups and paved the way for the final Senate study on preparing a number of bills their first reading.
StudEx rejected a request from MECHA, a Spanish-American students group, to reconsider its refusal to fund a film, saying it would be ruled out by an earlier line item change.
Last fall, MEACH received a supplemental allocation of $175 for films to be shown during the Chicago Symposium on Higher Education, Nov. 8. When MEACH was unable to obtain the films, the group hired the Bailes Mestizo dance group to
perform, requesting that StudEx switch
$100 from the $75 to pay the group.
StudEx heard bills to abolish the present Publications Board and to allocate $750 to the Commission on Classroom Teaching to pay for research.
StudEx decided last night that the line item change had been made only with the assumption that no films had been or would be shown. Bruce Woner, StudEx chairman, said it had been his impression that there had been a gentlemen's agreement between MECHA and StudEx, and the request violated it.
StudEx approved the change. Soon after the approval of the office of the Senate treasurer cancelled a $50 voucher MECHA submitted to pay for rental of a film entitled *The Indian Activism*. "John House, Senate treasurer, said the submission of the voucher had been in violation of understandings reached with the Finance and Auditing Committee and StudEx at the time MECHA had requested the line item request."
Ed Roffs, student body president, said the
Emission was going to ask for an ex-
ension of its 60-day life so it could do more extensive research and prepare a report. The commission has already received $750 from the University administration, he said.
StudEx also made tentative plans for the Senate's annual inventory and audit. StudEx voted to have the inventory conducted by SenEx under direction of its vice chairman and to have the audit done by the auditing subcommittee.
Line item changes approved were: Student Senate, $350 from program fund to rent and utilities and $1,000 from program fund to personal services; Commission on Indian Affairs, $11 from supplies and expenses to rent and utilities; and Office of the Ombudsman, $10 from rent and utilities to supplies and expenses.
StudEx refused to switch $75 allocated to the Chicano Law Students Association for rent and utilities to capital equipment and library supplies. The group said it didn't pay rent and wished to spend the money in order to buy furniture. It was a good precedent to switch money from item to item just because a group didn't spend as much as it thought it would.
The Kansas was recently named an All-American college newspaper for the full semester Press. This is the 13th consecutive semester for which the Kansas has received this highest number of other college and university papers.
In addition to the All-American rating, which is given to about the top 20 per cent of the competing papers, the Kansas won a Mark of Distinction for writing, editing and leadership. They are: coverage and content; writing and editing; editorial leadership; physical appearance; and photography. Marks of Distinction are given for "unusually high quality and relevance," distinctly appealing, work "work."
Kansan cited
CIS is suspended
Eric Meyer, Marion senior, was the editor for the fall semester.
19y JIM McNICKLE Kansas Staff Reporter
There won't be a Feedback survey this semester, but the results of past surveys will be available to students in a publication this fall, Phil McKnight, director of the Curriculum and Instruction Survey (CIS), said Saturday.
McKnight cited a need to revise the survey as the major reason for not conducting it this semester. Faculty and students thought the survey should be revised and an effort is underway to develop a new format, he said.
"This year, given the need to revise the survey and give the wealth of information from past semesters, I felt the $10,000 could be spent in better places, such as increasing teaching assistants' stipends," McKnight said.
CIS originated in 1969 when a Student Senate committee was established to evaluate instructors through students' responses to survey questions. Feedback, which contains the results of the survey, is available during enrollment. Since last year, CIS has been included in the University budget.
McKnight has been revising the CIS since just summer and made the decision then to use it.
ascertain the type and quality of teachers and courses, McKnight said.
Enough information is already available from previous Feedbacks for students to
COMMUNIST-LED troops cut Highway 15, the capital's overload highway to the coast, and Highway 4, its lifeline to the food producing Mekong Delta to the south.
Not all faculty are required to administer the survey. In the past, Feedback has been criticized because it didn't include the entire faculty and therefore was subject to bias. The survey may have chosen to administer the questionnaire might have expected more positive results than
See CIS page 8
Hundreds of Americans were evacuated from Saigon, leaving fewer than 1,000 in the city by nightfall, about half of them assigned to the U.S. mission. The others included contract employees, businessmen, students and employees of voluntary agencies.
South Vietnamese officers claimed that their forces had knocked out more than a score of Soviet-built T54 medium tanks in fighting that had swirled along a north to south arc stretching from 12 to 30 miles from Saigon.
A spokesman for the Viet Cong delegation said its position had already been made clear to Mr. Nguyen.
A 24-hour curfew was declared in the greater Bien Hoa area, 15 miles northeast of Saigon, next in the line of the ground attack.
(provisional Revolutionary Government)" the spokesman said.
"Those who love the country and want to contribute to the building of peace must all be involved."
THE EARLIER VIET CONG statement called for "an administration in Saigon standing for peace, independence, democracy, national concord and serious implementation of the Paris agreement."
The second point demanded the withdrawal of all American military personnel including military advisers the Viet Cong claims are disfigured as civilians; an end to the communist paramilitary internal affairs"; and the withdrawal of a 7th Fleet task force standing off the coast of Vietnam ready to land Marines to evacuate Americans should Saigon come under attack.
A close associate of Minh said his government "will seek by all possible means and good will to achieve a political solution with the Provisional Revolutionary Government. The government of Gen. Minh is putting all its confidence in the dialogue which will take place between Vietnamese and Cambodian leaders, to build dependence, reconciliation and national concord in the framework of the Paris agreement.
THE GOVERNMENT of Gen. Minh will include individuals who have struggled for so many years for peace and the independence of the country. The government will not include any element of the former government of President Nguyen Van Thieu.
Minh, 59, was one of the leaders of the 1963 coup that overthrew the late President Ngo Dinh Diem. After Diem's ouster, Minh served as chief of state for three months until he was overthrown in still another coup. Associates charged at the time that he
See ROCKETS page 2
Olympic "medalist" By Staff Photographer BARRARA O'BRIEN
While KU basketball star Dale Greenlee applauds his approval, a Special Olympics winner, Hunsummer, sons of any Summers, 1609 Hushak, takes a bow. Thelympics, which was sponsored by the Douglas County Association for Retarded Citizens, gave relived people a chance to compete against each other in various athletic events.