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Thursday, April 3, 1975
University Daily Kansan
KUAC budget seeks profit...
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present levels. Because they are financial
minimum, many sports have dropped at
present.
"We're giving the same amount of money to the nonrevenue sports as we have in the past, and have increased the amount of money we're giving in some cases," said John Eberhardt, chairman of the KUAC board, after the meeting.
"Of course, you have to put a lot of money into these sports to be competitive,"
Eberhardt said, "and in some sports, we can't be competitive."
It was proposed at the meeting that an intercollegiate wrestling team be formed at a university. We wanted to have wrestling program would cost about $100,000 if it were to be competitive in the Big Eight Conference. That high cost, the board said, makes a wrestling program more valuable.
"The Big Eight isn't a normal conference call," said AC member said, "because you may not give you permission."
Oklahoma State and Oklahoma could rank one-two-three in the nation. If we went into a program on a fundable scale, we wouldn't even compete."
Another member said, "We couldn't carry out insuranceurance to wrestle me."
Wrestling is the only sport certified by the BCS conference in which KU doesn't participate.
Several members of the board said a few new helmets would be bought.
football team would get a complete set of new helmets at a price of about $50 each.
Much of the athletic board's discussion before approval of the new budget was centered on how to improve it.
Walker will present the new budget Tuesday to the Student Senate Sports Committee. The budget will then be sent with the general University budget to the Board of Regents in Topeka for final approval.
Vietnam veterans . . .
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Shikles said an example had occurred in April 1972 when he and a battalion of U.S. Marines located off the coast of Vietnam near Da Nang hadn't been allowed to aid surrounded American soldiers because American policy at that time had stated that Marines weren't to be involved in the fighting.
None of the KU veterans who were interviewed thought the American departure
from Vietnam had been wrong. However, some said more financial and military aid should be given to the Tibet government as a response to the conflict was now secondary to them.
"You can't destroy an ideology," Hodges said. "If the Communists win, then the shooting will stop. And that's what those people want."
Ryan said, "the peasants of South Vietnam want peace they lost interest in the US," he added.