Daily hansan
62nd Year. No.80
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, Feb. 16, 1965
ASC to Discuss Car Tax Rights Bill, Hate Mailing
By Rosalie Jenkins
The All Student Council (ASC) is expected to consider the proposed personal property tax to be levied by Douglas county on KU students who have cars in the county nine months of the year, Mike Miner, Lawrence senior and ASC chairman said.
When asked to discuss some of the findings in his investigation of the tax proposal, Miner replied, "I'd rather wait and make the report to the Council first. I have not found any holes in the bill, but I've got a lot of material on it and I have my opinion."
Miner said he will make a report on what he has discovered about the proposal, and thinks the ASC will then resolve to approve or disapprove the county measure and perhaps write letters to the proper officials.
BOB STEWART, VANCOUVER,
B.C. senior and student body president,
said he thinks the Douglas county tax is unfair to the students
even though he does not know all of the legal aspects of the proposal.
"Students pay a good deal of money for their education. We are paying our way in this county with such things as the recent hike in tuition." Stewart said. "Yet it seems as though we are the first ones they (Douglas County) look at for a measure to obtain new revenue."
HE SAID he has recently talked to Harvey Kantor, University of Missouri student body president, about the steps MU took when faced with a city personal property tax on student cars there. While the new tax at MU has not been repealed, Kantor and the MU student Council believe it has a good chance of being revoked.
Stewart said he hopes the ASC will take some kind of action and that he will "support any legislation" on the matter. He said he thinks some of the steps taken by the University of Missouri student council could be used at KU to revoke the tax.
Stewart listed some of the possible steps which could be taken:
1) Invite the county officials responsible for the proposal to attend an ASC meeting to discuss the tax with the Council.
2) Write a letter to the County Commissioner on the problem.
3) Send representatives to a county commissioner's meeting to present the ASC views publicly.
Attorney Responds To J-School Action
Two thousand-six hundred staff members have registered cars at KU.
By the end of June, 1964, 9,520 students' cars, and 2,635 staff members' cars, were registered.
THE ASC WILL also hear a report on the steps it can take to stop the flow of obscene and bigoted literature which is presently being received by various members of the ASC and campus political organizations.
Enrollment has increased by almost 1,000 students since last year.
Richard B. Dyson, assistant professor of law, issued a statement yesterday charging Dean Burton W. Marvin of the School of Journalism, and Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of students, with "irresponsible action" in their handling of a disciplinary action toward Rick Mabbutt, Shoshone. Idaho, senior.
MALE ENROLLMENT at KU numbered 7,936 last semester, which means KU lacks one car of equaling the number of men students at KU.
Prof. Dyson is representing Mabbutt, who has filed a formal appeal with Dean Woodruff protesting the disciplinary probation given him by the School of Journalism faculty. Mabbutt was placed on probation after writing an editorial last month criticizing Kansan executives and news policies.
In his statement, Prof. Dyson said: "The University officials involved in disciplining Rick Mabbutt for "irresponsible" conduct in writing (the editorial) have been acting irresponsibly themselves. In light of their positions within the University, their actions are more blameworthy than Mabbutt's."
Dean Marvin issued a reply to Prof. Dyson yesterday. In his statement, Dean Marvin said: "The faculty of the School of Journalism has made every effort to handle this problem of professional ethics and responsibility judiciously and fairly. It has done so with the understanding that the student has right of appeal. The student has availed himself of this right."
KU Has More Cars Registered Than Women
More than 64 per cent of the 12.344 students enrolled at KU have registered automobiles for the current school year.
Figures released by the KU Traffic and Securities office yesterday show that 7,935 students have registered cars. Women enrolled at KU (as of the end of the fall semester) only represent a little more than 35 per cent of the student population. Woman enrollment at KU numbered 4,410 last semester.
Stewart said the ASC can take two courses of action if it decides to register a protest on the receipt of such literature. It can write to the source of the literature and ask that it stop mailing the material or it can request the Post Office to cease delivery to those who register such a protest.
Prof. Dyson's statement charges that the Dean of Students tried to force Mabbutt to drop his appeal by applying "behind-the-scenes" pressure.
"The lever used by Woodruff was a threat to force Mabbutt to resign his position as dormitory counselor if he appealed, on the grounds that the 'publicity' caused by the appeal would impair his usefulness," the statement continued.
In the statement, Prof. Dyson noted that Mabbutt's supervisors in the dormitory did not support Dean Woodruff's action and rated Mabbutt as "above average" in his job.
"This behavior by the Dean of Students, though not historically surprising, is outrageous and deserving of severe censure." Prof. Dyson concluded in the charge directed at Dean Woodruff. "The Faculty Senate will be requested to investigate the situation and take appropriate action."
After consulting his faculty advisers, Mabbut decided to resist pressure and continue to serve as a counselor in Joseph R. Pearson Hall, Dyson said.
Dean Marvin said in his statement. "The ends of justice and fairness will be served best if the ends are pursued through this process (appeal) rather than through fragmentary charges and counter-charges appearing in the press. Therefore, the faculty intends to let the matter be worked out through the prescribed process, of which the student has availed himself. We hope that his counsel, being an attorney, will be similarly disposed."
Replying to Prof. Dyson's charges this morning, Dean Woodruff said, "have no statement to make at this time."
Weather
The weather bureau predicts cloudy skies with little temperature change through Wednesday. Low for tonight will be 22 to 27. Northerly winds from 5 to 15 miles per hour are expected.
Stewart said the material has been on the most part either anti-Semitic or segregationist in nature.
"AS FAR AS I CAN determine, it is coming from just one source," Stewart said.
The Council will vote also on the nomination of Bette Harrison, Upland, Calif. junior, as student body vice-president, a position vacated by Kaye Whitaker, former Wichita senior, who transferred to a Chicago school.
In the area of new business, Minor said the ASC will probably decide to construct a new human rights bill, similar to the one unsigned by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe.
Premier Presents Viet Nam Cabinet
Buddhist Premier Phan Huy Quat today formally presented a 20-man cabinet to chief of state Phan Khac Suu. He expressed hope it could unify South Viet Nam during this time of increasing military crisis in Southeast Asia.
The cabinet was made up of a wide spectrum of political and religious groups including Buddhists and Roman Catholics. Quat, a 56-year-old medical doctor, was appointed by the country's military leaders to try to restore civilian rule.
The grey-haired Quat, speaking to reporters after the formal ceremony in the crystal-chandeliered Gia Long Palace, stressed that the men in the cabinet were there as "Vietnamese citizens and not as delegates" of any power group.
HE DECLINED to predict how long it would take his government to work out its major problem: to arrange country-wide elections for a national assembly in a country terrorized by a Viet Cong guerrilla army on the offensive.
Asked if the country's militant Buddhist hierarchy has pledged to support his government, he replied, "I would hesitate to say we have any agreements on paper." His is the fifth government since the overthrow of the late President Ngo Dinh Diem.
Quat's statements came against a background of threats by both Moscow and Peking. The Soviets today demanded withdrawal of U.S. forces from Viet Nam and Moscow Radio warned that further U.S. air attacks against Communist North Viet Nam could lead to a world war,
Chinese Communist Premier Chen Yi called Monday for the Soviet Union to take "concrete action" to aid China against "U.S. imperialism."
ON THE fighting front military spokesmen reported two new bitter clashes with Communist guerrillas Sunday and Monday. In one action the government troops inflicted a defeat on the Viet Cong but in the other they lost up to 79 men, killed or missing.
And in a departure from custom, an American military spokesman reported U.S. Army and Marine helicopters killed 88 Viet Cong in a series of five clashes during the past 48 hours. Most such announcements do not play up the military role of the American advisers.
Quat has long experience in Vietnamese politics. He served the Emperor Bao Dai and ran for president against Ngo Dinh Diem, this country's last popularly elected chief executive. Diem was assassinated in a 1963 coup.
Informed Vietnamese sources said Quat's choice of cabinet ministers was designed to provide geographical representation. He is a Buddhist and it was hoped that this would pacify Buddhist leaders whose objections to Huong led to the January coup.
Under terms of today's armed forces communique, Quat will remain in power until nation-wide elections, scheduled for March 21, are held. A separate announcement said Phan Khac Suu, who served as chief of state in the Huong regime, would be retained in the Quat administration.
By Mary Hodson
Guenter Day Proclaimed
A teacher climbed the stairs of Marvin Hall last Friday on his way to class. As he walked to his office he didn't notice the crowd standing at the end of the hall.
Later, he strolled out of the office and glanced down the hall with a surprised look on his face. He first saw a picture of himself which had been blown up. There was an American flag hanging behind it. As he came nearer, the crowd of 150 students and teachers applauded.
They were clapping for Robert Guenter, assistant professor of architecture.
As the students gathered around him, that Friday, and every Friday thereafter, was proclaimed Guenter Dav in the architecture school.
"I CAN'T BELIEVE what's happening," Guenter said, when they honored him. "I feel sort of speechless."
"We gave Prof. Guenter this award because of his outstanding student relationships," Brent Porter, Halfway, Mo., senior, said.
"Prof. Guenter is always willing to talk to us about our school or personal problems. He stays up nights with his students discussing architectural problems and getting their ideas. He is just an all around guy." Porter said.
To show their appreciation for Prof. Guenter, all the students had his name printed on their ties, sweat-shirts and T-shirts. They did the printing with a silk screen in their free time.
PROF. GUENTER WAS the architect for the Campus Hideaway with Harry Compton, assistant professor of architecture.
Prof. Guenter studied at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., before receiving his bachelor and master's degrees at KU.
—Photo by Gary Kaiser
POPULAR PROFESSOR—Robert Guenter, assistant professor of architecture, stands with a pair of his students beneath a picture presented as a part of ceremonies in his honor last Friday in the school of architecture. Shown in the photograph from left to right are Ira Winarsky, Newark, N.J., senior, Tim McGinty, St. Louis, Mo., senior, and Prof. Guenter.