KU
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU For 77 of its 101 Years
WEATHER COLDER
77th Year, No.84
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Wednesday, February 22, 1967
AWS to vote on constitution
KU women will vote March 6 on a new constitution for Associated Women Students (AWS), which proposes major changes in the organization of AWS.
Under the new constitution, AWS will be chartered by the Board of Regents, which will give it the power to formulate and administer regulations pertaining to women.
Only regularly-enrolled undergraduate women (including married students) will be members. The present constitution includes all women, both graduate and undergraduate.
THE NAME OF THE HOUSE of Representatives will be changed to Forum and the Senate name will be changed to Council. The
purpose of the name change is to remove the legislative connotation of the bodies, whose purpose is discussion.
One secretary will serve both groups. Currently there are two, one for each house. Senate membership will be reduced from 22 to 17 to aid discussion.
The AWS Fashion Board will be dropped from the Council. A bylaw would be necessary to allow a Fashion Board representative to sit in on Council meetings.
Any living group may propose changes before March 6.
The proposed revision, the first in four years, were outlined by the AWS constitution revision committee, which began its work last December.
ASC rejects revision
Last night in the Cottonwood Room, Kansas Union, the All Student Council (ASC) got a look at its own fate and didn't like it.
After many cigarettes, much black coffee and plenty of debate, Al Martin and Jim Prager swallowed the ASC's decision not to place their proposal for revising KU student government on the spring election ballot for student approval.
THE PROPOSAL consisted of several basic points:
- the Council would be reduced to 10 school representatives plus each of the four class representatives as voting members;
● the function of the Student Body President and Vice-President would remain the same;
● there would be one spring election each year;
- Council members would be more directly responsible to students directly related to policymaking committees;
- elimination of the Hare system (proportional representation) would make voting easier;
- responsibility for proposed election changes would be placed on a smaller number of people;
- a more direct relationship is suggested between the student, his representative and the administration, through a smaller Council.
AFTER A DECISION by the Council to reverse the order of business from old to new first, Brian Barker, Virginia Water, England, graduate student and vice-chairman of the ASC, outlined his opposition to the proposal.
Local smoke sales to fall
Off-campus businesses could stand to lose money if the Brier-Winters Bill allowing cigarette sales on campus is approved by the Kansas Legislature.
The businesses polled by the UDK all agreed that their cigarette revenues would decrease if students were allowed to purchase cigarettes in residence halls and University buildings.
THEY DIFFERED, however, in estimating the amount of the loss.
"Selling cigarettes is extra and even if students could buy them on campus, it probably would not affect our business."
"Our main business is selling books," said Mrs. Bernice Fowler, manager of the Abington Book Shop.
A manager of a cafe near the campus, who asked to remain unnamed, echoed Mrs. Fowler's comments.
"Cigarettes don't contribute
enough to hurt our entire restaurant business," he said.
In order to show that something new should be initiated, Barker said, one must show that the old system is bad. He said this had not been done to his satisfaction.
THE MANAGER, however, estimated he might lose about one-third of his cigarette revenue if the Brier-Winters Bill is approved.
Don Ebeling, manager of the Gaslight Tavern, predicted the opposite, saying he expected a "substantial decrease in business" if the proposed bill passes.
Ebeling also estimated his cigarette sales went up more than 200 per cent when the Regents' ban on campus cigarette sales went into effect in April, 1964.
ALTHOUGH THE Abington Book Shop sells cigarettes over the counter, the rest of the businesses polled sell them from vending machines and receive their cigarette revenue through commissions.
J. A. Lavery, operator of Lavery Vending Co., which services vending machines in most of the businesses surveyed, declined to comment on the effect of the bill on his business.
The bill, sponsored by state Reps. Bill Brier (R-Overland Park) and Kenneth J. Winters (R-Prairie Village), was due for committee assignment in the Kansas House Tuesday. From there it will go back to the House for a general vote.
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He said a smaller Council of 14 members would be in effect, an executive branch with no legislative check.
Barker felt talking and deliberating directly with Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe and other members of the administration would still be impossible with 14 people.
The ASC needs more authority, Barker said, and the ASC must increase its powers by having the chairmen of university policy-making committees selected from the ASC.
"THEORETICALLY. I agree with everything that Mr. Barker has said." Al Martin, Shawnee Mission junior and Student Body President, said, "but I'd like to point out a couple of realities."
Martin said that the ASC was not a government.
"The ASC is a student service group," Martin said, "and student government in its present form cannot do anything."
BARKER SAID that under this proposal, students wouldn't be given a chance to experience the workings of student government. When the time comes to choose a
new executive, Barker said, the people who would be eligible and experienced would be seriously limited.
Frank Joyce, Shawnee Mission sophomore (men's small houses), told the group.
"My belief is that the Council in its present form is too large. It has been too large in the past to function properly."
Joyce felt the smaller Council would be a more "deliberative group."
Joyce said that student government as he has known it at KU hasn't ever really represented student opinion.
"Forty people cannot act as a lobbying group," Joyce said, "but 14 could work more effectively than the model senate we have now."
RUSSELLWOODY.Hill City graduate student (graduate married), said the Council would be abdicating its responsibility if it favored such a measure.
Martin noted that all the arguments against the proposal seemed to be based on fair representation.
"But if you vote against putting this on the general ballot this spring," Martin said, "you will be contradicting yourselves."
This measure should be placed on the ballot this spring. Martin added, to show that the ASC trusts student opinion "the way we say we do."
JOYCE SNAPP, Wichita junior (College women), voiced her disapproval of the whole situation.
"I truly believe," Miss Snapp said, "that there are people in this room. who are less interested in student government than I am."
Miss Snapp said one reason for lack of interest was that the ASC was too large, and some people became "inhibited" and reluctant to talk. Second, she pointed out, many people just came to Council meetings to look nice in front of other members, and for the pres-
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Editor believes Viet talks underway
"I'm 90 per cent sure that Vietnam negotiations are currently underway in Cairo.
"I think the U.S. State Department has been ridiculously slow in facing the China issues.
"We should have stopped the bombing of North Vietnam six months ago when it became apparent that it wasn't doing any good."
McCabe spoke to approximately 80 KU students Tuesday in the Kansas Union Forum Room. The speech was sponsored by the Model United Nations Steering Committee and the department of political science.
The speaker was Robert McCabe, associate editor of Newsweek and former chief of the magazine's Hong Kong bureau.
McCABE said Red China would someday become the United States' most important problem.
"Red China is currently turned inward," McCabe said. "but the nation will turn its attention outward when its internal convulsions cease—and that is when it will become very, very important."
McCabe said that part of China's current importance comes from its great size and pragmatic attitudes.
"There are about 700 million people in China today and one out of very four children now born in the world is Chinese.
"DUE TO CHINESE PRAGMATISM, I don't think the current Soviet Union-Red China rift will erupt into violence—China knows it's outclassed militarily," McCabe said.
McCabe, once Newsweek's top Asian reporter, said Mao Tse-tung considers himself a Communist leader on the level of Marx.
"Mao is an old and diseased man who has initiated a mass political promotion campaign to make his ideology last." McCabe said.
McCabe believes that part of Mao's difficulty in promoting his ideology is the abundance of "opportunities" in Red China.
"THE FORMER MAYOR OF PEKING, who was once an avid Mao supporter, made an unsuccessful attempt to take Mao's place by organizing the antiMao Peking Party Committee," McCabe said.
He also believes that some Communist Party members in China aren't as closely behind Mao as he would like to believe.
could like to believe. The Newsweek editor said that in the few years
since his return from the Hong Kong bureau he's found that "very few people in the United States know or care very much about Communist China."
"BUT IF THE PACIFIC is the United States' last stand, and I believe it is, people in the U.S. must realize Red China's terrific importance," he stated.
McCabe said that China's unrest will continue even if Mao wins.
"Mao has deeply damaged the party and any internal order will probably only be temporary; Red China is likely to experience the same type of economic revisionism that the Soviet Union once experienced," he pointed out.
he, he pointed out. He also believes that the two-China problem will solve itself when Taiwan's Chiang Kai-shek dies.
"THE CHINESE AS A WHOLE are more nationalistic than Communist," McCabe said, "and this may help bring the two countries back together."
Turning to the Vietnam issue, the Newsweek editor said he foresees a significant de-escalation of the war within six months.
"Although I think we got into the Vietman situation without really knowing what we were getting into, our chances for peace have improved a great deal in recent months," McCabe said.