Cigarettes may return to campus
By GARY BURGE
Student smokers may save shoe leather and the Kansas Union fund may regain a source of income if a bill introduced Monday in the Kansas Legislature is approved.
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The Regents ruling came after a KU Medical Center study authorized by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe found that cigarette sales on state campuses should be discontinued. Cigarette vending machines had already been removed from the Medical Center at that time.
"The Kansas Union fund is very large and receives its income from many sources," Burge said. "Cigarette sales contribute only a small part of the whole total."
Interest in the effect of smoking on health had been heightened by a report released earlier in 1964 by the U.S. Surgeon General which presented evidence that cigarette-smoking and certain cancers were related.
THE ORDER was an unprecedented move-no other nonmedical university or college had banned cigarette sales and no other state had taken similar action—and was greeted with general disapproval by KU students.
He added that the order followed the Surgeon General's report and that the Regents simply removed from the hands of the Board and the University the responsibility of jeopardizing a student smoker's health.
The bill, sponsored by two former KU students, Reps. Kenneth J. Winters (R-Prairie Village) and Bill Brier (R-Overland Park), would overrule a 1964 Board of Regents decision banning the sale of cigarettes on the campus.
"We did not prohibit smoking on campus along with the ban of sales, because we felt that people would not smoke less," Bickford said.
Max Bickford, executive director of the Board of Regents, said Monday that the 1964 Regents' decision did not involve a "moral question."
BICKFORD DECLINED to comment on the Brier-Winters bill except that it would be able to overrule the Regents if it passed.
"FIRST, WHILE I was a student at KU. I could not observe any decrease of smoking by students. And second, the Board of Regents order means a significant financial loss to the University."
Although Brier, a smoker himself, said that inconvenience in buying cigarettes while he was a student was a factor in the introduction of the bill, the loss of funds to the University was his main interest.
"I introduced the bill for two reasons," said Rep. Brier, who graduated from KU last spring.
KANSAS UNION director Frank Burge verified the Council's findings but did not place as much emphasis on cigarette revenues as did Rep. Brier.
Brier cited a Legislative Research Council report which found that the Kansas Union fund has lost a net income of $6-7,000 annually since the Regents' order. Gross income loss is up to $75,000 annually, the report said.
"This bill, as I understand it, is not a permissive bill saying that cigarettes could be sold on campus. It is a bill saying that cigarettes will be sold on campus."
"It seems unusual to me, that the Board of Regents would take money from the student and give it to off-campus businesses," Brier said.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS Tuesday, February 21, 1967
ASC to hear revision
By JOHN MARSHALL
The ASC could be getting a look at its own fate tonight.
The All Student Council convenes at 7 to hear for the first time a proposal for the revision of KU student government.
The proposal will be introduced by Al Martin, Shawnee Mission junior and Student Body President, and Jim Prager, Fullerton, Calif., senior and chairman of the ASC.
THE PROPOSAL consists of several basic points and advantages which they suggest:
1) the council would be reduced to ten school representatives plus each of the four class presidents as voting members;
2) the function of the Student Body President and Vice President would remain the same;
3) there would be one spring election each year;
4) council members would be more directly responsible to students directly related to university policy making committees;
5) elimination of the Hare system (proportional representation) would make voting easier;
6) responsibility for proposed election changes would be placed on a smaller number of people;
7) . a more direct relationship is suggested through a smaller council, between the student, his representative, and the administration.
And more opinion is expressed, as time for the proposal's debut in council draws near.
"THE PRIME reason that the proposal would get my vote," said Rusty Wells, Leawood sophomore and fraternity representative, "is that the student body would have the final say so.
"There are those who maintain that we should work out this problem in the council," Wells noted, "... but our council, since its existence, has not functioned
properly, so why should we think that it will change in another year?
"Al and Jim have presented some valid reasons why this proposal should be presented," Wells added.
"I am in complete agreement with the basic idea," noted Tom Rader, Greensburg junior, "but I do not agree necessarily with who should be in that council. I can't see that school representatives really would solve any problems."
RADER SAID that the basic problem of student government has always been the presence of "unknowledgeable" people within the structure.
Student government is essentially a pressure group acting in the students' behalf, Rader added, and it is very important that student government has intelligent and influential people on the Student Council.
Right now, Rader noted, it doesn't seem that student government has been able to find 40 people who are intelligent and influential in campus politics.
The opposition . . . "It seems obvious that 37 people on the All Student Council would be much more representative than 14 . . . and by drastically reducing the size of the council, the council would only become a clichqu tool of the administration . . ."
"NUMERICALLY IT might be
KATHY PREWITT, Wichita sophomore and sorority representative, disagrees.
less representative," Rader said, "but factually, it's no less representative than the thing we've got now."
"As far as becoming a tool of the administration," said Frank Joyce, Shawnee Mission sophomore. "I think the opposite would be true."
Joyce noted that a smaller group would be able to converse deliberatively and would give each other moral support to stand up to the administration if it were necessary.
"One of the main reasons I favor this proposal." Joyce added, "is that group psychologists feel any more than 12 or 14 people are the maximum number that can work effectively in a creative or policy-making group."
"I think this proposal suggests too small a group to be truly representative of the student body," Miss Prewitt said. "Obviously, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is much larger than the School of Pharmacy."
Miss Prewitt said that it would be sacrificing democratic representation for a smaller council which would work with the administration.
SPECK, DRESSED in a dark suit, white shirt and tie, his long blonde hair slicked back, chatted and laughed frequently as the trial got underway. He cast his eyes to the floor as Paschen read the indictments against him.
"I'm sure they'll get something done." Miss Prewitt added, "but
the dormitory duplex apartment shared by eight nurses and then killing them one by one. Reading of the indictments took about 15 minutes. Then he told the prospective jurors the jury "must decide this case solely on the evidence you hear here in open court."
Fifteen prospective jurors were questioned Monday. Thirteen were excused for cause after quizzing by Martin and Speck's lawyer, Cook County public defender Gerald Getty, who has never lost a defendant to the electric chair in 402 capital cases.
PASCHEN MONDAY gave the oath to the first 52 of the prospective iurors, and read the indictments which charged Speck with entering
Speck, a 25-year-old high school dropout from Dallas, spent the night in the courthouse "bullpen." equipped with a canvas cot.
Peoria County Sheriff Willard Koeppel said Speck was being kept in the courthouse overnight "for security reasons" but did not elaborate.
Prosecution will ask death for Speck in murder trial
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A LIST OF MORE than 2.500 prospective jurors confronted the attorneys and Judge Herbert C. Paschen today as the jury selection continued. The process could take up to three weeks.
"In Illinois one of the possible penalties for murder is death," he told each one. "The state will be asking a verdict or verdicts fixing the defendant's penalty at death."
PEORIA, Ill. —(UPI)— The prosecution will demand Richard Franklin Speck be sent to the electric chair on charges of murdering eight young nurses on Chicago's South Side.
Martin's interrogation of the prospective witnesses included asking whether each would have any objection to levying a death sentence if Speck is found guilty.
Speck's trial opened Monday in the modern Peoria County Courthouse. Two prospective jurors—both women—were tentatively seated after being told by the chief prosecutor, Asst. State's Atty. William Martin, that the state would demand the death penalty.
Thefts baffle force
KU police officers and detectives are investigating numerous larceny reports from several campus offices over the weekend.
Reports, which continued to pile up today, listed money missing from three more halls.
THE OFFICE OF CHILD Research reported $3 missing from their office in Room 10 Bailey Hall.
Officials in Room 116 Bailey Hall reported $13 missing over the weekend in a robbery similar to one three weeks ago.
Mrs. Ring, in Room 206-C Marvin Hall, reported $45 in cash taken from a locked desk in her office.
A FILE CARNET was pried open in Room 104 Haworth Hall and $20 as taken.
The Mechanical Engineering office in Room 209 Marvin Hall reported a desk drawer open on Monday after it was left locked on Saturday. Reports said someone must have had a key.
Room 4 in Bailey Hall reported $8 taken in 4-A and 4-B. They reported all the desks had been locked.
REPORTS YESTERDAY listed $45 taken from Room 152 Carruth-O'Leary. They said stamps in the drawer belonging to the Department of English were left behind.
The Department of Germanic Languages and Literature in Room 107 Carruth-O'Leary reported $19 missing and taken by someone who apparently had a key.
Chief of Police E. P. Moomau today issued warnings to all secretaries and office personnel who
might still have money in desks. He reported that the business office in Strong Hall is equipped to handle all receipts.
In a message to the opening of the fifth year of the disarmament negotiations, Johnson assured the nuclear have-nots that they need have no fear of nuclear black-mail. The nuclear giants will guard against that, he said.
Johnson also assured the doubters among the non-nuclear nations that nothing would stand in the way of their development of strictly peaceful uses of atomic energy.
GENEVA —(UFI)— President Johnson urged the 17-nation disarmament conference today to conclude promptly a treaty to prevent further spread of nuclear weapons.
THE SOVIET Union and the United States have been reported for several months to be on the verge of a nonproliferation treaty. But some nuclear have-nots have expressed reservations, fearful that while they were renouncing use of nuclear arms, a neighbor with atomic know how might not do likewise and might become cause of nuclear blackmail.
LBJ urges arms pact
Johnson attempted to meet such objections, and some questions
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