Wednesday, February 21, 1968
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Tax may restrict KU travel abroad
By Jean Hershey Kansan Staff Reporter
The proposed tax on foreign travel may cut the number of University-sponsored trips taken abroad by KU students next year.
Professors and activity advisers in charge of student trips said it is too early to tell the effect the proposed tax would have on student travel overseas. They said it would probably limit the number of students making these trips, unless students were made exempt from the tax.
The proposed tax is intended to limit the amount of overseas travel in an attempt to cure the balance-of-trade deficit. If passed, a five per cent excise tax would be placed on international flights and sea travel.
Under the proposed tax, tourists spending less than $7 per day in Europe, Africa, Asia and most of the Pacific would be tax free.
Those spending between $8 and $15 a day would be taxed 15 per cent and anything over $30 a day, at 30 per cent. A duty would be imposed on goods brought into the U.S. valued at more than $10. Before leaving the United States, a person would declare the funds he takes with him and the amount of tax he expects to pay.
The student trips affected by this tax are the junior year abroad in France and Germany, the summer foreign language institutes in France, Germany and Spain, the Student Union Activities' (SUA) summer trips to Europe and the People-to-People Student Abroad program.
"It is too early to predict how the tax will affect the junior year abroad," J. A. Burzle, assistant dean of the college of liberal arts and sciences and adviser of the junior year abroad program, said.
Senate OK's donation bill
TOPEKA —(UPI)—The Kansas Senate Tuesday became the first legislative body in the nation to pass the "uniform anatomical gifts act" suggested by a national committee of legal scholars in the wake of increasing transplant surgery.
The bill passed unanimously and was sent to the Kansas House.
Burzle said the additional financial burden caused by the tax may have adverse effects on the program.
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Herbert Ellison, associate dean of faculty and director of the international program, said he did not know how the tax would effect the summer foreign institutes because the terms of the tax have not been definitely stated.
"We are continuing our plans and hope student-related foreign travel will be exempt from this kind of tax," Ellison said.
"The most damaging effect of the tax is that it would make the student poorer," Norris Lacy, acting assistant professor of French and Italian and director of the French Foreign Language Institute said.
Cheryl Kloesel, SUA activities adviser, said she could not tell how the tax would effect the SUA summer tours because the students have not made their down payments yet.
Clark Coan, dean of foreign students and People-to-People adviser, said the tax could come close to eliminating the People-to-People Student Abroad program.
"We plan to go ahead and plan trips with the hope that the part applying to student travel will be eliminated before the tax is passed," Coan said.
Eileen Ireland
KU junior named 'Little Colonel'
Eileen Ireland, Kansas City, Mo., junior and KU's Angel Flight Drill Team Commander and 1967 Military Ball Queen, was named "Little Colonel" of the Arnold Air Society-Angel Flight area conference, Saturday at Wichita State University.
Miss Ireland will now represent Angel Flight area G-2 in national competition for "Little General."
She was picked from three finalists after giving an impromptu talk about herself and Angel Flight.
History biased by controversy Boorstin says
The survival of the "durable, recorded, relevant and controversial" has biased what is learned from history, Daniel J. Boerstin, distinguished historian, said Tuesday night.
Boorstin, professor of American History at the University of Chicago, said the ambiguity of historical facts many effect "historical perspective" in the fifth Humanities Series lecture given in the University Theatre. The title of the lecture was the "Myth of Historical Perspective."
How events turn out may effect its relevance to history, he said.
The United States is fortunate, according to Boorstin, because the greatest works of history had already been written before the American Historical Society was founded in 1884.
Boorstin said historians stress the importance of religion because religious monuments have been able to survive the ages. Constreversy becomes a major part of religious history because reformations and revolts based on religious motives are emphasized.
"There are relatively few histories of plumbing, yet this is a major part of everyday life. Governments on the national level are careful to save 'important artifacts and records, but there is relatively little of this done on the local and state level.' Boorstin said.
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