Foreign student orientation set
The oldest continuously operated foreign student Orientation Center in the United States will open at the University of Kansas for six weeks through Sept. 3, financed by a $35,670 grant from the U.S. Department of State. This will be the 19th season.
J. A. "Toni" Burzle, German professor and associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is founder of the Center and will again direct the program.
Between 55 and 62 foreign students will be at KU for an introduction to American society and culture and preparation for the academic and administrative procedures in U.S. colleges. There also will be intensive practice in English language and opportunities to adjust to the American social environment.
The Orientation Center staff will include:
Eldon Fields, political science professor, who will guide social science orientation; Gerhard Zuther, associate professor of English, who will be in charge of English instruction; and Hester Williams and Marv Halloran, graduate students, all of KU.
Robert Kahle, Baker University professor; Ron Harwege, and Erik Beukenkamp, Indiana University; and Emerson Tijart, Harvard University.
Police-city relations to be discussed
Police-community relations will be discussed at the Lawrence Human Relations Commission at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, in the City Commission Room at the City Hall.
The Commission secretary said interested Lawrence residents would have the chance to comment on this subject. She also said an evaluation would be made of the need for a study of the local administration of justice, as requested in a petition circulated by a group from the First Presbyterian Church.
Dorms' air conditioning turned on
Cool spring days are now being accompanied by colder blasts of air from air conditioning which was turned on early this morning at KU residence halls.
"Air conditioning has to be turned on when it gets warm and before final exams," Ernest Pulliman, assistant director of housing, said.
The air conditioning will remain on until the first part of September, Pulliman said.
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TOPEKA (UPI) — Gov.
Robert B. Docking said
yesterday that calling of a
special session of the legislature
probably would be futile unless
the GOP majority was willing to
accomplish something.
But, the governor said no decision has yet been made on whether to call a special session.
In his first news conference since adjournment of the 1969 legislature, the Democratic governor said he is still considering a special session or cutbacks in state agency appropriations to avoid "a financial crisis" brought about by passage over his veto of the $27 million dollar boost in school aid.
"Unless they would do something, I think it would be futile," the governor said of the special session.
Conferences planned
Docking said he plans contacts with legislative leaders, however, on the idea of a special session, and he had not ruled it out completely. He admitted GOP leaders shortly after adjournment April 26 felt a special session would be a waste of time.
The chief executive said John Ivan, his administrative assistant, is currently meeting with state agency heads to determine what cutbacks in fiscal 1970 programs could be made either by statutory order or voluntarily.
State budget director James Bibb will have final figures available in three weeks on the state's current fiscal condition.
Docking restated his objections to the legislature's passage of the $27 million bill without specific funding, forcing the state to use its reserves.
"In my opinion we have a crisis coming, but whether we can get by until the 1970 session is what I am trying to determine," he said.
"Regret" on highways
Docking also issued a prepared statement expressing "regret" over the state Highway Commission's announcement Wednesday that it has
withdrawn its previously announced five-year road program because of the highway measure enacted by the legislature over Docking's veto. The commission said the state's road program would have to be reviewed.
"Although there is no other alternative open to the highway commissioners, the decision will deprive many areas in Kansas of good highways.
"The fact that the fuel tax and freeway legislation passed by the 1969 legislature took funds away from the highway commission and earmarked those amounts for freeway construction was one of the reasons I vetoed the bill," he said.
Docking said the law was "unfair and unnecessary," and a result of special interest lobbying. He indicated the Kansas Contractors Association was one of the major lobbies.
The highway bill passed by the 1969 session sets out nine freeway corridors for construction, and commits 50 per cent of the state highway fund to the freeway construction. It also increases the gasoline tax from five to seven cents per gallon and the diesel fuel tax from seven to eight cents, effective July 1.
The governor also released a letter he mailed today to Sen. Frank S. Hodge, R-Hutchinson, chairman of the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee, and chairman of the joint legislative tax study committee. He asked for a meeting with the veteran lawmaker to discuss a possible property tax lid proposal for the 1970 session.
Docking said in the letter that the 1969 session approved about 50 bills which will either authorize increased expenditures or increased tax levies, for local units of government. "This could not have happened if a lid on property taxes had been imposed until the legislature completed meaningful tax reforms," he said.
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