Code passage irks minority backers
News of the Senate Code passage was received last night with something less than jubilation by at least two members of the original 12-man student-faculty committee that worked over the summer to reshape student government.
Jay Barrish, Lawrence graduate student and member of the committee, said he burned his ballot card in the Kansas Union poll Wednesday.
Mrs. Rick Atkinson, Lawrence senior and also a member of the committee, said she didn't vote.
"It didn't make any difference what the students thought," Barrish said, "because the faculty senate passed the Senate Code before the student election was held, and the Code would have gone into effect anyway. Why even have an election?"
"Why even bother to have an election without an opinion poll that asks if the students wanted more student representation in the University government than the Code allowed?" Mrs. Atkinson said.
She also objected to the posting of signs advertising for Senate Code passage on the voting booths.
Mrs. Atkinson had other objections.
"I went by both the Strong Hall and Kansas Union polls, and
there were signs telling students to vote for the Student Code on the booths. That's against the law." Mrs. Atkinson said.
Both Barrish and Mrs. Atkinson were proponents of the Minority Report asking in part for equal student representation on all University government committees. Mrs. Atkinson said that she thought the minority report had been kicked around all semester.
Smoking continues increase
By TERRY KOCH
Kansan Staff Writer
Five years have passed since the Surgeon General's report on smoking and health was released.
It showed that deaths resulting from cancer and other diseases was higher among smokers than among non-smokers.
Deaths from lung cancer were 11 times higher; from bronchitis and emphysema more than six times higher; from cancer of the larynx almost $5\frac{1}{2}$ times higher; and from heart and artery diseases, nearly twice as high.
What has this information done to induce smokers to kick the habit?
A report by the Public Health Service issued in April 1968 indicates one million Americans quit smoking yearly, while another million and a half, mostly young people, light up for the first time.
Cigarette production is down two per cent, and there is a one per cent drop in shipments from warehouses to stores, the report showed.
"The first year after the
Surgeon General's report," said George Wilson, owner of George's Pipe Shop, "pipe and cigar sales were going really big. Then after that I guess people went back to cigarettes."
Wilson feels that cigarette sales have "dropped a little. The pipes with filters in them are in very big demand now."
Paul Coker, owner of A. B. Coker and Son, a wholesale tobacco dealer, says that his sales have continued to grow despite the Surgeon General's report.
'KU salaries get B grade' - AAUP
Salaries and fringe benefits received by KU faculty in the 1967-68 school year ranked the University third in the Big Eight in average faculty compensation, according to an annual report released yesterday by the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP).
Iowa State University, with an average wage and benefit package of $13,465, and the University of Colorado, paying $13,384, were ranked above KU. The $12,577 average paid here was only slightly above 'he Big Eight average of $12,304. Oklahoma State University ranked last.
The KU compensation was below that of all Big Ten schools except Wisconsin.
KU's salaries were increased an average of 13.4 per cent in the last two years the report said. Full professors received the greatest jump in salary.
The report states, however, "It is important to note that the rapid increase in prices has significantly reduced the real effect of the increase of salaries.
"The average KU full professor has received a 15 percent increase in his money income, but his real income has increased by a significantly lower percentage, slightly more than seven per cent over a two year period," the report said.
The AAUP report contends that the six per cent increase in faculty salaries proposed for next year by Gov. Robert Docking "provides very little for real increases in faculty salaries."
In a 7-letter rating scale ranging from AA to F prepared by the AAUP, KU salaries rank in the B range in the professor, associate professor, and instructor classifications. Assistant professor salaries are rated A.
"The important changes between the 1967-68 and 1968-69 academic years," the report said, "are that the University of Kansas reached the B scale for full professors and the A scale for assistant professors in 1968-69."
But the report states: "If faculty salaries are increased by 6 per cent in 1969-70, the University of Kansas would be barely able to maintain the relative position obtained in 1968-69."
Olison: KU's first black coach
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(Continued from page 12) "Olison will recruit both black and white high school seniors," Rodgers said. "He will help recruit black athletes just as he will help get recruits from California, since he is from that area. Likewise Sandy Buda, who
is from Nebraska, will help sign
players from that state."
Blocks are happy
Black athletes expressed satisfaction with the hiring of Olison.
John Jackson, Memphis,
senior who never played under
a black coach at KU—commented, "We needed a black
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coach so we could have someone to identify with."
"Last year we couldn't wear a moustache," George Garrett, Sandusky, Ohio, sophomore, said "But, Ben wears one, and I think he may have influenced the coach to let us wear one.
"Besides, we can talk to him like a . . . like a soul brother."
"If I knew cigarette smoking caused cancer, I'd quit this business tomorrow," he said.
Coker said he smokes "two or three packs a day."
A local vending maching supplier said, "Cigarette sales are down, especially in motels, cafes and gas stations."
"Sales in general have been down for the last two years," he said.
"I'm afraid that's not a very good advertisement for quitting. Almost none of the persons I've told to stop smoking have ever quit for good," he said.
"About two thirds of my staff of physicians smoke regularly," said Dr. Raymond Schwegler, director of the Student Health Service.
"But," he added, "all the people I know who have quit tell me how much better they feel after quitting."
Calling the election a "shoddy affair," Mrs. Atkinson said though the Code will stimulate more discussion and communication, she decided not to vote because she felt that the ballot presented no real choice. An opinion poll asking students if they desire more representation than the Senate Code calls for, will appear on the Spring general election ballots, Rick von Ende, Abilene, Tex., graduate student and All-Student Council chairman said Wednesday.
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