Code in, ASC out
By RICHARD LOUV Kansan Staff Writer
The Senate Code was passed last night by 14.6 per cent of the University of Kansas student body.
The Code received 2,296 favorable votes. 148 students voted against it.
Balloting in the referendum exceeded by nearly 200 votes the number of votes cast in last spring's general election of All-Student Council (ASC) officers, said Clif Conrad, Bismarck, N.D., senior and student body president.
The passage of the Code, which will mean the death of the ASC, was received jubilantly by ASC representatives and officers present last night in Summerfield Hall where the ballots were counted by computer.
Mary Tudor, Shawnee Mission junior and ASC representative, gaily threw bags of confetti made of hole punches from the IBM cards used in the voting. Her main targets seemed to be Conrad and Rick von Ende, Abilene, Tex., graduate student and ASC chairman.
Von Ende later was presented with a half bottle of champagne by an ASC member.
"The adoption of the Code has been a very sophisticated effort from the beginning on the part of students, faculty and administration," Conrad said, "and it will provide the University of Kansas with a good basis on which to begin to build more viable student-faculty communication.
The Code, providing a greater student voice in University affairs, still must be approved by the Kansas Board of Regents.
Von Ende said the Code probably will be considered at the Regents' March meeting.
"We are quite optimistic about Regent approval," von Ende said.
Reaction by faculty members of the twelve-man student-faculty committee that worked through last summer to reshape student government was also favorable to its passage.
Ambrose Saricks, associate dean of the Graduate School and co-chairman of the committee, said, "It's great! I'm sorry that more did not vote, but I'm glad it passed."
Charles H. Oldfather, professor of law who was largely responsible for drafting the Code, said he looked forward to setting the Code into action this spring.
Bomb damages military building
A bomb exploded in the Military Science Building about 4 a.m. today causing relatively minor damage to walls and furniture while three other bombs, discovered in or near the building failed to explode
At about the same time the bomb exploded, two gunshots were fired through windows of the Kansas Union.
Dennis Branstiter, assistant director of University Relations, said the bomb exploded in the office of Col. John P. Lanigan, Naval ROTC commander.
The three other bombs were discovered, one inside the Military Science Building, thrown into an office adjacent to Lanigan's, one in the annex and another near the annex.
A janitor in the Kansas Union said he heard two gunshots at about 4 a.m. this morning. He later discovered two holes in the plateglass windows around the Hawk's Nest.
The state Fire Marshall, the Douglas County Sheriff, Kansas Bureau of Investigation and campus police are investigating.
Bomb damage in military building
Reds back on German turf
BERLIN (UPI) — West Berlin police reported Communist troops already moving toward the West German frontier today for war games designed to put a new squeeze on this isolated outpost.
Western officials said they had little doubt the Soviet-East German maneuvers announced yesterday would mean disruption in the flow of trucks and barges bringing vital supplies 110 miles through Communist East Germany to West Berlin.
The Soveit news agency Tass announced the war games for "early March" to coincide with the West German presidential election in West Berlin March
Western authorities here said the Communists apparently were careful not to plan the war games during the visit Feb. 27 of President Nixon. The real pressure, they predicted, will come once Nixon leaves and the West German electoral college begins arriving by air.
5-an event the Communists have deplored as a "provocation."
A garrison of about 250,000 Soviet soldiers is stationed in East Germany alongside about 240,000 East German troops. The war games, Tass said, are intended "to perfect the joint action of troops in different types of combat operations."
Communist border guards Monday and Tuesday shut off traffic to or from West Berlin for about two hours to show their governments' displeasure over the West German plan to go through with the election in West Berlin.
The Soviets and East Germans have said West Berlin is not part of West Germany and therefore should not be used for West German political meetings.
West Berlin sits isolated 110 miles deep in East Germany—a Western outpost inside Communist territory created by post-World War II agreements. The Tass announcement said the Soviet commander
The Tass announcement said the Soviet—East German
maneuvers would begin "early in March" in the central and western regions of East Germany under the command of Soviet Marshal Ivan I. Yakubovsky.
Yakubovsky is the commander of the Soviet's Warsaw Pact military alliance, plotted the invasion last Aug. 20-21 of Czechoslovakia, and was the Soviet commander in East Germany when the Communists built the Berlin Wall in 1961.
"It is intended during these exercises to perfect the joint action of troops in different types of combat operations," Tass said. It said the military staffs of all Warsaw Pact members would observe.
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Priority list set
TOPEKA - Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe yesterday presented the KU Board of Regents priority list to the Kansas Legislature Ways and Means subcommittee, a reliable source in Topeka reported.
This the first time in years the subcommittee has requested a priority list, Raymond Nichols, vice-chancellor of finance explained.
"The legislature must consider the priorities of all universities in Kansas and they may be able to realize our priorities only in part," he said.
Nichols said this procedure was unusual, but may indicate the legislature has extra funds that could be diverted to the deleted items.
The $38,815 Upward Bound
program ranked second behind the request for another. 5 per cent raise in faculty salaries totaling $74,286
The salary increase is of major importance in enabling KU to compete with other universities in recruiting and maintaining high level educators, said Nichols.
"KU only achieved a class B rating this year by the American Association of University Professors' (AAUP) salary scale standards," Nichols said. "This means KU can hold its relative position as a class B university."
The national Upward Bound program under the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, is designed to bring disadvantaged and underachieving high school students to the University.
Nichols said Wescoe drew up the priority list. Asking for Upward Bound second above the other 20 requests indicates the chancellor thinks highly of the necessity and value of an Upward Bound program for KU, Nichols said.
Ross Copeland, Bureau of Child Research associate director and University Council for Urban Action member, said he was delighted the chancellor gave that kind of priority to this important matter.
"In the face of many pressing fiscal matters, it would have been so easy to relegate Upward Bound to a lower priority," Copeland said. "But even the most severe critic couldn't see this as anything other than a good thing."
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Shaw decision due today
NEW ORLEANS (UPI) — Yesterday, the 26th day in court, the prosecution rested its assassination conspiracy case against Clay L. Shaw, and Criminal Dist. Judge Edward A. Haggerty Jr. said he would rule today on a defense plea that Shaw be freed immediately.
Sirhan offers guilty plea
LOS ANGELES (UPI) - Sirhan B. Sirhan offered to enter a plea of guilty to first degree murder, but the offer was rejected because he also insisted it be accompanied by a life prison sentence instead of death, it was revealed yesterday.
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