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80th Year, No. 104
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, April 1, 1970
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Cambodia opposes pursuit
PHNOM PENH—The government told the United States and South Vietnam today they have no right to send troops into Cambodia in pursuit of the Viet Cong or North Vietnamese.
"Faithful to its policy of strictest neutrality, Cambodia opposes the right of pursuit as it is opposed to any violation of our territory by foreign forces regardless of whichever camp they belong in," the government said over Phnom Penh Radio.
NBC violates doctrine
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) told NBC Tuesday its Huntley-Brinkley news program violated the fairness doctrine in November 1969 in criticism of the nation's private pilots.
"The ability of private pilots was put in an unfavorable light," the FCC said, "without the contrasting view being presented." NBC was asked "in the reasonably near future" to achieve fairness in its coverage of air safety and private pilots.
Troop consolidation urged
WASHINGTON—Sen. George S. McGovern, D-S.D., a leading proponent of U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, charged today President Nixon was needlessly endangering the lives of American troops by his phased withdrawal plan.
In a speech prepared for the Senate, McGovern said the gradual withdrawals make troops left behind "vulnerable to concentrated attacks by the enemy" because U.S. forces must hold widely dispersed military positions.
McGovern urged the administration, instead, to "stop our far-flung military operations in South Vietnam and consolidate our forces temporarily, in preparation for disengagement, in well-defended areas near the sea."
Board criticizes student financing
The University Planning Board called student financing academic buildings, "basically wrong."
In a statement released March 17 referring specifically to the building of Wescoe Hall, the Student Senate voted to aid it; by a pledge of $7.50 per semester per student. The planning board called the senate action "in the best interests of the university and of its students" because of the special urgency of the situation.
On April 7, the student body will vote on the Wescoe Hall issue voicing its opinion on whether or not they want to contribute $2 million from student fees toward the proposed $8 million building.
The statement said, in part: "The University Planning Board wishes to express, as strongly as possible, its conviction that buildings needed for instruction should be provided by the state and that it is basically wrong to ask students to pay for the buildings in which they are taught.
"On the other hand, all other alternatives for funding this particular, crucial project on time have been exhausted."
The statement said that approximately $4 million was provided by the state legislature in 1966. This was supplemented by approximately $2 million from
the federal government and $2 million from student fees.
Without the student fees, the entire building is jeopardized, and if redesign is necessary—as it would be without the student money—the general government's share probably would be lost because of a rapidly approaching fiscal year deadline on use of the funds.
If both those sources of funds dried up, that would leave about $4 million in state funds for a building.
"The University Planning Board cannot commit the prime space on this campus to a $4 million structure that would be so sharply reduced in potential and function," the board's statement said.
If Wescoe Hall is not built, "one out of every four classes in 1975 will either be homeless or have to be taught at best in temporary, portable classrooms, most of them at considerable distance from the campus," the planning board said.
William Lucas, associate professor of architecture and urban design and co-chairman of the planning board said, "Because of the combination of situations, such as the need for space and the possibility of losing state funds, we were prompted to take this to the students."
Students to vote on new Union
University of Kansas students will have the opportunity to express their opinion on the proposed satellite union, April 7, in a referendum. It will be one of several questions presented for a vote to the students.
The union building was considered as early as 1964, to meet the needs of the tremendous population explosion towards the southwest portion of the campus, said Kent Longenecker, president of the Student Union Board and Shawnee Mission senior. The satellite union, to be located northwest of Allen Field House, would extend the services of the increasingly over-loaded main Student Union.
First satellite dies
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (UPI)
Explorer 1, the tardy satellite that first took America into the space age four months behind Russia, burned up and died Tuesday in the dark skies of the South Pacific. It was 12 years old.
The U.S. satellite outlived the Soviet Sputniks that won the race into space.
Explorer 1 fell into the earth's atmosphere and burned up from friction-generated heat at 5.47 a.m. (EST) on its 58,376th orbit, a spokesman at the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) headquarters said.
It is survived by 1,838 space objects, including 381 payloads in earth orbit, 32 payloads in deep space, 1,383 pieces of junk in earth orbit and 32 pieces of junk in deep space.
sundries store, check cashing, multipurpose room for meetings, conferences and movies, lounges, and art display facilities. If accepted the building could go to bid in late spring and be occupied (Continued to page 16)
Explorer 1 was launched into an egg-
The $1.8 million proposal would be a modest service center, said Frank Burge, director of the Kansas Union. It is designed to meet the minimum needs of the students, providing a restaurant, snack bar, dining room, book and
Its radio transmitter operated for only 105 days but by then the satellite had discovered a belt of charged particles from the sun trapped by the magnetic field of earth.
shaped orbit Jan. 31, 1958, from what was then Cape Canaveral, Fla., after a frustrating series of failures and national embarrassment caused by Russia's two Sputnik successes in 1957.
The belt was named the Van Allen radiation belt after Dr. James Van Allen of the State University of Iowa who designed the instruments in Explorer.
"The successful orbiting of Explorer 1 is one of the landmarks in the technical and scientific history of the human race," Van Allen said Tuesday.
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Photo by Kent Dannen
Missiles placed on Naismith
Photographs do lie—when they represent an April Fool's illusion. This picture resulted from the combination of two photographs to show a marked change in the KU's defense posture.