KU captures second NCAA crown
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
80th Year, No.99
Monday, March 16, 1970
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
End to deferments voted
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.-Young draft advisers from 27 western states, meeting in the residential compound here, voted Sunday to recommend a phaseout of all student and occupational deferments.
Their recommendations will be consolidated with a similar meeting of eastern representatives in Washington and submitted to President Nixon for inclusion in his report to the Senate Armed Services Committee's upcoming hearings on the Selective Service System.
Mutinous crew seizes ship
HONG KONG—A hijacked American cargo ship carrying bombs for U.S. planes in Thailand rested at anchor off the coast of Cambodia today under the control of two mutinous crewmen.
The Pentagon said "according to these initial reports, it appears that the American cargo ship was diverted in international waters by persons aboard, possibly mutinous members of the civilian crew."
The Pentagon report said the Columbia Eagle, chartered by the Military-Sea Transport Service MSTS was carrying 750-pound and 500-pound bombs and other munitions bound for Sattahip, Thailand.
U.S. announces bombings
SAIGON—The United States began announcing air strikes into Laos today and reported the losses of three more U.S. planes to ground fire there.
Fort investigation sought
The official disclosure that American planes are bombing Laos, along with the announcement of U.S. plane losses there, meant a further step in taking the wraps off what has, since 1964, been a secret air campaign.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Rep. William J. Randall, D-Mo., will seek further investigations into basic training procedures at Ft. Leonard Wood, where more than 50 soldiers have been stricken with spinal meningitis since October.
"We have been very fortunate with the weather," said a spokesman for Chevron Oil, owners of the offshore drilling platform. "The oil is now going straight into the middle of our perimeter and is being picked up by our skimmers. All the skimmers are working well."
Randall was part of a three-man congressional team headed by Rep. Richard H. Ichord, D-Mo., that toured the base March 6.
Barges skim oil from Gulf
NEW ORLEANS—Barges equipped with skimming facilities cut into a 52-square-mile oil slick Sunday while three oil wells sprayed thousands of barrels of brown, stick crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
Salary 'skim'
Graduate teaching assistants have not received salary increases appropriated by the state legislature. . .
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The University, especially the College of Liberal Arts and Science's administration have,"skimmed monies off the top and placed them into a pool that has been used to augment some professorial salaries," stated an Alliance position paper which was released today.
"This is totally unfair to graduate students who are required to make ends meet in a period of rapidly escalating inflation without a salary raise," Bill Ebert, Alliance presidential candidate and Topeka, junior said.
"Our research," the paper said, "indicates that, for the last few years, the same annual percentage increase has been appropriated by the state legislature for the salaries of assistant instructors and members of the professoriate alike.
"If faculty members were appropriated a six per
cent increase, assistant instructors were also granted a six per cent increase."
"The Alliance must make it clear." Ebert said, "that it is wholeheartedly in favor of increased professorial salaries. This policy, by creating a special augmentation process for professorial salary increases, rapes the University's efforts to secure from the state legislature a broad-based raise in the salary base for faculty members."
The paper outlined three points of action that Alliance would take in correcting the situation. The paper said, "First, we shall demand an increase in the salary base for assistant instructors to $3,000 a year.
"Second, we shall demand that assistant instructors be awarded the same per annum percentage salary increase as is awarded to other faculty members.
"Third, we shall continue to take the lead in exposing the reasons for inequities and in finding solutions to the problem." (Continued to page 8)
Yuk Down charged with discrimination
A meeting today will clarify the position of the Yuk Down management in regard to the recently implemented policy of refusing admittance to men with long hair said the owner Jesse Roberts.
A group of nearly 65 students boycotted the Yuk Friday night after Roberts refused to admit several long-haired men. "We have a right to refuse service to anybody," Roberts said.
A student asked Roberts what he thought was wrong with long hair. "That's irrelevant," replied Roberts.
Roberts said he had had trouble with "long hairs" in the past, but refused to disclose the nature of the trouble. He said he began the policy when he couldn't "tell the difference between men and women."
Michael Carter, Overland Park sophomore, organized the boycott. He distributed notices on campus Friday after he had been refused service Thursday. He said he had been admitted three weeks earlier when his hair was combed differently. Carter added he plans to file suit against Roberts for alleged discrimination.
Richard Turnbull, Oklahoma City junior, and one of three men refused admittance earlier Friday afternoon, asked Roberts why he would not let him in. "I don't like you personally," Turnbull quoted Roberts as saying.
Turnbull also said he had been admitted to the Yuk Down three weeks earlier. He said he is planning to seek legal council with the Legal Aid Society today.
Roberts was asked later if his policy pertained to the rock bands he hired. "No." he said, "I doubt if we'd hire any band like that. We hire strictly professional musicians, but it's a private decision."
Photo by Ron Bishop
Boycott in the parking lot
Nearly 65 students participated in a boycott of the Yuk Down Friday because of alleged discrimination against men with long hair. The management of the Yuk said they won't admit a man who "looks like a woman."