Activity fee cut discussed
By TERRY WILLIAMSON
Kansan Staff Writer
University leaders met Monday with the athletic department in an attempt to find a way to cut student activity fees.
KU Athletic Director Wade Stinson said a drastic cut in athletic funds could mean an increase in ticket prices and a cut back in nonprofit making sports. The department now receives $176,171 of its gross income of $280,000 from the $12 student activity fee. This is 50 per cent of the total activity fee allotment.
"If the fee was cropped," Monte Johnson, asst. athletic director, said, "and ticket sales stayed the same, the price of football tickets would rise to $16 and basketball tickets to $12."
The present $$ football ticket price
and $4 basketball price was put in
effect in 1956 at the student's request for better seating,building of the east stadium. Payoff for the east side expansion is based on expanding enrollment from year to year at $5 a head. If cut, this would have to be made up someplace else.
Stinson said that the athletic department was charged to operate the whole program on revenue it generates; the only money is from student allocation. If its income was cut to $180,000, it would have to make cuts in minor sports.
"The revenue sports," Stinson said, "keep us in business. The others are in the lost column."
Johnson said if the tickets were over $10 there would probably be a decrease in student buying because the students wouldn't accept it.
Bill Ebert, Topeka junior, said all students are charged across the board for athletic fees and not every
student goes to games. The way students are going to look at the situation when confronted with the facts is that they are forced to pay for activities they don't take part in.
The meeting then turned from the specifics of the athletic budget to a heated discussion on the $7.50 activity fee increase for proposed Wescoe Hall.
"If the state isn't going to pay for Wescoe Hall," Peter George, president of Student Senate executive committee, said, "then we're going to have to. We have to get the $7.50 from somewhere, there is no way to draw this money out of an empty coffin."
Dick Von Ende, Abilene, Texas,
graduate student, said the problem
that exists is how to present the $7.50
increase at the Student Senate meeting
on Wednesday night.
BULLETIN
The production of the Daily Kansan was halted for 30 minutes this morning when the majority of employees at the University Printing Service walked off the job in protest over allegedly obscene material contained in a Black Student Union newspaper being readied for publication. Several employees of the Printing Service plan to present their complaint to members of the Kansas Legislature and the Board of Regents. Monty Beckwith, Chicago, Ill., freshman, co-chairman of the BSU communications committee is listed as editor of the paper and the printing order was signed by Henry F. Taylor, Kansas City, Kansas, junior, treasurer of the BSU.
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Oil washes Gulf Coast
St. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A smelly blanket of crude oil washed into a chain of Gulf Coast resort islands off this retirement haven Monday. Businessmen took steps to "blunt the damage" to the tourist trade.
The oil, which smudged beaches on the western shore of St. Petersburg after a Greek tanker ruptured Friday, floated from Tampa Bay out into the Gulf Monday. Southwest-ly winds then pushed it into a 20-mile strip of exclusive residential islands and hotel resorts from Indian Rocks Beach south to Fort de Soto Park.
Cambodia massing arms
SAIGON—Cambodia has begun moving antiaircraft guns into a border region to shoot at U.S. planes that attack North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops along the frontier, Allied sources said today.
Cambodia frequently has complained that American aircraft violate its borders. U.S. planes have at times struck into Cambodian territory in retaliation for guerrilla attacks.
Majority supports Nixon
NEW YORK — Almost 60 per cent of Americans polled following President Nixon's State of the Union address and veto of the Health and Welfare Appropriations Bill expressed confidence in the administration's economic policies, it was reported Monday.
Renewal housing assured
A new government order guaranteeing replacement housing for persons whose homes are in the path of federal building projects may slow down some highway and airport construction across the country.
The order, issued Monday by Transportation Secretary John A. Volpe, says no construction will be authorized for transportation projects until the government verifies replacement housing is in place and has been offered to the residents about to be displaced.
Students protest trial
Police battled demonstrators in Berkeley, Calif., and New York City Monday as students and youths protested the contempt sentences given the "Chicago Seven" and their attorneys.
Smaller, peaceful demonstrations were scattered across the country.
--after receiving the case on Saturday and until 10 p.m. EST on Sunday.
80th Year, No. 80
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Tuesday, Feb. 17, 1970
Defense rejects 'compromise'
CHICAGO (UPI)—The defense in the riot conspiracy trial rejected any idea of a "compromise verdict" Monday and said it was considering asking that the jury, deliberating the fate of the "Chicago Seven" for a third day, be discharged as deadlocked.
Defense Attorneys William M. Kunstler and Leonard I. Weinglass conferred with the defendants in Cook County Jail while other defense lawyers prepared legal moves to free the seven defendants and two trial lawyers from contempt sentences.
The jurors unexpectedly ended their deliberations for the day at 5:30 p.m. CST Monday and returned to their downtown hotel.
There was no explanation for the early retirement. The jury had deliberated until 11 p.m. EST
The jury had deliberated for a total of 30 hours and gave no signal that it is near a decision.
Kunstler told newsmen at midafternoon "the defendants wish us to make a motion to discharge the jury" and that he and Weinglass would confer further on the matter.
Kunstler, chief defense attorney, said both the defendants and their lawyers found the idea of a "compromise verdict" unacceptable. He said they hope the jury will "convict all. Acquit all or wind up in a hung jury."
Kunstler said the seven anti-war protest leaders—charged with conspiring to incite riots during the 1968 Democratic National Convention—feel that if the jury is hung, "We might as well end it right now rather than going on."
A notice of appeal seeking a reversal of the contempt judgments against the seven defendants and two lawyers was filed late Monday with the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Thomas P. Sullivan, Chicago lawyer who filed the notice, also moved for release of the seven defendants on bond pending outcome of the appeal. Sullivan told newsmen he would follow the notice with briefs on Thursday. Until then, he said, no appeals court action could be expected.
Police kept a close guard around the home and family of U.S. District Court Judge Julius J. Hoffman, who jailed the defen-
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Photo by Bruce Bernstein
Trial continues in Chicago; KU students plan march
David Owens, graduate student, leads discussion as students plan for today's march for the Chicago "10." The march began at 1:15 and proceeded to the Lawrence courthouse