Student financial problems discussed
A meeting was held Monday night with Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., members of the administration and members of the Student Senate to discuss financial problems which will affect KU students.
One problem discussed was next year's fee increase which will mean Kansas residents will pay an additional $60 per year while out-of-state residents will pay an additional $125.
A bill which has been presented in the Kansas Legislature and is currently in committee will, if passed, remove exemptions from all public residence halls, married student housing and student unions all over the state.
The tax exemption cutoff will mean that those students living in residence halls will have to pay an additional $130 per year, those living in married student housing will have to pay an additional $305 per year, those living in scholarship halls will have to pay an additional $106 per year and all students living on or off campus will have to pay an additional $16 for the student union.
Another problem discussed concerned the building of Wescoe Hall which would provide space for 2400 students and house 500 offices. Presently the federal government and the state legislature plans $5½ million for building, with students to pay the difference. This would mean an additional $7 per student each semester over the next 20 years.
The Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee must make a decision on the increased fee to cover the cost of Wescoe Hall. The decision must then be given to the Board of Regents before they convene Feb. 20 so the Regents can make a proposal to the legislature March 10.
A similar problem, the building of the satellite union and hospital complex was discussed. Under the present financial situation, the union would cost the students an additional $5½ per semester over the next 20 years and the hospital
complex an additional $8-10.
Other administrators who attended the meeting were Keith
Nitcher, vice chancellor in charge of finance; Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University; Francis Heller, dean of faculties; and Donald Alderson, dean of men.
White award
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liam Allen White, Puliam said White's words and the meditations of his heart were still an undiminished inspiration to all newspapermen who wanted to become great newspapermen.
Pulliam concluded his speech by saying we could be thankful that William Allen White's example was the inspiration of America's reporters, editors and publishers.
Pulliam established the Central Newspapers Foundation which sends hundreds of students to college and has brought foreign reporters to this country for study. He is also director of the Freedom Foundation at Valley Forge and a trustee of the William Allen White Foundation.
Recent awards Pulliam has received are the John Peter Zenger Award for distinguished Service; the Wells Memorial Key of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism society; the Front Page Award of the Indianapolis Press Club; the Journalistic Achievement Award of the American Legion; the Master-Editor-Publisher Award of the Arizona Newspaper Association; and the Golden Plate of the American Academy of Achievement.
Another presentation made at the luncheon preceding the Pulliam lecture was the William Allen White Foundation's 1970 Kansas Editor of the Year Award. This year's recipient was Ernest Austin Briles, publisher of the Stafford Courier.
Briles bought his paper in 1915 when is was the Stafford County Republican. His column "Hit and Miss" has since gained much recognition.
The award was presented by John Conrad, publisher of the Kiowa County Signal and former Speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives.
Judge warns court
Briles has served the state of Kansas for 25 years. He spent nine years as chairman of the board of Social Welfare, eight years in the Kansas State Senate and six years in the Kansas House of Representatives. Briles was both Speaker of the House and President Pro-tem of the Senate.
The policy of his paper and life has been in his words, "to be very sure we publish the truth, nothing but the truth and that we do not use rumor and gossip."
NEW YORK (UPI)—State Supreme Court Justice John M. Murtagh warned defendants, defense counsel and spectators Tuesday at the pre-trial hearings of 13 Black Panthers that he will use his summary contempt powers in case of any further court-room outbursts.
ing Monday when a defendant told Murtagh he should "have a white robe on, with a hood on it."
Murtigh dropped contempt proceedings against Sheila Younce, a 24-year-old Negro researcher for Newsweek Magazine, after she apologized for applaud-
Miss Youngen said she had found the hearings "an emotional and traumatic experience" because of her own experiences as a black," but she said she was "deeply sorry if my conduct impeded in any way the court's attempt to conduct a fair trial."
Pulliam said he has given a scholarship contribution to KU. The grant $1,000 a year, will be given to a junior in the School of Journalism who best exemplifies the ideals of William Allen White.
The defendants are charged with conspiring to bomb public facilities.
About 200 people attended the lecture and presentations.
Trial nears end
U. S. District Court Judge Julius J. Hoffman is expected to place the case in the hands of the jury, probably this week. The trial will be 20 weeks old Wednesday.
CHICAGO (UPI)—A prosecutor told a federal court jury Tuesday that defendants in the riot conspiracy trial plotted the rioting that erupted during the Democratic National Convention as "the start of the revolution."
The defendants—leaders of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, the Youth International Party Yippies and other militant groups—are charged with conspiring to incite riots and with inciting riots during the August 1968 convention.
Schultz, his voice failing him at times, said the government had proved this conclusively during the turbulent trial. He soffed at defense contentions that Yippie leaders, with their talk of violence and a festival of life, had perpetrated a myth that caused Chicago officials to get "up tight" and overreact with police and National Guard security forces.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Schultz charged in a daylong final argument that seven antiwar militants lured thousands of persons to Chicago with the deliberate intention of "inciting them to violence."
Defense attorneys were to have their turn after Schultz. Then U.S. Attorney Thomas A. Foran was to make the government's last-stab argument before Hoffman instructs the jurors and sends them into deliberation.
Their real aim, he said, was the establishment of "a National Liberation Front political arm of the Viet Cong in the United States."
the jurors sat, stony-faced,
much of the time. One man dozed
off repeatedly and a woman juror
elbowed him awake. Yippie leader
Abbie Hoffman, a defendant, slept
most of the time and thumbed through "Variety," the show business magazine, when he was awake.
Schultz said the government proved Rubin exhorted demonstrators to "get the pigs, kill the pigs." He said Rennie Davis, a National Mobilization leader, "planned violent actions" to disrupt the convention and boasted afterward demonstrators had "created an American National Liberation Front."
Before the convention, Schultz told the jury, the defendants went about the country talking of a Yippie "festival of life and love" and "peaceful" protests planned for Chicago. These were rushes, he said, "to get people here for the purpose of inciting them to riot."
When fully in effect, Harris' plan would allow a family still to earn $75 a month with no loss in benefits. But benefits would decline as earnings rose above $75 monthly and when the family's earnings reached $522 a month it would no longer be eligible for any benefits. The President's $1,600 plan contained a similar provision although the money involved would be less.
The $3,600 figure is based on government surveys which show that much is now required for a family of four to sustain itself at the "poverty level." The guaranteed income would rise as the cost of living rises.
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point his program's costs would never reach $10 billion.
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Wages
The annual student dinner was not scheduled this year because of Pulliam's early return to Kansas City.
Unlike Nixon's plan, which covers only families, Harris' would also cover individuals living alone or childless couples.
His introduction of the plan was his first major act since announcing his decision last week to step down as Democratic national chairman, saying he wanted to be free to take initiative as a senator, not as a representative of his party.