Forum features Nixon adviser
Connie Mack Higgins, one of President Nixon's top advisers on Negro affairs, will speak at KU on Tuesday. Feb. 24.
Higgins is currently the special assistant to the administrator of the Small Business Administration and worked closely with Nixon during his presidential campaign.
The event will be sponsored by the SUA Forum committee and the College Republicans. Higgins will speak on "Black Capitalism in the Nixon Administration."
Lecture on politics slated
Victor Ferkiss, professor of government at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., will lecture on "Technology and the Future of Politics" Friday at 8 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
Chalmers speaks at SUA forum
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. will answer questions tonight in a forum presented by Student Union Activities at 7:30 p.m. in the Big Eight room of the Kansas Union.
The forum, part of the University Seminar program, will be composed entirely of Chalmers' responses to questions. This will be one of several forums conducted by SUA on campus personnel, said Bill Read, Coffeevyville senior and SUA board member in charge of forums.
ROTC commander named
Franklin Dunn, Virginia Beach, Va, senior, has been appointed commander of the KU Naval ROTC Midshipman Battalion.
Dunn assumed comand from Ralph E. Chatham, Chagrin Falls, Ohio senior, and received the appointment from Capt. J. O. Marzluff, the commanding officer and professor of naval science at KU.
Dunn has worked on the unit's newspaper, the Seahawk, and has served as the editor of the University's undergraduate honor's research paper, Search.
He was also a member of the drill team and assistant battalion public affairs officer.
Researchers awarded grant
Two research associates in the University of Kansas Bureau of Child Research have been awarded a federal grant to study the effects of music on the learning rate of retarded children.
The recipients are Vance W. Cotter and Joseph Spradlin, resident associates in child research. They received a $31,458 grant from the U.S. Office of Education.
KU professor opposes bill
A delegation of opposition to a bill on state fluridation of water was lead yesterday by Albert W. Burgstahler, professor of chemistry at the University of Kansas. House Bill 1624 of the Kansas Legislature House Committee on Public Health and Welfare received some arguments against its passage.
At 2:50 p.m. in room 529 of the state capitol, vice - chairman George L. White called the committee meeting to order. One hour and 45 minutes and nine speakers later, Burgstahler spoke
"No Senate division members of the House or Board of Health members were present as they were two weeks ago," said Burgstahler. "This means they didn't want to hear what we had to say or they felt it was highly insignificant."
pessimistically about the results.
Burgstahler said he thought the press should give the public views to both sides of the issue so the public would know what was happening.
If proponent witnesses had been cross-examined two weeks
ago," he said, "they would have been disproved."
Burgstahler and eight other speakers offered facts and private experiences to the committee, hoping to persuade them not to pass House Bill 1624. A committee member said it was unlikely that the committee will meet again before it makes a decision on whether or not to pass the issue on to the House next week.
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Kansas legislature seeks to revoke tax exemptions
State Senator Frank S. Hodge, R-Hutchinson and majority floor leader, gave three reasons for consideration of the bill.
The Kansas legislature is working on a new bill that would revoke residence hall and student union tax exemptions.
The bill, labeled SB 434, was introduced to the legislature with the plan that any university buildings not actually contributing to the educational processes would no longer be tax exempt.
The first reason was that the committee working on the bill wants to remove property tax exemptions which are now constitutional. This means university property not taxed now would later be susceptible to it.
Secondly, the residence halls and student unions that are exempt from property taxes are competing with private property
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which is not exempt and the Senate would like to eliminate this problem by removing exemptions.
Finally, Sen. Hodge said the fact that residence halls and student unions are exempt from taxation makes the situation unfair for those private institutions whose residence halls and unions are not exempt.
Reactions to this proposal have been generally the same at KU. Vice-chancellor of Finance Keith L. Nitcher said if the bill passed the legislature it would be necessary to raise student fees and residence hall rates again.
"The dorm rates are already too high and we hope the residence hall and the student union tax exemptions are retained." Nitcher said.
William M. Balfour, dean of student affairs, said he also thought the tax exemptions of the student union and residence halls should not be removed.
"We feel the Kansas Union and the residence halls contribute to the educational function of the University and should not be taxed," Bailour said.
Balfour also said if the state no longer takes up the burden of paying for the operation of the Union building the student body will have to subsidize the needed funds.
The staff of the department of Oriental languages and literatures will introduce their colleagues at a dinner Friday.
The dinner will mark the first Chinese New Year for the staff's colleagues in East Asian Area Studies.
The introduction will take place in the Westminster House, 1204 Oread.
With the aid of a $135,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, Dr. Robert J. Squier, professor of anthropology at KU, will leave this month for more than two years of research in southern Mexico.
Assisting Dr. Squier will be Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Katz, KU graduate students, and Mrs. Squier.
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