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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 2-27-1970 The BG News February 27, 1970 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News February 27, 1970" (1970). BG News (Student Newspaper). 2428. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/2428 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. Nixon submits plan to reduce spending WASHINGTON (API-President would add an additional $1.2 billion of Nixon sent Congress yesterday a con- savings. troversial package plan to chop federal "Too often in the past," he said, " spending by more than $2 billion a year 'sacred cows' that have outlived their through eliminating or revamping 57 usefulness or need drastic revamping government programs. have been perpetuated because of the Among long-established projects that influence of special interest groups. would be affected is federal aid to school Others have hung on because they were districts handling children of govern- 'too small' to be worthy of attention. ment personnel. Other proposals include "At a time when every dollar of elimination of school milk subsidies, an government spending must be end to hospital construction grants, scrutinized, we cannot afford to let mere scrapping of the U.S. savings stamp inertia drain away our resources." program and eliminating a 73-year-old Nixon said most of the programs he board of federal tea tasters-an activity wants to scrap or curtail "have the costing $127,000 a year. strong support of some special interest While acknowledging in a special group, and in many cases the changes I message that many of the proposals will am proposing will be resisted." be resisted, Nixon told Congress: To help overcome resistance, he "This is no time for business as usual, suggested that Congress assign his entire spending as usual, politics as usual. This package to a single committee for con- is the time for cutting out waste and sideration rather than parcelling out the cutting down costs with new vigor and individual items to committees that new determination." normally would handle them. The President said the executive He said the Joint Committee on branch on its own authority will take Reduction of Federal Expenditures economy actions that, once they are fully might provide a vehicle for consideration effective, will cut budget outlays by (1.1 of the package. Nsws photo by Glsn EppUsta billion a year. This included (417 million One item certain to stir controversy in space program funds previously an- would reform federal assistance to What no right o'clock*? nounced. He called for legislation that schools in federally impacted areas-in theory at least granted in lieu of federal taxes on property. Nixon plans to save $392 million a year by reducing such aid and shifting much An Bowling Gieen of it from relatively wealthy com- Independent February 27, 1970 munities to poorer school districts. Student Under the Nixon plan, parents living on Voice Volume 54 Number 70 federal property would be given greater THe BG news weight in determining the size of school district grants than those who merely work on federal property. School milk subsidies costing $84 million a year would be scrapped and the Vote 10-9 against ROTC credit money "reallocated to more effective nutritional programs to benefit children of poor families." Since all school children now benefit from the subsidies, Nixon argued it made no sense for the federal government to help buy milk for Council upholds credit ban those whose parents can afford to buy »h»ir own By Jim Smith dividual who voted for it. The measure further charged that by members' and constituents' time. Issue Killtiir Last night's vote was 10-9, with allowing the program to continue in its A great deal of the discussion seemed Student Body President Greg Thatch present credit capacity "the University to center around the amount of research Student Council last night upheld the casting the tie-breaking tally. "I think is giving support to a particular political the anti-ROTC committee had con- bill passed at last week's meeting calling ROTC is an excellent program," he said, position." ducted. Some constituents felt that they' for abolishment of credit for the "but I think credit should be abolished." A number of students enrolled in the did not go into it deeply enough. University's ROTC program. The bill, originally passed by a 10-8 ROTC sequence attended last night's The bill was moved back on the floor margin at last week's meeting, charged meeting to offer their support to the pro- "We didn't have time to go into each by Rep. Janice Skaper, who voted for the that the training received by ROTC lit )TC forces, and heated debate broke individual course," insisted Rep. Tony measure last week. A bill can only be students is not compatible with stated out on several occasions among Council Marano, chairman of the anti-ROTC reconsidered on the motion of an in- University academic objectives. members and various spectators during committee. "Instead we analyzed the overall objectives of both departments, investigating the program as a whole." "If you didn't know what was in the courses," retorted a constituent, "how do News 'Vulgar'-Kurfess you know if the program is academic or not?" "The ROTC program is not consistent The BG News was named this week as "The college administrations have to BG News Editor Bruce Larrick told with the University's academic ob- the second of two newspapers charged by realize they bear the ultimate respon- the Speaker his paper would not be jectives," replied Rep. Eric Furry, co- the Speaker of the Ohio House of sibility for those publications," Speaker receptive to pressure tactics, implied or sponsor of the anti-ROTC bill. Representatives for "expressing itself Kurfess said. directed against his newspaper. through vulgarity," and "gutter tripe." Additionally, the Speaker asked for Larrick specified that the core of "Part of the mission of the Univer- Speaker Charles Kurfess (R-Bowling information on how college newspapers readers at Bowling Green who read the sity," suggested another speaker, "is to Green), in a half-hour telephone con- were funded and who exercised News were adult enough not to be upset provide academic freedom. By taking versation with News Editor Bruce judgment over the paper's content. or hurt over the occasional appearance of credit away from ROTC, you're taking Larrick, said The News was grossly "I do not think The BG News ap- "questionable language." away the academic freedom of an in- neglect in its failing to take into account preciated the general societal standards Larrick also outlined a set of criteria dividual to take a course." the sensitivities of its readers when it of its readers when it printed what it did The News uses when dealing with Another constituent felt that if ROTC printed four-letter words and other several times this year. I have clippings language of a "questionable" nature. were not on the college campuses, alleged "obscenities." sent to me by conerned faculty members military schools would boom. "It is in the Speaker Kurfess said he planned no of Bowling Green University," he said. Asst. Prof. Ralph Johnson, BG News military schools that the military minds legislative action against either The "One must respect the standards of advisor, said, "This staff, responsible as flourish," he said, "the ROTC programs' News or the OU Post, campus daily of society, even though the newspaper, or I it has been all year, will not engage in turn out more liberally-oriented of- Ohio University in Athens. as a legislator, might try to modify that any contest to out-obscenity any other ficers." "This is not a statutory concern," said social standard." college paper in the state. "It's utterly incredible," yet another the Speaker. "But as members of the Speaker Kurfess said both the News "Having said that, I fully agree that member of the audience ventured, "that legislature, it is our duty to voice the and the OU Post were guilty of a "sick the reaction of supposedly adult when we look at our country, we see the expressions of the people of Ohio." desire to express themselves through segments of our population to certain most military-oriented industrial nation Kurfess has sent letters to the vulgarity." words, characterized as dirty, is in itself on the face of the earth. That's not very presidents of all Ohio state colleges and State Rep. Robert Corts (R-Elyria) obscene." liberal." Associated Pross Wirsphoto universities asking for a detailed has unofficially recommended funds be Obscenity in Ohio's college press has Rep. Dwaine Zitko insisted that the real issue is not simply abolishment of MRS. HI YN11 VAN Tl tries unsuccessfully to hold back tears description of the controls and cut to the OU Post because of several caused widespread reaction, with staff while leaving court where her husband was sentenced to death regulations on campus publications. controversial news stories and features dissent on the issue at the Lantern, credit, but abolishment of the program itself. by a South Vietnamese military tribunal for rebellion. Tu Is When he receives replies, Kurfess that paper has printed this year. student paper of Ohio State University, missing and is believed to have iied abroad.