University of Missouri, St. Louis IRL @ UMSL Current (1970s) Student Newspapers 4-25-1974 Current, April 25, 1974 University of Missouri-St. Louis Follow this and additional works at: https://irl.umsl.edu/current1970s Recommended Citation University of Missouri-St. Louis, "Current, April 25, 1974" (1974). Current (1970s). 123. https://irl.umsl.edu/current1970s/123 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at IRL @ UMSL. It has been accepted for inclusion in Current (1970s) by an authorized administrator of IRL @ UMSL. For more information, please contact [email protected]. April 25 , 1974 Legislature votes funds for services building . UMS'L in an appropriations bill the main campus drive at the Bob Hucker several weeks ago. Govern?r southeast corner of t~e . camp.us. Christopher S. (Kit) Bond IS W?r~ on .the Adm.mlstr:atlOn Funds for construction of expected to sign all of the apro- BUIlding Will not bewn until late UMSL's new General Services priations measures. summf.,-, because fmal plans Building were finally approved Construction of the General have not yet been approved by by the Missouri General ~sse.m­ Services Building is scheduled. to the .Board of Curators. bly in a marathon legislative begin in mid-summer, according FI~al pla.ns. for the General session that ended late Tuesday. to UMSL Business Officer John . Services BUilding were drawn up The legislature voted $2,496,- Perry. The building will be with part of $104,000 in .univer- 000 for the new building and located on recently-purchased sity planning funds which. the another $90,000 for campus land east of the Multi-purpose General Assembly appropnared improvements at UMSL, out of a Building. last year . The plans were total of $17,415,348 allocated for The new Administration Buil- approved at a Board of .Curators capital improveme~ts on ~he four ding will be constructed east of . meeting last month. University of MISSOUri cam­ puses. The legislature also apP.ro­ priated $50,000 in planning Search' committee appOinted funds for a school of optometry on the. UMSL campus. It was The new nine-member chancellor search commit~ee ha~ ' be~n expected that a special commi.t­ appointed and met for the first time Wednesday with Umverslty tee will be formed soon to begin President Brice Ratchford. planning the new school. Those serving on the search group are Debo,rah T. Halnlo: The legislature avoided a professor and chairman of the UMSL mathematics department, Robert E. Markland, associate professor. of management; J. Neal special session next mo~th .by extending Monday's legislative Primm, professor of history; Harold W. Richey , pr?fessor of educa­ day into Tuesday, in order to tion' Conne M. Kimbo, dean of student a~alrs;. Joh!l Perr~ , pass appropriations bills to run business 'ofri'cer; and A.G. Unkelsbay, universl!y-wlde vice-presI­ dent. The student members have yet to be appOinted. • Barbara Mutnick, left, and Debbie Bust.on at campus .Mo,~d ay. the state government for the Buston was speaking on " How I Got on Nixon's Enemy LIst. fiscal year beginning July 1. photo by Jim Birkenmeier General Assembly rules had required passage of the. appro­ priations measures by mldmgh~ - Monday, but deadlocks between House and Senate conferees on Nelson: student aid several bills forced the extension Senate candidate seeks of the deadline. After several compromise will deter campus crime measures failed, the House and Senate agreed on a $11~,822!81, 9 holidays. You can never tell defense budget eliminated appropriation for the uOlverslty s Frank Watson when somebody might decide to general operating budget for the try to stea'l some~hin9: or new fiscal year. The Board of The crime rate for the UMSL Responding to a. questi?n commit acts of vandalism. Tom Pagano Curators will divide that sum campus is about the same as a Leaning back in his chair, he about the recent spying tactics among the four campuses to year ago, UMSL Police Chief at the University of Missouri­ expressed a wish to have greater . Barbara Mutnick of St. Louis, cover operating expen(:Ii~ure . James Nelon said, with only a help from the students . " We was on the UMSL campus Columbia, she said, "The reve­ rhe university had orlgmally slight increase in larcenies being lations of spying at UMC is a can't do the job by ourselves," Monday, April 22, 1974, in an requested $120 million. committed. He would not release he said, ."we want help from the effort to gain support in her good example of government The · building and campus the statistics. harassment of political oppo­ students'. They're the ones who ' campaign for the United States improvements appropriations •'The figures are prepared on are walking around the campus, nents. We utterly condemn the were part of a. separ~te ~ilI , a monthly and a yearly basis," Senate. Mutnick is running on a surveillance and spying. We eeing the things that go on. Socialist Workers Party ticket, dealing only with capital Im­ Nelson said, "but they are not "Many do not w!lnt to get demand that all files be opened provements. The $17.4 million . open to the public. They are pre­ opposing incumbent Sen. Thom­ and explained. Furthermore, as­ involved. But many times they as Eagleton ·(Dem.) and Con­ represents somewhat more than pared for the aid of the F.B.1. can make a big difference. Just suming that the records were one third of the state govern­ and for our own use. " gressman Thomas Curtis, (Rep.) given to the government, we the other day a girl rushed into for the Senate seat. ment's share of federal revenue Nelson feels that one of the my office saying she just saw want to know how they were sharing funds for the next fiscal main reasons for UMSL's low used." two boys with wire cut~ers Asked about the major is ues year. crime rate compared to other tealing ome bike. Well , nght which she plans to support, she In a campaign pamphlet, it The $90,000 allocated to cam­ college campuses is the eff~ctive away we sent a car after them. tated that the Socialist Workers pus improvements at U.MSL will police force. " We have thIrteen They tried to get away. but we was explained that Ms. Mutnick be used for constructIOn of a Party i seeking immediate elim­ stands behind such issues as the officers on the force , counting ~ught up with them and got the ination of the $100 billion war ERA 'and the implementation of new sidewalk along the east side the chief," he said, " and we bikes back. If it wasn't for that budget and used instead for the Supreme Court's ruling of the west campus drive, land­ have a foot patrol, which is a big girl there would have been two ' ocial need . They also call for giving women the right to scaping, and other similar pro­ deterrant. more stolen bikes. " the dismantling of U.S. mil­ abortion. jects. " In addition ," he said, "we Nelson stre sed, however. that itary bases throughout the The legislature approved are on duty 24 hours a day, students who are witness to a • world. $2 000 000 for construction of a seven days a week. We are Campaigning for ~utnick w~s Building at . always· on patrol, even during [Continued on page 3] Debby Bustin, National Chair­ ne~ Adminis~ration woman of the Socialist Workers Party Cl!mpaigl1 Co mmitt~e. Ms. Neweditor Bustin claims that the New York Post has ' revealed that she is selected on Mr. Nixon 's enemy list. Pres­ ently, Bustin is a plaintiff in a Walt Jaschek has been chosen Civil Libertie suit against the editor of the Current for the U. S. Government aiming · to halt 1974-75 school year, the Univer-. illegal government harassment sity Senate Student Publications and intimidation of those oppos­ Committee has announced. ing government policies, or Ja chek, a fre hman pre­ those considered "subversive" journalism major, has served ~ groups. news editor of the Current this semester. Last semester, he was "We are not the subversive - production chief and a new group, however. The govern- reporter. 'ment is! The government has Jaschek was editor-in-chief of. declared that all action against the student newspaper of Jen­ the SWP is legitim age because nings High School during hi we are a subver ive group," enior year there. The year aid Bustin. She continued, before, he was news editor of· "The government is afraid of the high school newspaper. our ideas, not our actions." He has published his own mail-order magazine, " Phantasy Pheatures," for over five years, Bustin IS currently a plaintiff and has had extensive exper­ in a civil liberties ' suit aiming ience in commercial art and free­ "to halt illegal government lance writing for everal publica­ harassment and intimidation of tions. those opposing the government's This summer, Jaschek plans policies." President Nixon and to publish and edit his own local 18 other present and former newspaper, the "Jennings Ob­ government officials are named, in the suit. server. " Band on the Hill entertains. crowd as part of Freek Week a_cti.vities. Page 10 April 25, 1974 UMSL CURRENT Home debut success , for baseball Rivermen melr come Trom oenlnO Victory. Jim Shanahan " 1 think it was. a factor, " stated Ri vermen coach Fred Nel­ T he Rivermen inaugurated son. "They had the game won their brand new home field at and then lost it, 0 they were the north end of campus with down.