November iv, 19586

Professor Je 3e« Smith, re
University of Kansase |

Dear Professor Smiths

‘Thank you very much for your fine letter of November Sth.
You have enunciated an opinion regarding a policy that seems wholly
acceptable and logical, but it is not for me to express thet opinions
However, I do want you to lmow that I very much appreciate your con—
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I might say, Professor Smith, that while I feel that you
have expressed a point of view sympathetic to me, I should say that
this committee should not be considered a committee representing the
Department of Physical Education. Rather, I feel that it is just as
important as a committee on Student Health and Housing. This affects
the entire student body and faculty of the University, both men end
women, and that is why I felt that a group of men on this committee
representing a1] angles of the interests of the University would be
GN NERO NO Ehe ;

ZI did not say that I desired the Comittes on Athletics
abolished. Rather, that committee could still fimetion if it so
desired, although nothing has been done for quite some tines

Noubtless all of the legal affairs, as well as the relation-
ship of ome school with the other in athletics, would naturally be

administered by the University of Kansas Physical Education Corporation,

which is in fect the Athletic Toord. But if the Senate Committee dew
sired to recommend that the number of hours for participation be cut
dewn and the academic requirement raised, then that would be in their
righte Say thet no student might participate by representing the
University of Kanses wmiless this individual hed 20 hours of C average
the two preceding semesterse A Senate cormittee could work this out
and pass it on to the faculty representative, who is Professor We We
Davise Then Professor Davis could go before the Big Six Conference
end propose it. This was done several years ago, and nothing came of
ite So long as we ere members of the Big Six athletic body we, of
course, must follow the Big Six rule. And our Athletic Reard is
faculty controlled, and since the members are appointed by the Senate
it is a Senate committee.