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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, December 19, 1967
Library problems might fade
If students cooperated
By Linda McCrerey Kansan Staff Reporter
More money and longer hours are not the only things needed to make Watson Library more efficient.
Better cooperation from the students would eliminate about half the library's problems, Terrence Williams, acting assistant director of Watson library, said.
Williams met with Bob Stewart, Sharon Hills, Pa., senior and representative of the All Student Council library committee, Monday.
The committee was created before the ASC election last spring and re-established this fall to help change week-night closing hours back to 11 p.m. After this immediate goal was accomplished, the committee members discussed whether students can help solve the library's problems.
Continuing the committee is a "good idea," Williams said.
"If students have suggestions, I'd be very happy to hear them," Williams said.
Student pressure influenced the library to reinstate 11 p.m. closing hours, Williams said. Although this change was not made through the faculty senate library committee, it indicated what student interest can accomplish, Williams said.
The main problems in Watson Library, Williams said. are book theft and money and staff
shortages. But no college library in the country is now able to keep up with the rapid increases in student enrollment and the number of books being published.
In spite of these problems, however, KU's library remains "one of the most highly respected in the country," Williams said.
Students can improve the situation by not leaving without checking out books, by not damaging books and by not hiding books in the library building.
"Hiding books is not really theft, it's just being selfish," Williams said. "The library's only purpose is to provide a service to the students, and the administrators must become strict only when students deprive others of the right to use books."
Several improvements are tentatively planned "for the distant future," Williams said. To simplify checking out books in Watson, the stacks will be opened, giving everyone access to the books.
Certain parts of Watson will eventually be kept open later at night, Williams said. These parts will be rooms which provide study space but do not require much professional help to operate, such as the general reading room and the reference room.
An undergraduate branch may be built,serving several thousands of students in dorm complexes,Williams said.
Faculty to consider changes
The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences meets today to discuss curriculum changes and to hear a report on the selective service requirements affecting college students. The meeting will be at 4:30 in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
James K. Hitt, director of admissions and registrar, will give the discussion of "Selective Service and Its Implication on College Students, Graduate Students and College Faculty."
The curriculum changes and new courses are in American studies, anthropology, economics, German, Linguistics, microbiology, psychology, sociology, speech and drama and human relations.
The Educational Policies Committee (EPC) discusses and draws up curriculum changes and innovations and then presents their decisions to the College Faculty for approval.
The EPC is recommending that the course, Principles of Nutrition and Health in Development, be accepted as a principal course for three hours credit. The course is in the department of human development and family life.
It is the first course in nutrition, and presents the basic knowledge of the science of nutrition and is the prerequisite to all other courses in the field, said the EPC in the Dec. 12 issue of the faculty newsletter, College Communications
Also the EPC is recommending Social Problems and American Values, three hours credit, be restored as a principal course in the area of the social sciences. It had been a principal course prior to 1967-68.
The College Faculty meets on the third Tuesday of every month.
SAGE accepts-
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have to await legislative developments." It further stated, "I am acutely aware of the fact that our graduate teaching stipends have been, and continue to be, low.
out affecting assistantship stipends and vice versa."
"I wish that the University of Kansas were in the financial position to meet simultaneously the requirements of improved stipends for our teaching assistants as well as of attaining at least the 'B' level of the AAUP (American Association of University Professors) scale for all professors," the letter continued.
He said the plan not to run again was perhaps the "most difficult" decision "of my political career, and the people of Kansas and my fellow members of the Republican Party are certainly entitled to know this decision immediately and to share my thinking."
Carlson said it has "been an honor to serve Kansas the past 40 years."
Concerning the 1968-69 budget, the letter read, "it is not possible to raise professional salaries with-
He added that "few men have had the privilege Kansas has accorded me of public service spanning two score years. For me, it has been the American dream come true."
In answer to the remission of fees request, the letter said, "The Attorney-General has ruled that the law does not permit us to remit fees."
"After much thought and reflection these past few weeks, I have made that decision," the senior senator told newsmen.
The SAGE report also recommended, as an immediate measure, that assistant instructors be permitted to pay fees on an installation basis. Wescoe replied that the matter has been under consideration some time.
TOPEKA, Kan. —(UPI)— Sen.
Frank Carlson, R-Kan., said today he has decided not to run for another term.
"It is our feeling that if such a practice is instituted it should be applicable to all students," he said.
Sen. Carlson retires after 40 years service
Carlson, the son of Swedish immigrants, lived in County County
Concordia Kan., where his parents settled on a farm.
"Throughout the years, I have never ceased to marvel at the wonder of how swiftly American democracy works and the opportunity it offers—opportunity that is exemplified by the son of immigrant parents being honored and entrusted to public office by friends and neighbors."
Holiday hours
Watson Library's hours during Christmas vacation are as follows:
Wednesday, Thursday, Dec. 20-21,
8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Friday, Dec. 22,
noon to 5 p.m.; Saturday, Dec. 23,
8 a.m. to noon; closed Sunday and
Monday, Dec. 24-25; Tuesday thru
Friday, Dec. 26 to 29, 8 a.m. to
5 p.m.; Saturday, Dec. 30, 8 a.m. to
noon; closed Sunday and Monday,
Dec. 31 and Jan. 1; Tuesday, Jan.
2, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Wednesday,
Jan. 3, resumes regular schedule
of 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.