Jim Ryun wins UPI sports honor
LONDON — (UPI) — Jim Ryun,
the undisputed king of middle
distance runners during the year,
today was voted the 1967 sport-
man of the year by United Press
International's European sports
editors as the United States made
a sweep of the top three places.
The lanky University of Kansas runner, favorite to win the 1,500 meters gold medal at next year's Olympic Games at Mexico City, polled five first place votes and scored a total 102 points to win easily from compatriots Debbie Meyer and Mark Spitz, the young swimming sensations.
Ten points were awarded for a first place vote and on down to one for a tenth place ballot.
Ryun, 20, showed his greatness at Los Angeles during the early summer when he ran away from Kipchoge Keino of Kenya to win the 1,500 meters in a world record time of 3:33.1 in the dual international against the British Commonwealth.
Later he went on to lower his one mile record to a fantastic 3:51.1. He remained unbeaten outdoors through the season and is touted as the first man likely to break the 3:50 barrier.
CRES gets $400,000 grant for research
The United States Department of Defense has awarded $400,000 to the University of Kansas for remote sensing research at the Center for Research, Inc., Engineering Science Division (CRES).
The manager of the program of research will be Richard K. Moore, the Black and Veatch distinguished professor of electrical engineering and director of the CRES Remote Sensing Laboratory.
The award was made through the Defense Department's new program for university research, called Project Themis.
The award to the University is one of 50 which will support "centers of excellence" in universities across the country. Each of these centers, chosen from a field originally numbering 480, will operate in a different technological area, from astronomy to learning control systems to KU's remote sensing.
The project, funded through the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the Department of Defense, will be supported over a three-year period, with $200,000 allocated for the first year. Work will be monitored by the U.S. Army Engineer Topographic Laboratory (USAETL), Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Bernard Scheps of that Laboratory will be
the Project Engineer, and will be assisted by a distinguished Board of Review.
The Center at KU, like all those under Project Themis, will stress participation by graduate students, and will also involve faculty members from the Departments of Electrical Engineering.
See CRES, page 5
kansan
A student newspaper serving KU
78th Year, No. 58
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday, December 13. 1967
This was brought to the attention of the ASC social committee this fall. And since the committee also received a considerably larger number of requests for open houses this fall it decided it may need more University approval.
Open houses discussed
By Beth Gaedert Kansan Staff Reporter
Stir this one up in your alphabet soup.
The All Student Council (ASC) social committee and the Association of University Residence Halls (AURH) went before the Council on Student Affairs (COSA) Tuesday to talk about open houses.
The AURH has been discussing since last spring the need for more open house privileges for larger residence halls. They say there is a "definite lack of privacy" in large halls and that the open houses would allow residents to have guests in their rooms where more privacy prevails.
So Barb Hodge, St. Louis, Mo., junior and ASC social committee chairman, and Clif Conrad, Bismark, N.D., junior and AURH president, went to COSA asking them if they thought their present policy as stated in the Student Handbook covered the open house situation as it exists this fall.
The COSA policy as approved last spring by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe states that "men are permitted only in the public rooms of women's organized living groups at times specified by each group and may not enter or remain after the women's security hours set for each night.
"Women are permitted only in the public rooms of men's organized living groups at times specified by each group and may not enter or remain after the women's security hours set for each night.
"Exceptions to the regulations may be made for planned open houses involving the use of non-
public areas of organized living group facilities.
"The All Student Social Committee is authorized to accept registrations of open house functions provided that the residents and residence director have approved and been fully informed of the plans."
COSA will meet again in early January to discuss and make recommendations it thinks are warranted to the chancellor.
Conrad presented for COSA's consideration a "working paper" outlining informal open houses as "visitations."
Conrad cited a survey taken in McCollum Hall showing that 94 percent of the 59 percent of the hall's men that answered were in favor of open houses. Of the 37 percent of the hall's women that answered the survey, 64 per cent were in favor.
McCollum has had the most open houses this fall. All other living groups have had at least four and several have had as many as eight.
No, No Hershey
Courts may slap draft rule
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Justice Department officials were understood Tuesday to be confident that Selective Service director Lewis B. Hershey's crackdown on draft registrants who take part in "illegal" antiwar demonstrations will be overruled in court.
The first such test could come Thursday, when the U.S. District Court in Washington holds a preliminary hearing on a complaint by student groups that Hershey's policy violates Constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and association.
The suit, filed by the National Student Association and Students
for a Democratic Society, seeks a temporary restraining order against Hershey forbidding further reclassification of protesters.
So far, 26 suits have been filed from Boston to Seattle protesting the 74-year-old general's recommendation in an Oct. 26 memorandum that draft-age demonstrators be reclassified and subject to immediate induction if they interfere illegally with selective service operations or military recruitment.
In an interview, Hershey predicted he would be upheld in the courts in his belief that local draft boards "can still decide who
is violating the law as well as any jury."
But Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark disagrees, as it became apparent after he met with Hershey Monday night. The two had issued a statement Saturday agreeing on creation of a special Justice Department unit to prosecute law-breaking demonstrators, but Hershey said later he still stood by his earlier position.
If COSA decides to recommend to the chancellor that the open house policy be changed to a "visitation policy" and he approves such a policy, a basic concept of the open house would change.
Hershey's position is that anyone interfering with draft operations can be dealt with by administrative action of local draft boards.
WEATHER
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts cloudy and cold with winds blowing 10-20 miles per hour from the northeast tonight and Thursday. There should be intermittent snows during the period. The low tonight should be 20-25. Precipitation probabilities are 40 per cent tonight and 50 per cent Thursday.
KU 1967: It was a very
By Will Hardesty and Pat Pruitt
It was the year of the protest.
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It was the year of the protest. It was the year of the protest at KU as continuing opposition to the Vietnam war teek honors as the top campus news story by vote of Kansan editorial editors.
Although the protest movement is not as strong at KU as at some "activist" schools, it was the most important news trend, stimulating other big stories.
Except for the several silent peace vigils in front of Watson Library last spring, most protest activity at KU came this fall.
SDS vs. recruiters
The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) tried to thwart Marine recruiting in the Kansas Union, while protesting the University's decision to allow military recruiters on campus.
The Peace Torch marathon marchers came through Lawrence and attracted a few followers. The marchers were carrying a torch made of fragments of a U.S. anti-personnel bomb. The torch had been lit in Hiroshima, Japan, and was being carried from San Francisco, Calif., to Washington, D.C.
Folk songs, speeches, and free doughnuts highlighted the demonstrations.
During draft resistance week, the protestor was not seen at KU, but he did experience sympathy pains with his fellows across the nation.
The second most important story concerned the expansive campus building program. New Fraser was finished and inhabited. Myers Hall was torn down, and Irma I. Smith Hall replaced it as home of the Kansas School of Religion. A pharmaceutical building was planned and then built across Iowa St. Spencer Library was begun and now has four walls and a roof. The biological life sciences building has been carried to a shell stage. A building to house the University of Kansas printing service is almost ready.
Campus gets new buildings
This fall, Old Robinson was razed so that construction could begin on a new 26-story humanities building, to be the focal point of the campus and the state's tallest.
KU was awarded a $1.8 million grant
for a space technology building, but in autumn the total amount of the money KU was to supply for the building was deleted from KU's proposed budget by State Budget Director James Bibb. Debate continues in budget hearings on Bibb's cut.
"Pepper" and the boys
As the old year went out, an important new man came in—Franklin Cullen Rodgers. Rodgers, better known as "Pepper," came from UCLA to become head football coach at KU. He picked a new staff and tried to pick up the pieces of a team that former Coach Jack Mitchell left. This fall, KU was expected to continue its win-nothing ways, but the Jayhawks finished in a tie for second place in the Big Eight. This success story of the man and the team rates number three in this year's campus news wrap-up.
Meanwhile, a new kind of Grim Reaper-type spectre sat behind all KU men this year and watched them study and take tests—the Draft. With new laws and old laws—and rumored laws, too—the average KU male is striving to
maintain a sufficiently high GPA to stay buried in his draft boards II-S files.
The Free University tied with the Draft for the fourth biggest story. The Free University was born from the ideas of more than a score of Mt. Oread professors, instructors and students. The university's curriculum was designed to "create a new learning environment" and to "focus on more relevant, interesting and integrated subjects," in a very informal atmosphere.
Watson Library with its shorter hours rates one half of the number five spot. When KU students returned to school this fall, they found the library closed an hour earlier. Students reacted. They wanted longer hours. While the All Student Council allegedly looked at the ceiling and studied the floor, persons commonly identified with that segment of society known as 'campus left' got the job done.
After threats of read-ins and other forms of demonstrations, funds appeared and the library stayed open until 11 p.m. But then a new problem had
See KU, 1967, page 12