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78th Year, No. 55
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Friday, December 8.1967
Hall, parents react to McCollum PDA claim
Kansan News Roundup
McCollium Hall's switchboard was alight Thursday night with calls from concerned parents as the cood hall's joint senate met in the basement and unanimously resolved that charges of increased "public display of affection" (PDA) by Emery Goad, a hall president, were "unauthorized and inaccurate."
Television and radio newscasts Thursday evening of PDA in McCollum apparently prompted many parents to telephone their sons and daughters. A McCollum
Goad told the Kansan this morning he has been offered $10 by a McCollum resident to resign from his hall president's post.
switchboard operator said there was a slight increase in the number of long distance phone calls and that the women residents had received more calls then usual.
Several of the television newcasts made reference to a "mass necking problem."
The joint senate, representing the men and women residents of the hall, said statements by Goad, Junction City senior, were "not the consensus of this joint senate."
Goad was elected hall president of the men's wings in an election last spring.
The regular senate meeting, which lasted only 12 minutes, was followed by informal debate for more than an hour. About 60 residents participated. Reports that hall officers representing men residents met in a "caucus" prior to the joint senate meeting were confirmed by Dave Parker, men's
Influenza virus expected at KU
A sharp increase in the number of students admitted to Watkins hospital with respiratory illnesses in the last three to four days is possible evidence of the beginning of an influenza epidemic in this area, said Raymond Schwegler, health service director.
Public health officials have found evidence of influenza in the northern states, and expect the virus to hit this area soon. Schweger said.
Although the respiratory illnesses have not yet been confirmed as influenza, necessary precautions against the disease are being taken. Schweder said
"I urge everyone who has not had his second flu shot to have one before Christmas vacation," Schwegler said.
--residence director, but Parker refused to comment on the proceedings.
WEATHER
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts increasing cloudiness tonight with a chance of light rain. The low tonight should be in the mid 30s. Saturday will be mostly cloudy and cooler with a chance of light rain or snow.
Goad said earlier in the week that 10 per cent of the McCollum Hall population was practicing PDA in the hall.
Emily Taylor, dean of women,
told the Kansan prior to Thursday night's meeting that Goad "had made a very good statement about the PDA problem."
However, Janet Fink, Kansas City, Mo., junior and staff assistant to the dean of women, said the "necking problem" has been "greatly exaggerated. The initial problem was that a very small number of couples from among 970 residents were performing private activities in public."
Fred McEhenie, assistant to the dean of men, said he believed only seven to ten couples were involved in PDA in the hall. He added that he had received complaints that residents "thought it (PDA) was out of place and that it made them uncomfortable."
Dean Taylor said she believed hall officials were "taking intelligent action to correct something annoying to other people." She said, however, that it was "perhaps foolish to try to find exact percentages.
"Private behavior should be kept private," Dean Taylor said. "No one has a right to engage in behavior annoying to others in public."
Miss Fink, in a prepared statement, said public reports concerning PDA in the hall had "reflected on the residents and executive staff of the hall" and were "unwarranted and unfair."
Goad said late Thursday that he "wouldn't change a single word" of what he had said. "It was an accurate story," Goad added, referring to a story published Wednesday in the Daily Kansan. He said he made the statement as McCollum men's president. The 10 per cent figure was correct, Goad said, but added that it represented the total number of residents involved "over a period of time, not just on one night."
The women's president of McCollum, Patty Cronin, Topека
See McCollum, page 4
- Photo by Dale Pippitt
PRESIDENT'S COMMENTS CRITICIZED
Emery Goad, Junction City senior and a McCollum Hall president (center), was criticized Thursday night by the McCollum joint senate for what it said was his "unauthorized and inaccurate" report concerning public display of affection (PDA) in the hall. Here Good debates the issue informally with four residents following the meeting. They are, from left, Mark Sherwood, Parkville, Mo., sophomore; Tony Gauthier, Prairie Village junior; Goad; Richard Jones, Topeka sophomore; and John Kohl, Kansas City junior. During the evening, concerned parents' calls lighted up McCollum's switchboard after they heard radio and television news-casts about Goad's charges.
Dossiers
kept on faculty
By Diane Wengler
Kansan Staff Reporter
There are folders kept on faculty members, too.
At the end of every year, faculty members are requested to complete a three-part form, said Francis H. Heller, acting provost. On this form, faculty members must report what research and publishing they have done the past year and what future research and writing is planned.
There also is a section, Heller said, where a faculty member can "gripe, dream, pat himself on the back, praise or criticize colleagues." This too becomes a part of the faculty dossier.
Heller said only about one in
four faculty members responds to the section for suggestions or complaints.
"We encourage faculty members to use this section." Heller said, "because this is one way we learn about problem areas."
Heller said far more information goes into the faculty dossier than the student folder. The year-end report is only a small part of this dossier.
"The faculty doesn't seem to mind the dossier as much as students." Heller said.
Heller said parking complaints and the shortage of janitors leads the list of grievances submitted in the reports. Many faculty members don't think students should
be allowed to park anywhere on the Hill, he said.
The more experienced faculty members don't complain about such things as the janitor problem because they know there is nothing the administration can do to alleviate the problem, the acting provost said. Complaints also decrease, he said, when the faculty is aware that the problem is being worked on.
Heller said the great majority of people who deserve a response about some grievance they have voiced will get a personal memo from him. Sometimes, he said, he will even set up interviews to explore the problem further.
Hashinger requests 'casual' dress
Hashinger Hall women are expected to send a statement today to the dean of women's office listing what they think are "casual clothes." They want to be allowed to wear them to dinner on weekdays.
Since the minimal dress code, as spelled out in The Handbook of Official Policies for Women's Residence Halls published by the dean of women's office, requires that women wear 'campus clothes" to weekday dinners, Hashinger must request permission to violate the code.
Barb Reichmann, Omaha, Neb., junior and chairman of the Hashinger dress code committee, said the list included such attire as slacks, jeans, Bermuda shorts and sweatshirts, but does not include swimwear or sleepwear. Hair rollers have also been left off the list.
An earlier request was returned for failure to define "casual clothes."
All women in University residence halls are allowed to wear "casual clothes" on Friday and Saturday nights and also may wear rollers then.
If the request is approved, Hashinger will be the third women's living group to be allowed
to sidestep the code. Lewis Hall and Naismith Hall coeds have already been exempted.
McCollum Hall women also voted their desire to wear "casual clothes" to weekday dinners but their committee has not yet made a formal request.
The McCollum committee will first attempt to answer the question of whether a woman's conduct relates to how she is dressed.
Glenda Brown, Shawnee Mission junior and McCollum women's vice-president, said the committee will study the relationship, if one exists, because the change in McCollum's code would represent a change in the philosophy of the dress code.
"The University does have a responsibility to show you the proper social conduct," Miss Brown said.
"That doesn't necessarily mean it will have to be enforced." Miss Brown added.
If the code is changed for McCollum, she said, "casual clothes" will be "specifically defined" and a body to enforce the code would be created.
Heller said he prepares an annual report to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, listing the more important complaints.
KU senior goes to Kansas House
Gov. Robert Docking today announced the appointment of Robert A. Velsir, Independence senior, to the Kansas House of Representatives.
Velsir, who will represent the Eighth District in Southeast Kansas, was selected at a convention of Democratic precinct committee members of the Eighth Representative District on Dec. 1, in the Montgomery County courthouse. Gov. Docking is required by law to follow the directive of the convention.
Velsir, also president of the Montgomery County Young Democrats, will succeed Lee Cain, Independence, who has resigned.