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Friday, April 21, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Nazi Exhibit
From page one
The collection was intended for its historical value but some people did not view Hitler as an ordinary historical figure, Scally said.
JEANNETTE JOHNSON, assistant to the vice chancellor, said that it was a matter of bad timing during an important week for the Jewish people.
"There is no need to upset members of the University, or the manner," Johnson said, adding that "the problem was not with the student."
"We sincerely regret any misinspiration we needed our mistake and cancelled the exhail."
The display was titled "Full Circle: The Rise and Fall of Hitler's Germany."
A press release from Shankel's office said, "The exhibition was intended to be a resource for the Nation Socialism and to remind us all of the terrible consequences which resulted from the intellectual and cultural bankruptcy which led to the horrors of Naziism and World War II."
"HOWEVER, THE INTENT of the exhibition has unfortunately been misinterpreted and created concerns among a large number of people. Consequently, we
Keith Wilson Jr., owner of the majority of the items on display, who lives in Kansas City, Mo., said he was displeased that the University had canceled the exhibit.
have decided to cancel the opening of the exhibition."
"I arm absolutely appalled," Wilson, a KU alumna, said in reference to the canonization.
"I think anybody that would pressure a university to close an academic exhibit without beering to the door or acknowledging the type of mentality that the S.S. sought in its recruits," he said.
Wilson said that the collection previously had been exhibited in schools, at another university and in synagogues and that there had never been any complaints.
HE SAID HE THOUGHT that Passover was a good time for the exhibit to be shown, because it was the right time to study what happened to the Jews during World War II.
"It's not a matter of a taste, it's a matter of let's not it happen again," he said. "The value of the exhibit is to communicate the happened, because it can happen again.
"It has a great academic value."
He said the purpose for the collection was to communicate the Nazi mind to people so
that they would be aware of what actually had occurred.
"I feel that this is a period in history that should be studied," he said.
"I think it's criminal that this period in time is so glossed over by high schools and university
"MY BASIC PHILOSOPHY is the same as George Santayana, 'those that do not remember the past, are condemned to relive it.' " he added.
Wilson said that it was important for people to study what had occurred so that they could prevent the spread.
He said he thought the cancellation was against academic freedom. The exhibit has both a historical and educational value that is important for people to experience, he
However, Joseph Weinstein, president of Hillel, the campus Jewish student organization, said that he thought the exhibit was in poor taste.
"The exhibit would have attempted to somehow lessen the impact of what Hitler did by focusing on the postcards he wrote and the punchbowl he drank from," he said.
"If someone wants to show the exhibit, he should show pictures of Jewish skeletons, pictures of gas chambers and pictures of the anguish of Jewish children as they were
being separated from their families and systematically annihilated. At least this way one gets a better picture of what one is paving tribute to."
Wilson said he did not know whether the exhibit would still be displayed. He said he had not talked to KU officials about the exhibit, but he said he was still willing to show his items.
Wilson said that the exhibition was originally scheduled to be shown in February but that complications postponed it.
THE COLLECTION INCLUDES two paintings by Hiller, photographs, post cards, documents and dimmerware that commemorate the 20th anniversary commander of the Reich's air forces.
The exhibit was being shown in coordination with a course on Nazi Germany taught by Charles Sidman, professor of history.
Dykes, who was reached by telephone in Hays last night where he was attending a Kansas Board of Regents meeting, said he had commented on the exhibit's cancellation.
Meetings on gas prices stay closed, flout rule
Gannett News Service
WASHINGTON—Although agreement on natural gas pricing is apparently near—perhaps within a week–Senate House housemates on energy legislation will continue their confronty, closer meetings until they reach a compromise.
The decision to continue with closed discussions was made in the face of House and Senate procedural rules for open conferences, which whelming House vote last week in favor of open conferences and delaying tactics in the debate. The bargaining sessions to the public.
NEVERTHELESS, THE CONFEREES were in apparent agreement yesterday that the only way to end the four-month old stalemate on the natural issue was to keep the session closed to a select few participants.
"we dispose of a helluva lot of issues yesterday (Wednesday)," Rep. Thomas Ashley, D-Ohio, one of the house leaders in the closed bargaining sessions, said.
Details of the preliminary agreements are sketchy, but it was reported Wednesday that the negotiators had agreed to drop provisions that would have permeated the regulatory agency and incremental pricing of natural gas in the intrastate market.
THE SLOWDOWN in the House is being led by congressmen who oppose deregulation of natural gas prices, inc. by the Senate and House. James Jefords, R-Vt., who said the closed sessions were a violation of House rules, said that the public business be conducted in public.
There have been only two public meetings since the House and Senate sent delegates to the conference four months ago.
KU to offer real estate courses
Bv LIONEL TIPTON
Staff Writer
Starting this fall, the Division of Continuing Education at the University of Kansas will offer courses in real estate sales.
The classes, designed for the professional salesman who wants to renew his license, will help fulfill a requirement in a new law signed by Gov. Robert F. Bennett
The law states that all real estate salesmen, in order to renew their license, must take 30 hours of instruction in real estate during the next three years.
Wallace May, director of instructional services for continuing education, said yesterday that the program would be part of a new division, called Conference Centers. The institution already offers programs in pharmacy and nursing throughout the state.
May said that plans to teach courses in real estate began as early as three years ago, when Chancellor Arche R. Dykes was approached by professionals in the real estate industry who asked him to set up a program at the University for set up a salesmen.
ALTHOUGH PLANS FELL through at that time, the matter was brought up again last year. May said, before the passage of the bill in the Kansas Legislature.
He said that in January, the continuing education division was committed to creating a long-term program planned by real estate professionals.
"We decided to get an understanding of the needs," he said. "We will offer specialized courses designed for the practicing real estate professional. The courses will be post-license courses, like law of real estate."
May said the program's courses would be selected by an advisory committee of nine to 11 people. They will be selected within the two weeks, and will begin meeting next month.
"The kind of people we are looking for to serve on our advisory committee are people who are actually involved in the field of real estate," he said.
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education of realists," he said. "In fact, many of the people under consideration are education officers on their local boards (of realators)."
He said the advisory committee also would select the instructors and set the standards for the courses.
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Formulation of the program came after much discussion on the part of the continuing education division with realtors in rural counties and in the main cities in Kansas.
"This is the beginning of a cohesive effort before this time, our efforts have been very long."
Locally, realists say they were happy about the passage of the law on instruction and hoped that the new classes would cover the right aspects of training.
PHIL. HARRISON, broker at the Gill Agency, 901 Tennessee ST., said yesterday that the courses would benefit salesmen as well as students, a curriculum consisted of the right kinds of classes.
"I think that holding the classes one night a week for a semester will be better than concentrating it all in one week from 8 to 5 each day in a classroom situation," he said.
Harrison said that he thought the law would not necessarily make a crooked realtor honest but that it would improve society among the real estate salesmen.
"The buyer wants an effective salesman," he said. "Most people become dissatisfied with a creator, and they say, 'He should have to see.' He should not see. A real professional can show them."
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