ISP termed 'power party'
Kansan Staff Reporter By Robert Entriken Jr.
A new campus political party was born Tuesday, pledging concern for the individual student.
The preamble to the party's platform, which was made public Tuesday, states that ISP is "disgusted" with the lack of concern for the student body shown by the present parties, "angered" by a seemingly ineffective ASC, and "sickened" by the "pious platitudes of candidates pledged to their own advancement."
The Independent Student Party (ISP) is "basically a student power party." said John Stocker, Pittsburgh, Pa., sophomore and vice chairman of the party's central committee.
"We soon learned the futility
Stocker said he felt campus political parties and the All Student Council (ASC) could and should be the student's voice to the administration but it does not fulfil this function.
--of expecting anything from student government as it now exists," the platform states. "Many of us settled into apathy. This year WILL be different!"
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KU
In their campaign to "bring into being a meaningful student government," the ISP created a 15-part platform pledging, if their candidates are elected, to institute 15 reforms including:
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- Institution of a pass-fail system of grading the Western Civilization examination.
- Individual student decisions concerning dorm hours.
6 Revision of existing electorial procedures for the ASC, especial-See party, page 3
- The right of all students 18 and over to live where they choose.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS Wednesday. November 1, 1967
Wescoe speaks out
Aid to education stressed
Federal aid to higher education may take on the form of institutional grants given more for education than research, thanks to a national committee headed by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe.
The committee could map an entirely new government philosophy of federal aid. The Wichita Eagle reported Tuesday.
"It was John Gardner's idea
totally," Wescoe said.
Gardner, U.S. secretary of
health, education and welfare, has urged the committee of top educators to seek ways of improving government-higher education communication.
Colleges best project
Professor John Gumm, former legislative liaison for former California Gov. Pat Brown and the committee's executive officer, said the new plan could show that colleges and universities may be the best project the government can fund.
Senior proposes another look at budget of ASC
A proposal to rescind the vote on the All Student Council (ASC) budget for the 1937-68 school year and to reopen ib for review will be introduced at a regular meeting of the ASC Tuesday.
See ASC budget comparisons, page 13.
Russell said his objection to the budget is that the Traditions Committee and Sachem, of which
Allen Russell, Scottsbluff, Neb. senior and chairman of the Student-Faculty Traffic and Safety Committee, said he will introduce the proposal. The budget was approved at a special meeting two weeks ago.
he is a member, received decreases in their allocations this year. The Traditions Committee received $250 last year compared to $100 this year, and Sachem received $100 last year compared to
$50 this year.
If the report by the committee changes the idea of federal aid, it would break a tradition of giving grants solely for defense research.
Russell said he and Fred Krebs, Marion senior and chairman of the Traditions Committee, had asked Kyle Craig, student body president, for increased funds for See ASC. page 10
Such institutional or block grants are "the saving grace of higher education," Wescoe said. He added that the idea is gaining favor even among educators once wary of federal aid.
NSF grants an example
Wescoe and Gumm cited National Science Foundation grants as a significant example of general aid, with flexibility remaining for the school.
One of the first suggested guidelines to be framed by the committee will be to decide the scope and justification for federal aid programs. The committee will define what the government can best do and what private sources can excell in.
A model for future federal government-university relationships is the cooperation between the Department of Agriculture and land grant colleges, Wescoe and Gumm agreed.
Seeks improved communication
After talking with assistant secretaries of the bureau, Gumm said he is convinced that the Department of Health, Education and Welfare wants to improve communication between the government and colleges.
He said the changeover from defense to institutional grants may be slow.
See Aid, page 11
'50-year men on campus today
Today is "50 Years After" day at KU.
Robert H. Dicke of Princeton University is lecturing on "Einstein's Gravitational Theory 50 Years Later."
At the same time, Harrison E. Salisbury, assistant managing editor and three colleagues from the New York Times, are presenting their views on "Russia: 50 Years After the Revolution."
Call Radio-TV department
For rent: Video tape equipment
By Alison Steimel Kansan Staff Reporter
Speech performances, group discussions, demonstrations or scientific experiments at KU can now be recorded by a portable videotape recorder with portable camera and replayed immediately on a portable monitor.
The equipment, which is carried in three suitcases, can be rented from the radio-television department of the School of Journalism, said Gale Adkins, associate professor of radio-television.
The recording is replayed on the same monitor used to record it. The monitor looks and works like a television set.
Adkins said although the equipment is not highly complicated, a trained person is needed to operate it. Graduate students of the radio-television department are qualified as technical assistants to operate the video tape recorder and camera.
"To cover the cost of salaries for the assistants and the depreciation cost of the equipment, a modest service charge will be necessary for each class or department using the equipment," said Adkins.
The recorder, camera and auditor is plugged into normal electrical outlets and no special lighting requirements are necessary for recording.
An experimental recording of a Sunset Hills Elementary School See Video, page 10
DEMONSTRATING NEW VIEDO TAPE EQUIPMENT
Gale Adkins, associate professor of radio-television, tries out a new video tape recorder in a fifth-grade class. The first taping was termed a success. Adkins said departments at the University can rent the equipment.