Hours to be extended
Library hours and service at Watson Library will return to last year's standards beginning Monday, it was announced this morning by Acting Provost Francis Heller.
Heller said the funds required to extend hours and service will come from the additional student fees collected as a result of an increase in the number of students in excess of the figure on which the budget was based.
The University, he explained, is allowed to spend the student fees it collects only to the extent that the Legislature has appropriated them to the University.
If a larger number of students enroll and more fees are collected, special authorization must be sought from the Board of Regents and the Legislature for spending the money. In the past, Heller said, this approval has normally been granted and "there is good reason to believe that it will be granted again this year."
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe will request Regents' approval when he appears before them Thursday. He will recommend that an appropriate portion of the funds be applied toward restoration of library service to previous standards.
Heller said, assuming the Regents' approve and subject to the library's ability to find qualified student workers, library closing hours would be returned to the 11 p.m. hour. This was the
Provost cites the law
Acting Provost Francis Heller today cited state and local statutes which he said would apply to a "read-in' or comparable demonstration" at Watson Library.
The provost apparently issued the statement in response to reports that students might protest the earlier closing of the library this fall.
He cited that law declares it to be punishable offense if a person stays after its closing hour in a public building after he has been asked by competent authority to leave. Penalties may range as high as $100 fine or up to 90 days in jail or both.
Heller noted that these legal provisions were enacted to protect public property and to permit public business to be transacted.
"If it looks as if acts of vandalism might be committed, we'll have to invoke the law," Heller said. "Also if either teaching or learning are about to be obstructed we'll need to do something. But neither the Chancellor nor I intend to resort to the law unless we have to," he added.
He said whether the full force of the law would be called into play would depend on the "circumstances of the situation."
regular hour until this fall when shortage of student help funds forced curtailment to 10 p.m.
"There is no likelihood at this time or next year that service could be extended beyond 11 p.m." Heller said. Although he said he personally favors as much opportunity for faculty and students to have access to the library as possible, the provost said strengthening of existing services would come ahead of any extension of service.
He lauded the student body's interest in the library as expressed in the more than 2,800 signatures to a petition which he received 10 days ago asking for longer hours of library service.
"There has rarely been this much interest expressed by KU students in something that normally only agitates the faculty," he said.
"The collection of the signatures was a commendable effort and is something of a milestone in the KU students' concern for a better University," he added.
Investors decide: 'Jayhawk Towers'
By Ted Bell
Kansan Staff Repo
"Jayhawk Towers" has been chosen as the name for a private multi-million dollar apartment complex now under construction on 15th Street east of Lewis Hall, it was announced today by E. R. Zook, business manager for Jayhawk Investments, Inc.
Zook said it is expected that two buildings of the four-building complex will be completed by Aug. 1, 1968, with the remaining structures completed a year later
Each six-story building will consist of 300, two-bedroom apartments. Zook said the complex was being constructed primarily for KU students, but that faculty members and persons not connected with the University could rent apartments.
The apartments will be equipped with "high quality furnishings" and will be air conditioned, Zook said. Each unit will have kitchen facilities. No central dining facilities will be provided. Zook said buff-colored brick was selected as the building material to make the complex "blend in with the rest of the University."
Features swimming pool The complex also will feature a "sizeable swimming pool" and two decked parking structures.
The cost for renting the apartments has not been determined.
Zook said construction, which began in August, is "coming along very well.
"Most of the work to date has been underground," he said. "In the next few weeks, if the wea-
See Towers, page 12
By Chicago theologian Religion, art compared
Editor's note: The Rev. Nathan Scott, a priest in the Protestant Episcopal Church, came to the University of Chicago in 1955 after serving on the faculty of Harvard University in Washington, D.C.
By Linda Fabry Kansan Staff Reporter
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--right to ask for the help of the international community in resisting an attack mounted from beyond its borders."
The most frustrating yet most important characteristic of art today is a complete lack of depth. No longer concerned with being a vehicle for human exploration, art seeks instead "to be" rather than "to mean."
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--right to ask for the help of the international community in resisting an attack mounted from beyond its borders."
In a speech Tuesday in the Union Ballroom, the Rev. Nathan Scott, professor of Theology and Literature at the University of Chicago, discussed today's art and its similarity to Theology.
Today, religion, like art, no longer able to be concerned with meaning, is concerning itself with merely existing. In gaining expression, religion also seems to be lacking dimension and depth
In his speech, Scott said religion and art are both practicing a sort of "abstinence" or "hunger art" that he defined as "doing without what humans need for fulfilment."
He said the following passage from the 104th "Reflection" of Franz Kafka summarizes what religion and the arts are now doing:
"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. No, do not even listen, just wait. . . The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked if you shall only consent to be still. You do not need to leave your room."
The title of his speech was "Religion and the Humanities."
See Scott, page 11
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A new technique of revolution is being tested in Vietnam, Rostow said. Since "nuclear warfare is unthinkable and massed frontal attacks are too dangerous to be tried," Communist leaders have turned to "national liberation."
U.S. irresponsibility abroad weakens domestic society
Eugene V. Rostow, under secretary of state for political affairs, said here Tuesday that America cannot have a truly good society at home if it practices irresponsibility abroad.
Rostow, speaking to about 550 people at the Regional Foreign Policy Conference in the Kansas Union, said "Our security demands an equilibrium of power in the Far East as much as it does in Europe and the Middle East.
"Extensions of the Communist sphere achieved by force do carry with them a threat to the world equilibrium." he said.
"North Vietnam is waging war against South Vietnam, Rostow said, "and South Vietnam has the
Rostow said such acts would directly concern the national interests of the free nations.
The four basic principles of that policy are resistance to aggression which threatens our interest to general peace, respect for the interest of the other side, searching for common areas of agreement, and support for national and international programs that could lead to a more stable world.
Vietnam—key to Asia's future
He said that the U.S. has a "flexible policy, combining firmness and restraint."
Rostow said, "Responsible opinion makers throughout Southeast Asia believe that the outcome in Vietnam will determine the future alignment of the whole region."
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Rostow said the war concerns America's national interest because, should South Vietnam be overtaken, the forces of Communist China and North Vietnam "would be encouraged" and resistance to aggression would be "seriously weakened."
Critics look to isolationism
Critics draw some of their isolationist attitudes from the "American Utopian dream," the view that "everything will be all right if you just go away and leave it," Rostow said.
They feel the U.S. should "concentrate on building a model society at home" and not be concerned with power abroad, he added.
"We shall be living in a troubled world for a long time, and there will be magic solutions abroad, as there are none at home."
To maintain a world environment in which American democracy can be safe, we must "face up to conditions in the world as they are, not as we would wish them to be," he said.
The primary mission, he said, is improvement of our society, "but it is equally true that a responsible government must protect the safety of the nation."
Whether the U.S. was right or wrong when it entered the Vietnam War, the hostilities there have been the test of America's intention to maintain the security "upon which the equilibrium of world power has come to depend," he said.
See Regional, page 3
Election bill proposed at special ASC meet
By Sam Neff Kansan Staff Reporter
An election bill, designed to induce major changes in student government election procedure, was introduced Tuesday night by Kyle Craig, Joplin, Mo., junior and student body president.
In a special All Student Council (ASC) meeting, Craig outlined three changes in the election procedure:
- The number of elections in a year will be reduced from two to one. Craig said fall elections will be held this year as planned Nov. 15 and 16, but if the bill is approved, the one election a year would be held in the spring.
- Class presidents will serve as ASC members. Craig said this
means students will be represented by class as well as by living groups and schools as is the case now.
- The present Hare System of voting will be eliminated. Under the Hare System, a student votes for a candidate in the order of preference. The candidate, in this system, may have the most first place votes, but lose on the redistribution of quota votes. Under the proposed system, Craig said the candidate with the largest vote total shall be considered elected.
Craig said the bill would be given to the committee on committees for study. He said he hoped the bill would be returned
See ASC, page 13