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78th Year, No.19
Serving KU For 78 of its 102 Years
WEATHER
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts fair and warmer weather for tonight. Partly cloudy and continued mild Friday with scattered late afternoon and night time showers.
Thursday, October 12, 1967
WHAT'S THAT ON HIS SHOULDER?
The small South American monkey, perched on the shoulder of Scott Ferris, teaching assistant, was used in Anthropology I class Wednesday to provide a living example of man's sub-human primate origins. Last year a chimpanzee was used before the class of 1,000 students, but Ferris said she has become too trisky.
If a Kansas Board of Regents request is granted by Robert Lenderholm, Kansas attorney general, state residents who marry non-residents will be allowed to pay in-state fees.
Fees case pending before Londerholm
Max Bickford, executive officer of the Board of Regents, said the body has made a study of residency problems and has sent a request for change to Londerholm. The decision should be made within 10 days, he said.
The question of payment made by a Kansas resident who marries a non-resident was brought before the Regents and Lenderholm in the case of Mrs. Pamela M. Gettig who married another Kansas resident. His parents moved out-of-state and his residence status also was changed.
Kansas law states a married woman assumes the residence of her husband and therefore the woman would have to pay out-of-state fees at a state school.
Londerholm reversed the decision, allowing Mrs. Gettig to pay in-state fees.
William L. Kelley, assistant registrar at KU, said no decision can be made here until the rules are changed by the Board of Regents and the attorney general.
Library may receive rebate, federal cash
Two possible solutions to Watson Library financial troubles were suggested Wednesday at a meeting of Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, the student body president and vice president.
The first involves shifting federal, National Defense Education act, money to the library, which could use the money to provide fellowships for workers.
The second involves using part of the rebates paid to patrons by the Kansas Union Bookstore. Patrons now can get back about seven per cent of the money they spend in the bookstore. If the Watson library proposal goes through, patrons could get 4.5 per
cent back. The other 2.5 per cent would go to the library.
Watson, because of a budget essentially the same as last year's but faced with 20-cent-an-hour wage increases, has cut services. It is open six hours less a week, closing at 10 p.m. instead of 11 p.m.
Earlier, a petition signed by 2,-583 students "demanding" that the library be open until midnight was submitted to Francis Heller, dean of faculties and acting provost.
A spokesman for the administration said Chancellor Wescoe might "advise" the Board of Regents of the petition and student interest in the library at the board's Oct. 19 meeting.
Regents must show interest Procedure dictates that if the Regents show interest, they may
--then present the library problem to the governor or Kansas Legislature for possible consideration
Such "consideration" could mean allocation of more state funds for the library.
The All-Student Council Tuesday informally established a committee to study the problem, although members of the committee were not appointed.
Both of the proposals discussed Wednesday would require policy changes—on the University's part in the case of NDEA funds; by the All Student Council on the bookstore rebate proposal.
WHAT'S INSIDE
The death of Guevara stymies revolution in Latin America, Page 3.
Small town racism and Kansas City slums are discussed in editorsials. Page 2.
The book rebate would depend on "whether the students are willing to give about 2.5 per cent of their annual rebate to have the library open," Kyle Craig, Joplin, Mo., junior and student body president, said.
Elizabeth Harris, Lawrence junior, is enjoying her reign as American Royal queen and today she meets with young farmers. Page 8.
He will direct the fall elections for the party to be held during the ninth and 10th weeks of the semester.
Scott Brown, Wichita sophmore, Wednesday night was chosen as election chairman of the University Party.
UP elects
Free University meet postponed
Students and faculty members interested in free university participation will not meet today but next Thursday in the Kansas Union. The time will be announced later.
Coordinators have postponed the general meeting for a week so that preparations may be completed for what they term an "open-minded, freewheeling experiment in creative teaching."
Possible subject matter and teaching methods for ten proposed "inter - disciplinary" courses will be discussed by both students and faculty.
Volunteers representing various KU departments are tentatively scheduled to lead the groups who will meet outside KU's academic structure and for no accreditation.
Correction
The ASC student train to Boulder, Colo., for the KU-Colorado football game Saturday, Nov. 11, will leave Lawrence at 8 p.m., Friday, Nov. 10, and arrive in Boulder at 8:30 a.m. Saturday. Wednesday the Daily Kansas incorrectly reported that the train would leave Nov. 8 to arrive Nov. 9. The train returning to Lawrence will leave Boulder at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 12, and arrive in Lawrence about 11 p.m. that night.
KU professor reports
Mao gradually losing control
(Editor's note: This is the first of two articles concerning a year Robert A. Burton, assistant professor of eastern civilization, spent in Hong Kong. Burton, an expert on the Chinese Communist party, was working on a book of memoirs of a former party leader.
This article deals with the current troubles in Hong Kong and China. The second will deal with Burton's observations of the Sino-Soviet split and its relationship to the war in Vietnam.)
"For years, Mao Tree-tung hasn't had all the power we thought he had." Robert A. Eurton, assistant professor of eastern civilization, says. Burton returned to KU this fall after spending a year in Hong Kong, the place he now considers "home."
Burton sees the disturbances in Hong Kong as prime examples of the troubles existing in China now.
"It is not easy to identify the leaders of the trouble." he adds. "The leaders in China are losing control of the party in Hong Kong." Burton maintains Mao has lost much control of the country. "Hong Kong's uncontrolled trouble demonstrates the anarchy existing on the mainland," he said.
Communist leaders on the mainland do not favor the Hong Kong rioting, he said, and as a result are giving the rebels little support.
"The problem is basically that Mao had to go outside the established party structure to effect his reforms, and thereby shattered the party's control. There
seems to be no real party control in Red China now."
Mao losing ground
Mao, a zealous Marxist, wants to continue changes in the country's social and economic fabric. At odds with other party leaders, he created a new power base from which to work. Burton explains.
"The Red Guards are wholly an extra-party organization," Burton says. "This now forces Chinese scholars to look at the party in China in a new light. The party is not as important in China now as it used to be.
"One day they join an organization and the next it is on the official lists as subversive. They don't even know what is going on," he said.
Burton views reporting of China's news as poor. "But if the
Chinese don't know what is going on, how can we?" he asks.
Reforms tried
"The Chinese are evidently hooked on unreality. No one has a sense of what they'll try next."
"Mao wants to be the leader of the only Communist country that has begun what he feels is significant progress toward building the socialist state and so he has tried wild experimentation with new social reforms." Burton said.
Much of this experimentation has failed, however, and China has been racked with anarchy. In Hong Kong, the Communists, with little control or support from the mainland, are creating a situation that the party in Peking may not want.
The Chinese are trying "to do
with bombast what must be done with muscle. If they want to get rid of the British, they aren't trying very hard."
The colony of Hong Kong is an asset to the Red Chinese as well as to the British. The Chinese keep the colony mainly as a place where they trade with the West and gain some badly needed foreign currency.
Strike fails
"The Communist party has very little popular support in Hong Kong. On the day they called a general strike of all postal employees, six people stayed away from their jobs. In fact, my postman apologized." Burton said. "He said he felt he should go out on strike but said he would be gone only one day."
See Mao, page 3