KU
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU For 78 of its 102 Years
78th Year, No. 3
WEATHER SHOWERS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Wednesday, September 20, 1967
Photos by John Sumpmers
ANOTHER QUEEN AT KU
She is 5-6. 113-pounds with light brown ha'r and brown eyes. She measures 35-24-35. See story on page 14.
Scholarship pays off
Insurance rates down
Believing that good students make good drivers, the State Insurance Department has authorized lower insurance rates effective Oct. 4 for Kansas college students who rank high in their classes.
Students who qualify will receive a 25 per cent rate reduction. The lower rates will apply to male students between 16 and 25. Junior and senior high school students can also qualify.
Fletcher W. Bell, assistant insurance commissioner, said the new rates have been approved for three rating services which represent 223 companies writing automobile insurance policies in Kansas.
To qualify, a student must rank in the upper 25 per cent of his class, maintain a 2.0 on a 3.0 scale grade point average, or be included on a dean's honor roll for the preceding semester.
--as a comedian before a live audience. Speaking to the Southern convention delegates, Gregory said, "I understand there are a good many Southerners in the room tonight. I know the South very well. I spent 20 years there one night."
WHAT'S INSIDE
A committee studies sale of beer in the Union and a Regents officer predicts it's "a long ways away." Page 3.
Odd-makers have picked KU to lose by 10 points Saturday to Stanford, Page 12.
A small group of grad students list grievances. Page 13.
The insurance companies will furnish statements to be completed by school officials. The student's class ranking would be verified on the policy's anniversary.
Bell said the rate reduction will apply to bodily injury, property damage, physical damage and medical payments.
He said most of the 77 companies not covered by the new authorization probably would lower their rates for top ranking students because of competitive pressure.
The new rates have been approved by the National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters, National Automobile Underwriters Association and Mutual Insurance Rating Bureau.
State Farm Insurance Co. and Farmers Insurance Exchange previously received approval for safe driver rates.
William L. Hogle, local State Farm representative, said, "We've found it to be a legitimate reduction and not just a sales gimmick."
Dick Gregory to appear here
Dick Gregory, Negro comedian and civil rights leader, will appear Oct. 3 in Hoch Auditorium.
Tickets will be available to students with KU identification cards beginning Monday. Tickets will go on sale to the public Sept. 29. Cost of the tickets has not been determined.
The 8 p.m. performance will be sponsored by the Student Union Activities Current Events Forum.
Gregory moved into the public eye in 1961 when he auditioned
Recommends new building
The Kansas legislative council has recommended that $750,000 be appropriated by the next legislature for construction of a State Geological Survey building at KU.
The Survey currently occupies 18,000 sq. ft. in Lindley Hall.
The proposed building would be located west of Iowa Street near the Center for Research Engineering Sciences building.
The council, acting on the recommendation of the Committee on Agriculture and Livestock, said the Kansas Board of Regents should make the request for the funds outside its regular budget requests.
"Such a request should not be interpreted to alter any existing priorities established by the Board," the committee report said.
Sen. Jack Barr, R-Leoti, and committee chairman, said the building might never be built if it had to wait its turn in the Regents' priority list.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe urged construction of a Survey building during budget hearings last year. He noted that work done by the Survey has resulted in more jobs through creation of new industries.
He has appeared at the hungry i in San Francisco, and the Blue Angel and Carnegie Hall in New York.
When named the most-hated man by the Ku Klux Klan, he said the Klan was "so out of style.
He is billed on university campuses as having "spent more time in southern jails, marched in more demonstrations, prevented more racial violence and worked harder for the rights of the Negro than any other entertainer in America."
"I think they are the only people in the country who aren't using colored sheets."
He has written two books, "Niger" and "Sermons."
He said his home is in "five suitcases, a garment bag and a tape recorder."
He has appeared on television and in motion pictures.
Main breaks; Hall floods
A broken water main outside Templin Hall yesterday left residents without water or elevator service for more than six hours.
Mrs. Margaret Reitz, Templin house manager, said elevators servicing the seven-story men's residence hall were turned off because water rose near electrical equipment.
Building and Grounds crews, wading in ankle deep water, Mrs. Reitz said, shut off the water.
Repairs were made and service restored.
No permanent building damage was reported.
Docking may 'draft' KU to help Vietnamese
Gov. Robert B. Docking thinks KU can help in the Vietnam pacification program.
The governor made a 10-day tour of Vietnam in August. One purpose of the trip was to learn "if there are ways in which our Kansas colleges and universities might aid the people of South Vietnam in much the same way they have served several other foreign countries—through social and technical training programs."
Prior to his departure, Docking asked his educational affairs adviser, George Simpson, to visit Kansas colleges and universities asking educators what proposals they would recommend to aid the Vietnamese.
Simpson met with William P. Smith, dean of the KU engineering and architecture school.
institution of quality Simpson, noting that KU was considered "an institution of quality by NASA programs," told
Institution of quality
Docking that Vietnamese students might "very profitably be admitted to study in KU's new degree program for engineers."
The program, Smith said, is designed to emphasize experience in engineering programs of several branches of that profession, including civil, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering. He suggested that a pilot project be established to test the program.
Simpson told the governor that the East Asian Studies Division at KU was a "particularly outstanding, formal structure which might be able to take leadership in the development and operation of Vietnamese projects which might be awarded to Kansas colleges."
Educators enthused
He said there was enthusiasm among educators at the institutions he visited for the idea of forming a Kansas Seminar on Vietnam Pacification.
Docking said he hoped to establish a conference on the role of Kansas in the pacification and rehabilitation of Vietnam within the next few weeks by working with the State Department and the administrative officials and faculty of Kansas colleges and universities.
Docking said the conference would be "an educational venture into pacification policies and potentials. It also would offer an opportunity for an exchange of ideas outlining more precisely how Kansas can offer constructive suggestions in the program."
He said that during briefing sessions in Washington he "perfected a liaison relationship between the colleges and universities and the State Department. It will make possible maximum utilization of Kansas resources in the nation-building task," he said.
Winthrop G. Brown of the
state department told Docking that Kansas' requests to help in the pacification effort "are being given serious consideration." Docking said Brown told him that there "is an intrinsic interest among several state department officials about how Kansas can become directly involved in pacification efforts."
WEATHER
Fifty per cent probability of showers and thunderstorms is predicted by the U.S. Weather Bureau for today and tonight. The high today of 80 will be followed by a low tonight in the lower 60's. Thursday will be a little cooler and cloudy.
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