New Chancellor, New Buildings to Highlight New Year
By ERIC MEYER
By Larry Jenkins
Kansan Staff Writer
next year at the University of Kansas should be much like this year, University
Although Archie Dykes will become chancellor Jly 1, no major administrative changes will be made, Chancellor Raymond Nichols said recently.
"Dykes assured me that he would spend his first year seeing how the University works and getting acquainted with his staff, before he could recommend any changes. He said."
"Next year will be a period of transition,
just as Larry Chalmer's first year was. The students and faculty will find the new chancellor personable and warm. Not only will he land squarely on both feet, he'll land squarely on feet running when he gets here," he said.
NICHOLS SAID DYKES would have little control over University expenditures for his research.
"The 1973-74 budget has already been passed by the legislature," Nichols said. "It's frozen. And Dykes won't be here for all the time, and going on right now for the 1974-75 budget."
Donald K. A尔德son, dean of men, said Dykes' arrival would be a unique opportunity for students and faculty members.
"They will become a part of the Dykes years," Alderson said. "Every chancellor has made individual and significant contributions to the University. I am sure Dykes will, too. It will be an exciting time for students, staff and faculty."
WILLIAM M. BALFOUR, vice chancellor for student affairs, did Dykes would need a job with the University.
Dykes' leadership will probably be "more of the same," Balfour said.
do before making any major administrative or policy changes.
Another highlight next year will be the opening of two new buildings, Wescoe Hall and the new student health center. Weather conditions complete of both buildings, Nichols said.
James Seaveen, professor of history and a member of a committee studying usage of Wescro Hall, said that parts of the building would be ready by Aug. 26.
"The top floor of classrooms will be finished first," Seaver said. "It is tentatively being planned to have classes in these rooms at the beginning of the fall semester, when the registrar is waiting month before the start of classes to finalize class schedules."
Faculty offices will take second priority, Seaver said.
"FACULTY MEMBERS will be moving in these offices department by department from September to January," he said. "They will be in small moves because it would be too totally chaotic to move everyone at once."
The moving process has been well planned and should take only a short time,
Seaver said that the moving process should not cause any major inconveniences for students but that the affected departures would have some troubles on moving day.
"The main problem for students will be that the front entrance will not be open when classes start," Seaver said. "Access Hall, only on Friday at Hallow Hall, only. Egress will be on the west."
But, Seaver said, the benefits of the new building outweigh any minor inconvenience.
"OUR TEACHING WILL all be more concentrated at the center of campus," he said. "The rooms will all have the latest in electronics. This building has been planned for use long in advance of its completion to be a wonderful teaching and office facility."
"It'll be funny for that walkway to be gone," Alderson said. "It may seem strange to actually walk down a sidewalk and into the water." Writing, it certainly can for some adjusting."
The new hospital should be completed in January.
Next year should see a continuation of a shortage of maintenance employees.
"We can't pay enough to acquire a capita-
tual staff," Nichols said. "We may have to try to
fill in with student help, I certainly hope the problem is no worse next year. I don't see how the floors could ever be any dirtier than they are now."
BUT THE CHANCELLOR said that staff illness could be decreased because of the staff affliction.
"The grass will be cut this summer," he said. "That was just window dressing on the part former chancellor Lai Chun-cheng had written to him, and didn't give the public the wrong impression, though. We got a bad public image out of it. We was good for the students practically."
Le E. Ousahi, assistant director of the physical plant, agreed.
"We hope the grounds will be as good as or better than they were last year when the team was formed."
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In this, the final issue of the spring 1973 Kansan, stuff writers have attempted to put the past school year into perspective by examining major news events and looking ahead to next year.
Two stories on this page deal with the
year for the University and examine problems and possibilities of next year. A look at the past year in Lawrence and a rundown of issues likely to remain in the on page 6, and summaries of the first articles and national news are on pages 8 and 9.
Change Characterizes KU Throughout Year
By STAN WILSON Kansan Staff Writer
Optimism and uncertainty, two attitudes that go along with change, best summarize the 1972-73 school year at the University of Kansas.
New faces appeared, old ones departed and new buildings went up.
Meanwhile, the Student Senate and student organizations skirmished about funding, and a battle in the assembly of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences ended in the demise of the Pearson Integrated Science Department for freshman-sophomore requirements.
The biggest change in the University was the resignation of Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. and the search for a new chancellor.
Chalmers resigned in August and was replaced by Raymond Nichols, a familiar face at KU for years. Nichols' term was ended in the mandatory retirement date of December 1973.
A SIX-MONTH, $14,000 search there began to find a new chancellor. The search ended April 13 when the selection of Archie Dykes, chancellor of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, as chancellor was announced.
Another resignation brought back another face familiar to KU. When Wade Stinson relinquished his post as athletic director during the fall semester, A. C. "Dutch" Lonborg, a former KU athletic director, was appointed to fill the position while a
search to find a replacement began. The search continues.
Construction made changes in the face of the campus. Moore Hall, to house the Kansas State Geological Survey, was built and opened by the university continues—although slowed by wet
Lonborg was then instrumental in bringing another past Kansas great back to the campus. Gale Sayers, a former college athlete, served as assistant to the athletic director.
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83rd Year, No. 143
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Witness Says Ehrlichman Knew of Ellsberg Burglary
LOS ANGELES (AP)—White House adviser John Ehrhlichman authorized secret activity in a probe of Daniel Elkazan, an antagonist Papers trial disclosure Monday.
It also was revealed that State Department cables were forged to link President John F. Kennedy to the assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in an effort to discredit the Democratic party.
The disclosures were in testimony given before a grand jury in Washington, D.C., by former House houseide Egil Krug and another friend, Richard Hunt and released by the papers trial judge.
Krogh said in the grand jury testimony that he had met with Nixon, who instructed him to keep his records.
Krogh did not implicate Nixon in a bargain of the office of a psychiatrist of Ellsberg, but he said Ehrlichman knew of the burial.
The report of forged cablegrams was made by Hunt, who said he doctored them at the order of former White House counsel Charles W. Colson.
Hunt said he forged two State Department cables on Colson's orders to make it appear that Kennedy had ordered Diem's assassination.
The judge also released an affidavit by Krogh saying that former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was aware of a White House investigation of Elsberg and approved it because of Hoover's close friendship with Krogh in the law, who is hostile toward Elsberg.
In his testimony, Hunt said the plot to link Kennedy to the Diem assassination was hatched as a result of his own analysis of the Pentagon papers and State Department files as a member of a White House undercover unit.
Hunt said Colson wanted to hide direct evidence of White House involvement, calling the plan "too hot." Hunt said he reported to Colson that there were many gaps in the series of State Department reports concerning the Diem involvements in 1983.
Hunt has said he and coconspirator G. Gordon Liddy were hired by the White House to investigate the Pentagon papers leak to news media.
Hunt has also confessed that he, Liddy and others burglarized Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office to get Ellsburg's records.
Along with Hunt's testimony, U.S. District Court Judge Matt Byrne released an affidavit by former presidential aide Eunil Krogh.
The statement by Krogh, now on leave from his job as undersecretary of transportation, says he launched the undercover probe of Eliserb after a talk with President Obama.
Kroph said he was "personally instructed by President Nixon, in the presence of John Ehrlichman, that the continuing leaks of vital information were compromising the national security of the United States of America, and the President instructed
Krogh to move ahead with the greatest urgency to determine the source of the
Kroph did not implicate Nixon in the plans for the burglary of the psychiatrist's office nor in the subsequent request to the Central Office for a psychiatric profile of Elsberg.
our knight did the formation of his special White House "until" was personally involved.
Ellsberg, 42, and Russo, 36, are charged with espionage, conspiracy and theft for copying the Pentagon's top-secret study of the Vietnam war.
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Richardson Promises Investigator
WASHINGTON (AP) - Elliot Richardson pledged Monday to appoint a special outside prosecutor to investigate the Watergate scandal, if he is confirmed as attorney general, and said he would seek Senate amoral of his choice.
The White House, acting on President Nixon's behalf and using language he approved, issued a sweeping denial that Nixon affair or its cover-up.
Richardson called a news conference to announce that he would heed growing demands for an independent prosecutor to investigate the death of his son. He said that he would seek approval for the
"Any suggestion that the President was aware of the Watergate operation is unacceptable," Warren said in Key Biscayne, as the President wound up a long weekend. "Any suggestion that the President participated in any cover-up activities is unacceptable."
prosecutor from the Senate Judiciary committee. The information is although not information is not required.
Richardson made no estimate of when he would be ready to name the prosecutor, but said he would be given "all the information" needed to carry out tasks entrusted to him."
The prosecutor, Richardson said, will report only to him as attorney general—implying that President Nixon will have no direct hand in the investigation.
In another development, a deputy to former Aten. Gen. John Mitchell appeared before the grand jury to testify about a police shooting that killed Gordon Liddy after the June 17 break-in.
Robert Mardian had claimed lawyer-client privilege for the conversation but was ordered to testify by a federal judge. His lawyer, David Bress, said Mardian "complied" with the court's order.
The White House consistently has refused to comment on individual news reports on Watergate. But it broke its silence in the wake of news magazine stories that Nixon personally congratulated former White House Counsel John Dean III last September for concealing administration connections to Watergate.
Time and Newsweek magazines said Dean was prepared to give such testimony.
Skvlab to Use Prof's Data
Eagleman, associate professor at the Space Technology Center, will receive data relayed from the Skylab, which will soon be in orbit 275 miles above the earth. Eagleman he said hope that this would allow him to monitor the amount of surface moisture available to crops in southwest Kansas and parts of Oklahoma and Texas.
Astronauts aboard America's first manned orbiting space laboratory will attempt to determine the amount of moisture present in the soil in parts of Kansas an experiment initiated by Joe Meyer, University of Kansas meteorologist.
The Skylab, a fully equipped orbiting laboratory, is scheduled for launch on May 14. Three astronauts will leave Cape Kennedy the next day to occupy the Skylab for timekeeping on the earth and the sun, and carry out medical experiments.
Eagleman's research project, which was among 140 selected by NASA to be carried out by the three-man crew, will involve the use of sensors sensitive to radar, microwave and thermal infrared heated to the amount of surface moisture present.
Assembly Proposes Subcollege
"We would like to know if we can see anything after a thunderstorm." Eagleman
The elimination of the Colleges-within-the-College (CWC) system as it now exists and the establishment of an experimental subcollege within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will be discussed by the faculty at 4 p.m. today in Woodruff Auditorium.
BY JEI FREY STINSON
Kansas Staff Writer
By JEFFREY STINSON
An Ad Hoc Committee on the future of the Colleges-Winth-in-the College will recommend to the assembly that the present CWC structure be reorganized and its function be defined, record keeping and the uniform administration of the college's rules and regulations.
The CWCs would be renamed academic
THE COMMITTEE will also propose that a four-year subcollege be attempted in place of the CWCs and that new rules and regulations for freshmen and sophomores be implemented.
units but would be organized on a geographical basis according to freshman residence.
"There have been enough negative feelings on the part of the faculty to constitute a revamping of the CWCs." Frances Horowitz, professor of human development and chairman of the committee, said. "This proposal would encompass more approvals, and clear-cut criteria for the subcollege that now exists in the CWCs."
THE REPORT also calls for "a set of courses and requirements for the freshman-sophomore level that will provide an exertion of leadership, students and faculty involved, a set of courses and requirements for the junior-senior level and the making of the subcollege so different from the regular college as to emphasize the alternative it is offering."
The committee report calls for a planning period of from one and one-half to two years on the proposed subcollege and an implementation period to last four year. There would be an intake of about 250 freshmen a year.
The primary application, Eagleman said, would be in determining the extent and severity of droughts, forecasting a need for irrigation and in other related agricultural
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Eagleman said that at ground level it was difficult and time consuming to determine the amount of moisture present over very small areas. He said that success in determining the amount of surface moisture, he said, he hoped that unmanned satellites can be built to send this data.
said. "If we can detect moisture conditions from there, there could be quite a few applications."
Eagleman said that several means would be used to determine the moisture content of the soil. In one phase of the experiment, radar readings of the test area would be taken from moist soil and then bouncing back from moist soil is different from the amount bouncing back from dry soil, he said. In another phase, thermal infrared sensors aboard the Skylab will be turned towards the earth. These sensors can measure temperatures of moist soil. Eagleman said.
While the astronauts are performing their part of the experiment, Eagley will have ground crews at work in the test area. The ground crews will determine the moisture present in the soil and their data will be used with the data Eagley receives from NASA.
Eagleman said that this information could be fed into a computer to produce display maps for the area, the moisture characteristics being clearly shown.
Nichols
Chancellor Raymond Nichols watches quizfeat as Regent Jess Stewart and Mark Perrin.
Kantan Staff Photo by PRES BRANDSTED
April 13, 2014 - Kate Wade School Varsity
Nichols, whose term as chancellor will end July 1, will be in his familiar role as adviser to chancellors when students return in the fall. After 45 years as an administrator, Nichols is in an administration (see editorial page 4).