Oldfather to End 24 Years of Involvement at KU
By KEN FULTON
Kansan Staff Reporter
At the "tender age of 55," Charles O. Oldfather,
University Attorney and professor of law has devised
The lines and wrinkles of his face trace through his youth and into his intensive academic involvement at the University of Nebraska and Harvard University. His firm jaw and clear blue eyes relate his history in the Navy, first as a recruit in World War II, then on office on an air carrier during World War II.
Perhaps most revealing are the lines at the corners of his mouth. It doesn't take a perceptive person to understand that Charles Oldfather smiles and laughs frequently.
"HE HAS BROUGHT to the job of University attorney an approach that suggests a higher responsibility," James Rosser, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said recently.
Rosser described Oldfather as a humanist—sensitive to and caring about people. In NCAA basketball, Rosser was an integral part of the
representative. He has tried to institute policies that demonstrate an interest in students' lives, Rosser
It was Charles Oldfather who decided to make an appeal to the NCAA when Danny Knight was academically ineligible to play basketball during his freshman and part of his sophomore years. He went on a trip to Nashville, Tenn., and were instrumental in having the penalty imposed on Knight modified.
"Danny's eligibility came about as a result of his oldfather's sensitivity," said Roser.
Similarly, when a large portion of the track team was placed on probation in the summer of 1972 and prohibited from competing in the NCAA championship, Oldfather played a key role in getting the ban lifted.
OLDFATHER SAID his appearance before the NCAA eligibility committee resulted in procedural changes. This was the first time changes had ever been effected because of a personal plea.
"I derive some pleasure from that fact," Old-father said.
Besides his involvement with the NCAA and the Big Eight as oldfather also served as the Senate Executive Committee chairman when changes were made in the phases of University governance were instituted.
He was also actively involved in formulating the University's Affirmative Action policies.
The incident with the NCAA eligibility committee typifies Oldfather's approach to the application of rules and to law in general. Charles Warriner, a professor at the University of Oldfather's hall was called this approach sociological.
OLDFATHER IS INTERESTED in making rules fit people, said Warriner. Laws aren't a set of fixed standards to Oldfather Warriner said, but are dynamic.
Oldfather credits the University with giving him the freedom to take this position. He said the law was one area where an attempt was made at the University to deal fairly with others.
"I take the most delight in areas in which I feel I've had an opportunity either to clarify some particular area of the law or to 'improve' it," Oldfather said.
"The part of the job I enjoy most at the University is making law. Sometimes this involves getting the University to change something they've been doing, either because it may not ultimately make sense, or because it doesn't take adequate recognition of others," he said.
A more listing of Oldfather's duties doesn't cover everything he has done, said Richard von Ende, executive secretary. Oldfather has always given more of his time than others would expect, he said.
OLDFATHER'S CONCERN FOR INDIVIDUALS
hasn't been limited to University activities. Since joining the faculty in 1950, Oldfather has given freely of his time and talents to community organizations. His guitar is widely known, and he has performed on request, without pay, for many local organizations.
the Wakarusa School District was unified, he donated his time and legal abilities. His efforts, and others, have been memorialized on a plaque in the new school building.
This philosophy extends itself to the rest of his large family. His wife, Hortense, is actively involved in community affairs. All his children—Felicia, 30, Tim, 26, Stephen, 27, Melanie, 24, Christopher, 22, Jonathan, 18, and William, 15—have been encouraged to develop all their talents.
THE OLDFATHERS ENCOURAGED their children to take on responsibilities at an age age
Mrs. Oldfather said she had tried to teach the children to stand on their own feet. When they did something the parents didn't like, she said she would make them stand once they had told the children to make the decision.
Olafather described his philosophy of life as "take it as it comes" and "try to brighten some corner where you are." Perhaps his biggest flaw, Old Faithful, spreads himself too thin across all his acres.
"If you have abilities in a given area, you will never be content unless you yourself, "he said.
Oldfather plans to retire his retirement actively involved with his 123-acre farm five miles south of
84th Year. No.117
Tuesday. April 2. 1974
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
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Kansan Staff Photo by DAVE REGIER
Sunbathing
Greg Kesler, Overland Park park, takes of advantage of spring days like yesterday to sum his pet boa constrictor.
Price Controls Lifted
It was the council's biggest single decontol action to date, and seemed certain to result in higher prices for items sold at the club. The movie tickets to life insurance premiums
WASHINGTON (AP) - Having less than a month to go until its control program expires, the Cost of Living Council yesterday lifted wage and price controls from 165 industries and 5 per cent of the total labor force.
The industries decontrolled, by category,
included: Manufacturing—apparel,
luggage, tools, heating equipment,
motors, vehicles and passenger car, bodies.
Wholesale trade—auto tires and tubes,
furniture and home furnishings, lumber and
construction materials, sports equipment,
apparel, paper products, beer and
cheers.
Financial institutions—banking, life
insurance, credit agencies and real estate
services.
The council also lifted wage controls for
106,000 postal workers, 357,000 railroad
workers and 42,000 bus drivers.
Services—hotels and roaming houses, auto repairs and garages, motion pictures, amusement and recreation services and recreational services, except for public enrollees.
Kansas Staff Reporter
By GARY BORG
By JEFF HILL
Before the Gene and Barbara Burnett Burn Center at the University of Kansas at Kauffman Stadium.
"We did not have intensive care set up where a team, especially set up to take care
there was no specific place in the Kansas City area for burn victims to receive the treatment.
By GARY BONE
Kaman Staff Reporter
The council maintained controls over a number of industries with big consumer impact, including food, steel, copper, auto sales, machinery, construction, health and wages of state and local government employees.
Burn Center Gives Intensive Care
workers, 732,000 auto salesmen and 698,000 gasoline service station workers.
Petroleum remains under separate price control authority.
Grad School to Suffer Loss of Federal Funds
dustries and the big chunk of the labor force left 24.2 per cent of consumer prices still subject to controls along with 37.4 per cent of consumer prices and 36.8 per cent of the labor force.
of burn patients, was available," said Dr. Muni M. Mani, clinical director of the burn
The whistles, which are worn on a string around the neck, serve as obvious distress signals, as a symbol of women standing together against assaults and as a reminder that there is a danger in walking alone, Elke said.
Federal funding for most fellowships administered through the Graduate School will be gone by next fall, according to a report released Friday and vice chancellor for research and graduate studies. Included in the group of fellowships are several programs under the National Defense and Education Act, which fund the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The money will be channeled through a
"In effect, they were competing for care with other patients."
"We want to show that women are tired of assaults and are willing to take action
"We do have a few whistles now, but publicity will begin when the order arrives."
She said residence and scholarship halls, sororities and organizations would help women pursue their dreams in the League of Women Voters, American Association of University Women, Business and Professional Women's Association, and other organizations that would distribute them within the community.
The program has three purposes, according to Casey Egl, assistant to the dean
Some banks have suggested having women personnel wear the whistles as a precaution.
Whistlestop Whistles on the Wav
together in some program to stop them," she said.
The organizations, Taylor said, will buy
them in bulk and then sell them to
put them into the market.
The whistles sell for 75 cents and will be distributed on campus and within the university.
Five thousand whistles are on their way to Lawrence and are expected to arrive this week for the beginning of Project Twenty-Four, finally Taylor, dean of women, said yesterday.
"We want to present the word, Whistlestop, so people will ask what it means and find out what the program is all about," Eike said.
The lifting of controls from the 165 in-
The project is sponsored by the University of Kansas Traffic and Security, the Lawrence Police Department, Women's Institute, and the Lawrence Whistlestop committee.
The publicity committee of Whistleston has prepared bumper stickers and posters to announce the beginning of the campaign, according to Eike.
She emphasized that the whisples should be worn with weak string or yarn, not with any type of chain that could be used against women.
Whistlestop account in the business office, she said.
But unless Congress changes its mind and grants the administration the authority that the administration wants to continue some controls for selected industries, all controls will end on April 30 when authority for the program expires.
The burn center itself has been run entirely on donations, according to Mani. "They've spent close to $250,000 on the church," she said. "Even now the money is still coming in."
BURNETT, a Lawrence businessman, had been in the Medical Center and had a chance to see some of the burn patients. After his release from the hospital, he went to see Dr. Robinson, with a donation. Burnett's donation was the largest single center to the burn center, and gave the center the money it had needed to build building.
Since its opening in 1973, the center has had about 60 patients. According to Dr. McGee, it was created to treat those with Parkinson's disease.
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The burn center was established through the efforts of Dr. David Robinson, who, as head of plastic surgery and involved with the team, needed the need for a specialized burn area.
"Dr. Robinson started collecting money for the burn center," Mani explained. "He went all over the state talking to various groups—church groups, social groups, school groups." He had always very slow progress, until about two years ago. Then Mr. Burnett came to him."
Argersinger said recently that cutbacks over the past four years had been quite significant.
"Right now, all we are assured of is funding for Title VI programs under the NDEA," he said. Title VI programs deal with foreign studies.
Reasons for the cutbacks are varied, Argersinger said, but much of the responsibility for them lies with the present federal administration.
The Nixon administration policy, he said, has been to reduce the amount of federal aid given to students. Instead, he said, money is given directly to students in the form of loans. Argersinger also said many of these loans were a combined undertaking with various inputs.
The administration, he said, views graduate schools primarily as places to train people for jobs based on future manpower need projections.
Arngersinger disagreed with this concept of the graduate school. Rather, he said, "We want students to have a whole of society, especially at the graduate level. In the process of educating, graduate schools also turn out many highly trained people, he said, but this is of secondary importance."
ARGERSINGER ALSO DISPARAGED future manpower projections for which, he
"They simply observe what kinds of jobs people are filling today, project this on
estimated population forecasts and go from there," he said. "From this they decide what programs should be cut down or, in some cases, shot down. These are the same people who, in 1800, predicted how big burgles we need in 1950." he said.
As an example, Argerius noted that several years ago, many people were discouraged by what appeared to be a large number of young graduates. The graduates who were "out driving haplays."
Consequently many federal fellowship and scholarship programs were cut back.
"And now, already there" a shortage of qualified engineers and physicists,"
He also cited President Nixon's announced program to wipe out cancer.
"He came on with this big 'We'll cure you'
attitude," said Argersinger. "And at the
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Kansan Rating Is All-American For Fall of '73
The Associated Collegiate Press has awarded the University Daily Kansan an All-American rating for the 11th consecutive semester.
The award, for the fall semester, signifies the Kansan's standing compared with publications from schools of similar size. The Kansan received marks of distinction in content and coverage, writing and editing, physical appearance and photography.
Publications honored with an All-American rating must score bonus points for high quality and creative, appealing work in four of five areas that are judged.
Bob Simpson, Wichita senior, was editor of the Kansas last fall.
Investigator Testifies Against Stans
NEW YORK (AP)—A Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigator, who developed a multimillion dollar fraud case against financier Robert L. Vescso, said Wednesday that he and another that might prove "politically embarrassing."
Stanley Sporkin, the SEC investigator, was a government witness at the outset of the seventh week in the criminal conspiracy trial of former Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell and one-time Commerce Secretary Maurice H. Stans.
Mitchell and Stans are accused of impeding the SEC inquiry in return for Vesco's secret $20,000 cash contempt notice.
The indictment charged that Stans caused Sporkin's one-time premier, former SEC chairman G. Bradford Cook, to eliminate a reference in the Vesco fraud complaint that might have revealed the $200,000 contribution. The indictment also charges that Stans sought to have withheld transcripts of testimony in the case, which might also have
revealed the contribution.
The conspiracy phase of the indictment also charged that Mitchell sought through Cook's predecessor, William Casey, to have testimony from two Vesco stenographers postponed by the agency.
Sporkin said he told Cassie that the two women had something to do with the $200,000.
"Mr. Casey said to me, 'Why couldn't we postpone these women,' Sporkin said. He mentioned to me this was the week before election. He said to me he believed they could be politically embarrassing if their testimony came out.
"I said the testimony not be postponed. I said that would be wrong . . . . "
The two women were called as planned, but both took the Fifth Amendment.
As for a disputed paragraph in the fraud complaint that was filed on 27, 1972, Sporkin said Cook suggested the seizure of the records of a criminal activity.
Regarding the transcripts, Sporkin said he raised no objection to their being withheld from the court records of the Vesco case after a colleague assured him they weren't needed in the civil prosecution of the matter.
In early February 1973, Sporkin told of another meeting with Cook. He testified.
redraft it to eliminate any specific reference to the movement of Vesco money.
Cook had testified that in the matter of the redrafted paragraph, the transcripts and the question of making the fraud background public, he was acting at the request of Stans, who was chief fund raiser for the committee.
"Mr. Cook asked me when we were going to make this thing public. I said we were, as soon as we had all the information from our sources. He then asked that we postpone making our end public, until the Committee to Relect the President made their end public. I said, 'No, absolutely.' "
Maurice Stans