Faculty Opinion on New Schedule Split
By Dennis Farney
KU faculty members are sharply split on the merits of the proposed "davight savings plan" for scheduling next year's classes.
Some faculty members generally oppose the plan, in contrast to KU administrative officials, who support it as the only practical method of dealing with KU's increasing enrollment and lack of classroom space.
Under the plan, discussed and approved by the Dean's Council and announced Tuesday by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, next year's classes will be scheduled from 7:30 a.m. to 5:20 p.m., thus lengthening the KU class day one hour.
Faculty members opposing the plan list the following reasons:
- The plan will "erode away" research time by requiring members to spend more time in their offices.
- Scheduling classes on the half hour will "double the work for faculty wives," who will now be required to cook two noon meals, one for the faculty member and one for school age children in the family.
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Supporters of the plan say it will not cut into research time or impose a heavier course load on faculty members. It will, they say, "simply spread the faculty teaching load over a greater amount of time."
- The increasing KU enrollment could be compensated for in other wavs.
- Many committee meetings now held during the noon hour would be disrupted by the new schedule.
Charles A. Leone, professor of zoology, strongly disagrees.
I view the plan to establish a 7:30 to 5:30 class day as a 14% increase in my "official" work week. I assume that currently professors are required to be available to their students and for other University work approximately 44 hours a week.
Adding six hours to the work week carries with it the implication that the professors will correspondingly be available at the new times. I realize that there are no intentions to increase the number of assigned courses per professor, but to imply that this means, therefore, no increase in time is to display an ignorance concerning the realities of the situation as it pertains to teaching, research, and other University activities.
The following is Prof. Leone's statement:
Professors will be expected to be available from 7:30 in the morning until 5:30 in the evening. For any of my colleagues to believe otherwise will be to take an unrealistic view of the situation. If the students are expected to be here, so are the professors. It is a myth to assume that the additional hour will provide more "free" time for the professor during the day.
The implications that may be drawn from this new time plan
Berlin War Games Earn Clay's Praise
BERLIN — (UPI) — The U.S. Army wound up a three-day war game today in which it flexed its muscles for the defense of Berlin in the face of Communist military maneuvers in nearby East Germany and Poland.
The American field exercise in the Grunewald Forest by 3,000 soldiers of the Berlin command underlined Western determination to stand up for its rights in this isolated city 110 miles inside Red-held territory.
GEN. LUCIUS D. CLAY, President Kennedy's personal representative here, saw the wind-up of the
BONN, Germany—(UPI)—Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Free Democratic Party leader Erich Mende reached agreement on the formation of a coalition government today.
Spokesmen for Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party and the Free Democrats said agreement has been reached on a "coalition contract" and the line-up of a coalition cabinet.
Agree On Coalition
maneuver today, in which U.S. troops playing the part of Communist aggressors made a deep armored penetration into the lines of defending troops. The "Red" penetration of the "Blue" force's lines merely gave each side a chance to play the role of aggressor.
"It was a well laid-out maneuver." Clay said. "It demonstrated the soundness of the training of the troops. It was evident every soldier took it seriously."
Most of the training here normally is in riot control and "combat in cities" type of warfare. In the field exercise just ended, they manned positions they might actually occupy in defending Berlin.
Meanwhile, the Communist East German Defense Ministry newspaper Volksarmee reported that the Warsaw Pact maneuvers are in full swing in Poland and East Germany.
The four flown out today raised to 24 the number of refugees taken out of Steinstuecken into Berlin by helicopter.
It was the first time that Polish and Czech troops have taken part in a war game in East Germany since World War II, and it was the first time East German troops have gone to Poland for maneuvers.
IT SAID THAT SOVIET, Polish and East German troops are taking part in Poland. In East Germany, 28 Russian, East German, Polish and Czech divisions are said to be involved. They are reported to be equipped with the most modern weapons, including atomic-capable missiles.
In another development, A U.S. Army helicopter flew four more East German refugees from the American sector enclave of Steinstuecken to West Berlin proper today.
THE EAST GERMANS had fed through barbed wire to the tiny hamlet which is separated from the rest of the city by a mile of Communist-held East German territory. to 24 the number of refugees taken
West Berlin police reported that two youths fled to the Western sector during the night. One 21-year-old was injured so badly crawling through barbed wire to the Ameri-
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MOSCOW — (UPI) — East German communist chief Walter Ulbricht and Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan today demanded a peace treaty for Germany—either through East-West talks or unilaterally with the Kremlin.
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And Ulbricht said a treaty would build a "strong barrier" against the danger of war from West Germany
Reds Demand German Treaty
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev opened the congress Tuesday by tentatively lifting his year-end deadline on the signing of such a treaty. But he left little doubt that he eventually plans to sign the treaty.
Ulbricht told the 22nd Soviet Communist Party Congress that such a treaty was "most urgent" because the Berlin situation could become "a second Sarajevo." Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary was shot at Sarajevo and the incident was used as the excuse to start World War I.
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MIKOYAN SAID A TREATY would turn West Berlin into a free demilitarized city.
MIKOYAN SAID THE Kremlin preferred to negotiate a peace treaty with all Germany through talks with the West...
Ulbricht and Mikoyan did not mention a deadline today. But they both expressed the need for a treaty in the strongest terms.
"There is no force." Mikoyan said, "that could prevent us from realizing this vitally necessary, peaceful settlement."
Mikoyan also echoed Khrushchev with denunciations of the Albanian communists and of the "anti-party group," whom he described as communist reactionaries.
But he said that if the West balked at such negotiations, it would go ahead on its own and sign a treaty with East Germany alone.
The mustachioed first vice premier's attack on the Albanians came one day after Red Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai criticized a similar condemnation by Khrushchev as "Unmarxist."
Indian Says 'Stop Tests'
UNITED NATIONS — (UPI) Indian Defense Minister V. K. Krishna Menon urged the United Nations today to approve an appeal for renewal of a moratorium on nuclear weapons tests.
Taking cognizance of announced U.S. refusal to again enter "the trap" of a moratorium which enabled Russia secretly to prepare the series of atmospheric tests it started Sept. 1, Krishna Menon revised an Indian resolution to include a statement that such explosions "should stand totally prohibited."
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Six countries lying directly in Russia's fallout path circulated a resolution asking the assembly to appeal to the Soviet Union to cancel the 50-megaton explosion.
The Department of Psychology will hold a memorial service for the late Martin Scheerer, KU psychologist, at 3 p.m. Sunday in Swarthout Recital Hall.
Rites to Be Sunday
The body is to be cremated and no funeral will be held, as was previously reported.
Police Arrest Rioting Women
PARIS — (UPI) — French police in bullet-proof vests arrested hundreds of Moslem Algerian women and children today to block a huge demonstration in which Moslem men planned to use them as living shields.
Police mobilized 11,000 men to guard Paris against the threatened demonstrations. It was the biggest turnout since Moslem Algerians living in the Paris area began a series of after dark riots and demonstrations Tuesday.
POLICE SAID THAT by late today they had detained 513 women and 118 children and prevented their massing in the heart of the capital. They were taken to social centers and other reception halls and cared for by the Red Cross.
Paris Police Prefect Maurice Paupon said he had received word the Moslems planned to turn out in force tonight behind a protective wall of women and children—a favorite tactic of the rebel National Liberation Front (FLN) in Algeria.
On top of the Algerian demonstrations, police faced a new outbreak of night bomb attacks by right-wing supporters of the "French Algeria" cause. Three plastic charges exploded in the early hours, damaging the home of a lawyer and two shoe stores.
DIPLOMATIC QUARTERS feared the bitterness caused by Algerian-police clashes in Paris had shoved the prospect of renewed peace talks with the rebels farther into the background.
Demonstrations by Moslem women also were reported from the eastern towns of Thionville, Longwy and
Mets. Fifty Moslem women parading with children in their arms in Thionville were taken to police stations for identity checks. About 60 women were involved in Longwy.
In Paris, police placed heavy cordons around subway line terminals on the city's outskirts and arrested all Moslem women as they entered the station. A few hundred reached the busy Chatelet Square near Notre Dame Cathedral and police arrested them as fast as they showed up.
IN SUBURBAN NANTERRE. where thousands of Algerian workers live in a shanty town slum, Moslems prevented Algerian children from attending school. Several hundred women with children marched through the main street chanting "Algeres is ours" and "Free Ben Bella." Mohammed Ben Bella is a rebel leader held by the French.
Police said there are about 10,000 Moslem women among the 150,000 Algerians living in the Paris area.
(The Algerian rebel government-in-exile charged in Tunis today that more than 50 Algerians were killed and hundreds injured in Paris rioting this week. An official communique said several of the dead were women. French police put the death toll at five Algerians and one French onlooker.)
(The FLN also said "several hundred have disappeared" and said police suppressed the Paris demonstrations with "savage brutality." The communique ended by appealing for the resumption of peace negotiations between France and the Algerian rebels.)
Candidates Picked For AWS Offices
AWS CANDIDATES—Back row, left to right: Joan Felt, Mary Hughes, Nancy Kellogg, and Ka Estes. Middle row: Nancy Egy, Janice Moore, Joyce Voth, Cindy Snyder, and Carolyn Kunz. Front row: Judy Gottberg, Sharon Menasco, Judy Watson, and Carolyn Hall.
The Associated Women Students Senate has chosen 13 candidates for four freshman positions in the AWS House of Representatives and Senate-
The candidates were chosen from 41 freshmen who applied last week through written statements and interviews.
FRESHMAN ELECTIONS NEXT week will place a nominee from Corbin Hall and Gertrude Sellards in the House of Representatives. In the Senate election, candidates from all freshman women living areas will vie for two positions.
Polling places have been set up in Miller Hall, Corbin Hall and GSP for the voting Thursday.
Those running for the Senate are
Carolyn Hall, Norton; Joan Felt, Prairie Village; Janice Moore, Kansas City; Cindy Snyder, Bethesda, Md.; Nancy Egy, Topeka; and Ka Estes, Lubbock, Texas.
IN THE HOUSE RACE, Sharon Menasco, Wichita; Nancy Kellogg, Wichita; Joyce Polek, Kansas City; and Mary Hughes, Des Moneis, Iowa, are contenders from GSP. Carolyn Kunz, Greenville, S.D.; Judy Watson, Wichita; and Judy Gottberg, Hoisington, represent Corbin Hall.
The candidates for the Senate will be taken to the Scholarship Halls Tuesday at 5 p.m. by CWENS, sophomore honorary society, for introduction to the residents.
On Wednesday, the candidates will visit Cobin and GSP.