University Daily Kansan
Student Regent Possible
Monday, April 26, 1971
Bubb: Universities Must Change
By KATHY DONNELLY
and JOYCE NEERMAN Kansan Staff Writers
Regent Henry A. Bubb of Topera, expressed his opinions and ideas on such subjects as the formation of the Lawrence Chalmers Jr. and the actions of the 1971 Legislature in an interview Thursday in New York.
Bubb referral frequently to a rough draft of a Report on Higher Education dated March 1771 by the Department of Health. The report she said was "one of the best things I read in a long time."
"So many universities are operating as they did one hundred years ago," Bubb said, "but must change with the times."
Bubb quoted specific sections of the report and said he agreed with many of the findings.
College fails to capture the interest of many students and for some "it is a decidedly negative notice," he read from the report.
RUBB SAID HE agreed with the report that a student's sense of purpose and ability to make a difference in campus experience. He said he thought there should be expanded opportunity to participate in the
"College is not the only place to learn to think and how to accomplish." Bubb said.
The report said many universities had become conglomerates, providing for government research and programs.
Bbb said many of these services bore little relation to the "good professors" return to the classroom, where students could be exposed to their talent, or remain "isolated" in research.
BUBB MADE SPECIFIC suggestions concerning this problem. He said, for example, that faculty in the business school should apply a more practical approach by taking some time off to work the outside world and relate experiences to their students.
When asked about former disagreements with Chalmers
"He had one way and I had another. He went his way," Bubb said. "But I think the end has been accomplished now."
over the handling of situations at the University of Kansas, Bubb said they were friends but they didn't know other ways of solving these problems.
In reference to the Regents' attempt to fire Chalmers last summer, we didn't really want to fire Chalmers. We wanted him to change."
Bubb said the Regents had represented the people of Kansas that they knew best. He said he thought "the left-wing used the whipping post and the uninformed were caught in the middle."
"It was not an out and out vote to fire Chalmers." Bubb said, "but it was a vote to reform them in the ways we thought best."
Bubb said that Chalmers had asked for a special meeting with the Regents to discuss the critical matters of what he had exact right to ask for.
"It was a very explosive thing," Bubb said.
Disagreements arose at the meeting, he said, but there never was a record vote taken. Bubb said it was an informal vote to let chambers know their feelings and perhaps they have been leaked to the press.
COMMENTING ON THE recently elected student body president, Dave Miller, Bubb McClure. The student body isn't out looking for trouble as his two predecessors were. I have great hopes for the peaceful future of the University. I'm very pleased with Dave Miller."
He said he though student involvement in politics was good.
"I think anything is good where people don't destroy property or take things away," he said. "For example, if others want to go to class they should be
When asked about the possibility of younger members of Regents, Bubb said he don't think you should have a faculty member on the board. But I want any objection to having a student.
BUBB SAID HIS objections to a faculty member on the board
stemmed from the fact that such a member would be called upon to make decisions directly concerning his employer, the president or chancellor. Hubb says that he has never have such a conflict of interest.
Bubb said he lobbied for the recommended budget on high education and tried to inform the legislators on how the campus
situation was better.
"You can't be on the Board of Regents and not be disappointed," he said in reference to the recent budget cuts.
teachers will leave.
When asked if he thought the universities would be affected by a small group of people, suppose to a minor extent, I think the thing will work itself out. I don't believe it.
BUBB, WHO HAS the longest tenure of any member of the Board of Regents, commented on party influence on the board.
"I've seen people come on the bench as a Democrat or a Republican but we see them vote as such. I neverve been partisan politics displayed," he wrote.
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