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University Daily Kanzan Wednesday, Jan. 16. 1963
Kennedy Steers From Trouble On Two Counts
By Lyle C. Wilson
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Two negative responses to President Kennedy's annual message direct attention to administration policies that are loaded for trouble.
In a message of 5,500 words, the President devoted nine lines to civil rights. But civil rights came out as basic rights in his message. The President was content with a statement that "qualified Americans" must be permitted to vote regardless of race or color.
This will tend to pacify Southern Democrats and certainly will arouse some other party elements to loud and sustained protest. It becomes obvious, however, that the President has not intervened in the Senate filibusters fight, the main block to any civil rights legislation, because he has no civil rights legislation in mind.
THE RESPONSE of the Joint Session to Kennedy's pitch for the United Nations was another negative factor. To the United Nations, the President allotted one paragraph, eight lines. The legislators received it in silence. The word was thereby passed to Kennedy that Congress has some doubts about the United Nations' performance.
Assembly membership has been swollen by new nations, notably African, regardless of their qualifications as socially, politically, economically, educationally going concerns. A basic foreign policy of the Kennedy administration is to go along with the Assembly. For example:
On Nov. 27, 1961, the Assembly adopted a resolution on colonialism for which the United States voted along with 96 other members. France, Great Britain, South Africa and Spain abstained.
THIS EXTRAORDINARY resolution committed the United States to this proposition: "That inadequacy of political, economic, social or educational preparedness should never serve as a pretext for delaying independence," in Africa and elsewhere.
Resolutions such as that prompted Lord Home, the British Foreign Secretary, to speak about what he called the "crisis of confidence" in the United Nations. Home was speaking directly about India's aggression against Portuguese Goa, a direct breach of the U.N. charter.
The Foreign Secretary said the crisis in confidence had been foreshadowed by the growth of the Assembly's practice of passing reckless resolutions, notably on colonialism, which revealed an almost total lack of responsibility.
The congressional silent treatment of Kennedy's plug for the United Nations does not reflect any substantial desire to withdraw. So long as there is a United Nations, the United States, no doubt, will support it.
But there is evidence in Congress of uneasiness over the indiscriminate tendency of the Kennedy administration to accompany the U.N. assembly majority along any path it chooses.
Kansas Junior Colleges Rate Stronger State Consideration
(This is the last article in a three-part series.)
By Steve Clark
How does the University of Kansas feel about the network of junior colleges over the state?
Speaking before the Junior College Conference last year, Chancellor W. Clark Wescoe said that the junior colleges should be coordinated with the total college and university program throughout the state.
"We believe that the junior colleges should view themselves as colleges with statewide implications, rather than as extensions of high schools on the local level."
He gave five reasons why junior colleges as local institutions and extensions of high school are inadequate:
- Local communities are short of funds and find it difficult even to support elementary and secondary education.
- State aid in nickels and dimes without control, supervision, and accounting of funds, simply drains money from local elementary and secondary schools, and from the five state institutions of higher learning.
- Technical-vocational education will not flourish under local support and thinking. It must be coordinated.
- There is, under the present system, no statewide planning for the establishment of junior colleges where they are needed or for the discontinuance of junior colleges where they are not needed.
- The recommendation of the Comprehensive Educational Survey that the Board of Regents carry statewide responsibility for higher education in Kansas cannot be implemented under the present system
Junior colleges should expect financial support (rather than aid) from the state, supplemented by adequate and reasonable fees paid by the students in attendance," Dr. Wescoe said.
Strong Litter Problem Eases
The basement of Strong Hall will continue to serve KU as an auxiliary cafeteria — at least for the time being.
"There has been definite improvement," Frank Burge, director of the Kansas Union, said today in regard to the litter problem at Strong.
"But we still have a long way to go," he cautioned.
Earlier, Union officials, who operate the coffee service, had indicated that unless the litter was cleaned up, the service might be discontinued.
Burge said that the Union was planning to place large, open-top trash barrels near the tables as a result of several suggestions from students and concerned faculty members.
Officials apparently hope that students will find it easier to toss trash into the barrels. Now, there are 23 closed-top trash containers spotted throughout the basement.
Burge said there appeared to be a general interest in the litter problem, and that the student body was to be commended for the way it has reacted to Union officials' pleas.
THIS QUALITY system may entail controlling the number of students enrolled on some of the campuses. If this is done, he said, alternate locations must be available to students who cannot be taken care of at these schools.
If this is done, the Chancellor continued, the Board of Regents could begin to exercise its responsibility for public higher education in Kansas.
According to Dr. Wescoe, a statewide program for higher education would be expensive, but it is needed to provide a quality system of higher education for the youth of Kansas.
"If alternate campuses are provided throughout the state," Dr. Wescoe said, "the size of existing campuses can be controlled. But wherever the students attends, he should be guaranteed an educational experience of high quality . . . suitable to his needs and abilities."
This contains many of the ideas set forth in the Eurich Report, recommendations from which will be presented to the Kansas legislature this year.
Engineers Panel Includes KU Men
Several members of the KU engineering and architecture faculty will attend a panel discussion tomorrow in Kansas City on "Specialized and General Education for Industry."
THE KANSAS Association of Junior Colleges wants a study commission on junior colleges and increased state aid. It does not want to reject the Eurich report from the start, but feels that it is not ready for full control by the regents yet. It does, however, want the regents represented on the study commission.
The panel will include Don Metzler, associate dean of the KU school of engineering. Other faculty members attending the meeting will include Paul Hausman, director of engineering shops, Robert Gillmore, engineering shops assistant, Grant Snyder, instructor of materials engineering, and Howard Rust, instructor of materials engineering.
Chickens Will Be Translation Topic
Whether state controlled or local controlled, the junior colleges need help. This help can come only from the state. The two-year colleges have proved their worth to the state. Now it is up to the state to insure their continued value.
In The Mall
Chickens are the subject of a forthcoming publication by a University of Kansas Latin scholar.
The report calls for the establishment of Wichita University as a State Universities center, and for bringing the junior colleges under the Board of Regents.
Levi R. Lind, professor of Latin and Greek who has made a name for himself as a translator of medical writings and Medieval Latin texts, has turned his talents to the works of a 16th century Bolognese naturalist and translated Ulisse Aldrovandi's famous chapter on chickens from the "Ornithologia" written in 1600.
The book, "Aldrovandi on Chickens," will be the first work of any kind by the distinguished naturalist to appear in English and will contribute to the history of science, particularly ornithology. It will be illustrated with 42 woodcuts.
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