Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
60th Year, No. 64
State Office Suggests Cuts in KU Budget
Gov. John Anderson can make the new year a happy one for KU, if he restores the $242,048 the state budget office recommended cut from the University's operating expenditures for next year.
At a recent hearing at Topeka, the budget office proposed an operating budget of $21,929,819. The governor, however, can restore any cuts recommended by his budget advisors when he makes his proposals to the state legislature.
THE MAJOR CUT was in capital improvements where the budget office recommended that $188,000 be cut, leaving KU with $3,151,000 for improvements.
Beth to Discuss Right of Privacy
"Privacy: Your Right To Be Let Alone" is the topic of the next Humanities Series lecture, to be presented at 8 p.m. January 8 in Fraser Theater by Elmer F. Beth, KU professor of journalism. A reception at the Faculty Club will follow the lecture.
It will be the 100th lecture in the Humanities Series, which was started in 1947, and the 16th given by a KU faculty member, including the inaugural address presented Nov. 16 by Dr. Errol Harris, Roy Roberts Distinguished Professor in philosophy.
The right of privacy is a new concept in American law. It has developed in less than 60 years and is recognized as law in at least 28 states, including Kansas. It is a personal right and does not rest on damage to reputation—as libel and slander do.
"My objective is to explain the status of the right in 1933," said Prof. Beth, "and to consider some of the problems and conflicts attending it, such as the constitutional guarantees of freedom of the press."
He has lectured about defamation and privacy to radio and television newscasters, newspaper executives, industrial editors, lawyers, printers, teachers, and other groups. Prof. Beth spoke on the subject in Chicago at national conventions of the National Editorial Association and of the National Press Photographers, and on the "Conversation" program on WDAF, Kansas City, Mo.
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Friday, Jan. 4, 1963
Another big cut came in the operating budget. The office recommended that $144,610 for salary increases be cut. The Board or Regents recommended a four per cent increase, but the budget office proposed a two per cent gain.
Other cuts in the operating budget were six new office positions ($27,438), physical plant utilities for new buildings ($50,000) and expansion of State Geological Survey ground water program ($20,000).
ACCORDING to Raymond Nichols, vice chancellor for finance, $7,455,675 of the operating budget request is expected to be furnished by sources outside state funds. This total includes auxiliary enterprises (such as health service and dormitories), $3,613,350; sponsored student aid coming from various sources $40,000; sponsored research $2,126,230, and earnings and teaching grants for special institutes, $1,276,230.
Capital improvements approved were $1,750,000 for replacements of Fraser Hall and $1.2 million for the first phase of a new gym to replace Robinson. The budget office recommended $13,000 for sidewalks on the north side of Sunflower Road.
Cut by the budget office were pedestrian walkway under Mississippi Street from the Kansas Union, $40,000; resurfacing of Sunnyside Avenue and building a utility underpass to connect with the new gym planned for south of the street, $40,000; pedestrian walkway under Naismith Road from Lindley Hall to the new Engineering Building $28,000; a tennis court and three or four handball courts, $20,000; service roads and walks in south area of dorm complex east of Iowa Street and south of 15th St., $50,000; first phase of replacement of stage curtains in Hoch Auditorium, $10,000.
Rain is expected to spread across the state and reach the Lawrence area by this afternoon or tonight. Rain will end later tonight and partial clearing is expected tomorrow.
Weather
Castro Laments Missiles Loss, Berates Soviets
The low tonight will be near 30 and the highs tomorrow from 35 to 40.
MIAMI — (UPI) — Diplomatic sources said today Premier Fidel Castro is lamenting the fact that the withdrawal of Soviet missiles from Cuba has made it impossible for him to expand any Cuban conflict into general war.
The sources said Castro expressed this attitude in a talk with Havana University students last month in which he also sneered at Premier Nikita Khrushchev's policy of "peaceful coexistence."
"While we had the rockets, we could insure that U.S. aggression would not be merely a local matter," Castro was quoted as saying. "Now we cannot."
This recalled industries minister Ernesto (Che) Guevara's reported statement to a Communist newsman in a recent interview that Soviet missiles would have been used against U.S. cities if there had been an American attack on Cuba while they were available in that country.
The bearded Cuban's remarks as reported here made it appear he was siding with Red China's "hard line" approach to world affairs.
In his anniversary speech Wednesday, however, Castro took a gentler stand. He offered himself in effect as a mediator in world Communism's "family squabble."
In his talk with the students, the sources said, Castro described Soviet policy as essentially weak. He soffed at Russian claims of "victory" in the Cuban crisis.
"The backward steps taken by the Soviet Union make you wonder whether it is true that the balance of power favors the socialist camp . . . " he was quoted as saving.
Nickel Beer Flat - Sub Sought
By Terry Murphy
Something must be done for the man on the street. The nickel beer issue is deader than the gold standard for: the dollar. As a final crushing blow, our sardonic Congressmen have pushed the price of the penny postcard to four cents.
Clearly, the common man needs a new champion—a cause around which to rally his trampled spirits. Into this gap I shoot the suggestion of an entire newspaper written in sports jargon.
THE WORTH OF SUCH a journal would be twofold: it would (1) be the bane of the eggheads (they have pre-empted every journal but the sports periodicals), and (2) shore up the sinking readership of newspapers.
Gestapo Defense Tells Tale
Fred Fleetwood, standout sophomore dag racer from Chicken Bluff, La., outpointed the local police last night in a high-speed chase, but a stout Gestapo defense held when the going was tough to take the final decision in a tense, two-hour battle of wits and bent fenders.
Lacking the funds to launch this sure-fire money maker, I offer this typically humdrum story written in the tongue of the sports page—surely it will attract men with many coins.
The Bavou Dandy-Copper contest was touched off when the Gendarmes' head scout noticed him stripping parked cars in the new $80,000 municipal parking lot.
EARLY IN CONTEST it looked like the sophomore speedster was going to be shut out by an alert police network bent on employing gangtackling techniques.
This surprise maneuver momentarily stunned the over-confident forces from the City Jail. The stunning effect of the sophomore sensation's surprise tactic was registered on Police Chief Joe Grabbem's face. The man's mouth was open wide enough to house the damaged parking meter.
With all apparent exits cordoned off by police, Freddy put his super-charged readster into low gear and, eluding the grasp of a tenacious guard railing, skirted left end, leveling a parking meter in the process.
But the elusive sophomore was not to be denied.
BUT THE PROUD BLUE Coat force had a 4-year string of victories on the line and they threw themselves into the all-or-nothing chase with great gusto. (Editor's note: the last Copper defeat came in 1959 when a pogo stick artist sprung an overtime upset.)
By the time Chief Grabbem had regrouped his forces, Freddy had a three-block lead without having shifted from second gear. What had started as a disappointing crowd soon grew to a capacity throng which backed its favorite with tooting horns and squalling tires. It was a record attendance for a season opener.
The match was held under a cloudless sky and (Continued on page 12)
UN Congo Troops Ready Final Blow
LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo—(UPI)—United Nations troops readied a final blow today at the hopes of Katanga Province for national independence, and Dr. Ralph Bunche hurried from New York to investigate apparent defiance of orders.
U. N. troops which seized Jadotville yesterday organized a strike toward Kolwezi, 100 miles away in southern Katanga, where Katanga President Moise Tshombe was reported preparing a final stand.
Tshombe had his back to the wall. There was evidence that his financial and tribal support was crumbling. His two-and-a-half year battle to break Katanga away from the Congo and establish it as an independent nation appeared near an end.
Bunche, U.N. undersecretary for special political affairs, took off for Leopoldville from New York last night.
INFORMED SOURCES at U.N. headquarters said he was sent to investigate the decision of the local U.N. command to capture Jadotville in defiance of orders by secretary general Thant.
Instead U.N. troops drove to Jadotville, 80 miles northwest of Elisabethville, and captured it.
Thant implied in an ultimatum to Tshombe Dec. 31 that the U.N. forces would hold their ground for two weeks after the capture of Elisabethville to allow Tshombe time to accept the U.N. plan for unifying the Congo.
U. N. OFFICIALS in New York conceded this maneuver was "brilliantly executed" and had high praise for the forces in the field.
But the United Nations also said, without explanation, that in the Jadotville operation there occurred for the first time "a serious breakdown in effective communication and coordination between United Nations headquarters in New York and the Leopoldville office."
The announcement of Bunche's departure said he was going to Leopoldville to consult U.N. officials on "present and future activities," including "political, military and administrative matters."
IN KOLWEZI, Katanga President Moise Tshombe prepared a last-ditch stand against onrushing United Nations forces.
Captured white mercenary soldiers said Tshombe ordered his forces to hold out at Kolwezi for three more days "and this war will be over."
"They have nothing to lose and everything to gain," said one of the Katang mercenaries. "They will hang on."
JADOTVILLE AND KOLWEZI were considered Tshombe's two big strengths in southern Katanga.
There were no official reports of casualties but this correspondent saw Indian troops machine gun two Belgian women and a man as they tried to speed past in their European car.
But U.N. Ethiopian and Indian troops ran into only isolated sniping when they moved into Jadotville yesterday. Tshombe's forces had retreated toward Kolwezi.
The women were killed. The man was badly cut by the shattered windshield. The Indians kept pumping bullets into the car for a full minute after it stopped.
Ford Grant Opens Way For Eastern-Civ Course
A Western-Eastern Civilization program, similar in structure to KU's 17-year-old Western Civilization course, is being prepared by the University on a $177,003 grant from the Ford Foundation.
Eventually, this Western-Eastern Civilization course may be offered as a substitute for the present Western Civilization study, Francis Heller, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences said.
- Introduce a more international flavor into introductory courses in the humanities and the social sciences.
- THE FORD FOUNDATION grant is designed to aid the University in developing new international education courses. In addition to the Western-Eastern Civilization study, KU will use the grant to:
- Plan international study courses at the junior-senior level.
- Explore cooperative efforts with other Kansas schools.
Development of a Western-Eastern Civilization program will start next semester with the introduction of a strictly Eastern Civilization course to about 15 students on a trial basis. Next fall, the University hopes to conduct a two-semester study of Eastern Civilization to an enlarged group of students.
"After that, we hope to integrate the Western and Eastern civilization courses into one comprehensive study," said Dean Heller. "Eventually, such a course might develop into a two-year study of Eastern and Western literature, which students might be allowed to substitute for Western Civilization."
ROBERT A. BURTON, lecturer in Eastern civilization, who has been planning the Eastern Civilization program since September, will teach the course this spring.
The experiment with a Western-Eastern Civilization program will continue for three years.
The University plans to introduce two new internationally-oriented courses next fall, four in the spring of 1954 and four more the following fall.
Neither the exact nature of these courses nor the faculty members who will prepare them has been decided, Dean Heiller said.
CNE POSSIBILITY for a new course, said Norman Jacobs, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology, would be an introduction to sociology with an Oriental slant.
He said such a course would aim at achieving a more "universal description of social structure.
"Sociologists are interested in basically complex societies," said Prof. Jacobs, "But so far, they have been primarily concerned with Western cultures. However, another kind of complex society grew up in Asia and it has not been adequately studied by sociologists."
Smothers Brothers To Perform Feb. 9
The Smothers Brothers, comical television folksingers, will appear in Hoch Auditorium at 8 p.m. Feb. 9.
Tickets will sell for $1.00 aud
$1.25.