Daily hansan
60th Year, No. 48
Tuesday, Nov. 27, 1962
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Debate Centers On Eurich Report
by Bernard Henrie
The 54-page Eurich report in its blue, soft-bound cover looks as harmless as the KU phone directory and not at all like the center of a three-week long controversy in Kansas higher education. The Eurich report—accepted in full by the State Board of Regents but not in full by the State Legislature—calls for the establishment of Wichita University as a State Universities Center. According to the plan, Wichita would be administered by the University of Kansas and Kansas State University.
WICHITA SCHOOL OFFICIALS successfully argued that such a plan would mean that Wichita University would lose its identity and merely become a satellite extension school for the two larger state universities. Sidney Brick, chairman of the Wichita Board of Regents, indicated that if WU would suffer a lowered "stature" the school would not enter the state system.
"We will continue to pursue this effort to become a part of the state system," Brick said Nov. 12 in Wichita, "but not at less stature."
Faced with such determination the Legislative Council voted to delete the section in the Eurich report which would strip WU of its independent status.
THE ACTION BY THE LEGISLATIVE Council means that the Eurich report-minus the section opposed by Wichita officials—has been accepted by the State Legislature.
The Council will recommend to the Legislature that Wichita University be taken into the state school system as a university under direct supervision of the State Board of Regents.
No opposition to WU being taken into the system was expressed at the council meeting.
THE EURICH REPORT was prepared by a panel working under the chairmanship of Alvin C. Eurich, vice-president and director of the fund for the Advancement of Education. Eurich is the former vice-president of Stanford University.
The report deals with subjects such as intensive use of classroom and laboratory facilities through an extension of working hours, introduction of an 11-month school year, the problems of waste and duplication, and a number of other problems related to higher education.
KU CHANCELLOR, W. Clarke Wescoe, termed the report a "framework for progress." Chancellor Wescoe said he hoped the report would be read in its entirety, and said that there was some misunderstanding about the specific recommendations of the report
Wichita school officials were in agreement with the general conclusions of the report, but balked at the one specific recommendation which would turn the $17 million worth of physical facilities at WU over to the state to be governed by an 11-man board. Five board members would be from KU, five from Kansas State, and one from Wichita University.
THE EURICH REPORT STATED six objectives it felt Wichita should concern itself with:
- "Offer a wide variety of academic programs leading to the B.A. or B.S. degrees. These degrees should be awarded by the University of Kansas upon completion of the various programs of study..."
- "Offer whatever programs are needed at the graduate and professional levels leading to master's degrees, doctorates, or degrees in professional areas. . . ."
- "Offer a wide variety of programs for technical and sub-professional training leading to the associate in arts or science..."
- The complete utilization of "all properties, resources, and personnel of the University of Wichita..."
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Alabama Gets Negro Bids
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — (UPI) The University of Alabama yesterday acknowledged the receipt of applications from two more Negroes, apparently for the spring semester beginning in February.
The applications were received during the Thanksgiving holidays, said University officials who added that no names would be released.
A Negro coed at Alabama A&M at Huntsville, Ala., Vivian Malone, said yesterday she had mailed her application last Wednesday. She said she had not received a reply.
The University, in keeping with a policy announced with the application of another Negro last month, would not say what semester the Negroes seek to enter.
Miss Malone, a junior in business education at all-Negro A&M, said the University had several courses
Since the University of Alabama was founded 131 years ago, only one Negro has attended. Authorine Lucy was admitted under a still-standing court order in 1956.
not offered at A&M. She said by telephone she intended to go into personnel management or some related field on graduation.
The university student newspaper, Crimson-White. urged mature leadership to oppose violence, and the University hired two private detectives to protect its editor, Mel Meyer of Starkville. Miss. Meyer said he received telephone threats and a cross was burned on his fraternity house lawn.
Her attendance provoked daily riots. She was expelled three days after she entered for making alleged statements that the University officials permitted the riots.
Weather
Fair weather is forecast for northwest and extreme west portions of the state this afternoon and evening, otherwise cloudy tonight and Wednesday. Occasional drizzle east portion this afternoon, tonight and tomorrow and occasional rain or snow west late tonight or tomorrow. Colder extreme west tomorrow. Low tonight 30 northwest to 40 southeast. High tomorrow 50 to 55 east to the 40s extreme west.
Elections Head Has No Support From Committee
It is a lonely John Stuckey who will end his stint as ASC election committee chairman tonight.
Stuckey complained of the loneliness of his job at the last meeting of the fall 1962 committee just before the Thanksgiving holiday.
Six persons attended the preholiday session. But the 'committee' consisted of one, Stuckey.
"This is the fourth meeting I have called this year with poor attendance," John Stuckey, the chairman, complained. "Only one person showed up at the first meeting and only two at the second."
OF THE SEVEN ASC members on Stuckey's committee, none of them attended the meeting. Only six persons including the UDK reporter were present.
Stuckey said the meeting was open to the public so that anyone could "air their criticisms" of the handling of recent ASC elections.
He said yesterday that he would present any ideas to improve elections to the ASC meeting tonight. "Obviously, since none of my committee members were present at the Nov. 19 meeting, official action will be carried out by a new elections committee," he said. "I go off the council Tuesday night."
HE SAID HE HAD sent postcards notifying all the members of the meeting well in advance. No one told him that they would be unable to attend, he said.
Stuckey also complained that neither of University Party's Nancy Lane, Hoisington junior, or Bob Stewart, Bartlesville, Okla., sophomore, attended the meeting. Roger Wilson, Wichita senior and president of Vox Populi, was present.
Stewart said he had talked privately with Stuckey during and after elections concerning improvements he felt were necessary.
"I would have attended the meeting had I felt my presence could have added anything new," Stewart said.
Kay Cash, Fairview Park, Ohio junior and election committee member, said she could not attend because she was taking a biology examination at the time.
RICHARD BRITZ, Severna Park,
Md., senior, said he had been in Ala-
bama since the preceding Friday and
 did not know about the meeting until
he returned.
A member of Theta Tau, Bill Beyers, Overland Park junior, requested that the fraternity be allowed to vote in the Professional fraternity district. He said that members of Theta Tau were dissatisfied with a ruling made by Stuckey the night before the Nov. 14-15 elections.
Stuckey ruled that Theta Tau must vote in the social fraternity district.
STUCKEY SAID THAT LIVING groups could not be allowed to fluctuate from year to year in their voting choice. "I declared Theta Tau in the social fraternity group," he said, "because they voted in that district last year."
YD's Renew Fight Over Last Election
By Joanne Prim
The president of the KU Young Democrats has charged that the president of the KU Young Democrats is not the president of the KU Young Democrats.
Right to the office is being claimed by both Barry Bennington, Cheney senior, and Peter G. Aylward, Ellsworth senior.
AFTER A SQUABBLE AROSE concerning the distribution of membership cards by Bennington supporters shortly before the March 14 meeting when Bennington was elected, Aylward's supporters held a special meeting March 28 and elected him president.
Dan Hopson Jr., associate professor of law and last year's adviser to the YD's, said in a telephone interview, "As far as I am concerned, neither the first group of officers nor the second group was validly elected.
The disputed election lay dormant for the first two months of the fall semester until Carl M. Logan, Holliday junior, wrote a letter to the editor of the Kansan shortly before Thanksgiving vacation, questioning Aylward's presidency. In remarks later, Logan said he had waited to write the letter because of the Nov. 6 elections.
Bennington said "The only possible solution is to have another election with a completely new set of officers. It should be supervised by the faculty adviser and possibly the president of the Collegeiate Council of YD's and the state chairman of the YD clubs.
The Collegiate Council is composed of YD groups at colleges and universities in Kansas. It is a part of the state organization of YD clubs.
Bennington said he has no desire now to serve as president.
"IT'S NOT WORTH fighting for any more," he said. "My term of office is almost up and I'm not interested in running for any office in the Young Democrats."
Aylward was unavailable for comment yesterday. He declined comment earlier on any aspect of the situation.
Prof. Hopson said, "I hope both groups will get together and have a new election."
NO YD MEETINGS have been held so far this year.
Gary F. Conklin, Hutchinson third year law student, was elections chairman at the March 14 meeting when Bennington was elected president. He was not present at the special meeting, March 28, when the second election was held.
"We found no peculiarities in the election," he said, referring to the first election. "We thought we had the best check set-up ever used."
The two contending factions (although they were not recognized as such) were represented on the elections committee.
Membership cards were checked as potential voters came in the door. Conklin explained. Names were then checked on a membership list provided by Verne D. Gauby, last year's president.
BENNINGTON WAS ELECTED president. Aylward, the defeated candidate, said he intended to investigate the possibility that the faction supporting Bennington had handed out membership cards prior to the meeting.
He said then that he had affidavits from seven persons not on the election committee's voting list who were members of the Young Democrats.
Conklin said last night that the names of 10 or 12 girls were left off the list for either of two reasons:
"Either they registered an intent to join and didn't follow it up," he said, "or they joined after the cut-off date."
THE CUT-OFF DATE provided in the YD constitution is a day shortly before spring elections after which membership cards if purchased do not carry the privilege of voting in that election.
“Prior to last spring.” Conklin continued, “there was never any check. Anyone who walked in could vote.”
He called the election dispute a "tempest in a teapot that got out of hand."
"If as much attention had been focused on elections every year as there was last year, the UDK would be full of this sort of thing every spring."
A PETITION REQUESTING a "special" meeting was signed by 28 persons. According to the YD constitution, the club president is obligated to call such a meeting if he is presented with a petition and if there has been no general meeting that month.
Jim L. Lawing, Okmulgee, Okla., first year law student, who circulated the petition, said at the time that the March 14 meeting was invalid because the election held at the meeting was invalid. He said the March 28 meeting was the only valid meeting held in March and therefore, actions taken at the meeting were legal.
Bennington gave two reasons yesterday for Aylward's interest in the presidency of the YD's. One was that it would enhance his father's (Paul Aylward) chances of being elected to the U.S. Senate.
THE OTHER CONCERNED the election of the state chairman of the Young Democrats. Aylward supported one candidate, and Bennington, another.