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STUDY, STUDY, STUDY—Some are studying the readings, others are studying the prepared outline, but the last minute panic is in full swing for the 320 students taking this semester's Western Civilization examination at 1 p.m. Saturday. Students taking the four hour test will need identification cards, pen and ink. The remaining materials will be furnished by the department. The locations for the examination are indicated on the IBM cards issued at registration.
P-t-P Question ASC On Legality of Action
Bv Fred Frailev
Thursday, Jan. 9, 1964
Jerry Harper, chairman of People-to-Feople, last night questioned the legality of an All Student Council provision requiring organizations it supports to report every two months to the ASC.
The P-t-P funds were frozen by the ASC Tuesday night after the group failed, for the second time, to report on its finances and activities.
HARPER SAID John Stuckey,
ASC chairman, proceeded illegally
on two occasions during the council's
budget session last October when
$8,300 in funds were granted to 12
organizations. People-to-People received a special $2,000 grant at that time.
When the appropriations were approved, two special stipulations were attached. One required the reports and the other required the organizations to acknowledge ASC support in their newsletters, posters and advertisements.
"The motion to approve the budget did not originally contain these two stipulations." Harper, Lawrence senior, said. "Stuckey added these two provisions just before the vote. As such, they were amendments, and were never voted on separately. And Stuckey cannot make motions from the chair."
HARRY BRETSCHNEIDER, Kansas City, Mo., senior, he started to make the motion when Stuckey interrupted him and asked if someone would move that the two stipulations be required.
The ASC member who moved to approve the appropriations then said last night that the added requirements were not made by Stuckey.
"Someone—it could have been me —moved that the provisions be added," Bretschneider said. "Then I went ahead and moved the budget be approved."
"I THNK we will just sit tight until the start of next semester." Harper said. "We won't need to spend any money before then."
Harper indicated that one course P-t-P might follow would be to challenge the legality of the two stipulations before the KU Student Court.
Harper said about $1,400 of the original appropriation still remains.
"Actually, I would like to see us taken out of the ASC's jurisdiction and be supported directly by the University," Harper said.
STUCKEY, PITTSBURG senior,
replied that this would be impossible.
"The ASC bill on appropriations says certain groups serve functions which require them to be supported by the ASC and others must be supported by the University," he said. "People-to-People fits into the ASC category."
Stuckey said that the embargo on P-t-P funds will not be lifted until the report is made.
"EVEN THEN, the council will have to excuse the violation by a majority vote before they can draw on their appropriation again." Stuckey said.
Harper said he may make the report at the next meeting of the ASC Feb. 4, "if they want me to."
"I'm not really concerned about it right now," he said.
Lawrence, Kansas
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61st Year, No. 68
The late Pope Pius XII called on the late King Victor Emmanuel III on Dec. 21, 1939, in what was considered an effort to keep Italy from entering World War II on Adolf Hitler's side.
Federal, Industry Grants To KU Exceed $50,000
The visit, scheduled for sometime Saturday afternoon, will be only the third time a Pope has called on an Italian chief of state since Italian troops stormed into Rome in 1870 to end Papal temporal power.
The second Papal visit came on May 11 last year, when John XXIII, already suffering from the illness that was to take his life three weeks later, called on Segni the day after receiving the Balzan Peace Award.
Three grants totaling more than $50,000 have been recently awarded to various departments in the University.
One grant, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is a renewal of an existing grant for graduate students working on doctoral degrees in space-related areas.
W. J. Argersinger, professor of chemistry, said eight students are participating in the NASA program this year, and grants will be awarded to eight more students for next year.
THE NASA pre-doctoral training program began in 1962. There are nearly 900 students in training now in 88 schools across the country.
One hundred and thirty-one colleges and universities will participate in the program for the academic year 1964-65, awarding grants to nearly 1100 students.
The Pontiff was expected to thank the Italian president for the enthusiastic welcome the people of Rome and government officials gave him on his return from the Holy Land Monday night. Segni was at the airport both for the Pope's departure Saturday and for his return.
NASA Administrator James E. Webb said, "The predoctoral training program is making excellent progress toward its major objective
Pope Schedules Italian Journey
VATICAN CITY — (UPI) Pope Paul VI will pay a rare official visit to Italian President Antonio Segni on Saturday, it was announced today.
Informed Vatican sources said the Pope's plan to visit Segni was a sudden decision. They said the President's office had been contacted on the matter only yesterday and ceremonial details still had to be settled.
helping to meet the nation's future needs for highly-trained scientists and engineers."
Prof. Argersinger said a space-related area would constitute any science, including the social sciences, that is used in relation to the overall national space effort.
EACH GRADUATE student who is chosen receives $2,400 for 12 months of training. If a satisfactory record is maintained, the student is assured of three years of predoctoral study.
Prof. Argersinger said the students were selected by the University Committee on Space Sciences, and applications could be made through the chairmen of departments in which the student is enrolled.
An unrestricted grant of $3,000 has been received by the geology department from the Humble Oil and Refining Company Education Foundation of Tulsa, Okla.
Prof. Peoples said that while the committee has met and discussed the use of the funds, no definite decision has been reached.
The foundation said the KU geology department was chosen as recipient of the grant because of "the contribution it is making in the state of Kansas to the teaching of geology."
THE THIRD grant, received from the National Science Foundation, will finance the Science and Mathematics Camp for high school students held at the University June 14-26.
PROF. WILLIAM M. Merrill, chairman of the geology department, said the grant was available for both faculty and students, and because it was an unrestricted grant it could be used for financing trips, obtaining research equipment, or for financial aid for students.
Prof. Merrill said a three-member committee under the direction of Prof. James A. Peoples has been formed to determine how the award is to be used.
The departmental committee is composed of Prof. Richard H. Benson, Prof. Elliot Gillerman and Prof. Ada Swineford.
The $22,665 grant will help provide a more rigorous study program for the 100 sophomore and junior level high school students who come from all over the country each summer
Prof. Delbert M. Shankel, camp director, said about two thousand applications are received each year from all over the United States.
He said students are chosen on their grades and the recommendations of their teachers. He said a determining factor often is the science opportunity the student had
available. He said a student who did not have a good science program offered to him in high school would be chosen over one who did.
THE STUDENTS are offered an interest to eight sciences during the first week. The students then select two areas in which their study is to be concentrated for the remaining five weeks. Areas which are offered are microbiology, zoology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, psychology, anthropology and radiation biophysics.
The National Science Foundation has also made available $5,780 for a second phase of the camp. This year 25 students from last summer's camp will participate in a research apprenticeship program.
Prof. Shankel said these students would work exclusively as research assistants, with no course work, so they can receive a better understanding of what constitutes research.
He added that these students are chosen on the basis of their previous summer's work and what their instructors thought of their work.
Student Injured In Car Accident
Patrolman Lloyd Davies of the Lawrence Police Department said that Mueller "was out cold when we got to the scene of the accident."
A KU student suffered a severe back injury about 9:30 last night when the automobile he was driving went over a four-foot stone wall on Emery road.
Leslie Clyde Mueller, Jr., Belloville, Ill., junior, was admitted to Watkins Memorial hospital, x-rayed, and immediately transferred to the neuro-surgical department of the KU Medical Center according to Dr. Ralph Canuteson, director of the Student Health Service.
Dr. Louis Snyder at the KU Medical Center's neuro-surgical department said Mueller's condition was good this morning. "We expect, barring complications, that he will be walking around in 3 or 4 days at the most."
Dr. Canuteson said that Mueller had "a loss of sensation in his legs" when received at the student hospital.
Patrolman Davies said that Mueller apparently was heading north and missed a curve in Emery road where 10th street would cut through. The car was over the wall and down a four-to-five foot drop when the police arrived.
Western Civilization Notes Continue Despite Critics
Since 1959 an anonymously authored set of notes under the title of an "Outline of Western Civilization" have been available for sale to KU students.
THE NOTES have been condemned and derided by other faculty members of the Western Civilization department, but "The Authors" (as the Authors' preface is signed), silent to these attacks, have continued to update annually and publish the outline.
Professor James E. Seaver, who is on leave as director of the Western Civilization Department, once reportedly termed the notes "a thorn in my side once, but it's caloused now and they don't bother me anymore."
Donald Cox. Lawrence graduate student, is one of 6 authors of the notes, and presently their sole distributor.
"The notes were first prepared in 1950 by Gary Breneman and Jeffrey Hadden, who was an instructor in the Western Civilization program." Breneman is presently a Soviet area specialist for the government in Washington, D.C. and Hadden, now a Ph.D., is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin.
"THE NOTES are intended," Cox said, "as the preface states, as a reference aid with three purposes in mind: to help the student in grapping and preparing for the weekly assignments, to assist him in reviewing the material while preparing for the comprehensive examination, and to bolster an aim of the Western Civilization Program—that every educated person should know and appreciate the ideas and ideals which have molded the civilization in which he lives."
Professor David Jones, action chairman of the Western Civilization department, said that the notes are "a very inferior text book. In their very pious preface, the authors state they have no intent
Prof. Jones said the notes are "obviously aimed at the grade grabbers who don't want to do much reading. Instead of the feast for the mind that the readings supply, the outline is intellectual "pabulum" for those who desire to scrape through without doing much reading or applying themselves."
THE PROFESSOR said the notes defeat the purpose and broad, liberal sense of education. "Teachers
to subvert the Western Civilization program, but practically every page is a summary or condensation of required readings with very little criticism or evaluation."
Weather
The weather bureau predicted colder weather and fair skies in the Lawrence area for tonight and to morrow. Temperatures were expected to drop to 15 to 20 degrees tonight after highs of 32 to 36 this afternoon.
DURING THE SUMMER, Cox said, the notes are revised and edited to include any new works that may be included in the program. "We were delayed in getting the outline out at the beginning of this year because the new volume of collected readings wasn't available until the start of school."
can easily spot the notes' clichés I lose faith in the student I hear repeating the words in the notes," he said.
Author Cox said the first year the notes were prepared 350 copies were printed. "Just about all of them were sold. The following 2 years between 550 and 600 copies were printed and sold during the year. None were ever sold during the summer months."
Last year 800 copies were mimeographed and bound and were all sold by April, Cox said. "Of the 1,000 printed this year, about 500 have been sold to date," he said.
The notes are mimeographed on
a rented machine and bound by a professional firm in Topeka, he said. "Last year we made little money on the outlines because they were mimeographed in Washington D.C., and had to be sent by air freight out here. That's why we've had to raise the price."
This year the three authors have put the operation into contract form. They now call themselves the Jaya hawk Reference Publications Company. Cox estimated the gross income (total money received before profit) for the outlines since 1959 as $15,000.
HE SAID Jayhawk Reference Publications is considering outlines of other courses for next year. "We are considering a possible physics outline. It will probably be a brief summary of the text and a number of back exams. Anyone can go to Malott library and check out the past exams. It would be a lot easier if you could take them home." Cox said.