Daily hansan
61st Year, No.2
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, Sept. 16, 1963
Wescoe Proposes Plan For a Progressive KU
By Fred Frailev
Chancellor W. Clarke Wesoe proposed a "Project Bootstrap" today to make KU one of the nation's great centers of learning.
Chancellor Wescoe, who spoke at the year's first all-student convocation in Hoch auditorium, announced plans to appoint a faculty group to seek more top students in Kansas and other states, to increase the amount of KU scholarship funds and to seek construction of additional men's scholarship halls.
"I HAVE THE FEELING that our 'if only' days are behind us," he said. "We have come to the days of now. Now we can move ahead. Now we can stop teetering upon the brink of greatness and stride forward."
Building construction, faculty salaries and research facility problems are being surmounted, Dr. Wescoe said.
"More than these evidences in dollars and concrete and mechanism, however, I sense a commitment to education in Kansas which will be translated into effective support for this university." he said.
The "Project Bootstrap" committee will inform high school students of the university's educational facilities.
Chancellor Wescoe
DR. WESCOSE said scholarship funds have not kept pace with increased enrollments and rising costs of living. He suggested doubling the $100,000 yearly scholarship program by 1968 as the second step of "Project Bootstrap."
"Too many gifted high school graduates are leaving the state for
"Kansas cannot afford to continue this vital transfusion of talent to other areas of the nation."
undergraduate experiences elsewhere, in institutions with more glamor or more ivy, and those regions and those states in which a young person spends his undergraduate years are most likely to retain his lifelong allegiances," said the Chancellor.
The Chancellor said he will ask the men's scholarship hall committee to plan an expansion program.
He said "Project Bootstrap" will not detract from the University's interest in the average student.
The five new distinguished professors introduced by Dr. Wescoe are Nachman Aronszain, professor of math, Paul W. Gilles, professor of chemistry, Fritz Heider, professor of psychology, Charlton J. K. Hinman, professor of English, and Walter M. Kollmorgen, professor of geology and meteorology.
nate any student who is capable of mastering the required materials, but that we add at the top and thus create a system to complement the self-selection principle to which the University is committed."
"I PROPOSE NOT that we elimi-
Dr. Wescoe presented a certificate to Franklyn C. Nelick, associate professor of English, 1963 winner of the H. Bernard Fink award for outstanding classroom teaching.
Prof. Aronszajn received the Solon E. Summerfield distinguished professorship. The other new distinguished professorships were created from funds granted by the last Kansas legislature.
Birmingham Pupils Quiet After Church Bombing
BIRMINGHAM — (UPI) — Negro students today entered three public schools without incident in a city charged with racial tension. White student attendance was down last week and a number of white students tried to whip up support for a mass boxcott of schools.
This is the second week of integrated classes in the city.
A force of 1,400 policemen, state troopers and battle-equipped national guardsmen was ready for action.
But only city police appeared at West End and Ramsay high schools and Graymount elementary schools as the Negro pupils began their first full week of integrated classes. The schools were integrated by court order last Tuesday.
A dynamite-stick bomb shattered the 16th Street Baptist church at 10:22 a.m., yesterday, killing four young girls in a basement Sunday school class and wounding at least 20 other persons. The church was filled with 400 worshippers.
Two other Negroes were shot to death in the hours of street violence that followed.
At West End this morning, Patricia Marcus and Josephine Powell arrived shortly before classes began at 8 a.m. There were no crowds anywhere near the school.
The girls were brought to the school in a cream-colored station wagon occupied by three Negro men. Last week, as they left the school grounds in another car with a Negro driver, a brickbat shattered the right front window of the car.
President Kennedy received a telegram from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for federal intervention in Alabama. The President's brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, ordered a government representative to Birmingham to investigate yesterday's church bombing.
Weather
Skies were generally cloudy over Kansas today and are expected to continue cloudy with scattered showers tonight and tomorrow. High today ranged generally in the 70s with overnight lows in the lower 60s.
Actor Here for 'Emperor Jones' Finds KU Woodpecker Confusing
By Kay Jarvis Kansan City Editor
Clayton Corbin, a professona Negro actor visiting here, got off to a roaring start at KU yesterday with the question, "Is the woodpecker the native bird around here?"
His hosts immediately responded to his friendly curiosity explaining that the replica of the red and blue bird he saw on a turnip sign as he entered Lawrence was a Jayhawk and the school mascot, not a characterization of Woody Woodpecker as Corbin had thought.
THE HUSKY ACTOR arrived here yesterday after filming an episode for "The Defenders" television series, "Ice Doesn't Always Melt in Summer." He will start rehearsals this week for the University Theatre's production of "The Emperor Jones" to be presented Oct. 9-12.
William R. Reardon, assistant professor of speech and drama and director of the play, said Corbin is the most dynamic Negro actor on the stage today.
"The Emperor Jones" concerns an American Negro who murdered two men and escaped from prison. Jones imposes himself as a dictator upon the natives in the Haitian jungle. Most of the drama takes place during his flight from their rebellion and hallucinations of his sinful past and Negro heritage.
"He is considered to be more powerful as Emperor Jones in his strength and poise than the actor who originated the role, although he may lack some in technique," he said.
He has portrayed Jones before in 1954 and 1855, at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Mass., and at the Cleveland Playhouse. He said he was eager to get back to the role after all these years.
Corbin interprets the character of Brutus Jones as a wasted man, a victim of circumstances of his early environment. When Jones finally does get his chance it is too late.
THE PLAY will last one hour and Corbin is on stage all but five minutes of that time, often alone.
"I'll have to exercise and get in good condition before the performances." Corbin grimaced good naturally. "I don't know yet what kind of obstacles Prof. Reardon has set up for me."
Corbin, who is fond of the role, said he was enthusiastic about doing the show but still waiting to see how it goes. After seeing the facilities at Murphy Hall, Corbin was even more enthusiastic.
"Jones could have been a leader another Ralph Bunche—had the circumstances been different," Corbin explained.
"This is one of the best equipped theaters I've seen. It's better than some I've worked in on Broadway," he said.
THE 33-YEAR-OLD actor has worked in many off-Broadway productions and two Broadway shows. He has appeared in several television productions besides his work at the Karamu Playhouse in Cleveland, Ohio.
Corbin started his college career in electrical engineering at the University of California at Los Angeles.
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THE BEGINNING—In the enrollment maze in the Union Ballroom, these students look relatively good-humored as they stop to have their check lists verified. After several hours of scrambling for class cards, re-arranging schedules, and fighting their way through the Book Store, many students fled the Union, convinced that the worst part of the new semester was over.
ASC Board Assists With Enrollment
By Margaret Hughes
"Looking for advice?" a Student Advisory Board member asked a slightly bewildered-looking freshman passing the Board's Union headquarters last week.
"None," replied the boy. "just consent."
Advised, granted consent, counted, checked, stamped, and finally enrolled are 11,021 KU students.
THIS RECORD-SETTING number represents an increase of 885 students.
The high increase of students resulted partially from the return of 74 per cent of those students enrolled last fall, compared with 69.5 in 1962. In addition, there are 3,520 new students.
James K. Hitt, registrar and director of admissions, said he expects 400 more students will be enrolled by the end of September. This will boost the enrollment to 11,400.
For the first time in several years, the men students made greater gains both in the former and new student categories. There are 7,119 men and 3,902 women students.
A NEW FEATURE of enrollment this semester was the Student Advisory Board, a committee of the All Student Council. Forty-three juniors and seniors representing the different schools of the University were available in Strong Hall, the Union, and Ellsworth Hall to counsel students during the orientation and enrollment period.
"One student wanted to know if he could schedule a 10:30 class after a 9:30 one," reported Bob Enberg, McPherson junior. Others were looking for roommates, or for someone to tell them they really didn't have to take Speech I or Math 2c.
But most of the approximately 400 students who contacted the Board had legitimate questions. Joey Emel, Colby senior, said, "Some of the new students are just over-awed by enrollment. They will ask student advisers questions they would hesitate to ask a faculty adviser."
"At least the students can get a new opinion from us on courses, instructors, or schedules," commented Bill Bradbury, Shawnee Mission junior.
MAX LOGAN, Kansas City senior and chairman of the Board, reported that he was very happy with the results, although many improvements in the Board will be made next semester.
"We need better locations, more publicity, and more Fine Arts advisers," he said. The Board will meet in October to criticize the program and plan improvements.
"The Board has many possibilities and, with a little organization, should develop into a real student service," Logan added.