Hearing held on proposal to drop UDB
An open hearing was held yesterday concerning proposals to restructure the present KU disciplinary process through the creation of the University Judiciary. The proposals are currently being developed by the University Senate Committee on Organization and Administration, and will take the place of the current University Disciplinary Board.
The hearing, attended by 25 faculty members and students, was designed to seek testimony, opinions and suggestions concerning the proposed judiciary structure.
Lawrence Velvet, associate professor of law, objected to the process of appeal, saying he felt some students would have more avenues of appeal open to them in the present plan. He said when students had already gone in front of a lower court the case should be made on an appeal basis in the University Judiciary rather than on a hearing basis as is now proposed.
He said he thought this would eliminate some students having more chances of appeal than others.
Martin Dickinson, associate professor of law and chairman of the University Disciplinary Board, said he thought the University Judiciary plan was excellent because it would throw students, faculty members and administrative members together in the disciplinary process and would eliminate disparity in the punishment received by students and faculty.
"Law is a fraud," Dickinson said. He said law was often applied differently to two people in similar situations. He said the University Judiciary would prevent this from happening between students and faculty.
Dickinson said a process for appeal needed to be drawn up. He also suggested the number of students and faculty members be lessened in the hearing division of the University Judiciary to increase the case load each member would hear. Based on University Disciplinary Board figures, few cases would come before the board, he said. The University Disciplinary Board hears only an average of 12 cases a year.
Another topic of discussion was penalties. It was suggested a range of penalties be drawn up for certain offenses to allow leeway in individual cases.
The matter of default was debated. Velvel said disciplinary consequences should be enforced if students failed to come before the judicial board when summoned. Dickinson suggested if the default is by the charged party proceedings should continue in his absence without penalty.
Marston McCluggage, professor of sociology and chairman of the Committee on Organization and Administration, said eventually the committee would make up a resolution asking that the completed proposal be accepted. The proposal would then be sent to SENEX.
DOBBIN HAS PLACE
HELSINKI (UPI) — In these days of motorized armies, the horse still has a respected place in Finland's army. Horses helped the outnumbered Finns turn back the Russians during the Winter War of 1939-40 because they could tow artillery through the forests where mechanized Russian vehicles froze up.
At that time, there was one horse per 12 soldiers in the Finnish Army. Now there is one per 40 troops. But the army still uses them and says they are here to stay.
Toys for tots
Residents of Oliver Hall are collecting donations of money and toys today in the Kansas Union. The money will be used to buy new toys which, with donated toys, will be given to underprivileged children in Douglas County by the Marine Corps Reserve. The project, sponsored by the Oliver Hall senate, ends today.
A new plan for KU building is developed by committee
By SUSIE ATKINS
Kansan Staff Writer
With the question of KU's student health facilities apparently a high priority in the minds of the majority of the members of the KU community, the University Planning Board has embarked on a comprehensive approach to amass information vital to a flexible University master building plan.
The approach has been described as something new in KU planning history; the results promise to have a strong black-and-white statistical appeal.
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. paved the way for the program in his installation address when he spoke of the need to bridge the gap between the University's requirements and its resources.
Previous planning boards operated on the "assumption that resources would, somehow, become available," according to the first planning memorandum addressed to University faculty members by the Planning Board. The focus of the new planning effort will combine academic, budgetary and physical aspects of University needs in determining the necessary resources—with figures to support the evaluation.
Francis Heller, acting provost
and co-chairman of the Planning Board, pointed out the manner in which the envisioned master plan will complement the master plan formulated in 1960. The older plan's physical aspects included a "concentric spheres of influence" concept which provided for the heart of the physical University to consist of general arts and sciences facilities primarily associated with the needs of the freshman and sophomore student. The next circle outward was to consist of more specialized education facilities for "majored" students—such buildings as Malott, Murphy, Summerfield and Learned Halls. Finally, graduate and research facilities were to be the peripheral ring.
Miller, or Willard, whichever he prefers, could not legally enter the contest because it was only open to freshmen and sophomores in the school of engineering. Miller is a liberal arts major.
The Planning Board has been subcommittee into groups specifically investigating the physical plant needs of the University, departmental plans and program modification, and relationships among University factors.
The contest was sponsored by Tau Beta Pi, a national honor so
The physical needs of the University must necessarily be correlated with the envisioned changes in enrollment, new and deleted departmental plans, and data relating such vital factors as student-teacher ratios on every academic level, teaching-research balances, and the ratio of space to people using it.
The slide rules flashed and the calculations flowed, but in the end even the winners were losers as one of the slide rulers decided not to play by the rules in the slide rule contest Wednesday night.
Mike Miller, Pamona, junior,
obviously believing the old adage, "rules are made to be broken," entered the contest in the guise of Larry Willard. Thayer freshman, and came away with the $25 first prize money.
KU rule contest winner charged with breaking rule
"He obviously broke the rules," Loucks, Satanta senior, said. "All we can do is talk to him to see if he will give the money back. We won't take any legal steps to force him to give it back, though."
Harvey Loucks, a Tau Beta Pi member and the originator of the slide rule contest, was shocked when informed of the fraud Thursday night.
ciety for engineering students.
Loucks said the $25, if returned, would be used as prize money in a similar contest planned for next semester.
And the second place finisher, Hamed Lias, Tobruk, Libya sophomore, did not not know what to think. Maybe organized crime does exist after all.
Priorities must be established. The proposed humanities building, Satellite Union and hospital improvements all clamor for attention.
How they are to be funded is a question that must be answered. With a projected enrollment in September 1970 of 2,100 more students than in September 1968, "There is no way we can squeeze them all into our present buildings," Heller said.
Aid for building can come in the form of state revenues, student fees or endowment giving, and some projects lend themselves more readily to one form than to others. Chalmers said. For example, he said, student fees are more acceptable in building a student union—which exists primarily for the student and provides him non-academic services—than in building classroom and laboratory facilities, which are necessary for education as garnered at KU.
Student health facilities, he indicated, lie in a grazer area between service and necessity.
Watkins Director Raymond Schwegler said, "Everyone knows we're way outgunned. We haven't anything near the facilities we need."
Hospital business offices will be housed in a temporary structure to allow more room to treat patients, but the measure is obviously temporary.
When a comprehensive report on the University situation can be formulated in statistics to be measured against established national norms, then the problems will be clearly delineated, Heller said. Then the University will no longer be in a position of appealing to the Kansas Legislature with open hands, saying: "We need more money!" The proof can be handed to the legislators and they can evaluate the needs of the University on the basis of concrete facts.
As Brad Smoot, Sterling sophomore and a committee member, said, the subcommittee of the Board dealing with the hospital situation has noted that "a significant amount of money" will be needed to improve health facilities at KU.
Halls plan exam rests
A chancellor's forum, sponsored by the Association of University Residence Halls (AURH) has been scheduled for 7 p.m. Jan. 12 in Lewis Hall. Plans for the forum were announced Wednesday evening at the meeting of the AURH council in the Oliver Hall cafeteria.
The council discussed having bridge tournaments between halls, and decided that a tournament will be held in each hall, and a playoff, sometime before the end of the semester, will decide the hall championship.
A social committee composed of all the social chairmen of the halls, their representatives, was created. This group will be known as the board of residence hall social chairmen.
The council made plans for a graffiti contest. Graffiti boards will be put up on each wing of each residence hall. At the end of the final exam period, an award will be given for the best board in each hall and for the best board overall.
Recruiting plan for blacks posed
A program to recruit 15 black students from Kansas City area high schools has been proposed by the School of Engineering and the departments of mathematics, physics, chemistry and English. Funds are being sought to provide scholarship aid for the students for the 1970 summer term.
The program, outlined in a prospectus being sent to businesses in this region, was designed by a group of black students in the School of Engineering. It proposes developing the abilities of high school graduates who have shown an interest in science or mathematics in high school, but who, because of limited money or inferior educational standards in their high schools, are not planning to go to college.
The first group is scheduled to attend special non-credit classes next summer. The courses will be identical to those required of all students planning to enter the engineering programs. The students will live in University residence halls.
The anticipated $4,500 cost of the program is expected to be covered by businesses in the Kansas City area.
Group advocates peace presents
"Have Peace for Christmas" suggests the Student Mobilization Committee (SMC).
The SMC is recommending that students tell their friends and relatives not to buy them Christmas gifts. Instead, the money should be sent to a peace organization fund.
Chris Clifford, Lawrence freshman, said that because the SMC did not have such a fund set up, it was suggesting that money be sent to the American Friends Service Committee Christmas Fund.
The SMC is also advocating that gift money be sent to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Mississippi Emergency Relief Fund.
CZECH SHORTAGES
PRAGUE (UPI)—Czechoslovakia, a traditional exporter of matches, now imports them from Austria. Instead of exporting coal as in the past, the country currently imports large amounts from Poland.
Czechoslovakia is the home of Pilsner and other beers, but restaurants and bars often go for three and four days at a time without beer. One Prague young people's magazine even carried personal advertisements of people looking for second hand blue jeans.