Photos by Halina Pawl
Highlights of KU's 57th Homecoming
The University of Kansas' Homecoming Day 1969 was bright and beautiful at Memorial Stadium despite KU's 17-14 loss to the University of Colorado. Jan Merrick, Prairie Village senior representing Chi Omega sorority, was crowned Homecoming Queen by Gov. Robert Docking, top left. Clark E. Bricker, professor of chemistry and recipient of the 1969 HOPE award, top right, viewed the game attired in his senior hat and sweatshirt. Bottom right, the Black Student Union queen, Lorene Brown, Value, Miss., freshman, and her attendants, Annie Dennis, Wichita sophomore, and Frances Robinson, Kansas City junior, were driven around the field at halftime, following their pre-game crowning ceremony.
The University of Kansas-Lawrence, Kansas Monday, Nov. 10, 1969
Doctors OK moon trio
CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) Doctors performed a last major medical examination on the three Apollo 12 astronauts Sunday and pronounced them in tip-top physical condition for a takeoff next Friday on America's second moon' landing mission.
"They are in excellent spirits and eager to fly," reported chief astronaut physician Dr. Charles A. Berry after the 3.5-hour checkup given Charles "Pete" Conard, Richard F. Gordon and Alan L. Bean.
"They are properly rested and in good health, with no evidence by laboratory or clinical examination of any infectious disease which might interfere with the launch." Berry said.
The moonbound trio spent the afternoon relaxing in the crew
quarters at the spaceport and reviewing the flight plan for the 10-day mission.
At the launch pad Sunday, ground crews resumed the countdown after a 31-hour rest period and began pumping oxygen and helium into the moonship poised atop the huge Saturn 5 booster. The oxygen is for the astronauts to breathe in space and the helium is used to pressurize fuel tanks in both the command ship, Yankee Clipper, and the moon lander, nicknamed Intrepid.
Apollo 12 is scheduled to blast off at 10:22 a.m. CST Friday. Conrad and Bean are due to land Intrepid on the moon's Ocean of Storms at 12:53 p.m. Nov. 19, while Bean stays aboard Yankee Clipper in lunar orbit. All three
return to earth for a Pacific Ocean splashdown Nov. 24.
Besides making certain the astronauts are healthy, the medical examinations gathered data to be compared with the results of similar tests after the pilots return to earth.
The initial moon landing carried out by the Apollo 11 crew in July showed no evidence that organisms exist on the moon. But biologists are taking no chances. They have carefully catalogued the organisms common to the astronauts' systems so that they will quickly know about any alien bugs they might bring back.
Conrad, Gordon and Bean are already in a semi-quarantine which limits their exposure to personnel not essential to their launch preparations.
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Nonmilitary funds cut
WASHINGTON = Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield says the Defense Department will be "violating the law" if it spends one penny from future funds on nonmilitary research. Last year it spent $400 million in this field.
Troops on combat alert
MANILA — The government put its 54,000-man armed forces on combat alert today in an effort to quell election campaign violence already accountable for 43 deaths.
The 30,000 U.S. servicemen stationed in the Philippines were asked to stay on their bases until Wednesday, the day after the voting.
SALT talks begin
WASHINGTON—Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir S. Semenov, 67, will head the Soviet delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) with the United States, it has been learned.
The SALT negotiations begin in Helsinki next Monday.
--other institutions in the Big Eight, the Big Ten and independent universities; second, the tuition charges for A.L.'s be dropped.
Low salaries plague assistant instructors
(Editors' note: This is the first of two articles on the financial plight of graduate students teaching at the University of Kansas. The second article will appear in Tuesday's Kansan.)
By CRAIG PARKER
Kansan Staff Writer
Assistant instructors and teaching assistants at the University of Kansas received a $100 raise in salary this year, the first raise since 1966.
Graduate students have been trying to improve their financial status for several years. The most concerted effort made to improve salaries recently was by the Student Association of Graduates in English (SAGE).
The SAGE report, which was submitted to former Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, said, "The salary currently offered to assistant instructors has never been and is not now adequate to meet basic living costs."
In Fall, 1967, SAGE prepared a detailed report about the history of salaries for assistant instructors (A.I.'s) and about KU salaries in comparison to other universities'.
Although this report was compiled two years ago, nearly all the information in it is still applicable to present salary levels.
The 1967 SAGE report asked that two improvements be made: first, salaries be increased to a level offered by
From 1960 to 1967, salaries of beginning A.I.'s rose $300. But the annual increase in fees consumed 30 per cent of that salary increase for the average graduate student.
For the current school year, A.I.'s salaries range from a low of $2,400 to the top salary of $3,200. For teaching assistants the low is $2,300 and the high is $3,100. The SAGE report noted for 1967-1968, of the 113 A.I.'s in the English department, only six received above $2,400.
There are many sides to the
Most graduate students agree with Phil Weiss, Western Civilization instructor, who said, "Everybody agrees that salaries are bad; everybody is sympathetic, but they all say 'We don't have any money.'"
problem of salaries for A.I.'s.
Weiss said because of the low salaries, most A.I.'s and T.A.'s have to go into debt to live. He referred to this as the "graduate student syndrome."
The report said the average total amount borrowed is
The SAGE report said, "One-half of the A.I.'s sampled have incurred indebtedness. The amount increases dramatically with every year spent in graduate school."
The report also noted, of all the A.I.'s sampled, only two were able to save money without some outside source of income. In both of those cases the total amount saved was less than $100.
When talking with graduate students who are handling teaching duties, one often hears the complaint the Regents are getting away with "cheap help" or "slave labor."
$1,757. Some of it is borrowed to pay tuition costs.
In Spring, 1969, A.I.'s comprised about 40 per cent of the KU teaching staff.
Assistant instructors at KU have full responsibility for the
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