Senate vote retains ROTC
By TED ILIFF Kansan Staff Writer
The University Senate voted Thursday night to keep ROTC at KU under temporary supervision of a ROTC committee.
Acting on a recommendation by the University Council, the senate substituted the proposed ROTC Board with a ROTC committee appointed by the Senate Executive committee with membership and responsibilities decided by the University Council.
The council had recommended that an ROTC Board of four students, four faculty, and the three ROTC branch chairmen, be established to oversee the curriculum and faculty of the ROTC department.
G. Baley Price, professor of mathematics and chairman of a committee that studied ROTC for nine months, asked the University Council recommendations be passed subject to two changes.
One was that the permanent ROTC Board be scrapped for a temporary ROTC committee chosen from the University Council to give a report on
the status of ROTC in the fall of 1971. The report would deal with integration of ROTC courses into regular University departments and elimination of "credit for courses in military drill, discipline and orientation."
The other change asked that the committee dissolve in the fall of 1971, with ROTC being "the first order of business for the Senate."
An amendment by Howard Kahane, professor of philosophy, asked that ROTC courses not be integrated into University departments and that their credit be dropped. Charles Oldfather, law professor and senate chairman, ruled the amendment out of order because the senate has no jurisdiction over allotment of course credit.
Dennis Embry, Great Bend junior, appealed the decision, but the senate voted to overrule the appeal.
After the question was called several times, the senate voted 171 to 116 to pass the motion as it was submitted by Price.
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, Oct. 31, 1969
Regent quits post on conflict charge
By KENNETH CUMMINS Kansan Staff Writer
TOPEKA—Conflict of interest charges were filed in Shawnee County District Court this morning against Vincent Bogart, who resigned from the Kansas Board of Regents Thursday.
Bogart, a close friend of Gov. Robert Docking, resigned at Docking's request because of the allegations of conflict of interest. The allegations stem from investigations by the Attorney General's office. The investigation was turned over to Shawnee County Attorney Gene Olander for prosecution.
A warrant for Bogart's arrest
was issued at the same time charges were filed.
John Ivan, executive assistant to the governor, said the allegation stemmed from the alleged failure by Bogart to file a disclosure of interest statement in a case in which he reportedly appeared before the state parole board.
"State law requires a public official who appears in behalf of a person, or intercedes for a person, before a state officer to file a disclosure statement," Ivan said.
Bogart, a Wichita attorney, reportedly was involved in a pardon application last July in behalf of Leon Smithherman, formerly of Kinsley, now living in Denver. Smithherman was convicted on
three counts of grand larceny in October 1969, and sentenced to the Kansas State Penitentiary. He was released from prison Dec.23, 1961, and discharged from parole Dec.20, 1963.
When asked if he had made such an application Bogart declared "I did not."
Bogart, who had been appointed to the Board of Regents by Docking in January 1969, said he had been advised some time ago by the Board of Pardon and Parole that the application had been withdrawn.
He said he resigned in order to be free from obligations to the Board of Regents in pursuing his defense against any charges.
Med Center designs change in curriculum
The major features are a shortened basic science core, immediate exposure to patient care, experience in community medicine in areas of the state of Kansas away from the Medical Center, and vastly increased flexibility for the student.
By MARY QUINN
Kansan Staff Writer
Medical students at the University of Kansas Medical Center may have one year added to their professional lives.
The faculty of the KU School of Medicine overwhelmingly approved a curriculum change allowing students taking a four year doctor of medicine degree to complete it in three.
The curriculum committee, authorized by the faculty, will develop details of the new plan. The faculty also requested a study committee to carefully evaluate the additional needs for faculty
"If these additional needs are extensive," said Dr. George A. Wolf Jr., dean and provost of the Medical Center, "the resources required will be requested in future Medical Center budgets." Dr. Wolf emphasized that the entire plan is subject to the approval of the Kansas Board of Regents.
and other resources to effectively implement the changes.
The date for initiating the new plan is undetermined, according to Dr. Wolf. He said, "If most students avail themselves of the opportunity to graduate after three calendar years of medical study, there will be a significant saving in time required for education in the very productive years in students' lives, as well as graduation of 250 physicians in the third year after implementation of the program."
"I have confidence in our system of justice and feel confident I will be totally exonerated from alleged wrongdoing. I know the people of Kansas will not prejudge me and I feel that I can best
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The union put this proposition to Ge negotiators at a Wednesday meeting, a UE spokesman revealed Thursday.
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U.S. gives 13 patrol boats
NEW YORK — The United Electrical Workers Union (UE) says it wants to use an agreement it reached earlier this week with the Westinghouse Air Brake Co. of Pittsburgh as the "floor" from which to negotiate in the General Electric Company (GE) strike
Steps taken to end strike
Since that day, with no apparent progress in the negotiations, military spokesmen have reported 10,111 Americans killed and 67,171 wounded in Vietnam battle.
Both developments came on the first anniversary of former President Lyndon B. Johnson's announcement he was stopping the bombing of North Vietnam so full-scale peace talks could start in Paris.
SAIGON—The U.S. military command gave South Vietnam 13 ocean-going patrol boats today and said 300 American paratroopers would leave for home Saturday as part of the "Vietnamization" of the war.
The replacement of the Alliance, a disassociation from political obligations and a denunciation of extreme nationalism in Latin America probably will be part of a wide-sweeping U.S. policy Nixon is expected to announce.
WASHINGTON—President Nixon may announce Friday night the death of the Alliance for Progress in the form in which it was originated by President John F. Kennedy.
Nixon may end Alliance
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