THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
80th Year, No.32
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, Oct. 28, 1969
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Israelis cast votes
JERUSALEM—Israelis went to the polls today to elect a new parliament, some casting their ballots in bulletproof booths. Polls forecast a sweep for Premier Golda Meir's coalition government and its "no retreat" policy toward the arabs.
About 1.5 million persons were eligible to vote in the first national election since the 1967 Middle East War and the seventh in the nation's 21-year history.
Brandt seeks talks
BONN—Chancellor Willy Brandt said today West German recognition of East Germany is "out of the question." But Brandt proposed negotiations with the neighboring Communist regime on establishing closer ties.
Brandt also said his government was prepared to begin talks with Russia on the mutual renunciation of the use of force.
Scott predicts an OK
WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leader Hugh Scott, although still undecided how he'll vote himself, predicted Monday that Judge Clement F. Haynsworth Jr. will win Senate confirmation to the Supreme Court.
But his counterpart, Democratic leader Mike Mansfield, said of the embattled nomination "it's a toss-up-like the ABM."
Mail exchange planned
CHICAGO—The North Vietnamese will soon begin channeling mail from American prisoners of war to their families through the peace movement in the United States, the chief defense lawyer for the "Chicago Eight" says.
The attorney, William Kunstler of New York, returned Monday from a meeting with North Vietnamese representatives in Paris.
Kunstler told a news conference he believed the proposal made by the North Vietnamese also would include the names of U.S. POWs and some details of their condition.
Chalmers favors student evaluation of KU faculty
By JULIE THATCHER
Kansan Staff Writer
Advancement of University faculty members should include consideration of student reaction and feedback, E. Laurence Chalmers, chancellor of the University of Kansas, told the Kansan Monday.
"If this feedback is not considered," he said, "somebody is not doing their job properly. Student opinion is absolutely essential in evaluating teaching."
Chalmers said students were the only source of some information such as redundancy within courses.
He said there was no single best way to incorporate student judgment and suggested several possibilities. Some schools, he said, question majors in the department. Others send out an evaluation questionnaire to all students.
One of the goals of the University Planning Committee, he said, was to determine a new basis of financial support.
"The only proper procedure is to determine a criterion group other than student population. This may be other state universities who belong to the Association of American Universities or those institutions awarding more than 100 doctoral degrees a year."
He said each area of the University should compile a detailed list of needs. These would include, he said, details such as the
desired ratio of faculty time spent in instruction and research as well as the square feet of physical space a janitor can maintain.
The Chancellor said he expected the report to reveal a lack of buildings and funds. "Any reasonable criterion will show this deficit in any area," he said.
He said he expected the legislature to respond to a carefully prepared program. "With a detailed justification of requests, it would not be possible for the legislature to make cuts without seeing what would be affected."
Now they will be able to fund public education in terms of highly specific details, he said.
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No GIs killed in Viet lull
SAIGON (UPI)—No Americans were reported killed in Vietnam battle action during the last 24 hours, the U.S. military said today. A spokesman said it was the first time no fatalities were listed in the daily report since the Vietnam buildup started in 1965.
U. S. spokesmen said the lack of reported fatalities did not mean, however, that no Americans died during the period. "We do not report men killed by mines or booby traps, so the casualties could be higher," one noted.
Only one American serviceman was reported wounded Monday. He was injured in a skirmish near the Cambodian border, about 66 miles northwest of Saigon.
A spokesman for the U.S. milli-
One to reign over homecoming
Three KU coeds have been selected as finalists for homecoming queen. They are, from left to right, Janet Merrick, Prairie Village senior, representing Chi Omega, Candice Heavin, Overland Park senior, representing McCollum Hall and Nancy Watson, Kansas City, Mo., senior representing Lewis Hall.
tary command said he was unable to determine the last time when no fatalities were listed in the daily war communique, and said he was certain that there had been at least one U.S. soldier killed every day since the Vietnam buildup started in 1965.
U. S. forces fought four battles since dawn Monday killing 37 communists. All of the fighting erupted along infiltration routes northwest of Saigon.
Military sources said that North Vietnamese and Viet Cong commanders have massed 60,000 men north of Saigon for an offensive
expected to begin between Nov. 15 and Nov. 20,
The timetable for the November offensive was based on captured documents and interrogation of war prisoners.
The war has been in a lull since Sept. 17 and although the level of combat has increased in the past week there was no general break Monday, according to communiques from the U.S. Command. Battle reports said Allied troops killed 173 Communist soldiers Sunday and Monday in action that cost one American killed and 16 wounded.
Band Day to mark 25th anniversary
By MONROE DODD Kansan Staff Writer
On a blustery October day in 1939, 30 high school bands from across Kansas congregated in Lawrence to perform the national anthem en masse at the first University of Kansas Band Day.
Saturday, 7,416 exuberant high school bandsmen, some of them the sons and daughters of those original musicians, will swarm onto the campus for the 25th edition of the annual halftime spectacular.
They represent 85 Kansas and Missouri bands that will march down Massachusetts Street in the 9 a.m. parade, then form the letters,"KU 69," in ranks at halftime of the Kansas-Oklahoma State football game.
Topeka High School, 190 strong will be there, as will Wichita Heights and Shawnee Mission North, South, East and Northwest.
But the big-city schools don't have a monopoly on the day.
The festivities will also bring a group from Oakley, whose 70 musicians must travel nearly the length of Kansas to participate, and bands from towns with such picturesque but obscure names as Quenomo, Onaga, Hoxie, Lebo, Esbon, Yates Center and Pretty Prairie.
The Saturday morning parade, led by the KU marching band, will move along Massachusetts Street from 7th to 12th Streets.
The bands then will go to Memorial Stadium for a single rehearsal before the halftime performance. At halftime the combined bands, their drum majors and majorettes lining the field, will follow band day organizer and KU Band Director Kenneth G. Bloomquist in "The Stars and Stripes Forever" and "This is My Country."
The "Battle Hymn of the Re-
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