Student Senate sets first meeting
The KU Student Senate will hold its first meeting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Forum Room Kansas Union.
Dave Aubrey, Student Body President, said the senate will discuss the budget and elect a new student body vice-president.
Aubrey said the election was necessary due to Marilyn Bowman's suspension from KU. Miss Bowman had been elected vice-president in the general elections held last Spring, and was suspended in connection with the ROTC review last April.
Aubrey said candidates for vice-president must be current members of the Student Senate, and only three candidates had filed for the office. The candidates are: Collene Collins, Quanah, Tex., senior; Gus Dio Zerega, Wichita, special student; and Frank Zilm, St. Louis, Mo., senior.
Overland Park junior on probation
Jay Michael Ryan, 20-year-old Overland Park junior charged with third-degree arson in the May 18th fire at Templin Hall, was placed on three year's probation Saturday.
The fire, investigated by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the State Fire Marshal's office and local officers, caused approximately $2,500 damage. It was allegedly started by Ryan and David Douglas Wood, 20-year-old Amarillo, Tex., junior, in Templin's north elevator. Wood is also charged with third degree arson in the fire.
According to Douglas County Attorney Daniel Young and A. D. Davidson, local probation officer, the fire was a "spur of the moment thing" and certainly "not planned." Both men stressed the fire was in no way connected with campus activists.
Wood, who has not yet entered a plea and is free on a $1,500 bond, will be tried in November.
Enrollment at KU may top 18,500
More than 18,500 students will be enrolled at the University of Kansas this fall, William L. Kelly, registrar, reported today.
The 1969 enrollment count was 18.356 as classes began, and long lines of late enrollees are expected to push the total for both campuses to 18.600 or more, for an increase of 4.3 per cent over last year's enrollment.
There are 17,020 students on the Lawrence campus, an increase of 728 over the record 1968 figure, and 1,336 students at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, up 21 from last year.
The male-female ratio on the Lawrence campus is 1.49 to 1, with 10.192 men and 6.828 women. Last year's ratio was 1.53 to 1.
Headstart needs students' help
Headstart, the program geared to give underprivileged children a better start in life, needs student volunteers to help the teachers.
Three-to-five-year-old children go to the Headstart center to learn what an average home life would be like. Student assistants help teach children number concepts, colors and the alphabet. The children learn from informal discussions about eating habits, simulated routines of an average household, art projects and other programs instigated by both teacher and assistant.
Students able to give their time to this work should contact the Headstart center, 925 Vermont, 842-2515. Mrs. Pollay will be at the Children's Hour Headstart center, 1505 Ohio, in the mornings only, 842-6123.
Theta Sigs receive award
The KU chapter of Theta Sigma Phi, women's honorary journalism sorority, was named winner of the Award for Excellence at the national convention in Pittsburgh last August. Five such awards were given.
Mrs. Mary Jane Snyder of Austin, Texas, vice-president in charge of student chapters, rated the KU chapter first in speaker programs. Walter Cronkite and Hal Boyle were among those who spoke here last year.
Three Lundquist scholars named
The scholarships, for students from McPherson county, were established by the will of Mrs. Ada Lundquist of McPherson to me-
Three McPherson students will hold Lundquist Scholarships for the 1969-70 academic year at the University of Kansas.
morialize her husband, W. E.
Lundquist. This year's awards
total more than $1,000.
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The Lundquist scholars will be Diana F. Christiansen, who will transfer from McPherson College; Greg H. Schlender, an entering freshman who also will have a Men's Residence Hall Scholarship; and Cynthia J. Weaver, a sophomore and holder of the Lundquist Scholarship last year.
Group recommends FTC's death
WASHINGTON (UPI) — A study group created by President Nixon recommended Monday the Federal Trade Commission be abolished unless it gets new leadership and dedicates itself to consumer protection and antitrust law enforcement.
"If change does not occur," the President was told, "there will be no substantial purpose to be served by its continued existence . . . The essential work to be done must then be carried on by other governmental institutions."
The devastating report on the
Weather
Cloudy and cooler today with showers or drizzle. Mostly cloudy tonight and Wednesday. Cooler tonight. East to northeast winds 10 mph through tonight. High today 70 to 75. Low tonight 55 to 60. Precipitation probabilities . . . 50 percent southeast, 20 percent northwest today. 30 percent tonight. 30 percent Wednesday.
dissension-torn 55-year-old agency was prepared by a 16-member American Bar Association commission organized at Nixon's request last April by Philadelphia lawyer Miles W. Kirkpatrick, then head of the FTC's antitrust law section.
It said a replacement for Chairman Paul Rand Dixon, whose see-
ond seven-year term runs to September, 1974, should be drawn from outside the five-member commission because there is an "urgent responsibility . . . to reunify the agency."
"Recent differences of view among commissioners have reached unusual levels," the report said.