THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
80th Year, No.1
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, Sept. 11, 1969
Chalmers installation planned for Monday
Chalmers, formerly vice-president for academic affairs of Florida State University, was selected last winter by the Kansas Board
E. Laurence Chalmers, Jr., will be installed as the 11th chancellor of the University of Kansas at 11 a.m. Monday in Allen Field House during the 104th annual opening convocation.
All Monday morning classes will be shortened to a half-hour so the regular 11:30 a.m. period will be ended by 10:40 a.m. in time for the installation.
of Regents to succeed Dr. Vl. Clarke Wescoe as chancellor.
The program will consist of:
of the faculty procession, invocation,
introduction by Governor Robert
Docking, investiture of the chancellor by Thomas G. Griffith of Manhattan, chairman of the Kansas Board of Regents, an address by Chancellor Chalmers, and music by the concert band.
BDA hears appeals
The KU Board of Disciplinary Appeals has heard appeals from 29 of the students who were suspended from the University for their parts in the activities on May 9, which led to the cancellation of the scheduled ROTC review. In 25 of the cases the original decision to suspend the student was upheld.
The address by Chancellor Chalmers will be his first public statement to the University community, and his first opportunity to set forth his philosophy and plans.
In three cases, the appeals group concluded the findings were not adequately supported by the evidence on record and in these cases the penalty was modified from suspension to disciplinary probation.
In one case, the Board of Disciplinary Appeals found that the established procedures had not been fully observed and in this case the original penalty was modified from suspension to disciplinary probation.
Acting Provost Francis H. Heller said two of the four students whose suspensions have been lifted are Daniel R. Harkness, Forbes Air Force Base senior and Norma Showelter, Tucson, Ariz., junior.
The other two students had requested their cases be heard in private and their names have not been previously released and therefore are not being made public now.
Under the provisions of the KU Senate Code, the Board of Disciplinary Appeals does not retry cases but decides only whether the Disciplinary Board had jurisdiction, whether the student had been given a fair hearing and whether the decision is adequately supported by the record of the hearings.
Chalmers, 41, was graduated cum laude from Princeton University in 1948 and three years later received the Ph.D. degree. He remained as an instructor at Princeton one year, then became a research psychologist at Lowry Air Force Base, Denver, Colo., for five years before going to Florida State.
Chemistry professor given $16,000 grant
A $16,000 one-year grant from the National Science Foundation to Dr. John A. Landgrebe, associate professor of chemistry at the University of Kansas, will finance continued research into "divalent carbon intermediates."
Normally carbon is bonded to four other atoms, Prof. Landgrebe explained.
All across the nation
Students flooded the KU campus this week, along with books and baggage to begin moving into residence halls, apartments, and Greek houses. After the aches and pains of moving in had subsided, students began to prepare for enrollment and the first day of classes. Enrollment began Wednesday, with classes opening for 1969-70 at 7:30 a.m. Monday.
(Staff photos by Randy Leffingwell and Ron Bishop)
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. paused during the Chancellor's reception Monday and inadvertently entertained his guests as he shook a stone from his shoe. Or maybe he was just checking to see if he was starting out on the right foot?
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