University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Sept. 22, 1970
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Endowment Fund Gets Large Bequest
The University of Kansas Endowment Association announced today that it had received a bequest of more than $300,000 from the estate of Letha Churchill Walker.
Irvin E. Youngberg, executive secretary of the association, said that four funds would be established with the money.
Half of the amount will endow the Letha Churchill Walker Memorial Art Fund. The income from the fund is to be used for the purchase primarily
of original landscape water colors.
The other half of the bequest will be used to establish three scholarship funds: the Letha Churchill Walker Art Scholarship, the Estelle S. Churchill Music Scholarship and the Oliver D. Walker and Walter S. Churchill Electrical Engineering Scholarship.
The first scholarship awards, which are for second-year students, will be made for the 1971-72 academic year.
Hope Prize Bestowal Set for Homecoming
The 1970-71 Hope Award will be presented during half-time ceremonies of the Homecoming football game, Oct. 24.
Jim Nichols, senior class president from Hiawatha, announced Monday that the Hope Award, which is traditionally presented during half-time ceremonies of the Senior Day football game, will become part of the Homecoming ceremonies. Senior Day is scheduled for Oct. 17.
The postponement was the result of a request by the Homecoming committee in an effort to make the ceremonies more relevant. Dick Wintormote, director of the University of Kansas Alumni Association and chairman of the Homecoming Committee, said, "As far as relevance to the University community, teaching
is it. The Hope Award combines the best of both."
Senior class officers and the chairman of the Hope Award committee, Dave Steen, Wichita senior, decided to introduce the five finalists for the award during half-time ceremonies of the Senior Day football game, Oct. 17.
The names of the finalists will be announced and voted on by the Senior Class at the Senior Coffee, Oct. 15.
Formal presentation of the award will be during the Homecoming ceremonies on Oct. 24.
Final selection for the award, Steen said, will be based on a combination of the committee's evaluation and the results of the vote taken at the Senior Coffee.
'Outbreak' Addition
(Editor's Note: The story in Monday's Kansan, headlined "Outbreak of Racial Fighting Occurs near Residence Halls," committed some important facts through no fault of the writer. Beginning with the fifth paragraph, the story should have read:)
"Shortly before midnight Friday, five white students got onto an elevator in McCollum which four black girls had just left. A black girl kept the door of the elevator from shutting, and a white man asked her if she would let the elevator go. Four of the five whites had been drinking.
"One of the black girls threw a lighted cigarette at the white man. He initiated a verbal exchange of obscenities. The black girl let the elevator go, and the whites went to one man's room.
"Less than five minutes later the black girls came to the white man's room with four black men. One white student said he thought that the black men were trying to calm down the situation and that the black girls were mad. He apologized to the blacks and tried to explain that his friend was drunk.
"Some of the whites began leaving the room. One white girl started crying and said, 'Oh, shut up,' to everyone.
"After the girl started crying, two black women started hitting her with their purses and said, 'Why are you crying? You don't have anything to cry about unless you're black.'
"No one interviewed saw whether the white man who made the first obscene remark was hit. He was surrounded by blacks when all except three whites left the room.
"His friends went to another room to try to calm down the girl who was crying. Bob Rozelle, resident director of McCollum, and a resident assistant,
"I was so drunk I didn't feel or remember anything,' the white man said. He said he did not feel sore, so he didn't think that he had been hit.
"About five minutes later a group of blacks appeared. 'A couple of punches were thrown,' one student said.
John Ryan, went into the room where the confrontation had occurred.
"I tried to apologize. I still would like to apologize," he said."
"The student who initiated the incident said that he would press no charges because he was not hurt and he did not know what had happened.
The remainder of the story,
from the paragraph beginning,
"The second incident occurred
... " was correct, according to
the reporter.
Tutoring One Facet of P-to-P
The goal of People-to-People is to promote interaction between American and foreign students, said Mettie Whipple, secretary of the organization, Monday.
Miss Whippe said the program "is a learning experience for both students, as Americans get a chance to meet and talk with students of other countries."
The tutoring program, one facet of the organization, furthers this goal because two students, one American and one foreign, get together and converse in English, she said, "They talk to together while they cook, shop, fish or participate in any other activity."
"Foreign students get a bi-cultural perspective about their own culture after living in the United States," she said. "This experience bridges the two cultures and Americans who take part in programs with the foreign students get a chance for the same experience."
The staff has very little time for each individual.
"People-to-People tries to take over where the staff ends," she said, "but even People-to-People needs more manpower to give ample time to the foreign students.
Students interested in the People-to-People "English-in-Action" tutoring program should contact the People-to-People office in the Kansas Union.
TONIGHT:
ALL YOU CAN DRINK. GIRLS FREE. GUYS $2.50
Yes folks, that's right—tonight, tonight, won't be just any night. . . Tonight, girls are liberated from the established financial obligations. Tonight, guys are liberated from the standard male bartenders. Yeah men, revishing FEMALES—pouring the student's favorite beverage (next to water??). And $2.50 isn't bad for five hours (7 to 12) of rousing recreative revelry centered around all those women who came in free. Of course, included in that price is ALL YOU CAN SIP, GULP, OR CHUG (is that a challenge or is THAT A CHALLENGE?!).
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THE STABLES