Chalmers Spends Summer on Tour
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. spent most of his summer touring Kansas and meeting University of Kansas alumni. Chalmers spoke at 33 alumni meetings held throughout the state of Kansas during the summer months. Vince Bilotta, field director for the KU Alumni Association, said the tour would be completed in October. Chalmers will have spoken to a total of 37 alumni groups.
Bilotta said the meetings were set up through the voluntary efforts of alumni representatives in different regions of Kansas. He coordinated the speaking tour for the Alumni Association.
Dick Wintermote, director or the Alumni Association, estimated that approximately five thousand alumni members, parents of KU students, school officials and state officials attended the meetings. He said many of the meetings were sold out, and the crowd size averaged two to three times that of a regular alumni meeting.
According to Wintermote, the idea for the speaking tour originated with Chalmers' desire to meet Kansans from all over the state. It was arranged by the Alumni Association to allow interested persons an opportunity to ask the chancellor questions about the events of last spring at KU. Most questions dealt with
the Kansas Union fire last April,
the "Day of Alternatives" in May,
and the disturbances in Lawrence in July and August.
Accompanying Chalmers on the tour were Bilotta, Wintermote, Steve Clark, assistant director of the Alumni Association, John Conard, director of University Relations, and Jim Nichols, Hiawatha, senior class president.
Nichols said he was very impressed with the response of the alumni groups. He said "many key, influential people" were reached by the program. He also said he believed these people gained a greater understanding of the campus situation at KU which they would pass on to others in discussion.
Maurice Barker, director of the Endowment Association's Programs for Progress, said the chancellor's appearance at the alumni meetings had resulted "in gift support which might not otherwise have been received by the University." He said he felt this was due to the enthusiasm and understanding which alumni members had gained from the meetings with Chalmers.
Wintermote summarized the program by saying its true significance rested in the "informality of the meetings and the frankness of the questions that have been asked."
Book Written in Prison Soon To Be Released
"The Devil's Front Porch," the only book ever authorized and written behind the walls of the Kansas State Penitentiary, will be released Sept. 13.
Tracing progress and reforms at the penitentiary from its founding in 1864 to present time, the book was written by Lester Douglas Johnson, who spent 30 years as an inmate in the prison at Lansing. It will be published by the University Press of Kansas.
"The Devil's Front Porch" serves as a historical document in its examination of the system used for handling convicted felons that caused Lansing to become one of the most feared and hated prisons in the country. In the book, Johnson also questions the basic concepts of imprisonment as rehabilitation and capital punishment as a crime deterent.
Benefit Ball Goes Biennial
The Benefit Ball for the University of Kansas Museum of Art, an annual event since 1965, will become biennial and next be held in 1971.
Profts of the ball, which was organized by Mrs. W. Clark Wescoe, had been used each year to add one or more items to the museum's collections.
The ball will now become the opening event for a general membership drive to be held every other year, said Bret Waller, museum director.
ADA Vote Score
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The 1970 voting record of Kansas senators on 20 issues compiled by the Americans for Democratic Action (100 would be a perfect ADA score): Kansas—Dole 10, Pearson 20.
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Accounts of some of the most colorful and infamous criminals in Midwestern history, including Freddie Barker (one of "Ma" Barker's sons), Wilbur Underhill and Bill La Trasse are also to be found in the book.
Johnson was released from prison in the fall of 1968. He has since worked for The Pictorial Times in Topeka writing a weekly historical column, "Echoes of the Past." He often speaks to service clubs and church groups and is an honorary member of the West Topeka Kiwanis Club Speaker's Bureau.
KU Grades Increase in Year Period
The all-University grade point average for the spring 1970 semester showed a .29 increase over that of the spring 1969 semester, according to the organized group scholarship report compiled by the office of the registrar. The 1969 average was 1.62, and the 1970 average was 1.91.
A spokesman in the dean of men's office speculated that students' grades may have been raised when they took advantage of the grading alternatives offered to them last spring.
William Balfour, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, said he had no figures on what effects final examinations had on grades, but agreed that students might have been helped by choosing the options.
The credit-no credit system allowed students to receive credit hours, but prevented grades lower than "C" from being averaged into their grade average figure, according to Balfour.
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