Cooler
Variable cloudiness with east to northeast winds five to 15 miles per hour and not quite so warm today. Locally cooler tonight with little change in temperature. High today upper 80s to lower 90s; low tonight in the upper 60s. High Wednesday upper 80s to mid 90s. Precipitation probabilities 20 percent today.
Pepper's Optimistic
81st Year, No. 2
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Monday, August 31, 1970
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Kansan Staff Photo
Gay Liberation Leader Stresses Point at Sunday Forum
. . . members of Minnesota group discuss goals with KU Front
Enrollment Size Unknown
BULLETIN
Preliminary enrollment for the University of Kansas now stands at 17,169. At this time last year the figure was almost the same, 17,020.
William Kelly, registrar, said today, that late enrollments would probably number 600, but that this figure was hard to predict. The official projection of enrollment is 17,800.
This number is 300 more than last year but about 500 less than was projected a year ago.
Medical enrollment was 1.420
last year, and 1,425 is projected by Kelly for this year.
Despite predictions of lagging enrollment at the University of Kansas, the final verdict won't be determined for about a week.
Vice-chancellor Francis H. Heller said Sunday enrollment would probably fall short of the number of students the University was budgeted for.
"But we are dealing with an element of uncertainty because of the new early enrollment," Heller said.
Regents Investigate Hiring Procedures
Closed hearings were held Friday in Lawrence by a fourmember-subcommittee of the Kansas Board of Regens investigating the hiring procedures of University administrative personnel.
The investigations were ordered at the July 26 meeting of the Regents after the Board unanimously voted to instruct the Chancellor to remove Gary D. Jackson as assistant to the dean of men.
Jackson, hired in an attempt to fill demands by the Black Student Union (BSU) for black representation in administration, purchased 27 boxes of ammunition July 17 in Topeka with a BSU check, according to a report by the Topeka Police Department.
Regent Jess Stewart of Wamego, chairman of the subcommittee, said the hearings dealt with general policies and procedures in hiring. A report of the hearings will be made by the subcommittee to the Board at a regular meeting Sept. 18.
Stewart said the report will "serve to clarify procedures and serve as information for
the entire Board." He said he did not know if the report would be made public.
The hearings were closed to the press and the public, Stewart said, because at some points the hearings dealt with discussions of individuals and the subcommittee wanted to "protect the positions" of those individuals.
Francis Heller, vice chancellor for academic affairs, one of the administrators who met with the subcommittee, briefly outlined the hiring procedure Saturday for the Kansan. He said appointments were made by the Chancellor on the authority of the Board, but the various departments have the initiative in recommending the candidates.
Heller said general guidelines were established for the use of the departments.
"We don't know how to guess our late enrollment, and until those figures are available, we don't know how far below our expectations we are."
William Balfour, vice chancellor for student affairs, the first administrator to meet with the subcommitee, said requirements for the hiring of an individual varied depending on the field. He said references, work records, education and recommendations were taken into consideration.
The enrollment figure from last week's registration was not released Sunday night, but Heller said the number was "close to last year's total of 17,020 after three days of enrollment in the Kansas Union."
Last year 560 students enrolled late on the Lawrence campus.
"One could assume we will have more late enrollments because of the early start, but we have no experience in estimating for this situation," Heller said.
KU Medical Center students are enrolling today, so total enrollment for both campuses won't be known until the Medi-
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Cites 'Hypocrisy'
Gay Lib Gets No Response On Request
By CASS PETERSON Assistant Editor
The Lawrence Gay Liberation Front remains officially unrecognized as a student organization nearly a year and a half after its appearance at KU.
Until the front gains official recognition as a student organization, the group is not eligible to request funds from student activity fees to support its programs.
William Balfour, dean of student affairs, through whose office petitions for recognition are filed, said the group had filed a complete request for recognition. The only requisite yet unfulfilled by the group is that of securing a faculty sponsor.
Dave Stout, Rolla senior and coordinator of the Front, indicated the organization would seek such funds if it were accorded official recognition.
The problem of gaining official recognition and the goals of the organization were discussed at a meeting Sunday in the Kansas Union, attended by the chairman of the National Gay Liberation Alliance and representatives of a gay liberation organization at the University of Minnesota.
National chairman Jim Chesebro, who is also the coordinator of the FREE: Gay Liberation Front at the University of Minnesota, stressed the importance of attaining "gay pride" within the organization. He listed the major goals of the gay liberation movement as being recognition, understanding, equal rights and achievement of an identity that was "not established by straights."
In his explanation of the last goal, Chesebro cited the case of the stereotyped "queens," or effeminate homosexuals, who in actuality, he said, comprise only 15 per cent of gay people.
According to statistics compiled by researchers—Chesebro cited "Pomeroy and Kinsey"—it was likely that 680 KU students, 2 members of the administration and 8 members of the state legislature were gay, Chesebro said.
Chesebro was accompanied by three other members of the gay liberation organization at the University of Minnesota. Two of them, Jack Baker and Mike McConnell, are battling Minnesota common law in the courts in an effort to acquire a marriage license.
Baker said the application for a license was refused on the grounds that a marriage between persons of the same sex violated Minnesota common law, though written law did not preclude such marriages.
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Kansan Photo by Ron Bishop
Reconstruction
Members of Kappa Sigma fraternity probably will move back into their fire-damaged house late second semester after repairs, begun
about one week ago, are completed. Dave Steen,
president, said the final damage estimate was
$250,000 in losses to contents and building plus
about $60,000 in personal losses to fraternity
members. Steen said the fraternity pledged the
anticipated number despite the difficulties.