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Monday. December 6, 1971
University Daily Kansan
Freshman Officers Plan Activities for Next Year
By DIANE CARR
Kansas Staff Writer
Rachel Haugen
Dalton Laughlin
Rich McLaughlin, freshman
and Rich McLaughlin, freshman
for president so he could promote
hawk involvement in campus
Two programs which he and the other freshman class officers thought were important at this time were the Students Concerned About Higher Education and Freshman Recruitment Programs.
The recruitment program for prospective KU freshmen was relevant. McLaughlin said, "The decrease in the number of decreasing each year."
"I know it will be a long-term project but I think it can be successful, and I would like my team to initiate it," McLaughlin explained.
The freshman class has a committee working on the project which plans to send
letters to all Kansas high schools ask students to visit KU. The committee has proposed a series of orientation weekends and guided tours during second and fourth grade school seniors who are interested.
Another freshman committee is working with the students Concerned About Higher Education It has talked to Rusty Leffel, Prairie Village second year law student and organizer of the group. He will represent on all the group's Finance forums.
"I think our representatives will contribute to this program and the results. It is important that we give our students the opportunity our class has the largest stake in the University, and this is for them," betterness, McGill University said.
Because freshman officers were elected only a month ago, they did not plan any activities
for this semester. The other freshman officers are Scott McFadden, vice president, Syracuse, Kan.; Jan Seymour, secretary, Wichita; and Pat Tresser, treasurer, Overland Park.
The officers recruited freshman to serve on the four major committees: social, projects, education and sports. Mr. McLaughlin said the officers received an overwhelming help in preparing freshmen to serve over 500 SVU students.
The social committee has planed a class party on Feb. 4, but planned to post it online. The speakers committee has been planning a speaker series. Speakers have been invited to speak, but have not made any definite arrangements with
Greeks Earn $700 At Card Marathon
Alpha Chi Omega sorority and
Acacia fraternity not only played
1,124 hands of spades but also
played 80 pairs of clubs at their
128-hour card marathon.
The marathon began at noon Monday and ended at 3 p.m. Saturday. The card table was set up at the entrance to Hillcress Hotel for the tournament temperatures ranged from 37 to 28 degrees.
The merchants pledged about $400. Most of the money donated by the public was from persons associated with the campus community, said Ken Harwood, a junior and chairman of the project.
The houses collected donations by asking Lawrence merchants to pledge a certain amount of money for each hour of the tournament. Contributions from the tournament are collected at the tournament site.
The project accomplished two
The three charities which will share the donations are the Lawrence Christmas Bureau, the Emergency Services Council, the
"We would also like to have speakers who would appeal to smaller groups which would be more appropriate for others or sports," said McLaughlin.
goals, according to Harwood. It earned a large sum of money for the charities and helped prove that people concerned about the community.
"I think our project helped the town下坡gap which is said to exist here," said Harwood.
The houses received two donations from Kansas City, three from Topeka and one from Tulsa. One woman drove from Topeka to give them her connection to Washburn University and was interested in starting a similar project there.
The houses plan to revive the project next fall since it was successful this year.
Acacia won the spades tournament with the final score of 45.184 Alpha Chi Omega had 43.009 points. Alpha Chi Omega played with a golden garden spade for winning the tournament.
"With more planning and a few changes we should be able to double our goal next year." Harwood said.
Pearson ...
"We must be concerned with our internal goals in order to realize our true part in politics," she said. "Senate Foreign Relation Committee, cited the U.S.'s role in the SALT talks, the winding down of the Vietnam war, and a 'new China policy' as examples of a rebound of new conditions" in the scope of international politics.
Pearson was optimistic about the influence of the 18-year-old vote on national issues.
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He said that national interests should no longer be defined in terms of commitment.
"Young voters alone could be instrumental on such issues as environmental protection," he said.
In an interview following his speech, Pearson refused to answer that would be opposed in 1972 by Gov. Robert Docking, the senator said, however, that his and Docking's views differed considerably, "always differed considerably."
The council aided 93 families during October. She said only six were evacuated and a counsellor counsels to send people to the welfare department or the Salvation Army, but some people could not be aided because of lack of food.
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October 1971 was the first October when the Salvation Army ran out of money, she said. Besides the cuts in most welfore checks, many people were cut off welfare roll altogether, she said.
Fast...
MOST OF THE people aided by the council have been white, she said, mostly, families and elderly people.
Miss Carlson said, the council
was formed by a group of ministers, service agencies and concerned citizens.
The office is in the Plymouth Congregational Church and the co-chairmen are Rev. Maynard Church, a Reverend Vern Sturns, Lawrence human relations director. She said there were about active members in the church that she was the only KU student.
She said another project the council was working on was one with the Lawrence gas suppliers to spread winter gas bill; they had been in the rear. She said Kansas City already had this plan.
The Phillips Petroleum Company awarded a $ 5,000 grant to the University of Kansas from the Company's Professional Council and the Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers, Jr., announced recently.
The committee is also considering a reversal of this sequence to offer people inside and outside the University an opportunity to become members of the freshman class. They would discuss such topics as what improvements can be made in dealing with incoming students and how they can help the University and the University can do for them.
KU Receives Phillips Grant
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Schools of Engineering, Law and Business during the 1971-1972 academic year.
Individual grants will be administered by deans and department heads for student employees and faculty expenses, fees for off-campus professional society meetings, expenses for visiting speakers and purchase of reference books and professional publications for students.
The Professional Development Fund was established in 1966 by Phillips. This is the sixth annual award Phillips has given KU.
Holt to Speak In SUA Series
John Holt, author of numerous controversial books about education, will speak at 8 p.m. in Woodland Auditorium in the Kansas Union
Holt believes that today's education systems have a lack of basic skills. He said this theory was formulated after serving as an educator for 17 years.
Holt is the author of How Children Fall, How Children Learn, The Underachieving School and What We Do Monday. Holt will speak to education clerics at the University lecture is sponsored by Student Union Activities and is open to he public. Admission is free.
People:
CUBAN PRIME MINISTER FIDEL CASTRO received a massive welcome home Sunday from several hundred thousand cheering, fang waving Cubans, Havana Radio reported. He was the first to visit Cuba and could consider highly successful visits to Chile, Peru and Ecuador.
SEOUL, South Korea—The South Korean government proclaimed a state of emergency Monday and told its people their constitutional freedoms may be restricted in order to maintain the national security. Information Minister Yoon Choo-Yong said the action was taken in view of "present developments," including the threat of an attack by United Nations and alleged war preparations by North Korea.
Places:
BELFAST, Northern Ireland—The highest death toll from a single act of violence in Northern Ireland in the past two years rose to 16 Sunday when another body was uncovered in the rubble of a bombed-out bar.
PINOM PENH, Cambodia - At least 100 Cambodians were killed or wounded in fighting Sunday and messages from the northwestern front said hundreds of Khmer soldiers died during last week's conflict. The United Nations report also threw into doubt Thom. In Vietnam missile sites in the North were reported to have fired on U.S. jets for the first time in nearly a month. And U.S. Air Force pilot Robert C. Seamans reported Hanoi is its airbase, bringing its air operations to the fore.
Chancellor Willy Brandt's government blamed East Germany for the deadlock in the talks onnerevising VISITS TO EAST BERLIN by citizens of West Berlin. The deadlock is holding up the initializing process of a new consortium between many and West Berlin. West Berlin is 110 miles inside East Germany.
Things:
U. S. Air Force Secretary Robert C. Seamans said that over the last year less than 15 per cent of enemy supplies entering the Ho Chi Minh City airport were supplied by American forces.
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Students in Debt to University Must Settle Before Enrollment
A new university policy requires a student to have students, students, have university financial obligations to take care of them before graduation.
Students with library or traffic fines, hospital bills, etc., will not be allowed to enroll for the next semester, according to William Kelly, Registrar, and chancellor for Student Affairs.
"I'm very concerned that the
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Formerly, students having
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Kelly explained that this procedure consumed time and energy for everyone. This action is necessary because of the university is consequently reverting to the policy used about six years ago.
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