Tuesday, December 12, 1972
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Lecture Series Find Few Speakers
University Daily Kansan
By MIKE BAUER
Kansan Staff Writer
The J. A. Vickers Sr. Memorial Lecture series has sent out 14 invitations to speakers this year, but Abba Eban, Israeli minister of foreign affairs, is only one who has ac-
Another major lecture series has been troubled by the same problem. The Kenneth A. Spencer Memorial Lecture for the first week of April 2033 will sponsor a speaker next semester.
The speaker will be Franklin Murphy, chancellor of the University of Kansas from 1961 to 1980 and chairman of the Times from 1982. He is scheduled to speak March 14, 1973.
BOTH SPEAKERS' series have been plagued by a lack of funds and a slow response to invitations extended by the committee which supervises both series.
John Conard, director of UHMW Relations which overlooks both programs, said the policy of the committee was to send out only a few students to each other if they were not send out as many as 20 letters at a time because they were afraid too many speakers might accept.
If more than one or two speakers a year accepted the invitations, Conard said, there would not be enough money in the Spencer and Vickers fund. Speakers in both lecture series were given $1,500 and traveling expenses, he said.
THERE ARE FEW speakers in the Spencer and Vickers' lectures because the committee is so selective that "the committee would invite, people it would like to invite," Conard said.
He said the committee was avoiding poll cutoff figures, which have long been the focus of the group, they appended two last year.
Former Democratic National Party chairman, Lawrence O'Brien and Republican national chairman Sen. Bob Dole spoke on campus last year as part of the series. The Vickers Lecture Series also featured a talk by the university's Adm. Elmo Zumwalt to campus.
THE VICKERS LECTURE Series was established in 1970 by the Vickers family of Wichita, to enable the University to bring campus prominent citizens to debate or discuss subjects vital to the maintenance of a free political and market society.
Clifford Clark, dean of the school of Business and a member of the Vickers and Spencer lecture committee, said, "My disappointment in the series is that not everyone agrees with the group; everyone agrees on the. The委员会 doesn't know what the students want."
"We can't seem to get the people," he said. He said the committee was trying to get the Soviet ambassador and a former prime minister to lecture in the series.
CONARD the committee had been trying to get SAH to speak on campus for students.
Clark attributed part of the problems of the two-year old program to organization. He said it would take three or four years to build up the lecture series.
The reason there have been no Spencer lectures, Clark said, is "the committee didn't meet. They really didn't have a meeting and call meetings and procedures are unclear."
He said the committee was just beginning to organize into a functioning body.
THE SPENCER LECTURE Series was started in 1960 by friends and relatives of Kenneth Spencer, industrialist and founder of Spencer Chemical Company. The series was established to bring speakers from business, industry, science and technology
The director of the counterpart of the Vickers and Spencer Lecture series at Kansas State University, said KState also had bad trouble in getting people to speak.
Joe Hajja, director of international activities at K-State, said he would like to work with KU in co-sponsoring some research in an effort to alleviate the problem.
Conard said he would be willing to work with K-State, but doubted that the cooperation would help bring more speakers to Kansas.
THE MAJORITY of the speakers at K-State are brought to campus by the Landon series, which is named after Ail Landon, governor and presidential candidate in 1936.
"We are working on our lecture program very hard, and the president of the university is working on it, as well as ex-users of this course," she said. "Our friends in the Senate and congress
Hada said most speakers did not accept fees because "our lecture series has nation-wide recognition and many speakers feel its an honor to be on it."
The Landon series has sponsored the president Humphrey pled, the late Sam Sim.
K-STATE RECENTLY brought Dan Katewnewman to the campus through the arts.
we don't have anybody of national status to do that for us."
`\Aif Landdon gets on the phone at his radio station and calls them. Unfortunately,
Conard attributed K-State's success in getting speakers to Landon.
In contrast to the Vickers and Spencer lecture series, the SUA, also operating on a limited budget, has brought two speakers to campus. Kingley Click, Shalier, Fla., mentor and chairman of SUA forums said SAU speakers only $2,000 to attract big-name speakers.
This semester, the SUA brought N.Y. Congresswoman Shirley Chisolm at a cost of $2,232 and Georgia Congressman Julian Ashley at a cost of $1,695 amount paid to a sneaker was set at $1,500.
THE SUA IS GIVEN $9,000 by the Student Senate for the total speaking program, which consists of $5,000 for a featured speaker series, $2,500 for a contemporary issues series and $1,500 for an international issues series.
CLICK SAID THE University of Tulsa was given $30,000 out of the University budget for its lecture program. However, she said, the university administration has asked the university to speakers, and at KU the administration does not interfere with the SUA speaker series.
Click said that the University of Kansas had allocated less money for speakers than the other schools whose members she had attended. (The International Program Association)
Other organizations sponsoring speakers on campus are the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, individual schools on campus, and the College of Lecture Series and individual classes.
Henry Snyder, chairman of the Humanities committee and associate dean of the research administration office, said that he is looking out for outstanding people in the humanities to KU.
HE SAID the speakers were on campus for two full days, participated in classroom activities and gave speeches in Woodruff Auditorium.
He said the committee was allocated $6,000 dollars a year. Snyder said the committee tried to present a lecture nearly every month during the school term.
The School of Liberal Arts and Sciences allocates money for speakers, which is available to each department. The English department recently brought John Brenner, a professor of fiction writer in accordance to James Gunn, lecturer in English and journalism.
Several schools including Journalism and Business in the University have programs that bring lecturers on campus. The School of Journalism has the editors-in-residence program, according to Edward Bassett, dean of the School of Journalism.
Bassett the editors did not receive a fee for their visits, except transportation housing. Bassett the school could afford about six editors-in-residence a year.
The individual classes blame a lack of funds and organization for their problems in gaining speakers. The only class to sponsor a speaker this year was the senior class, which, with the cooperation of SUA, brought Anthony Herbert, the most decorated soldier in the Korean War, to campus this semester.
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Mud Creek Estimate Is Absurd, Prof Says
By CHUCK POTTER
Kansan Staff Writer
Nunley met with Corp officials Thursday to discuss what he said was a variation of the plan he proposed Nov. 9 at a Mud Creek business conducted at Grant School in Lawrence.
Robert E. Nunley, University of Kansas professor of geography, said Monday that an estimate of $9.3 million made by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to implement his proposed "upstream control" plan for Mud Creek basin was "absurd."
Nunley's meeting with the Corps came directly after the Corps released last Wednesday the draft environmental statement on the Mud Creek portion of the Lawrence Flood Protection Project. The Corps recommended its original '1909 Environmental Plan' to 7.7 miles of channelization and 4.3 miles of levee on the right bank of Mud Creek.
THE CORPS REJECTED Nunley's alternative proposal in the statement as too expensive, based on an $8.99 million cost of implementation for Nunley's plan versus an estimated $3.28 million cost for the 1969 plan.
“There's no way our plan could cost that much,” Nunley said. “Our plan will provide 90 per cent of the benefits of the 1969 plan at 15 per cent of the cost.”
Nunley said his plan had "no official背登 of any kind" and was developed by himself and his students. The plan provides flood protection for all of north Lawrence
south of the turnipp by installing floodgates in the underpasses of the turnipp; agricultural flood protection only for the floodplain north of the turnipp by detention structures; obtaining flood plain insurance from federal programs to give floodplain owners access to Lawrence residents; and surveying the area north of the turnipp to 'show water levels in each part of the floodplain at given discharge rates.'
"COST OF IMPLEMENTING the plan would be about $50,000 for the area south of the turnip and about $1.5 million for the area north of the turnip." Nunley said. Nunley labeled the plan an "academic exercise" designed to find the best solution suitable to the most people for providing flood protection for north Lawrence.
"From a practical standpoint, there's a very good chance it will be adopted by the city."
Mayor John Emlick said last week that a final decision regarding selection of a flood protection plan for Mud Creek would not be made until the Corps issued a final enlistment and impact statement. The statement is not expected to be released for several weeks.
Nunley said he planned to mail his response to the Corps' statement late this week or early next week. The response, he added, would also call him his proposal, also would be sent to the city commission and "everyone else I've been in contact with about this."
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