KU Chancellors Agree the Job Takes Teamwork
By BOB SIMISON Kansan Staff Writer
Men who have been chancellor of the University of Kansas describe the job in terms of an artist's continuous process of developing a masterpiece.
Perhaps the metaphor of E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., chancellor for three years until August, is an accurate one. He pictures the chancellor as an orchestra
"One man never handles it all," Chalmers said last week. "Effective administration involves orchestrating the delivery of programs that would be the death of the University."
CHALMERS SPOKE in a telephone interview from his parents' home in Wyomissie, Pa., a suburb of Reading. He is on leave from his recent appointment as professor of psychology. Chalmeris August after he and his wife divorced.
A committee of students, faculty and alumni to assist the Kansas Board of Regents in a search for a new chancellor is being formed.
Three of four living former chancellors and Acting Chancellor Raymond Nichols, who was executive secretary to five chancellors, indicated that the committee should look for someone who had an acute sense of balance.
The chancellor must work with students, faculty, alumni, the Kansas Legislature, the Board of Regents and the people of the state, the former chancellors agreed.
"Balancing them all is what makes it intriguing." W. Clarke Wescoe, chancellor from 1960 to 1969, said. "You have to make it a labor of love—it takes a lot of time. It's not a stepping stone to anything else. It's a job in itself."
WESCOE IS president of Sterling Drug Corp. in New York City.
The chancellor must be good at doing consumer research among the students." Franklin D. Murphy, chancellor from 1951 to 1960, said. "The student is your consumer, so you must devote some time to student dialogue.
"And there is the obvious relation to the faculty. The chancellor to get to be a
leader, and he must recognize that the faculty has a responsibility to give the
"But that's all internal. There's no substitute for the chancellor to interpret the University to the state and at the same level. You need the needs of the state to the University.
"No university will go far without communication with the people of the state. When the chancellor goes to Garden State University, you know that’s the university going out there,"
MURPHY RESIGNED to become president of the University of California at Los Angeles. He now is chairman of the board of the Times-Mirror Co. in Los Angeles, which publishes, among other things, the Los Angeles Times.
Because the chancellor must represent the University to Kansans, Wescoe said, someone who knows Kansas should be selected.
"I would look for someone with experience in the Middle West—someone who is really good at getting things done."
Murphy said he thought the chancellor should have a deep commitment to the state as well as to the University. Such a feeling can be developed, though, he said.
a special feeling for Kansas," Wescoe said.
"WESCO IS a prime example," Murphy said. "By the time he became chancellor, he was more Kansan than the Kansans."
Wesco, born in Pennsylvania and educated in New York, came to the University of Kansas School of Medicine in 1961 as a professor of pharmacology and experimental medicine. He was dean of the School of Medicine for eight years and president of the Medical Center in Kansas City for seven before he became chancellor.
Chalmers, however, came to Kansas from Florida State University, where he was vice president for academic affairs. He was also a co-author of the values of Kansans, while he was here.
values of Kansas are different from those of other places just as the values of other places are different from those of Kansas. The value of the state of the indigenous needs of the state."
THE JOB HAS always included the duty of representing the University, Nichols said. Starting in 1929, Nichols worked under chancellors Ernest H. Lindley, Robert L. Palmer and Charlie Chalmers. With each administration, the job became more complex. Nichols said.
"The job, like the size of the institution, has grown," Nichols said. "There were 3,500 or 3,800 students when I was first in the office here, and now it's five times that big. And everything is more complicated, too."
The University is still trying to catch up with the increase in enrollment by constructing new buildings, he said. Tennesseans surplus buildings are still being used.
State and federal regulations must be met in everything from accounting for waste to reporting.
to complying with wage guidelines to meeting safety regulations to hiring,
"FINANCING is a problem, too," he said. "The state has always believed in higher education, but with the demands of a growing level of support has not been maintained."
Until 1962, the chancellor had to deal with those problems himself. Then Nichols was appointed vice chancellor for finance. Now there are vice chancellors for business affairs, student affairs, academic affairs and research and graduate studies.
Still, the administration is understaffed. Nichols said.
"Nobody has an understudy who knows all the regulations," he said. "So when your office administration is out of the office, everything will still he gets back, and that's not efficient."
THE CHANCELLOR, it was agreed cannot keep tabs on everything. He must delegate responsibility to his vice chancellors.
(See CHANCELLORS on Next Page.)
CLOUDY
83rd Year. No.20
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Poll Shows 4 Incumbents Lead in State
TOPEKA (AP)—President Nixon and Sen. James B. Pearson hold over helpless leads over their Democratic opponents, while Gov. Robert Docking and Atty. Gen. Vern Miller are comfortably in front of their Republican foes in the Topeka Capital-Journal's first statewide political poll, made public Sunday.
The poll, conducted for the Topea newspapers by Human Resources Corp. of Topea, headed by Dr. Don Hardesty, was taken Sept. 18; 12 and based on 1,000 telephone interviews of eligible voters representing a cross-section of state residents for all areas, the Topea Sunday Capital-Journal said.
The papers' first statewide poll concerned itself only with the four top-of-the-ticket races—for President, U.S. Senator, governor and attorney general. The survey conducted in the 2nd Congressional district, separate from the statewide sampling...
This is the first statewide poll done for the papers.
The results:
President-Nixon 62 per cent; Sen.
George McGregor 20; Rep. John G. Schmidt,
American Party, 1; Undecided 17.
Senator Robertson, 1; Undecided 18.
Arch Tetzaffall, Democrat, 1; undecided 31.
Governor-Docking 50 per cent; Morris
Kay, Republican, 31; undecided 19.
Attorney General—Miller 50 per cent;
Ottawa, Hoffman, Republican, 19;
until decision.
The poll showed Nixon had 62 per cent support in all age categories, while Pearson's support is strongest among the under-30 age group Docking's is strongest in the 30-to-50 group, and Miller gains his strongest support in the 29-to 50 group.
Kay's strongest showing was in the under-30 category, in which Docked led by Justin Gatlin.
Monday, September 25, 1972
Kansan Photo by SUSAN HAYES
and urban design students at Devils Gap Friday to construct an instant city. Each student had a $10 limit on a design required to be both portable and strong enough to withstand wind and rain. This is the third time a project of this nature has been used for the class. See Story Page Six.
Kent Rawson, Topeka graduate student and teaching assistant, enlarged upon the Coke can design for a weekend home. Rawson joined second-year architecture
Eyecatcher
25 Apply for Search Slot
By BOB SIMISON Kansan Staff Writer
Four students will be on the 12-member search committee commissioned last week by the Kansas Board of Regents. Two will be the student president and vice president, David Dillon, Hutchinson senior, and Kathy Allen, Teppei junior, who will from the Lawrence campus, and the fourth, from the Kansas City campus.
StudEx intended at its meeting Friday night to reduce the number of applicants for the Lawrence campus position to fewer than 15.
All 25 student applicants for a position on the chancellor search committee will be interviewed today by the Student Executive Committee (Stud Ex).
StudEx plans to start interviewing applicants at 4 p.m. and to continue until the process has been completed. The team hopes to announce its selection Tuesday.
After looking over the 25 applications, however, the committee decided to interview all of the applicants. Members were interviewed and were tested on the applications was inadequate.
StudEx decided to interview all 25
Applicants had been asked to state their reasons for seeking the search committee position and what expertise they could bring to the committee.
Susan Joyce Miller, Agusta senior;
Frederick H. Silk, Lawrence graduate student;
Janet A. Stokes, Cincinnati, Ohio;
freshman; Mary Ward, Leewood special student;
Scott Dana Freeman, Salina
graduate student; Bob Sharp, Spiray
graduate student; Bob Sharp, Lee-
rence graduate student; Rooney Lee Angle,
Lawrence graduate student.
Margaret Devere Hancs, Erie, Kan,
junior; Ken Sloop, Topka Teacher; Edward
Brown, Ph.D.; William D. Meyer
See story page 7
Applicants are Thomas S. McCleennagh,
Lawrence sophomore; Joni Viets,
Lawrence junior; Connie Arlington,
Va., senior; Connie Lelly,
Lawrence graduate student; Kenneth E.
Harton, Iola senior; Mickey Dean,
Jones, James L. Leavis Jr,
Coffeyville senior.
Doug Elsenstark, Columbia, Mo., sophomore; William R. Thomasson, Fortress School; Daniel E. Campbell, Lawrence junior; Kevin Harris, Shawne Mission senior; Claudia J. LeClairie, Overland Park senior; Clyde M. Chapman, Lawrence freshmen; Lyme A. Foster, Lawrence freshmen
candidates in one day "to be fair," members said.
The Executive Committee of the KU Alumni Association, which will select two alumni association members to the Campus Advisory Committee, is still reviewing and contacting alumni members for the two positions, William Hagman, Pittsburg, president of the KU Alumni Association, said Sunday.
Of those who applied, four were freshmen; two, sophomores; four, juniors; eight, seniors and six, graduate students. One was a special student.
Mideast Sources Report
Syria Gets Missiles, Arms from Russians
BEIRUT (AP)—Bracing for an Israeli attack, Syria has been receiving unspecified quantities of arms and ground-to-air missiles from the Soviet Union during the past few days, authoritative sources here reported Sunday.
The newspaper An Nahar also said that four Soviet transport planes—Antonov-12 type—unloaded ships of military equipment in Damascus on Saturday.
The paper did not spell out the types of
arms, but confirmed that the shipments included ground-to-air rockets.
Last weekend, Israeli fighter-bomber jets raided Syria, killing 200 persons and wounding many more. Syria retaliated by bombing Israeli positions in the occupied Golan Heights and then announced it lost all planes and downed two Israeli Mirage jets.
SUBSEQUENTLY, SYRIA announced it was expecting an Israeli attack at any time. The Israeli intelligence部门
U.S. Plan Seeks End To World Terrorism
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) -The United States will propose to the United Nations a treaty to clamp down on land boundaries. U.S. diplomats said Sunday.
Secretary of State William P. Rogers was reported planning to include the proposed convention against international terrorism in a call today to the 132-nation U.N. General Assembly for urgent consideration of the issue.
The treaty would deal with murder, kidnaping or other serious crimes against civilians that are committed for political reasons. The country not involved in that political issue.
This definition would apply to such recent acts as the killing of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics by Arab extremists and the international murder-by-harm campaign against Israel diplomats. It would not apply to terrorists operating abroad or with their own country or to members of armed forces during hostilities.
U. S. diplomats voiced hope that the American proposal would spur the United Nations to move beyond rhetoric on the ill-defined, politically charged terrorist issue
The U.S. approach attempts to separate terrorist deeds from political questions and to avoid objections by various Arab, American, and European states, which is armed against liberation movements.
If adopted, the treaty could stand as a legal centerpiece in the fabric of in-
"If our compatriots see them buying rabbits they must arrest them immediately because they are enemies," Lon Nol declared.
He said Communist agents were
"They have insinulated that their doctors need rabbit blood to inject into wounded men." Lon Nol said.
Lon Nol Links Rabbits To Nighttime Bombings
In a message to the nation issued by the president's executive cabinet and published Sunday in the official news agency bulletin, Lon Nol called all on citizens to arrest any person offered to buy rabbits at high prices.
PHINOM PENH (AP)-President Lon Nol has warned Cambodians against a Communist plot to kill them with rabbits.
paying $125 to $175 for rabbits. He didn't specify whether that was for each rabbit or for several rabbits.
He warned, however, that the real motive of the Communists was to use rabbits as live bombs by attaching plastic explosives to them and then releasing them near the thanen army defensive positions.
defense corps on alert and opened air raid shelters for the first time in two years
"The lights attract the rabbits and they thus explode the plastic," Lon Nol said.
Israel probably will hit Syria from the air, and more ground-to-air rockets are expected to be shipped to Damascus from the Soviet Union, informants said.
ternational agreements for action against various types of terrorism.
The leadership of the ruling Baathist party in Syria is planning a meeting in Damascus to deal with the "explosive" attack on the city, the newspaper Al Amwar reported.
Adoption of such a convention is a process that normally takes years, however. The more immediate effect, U.S., is to focus international focus on the issue.
Rogers, scheduled to deliver the main annual U.S. speech to the General Assembly today, is expected also to list the problems taken against international terrorism.
Reports from Damascus said the government was distributing arms to the "people's army". This army includes a small number of country's major installations in wartime.
SYRIA'S ATTITUDE was in marked contrast to Egypt's, whose leader, Anwar Sadat, evicted 20,000 Soviet military experts in July. Sadat was protesting against the U.S.'s promised shipments of arms, including MIG32, jets and TU146 strategic bombers.
The Soviet-Egyptian break evidently prompted closer military and economic ties between Moscow and Baghdad and Damascus. Moscow, informants said, was moving to impede a likely rapprochement between Egypt and the Western powers, while the Cairo government seeks arms from Britain and France. Syria is linked with Egypt and Libya in a Federation of Arab Republics born in August last year.
Marcos to Reorganize Under Martial Law
MANILA (AP)—President Ferdinand E. Marcos is planning a general reorganization of his government, the presidential palace announced Sunday. He has promised the nation that his martial authority would reform to improve conditions of the poor.
Marcos met during the day with his Cabinet for what his press secretary, Francisco Tatad, said was a discussion of local problems. He gave no details but presumably the talks included a discussion of rises in prices.
The nation appeared calm as it entered its third day under martial law, which was proclaimed by Marcos to head off a battle that he said boreed his government.
His decree Friday was followed by a promise of social reforms designed to give women greater mobility.
THE GOVERNMENT reopened communications with the outside world cut Saturday after the martial law decree. But officials said radio and station stations remained closed.
He emphasized, however, that news censorship would remain in effect only for those who had made a conspiracy claim.
The presidential spokesman said censorship guidelines for local and foreign newsmen working in the Philippines would be announced Monday.
Shortly after Marcos' proclamation of marital law on Friday, scores of political leaders protested.
Until the government's guidelines are announced, all news stories written by foreign correspondents must be approved in the downon also applies to news photographs.
Asked about this, Press Secretary Tatad said the government will be in a position to make an announcement later on this matter.
MARCOS HAS signed an order to strengthen police control over private possession of firearms, the press secretary said.
There were reports that prices of food and other essentials had been increased. Marcos told his Cabinet that steps were being taken to assure a steady supply of essentials to prevent panic buying. The report said cell价 will be arrested, Tatad said.
Marcos has instructed his economic advisers to confer with business leaders on support for the government's reform program, Tatad said. In his speech, the president promised that major reports with details would come later.
Marcos is expected to reorganize his government by proclamation. He and his Nationalist party have been in power since the end of our four-year term is due to end Dec. 30, 1973.
IN NEW YORK, the Philippines' foreign secretary, Carlos P. Romulo, issued a statement saying that "so-called 'mass arrests' carried out under martial law" included only those implicated in subversive movements.
Romulo, who is: attending the U.N. general assembly session, said it was not true that only opposition members had been arrested. He reported that members of Marcos' Nationalist party, such as Congressmen Rove Auban Jr. and Rafael Aquino, had been placed under arrest. Another held was Gov. Lino Bocalan.