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University Daily Kansan Thursday. May 19. 1960
'Harvard on The Kaw'
University Must Serve Kansas Youngsters First
(Editor's Note; This is the last in a series of three articles covering the opinions of the Kansas Board of Regents, candidates for governor and Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy on higher education, its relationship to state politics and the educational system KU will have in the future.)
One of the major problems facing any state institution today is deciding what the ultimate goals of the school are. KU may soon have to face this problem.
The University's enrollment is predicted to hit 17,000 by 1970 - twice the student population on campus now. This enrollment surge is ar
outgrowth of the large number of babies born during the war years.
KU Always Open
The primary question today is:
What are KU's ultimate goals and
will KU be ready for the enrollment
surge?
The members of the Board of Regents, gubernatorial candidates and Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, to varying degrees, answered similarly to a questionnaire that KU will always be open to all state high school graduates and has no limits on the heights it can reach as an educational institution.
Russian Public Opinion Poll Shows Mr. K Champ of Peace
MOSCOW —(UPI) — The first public opinion poll ever taken in the Soviet Union showed today that most Russians believe Nikita S. Khrushchev is "the outstanding champion of Peace" whose policies backed by rockets can keep the world from war.
The press still buzzed with condemnation of the U-2 spy plane incident and the publication Sovetskaya Rossiya demanded that captured pilot Francis G. Powers be brought to trial "to reveal the aggressor's face for the whole world to see."
The results of the poll were published side-by-side with reports of more mass meetings held across the country to approve Khrushchev's position at the shattered Summit Conference and to denounce American "aggression." Said the government newspaper Izvestia: "No one can frighten the Soviet Union."
Komsomolskaya Pravda, the Soviet Communist youth newspaper, published the results of the public opinion poll which included a sampling of 1,000 persons from all walks of life.
It said 96 per cent answered yes
to the question, "can war be prevented."
Of all those polled, only 21 persons answered the question with a flat "no," although some were uncertain.
The Russians polled believed war could be avoided partly because the people in Capitalist as well as Communist countries want peace.
But, "the overwhelming majority of the people gave their reasons as primarily the economic, political and the defense power of the Soviet Union and the Socialist camp, the correct Soviet domestic and foreign policy and the consistent, energetic activity of Khrushchev, the outstanding champion for peace," the newspaper said.
The published results of the poll showed many people believe the best guarantee for peace is Soviet military might, including rockets.
The poll was taken before the Summit Conference in Paris but after the revelation of the U-2 spy plane. ___
Dr. Murphy said:
Today's students have to be spoon fed else they won't swallow academic fare. —Nivlem P. Expray
"The doors of opportunity must be wide open to everyone. All high school graduates deserve a crack at education. But I believe a state university must serve the current needs of the society which nourishes it and this society's greatest need is a tradition of quality effort.
"The American people are always striving for quantity, we must add quality to that desire. If the institution is serving, it is serving the national needs."
Harry Valentine, Clay Center reagent, said:
gent, said.
"No school has ever gained perfection but anyone connected with the state schools should strive to make them the very best. To many persons, money might seem to be the most important tool, but I doubt this. It is important but there are many other things which must go into it." "I don't think a goal for KU to become a 'Harvard on the Kaw' is unrealistic at all. I believe it is an attainable goal and a goal we should strive for. At the same time, all of the other state schools under the regents should work towards similar goals in their particular fields."
KU Among Great Schools Another regent, who did not want his name used, said:
"I already think that several of our institutions can be ranked with the great schools of the nation. Regarding the 'Harvard on the Kaw', I do not believe Michigan, Stanford, Chicago, Princeton and Minnesota, among other great universities, arrived at that status by apeing
SBA Elects Edmonds
Robert E. Edmonds, Lawrence second year law student, was elected president of the Student Bar Association in the annual Law School elections Tuesday.
Harvard, but rather through a devotion to excellence in education with a sense of humility."
he defeated Norman Hines, Lawrence second-year law student.
Edmonds, who succeeds Richard L. Bond, Lawrence third-year law stu-
student, will take office following the summer session.
Although all said KU had no limits on its greatness, each person qualified his statement by saying that the primary purpose of a state institution is to serve the state high school graduates.
The question of whether all state high school graduates should be allowed into the state university is real today. UCLA accepts only the top $12_{2}^{3}$ per cent of the high school graduating class. Is KU going to reach this point? No one cared to answer that.
Will KU be ready for the enrollment surge? All but two regents
Is KU Ready?
were highly confident KU would be ready for the increase with the present building program.
Dr. Murphy said that an accelerated program is essential.
At any rate, the overwhelming consensus of opinion of regents, gubernatorial candidates and Dr. Murphy is that KU must strive for academic excellence, but at the same time, keep KU accessible to the average high school graduate.
Ray Evans, Prairie Village chairman of the regents, said;
"Our primary function is to provide higher education for the state. We must first look for qualified graduates of Kansas high schools before looking into other states and areas."
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