ATTACKING GOVERNOR—McDill (Huck) Boyd, Republican candidate for governor, spoke to KU Young Republicans last night and blamed Chancellor Murphy's recent resignation on Gov. Docking's attitude toward higher education.
The All Student Council voted 12 to 2 last night to continue its affiliation with the National Student Association.
ASC Will Continue NSA Connection
Frank Naylor, Kansas City, Kan., junior, reported to the ASC the favorable conclusions of a committee set up to investigate NSA. He said a greater effort will be made to use the material sent out by NSA and make the student body more aware of the material.
Naylor also pointed out that*
"Why get out of something when it can do no harm and can do great deal of good, if and when we want to use it."
Ron Dalby, Joplin. Mo., junior and also a member of the committee, said:
when material is received from NSA on a particular topic or organization it is turned over to that organization, and often the ASC is not aware of the material that is received.
Dalby also said that the money involved in NSA is relatively imaterial when compared to what KU could get out of it.
"I voted to discontinue our affiliation with NSA because of the lack of sufficient benefits that it actively provides for KU and its students.
Ted Hall, Garden City senior, who voted against KU remaining a member of NSA, said:
"Upon initial examination, the NSA would appear to offer three basic benefits or advantages that would justify our membership:
1. That NSA represents KU in national and international affairs. During my year as NSA coordinator, I found little evidence to support this claim that the NSA is an effective voice for KU. The internal communications of the organization itself are very poor. An organization of its size tends to become unwieldy and ineffective, and NSA's policies and attitudes do not always coincide with that of KU's.
2. "The second apparent benefit is to help KU find and solve its student problems. Examination fails to reveal where this has been actively executed. Thus NSA has done little to solve KU's student problems.
3. "The third apparent benefit is the foreign student exchange program. Dissatisfaction with this program has been expressed both by students and by KU's NSA representative. If this program was discontinued, the organized houses, and the University, who now provide the funds, could use these funds
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Wednesday, March 23, 1960
Harry Levin, last night's Humanities Lecture speaker, said that writers of literature during the Renaissance looked to Greek culture as the "Golden Age" of man and wrote continually to stimulate man to strive for individual freedom of soul.
Levin Reflects On Golden Age
His topic was "The Renaissance and the Golden Age."
Prof. Levin, of Harvard University, said that the writers feared urbanization and industry and loved only freedom of soul.
He said the 15th century writers were contrasting what they felt was an "uncomfortable present with a mythical past."
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He said, "They often dreamed or another world or country that would be equal to or exceed the Greek's "Golden Age."
Prof. Levin is the first person to occupy the coveted Irving Babbitt chair of comparative literature at Harvard University. He has written many books of literary criticism and is now on the editorial board of several magazines in the United States and Europe.
Prof. Levin said that since it was impossible for them to bring the "Golden Age" to the world again the writers pointed up the freedom of soul. They had as their practical hope man's freedom of soul.
"Early writers of the Renaissance felt that "if it (an action) pleases, it is permitted," he said. "Later authors changed in theory to "if it is permitted it pleases."
The recent works of Prof. Levin are "Contexts of Criticism." "Shakespeare's Coriolanus," (edited) and "The Question of Hamlet." He is presently writing "The Gate of Horn: A Study of Five French Realists."
57th Year, No. 109
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Boyd Charges Governor With Misusing Education
By Bill Blundell
McDill (Huck) Boyd last night accused Gov. George Docking of political meddling in Kansas education, charging that the governor "has attempted to dictate educational policy for political gain."
political influence," said Mr. Boyd.
The Phillipsburg publisher, a Republican gubernatorial candidate and former chairman of the Board of Regents, levelled the charges at a meeting of the campus Young Republicans.
"The policy of political non-intervention in education has been violated for the first time in 40 years, since the Board of Regents was first formed to protect education from
political influence," said Mr. Boyd. HE PLACED the blame for Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy's recent resignation squarely on the governor's attitude toward higher education.
"Franklin Murphy decided to leave KU because he knew that so long as he remained here, he would be a whipping boy for Docking's hostility toward higher education," said Mr. Bovd.
He said that decisions of the Board of Regents before Gov. Docking's administration were always unanimous and free of partisan political influence.
Dr. W. Clarke Wescoe was appointed Chancellor Monday by a
Money Called Key To Docking Row
By John Peterson
A state representative said last night that the key to the battle of words between Gov. George Docking and Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy was "a five-lettered word, money."
D. Harper Tom Van Cleave, Democratic representative from the ninth district, commented briefly on the resignation of the Chancellor after delivering a prepared speech on $ ^{ \textcircled{4}} $
"State Policy Toward Higher Education" at a KU Young Democrats Club meeting last night.
Rep. Van Cleave said that Dr. Murphy has a responsibility to get sufficient money for the University. He said the administrator has to ask for every dime he gets.
"THE ONE THING I believe that must be cured is politics creeping into education. The best cure for this, and the only cure, is a two-party system in the state," he said.
Rep. Van Cleave blasted the Republican Party for its policy toward the state budget and the manner in which it has run the state legislature machinery as the majority party.
Rep. Van Cleave said that people were complaining about Gov. Dock-
"Subsequent to the governor's budget message there was a surplus in the state treasury. The governor recommended a tax reduction.
"THE REPUBLICANS kept introducing bills for increased spending. If all of those bills had been passed, we would still be in Topeka trying to figure out how to raise the necessary funds." he said.
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KU,OU Meet In IQ Rivalry
The Universities of Kansas and Oklahoma—traditional rivals for the all-sports championship of the Big Eight—will move their rivalry into the intellectual arena Saturday.
KU's four-student College Bowl team will travel to Norman to provide competition for the OU team that will appear on the Nationallytelevised Sunday afternoon quiz program April 3.
KU's team won $2,000 in scholarships in January when it defeated the University of Chjicago. The team lost to Smith College the following Sunday.
The Oklahoma coach, J. Clayton Feaver, professor of philosophy, decided his foursome needed more pressure-packed competition in the game of "free-style brainwork."
Weather
Fair and warmer this afternoon. Colder tonight and tomorrow. Increasing cloudiness. High today in the 40's, low tonight in the lower 30's. High tomorrow in the 30's.
ASC Bill to Change 'Spectrum' Draws Fire
The University's new magazine, "Spectrum," may die in all but name as a bill reorganizing Spectrum's editorial board drew fire from the magazine's editors.
The bill, sponsored by Bob Chaney, Great Bend senior, and business manager of the magazine; Ted Eps, Villanova, Pa., junior and Rex Fowler, Kansas City, Mo., senior, was introduced to the ASC last night by Sarah A. Shaffer, Russell senior.
Raymond H. Miller, Lawrence senior and "Spectrum" editor, made the following comment when told of the bill:
"At Our Expense"
"This is an obvious case of somebody seeing a good thing and attempting to cash in on it—at the expense of our (the editing board's) work and sweat."
Other members of the Spectrum board are Fred Ritter, Junction City senior; John Peterson, Topeka junior; and Craig Nelson, Mankato sophomore. Nelson and Ritter could not be reached for comment.
6-3 vote four days after Chancellor Murphy announced he would be leaving KU on July 1st. The three dissenting votes were cast by Regents appointed by Gov. Docking.
Ronald Dalby, Joplin, Mo., senior and ASC member, said this morning the he had talked to Epps, and that Epps had agreed to have the bill retracted.
The new bill would establish a central editor, reduce the present
"Epps said that he would bring the bill up with the Spectrum editors before doing anything else with it." Dalby said.
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ASKED FOR his opinion concerning the governor's recent veto of the emergency building program bill, Mr. Bovd declared:
"He blocked the program in every possible manner. He refused to consider it at all. The Building Committee, of which I was chairman, was in his office one-and-a-half hours. He wouldn't even listen to us when we tried to put our proposal before him."
Mr. Boyd said the governor "would have us in the dark ages" as far as education was concerned. In a prepared statement, he said the governor favors the English system of education which offers higher educational opportunities only for the rich and specially talented.
"He (the governor) wants us to adopt the methods of a country that is 150 years behind us in education," said Mr. Boyd.
HE SAID THAT if he were elected governor,he would press for a merit system of faculty pay increases at the state colleges and universities. He also recommended that funds be made more readily available for basic research.
Continuing his attack, Mr. Boyd scored what he called the "excessive costiness" of the administration and accused the governor of using funds allocated for running his office for "building political fences."
"It's a fact that he spends twice as much in running his own office as previous administrations did. Still, the papers show him as saving the state money. This is how that comes about. A department, staffed by his own people, requests a half-million raise in operating funds over the past year's budget. He says, 'I'll cut that by $300,00.'
"THE PAPERS say that he saved the state that much, but all he actually did was spent $200,000 more than last year," said Mr. Boyd.
He said that state revenues are now high enough to permit the state to do what needs to be done for education, mental health and other programs.
Regarding labor unionism, Mr. Boyd said the union members appear to have only two worries.
"They should be concerned about getting a secret ballot for the election of union officials and a public accounting of union funds," he said.
HE ADDED that he did not think labor should be considered as a separate class of citizens for legislative purposes, and pointed out that union members are often active in many other groups.
Asked about his estimate of his own chances for securing the Republican nomination and election as governor, Mr. Boyd said he was encouraged by his recent tour of the state. He grinned and added:
"I think you could say the honeymoon has been a success."
Haste Makes Waste; Kansan Errs on Ages
It was erroneously reported in Monday's Kansan that Dr. and Mrs. Wescoe have two children, ages 7 and 6.
The source of this information, or rather misinformation, was correct—seven years ago. In the haste to get the paper out as soon as possible after the sudden announcement of Dr. Wescoe's appointment, this was the only source available.
We now wish to amend this statement by welcoming Barbara Elaine, 14, William, 13, AND David, 5, to the university family.