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University Daily Kansan Tuesday. March 22, 1960
Six Deans Laud Wescoe as New KU Chancellor
Six University deans today joined their colleagues in expressing confidence in Dr. Clarke Wescoe, newly appointed chancellor of the University.
They pointed to Dr. Wescoe's qualities as an administrator as being one of the reasons he will carry on the traditions established at KU.
Their statements follow:
BURTON W. MARVIN, dean of the School of Journalism:
"Dean Wescoe has shown capable leadership at the School of Medicine and we can look forward to his giving similar leadership as Chancellor. I personally am delighted at his appointment."
THOMAS GORTON, dean of the School of Fine Arts, said:
"I am thoroughly delighted that Dr. Wescoe has been chosen as our new chancellor. Dean Wescoe is a vigorous and able administrator. He is a man of broad interests and the highest standards.
"The University of Kansas will continue to move forward under his enlightened leadership."
J. ALLEN REESE, dean of the School of Pharmacy:
"The University has lost a truly great administrator in Dr. Murphy. The first person to come to my mind as a successor was Dean Wescoe.
He is an administrator of high order wanted by other universities and I am confident he will actively implement the programs which Dr. Murphy inaugurated. He could very well be as great a chancellor."
GEORGE B. SMITH, dean of the University;
"We in administrative posts on this campus have had the privilege and the pleasure of serving as colleagues of Dr. Wescoe for the past eight years. During this time many opportunities have arisen in which we have faced with him common problems, both on the educational as well as the legislative front.
"These many contacts have been the source of our increasing confidence in Dean Wescoe as a strong and dynamic leader, not only in his own field of medicine but in many of the varied and difficult fields of general university administration.
"I am sure the selection of Dr. Wescoe as our chancellor guarantees the continuance of the fine tradition of the University of Kansas developed so well under his predecessors.
"The strong support pledged by us to Dean Wescole and his deep feeling of dedication and affection for the University of Kansas should lead into a most interesting and challenging era."
JOHN H. NELSON, dean of the Graduate School:
"Because of the kind of experience he has had, his great interest and capacity in dealing with people, his concern for scholarship, and the wide range of his interests, Dr. Wescoe will, in my opinion, prove to be an eminently successful chancellor."
GEORGE R. WAGGONER, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences:
"I have known Dean Wescoe well ever since I came to the University in 1954. It seems to me that he is extremely well suited to succeed Dr. Murphy.
"Although our type of University has many purposes, it seems to me that most of them fall into two groups: to supply liberal education and to supply professional education to the students of the University.
"As dean of the medical school, Dr. Wescoe has shown high competence and imagination with reference to professional education. Simultaneously, he and his medical colleagues have shown a deep concern for the liberal education of medical students.
"I look forward to Dr. Wescoe's being another outstanding chancellor of the University."
Levin Bemoans Modernism
Modernism has died, according to Harry Levin, chairman of modern languages at Harvard University.
Prof. Levin said yesterday that he blames standardization for the death of the modernism period. He said that we are now in a post-modernism period.
Mr. Levin will speak at the Humanities Lecture at 8 p.m. today in Fraser Theater on "The Renaissance and the Golden Age."
PROF. LEVIN was originally scheduled to discuss informally the subject "What Is Modernism?" with Harold Orel and Edward Grier, associate professors of English. The subject was changed to "What Was
Prof. Levin said that the availability of reproductions of the famous old paintings, novels and music has led to a lack of originality on the part of the present artists.
Modernism?" upon the request of Prof. Levin.
The generation of the greats such as Picasso, T. S. Eliot and James Joyce was cited by Prof. Levin as being motivated by a sense of tradition on one hand and concern for experiment on the other. They were influenced by science and the feeling that they had to push forward.
THE WRITERS of the anti-novel, a French group of writers, were pointed out by Prof. Levin as being one of the most interesting developments of the post-modernism period. Prof. Levin said that this group
of French artists are technicians revolting from the psychologism and the concern with individual psychology found in so many novels. He said that there is a new objectivity in them.
"In a sense, they have more in common with the early Hemingway than Joyce," said Prof. Levin.
PROF. LEVIN pointed out that like Hemingway, the writers of the anti-novel are concerned with an accurate account of sensations.
He said of the age of the beatniks of the United States and the angry young men of England:
"It's good for young people to resist things that regiment their minds. In the sense of that resistance, I'm inclined to agree with it."
Ecuadorian Students Find KU Informality Impressive
Twenty-two Ecuadorian University students left KU this morning favorably impressed with the informality of student life here.
Several of the Spanish-speaking students got lost Friday shortly after they arrived in Lawrence. But they didn't seem worried.
From their limited English vocabularies, they parroted "Lewis Hall" to townspeople who offered them a ride to the dormitory.
McDill (Huck) Boyd. Phillipsburg newspaper publisher and a Republican gubernatorial candidate, will speak at 7:30 p.m. today in 305 Kansas Union.
THE LATIN American visitors seemed fascinated by the vending machines on the campus. They were surprised at the low prices
'Huck' Boyd to Speak
Mr. Boyd will discuss "The Gubernatorial Race in Kansas" before the Young Republicans Club. The public is invited.
of cigarettes, candy and milk and said these items were not easily obtained in Ecuador.
Most of the students were also ping pong enthusiasts and won most of the games with Lewis Hall students. The sport is popular in Ecuador, they explained.
The southern visitors expressed interest in the Caryl Chessman case. Most Latin Americans feel very strongly against capital punishment, they commented.
DURING THEIR four-day visit on campus the students visited University classes, the International Club meeting and Lawrence High School.
They attended a University-sponsored luncheon and last night took in the Leonard Rose concert.
KU students from Venezuela and Colombia entertained the students with a fiesta Saturday night.
Docking Issues Hot
The students are on a onemonth trip in the United States sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and the National Social Welfare Assembly.
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hovering over Kansas like a black cloud." He said that Davis, a former Democratic Governor, "drove a chancecor from Kansas."
Rep. William Addington said, "if we would leave Gov. Docking in office two more years, he'd cause all our best educators to leave the state."
McDill (Huck) Boyd claimed that "people are fed up with the fussing in Topeka, such as the controversy and discord of the Docking administration."
These GOP candidates were attending the First District Republican Convention.
THIS CONVENTION declared by resolution yesterday that Gov. Docking "does not merit a third term in defiance of a century-old tradition that governorship should be limited to two terms."
They said he had taken "a negative approach to the problems of the state" and should not be re-elected because of "his improper use of the authority of his office . . . his public display of temperament inconsistent with the dignity of the office he holds . . . the lack of accomplishment that has marked his administration."
Floods Threaten Larned Vicinity
LARNED — (UPI) - Pawnee Creek, swollen by runoff from melting snow, splashed out of its banks today, flooding hundreds of acres of lowlands.
The thaw was heavy in the area yesterday when the temperature hit a high of 63 degrees.
Most of the flooding was between Fort Larned and Burdett.
AT BEAMER BRIDGE, 12 miles west of Larned, the government gauge read 23.8 feet-3.8 over bank level.
Sheriff L. B. Hess of Pawnee County said the stream was out of its banks from Fort Larned west and that the flood waters backed into the town of Sanford.
At Burdett, 23 miles west of here, the crest hit at 2 p.m. yesterday and the stream was falling today.
The crest was not expected at Larned until late tonight or early tomorrow. When it arrives, it will present the new dikes their first test since the 1959 flood which set an all-time high mark of 28.17 feet at the Beamer Bridge.
CITY MANAGER Wayne Baxter said he anticipates some difficulty when the crest arrives because the Arkansas River, now nearly bankful, may back up the Pawnee Creek floodwaters.
Flooding was expected on the Arkansas as far downstream as Great Bend.
Queen Names Son
LONDON—(UPI)—Queen Elizabeth II today named her month-old son Andrew Albert Christian Edward.
Andrew and Albert are the names of his two grandfathers. Prince Andrew of Greece and the late King George VI of Britain.
Christian and Edward are the names of his great-great grandfathers, Christian IX of Denmark and King Edward VII.
New Poster Rules Set For Primary Elections
Campus campaigning for the primary elections this spring will be limited to two bulletin boards.
Posters to be placed on the bulletin boards must be in the Dean of Students office by Thursday. The posters will be mounted on the boards Friday by the All Student Council elections committee.
The bulletin boards will measure 8 feet by 5 feet. They will be located on the southwest lawn of Strong Hall and the northeast lawn of Robinson Gymnasium.
THESE BOARDS are the only places where political parties or students may place campaign posters on the campus proper. Any University building not designed as living quarters is classified as the campus proper.
Posters placed in living quarters will be restricted to approved bulletin boards and the approval of the head resident.
Vox Populi is limited to 600 square inches and candidates running for class officers will be limited to 110 square inches.
William Inge, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright and KU graduate, has postponed his arrival on campus until the end of the month.
Playwright Inge Postpones KU Visit
In 1953, Mr. Inge was awarded the Pulitzer prize in drama for "Picnic." a play about life in a small Kansas town.
Mr. Inge is coming to KU at a guest lecturer. He will assist Allen Crafton, professor of speech, in teaching a class in playwriting.
Presently Mr. Inge is working with motion picture director Elia Kazan on a new movie script. Mr. Inge will be co-producer of the movie and Mr. Kazan will direct it.
EACH BOARD will be divided into two sections, the first section will contain only publicity concerning candidates for student body president and/or student body vice president and/or the ASC.
The second section will contain publicity concerning the class officer candidates.
Vox Announces 7-Point Program
ness in Lawrence, he said. The University contributes to Lawrence business and the downtown merchants should be made to feel that they have a responsibility to the students.
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Schluter said that a feeling of interest needs to be created. He also said that every student is responsible for doing this.
Schluter said the idea of lengthening the time between classes is something that will not happen next year but it is something that needs to be planned for in the future.
THE CAMPUS will be expanding in the future, so the problem of alloting more time should be looked into, he said. Other schools should be consulted to see how they have met the problem and see if the idea is satisfactory to everyone, he continued.
In regard to no other political party opposing Vox, Schluter said: "I would like to have seen competition because more students would have shown an interest. The fact that we do not have another political party shows that the students have endorsed the policies and decisions of Vox."
Schluter said that the big job in the elections would lie in getting the students to vote.
Last Chance
to get party pictures in 4th issue of Jayhawker
Pictures must be in Jayhawker office by
4:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 24
Pictures should be recent and identified They will be returned.