University Daily Kansan
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Ski Bug Nips 150 Jayhawkers
Two groups of KU skiers are planning trips to Colorado slopes between semesters. About 150 students have signed up for the trips.
David Cory, Wichita senior and president of the KU Ski Club said that about 60 persons are going on a trip sponsored by the Ski Club. Cory invited "anyone who can even imagine himself to be a skier," to register for the trip.
JOHN FALLETTA, Arma junior and an organizer of Skiers Limited, said that space for 90 people had been filled for the group's five-day trip. Skiers Limited is a group organized only for the purpose of taking a ski trip.
Cory said that the Ski Club would like to employ experienced skiers for instruction duties. Anyone interested in the trip may call him.
Marta Dannkeer, Franke Frigge and Marcel Goldschmidt, all foreign students from Switzerland, will be instructors on the Skiers Limited trip.
Both groups will leave Jan. 28 and return Feb. 3.
THE SKIERS LIMITED group will ski at Winter Park and Millers Idlewild Lodge and Inn. Lee McGrimsey, Salina senior, is a co-organizer for the trip.
Wescoe to Give Next Humanities Lecture
The Ski Club group will ski Sunday, Monday and Tuesday at Arapahoe Basin, moving to Loveland Basin for Wednesday. Arapahoe Basin is about 60 miles west of Denver on the west side of Loveland Pass. Loveland Basin is on the east side of the pass.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe will give the next Humanities Series lecture on Thursday, Jan. 5. His address on "Preparation for a Profession" will be at 8 p.m. in Fraser Theater.
Since 1948, one KU faculty member each year has been invited to give a Humanities lecture; Dr. Wescoe is the first chancellor to speak in the series.
KU Gets $18.000 Bequest
KU's Endowment Assn. has received a bequest of $18,000 from the late Mrs. Sarah Knox of El Dorado. Kan. Mrs. Knox died December 26, 1958, at the age of 74. She had been a Butler County resident more than a quarter century.
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Kennedy's Margin Hits 112,494 Mark
President-elect John F. Kennedy won the presidential seat with 112,494 more popular votes than Vice President Nixon.
According to a state-by-state listing compiled today by United Press International of the complete, official returns from the Nov. 8 presidential election, the totals were: Kennedy, 34,233,808 votes; and Nixon, 34,121,314 votes.
KU Receives $200,000 Grant
KU will have the support of a $220,000 U.S. Public Health Service grant in its program to alleviate a critical shortage of mammalian geneticists. The award provides $44,000 for each of five years to train graduate students in the program and to expand the teaching staff at the new Mammalian Genetics Laboratory.
KU Retirement Plan May Pass
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universities have been covered by social security. Before this date, retired KU teachers received only the state's nominal pension.
A secondary aspect of the plan is that it provides for the widow of a retired teacher. The accumulation of annuity funds goes to the deceased teacher's designated beneficiary. A cruel situation now exists under the state program, for it makes no provision for the widow.
"What do the faculty members think about the plan?"
One question that could be asked:
In a survey of the KU faculty in 1957 by Harold C. Krogh, professor of business administration, under the auspices of the American Association of University Professors, the plan received near unanimous approval.
In general, as stated by the Association, the purpose of the plan is to "elevate the orderly retirement of superannuated employees and to have sufficient funds available for their future needs; to elevate and maintain the professional attitude of the staff; to retain above average staff members, and to part more easily before retirement with those who are not measuring up to the universities' standards."
While it is unquestionably advantageous to the individual, the proposed plan would mean a radical change in the University's position in bargaining for talented and distinguished teachers.
The TIAA benefits are transferable. If a teacher at another school with the program were to come to
KU now, he would lose his accrued fund. However, if KU were to have the plan, the teacher would merely transfer his credit. He could take his money out if he were to leave teaching.
This is a big weapon in the highly-competitive recruiting wars in which universities have to engage to get top talent. KU, herefore, was a desert in the green valley of knowledge. For while the low scaled salaries of the profession are universal, KU was far behind in adequately providing for retirement.
From all indications, the year 1961 will see the University of Kansas catch up with the rest of the nation, and instead of being the "forgotten ones," the retired faculty member will remain a part of the society he helped shape.
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