Wednesday, December 18, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Ed. School committee called unrepresentative
By MARLA BABCOCK Kansan Staff Writer
Of four student representatives on the selection committee searching for a new dean of the School of Education, only one was selected by the students themselves.
Carl Koenig, Dearborn, Mich., graduate student, organized the graduate students in the school and called for University-approved elections to select a post-graduate representative.
Koeneng explained that the other three students were selected by the administration from nominees chosen from undergraduates in the School of Education by the education faculty.
The committee originally intended to select all its student members in this way.
Koenig said the committee wanted student representatives to help in the dean's selection. Because students are not organized, he said, the committee had no alternative but the nomination method.
"The faculty or administration can't say, 'Come on, students-organize!' That's the students' job," Koenig said. Nonetheless, Koenig said, "I thought that (the student selection process) was not very fair.
"If students are going to have representatives, they should select them." he added.
To gain fairer graduate student representation, Koenig said he called a meeting at which graduates agreed to hold a two-day election to select their representatives.
Koenig said the group nominated eight graduate students from their ranks. About 70 of the 200 graduate students in the School of Education voted at polling places in Bailey Hall on the Lawrence campus and at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City.
“In reality” said Greene, “there is no such thing as Negro history,
One of the results of the black movement has been the increased demand by black militants for Negro history courses in colleges and universities.
Greene cites historical racism
Results of the election were approved by Provost James R. Surface. As winner of the election, Koenig assumed his representative position on the dean's selection committee.
red, yellow or white history—it's all the history of mankind."
Calling for a revision in historical writing, Lorenzo J. Greene said Negro contributions to civilization have been victimized by historical racism.
Addressing 200 people in the Kansas Union Jayhawk Room, yesterday afternoon, Greene, history professor at Lincoln University lectured on "Negro History: and the truth shall set you free." Greene will teach Negro history at KU next semester.
"The net result of past historical writing," said Greene, "has created a sense of superiority in whites and self-hatred in Negroes."
At polling places, graduate students were also given a questionnaire designed to determine student feeling on issues of prime consideration in selecting a dean, Koenig said.
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Greene defined history as everything man has said, thought, done and hoped for. History encompasses all men, and now that Negroes are accepted as human beings it includes us also." Greene said.
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workers to register their interest in the selection proceedings.
"It was my feeling." Koenig said, "that whoever was elected should have some idea of the students' feelings."
Voters were also asked to leave their names with election
Questions asking support of student evaluation of faculty and classes, student representation on doctoral candidate selection committees, and optional graduate student attendance at oral examinations for Ph.D. candidates received student approval.
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