THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
RAIN
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol. 89, No.59
Thursday, November 16, 1978
Holiday homes found for 11 See story page 7
Lawrence, Kansas
Art library location waits on committee
University of Kansas administrators are waiting for a recommendation from special library committee before publication.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, told the University Senate Executive Committee yesterday that the library committee would have to submit a recommendation before he endorsed any of three options for the new art library.
Shankel said the University was committed to trying to make
Sneencer the finest teaching museum in the country.
Shankel was asked by SenEx whether he favored a new library facility, a split of the materials now in Waltson Library or a full library.
THAT COMMITMENT AROUS, Shankel said, through an agreement with Spencer in the planning of the museum.
"I think the crucial thing is that the University has committed itself to an art library in Spencer," he said.
In September, the administration reaffirmed that the art library would be split between Watson and Spencer. The portion in Watson eventually would be moved to the proposed West Watson Library on the site of the Military Science Building.
Shankel has said that even the operation of branch libraries is wasteful and ineffective, the art library will not be
Jim Ranz, chairman of the art library committee, said he was instructed by the administration to compare cost estimates for the department.
OF THE three types—full, split or abbreviated—Ranz said the abbreviated library cost would be manageable for KU. The split library costs would be greater because of the need for duplication and the ability to reuse some of the materials might require an entirely new facility, he said.
A split library would involve separating materials between two libraries and making both nearly self-sufficient by duplicating
some materials. An abbreviated library would involve moving some materials to another library but would not involve moving them from one library to another.
THERE is one impossible view going around which is 'don't split the collapses.' Rana said. "But I feel the humanities
He and he had written to other libraries of comparable size and they had reported they would never separate the art collections from their business.
Gerhard Zuther, professor of English and a SenEx member, asked Shankel whether faculty suggestions would be sought in choosing the location of the art materials. Shankel said he would not decide until he had received a plan from the art library
Responding to other SenEx members' questions, Shankel said there was no funding now provided for establishment of the art museum.
But a group of alumi concerned with the art library told him that he would be given whatever funds were needed through private means. Shanked
THE FUNDING would not come from the Kansas Legislature or from the University library budget, he said.
senEx also asked Shknel whether the West Campus area was being considered as a location for a library that would benefit them.
"Yes and no," thanked said. "That area is a potential for growth, but there are no specific plans. It will be used to build up
In the Faculty Executive Committee meeting that followed the Senxkx meeting, Faxx2 discussed changes in sabbatical leave
Then FaceEx will deliver its policy to the University Council and the administration for approval before it goes into effect.
Increase in room rates to be weighed by Regents
Staff Reporter
By TIM SHEEHY
The Kansas Board of Regents will consider a proposal to increase the rental rate on residence halls and apartments at the college. The board is meeting today and tomorrow in Topeka.
According to a financial impact study prepared by KU administrators, the increase at Stouffer Place would affect about 300 students. The study says the money would be used to repair and modernize the apartments.
The proposal calls for increasing residence hall rates at KU from $1,285 to $1,365 for a double room and from $1,695 to $1,900 for a single room.
Rates at Stouffer Place, an apartment complex run by the University for married students, will increase from $100 a month for single-bedroom apartments to $105. Double-bedroom apartments will increase from the current rate of $110 to $115.
The increases proposed for the residence halls would affect about 4,700 students at UCF.
The increased rate is being requested to cover inflationary increases in salaries and wages.
At a Budget and Finance Committee meeting the Regents are scheduled to discuss costs involved in paying students the tuition. When it increases to $2.90 an hour in January
Students are now paid the federal minimum wage of $2.65 an hour, but the Regents are expected to ask for a supplemental allocation of funds from the
Kansas Legislature to enable them to pay the increased federal minimum wage.
also to provide a supplemental general revenue apportionment from the Legislature of $1,125,000 for the College of Health Science and Hospital. The money would be used to cover increased participation in scholarship programs.
Approval of an architectural plan for a library at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
An amendment to the board policy concerning sabbatical leaves so faculty members on sabbatical may receive compensation for their services, and as long as their sabbatical pay does not exceed their regular salary at the University.
Dau's end
Martha Turner. Bonner Springs, headed home yesterday after
planting flower bulbs around the fence posts on her farm and weeding her property line.
Writer, scholar a student again
Rv.JOHN P. THARP
Staff Writer
When Philip Whitcomb was a foreign,
correspondent, he talked to sources
ranging from Joseph Goebbels to Jimmy
Carter.
Now, as a University of Kansas student, Whitcom's subject is *P Francis Sauceur*, the Spanish philosopher. Whitcom is just another professor in the department of philosophy, so don't save his cover in the department of philosophy.
Whitchum, an 86-year-old Rhodes scholar, recently retired as a Paris correspondent covering European economies for the Christian Science Monitor. Before that, Whitchum covered both world wars in Europe, far from his Topeka birthplace. In all, he worked for UNICEF and himself a century as a newspaperman.
WHITCOMB WAS Born in Topeka and attended Washburn University. He even played football "back when there was no forward pass." To be eligible at Washburn, he had to be in law school. That wasn't foreign to him, however, because both of his parents were lawyers. But Whitcomb had no desire to study law.
"I was a correspondent 64 years," he said, "and too much is enough."
"My grandmother, who had published more than 200 books, encouraged me to write articles and send them to her when I was very small," he said.
in summer 1995, Whitcomb was working as a clerk in a Topeka hardware store, and sold his first article—a $25 story to the company. He was awarded a technical explaqation a method for stocking a store.
After attending Washburn, Whitcom worked as a Kansas cowboy, then as a law clerk for the Kansas Supreme Court. He went to Oxford and a RDS college, then to Oxford for a RDS scholar.
the gray-haired writer was then set up for his journalistic calling. While at Oxford, Whitcomb was a contributor to Fleet Street Publications. Then, after his final
exams, World War I began, and Whitcomo says he convinced Norman Hapgood, editor of Harper's Weekly, to make him a special correspondent.
Harper's died in 1916, but Whitcomb continued stringing, this time for the New York Tribune.
After the war, Whitcomb staffed the publication of the newly formed American
**THEN WHITCOMB** started traveling—to France, South Africa and Morocco—and stringing for the Boston Evening Transcript and Fleet Street. In Paris, where he moved in 1937, Whitcomb took over the market News when World War II began.
Philip Whitcomb
Chamber of Commerce in London, then was head of the Foreign Trade Review from London, until it ended.
"In 1941," he said, "when I was the sole Associated Press correspondent in France, I was intered by the Germans. We weren't supposed to use the word 'interment', but instead were supposed to use the word 'detained.'"
In 1942, Whitcomb was exchanged in Lisbon, Portugal, and then became a Baltimore Sun correspondent. He returned to unoccupied France, looking for stories, and was again interred by the Germans. He remained for 15 months with his wife, Genevieve.
"WE WERE kept in hotels," he said "with limited food and gestapo guardes. We could even go shopping—with the gestapo."
"Goebbels asked me what qualities the Germans had today," Whitcomb said. "Well, they had just knocked the stuffing out of the French and made the British look ridiculous, so I told him the qualities that were an ancient qualities that had always existed."
The blue-eyed Whitchcom had earlier contact with Nazis before he was interred. In the winter of 1940-41, he said, he had an aunt named Annelie Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister.
One reason Goebbels granted the interview, Whitcomb said, was that in 1914 he had written a story about the German homoomy, and Goebbels was interested in that.
"He said that was right, but while the Kaiser's government never knew what the people were thinking, Hitler's government knew what the people were thinking."
SPEAKING GERMAN, French, a little Portuguese and English, Whitcomb公爵。A few of his stories. Shortly after D-Day, he landed at Omaha beach, trying to hook up with his brother, General Richard Whitcomb. But he had to be carried out of the beach
"It was foolish, really," he said. "The LST I was in wasn't going to the part of the beach my brother was at, so I set off in a boat. There were no skiffs, an island which probably had never been a boat."
"We neared another LST for me to transfer in, and while I was climbing the
"I was the only one who got the story of the surrender of the German army in the Ruhr," he said "and I got the first story on the surrender in Holland."
"It didn't slow me down," he said. "They strapped me together and as soon as I could get out of bed I was off again."
rope ladder, the waves threw the little boat against my legs."
Whitbcom followed the war to Prague, Czechoslovakia, and Berlin and received one of more than 300 medals presented by the Army to correspondents.
Whitcomb said his legs were crushed, several bones were broken and he was faced with possible amputation of his left foot.
He stayed in Europe, covering the economic reconstruction of the war-torn nations. That's when he began his stint with the Christian Science Monitor.
"Anybody has got to have two different parts to their activity," he said, "the part they are able and almost forced to do and the part they fascinate them with its品质—a thought."
"The other side of a person's nature is
the one that doesn't. It's not a hobby or
recreation."
Whitcomb's thought now is Saurez, and he said if he was ever going to do anything with it he had to get to a university where someone knew about Saurez.
So, after taking to officials at Johns Hopkins University, Dartmouth and the University of Vermont, Whitcomb got in touch with KU and discovered Alofosn Verda, professor of East Asian studies, two leading American experts on Saurus.
"I couldn't very well do anything with Saurez," Whitbom said, "except in a university where someone knows more about him. That's why I came to KU."
So Philip Whitcombs, store clerk, Rhodes Scholar, gandy dancer, war correspond and economics writer, is starting still another career.
Richard Von Ende, University executive secretary, said he and Chancellor Archie R. Dykes would submit the proposal to the committee of senators at its meeting in Topeka tomorrow.
KANAS CITY, Kan.-The University of Kansas will seek approval tomorrow from a committee of the Kansas Board of Regents to endorse the program. See the Kansas Medical Scholarship program.
By DAN WINTER Staff Reporter
The reason for the request, Von Ende said, is to finance the unexpectedly high number of medical students who have applied for the scholarship.
More money wanted for med scholarships
Von Ende said that when the fiscal 1979 budget was prepared last spring, $1.5 million was allotted for the program KU students estimated. 260 students would apply for aid.
HOWEVER, 403 medical students have
scholarships and are receiving aid this year.
The scholarships are open to all KU students and any student who is awarded to any student who applies.
Under the scholarship program, for each year a student receives a tuition奖学金, he or she is obliged to practice in the field. There are two different types of aid available:
Type I scholarships cover all tuition fees and provide a monthly stipend of $400 during the academic year. For each year of support, recipients must agree to practice medicine for one year in a medically underserved area of Kansas.
Type II scholarships cover all tuition fees not included in the monthly stipend. Recipient must be a graduate.
medicine in Kansas one year for each year they receive a scholarship. This plan does not impose any geographic limitations on the recipient.
If that committee approves RU's request, the proposal would go to the Board of Regents for approval at that group's December meeting. The Reqens' recommendations will come before the Kansas Legislature when it convenes in January.
The scholarship program is now involved in a lawsuit in Shawnee County District Court. After a tuition increase for medical students, the court ordered May, 234 KU medical students brought a suit against the Regents challenging their authority to increase the medical tuition cost.
Von Ende said he did not think the supplemental budget request would have any trouble getting out of the Regents' Budget and Finance Committee.
THE SCHOLARSHIPS are awarded annually and in effect for one academic year.
IN A MOVE aimed at keeping graduating physicians in Kansas, the Regents increased tuition for Kansas medical students in the four-year program from $1,500 to $3,000 a year and from $3,000 to $6,000 for nonresidents.
The Legislature approved the scholarship plan shortly after the tuition increase by the
District Judge William Carpenter last month dismissed two counts of the suit against the state but retained one count. He said the students had a valid cause of action when they challenged the Regents' action on the grounds that it was arbitrary, capricious, oppressive and amounted to constructive fraud.