Tuesday, October 22. 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Harman asks for better education
Rick Harman, Overland Park businessman and Republican gubernatorial candidate, called for improved educational opportunities for Kansas youth, at a meeting of the Kansas Association for School Administrators yesterday.
"The public attitude is right for improvements in the educational system of Kansas," Harman said.
He suggested that teachers be given professional status, and that retirement benefits be improved. He also suggested that a reduced proportion of school operational costs come from personal property taxes.
Harman asked for unified school districts and better use of available facilities. He cited Shawnee Mission South High School, where the need for a new building was eliminated by sending students to class at 7 a.m.
Speaking earlier to the educators, Calvin E. Harbin, chairman of the division of psychology and philosophy at Ft. Hays State College, said teacher protest is
only valid if it increases the quality of education.
When asked if he really approved of teacher strikes, Harbin replied that he is against them if they benefit only a selfish few teachers, not the pupils and the educational process as well.
Harbin said that only a few thousand persons are working full-time on the problem of improving the quality of education. That number represents about one-tenth per cent of the persons who should be involved in the work.
Educators are presently building their political machinery to gain a voice in the administration of schools instead of leaving that to the school boards, Harbin said.
"It has often been said that teachers have a brilliant future, but a dismal present," said Harbin.
Jerry N. Uelsmann, whose photographs are on display until Oct. 31 in the new Student Union Activities office in the Kansas Union, uses multiple printing and other darkroom techniques often shunned by contemporary photographers, said John Szarkowski, photography director of New York's Museum of Modern Art.
Selected from that Museum of Modern Art's collection, Uelsmann's photographs are being exhibited in the United States and Canada. Szarkowski said.
KU faculty members are circulating petitions in an attempt to pressure the U.S. government into aiding the starving people of Biafra.
"We want the U.S. government to use its influence to get the Nigerian Federal government to allow relief agencies to feed the starving people in Nigeria, on both sides of the military lines." said Haward Kahane, associate professor of philosophy.
The contemporary artist is no longer restricted to the traditional use of materials; he is not bound to a fully conceived, pre-visioned end, Uelsmann said. Uelsmann believes there has been a transition from the outer-directed art form in the 19th century to the inner-directed art of today—a working rapport has been established between the artist and his creation.
An associate professor of art at the University of Florida challenges the assumption that a photograph is defined in the artist's eye the moment the shutter is released.
Woman's Job For the Birds
Kahane is circulating the petitions among faculty and administration officials here.
Off-campus students can be in pictures
BETHEL, Alaska (UPI) — Barbara Holden, a parasitologist, is a wilderness bird-watcher for the U.S. Bureau of Sports Fisheries and Wildlife in the Yukon-Kusokwim delta.
"If there was time, I'm sure the entire faculty would sign it," he said. "But the petition has to be sent back to New York Wednesday night."
KU faculty helps Biafrans
The petition is a part of a nationwide drive sponsored by the American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive.
"The United States is making a moral mistake," Kahane said. "We are aiding Nigeria, but we are not pressuring them to keep their people alive. Our aim is to peacefully influence the course of policy of the U.S. government." he said.
Photos exhibited
Miss Holden, of Baltimore, Md., holds a master's degree from John Hopkins University.
Off-campus students may have group pictures taken for the 1969 Jayhawker Magazine Yearbook, said Linda McCrerey, Honolulu, Hawaii junior and Jayhawker editor.
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In past years, only students living on organized housing have appeared in Jayhawker group pictures. About 40 per cent of KU students live off-campus, however, and the Jayhawker staff feels they should be included in the yearbook.
Because no separate mailing list of off-campus students exists, they must send in coupons with name, address, class, phone number and name of apartment complex—if any. A cost of $1.50 will be charged each student to cover photographer's expenses.
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Coupons and checks should be mailed this week to Off-Campus Pictures, 1969 Jayhawker, Kansas Union Building.