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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, October 21, 1968
Advisory bodies could develop community
The announcement last week that students will be on a committee to select a new chancellor was almost obscured by the continuing debate over the reports on university governance.
But this is one of the more daring proposals advanced by students this fall and certainly, in terms of student voice, one of the most advanced developments so far at KU.
The six-man advisory committee said last Tuesday that it will consult a student advisory committee on the selection of a chancellor to replace W. Clarke Wescoe whose resignation is effective in June.
Of course, an advisory committee isn't invested with too much power but the step does show the increase of influence the student voice now exerts at KU.
However, although the student segment of the university is being recognized, another part of KU is so far being passed over in the search for a new chancellor.
The six-man faculty committee chosen two weeks ago is composed entirely of tenured faculty members. Three of these are deans of their departments.
No non-tenured faculty are formally represented in an advisory committee. And these
faculty members are potentially the ones most affected by the chancellor and his position in the university since they are aften the segment most directly concerned with the university's educational policies and their implementation.
William P. Albrecht, dean of the graduate school and head of the faculty committee, said last Tuesday that the committee is "in the process of drafting letters to members of the University committee asking for nominations and also criteria for selecting a new chancellor."
Hopefully this would cover the non-tenured faculty. However, the gap between tenured faculty members and a student advisory group is a rather glaring one. Without any formal advisory body to represent them, the non-tenured faculty members seem to be almost disenfranchised in the matter.
Setting up criteria for choosing a chancellor must be a wieldy and confusing task.
But if the six-man faculty committee follows its statement of last week and really scours the whole university for suggestions, the selection of a new chancellor could be one of the outstanding developments in making KU a workable community.
Of course, the Kansas Board of Regents will be the final decision-makers in the choice. But their
decision will naturally rest very heavily if not entirely on the advice of the KU advisory committees.
Alison Steimel
Editorial Editor
Paperbacks
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Letters to the editor
Humphrey story
To the Editor:
"By Judi Diebolt, Kansas Staff Writer," was the proud by-line of a front page article in the October 15 UDK. But it was the by-line for a distorted article of half-truths and non-truths which no one should claim with pride.
In the first half of the article, reporter Diebolt, casting objective reporting to the winds, informed us that a small crowd greeted Hubert Humphrey at the Kansas City airport because "few people seemed to care." Anyway, most of those few who did appear she claimed, came primarily to see the celebrities who accompanied Mr. Humphrey to the Middle West. I must say that Miss Diebolt appeared to have been fascinated with singer Chubby Checkers, but those three hundred or more persons who weren't allowed onto the runway by the Secret Service, and who waited for their candidate until midnight, may just possibly have come to the airport to welcome Humphrey alone.
The second half of this article was an example not only of poor journalism but of poor taste as well. As if it made a difference, and as if her estimate were correct, Miss Diebolt reported that about a hundred people "mostly Negroes" greeted the candidate at the Hotel Muehlebach. These people welcomed him with "gyrations . . . faintly reminiscent of old Tarzan movies." Is another of Miss Diebolt's biases showing through? It is true that at least as many black Americans as white Americans welcomed their candidate to Kansas City. So what! Humphrey has always been a champion of equal rights for all Americans, and I find this highly commendable.
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Young Citizens for Humphrey
the rock hound
Garveys' biography
By WILL HARDESTY
MR. & MRS. GARVEY by Mr. and Mrs. Garvey on Epic does what few albums do—introduces a really new sound.
About a year ago, in Denver, a friend said, "Listen to this." It was a test record made by Pat and Vickie Garvey. My friend eagerly waited my reaction. "I like it," I said. "We're gonna try and get them on a major label," my friend told me. And now they are here.
Their sound is, well, folk, baroque, almost-vaudeville-ian,
comical, beautiful, Sousa-ish.
hoe-downy—maybe it would be best to say it sounds something like Joan Baez-with-male-accompaniment recorded in Nashville (with orchestral accompaniment).
The Garveys have traveled around the country, staying awhile here and awhile there, writing and living as they go. They are currently living in Central City, Colo. They say, "Our songs are our biography. They reflect us, our attitudes and the things around us."
Their music is about the warm-during-the-day-chilly-as
soon-as-the-sun-goes-down West; about the sagebrush-and-pine- and-granite Rockies; about the gold rush days and the towns of those days now. But the music also discusses and contrasts the impersonal world of today, the modern West where steel-and-glass skyscrapers rise from the irrigation-and-dry-farming plains, where the supermarket has replaced the general store.
A fine album.
SINGLES
'It's OK, Dick. We got the dragon that was scratching at your door.'
KENTUCKY WOMAN by Deep Purple on Tetragrammation is nothing special. It is not nearly as good as writer Neil Diamond's version. The Deep Purple version sounds like Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels and just doesn't get it. However, the record will probably be something of a hit just riding on the strength of the group's first effort., HUSH. The flip side is HARD ROAD and is better than fair-but not much.
RITCHIE by Sue Austin on Monument is really a drag. After lumbering on for several verses, the song finally gets to the punchline—"And I like her, Ritchie./ Wanna know why I like her, Ritchie?/ Gonna tell ya why I like her, Ritchie-/ She loves you like I do."
Ray Stevens, who expressed some insight with his MR. BUSINESSMAN, lays a real egg with THE GREAT ESCAPE on Monument. After professing to know where it's at in BUSINESSMAN, Stevens shows his real colors herein by extolling the wonders of leaving the city each evening for the wonders and delights of mindless, middle-class suburbia—home of Mr. Businessman.
SET ME FREE by Arthur Alexander on Sound Stage 7 is a good soul ballad which has a bundle of possibilities for being a hit. Call a radio station and request it today.