THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
79th Year, No.24
Friday, October 18, 1968
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
UDK News Roundup By United Press International
Smith, Carlos suspended
MEXICO CITY—Runner Tommie Smith and John Carlos were suspended from the United States Olympic team today and ordered "to remove themselves" from the Olympic Village because of the incident Wednesday during the ceremony in which they received their Olympic medals.
Smith, winner of the Olympic 200-meter dash, and Carlos, third in the same race, made a "black power" gesture during the flag raising ceremony after they received their gold and bronze medals, respectively.
Crowds larger-Wallace
LONGVIEW, Tex.-George Wallace says newsmen following his campaign are nice guys but they can't count.
He says he isn't getting a fair shake from them in the crowd-counting department.
Thursday night he invited newsmen to view the gathering from his vantage point—the podium.
They did.
And they generally agreed with the police estimate of 5,000 to 6,000.
Rubbish, said Wallace with a smile,
"350 000."
Allen pleads guilty
LOS ANGELES—Former Wyandotte High School basketball star Lucius Allen, who played two years with UCLA remained free today after pleading guilty to a charge of maintaining a place where narcotics—marijuana—were used.
Allen, who paid a $300 fine, was given a 60-day suspended jail sentence which included a year's probation by Superior Court Judge William A. Munnell.
Before sentencing, Judge Munnell lectured the 20-year-old athlete, pointing out many younger persons looked up to him.
Regents cut tower
By KIT GUNN
Kansan Staff Writer
TOPEKA-The Kansas Board of Regents voted yesterday to redesign the proposed KU humanities building along the lines of the original plan but temporarily without a tower.
Both the original 25-story design and a later 15-story design were abandoned for lack of funds.
Total low bids submitted last
August on the 15-story plan were approximately $1.2 million over the $5.8 million appropriated for the building.
Eldon Sloan of Topeka, chairman of the Regents' building committee, said the new design will retain the three-wing, five-story body of the original and will have footings capable of supporting a tower of up to 20 additional stories, to be built when funds become available.
The Regents were unwilling to
Apollo finishes week, moon shot possible
SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI) Apollo 7 today passes a week of superb flight in space long enough to go to the moon and back.
It was performing so well as it whirled around the earth the space agency already was considering the possibility of sending the next Apollo orbiting the moon as many as 24 times in December.
The bearded crewmen of Apollo 7, Walter Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham, had little more to complain about than the usual gripe of men on a long voyage: food.
As the spacecraft passed over a tracking station at 1 a.m. CDT today, Eisele, the only man awake, summed up the whole atmosphere of the mission:
"Ive got two sleeping beauties and a sound ship."
It was learned Thursday night the space agency's tentative plans for Apollo 8, already atop its giant Saturn 5 rocket on a Cape Kennedy launch pad, include a maximum of two full days in lunar orbit.
Apollo 7 passes the time required for a 10-lunar-orbit flight at 3:03
p. m. CDT today. It still has four days to go before its planned splashdown in the Atlantic Tuesday at 6:12 a.m. CDT.
Hurricane Gladys, whose 90-mile an hour winds raked Tampa, Fla., Thursday night, was rated no possible threat to Apollo 7's landing.
Schirra, as he had done once before, cancelled today's television program from outer space to concentrate on other mission tests.
The main one was the 66-second firing of the 21,500-pound thrust main spacecraft engine at 7:03 a.m. CDT.
The health of the crew remained a concern although flight director Glynn Lunney described the astronauts as in "reasonably good condition."
The crew has been plagued by head colds or stuffiness throughout much of the flight and were worried about what re-entry into the earth's atmosphere might do to clogged ears. A ruptured ear drum automatically grounds an astronaut.
Eisele reported Wednesday night after waking from his sleep period that the crew "still had head colds."
speculate when the tower will be added. If the new design is approved by the Board, bidding may be underway next May or June, Sloan said.
Some concern was expressed at the Sept. 19 Board of Regents meeting whether the first design could be salvaged. Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said at the time, "I personally think the tower cannot be reduced any farther."
The redrafting will be done without additional charge by the Wichita architectural firm of Woodman and Van Doren, the original designers of the building, Sloan said. The architects' fee for the entire project is four per cent of the total low bid, about $200,000, he stated.
However, Sloan said yesterday, "A revision of the original plans is the best solution open to us at the present time." The Regents voted unanimously in favor of the proposed redesign.
Sloan explained yesterday's vote does not necessarily indicate the Regents' acceptance of the forthcoming design.
"We don't intend to spend $5 million on a building that doesn't meet our needs," he said.
Also approved by the Regents were the final plans for a two-story addition to the northwest end of Allen Fieldhouse. Sloan said $400,000 had been ear-marked for the project. Bids will be let "fairly soon," he said. "We're just about ready to go."
The addition, financed by the KU Endowment Association, will contain offices, showers, locker rooms and handball courts. A kitchen and dining room for athletes included in the original plans were eliminated to cut the cost. Sloan said.
Preliminary drawings for the space technology building, financed jointly by the state and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), were also approved by the Regents. Sloan said bids for the building, designed by the architectural firm of Hollis and Miller in Overland Park, would be advertised sometime after Jan. 1.
NASA is contributing $1.8 mil
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Chancellor selection committees meet
TOPEKA-The KU chancellor-selection committee met with its Kansas Board of Regents counterpart for the first time yesterday in a closed session following the regular Regents meeting.
Max Bickford, executive officer of the Board of Regents, said all meetings of the committee would be closed to the press.
"The next story coming from us will be the name of the next chancellor," Bickford said.
Both committees were orned to find a replacement for Cancellor
Weather
Clear to partly cloudy and cool today and tonight. Westerly winds 10 to 20 miles per hour today. Highs near 60. Lows tonight upper 30s. Saturday partly cloudy and a little warmer. Precipitation probability. Today tonight and Saturday near zero.
W. Clarke Wescoe, who announced his resignation Sept. 16, effective June 30, 1969.
Cromb said the sensitivity of the chancellor-selection process made secrecy necessary. Premature disclosure of candidates for the position might cause their employers to induce them to remain, or otherwise place the candidates in awkward positions, he said.
Members of the Regents committee are Cromb, Henry A. Bubb and Eldon Sloan, both of Topeka, and Dr. James J. Basham of Fort Scott.
Elected to the KU group were William P. Albrecht, dean of the Graduate School and chairman of the committee: Ambrose Saricks, chairman of the executive committee of the University Senate; Robert P. Cobb, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Paul W. Gilles, professor of chemistry; Charles H. Oldfather, professor of law; and Dr. Robert Manning, associate professor of biochemistry at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City.
"WHY, OF COURSE I BELIEVE IN THE GREAT PUMPKHN"
Halloween's still two weeks away, but you know how kids are when it comes to cutting up pumpkins. These particular five Naismith residents are, from left to right, Mary Hays, Bismark, N.D., sophomore; Mark McLaughlin, Prairie Village senior; Gayle Trigg, Wellesly Lakes, Md., senior; Dick Forman, Colorado Springs, Colo., sophomore, and Deanna Lofgreen, Lawrence junior.