Tuesday, October 15, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Nixon moving up in polls, HHH failing in home state
By United Press International
Richard M. Nixon, encouraged by a report of his "upward trend" in the polls, is already giving thought to selection of an economic team to turn his campaign promises on urban problems into legislation to submit to Congress in January.
Hubert H. Humphrey is fighting an uphill battle against Nixon for the presidency. He challenged the GOP nominee yesterday to join him in a public pledge that neither would bargain for the electoral votes of third party candidate George C. Wallace if none of the three receives a majority.
Wallace, meanwhile, defended the Confederate flag and announced he was accepting Humphrey's offer for a three-way debate between the candidates on nationwide television Sunday night providing that Nixon also accepts. Nixon has made no reply to Humphrey's offer.
The Nixon camp was particularly pleased with the latest Minnesota poll showing him leading the vice president in Humphrey's own home state. A Nixon aide said a study showed the GOP candidate is gaining and widening his lead over Humphrey and Wallace nationwide.
To solve urban probelms, Nixon has proposed a series of tax advantages and breaks for private firms when they engage in programs to provide jobs, job training and housing or when they install pollution control facilities.
Humphrey charged that Wallace "is willing to bargain his electoral votes to the highest bidder," and added, "I am not bidding. I call on Mr. Nixon to publicly pledge the same."
Wallace, campaigning in Fresno, Calif., said a newspaper questioned why he criticized those who fly "the black flag of anarchy" when his own supporters sometimes display the Confederate flag.
"We do," Wallace said, "but we don't fly it above the American flag. I'll tell you one thing—any time you see the Confederate flag flying, you don't see the Viet Cong flag with it."
In other developments the Fair Campaign Practices Committee urged news media to ignore new political charges during the last five days of the election campaign, unless the opposing candidate or party has a chance to reply.
Curtis E. LeMay, Wallace's running mate, said the public knows better than to believe a "scare tactic" which describes him as "the big bomber general, with a thunderbolt in one hand and a nuclear bomb in the other."
Edmund S. Muskie, Democrat vice presidential candidate, said the important polls are the ones taken during these last four weeks of the campaign leading up to the election three weeks from today.
Six resolutions calling for changes in University policy will be debated before a meeting of the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) at 5:30 p.m. Thursday in the Kansas Union.
If adopted, the recommendations will be sent to University officials for further consideration, said Dennis Quinn, professor of English and chairman of the AAUP Committee on Instruction, which formulated the proposals.
AAUP to debate policy proposals
The first resolution would place "teaching-oriented research" on the same level as research for publication, Quinn said. If adopted, this will provide University funds for research aimed at improving classes and at starting new classes.
The next three recommendations emphasize the importance of teaching. One proposal asks that instructors' classroom contributions be given greater recognition in promotion decisions.
Another proposal would eliminate financial prizes which are now awarded to individuals for excellence in teaching. Contending that winners might rest
on past recognition and that cash prizes stifle the true goals of teaching, the committee asks that available funds be used for research grants instead of prizes.
In the next proposal, the committee would establish supervisory systems in all departments to improve teaching among graduate teaching assistants. Such a system would set all teaching assistants under the supervision of more experienced full-time faculty members.
The final two resolutions call for more individual discrimination in determining faculty leaves and sabbaticals.
Quinn expects "disputes and vigorous debate" when these proposals are introduced. "I've been told that there is strong opposition to some of them among members of the AAUP," he said.
The students selected are Nancy Taylor, Lawrence junior; Lou Abernathy, Topeka senior, and William Birney, Hill City junior.
Task force adds 3 new students
Three KU students were appointed yesterday to a University task force to study enrollment procedures. They will attend the group's first meeting at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Clif Conrad, Bismarck, N.D., senior and student body president, said yesterday.
The Committee on Instruction was formed two years ago to investigate areas where better
Twelve faculty members and administrators were appointed last week by Provost James R. Surface, James K. Hitt, director of systems development, is chairman of the task force.
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teaching methods could be employed.
"The committee was organized partly in response to renewed student interest in better teaching," Quinn said.
LONDON (UPI) — London taxi drivers offered a 25 pound ($60) reward for the apprehension of the "Phanton Farmyard Mimic" who over the past two years has been interrupting their radio calls with his version of donkeys braying, chickens clucking, pigs grunting and roosters crowing.
Quinn explained that the AAUP does not formulate official University policy. It is, however, the only organization on campus which speaks for the professors.
"We initiate proposals and influence decisions that affect the entire lot of university professors," Quinn said.
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