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THE UNIVERSITY -DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, October 3, 1968
Grad level is steady
By United Press International
The disaster predicted by some educators for the nation's graduate schools in the wake of altered military draft regulations has not yet struck in Kansas.
Officials of the state's two major universities said enrollment in graduate and professional schools for the fall term appears to be about normal.
They said no difficulties in filling lower-class teaching posts customarily held by graduate students had been reported thus far.
William L. Kelly, registrar at the University of Kansas, said "We appear to be holding our own" in graduate enrollments although accurate figures will not be available until later.
He said little change was apparent either in class registrations, or in the proportion of men to women in the graduate and professional schools.
At Manhattan, Dr. Ellsworth Geritz, Kansas State University dean of admissions, said graduate and professional enrollment totaled about 1,450, "up a few percentage points from last year."
When the ending of all graduate student deferments except for those in the health science fields was announced last spring, many educators predicted graduate schools would be stripped and that universities and colleges would be unable to provide teachers for freshman and sophomore courses in which graduate students customarily serve as instructors or assistants.
Geritz pointed out this still could develop, because these student teachers customarily are in their second or third year of graduate study.
There also was a change that a considerable number of newly graduated draft registrants who had not yet been called to service enrolled in graduate school on the chance they would be able to finish one semester.
Many memories mark Haworth
Haworth Hall, slated for demolition in 1969, will soon be part of KU history.
for several Haworth dwellers, however, the building will hold zany. bittersweet memories.
Frederick Samson, head of the department of biochemistry and physiology, has spent more than 16 years in Haworth Hall. During that time he has seen the building move from staid respectability to the rather derelict position it holds today.
"Yes, I think it's time that Haworth be retired," he says. "While it's still a functional building, maintenance problems are becoming increasingly expensive. I'll be quite
For Samson, "maintenance problems" is not just an empty term. The pan positioned beneath his leaky office radiator testifies to its reality.
pleased when we're in our new home."
"And that's not the worst of it," he says. "Directly above my office is the women's toilet. Occasionally, water gets on the floor up there and . . . well, . . . it leaks down into my office."
Abe Fortas-
Ken Richards, a graduate student in biochemistry, has the wildest story of them all—he says that genuine "cadaver juice" has leaked from the ceiling onto his desk and papers.
Sen. Robert P. Griffin, R-Mich., who led the fight against Fortas, said, "a chief justice should have widespread support among the people and within the Senate. In view of the obvious deep division and controversy, it is a wise decision."
Another anti-Fortas leader, Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., said, "This is the wisest decision Fortas has made since he has been on the Supreme Court. I think he might go a step further now and resign from the Supreme Court for the sake of good government."
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Fortas' page-and-a-half letter said that more senatorial attacks on the court "would be especially inappropriate and harmful to the court and the nation if they should continue while the court is in session, engaged in the adjudication of issues of great importance to the nation as well as to the litigants."
The letter was delivered to the White House by Fortas' personal secretary, Mrs. Gloria Dalton. When it arrived Johnson was welcoming the visiting president of Chad.
Richards tells it this way.
"One morning I came to my office and found a puddle of oily, nasty smelling liquid on my desk. It had apparently leaked through the ceiling from the human anatomy lab on the floor above.
"When I went upstairs to investigate, I found the greasy stuff all over the floor. A metal 'body box' had sprung a leak and cadaver juice was seeping out."
James Barnes, building custodian,
has been at Haworth only two
months, but already has a few
choice anecdotes about the place.
His favorite, though, concerns the building's rats, which occasionally make an appearance.
"The other night, as I was eating my dinner, a rat walked in the door. It just stood there a moment and looked at me. It kind of bothered me having it act that way."
Ever since that happened, Barnes has been hiding his lunch in a safe place.
LAW ORIENTED
BIRMINGHAM, England (UPI)—Three members—a son and two daughters—of a family named Law are members of the Birmingham police force. The son's faancee is joining the force next month when they marry.
'Racist' profs—
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that they stand up now," he continued. Jenkins criticized the faculty as racist, facist, and do-nothing.
The panel discussed the continuing controversy over the proposed new University Senate Code. It recommends abolition of All Student Council (ASC) in favor of a Student Senate with membership on the University Senate.
Panel members were Barrish, Jenkins, Ambrose Saricks, associate dean of the Graduate School and co-chairman of the Student Faculty Committee on University Governance, which wrote the new code; William Balfour, dean of Student Affairs; J. Eldon Fields, professor of political science; and Clif Conrad, president of the student body and co-chairman of the student faculty committee.
Balfour said students today were better educated, more aware and more interested in the educational process than in the past.
It seemed to be the consensus of those speaking that students should be granted a larger voice in University affairs.
Barrish and Jenkins both argued for 50 per cent representation.
The major area of disagreement was the ratio of students to faculty membership on the University Senate and on administrative committees under the new code.
Fields, Conrad, and Saricks defended the code's proposed 15 per cent ratio.
Jenkins claimed that on the basis of the faculty's past record, the ratio should be 85-15 in the students' favor.
Conrad, Bismark, N.D., senior, said the University should be a "community," and as such could not depend on any percentage figure.
He also called on the All Student Council to amend the code to provide for a student chairman of the Student Senate, rather than having the dean of Student Affairs preside. "The committee," he said, "made a mistake here."
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