KANSAN
Monday, September 30,1968
79th Year, No.10
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
'Progress' to top goal in '69
Stanley Learned of Bartlesville, Okla., and national chairman of the Program for Progress, predicted the successful completion this year of KU's $18.6 million fund drive.
At a meeting Friday, Learned told approximately 200 assembled Council members, "If each of us gives just one day a month to help KU's campaign, I am sure we will exceed our goal well in advance."
Other speakers at the third meeting of the Council were Holgar J. Johnson, president of the Council for Financial Aid to Education; C. Ned Cushing, chairman of the Kansas Board of Regents; Dolph Simons, president of the KU Endowment Association, and KU Cancellor W. Clarke Wescoe.
Johnson explained that the Council for Financial Aid to Education was formed to stimulate corporations interest in higher education. "Business is the largest user of the end product of higher education: trained manpower," he said.
"By raising the educational level of a community, you raise the economic level, the social level and the political aspects of the community." Johnson said.
He reminded the Council that at the two-thirds level it is easy to become over-confident. He said what is needed is "an atmosphere of wholesome unrest" to keep the Council working hard.
Cushing spoke about a regent's look at KU. He said, "We are at a crossroads in the glorious history of this university. We must find a very qualified man to replace the man who has led this university for eight years."
Cushing continued, "To this task the Board of Regents must dedicate itself this year. This university has even its greatest days ahead of it. We can and we must achieve them."
Simons explained some of the grants and donations given to KU since the chartering of the Endowment Association in 1893. He said the association has only one purpose: "to service KU as it reaches out for excellence."
Chancellor Wescoe concluded the meeting by urging the Council to work hard to reach the goal they set in 1966. He said, "We cannot fail to meet our goal for we put the reputation of KU on the line."
Wescoe said the motto of KU has always been, "We try, and when we try we make it, and we exceed it."
"We have a long road still to travel, to travel together. Perhaps it is the steepest part of the climb." Wescoe told the members.
Wescoe concluded his brief address by speaking of his recent resignation. "For me there will not be any other University or college when I leave KU," he said, "because KU is mine."
Cushing, acting on behalf of the Kansas Board of Regents, then presented Stanley Learned with a special citation for meritorious service to KU and the Council.
STUDY, KU STYLE
(Photo by Robert Entriken Jr.)
Berta Miller, Platte City, Mo., sophomore, has found a way to make first-of-the-year assignments less tortuous. Here she catches up on some reading and soaks up the sun at the same time.
Voice pushes for minority adoption
By Steve Haynes Kansan Staff Writer
Peoples Voice organized an all-out campaign to secure adoption of the provisions of the "minority report" on student government last night.
Meeting at the Wesley Foundation, Voice members elected a five-member coordinating committee to lead the campaign.
Voice members were not certain the minority report (the Dissensing Report of the Student-Faculty Committee on University Governance) would ever be considered by the student body, but they pledged every effort to see that it did.
The minority report was signed by two members of the Student-Faculty Committee, Bill Berkowitz, New York senior, and Mrs. Rick Atkinson, Lawrence senior, who are also Voice members.
Provisions of the minority report include:
- 50 per cent student representation on the University Senate.
- Abolition of the Associated Women Students (AWS) and the personal deans.
- Increased social responsibility for the
- Increased social responsibility for the University.
- Election of the Chancellor by the University Senate.
- Vote to be cast.
Voice wants these and other provisions of the report adopted immediately.
of the report adopted immediately. Neither the minority report nor the report of the full committee will be considered by the All Student Council (ASC), the University Senate, or the student body
What these groups will be voting on is the proposed new University Senate Code which was prepared by the Student-Faculty Committee.
Members suggested some sort of referendum, but it was decided instead to conduct an extensive campaign to familiarize students with the report and to gain their support.
Because of this, most provisions of the minority report would have to be considered separately from the code, although some could be presented as amendments to the code.
Voice objects to this, but is not certain how the entire minority report can be brought before the student body.
Committees were assigned to promote the report in Greek houses, residence halls, and scholarship halls.
These committees planned to speak to as many living groups as possible in the next three weeks.
Those elected to the coordinating committee were Berkowitz; Jay Barrish, Kansas City, Mo., graduate student; Don Jenkins, Kansas City, Mo., junior; Michael Maher, associate professor of zoology and John Naramore, Wichita senior, Rick Atkinson, Belleville graduate student, was appointed press coordinator
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UDK News Roundup
NY schools open again
NEW YORK (UPI)—The city opened its 900 public schools today to more than one million children under an agreement between the striking teachers union and the board of education officially ending
-the three-week, city-wide teacher walkout.
The agreement, announced Sunday by a weary Mayor John V. Lindsay after a series of all-night negotiations, received the approval of the striking United Federation of Teachers (UFT). The vote was 5,825 for ending the strike and 592 against. The membership is about 52,000.
A major question mark remained as to what reaction the governing
Demos warn state against Harman
board and residents of the "decentralized" Ocean Hill-Brownsville district in Brooklyn would take toward the agreement.
TOPEKA (UR)—State Democratic chairman Norbert Dreiling Sunday charged Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Harman with offering the voters "a bill of goods."
"The campaign of Republican gubernatorial hopeful Rick Harman says that an increase in income, sales and gasoline taxes will decrease taxes," Dreiling said. "It is only a bill of goods.
Dreiling spoke to Democratic county chairman in Topeka in a strategy meeting to plan a registration drive for the final weeks of the campaign.
"Kansas taxpayers have the first real opportunity in years to get at the business of tax reform," Dreiling said.
One that we had better not buy."
Dreiling said if voters "fail to remember in November that Gov. Robert Docking is the only one who has held the line on taxes, they can only blame themselves."
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