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Muskie visits Kansas today
Topeka-Sen. Edmund S. Muskie of Maine, Democratic vicepresidential candidate, is expected to arrive here early today for a day-long tour of the Sunflower state.
The 54-year-old senator's campaign plane was scheduled to arrive at Forbes Air Force Base at 1 a.m.
Communists hit Loc Ninh
Saigon—Communist troops today drove into the heart of Loc Ninh, a key provincial capital on the Cambodian border, and withdrew after battling in the market place with South Vietnamese defenders, military spokesmen reported.
The assault on Loc Ninh was one of a series of battles that erupted today between Saigon and the Cambodian border.
Dissent voiced against proposal
By Richard Lundquist Assistant Editorial Editor
Equal student-faculty representation and immediate social involvement keynote the dissenting report of the Student Faculty Committee on University Governance, released today.
The dissenting report criticizes the committee's report for incorporating students "as an institutionalized minority with power only to advise—not make final decisions affecting their lives."
"The proposed student-faculty ratios of the University Senate 95 to 550 (approximate figures), the senate council 13 to 42, and SENEX (Senate Executive Council) 3 to 6, do not fulfill the concept of participatory democracy," according to the dissenting report.
A consensus with the proposals for general reorganization of the Faculty and Student Senates, and the voting procedures is stated by the dissenting report. But the report goes on to recommend the following amendments.
1. Election of all members, including faculty members, of the University Senate on a constituency basis.
2. Equal faculty-student representation in the University Senate, Senate Council, and SENEX, and all University Senate committees and boards.
3. Fifty per cent student representation on the Academic Programs Development Committee (APDC) and the University Planning Council (UPC), both Chancellor's Committees.
4. That the position of Chancellor be filled by an individual elected from the University Senate.
5. That there be voting members of the University Senate represented on the Board of Regents.
6. The policies of the Memorial Union Corporation should be controlled by the University Senate.
7. The policies of the Physical Education Corporation should be controlled by the University Senate.
8. That each school and department formulate its particular policies through committees with equal representation of students and faculty.
9. Non-tenured faculty should be fully represented as faculty members in the Faculty Senate.
10. The Associated Women Students (AWS) should be abolished.
11. The superfluous offices of the deans of men and women should be abolished.
The second "critical failure," according to the dissenting report, is the refusal of the committee's report "to deal immediately with the issue of the social responsibility of the University." To redirect the social responsibility of the University, the dissenting report urges the "immediate adoption" of the following proposals.
1. The creation of tutorial programs at both the high school and
See opposition report page 16.
79th Year, No.4
Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, September 20, 1968
Would abolish ASC
KU senate proposed
Abolition of All Student Council and creation of a Student Senate whose members would sit on the University Senate was proposed today by the committee selected to study greater student representation at the University of Kansas.
If adopted, the revolutionary proposals would mean for the first time in Kansas University history students would have membership on the University Senate.
The governing powers of the University Senate include organization, administration of the University, academic work and its evaluation, requirements for graduation and degrees, class and examination schedules, the school calendar, student financial aid, school activities and human relations.
The proposal, contained in a report released Thursday, was among a host of sweeping recommendations for student participation in the governing of the University, including representation by University Schools instead of by living groups.
The ASC meets Sept. 24, the Senate Council two days later, and the University Senate Oct. 29.
A committee of six students and six faculty members was created last spring after Student Voice, now called Peoples Voice, demanded 50 per cent student representation on University committees involving student affairs. A sit-in was threatened if the demands weren't met, but did not occur.
Ambrose Saricks, a co-chairman of the 12-member committee, said the proposals might go into effect before the end of the semester if voted on and approved at the early meetings of the governing bodies.
Before becoming effective, the proposals must be passed by the University Senate Council and the University Senate, by the ASC and by a student referendum.
The percentage of student membership in the University Senate and its various councils and committees is less than that sought by Voice who asked-50 per cent on all committees—which Saricks said was opposed by a majority of the committee. Saricks said 50-50 membership has
been recommended on many of the University Senate committees.
He said that amount of representation was "too big a step" and required more study. Saricks also said he doubted such a proposal would be approved even if recommended.
LOOK OUT ILLINOIS
The measure would increase the size of the student government body from the 35 members of the ASC to 95 members of the Student Senate. A special election to select the additional 60 student representatives would have to be held if the recommendations were approved before next spring's student elections.
At present, the University Senate is made up of the Faculty Senate, whose members are tenured faculty and library staff, and administration officials such as the Chancellor, the Provost, and Vice-Chancellors. The Chancellor, Provost and some vice chancellors have faculty status.
Presiding over the proposed Student Senate would be Dean of Student Affairs, William M. Balfour.
Included in the Student Senate would be the Deans of Men and Women, President and VicePresident of the student body, and the presidents of the Association of University Residence Halls, the Pan-Hellenic Association, the Interfraternity Council, the Unorganized Housing Association, and the special representatives of each University school and three special representatives to the Senate Council.
Representatives from University schools would be chosen according to each's enrollment, with one representative for every 200 students.
Hamilton Salsich, former KU instructor now at Western Michigan University at Kalamazoo, gave the report qualified endorsement.
"I think Kansas has got a long, long way to go yet," Salsich said, "but when you think that it is the University of Kansas that may make these changes, as backward as it has been as far as student rights go. I think it's a big step."
WEATHER
Fair to partly cloudy and mild today with warming temperatures. High today in the high 70s or low 80s. Chance of precipitation less than 10 per cent.
KU fullback John Riggins breaks through a wide hole in the line during a practice scrimmage. Rumor has it that holes will be larger in the Illinois line.
Regents begin a chancellor hunt
The Kansas Board of Regents Thursday took the first step toward selecting a new chancellor for the University of Kansas by forming a four-man committee to report back a list of candidates.
Committee chairman Arthur H. Cromb of Mission Hills said the group will work jointly with a committee yet to be appointed by the Faculty Senate.
Faculty Regents chairman C. N. Cushing named to the committee Cromb; Henry A. Bubb, Topeka; Eldon Sloan, Topeka; and James J. Basham. Fort Scott. All are members of the Board of Regents.
The action followed the Regents' official acceptance of Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe's resignation. Wescoe announced Monday at the 103rd Opening Convocation he was resigning after nine years as chancellor to begin "a second career."
Wescoe stated after the meeting, held at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, he would remain associated with KU "in a fund-raising capacity" to continue contacts he has made as chancellor.
Cromb said the procedure to be followed would be the same used this spring to select Clark D. Ahlberg as president of Wichita State University. The Regents' committee and a committee to be formed by the Faculty Senate will both compile lists of possible candidates, Cromb said. The two committees will then meet jointly until three names or less remain in consideration. These names, Cromb said, will be presented by his committee to the Regents for a final decision.
Several committee members expressed concern that a replacement for Wesco may be difficult to find. Sloan said there were currently "several hundred" university administrative vacancies in the United States and competition for qualified men was great. The chancellor's salary may have to be raised to attract a qualified candidate, said Bubb, but no immediate increase is planned. "The salary will depend on the man," he said.
Neither Cromb nor Cushing were willing to predict when a new chancellor would be found. "The president of WSU resigned in March and his successor was appointed in July, but we were lucky," said Cromb.
The Board of Regents also accepted the resignation of M. C. Cunningham, president of Fort Hays State College. Cunningham resigned effective "either July 1, 1969, or not later than September 1, 1969," because of his age of 65 and because "it is timely and most appropriate that a younger person with new ideas and more vigorous energy take over the administrative duties of the Presidency."