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Monday, December 10, 1973
University Daily Kansan
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Nichols . . .
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year. We came out of the year with a feeling of unity, which Chancellor Dykes has thanked.
Nichols compared the students and faculty of 50 years ago with those of today and concluded that there had been a significant improvement in both.
"In fact, I'm not sure I could have made it as a student here had I come today," said Nichols, secretary of the Phil Beta Kappa charter here for 42 years.
NCHOLS GREW serious as he speculated on the future of KU.
"A decline in the birth rate is going to affect our enrollment in the coming years," he said. "Also, the growth of the community colleges will affect our enrollment. They're going to take a higher percentage of freshmen because it costs so much to go to college. We think those persons are playing pressure for increased tuition are wrong."
Nichols said the public was questioning the value of higher education.
"The thinking is more than that education should be career oriented
less simply learning how to live Nichols.
The former chancellor said the challenge facing the University w new ways to maintain the enrollm
"Our enrollment will decline wi- respond to the growing need or des public to continue education b education to the public. We must door of education to the housewife professional man," he said.
"We must expand our present p he said. "Otherwise, we'll have t our staff."
Asked what she thought was her husband's success, Clytie replied, "He's not a frustrated phera has a very neet mind and a v memory. He's got great vitality ability to be objective."
Nichols cited a business admit course to be offered in Topek example of the University's goir public.
THE NICHIOLSES said they plan some traveling after retirement. They were going to visit their son, I
Pachacamac . . .
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secret societies. He added that most Greeks weren't involved in Pach and that they probably didn't know of it or its activities until the last few weeks.
In recent years Pach has paid for a number of advertisements in the Jayhawk yearbook. In these ads, the Pachacamaic has stated its aims and purposes.
"The Society of Pacachacam, although unknown to most persons on campus, plays an active, positive role in student life and is a resource for students ..." an ad in the 1987 *dylphy book*.
"Pachacamac isn't an organization that exerts its power through coercion or force, but instead is a society which, because of the quality of its members, believes its aims can be realized through influence and persuasion.
However, according to Dennis Mullen, Shawnee senior and president of Tau Kappa Epsilon, Pachacamac does have a great effect especially in the Interfraternity Council.
"SOME MEMBERS of the Interfraternity Council are involved in Pachacamac from the top level on down," he said, "and they have great influence on fraternity affairs."
"There is today no affiliation or undue concern with campus politics—the society is not in the same league as the rest."
Another past member of the IFC said the first time he heard of Pacachacam, secret societies and their activities was when he attended IFC meetings.
"Secret societies are a thing of the past," he said, "and I see no need for an underground group to accomplish social and political objectives.
Roads Stevers, Garnett sophomore and member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, said Pachacamac was a potentially dangerous object that should be brought out into the open.
Mullen said Pachacamac was a detritum to the fraternity system.
"Pach is an organization that seemingly wants to take care of us," Stevens said, "but I consider this an insult to the intelligence of the people, especially when an organization thinks it knows how to take care of us better than we ourselves.
On Oct. 28, 1912, the Society of the Inner Circle of Pachacamac was founded as a student political party supporting William Howard Taft for the presidency of the United States. Taft was the Republican candidate.
The next year, Pach turned to campus politics and started to build a dynasty of political power and influence that was to last for the next 42 years.
SOME PEOPLE expressed the opinion that Pach was only an elusive ghost being chased by a bunch of witch hunters, but there is no such thing as witches who were matters of historical record.
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Other semi-secret societies and parties were founded in prolific during the first three decades of tury.
Pachacamac was a fraternity party that participated openly in always and activities. However, when he was elected as "Inner Circle" who remained unknot secret from the public, the member Inner Circle were often referred to as "Sorcerer."
Pachacamac was opposed by bratritary political parties such as a Mask in the 1920s and the Pre Student Government League in the However, in 1825 as a political leader, Pachacamac held the upper hand in campus es
HOWEVER, IN 1954, many fra and sororites have become in with the Pachacamac party and deform a new political party.
There was also a Pacchacamase-
political party composed of Greek
and, under the wing of the Pach
 independence is party called F.O.R.
In a March, 1864, issue of the Norman Caps, a student at that tl quoted as saying, "The idea for an a book was to teach people the All Student Council became dis because they didn't feel they had fret of how to sue—they felt they had no choice."
In 1954, 12 fraternities and sbolted from the Pacchacanac part themselves with the independent formed the Allied Greek-Independence
Over the years the Pachacamaca had been accused of dirty, under politics. It was alleged to have envied the government and are peeking to maintain its power.
On the evening of Feb. 25, 1984, m of the "Inner Circle" of the Se Pachacamaic decided that the role as a student政治 party had on end. The party was disbanded, political dynasty broken.
A University daily Kansan Edit an article in 1964 on Pacchamac quotation: "Is 'Pach rey really dead?' The answer is yes. Perhaps? On a smoke-follow somewhere on the campus the Socle Inner Circle of Pacchamac, or in a the same still exists. . . all we know is that Pacchamac was created by Pach men over the death of their
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Union Fire, Strife Linger in Public Memory
Leaders Confident State Will Aid KU
Optimism that the University of Kansas will receive increased support from the Kansas Legislature is the rule among KU administrators, members of the Board of Regents and state officials.
"The people and legislature of Kansas are committed to good education," says Chancellor Emmanuel E. Meyer, who varies from time to time, but over the years, the attitude of the legislation has been to provide good support.
The University has suffered recently from public reactions to the university's decision to K receive no increase over the previous year's appropriations, making faculty pay raises impossible and causing a cutback in the operating budget.
"A minority band of legislators, a reactionary group, tried and successfully swayed the legislature to cut back funds in 1971 for colleges and universities because of the student disruptions and backlash," Smith wrote. "The administrators who were willing to place expediency ahead of responsibility."
Glee Lee Jr., former member and president pro tem of the Kansas Senate, says that the "zero year" was a result of KU's image.
A quieter campus mood and a change in KU administration has done much to change the attitude in the state toward the University.
But, Smith says, most of this group is no longer in the statehouse.
"You can ask the man on the street and he'll tell you he is more favorable towards college students."
says Paul Wunsch, regent from Kingman.
Wunsch says this change in public attitude is reflected in the current legislature.
"I think we've got a good opportunity to get all we're asking for (in state appropriations)," Wunsch says.
Robert Bennett, president of the Kansas Senate, cautions, however, that full funding for higher education is not necessarily assured.
"Today, there is a direct competition for the taxpayer's dollars," Bennett says. "One of the problems with educators is that for a long time they have taken their funding for granted."
Bennett says that to inure adequate funding, university administrators should take an active role in selecting a faculty value and needs of higher education.
This form of "outreach" has been one of the major stated goals of Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, and Bennett praises his efforts.
Ross Doyen, R-Concordia, who is chairman of the Senate Way and Means Committee, says he thinks the legislature is more responsive to the needs of higher education than it has been in the recent past.
"Dykes has every indication of being one of the greatest chancellors the University of Kansas has ever had," Bennett says.
"I doubt that (KU) salaries will be increased 10 per cent as request-ed." he cautions. "But I think that we need of 5 to 8 per cent will be approved."
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Campus unrest in the late 1960s has caused an erosion in public support for higher education, ac- cademic (Akron) Dean of the school of Social Welfare.
"I'm sure that the institutions in Kansas will be funded adequately."
"The negative attitude of the public toward the funding of higher education can directly be seen in the dvr year. 1970." Katz says.
In 1970 the Kansas Legislature refused to grant salary increases to University faculty members.
Dale Scannell, de the School of Education, says the unrest also caused parents to have second children to send their children to college.
"Parents became reluctant to send their children to campuses where drugs, fires and killings were present." Scannell saves.
But Katz says the colleges weren't directly at fault.
"The turmoil at the University of Kansas was the result of larger forces, such as the (Vietnam) war and the killings at Kent State," Katz says. "The trouble can't be to the faculty and students at KU."
According to Eugene Patterson, a former professor at Duke University, the public has also become unhappy with political neutrality of universities.
"There is a rough impression in the minds of many that they are being asked to send off their innocent children to study under pointy-heads, who lead them away, somehow, from their patriotic raising and into the paths of polygamy and anarchy." Patterson said in the November 1972 issue of the College and University Journal.
Scannell says taxpayers have also raised questions about university curriculums. The public is wondering, he says, whether traditional learning experiences are still available at universities.
"A lot of the disaffection probably resulted from misconceptions," Patterson wrote, "and a lot more from the simple fact of years, which cut off some daddies at the generation gap, leading them to the realization that their virility because that's where junior was when things wrong in his head."
Katz says faculty research, new developments and the discovery of new knowledge may be partially to blame for the public's attitude.
"Many faculty members at the university are in the forefront of new knowledge and changing de- velopment. They have been elected in the social sciences may not have been acceptable to the public. Sexuality was another new development which was being raised at the university, but many parents didn't accept it."
Herman Lujan, associate professor of political science and director of social and environmental studies, says a third factor—a fear of social upheaval—also contributed to the low opinion of higher education.
"The public was questioning what colleges and universities were producing." Lujan says. "The public said colleges were producing people that weren't fitting into the economy. There was a need for people to be educated, it stood, the average Joe was being educated and not setting a job."
But Scannell says job placement figures may be misleading.
we were in a period of time when there were a lot of college graduate-age people that weren't ready to select a vocation or job," he says. "People lost sight of the fact that a liberal education could be valuable to a person's career." If one starts judging college as vocational experiences, the aspects of a college education are being lost."
A fourth factor in the declining support for higher education is that changing social values have opened up a wide variety of new programs
that now compete with education for public support, according to Thomas Bonnar, president of the University of New Hampshire.
"Urban problems, environmental needs, health and welfare issues and the emergence of public responsibility in colleges and vocational-technical education have generated increased competition for the available dollar." Bonner said in the November issue of The College and University journal.
Nevertheless, legislators and University administrators predict a bright future for higher education in Kansas.
Scannell says former Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. couldn't speak in support of higher education because he didn't know of his tenure at KU.
"This state has had traditionally strong support for higher education," Lujan says. "In Kansas, the move out of less (money), causing the funding problem to be only shortrun, while in a place like California it will take a longrun." We know how to efficiently use money".
Former State Sen. Glee Smith Jr., who for 19 years was chairman of the Senate subcommittee for college and university appropriations, has spent most of his enthusiasm than most states in supporting higher education.
"The present chancellor is extremely sensitive to the feelings of the Kansas public," Scannell says. "Chancellor (Archie R) Dykes also
"This can be seen by the support of the public in the capital drive a few years ago, for example in meetings and in the general willingness of the public to contribute to education."
"I think public attitudes are ready for a shift, and the image of higher education will rise in esteem. But that fact may be colored by the fact that I hope so."
does an effective job in describing higher education in terms the public can appreciate."
Katz says, "The new chancellor is a well-experienced administrator. He is very likable, outgoing, friend-able, which combine for better relations."
Luan says universities must stop trying to solve public problems and return to their original mission of education. "Our public attitudes are, to be erased."
According to Katz, universities must reach out and contact broader segments of society.
"I think the University should use its time, energy and resources to get in direct touch with the masses of the people in the state, whether the people are farmers, blue collar or academic students," Katz says.
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But Scannell says readjustments, not reforms, are needed.
"The public must be informed on what the university is doing well," he says. "The institution must fulfill what the taxpayer wants it to do." He stresses the importance of managing its funds efficiently, better management should be sought."
Public attitudes toward the funding of higher education are on the unswelling. Scannell says.
"I think public attitudes are ready for a shift, and the image of higher education will rise in importance," she said, "a man I mma colored by that fact that I hope so."
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