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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 in unity, which Chancellor Dykes has learned.
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 chapter here for 42 years.
NICHOLS 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 them more than those who are applying pressure for increased tuition are wrong."
Nichols said the public was questioning the value of higher education.
"The thinking is more that education should be career oriented and
less simply learning how to live," said Nichols.
The former chancellor and the greatest challenge facing the University was to find a new name for the building.
"Our enrollment will decline unless we respond to the growing need or desire of the public to continue education by taking education to the public. We must open the door of education to the housewife and the professional man," he said.
"We must expand our present program," he said. "Otherwise, we'll have to reduce an extra 10 percent."
Nichols cited a business administration course to be offered in Topeka as an example of the University's going to the public.
Asked what she thought was the secret to her husband's success, Clytie Nichols replied, "He's not a frustrated person. He has a very neat mind and a very good memory. He's got great vitality and the ability to be objective."
THE NICHIOLSESSE they planned to do some traveling after retirement. They said that it was important to have a doctor on the road.
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 past few weeks.
In recent years Pach has paid for a number of advertisements in the Jayhawk yearbook. In these ads, the Songbok Pacacaham has stated its aims and purposes.
"The Society of Pacacharmac, although unknown to most persons on campus, plays an active, positive role in student life and helps them stay connected ... an" an ad in the 1967 Jawhaker read.
"Pachacama 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.
"There is today no affiliation or undue concern with campus politics; the society has no official interest."
"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."
However, according to Dennis Mullen, Shawneen senior and president of Tau Kappa Epsilon, Puchacama does have a great opportunity especially in the Interfraternity Council.
Mullen said Pachacamac was a detriment to the fraternity system.
The past member of the IFC said the first time he heard of Pacachacam, secret societies and their activities was when he attended IFC meetings.
Rhoads Stevens, Garnett sophomore and member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, said Pachacamac was a potentially dangerous student that should be brought out into the open.
"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.
"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.
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.
On Oct. 26, 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.
SOME PEOPLE expressed the opinion that Pach was only an elusive ghost being chased by a bunch of witch hunters, but with all their brave and clever activities were matters of historical record.
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Other semi-secret societies and political parties were founded in prolific numbers during the first three decades of this century.
Pachacamac was a fraternity political party that participated openly in student activism. He was known to always had a number of members of its "Inner Circle" who remained unknown and secret from the public. The members of the Inner Circle were often referred to as the "Buddha."
Pachacamac was opposed by other fraternity political parties such as the Black Mask in the 1930s and the Progressive Student Government League in the 1938s. In 1946, Ku Klux Klan, KU, Pachacamac failed only five times to hold the upper hand in campus elections.
There was also a Pachacamac—N.O.W. political party composed of Greek women, and under the wing of the Pachacamac family, an independent freshman party called F.O.R.
HOWEVER, IN 1954, many fraternities and sororites had become disenchanted with the Pacachama party and decided to form a new political party.
In a March, 1954, issue of the Kansan, Norman Capps, a student at that time, was quoted as saying, "The idea for a new party started when a number of Pach people on the All Student Council became dissatisfied because they didn't feel they had free choice of how to vote—they felt they had to conform to the party line."
In 1954, 12 fraternites and sororites bolted from the Pachacamac party, allied themselves with the independents and formed the Allied Greek-independent party.
Over the years the Pachacamase Party had been accused of dirty, underhanded politics. It was alleged to have engaged in coercive tactics and booth pecking to maintain its power
On the evening of Feb. 25, 1964, members of the "Inner Circle" of the Society of Pacachmacac decided that the role of Pach as a student political party had come to an end. The party was disbanded and its political dynasty broken.
A University Daily Kansan Editor ended an article in 1964 on Pacchacam with this quotation: "Is Pachy reality dead? That is a matter of perspective." Are you wondering? Perhaps in a smoke-filled room somewhere on the campus the Society of the Inner Circle of Pacchacam, or a nucleus of the same, still exists. All we know is we have never seen it, and by Paccham over the death of their party."
L. Nichols, and his family in Melbourne,
Australia, in March. Mrs. Nichols said her
husband probably would also do a lot of
gardening.
"One always hates to terminate a pleasant association. But my guess is that Chancellor Dykes won't need me any longer. But if he does, I'll be available," he
The former chancellor expressed mixed feelings about his retirement.
Dykes, in an interview Saturday, had nothing but praise for Nichols.
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