'Green City Subpoenas KU Women
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan
Miss Kansas, Mimi Frink, Lawrence senior, and some 30 other women received subpoenas from the "City of Green," yesterday.
The SBA party will be set in a festive atmosphere provided by "Law Wives," an organization composed of law students' wives, according to SBA member Chuck Zarter, Leavenworth second-year student. There will be dancing and music played by the Jesters.
Other entertainment will be provided by first-year law student skits. There will be classroom scenes and imitations of certain professors' idiosyncrasies and characteristics.
Two other women subpoenaed at the same time, Jo Dallam, Shawnee Mission junior, and Gretchen Greff, Pittsburg senior, expressed similar delight at the originality of the invitations.
Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
The subpoenas were issued by the Sheriff of the Student Court, Dan Erie, Kansas City third-year law student. They commanded the women to appear at 9 p.m. Friday, at the Elks Club for the annual KU Student Bar Association Christmas Party.
Chuck Hewitt, SBA president,
Pratt third-year law student said, "115 subpoena invitations were mailed to dates and wives of law students living off campus." He said he expects over 200 people to attend the party.
"What did I do—now." Miss Frink said as she opened the official looking subpoena. She read the subpoena invitation and laughed, saying she thought it was a "neat idea," which is entirely different.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, December 14. 1965
76th Year, No.57
Open Door Admission Policy Expected to Continue at KU
By Nancy Painter
With the pressure on graduating high school seniors to continue their educational efforts, college and university administrators as well as the public, are discussing selective versus open door admission policy.
Today's multiplying enrollment is causing some colleges to initiate admission requirements based on class rank, and various tests.
KU campus officials, however continue to defend the open-door admission policy even though the 1965 fall enrollment totaled 14.746 students.
"STUDIES SHOW that our self-selective admission policy merited us $2.2 per cent of our current freshman class in the upper half of their high school graduating class," George B. Smith, vice-chancellor of institutional planning, said.
Of this same class, 9 per cent were ranked in the bottom tenth of their high school class
In defending the open-door policy, Smith likes to compare
the KU student standing with that of a university which employs a very selective admissions policy.
As printed in a national educational bulletin, "Admission is very selective at the University of North Carolina. About 55 per cent of the freshman class have graduated in the upper one-fourth of their high school classes. Ninety-one per cent have graduated in the upper 50 per cent."
ALTHOUGH the open-door policy is required by a 1915 Kansas state law which reads: "Every graduate of an accredited high school in the state will be admitted to the freshman class of a state-supported institution of higher learning in Kansas," KU officials feel this policy is best.
Claude Eggertsen of the University of Michigan has said that with enforcement of such state laws and proper allocation of resources, Americans can achieve the dream of universal education.
out of the same traditions and with full appreciation of the demands of the shrinking world, the standard of a college education for a greatly increased number of young adults," he said.
"Just as we have built a high school to enroll virtually all adolescents, so are we now creating,
It is felt that with an opendoor policy (four-year loafers would be admitted. However, as Smith pointed out, it is the rare "loafer" who survives the second semester cut.
Smith prefers to refer to "loafers" as late-bloomers and early goofers. He defines the first type as the student who is late in getting-going, and the latter type as the student who just hasn't started yet.
IN ANSWER to the often posed question of "What is the best predictor of college success?" analysis of several KU graduating classes seems to be in agreement with "In order to say that a student is college material, one must measure the student's actual work in college."
"A study was made of the
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KU Groups Agree,Sign UHRC Pact
All but a "handful" have signed and returned the anti-discriminatory policy statement within the required 30-day period, according to Dean Woodruff, dean of men and chairman of the University Human Relations Committee.
The Regent's statement, which bars discrimination on the basis of race, religion, or national origin, was mailed to all fraternal and campus-related organizations on Nov. 15.
"We HAVE NO reason to think that the few organizations who have not returned the form are not going to comply," Woodruff said. "Students are as busy and like to procrastinate as much as the rest of us."
The Dean said second notices have been sent to the tardy few who had not answered. He said action would be begun at noon today to withdraw University recognition and campus privileges from any organization which had not answered at that time. "Eternities and sororities
All fraternities and sororites have returned the form.
THE BOARD OF REGENTS made the policy decision on Sept. 24 in response to the massive sit-in of last March by 150 student demonstrators outside Chancellor Wescoe's office.
They asked the administrations of all Kansas state supported colleges and universities to take the necessary measures to see that the policy was conformed to on their campuses. The UHRC was appointed to handle the enforcement of the policy at KU.
Official Says Blocs Contain No Conflict
Vice-chancellor James R. Surface said a large university such as KU is composed of a greater variety of constituents than just the students, faculty, and administration. He said the idea that these blocs are conflicting is also wrong.
Surface said he was shocked to read in Monday's Kansan the report of his remarks at the All Student Council Retreat luncheon last Saturday. The report indicated that he said the University is made up of "three opposing blocs."
"WHAT I DID SAY was that some people believed that this is so, and then I devoted my entire talk to trying to show that this view is an inaccurate one," he said.
IN HIS ADDRESS to the Council, Surface said that in addition to the students, faculty, and administration, he believes KU serves or is responsible to its alumni; to the citizens of Kansas, who as taxpayers support KU; to the United States and the whole world, by producing educated citizens; to the world of scholarship, by helping to push forward the frontiers of knowledge; and to the learned professions and arts, by giving them new ideas for research and teaching.
Ironically, through an error made in the Kansan's process of preparing the report for print, the Vice-chancellor's statement was transposed and came out in Monday's paper as just the opposite of what he said.
Surface said, "In short, I emphatically do not believe that the University is composed 'of three opposing blocs' nor that 'there exists between these blocs a continuous, irreconcilable contention, with each side out to maximize its opportunities at the expense of the other parties."
"It is more accurate and useful to think of KU as serving a whole range of constituents," he said.
Surface explained that, in looking back at the first three blocs,
"THERE IS GENERAL agreement among them as to what the basic goals of the University are:
- First, to provide a first class education to all students, and
- Second, to increase man's knowledge."
the students, the faculty and the administration, the view that these elements are contradictory is wrong.
Weather
Light, intermittent snowfalls are forecast for the Lawrence area this afternoon, the first of the coming winter, said the U.S. Weather Bureau. About one to three inches are expected to accumulate by tomorrow morning.
In addition to the snowfall, northeast winds from 10 to 15 miles per hour are expected throughout the afternoon and evening.
The high temperature this afternoon should reach the mid 30's with the low tonight in the upper 20's. The high Wednesday should be in the low 30's.
Council Will Elect New Vice President
By Stephen Russell
Nominated at the last meeting for the vice-chairmanship were Kay Orth, El Dorado junior, and Jim Prager, Annandale, Va. junior.
Electing a new vice-chairman will be one of the first tasks of the All Student Council at its meeting today, at 7 p.m., in the Sunflower Room of the Kansas Union.
The new council, with the 32 newly elected living district representatives, will conduct its first full-length regular meeting. Sworn in two weeks ago during
the new business period, the new members conducted only the last half of that meeting.
Editorial
Civil Rights, Fraser Rock Campus in 1965
By Joan McCabe and Nancy Scott
The KU civil rights demonstration, with its achievements and repercussions, has been named the 1965 campus story of the year.
EDITOR'S NOTE—The top twenty campus news stories of 1965 were compiled by the editorial class. A series of related editorials will appear in the Kansan on Wednesday and Thursday.
See related stories on pages 2 and 3.
KU activities focused on controversy. The razing of old Fraser Hall and the construction of new Fraser Hall, followed by the firing of Bill Easton, KU track coach for 18 years—were the second and third top stories of the year.
THE CIVIL RIGHTS issues became a reality on the campus March 8 when approximately 150 members of the Civil Rights Council (CRC) and sympathizers staged a protest outside the office of Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe.
PICKETS ALSO APPEARED outside doomed Fraser Hall after State Architect James Canole and KU officials unveiled the design for new Fraser Hall. Controversy, which surrounded the $2.2 million structure, sprang from students, alumni and architects throughout the state and the nation to make it the second top campus story of the year.
Third leading campus story of the year was spurred by another controversy last spring. After 18 years as KU track coach, Bill Easton was fired April 20 by the Athletic Board. Wade Stinson, athletic director, announced Easton's dismissal the Tuesday morning following the 40th annual running of the KU Relays. Stinson said Easton was fired for differences arising over the administration of the track program at KU.
MISS ORTH (UP — Sorority) was elected to the council in the recent elections and is serving her first term on the council.
- Prior to the opening of the 1965 basketball season the Athletic Board announced student season basketball tickets will cost $4. Following action by the Student Court, Wade Stinson, Athletic Director, said the money would be refunded.
- General Maxwell Taylor's visit to KU during World Crisis Week provides students with insight into the war in Viet Nam.
- The University introduces a master plan for KU expansion.
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Her past experiences with the council include serving as executive secretary to Bob Stewart, Vancouver, B. C. Canada graduate student, while he was student body president; and as executive secretary to the present ASC chairman, Mike McNally, Bartlesville, Okla. junior. She is also presently the chairman of the ASC Hostings and Hospitality Committee, a position which she has held since last spring.
PRAGER (Vox — Men's Small Hall), was also a winner in the recent elections, which makes this his third term on the council. He is presently the caucus chairman for Vox Populi, and is also chairman of the ASC executive Traditions Committee. He served on the Student Athletic Seating Board during his past term.
McNally said the nominations would be opened again at this meeting before the election takes place. The elections will be held as the first item to fall under new business.
More changes are in store, since McNally said he will announce which of the ASC Legislative Committees, each member is to serve on. He will make the following appointments; four members to the Committee on Committees and Legislation, four members to the Committee Evaluations Board, a chairman and three members to the Constitutional Committee, a chairman and four members to the Student Athletic Seating Board, four members to the Secretarial Committee, and two members to the Auditing and Finance Committee.