CONSTRUCTION BOOM—The University's newest residence hall, located at 19th and Naismith, is speeding toward completion as evidenced in this
—Staff photo by Bill Stephens
aerial photograph taken by Kansan photo-editor, Bill Stephens, this morning. The beige brick hall resembles the existing structures on Daisy Hill to the west.
What's Inside?
Boots go marching along as winter dawns, see p. 9; ... Young Democrats seek end to capital punishment, see p. 3.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan
Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Weather
76th Year. No.43
Partly cloudy skies with warmer temperatures for Thursday are predicted by the U.S. Weather Bureau.
Wednesday, November 17, 1965
Bomb Threat Telephoned to Templin U.S. Gives
By Tom Rosenbaum
The third televised bombb
threat in 48 hours was received
at Templin Men's Residence Hall
last night.
An anonymous man called the Templin switchboard at 10:26 p.m. and told the operator, Dave Putnam, Leawood sophomore. "If you check real hard you'll find a bomb in the hall."
Putnam turned in the alarm and the building was immediately evacuated. Five minutes later, at 10:31 p.m., a second call was received at the switchboard and the male caller said, "You'd better get it before it goes off."
WHILE CAMPUS police, Lawrence Police, and university officials searched the hall, the 450 Templin residents tried to keep warm in the 40 degree weather outside. Some of the men crammed into cars, while others milled around in small groups in the parking lot.
No bomb was found, and the men were allowed to return to the building when the all clear was given shortly before 11 p.m.
Mrs. Marvin Crocker, wife of the resident director of Templin Hall, said she, along with most of the residents, thought the bomb threat was a joke when it was received. A thorough search of
the building was conducted anyway.
This was the fourth bomb scare on the campus in five days. Last Friday morning, a classroom building, Summerfield Hall, was evacuated because of a bomb hoax.
HASHINGER HALL, a women's residence, was evacuated twice on Monday when callers warned switchboard operators a bomb was placed in the building.
The 450 women residents were evacuated from the hall at 4:15 a.m. Monday and again at 10:10 p.m.
E. P. Moomau, Chief of KU Traffic and Security, said the person or persons who have been responsible for the bomb threats face a misdemeanor charge and expulsion from the University.
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A monitoring system to trace calls to University residence halls was put into effect Tuesday.
Bomb Caller Seen as 'Prankster'
By Giles Lambertson
How do you describe a person who perpetrates bomb seares? He is a thoughtless prankster with an abnormal sense of humor and a possible jail sentence hanging over his head, according to law enforcement officials.
Individuals who fit the above description have been responsible for four emergency evacuations this past week. "Not an unusual number for an entire semester," E. P. Moomau, chief of the campus police, said, but an unwieldy number for any five-day period.
"The people who make these calls want to cause trouble." Moomau said, "and apparently they get some kind of kick out of it. They don't realize the economic waste they create, or don't care."
The haunting knowledge that any report could be the real thing necessitates a search, although they are generally considered the work of pranksters, Moomau said.
"None of these bombs have ever gone off at KU," he said, "and I don't think any of the callers have such an intent. But we never know beforehand."
Herbert Wright, professor of psychology, said he was not aware of any research having been conducted to determine what motivates the pranksters.
"I think if these people are to be called pranksters," he said, "then they belong in a category of seriously disturbing rather than humorous. If the calls can be considered pranks, they are certainly deviate ones.
U.S. Gives Cong Big Setback
SAIGON —(UPI)American cavalrymen and North Vietnamese troops slugged it out again today on the bloody battlefields of the Chu Pong mountain range where the biggest battle of the war comes to a close.
U. S. B52 bombers blasted the high ground in a new attempt to crush enemy resistance.
Other American jets attacked Communist targets in North Viet Nam and four were shot down within a 35-minute period during a strike against a highway and railroad bridge 35 miles southeast of Hanoi the Communist capital.
THE NEW fighting in the Chu Pong mountains, 220 miles northeast of Saigon, broke out five miles north of the battleground where American troops killed an estimated 1,300 North Vietnamese regulars in three previous days of vicious fighting.
SUA Critics Question KU's 'Parental' Control
By Walt Jayroe
Students' lives outside the classroom should be free from University restrictions, according to the three panelists speaking before the SUA Current Events Forum yesterday.
Panelists Charles Oldfather, professor of law, Howard Kahane, assistant professor of philosophy, and James Masters, Mission graduate student, all said the University should exercise no parental authority over students, but none offered a concrete plan of action to further this aim.
DISCUSSION WAS centered around university restrictions on drinking of alcoholic beverages, closing hours for women students, organizational use of
campus buildings, and other out-of-classroom student conduct.
Masters spoke first, saying the "parental" problem centered around "the establishment," which consisted of university administration, Board of Regents, State legislature and influential alumni. This group not only assumes a legal and moral responsibility for the student, but also attempts to determine what is proper, he said. Reading some of the University's regulations, Masters cited rules regarding drinking, of alcoholic beverages, women's dormitory hours and organizations' use of campus facilities as examples of the administration's infringements on the rights of the individual.
"IT IS NOT the administration's function to determine worthiness and responsibility," he said.
At one point a student asked why a representative from the KU administration was not present to explain the current policy.
Roy Laird, associate professor of political science and moderator of the hour and a half session, said several deans had been invited, but none accepted. He admitted the Forum had erred in not inviting someone from the Chancellor's office."
AT THIS POINT Charles Oldfather spotted James Gunn, administrative assistant to the chancellor, in the audience and invited him to speak. Gunn, however, refused any comment.
Continuing, Masters said he hoped for a "free university" where a student could do what he thinks is right and accept individual responsibility for his actions.
"It is time for people to take control of their lives," he said. "There is no better place to start than here and no better time to start than now."
KAHANE AGREED with everything Masters said but he said he would like to stress why the university should not exercise parental authority.
"First," Kahane said, "it holds back the already retarded maturation factor." He explained the student's parents do everything for him in high school. When he leaves home the university takes
over, further slowing his development, he said.
"The evil is then compounded and you're set back four more years."
Oldfather, while agreeing parental control should not be exercised by the university, said he would offer a constructive suggestion in response to the previous discussion by Kahane and Masters.
THE PROBLEM is simple, he said, because no alternate plan to the one presently in use has been made available. Since the university is a community with some general aims and ideals, and since it must have a body of rules, then a revision of existing ones or the creation of new ones must be made, he said.