Associate of AUFS Here For Lectures
Richard W. Patch, an American Universities Field Staff (AUFS) associate, will arrive on the KU campus Monday for a 10-day visit.
He has recently returned to the United States after a two-year stay in Bolivia and Peru.
WHILE IN PERU he studied industrialization and migration patterns in the rural areas, and engaged in ethnographic and methodological research in a highland Peruvian Indian community.
He studied Bolivian agrarian reform and urban-rural social interaction. In 1962 he directed a study of colonization in that country.
On Tuesday, Patch will speak at a faculty seminar to be held from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in room 502F of Dyche Hall.
HIS TALK will focus on his own experiences in these two countries. The latter part of the seminar program will be a discussion session.
Patch has made Latin American affairs the subject of his research and writing since 1951.
He studied at Deep Springs, Calif., and at Cornell University where he received a Ph.D. in 1956. After serving one year on the faculty at Tulane University he joined the AUFS.
Since 1963 he has been serving concurrently as an AUFS associate and as Visiting Professor of Anthropology with the Land Tenure Center at the University of Wisconsin.
PATCH HAS SERVED as a member of the Inter-American Development Bank missions to Bolivia and is a member of the Latin America Science Board of the National Academy of Sciences.
Completing his visit to KU on Nov. 17, Patch will continue his tour of lectures to the member universities of AUFS.
After his one year stateside tour he will return to Bolivia and Peru to further his studies.
CYRs to Attend Weekend School
New questions, old issues and the Republican party image are topics for a school for young Republicans.
The school, officially called the Leadership Training School, will be a two-day event beginning this evening at the Town House Hotel, Kansas City. It is sponsored by the Region VII Collegiate Young Republican Federation.
CHESTER MIZE and Bob Dole, U.S. congressmen from Kansas, will be guest speakers at the school. Tom Pauken, CYR National Chairman, also will be one of the featured speakers.
Fauken participated in a debate here Thursday night with Herman D. Lujan, assistant professor in the political science department.
INCLUDED IN the school will be four seminars presented as panel discussions. Kansas Senator Tom Van Sickle, National Young Republican chairman, and Randy Mallonee, Olathe freshman and Kansas Teen-Age Republican chairman, will be among the panelists.
KU IS AMONG 30 colleges in the area that will participate in the school. Approximately 150 CYR members are expected to attend the school.
This leadership school, which will continue through Saturday night, is the first to be held on the regional level by the CYR' s.
Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
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76th Year. No. 35
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, November 5,1965
De Gaulle and Satellite To Shoot Off For Honor
PARIS — (UPI)— The French presidential race officially opened today and Charles de Gaulle was the odds-on favorite to succeed himself for another seven-year term. The election will be held a month from today.
In keeping with his character, De Gaulle, 74, will campaign "on the very loftiest level."
De Gaulle's aides let it be known that he has no intention of carrying out an American-type campaign against previously announced candidates.
De Gaulle will leave it to the other candidates to do the verbal
AIDES EXPLAINED that this meant that De Gaulle is not likely to do any active campaigning at all, aside from one or two radiotelevision broadcasts to the nation. There will be no "whistleston" tours.
Stops Drop From Top
Two KU women are very lucky and don't know it, Mel Surprenant, State Construction Superintendent of the new Fraser Hall project, said.
Surprenant said two women last Tuesday, attempting to take the short cut, walked onto the project. At the time, the workers were laying the concrete for the walls of the foundation, using a large bucket device on the end of a crane to do the pouring.
Vice Chancellor of KU Operations, Keith Lawton, said students walking to and from Blake Hall, the sound labs, or Watkins Hospital from the east side of the campus are disregarding the warning signs around the construction area of the new building and inadvertently placing themselves in danger.
A CEMENT TRUCK had backed up to fill the bucket, he said, which the operator of the crane was about to lower to the ground. The two women were walking on the side of the truck opposite the driver so he couldn't see them. As they passed behind the truck the bucket loomed directly over their heads. If the crane operator hadn't seen them and stopped the bucket they probably would have both been seriously injured. Surprenant said.
He added that the two women walked off the lot unaware of the incident. He said there are "No Trespassing" signs at both of the entrances and he and the other workers have been asking students not to walk through the site.
HE SAID THE area is fenced in except for two openings needed to allow trucks and construction equipment access to the project. The problem arises at class-changing time when students walk through these openings and straight through the project.
"WE DON'T like to have to cause the students the extra trouble of walking around the site, but we can't afford the risk of any of them getting hurt." Surprenant said.
Lawton also asked that students walk around the site for their own safety.
brawling while he remains aloof and Olympian above the political free-for-all. He hopes thus to create the image of a man not running for a political party, but as a candidate for the entire nation.
The President set the tone for his campaign Thursday night when he broke months of suspense and announced that he would run.
"I feel I must hold myself ready to continue my task, in full awareness of the effort it involves, but at the same time convinced it is the best way to serve France," he said in a broadcast address from the Grand Ballroom of the Elysee Palace.
He told the French people that the election would give voters the chance "to prove your regard for and your confidence in myself."
DE GAULLE PAINTED a grim picture of what could happen to France if he is not re-elected. He predicted a return to political squabbling, confusion and chaos "even more disastrous than what France knew in former times."
De Gaulle plans to put the French Tricolor in space on the eve of the December 5 presidential election.
The all-French A-one satellite is scheduled for launching into orbit the last week of November.
MOST OBSERVERS agreed that the shot is partially calculated to impress on French voters the concept that only De Gaulle can assure them of such glories in the future.
A successful satellite launch would put France in the "space club" with the United States and the Soviet Union.
Weather
The Weather Bureau reports partly cloudy skies tonight but fair through Saturday. Low tonight will be around 40.
SCIENTIST AT HOME—Dr. Cora M. Downs, KU microbiologist, looks at a scrapbook photograph of her grandmother, Mrs. Cora M. Downs, first woman regent of KU and probably of any state university.
Downs' Story Exemplifies KU Women's Historical Role
Two distinguished women, both of them named Cora M. Downs, have had leading roles in the story of KU in its first 100 years.
The feminine touch is particularly appropriate at KU, coeducational from its start and the third coeducational state university in the nation.
Mrs. Cora Mitchell Downs of Wyandotte, later Kansas City, in 1881 became the first woman to be a regent of the University, and probably the first woman regent at any state school in the nation.
A FEW YEARS later an Albany, N.Y., newspaper, in urging that a woman be named to the New York State Board of Regents, stated that Gov. John P. St. John of Kansas had set the precedent.
The other woman is Mrs. Downs' granddaughter and namesake, Dr. Cora Mitchell Downs, professor emeritus of microbiology at KU, whose continuing achievements in bacteriology add to her world-wide reputation.
In a long list of achievements, Dr. Downs' most far-reaching accomplishment came in 1958 when she and a KU team, after four years of research announced the perfection of a simple, safe, cheap, and positive fluorescent antibody or stain technique.
THE TECHNIQUE makes it possible to diagnose in a few minutes disease organisms that
once took days or weeks to identify. It will be a powerful defense weapon in the event of germ warfare.
AT A TESTIMONIAL dinner given for Dr. Downs in 1963 at the University, former students and colleagues responded in overwhelming fashion.
Her picture hangs in an honored place in the Institute of Epidemiology in Moscow among world leaders in the war against tularemia.
During the 1959-60 academic year she worked by special invitation and with the support of the National Institutes of Health in the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford University in England.
DURING WORLD WAR II she headed a top-secret research section at the Army Biological Laboratories at Fort Detrick, Md., and still holds a consultant commission with the Public Health Service which gives her rank and privileges equivalent to that of a brigadier general. An Army colonel probably still is wondering who was the little, gray-haired lady for whom he was bumped off a flight to Anchorage, Alaska, several years ago.
In spite of her emeritus status, Cora Downs is still teaching graduate students with the full and enthusiastic approval of her department and the University.