YAF Still Seeks Faculty Adviser
By Lee Byrd
The KU chapter of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) faces the possibility of not being able to use campus facilities because it does not have a faculty advisor.
Scott Campbell, Wichita freshman and YAF publicity spokesman, said that officers of the conservative organization had talked to "quite a few" professors, but none would agree to advise the group. Each campus organization must list a faculty advisor with the Dean of Students in order to receive University recognition and privileges.
John Sharp, Kansas City senior and a member of the Collegiate Young Republicans who is "advising" KU-YAF leadership, said that YAF would probably have a "project" this weekend. He refused to say what the project would be. Sharp said that YAF would release a press statement last night but none was received.
SHARP ALSO criticized the UDK reporter who had written a previous story about KU-YAF. He told the reporter in a telephone conversation "... I have an interesting hobby of mine of tape recording phone calls from reporters." Sharp asked the reporter if he were sure he had been assigned a YAF story, and threatened the reporter with a libel suit if unfavorable news concerning YAF appeared in print.
Sharp later told Kathleen Powell, Garnett senior and former state secretary of YAF, that he had made a recording of his conversation with the UDK reporter.
Mies Powell said she deplored "that kind of behavior. I personally care too much about YAF nationally to become involved
with the effort to start a chapter here at KU," she said.
YAF HAS HAD a rather unsuccessful history at KU, despite several attempts to organize here since the national organization was founded in 1960.
A chapter formed in the 1961- 62 school year enlisted about 30 members, but became involved in a highly publicized controversy over the political leanings of the faculty in the political science and economics departments.
The issue was precipitated when two former YAF leaders, Scott Stanley, former law student from Bethel, and Charles McElwaine, Hutchinson, testified to a state Senator that the entire stiffs of the two KU departments were composed of "liberal," welfare statists, and socialists." The Senator, Ford Harbaugh, repeated these charges on the Senate floor.
KU-YAF, led by Stanley, McElwaine, and Marick Payton, a Lawrence resident, started a campaign designed to lend validity to Harbaugh's allegations. Questionnaires were prepared to be given to each member of the two departments. The poll never materialized, however, because of an uproar in the faculty and press.
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The 1961-62 chapter soon disappeared. Stanley and McElwaine remained active in national YAF, although Stanley recently left the body to become editor of American Opinion, a publication of the John Birch Society.
12 Daily Kansas
Thursday, October 14, 1965
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