Frosh Committee Loses Chairman
A reorganization in the freshman leadership program brought about the resignation of its chairman and the committee members last night.
Bruce Cook, Newton sophomore, announced that he was leaving the program, thanked the people who had worked with him. and then left a meeting attended by 40 of the 87 freshmen involved in the program.
Cook said after the meeting his resignation was the result of a difference of opinion. He said the members of a committee which had handled the program also had resigned.
"I COULDN'T SEE STAYING on as chairman of a program which I was in opposition to," he said. "I do not think this program should become involved with campus politics."
Bob Stewart, Vancouver, B.C., senior and student body president, will handle the program in its remaining stages. He will be assisted by Betty Harrison, Upland, Calif., junior; Bill Robinson, Great Bend sophomore, and Kay Orth, El Dorado sophomore. Stewart said they will be assisted by members of the former committee.
Cook is the second chairman of the freshman leadership committee to resign this year. George Brenner, Princeton senior, resigned earlier to devote more time to studies.
UNDER BRENNER AND COOK, the program involved weekly meetings with faculty and student leaders addressing the freshmen on various aspects of leadership.
"I do not want the program to be considered a failure," Cook said. "I feel, that we accomplished something. I hope we helped some students get in touch with organizations they wished to join."
Cook said the 12-member committee which also resigned represented both campus political parties, thus keeping the program completely nonpartisan.
STEWART SAID THE REORGANIZATION of the program would involve ideas which had come from other schools which maintained a leadership program for underclassmen.
These new ideas would mean a whole new phase of the program which will be developed in two meetings, February 10 and 17.
IT WAS ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED to run eight weeks, he said, ending before Christmas vacation.
"Actually the original program has run its course," Stewart said.
"The committee members who worked on the program were greatly interested in it," he said. "They put a lot of time into it. All of their experiences will be saved as a basis for the program of next year."
"I think Bruce's remarks tonight indicate how deeply interested he was in the program," he said.
STEWART SAID, "The first year of this program has met with a great deal of success. We gained valuable experience upon which to base future programs.
"There have been faults and there have been failures," he said. "But I think any critic would be grossly mistaken to say we have not met with success."
The next two meetings would serve as experiments, he said.
Daily hansan
A SESSION WILL BE DIVIDED into two half-hour periods. The first half-hour will be a lecture by an expert in a particular field. Participants will divide up into discussion groups. Leading each group will be a person who has had experience with the field on campus.
62nd Year, No. 63
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, Jan. 7, 1965
LBJ Asks for 'Best' In Health Program
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— President Johnson asked Congress today to approve a multi-billion dollar war against disease and the problems of old age in order to provide "the best health care for all Americans."
and their employers. He called this a matter of "utmost urgency."
Johnson laced top priority legislation to provide hospital care for the elderly financed through Social Security taxes levied on workers
He also proposed a series of other steps to improve the nation's health, including a new federal-state program to pay medical and dental bills for children in needy families and government aid meeting the basic operating costs of medical schools.
ADMINISTRATION officials said
Plans Move Ahead For Jazz Festival
The second judge, Don DeMichael, editor of Downbeat magazine, earlier in the year wrote an editorial criticizing the failure of last year's Festival to award all of the promised prizes.
Among the prizes this year are three $100 scholarships to the Berkley School of Music to be awarded to outstanding participants in the Festival. Downbeat magazine subscriptions and instruments, donated by music companies, are among the
The search is on for prizes, judges and entrants to the Second Annual Oread Jazz Festival, as the Student Union Activities steering committee for the event makes early arrangements.
FISCHER, formerly the arranger and musical director of the Hi Lo's vocal quartet, has also worked on background music for television and movies.
Two members of the panel of five judges have been selected, the committee announced at a meeting last night.
Clare Fischer, a jazz pianist from Los Angeles, Calif., will appear with his trio during the final performance of the Festival scheduled March 27. He will also serve as a judge for the event.
individual prizes considered by the Festival committee.
PRIZES WILL BE awarded for individual excellence in reeds, bass rhythm, composition, and arranging, as well as outstanding large and small groups.
The Steering Committee has already received three entries, said Dale Sprague, McPherson sophomore and chairman of the committee.
Information about the Festival has been sent to 1,200 colleges and universities in a 22 state area.
ENTRANTS TO THE annual event must be enrolled in at least six hours of college credit at the time of the Festival. They must submit a ten minute tape recording of their playing, which will then be sent to men established in the field of jazz for the selection of 12 to 15 semi-finalists who will compete in the day long Festival.
Chairmanships are open for the subcommittees in charge of accommodations and transportation; ushers, displays, and programs; and for stage manager. Interested students should contact Jane Oegerle, Salina senior, or the SUA office in the Union.
The Festival will be co-ordinated with the annual Kansas City Jazz Festival March 26 and 28.
Johnson's proposals would cost $262 million in the wear starting next July and more than $800 million in the following 12 months.
Officials said the entire package, including a five-year program to establish regional medical centers to combat heart disease, cancer and stroke, would cost several billion dollars spread over this decade.
To defray the cost of the medical plan for retired persons, withholding taxes imposed on workers and their employers would be funneled into a new trust fund.
THE TAX would be levied on the first $5,600 of a worker's pay and would start out next year at threenths of 1 per cent for both the worker and his employer. The rate would rise to 45/100ths of 1 per cent for each by 1969.
The president, citing a high rate of illness among the nation's 75 million children and youth, also called for federal aid to help families pay the doctor bills for their youngsters.
The plan for helping with the medical bills of needy children would be similar to the existing Kerr-Mill program for helping needy aged persons pay medical expenses. Aides said $100 million would be earmarked for the first year of the new program and $250 million in the following year.
ON CAPITOL HILL. Johnson won immediate support for his far-reaching program. The only reservations came over the controversial health plan for the elderly, generally known as medicare.
But prospects for enactment of medicine legislation brightened even more in the House. Three new Democratic members, all favorable to Medicare, were added today to the key Ways and Means Committee.
Addition of Reps. Phil Landrum, D-Ga, Charles Vanik, D-Ohio, and Richard Fulton, D-Tenn., to the committee assured that the group would no longer be a burial ground for such legislation.
Campus Opinion Differs on Viet Nam
Bv Suzv Tichacek
Opinions ranging from maintenance of the status quo in Viet Nam to advancement of the war into the Communist north were expressed by a sampling of KU students and faculty.
Each person questioned was asked to give his thoughts on the recent State Department statement that the U.S. policy in war-torn South Viet Nam will maintain the status quo.
"I DON'T THINK the present policy in Viet Nam will be sufficient to win the war," Dick Dearth, Farsons junior, said.
"I feel we have illegally entered Viet Nam, but now that we are there we have an interesting paradox," he said. He pointed out three choices—to lose the war by our present policy, to esculate, or learn how to fight the type of war necessary.
"I AM GLAD I am not responsible for the final decision." Dearth said. "We are wasting American lives now, but yet, I don't want to pull out"
Dearth explained that the United States invasion is illegal, because in 1954 at the Geneva Conference it was stated that Indo-China was to remain neutral and no country would be allowed to give aid to the countries in this area even if they asked for it. This conference was responsible for the division of Viet Nam.
Van Anh Doan-Thi. South Viet
Nam graduate student, also is against the United States pulling out of this area.
"WE NEED THE help of the United States," he said, "not only help from the U.S. but from many countries, so that we can fight the Communists."
Miss Doan-Thi stressed, however, that American aid should be given only if the Americans want to. She said if the Communists take over South Viet Nam they would not stop at this point, but only advance further.
ROBERT NUNLEY, associate professor of geography, felt it would be necessary to speed up involvement in Viet Nam if the United States is to be effective in turning the tide of the events.
Miss Doan-Thi said also the East Asian area provided a good market for the large amount of production from the United States.
"President Johnson and Dean Rusk might be hesitating because of political repercussions," Prof. Nunley said. "But they have the best intelligence agencies available to them, so they should know what should be done.
"If these intelligence agencies do not indicate increased involvement would be feasible," Prof. Nunley said, "then I feel we should keep our
status quo and pray for a break."
L. R. LIND, professor of classes, felt it would not be strategic to withdraw at this time.
"We've put too much into Viet Nam now," Prof. Lind said, "and it would be a blow to our prestige."
He felt that going into Viet Nam with more force would be a way to get ahead, and perhaps eventually clear out the sources of supply of the Viet Cong forces in the North.
"IT'S THE same old wishy-washy story," Paul Lambert, Wadsworth freshman, said.
"The United States wants to put its finger in everybody else's pot, and once it gets it, in it never finishes the job." Lambert said.
He felt if the United States continued to be involved in the Viet Nam problem there would be a tremendous waste of manpower and material.
Weather
Unseasonably warm temperatures are predicted by the weather bureau until late tomorrow when cooler weather is expected to move into the area. Tonight's low temperatures will range in the middle 40's. Partly cloudy to cloudy conditions will prevail through tomorrow.
"We should either put up or get out." Lambert said.
TRUSTING THE WISDOM of President Johnson, Klaus Pringsheim, acting assistant professor of political science, felt it was unfortunate that the United States was involved in what appears to him, essentially the inability of South Viet Nam to take care of her own internal problems.
"The President is as eager as anyone to find an acceptable solution to everyone involved," Prof. Pringsheim said, "but this is not easy without the Communists gaining.
"What are we defending," Prof. Pringsheim asked. "Freedom or the American prestige? If it is American prestige, where is the prestige that is being protected?"
Taking on the opposite viewpoint, Walter Binder, Leavenworth junior, felt we should commit ourselves further.
RICH SCHAEFER, Lakewood junior, did not feel that any more men time, or money should be put into Viet Nam right now, but felt the status quo should be maintained.
"It seems they (the Vietnamese) haven't handled it effectively by themselves," Schaefer said, "but they needed our help. Actually though, their present attitude appears that they'd rather have more control and voice themselves."
"I feel we should esculate the war to North Viet Nam, if it is necessary to fight the Communists."
ROBERT BEER, professor of entomology, had mixed feelings on the war in South Viet Nam.
"I don't think we should pull out." Pref. Beer said, "but for the present time, we should hold fast and not be any more aggressive.
"I feel it would be a mistake to pull out because the Americans have committed themselves," Prof. Beer said.
"We have agreed to help nations fight aggression and if we start backing down now it would be a mistake," he said.
"WE SHOULD DECIDE," Prof. Beer continued, "whether we are going to live up to our promises or make hollow promises.
"We should know the intentions of Red China concerning its aggressiveness." Prof. Beer said. "It might be dangerous for us to go much further."
Also hesitating further advances by the United States, Russell Dittmar, Lawrence freshman, was concerned with the money being spent in the war.
"I figure if the Vietnamese don't care, we shouldn't pour anymore money into the war." Dittmar said.
"The loss of many American lives isn't changing anything," he added.