KU
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 77 of its 101 Years
WEATHER COLDER
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
77th Year, No. 64
Tuesday, January 10, 1967
Martin to give veto explanation
Al Martin, Shawnee Mission junior and student body president, will explain his reasons for vetuing the recently-passed elections bill and introduce amendments to the existing elections bill at the All Student Council (ASC) meeting at 7 p.m. tonight in the Kansas Union Cottonwood Room.
One amendment will require that spring elections be held during the fourth or fifth week of the semester instead of the tenth week. Student body president, vice-president and school representatives to the council are elected during the spring elections.
Martin will also introduce an amendment to Section 8 on violations, requiring that any candidate found guilty of a violation be required to forfeit his office if elected. The violations section of the elections bill presently states that any violation will be tried before student court and subject to fines.
IF A POLITICAL party is found guilty of violations, the fine is from $50 to $100. If an individual or candidate is found guilty, the penalty is from $10 to suspension from school under the present elections bill.
Bob McAdoo (KUPA—business), Larned senior, will submit a resolution abolishing the bills providing for the current events committee, film series committee, convocations and lectures committee, People-to-People advisory board and the office of controller.
McAdoo said the above committees and offices are outdated and no longer serve any function.
The office of executive comptroller was originally formed to watch over committee expenditures, but the ASC treasurer now handles this, McAdoo said.
THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE
Council, composed of the student body president and vice-president, managing editor of the University Daily Kansan, ASC chairman and two representatives from the student body, was established to promote good will between the city of Lawrence and foreign students, McAdoo said. Since the council was established, however, a People-to-People organization has been formed on campus and now fulfills this function, he said.
The functions of the ASC current events committee, film series committee, and student-faculty convocations and lectures committee, are handled by Student Union Activities (SUA), McAdoo said.
"Abolishing these ASC committees will eliminate a lot of duplication and centralize the functions into one organization," he said. "The SUA has done a good job in these areas and is willing to take over sole responsibility for them."
KU seventh in UPI polls
The following are the ratings of the UPI Board of Coaches for major college basketball teams:
1. UCLA (1)
1. UCLA (1)
2. Louisville (2)
2. Louisville (2)
3. North Carolina
3. North Carolina (3)
4. New Mexico (4)
5. Houston (6)
6. Texas Western (7)
7. KANSAS (9)
8. Cincinnati (5)
9. Princeton (18)
10. Vanderbilt (10)
Numbers in parentheses indicate position last week.
8. Cincinnati (c)
9. Princeton (18)
TAKING THE OATH OF OFFICE
—UDK photo by Emery Goad
Robert Docking, newly elected governor of Kansas, takes the oath of office administered by the chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court at ceremonies yesterday in Topeka.
Docking revives image at governor's inaugural
By ROBERT STEVENS UDK Managing Editor
At 12:18 p.m. Monday, Robert Docking was sworn in as governor of Kansas.
Approximately 3,500 people watched as he took the oath of office from Robert T. Price, Chief Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court in the Topeka Civic Center.
Ten years ago, his late father, George Docking, also took the same cath beginning his first term as Kansas governor. George Docking later became the first Democrat in Kansas' 100-year
history to be elected to a second term.
THE FORMER governor's presence could be felt during the entire half hour ceremony. Mrs. Virginia Docking, the former first lady, proudly watched the ceremonies on the stage. Seated next to her were her daughter-in-law and her two grandsons.
A decade before, Robert sat on the same stage next to his mother when her husband became governor.
In his brief four and one half minute inaugural address, Docking looked back to the 1959 inauguration of his father to find a yardstick to gauge the next two years.
Changes recommended
Await word on CIB report
There has been no overt official KU reaction to the report of the College Intermediary Board (CIB) released in mid-December.
The report recommended some changes in the College, and emphasized the fact that freshman-sophomore courses are not challenging enough.
KAY PATTERSON, Newton Square, Pa., senior and chairman of the CIB, said she has received a letter from George R. Waggoner, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
"The letter said he'd heard sympathetic opinions on the report. He said he is submitting the report to the Education Policies Committee and said he hoped they'd read it and make some recommendations.
"We sent the report to all full-time faculty and department heads. Waggoner said he felt the individual instructors would make
whatever changes are made;" she said.
THE IDEA FOR this report came from similar projects at other universities. At some schools, the student government unofficially publishes course-by-course evaluations rating the instructors, the course material, and the difficulty of the course.
"It was suggested that we do something like that," Miss Patterson said. "But we wanted to do a better job. Sometimes those 'other' reports were unfair and irresponsible.
"THE WAY I'D like to see the report take effect is for the faculty to read it and think of at as a responsible and careful evaluation and opinion. Then maybe they themselves would take the initiative in making the needed changes."
Freshmen and sophomores
Miss Patterson listed the following points made in the report:
are better students than KU gives them credit for being.
- Courses should be made more relevant to student lives.
- Large lectures are not necessarily bad. They have their value, but could stand some improvements.
- Graduate students are not necessarily bad teachers. They should have more help and support from their departments, however.
- Students should do more writing.
- More use should be made of essay tests and less of multiple choice tests.
$\textcircled{3}$ There should be less emphasis on major term papers and more on short essay-type papers.
Miss Patterson said the CIB would be glad to take more complaints, suggestions, and reactions. These may be given to individual Board members or left in the College office.
"How will history measure our efforts?" Docking asked in his speech.
"I KNOW NOT how history will measure our efforts, but perhaps this true story about another Kansas governor who stood before you at his last inaugural eight years ago—a man particularly close to me—illustrates more aptly than any other explanation what I hope to achieve as your governor.
"On the day of my father's funeral, my brother, Dick, and I stopped at a small rural service
WEATHER
Skies will be fair tonight and Wednesday according to U.S. Weather Bureau predictions. The low tonight should be around 20 with a probability of precipitation of less than five per cent through tomorrow.
station. The attendant looked at my credit card and asked, 'Are you related to the governor?'
we said we were his sons. He said, "The gas is on me today—the little man has lost a champion."
"After the twilight of this administration, if only a few would believe this a fitting epitaph for our efforts, we would know that our efforts were not in vain."
THE NEW governor went on to pledge himself to the people of Kansas. "I regard myself as the trustee for the citizenry, ever mindful that corruption in public life is nothing less than treason. "We will respect great yesterdays. But, we will look forward to ever greater tomorrows. I will expect my administration, as well as the other two great branches of government, that political partisanship ends where the public interest begins."
JOHN CRUTCHER, lieutenant governor; Supreme Court Justices John F. Fortron, Robert H. Kaul and Earl E. O'Connor; Elwill M. Shanahan, Secretary of State; Clay E. Hedrick, state auditor; Walter H. Perry, state treasurer; Robert C. Londerholm, attorney general; W. C. Kampschroeder, superintendent of public instruction; Frank Sullivan, commissioner of insurance; and Robert R. Sanders, state printer.
The 41-year-old Arkansas City banker will be the only Democrat in a state house full of elected Republicans. Taking the oaths of office today before the governor were:
Following the ceremonies at the Civic Center, the entourage of cars carried the governor and his guests to the south steps of the State Capitol.
In chilly 30-degree temperatures, Docking was given a 19-gun salute, reserved for those of governor's rank.