AURH head resigns; girl takes new post
By WILL HARDESTY
Mark McClelland resigned last night as chairman of the KU Association of University Residence Halls (AURH).
The move, a surprise to the general membership, had been known and expected by the executive council.
"I decided last semester that I want to do graduate work in economics." McClelland said. "I feel that I wouldn't be able to give sufficient attention to either the association or my studies if I stayed in both."
ayed in both. Llona Marshall, Fort Scott senior, is the new chairman.
"I'll be taking over for Mark," Miss Marshall said, "but he's going to help me out. We'll have the same executives—we're just going to re-arrange them.
"There probably won't be much disturbance in the AURH. I don't plan on starting any new programs. We will have a problem finding enough people to carry on the programs we have," Miss Marshall said.
Miss Marshall was the first vice-chairman. Her old post is now filled by Bill Morton, Phillipsburg junior, the old second vice-chairman. Morton's old post is filled by Keith Wood, Pittsburg sophomore.
A new secretary, the post vacated by Wood, will be elected at the next AURH meeting, Jan. 18 in Pearson Scholarship Hall.
Officials watch for peace move
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— U.S. officials are watching to see if Communist North Vietnam has shifted its position on the conditions under which it would talk peace with the United States.
Some observers, citing a New York Times interview with North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong, believe the Hanoi government has changed its stance on the question of possible peace talks.
THE INTERVIEW quoted the Communist leader as saying that Hanoi's four-point peace program did not constitute "conditions" for talks, but had been set forth as an eventual "basis of settlement of the Vietnam problem."
Asked about the report yesterday, State Department Press Officer Robert J. McClosey said, "whether or not there has been any change in the position of North Vietnam remains to be seen. If there is, we would welcome it."
He said there are ways in which Hanoi can "clarify its positions"—an apparent reference to U.N. Secretary General U Thant and the numerous countries with contacts in both Washington and North Vietnam.
Hanoi's four points have been totally unacceptable to the United States as pre-conditions for negotiations. On the basis of repeated declarations of long-term American aims by the White House, they would presumably be equally unacceptable as the basis for the final solution.
Writer talks on prose and verse at KU
Reynolds Price, novelist and short story writer, will arrive on the University of Kansas campus January 9 as part of the writers-in-residence program of the department of English.
Price, full-time writer-in-residence at Duke University from which he graduated in 1955, will teach fiction writing classes for two weeks.
He will also deliver a public lecture, "Prose and Verse: Boundaries for Violation" at 4 p.m. Wed. Jan. 18, in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
Price, 33, a Rhodes Scholar, has published two novels depicting the contemporary South.
Daily Kansan Thursday, January 5, 1967
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