KU fees below Big 8 average
Bu DAN AUSTIN
The cost of living and dying has skyrocketed in this nation since World War II.
So has the cost of going to school.
But the cost of higher education at KU—compared to the other Big Eight schools—is still cheap.
THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, headed by KU's Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, released a report last week showing that KU resident undergraduates pay only $4 more in fees per year than undergraduates at the least expensive Big Eight institutions.
That figure is not based on next year's fee raise, however.
When the new fee increase becomes effective next fall, the KU resident undergraduate will pay $332 for the year—an increase of $40.
The non-resident, whose fee costs will rise $100, will pay $792, while the graduate student will suffer a $410 increase—from $290 to $700.
THIS YEAR, however, only three Big Eight schools—Oklahoma University, Oklahoma State and Kansas State—charge their undergraduate resident students less than KU does.
And only one school, Kansas State, charges less for out-of- staters than KU.
The other four conference schools have fees ranging from $53 to $80 higher than those required at KU.
KU residence hall room and board fees, which now cost KU students $25 per year, are also low for the Big Eight.
BUT LAST MONTH, the Board of Regents approved a $75 bike in the hall fees to $800 per year.
So, with the combined fee and residence hall rate increase, KU could become the most expensive of the eight universities.
Yet, as KU officials are quick to point out, these other institutions plan fee and living cost increases next year.
Oust young king
BRUSSELS — (UPI) — King Ntare, the 10-year-old ruler of Eurundi in central Africa, has been deposed in an apparently bloodless coup, the Belgian foreign ministry said today.
The ministry reported that the young monarch who ousted his father to seize power less than five months ago was overthrown last night by a military junta led by Prime Minister Michel Micobero.
Ntare, the Swiss-educated son of former King Mwambasta, was 600 miles away in Kinshasa, formerly Leopoldville, Congo, when Micombero staked the uprising and announced that a republic has been established.
In a radio broadcast to the nation's 2.6 million inhabitants, the 27-year-old Micombero said he was assuming the powers of chief of state.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 77 of its 101 Years
77th Year, No.47
The vote was on a resolution sponsored by Albania and 10 other nations to oust Nationalist China.
Seventeen countries abstained from the voting.
The issue became fairly academic before the actual vote. The assembly approved 66-48, with seven abstentions, a U.S.-backed move to make the seating of Peking subject to approval by a two-thirds majority rather than by a simple majority. This assured there could be no victory for pro-Peking forces this year.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
UNITED NATIONS—(UPI)
—The General Assembly today rejected an attempt to expel Nationalist China from the United Nations and seat Red China in its place.
The vote was 57 to 46 and followed an impassioned warning by Nationalist China that to admit Peking would only bring in a "demolition crew" that could wreck the world organization.
BULLETIN
Tuesday, November 29, 1966
By CAROL DeBONIS
Gifts boost KU fund
More than $400,000 in gifts and pledges have boosted the $18.6 million Program for Progress fund drive to $4.5 million. The three-year campaign was officially launched last September 19 by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe.
After a $2 million gift from the Kenneth A. and Helen F.
Spencer Foundation in Kansas City for construction of the Kenneth Spencer Research Library the total stood at $4,080,630 last September.
The new total includes several gifts in excess of $10,000.
Among them are:
● $165,000 from a Kansas City
alumnus and his wife.
$100,000 from a New York City private foundation for capital improvements.
$50,000 from a Kansas City corporation for the unrestricted opportunity fund.
$40,000 from a bank executive and his wife, both alumni.
$ 25,000 from a Texas alumnus for student loans and other designated purposes.
★ $16,000 from a Kansas physician, and alumnus for the
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School of Medicine and for speech correction.
- $12,000 from a New York
alumnus and his wife.
$10,000 from a Kansas City alumnus for faculty development in the School of Engineering and Architecture.
MAURICE BARKER, fund director of the KU Endowment Association, and executive secretary of the Program for Progress, said the new funds are the result of voluntary contributions and solicitations. Many of the gifts were made by members of the Council for Progress program, he said.
Faculty solicitations, begun in October are presently underway but no individual report on that activity is now available, Barker said.
He pointed to Stanley Learned, chief executive officer of Phillips Petroleum Company and national chairman of the drive as representative of the "inspiring" caliber of people involved in the campaign.
NO SUB-GOALS OR quotas for geographic locations or divisions have been set up but Barker was optimistic about the $18.6 million goal.
The Council for Progress is a group of alumni and friends of the University, appointed by Chancellor Wescoe. The group first met during Homecoming 1965. The $18.6 million fund drive goal was announced at the end of last year's Centennial celebration.
Radiation scare blamed on misquote
Bu JOHN KIELY
Did fissionable material leak lethal radioactive rays from KU's nuclear reactor? If so, why wasn't the world warned—or at least the campus? If not, who said it was leaking?
For nearly a week now, these questions have been batted back and forth by the press and scientists and government men and administration officials faster than water molecules bounding off the sides of a boiling tea pot.
AFTER AUTHORITIES involved were questioned, the answer was that no radioactive material was creating any type of threat anywhere near here.
The closest thing to a threat, said University health physicist Benjamin Friesen, was the discovery during routine checks of the various wells of Cobalt 60 on campus that "the inner container was leaking into the outer. In the process the thing was shut down. Nothing happened. It was just a routine removal of the source."
The leak wasn't deadly. "You couldn't measure it outside the bunker," said Friesen, "and it was negligible in terms of any measurement even inside the bunker."
FURTHER, THE Cobalt 60 is not fissionable and it wasn't in the reactor. It was stored underground on the slope behind Lindley Hall.
As to the "who said fissionable material was leaking from the reactor?"—the blame for the false reports fell at the feet of the press.
What started the whole wrangle that had newspaper banners screaming "Radioactive Reactor Leak," and sent scientists before television news cameras to say it wasn't so?
GOVERNOR-ELECT Robert Docking and aides
met for a quiet budget hearing. Charles McAtee, chairman of the Kansas Nuclear Energy Advisory Council, mentioned necular waste disposal.
Newsmen credited McAtee with, "... a piece of nuclear fissionable material became stuck in a reactor at KU and had to be removed to a Kentucky nuclear waste disposal site."
McAtee says he didn't say that. "It was an out-and-out erroneous report," he said.
"AT NO TIME," said McAtee, "was the governor-elect informed that a piece of fissionable material was leaking anywhere. If it were, it would be of almost national concern."
In an editorial last Wednesday, the Lawrence Journal-World suggested that McAtee "may come back with the classic dodge by saying (he) was misquoted."
McAtee says he was misquoted and adds that the budget meeting was tape recorded and that that tape is still in the state budget director's office.
Well then, what did happen?
"THERE WAS only one point in repeating the story," McAtee said. "For about five years the governor's council has been working at studying the possibility of waste disposal in Kansas.
"Oak Ridge National Laboratories is resting in the Salt Flats near Lyons now. They're trying to prove the feasibility of disposing of waste there," he said.
"The company that was hired to remove the Cobalt 60 from KU was Allied Crossroads. They put it in a standard 55-gallon steel drum, lined with lead and concrete. They removed it and it sat there and it wasn't hurting anybody.
"Then they agreed to take it to Kentucky.
"I FORGET just exactly the cost to move it—$1300 or $1400," McAtee said. "The administration (at KU) thought that was pretty high. They got in touch with us, asked if it could be done for less money. I said, 'I don't know, I'll check into it.'"
"I called Allied, found out they were going out of business. Because they were going out of business they were willing to forget the contract.
"We finally negotiated for the Long Island Nuclear to move the stuff to Kentucky for $850.
"THEY SAID that if you had a waste disposal site in western Kansas it would cost about $50 to move it.
"The whole comment was incidental . . . not meant to be critical. It was just an aside comment that if we had a waste disposal area in western Kansas, it would have cost us only $50."
McAtee was also quoted as saying, "radioactive materials specialists of the U.S. Public Health Service were putting pressure on KU to get the material out and disposed of as quickly as possible because it was beginning to leak radioactivity into the surrounding area."
McATEE NOT ONLY says he didn't say this, but also that the U.S. Public Health Service was never involved in any way with the Cobalt 60.
Friesen seconds this with, "There were never any U.S. Public Health Service officers involved in this at all."
When queried about KU's radioactivity levels in the past, he said, "We have never had any exposure problems. Our records show negligible measurements for all people on campus."
Meanwhile, as the debate over statements and alleged statements goes on, the Cobalt 60 quietly wastes away nearly half a continent from here.