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77th Year, No. 39
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Thursday, November 10, 1966
KU's role undefined Confusion marks century
By ROSE MARIE LEE
For the past 100 years, Kansans have been confused about what the University of Kansas "ought to do" and what it "ought to be." Clifford Griffin said Tuesday night in the third Humanities Lecture of the current season.
His lecture was entitled, "The University of Kansas and the Years of Confusion, 1866-1966."
The development of the University of Kansas during its first century was the result of a continuing argument among Kansans about the proper nature of their state university, both now and in the future," Griffin said.
HE SAID throughout the years Kansans have differed from other university leaders in their concept of what a university should be. This difference, Griffin said, was often expressed in economic terms.
"Throughout most of the University's history, the majority of Kanans have always been unwilling to make the University what its leaders thought it ought to be in any given time, and many Kansans have failed to admire the University, its faculty, and its students in the ways they wanted to be admired."
Griffin said Chancellor Frank Strong summarized "traditional Kansas sluggishness" in 1907. "We labor under the handicap all the time of having to make up for lost time." Griffin said Strong's words were a "capsule description of the University of Kansas of the past, the present, and the future alike." He said the statement is as true in 1966 as it was 60 years ago.
He said, "While the University
was making itself a most serviceable institution, it was generating an enormous internal confusion and tension." The confusion, he said, is a question of the balance that ought to exist among the University's various parts.
HE SAID THERE is no objective standard by which to determine whether the department of chemistry is more valuable than the department of history, the School of Fine Arts more valuable than the School of Education,
the undergraduate college more valuable than the graduate school, or scholarly research more valuable than the teaching of undergraduates.
"Despite the lack of standards by which to weigh parts of the University one against the other, actual decisions about their relative worth have been made every day for the past century," Griffin said.
The fact that the University has
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Docking remarks on education, KU
By EMERY GOAD
Robert Docking, Kansas governor-elect and KU graduate of 1948, said today he will try to continue the quest for quality education in Kansas.
In an interview this morning he told the Daily Kansan he is proud of Kansas's educational system and will strive to continue the quest.
He said that he had not yet made any statements recommending more or fewer dollars for any state universities.
"My eventual requests will of course be subject to the Board of Regents, the legislature and the budget committee," Docking said.
Docking was continuing toayi his heavy schedule of meetings with state government leaders. He met with the budget officials today
and expected to set tentative outlines for his term.
The first Democrat to upset a Republican incumbent said he favored the "open door" policy currently observed by Kansas universities.
The system, under which all graduates of Kansas high schools must be accepted at state universities, is one of only five or six in the United States.
"I would like to see this continued," he said.
Docking, 41, graduated from KU's School of Business. Following graduation he worked in Kansas City and recently worked as a banker in Arkansas City, where he also has served as a city commissioner.
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'The Screw' makes debut
By JAY COOPER
The first issue of "The Screw," self-described as "a twisted device for holding things together," was distributed to KU students last Friday.
The banner headline of "The Screw" proclaimed: "Homecoming! K.U. Swings Underground."
The statement of purpose, found in an editorial, says: "The Screw is an underground weekly newspaper. The Screw will blow your mind with truth and bend your brain with humor.
"THE SCREW" will not," it continues, "be bound by traditions or convention. We hold no cows sacred. Help us expose, ridicule, and reform the multiversity and the IBM student."
It is a member of the Underground Press Syndicate (UPS), the organization existing to "facilitate the transmission of news, features and advertising between anti-Establishment, avant-garde, new-left, youth-oriented periodicals." "The Screw" features a story from "The East Village Other" on the underground press.
An interview with the editor of a magazine of "free thought, criticism, and satire," "The Realist" delves into his "Evening with a Self-styled Phony," also found in the issue.
ON PAGE ONE is a "presumed folk music column" written by Philip Bayles, Houston, Tex., junior, president of the Oread Old Time Musicians, along with poetry by Russell Lawrence.
Page three is devoted to a chart explaining three levels of "campus camp." A "Depinnings-Divorce" column, which according to a spokesman for "The Screw," designed to provide a real service for university students, and a crossword puzzle thought up by "The Lounge," are other features.
Other stories in "The Screw" are "Disneyland East," an article concerned with the prostitution in Viet Nam, and a review of the underground play, "Mae Bird," by Barbara Garson.
STUDENT REACTION to "The Screw" came from Paul Nelson, Staubaugh, Mich., senior, who said, "We need something like this, it picks people up."
Plans are for distribution of "The Screw" weekly. Copies are to go to residence halls, fraternities, other living groups, the Abington Book Shop and the Fiery Furnace.
Unhappy voters made anti-election
By JOHN KIELY
Political scientists consider this an anti-election.
"The people are unhappy about things generally," said Herman J. Lujan, assistant professor of political science who specializes in American political parties.
"They're unhappy," he continued, "about integration and inflation and Viet Nam. They think it's time to take a step back and see what's happening.
"People saw problems and didn't know what to do, except vote for the opposition."
EARL A. NEHRING, associate professor of political science, whose area of emphasis is American parties and legislatures, is a Republican. He agrees with Democrat Lujan.
"The Republicans would be overly hasty." Nehring cautioned, "if they thought Johnson's programs were totally repudiated. The election results suggest a go slow, take things a little easier attitude."
Both likened these "slowdown" times to the Eisenhower days.
Speaking of Kansas, and the Robert Docking-William Avery
"THE SUPERFICIAL conclusion," said Nehring, "is the obvious one. The voters were punishing Avery for tax increases."
Lujan foresees problems for Decking. "There are increased
race, both said anti-Avery sentiment put Docking in the governor's mansion.
HERMAN LUJAN
needs in the state, especially in education and the only way to take care of these needs is through taxes."
A progressive tax where "the more you make, the more you pay" suggested Lujan, may be one way to solve that problem. Another problem, Lujan noted, may be lack of cooperation between a Democratic governor and a Republican legislature.
"The secret of success." Lujan said, "will be the key liaison between Docking's office and the legislature." With a strong and favorable man as that liaison, Docking could pass his legislation.
IN OTHER state-wide Kansas contests, Lujan considers the results typical of "a normal election for Kansas." All other state-wide posts are republicans.
Nechring suggests that James Pearson's margin of victory was smaller than might have been expected. He thought some anti-Avery sentiment may have carried over and influenced that Senatorial race.
The political pundits turned their attention to the national scene and prophesized and theorized.
Pinpointing the nearby Wyandotte county shake-up that put Democratic party boss Charles Sugar out of Assessor's office and vigorously shook up the party machine, Lujan said politics has changed.
"THE OLD DEMOCRATIC urban machines are becoming politically anachronistic. They just can't win like they used too."
EARL NEHRING
Broadening this statement, Lujan recalled that "the last election taught the Republicans a lesson. The conservative elements could not win. This election taught the Democrats their lesson."
Nehring said "The Republican Presidential nomination certainly looks more handsome than before yesterday."
George Romney, Charles Percy,
Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan
seemed most eligible as
standard bearers to Nehring.
"Romney and Reagan gained the
most."
Lujan wasn't as optimistic about Reagan. "This is where the conservatives are going to be tested. Can Ronald Reagan come up with answers to the problems?"
NELSON ROCKEFELLER along with Romney and Nixon head Lujan's current list of eligibles. While admitting "As far as '68 goes, it's too early to tell," he suggested that Nixon is "a good old reliable and can't be discounted."
Lujan credited Rockefeller's
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