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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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Serving KU for 77 of its 101 Years
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Students welfare is cause for fee raise
Bu DAN AUSTIN
A combination of "tight" money and more and better food for students caused the $75 per year increase in dorm fees announced Saturday by the Board of Regents.
The fee hike from $700 to $775 per year effective June 1967, will net the KU residence halls an additional $324,000.
THIS AMOUNT is not all profit,
however.
About $172,800 of the additional fees will go to the students' stomachs. In dollars and cents, this means an increase in the present food allotment of 75° a
day to 90° a day for each dormitory resident
J. J. Wilson, Director of Housing, explained that next year's meals would be in larger quantity and contain "more protein and less starch.
"Virtually one half of the $75 increase will be food costs," said Wilson.
ANOTHER $19,200 of the net increase is the price of the revised closing hours for women. This money will maintain a 24-hour switchboard in women's balls.
The new Civil Service wage rates for Housing department em
ployees accounts for $72,000 more of the total increase funds.
A final $72,000 for additional needed labor eliminates any chance of profit from the $324,000 total net increase.
Commenting on the $144,000 extra for labor, Wilson said, "Even this is not near as high as it should be."
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Regents act
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe got everything he asked for at a Saturday meeting of the Kansas Board of Regents in Manhattan.
Among the Chancellor's requests approved by the Regents were a $75 increase in dormitory fees and a leave of absence for Provost James Surface who will teach at the Harvard Business School next year.
Other approved absence leaves for KU faculty members included;
- Robin Fraser, associate professor of chemistry, who will conduct research for the British Ministry of Aviation for one year beginning Feb. 1, 1987;
Frank King, professor of economics, to teach at Merton College, Oxford, England, next semester;
WILSON'S HOUSING Division is responsible for all upkeep and maintenance on university dormitories. With its own security police, maintenance men and power system, the division operates as a separate financial entity from the rest of the university.
The U. S. Weather Bureau predicts partly cloudy and cooler tonight after northwesterly winds of 10 to 20 miles per hour today. Low tonight in lower 30s. Tuesday's weather is expected to be mostly fair and cooler.
WEATHER
M. Dale Kinkade, assistant professor of anthropology, to conduct research in linguistics under grant from the National Science Foundation next semester;
ROBERT L. SMITH, professor of civil engineering, who will serve as Special Assistant for Water Resources in the U.S. Office of Science and Technology from Oct. 1 to May 31;
- Raymond Loehr, professor of civil engineering, to be visiting professor at Cornell University during the spring semester.
- A feasibility study of consolidation of food services at Corbin and Gertrude Sellards Pearson residence halls by the State Architect was also approved for KU.
● THE DISSOLUTION of the University of Kansas Press was another item on the KU agenda given Regent approval.
The new press, which will publish "scholarly books," is to be controlled by a three-man board of trustees, one man each from KU, Kansas State and Wichita State Universities.
In its place will be established the University Press of Kansas to be housed at KU.
- Contracts for the construction of the new press building totaling $306,097 were also awarded by the Regents.
All major candidates to meet here Tuesday
- A one-half ton pickup truck for the biology department was the final item of the approved KU requests.
All major candidates from both parties-state, county, and localwill congregate in Lawrence tomorrow for Douglas County Meet the Candidates Day.
The Collegiate Young Republicans are helping to sponsor the day of rallies and speeches, culminated by Gov. William H. Avery, Sen. James Pearson, and
Congressional candidate Larry Winn Jr., at 7:30 p.m., in the Lawrence Community Building.
Students are invited to participate in a caravan to Baldwin, originating from KLWN radio station at 9:30 a.m., Tuesday, Doug Balcome, program chairman, said.
A dinner, available to students at $1.00, precedes the speeches.
KU residence halls are financed through bond sales authorized by the Board of Regents.
The Regents have the responsibility and authority to keep the halls full and solvent. Every year, however, they budget for only 90 per cent occupancy.
This year the occupancy rate stands at about 93 per cent—the lowest in several years.
BUT WHAT about the student's pocketbook?
With the dorm fee increase, the KU student from Kansas will pay about $1,132 for tuition, room and board. This includes the tuition increase of $20 per semester effective next fall.
"I'd rather not have a (dorm) fee increase," said Wilson, "but the rise in prices makes things harder for us."
Kansas State University dorm fees were also raised to $800. The new $775 room and board fees will place KU and K-State second only to Colorado University, which has an $830 fee, in dorm costs among the Big Eight schools.
However, five of the Big Eight universities — including Colorado — plan to increase fees for the 1967-68 school year.
Coach hung in effigy fire
Of those interviewed, no one admitted having actually witnessed the hanging or burning. However, the following report was pieced together.
Football coach Jack Mitchell was hung and burned in effigy in a tree just south of O Zone early Sunday morning.
A group of male students hung the effigy in the tree about 12:55 a.m. Sunday. They then lit the dummy, which was apparently doused with gasoline.
The tree then caught fire.
About five or ten after one a.m., policemen began arriving. The burners began leaving—rapidly in sundry directions.
The police could not put out the fire with the extinguisher they had in their cars, and called for a fire truck.
Rumors say that other burnings were planned for Saturday night. These did not materialize.
Rumors also say that the burnings are not yet over.
Staff photo by Lynniel Q. VapBenschoten
STUDENTS PAY HOMAGE TO THE GREAT PUMPKIN A coed dances close to the symbol of Halloween at the International Ball Saturday night.
Ghouls, goblins fill the air tonight
By JOHN KIELY
Smoke from the flickering fires atop the hills poured into the sky. The flames blotted out the light of the stars.
Old men sat and watched as fire lighted the way for the return of the spirits of the dead—or as it harrassed the hovering goblins and ghouls. No one is certain which.
The men were Celts in what is now Ireland.
THIS WAS THE eve of Samhain. It was the end of the year. It was the beginning of winter. It was a time of religious and agrarian rites.
It is a part of Halloween.
In 834, Pope Gregory IV extended the feast of All Saints to all Catholicism. With it went All Saints' or All Hallows' Eve.
THE LANDS NOW called Great Britain and Ireland adopted Christianity, but kept the dark days of Druid mysticism alive with such celebrations as Halloween.
A cult emerged which held feasts and revelries called "Witch's Sabbaths." Among other things, witches with black cats came gliding to these affairs on broom sticks.
During the 1840 potato famine, many Irish came to America. They brought their customs with them. Halloween became popular in the U.S. late in the 19th Century.
Though the myths are mostly lost, much of the ritual remains, including the witches and cats, the death masks carved from pumpkins and apple bobbing.
Heller will be provost in Surface's absence
Francis Heller, associate dean of the faculties since July 1, will fill in for Provost James R. Surface when the latter begins a one-year leave of absence in August.
Surface's leave to become a visiting professor at Harvard University was approved last weekend by the Board of Regents meeting in Manhattan. Surface will teach courses in Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration, and also study and conduct research in corporate planning and how it relates to universities.
THE PROVOST expects to return to KU in July, 1968.
A former dean of the KU School of Business, Surface became vice chancellor and dean of the faculties at KU in 1962, and
since that time has been the University's chief academic officer. In 1965, to officially designate his position as second in command to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, Surface's title was changed from vice chancellor to provost. He retained the title, dean of the faculties.
Surface has master of business administration and doctor of commercial science degrees from Harvard.
HELLER, A NATIVE of Vienna, Austria, has been at KU since 1948 when he joined the political science faculty. He directed the University's western civilization program in 1956 and 1957, and before assuming his present post was an associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.