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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan
Serving KU for 77 of its 101 Years
WEATHER FAIR
77th Year, No.28
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
See Weather—page 3
Wednesday, October 26, 1966
Five units proposed
CC to expand by '68
By GARY MURRELL
Within six weeks, 450 KU freshmen have revolutionized college education.
Beginning in September, participants in KU's Centennial College, sometimes referred to as an innovation in modern education, attended the same classes, lived in the same dormitories and became better acquainted with their instructors.
Although a thorough evaluation of the program is not possible after only two months, KU officials have made plans to expand the College to five units next year.
"AS FAR AS I know, KU is the only school in the Big Eight to initiate such a program," said College Director Jerry Lewis. "Other schools have considered creating university divisions, but none have been started."
The five proposed college units will represent the second phase in a program to convert the freshman and sophomore classes to an overall, closely related underclass system. The project should become a reality by the fall of 1968. The program presently applies to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
THE COLLEGE within a College has a twofold purpose: to promote a closer relationship among students and to encourage communication between students and faculty.
KU officials conceived the idea for the new college system after studying several methods of making the atmosphere of a "big" university more congenial and less impersonal. This year is the inaugural year for the experiment.
Some 225 men and 225 women were selected this summer and fall to participate. They were randomly chosen according to student number.
THE PARTICIPANTS live in Oliver and Ellsworth Halls and are divided into groups of 20 for purposes of discussion and closer communications.
Each group has one counselor. They are professors who have had experience instructing freshmen in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
It would be premature to make conclusive evaluations of the success of the program," Lewis said, "but there has been evidence of students working together.
A committee composed of Centennial College students has met twice to coordinate all aspects of the program, including plans for group activities.
Lewis cited talk of pre-enrollment in November as an indication that most of the students are satisfied and eager to stay in the program.
Impromptu pep rally rouses police
Campus and city police quieted a pep rally in the vicinity of the Fhi Gamma Delta and Fhi Delta Theta houses last night.
University Traffic and Security officers reported gunfire and fireworks. Three city police officers were dispatched and two ranking KU policemen were called to assist at the disturbance.
There were no arrests and no injuries reported.
THE RALLY was to boost spirit for today's Fraternity A Intramural football game between those houses.
"It was kept in bounds for a while," said Fred McElhenie, assistant dean of men, who was called to the scene, "then someone started throwing firecrackers. By
the time I got there the police had things well in hand."
Phi Gamma Delta president,
David Ingalls, Fitchburg, Mass.,
senior, denied there was more
than shouting. He said the rally
began at about 10:30 p.m.
"I talked with the presidents of the houses and they had their fellows go to bed," said McElhenie, who plans to meet this afternoon with both presidents.
Sophomores set class congress
The wide gap traditionally cited between class officers and the average class member will be closed this year if sophomore class officers have their way.
A sophomore class congress, made up of representatives of
PARIS — (UPI) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization permanent council decided today to move the alliance's political headquarters from Paris to Brussels.
NATO office leaves Paris
The decision apparently stemmed from a feeling among officials of the alliance that the political headquarters should be in close proximity to the military headquarters.
President Charles de Gaulle has ordered all NATO military establishments out of France, but said the political headquarters could remain.
The alliance turned him down.
The decision was announced after a two-hour meeting of the council under Secretary General Manlio Brosio.
Removal of the $10 million headquarters to the Belgian capital will take from France the last integrated Allied establishment.
France was said to have expressed "appreciation" for the reasons that motivated the 14 Allies to make the decision.
The Allies felt they could not retain their key political institution in a country that is no longer part of the alliance.
every living group on campus, will serve as the bridge between officers and living groups. The congress, designed to work directly with the officers in coordinating class activities, is the first of its kind at KU or at any Midwestern university.
"WE HAVE been very encouraged by the tremendous campus-wide response to the new congress," Dave Keesling, Herington, class vice-president, said.
"The administration has expressed great interest in the project, and feels it could set a precedent for future KU classes and classes at other universities," he said.
Keesling also said he had received many calls since the first of the year from students interested in seeing that the Congress is formed.
Administration response was so great, in fact, that Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe and Emily Taylor, dean of women, have promised to work up a song and dance routine for a proposed class variety show.
THE VARIETY SHOW, planned for February, will feature sophomore class talent besides the Chancellor and Dean of Women. In what they described as a "long shot chance," the class officers have issued an invitation to Bob Hope to emcee the show.
Ken North, Emporia, class president, said: "I don't think that we can completely rule out his acceptance. I'm told he did the same thing for a show at the Arizona University."
Because the primary object of the variety show will be unification of the class, no admission will be charged.
Viet war action wins Bronze Star
By WILL HARDESTY
"I was walking down this Vietnamese jungle trail with a Vietnamese patrol when a VC bocoby trap exploded ten feet to my right. Five of the men were killed, and four were wounded."
That's how Capt. William J. Silvey, U.S.A., won his Purple Heart. He also won a Bronze Star for "meritorious achievement in ground operations against hostile forces."
His "energetic application of his extensive knowledge has materially contributed to the efforts . . . to assist (Viet Nam) in ridding itself of the Communist threat to its freedom," his citation says in part.
Silvey was in the Military Assistance Command, Viet Nam (MACV). He served with the 5th Arban Division of the regular South Vietnamese Army. He fought about 50 miles north of Saigon on the edge of War Zone D.
He is now at KU as an assistant professor in Army ROTC. He teaches two marksmanship courses for women and several classes in military science and history.
SILVEY ALSO WON a Vietnamese battle decoration.
As an advisor, he was part of a five-man team. Two officers, two non-commissioned officers, and a radioman are assigned to a Vietnamese regiment.
"I enjoyed it—as a soldier," Silvey said. "We felt kind of alone sometimes because sometimes the Vietnamese will go out into the field and
—UDK Photo by Dick Doores
BRONZE STAR WINNER CAPT. WILLIAM J. SILVEY, USA Silvey fits an arrow into a VC crossbow captured near War Zone O. In the case is a VC battle flag.
sometimes they won't. However, they have a very good soldier. They're small but very tough and strong."
AMERICAN MORALE is good, he said. The Vietrians don't bother the American troops.
"When Americans first heard about them, we wondered how many of them there were. After we realized there were only a few, we laughed at them. American soldiers don't feel that the anti-war people even merit contempt. Soldiers don't pay any attention to them any more."
Silvey is stationed at KU for "probably two years." Then, he will probably go to the advanced infantry school at Ft. Benning. Ga.
"Then. I'll probably go back to Viet Nam."
He doesn't think the war will end soon, but there will be a change from military activities to a pacification program.
"WE HAVE A GREAT PROGRAM for pacification, and that's the war we have to win now. Americans and Vietnamese have met the VC in strength and beaten them. What we have to do now is show the Vietnamese people that the government in Saigon is the best, that their country can have peace, and that the VC are not going to be the ones to bring peace to the country.
"The election last month was a victory for us that the people would turn out against the VC threats, to vote for a government.
"We're on the right road, but it will take a long time to get where we want to go."