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Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
WEATHER FAIR
77th Year, No.4
See Weather—page 5
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, September 22,1966
"CC great," frosh say
Only a few days in operation, Centennial College, KU's new "college within a college," apparently has solved a couple of freshman problems which some schools have never tackled.
Registration and enrollment headaches have been revamped to the point of changing hours of waiting into minutes of quick processing.
The strange, uneasy atmosphere usually plaguing freshmen during their first hours on campus seems to have been replaced with a policy of immediate assimilation, according to impressions of several Centennial College students interviewed yesterday after they had completed their third day in classes.
SURPRISE AND delight were expressed by most of the freshmen interviewed. Participating men live in Ellsworth Hall and participating women in Oliver.
"From the first day I've had the opportunity to meet with and to live with the people with whom I attend classes," Carol Wagner, Shawnee, said.
"I found the Centennial College processing and enrollment quick and easy. a happy surprise," she continued.
Deanna Goad, Junction City, Kan., expressed similar sentiments.
"I SPENT ONLY about 10 minutes in Hoch Auditorium waiting for a packet of application forms. To complete my enrollment in the Kansas Union building took about 20 minutes," she said. Originally, Miss Goad arrived at KU expecting to stand in long lines for several days.
A third freshman woman interviewed, Sally Sleeson, Ft. Bragg, N.C., said, "I think the Centennial College concept of students learning and living together is terrific. I wonder why it has never been tried before."
Miss Sleeson said she is especially impressed with the Centennial College project since she is a member of a military service family which has frequent changes of stations over the years.
Tim Switzer, Topeka, considered another aspect.
"THE CENTENNIAL COLLEGE system offers close contact with advisers. You quickly get to know students in all your classes," he said.
Jerry Lieb, Overland Park, found the new college concept fine, particularly the work of counselors.
"Floor counselors are great. If you have a problem, they can certainly help you." he said.
WESCOE 'NOT SURPRISED'
Defendants react to loyalty oath charge
By Dan Austin
A surprised and indignant air surrounded the participants in a suit filed Tuesday which questioned the legality of the Kansas loyalty oath.
Surprised were the Kansas Board of Regents and several state university presidents, partial defenders in the suit.
Indignant were 14 professors, all employed or appointed by the state, who under the leadership of Gerald A. Ehrenreich, associate professor at the KU Medical Center, are acting as plaintiffs in the action now before the U.S. District Court.
THE ONLY NOTE of calm came from KU Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe.
"I had previous indication that he (Ehrenreich) was planning to sue. I was not surprised," the Chancellor said.
Ehrenreich, as associate professor of clinical medicine, had earlier refused to sign the loyalty oath, claiming it to be a violation of the first and fourteenth amendment and article one of the U.S. Constitution.
The professor brought suit after Robert Londerholm. Kansas attorney general and a defendant in the action, said that the oath, in his opinion, was constitutional.
"I felt I had to bring suit after the attorney general's office issued their opinion. I think the loyalty oath is unconstitutional and my lawyers urge me to press the case," Ehrenreich said.
EHRENREICH is receiving legal aid from the American Civil Liberties Union. He is presently chairman of the Greater Kansas City chapter of the ACLU.
Several of the professors joining Ehrenreich in the suit were asked to do so in July by the ACLU.
David H. Jones, assistant professor of philosophy at KU, said he had agreed to join in the suit when told of Ehrenreich's plight by the Lawrence chapter of the Liberties Union.
"I OBJECT to the idea of a loyalty oath. You have to sign one to keep your job or even to be accepted for a position. I'd sign one again, but only for that reason." Jones said.
Ehrenreich told newsmen Tuesday evening that before he had heard the attorney general's decision, he had sent his personal objections to the oath through C. Arden Miller, then dean of the medical school, to Chancellor Wescoe, who decided that "no action or response was required by the university."
"I sent a letter to the Chancellor expressing by disappointment with him for not making a statement on the issue. I didn't expect him to question the legality of the oath, but I did expect some sort of statement from him (Wescoe)," Ehrenreich said.
Explaining why he had not taken a side over Ehrenreich's refusal to sign the oath, Chancellor Wescoe said, "I did not feel
that this necessitated a public statement. It is a private matter."
MEANWHILE, at the State Office Building in Topeka, Max Bickford, executive secretary to the Regents, claimed the Regents had no knowledge of Ehrenreich's intended suit when they met September 16.
"I only know that he (Ehrenreich) is not on the state payroll," Bickford said.
Ehrenreich admitted that he received funds from a private psychiatric institution and not directly from the medical center.
"I HAVE BEEN appointed by the Board of Regents and because of that, I still was required to sign the oath," he said.
University officials correlated Ehrenreich's story, saying that the only state funds he could receive would be in consultation fees from the medical center.
Mrs. Bee dies in sleep
Hazel Bee, wife of KU professor Lawrence S. Bee, died unexpectedly in her sleep Wednesday afternoon at the family home, 900 Murrow Court.
Mrs. Bee had not been in good health recently, although her condition was not considered serious. Funeral arrangements are pending.
SEA OF CARS
More and more KU students are driving cars and more and more students are looking for a place to park and drive them.
Cars horning in on KU population
By JOHN LOVEKIN
Take 7,168 cars and line them up bumper to bumper and they would reach all the way to, well anyway that is a lot of cars.
Like everything else that is on the increase, the number of cars at KU would seem to present a problem. But there is no problem. At least a good protest demonstration could find nothing to protest about.
Currently that is the number of student cars registered at KU.
THEY USE lots of gasoline, oil and tires. They dash in and out of traffic, cause noise, and raised tempers at times. They take up all the space near the Rock Chalk and elsewhere at 8:20 in the morning when a class starts at 8:30 a.m. But unlike Viet Nam, birth control, and taxes they still cause no great debate in the Hawks Nest.
Cars at KU are like those people who have beards and wear shower shoes, there ought to be some hot angle about them but there is not.
Perhaps there could be problems if it were not for the Chief of Traffic and Security E. P. Moo-
mau and his 21 policemen. Chief Mooamau, with 37 years in police experience and as a retired major from the Kansas Highway Patrol, has things well in hand.
SPORTS—Basketball outlook as seen by coach Ted Owens on page 6.
What's Inside?
EDITORIAL—Year's first comments on the All Student Council on page 2.
APARTMENT LIVING—KU students respond to new trend in off-campus living. Read about their life of ease and homecooked meals on page 10.
NEW LAW SCHOOL Site proposals and plans for a new Law School building to hold 500 students is reported on page 9.