Daily Hansan
62nd Year, No. 53
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, Dec. 8, 1964
Stewart Proposes ASC Join National Group
Membership in the Associated Student Governments of the USA (ASG-USA) has been proposed by Bob Stewart, Vancouver, B.C., senior and student body president. Stewart attended the first national convention of the ASG-USA at the University of Oklahoma during Thanksgiving vacation.
A bill ratifying the constitution of the ASG-USA in the name of the associated students of KU has been presented to the ASC by Lee Ayres, Park Ridge, Ill., graduate student. The council is expected to vote upon the bill at its next meeting.
LESS THAN A year old, the ASG-USA is primarily an organization for the exchange of ideas and projects by member student governments.
At an organization meeting this past summer in St. Louis 43 colleges and universities ratified the
interim constitution of the ASG-USA. This constitution served until the first national convention in November. Schools wishing to affiliate now have a year in which to adopt the final constitution.
Stewart and Tom Shumaker, Russell senior, attended the organizational convention. KU was not among the schools ratifying the original constitution. Stewart said he wanted to study the organization before suggesting that KU affiliate with it.
"I AM NOW much impressed with it" Stewart said. He has received correspondence on the organization.
"This is a student organization for no other function but disseminating information from member schools. KU can and will be a very influential school," he said. "This is an organization which can do a great deal of good."
British Ambassador To Speak Friday
Lord Harlech, British ambassador to the United States, will be the guest of KU at a 12:30 p.m. luncheon, Friday, in the Kansas Union.
James R. Surface, vice chancellor and dean of faculties will host the luncheon in the absence of W. Clarke Wescoe, chancellor, who will be attending budget sessions in Topeka.
Lord Harlech, formerly Sir David Ormsby-Gore, will hold a press conference at 2 p.m., Friday, in the Pine Room of the Kansas Union. Following the press conference at 2:30 p.m., the British ambassador will meet KU students from Commonwealth countries during a reception in the Big Eight Room of the Union.
Lord Harlech has been involved, yesterday and today, in Washington conferences between President Johnson and British Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
THE AMBASSADOR will come to KU from Kansas City where on Thursday night he will be the guest of honor at a dinner meeting of the English-Speaking Union at the Muehlebach Hotel.
Guests at the Friday luncheon in the Kansas Union include four Rhodes Scholars who have studied at Oxford University in England. Lord Harlech has been the British ambassador to the United States since October 1961.
The ASG-USA is an apolitical organization. It does not and can not take a stand on any national issue, or on any issue concerning colleges and universities.
"It is a medium through which ideas can be exchanged," Stewart said.
SERVING STRICTLY as a communications organization, the ASG-USA would distribute information on programs to schools requesting them. For example, if KU sought information on developing its facilities for international students, it could write to ASG-USA for examples of such facilities in other schools. Similarly, other schools could request information on such projects at KU.
A campus coordinator would be appointed by the student body president of each school to serve as the liaison between schools.
The ASG-USA works through an executive council which carries out administrative matters and implements the program and project exchanges. The current president of ASG-USA is Thomas Johnson of Purdue University.
TEN COMMITTEES, classified as either functions or programs committees, carry out the programs of ASG-USA. Functions committees include judicial matters, fiscal affairs, public relations, campus elections, and student government structures committees. Programs committees are academic affairs, service projects, special projects, international student programming and student rights, and human relations.
Weather
Continued fair weather will prevail through tomorrow, the Weather Bureau predicts. Temperatures will remain mild, with the low tonight predicted to be 25 to 30 degrees.
KU Insures Steady Growth For Lawrence Development
By Glen Phillips
The University of Kansas is one of the most important factors in the economic base for the Bartholomew Plan, a new comprehensive blueprint for the development of the city of Lawrence.
Although the city is situated on gently-rolling land that overlooks the fertile flood plains of both the
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Kansas and the Wakarusa rivers and is a thriving industrial center. surveys of Lawrence repeatedly show that KU is "the largest single employer."
According to the plan, there are two types of employment: basic employment—persons engaged in providing goods and services to people outside of Lawrence area, and secondary or derivative employment providing services to the local population.
BOTH ARE ESSENTIAL and neither can function properly without the other. Generally however, the plan goes on, a city will grow in accordance with the increases in basic industry. The University should probably be considered a basic industry.
With almost 4,800 persons employed by the government, that field leads with the largest percentage of the total labor force (16,230) or almost one-fourth. However, because of the composite nature of government employment, KU is still the largest single employer with about one-tenth of the labor force. or 1.600.
AN INTEGRAL PART of the development of any city, according to the plan, is a group of attitudes that is described as "intangibles" but which is defined as the overall desirability of a community as a place in which to live. "Lawrence is unusually blessed with these often decisive factors of environment," the plan says.
The plan goes on to note that the agricultural facet of employment should not be overlooked since it will be important in providing raw materials to be processed by Lawrence industry.
In the years following World War II, the plan states, there was a technological revolution that emerged from the new science and that this revolution will have a direct bearing on the course of the future development of the city of Lawrence.
The plan asserts that environmental deficiencies are few, and, for the most part, correctable.
"BECAUSE OF THIS revolution, there is no single sphere of economic development activity in which Lawrence's citizens should be more single-mindedly devoted than development of the graduate program of the
"This, coupled with preservation of an enlightened community attitude, cultivation of the best features of the present environment, and carefully planned and executed development of all features of the city of the future, will produce for Lawrence an enviable position among cities in the nation," the plan continues.
University of Kansas," the plan says.
THE CITY of Lawrence is, of course, dependent to some extent on the development of the rest of the United States. However, it is not as dependent as most other cities in the Midwest.
Analysis of the primary economic function of Lawrence marks two areas concerned with the University for growth. Education service, one basic part, is likely to double in the next 10 years and remain at a high level thereafter. Basic industrial expansion in manufacturing and research should expand in accordance with the local ability to produce and hold brainpower.
Leading the list of advantages that give Lawrence this independence is KU. "These factors, coupled with the predictable expansion of the University and probable substantial expansion in science-based industry and research, should sustain a relatively rapid growth rate," the plan says.
CHRISTMAS CARD—The angel is found on a Christmas card called "Gossamer Wings," which was designed by W. S. Coleman and manufactured by Raphael Tuck of England in 1882. The card is one of the more than 55,000 antique greeting cards in the Hallmark Historical Collection, which is housed in Kansas City, Missouri. (Related story on page 5.)
California Faculty Deals With Protest
BERKELEY, Calif.—(UPI)—All attention on the strife-torn University of California campus focused today on the prestigious and powerful Academic Senate—seemingly the final court of arbitration in the school's tumultuous "free speech" controversy.
The 1,500-member Senate, comprising all the tenured members of the Berkeley faculty, was scheduled to meet this afternoon to deliberate peace proposals to end the student protest demonstrations which have made a shambles of formal educational functions at the University for the past two months.
Two major proposals were expected to come before the Senate.
ONE, PRESENTED WITH ADMINISTRATION approval yesterday at an "extraordinary convocation" of students and faculty, was scorned by leaders of the "Free Speech Movement" (FSM) as "scandalous."
But the other proposal, drawn up at a meeting yesterday of 200 professors, seemed likely to win the approval of the rebellious students if it is recommended by the Academic Senate. However, the administration's reaction was in some doubt.
The "Free Speech" battle hinges essentially on the students' asserted right to advocate political causes on the campus without restriction by the administration. The free speech movement's tactics have included picketing, several mass demonstrations, a partly successful "strike" of classes, and a massive sit-in at the administration building which resulted in the arrest of 768 persons last Thursday.
ALL CLASSES WERE CANCELLED yesterday morning for the convocation called by University president Clark Kerr to air a peace proposal drafted by the chairmen of the University's academic departments with the help to 12 deans.
An estimated 15,000 students jammed the outdoor Hearst Greek Theater and the hillside above it to hear the proposal.
They were generally attentive throughout the meeting—but they roared in protest when rebel leader Mario Savio was suddenly dragged away from the microphone by two campus policemen.
THE MEETING HAD BEEN FORMALLY closed when Savio appeared on stage and walked up to the microphone, only to be dragged away. While Savio's supporters yelled in outrage, a hasty meeting of University officials and other rebel leaders led to a decision to allow him to return to the stage to announce a rally of the FSM later in the day.
Later, officials explained that the policemen had acted on their own initiative and not on administration orders, although no plans had been made to permit any students—pro or con—to speak.
The proposal presented at the convocation reiterated a previously announced liberalization of campus rules permitting students to campaign on campus for members and money to support lawful political causes. However, these rules would be subject to discussion and possible revision.
THE KEY CHANGE was a recommendation that the University drop disciplinary charges resulting from the long series of demonstrations. It was the threat of such disciplinary action—
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