Law School Approves Construction Plans
By Suzy Tichacek
Chancellor Wescoe's announcement yesterday of a new law building sometime in the future was heartily approved by KU law professors and students.
Some thought the proposed new building should have been started long ago. They all agree that it is needed as soon as possible.
"The planning should have been started several years ago and the building should be in the final stages by now," Richard Dyson, assistant professor of law. said.
"I THINK THE new building is absolutely essential if we're going to make the law school improve significantly and keep up with the University—and we need it soon." Prof. Dyson said.
Although the new building would benefit everyone concerned the students would gain the most. "We can live with individual inadequacies up to a point—the law
building has to be more than just larger." Prof. Dyson said, "It has to be a place where a student can work full time without being hampered by his surroundings."
According to the general opinion of the law faculty and students the atmosphere of Green Hall is not conducive to the best possible study of law.
In the study of law it is important that the student and professor have an opportunity to discuss and argue points of law outside the classroom. Lawrence Blades, assistant professor of law, felt the corridors of Green were too crowded to provide this opportunity.
"THE STUDENT often walks out of the classroom bewildered and I recall from my law school training," Prof. Blades said, "some of the best learning occurs just outside of the classroom when you collar a professor in the hall and
clear up loose ends touched on in the classroom."
In Green the atmosphere and crowded corridors don't provide this opportunity. Prof. Blades said.
Poor arrangement of professor's offices, an unhandy library, and inadequate classroom space seem to be the main points brought up by interviewees.
Like some of the offices, the Law Review room used to be an old classroom. One professor suggested that members of the Law Review should be provided with partitioned areas for their work.
Kansas Law Review, felt a new building was an indispensible requirement
Student opinion of the proposed new building was as favorable and enthusiastic as the faculty reaction
"MY OFFICE WAS a coffee room last year," Prof. Blades said. "It makes the office in a helter skelter arrangement."
John Johntz, Wichita third year law student and president of the
"OUR LAW SCHOOL is not only too small—but more important—it just is not attractive enough to acquire and keep a good faculty and students." Johntz said. "The really good students with the good grades could go on to the national law schools."
Some suggestions made by both faculty and students for the new building included a better student lounge, larger classrooms, and even bigger bulletin boards.
Charles Oldfather, professor of law, suggested a possible addition to the new building could be a faculty reading room in the library. "It should be built in some way to place all the professors' offices in close contact with the library facilities." Prof. Oldfather added.
Although the benefits of the new building will mostly effect the
future students, present students find an improved law school at KU will help them also.
ALLAN FANNING, Shawnee Mission third year law student, was very pleased with the proposed plans. "A lot of people will recognize the KU Law School and give it more credit—in this way, more jobs will be provided for KU graduates." Fanning said.
According to Johntz, there has been some discussion of having just one law school in Kansas which would be located at Topeka near the Supreme Court and the legislature. "Since a new building has been approved," Johntz said, "it shows that the administrators think it is necessary to have a law school in the cultural atmosphere of a university such as KU as well as at Washburn."
Daily hansan
62nd Year, No. 20
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, Oct. 15, 1964
Top Johnson Aide Quits After Arrests on Morals
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— A top aide to President Johnson has resigned following disclosure of his arrest on morals charges on two occasions.
The resignation of Walter W. Jenkins as special assistant to the President was announced last night by White House Press Secretary George E. Reedy in New York City where Johnson is campaigning.
Reedy told a hastily called news conference in a hallway of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel that the President had named Bill D. Moyers, another White House aide, to succeed Jenkins.
JENKINS, 46, WHO figured prominently in the Bobby Baker case, was in seclusion in George Washington University Hospital where his physician said he was suffering from "nervous exhaustion and high blood pressure."
Dr. Charles Thompson said Jenkins, an aide to Johnson for more than 20 years, had "just worn himself out" and probably would remain in the hospital for four or five days.
Washington police records showed
that Jenkins was arrested on Oct. 7 in the men's room of the YMCA on a charge of disorderly (indecent gestures)." He elected to forfeit $50 bond on the misdemeanor charge.
THE RECORDS SHOWED that Jenkins, married and the father of six, also was arrested on Jan. 15, 1959, at the YMCA on a charge of "disorderly conduct (pervert)." On that occasion, he forfeited a $25 bond.
A White House source said no reports of "any incident of this kind" relating to Jenkins had ever come to the attention of the White House at any time prior to yesterday's disclosures.
These sources said they assumed Jenkins had security clearance because of his job as an aide to the
Weather
KU will continue to see fair and mild weather through Friday. The weather bureau predicts the low tonight will be between 40 and 45 degrees. Winds will be from the south at 10 to 15 miles per hour.
President, but they did not know the extent of this clearance.
THE STARTLING development left a big question mark hanging over the presidential campaign—what would be its political impact coming only three weeks before the Nov. 3 election?
Republican presidential nominee Barry M. Goldwater, who is campaigning in Texas, declined any comment on Jenkins' resignation. In a speech prepared for delivery at Harlingen, Goldwater accused Johnson of "using every power of his great office . . . to cover up one of the sorriest rumors we have ever had in the nation's capital." But he told reporters he was referring to the Baker case, not Jenkins.
GOP vice-presidential candidate William E. Miller, in Terre Haute, Ind., was shown a wire service dispatch on Jenkins' arrest. Miller smiled and said he had no comment.
F. CLIFTON WHITE, national director of Citizens for Goldwater-Miller, said the arrest of Jenkins on morals charges "represents both personal tragedy and a national misfortune."
CARNIVAL CUT-UPS—Pleading with "Wizard" W. C. Oz for a brain, bullets, and late permission are members of Phi Kappa Theta fraternity practicing for their SUA carnival skit—"That Waz the Wizard that Woz." Cast members are (left to right) Pete McCool, Leavenworth
—Photo by Don Black
freshman; Ron Creary, Quebec City, Canada, freshman; Mike Bader, Shawnee Mission freshman; Steve Rupp, Topeka freshman; and Sam Wood, St. Joseph, Mo., junior; rehearse for the carnival to be presented from 7-11 p.m. Saturday in the Union.
Home, Wilson Fail To Vote in Election
LONDON-(UPI)-Britons voted in record numbers today in one of the tightest parliamentary elections in their history. But the voters did not include the leaders of the two major parties.
It was a toss-up whether the winning party would be the Conservatives of Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home or the Laborists of opposition leader Harold Wilson.
But as early fog and drizzle gave way to sunshine in some places, neither Sir Alee nor Wilson showed up to cast a ballot.
Douglas-Home forgot to register and thus could not vote. Wilson previously sent in his vote by mail.
But Douglas-Home and his wife Lady Elizabeth made a 200-mile tour of the polling stations in the Scottish constituency of Kinross and West Perthshire, where he is a candidate for re-election to the House of Commons.
Wilson, his wife Gladys, and their
On the South Coast, fine dry weather had thousands of voters flocking to the polls. But some other parts of the country faced rain, mist and even floods.
two sons were in his parliamentary district of Huyton in Northern England.
Jo Grimond, leader of the tiny Liberal Party which conceivably could win a balance of power role if the two major groupings fail to gain a clear-cut majority, was in his constituency in the Orkney Islands off the Scottish North Coast. Grimond's wife also was with him.
On his first stop of the day, Douglas-Home was greeted by a large yellow Labrador retriever clutching a big "Vote for Douglas-Home" poster in its jaws. As he bent down to pet the dog for photographers, Douglas-Home commented: "I feel like President Johnson." But, unlike the President, Douglas-Home did not pull the dog's ears.
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"I think that Wilson is the better man in spite of the fact that he has all the failings of the intellectual. He does not have the warmth or congenial air people expect, he's a little too intellectual. Wilson became a cabinet member at the age of 31, the youngest cabinet member in 161 years." Taylor said.
A KU faculty member gave his election eye views last night.
The Conservatives have been in power since 1951 and I feel it's time for a change. The two party system falls apart when one party has all the power for such a long time. The Labor party hasn't had any experience, only two of them have served in the cabinet. Harold Wilson and Patrick Gordon-Walker," Taylor said.
KU Instructor Sees Labor Win
Hugh Taylor, assistant instructor of Western Civilization from Stoke-on-Trent, England, said yesterday the recent drop in the English stock market supports his theory that the Labor Party will win control of Parliament by 40 seats.
taylor said that about 200,000 Negroes immigrate to Britain every year. He explained that neither party has expressed much of an official view.
Taylor said the Labor party would favor an educational system similar to America's.
The Labor party wants to abandon the H-bomb and rely more heavily on the Western Alliance, Tavlor said.
Taylor said he thinks that Home is a flop as an intellectual. Home compensates by being more appealing to the public.
CRC Plans Protest Unless Leaders Act
The Civil Rights Council voted last night to plan a Homecoming demonstration unless the Student Council, the Inter-Fraternity Council, Panhellenic and the Administration take steps, which the council feels are necessary, to lead the campus fraternity and sorority system toward integration.
In voting on the proposal the council asked that leading figures in the Administration, the ASC and the IFC join with the council in leading Greek-letter organizations towards integration. The council further requested Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe to reactivate desegregation proposals with the Board of Regents that are currently tabled and to set a deadline for the removal of the discriminatory clause of the Sigma Nu fraternity.
The council also asked the IFC to request each of its members to make a public statement about their rushing activities and to actively encourage its members to seek out non-white, non-Christian men to participate in rush activities.
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