Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
62nd Year, No.8
Tuesday, Sept. 29, 1964
Stewart to Go to Washington
Robert B. Stewart, Vancouver,
British Columbia, senior and All
Student Body President, will represent
KU at a reception with President Lyndon B. Johnson in Washington Saturday.
Stewart was selected by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe to represent KU at a White House meeting of student leaders from colleges and universities throughout the country.
In a letter addressed to Chancellor Wescoe, President Johnson said, "I would like to invite the college student . . . who, while maintaining a good academic record, has also shown special qualities of character, leadership, and interest in college and public affairs."
"I HAVE a great interest in the young leaders who are emerging in our colleges and would like to get to know them and their thinking as much as I can," the President said.
Johnson will address the group at the reception where campus leaders will also be presented to Mrs. Johnson. Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense, Willard Wirtz, Secretary of Labor, and Adlai Stevenson, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, will also speak to the students.
Lynda Bird Johnson, the President's 20-year-old daughter, will be hostess at a buffet dinner and entertainment following the speeches.
The letter continued, "Would you be good enough to select this student? I would also like to request that you consider this letter an invitation to the White House for the young man or woman and that you will so inform the student."
"Please inform me by telegram at the earliest possible time the name and address of the student you designate."
"My family and I look forward with particular pleasure to this occasion and I warmly appreciate your cooperation, Sincerely, Lyndon B. Johnson."
BOB STEWART was chosen, the Chancellor said today, because the letter from the President indicated that the student body president of a school might be a qualified representative.
"I'm fond of Bob personally and he will be an excellent representative for the student body," Wescoe said.
The President's letter suggested that the student selected "might be the president of the student body, of the senior class. . . or a person who holds no high student office."
The letter asking the Chancellor to select a representative from KU will be read at tonight's ASC meeting.
AS STUDENT Body President, Stewart will formally open the ASC meeting at 7 p.m. today in the Sunflower Room of the Kansas Union with a "State of the University" address.
The address is the result of his analysis of the position, problems and prospects of the University.
Mike Miner, Lawrence senior and ASC chairman, said a report to be given by the ASC treasurer at tonight's meeting "will find us somewhat in debt."
The fate of Stewart's Washington trip hinges on the ASC finances, Miner said. If the ASC is in debt Stewart has said he will not make the trip, although Chancellor Wescoe has said the invitation opportunity should not be turned down. University funds can be used to send Stewart to Washington, Wescoe said.
Cline will explain the problems which faced the seating committee, and the sections now reserved for students. The seating committee also has discussed plans for future student seating problems, and planned for the increase in the student body expected in the next few years.
Jim Cline, Rockford, Ill. junior, and Chairman of the Athletic Seating Board, will report on the football seating program at tonight's meeting.
The ASC will also accept the resignations and vote on replacement for five council members, and fill vacancies in ASC committees.
Bob Stewart, as a senior from Vancouver, British Columbia, may be the first foreign student to hold the position of All Student Body President.
Actually, Stewart has lived in Bartlesville, Okla., until this past summer when his parents moved to the Canadian city.
Official Clears Fees Confusion
A correction concerning optional fee payments, as reported in yesterday's Kansan, has been issued by the Registrar's Office.
Students who filled out and enclosed optional fee cards for the Jayhawk yearbook, senior dues, or Blue Cross-Blue Shield at the time of enrollment will find these fees added to their regular tuition fees when they pay them this week at the Business Office, 121 Strong Hall.
Students who did not fill out the optional fee cards at the time of enrollment, but who now desire to pay for the Jayhawker or senior dues may do so at the following places: Jayhawker, B115 of the Kansas Union; and senior dues, Alumni Association Office. 127 Strong Hall.
Blue Cross-Blue Shield optional fees will still be paid at the Business Office at the time of paying tuition.
Senior Fees
Seniors, who did not pay their senior fees at enrollment may pay them at fee payment through noon Saturday in 127 Strong Hall.
Seniors who paid senior fees last year will be charged $5.50 instead of $10.
Replacement of Robinson Annex Next Step of Master Building Plan
By Glen Phillips
The next project scheduled to go to the architects according to the master plan for campus development is a large biological sciences building to be erected between Sumerfield and Malott Halls where Robinson annex now stands.
Following this, the university plan to construct a major classroom building on the site now occupied by Robinson gym and Haworth Hall. These buildings are now classed as obsolete by administrators and they are occupying prime space in the center of the campus.
"WHEN ROBINSON was built it was ideally located," Keith Lawton, vice-cancellor in charge of operations explained. It was on the edge of campus and quite away from things. University growth has moved it into an awkward spot at the center of campus.
Haworth Hall, originally constructed as a geology building, was built with an eye toward its central location and campus growth but it outlived its usefulness. It has become obsolete. Clumsy additions have been added but now even they are inadequate.
Lawton said that the construction of this $2.5 to $3 million facility to house the departments of English and modern foreign languages would act in a large part to complete the present plan to have a complex of multi-purpose classrooms near the center of campus for use by all the undergraduates.
The next step in the master plan
is addition to several existing buildings to increase their capacity.
FIRST ON the list is an addition to Lindley Hall to house geology and chemical engineering students, Then there will be two floors added to the west (physics) wing of Malott Hall bringing it to seven stories. There will also be an addition to Watkins Memorial Hospital.
Replacement of the temporary barracks-type structures behind Strong Hall with a permanent building will be the next project. These buildings remain in constant use despite the addition of classroom space all over the University.
Plans call for the erection of an art and architecture building west of Naismith Road near the new engineering building. This new building and all the new engineering complex will be connected with the new Lindley annex by a pedestrian tunnel running under Naismith Road.
Also, there will be construction of facilities for physical plant services southwest of the intersection of 15th and Iowa streets on land owned by the University.
IN THE FUTURE there is a possibility that a second laboratory building for work in the life sciences will be erected near the present site of the buildings and grounds area.
The present structures of Marvin and Green halls have been marked for complete renovation to make them more practical.
Lawton explained that when these plans have been completed the academic physical plant of the University will be equipped to handle student enrollments of over 20,000.
Around the central part of the campus there will be a grouping of multi-purpose classrooms, library facilities and administrative offices. That section of the University used most by the undergraduate liberal arts students will be closely grouped for the student's convenience.
Radiating from this central core will be the more specialized buildings for business, science, engineering, and other subjects. The average student will only have to make jaunts from his major class area to the general class area on top of the bill—easily accomplished in the 10-minute passing period.
PRESERVATION of the natural beauty of the campus has been a guidepost for the planners. They have tried to maintain somewhat of the traditional look of the University while still not sacrificing the educational efficiency of the structure to design.
Buildings are being planned to preserve the natural march of brick-red roofs across the hill, Lawton noted. Even buildings being built on the side of Mt. Oread are flat-roofed to maintain the traditional view of campus from vantage points off the hill.
Weather
The forecast is for generally fair and a little warmer temperatures through Wednesday. Southern winds of 10-15 miles per hour are expected. Expected low tonight is 45-50 degrees.
GM-UAW Seek To Speed Talks
DETROIT—(UPI)—General Motors and the United Auto Workers Union sought to speed up local negotiations at 124 plants in an effort to settle a five-day strike by more than 250,000 workers.
The strike was triggered Friday when the union and company failed to reach agreement on about six key non-economic issues in a national three-year contract.
But both UAW president, Walter P. Reuther, and General Motors vice-president, Louis G. Seaton, agreed yesterday that labor peace would not be restored to the world's largest manufacturer until some 17,000 local issues are settled.
THE UNION AND company have reached plant level agreements at six of its 130 bargaining units.
"Local matters are the key to making progress here," Reuther said. "We are trying to set up effective liaison between the national and local bargaining committees. If a roadblock appears in local negotiations, we want to be able to move effectively to eliminate the roadblock."
There should be little difficulty in reaching economic agreement. The UAW already has signed record contracts with Ford and Chrysler that have been valued at 54-cents an hour for every worker over the next three years. GM already has agreed to match the Ford-Chrysler package.
NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUED on non-economic issues and following an afternoon session yesterday, both Reuther and Seaton reported some progress had been made.
"We did resolve a couple of things," Seaton said. "We're taking them as they come and some of the things pulled off the table this afternoon could have been difficult if they stayed on it."
Reuther added, "I think we made some progress—nothing earthshaking—but we did get into matter of substance and made some encouraging progress."
The Silent Comedian Harpo Marx Dies at 70
HOLLYWOOD—(UPI)—Harpo Marx, the madcap mute of the famed performing Marx brothers, died last night after undergoing heart surgery. He was 70.
The zany, horn-honking comedian, beloved for his outrageous blond wig and eye-popping lear, was the harum-scarum member of the troupe which conquered vaudeville in the '20s, Broadway and the movies.
Harpo, whose real name was Arthur, entered Mt. Sinai Hospital Saturday and was operated on Monday morning. After apparently making a strong recovery his condition worsened and he died at 10:30 p.m.
It was Harpo's silent anties that most frequently embroiled the brothers in hilarious escapades with the forces of law and order in such films as "Horsefeathers," "A Night at the Opera," "Duck Soup," and "Animal Crackers." And it was Harpo's mastery of the harp which generally saved the day.
At his side when death came were his wife, Susan, and two of his sons. He is survived by three sons, William, Alexander and James; a daughter, Minnie, and his brothers, Groucho, Zeppo and Gummo.
THE FIFTH Marx brother, Chico, died three years ago in Hollywood.
During the past decade, Harpo Marx lived quietly, making occasional appearances with symphony orchestras while his brother, Groucho, continued in entertainment as a television star.
Groucho and Zeppo were told of the death by brother Gummo. None of the three surviving brothers was able to comment on their loss.
Harpo, who never spoke during the three decades of the family comedy act, made his last public appearance Aug. 16 at a testimonial for Palm Springs Police Chief Gus Kettman. It was only the second time the diminutive star had stepped out of character to speak in public.
HARPO'S CONTRIBUTION to the Marx brothers' brand of comedy was a battered opera hat, baggy pants and an improbable frock coat, from which he pulled a bulbous auto horn, live animals, mannequin legs and a wild assortment of junk.
He was born Nov. 23, 1893, in New York City, the second son of Sam Marx, an immigrant Jewish tailor. His mother was the talented musician, Minna Schoenberg, the sister of comedian Al Shean of the celebrated vaudeville team, Gallagher and Shean.
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Harpo was given his name by monologist Art Fischer during a vaudeville turn in Peoria, Ill. He first traveled with his brothers as one of the "Six Musical Mascots," consisting of the four eldest boys, their mother and an aunt. Later their name was changed to "The Four Nightingales."