University Daily Kansan
Friday, April 11, 1975
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Scarcity of speakers plagues KU
By RACHEL LIPMAN Kansan Staff Reporter
Daniel P. Moynihan, Moshe Dayan, Sen.
George McGowen and Rep. Carl Albert will
speak at university areas, but not at
the University of Kansas.
Other than departmental lectures, the University has been less successful than other schools in the area at attracting nationally known figures.
The University's apparent failure to attract nationally known persons in government and politics is the result of inadequate and restricted funding of speakers programs, particularly by SUA, authorities said this week.
Last semester SUA was able to sponsor five speakers: Dick Gregory, comedian; Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Irish Catholic militant; Stewart Udall, former Secretary of the Interior; Sen. Gary Hark D-Dolo; and Father Daniel Berrigan, a priestate protector. This semester only one speaker was named to the Neill, better known as Lois Lake, Superman's girlfriend, was brought to campus in February.
STEVE BUSER, SUA Forms chairman,
attributed the problem to financial difficulties. It said Neil's contract was October 14, 2016 and he chose to butuff the contract obligation.
SUA has experienced financial difficulty
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of the Ombudsman and Volunteer Clearing House.
One group, SCORMEBE, a black engineering society, had不 decided as of Thursday night whether to join the petition effort. The only other group considered by the Student Services Committee, CPA, refused to join.
The Finance and Auditing Committee with the exception of the $8,500 taken from the program fund, approved the general Senate operating budget request of $7,255. It referred to the Senate a request for funding by People's Yellow Pages and rejected a request by the Tau Sigma dance ensemble.
this semester because movies and concerts, the two areas which traditionally supported the other areas, failed to make a profit in the fall.
Buser said that he had stayed within his fall semester budget and had made more than $500 by instituting a 25 cent fee to hear the speakers. Buser had hoped that by initiating the fee, the additional revenue would enable SUA to sponsor an additional speaker each year. Because SUA's fundraising budget for spring semester, and the $500 proft he had made was channeled into other SUA programs.
A forum program financed by ticket sales was the only possibility left for SA Forums this semester, Buser said, but University Events Committee approval is doubtful.
THE COMMITTEE WAS opposed to the 25-cent fee because it said students were paying enough through their activity fee, because eventually changed the decision. Buser said.
Even if the University Events Committee were to approve an increased ticket fee, SUA might end up in a worse predicament if students with bus passes and ticket sales were poor, Buser said.
Buser said that SUA Forums would try again next year to pursue a program similar to the one it carried out last fall. Since most speakers work for various organizations, considerable discounts could be obtained by doing business with only one agency.
"Some speakers are just too expensive," he said.
SUA had planned to bring a conservative speaker to the University this semester. Busser said, but an appearance by a national representative from the university, R-Ariz, might cost more than $3,000.
OTHER SPONSORS of lectures such as the Spencer and Vickers lecture series are limited as much by available funds than they are funded by the trusts which established them.
The Spencer Lecture Series was endowed in 1860 in honor of the late Kenneth A. Spencer to bring to the campus "distinguished speakers from business and industry on the one hand, or science and technology on the other."
The J. A. Vickers Sr. Memorial Lecture Series was established in 1970 to enable the University to engage prominent citizens "to enhance the university's reputation by training a free political and market society."
Sir Bernard Lovell, British radio astonomer, Franklin D. Murphy, chairman of the board of the Times-Mirror Corp., and Frederick R. Kappe, chairman of Kansas and the University of California at Los Angeles; and Frederick R. Kappe, chairman of the Board of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, are appeared in the Spencer lecture series.
ONE OF THE MORE recent lecturers in the Vickers series was Sidney Hook, professor emeritus of philosophy at New York University.
Ed Julian, director of special events, said that a number of national figures had been contacted to appear in the lecture series, including Sen. Howard Baker, R-Tenn.; Sen. Edward Brooke, R-Mass.; William F. Buckley; columnist; Warren Berger, chief attorney; Henry Kissinger; the secretary of State Henry Kissinger; and the secretary of Secretary of Meldin Laird.
One of the main problems with both the Vickers and the Spencer lecture series is that each has only one lecture a year, he said. Invitations must be sent in sequential order to the lecturers because subsequent lectures will not be received if an acceptance or a regret is received.
LONG RANGE PLANNING is also a disadvantage, he said. This semester there
will be no Spencer lecture because Edwin O. Reishaier, professor of history at Harvard University and former ambassador to Japan, has been seriously ill and is unable to travel. His cancellation came too late to contact another speaker.
Several nationally known political figures have come to the University with programs other than SUA and the Vickers and Spencer series.
William Rehqunit, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, came to KU last summer as part of the Kate Teele Lecture series. She is a professor at the School of Law and sponsors one speaker's event.
Gov. Jimmy Carter, D-Ga., and Frances "Sissy" Farenthold, National Democratic Committeewoman, came to the University as part of a seminar sponsored by the public administration program in the political science department.
ROBERT DENHARD, director of the seminar, said that Carter happened to be in the area at the time and spoke for free. Farenhold's appearance was funded by the University through the administration program.
Daniel Moynahan, former ambassador to India, will speak May 6 at Kansas State University as part of the Alfred M. Landon Lectures on Public Issues.
Speaker of the House Carl Albert, Sen.
George McGhee DGov., D.S.D., and Moshe
Dayan, former Israeli Defense Minister,
Jonathan Kissel, State University.
Albert will speak May 2.
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