Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, July 13, 1965
53rd Year. No.8
Lawrence, Kansas
LAW STUDENTS AT WORK — An innocent lamb walks before the den of wolves—KU's students who spend their leisure time viewing the female specimens who happen to pass by Green Hall during the day. This long-held tradition is viewed with much chagrin by some of the specimens. Green Hall was built in 1905 and its steps
have been burdened with girl watchers, lo these 60 years. Apparently Business School efficiency experts have never compiled any statistics concerning the amount of time the perspective barristers waste in this endeavor. Certainly the Speech Department has never made any studies relative to their remarks.
Johnson Reported to Be in Jubilant Spirits Over Success of His Program in Congress
By Merriman Smith UPI White House Reporter
JOHNSON CITY, Tex.—(UPI) President Johnson, "deeply heartened" by the first year results of the Civil Rights Act, is reported nothing less than jubilant about the way foundation blocks of his administration's legislative program are proceeding through Congress.
His pleasure over congressional action on the voting rights bill and the $7.5 billion medical care and Social Security benefits measure that went through the House and Senate was evident throughout the weekends.
AND TO ADD to his sense of executive well-being was a report that in the first year of its existence, "compliance with the letter of the Civil Rights Act is being achieved, perhaps, faster than the drafters dared hope."
"The next step," said the report to the President, "is to achieve compliance in spirit. It is not enough for a Negro, for example, to win admittance to a previously segregated restaurant; he must be welcomed.
"Curiously, reluctance to make him feel welcome is now being expressed increasingly in the north, perhaps in reaction to pressures for open occupancy in housing. It is this dimension of the problem—the psychologically imprisoning aspects of prejudice—that needs to be attacked next, and on a massive scale."
AFTER STUDYING the report, Johnson said the first-year response to functions and purposes of the Civil Rights Act represented "considerable political and social maturity on the part of the American people."
And to underscore his own feelings about the place of the Negro in American life, Johnson over a leisurely weekend at his ranch named a Negro to an important federal judgement in the District of Columbia, added a Negro West Pointer to the White House military aide staff and among other guests, took a Negro secretary, Jerri Whittington, from his White House staff to church with him here Sunday.
KU Dean to Coordinate Latin America Programs
An assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences soon will leave for his latest task, coordinating a program in the social sciences and humanities for five Central American universities, in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Salvador and Guatemala.
And, although Gale is a "norteamericano" by birth, one of his sons claims dual Costa Rican and United State citizenship by birth.
RETURNING TO KU, Gale served this year as assistant director for the annual KU Seminar on Higher Education in the Americas, which was host to 24 distinguished Latin American educators concerned with the role of the university in regional and national development. He also helped to plan an exchange backstop program with the University of Oriente in Venezuela.
The KU-Costa Rica Peace Corps project was among the first to be initiated, staffed and administered by a U.S. institute of higher learning. It also numbered many KU graduates as volunteers.
GALE WILL LIVE for about two years in his second homeland, Costa Rica. This is where son Thomas H. Gale was born in 1961, when Dean Gale was director of the KU-Costa Rica Junior Year Abroad program. Young Thomas Gale has until age 21 to decide which country to claim as a native.
He is Thomas M. Gale.
he supervised the eight weeks training here, then left to direct the project and teach at the University of Costa Rica in San Jose for 1963-64.
A Latin American history specialist, Gale also has been a Fulbright lecturer at the University of San Marcos, Lima, Peru.
THE NEGRO aide was Maj. Hugh Robinson, Army Corps of Engineers and a high ranking member of the class of 1954 at the U.S. Military Academy. He will be the army representative on the military aide staff.
Senior aide of what now becomes the armed forces aide staff will be Maj. James U. Cross, USAF, who was named Saturday to replace Maj. Gen. Chester V. Clifton.
In 1962, Gale was on the KU campus to plan for the KU-Costa Rica Peace Corps program. As coordinator
Goulet to Appear In Oct.30 KU Show
Robert Goulet, baritone who swept to nationwide fame when he appeared as Sir Lancelot in the Broadway musical, "Camelot," will appear with his company of musicians and entertainers in the Homecoming concert Saturday, Oct. 30, in Allen Field House.
Viet Forces Set at100.000
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The number of American troops in South Viet Nam is expected to exceed 100,- 000 before the end of the summer, but the Defense Department apparently has no plans to call up reserves or increase the draft calls now.
The possibility of such action was raised by the disclosure over the weekend that the U.S. commitment in Viet Nam would increase by at least 33,000 men during the next two months. There are now 67,000 American troops there.
Asked about published reports of a possible callup of reservists, the Defense Department said: "There are no plans at this time to call reserves." Any early increase in draft calls had been ruled out previously by Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara.
The buildup in Viet Nam is openended, however, and some military experts believe there will be a manpower strain within a few months despite the 2.7 million Americans now in uniform.
If President Johnson should decide to call up reservists, he could either declare an emergency or ask Congress to approve a joint resolution to authorize his action. When reserves were called during the 1961 Berlin crisis, the late President John F. Kennedy submitted a congressional resolution.
- The Goulet concert will be sponsored by Student Union Activities and will conclude the Homecoming celebration, which will be marked by the football game with Kansas State University.
GOULET BECAME a star in the 1960-61 season when he appeared with Richard Burton and Julie Andrews in the Lerner-Loewe musical based on T. H. White's "The Once and Future King."
He was raised in Lawrence, Mass., but spent much of his youth in Canada, where his mother took him on the death of his father. As a schoolboy in Edmonton, Alberta, he began to make singing appearances, and he became a disc jockey on Edmonton station CKUA.
In the winter of 1954-55 he came to Broadway, hoping for success, but the best job he could get was one selling stationery in a department store.
GOULET RETURNED to Toronto, and the Canadian Broadcasting Co. gave him the leading male role in a television production of "Little Women." He then had a leading role in Canada's annual stage satire, "Spring Thaw." Then he obtained a co-starring role in Canada's television variety show, "Showtime." He was on that show three years.
Lerner and Lowe had auditioned more than 20 singers for the role of Lancelot in "Camelot," and at a party they learned of Goulet, who came to New York on their invitation.
Since "Camelot" he has become a recording star for Columbia, has appeared on television and in concert, and has been in two movies.
Pratt: Grid Star. Actor, Politician
By Dan Partner
One of the best known men on the KU campus has been near the school since he was born. Richard Pratt is, in effect, a son of KU, because he was born at the Medical Center.
Nearly everyone on the KU campus is familiar with the name Rich Pratt: he is a grid star on the KU team, and is the vice-president of next year's senior class.
Pratt lives in Olathe, Kan., 30 miles southeast of Lawrence, which put him near the University to see the KU grid squad in action long before he actually played for it. He came to KU on a football scholarship, after playing for a successful team at Olathe.
MAJORING IN MUSIC, Pratt plans to make it part of his career in future years. However, his first ambition is to play professional football. He has received letters from the majority of professional teams, AFL and NFL. The team he chooses to play for, he says, will be the one that offers the most in regard to security, both present and future.
Music would enter the picture during the off-season, when he would like to play his drums in a band similar to Skitch Henderson's on the "Tonight Show." He also would like to start a night club and open a music studio where he could teach percussion.
Pratt is not just a musical football player and politician. In addition he enjoys woodworking as a hobby. He has made furniture for his home and has entered his work in a national contest.
HE IS ALSO an actor, traveling to the Orient on a USO tour, playing in a musical comedy, "The Boy Friend." Pratt also has used his talents in the Rock Chalk Revue, taking a role in a slapstick comedy, "From Topeka with Love," a takeoff on a James Bond thriller.
Speaking about KU football this coming season Pratt said, "We'll have a real fine football squad." He thinks that the toughest games will be Nebraska, MU and OU, but, "we'll fool a lot of people."
Richard Pratt . . . familiar KU face.