Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
62nd Year. No.129
Wednesday, May 5, 1965
UHRC Dorm Housing Policy Gains Chancellor's Approval
Recommendations of the University Human Relations Committee (UHRC) on housing assignments in University residence halls were approved today by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe.
The committee recommendations are:
- In accord with the basic principles of the University of Kansas concerning human rights, no assignments in University housing are made on the basis of race, color, or creed. This policy includes the use of University housing at all times and for any purpose.
- The UHRC is recognized as the official body to hear and adjudicate complaints of alleged discrimination in University housing assignments. A form for reporting complaints is available in the offices of the Dean of Men and Dean of Women.
- A statement of this policy will appear in the Student Handbook, the housing booklet and in the general information section of the University Bulletin. Notice of this policy will be sent to the University Extension and all other groups using housing facilities at the University.
"THESE ARE THE present policies of our housing program." Chancellor Wescoe said, "but it is good to have them stated clearly."
James Gunn, administrative assistant to the Chancellor, said, "It is my understanding that this statement will affect all groups using university facilities."
Gunn said he understood that "all groups" would include summer band and music camps, visitors at KU attending meetings sponsored by University Extension and housing for those attending commencement activities, among others.
Although no date was set for implementing the UHRC policy, Gunn said he understood that it would be carried out "right away."
CHANCELLOR WESCOE also
Wescoe Says Fraser Plans Must Proceed
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said today plans for the building of New Fraser Hall must go ahead.
"We are hard pressed for space for both students and faculty," Chancellor Wescoe said this morning. "The building has been in the planning stage for two years and we can't go back to the beginning.
"We've planned it for two years and we cannot now abandon the plans and hope to meet our space requirements," the Chancellor continued.
"Minor modifications have been made as is usual in such circumstances. The picture of a model does not do justice to the building," he said.
"An artist's delineation will be ready, we hope, by commencement time."
New Fraser Hall has been an object of campus controversy since its plans were revealed March 29. Protests have come in the form of letters to the University Daily Kansan editor and more recently a petition circulated by Walter Hull, assistant instructor in the intensive English center, and his wife, Joann Hull, a teaching assistant in German.
The petition was signed by 2,077 persons, and was presented to the chancellor Friday.
The seven-story building, designed by James Canole, state architect, features twin towers rising 147 feet. The building contains 96,000 feet of floor space with 29 classrooms, and departmental offices for faculty in English, psychology, anthropology and sociology.
reaffirmed the responsibilities of UHRC, which was established by him March 10, 1965.
"The committee is the official body at the University of Kansas to receive, consider and adjudicate all complaints properly received concerning alleged discriminatory practices involving students and employees of the University," Chancellor Wescoe said.
Junior Men Selected for KU Sachem
Twenty-six junior men have been selected for membership in Sachem, senior men's honor society.
Sachem is the KU chapter of Omicron Delta Kappa. The men are chosen on the basis of scholarship, leadership, activities, and athletics.
Members must have at least a 1.75 grade average and participation in each of the above areas. These requirements are to establish a well-rounded group of young men
Sachem is a social and honorary organization and has been active in representing KU at various high schools. The new members will be initiated at a formal dinner May 16.
New members, all juniors, are Howard L. Wilcox, Lawrence; Michael G. Vineyard, Wymore, Neb.; Lowell C. Paul, Miltonvale; Daniel F. Householder, Wichita; Thomas E. Elliott, Shawnee Mission; H. Dodge Engleman, Salina; Henry F. Bisbee, Toledo, Ohio; Stephen R. Munzer, Salina; Melvin O'Connor, Wichita; George W. Frick, Fort Scott; Gary C. Walker, Wichita; G. Terrill Hammons, Oswego; Philip P. McGrath, Prairie Village; Larry C. Bast, Topeka.
Jerefery S. Nichols, Stockton; William H. Farrar, Arkansas City, Sherman E. Stimley, Jackson Miss; James W. Gossett, Glendale, Mo; Kenneth C. Gorman, Shawnee Mission; W. Charles Kerfoot, Lawrence; James A. Roberts, Jr., Chanute; Frederick K. Slicker, Tulsa, Okla; Douglas D. Dedo, Birmingham, Mich.; William D. Engber, Wichita; Fred N. Littooy, Hutchinson; Ronald D. Oelschlager, Marion.
McNally Chosen To Head Council
By Rosalie Jenkins
Mike McNally, Bartlesville, Okla., sophomore (Vox, fraternities), was elected chairman of the All Student Council last night at its meeting in the Kansas Union. McNally won on a 24-15 vote over his opponent, T. J. Snyder, Independence senior (UP, fraternities).
The party alignment on the ASC now, after the spring elections, is 24 Vox and 16 UP.
Bill Brier, Overland Park senior (Vox, men's large residence halls), defeated Conrad Wagenknecht, St. Joseph, Mo., senior (UP, professional fraternities and cooperatives), 23-16 for the ASC vicechairmanship.
Dan Vossman, Beloit senior (Vox, Pharmacy), was elected ASC treasurer over his opponent, John Putnam, Leawood junior (UP, men's large residence halls), with a similar vote of 23-16.
JANET ANDERSON, Prairie Village freshman (UP, freshman women), defeated Spring Stidham, Park Ridge, Ill., sophomore (Vox, college women), for ASC secretary 20-19.
Before the Council cast its ballots for secretary, Mary Ruth Lanning, Lawrence junior and outgoing ASC secretary (UP, college women) told the Council that, from her own experience with the job, she believed that the secretary should be familiar with ASC procedure.
She explained that Miss Anderson had been on the Council since the fall and would be more familiar with procedure. Miss Stidham was just elected at spring election time.
The Council also passed four pieces of legislation. They are:
- A bill requiring reserved seat tickets to all University events, excluding athletic events, to have a seat and section number.
- Two amendments to Bill No.
29 dealing with the University facts and statistics committee.
- An amendment to ASC Bill No. 1 changing the number of absences allowed each representative from five to seven.
... Mike McNally
The ASC defeated an amendment to Bill No. 6 by a vote of 16-11 which would have placed the recommendation of new members for the ASC Student Communications Board in the hands of that Board's executive council, which include the chairman, vice-chairman, and six other members.
The Student Communications Board is a committee which tries to keep state newspapers informed, through the use of columns, of the activities of KU students who are from the area in which the paper is published.
THE TWO AMENDMENTS to the University Facts and Statistics Committee had been tabled for further research for several weeks.
One amendment will provide information at the Student Information Booth compiled on the current projects and openings for membership in campus organizations.
A second amendment calls for the ASC to compile information, describing KU achievements and activities, which will then be published in the Student Handbook which is provided for entering freshmen and other interested persons.
George Tannous, Lebanon junior and former Council vicechairman, said that both he and Bill Robinson, Great Bend sophomore, student body vice-president, and one of the amendment's sponsors had talked with James Gunn of the University Relations department which prints the student handbook.
Gunn said his department would be willing to print the infor-
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Poet Says Own Writing Done in 'Intimate World'
... Robert Creeley
By Mary Dunlap
Reading poetry aloud presents a strange situation for Robert Creeley, a young contemporary poet, who read his poetry at yesterday's Poetry Hour.
"Most of my poems are written in an intimate world—a one-toone world," Creeley said. "It is like picking up a letter to someone you love, and reading it in the Senate of the United States. Someone always says, 'Can you speak up—I can't hear you.'"
The slight man with a goatee spoke in soft tones of his poetry and his friendships with such men as William Carlos Williams and Robert Duncan.
"IT IS IMPORTANT to hold onto the relationships of friends," he said. "I feel that I owe largely this, whatever I do, to relationships with William Carlos Williams and Duncan, and Pound. I don't think that anyone writes a poem distinct from this type of engagement."
He told of the changing attitudes of critics during the early 1950's, when "the attention of criticism
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"Whitman in the 40's was not given much attention," Creley said, "which is difficult to understand when one reads him today."
was not open to writers such as me." He spoke of the changing impressions of the critics, who came to respect the writings of men such as Harte Crane and Walt Whitman.
Creeley's friendship with Charles Olsen led to a correspondence between the two which was eventually five letters a week. "Olsen is one of the most articulate and correct men I know," he commented. The poem, "The Conspiracy," grew out of this friendship.
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HE QUOTED LINES from "The Act," in which he pleads with a woman not to cut the "roses in the rain," but she does so, anyway. "These lines were very moving to
me," he said, and he explained how a poem could capture the feelings of the poet. "It should be the agency of the poet himself," he added.
Next Creeley read "A Form of Women," "Goodbye," and "Just Friends," three poems dealing with lost love and the loneliness that ensues. He read all of yesterday's poems from the complete book of his poems. "For Love."
The poem, "The Wind," was written while he was teaching French at a boys' school in Albuquerque. While he was living in New Mexico he was told of a day school needing a French teacher.
"I DIDN'T KNOW French," he laughed. He had a class of students, five in number, who unfortunately flunked the exam that Creeley gave them. The five all sat and cried. "I thought to myself," the poet said, "that there must be more to education than this."
After class, Creeley and his class went out to an irrigation ditch, sat down on the banks, and drank
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