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HOPE AWARD—Richard T. DeGeorge, KU professor of philosophy, is all smiles after receiving the HOPE Award and $100 at the senior coffee this morning. The award is an Honor given to the Outstanding Progressive Educator on campus.
DeGeorge Chosen For HOPE Award
Richard T. DeGeorge, professor of philosophy, was named the seventh winner of the Honor for the Outstanding Progressive Educator (HOPE) Award today.
The award was announced at the senior coffee in the Kansas Union Ballroom this morning. The senior class also discussed plans for June Commencement.
THE CLASS also selected a bronze and wooden tablet, containing the names of distinguished professors, as its gift. Dave Martin, Coffeville senior and chairman of the gift committee, said the vote for the tablet was nearly overwhelming.
The HOPE award is the only award given to a member of the faculty by KU students. It is given to the full-time faculty member who has made the greatest contribution to the welfare of the students and the prestige of the University during the year.
Criteria for award are the professor's willingness to help students, success in stimulating and challenging his students to think, devotion to his profession, contribution to general cultural life of the University.
Publications and creative work are also considered, although not to the same degree as the other criteria.
THE HOPE AWARD was founded by the class of 1959 with a $2,500 endowment. The annual award of $100 is the interest drawn from the fund for that year.
Dr. DeGeorge has received numerous grants during his career at KU. Last summer he received a Ford Foundation Grant to complete a monograph entitled "Soviet Ethical Theory." He is the author of "Classical and Contemporary Metaphysics." He recently completed "Patterns of Soviet Thought" and is now working on a book entitled "Soviet Ethics and Morality."
PROF. DEGEORGE came to KU in 1959 as an assistant professor of philosophy. In 1962, he become associate professor and in 1964 was made a full professor.
From 1557 to 1959, Prof. De-George was a University Fellow and Boies Fellow, Yale University. He was a Fulbright Grantee to Belgium, 1554 to 1955. Prof. DeGeorge was a humanities lecturer at KU. He has read papers in West Berlin and Mexico City.
Clayton Krehbiel, professor of choral music and music education, was the first HOPE Award winner in 1959. Last year's winner was James A. Sternritt, associate professor of architecture.
With the words, "I do solemnly swear to support the Constitution . . .," the new student body president and vice-president took office last night during a meeting of the All Student Council.
Schrey Sworn In; ASC Told to Lead
By Jim Sullinger
Leo Schrey, Leavenworth junior and new student body president, and Bill Robinson, Great Bend sophomore and student body vice-president, were officially sworn in along with the 10 newly elected representatives from the academic schools.
ALSO SWORN IN were Jim Klumpp, Coffeyville freshman and ASC representative from men's small residence halls, and Richard Darville, Shawnee Mission sophomore and ASC representative from men's large residence halls, to replace the seats vacated by Schrey and Robinson.
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The appointments were made by Jim Frazier, Topeka fifth-year pharmacy student and president of Vox Populi.
James Canole, state architect, had been invited to speak before the council last night on the status of plans for new Fraser Hall. Mike Miner, Lawrence senior and ASC chairman, said he was not able to reach Canole.
Mike McNally, chairman of the elections committee, said that no protests would be filed on any election result.
T WAS ALSO suggested that the filing fees in future election.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
62nd Year, No.124
Wednesday, April 28, 1965
Kansas Official Delivers Viet Nam Policy Charge
By Harihar Krishnan
The American people are only being fed with half truth by its government regarding the war in Viet Nam. The U.S. is participating in a war which is of no consequence to its national interest, said Lieutenant Governor John Crutcher.
He made these comments yesterday in his talk on "The Current American problems in Viet Nam."
Crutcher, a former state senator, was the guest speaker at the monthly meeting of the KU Collegeate Young Republicans.
"We are told that we are fighting for the freedom of the people of South Viet Nam," he said. "This is not only utter nonsense but a myth. It is a civil war in Viet Nam and not a war with China as our President indicates. All that we have been told is half truth."
Crutcher, who has travelled over 35.00 miles inside the Iron Curtain countries and through Southeast Asia, and who is one of the recognized authorities on the affairs of these countries, recently spent six weeks in Saigon.
"THE PEOPLE OF VIET NAM have never been free and never been liberated," Crutcher said.
"There is no use in trying to confront the enemy on the land," Crutcher said. "We have the most powerful sea and air power in the world. It is these which we have to resort to to fight the enemy, if we have to stay there.
The purpose of his visit was to make an on the spot survey of the Viet Nam situation.
His findings were mostly based on the evaluation of the military strength of the United States.
"OUR NAVY IS DOING superbly well in the Southeast Asian waters and our enemy knows and realizes the potential of our strength." he said.
"What we are doing is spending one and a half billion dollars a year in an operation that has been a total waste. We are only making a great many millionaires every day in Viet Nam by this process," Crutcher said.
"Another myth is that we are told that the Viet Cong rebels are getting their weapons from China. It is possible that this is happening since my return from this area." Crutcher said.
Fair skies and warmer temperatures will prevail tonight and tomorrow, according to the weather bureau. Westerly winds from 5-15 miles per hour are expected. The low tonight should be near 40 degrees and the high tomorrow is predicted to be in the lower 60's, the weather bureau said.
Crutcher mentioned the destruction of 70 million dollars worth of American aircraft at Ben Hoa and another 50 million dollars worth at Bleiku. He said that these raids were carried out by a small mortar group of Viet Cong who used American mortars and weapons to blow up these bases and kill many Americans.
"BUT WHEN I WAS THERE I found that we are the people who are supplying arms to these rebels. The Viet Cong manages to collect all the weapons that our defeated army leaves behind in the battlefield and then uses them against us."
"These people do not know what they are fighting for. They are hungry and starving. When we send them to the battlefield they just refuse to fight the enemy and
Crutcher said that the morale among the lower ranks of the government troops of South Viet Nam was at its lowest ebb.
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look for the first opportunity to retreat.
"PRESIDENT DIEM had a first class propaganda machine. I heard from him that 80 per cent of the people of his country were literate. You know as well as I do that there is no country in the whole of Asia that can boast of such a high percentage of literacy," Crutcher said.
"I was told that the production rate of rice is so high that the government was trying to export some of the surplus."
Crutcher said, "I went and talked to the people about this. They started slapping on their stomachs to indicate how hungry they were.
"The conditions are so atrocious when you get out of the city limits. It is almost impossible to get a doctor when you are in trouble. A person has to walk miles before he can get one," he said.
AS REGARDS CORRUPTION,
Crutcher said it is phenomenal and that it extends to the lowest ranks of society.
"The rate of desertion, which is another fundamental problem in this war, is something which nobody can estimate. The fact is never reported, because if it is reported, then the man in charge of distributing pay will not be able to pocket the pay of those soldiers who deserted. This type of petty raiding on the treasury goes on unchecked." Crutcher said.
"We have certainly blundered in this issue and we are now faced with impossible alternatives," he said.
"It is one thing to be fighting for a people who are dedicated to independence. But it is entirely a different thing to fight for a people who are not willing to fight for themselves."
ACCORDING TO CRUTCHER, the war in Viet Nam has resulted in the victory for the North Vietnamese and he advocated that the U.S. should pull out of this area in order that many American lives may be saved.
"The one and only thing to do is to get out of South Viet Nam. We
are losing the war. Ninety per cent of the country's territory is in the hands of the Viet Cong. Why should they accept our proposals for an unconditional negotiation on an issue which they have already won?"
He said, "Our reasons for bombing their target areas are only because we are trying desperately to bring them to a negotiation table. I do hope we will succeed in our efforts."
CRUTCHER SAID that all the small nations south of Red China are bound to be taken over ultimately by China, just as Cuba will ultimately be taken over by the U.S. He said that this geographical disadvantage has to be realized by the U.S. and that it is of no use to be fighting for people who are not prepared to fight for themselves.
At the conclusion of the meeting, John Sharp, Lawrence junior, moved that a resolution indicating what the KU Collegiate Young Republicans' stand should be on the issue of Viet Nam. The following is the text of his resolution:
"THE KANSAS University Collegiate Young Republicans, bearing in mind that the government of the United States has pledged the full support of the United States to defend South Viet Nam from communist aggression, and believing that a withdrawal of United States military forces from South Viet Nam would allow the people of the country to be enslaved by communist forces, and realizing this event would be a serious blow to United States prestige, and noting that this conflict is part of the global communist strategy, and recognizing that a United States withdrawal from South Viet Nam would merely shift the scene of the conflict to another presently noncommunist country, be it therefore resolved that the Kansas University Collegiate Young Republican Club supports a firm United States policy to halt communist aggression in all of Southeast Asia."
The resolution carried by a 23-11 vote.
Marines to Strike Viet Rebel Areas
SAIGON—(UPI)—U.S. Marines struck out from the Da Nang air base today in their biggest operation of the war against the Viet Cong. In North Viet Nam, American planes dropped a million propaganda leaflets while attacking key transport facilities.
The size of the Marine search and clear force was not announced but it involved several companies of men. Gen.Wallace M. Greene, the Marine Corps commandant, said his men will fan out as far as necessary to defend the Da Nang air base from attack.
"The one job I want them to do is to find Viet Cong and kill them," Greene told newsmen during a briefing at the end of an official inspection tour.
"We got one today and we're going to get more."
THERE ARE ALMOST 10,000 Marines in the Da Nang area 350 miles northeast of Saigon and there were reports a new battalion will land shortly.
Today's search and clear mission was in an area 10 to 15 miles west of Da Nang. An advance company of Marines moved out Tuesday, setting up a forward command post.
Several other Marine companies, on foot and aboard troopcarrying helicopters, were involved. It is the biggest and deepest probe so far into Viet Cong territory.
PREVIOUS MARINE missions have been limited to small patrols of 40 to 50 men, only a few miles from the base perimeter.
Greene said, "This is a really tough problem. It's going to take a lot of effort, more than most people are aware of. But it isn't the first tough problem the Marines have faced.
"We're suffering casualties but we're going to be dealing out more than we receive.