--including a $100,000 bequest from the late Kenneth A. Spencer, a KU graduate and founder of Spencer Chemical Co.
MED CENTER CHAPEL—Construction began this week on a non-sectarian chapel at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City. The red-brick, colonial chapel is financed by private donations,
Daily Hansan
Friday, March 19, 1965
62nd Year, No.103
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
WSU Professors Charge Lack of Academic Freedom
By Mary Dunlap
A lack of academic freedom which endangers the intellect of the student prevails in Kansas, two Wichita State University professors told the KU Minority Forum yesterday.
"In ten years, half a dozen members of the faculty (at WSU) have been discharged or resigned in protest because of reasons involving academic freedom," Morton Ohlson said.
John Mitchell, professor of sociology and Morton Ohlson, professor of economics, cited incidents at WSU during their terms there which they feel indicate a lack of freedom and courage, and which show "cant and hypocrisy."
MITCHELL, WHO IN a February 22 speech at WSU charged that university with being "a business asset to the power elite," said the current problems in Kansas are "certainly not a lack of vigilance toward subversives."
Prof. Ohlson said he asked the president of WSU what the aims and philosophies of the business school were that he would not conform to. He said he received no reply from the president.
Mitchell brought laughter and applause from the audience as he said, "My topic today is What's the Matter with Kansas?" He then cited a portion of Willian Allen White's famous Pulitzer prize winning editorial, "What's the Matter with Kansas?"
MITCHELL SAID, "Usually one doesn't hear of Gene Debs and the "Appeal to Reason" of sockless Jerry Simpson, and Mary Ellen Leuse, or that native son of Wichita, Earl Browder, for many years the executive secretary of the American Communist Party.
"One need not," Mitchell said, "mention these things. But then, dowagers need not wear choked collars. Yet, they do hide wrinkles in a cored neck.
"This institution (WSU) has, for example, 'balanced its economics department,' Mitchell said. "Prior to its entry into the state system, it was a notorious fact that the economics department was staffed by 10 economists, 2 trained economists and 3 competent economists."
MITCHELL THEN REFERRED to the "sound men" in Wichita who perceived the "imbalanced economics department" at WSU, and "one might almost say with an eye
single to their interests, they acted," Mitchell said.
"I do not say that they acted rudely or ostentatiously or even obviously. I only say that there was a singularly series of events that served their interests willy-nilly," he added.
When Arthus Wichman, George L. Lewis and Jack Robertson were exiled, Mitchell said, Kansas 'felt they were purified.'
Mitchell, in the same speech at WSU, warned students to transfer to another school because their intellect might "be crippled in an institution dedicated to the power elite."
Ohlson said that in May, 1963, the chairman of the WSU economics department resigned because he felt the department was receiving unfair treatment. Ohlson said a non-economist was appointed to the new chairmanship.
"THE NEW NON-ECONOMIST dean then began to lay the ground-work to eliminate the two non-tenured members, of which I was
one" Ohlson said. Later, he said, the department concluded that economics as a social science could not survive in the College of Business Administration, and the non-economist dean resigned.
In December, the new dean of the economics department told Ohlson that he would not be re-hired for the coming year.
"When I pressed him for a reason," Ohlson said, "he would only say that I did not feel myself to be 'a part of the family' as demonstrated by the fact that I had failed to post office hours."
"WHAT'S THE MATTER with Kansas?" Mitchell said. "We have given every answer but one. What's the matter with Kansas. . . Why, hell, man, it's a lack of freedom. It's a lack of courage. It's a lack of everything that goes to make human life."
Both Olhson and Mitchell have resigned from the faculty of WSU. Their resignation becomes effective at the end of this semester.
MOSCOW — (UPI)— The Soviet Union announced its two-man space-ship landed safely today after an epochal flight in which a cosmonaut left his vehicle and returned for the first time.
Red Spaceship Back On Earth
The official Tass news agency said Col. Pavel Belyayev, 39, commander of Voskhod Sunrise II, and Lt. Col. Alexei A. Leonov, 30, who braved the hazards of absolute zero to walk in space, landed safely at 12:02 p.m. (4:02 a.m. EST) after a flight of 26 hours and two minutes.
THE ANNOUNCEMENT ended hours of silence by the Kremlin and growing feeling of uneasiness. The Russians had not given any progress reports on the flight of the space bus since 5:30 a.m. (9:20 p.m. EST) Thursday after Voskhod II had completed its 13th orbit.
The official text of the Tass announcement said, Voskhod II landed in the area of Perm, west of the Urals. Perm, once called Molotov, is about 700 miles northeast of Moscow.
Tass said Col. Belyayev used manual controls to land the space craft. It said both he and Leonov "feel well" and that the scientific program which gave the Soviet Union a giant lead in the space race had been "fully accomplished."
THE TWO COSMONAUTS were blasted into orbit—the highest yet achieved by man—from the Bak-honur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, about 800 miles southeast of Moscow in Central Asia.
The spaceship soared to an altitude of 307 miles above the earth and then moved in an elliptical, or egg-shaped, orbit, down to 107.9 miles.
The official announcement came four hours and nine minutes after unofficial sources informed UPI of the safe landing. But the lack of an official announcement had prompted uneasiness and brought speculation something might have happened.
Weather
Fair weather with not quite so cold temperatures is predicted through tomorrow by the weather bureau. Tonight's low will be between 10 and 12 degrees.
THE TIME OF the landing indicated the Russians had orbited the earth 16 or 17 times. Soviet cosmonauts had done this before but this flight made history when Leonov crawled through an air chamber to the outside of the craft and returned safely.
He clung to a handrail for about 10 minutes, testing the effects of the -459 degree temperature and the effect of weightlessness on his well-being. Then, dangling at the end of a 16-foot lifeline, he performed somersaults and other maneuvers to demonstrate his control.
Russians hailed the move as demonstration of great things to come—the building of a platform in space, the repair of spacecraft damaged by meteorites, and the linking up of two spacecraft while orbiting the earth. All would be preliminaries to the landing on the moon.
THE FLIGHT WAS considered a tremendous leap forward by the Soviet Union in the space race with the United States which plans to send a two-man Gemini spacecraft on a four-orbit flight next Tuesday.
During the night, Leonov and Belyavev "slept in turns, rested, breakfasted and felt well," the Tass news agency reported in a report late Thursday.
Tass said reports from Voskhod at that time indicated that all systems were functioning normally and that the craft "proceeded exactly in accordance with the program."
MOSCOW RADIO broadcast a report on Soviet space efforts by Lev Landau, the Russian académician.
He called attention to the protected cabin of the Voskhod ship and the special space suits worn by the two cosmonauts.
Landau said the flight was strictly in pursuit of scientific goals-not a bid for sensationalism.
IN A TASS interview, the "chief designer of Soviet spaceships" said;
"We do not set any record aims before the crew. The main thing is to take reasonable risks and achieve the required results.
"As sailors departing on a long ocean voyage should be able to swim, to keep an water, so cosmonauts must be good at swimming in the stellar oceans."
Bulletin
LONDON —(UPI)— Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko bowed out of any Viet Nam peace efforts today and said the United States must negotiate directly with Communist North Viet Nam after ending "its aggression."
Gromyko, ending four days of policy talks with Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart, told a news conference the end of American "aggression" must be
the first step towards possible peace developments.
His statement came after a force of 130 U.S. jet fighter-bombers hit military targets in North Viet Nam today while the Communist nation and Red China were observing their annual "hate America" days.
Gromyko castigated the United States as "invaders" who have no business to be in South Viet Nam.
Spring's Delights Arrive at Last, Escorted by Wintry, Dismal Blast
By Harry Krause
Arriving on the trail of long wintry night comes Spring at KU, glorious rebirth of Nature's might. Dismal cold of Winter's snow grey chatter gives way long last to easy sidewalk patter.
At first you put your overcoats away eager to wear your colorful clothing array. But when March and April winds start blowing, the sky clouds over, it's still snowing!
Finally, the clear cold air loses its chill,
You'll say to each other, "Winter's nice but I've had my fill."
The girls start appearing in blouses and shorts,
and Lawyers on steps resume comments with cohorts.
The best part of Spring with which most students agree is that short eight day period which sets them all free. I'm speaking at last of that joyous procrastination, which can only be dull-wonderful guiltless vacation.
After returning by various state freeways, we come upon tradition-filled KU Relays. Athletes in glory perform at their best while others who planned it take a well-earned rest.
This is the Spring of University equality, when a man may be judged, not by skin, but by quality. Beauty and truth are furthered the more when the Greeks crown their queen with pomp and parties galore.
Independents on campus have been planning to bring the second edition of newly traditional Spring Fling. Ducks, water fights, and sports cars are here and those who are brave have nothing to fear.
Studies and exams keep students on the run, but this is education, it isn't all fun. And those who look back on their mistakes and regret it will have all of this summer to remorse and forget it.