Summer Session Kansan
76th Year, No.10
Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, July 19, 1966
3:51.3 MILE
Ryun breaks world record
By George Wilkens
Jim Ryun, KU freshman, ran the mile Sunday in a record time of 3.51.3, knocking 2.3 seconds off the previous world record and returning the title to the U.S.
Ryun set the all-time mark at the All American Track Meet at the University of California in Berkeley. This meet was only a
JIM RYUN
substitute for a planned Polish American meet which was canceled by the Poles as a protest against American policy in Viet Nam.
RYUN IS THE FIRST American to hold the record since it was won by Glenn Cunningham in
1934, with a time of 4.067. Before Sunday's record-breaking meet, Michel Jazy, a Frenchman, held the honors with a 3:53.6 time.
Ryun was timed at 57.7 seconds as he reached the quarter mile mark, 1.554 for the half mile, and 2.55 at the three-quarter mark. His time for 1,500 meters was only a half second over the time of Herb Elliott, an Australian, who won the 1960 Olympics championship held in Rome.
Finishing second in Sunday's record-breaking meet was Cary Weisiger of San Diego with 3:58, Richard Romo came in third, followed by Pat Traynor.
At the end of the first quarter Romo was ahead, with Ryun in third place. At the half-mile mark, Ryun held second place and Wade Bell of Oregon led. Ryun took the lead at the end of the third lap as a crowd of 15,000 stood and cheered.
U. S. TEAM coach Stan Wright described the 19-year-old Ryun as a psychological phenomenon, and said he paced himself for the first 880 yards and then claimed the lead.
Ryun, whose home is in Wichita, runs 80 miles each week for practice, and holds the American two-mile record with a time of 8:25.2. He has a half-mile time of 1:44.9, a pending world record for that distance, and won the national mile championship in June.
RYUN HAD CONSIDERED calling the University of California track coach and asking that the 1,500-meter race be extended
Fees to be raised
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TOPEKA —(UPI)— The Kansas Board of Regents yesterday increased fees at the state's institutions of higher learning from 20 to 141 per cent.
The action followed recommendations by the Legislative Council and review of the state college and university budgets at an executive committee meeting of the regents Friday.
FEES FOR RESIDENT students at KU, Kansas State University and Wichita State University were raised $20 per semester.
Students will now have to pay $240 a year at the three universities.
Non-resident undergraduate student fees were increased $50 per semester to $700 per year.
Fees for non-resident graduate students at the three universities were increased 141 per cent from $290 a year to $700 a year. The increase was $410 a year.
FEES WERE INCREASED 20 per cent at Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia, Kansas State College of Pittsburg and Fort Hays State College for resident students.
Resident students now pay $150 a year. The $15 per semester increase will boost the yearly fees to $180.
Non - resident undergraduate students at the three colleges will pay an additional $75 per year or $445 per year. That was increased 20 per cent.
FEES FOR NON-RESIDENT graduates were increased $107.50 per semester from $230 a year to $445 per year. That increase was 93 per cent.
The regents said the increase in fees would provide an estimated $3.735,000 for fiscal 1968.
The fee increases are effective in the fall of 1967.
Max Bickford, executive officer for the regents, said the increase brings Kansas into the area of fee schedules similar to Oklahoma, Missouri and Nebraska.
HE SAID THE FEE SCHEDULE is about average in the Midwest.
There are 8,242 out-of-state students attending the six state institutions of higher learning.
Bickford said graduate nonresident students who are teaching or doing research at the colleges and universities would not receive an increase in fees.
He said those graduate students
engaged in teaching or research are charged a staff rate for fees
The Board also approved a budget of $29,595,379 for KU for 1968. The 1967 figure was $26,599,-452. The requested figure represents an increase of $2,995,927 or 11.3 per cent. The KU Medical Center in Kansas City would receive $20,463,123 under the Regents request for 1968.
The new state budget includes a $7^{1/2}$ per cent raise for faculty members at KU and Kansas State, and a 9 per cent faculty salary increase for Wichita, Emporia, Fort Hays State, and Pittsburg State.
Coed living groups top scholarship lists
The motivation of the Viet Nam troubles, better students, kinder professors — no matter what, scholarship is up at KU.
The grade point average for all undergraduate students in 1965-66 is 1.49, up from 1.46 each of the previous two years, on a scale of A is 3.0, B is 2.0 and C is 1.0
NEARLY ALL CATEGORIES improved their records in 1965- 66, both in the fall and spring semesters.
As usual, women did better than men. 1.64 to 1.39.
The four women's scholarship halls together averaged 2.15, significantly better than all B grades for 200 women. This is believed to be the highest ever for so many students in living units.
The five men's scholarship halls also bested the B-mark with 2.02.
The 13 sororites averaged 1.83,
up from 1.80 a year ago and
29 fraternities averaged 1.47, up .01.
MEN LIVING IN RESIDENCE halls scored 1.27 the same as last year while the women living in residence halls were 1.49, a significant gain over last year's 1.40.
Both freshman men and women, although they were the University's largest new student group ever, earned better grades —men, 1.16, up from 1.11; women, 1.42, up from 1.38.
The big news among living groups was Phi Delta Theta's edging Beta Theta Pi for fraternity grade leadership in the spring semester, 1.84 to 1.82; Delta Tau Delta also was 1.82. However for the year Beta ThetaPi led, 1.87 to Delta Tau Delta's 1.81 Pearson scholarship hall was high for men's living groups with a 2.15 average.
This was only the third time since fraternities re-opened after World War II that Beta Theta Pi was not in first place.
KU honors its beloved teacher, Dr. Babcock
By Margaret Ogilvie
Considered THE teacher in KU's math department by those who have known her during her 42 years here, Dr. Wealthy Babcock will be "difficult to replace." University and College officials expressed the gratitude shared by generations of students, who also were her friends, in commemorating her retirement last month.
"We just want you to know that you mean a great deal to each of us and to the University," began a letter she received from administrators when presented with a plaque Friday by Robert Billings, director of student financial aid. She will keep a smaller one than will hang in Billings' office, both as "tangible evidence of the University's high esteem."
Billings, who said Dr. Babook had "really taken an interest and done a great deal," as "the bulwark of the undergraduate scholarship program," wanted to recognize her as a "tremendous individual . . . over and above what the University would do." He did so informally, and as a surprise, because he thought "that's the way she'd like it."
DR. BABCOCK did like it; in fact, she was "amazed," and the mist in her merry eyes told what she struggled to put into words: "I've enjoyed my teaching very much. It has been the most important part of my life."
Dr. Babcock did not actually begin her teaching career at KU, although the records show that she became an instructor in 1923, an assistant professor in 1926, and an associate professor in 1940, after earning three degrees here from 1919 to 1926. She began at the age of 17, teaching in Washington County at Liberty school and at Lone Mound, which she had attended earlier.
For two years after graduation from Washington High School she rode horseback from her farm home to teach elementary schoolers in buildings where "you were your own janitor." Recalling dates and figures she remarked, "Dear, dear, dear, we have to do arithmetic!" and concluded that she saved $50 each month for college expenses.
Dr. Babcock later earned her PhD. under Stouffer and became what department chairman Dr. G. Baley Price termed "beloved" because of her "sympathetic interest towards the students." He said she "tried very hard to give the good students an opportunity."
Dr. Babcock explained that she had always planned to teach but that a calculus class under the late E. B. Stouffer, former dean of KU's graduate school, influenced her choice of math rather than history.
IN APRIL of 1964, before they had to connect it with retirement
and more "for her pleasure." Price said, the department "tried to do something for her" by giving its library her name. "It was," he added, "in appreciation of the staff for her contributions in building it . . . a very genuine compliment and thank you."
Dr. Babcock was given this recognition at the annual departmental honors dinner, 30 years after she began supervising the library's orders and purchases. "She devoted a great deal of attention to this task," Price said, "it isn't easy."
Working with student help and with no assistance from Watson Library until a few years ago, "she's really had a heavy load." Price related that during the 1930's and 40's the library lacked research journals important to the department, and Dr. Babcock restored them with funds allotted recently. "We worked very hard," she said.
"IT WILL BE hard to get anybody to work with the math library with the same devotion that she has," Price said. An "indication of her devotion" is her work there now as an emergency replacement "to hold things together in good shape to pass it on to her successor."
He told of her offer to come up several times each week this summer: "If you don't mind," she had said. "That's part of her life."
he pointed out, "it's of importance to her." She puts it much the same way: "The library became ill . . . You get used to it after awhile. In fact, you miss it very much, you see."
Dr. Babcock will be missed in the library, in the classroom, and also in the University's scholarship program.
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WEALTHY BABCOCK