Summer Session Kansan
76th Year, No.4
Friday, June 24, 1966
Lawrence, Kansas
Photo by Glen Phillips
IT'S PREVIEW TIME AGAIN The first KU Preview for the '66 Summer Session began Wednesday with the largest group of incoming students ever.
KU holds biggest preview in history
The biggest preview in the history of KU began yesterday when more than 350 prospective freshmen arrived at Hashinger Hall for a three-day introduction to KU. During their stay in Lawrence, the previewers will take placement exams, meet with faculty members, and tour the campus. The center of activity will be the Union where the previewers will attend a reception, banquet and dance.
The previewers will be supervised during their stay by a staff of 11 counselors, under the direction of the Dean of Women, Dean of Men, and the Preview offices. The counselors, headed by Kay Patterson and Bill Robinson, will make a special effort to get acquainted with the previewers, answer their questions, and impress upon them the significance of the preview activities.
"THE PREVIEWS ARE really a very important experience for the prospective freshmen," Robinson said. "In most cases this is the students' first encounter with the KU campus, and we as counselors do all we can to make it a good one. We emphasize the importance of the placement exams, and answer many questions about such things as housing and academic requirements. It is our purpose to erase any doubts the previewer has about the University, so that he may come back in the
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Wescoe asks Union annex, expansion
An expanded Union building and a Union annex for the Daisy Hill area, both long-held dreams of students and administrators of the University, may well become realities within the next two years.
In a June 7 meeting of the Executive Committee of the World War I Memorial Corporation Board, the administrative board of the Kansas Union, it was decided to present a building program and financing schedule to the Board of Regents. Yesterday afternoon Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe and Vice Chancellor Raymond Nichols presented a request for an increase in student fees to the Board of Regents.
THE PROPOSED FEE increase will help cover the construction costs of the two projects. The Kansas Union will issue corporate bonds to meet additional costs. All fee increases, however, first must win the approval of the Board of Regents. Until the board's decision is known, the exact future of the proposed expansions is unknown.
Expansion of the present Union building would include office space for student organization use. Additional facilities to be included in the expansion have not been fully determined.
The annex, or satellite, of the Union probably will be located at the base of Daisy Hill, in the vicinity of Allen Field House. The satellite is tentatively scheduled to house a bookstore, meeting rooms, dining facilities, recreational areas, and an auditorium with a capacity of about 200. The lack of such an auditorium has been felt since the closing and subsequent destruction of Fraser Auditorium.
THE IDEA of Union expansion is not new, either to KU students or administrators. The Union Operating Board has been frequently concerned with expansion plans. The All Student Council has batted the idea around as a political football for several years. If completed, the expansions will represent the fulfillment of one of the greatest quasi-academic needs of this University.
Construction on the present
Union's expansion is tentatively scheduled to begin in the fall of 1967, with construction of the annex to begin sometime during the fall of 1968. The estimated cost of
the union expansion is $200,000.
The satellite will cost approximately $2 million, although neither project has been fully evaluated at this time.
Woman called minute man spy
Bu Dan Austin
An alleged female "infiltrator" and some "gung-ho" Minutemen have made life miserable for members of KU's student left
It all started when Laird Wilcox, Lawrence editor of a liberal journal, The Kansas Free Press, interviewed Jerry Milton Brooks, a 36-year-old Kansas City man, who defected from the ultra right-wing, paramilitary Minutemen organization in early April.
Asked about Minutemen activities at KU, Brooks told Wilcox that one member of his former organization had actually infiltrated the Students for a Democratic Society and the Student Peace Union. Both of these student groups are marked by the Minutemen as "Comfy front."
ACCORDING TO Brooks, this supposed Minuteman—a girl—had been active in SDS and SPU for the purpose of obtaining names and information for the Minutemen. Brooks also claims that the girl's husband has been a Minuteman since 1962, and now holds a seat on the Minutemen's national council. Brooks also said he had attended several top-level Minutemen meetings with the girl and her husband.
Confronted with Brooks' charges, the girl denied the possibility of membership in the Minutemen, calling Brooks' allegation "ridiculous." She also said her husband had no affiliation with the organization.
WILCOX, WHO HAS several hours of taped testimony from Brooks, said Brooks had been in
contact with him since December. "I have also taken testimony from several other Minutemen, some of whom have testified before the Federal Grand Jury in Kansas City regarding illegal possession of machine guns and other violations of firearms and explosives laws." Wilcox said.
(Fully automatic machine guns are available through legal channels for as little as $75. Ammunition sells for about 11 cents per round.)
WILCOX, OFTEN accused by Minutemen leader Robert D. DePugh as being a "professional agitator," claims the organization is riddled with informers such as Brooks.
"Some Minutemen have gotten scared and are afraid they might get into trouble. There is a great deal of talk about assassination going around the organization. I don't know how many are informing the FBI. We have several talking to us."
The Free Press editor claims to have been harassed by the Minutemen several times. One such occasion was in the early evening of April 25. According to Wilcox, two men "made a pass" by his home on New York Street. Armed with a riot gun, Wileo and a friend chased the two men around Lawrence.
"THEY DIDN'T expect that kind of reception from liberals ... so they got scared and called police. Four squad cars drove up."
"The police could see what happened. They told the Minutemen
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WE'VE ALL HEARD OF THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD LEADING TO THE EMERALD CITY, BUT AN OVERPASS LEADING NOWHERE? Actually, this is the Daisy Hill overpass which will soon end in a parking lot for the big dormitory area.
(Photo by Glen Phillips)