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University Daily Kansan
Page 0403_2 from reel: L 740 (1966-02-08 to 1966-08-02)
https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-udk/69691

Title: Council Proposes Higher Student Fees
Summary: The Kansas legislative council's budgetary committee recommends that the Board of Regents raise academic fees for resident and non-resident students at state colleges and universities.
Category: campus news
Subjects: university finances; student fees; academic governance
Named Entities: Smith, Glee S. [state senator]; Nichols, Ray [vice chancellor]; Shankel, Richard [chancellor]
Confidence: 0.9

Title: Transfer of 'Active' Cobalt Will Cause Traffic Stoppage
Summary: Specialists licensed by the Atomic Energy Commission will transfer radioactive cobalt from a research vault to an AEC-licensed company, requiring traffic stoppage on Naismith Drive.
Category: campus news
Subjects: radioactive materials; university operations; safety protocols
Named Entities: Krone, Ralph [physics department chairman]; Benjamin, Prof. [radiation biology]; Friesen, Prof. [physics department]
Confidence: 0.85

Title: Racial Coding to End With June '66 Payroll
Summary: University racial coding policy will be terminated with the June 1966 payroll, ending identification of employees by race in university records.
Category: campus news
Subjects: racial equality; university payroll; civil rights
Named Entities: Wescoe, W. Clarke [chancellor]; Jones, David [philosophy professor]; Burke, Richard [human relations professor]
Confidence: 0.9

Title: MAKING THE GRADE – IX: Flunk-Out Courses Don't Exist
Summary: Analysis of flunk-out rates at KU shows that despite common perception, very few courses actually have high failure rates, with English and chemistry departments providing specific data.
Category: features/profiles
Subjects: academic performance; student success; course evaluation
Named Entities: Goad, Emery [writer]; Worth, George [English department chairman]; Short, Tom [freshman]; Jennings, Walter [freshman]; Petrie, Glen [teaching assistant]; Price, Baley [mathematics department chairman]
Confidence: 0.8

Title: Photo: Empty Niche in Southwest Corner of Kansas Union
Summary: Architectural feature in the southwest corner of the Kansas Union described as an 'empty hole' where a statue was once planned but never installed.
Category: photos/graphics
Subjects: university architecture; campus facilities
Confidence: 0.75

Title: [advertisements]
Category: advertisements
Confidence: 0.9

Title: [classifieds]
Category: classifieds
Confidence: 0.9

Title: Weather: Cloudy
Summary: Current weather conditions reported as cloudy with details available on page 7.
Category: informational content
Subjects: weather forecast
Confidence: 0.9

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