Dean notes Hill change
DEAN GEORGE SMITH
Change is always present at a university
"I think a fellow better like change around here, or he's going to be very unhappy during the next 25 years. Anyone who clings to the old rumor of the sedate ivy halls better stay out of American universities."
George Smith, dean of the University and vice chancellor of institutional planning, gazed thoughtfully across a blueprint-cluttered desk and out the window of his Strong Hall office toward the Campanile.
He spoke of a changing University. He has seen a lot of changes since he came to KU from the University of Iowa in 1941, and has held a great faith and interest in KU for over one-fourth of its 100 years.
"IVE SEEN ALWAYS a desire to improve what we're doing here," he said, "regardless of what area—student activities, academics, athletics or culture. The athletic program, for instance, fluctuates up and down from year to year, and this is true of all areas. But they're all moving forward."
He spoke of the state university as an institution developed to "keep things from being set in concrete," a place not merely for the acquiring of facts, but for the development of change, of inquiry, of state geological surveys, computer programs and research service for the nation's business.
Most of all, Dean Smith spoke of the people who make the changes, the people of KU, of Lawrence, of Kansas. He talked as a man fascinated by an idea, as a man who has seen two sons graduated here and communicates personally with the university rather than professionally.
"IVE ALWAYS BEEN impressed with the personality of the University," he said. "I guess I've—well, become absorbed with the place. It's a combination of a lot of things, but 'people' is the key word. . . ."
Many of the people, he said, could have left long ago, but didn't. Some professors could leave tomorrow and make many times their present salary in industry; some Lawrence businessmen could get rich in Kansas City or New York.
"But they just plain like it here," Dean Smith explained. "Many are graduates from here, but many aren't. The idea is all-inclusive—the whole area is alive, happy. There's always something going on, changing, never a dull moment. . . .
"It's not just football, basketball or a sub-four-minute miler. This is only part of it."
LEADERSHIP HAS also been
"The chancellors—Malott, Murphy, Wescoe—the are the kind of people I'm talking about; people with ideas and drive. Our building program is only one indication of this forward thrust."
part of it. Having served administrations of three chancellors, Dean Smith has seen and been a part of change at KU as few people have seen or partaken.
He leaned back in his chair as he talked, his eyes taking in the Campanile, the desk, charts, cost sheets and problems of moving temporary offices to old Oread Hall; his thoughts spanned 100 years to the Second KU Centennial.
"I think it's safe to say the changes will come faster," he said.
"The pace of change is quickening, and its bound to speed up. I'm not really predicting anything, just assuming a continuation of the drives already here.
"IT'S NOT ONLY programs that are changing, but points of view. And that brings us back to people again. You see different faces here, but always the same people."
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He spoke of what it was that made the place "good in about everything, better in some, but poor in none," and couldn't quite find the words, but the loss was self-explanatory.
The history of the national fraternity stretches back to the early spring of 1855 at the University of Nebraska. Several education majors came together with Clifton to see if they, as students, could find some way to further the teaching profession. Following controversies and technical problems, Alpha chapter of Mu Epsilon Nu was born.
Finally "its quantity in all things" was deemed the closest verbal explanation.
HONOR GROUP
Kansas became the third recognized chapter April 29 in this fast-growing organization.
Remember when, as a freshman, you had difficulty telling the fraternities from the sororities just by looking at the Greek letters?
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BY THE FALL of 1955, the six charter members of Alpha chapter began spreading their organization by promoting social interaction between education students where previously few had known little more than each other's names.
KU's newest fraternity will not present this type of problem, however. Gamma chapter of Mu Epsilon Nu, which received its charter officially April 29 from Donald Clifton, charter member and advisor of the fraternity from the University of Nebraska, shows by its letter abbreviation (MEN) what the first qualification for membership is.
The fraternal emblem, in red and white, exemplifies the goals of the group.
VIRGIL L. JACKSON Jr., Kansas City, Mo., senior and newly-elected president of the group, explained that MEN first began here on the KU campus only eight weeks ago. Described as a "national undergraduate honorary fraternity in education," it now has 13 members.
Dan Atkisson, Wichita sophomore and membership chairman, said the membership is purposely low and will be kept low to further the main goal of the national organization—that of promoting
an "esprit de corps" among male students in the field of education.
6 Daily Kansan Wednesday, May 11, 1966
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