Council gets $18 million goal
the centennial university DAILY KANSAN serving k.u. for 76 of its 100 years
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
76th Year, No.114
Thursday, April 14, 1966
MURPHY TALKS
Sees university's future
Franklin D. Murphy, Chancellor of the University of California at Los Angeles and former chancellor at KU, this morning addressed the closing convocation of the Inter-Century Seminar, ending the week's examination of two centuries, past and future, with an analysis of the changed and changing university and its role in society.
"It is a fact that the winds of change are blowing in hurricane fashion throughout the world." Murphy said. "All men and all human institutions are bound to be affected, and, at this point in time, none is more touched by the storm than that ancient institution called university."
MURPHY ASCRIBED the lack of understanding of the universities' problems today to adults who think of the university only in terms of their own student experiences. He said the university is no longer "a relatively isolated citadel of learning located on a small tributary of the mainstream of society."
SHANAHAN DIES
AFTER LONG ILLNESS
TOPEKA — (UPI) — Paul R. Shanahan, secretary of state for Kansas for the past 16 years, died today at his home here after a long illness. He was 67.
Malcolm Wilson, assistant secretary of state, said Shanahan died about 4:30 a.m. He had been ill since Jan. 12, when he entered the hospital for a kidney disorder.
Shanahan was released from the hospital a week later and returned to his home.
STUDENTS, HE SAID, "are products of an age of revolution and rapidly changing verities and social benchmarks. They share with all society the uncertainties and insecurities of a world in turmoil and torment. Is it any wonder they refuse to be put in a sandbox to play the innocent game traditionally called 'student activities,' properly insulated from involvement in the major problems of society?"
Murphy outlined the obligations of the university, the responsibilities that have been imposed up on it. He named first the teaching of undergraduates, complicated by geometrically increasing numbers and by the increasingly complex body of knowledge. He pointed out the dependence of national security of university research laboratories and the scientists and students there.
He spoke of the importance of the university to military strength, foreign policy, and economic growth in this country, and in solving the critical problems of a rapidly expanding population. Too, he mentioned the demand for adult education on a large scale.
murphy asked this question twice, emphasizing it for his listeners:
"Which of these responsibilities does any thoughtful man think we should now eliminate?
"ARE WE," HE asked, "to admit that since the university cannot withdraw from its central role in the great issues of the day, it must, for the foreseeable future, condemn the student to an inadequate education by virtue of a lack of interest, lack of time, lack of well-trained teachers, lack of facilities, or a combination of all?
"The fact is, of course, that at this extraordinary point in human history the university cannot withdraw from any of these obligations but must expect even more responsibilities in the future. To think otherwise would demonstrate unforgivable irresponsibility."
Murphy talked, too, about the reason for the existence of the university—the student. The student has changed, he said, as has society and the university.
WEATHER
Generally fair weather for tonight and Friday is predicted by the U.S. Weather Bureau. To be accompanied with freezing temperatures tonight, warmer weather is expected tomorrow with highs in the 60's.
-Staff photo by Bill Stephens
ANTI DEMONSTRATORS PROTEST Five students carry signs pointing to their sentiments about picketeers.
The KU for Progress was presented an $18,617,000 goal for private giving in the next three years at a meeting this afternoon.
The council, composed of 224 KU alumni and 15 non-alumni friends, held its initial meeting in October of 1965. It was "created to continue the development of KU financially and publically toward enhancing the future excellence," according to Stanley Learned, council chairman.
For a detailed outline of how the money is allocated . . . see p. 9
The $18.6 million fund-raising campaign will begin in the fall of 1966 and end in 1969. "The funds will permit our University to meet its growing and immediate responsibilities of better education, research and service for all its publics," Lernard said.
Much of the money is to be appropriated for several buildings. Because of a critical need for classroom and laboratory space KU cannot wait for the money from state funds. The raising of private funds also can be matched with public funds much sooner.
Introduced in 1962, the plan of a council to increase private support for KU originated with the Centennial observance.
"This is the greatest challenge ever presented to a group of University of Kansas alumni and friends," Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said.
Sub-committee chairmen of the council include William Muchnic, Atchison; Henry A. Bubb, Topeka; Herman R. Sutherland, Kansas City; A. H. Cromb, Mission Hills, and Dolph Simons, Lawrence.
MURPHY AND WESCOE Chancellor and former chancellor precede to ceremony
—Staff photo by Bill Stephens
Pickets appear at Murphy talk
The crowd waiting outside Hoch Auditorium today for the arrival of former chancellor Franklin D. Murphy saw the activities of the KU Committee to End the War in Viet Nam begin quietly.
A table set up by the committee to distribute literature concerning the war aroused active, intelligent interest. Even a traffic and security officer studied one of the publications.
Five youths started a demonstration against the committee's presence outside Hoch, but the nature of their signs, and the amused reaction of the crowd, indicated that this activity was intended to be facetious.
INDEED, THE unkempt appearance of these demonstrators provided a contrast to the generally neat appearance of the Viet Nam committee members.
Richard Hill, Lawrence junior and chairman of the Committee to End the War in Viet Nam, said his group was not picketing
Chancellor Murphy but the week's activities concerning Man and the Future. "It is important that we bring up Viet Nam as an important part of the future of the United States and KU," Hill said.
Carrying signs reading, "Now, Get Out," "Burn your Driver's License," and "Get Out of California," was a group protesting the other demonstrators in front of Hoch.
JIM HOWATT, Leavenworth sophomore and head of the spontaneous group, said, "We are just trying to tell others how ridiculous we feel picketing really is."
Members of the Committee to End the War in Viet Nam planned to march with their signs from Hoch to the Kansas Union after the convocation.
They were to continue passing out literature on Viet Nam and carrying their placards in front of the Union this afternoon.
Is 'Big Brother' watching? —see page 8