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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
76th Year, No.98
WEATHER: COLDER
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Details on Page 6
Monday, March 14, 1966
—Photo by Glen Phillips
STILL A HERO—Jo Jo White autographs a basketball at a welcome rally after returning from the NCAA regionals yesterday.
Tired, beaten, they return...
By Lee Byrd
Related stories, picture on page 10
Late yesterday afternoon, KU's mighty Jayhawks were greeted at Allen Field House upon their return from Lubbock, Tex.
Their most loyal fans—about 240 of them—were small children, clambering for autographs from Walt Wesley, Al Lopes and Del Lewis.
It was a touching scene, as the players paid their last official visit to the place where it had all begun.
AFTER HAVING CAPTURED the hearts of thousands during the season, the squad returned from a game which they lost. And the ceremony—which at once welcomed Coach Ted Owens' five seniors home and bade them farewell—was conducted by a band of children.
It wasn't so much that other fans had deserted them in defeat. Although dozens of students joined the welcoming ceremony, most left soon after Coach Ted Owens and Wade Stinson, ath-
The game Saturday had left most who watched or listened with their hearts in their throats. It just would have been too difficult to offer the boys the homecoming they so richly deserved.
etic director, made their brief remarks.
How about, "Well, you just lost to a better team. You were great, but that's just the way the old ball bounces."
Certainly not "Well, you gave it the old college try." That would be an inane understatement.
What could you say?
SO MOST DECIDED not to say much of anything. Except, that is, the handful of children who had a much easier time swallowing their pride.
Ridiculous.
If the team had lost to the better team clearly so—it wouldn't be so tough. If they had gone down with the "old college try," it would have been easy.
BUT THE JAYHAWKS' effort was superlative, and their play was superior. And this admittedly prejudiced reporter—if it's possible for a "reporter" to be prejudiced—thinks KU should have
See JAYHAWKS Page 6
AWS asks drop of most closing
By Elizabeth Rhodes
In less than two hours Saturday, the Associated Women Students regulations convention voted to eliminate junior and senior closing hours. Both proposals passed by wide majorities.
The convention's 140 delegates also sanctioned no closing for second semester sophomores, a measure that replaced a Sellards Hall motion giving all sophomores no closing. The latter proposal failed by nine votes.
Voting tallies on page 7
FIRST SEMESTER sophomore and freshman hours proposed are 11:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday and midnight Sunday. Proposed freshman closing on the night chosen for floor meeting is 10:30 p.m.
All regulations passed by the convention must be approved by Emily Taylor, dean of women, the AWS Senate, the Council on Student Affairs, and Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe before becoming official University policy next fall.
The Council on Student Affairs is a new administration committee formed to study student rules.
BECAUSE CLOSING HOURS were the only business considered Saturday, the convention will reconvene within the next two weeks. The delegates tentatively chose Tuesday, March 22, to consider signout procedures for junior and senior women, senior privileges, men's calling hours in women's living groups, and women's calling hours in men's living groups.
Other proposals garnering delegate support were;
Student Affairs to receive the privileges of that class.
- Years out of high school and number of hours accumulated would determine a woman's class standing. If a woman has accumulated enough hours to be considered in the next class category, she may petition the Council on
- Freshman and sophomore
CATASTROPHIC—A sleepy feline observed most of the demands for liberal women's rules at the AWS convention Saturday.
closing hours would not apply to married women.
- Permission to stay out past closing would be the same as now stated in the AWS regulations.
- Over-night high school visitors would have freshman closing
- **CLOSING TIME** would correspond to security hours. During security hours the doors will be locked. Only those women with no closing hours may enter and leave, either with their own keys or on a nightwatchman system. Lock-up time for all living groups would be 11:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday, and midnight Sunday.
See CONVENTION page 3
Surface defends university rules
By Eric Morgenthaler
Provost James R. Surface told a group of 11 persons Friday that the university's rules regulating a student's private life reinforce the student's academic life.
Surface's statement was a response to a fellow-up questionnaire presented to him by members of the KU Civil Rights Council, Students for a Democratic Society, and several individual students and faculty members.
An initial questionnaire presented two weeks ago probed the administration's attitudes on several aspects of the in loco parentis issue.
Howard Kabane, assistant professor of philosophy, challenged Surface's statement by asking why the university feels it can reinforce students' intellectual abilities by invading their private lives.
"THE QUESTION IS why does that have anything to do with intellectual activity?" Prof. Kahane
Provost Surface said this was just a basic difference of opinion. "Rightly or wrongly, we feel this responsibility," he said.
said. "Our contention is that the university is not responsible for knowing where students are or what they are doing."
The questionnaire presented to Provost Surface posed three types of questions—follow-up questions relating to the first questionnaire, questions that he was not able to answer when he last met with the group and questions on general educational policy.
Many of the questions termed most important by members of the group dealt with the rationale behind the University's feeling of responsibility for students' non-academic lives.
Included in these were questions about women's sign-out procedure, rules for bidding stu-
See RULES UPHELD page 4
MADAME CHAIRMAN — Carolyn Hoke, Prairie Village senior, recognizes a delegate at Saturday's Associated Women Student's convention, which proposed liberal changes in rules for KU women.
-Staff photo by Bill Stephens