Gl Bill to finance 500 SDS in pursuit of policy statements
Ten per cent of the men enrolled at KU in the fall semester 1966 may be studying because of the GI Bill signed in law by President Lyndon B. Johnson yesterday.
According to Dr. Edwin R. Elbel, director of the KU Veteran's Service, KU can expect up to 500 men to be financed under the cold war plan.
THE NEW BILL will enable any veteran who has served on active duty more than 181 days since Jan. 31, 1955 to attend high school, or the undergraduate or graduate program of most universities. Reservists serving only three months will not be eligible.
June 1 will be the first opportunity to enroll for those eligible. The Veteran's office has received a large number of inquiries and if the forms are received in the next few weeks many of the men are expected to enroll for the summer session.
Paying less than the similar Korean and World War II bills, this one furnishes a single student with $100, married student with $125; and a student with dependents, $150 monthly. These amounts are for a full schedule of 12 graduate and 14 undergraduate hours. The support is cut for less than the minimum load.
ANY INTERESTED veteran must apply at his veteran office and have a copy of his separation papers and his marriage license, and a birth certificate of any child, depending upon the program for which he qualifies.
It is expected that the increase in the fall may offset a possible drop due to drafted KU students.
"We doubt that veteran enrollment will ever reach the 2,000 we had after World War II," Elbel said.
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DODGING placards, wooden swords, and shields made the title "Joust a Little Bit" very real to those backstage as the Gamma Phi Betas and Beta Theta Pis prepared to go onstage. This skit had many costume changes, generally signaled by a stampede to the wings as clothes were thrown off and replaced. One boy wearing a barrel labeled "black beer" threw off his gear which was caught in the air by innocent bystanders, who were probably afraid of being hit as much as preventing any noise.
The evolution of the college male and accompanying female was ended in a large dance number. In the finale, the last row of girls stood balanced on their partners' shoulders, and never once lost their wide smiles.
Part of the burdenous costumes and props were moved onstage for the last skit by Alpha Omicron Pis and McCollum Hall men, called "Where There's a Will There's a Play." This was not an unsightly overflow from
backstage but a part of the skit portrayed the conflict on a soundstage as the evils of advertising fought with William Shakespeare, who came to earth to continue writing plays in the twentieth century.
THE MANY constumes showed the time and work spent to present Rock Chalk each year. Particularly successful and professional looking were the girls' costumes made of many small leaves of various colors of green satin layered on a piece of material and worn as tree costumes complete with headpieces of branches and leaves.
As the In Between Acts performers closed the program, skit members were discussing their performances and audience reaction. Perhaps the lines should be read louder and slower, which is true of many variety performances, but the hours spent working in Rock Chalk certainly seemed to be well worth the effort in presenting an evening of enjoyment for audiences and actors—that's entertainment.
Seminar set
A selective service seminar will be held next Wednesday by the ASC Current Events Committee to inform men of present draft rules and allow them to ask questions.
Daily Kansan
Friday, March 4, 1966
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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) began planning the second phase of its confrontation with administrative officials regarding university policy last night.
A committee was formed to review and rewrite the questionnaire earlier presented to Provost James R. Surface, and to seek a further clarification of administrative policy. Jim Masters, Mission graduate student, was appointed chairman.
EARLY IN THE meeting, a dispute arose concerning the best course of action to take. One group favored seeking a further clarification of administrative policy; another advocated presenting demands for change based on the points already discussed with Surface.
Masters said Surface' had "made university policy clear with respect to regulations. We do have a base for demands."
But Howard Kahane, assistant professor of philosophy, said there was a need to define policy in more concrete terms than had been done Tuesday.
"PROVOST SURFACE has been too vague so far. We can't make demands until policy becomes more clear," Kahane said.
Most of the 20 persons present were generally impressed with the frankness of the answers given Tuesday by Surface in response to the questionnaire.
"Where there was no definite university policy, he was frank enough to admit it," one member said.
The questionnaire to be written this week will emphasize qustions concerning the administration's general philosophy of education—why it is necessary to do things the way they are done. It will be presented next week, and further action will then be discussed.
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