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76th Year, No.90
Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday, March 2, 1966
Photo by Neil Roach
MR. AND MRS. HENRY HOWE SR., AND RICHARD HILL "Yes, my boy's up there in Leavenworth"
Protestor's parents tell story of imprisoned son
The parents of an imprisoned Viet Nam war protestor related their son's story to members of the KU Committee to End the War in Viet Nam last night.
Second Lt. Henry Howe Jr. is presently serving a term in the Ft. Leavenworth Disciplinary barracks for participating in a peace march last November in El Paso, Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Howe Sr.
said their son was sentenced, after a two-day court-martial, to two years of hard labor and was dishonorably discharged. Charges were for contemptuous words against the President which were printed on a sign he carried.
"Sort of like violating the second commandment," commented a listener.
HOWE, WHO joined 13 marchers from Western Texas Christian College, was the only one arrested after MP's singled him out to local police. The elder Howe, retired professor of astrology and mathematics at Colorado University, said he did not know who made the sign his son carried.
"Although he was out of uniform and off duty, he was also convicted of 'conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman,'" Howe's father explained.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which is handling Howe's defense pointed out that officers are given the right to demonstrate when out of uniform. They are also seeking a writ of habeas corpus designed to release Howe pending appeal.
"I used to be the conservative of the family." Howe, 24, told his parents when they visited him Friday. A graduate of the University of Colorado with a degree in political science, young Howe participated in ROTC during college. He was in the top 20 per cent of his class.
"CONDITIONS AT THE barracks are not good," said Mrs. Howe. "While imprisoned at Ft. Bliss where he was stationed, he was celled with a light kept on around the clock, and a 24-hour guard was assigned. At Ft. Leavenworth, he iselled in 'the castle,' a cement stockade, in solitude with only one other inmate in the same block.
See PROTESTOR on page 9
Discussion classes and sections of English I will be scheduled in two residence halls next fall, as part of a living-learning experiment for 480 freshmen.
Unique living set for 'frosh'
"Research has proved that students learn more in a setting where people know each other than when they are merely a collection of anonymous individuals," said Jerry Lewis, assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and chairman of the new program.
"Students will discover that it is easy to have outside-the-classroom discussions about classroom situations."
The "College within the College" program is the first step in a long range reorganization within the college.
About 25 academic advisers, including many senior faculty members, will work with those in the program. Faculty members will serve as classroom teachers for the participants whenever possible. Discussion classes will probably be held in the residence halls.
IN THE FOLLOWING academic year all college freshmen and sophomores will participate in the program. Four additional
Participants will be 480 freshmen. They will be selected at random from students planning to enter the college and planning to live in University residence halls, Lewis said.
Class schedules of those in the program will permit close association in both living group and classroom. Each individual will be permitted to enroll in classes of his own choosing.
THE STUDENTS WILL be placed in Ellsworth and Oliver residence halls.
WEATHER
Considerable cloudiness tonight and Thursday with showers and thunderstorms tonight is the prediction of the U.S. Weather Bureau. The low tonight should be in the 40's; cooling temperatures are expected tomorrow.
colleges will be created in the 1967-68 academic year.
Several colleges across the country have programs which are a variation of the KU program.
"The main difference in our program and the residence college idea is that the residence college exists as a separate unit with living quarters, faculty offices, and classrooms together.
"Our program only coordinates several available services to provide a personal educational experience in living and going to class together," Lewis said.
THE IDEA OF A residence college system for KU has been considered for a long time, Lewis said.
"It's a definite possibility for the future, but no funds for such a program are available now," he explained.
Freshmen entering the program next fall will remain in the program during their sophomore year unless they leave KU or transfer to another university division.
"We hope to create a setting conducive to higher learning combining the best features of the small college with the many facilities and programs available in a large one." Lewis said.
"It will enable students to learn beyond what even their best teachers give them through the added contact with fellow students."
U.S. ADMITS BOMB LOST
WASHINGTON — (UPI)—The United States today officially acknowledged for the first time that one of the nuclear weapons lost in a crash of two American warplanes over Spain Jan. 17 is missing.
The State Department said the search for the missing bomb still was going on. The search is being pressed off the Spanish coast for recovery of material carried by the two planes involved.
SDS dissatisfied with query result
Leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) expressed surprise—and dissatisfaction—at the responses given by Provost James R. Surface yesterday to the student questionnaire given to him Friday.
However, John Garlinghouse, Salina junior and SDS president, said that students present at the meeting were deeply impressed by Provost Surface's candidness and apparent sincerity in his expression of KU's position.
OTHER STUDENTS were dissatisfied with the expressed vagueness of some administration policies, according to Don Olson, La Mesa, Calif., sophomore.
Olson, national SDS staff member, noted that in many areas, University action is arbitrary and depends upon the discretion of individual deans. Often there are no established regulations which provide a precedence to which
questions can be referred, Olson said.
SDS plans a meeting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Kansas Union to discuss a joint response to KU's position as stated by Surface. The organization plans to print a journal which will present Surface's comments and challenge many areas of KU policy.
"Some SDS members would like the Student Personnel Council to specify KU policy on student responsibilities and to make recommendations," Olson said. This would establish direct lines of communication between the chancellor and the students, he said.
IN OLSON'S OPINION, the structure of the Student Personnel Council should include a petitioning process for students to directly express their problems and interests to the policy-forming group.
ALL STUDENT COUNCIL
Okays labor petition
The All Student Council (ASC) last night endorsed the petition of the Student Labor Organization (SLO) to the State Board of Regents for increased student wages.
Other legislation acted upon by the ASC concerned student rights, student athletic ticket charges and general student welfare.
FIFTEEN SEPARATE pieces of legislation were considered by council members as the traditional pre-election deluge descended on the Sunflower Room.
Carl Bangs, Prairie Village senior and secretary-treasurer of the Student Labor Organization, spoke briefly to the council and answered questions concerning the resolution that the ASC support his organization's petition. The resolution was introduced last week and tabled so that ASC
members could learn more about the petition.
Bangs said more than 1,200 students are employed on campus in 40 job classifications, of which only five classifications pay over $1 an hour. These are key-punch operators, printing assistants, geology assistants, engineering aides, and computer programmer-operators.
THE REST, he said, or some 80 per cent of the campus student labor force, are paid 80 cents an hour or less.
Asked if he had inquired about wages on other campuses, Bangs said such a study is now in process. He added that the minimum wage at Missouri University is $1.25, and that this would be a fair wage for jobs at KU.
The resolution was adopted by the council.
A RESOLUTION introduced
by Tom Rader, Greensburg sophomore (Vox—fraternity), Dick Darville, Shawnee Mission junior (Vox—large men's), and Jim Klumpp, Coffeyville sophomore (Vox—small men's), asked that the ASC accept the position of the KU Physical Education Corporation that student ticket prices will be reconsidered when the stadium expansion loan is paid off, and that the ASC initiate such a reconsideration at that time.
Rader said the loan should be paid by 1981, according to the credit and loan agreement. There will be no forseeable need for ticket prices ($5 for football, $4 for basketball, effective Fall 1966) to remain at the increased level, he said.
FIVE RESOLUTIONS for the general welfare of students were
See COUNCIL on Page 9
Text of Surface-SDS talk — see page 10