—Photo by Steve Tarver
UNION EXHIBIT—John Carter, Overland Park sophomore, inspects a two-level bridge designed by Leonardo D Vinci. The upper level is for
pedestrians and the lower one for cars. It is one of several models in the IBM traveling exhibit now shown at the Kansas Union.
76th Year, No.89
Tuesday, March 1, 1966
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Ticket cut to be topic of council
By Jack Harrington
The reduction of student football and basketball ticket prices after payment of the stadium expansion loan will be the subject of a resolution to be introduced to the All Student Council (ASC) tonight in the Kansas Union.
Mike Grady, Leawood junior and student body representative to the Athletic Seating Board (ASB), said Thursday that there was no provision in the credit and loan agreement with the KU Endowment Association for the future reduction of the ticket prices.
"THEERE WAS nothing specified to that effect in any agreement, written or verbal." Grady said.
He questioned the ASB on the matter Saturday, and received a statement from the board clarifying its position on the matter. The statement says that the board will reconsider and evaluate the cost of student athletic tickets when the loan is paid off.
Grady said that the loan is in the amount of $556,000 at 6 per cent interest a year for 15 years. He said that the board could make no guarantee of a price reduction in 1981, because of unforeseeable future expenses, but that it "would consider the matter at that time, and will recommend a change if financially feasible."
The resolution, to be introduced by Tom Rader, Greensburg sophomore (Vox — fraternity), asks that the ASC accept the position of the ASB as stated, and that the council take the initiative for reconsideration when the loan is paid off.
ALPHA GAMS GO WITH U.P.
Alpha Gamma Delta, social sorority, voted last night to affiliate with University Party.
The sorority, organized here last year, has not been affiliated with either campus political party.
THREE ABSENT
Chairmen miss ASC hearing
Three committees of the student welfare department of the All Student Council failed to look after their own welfare last night.
Only five of the department's eight committee chairmen appeared as requested last night for questioning by the Committee Evaluation Board, which is studying the ASC committee system.
"THE STUDENT Welfare department is doing everything but looking out for the welfare of the students," said Tom Rader, Greensburg sophomore and chairman of the CEB, who wasn't particularly happy over the turn of events.
"There are a few exceptions to this, but on the whole, we are really disappointed in this area. It is one that is expected to do a lot for the students—but it doesn't."
The CEB is investigating the committees to determine their effectiveness and to recommend changes in the system.
The committees which an-
peared are the Student Health Commission, Rich Schaffer, Beloit fifth-year pharmacy student, chairman; Blood Drive Committee, David Ward, Prairie Village junior, chairman; Student-Faculty Calendar Committee, represented by Steve Swift, Kansas City sophomore; Student-Faculty Orientation Program Committee, Ken Hickerson, Des Moines, Ia., junior, chairman; and the Student-Faculty University Events Committee, Jerry Hoskins, Bonner Springs junior, chairman.
Those absent were the Committee on Human Rights, the Student-Faculty Traffic and Safety Committee, and the Student-Faculty Commencement Committee.
WEATHER
The U.S. Weather Bureau forecasts warm weather tonight with partly cloudy skies on Wednesday and continued mild. The low tonight will be near 40 degrees.
Policy probe gets answers
Provost James R. Surface today met with 16 students and gave answers to the 24 questions on University policy given to him *Friday. A discussion period followed.
The questionnaire was sponsored by Students for a Democratic Society and the Civil Rights Council. Members of other campus organizations were present as interested participants or invited observers.
Provost Surface answered each of the questions individually before opening the meeting for discussion.
IN DEALING with the 24 questions, he sometimes referred to the Student Handbook, sometimes state law, and sometimes to the theories and responsibilities underlying administration of a university.
He said that, in general, the chancellor and the State Board of Regents are responsible for the conduct of university affairs.
He said, however, that he hopes that the Student Personnel Council, which is now an unofficial committee of personnel deans, will soon be made a permanent body to which questions of administrative policy can be referred.
Provost Surface said he realizes some students are concerned that there is no specific definition of the "commonly accepted code of conduct" to which students are required to adhere. The university has never sought to define these policies, he said.
"WE HAVE taken the position for many years that it will not be our policy to carry out a long list of 'thou shalts' and 'thou halt not,'" he said.
Provost Surface agreed that at times the University usurps the police function of the state, but said often it benefits both the University and the students concerned for such a course to be followed.
"Last year the University handled 180 cases of shoplifting in the Kansas Union Bookstore. It would have been to no one's advantage if these cases had been dealt with through the courts," he said.
Provost Surface said that the university has various types of responsibility for its students. Sometimes its responsibility is codified in law, but more often it is just a "feeling of responsibility" for students.
The administration's keeping personal dossiers on students was justified as a necessary means of breaking down the impersonality of the University.
"THEY AREN't just a series of black marks. They also include
a student's accomplishments," Provost Surface said. He said that only the personnel deans have access to the student dossiers.
"I can't even see what's in them," he said. "However, students and administration can ask for an interpretation of a file, but they won't be shown the actual contents of the file."
Asked whether or not the University would ban obscene publications on campus, Provost Surface replied:
"I would be disturbed, but not certain what I could really do." Later he added, "If I had my way with the University Daily Kansan, things would be a whole lot different."
Russians hit Venus
MOSCOW — (UPI) — A one-ton unmanned Russian spaceship landed today on the planet Venus and planted the Soviet coat of arms in an historic breakthrough in man's conquest of space.
The automatic spaceship Venus 3 covered the 24-million mile distance in three and a half months, giving the Russians another major first over the United States.
Venus 3 was the first such vehicle to make a landing on a cosmic body other than the moon. It followed another Soviet first of Feb. 3 when the Russians made the first soft landing on the Moon.
The official news agency Tass said the station, fired last Nov. 16, reached the surface of Venus at 9:56 a.m. Moscow time, 1:56 a.m. East. It said the flight covered "approximately 24 million" miles.
THE UNITED States sent an unmanned spacecraft within 21,-954 miles of the cloud-shrouded planet on Dec. 14, 1962. An earlier scheduled American Venus flyby in August, 1962, failed because of a malfunction of the booster rocket.
The Russians were believed to have suffered a number of setbacks in earlier attempts to land space vehicles on the planet but did not announce their failures. The failures were reported by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The lack of communication in the final stage of Venus 3 may have left unsolved the mystery of the planet's surface which is cloaked in a dense atmosphere which makes it the brightest of the planets—a blue white shimmer in the sky at night.
TICKET SALES—The lines formed again today. Students stood outside the information booth waiting to buy tickets to Rock Chalk Revue—and there still were plenty for them to buy. Rich Schaefer, Lakewood, Colo., senior and ticket sales manager for
—Photo by Earl Haehl
Rock Chalk, said there were 300 tickets unsold for the Saturday performance, 200 for Friday, and 2,000 for Thursday. Tickets will be sold at the door.