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76th Year, No.84
Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, February 22, 1966
TYPICAL SCENE THIS MORNING IN STRONG ROTUNDA Shots may hurt, but not like flu
Flu inoculation may continue
A pleasing turnout this morning may extend the influenza inoculation campaign at least through tomorrow. More than 170 persons had received the shots by midmorning in the rotunda of Strong Hall.
About half of those receiving shots were students, she said, and the rest were faculty members and University employees.
THE CLINICS were set up in Strong Hall from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. and in Ellsworth Hall from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in an effort to prevent the flu epidemic in Eastern states, California and Alaska from hitting KU.
The shots, free to students, are also available during regular hours at Watkins Memorial Hospital.
Rough seas ahead for NATO alliance
PARIS —(UPI)— The United States can count on continued tough going with French President Charles de Gaulle on Viet Nam and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) alliance.
De Gaulle, sources said, is convinced the Viet Nam conflict cannot be won militarily short of World War III. He is holding himself in readiness as a possible peacemaker if both sides agree to negotiate a settlement. He does not believe effective mediation can be accomplished now.
THESE CONCLUSIONS were drawn from De Gaulle's semiannual news conference Monday in which the 75-year-old French leader gave his views on world problems.
De Gaulle served notice that he plans to pull the rest of France's armed forces "progressively" out of the integrated NATO command headed by an American commander-in-chief. He said he would do so in April 4, 1969, the date when the 20-year North Atlantic Treaty expires or can be renewed.
He also indicated he will insist on all American and other foreign bases and installations in France being placed under French command. Otherwise,
they will have to be eliminated
They said he is convinced any future peace settlement must be based on guarantees that a future Viet Nam would be completely independent and free from foreign intervention, withdrawal of all foreign forces and pledges that the Vietnamese people would be able freely to choose their own political future.
FRENCH OFFICIALS said De Gaulle will do nothing to try to get the two sides in Viet Nam to the peace table as long as there is no clear prospect of success.
But French officials said De Gaulle is convinced the United States is not willing to accept such conditions and is determined to continue backing the government of Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, which De Gaulle believes does not represent the South Vietnamese people.
They said De Gaule also rejects Washington's assertion that the Communist Viet Cong is simply an organ of the North Vietnamese government and that South Viet Nam is the victim of external Communist aggression.
De Gaulle, they said, believes the Viet Cong represent the majority of the people of South Viet Nam.
Rainsberger quits here to coach SIU
Ellis Rainsberger, assistant football coach at KU for one year, is resigning that post to accept the head coaching position at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
To fill the vacancy, Wade Stinson, KU athletic director, announced that Bill Schaake, former KU and Lawrence High School athlete, will replace Rainsberger as a Jayhawk assistant.
LAST YEAR, Schaake was head football coach at Minot State College in North Dakota, where his team had a 5-2-1 mark. He coached high school teams at Abilene and Shawnee Mission East high schools before going to Wichita State University as an assistant in 1959. From 1960 to 1965 he coached at Goodland High School.
The 35-year-old Schaake was the Jayhawk co-captain in 1951 and an All-Big Eight Conference end. He also captained the 1951 KU basketball team under Dr. Forrest (Phog) Allen.
Rainsberger, 34, a former all-conference end at Kansas State, succeeds Dh Shroyer as head coach at Southern Illinois.
New housing rule okayed by Surface
Housing regulations for women students will be changed beginning with the 1966 summer session, Provost James R. Surface announced today.
Senior women or 21-year-old undergraduate women may elect to live in off-campus housing at KU, with the permission of their parents.
their parents. Women may also elect to live in either University housing or University-approved housing. Presently all women are required to live in either of these two types of accommodations. The present approved list in the dean of women's office will accommodate only 55 women in 15 apartments.
Surface approved the policy on the recommendation of the Student Personnel Council, which advocated the new rule last Friday.
Dean Taylor commented that these considerations had been before the committee for some time, pending recommendation to the chancellor, and that the action was unrelated to recent "in loco parentis" activities of Students for a Democratic Society and other student groups.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe was unable to sign the recommendation when it was sent to him yesterday because he was preparing to leave yesterday afternoon for a two week tour of the Southern United States.
SHE ALSO said that one of the biggest problems in the past in dealing with these issues was that a clear opinion of the students involved could not be obtained.
Yesterday Surface said he would consider the matter of women's housing regulations later this week but that he wished to discuss the matter first.
The vote of the Council to submit the recommendation to the chancellor came as a result of a questionnaire completed by all KU women and sponsored by the Status of Women Committee, Dean Taylor said.
He scheduled meetings with Dean Taylor and Dr. Schwegler this morning.
WEATHER
Mostly fair and continuing cold temperatures tonight followed by partly cloudy skies and warmer temperatures tomorrow is the prediction of the U.S. Weather Bureau. Light easterly winds tonight with a low of 10 to 15 degrees is also forecast.
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Provost to talk to SDS
Provost James R. Surface today announced he will meet with students Friday to discuss university control over non-academic life of students.
The delegation of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) originally planned to present a list of questions concerning University policy to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe. Dr. Wescoe left Lawrence yesterday afternoon for a two week tour of the South.
Jim Masters, a member of the "in loco parentis" committee of the SDS, said the committee will compile a list of questions concerning the kinds of control the University has over students in non-academic life, and why this control is exercised.
"BEFORE WE CAN take steps to change University policy on certain matters, we would like to know exactly what they are," he said.
"We think that there is unwritten or just spoken policy which determines procedure. We want to get everything on the record," Masters said.
Several persons at the SDS meeting last Thursday charged that the administration in the past has been too vague in answering student questions on policy.
"I think that it is up to the students to decide if we are vague on policy." Surface said. "I think most of it is answered in the student handbook."
Masters, editor of the SDS journal, said that the organization will decide upon the questions to be asked Dean Surface at a meeting on Thursday night and then follow-up the Friday appointment with Dean Surface again on Tuesday, March 1. "We plan to discuss his answers at that time," Masters said.
Reds ambush division
SAIGON — (UPI) — U.S. 1st Infantry Division troops searching for an estimated two regiments of Viet Cong just north of Saigon ran into an ambush in dense underbrush strewn with booby traps today and engaged a main Viet Cong force in fierce, point-blank fighting.
The attack came shortly after the troopers uncovered an underground Viet Cong hospital and headquarters. Two slightly-built GI's slithered into the tiny opening leading to the network of underground tunnels and fought it out with Communist guards.
THE "BIG RED ONE" troopers moved out Monday on Operation Mastiff to clear the guerrilla forces out of the jungles and rubber plantations about 30 miles northwest of Saigon. Intelligence reports had indicated a sizeable force operating there.
They encountered little opposition until late today when the main force opened fire on elements leading the sweep.
As the Americans tried to pull back and call in artillery fire, the guerrillas touched off mines.
TO THE NORTH, near Bong Son on the South China Sea coast, U.S.1st Air Cavalry troops overran a Communist stronghold and found 38 dead guerrillas. The "Air Horsemen" had been trying for four days to take the stronghold, situated in a series of heavily jungled hills dubbed the "Little Iron Triangle." Each time they had been beaten off by fanatic
Viet Cong who launched screaming attacks and laid down heavy automatic weapons fire.
But when they stormed the defenses today, following a B52 bombing raid, they found only bodies. Artillery had pounded the heavily fortified area for four days.
U. S. MILITARY authorities reported at least 201 Communists killed in major actions, including the continued sweep near Bong Son.
But there also was a toll among friendly forces.
Near Da Nang, 385 miles north northeast of Saigon, guerrilla units launched a series of attacks against Vietnamese government units.