KU
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
76th Year. No.83
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEATHER WARMER
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Monday, February 21, 1966
UP TO WESCOE
Living rule may relax for seniors
By Jack Harrington Senior women will be allowed to live in unapproved housing should Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe approve a recommendation placed before him today.
The recommendation was made by the Student Personnel Council, a committee of deans and administrative officers appointed by the chancellor to consider all student regulations.
The council voted its recommendation Friday on the basis of
results of a questionnaire completed by all KU women and sponsored by the Status of Women Committee, Emily Taylor, dean of women, said.
"The results of the questionnaire were reported to the council, and the consensus was that off-campus housing should be a possibility for women who are of age or who hold senior standing." Dean Taylor said.
Women who have been out of high school for three years, or
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Rules not meant to curb morals
Closing hours and housing regulations are not related to moral issues, Emily Taylor, dean of women, said.
Dean Taylor was commenting on university regulations in light of recent campus concern over them and the recommendation of the Student Personnel Council that senior women be allowed to live in off-campus housing.
"THE IDEA OF closing hours is not to lock people in," she said, "but to lock people out, and to agree on a time to do it."
She said it is a fact of life that a woman is not as safe as a man, whether she is walking down a street or studying inside a dormitory.
"I think you'll find that a great many parents, boyfriends, and the girls themselves would feel uneasy about living behind an unlocked door all night," she said. "And, believe me, there's nothing sacred about the hour it has to be locked."
SHE SAID THAT in her opinion KU is one of the more liberal schools.
"For example, we were the second school in the country to establish a senior key system for women," she said.
"But to hear someone talk about the regulations here, you'd think we were living in the dark ages.
"I AGREE there are orderly ways to change regulations, and rules must be observed, such as the Board of Regents' policy on dormitory bondholder security. Then, if the regulation can be changed, I say change it," Dean Taylor added.
Dean Taylor said in the past, the biggest problem in dealing with these issues was that a clear opinion of the students involved could not be obtained.
women who are in accelerated programs and have achieved senior standing will be allowed to live in apartments or other unaproved housing next fall, if Wescoe accepts the recommendation.
"The girls, for instance, make most of their own regulations, and this includes closing hours," she said. "The AWS Regulations Convention will meet in March, and before they start, they'll say, 'All right, as of now we have no
rules. What do we need? We are hoping that the questionnaire of the Status of Women Committee will serve as a basis of discussion in each living group before the convention."
Dean Taylor explained that the ruling will be purely elective for seniors, and that no one will say that they may not live in university housing.
The regulations convention meets every four years. It will meet this year on March 12.
She also made clear that the consideration had been before the committee, pending recommendation to the chancellor, for a long time. She said that the action was unrelated to recent "in loco parentis" activities of Students for a Democratic Society and other student groups.
DEAN EMILY TAYLOR
KU is liberal
Dean Taylor said the principal problem in dealing with the issue of off-campus housing has been the protection of the investment of the bondholders on the dormitories. The State Board of Regents ruling requires the university to establish "whatever parietal rules are necessary" to keep the buildings solvent and paying.
"So the fact that women are required to live in university housing has not been merely an arbitrary decision on the part of the administration," said Dean Taylor, "but part of an economic necessity."
She said that no problems of this type are anticipated if senior women are allowed to move out, because of indications from the number of students in the men's residence halls.
The Student Personnel Council is made up of the various heads of personnel services on campus. Its members are: Lawrence C. Woodruff, dean of students, chairman; Dean Taylor; Donald K. Alderson, dean of men; Aldon Bell and Jerry Lewis, as-
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France to quit NATO
PARIS — (UPI)— France will withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1969 in progressive steps. President Charles de Gaulle announced today.
De Gaulle also called again for reconvening of the 1954 Geneva Far Eastern peace conference. He said this would be the only way to end the Viet Nam war.
AT HIS NEWS conference, De Gaulle said France's withdrawal from NATO would not mean abandoning the Atlantic alliance too.
"Without going back on her membership of the Atlantic pact," he said. "France between now and April 4,1969 will continue to modify the dispositions now in practice, in so far as they concern her.
"France will do so progressively," he said. "That also will go for allied cooperation in Germany. This is not a break but a necessary adaptation."
Earlier, he charged that Moroccan Interior Minister Gen. Mohamed Oufkir engineered the kidnapping and presumed murder in France last October of Moroccan Opposition leader Mehdi Ben Barka.
HE CHARGED that Oufkir was personally responsible. He said relations between the two countries were bound to suffer because Morocco refuses to disown Oufkir.
De Gaulle also said his regime plans to continue same economic policies it has pursued since 1958 based on the principle "prosperity
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Miller quits post as KUMC dean
Dr. C. Arden Miller, chief administrative officer of the KU Medical Center in Kansas City since 1960, has resigned his position as dean and provost for a year of study in London on the care of handicapped children.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe announced Miller's resignation at a meeting of the Kansas Board of Regents Saturday in Topeka. Wescoe told the Board Miller will return, after his year of study in London, to the post of director of the children's rehabilitation center at the medical center. Miller's resignation will be effective July 1.
"ALL WITHIN THE university are saddened by Dr. Miller's decision to resign his position," Wesoe said. "For six years he has performed a masterful task in enlarging the medical center, improving the services of the medical center, and drawing together
the two campuses of the university. His has been a tenure of unqualified success."
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C. ARDEN MILLER Leaving med center
Hospital space inadequate
By Emery Goad
Student health services at Watkins Hospital will be totally inadequate in a few years if money is not provided for a new addition, according to Dr. Raymond Schwegler, acting director.
"Private funds for expansion seem the only answer to the problem of overcrowding at Watkins," he said.
ORIGINALLY BUILT to serve only 4,000 students, the hospital has been adjusted to handle an enrollment of 13,000. Current plans call for expanding the hospital's facilities to serve 22,000 students by 1970. Dr. Schwegler said.
The All Student Council, two weeks ago, passed a resolution urging Chancellor Wescoe to give all possible priority and consideration to the expansion of Watkins Hospital. Their resolution was based upon the need for expansion of the laboratory, X-ray, and pharmacy departments; more bed capacity and the general need for an addition to the outdated structure built for 4,000 students.
"We have been able to manage so far, but in a few years, to adequately serve KU students, we will have two doctors without offices and not enough out-patient space to begin to handle our patients," said Dr. Schwegler.
JAMES R. SURFACE, provost, said, "There can be no decision
on our part concerning the Watkins expansion until the committee selects a permanent director of the hospital." He did not set a time for the committee's decision.
Surface explained that the earliest possible time the addition could be enacted by the University is after the five year building program has been completed. "Our other projects such as the biological sciences and humanities buildings must come first as they are in the master plan," Surface said.
"If we mean to give the students the facilities they will need in a few years this addition must be acted upon now," Dr. Schwegler pointed out.
He said that under the Hill-Burton Act, funds could be matched with a private donation or gift to raise the estimated $1 million.
CURRENTLY, the director reports, the third floor of the nurses living quarters behind the hospital is being cleared so that the psychiatric facilities can be moved out of the second floor of Watkins and make more bed rooms.
The pharmacy, laboratory rooms, and X-ray departments, will not even be affected by this initial move and must depend upon a future addition.
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