AWS to Heed Outside Coeds
Women living off-campus will be represented at the AWS Regulations Convention March 12 as a result of decisions during the past week by the AWS Senate.
Last Wednesday, the Senate authorized undergraduate, unmarried women living off campus to send a delegation to the convention. A similar request by married undergraduate women was approved by the Senate last night.
This will mark the first time women not living in organized houses have been represented at the convention, which is held every four years.
Peggy Smith, Garden City senior, described the decision as "an important first step" in the reevaluation of the role of women living off campus.
Undergraduate women living off campus will meet at 8:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union to select delegates.
THE DECISION is a result of
Air Efforts Stepped Up
SAIGON — (UPI) — American pilots stepped up the air war on both sides of the 17th parallel today and heavy fighting was reported on four fronts in the south. U.S. Army troops added to the massive toll of Communist dead in the An Lao Valley sector.
Viet Cong guerrillas briefly overran a government outpost only 10 miles south of the major U.S. Marine base at Da Nang, but were driven off by reinforcements.
IT WAS DISCLOSED meanwhile that 91 Americans were killed and 423 wounded in action last week, another record casualty toll for 1965. The previous high this year was 89 U.S. servicemen killed in the week ending Feb. 5.
The latest report was the highest since Nov. 24, 1965, when 240 Americans were killed in the Ia Drang Valley and Chu Pong mountain campaign.
Allied forces killed 684 Communists in the week ending Feb.12, a U.S. spokesman said. Vietnamese losses were 249 killed and 104 missing in action.
New Officers Plan Hill UN
Last night's steering committee meeting of the KU-Y Model-U.N. discussed publicity and elected officers to this year's Model U.N.
Elected were Roger Williams, Chicago senior, president of the General Assembly; Ruth Hatch, Evansville, Ill., junior, president of the Security Council; Marsha Ebaugh, Lindsborg senior, secretary to the General Assembly.
Announced were plans to set up information booths in the Kansas Union lobby and Strong rotunda, to monitor announcements from the information booth, to deposit application forms at the bookstore and the library entrance, and to send letters of information to living group councils and to faculty members.
Ex-Governor to Speak
Former Governor John Anderson will be the keynote speaker at the 17th annual county clerk's school Wednesday through Friday at KU.
The program has been arranged by the KU Governmental Research Center.
a response to a questionnaire from the Dean of Women. About 15 women attended a meeting held last Wednesday by Emily Taylor, Dean of Women and were invited to form a delegation.
DECISION PENDING
Miss Smith said she hoped as many as 200 women would attend tonight.
Word is expected next week on the proposed $27 million Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory, Dean Kenneth E. Anderson, School of Education, said today.
Dual-State Lab to Cost $27 Million
to improve educational processes in the two states.
THE PROPOSED laboratory will gather university and school personnel from Missouri and Kansas to conduct educational research. Findings will be used
Financed by the Federal Government, the laboratory, if approved by the U.S. Office of Education, will spend nearly $30 million over the next five years. A six month planning budget of $210,000 has also been requested
PROPOSED LOCATION is Kansas City.
If accepted, the Mid-Continent Laboratory will be one of approximately 20 located around the country. The labs are the result of recent federal legislation.
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