—Photo by Hector Olave
ELOOD DRIVE—Inside, students continue to donate blood in the last day of the Red Cross drive. Outside—the Committee to End
the War in Viet Nam pickets the Kansas Union. (See other story page 12.)
Group Pickets Blood Donation
By Girma Negash
Members of the KU Committee to End the War in Viet Nam picked at noon today in front of the Kansas Union, emphasizing that blood would be saved by bringing the troops home.
Four students carried posters reading, "USA the Warfare State," "Save Blood—Bring the Boys Home," "Stop the War Now" and "Stop the Blood Bath."
The decision for the protest was made by the KU Committee to End the War in Viet Num in its meeting yesterday.
INSIDE THE Kansas Union the blood drive continued on its last day.
The committee prepared a statement which read:
"We are protesting the war in Viet Nam and feel that a truly humanitarian approach is to give blood to all who need it. Blood is needed in Viet Nam, but we question the causes that make it
necessary. Save blood by bring-
ing the troops home now."
"WE ARE building up towards the international and national days of protest of March 25 and 26 against the Viet Nam war," said Richard Hill, junior, spokesman for the KU Committee to End the War in Viet Nam.
Increasing interest among students was the focus of discussion last night at the committee's meeting. Suggestions were mentioned, ranging from raising blood donations for the Vietnamese people to preparing bibliography materials on Viet Nam for students.
"The number of anti-war groups in the nation are proliferating. Most are not just sitting down to read anti-war literatures but are more active," Hill said.
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The Committee has received a letter of support from the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation.
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Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
"REVISIONS OF the master plan are necessary things when you are planning ahead a minimum of five years and many times ten years in advance," Lawton explained.
"We must keep the plans current and usually the lead time to make necessary long range plans for funds is years in advance. This is actually a continual process of updating," he said.
MEXICO CITY — (UPI)— Bill Easton, for 18 years head track coach at KU, starts work today in his new job—shaping up the Mexican track and field team to put on a good show for the home crowds at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.
HE HAS BEEN HIRED as head coach of the Mexican Olympic Track and field team.
Easton Arrives in Mexico To Coach Olympic Team
The U.S. Weather Bureau forecasts fair skies tonight and Thursday and warmer temperatures Thursday. The low tonight will be near 10 degrees.
Fearing a critical shortage of classroom space between 1966 and 1969, officials had planned to keep in use old Fraser Hall until 1963 or as long as needed and even use both facilities of the old and new Frasers for a short time.
Mexico has hired 27 foreigners, from Poles and Turks to New Zealanders and Italians, as coaches for its Olympic teams, hoping to keep some of the gold medals at home in 1968.
in an argument with Athletic Director Wade Stinson. He had achieved tenure, and remained at the school as a physical education instructor.
Easton, president of the U.S. Association of Track Coaches, arrived Tuesday, and was greeted at the airport by Carlos de Anda, president of the Mexican Athletic Federation, and Armando Moraila
EASTON WAS fired as head track coach at Kansas last spring
LAWRENCE, KANSAS Wednesday, February 16, 1966
Last spring, the third floor of Fraser was condemned by the State Architect James C. Canole and officials decided to demolish the whole structure.
WEATHER
As Kansas track coach, his teams won 11 Big Eight conference indoor track championships and took the outdoor championship 12 of the last 14 years. The Jayhawks won the NCAA track and field championship in 1959 and 1960 and the NCAA crosscountry championship in 1953.
The master plan was first developed in 1957 and included all campus projects begun since that time and planned for the next ten years. In 1962 the plan was extensively revised. The new one began with the new Blake Hall and the recently completed Watson Library addition.
Spencer Gift Causes Swift Plan Revision
By Emery Goad
Current plans are now for a humanities building, a reservoir
The gift of the $2 million Spencer Research Library last month initiated a speedy revision of KU's master plan.
The orderly schedule of expansion outlined in the Master Building Plan began to crumble last spring with old Fraser Hall. The library eliminated the planned use of the land behind Strong Hall as a classroom or administration building, which will be urgently needed in the next few years.
"KEEPING ABREAST of the expansion and growth of the University, as far as the building plan is concerned, is a tremendous checker game," said Keith Lawton, vice-chancellor in charge of University operations and construction.
of the Mexican Olympic Commit-tee.
"A DEPENDENCY UPON the classrooms in this building has placed emphasis upon this project and plans were stepped up," said James R. Surface, provost and dean of faculty.
of faculty and classroom space, to be built in two phases. The building, to stand where Robinson Gymnasium and Haworth Hall now stand, was originally planned as a single unit.
Formerly the departments which were to be housed in this building did not qualify for federal matching funds. Recent changes in these appropriations have enabled plans to call for the first phase to be started immediately when Robinson Gym is torn down. The demolition depends upon the occupation of the new gym, planned for the summer session.
The University is unable to wait for Haworth to empty and build the humanities building at one time. The need for early use of the first phase, by departments to be designated later, will be important. Both phases will be
matched architecturally and structurally when they are completed.
THE NEED FOR the single monstrous $4 million building is, "to keep the undergraduates close to the heart of the campus and close to the library," Lawton said. This addition, as are the other future plans, is for an anticipated KU enrollment of approximately 20,000 students.
Also to be started this summer is the razing of the Strong Hall annexes to make way for the research library. "This wonderful and unique site behind Strong Hall was held off for something," Lawton said. "We never really anticipated such a gift at this time but the possibility of this sort of thing was always there."
If the gift had not come along, anything from a chapel to a third wing from Strong Hall had been mentioned.
THE DEPARTMENTS of Western Civilization and others who meet in the annexes will be
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By Diane Seaver
Kennedy's Man Tagged 'Uppity'
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., author of "A Thousand Days," believes a historian "noses around in chaos and, out of chaos, produces drama that illuminates the facts while engaging the imagination."
Schlesinger, who had the run of the White House during the Kennedy Administration, will speak at 8 p.m. in Hoch Auditorium.
Horn-rimmed glasses, floppy bow ties and a cigar clenched between his teeth characterize the man whose book followed Kennedy from blizzard-bound Washington on his Inauguration Day to the snow-covered grave in Arlington.
SCHLESINGER, more a part of the atmosphere than the substance of the New Frontier, was in on all the action during the Kennedy Administration. "Time" said he seemed to know everybody and everything. He was a connoisseur of art and literature, movies and martinis.
His actual assignments as a special assistant to the President were few and far between. Kennedy probably intended to be his own biographer, but following the Bay of Pigs incident, instructed Schlesinger to compile the records.
Kennedy told him, "You can be damn sure the CIA has its records and the Joint Chiefs theirs. We'd better make sure we have a record here."
AFTER THE assassination, the man whose retreating hairline paces his advancing waistline stepped back into the role of historian. For 14 months he sought to capture on paper the events
he had seen first-hand. 175,000 copies of Schlesinger's book, probably the best of the 90 or so that have been written since Nov. 22. 1963. are in print.
Kennedy's realization of an historian's importance allowed Schlesinger to enter the Kennedy inner circle. "Newsweek" gives Kennedy credit for not only realizing the importance of a good ruler but also letting the nation know how good.
Actually, "A Thousand Days"
ARTHUR SCHLESINGER Visiting Lecturer
is comprised of two books, a presidential history and a personal memoir. On one page Schlesinger wraps up the idea of progressivism and on another insists that he "slipped into Bobby Kennedy's pool that night."
SCHLESINGER GRADUATED from Exeter at 15. The following year he took a trip around the
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