George goes to Houston
By TIM GILLESSE
W. Eugene George, director of the department of architecture at KU has resigned to accept the position of dean of the college of architecture at the University of Houston.
William M. Lucas Jr. will assume the position of acting director of architecture until Sept. 1, 1968. During this time he will serve as chairman of the department's search committee to interview applicants for the position George vacated.
He had held the KU position since 1962. He left the University for his new post on June 1.
During the summer, Lucas will be working with the National Park Service at Nantucket Island, Mass., where he will be the supervisor of a group of undergraduate students. They will be making working drawings of historical buildings for the Nantucket Historical Trust.
W. EUGENE GEORGE
George received his bachelor's degree from Texas University in 1949 and his Master's degree from Harvard in 1950. He became an assistant professor of architecture at Texas in 1956 and was promoted to an associate professor in 1960.
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19-year olds first
Draft bill goes to LBJ
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—President Lyndon B. Johnson probably will order the induction of 19-year-olds first, at the same time he signs the new draft bill, congressional sources have said.
The most significant features of the new draft bill are a virtual guarantee of deferments for undergraduate college students, no matter what their class ranking, and a prohibition on the use of a lottery to select eligible youths for service.
The President must sign the measure before June 30, the date his present draft authority expires. Congress completed action on the new bill Tuesday when the House, on a 377 to 29 roll call vote, endorsed a compromise between a bill it passed earlier and one approved by the Senate.
But more important to the young man on the street may be the reverse in the order of call so that 19-year-olds will go first. Currently, local draft boards start with 26-year-olds and work
The William Allen White Foundation has budgeted $2,000 to supplement state funds in upgrading the school's photography program.
Seymour's appointment signals an increased emphasis on news photography both within the school and on a University-wide basis. The school's photo labs will be moved shortly into new and enlarged quarters in Flint Hall, and news photography will be required of all news-editorial majors, beginning this fall.
"We intend to build one of the finest photojournalism programs in the nation," Warren K. Agee, dean of the school, said.
An award - winning newsman and photographer, William O. Seymour of Dallas, has accepted appointment as university director of news and photography and instructor in photojournalism in the William Allen White School of Journalism at KU.
The 29-year-old Louisianian is teaching courses in the journalism division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp now in progress at KU and completing a
Photojournalist joins school of journalism
thesis toward a master's degree in photojournalism from East Texas State University, to be awarded in August. He earned a bachelor's degree in journalism at Texas Christian University.
back in seeking men to meet their quotas.
Seymour's professional experience includes two years as a reporter-cameraman for WBAP-TV in Fort Worth and one year as bureau chief for KTVT-TV news in Dallas. He was a member of the WBAP staff which won a national Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Kennedy assassination. During a three-year Army stint he directed a military photographic operation in the Canal Zone.
Seymour will serve half-time as director of news and feature photo services for the office of University Relations. He and his wife and two sons reside at 901 Randall in Lawrence.
Congress did not deal with the order of call in its bill, though it did express its approval of the 19-year-olds first idea in reports accompanying the legislation.
Thus the President was left with his existing authority to take the step, which he has promised to do.
Under the new bill, the only way undergraduate college students could be drafted would be for the Defense Department to declare it necessary. Since the armed forces now are taking only half the men eligible, such a declaration is not likely.
The new law provides that graduate student deferments be limited to those studying to be doctors, dentists or other specialists deemed essential by the National Security Council.
The current scholastic standards would be erased and an undergraduate would be deferred until he received a bachelor's degree or until he reached the age of 24, whichever came first. At that time, he would join the pool of 19-year-olds awaiting induction.
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ST. LOUIS—(UPI) It wasn't a student demonstration or protest by any means when the Font-borne College girls lined up, all 850 of them.
The girls became a human conveyor and transferred 50,000 books from the college's old library to the new one, down three flights of steps and across a patio. As a reward, librarian Sister Alberta had soda and pretzels waiting for the girls.
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KU receives $100,000 from NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Wednesday made a $100,000 grant to KU for support of interdisciplinary studies in space science and technology.
The basic grant also will provide "seed" and idea support to individuals why may later qualify for direct support from NASA.
The first interdisciplinary grant of $100,000 was made to KU in 1962 and this year six research and training contracts from NASA amount to more than $850.000.
William P. Smith, dean of the school of engineering and architecture, will administer the grant which will be used to support studies by professors in as many as a dozen KU departments. A portion of the money will be used to bring lecturers to the campus.
NASA also this spring made a $1.8 million grant to KU toward construction of a $2.3 million Space Technology building to house interdisciplinary research and technology facilities. This is the largest building grant NASA has made to a midwestern university and fourth largest in the nation.
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Friday, June 23, 1967