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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU For 77 of its 101 Years
77th Year, No.104
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEATHER FAIR
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Wednesday, March 22, 1967
Kansas Legislature
May boost budget
By ALLAN NORTHCUTT
The Kansas Legislature may increase fiscal 1968 state support to KU by 7.5 per cent and restore more than $176,000 cut from KU's budget requests by Gov. Robert Docking.
The Senate Ways and Means Committee, in a bill recently drafted and recommended for passage, approved about $16.25 million in state grants to KU — $176,138 above the governor's recommendation for the year beginning July 1.
SEN. GLEE SMITH, president pro tem of the Senate said he
expects the Senate to "pass KU's budget as recommended by the Ways and Means Committee." The bill must then be passed by the House and approved by Gov. Docking.
The committee reinstated $151,000 in state support to KU's Computer Center that Gov. Docking had originally deleted.
KU officials requested state support for the privately-financed center because the private grants were running out.
Sen. Smith said the committee persuaded the governor to agree with the additional Computer
Center funds and has received a letter from him to that effect.
THE COMMITTEE also included $25,138 for janitor service at the new botany laboratory and new Fraser Hall that Gov. Docking omitted.
KU officials have visited with Senate Ways and Means Committee members several times in the past three weeks in efforts to regain funds cut by the governor.
The committee followed Gov. Docking's recommendation not to grant expansion funds for KU's Geological Survey, however. KU had asked for additional funds to finance new personnel and equipment, including a drilling rig.
English Pro exam ditched by college
The English Proficiency Examination is near extinction.
Faculty members of KU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences voted yesterday afternoon to abolish the examination as a graduation requirement.
The College thus joins the William Allen White School of Journalism in deleting the examination from curriculum requirements.
Warren K. Agee, dean of the School of Journalism, announced yesterday afternoon that a new curriculum which didn't include the English Proficiency Exam was recently approved by the journalism faculty.
The other schools and departments requiring the exam—business, education, and architecture—may follow suit.
Faculty of the School of Business will meet Friday to consider eliminating the exam. Joseph McGuire, dean of the business school, said the faculty "probably will" follow the College's example.
W. Eugene George, head of the architecture department, said architecture students will no longer be required to take the exam if the College eliminates its English Proficiency requirement.
"We think the exam is a good idea but we can't administer it on our own," George said.
Robert Ridgeway, assistant dean of the School of Education, said the education faculty is waiting for the College's decision before considering abolishing the exam.
The All Student Council (ASC) passed a resolution Feb. 7 calling for the abolition of the English Proficiency Exam requirement for students completing the required undergraduate English courses with grades of "C" or better.
Yesterday's proposal to eliminate the exam in the College was submitted by the Educational Policies Committee, policy-making body for the College.
THE GEOLOGICAL Survey, established by the Legislature under KU's guidance, hasn't had a budget increase for eight years.
In the past, the state legislators have usually replaced some of the slashed funds in KU's budget. Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, in a message to the legislators in February, said he had the same hopes for the fiscal 1968 budget.
In his efforts to gain increased state funds in next year's budget, Chancellor Wescoe has repeatedly stated that KU "is, and always has been, underfinanced."
KU'S PROPOSED TOTAL state funds of $16,243,799 represents less than 50 per cent of the University's total revenue for fiscal 1968. Other funds are received from student fees, federal grants, private grants, and dormitory revenues.
The KU state funds are part of $59.5 million in state appropriations recommended for the six state schools by the Senate committee.
Senate debate on the budget will begin today or tomorrow. Sen. Smith said.
GOP governor just won't help
DENVER — (UPI) — Democratic national chairman John M. Bailey sent a letter appealing for campaign funds to Colorado Republican Gov. John A. Love.
Larceny steps up
As the current rash of burglaries continue on the KU campus more buildings are robbed.
Last night someone stole tools valued at $103 from the Fowler Shops. Police said there were no visible signs of entry.
This brings the total number of campus larcenies to nearly two dozen in three weeks.
Love, who is chairman of the Republican Governors' Association, made the letter public Tuesday.
Bailey told Love that "you cannot alter the verdict of the November elections of 1966, but you can do something, starting now, to begin setting matters right." The something was a campaign contribution.
Love wrote Bailey back: "I woke up Nov. 9, 1966, thinking that the people of the country had done exactly that—started to set the matters right."
The Colorado chief executive noted that he understood the desire of Bailey to broaden the base of the Democratic Party. "But, I submit, Mr. Bailey, that this goal, like all things—even federal spending—may be carried to an excess," Love wrote.
Goes to faculty
Two-week final period endorsed
By JOHN MARSHALL
A two-week final period was approved last night by the All Student Council (ASC).
The passage of the two-week final period was adopted in the form of a resolution introduced by Kyle Craig (Fraternity), Joplin, Mo., sophomore.
The resolution fully endorsed the proposal of the Council on
Goff will go to Cornell
Arrival of new IDs uncertain
Distribution of new student and faculty identification cards scheduled for early this week has been postponed indefinitely
The KU-ID's, which will be part of a computerized book-checking system at Watson Library, have not yet reached the Registrar's office. Mrs. Agnes Barnhill, assistant registrar, said.
"We cannot say when they will be distributed since we don't know when they will arrive," Mrs. Barnhill said. "It could be next week, three weeks, or longer."
Mrs. Barnhill said the cards were presumably still with the manufacturer or en route.
Lewin Goff, director of KU's University Theatre, announced last week he has accepted a position as director of Cornell University's theatre department beginning next fall.
Goff said it is time for him to step aside and "let.new blood come in."
Looking back over his 12 years at KU, he said, "You never know how you've done until you do a play for an audience.
Student Affairs (COSA) for a two week final period.
At Cornell, the 48-year-old professor of drama will help to organize and build a university theater program in conjunction with the newly-created Ithaca Festival Theater, a professional production group. Cornell University is in Ithaca, N.Y.
"You work as hard as you can in the theater." Goff said. "The theater is full-time work and whether you are a director, an actor or a stage hand, you work just as hard."
SINCE HE CAME to KU from Michigan University in 1955, Goff has been instrumental
"We hope to have a strong relationship at Cornell between our training program and the professional theater of the Festival," Goff said. "Our drama students will have a chance to act with professionals in addition to acting in the university's program."
in University Theatre development, particularly in the field of international theater productions.
In 1960, he directed a KU cast in the musical "Brigadoon," which toured western Pacific islands for eight weeks. Last year he directed the world debut of "Carrie Nation," an opera about the infamous Kansas matron written especially for the University Theatre by Douglas Moore.
"I think the KU theater program is great," Goff said. "It is the finest educational theater set-up in the country. We have a young, talented staff willing to try new things."
Dennis Taylor, Rancho Cordova, Calif., junior and student chairman of the Calendar Committee, said that the two-week final period has already been put on the university schedule for the spring semester of '68, and the school year '68-'69.
GOFF IS NOW DIRECTING a KU cast in a production of Peter Wiess's "Marat/Sade," a free-wheeling play supposedly performed by inmates of a mental institution. Since the characters whom actors must portray are unique, Goff says his job as the play's director is different from that in other productions he has headed.
"Marat/Sade' has an unusual nature. It's more of a private thing between the actors and their parts. I find myself asking them whether they can do something rather than if they will.
"The director of this play feels more like an intruder than a leader. So I've just started off
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For the two-week final period to go into effect officially, it must be approved by the Faculty Senate.
Martin initiates change
Al Martin, Shawnee Mission junior and Student Body President, who initiated the change in final week procedure through COSA, said he was "very pleased" with the ASC's adoption of the proposal.
The ASC also discussed a resolution to suspend all current social regulations pertaining to individual or group off campus social activities.
Just what is "off campus?"
Donald K. Alderson, dean of men, told council members the university would take action if something occurs "on-campus" in an organized house, adjacent to an organized house, or when a group representing the university is at another school.
Alderson said "barn parties" are not under university authority. Technically, Alderson said, neither are fraternity houses.
However, Ted Haggart, Salina
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