KU
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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Serving KU For 77 of its 101 Years
77th Year, No. 101
WEATHER COLD
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Friday, March 17, 1967
Wescoe looks at Minnesota Decision pending but sources indicate Chancellor in
By JOHN MARSHALL
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe is being considered as a top candidate for the presidency of the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis.
Sources in Minneapolis indicated that Wescoe had been selected for the post and the announcement would be made in a few days.
However, Dr. Charles W. Mayo, member of the Minnesota Board of Regents Presidential Selections
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Committee, said that Wescoe had talked to the board last week, but the board had made no decisions about any of the men being considered.
Mayo said Wescoe was a top candidate for the job, and that he was not planning to come to the board again.
"Next week, the board will finalize its decision," Maya said.
Regents close meeting
In a closed meeting following the usual Kansas Board of Regents meeting yesterday morning. Wescoe told the Board that he had only been interviewed and considered. He made no definite indication that he would take the position.
"He (Chancellor Wescce) definitely said he hadn't decided whether to take the offer," said
Dwight Klinger, chairman of the Kansas Board of Regents.
Klinger, however, said that Wescoe expects the people from Minnesota to visit him "in the near future."
Wescoe told the Board yesterday that a story about his being considered by Minnesota would appear in Thursday evening's Lawrence Journal-World.
The story was the first public indication that Wescoe was being considered for an administrative position at another university.
Story "accurate"
Mrs. Wescoe said that the Journal-World story was "accurate" but the chancellor had made no commitment as yet.
When asked how the Lawrence paper found out about Minnesota's considering the Chancellor, Mrs. Wescoe said she didn't know, but "most of the quotes came from Minnesota."
Chancellor Wescoe contacted the University Daily Kansan last night and told the paper that he had no comment on the matter.
He told another paper, "I have been in Minnesota. That's about all I can say at this time.
"I can only say that the University of Minnesota is a great school. I have a deep love in my heart for the University of Kansas and the University of Minnesota," Wescoe said.
Max Bickford, executive officer of the Board of Regents, said that as far as he knew, the Chancellor has made no definite decision.
Otto Silha. President and General Manager of the "Minnesota Star Tribune" and member of the Minnesota Board of Regents Presidential Selection Committee, said that it would be premature to
BULLETIN
(The telegram below was sent to Dr. Charles Mayo, Chairman of the Minnesota Board of Regents this afternoon by KU Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe.)
Dr. Charles Mayo
Rochester, Minnesota
"rank" any of the men who might be considered for the job.
I respectfully request that my name be withdrawn from further consideration by the Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota. A letter will follow. My regard for all of you and the University of Minnesota is the highest.
W. Clarke Wescoe.
"Furthermore," Silba said. "I think it's premature to discuss any plans being made for the selection."
Governor Docking's press secretary, Max McDowell, said that this was the first time he'd heard such a rumor, and that although the Governor had talked to the Chancellor yesterday morning, there still had been no mention of the Chancellor considering another job.
Murphy comments
Franklin Murphy, former KU Chancellor and present Chancellor of the University of California at Los Angeles, said he had heard nothing definite.
"All I know is that Minnesota is looking for a new president," Murphy said.
"As an old KU alumnus," Murphy said. "I hope we don't lose him because he's been a great Chancellor."
"It would be a great disappointment to the state if we lost him." Eldon Sloan, Regent and Topeka attorney, said.
Wescoe has been in Minnesota on many occasions on vacations and for other reasons. He has a cabin on Green Lake near Spicer.
Wescoe at 39 was the youngest
Chancellor to come to KU. He has
been Chancellor and President of Faculties since 1960, and is currently making fund raising trips to raise money for the KU Program for Progress, an $18,600,000 alumni effort—the largest attempted at KU.
Wescoe history
Wescoe came to KU in 1951 as professor of pharmacology in experimental medicine and became dean of the school of medicine a year later. He was appointed director of the KU Medical Center in 1953 and served in that position for seven years.
Dr. Wescoe attended Muhlenberg College and Cornell University, where he received his medical degree and was a member of several fraternities and numerous honor societies.
Wescoe is an executive committee member of the National Association of Land-Grant Colleges, president of the State Universities Association, member of the National Commission of Accrediting, and on the board of directors of the Midwest Universities Research Association.
Wescoe has also extended himself into business and industry.
He is a member of the board of directors of the Trader's National Bank in Kansas City, Mo., Hallmark Cards, and Phillips Petroleum Co.
Shamrocks cost more this year
DUBLIN—(UPI)—The sturdy sons of Erin praised St. Patrick and other greats of Dublin's history today with frothy pints of stout that sometimes sloshed on fragile shamrocks as dearly priced as an Irish rose.
As in the days when Lord Nelson's monument towered in O'Connell Street, there was bawling and brawling and balladeering and the names of Joyce and Moore and Burke and Emmet and Kennedy drifted in lilting brogue out of smoky pubs.
LORD NELSON dominates O'Connell Street no more—a bit of explosive from the outlawed Irish Republican Army took care of that last year—and one thing more was notably changed:
The price of the little shamrock, the national green, was seven cents higher this year.
As if the Irish hadn't troubles enough with rising costs and unemployment this year, the shamrock crop was down.
By the time the usual large quantities were shipped off to America, Europe, Africa and the British Commonwealth to be sported on lapels by citizens whose Irish comes in a bottle, there were relatively few left for the natives.
THE CELEBRATION of the national feast honors the saint who brought Christianity to Ireland 1,500 years ago—and who made the shamrock what it is today by plucking one from a crack in a castle floor to explain the Holy Trinity to a heathen king
The Republic's 84-year-old president, Eamon de Valera, sent greetings to "our kin and friends of Ireland all over the world." He said, "on this day of common pride in our historic nation, we remember them all."
Governor praises KU for higher education
Gov. Robert Docking visited KU yesterday to tell nearly 100 presidents and deans from Kansas colleges and universities that
Regionals opentonite
Three of the nation's top ten ranked teams will play in the NCAA regionals tonight in Allen Field House.
Louisville, second ranked behind undefeated UCLA, and featuring all-American Wesley Unseel, will play SMU tonight at 7.
The Kansas Jayhawks, ranked third in the nation and Big Eight Conference champs, will play Houston University in the final game at 9.
About 1,500 tickets remain for tonight's opening game, and a few are available for Saturday night's game due to returns.
Kansans cannot rest on their laurels in higher education.
Speaking to the second annual Conference of Kansas Colleges and Universities in the Kansas Union, the governor warned the educators that "the problem of spiraling costs must undoubtedly serve to make the several clientele of higher education more critical of your freedom."
REMARKING THAT KU was the first state university to accept men and women on equal terms. Docking urged the conference "to develop a dialogue looking toward the betterment of its systems of higher education."
Docking said that by 1976 there will be 50,000 additional students in Kansas universities. "I urge co-operation between the junior colleges and the four-year colleges in Kansas," he said, and added, "we need a more significant place for junior colleges in the thrust of continuing higher education."
"We note with satisfaction the co-operation currently taking
place between KU and Baker University." Docking said.
THE GOVERNOR also noted "the downgrading of the teaching expert and the impersonalization of the university as lying near to the central causes of student protest.
"Not long ago one of the exceptional teachers in a major state university in Kansas regretfully stated that no longer was quality teaching considered to be the most important role of the university member." Docking said.
ANOTHER SPEAKER, Clifford Hope, Jr., suggested that a study commission be created by the state of Kansas to make higher education suggestions to the legislature.
Hope, the vice-chairman of the advisory council on community junior colleges, said, "There is a definite need for what I would term a permanent study commission on higher and technical study. It would not take over any current agencies and could not act without legislative authorization."
NCAA starts 7 p.m.一see second section