THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU For 77 of its 101 Years
WEATHER FAIR
77th Year, No.100
See Weather—page 10
Thursday, March 16, 1967
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
DYLAN THOMAS REHEARSES
—UDK Photo by Tom Collins
Rehearsals are quickly drawing to a close for tomorrow's opening performance of "An Evening With Dylan Thomas." Tickets are sold out for this weekend; however, they may still be purchased at the theatre box office in Murphy Hall for March 21-22 and 28-31. Shown here is a brief scene from the rehearsal. (See story on page nine.)
'Hilly' Pike section may kill at 80 mph
The Kansas Turnpike, which had one of the nation's highest toll fatality and accident rates last year, is especially deadly for motorists traveling between Lawrence and Kansas City.
Claude McCamment, state director of safety, reports 14 persons killed and 100 injured last year on the Leavenworth County section of the Turnpike.
Urging KU students driving to Kansas City to use care on the toll road, McCamment explained that the 80 m.p.h. speed limit is excessive for the 'hilly and curvy' Leavenworth County section.
OWNED AND OPERATED by a private authority, the Kansas Turnpike has a set day-and-night speed limit of 80 m.p.h.-the highest in the nation.
McCamment said the Turnpike speed limit was high because "they have to hold it up there to make money."
The safety director suggested that students living in southeast Kansas City, Kan., and southwest Kansas City, Mo., use K-10 highway, "adjusting the speed to the conditions of the road."
"If drivers realize K-10 isn't a 70 m.p.h. highway, they'll have a safe trip." McComment said.
ACCORDING TO figures released by the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association, the Kansas Turnpike was the scene of 38 of the 173 deaths that occurred on Kansas roads last year.
Compassion fast begins with vigil
The "Fast for the Rebirth of Compassion" began yesterday at 5 p.m. The 30-odd participants plan not to eat again until 5:20 Saturday evening.
The fasters began their vigil with a meeting in the Kansas Union for final instructions and prayer. They met at noon today and will meet again at 12:30 p.m. Friday at the Wesley Foundation.
"WE ARE NOT DOING this for publicity or politics," said Sara Paretsky, Eudora senior and chairman of the ad hoc committee. "It's purely a personal thing, a special way of involving yourself with God.
Miss Paretsky said the Fast is not a demonstration of any sort and is concerned with Vietnam only in that war is being waged there.
"The fast has a long history in Judaeo-Christian tradition; it involves the whole person, body and soul."
The 38 Turnpike deaths sets the Kansas Turnpike fatality rate at three times the rate for all U.S. turnpikes, McComment said.
Explaining the death toll, Capt. Edward Dunkel, head of the Turnpike patrol, said inattentive driving caused most Turnpike accidents in 1966.
The Fast is part of a nationwide movement sponsored by 2,500 clergymen and laymen who met in a non-denominational conference on Vietnam in Washington, D.C., Jan. 31-Feb 1. Most local fasts were held beginning March 8, Ash Wednesday.
"Drivers will be going down the road and then become inattentive and run off the roadway or into the bridges," Dunkel said.
"Fatality rates seem to go in cycles, and 1966 was a bad year for the Turnpike," he added.
The University of Kansas Senate has approved a revision of Part I of its code which broadens the membership of the Senate and sets up a smaller, 43-member Council to act in behalf of the larger group and report to it.
Senate changes
Membership previously restricted to Professors, Associate Professors, members of the Library staff of Grade III and above, and certain administrators now will include all members of the faculty with tenure.
Regents vote Daisy Hill lot
TOPEKA-The State Board of Regents authorized an 86-space expansion of the Daisy Hill parking area and directed that the food services of Corbin and Gertrude Sellards Pearson halls be combined.
Kitchen and dining areas for
Docking is member of fund drive
Gov. Robert B. Docking heads the list of 25 new members of the nationwide Council for Progress.
The Council's Program for Progress, a three-year campaign for raising $18,617,000 for objectives, topped $5 million at the end of January.
Maurice E. Barker, executive secretary for the Kansas Program and fund director on campus, said the Kansas City area program was already in its first phase.
"WE'RE STARTING in Kansas City because of its proximity to the campus and because there are 11,000 KU alumni there," Barker said. "Later we'll go forward into other areas and cities."
A group of 2,000 Program workers, headed by A. H. "Red" Cromb, chairman for Greater Kansas City area, will contact alumni in person to gain their support. Each solicitor will interview five or six persons.
the women's residence halls will be expanded at a cost of $175,000 to provide a single facility for both dorms.
THE BOARD ALSO authorized 73 faculty promotions. (See story on page 5.) Twenty-four faculty leaves for research and graduate study were authorized.
In addition, the Regents directed at Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe's request, the establishment of a Ph.D. degree in developmental and child psychology.
KU will drop the M.S. degree in nuclear engineering and its supporting curriculum.
CHANCELLOR WESCOE told the Board the elimination of the degree was due to overtaxed facilities. He pointed out that Kansas State University has a similar well developed program in this field.
The new Daisy Hill parking lot will be constructed on the east side of Iowa Street at a cost of $36,000.
The Board directed that the Attorney General, Robert Londerholm, initiate condemnation procedures on two lots near the KU Medical Center in Kansas City.
THE LAND, when cleared, will be used for expansion of Med Center facilities.
The Board of Regents announced the establishment of the Cloud L. Cray Chair of Pediatric Cardiology at the Med Center with Dr. Antoni M. Biehl as first incumbent of the new position. Cray donated $50,000 to the Endowment Association for the creation of the position.
Group seeks to define obscenity
What is obscenity?
With the coming of west coast "mod morality and fashion," Hugh Hefner's sophisticated approach to sex in "Playboy" magazine, and the let-up in movie censorship, the question of obscenity is being discussed more openly.
Obscenity will be discussed in a seminar Saturday at the KU
Crash helmet bill proposed
TOPEKA-A requirement that Kansas motorcycle riders wear crash helmets is included in a bill sent to the Kansas House of Representatives this week.
In addition, the bill would prohibit more than one person riding a motorcycle without a permanent seat designed for two persons or another seat firmly attached to the rear or side of the operator.
Methodist Wesley Foundation. The Rev. John Culley, Methodist Wesley Foundation director at Kansas State College of Pittsburg, will conduct the seminar.
The House Roads and Highways Committee approved the bill and recommended that it be passed.
During the seminar, those attending will be shown pictures and asked to write their opinions on why or why not they think the picture is obscene. The opinions will be discussed and evaluated.
"WE HOPE TO COME UP with some sort of definition of what exactly is obscenity," said Rev. Tom Rehom, KU Methodist Wesley Foundation director.
The seminar itself won't come up with any clear-cut decision, Rehorn said, because answers to this question would be mainly on an individual basis.
"One of the purposes of this seminar is to set up a context where some constructive thinking can be done." Rehorn said.
After the pictures are discussed, Rev. Culley will lecture on obscenity.
Rev. Rehorn will speak, charting part of a paper, "Toward a New Definition of Obscenity," and will discuss the topic "Class Prudery or Blasphemy."