Trio will decide in Loyalty Oath
By PAUL HANEY
The Kansas Attorney General's office said yesterday that Chancellor W. Clark Wescoe probably will not have to testify in defense of a suit which challenges the constitutionality of the Kansas loyalty oath.
"The three-judge Federal court handling the suit will likely arrive at a decision after a pre-trial conference," J. Richard Foth, an assistant attorney general, said. "I doubt if he (Wescoe) will appear in court."
THE SUIT WAS FILED Sept. 26 by Dr. Gerald A. Ehrenreich, an associate professor at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City.
Chancellor Wescoe, Kansas Atty. Gen. Robert Londerholm, the Kansas Board of Regents and the presidents of Kansas State and Wichita State Universities were named as defendants in the suit.
Ehrenreich has refused to sign the loyalty oath required of faculty members, claiming it violates rights granted by the First and Fourteenth Amendments and Article I of the U.S. Constitution.
He said yesterday in an interview with the University Daily Kansan that the Greater Kansas City and the Kansas affiliates of the American Civil Liberties Union are underwriting expenses of the suit.
HE SAID ATTORNEY-MEMBERS of the affiliates are donating their time to the suit because "they feel it is a serious constitutional issue."
Ehrenreich said he took the issue to the Kansas City affiliate after he failed at the university level to obtain a waiver from signing the oath. "They were interested in the matter and notified the Kansas affiliate," he said.
The oath, which the State of Kansas requires all of its employees from maintenance men to college presidents to sign, reads:
"I, (name), swear or affirm that I do not advocate, nor am I a member of any political party or organization that advocates the overthrow of the government of the United States or of the state by force or violence; and that during such time as I am an officer or employee of the State of Kansas I will not advocate nor become a member of any political party or organization that advocates the overthrow of the government of the United States or of this state by force or violence."
Ehrenreich said he was not a member of any such organization. He said he objects that "mere membership in certain organizations is grounds for not being
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Thursday, February 9, 1967
—UDK Photo by Lynniel O. Van Benschoten
"KICK 'UM HIGH, KICK 'UM LOW, CIRLS!"
A chorus line of KU housemothers kicks their legs during a rehearsal for the Sophomore Class Variety Show 7:30 Saturday in Hoch Auditorium. Dean of Women Emily Taylor will sing "Downtown."
Alum money pours in $5 million in KU 'kitty'
A three-year fund drive headed by the Council for Progress and designed to raise over $18 million, has just reached $5 million.
Maurice Barker, secretary of the KU Program for Progress, said the program is designed to initiate student aid, faculty development and other supporting resources in the early years of the university's second century.
A recent additional boost to the fund will be provided shortly when the All Student Council conducts its annual Campus Chest Fund drive.
Al Martin, Shawnee Mission junior and student body president, announced All Student Council support of the Program.
"BECAUSE THE PROGRAM for Progress is in effect currently, the ASC felt it was in the best interest of the student body that the money from the Campus Chest Fund drive go to the program," Martin said.
PLANS FOR the program began more than four years ago. In January 1964, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe appointed a committee to study the program's main objectives.
The objectives designed for the program, consist of three parts.
- The second phase of the program will be faculty development, endowed professorships, research funds, and viiting professorships.
- Student aids, scholarships,
and loan funds will make up the
first section of the program.
The third part of the three-phase program will consist of supporting resources for art museums, library facilities and other cultural fields.
ANGTHER $1 MILLION will be set aside for an "unrestricted opportunity fund" to cover any other additional finances which might be needed. Barker indicated that it is very important at this early date that the students at KU become familiar with the Program as well as the program's staff members.
"THERE HAS NEVER been an
instance," Barker said, "of a University achieving distinction without a generous measure of private support from its alumni and friends. The Program for Progress is aimed at building on the strong foundation of gift support to make possible an even greater University in the future."
"We've been highly pleased with the early response of all people involved with the Program for Progress," Barker added, "and the high caliber of leadership of University alumni and friends who have taken the responsibility to head up the campaign."
Officials try again on KU budget cut
Control for 15th and Iowa
By ALLAN NORTHCUTT
KU officials will have another chance to regain $772,000 cut from the University's proposed budget when Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe and Raymond Nichols, vice chancellor for finance, appear before the Kansas legislature's Joint Ways and Means Committee next Wednesday.
Wescoe and Nichols will attempt to justify the restoration of funds requested for increased operating expenses, equipment and faculty-staff salaries at next week's Topeka hearing.
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Fifteenth and Iowa has been the scene of numerous injury and property damage accidents involving both Lawrence residents and KU students.
War delays traffic light
THESE FUNDS were not included in KU's part of the Governor's 457-page state budgetary recommendations.
The Vietnam war is indirectly the cause of the delay in installing the long-awaited traffic signal at the intersection of 15th and Iowa Sts.
of the signals is copper, which may be in short supply due to the war. Transportation is also slower now than in peacetime. We're expecting the parts any day now." City Commissioner Ernest Fulliam said.
Ray Wells, Lawrence city manager, hoped the signals would be installed last fall, when the City Commission voted approval of the light and instructed George Williams, public works director, to order the materials. Ten weeks was then set as the installation deadline. The deadline was not met.
"THE PARTS come in periodically, piece by piece," he said yesterday, "and we expected to have the light in place by Jan. 17.
"We've done all we can with what we have," Williams said.
"Historically, the chances have been slim for restoring any items the Governor deletes from the proposed budget," Nichols said.
The budget will be sent to the Senate, and later to the House, for passage before the end of the session in late March.
AMONG THE CUTS made from KU's proposed budget was approximately $80,000 for about nine faculty members.
"This cut was made when our requested one to 15 faculty-student ratio was changed in the budget to a one to 20 ratio," Nichols said.
KU's present faculty-student ratio is about one to 16, somewhat above the national average of one to 12 for universities comparable to KU.
"Part of the cuts in our requested budget are justified," Nichols said, "because the university's enrollment didn't increase as projected.
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