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77th Year, No.10
Tuesday, July 16, 1968
Registrar takes unique position
By ALLEN HARTZ Journalism Camp Reporter
The shift of positions in the KU Office of Admissions and Records has led to the creation of a new University post, Director of Records and System Developments.
It will be filled by the man who has been registrar for 22 years— James K. Hitt.
"This is a new kind of job anywhere," Hitt said. "It has the responsibility of making the best use of the computer to assist in the accomplishment of the university's administrative process."
The Office of Records and System Developments must make a study of all the University offices that keep records and determine what tasks can best be done by the computer and which can best be done some other way.
Hitt first came to the University as a student in 1930. He received his bachelor of arts degree in 1934 and his masters in 1936.
HITT, WHO holds the responsibility for this task, seems to have a personality as complex and businesslike as his speech.
Hitt has a wife, a son, Alan, a lieutenant in the army, and a daughter, Nancy, who will be a senior in the school of fine arts next year.
He was appointed assistant registrar in 1940 and registrar in 1946 after serving during World War II in the anti-aircraft artillery. He has since remained active as a colonel in the army reserves.
HITT IS AN imposing man, not only in stature, but also in his manner of speech. When asked to comment or express an opinion, a
long pause usually follows during which he seems to be composing his thoughts so he may say exactly what he wishes to in the exact words he wishes to.
When he does speak, his sentences are interspaced with pauses while he seems to reach for the precise word.
His interest seems to center on one thing, the University, which serves to amplify his businesslike manner. The only sideline he cared to mention was his involvement in the reserves and selective service.
HITT believes many people see him as a very businesslike person.
He sees himself as a person interested in other people, willing to converse with them on a friendly, personal basis. He is inclined to share with other people.
In regards to the college student, Hitt said, "The students I talk to are the same type of people they have always been. They are in an age where things are moving fast and they are trying to catch up to find out."
NEW POSITION
—Kansan photo by Richard Viets
In celebration of his new position, James K. Hitt attends a reception held in his honor Friday in 122 Strong Hall, by his staff members.
Pastor rejects old
(EDITOR'S NOTE—The Rev. Ronald Sundbye, pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Lawrence, was interviewed in a journalism division press conference last Thursday. The following is a compilation of the news stories the Campers wrote.)
—Kansan Photo by Bill Seymour
EXPRESSES VIEWS
The Rev. Ronald L. Sundbye, Methodist minister from Lawrence ponders a question of a journalism campers in a press conference Thursday.
Many persons who claim to be atheists are simply rejecting "Mother Goose" church doctrine, the Rev. Sundybe said.
The traditional concept of a gray-bearded God sitting in the sky upon a throne has been disproved, Mr. Sundbye said. Instead, the concept that God is a dimension of life is gaining widespread acceptance.
"THEERE IS MORE to life than meets the eye," he said. "There is a mystery to life and God is that mystery."
The pastor summed up his philosophy of life. "I certainly don't want to spend my whole life preparing for death; I want to live right now—risking, loving, enjoying.
In keeping with his modernistic approach to religion, the pastor has introduced modern music to his church services, although a few elderly members of his congregation have found it difficult to identify with the change. Mr. Sundbye said the trend toward modernization is making church more relevant. "We haven't gone nearly far enough," he said.
"A lot of people are walking up and down the streets dead. They're bored... Nothing turns them on... Life is the sense of security within yourself. You're putting something back into the sea of life, and you're making it meaningful for others."
STARTING HIS third year as pastor of the local church, the attendance has more than doubled and closed circuit television is piped into the basement during the third Sunday service to accommodate all those who attend.
Mr. Sundbye looked to the recent hippie movement as a source of religious inspiration and revival, but he feels the effectiveness of the cult in shaping popular opinion has diminished due to hippie association with dope, free love and communal living.
"Jesus was a Hippie" is one of his famous controversial sermons. He bases his belief in similiarty on the supposition that Jesus wore long hair, a beard, and sandals and was opposed to the value system of his day. Both Jesus and the hippies were also non-violent.
"SOMETHING ABOUT life to
FACTORI
See PASTOR on page 7
KU dean assumes NAFSA leadership
By CHERYL GORDON Journalism Camp Reporter
Clark Coan, dean of foreign students at the University of Kansas, has assumed the presidency of the National Association for Foreign Students Affairs.
The association, with headquarter offices in Washington, D.C., has about 1,800 members. Included are foreign student advisers, teachers of English as a second language, foreign student admissions officers, Fulbright program advisers, advisers to U.S. students abroad and community volunteers. It's 20th convention was held in May in San Francisco.
Dean Coan will preside at the 1969 national conference in Boston, Mass., and have responsibilities for the 1970 conference which will be in Kansas City, Mo., at the Hotel Muehlebach in late April.
IN THE 1968-69 academic
CLARK COAN
years there were more than 105,000 foreign students studying at 2,200 colleges, universities and junior colleges in the United States.
Dean Coan has been working with foreign students at KU for more than a decade, first as assistant dean of men and foreign student adviser. When he officially became foreign student adviser in 1957, there were 203 foreign students here. Last year there were 642.
Dean Coan attributes the growth of foreign students to the growth of KU and KU's provisions for foreign students.
As dean of foreign students, Dean Coan coordinates the activities of the foreign students. Besides providing personal and social counseling, he advises the students in such matters as financial aid, student housing, immigration issues and academic decisions.
Dean Coan received his bachelors, masters and doctorate degrees from KU. He majored in education.
WEATHER
Partly cloudy skies, clearing by noon, are forecast by the United States Weather Bureau. Temperatures will stay in the upper 90's this afternoon and drop to the mid 70's tonight. Precipitation probability is 10 per cent.