Friday, June 28, 1968
THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
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-Kansan Photo by Bill Seymour
DIGGING THE HOLE THROUGH THE TOP
Construction is moving ahead in fine shape on the tunnel which will connect the Kansas Union addition with X-Zone parking lot. The excavation of the tunnel is being done, however, from the top down.
Three KU delegates attend Washington women's meet
By Terri Staab Journalism Camp Reporter
Three KU representatives returned Sunday from the fourth National Conference of the Commissions on the Status of Women in Washington, D.C.
THE OVERALL objective of the commission is "to help women and society in general to feel a partnership in the affairs of the nation," Dean Taylor said. The purpose of the conference was primarily to inform the individual state commissions of each others' activities and progress in fulfilling that objective. The conference
Four hundred and twenty-five people attended the conference, representing every state and United States territory. Four delegates were from Kansas. The conference was conducted under the theme, "A Time For Action."
Emily Taylor, dean of women; Suzanne H. Crawford, assistant dean of women and Deanell Reece, Scandia senior and chairman of the Women on Campus Commission attended the four-day meeting.
Dean Taylor and Mrs. Crawford attended as members of the Kansas Governors' Commission on the Status of Women. The Department of Labor, sponsoring the conference, invited all state commission members. Governor Docking appointed the Kansas commission members in the fall of 1967.
Maureen B. Neuberger, chairman of the Citizen's Advisory Council on the Status of Women, opened the three-day program with a welcoming address. Secretary of Labor, Willard Wirtz, called the commission to order the opening day.
The five regional groups, Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest and Far West, responded to this call with reports of their activities of the year.
Vice-president Hubert Humphrey and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Wilbur J. Cohen, spoke to the conference. Cohen delivered a talk on the "Challenge of Human Need."
is the major program of the year of the national commission.
TO END THE day, the urban crisis was discussed by presiding officer of that particular session, Wirtz, and the main speaker, Walter E. Washington, Mayor of Washington, D.C.
KU Air Force ROTC cadets fly off to six summer camps
Friday's program emphasized various phases of the commission's primary objective. What the commission can do regarding equal employment opportunities, expansion of child care services, and the encouragement of woman leadership were subjects of discussion by panels and speakers in each section.
ATTENDING THE four week session at Gunter AFB, Ala., are Steven J. Bredehoeft, Overland Park sophomore; J. Michael Doyle, Bartlesville, Okla., sophomore; John O. Irwin, Lawrence
By Mike Dohn Journalism Camp Reporter
Twenty-nine KU Air Force ROTC cadets are attending four or six-week summer camps at five Air Force bases and at the Air Force Academy.
Cadets will gain a better understanding of the mission and operation of the U.S. Air Force during this summer training. Each cadet is assigned an officer for "operation shadow." This program has the cadet follow his officer for a day to learn officers' duties and responsibilities.
EACH CADET receives the "Air Force ROTC Student Guide for Six-Week Field Training." This publication holds fourteen sections covering all aspects of the cadet's life with Air Force do's, don'ts, regulations and amendments. It also contains security instructions and marching songs.
The four week camp curriculum includes 172 hours broken into time for orientation and chapain, aircraft and aircrew indocintration, career orientation, survival orientation, first aid, small arms marksmanship training, physical training, junior officer training and supplemental training. The six week camp's plan has introductory military training, academics and the uniform code of military justice, for a 258 hour total.
Saturday's conference concentrated on the obligations of the commission concerning the involvement of all groups in commission functions, the support of recommendations of the Citizen's Advisory Council on the Status of Women and the implementing of Human Rights Year. Mrs. Crawford and Miss Reece were members of one of the three panels exploring each respective area.
Training at the Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo., for four weeks are Charles H. Bayne, Lawrence junior; Charles D. Beach, Ft. Worth, Tex., junior; Danny E. Beam, Wichita senior; Jeffrey L. Brann, Overland Park junior; Douglas G. Cranal, Parsons junior; John J. Cukjati, Arma junior; Herbert A. Hartman Jr., Lawrence junior; Ronald E. Kilgore, Palm Beach, Fla., junior; William T. McFarland, Wichita senior; John L. Snyder, Wichita junior; Barry C. Wood, Wichita junior.
sophomore; Roby Donald Ogan,
Great Bend sophomore; Richard
D. Rasmussen, Jetmore sophomore;
and Gary L. Turner, Independence,
Mo., junior.
George T. Dalziel Jr., Silver Springs, Mo., junior, will spend 28 days at Forbes AFB, Topeka, Kan. William R. Bacon, Wichita junior, and Robert D. McMahan, Quincy, Ill., junior, will spend four weeks at Fairchild AFB, Wash. Timothy S. MacArthur, Mission sophomore, will be at Amarillo AFB, Texas, for four weeks. Alan S. Hansberry, Overland Park sophomore, the only student to attend a six week program, will go to Keesler AFB, Miss.
The four weeks' training at Hamilton AFB, Calif., involves Kenneth E. Davidson, Topeka junior; William M. Latham, Tonganoxie junior; Roger D. Maxey, Kansas City, Kan., junior; John E. Sutton, Princeton junior; and John T. Tinsley, Leavenworth senior.
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TIME SPENT in Washington also included receptions, one of which was at the White House with the First Lady, and workshops.
Dean Taylor said, "It was an excellent program of conferences. It was evident from the people who participated and the subject matter discussed that there is a definite effort all over the country to encourage women to play a more active role in society."
The commission on the Status of Women is a part of the Civil Rights movement since it deals with the problems of a minority.
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