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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, May 2, 1968
Chancellor Wescoe replies—
Continued from page 1 mands. For convenience I make three responses:
- The first demand is that I repudiate statements made by acting Provost Heller at an open forum held on April 23. I do not repudiate those statements. The University of Kansas was established a century ago by the legislature to provide educational opportunity at the highest level for the young people of Kansas. The University has a broad mission and a broad constituency.
By statute the responsibility for its administration is delegated to the Kansas Board of Regents and, through that Board, to the Chancellor. Over the years certain responsibilities within the University have been delegated to the faculty, by the creation of the Senate, and to the students, by the creation of the All-Student Council. By the activities of many committees, communication is constantly open between these groups and between these groups and me. These channels of communication are used constantly and I believe that they have helped to produce results desired by students. Further, they could be extended.
"Although it is most difficult to accomplish policy changes overnight, through the years, and particularly through the most recent ones, students have made invaluable contributions to University deliberations. They have been heard and heeded. They have been effective in the establishment of policy. Further mechanisms are developed constantly to insure the continuation and enhancement of student participation in University affairs.
- The second demand is that I attend the next meeting of the Senate and submit proposals for immediate enactment. As the Senate's presiding officer, I do not miss its meetings. However, I have no authority, and properly so, to introduce any proposal for immediate enactment. The Senate acts after careful consideration of reports of its committees which work constantly between sessions of the Senate.
- The third demand relates to the veto power of the Chancellor prescribed under the regulations of the All-Student Council. I believe all of you should know that in eight years of experience, only four statutes passed by the Council have been returned to me unsigned. One was returned because it was not in proper form; a second was returned because I felt it had not been considered carefully enough from the standpoint of expense and procedure; a third was returned because it was contrary to Kansas law; a fourth was returned because legal opinion considered it vague and difficult of interpretation.
The three first mentioned were properly reconsidered, passed in proper form and approved. The fourth is still pending. The record indicates a close relationship between the Council and the Chancellor, a relationship which I cherish.
"We have a duly constituted student governmental group which has the opportunity to address itself at any time to the Senate and to the Chancellor. That
group, elected by the students, has addressed the Senate and the Chancellor in the past. I look to that organization's increasing involvement in these matters and I support that development. I shall, in fact, be pleased to work closely with both groups to assure communication.
"Further, I have stimulated and support the increasing responsible involvement of students in the matters of immediate concern to them through such groups as the Boards and Councils in the various schools and the advisory boards in the Colleges-within-the-College. The many students who have contributed so much thought and effort to these little-publicized groups know that the rewards, while not always immediate, are nevertheless real. Progress has been made, changes are apparent, and I applaud them.
"I believe the University has been responsive. It shall continue to be."
W. Clarke Wescoe, Chancellor
Freberg identifies with younger crowd; makes Madison Ave. cringe
By Carla Rupp Kansan Staff Reporter
With one KU coed sprawled across his lap, and another beside him, Stan Freberg made the most of his ride in a blue convertible.
the convertible of KU students sped away from the final William Allen White seminar Tuesday night with Freberg in the back seat.
The convertible sped down Massachusetts Street to a local pizza pub.
His long brown hair blowing in the wind, Freberg grinned and announced he was "born 20 years too early."
Walking to a table for eight. Freberg declared he would sit in the middle of the students.
Before he could finish a dissertation on distrust, the car pulled up in front of the pizza parlor and Freberg and his admirers piled out.
One coed asked Freberg why he thought he had more rapport with the college students who attended the seminars.
"It's really exhilarating to blow the minds of Madison Avenue! Madison Avenue's always saying, 'Freberg's a fraud—How does he get away with it?' he said.
"I have absolutely no feeling for my generation at all," Freberg said. Seeing to enjoy throwing the group off balance, he added: "Now you have to learn to outwit the establishment." He then went into another of his long stories about conflict watching people in the establishment get upset.
"Because I'm tuned in, man!"
"But I do, since I'm one of the world's leading authorities on getting away with things."
Straightening his blue-flowered tie, the man who went into advertising "as an outraged consumer" described a book on advertising he has had under contract with Random House for the past five years.
He said the book will be titled "The 17-billion dollar Misunderstanding" and subtitled "The Confessions of a Trojan Horse."
"My gag in the advertising book will be stickers from 17, 18, 19 . . on up to 28, 29, 30 and 31 billion in the back of the book. Every year that the money spent on advertising goes up, you just take another sticker and put it on the title," he said in all seriousness.
"There's too much prostitution in advertising—you have to lower yourself and compromise to get ahead," he said. "Now I try to avoid the prostitution in advertising."
Freberg claims he hasn't taken any cigarette or liquor accounts
since the Surgeon General's report on the hazards of smoking.
"I'm no prude, but I just don't want to be responsible for getting kids hooked on the habits," Freberg said.
Freberg was briefly interrupted by a boy who wanted him to autograph Marshall McLuhan's book "The meeting of the Message."
"Like that author, I like to hit my audience with an indirect message; not something hard-sell." he said.
Going into the merits of the Freberg Limited advertising agency, he said that even with a staff of five persons—"including the cleaning man"—he writes, cuts, edits and directs everything he creates.
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The KU Experimental Theatre presents THE BLACKS by Jean Genet
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Frosh-
Continued from page 1 quired at KU, we look at them anyway, Hitt said.
Sons and daughters of KU alumni and applicants from cities and communities bordering Kansas will be given next priority. Date of application also will be considered, Hitt said.
"A student applying at a late date may find the class already full. Moreover, there seems to be some correlation, though no one can prove it, between the student who applies on time and the student who gets his lessons done on time," Hitt said.
Admission rules are flexible in allowing a wide distribution of out-of-state talent to be admitted. Hitt said if all non-resident students admitted were of high aptitude, it would be unfair to Kansas students.
So far 1,000 out-of-state freshmen have been accepted, although only about 700 are expected to enroll. More probably will be admitted, Hitt said, though the final figure depends on the number of Kansas residents that apply.
Although the graduating classes of Kansas high schools are the same size as last year, 100 more resident students already have applied than at this time last year, Hitt said.
What happens if there is a sudden rush of Kansas applicants who must be admitted even if the freshman class already has been filled?
Hitt said this is a risk that must be taken, but doubts that such a situation will occur.
From records of applications kept for the last two years it is possible to tell by April 1 about how many applications to expect.
"Any large upswing in the number of applicants would mean a significant change in human behavior—and people don't change that fast." Hitt said.
Friday KRAFT MUSIC HAUL
Saturday ERIC and the NORSEMEN
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Wed., May 15
BOB KUBAN
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