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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, March 8, 1968
C-in-C boards advise KU officials
By Jane Abildgaard
Kansan Staff Reporter
Student advisory boards to the administration are another educational aspect being experimented with in the Colleges-within-the-College.
Each of the five colleges—Centennial, Corbin, North, Pearson and Oliver—has some kind of a student advisory board. Their
purpose, which is to better the colleges system and to listen to students' complaints, is the only thing the boards have in common.
The Centennial College advisory board, which has been in existence since the program began last year, is a sounding board for student complaints and ideas, said Carl Goode, Kansas City, Mo.,
sophomore and member of the board. The board tells the administration how the Centennial students feel about issues ranging from living conditions to curriculum.
The Centennial College advisory board was the main force behind the experimental change in the western civilization program for Centennial students this year,
Goode said. The Centennial sophomores are taking the course in a four-hour program in one semester. The board plans to revamp the program further for next year, Goode said.
The freshman-sophomore English requirements seem to be a particularly unpopular program with the Colleges-within-the-College students.
Senate civil rights debate plagued by low attendance
WASHINGTON — (UPF) The Senate's suspense drama titled civil rights is playing with much of the cast missing.
Hour by hour, it became increasingly difficult this week to get at least half the members into the chamber to listen to the debate remaining. More often than not, less than a dozen senators were on hand.
The Senate is approaching a vote which for drama few Hollywood productions could match. Before it are the issues of the rights of man, and property rights, and racial discrimination—issues which tore this nation apart in a Civil War.
There were repeated roll calls to get a quorum of 51. At times, there were only two or three in the chamber.
It is a strange spectacle.
In the background are matters of high drama—presidential politics and presidential ambitions. The White House has twisted elbows to get to this point in the civil rights debate, at last nearing a showdown vote after six weeks of filibuster.
One Republican leader warned last week that his party must get more Negro votes to even hope to
win the November election. And former Vice President Richard M. Nixon has telephoned while on the campaign trail to keep up to date on how it goes.
In the wings awaiting the outcome are the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and his followers, planning a "poor man's march on
Washington," with evident racial overtones.
There has been plenty of suspense—and more is to come. After three failures, there came the successful cloture move. The gag rule was invoked with the exact two-thirds majority of those voting.
Air Force cadet is insane
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AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo.
— (UPI) — A 21-year-old Air Force Academy cadet, the first to undergo a court martial in the 13-year history of the school, was acquitted Thursday on charges of robbery, larceny and theft after he was judged legally insane.
The 10-member court martial panel made the ruling after civilian and government psychiatrists testified Paul David Speasl of Tucson, Ariz. was not responsible for his actions.
The cadet was charged with two armed holdups at a Colorado Springs liquor store and a series of thefts on academy grounds last year.
Speal is undergoing treatment in the psychiatric ward of Fitz-
simcns General Hospital near Denver.
The cadet still faces armed robbery charges in a civilian court in Colorado Springs. Dist. Atty. Robert Russel said the youth probably would be given a sanity hearing after his release from Fitzsimons.
Maj. William H. Carnahan, trial judge, said the Air Force had no provision for committing Speasl to a mental institution.
Speasl's parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Speasl of Tucson, and his wife, Irene, were present when the court martial panel handed down its decision. Authorities said Speasl married last year in violation of cadet rules.
The North College advisory board is discussing exemption tests in the English curriculum, Nancy Sehumacher, Webster Groves, Mo., freshman and president of the board said. She said the students want to set up new English sections or have tests to exempt students either from the grammar text or the entire curriculum.
The members of Centennial College's board—the oldest board—are selected on a criterion of interest. Last year the representatives were elected, but it has developed into a matter of interest of the students, Goode said. The group is now trying to determine the best way to select the board.
Like the Centennial board, Corbin College advisory board is selected on the basis of interest. Letters were sent to all Corbin College students at the beginning of the year, Janis Hazen, Hutchinson feshman and member of the board said. Those students interested in helping the directors with the program became members of the board, she said.
All the advisory boards have talked of changing the program in the way of textbooks and materials covered.
plaints, the boards have little in common. They have different methods of member selection, frequencies of meetings, organizations and hierarchies.
The North College students also have discussed adding an eastern civilization program to the present western civilization, possibly having eastern civilization one semester and western civilization another.
A pass-fail system for freshman-sophomore English is being discussed by the Pearson College advisory board, Gary Coslett, Danville freshman and student chairman of the board said. The board discussed changing the system, but decided there was not much that could be done, Coslett said.
The student probation committee hears petitions to re-admit students on probation. The committee is composed of equal numbers of faculty members and students.
Except for the English com-
The student - faculty relations committee helps the students meet more faculty members and students from different fields, Miss Schumacher said.
North College elects representatives from its 24 advisory blocks and divides these representatives into four committees. The four committees deal with student-faculty relations, discussions and seminars, curriculum and student probation.