Wescoe a candidate?
By Paul Haney
"I'm not a candidate for anything" Dr. Franklin D. Murphy said last spring when asked if he was thinking about resigning as UCLA chancellor to become president of the University of Minnesota.
However, last Friday, Murphy announced he was resigning, not to become president of another educational institution, but to become chairman of the board of directors of the Times-Mirror Co., the governing agency for the Los Angeles Times.
Murphy became UCLA chancellor July 1, 1960, after serving as KU chancellor for 10 years.
Murphy's resignation opens the door for KU Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe once once again to move into a position held by Murphy.
As the chancellor of a major and widely respected university,
Wescoe almost certainly will be one of many leading educators considered for the UCLA position.
But because the careers of Wescoe, 48, and Murphy, 52, have been so strikingly similar, it is likely Wescoe will be one of the few educators whose names will be on the final list considered by California officials.
Some of the similarities are expected and not particularly significant; as medical doctors, both belong to the same medical fraternity, honorary medical society and scientific research honor society. In addition both are diplomats of the National Board of Medical Examiners.
During World War II, the two were active in research programs for the Army.
Some of the similarities are merest coincidence; for those who keep score on such things, both
Wescoe and Murphy received part of their higher education from Pennsylvania schools.
Other connections between the men are more than coincidental.
They are close personal friends, which leads to speculation that Murphy will recommend Wescoe for the California job.
Wescoe was appointed dean of the KU School of Medicine in 1952 to replace Murphy, who was appointed KU chancellor. At the time, Wescoe, at 32, was the youngest medical dean in the U.S., a distinction previously held by Murphy in the same position.
In fall 1959, the Lawrence Daily Journal-World printed a frontpage story that then Chancellor Murphy was No. 1 on the list of possible successors to a retiring Minnesota president.
Murphy denied he had been contacted by the Minnesota Board See Weson page 3
73th Year, No. 79
kansan
A student newspaper serving KU
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Saturday class plan favored by committee
A proposal to schedule three-hour classes for 80 minutes on Tuesday and Thursdays drew a favorable response from the All Student Council (ASC) Committee on Academic Affairs.
James K. Hitt, registrar, presented the plan to the committee last Thursday for criticism and discussion. The committee does not have the power to "formally approve" the plan—approval is left to the schools and departments within the University.
By some quirk of fate, KU takes over Big Eight conference lead. Page 6.
Hitt told the committee the proposed plan would result in better use of classroom space. Because of the large number of three-hour classes, many classes now meet for an hour on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings.
There are no three-hour classes scheduled on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday afternoons. Many classrooms are not used on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons due to the small number of two-hour classes normally scheduled to meet them. These classrooms, Hitt said, could be put to use by
--scheduling three-hour classes for 80 minutes on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.
WHAT'S INSIDE
Southern Baptists stage a love-in. Page 5.
A KU professor speaks about sterility, birth control and the population explosion. Page 3.
Woodrow Wilson scholars are announced. Page 12.
Traffic control arms are nearly a dime g dozen in zone X. Page 7.
Hitt said this plan would reduce the number of Saturday morning classes. Lab sections, seminars and classes meeting only on Saturdays would continue to meet on Saturday mornings.
He said it is up to the departments to decide whether they will schedule three-hour classes to meet for this longer period on Tuesdays and Thursdays—instead of meeting for an hour three days a week. Departments which have a large number of freshman-sophomore multiple-section classes would be encouraged to use the new schedule.
Cat still loose coed still getting anti-rabies shots
A KU coed today will have her seventh shot in the painful series of anti-rabies inoculations unless the cat which bit her a week ago is found.
Lynn Jerner, Kirkwood, Mo., junior, was bitten Feb. 11, by a large white cat with yellowish-brown blotches.
The KU Traffic and Security Department requests anyone seeing the cat to report to them immediately. The cat reportedly was last seen near the Kansas Union.
Miss Jerner began the 14-shot immunization series Tuesday. The shots may be ended any time the cat is found and determined not to be rabid.
WILL WESCOE FOLLOW MURPHY?
UCLA Chancellor Franklin Murphy precedes KU Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe to ceremonies at KU's Centennial Seminar in spring 1966. Wescoe followed Murphy as dean of the School of Medicine and chancellor of the University. With Murphy's resignation as UCLA chancellor, there is a possibility that Wescoe again may succeed him.
R.F.K. talk changed to Wednesday at 1:30
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's speaking date at KU has been changed from Tuesday to Wednesday, and it is believed the switch will allow Kennedy more speaking time than the half hour originally planned.
The time of the New York senator's speech also has been shifted to 1:30 p.m. in Allen Field House.
Apparently the change in schedule was necessary because
of a closure vote in the U.S. Senate Tuesday on a civil rights bill at which Kennedy must be present.
KU officials said that, because of the time change, only 1:30 p.m. classes will be cancelled Wednesday. The Tuesday date would have meant cancellation of both 12:30 and 1:30 classes.
Prior to his talk here—as yet on an unannounced topic—Kennedy will speak at K-State at 10:30 a.m. as part of the Alf Landon Series of national speakers.
Bulletin
About 12 KU Medical Center off-duty employees appeared on campus about 11 a.m. to protest "low wages and lousy working conditions" at the center.
All members of Public Service Employees Local 1132, AFL-CIO, the men passed handbills which read in part "Do you know that Kansas University employees work
under these following conditions," and listed grievances about their present minimum wages—$1.38 an hour—conflicting with the coming federal minimum wage of $1.60 an hour.
Floyd Camp, business agent for the local, called the men's campus appearance an "informational picket."
Two tie for top KU photo award
"I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS EITHER. LET'S GIVE IT FIRST PRIZE."
The judges in the second annual KU Photography Contest go down a long row of entries trying to select a winner. Entries by Mike Bower, Shawnee Mission senior, and Art Boehm, Orchard Park, N.Y., senior, were named best in the show. The judges are, left to right, Gene Kletchka, Lawrence free lance photographer; Mike Anderson, Lawrence Daily Journal-World; and Bill Wright, Ottawa portrait photographer.
The second annual KU Photography Contest resulted in a tie for the best print of the show.
The two best entries were submitted by Art Boehm, Orchard Park, N.Y., senior, and Michael Bower, Shawnee Mission senior.
Boehm's entry was a portrait of a girl printed through a screen to create an "imaginative" or abstract effect.
Bower's entry was a color print of a sunset reflected off water, giving a flare effect surrounding the sun.
The contest was co-sponsored by Kappa Alpha Mu, honorary photojournalism fraternity, and Student Union Activities (SUA).
The contest drew 183 prints from 35 individuals—more than double the number entered last year, Katherine Giele, SUA advisor, said.
Judging was done Sunday in the Kansas Union Big Eight Room. Judges were Mike Anderson, staff photographer of the Lawrence Journal-World; Bill Wright, Ottawa portrait pho-
See KU photo, page 3