Regents approve building projects
Additions to Allen Fieldhouse, the Kansas Union and Corbin and Gertrude Sellards Pearson Halls were authorized by the Board of Regents Thursday in Topeka.
The Regents also approved the appointment of Clifford D. Clark, assistant dean of the New York University graduate School of Business, as dean of the School of Business. He will take office July 1.
The 14.312-square-foot, two-story addition to the west side of Allen Field House will cost $389,741.
The KU Endowment Association will finance the addition.
Construction should start this summer, and the addition should be finished by Sept. 1, Wade Stinson, athletic director, said.
The addition will include office space for Stinson, 11 football offices, five basketball offices, three handball courts, a weight room, kitchen and dining room, lobby and lounge, counseling area and a film library.
Stinson said the athletic department always has wanted a training table outside of Joseph R. Pearson Hall.
Athletes who choose to eat at the training table in Allen Fieldhouse will eat all their meals there.
The Regents also approved the sale of $1 million in revenue bonds for a three-story addition to the northwest corner of the Kansas Union and a 145-foot pedestrian tunnel under Mississippi Street from the addition to Zone X parking lot.
Interest over the 25-year life of the bonds totals $706,978.75.
Union fees charged KU students will pay construction costs and interest charges. Each student pays a $17 Union fee each semester—up from $12 during the 1965-66 school year.
Construction bids will be opened March 7 in Topeka.
The addition will be built on pedestals on the northwest side of the Union over Baumgartner Drive. The driveway will still be used.
The addition will provide for Union bookstore expansion, conference rooms to accommodate 40-90 persons each, additional organizational offices, quarters for the Alumni Association and its staff and a 670-seat, sloping-floor auditorium.
A recent survey showed there were 120 times a year such an auditorium can be used, Frank Burge, Union director, said.
Construction will begin this spring; the addition will be ready for use late next fall. Burge said.
A two-story, 38,000-square-foot satellite Union also will be built between Allen Fieldhouse and the apartment complex under construction by Jayhawker Investments, Inc., Bartlesville, Okla.
Corbin and GSP will consolidate food services in a two-story, 4,000-square-foot addition to GSP which will provide extra space for kitchen and serving-line areas. A 100-foot lighted and heated corridor, partly underground, will connect the two residence halls.
The addition, hoped to be completed by fall 1968,
is expected to cost about $235.000.
The Regents also authorized the KU Medical Center to hire an appraisal firm to appraise Medical Center facilities and equipment.
The appraisal will be used to determine a depreciation formula, George A. Wolf Jr., dean of the Medical School, said.
Medicare will reimburse the Center according to the depreciation formula.
Progress funds to halfway mark
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe announced Thursday the University of Kansas Program for Progress has received contributions and pledges amounting to $9,567,-000—more than half the $18,617,-000 goal set for September 1969.
ROTC students not 'ordered out'
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe denied Thursday a KU assistant professor of mathematics asked three Reserve Officers Training Corps students to leave his class last week.
Wescoe was questioned by Henry Bubb, a member of the Kansas Board of Regents from Tepeka, regarding reports that Mark Mandelker asked the students to leave the class because he didn't want to teach them anything they might later use in killing people by military action.
"The gentleman in question did not say anything against the uniform and did not ask anyone to leave class because of military affiliation," Wescoe said. "KU officials have investigated the alleged incident and consider the matter closed."
To meet the deadline in 1969, the program must receive $500,000 a month during the next year and a half.
The Program for Progress, launched Sept. 19, 1966, is the largest capital funds effort in the history of the University.
Stanley Learned of Bartlesville, Okla., a 1924 graduate and vicechairman of the board of Phillips Petroleum Company, is national chairman of the Program and the Council for Progress. The Council is composed of 300 alumni and friends of the University, along with representatives of the faculty and staff, and is the sponsoring group for the Program.
"We are indebted to hundreds of alumni and friends who, as members of local, regional and national committees, have insured that the Program for Progress has kept pace and, in fact, is somewhat ahead of schedule," Wescoe said.
Members of the Program for Progress blanket the nation contacting KU alumni and explaining KU's plans for expansion besides showing film strips of the KU campus.
General 'outwitted'
Senator wants ouster of Westmoreland
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— Sen,
Stephen M. Young, D-Ohio, said
Thursday Gen. William C. West-
moreland has been "outwitted and
outgeneralized" in Vietnam and
should be replaced. But Defense
Secretary Robert S. McNamara
said criticism of the four-star
general is "quite undeserved."
In a Senate speech, Young said "President Johnson, in my considered judgment, has every justification to relieve Westmoreland of his command and appoint a more competent general."
WEATHER
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts colder temperatures tonight and Saturday with low temperatures tonight from 15 to 20. Precipitation probabilities are 5 per cent for Saturday.
McNamara, speaking briefly to reporters after appearing before the House appropriations subcommittee, said he knew of "no general of U.S. forces in history that has led his men more brilliantly, whose forces have had higher morale or who has accomplished more militarily."
--affirmed in a communique "to undertake immediate consultations whenever the security of the Republic of Korea is threatened."
"Quite undeserved," said the defense secretary. "I think the criticism of him I have read in the press is very undeserved."
Young's suggestions were also rejected by Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield, who said "Westmoreland is doing an excellent job—all things considered. I know he has the full confidence of the presidency."
78th Year, No. 78
kansan
A student newspaper serving KU
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, February 16, 1968
Crisis may lead to conflict
U.S., Korea pledge action if North hits South again
SEOUL — (UPI) — The United States and South Korea agreed Thursday to "promptly determine what action" would be taken in the event of further North Korean attacks or incursions into South Korea.
The two countries also reaffirmed in a communique "to undertake immediate consultations whenever the security of the Republic of Korea is threatened."
The communique came at the close of consultations between Cyrus R. Vance, President Johnson's personal envoy, and South
Photo by Mike Shurtz
A TIE THAT BINDS TO BLOW YOUR MINDS
A TIE THAT BINDS TO BLOW YOUR MINDS
Gregory Walstrom, Topeka senior, spends his spare time dabbling in two forms of Indian art—batiks and tie-dyes.
Behind him is one of his batik works. See story on page 7.
Korean leaders. Vance conferred with government officials throughout the night until dawn Thursday in an unexpected and unheralded meeting.
The substance of the communique apparently fell short of South Korean demands that the United States retaliate immediately against any North Korean provocation.
The communique said Park and Vance agreed that such aggressive actions, including a recent attempt to assassinate Park and the seizure of the U.S. ship Pueblo "seriously jeopardize the security of this area and, if persisted in, can lead to renewed hostilities in Korea."
The two governments agreed to hold annual defense ministers meetings "to discuss and consult on defense and security matters of mutual interest and common concern," the communique said.
It added that Park "expressed his appreciation to President Johnson for his quick action in recommending to the United States Congress an additional $100 million of United States military assistance to the Republic of Korea."
It stated merely that President Park Chung Hee and Vance "fully exchanged views concerning the grave situation that has arisen as a result of the increasingly aggressive and violent action of the North Korean Communists over the past fourteen months, . . ."
Park and Vance recognized the need for continuing modernization of South Korean armed forces. They also "discussed the subject of supplying small arms to the Korean veteran reserve forces in order to strengthen further the defense capabilities of the Republic of Korea," the communique stated.
Vance was scheduled to leave for Washington later Thursday.