Students asked to leave class
Mark Mandelker, assistant professor of mathematics, said Tuesday he asked the ROTC students to leave his elementary differential equations class because he believes it is immoral to teach students something they can use in killing people.
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A teacher should be able to voice dissenting opinions in the classroom. Roby Ogan, Great Bend sophomore in Air Force ROTC said Tuesday.
ROTC students are also university students and their teacher should not give them the impression that he would rather not have them in his class, Sprague said last Friday.
Apparently University officials have made their decision on what Mandelker can say, although they will not reveal what this decision is. They consider the matter closed, they said Tuesday.
He did not at any time bar students from his class, nor was he personally hostile to the ROTC students, Gary Turner, Independence junior in Mandelker's class last semester said Tuesday
It is up to the teacher to instruct everyone enrolled in his class, said Perry Sprague, Shawnee Mission junior in ROTC.
"It was the basic idea of having the military on campus which he didn't like." Turner said.
There is a right way and a wrong way to dissent, was Ogan's conclusion on the Mandelker affair.
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Ogan cited last week's incident in which he was one of three ROTC students asked to transfer out of a class taught by Mandelker.
A similar incident occurred last semester in Mandelker's class. He asked several ROTC students not to wear their uniform to class.
Other students interviewed about both incidents said they resented Mandelker's requests that students leave his class or not wear their uniforms.
He has the right to say what he believes as long as he doesn't infringe on the right of his students to learn, Ogan said.
"Sitting down in front of a troop train is the wrong way. Proper dissent happens through open discussion, honest speech, posters or in the press, for example." Ogan said.
Because ROTC students are required to wear uniforms on certain days, Mandelker was directed by the mathematics department to continue to teach the students.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS Wednesday, February 14, 1968
Loyalty oath sent to House
TOPEKA — The Kansas House Judiciary Committee approved a bill Tuesday that would require teachers, instructors and professors in public schools and state colleges and universities to sign a loyalty oath.
The bill will be sent to the House for consideration by its membership.
The bill would require signers of the oath to swear or affirm to the state that they support the United States and the Kansas constitutions.
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts a chance of occasional light snow beginning this afternoon. Warmer tonight and Thursday.
--the third volume of the trilogy,
"The Americans: The World Experience." The two published volumes are "The Americans: The Colonial Experience," and "The Americans: The National Experience."
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Boorstin to give lecture
"We have agreed to defer any action on the proposed legislation to provide you with a future opportunity to find a satisfactory conclusion to this problem," Republican and Democratic leaders of both houses said in a joint letter to Lindsay.
A leading authority on the meaning of American civilization will give the fifth Humanities Series lecture of the current year, Tuesday at KU.
Daniel J. Boorstin, professor of American history at the University of Chicago, will lecture on "The Myth of Historical Perspective" at 8 p.m. in University Theatre in Murphy Hall.
During his two-day visit to KU, Boorstin will also speak to classes in history, political science, and American literature and will confer with faculty members and graduate students.
"If the legislation is deferred, the cleanup continues and the union agrees, I will direct city negotiators to enter into direct discussions with the union forth-with." Lindsay said in the telegram.
Although best known for his two completed volumes of a trilogy entitled "The Americans," he has published five other books and is editor of the "History of American Civilization" series published by the University of Chicago. He is now working on
After receiving a B.A. from Harvard in 1937, he was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University and there earned two law degrees; he is one of the few Americans qualified to plead in English high courts. He received the J.S.D. at Yale Law School in 1938, taught at Harvard, and was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar.
Lindsay Tuesday night asked legislators to stay completely out of the situation.
Next month, he will be awarded a Doctor of Literature degree from Cambridge University, England. Last year, he was appointed to the President's American Revolution Bicentennial Commission.
After teaching at Swarthmore College, he joined the Chicago
Strike problems returned to Lindsay by legislators
ALEANY, N.Y. — (UPI)—Legislators reluctant to sanction Gov. Neison A. Rockefeller's cont-versial state seizure of the striking New York City Sanitation Department Tuesday threw the problem back to Mayor John V. Lindsay.
Rockefeller had proposed last Saturday that the state intervene in the nine-day garbage men's strike that left 100,000 tons of un-collected refuse on the streets of New York City. The sanitation man promptly went back to work on the assumption the governor's proposal would be endorsed by the legislature over Lindsay's protests.
City negotiators and the Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association announced Tuesday night
they would resume negotiations for a new contract Wednesday morning.
history faculty in 1944. He has taught and lectured in Rome, Puerto Rico, Japan, Korea, Turkey, Iran, Napel, India, Ceylon, and England. He was the first scholar to occupy the chair of American history at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1864-65.
There was some speculation that a message from the Communists had reached the U.N. leader shortly before his scheduled departure from London.
His books include "The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America," "The Genius of American Politics," "America and the Image of Europe," "The Mysterious Science of the Law," and "The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson."
Thant talked Tuesday with Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Foreign Minister George Brown, apparently without finding a new peace plan.
Thant goes to Paris
PARIS—(UPI)—U.N. Secretary General Thant flew to Paris today and immediately conferred with Mai Van Bo, North Vietnam's top representative in the West.
Thant suddenly changed his plans to return Tuesday night to New York from his mission to find a peace formula for Vietnam that took him to New Delhi, Moscow and London for talks.
The Elysee Palace said President Charles de Gaulle would receive Thant in his office later.
The secretory general was taken by chauffered limousine to the North Vietnamese diplomatic delegation on the Paris Left Bank less than half an hour after h's commercial plane touched down
ASC asks for medical care for dependents
The All-Student Council (ASC) passed a resolution last night to ask that dependents of married students be allowed to receive treatment at Watkins Hospital.
The resolution requests married students be allowed to pay an optional fee for each declared dependent, making them eligible for treatment. The resolution is endorsed by Dr. Raymond Schwegler, director of Watkins Hospital,
Center gets first approval
TOPEKA—KU's Governmental Research Center would administer a law enforcement officer training center called for in a bill that received preliminary approval Tuesday by the Kansas House.
Final vote on the measure is expected today.
Under the bill, no one could be permanently appointed as a law enforcement officer in Kansas unless he had completed a basic course of at least 120 hours of the center which would be located at the former naval air station at Hutchinson.
If passed by both chambers and signed into law by the governor, the bill would become effective July 1, 1969.
and asks Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe to take the request before the Kansas Board of Regents,
A bill to establish an expense account for the student body president and vice-president was introduced and tabled for review. The account would eliminate the personal expense of office to these people.
An amendment to the election bill of last fall allowing the election of freshman class officers was introduced and tabled. New freshman officers cannot be elected next fall under the present law.
The fair student housing bill was tabled again for further revision by the Committee on Committees.
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A former KSU football coach is now in KU Law School. Page 11.
A KU student was threatened by the Klan during his campaigning for Winthrop Rockefeller in 1967. Page 7.
A KU student is married to an Army nurse now serving in Korea. Page 16.
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"CRUMBLING CITADEL"
This scene from the Rumanian play is done by Scott Puyear and Linda Parton, both Greensburg sophomores. Story on page 3.