KU
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan
A student newspaper serving KU
78th Year, No. 75
WEATHER COLD
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Tuesday, February 13, 1968
Robert Kennedy will speak here
Senator Robert F. Kennedy will speak at the University of Kansas at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 20, in Allen Field House, Kyle Craig, Joplin, Mo., junior and student body president, announced today.
The 42-year-old Senator from New York will arrive in Lawrence accompanied by Governor Robert Docking. Senator Kennedy will speak for about half an hour before proceeding on to the airport in Kansas City.
Classes which regularly meet at
12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. on Tuesdays will be cancelled on Feb. 20, the Office of the Chancellor has announced.
Kennedy was born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 20, 1925. Today he is known throughout the world for his contributions to the political world. In addition to being elected senator from N.Y. in 1965, he has authored three books, "The Enemy Within"—1960, "Just Friends and Brave Enemies"—1962, and "Pursuit of Justice"—1934.
'Didn't ask students to leave'-Mandelker
Mark Mandelker, assistant professor of mathematics, has reportedly denied that he asked three ROTC students to leave his class last week.
He reportedly asked the three ROTC students to leave because, "I don't want to teach you something you can use to kill people."
Following an investigation by the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), Francis H. Heller, acting provost, said,
Heller said the university believes the matter should now be closed.
"The pressure of circumstances may have led some students to interpret Professor Mandelker's statements as a refusal to teach, an interpretation which he completely disavows."
Mandelker was asked by the mathematics department last week to find from six to eight students in his class who would transfer to a less crowded section of elementary differential equations.
Mandelker apparently did not demand that these students leave the class or refuse to teach them. No hard feelings were reported between Mandelker and the ROTC students.
A variety of reactions came from students involved in or interested in the incident.
'He was a fighter'
Steve Heeren, Rialto, Calif. graduate student, said, "Teachers at KU should take a stand on political and social issues and risk the dangers. So many professors are in their fields for personal advancement and not for what they can teach their students."
Many of the students interviewed said they had the right to be taught in the classes for which they were enrolled. Most of the students with this opinion also requested that they not be named in the Kansan.
"Open communication is the point of academic freedom," said Bob Howard, Wichita junior. "A teacher has the right to act upon his opinions as long as he doesn't go against university rulings."
WILLIAM L. WHITE
William L. White cupped his hands and shouted into the standing, applauding audience:
"My father would have liked to see you all here."
White had just finished speaking about his famous father, William Allen White, for the first time.
It was a well-planned speech, guests at a luncheon honoring his father Monday, said afterward.
"I've been thinking about it for 20 years," the "younger" White said. "It just distilled in my mind" Saturday.
White introduced the listeners, not to the legendary "benevolent patriarchial small-town editor, universally beloved by his people," but to a human being who planned his career and deliberately wrote short editorials so they would be "played" by the wire services.
Above all, "he was a fighter," the 67-year-old editor said of his father.
The "Sage of Emporia" was carefully planned, but the "younger" White did not realize how carefully until he was out of college and giving thought to taking a job in the East.
"I was sitting in the hickory rocker next to his hammock and after the first few sentences of this talk, I realized it was so well-organized that he must have been thinking it over for weeks."
His father made a good case for Emporia. He wanted his son to stay with him and eventually take over the Gazette.
"Emporia and Kansas had advantages which may be I had not carefully weighed." White said his father told him. "The East was fun, but highly competitive. In New York or Washington, there would be a hundred, maybe more, writers as good as I—some of them better."
ever, was "the fact that on the Gazette I could write without any boss looking over my shoulder, and this was always a deep satisfaction to any writer. On the Gazette I would not be chained to the desk, however comfortable, of any boss."
Maybe most important, how-
The idea of being his own boss appealed to William Allen White, It was at age 27 that he decided to quit his job of writing editorials at the dictation of Col. William Rockhill Nelson at the Kansas City Star and buy the Emporia paper.
"Lying in that hammock he could give me the design on which his own career had been built. What he could give to no
one was his capacity for organizing his work."
His father's comments on the passing scene have been forgotten. White said, because they were but shrewd comments on minor events.
"But they mattered then, and kept his name alive across the country."
His editorials, carried across the country by the Associated Press, added to his national prominence. This was no accident as "he knew how to play the AP as skillfully as David Oistrakh knows how to play the fiddle; he gave them exactly what he knew they could use."
See 'He was,' page 7
JOHN WILLIAMS, world famed guitarist See the story on the concert, page 3.
Local banks restrict USAF loans
Out-of-town students at KU hoping to get United Student Aid Fund (USAF) loans from Lawrence banks may as well forget it.
The four local banks restrict USAF loans to residents of Lawrence because each sets aside limited amounts to pay USAF Aid, and cannot finance both resident and non-resident loans.
"Banks do not expect to make any money on these loans," said Russ Watkins, vice-president of the Douglas County State Bank. "You could go up to 15 years before getting any of the loaned money back into circulation.
Bank officials also expect to make little profit from the loans.
"Earned interest is only six per cent on a USAF loan for $1,000. On a car loan for the same amount interest is five dollars a year on $100. In addition, a bank will get all of this money back within three years."
Participating banks made 300,000 loans last year across the nation. But the USAF applications increasingly outnumber the number of banks in the program each year.
At the outset, 16,500 banks
joined the program established in 1965 by the Higher Education Act. There are 12,000 banks participating at present.
Government officials predict 500,000 loan applications will be made next year, and 750,000 during fiscal 1969.
Douglas County State Bank,
First National Bank, Lawrence
National Bank and the University
State Bank have agreed that:
USAF loans are not profitable.
USAF loans must be limited to residents and bank customers.
The loans will be approved only for students demonstrating a definite need.
Pat Seeney, in charge of student loans at the University State Bank, recalled:
Lynn Anderson, trust officer at
"So many students who had money and did not need the loans made application that it has soured me on the program. We intend to check students out very carefully to see if they really need the aid."
The University State Bank, in operation since Dec. 8, has received only one application for a USAF loan so far.
He believes banks will continue to leave the program because of high handling costs and lack of profits.
First National Bank, said his bank intends to determine need, and to require students to have savings or checking accounts at the bank before accepting applications.
Lawrence National Bank assistant vice-president Lewis R. Coffey said his bank limits loans to students whose parents are customers.
Lawrence banks gave a total of 81 USAF loans last year. The Lawrence National Bank made 15, the Douglas County State Bank 33, and the First National Bank 33.
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WEATHER
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts partly cloudy and continued cold tonight and Wednesday. The low tonight should be 5-10 above.
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