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LAWRENCE, KANSAS Monday,February 12.1968
Heller refuses to comment on anti-war math teacher
Acting Provost Francis H. Heiler declined to comment on reports of a meeting today between KU officials and the mathematics teacher who asked three ROTC students to leave his class last Wednesday.
"Consonant with generally accepted principles, matters concerning Mr. Mandelker are being considered in an orderly manner, according to procedural standards generally followed by colleges and universities," Heller said. "These procedural standards fittingly require that no public statements be made until the proceedings are completed."
University officials and the teacher, Mark Mandelker, assistant professor of mathematics, are officially silent on the meeting, following American Association of
University Professors' recommendations on such matters.
"Id rather you transferred out of the class." Mandelker was quoted as saying to Roby Ogan, Great Bend sophomore in Air Force ROTC.
Mandelker reportedly asked the students, one of whom was wearing a Navy uniform, to transfer to another section of elementary differential equations because "I don't want to teach you something you can use to kill people."
Mandelker had been directed by the mathematics department to ask that six to eight students in his class transfer to a less crowded section.
The third ROTC student who was asked to leave the section has not been identified.
Apparently there was no rancor between the students and Mandelker, and apparently Mandelker did not refuse to teach the students or demand that they leave the class.
Mandelker was "quite calm."
See Heller, page 11
Dolph Simons Jr. heads foundation
Dolph C. Simons Jr., publisher of the Lawrence Journal-World, today took office as the president of the William Allen White foundation, succeeding Herbert A. Meyer Jr.
Simons is a 1951 KU journalism graduate. He was formally named president this morning in a meeting of the White Foundation's board of trustees held in the Kansas Union.
Novel dorm no panacea for foreign student housing
By Kathy Hall Kansan Staff Reporter
Several foreign students have agreed an International House would not be the cure-all for bad housing conditions at KU.
"An International House would not really be a satisfactory solution to the problem because students are not used to hours and other restrictions." Said Adra, Beirut, Lebanon junior and International Club president, said recently. Adra said most foreign students lived in homes off campus because they are able to live more as they are used to living.
See I-houe, page 3
However, students still consider present housing conditions inadequate and blame landlords and "lax public health law enforcement" for the situation.
"The Lawrence Health Department doesn't inspect the premises regularly and landlords take advantage of that fact." Adra said. "They forget the laws—foreign students don't even know they exist."
In addition to his work on the Journal-World, Simons has been a reporter for the London Times and the Johannesburg, South Africa, Star.
He will serve a two-year-term.
WEATHER
Considerable cloudiness and continued cold temperatures is forecast by the U.S. Weather Bureau. High today is expected the 20s and a 30 per cent chance night near zero.
Emporia Gazette editor William L. White and Kansas Governor Robert Docking are seen visiting at the William Allen White Centennial celebration in Emporia Saturday.
"GOVERNOR, THAT WAS A FINE MEAL"
W. A. White Day activity will begin nationwide focus
Today's William Allen White Day observance marks the beginning of a year-long schedule of activities that will focus national attention on the crusading Kansas editor.
KU will host the William Allen White Foundation's Seminar on the Mass Media in a Free Society, April 28-30.
Speakers will include Stan Freeberg, satirist-turned-advertisingconsultant; Bill D. Moyers, former press secretary to President Johnson and now publisher of Long Island's Newsday; Carl T. Rowan, nationally-syndicated columnist
and former director of the U.S. Information Agency; and Ben Bagdikian, a leading press critic from Washington, D.C.
During the public lectures and discussions, seminar participants will present their analyses of the mass media and suggestions for its improvement.
Mrs. Ruth Gagliardo, a Lawrence authority on children's literature and former White newspaper employe, will speak at the Sailie White tribute on June 15 in Wichita. The program, sponsored by the National Federation of Press Women will honor White's wife.
KU secretary remembers W. A. W.
"... Signed, W. A. White, Editor . . "
By Carla Rupp Kansan Staff Reporter
The first thing William Allen White did after he hired Jean Gordon Mattison was hand her an Emporia Gazette stylebook.
Mrs. Mattison still carries in her billfold the 26-year-old press card White signed. She worked as society editor and a reporter for the Gazette from 1942 until 1945, the year after White died.
"Believe me, we adhered strictly to that book," said Mrs. Mattison, a secretary to Thomas Gorton, dean of the School of Fine Arts, for the past six years.
She was hired when she was a student at Kansas State Teacher's College of Emporia and had taken all the journalism courses offered there.
White hated such phrases as "passed on" instead of "died." Mrs. Mattison said, and seldom permitted colloquialisms.
"He read every story that went into the Gazette, continually rechecking for accuracy and begging us always to use correct spellings and addresses."
"He was always fussy," she said.
Mrs. Mattison also remembers his policy of "Names are news." She said White always insisted
See Secretary, page 12
On August 26-29, the White celebration will return to KU during the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism. Speaker for the event has not been named.
The MacMillan Company has reissued "The Autobiography of William Allen White." Later this spring, the Public Affairs Press of Washington, D.C., will publish the past 18 William Allen White Memorial Lectures in both paperback and hardback editions under the title, "The Press and the Public Interest."
The University Press at KU will publish a book of the year's seminar proceedings.
WHAT'S INSIDE
Production for a KU film on birth control has been postponed. Page 3.
A KU swimmer talks about his career and his ineligibility. Page 4.
A small Kansas town once again remembers its famous editor. Pages 6 and 7.
They squabble about city taxes and the university in Arizona, too. Page 10.
Karate is a new sport for several KU coeds. Page 13.
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