Education bill favors a two-way contract
By Joanna Wiebe Kansan Staff Reporter
A two-way contract signed by Kansas high school teachers and their school boards, with advantages for both, was the description given to reporters by Sen. Claude L. Bell of his new bill Thursday
The bill, introduced into the Kansas Senate Wednesday asks that college graduates without state education course requirements be allowed to sign Kansas secondary school contracts.
"This is an attempt to raise the quality of Kansas teachers." Sen. Bell said.
People who teach under the law would have to meet state education course requirements within three years to get permanent certification.
College graduates with more than 15 years of experience in law, teaching, engineering or accounting could get permanent certification without ever having taken an education course. The State Board of Education also could name other professions whose members could teach without education courses.
Kenneth Anderson, dean of the School of Education at KU said education course requirements are important. An English teacher competent in English who can't impart his knowledge of "Huckleberry Finn" to high school students because he hasn't studied teaching of methods would be a poor teacher.
"However, the requirement of an academic knowledge of the field or fields in which the trainee will teach is ultimately more important than a comprehension of how to teach," Anderson said.
--creates an impression that Wichita State is inferior.
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The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts cooler temperatures tonight with little change Saturday. The low tonight will be in the low 20s. There is 10 per cent chance of precipitation tonight and Saturday.
The bill was also written to help fill teacher shortages. Harold Regier, director of the placement bureau for the School of Education, foresees no major deficit of teachers in Kansas secondary classrooms.
Passage of the bill would help small communities with a low pay scale which have a hard time getting high school teachers, Regier said. It would also help larger school systems which have withdrawn secondary school teachers to teach in elementary schools, he added.
A modified form of the proposed bill allowing a minimum deficiency of 12 to 14 hours to be completed in two or three years was suggested by Betty Kliewer, KU senior in education from Ulysses. "Under the bill written by Sen. Bell, underqualified people would be allowed to teach," she said.
The KU School of Education requires 22 hours of education courses, which is one more hour than the state requirements. This includes three hours of educational psychology, two hours of educational testing and measurements, three to eight hours of teaching methods, and six hours toward understanding the school as a social institution.
'Wallace will run in Kansas'
WICHITA, Kan.—(UPI)—For-
mer Alabama Gov. George Wallace will run for President in Kansas on the Conservative Party ticket, according to Oscar N. Davis, state party chairman.
"He will be on the ballot," Davis said Thursday. "He has confirmed he will run on our ticket. We won't as a party drive for Wallace, but individually we will support Wallace."
Davis said several counties are organized for support of Wallace, who announced for the presidency Thursday. Davis said the Conservatives organized 32 of the 105 Kansas counties in 1964.
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The tour was capped by a dinner in the Kansas Union at 6 p.m. Present, in addition to the lawmakers and their wives, were Lt. Governor of Kansas John Crutcher, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe and Dolph Simons Jr., president of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce.
Simons began the ceremonies by saying he was glad the lawmakers had had a chance to meet the "real strength" of the University—its students and faculty.
Next, Wescoe broke the crowd up when he said: "I want to thank
As the buses moved through the campus, a professor assigned to each bus pointed out buildings and points of interest to the representatives. When told of the plans for expansion in the area of the CRES building, a legislator's wife asked what was going to happen to the old Pioneer Cemetery located about 100 yards away from the proposed NASA site. Bill Barr, professor of anthropology and guide on the bus, explained the cemetery would not be moved.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
The tour began with a reception at Hashinger Hall where the lawmakers were served refreshments by residents. The legislators then boarded buses for a whirlwind tour of the campus with stops at the Center of Research and Engineering Sciences (CRES), the site of the proposed National Aeronautics and Space Administration building and Fraser Hall.
Three busloads of Kansas legislators toured the KU campus Thursday afternoon as guests of the University and the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce. The tour was arranged so members of the Legislature could see for themselves just how state funds are being put to use at KU.
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Legislators tour campus; see state funds at work
Dolph for introducing me as one of the University's "non-strengths." He went on to thank the lawmakers for all they have done for KU.
This was followed by performances by Carol Wilcox, Kansas City, Kan., senior and Earl Trussell, Kansas City sophomore of a scene from the Broadway play "I Do, I Do."
After the dinner, the representatives received a book written by the late William Menninger entitled "Living in a Troubled World" and a small metal paper-weight molded in the form of a KU Jayhawk. At 9 p.m. the legislators boarded buses for the trip back to Topeka, hopefully, as one faculty member remarked, "More enlightened about KU than when they came."
Docking raps forced games
Gov. Robert B. Docking said Thursday at Topeka a recently-introduced Senate bill would constitute political interference by the legislature in athletic programs of the state's universities.
Docking was referring to a bill to direct the Board of Regents to require KU and K-State to schedule athletic contests with Wichita State University.
At KU, a state representative attending a reception for Kansas lawmakers said the thought the bill would receive an unenthusiastic reception from the legislators. Rep. Ed Kessinger, Junction City, said the small size of Wichita State's football stadium was one reason for the bill's possible defeat.
"Their facilities are not big enough to meet the demand for seats," he said.
Earlier this year, one of the three men who introduced the bill, Rep. Frederick Linde, Wichita, said south central Kansas believe the exclusion of Wichita from the football and basketball scheduling of KU and K-State
The governor said he favored competition among the state's colleges and universities, but added he did not think is should be forced by the Legislature.
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WHAT'S INSIDE
KU's new enrollment procedure seems to work, says Registrar James K. Hitt. See page 3.
An Experimental Theatre debut opens at KU soon, and zany book titles give some insight to the theatre. See page 4.
Kansas could win the 45th Annual Michigan State Relays Saturday, says KU's track coach. See page 6.
A coed was one of 12 students who spent summers abroad in the People-to-People program. See page 9.
Centennial to honor W. A. White
William Lindsay White, son of William Allen White, is a versatile man whose distinguished career would undoubtedly have made any father proud.
White modestly speaks of his, and his father's accomplishments, said a friend, W. G. Calhoun of Emporia. White will give his first major speech about his Pulitzer Prize-winning father at the William Allen White tribute luncheon 12:45 p.m. Monday in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union.
The travels and writings of White, 68, have taken him throughout the world. He was in London during the blitz in 1941.
W. L. White
Yet he remains devoted to the Emporia Gazette that his father brought to national fame. As editor and publisher, White takes pride in its management.
Recently he returned from a tour of Vietnam, Hong Kong, and India.
He spends half of his time in New York City but is constantly on the phone about matters of concern to the Gazette.
A prolific writer, White is an individual with a great sense of adventure. His writings have been broad in scope including coverage of the London blitz, the Pacific theatre of World War II, the far east during the 1960's, and
His newspaper career began at age 14 when he was a cub reporter for his father.
See W. L. White, page 8
Here is a schedule of events for William Allen White day, celebrating the 100th birthday of the famous editor of the Emporia Gazette:
10 a.m. Coffee for trustees' wives and special guests in the Centennial Room of the Kansas Union. High School journalism student registration at the union.
10:30 a.m. Board of Trustees annual meeting in the Kansas Room, Kansas Union. Panel discussion by the KU journalism faculty for the high school journalism students in the Forum Room, Kansas Union.
11:50 a.m. Reception in the Union Ballroom. Students' tour of the School of Journalism.
12:45 p.m. William Allen White tribute luncheon in the Union Ballroom.
2:30 p.m. Mark F. Ebridge will speak in the Big Eight and Jayhawk Rooms of the Kansas Union.
6 p.m. Dinner in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union for student members of KU's Theta Sigma Phi and Sigma Delta Chapters.
One of the highlights of next Monday's William Allen White Day will be the presentation of an award for journalistic merit to Mark F. Ethridge. He is a former publisher of the Louisville Courier Journal, who after 55 years in newspaper work "retired" to teach college journalism.
Ethridge was chosen to receive the 19th annual White award by a committee of Kansas journalists who felt he had fulfilled the role of "an American journalist who exemplifies William Allen White's ideas in service to his profession and community."
The award will be presented to Ethridge at 2:30 Monday in the
Kansas Union Big Eight and Jayhawk rooms. At that time, he will deliver the annual William Allen White Lecture. His topic will be "The Editorial Writer: Facing Today's Problems in the White Tradition."
Ethridge, now 71, began his education in 1914 at the University of Mississippi. He transferred two years later to Mercer University in Macon, Ga., after serving two years in the Navy during World War I.
See Mark F. Ethridge, page 8
In 1918, Ethridge started his newspaper career as a reporter for the Meridian (Miss.) Star. A year later he left for the Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun; and in 1925, eight years after graduating from college, he became editor of the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph.
Mark F. Ethridge