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University Daily Kansan Monday, March 12. 1962
Wescoe Takes Some Stands, Gives Some Answers
Chancellor Urges Juco Cooperation
By Walt Blackledge
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe has urged junior college leaders to work for statewide coordination of the junior college program.
In an address to the Junior College Conference Friday, the Chancellor stressed that if junior college education is to be considered higher education and not an extension of high school, it should be coordinated with the total college and university program throughout the state.
"We believe that the junior colleges should view themselves as colleges, with statewide implications, rather than as extensions of the high schools on the local level," he said.
Wescoe quoted from the report of the Comprehensive Educational Survey, which recommended "that the State Board of Regents be recognized as the agency which carries statewide responsibility for all higher education and for determining the role which a state system of higher education should supply in providing leadership and planning to meet the needs of the years ahead."
- Local communities are short of funds and find it difficult even to support elementary and secondary education.
- HE SAID THAT thinking of junior colleges only as local institutions and extensions of high schools is inadequate for the following reasons:
- State aid in nickels and dimes without control, supervision and accounting for funds simply drains money from local elementary and secondary schools and from the five state institutions of higher learning.
- Technical-vocational education will not flourish under local support and thinking. It must be coordinated.
- The recommendation of the Comprehensive Educational Survey that the Board of Regents carry statewide responsibility for higher education in Kansas cannot be implemented under the present system.
Chancellor Wescoe
- There is, under the present system, no statewide planning for the establishment of junior colleges where they are needed or for the discontinuance of junior colleges where they are not needed.
"JUNIOR COLLEGES should expect . . . financial support (rather aid) from the State . . . supplemented by adequate and reasonable fees paid by the students in attendance," he said.
The Chancellor said that estimates indicate that enrollment will nearly double by 1970 in Kansas public institutions of higher learning. (These include the five state schools, Wichita, Washburn and 14 junior colleges.)
If this is done, he added, the Board of Regents could begin to exercise its responsibility for public higher education in Kansas.
He said the question is raised whether the present campuses can accommodate this number of students under the present financial structure.
IT MAY BE NECESSARY to control the number of students enrolled on some of the campuses, he said, but if this is done, alternate locations must be available to students who cannot be taken care of at these schools.
"If alternate campuses are provided throughout the State, the size of existing campuses can be controlled. But, wherever the student attends, he should be guaranteed an educational experience of high quality . . . suitable to his needs and abilities." he said.
Senor Patrolman Is Beesy
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — (UPI) A passerby kept Highway Patrolman Stan F. McCreadie Jr. from being stuck without transportation recently when a swarm of bees clustered on his motorcycle.
A statewide program for higher education would be expensive, but it is needed to provide a quality
The man, who happened to be a beekeeper, purchased some honey in a nearby store, lured the bees into a cardboard box and walked off with them.
The Chancellor urged the junior college leaders to take the initiative in working for this kind of program.
system of higher education for the youth of Kansas, he added.
Mexican Diplomat To Speak Tomorrow
Professor Herberto Sein, Mexican educator and diplomat, will speak on "Half a Hemisphere in Revolution" at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
The University lecture is sponsored by the department of Romance languages and the Latin American Area Committee. The lecture will be in English.
A KU instructor said Friday afternoon at the Current Events Forum that the Communists did not inspire the Japanese demonstrations during the summer of 1960.
Zolbrod Says Japanese Riots Linked to History, Tradition
Leon Zolbrod, instructor of oriental language, was the featured speaker for the subject "Were the Japanese Demonstrations Communist Inspired?"
Zolbrod, who is on leave from Tokyo University, thinks that Japanese riots are a tradition in Japan which dates back to the establishment of population centers around Japanese urban communities.
SEEKING TO SUPPORT his theory of tradition-inspired riots, Zolbrod said: "During the 1780s a series of natural disasters, fires, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, rocked Japan. The Japanese people blamed the disasters on the government."
The trouble ended in 1787 with a mass demonstration calling for the downfall of the government. The reigning government was replaced and a period of reform was ushered in with the new government, he said.
HE ADMITTED THAT during the riots of 1960 there was some Communist support, but he said he did not believe it was of much importance.
He primarily blamed the Japanese tradition of resistance for the demonstrations.
He said that the riots of 1960 are pertinent today in 1962 because "they are a landmark in the liberal democratic development of post-war Japan.
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By Walt Blackledge
Chancellor Speaks OnTelevisionShow
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe appeared on television in Kansas City, Mo., Sunday afternoon to answer questions about federal scholarship aid, making Wichita University part of the state system, drop-outs at the University and student marriages.
The chancellor answered the questions on "Yours for the Asking," a KMBC program moderated by Claude Dorsey. The questions were telephoned to the television station before and during the broadcast.
ONE VIEWER ASKED Chancellor Wescoe his opinion on federal scholarship aid "on a pay-back basis." The chancellor answered:
Asked if he favored Wichita University becoming part of the state system, the Chancellor said:
"The associations of universities to which the University of Kansas belongs . . . are on record with the American Council on Education . . . as being opposed at the present time to federal scholarships in support of higher education.
"We believe at the present time that the greatest need in higher education is the provision for physical facilities adequate to handle the students who presently are enrolled and who will be coming to us in the next few years, and we really put, under those circumstances, the matter of federal aid by way of scholarships at a lower priority level."
"IT WILL BE INCUMBENT on the legislature of Kansas and the Board of Regents of the State of Kansas to decide at the last analysis whether Wichita University will become part of the state system or not . . .
"It is quite apparent to me, and I think to most everyone, that a state the size of Kansas with the income that Kansas now has from tax sources is probably in no position to support three institutions of higher learning with highly developed graduate programs."
have another would be exceedingly costly, "and in my estimation, the state cannot afford that."
Another viewer asked Chancellor Wescoe how many students who entered the University found they could not stand the pace. He answered that of the 2119 students entering the University for the first time this fall, less than five per cent found it necessary to leave for scholastic reasons.
The state now has two such schools at KU and Kansas State University, the chancellor said. He said that to
HE ADDED THAT many of those who left could have been readmitted on probation if they had applied for readmittance.
Another questioner asked if the chancellor approved of early marriages among University students. He said there seemed to be "a good deal of it going on" and that the marriages seemed to be fairly successful. Married students did not appear to have a greater amount of difficulty in school, he said.
Chancellor Wescoe also answered one question about charges that certain faculty members or departments are favoring socialistic ideas.
"I do not consider that the faculty of the University in any way . . . can be described as being left wing in its leanings," he said.
Elder Gunter, president of the International City Managers Association (ICMA) and city manager of Des Moines, Iowa, will speak on "Ethics and Future of City Managership." Orin F. Nolting, Chicago, director of ICMA, will also address the group.
Seventy city administrators from a 10-state area are expected to attend the school.
Two Experts to Talk At Managers' Meet
John Ise, professor emeritus of economics, will give the closing address of the session. He will talk on "Why Do You Want Your Cities to Grow?"
Two city administration leaders will speak at the 15th annual City Managers School at KU April 24-26.
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