FRASER HALL TO GO—Funds have been approved by the Kansas Board of Regents to replace this 90-year-old KU landmark. (Photo by Richard Botshon.)
France, Algeria End Fighting
PARIS — (UPI) — France and Algerian rebel leaders have reached full agreement on a cease-fire to end more than seven years of war in North Africa, authoritative government sources reported today.
France's Algerian affairs Minister Louis Joxe who headed the French delegation at secret peace talks all last week, flew back to Paris this morning to report to President Charles de Gaulle.
THE REBEL DELEGATION WAS flying back to Tunis this afternoon to report to the Algerian government-in-exile there.
The agreement was reached late last night after exactly one week of final negotiations at a secret hideout on French territory somewhere near the Swiss border.
Officials said three principal documents have resulted from the secret negotiations which have been going on intermittently since last October.
THE FIRST IS A PURELY MILITARY cease-fire agreement, in calling for an end to the fighting, which more than 250.000 Moslems and Europeans have died in the past seven years, including some 18.000 French soldiers.
The political terms of the agreement will be laid down in two "Declarations of Intention" which will be made public simultaneously by the French government in Paris and the rebel government-in-exile in Tunis.
It still was not known who would sign this document, although the French want the military on both sides to sign.
The main terms of these were expected to be:
- France agrees the Algerians shall have the right of self-determination.
- A mixed provisional executive of both Moslems and Europeans with a Moslem chairman will be set up at government headquarters at
Rocher Noir, east of Algiers, to run the territory during an interim period of six to nine months.
- A mixed security force of 30,-000 to 40,000 men, probably under a Moslem commander, will be responsible for internal security during the interim period, although the bulk of France's 400,000-man army will remain for a time.
- A referendum will be held throughout Algeria after about six months in which the entire population will vote whether it wants full independence or to remain under French rule.
- If, as expected, the vote is overwhelmingly in favor of independence, a sovereign Algerian republic will be set up.
- France will retain garrisons and bases in Algeria for a number of years.
- France and Algeria will cooperate in exploiting Sahara oil.
- There will be firm guarantees for the future of the 1.1 million Europeans in Algeria after independence.
The agreement must be approved by De Gaulle and the French cabinet as well as by the rebel government-in-exile and by the 60-member rebel parliament or National Council of the Algerian Revolution (CNRA). The CNRA is expected to meet in the Libyan Capital of Tripoli Wednesday to study the draft settlement.
Algerian rebel Vice Premier Mohammed Ben Bella, being held by the French with four other rebel government members at a chateau south-east of Paris, was expected to be released in time to attend the ceremony himself.
If, as officials here believe, the agreement is approved by both sides, the cease-fire will be signed at a formal session somewhere in France in about eight to 10 days.
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Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, Feb. 19, 1962
59th Year, No. 85
Fraser Replacement Voted by Regents
By Ron Wilcox
Fraser Hall, which at one time housed the entire student body of Kansas University, will soon be replaced by a $1,630,000 successor.
In a statement from Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe this morning he said:
Rock Chalk Skits Practice in Hoch
The Kansas Board of Regents voted funds for planning of the new building Saturday.
"The University's burgeoning enrollment demands the most efficient and economical use of the area in the heart of the campus. This efficiency and economy relates to the utilization of time of both students and faculty, as well as the employment of building funds made available.
"FRAASER HALL HAS outlived its usefulness. It no longer is efficient space in terms of modern classroom buildings, because of its high ceilings, wide and open stairwells, wooden interior, and wall-bearing construction. It is being kept usable only at unusual expense. It is an increasingly unsatisfactory educational facility both for students and faculty.
"Further, it cannot be kept usable
KU is currently working on a long-range housing program, which officials hope will house some 6,000 students by 1970. Presently there are 2528 students living in resident halls, which represents 31 per cent of the student body.
"A decision such as this obviously produces mixed emotions because of the age of old Fraser and its long years of service as well as its traditional position on this campus. This decision, which is the only one the University can make responsibly, is a result of years of study.
"THE UNIVERSITY cannot conscientiously consider rehabilitation in view of the mandate it has accepted to use in the most economical manner building funds made available to it.
much longer. The decision has been made, therefore, to remove it because it occupies a crucial site in the center of the campus. This site must be used for a principal academic building.
"It is estimated that a new and modern building of approximately the same dimensions as old Fraser Hall can produce nearly twice the amount of usable academic space. Architectural estimates for a new building indicate that renovation could cost twice the amount necessary to provide a modern building.
Regents to Approve Housing Expansion
"THE PLAN FOR the new building places it immediately east of old Fraser, but the ultimate removal
OFFICIALS PREDICT THAT by 1975, enrollment here will reach 20,000. They say the University will never house more than 35 per cent of the student body. This means that
The ghosts of Ivanhoe and Maecbeth walk once more, Peter Pan finds his Tinker Bell and Jason his Golden Fleece in rehearsals for the 1962 Rock Chalk Revue now under way in Hoch Auditorium.
The theme for the four-skit presentation to be held March 2-3 is "Classics Awry." Each of the four skits is a parody of a famous classic with adaptations of campus life.
KU officials Saturday received approval from the Kansas State Board of Regents to go ahead with plans for expansion of University housing.
Bidding for construction will start in mid-March.
Phi Delta Theta and Gamma Phi Beta will present a parody of Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. Beta Theta Pi and Kappa Alpha Theta will adapt Shakespeare's Macbeth to campus life.
THE NEW DORMITORY is designed to house 656 men. It will be located in the "Daisy Field" tract south of Hashinger Hall, which is now under construction. Hashinger will house 440 women, and will be ready for use this Fall.
Earlier this month the Federal Housing and Home Agency in Washington, D.C., presented KU with a $1,950,000 loan to build a 10-story men's dormitory. Approval by the Regents was needed on the loan.
Along with the loan, $650,000 in University funds will be used in construction of the new building. Completion is expected in the Fall of 1963.
KAPPA SIGMA and Delta Delta Delta combine to present a modern version of Jason and the Golden Fleece while Peter Pan is presented by Alpha Tau Omega and Kappa Kappa Gamma.
Tickets for the Revue go on sale Feb. 22 in the Information Booth. A roving booth will go from dormitory to dormitory on Feb. 27.
Rehearsals in Hoch will start tonight with the rehearsal of two skis each night. Next week all four skis will be rehearsed each night.
The price of the tickets is 75 cents for balcony seats and $1.25 for a main floor seat for the Friday presentation. For the Saturday presentation the tickets cost $1 and $1.50, respectively.
Letters have been sent to 1400 high schools in Kansas and Missouri telling them about the Revue. It is hoped that many of the smaller high school will take class trips to see the production.
Weather
Generally fair today, tonight and tomorrow and not quite so cold. High today 40 to 45. Low tonight in the middle 20s.
The Rock Chalk Revue is sponsored by the KU-Y.
between 60 and 70 per cent of KU students will have to find housing somewhere else.
In other action, the Board of Regents approved a plan to modernize the KU telephone system.
The present system is located in the Building and Grounds building and has used up all but 25 of its exchange numbers.
The phone system probably will be moved to the basement of the new dormitory which will be started sometime this spring or summer.
of Fraser Hall cannot occur for at least five more years."
Fraser is celebrating its 90th birthday this year. When Fraser was built in 1872 it was the nation's largest educational building and was constructed for $146,000.
It was on Dec. 2, 1872, that Chancellor John Fraser told a group of students, "Our new building is ready, so we will now go over and take possession."
OLDER GRADUATES will recall that at one time Fraser housed the chancellor's office, the office of the Board of Regents, the library, the University press, and various departments including physics, mathematics, astronomy, engineering, natural history, Greek, English, philosophy and law.
Today it houses English, language and home economics classes.
In 1872 the new hall had 54 rooms and Chancellor Fraser predicted it would be adequate enough to meet the needs of the University for the next 50 years, or until 1922. Money used to construct the building came from two sources—the state legislature and the citizens of Lawrence.
THE BUILDING was originally called University Hall. In 1896 its name was changed to Fraser Hall to honor KU's first chancellor.
Built of native limestone, the lofty structure has undergone few external faceliftings. However, the 54 original rooms have been divided up and remodeled into more than 70.
The first KU graduation exercises were held in Fraser. The four graduated in 1873 were stunned, for as they were receiving their diplomas, pranksters lowered a skeleton belonging to the zoology department through an opening in the ceiling just as Chancellor Fraser was delivering the main address.
THE AUDITORIUM has provided a rostrum for many famous speakers through its 90-year history. Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft, William Jennings Bryan, Sinclair
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Legion Post Chairman To Speak on 'Correction'
The man who lodged an American Legion Post's protest against KU's World Crisis Day in December will speak and answer questions at 7:30 Wednesday night in Fraser Theater.
He is Kenneth Myers, chairman of the Americanism Committee of the Patrick Henry Post in Wichita, who will be among persons speaking and participating in a question-and-answer session after a showing of the film, "Operation Correction."
"OPERATION Correction" was produced by the American Civil Liberties Union in an effort to correct alleged distortions in "Operation Abolition," a controversial film prepared and distributed by the House Un - American Activities Committee (HUAC).
"Operation Abolition" purports to be a documentary record of "Communist-inspired student riots" against HUAC in San Francisco in May 1960.
A member of the student group sponsoring the showing, Brian O'Heron, Torrington, Conn., senior, said Myers has promised to appear on the program, and bring a colleague with him.
The two men will defend "Operation Abolition," and two KU faculty members will defend the corrected version of the demonstrations.
'OHeron said John Grumm, assistant professor of political science,
and Charles Landesman, assistant professor of philosophy, have agreed to participate.
IN HIS PROTEST for the Patrick Henry Post, Myers deplored the campus appearances of Alexander Fomin, counselor to the Soviet Embassy, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., special assistant to the President. The two debated in a University convocation as part of World Crisis Day.
Myers asked that the Kansas Board of Regents "investigate" the University to learn who was responsible for the Crisis Day program.
After the film is shown, each of four speakers will speak about 15 minutes. Members of the audience will then be permitted to question the speakers. Frank E. Dance, assistant professor of speech and drama, will act as moderator.
"Operation Correction" consists of identical film footage to that used in "Operation Abolition," but narration of the revised version tells a totally different story from narration of the original.
Events during the HUAC hearings in San Francisco in 1960 have become the center of a heated debate concerning the degree of Communist penetration into student groups, and the usefulness of HUAC.