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ASC Hits Critics Of Faculty, C-Day
The All Student Council last night passed a resolution criticizing restrictions on KU students on the right to question and examine any system of political thought.
In January Sen. Harbaugh took the floor of the Kansas Senate to criticize KU for allowing Fomin to appear at the crisis day and for the presence of socialism at KU. He also said two KU students had toured the state reporting that there is not a single conservative professor of economics or political science at KU.
GALLAGHER'S RESOLUTION was introduced after the Council defeated an earlier motion criticizing a poll being taken by the campus chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF). The poll is being conducted to determine the political views of members of the faculty of the political science and economies departments. The resolution was introduced by Hollis Cross, Kansas City, Mo., junior.
The Patrick Henry Post passed a resolution early last December which recommended that Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe not allow Alexander Fomin, council to the Soviet Ambassador, to speak at the World Crisis Day because he is a Communist.
The council approved Miss McMillen's motion and Gallagher agreed to draft the letter.
The resolution was presented by Ron Gallagher, Fort Scott junior. It is intended as an answer to recent critics of the University who have voiced opposition to the appearance of a Russian diplomat on the campus and a "disproportionate" number of liberal professors of economics and political science.
AFTER GALLAGHER'S RESOLution was passed. Carol McMillen, Coldwater senior, moved that the council mandate Gallagher to draft a letter addressed to the Patrick Henry Post of the American Legion in Wichita and to Sen. Ford Harbaugh, R-Wellington, as well as to other state senators presenting the resolution and the council's position on academic freedom.
Cross said he intended his resolution as a criticism of the judgment of YAF. He said that he realizes that YAF has the right to take the poll.
A few council members expressed approval of Cross's resolution. Miss McMilleen said:
"I feel it is extremely unfortunate that YAF has decided to take this poll in light of recent socialist charges. I don't feel that it is the place of YAF to take such a poll."
HOWEVER, MOST OF THE council seemed to favor a more general statement against those who have recently criticized the University. Jan Flora, Quinter junior, and Jerry Dixon, Newton junior, both urged that Cross's resolution be defeated in favor of a statement voicing opposition to any restriction on the rights of KU students to inquire.
Flora he was in favor of. "a position on academic freedom." Max Eberhart, Great Bend senior and president of the student body, also urged a position on academic freedom.
Cross's resolution was defeated after considerable debate. Gallagher then introduced his resolution and it passed after a short discussion.
GALLAGHER'S RESOLUTION reads:
Wednesday, Feb. 14, 1962
"Academic freedom has long been a tenet of a free society as is the free press and free speech.
"The University has recently been criticized, from within and without for:
Dixon's amendment asked the board be composed of six students and two faculty members in addition to the dean of men and dean of women and the dean of the school in which the student in question is enrolled.
"1) The presence of a diplomat from the Soviet Union;
The board presently is composed of six students and the three deans.
"2) A preponderance of a certain political thought at KU.
THE ASC ALSO TOOK ACTION on an amendment to a bill presented by Dixon at the last meeting dealing with the structure of the Student Disciplinary Board.
The disciplinary board is the highest court to which a student can appeal, Eberhart explained.
"Therefore the Associated Students of the University of Kansas deploys any restrictions on the rights of KU students to question and examine any system of political thought."
Eberhart said the purpose of the change, including the two faculty members, was "to make sure all three elements of the University (students, faculty, administration) were represented."
"THIS AMENDMENT WOULD provide official faculty representatives on the board to get faculty ideas as opposed to the administration's." Dixon said. He asked that faculty members be chosen from the University Senate for two year terms.
"The dean of students sits in on the board's meetings and can express ideas and since he has a tremendous amount of influence an appellate power to him wouldn't be as fair as an appeal to the chancellor," Eberhart said.
Jerry Palmer, El Dorado senior and chairman of the council, brought up another part of Dixon's bill. He said the bill provided that the dean of students rather than the chancellor be established as the last possible place of appeal for a student.
Eberhart explained that this proposal was brought up last spring but there was not time to take action.
DIXON CONSENTED TO REMOVE the section dealing with this change and the bill was passed unanimously.
Daily hansan
Weather Causes Glenn Orbit Shot Postponement
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
59th Year, No. 82
CAPE CANAVERAL — (UPI) — The Federal Space Agency put astronaut John H. Glenn's orbital flight on a day-to-day basis today after bad weather forced postpone-ment of the round-the-world trip for the eighth time in two months.
"Well, we knew the weather was forecast to be marginal, so I'm not too surprised. All we can do now is watch the weather. Everything else, including me, is go. I'm going back to bed and get some rest."
A project spokesman said the astronaut probably would undergo another in a long series of physical examinations today in preparation for the new firing schedule.
This was Glenn's reaction to the news:
It appeared unlikely that Glenn could take off before Friday morning. Hours after the latest weather-enforced postponement of the flight, the National Aeronautics & Space Administration said no new launch time had been determined.
The Astronaut, the rocket and the spacecraft were ready to go and a final countdown started at 11:30 last night Lawrence time. But just after 1 a.m., space agency officials said conditions for recovery operations were "unsatisfactory."
Glenn's physician, Dr. William K. Douglas, awakened the astronaut and told him of the new delay.
The spokesman also said that the countdown would remain at the beginning of its final phase for four or five days if necessary.
JFK Promises Pilot's Release
WASHINGTON — (UPI)—President Kennedy said today U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers will be free to do as he pleases after he completes "important interviews" with government officials who have been interrogating him at a secret location.
By emphasizing at a televised news conference that Powers is a "free agent" who is "cooperating voluntarily with the government."
President Kennedy
Kennedy sought to remove any question that Powers was being held in custody since his release from a Russian prison.
"At the conclusion of the present discussions, he (Powers) will be free to carry on whatever work he should choose," Kennedy said.
Where are all the students? Five cashiers are ready and waiting, but there are no long lines of students waiting to pay their fees.
Fee payment is a joint operation of the Registrar's Office and the
Fee Payments Going Slower This Semester
Keith N. Litchter University comptroller, said students have been paying their fees at a slow rate so far this semester.
FEES CAN BE PAID from 8 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 5 p.m. at the cashiers' windows of the Business Office in Strong Hall. Fee payment continues through Saturday noon.
Greek Discrimination Studied
The sample, compiled from Daily Kansan telephone interviews, was based on two questions: Do you feel that something should be done at KU about racial and religious discrimination when found to exist in fraternities or sororities? And, if so, what approach would you favor in dealing with the issue?
(Editor's note: This is the third article in a series on racial and religious discrimination in factories in the United States. The article examined the extent of such discrimination. The second dealt with the question of administrative authority in the workplace selection. This article will deal with the present trend toward elimination of bias restrictions in social organizations, and will present a few of the methods
Business Office. The former assesses fees and the latter collects them
in order to assess fees, it is necessary for personnel in the Registrar's office to check each student's enrollment card with his previous records. After it has been determined if a student is a resident of Kansas and extra fees for music courses or practice rooms have been added, his fee card is ready to be picked up.
A random sample of Greek opinion at KU last night indicates that several fraternity and sorority officers want something done about racial and religious discrimination in their organizations.
(Although most of the officers interviewed did agree something should be done, this sample in no
By Arthur C. Miller
"Individual chapters are trying to do something," he added, "and this is acknowledged within the national organization. No outside pressure can help. It will just impose more restrictions."
ON THE QUESTION of what approach should be used, one fraternity president said, "It is up to the chapters themselves, because a lot of chapters are fighting their nationals. This is the case with us.
In general, those interviewed felt the local Greek chapters should be allowed to deal with any discrimination issue affecting their own organizations, and should be able to do so without any outside interference or pressure.
way purports to represent a general sentiment of the Greek system. Such a sentiment can be determined only through an extensive, scientific poll.)
MOST OF the fraternity and sorority officers also were in agreement on the approach they would use in dealing with such discrimination.
Fred Lamar, Alma junior and president of Lambda Chi, said, "Personally I am 100 per cent in favor of such integration. However, I agree with Chancellor Wescow's statement. I feel that the right of personal selection should not be infringed upon. The whole solution requires a change in basic values."
Comments reflecting this general opinions given during the interviews follow: (Names of some individuals have been withheld upon request.)
THE COMPTROLLER'S office then collects the fees. Each half day, the office is closed while cashiers total their receipts.
Further concern for basic values and attitudes was related by another fraternity president. He said;
"THIS IS A question involving attitudes, and fraternities will accept changes in these attitudes only from within. Force from without will not relieve the situation but will make it worse.
"If the attitudes don't change," he continued, "then integration
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Paid fee cards are put into an IBM machine which lists the student's name, amount paid, the cashier's name and the period of payment. The processed fee cards are then sent to the IBM service where they are matched with enrollment cards.
"I's just like checking groceries," said Keith Nitcher, University Comptroller.
FEE MONEY IS deposited with the State Treasurer in Topeka. $70 of each student's money is deposited in a general fee fund to be used for faculty salaries, maintenance, etc. $12 goes into a student activities fund, $12 into a health service fund, and $10 into the Student Union fund.
Fees represent just over one percent of total University funds. Collection is set up so that mistakes are rare and by the end of fee week, every student is accounted for. Those who have not paid their fees are dropped from school.
Weather
Skies will be partly cloudy today and tonight, becoming generally fair and warmer Thursday. Highs today will be 55 to 60, and lows tonight will be 30 to 35. Highs Thursday will be in the 60s
THE PRESIDENT gave no clue to what kind of data government interrogators are obtaining from their "important interviews" with Powers, but he said "the information derived from these interviews will be made available to the appropriate committees of the Congress, and Powers will be free to testify before the Congress, should the Congress so wish."
He added that Powers also "will be made available to the press at the earliest feasible opportunity."
As for the pilot's present whereabouts, Kennedy said, "I can state at this time only that he is in this country, that he has seen his father and mother, and that his wife is with him."
(The Baltimore Sun reported that Powers was staying at Ashford Farms, a 65-acre government estate in Eastern Maryland along the Choptank River. The newspaper said the location of the hideout was confirmed by a "high source in the administration.")
THE 32-YEAR-OLD Powers fell into Russian hands in May, 1960, while piloting a high-altitude U2 plane on a photo reconnaissance mission over the Soviet Union. He was released last Saturday in exchange for Soviet spy Rudolph Abel.
Powers was flown to the United States early Sunday and has since been incommunicado at a secret location on the East coast.
The President said he was "deeply pleased" by the release of Powers and an American student, Frederie Pryor, who also had been held by the Communists. Kennedy added that he would be "doubly pleased if this release" heralds a general improvement in U.S.-Soviet relations.
Kennedy declined to answer a question about how Powers' plane was shot down. He said that question would have to wait until the questioning was completed.
He was replying to a reporter who said that right wing critics have charged his foreign policy is "a no-win policy in the cold war."
The President, in a broader vein, told a questioner that his foreign policy is aimed at preserving the security of the United States and world peace without "causing a nuclear war."
"If somebody wants a nuclear war to win, I can inform them that there will not be any winners in the next nuclear war," Kennedy said. He expressed belief his policy had the support of the American people.
- Supported a statement by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan that no atomic tests are planned at Christmas Island in the central Pacific until after the Geneva Disarmament Conference has begun.
ON OTHER SUBJECTS, the President:
Disagreed with New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller's charge that the recent Punta Del Esta conference was a failure. Kennedy said all the countries of the hemisphere took the position that Cuba, with its Communist government was not a part of the inter-American system. The important thing, he said, was the unanimous stand against Cuba.
- Agreed with a questioner that a disarmament agreement would have to include China to be workable.
THE PRESIDENT WAS asked about some Congressional criticism of the secrecy attached to the Central Intelligence Agency's budgets, parts of which are hidden appropriations for other departments.
Detending this arrangement, Kennedy said that in previous administrations as well as his own this system had combined "Congressional responsibility and protection of our national interests."