ROTC credit accepted
The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at KU has voted down a motion to add the number of ROTC hours taken by students in the College to the number of hours required for graduation, according to acting Dean Robert P. Cobb.
The vote was by mail ballot, as requested in the April meeting of the College faculty. The vote was 209 for and 220 against.
The vote concerned credit only and means that the number of hours of ROTC which may be
Alumni award service citations
The University of Kansas and its Alumni Association conferred citations for distinguished service to six of its graduates during the 97th annual commencement exercises June 1-2.
Honored at graduation exercises for the post-baccalaureate seniors in law, medicine and graduate schools were Miss Martha Peterson, president of Barnard College, New York. N.Y.; and Dr David W. Robinson, a plastic surgeon in Kansas City and KU School of Medicine faculty member.
Citations were given during graduation ceremonies for the seniors in the University's eight undergraduate schools to Ray R. Evans, banker and civic leader, Kansas City, Mo.; Raymond F. Nichols, KU vice-chancellor for finance; Miss Irene Nunemaker, businesswoman, New York, N.Y.; and August L. Selig, geologist, Houston, Tex.
The citations were conferred by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, and supported by William W. Keeler, Bartlesville, Okla., president of the Alumni Association.
counted toward a degree from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences remain at 16.
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Other schools in the University have their own requirements, and these would have been unaffected by the decision of the College faculty.
A committee of the Faculty Senate is considering the question of the place of ROTC in the University and is expected to report to the Senate sometime next fall.
On February 18, the College Faculty had voted on three other matters affecting ROTC. The first approved the recommendation of the College Educational Policies Committee that "ROTC courses should be available, in some form, to students in the College."
The second approved the recommendation that "We are impressed by the Navy ROTC's movement toward the wider utilization of the sources of the academic departments, and urge all services to review possible ways of making it possible for students to fulfill their requirements by enrolling in regularly established courses given by non-military personnel."
The third was in two parts. The faculty of the College approved the recommendation that the Senate Committee studying ROTC "consider the desirability of having a University committee, including at least one representative of the College, to assist the Chancellor's Office in reviewing (1) credentials of all candidates for ROTC teaching assignments at KU, and (2) reasons for recommending the dismissal or removal of an ROTC instructor."
The College faculty also approved the second part of the recommendation that the Senate Committee "review the advantages and disadvantages of the circumstances whereby a student both enters and withdraws from an ROTC contract," with the explanation that "determining one's curriculum on the basis of
School of Pharmacy, which previously accepted no credits, voted to accept six hours toward its degree. The other undergraduate professional schools have not considered any changes.
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