Senate to rule on disciplinary action
By MIKE NAGEL
Kansan Staff Writer
Creating new channels of student communication and strengthening student government were among the topics discussed in an interview yesterday with Dave Awbrey,
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Dave Awbrey
student body president, and Marilyn Bowman, vice president.
Awbrey, a Hutchinson junior, and Miss Bowman, a Merriam junior, were among the slate of Independent Student Party (ISP) candidates who recently were elected to office. The ISP campaign was run with the planks of increasing student participation in University government and other liberal-radical issues.
The president described his adjustment to office as the realization that nobody is prepared for the office before he enters it. He said his preliminary understanding of what the position entailed was inadequate.
Awbrey also emphasized that the new Senate Code partially modified the office of president and consequently his actions and interpretations of these modifications would determine the role of future presidents.
The new Senate Code is the first target of the Awbrey administration. Awbrey said that
he could not be expected to accomplish anything spectacular during his tenure for implementation of the code would utilize most of the years energy. He explained that defining, interpreting and establishing were the major problems.
Awbrey said the first major confrontation of the new code would be the emergency meeting of the Senate tonight. The meeting has been called to decide upon disciplinary action to be taken against three KU SDS members. A decision by the Senate will thus officially demonstrate the new power delegated it by the code.
Awbrey stressed that he would force the Senate to make a decision by refusing to adjourn the meeting until a resolution had been passed.
Speaking of the Senate members, Awbrey said, "They were elected as responsible officials and they are expected by the University to make a decision."
The president refrained from commenting on what he hoped the meeting would resolve because he said he felt it would
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Marilyn Bowman
Alumni to receive service citations
Five KU alumni will receive citations for distinguished service, awarded jointly by the University and its Alumni Association, said Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe and William W. Keeler, alumni president.
Robinson and Miss Martha Peterson, president of Barnard College in New York City and former KU dean of women whose citation was voted a year ago, will be honored June 1 in the Commencement exercises for post-baccalaureate degree candidates.
The five to be honored are: Ray R. Evans, president of the Traders National Bank in Kansas City, Mo., and former member of the Kansas Board of Regents; Raymond F. Nichols, KU vice chancellor for finance; Miss Irene Nunemaker, businesswoman and philanthropist, New York, N.Y.; David W. Robinson, Kansas City physician and member of the KU medical faculty, and August L. Selig, consulting geologist and oil developer in the Gulf coast area, Houston, Tex.
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Evans, Nichols, Miss Nunemaker and Selig will receive their citations June 2 during the exercises for undergraduates.
Evans, a native of Kansas City, starred in football and basketball in the early 1940s and after World War II. He was a member of Sachem Honor society for senior men, president of the Class of 1948 and was designated Honor Man of the class.
Nichols, a native of Larned, was designated the Honor Man of the Class of 1926 and was editor of both the University Daily Kansan and the Jayhawk.
Miss Nunemaker grew up on farms in Colorado and after graduation from KU in 1922 went into advertising work. She recently donated $350,000 to KU for the first physical facility for a College-within-the-College.
Robinson graduated from KU in 1935 and received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1938. Since 1947 he has been chairman of the plastic surgery section of the KU School of Medicine. Robinson's father, Prof. David H. Robinson was a member of KU's first faculty.
be injurious to the Senate's objectivity. On the other hand Miss Bowman said she agreed with the demands of the radicals and hoped for total amnesty.
Selig, a native of Lawrence, attended KU before and after World War I and received the B.A. degree in 1920. He is a trustee of St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital.
When asked how the interest of the average student could be roused, Miss Bowman said by the establishment of new communication channels.
Miss Bowman said she hopes her position will enable her to establish new channels of communication between the student body and the University administration.
Describing the new channels as her primary objective, Miss Bowman agreed with Awbrey's
suggestion of amending the Senate Code to allow a student referendum to be called if and when a student had presented to the Senate a petition signed by 500 persons.
Miss Bowman said she also appreciated the idea of action projects which would enhance the Lawrence-University relationship. She said it might be possible to establish a committee within the Senate which would coordinate interested persons and the projects.
Awbrey said the issues were essential.
"Controversy creates involvement," said the president.
But Awbrey cautioned the unwary who might feel this was an affirmation of violence and destruction.