PSA wants more black professors
Student representation on departmental committees will help efforts to bring more black professors to KU, Mark Edwards, Emporia junior and Progressive Student Alliance (PSA) presidential candidate said yesterday.
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Leffel, Zilm make course suggestions
A combined effort on the part of students and faculty members to study Vietnam, poverty, civil rights and other problems through "task" courses was proposed last night by Frank Zilm, St. Louis junior and campus coalition vice-presidential candidate for Student Senate.
The purpose of these "task" courses would be to make an intellectual commitment to such problems, Zilm said. Through such commitment, a resolution to the problem could be reached. Such courses would be offered as electives on a University-wide scale, Zilm said.
Zilm further proposed the formation of an Action Corps of students which would work with the Community Clearing House.
The Community Clearing House was formed by students to coordinate student involvement programs and act as a centralized source of information for various volunteer services available in the community, Zilm said.
Zilm proposed that the Community Clearing House be moved to the KU campus to "eliminate the student's need to search out various existing action groups." The Action Corps would be comprised of these interested students.
Black courses
A KU faculty with a varied cultural background, and the introduction of specific courses or a new department, dealing with black courses was proposed last night by Rusty Leffel, Prairie Village junior and Campus Coalition presidential candidate.
Lefel explained his proposals for "blacks and the University community." He suggested the possible goal of an interdisciplinary departmental program for Afro-American Studies or a more general Ethnic Studies Department.
Before such a studies program or department could be formed, Leffel suggested specific courses in black philosophy, social work sociology, psychology and history.
A search by both administration and students for faculty members with different cultural backgrounds was also suggested by Leffel.
viewing a course through the eyes of a black professor," Edwards said. "Our exchange program to be conducted with black universities will also permit a creditable black studies program to be initiated."
Campus campaign
Leffel endorsed the All-Student Council measure providing a tutorial scholarship program for disadvantaged students, and said he felt "students are ready to take on the added responsibility of working with some of these disadvantaged students to help them gain the necessary background to be successful in college."
Leffel said he wanted to make the University a place "that can accommodate all points of view without polarizing our campus into conflicting groups."
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Edwards said this proposal would not create additions in the teaching staff, but would call for a man for man exchange-white professor for black professor.
Rick von Ende, Abilene, Tex., graduate student and PSA vice-presidential candidate said the black studies program would be open to everyone. "Students at KU should be provided with an opportunity to acquire a greater understanding of the black people in our society," he said.
Von Ende added that the major concern for education in the future, as more people are urbanized, should be to study and resolve the problems of the city. "Our Urban Studies Program," he said, "and our Black Studies Program should not only be considered, but initiated and put into high gear as soon as possible."
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Platform released
Candidates for junior class officers, Vince Frye, Mission sophomore for president; Dan Stepp, Prairie Village sophomore for vice-president; Susie White, Hutchinson sophomore for secretary; and Barbara Reed, Tulsa sophomore for treasurer announced their platform yesterday.
Heading the platform is a proposed class get-acquired breakfast with Chancellor-designate E. Laurence Chalmers.
"Our emphasis throughout the platform is to encourage University awareness in our class," Frye said.
"This will be an opportunity for our class to get a better idea of the new chancellor as a human being rather than a figurehead," Stepp explained.
This coalition also proposes to sponsor a distinguished speakers series. By working through the board of class officers, they hope to get each class to sponsor an outstanding speaker, he said.
Stepp listed Project Concern high in the coalition's list of priorities. As a class service project, funds for the cause could be raised through a major concert, he said.
To implement its program, the group proposes a 15-member executive committee in deference to a class congress.
"A smaller group," Frye said, "can work more effectively and efficiently to carry out our programs."
Finally, the group proposes to concentrate on major class
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"We feel we can use our working funds more effectively than they have been used in the past on smaller functions." Frye concluded.
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