Students surveyed
More than 800 KU students will have the opportunity this week to voice their opinions on students, faculty and courses at the University.
Copies of a survey being conducted by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) were mailed at random to a representative number of KU students during the spring break, Dave Holden, Winina, Minn., graduate student
Docking lifts pressure on mailed goods
TOPEKA (UPI) Gov. Robert Docking yesterday signed a bill which releases the consumer from responsibility to return unsolicited material received in the mails.
The bill provides that any sale goods or merchandise received through the mail, but not actually requested, can be termed an unconditional gift. The person who receives the material can use or dispose of the merchandise in any manner he deems appropriate.
"This legislation perhaps will eliminate the inconvenience of a great amount of 'junk mail' and the irritation of a form of 'pressure selling.' The public deserves no less." Docking said.
The Governor signed 14 other measures into law yesterday including a white cane law for blind persons and the so-called "three-day" holiday measure.
The white can law provides that blind or visually handicapped persons have the same rights to public sidewalks, buildings and other facilities as all other people.
The holiday bill establishes 10 legal public holidays and provides for five of them to fall on Monday, thereby giving persons a three-day weekend.
and AAUP member, said yesterday.
The surveys will be used to determine attitudes and opinions of KU students concerning their general satisfaction with the University, Holden said.
He added that the surveys contained questions which ask the student to distinguish between good and bad courses and teachers and also to comment on the University's role in society.
Holden asked that students who had received the questionnaires return them by tomorrow so the results could be compiled. Results of the surveys, with an identifying number on the outside, will be tabulated by computer, and a report will be made at the May 1 general meeting of the AAUP, Holden said.
11 semi-finalists will compete for queen title
Eleven KU coeds have been chosen semi-finalists in this year's Engineering Exposition queen competition.
Engineering students will elect a queen April 14-15.
Semi-finalists are: Linda Lemoine, Leawood sophomore; Kathryn Bricker, Bonner Springs sophomore; Valerie Hughes Western Springs, Ill., senior; Shary Stafford, Bellevue junior; Marcella Stanley, Lawrence freshman.
The queen will preside at an awards banquet and opening ceremonies at the 49th annual Engineering Exposition April 18-20.
Nancy Galante, Lawrence,
sophomore; Cheryl Mehan,
Leawood sophomore; Carol
Manley, Mission freshman;
Evelyn Millentree, Excelsior
Springs, Mo., freshman, and
Mary Patrick, Liberal freshman.
Gulf honors alumnus
The Gulf Oil Corporation has established a Professorship in Geology here in honor of Hollis D. Hedberg, distinguished KU alumnus announced Alexander Lewis, senior vice president of Gulf.
Hedberg, former vice president for exploration to Gulf, is professor of geology at Princeton University.
The Gulf gift will enable KU to add to the regular state salary of a professor additional income equivalent to that from a $100,000 endowment. The Gulf professorship will be the first endowed chair assigned to the department of geology.
The professorship was announced at a dinner of the South Central Conference of the Geological Society of America, which met at KU Thursday through Saturday.
James R. Surface, provost of KU, expressed the University's "great appreciation for the Gulf
Oil Company's gift of an endowed professorship to the Program for Progress, particularly because it honors a man who already has been honored by the conferring of the University Alumni Association citation for distinguished service."
Hedberg, a native of Falun, is a member of the National Academy of Science and has chaired several of its committees.
He was president of the Geological Society of America and of the American Geological Institute. For more than a decade he served as president of the International Commission on Stratigraphic Terminology.
The American Association of Petroleum Geologists awarded Hedberg its Sidney Powers medal. He currently is a member of the lunar and planetary surface committee of the Space Science Board.
Witness in Harrison trial plays down alleged bruises
By PHYLLIS JONES Kansan Staff Writer
WICHITA — The second week of the trial of nine black men accused of extortion and robbery is under way in Sedgwick County District Court before Judge Robert T. Stephan.
Leonard Harrison, director of the Lawrence Ballard Community Center, is one of the defendants accused of beating and threatening Frank Carpenter, assistant director of the Wichita Model Cities program, and Rurus (Jaddy) Blake, Wichita State University (WSU) sociology professor, and part-time Model Cities employe. Both men are black.
The men are charged with extortion and robbery of Andrew Guiterrez, Kansas City community service official, when they twice allegedly forced Guiterrez to write some checks to them as wages for attending meetings.
Carpenter and Blake were allegedly attacked Oct. 17 at a meeting termed a "soul session" in a Wichita motel in an attempt to force them to hire a brother of one of the defendants into the program.
On the stand Friday, Carpetier minimized his injuries. He testified that although he was
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During the preliminary hearing, Blake in a letter to Keith Sanborn, Sedgwick County attorney, said he did not wish to take part in the preliminary hearing and that he hoped further proceedings against the defendants would be suspended.
kicked with stocking feet and vomited afterwards, he "saw no need to go to a doctor." He said he did not suffer cuts of any kind, and that he was "hurt emotionally more than anything else."
Earlier Friday under cross examination by Chester Lewis, Wichita defense attorney, Carpenter said he was reluctant to testify against the defendants. He said he had not placed the matter into the hands of police.
Janice Stoffel, former secretary in the Model Cities program office, testified Friday that she helped take care of Carpenter when he came to her
Earlier, Carpenter said that because of Cole's transcript from WSU, he and Blake decided to recommend Cole for the position of Community Development Administrator, and the planner job was "out of the question."
Monday, Tom Briton, coordinator of the Wichita Model Cities program, said that Al Cole, had not been hired as Planner 1 or 2 in the program because of his "academic background."
In earlier testimony, however, Carpenter testified that he had not been bleeding.
She testified that Carpenter, "dazed and physically tired," arrived at her home about midnight mumbling "They kicked my ass."
Joint meeting to discuss warfare
She said he was bleeding and vomiting and "acted like he had been in a fight or something."
apartment following the alleged beating.
A joint meeting of the New Democratic Coalition (NDC) and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) will discuss new weapons systems and chemical and biological warfare, said Betty Jo Charlton, NDC steering committee treasurer.
The open meeting will be at 8 p.m.today at the South Park Recreation Center. 1141
Massachusetts St. The program will include tapes, slides, lectures and discussion, Mrs. Charlton said.
Jane Morss, WILPF member said, "I believe the anti-ballistic missile system will get quite a bit of consideration at the meeting.
"We have sent invitations to about 130 KU professors in fields related to chemical and biological warfare."
Sky-divers take the plunge with minimum of expense
To fly through the air with the greatest of ease a trapeze is no longer needed, just join KU's sky-diving club.
John Koenig, Rochester, N.Y., senior and president of the club, said the sky-diving club will hold a meeting for new members tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union Forum Room
Koenig said this is the club's third year at KU and it now has about 40 members, several of which are girls.
"We've made about 2,000
jumps," said Koenig, "and there's never been anyone hurt."
Koenig said the KU club, which is affiliated with the U.S. parachute association (USPA), provides the least expensive jumping in the country.
He added that the club furnishes all equipment and said new members can obtain training in the morning and jump that afternoon.
A new film put out by the USPA also will be shown at the meeting, Koenig said.
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES MAJORS!
- Salaries start at $450/semester.
Undergraduate Teaching Assistantships are available for next fall in the new Biology Dept. and certain undergraduate lab courses in biology.
- Approx. ten hrs./week and enrollment in Bio. 83 (laboratory instruction, 2 hrs.) is required.
- Obtain application forms in Biology Office, 249 Snow.
- Deadline for application: April 15, 1969.
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