UDK News Roundup By United Press International
Rightists file motion
JERUSALEM - Right-wing political parties, upset by Premier Levi Eshkol's reported willingness to negotiate control of some occupied Arab territories, threatened yesterday to shatter the National Unity government that led Israel to victory in 1967.
One of the two right-wing blocks involved filed a no-confidence motion against the Eshkol leadership. Knesset, Israel's parliament, was to take it up today.
Canada launches talks
OTTAWA, Canada - External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp said yesterday he had instructed the Canadian Embassy in Stockholm to launch negotiations toward an exchange of diplomats with Communist China.
Biafrans seize 60 miles
UMUAHIA, Biafra — Biafran forces regained more than 60 square miles of the oil-rich Ahoaode region from Federal Nigerian troops Sunday, Biafran military spokesmen said yesterday. They claimed 250 Nigerians were killed in the fighting.
Heart patient improves
CINCINNATI - Six-year-old Christine Corhn, America's fourth child heart transplant patient, showed continued improvement yesterday at Children's Hospital, doctors said.
They said the girl was in satisfactory condition and showed no evidence of rejection.
Christine, born with an incurable heart defect, was given the heart of William Becker, 7, of suburban Loveland, Saturday.
Gunman hijacks plane
MIAMI — A fat, chatty gunman forced a San Juan-to-Miami Eastern Airlines jet with 119 persons aboard to fly to Havana yesterday while a nervous steward talked a wrestler named Abdullah the Butcher out of pouncing on the 300-pound hijacker.
Cuban authorities, breaking a recent precedent, allowed the DC8 "Stretch Jet" to return to Miami with its passengers, instead of making the passengers wait for another plane to pick them up.
It was the 14th hijacking of the year.
Tho returns to Hanoi
PARIS - Le Duc Tho, supervisor of North Vietnam's negotiating team, left unexpectedly yesterday for Hanoi. There was immediate speculation he was carrying secret American proposals to break the deadlocked peace talks.
Nixon will visit Berlin despite blocked routes
WASHINGTON, D.C. (UPI) The White House yesterday reaffirmed President Richard M. Nixon's intention to visit West Berlin later this month despite East German moves to block land access routes to the city in connection with the upcoming West German presidential election.
"The President will make the trip to West Berlin," said White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler in response to questions.
beach-front home with Secretary of State William P. Rogers and Henry A. Kissinger, his national security affairs adviser.
Nixon's one-week trip to Europe, starting Feb. 23, was covered in depth in several low-key conferences this weekend at his
According to present plans, the President will spend several hours in West Berlin on Feb. 27.
The Soviet government newspaper Izvestia said yesterday that Nixon's trip to the divided city would "further complicate" the situation posed by the partial blockade.
Ziegler said the President also "fully supported" a statement issued in Bonn yesterday by three
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Tuesday, February 11, 1969 Lawrence, Kansas 79th Year, No. 72
New England blanketed by 15-inch deluge of snow
The near-blizzard spawned off the Virginia Capes Saturday spread a five-inch blanket of white on Virginia, dumped 15 inches on New York City in 28 hours, and smothered parts of Maine with 24 inches before moving out to sea Monday morning south of Nantucket.
Storm connected deaths totaled 34-17 in New York, 15 in New England and two in Pennsylvania. Most were attributed to traffic accidents and heart attacks brought on by snow shoveling.
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NEW YORK (UPI) - The worst snowstorm in eight years left the Northeast a winter no-man's land Monday and closed schools, airports, railroads, highways, financial and commodity markets. Few but essential businesses operated. The death toll mounted steadily.
Cronkite talk set after March 10
Cronkite was scheduled to deliver a lecture at KU on the atmosphere of "sponsored distrust" in broadcasting and printing news.
A 14-inch snow storm in New York City kept Walter Cronkite, Columbia Broadcasting System news correspondent and anchor man, from attending the William Allen White Day activities yesterday.
"Cronkite is tentatively scheduled to come sometime after March 10," said Warren K. Agee, dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism.
Weather Partly cloudy.
Salaam - Shalom
Photos by Halina Pawl
KU Arab and Israeli students displayed signs and emotions at the Yitzhak Lear minority opinions lecture Monday night. See story, page 5.
Chalmers
By MICHAEL NAGEL Kansan Staff Writer
"I was most surprised and pleased to find KU high on a ridge instead of in a wheat field," said E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., newly-selected chancellor describing his Jan. 15, 1969, visit to the KU campus.
In an exclusive long distance telephone interview with the Kansan Monday, the 40-year-old administrator said his reaction to his selection could be described in one word: "overwhelmed." The announcement of his selection by the Kansas Board of Regents came Monday morning. Chalmers will replace W. Clarke Wescoe whose resignation is effective June 30.
Chalmers, vice-president for academic affairs at Florida State University in Tallahassee, is one of the youngest men to have been chosen for the position of chancellor in the history of KU.
"I am very proud and honored to have been selected chancellor of one of the nation's finest universities," Chalmers said.
'overwhelmed'
Chalmers' youth is reflected in his opinions on contemporary controversial issues which now confront the institutions of education.
When asked about the function of the university in society, Chalmers said, "The first and foremost function is the education of the students. For optimum efficiency in society, today's student must be educated for the 21st century."
"The curriculum and faculty must be oriented toward the cutting edge of societies' problems," said Chalmers.
The newly-selected chancellor termed the new left politics as an "important effort to check persistent archaic traditions and to keep us alert."
"However, to impede the progress of others carries individuals' rights past their constitutional domain," said Chalmers.
Chalmers, a strong enthusiast of students right, said that the proposed University Senate Code to be voted on Feb. 19 and 20 would be "a most impressive step forward."
"Higher education must be a joint endeavor of student and faculty representation. These are changing times, and those who resist change are left by the wavside." said Chalmers.
The KU College-within-the-College system is a very instrumental step for a college which intends to keep ahead of the nation-wide surge in college enrollments, said Chalmers. He explained the
College-within-the-College program is part of an experimental program.
One of Chalmers' major areas of concern is the education of underprivileged students. He explained the University of Florida, which has a enrollment of more than 16,000 students, operates under the admissions policy of accepting only high-school graduates who are in the top 30 per cent of their class.
Commenting on the University of Florida's program, the 'cluster plan', Chalmers said "attitudes have remarkably changed although there has been no noticeable improvement in grades."
The Tutorial System for Underprivileged Students, in whose development Chalmers was instrumental, accepts underprivileged students who fall below the 30 per cent line but show a spark of potential. Chalmers said those students are provided with a one-to-one tutorial program.
Chalmers has no immediate or long-range plans for KU. "I have had no real opportunity to get good feel of areas of consideration," said Chalmers.
But, he added, "I hope that Chancellor Wescoe's calendar and mine coincide quite often so that I'll be able to visit KU and become more acquainted with it before I assume the position of chancellor."