THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
79th Year, No. 71
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Mon., Feb. 10, 1969
Regents announce Chancellor for KU
UDK News Roundup By United Press International
Javits asks for lottery
WASHINGTON — Legislation calling for a lottery system for selecting draftees, and specifying that 19-year-olds would be called first was proposed Friday by Sen. Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y.
Javits also called for a thorough study of an all-volunteer Army but indicated he is not as enthusiastic about the possibility of eliminating the draft as is President Nixon.
Javits bill would authorize-not require-the lottery method of draft selection, and reverse the present order of draft call.
Russians boost defense
WASHINGTON - The Soviet Union is speeding up the arms race by spending 3.7 times as much on strategic weapons defenses than the United States, Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird said yesterday.
Laird, appearing on a national television interview, Face the Nation-CBS, also predicted that the Communist Chinese would launch "an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with a capability of long range within the next 18 months."
Griff's given warning
The department alleged that the patties did not conform to the state's definition of a hamburger and that the patties contained additives of soya flour and additional water. In other words, unless the patties met state standards they could not be called hamburgers.
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By RON YATES Kansan Editor-in-Chief
TOPEKA - The Kansas attorney general's office announced Friday that Griff's of America, Inc., has been given until March 1 to comply with the state's legal definition of a hamburger.
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Prof. E. Laurence Chalmers, Jr., vice president for academic affairs at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Fla. has been selected to succeed, W. Clarke Wescoe as Chancellor of the University of Kansas.
The Kansas Board of Regents announced the selection of the 40-year-old Chalmers at a news conference in Topeka at 11:00 a.m. today. Chalmers will begin his duties at KU July 1, 1969 replacing Wescoe who resigned in September 1968.
E. Laurence Chalmers, Jr.
A. H. Cromb, chairman of the Board of Regents selection committee, said Chalmers was a "unanimous choice of the faculty and student screening committees."
Chalmers, who was born in Wildwood, N.J. March 24, 1928, received his A.B. (cum laude-1948), his M.A. (1950) and his Ph.D. (1951) from Princeton University. All three degrees are in psychology. He is married to the former Mary Ann Bealler and has two children—E. L. Chalmers III, 16, and Thomas Henry Chalmers, 13.
Cromb said Chalmers, who was selected by the Board of Regents from a list of six final names submitted by the Faculty and Student screening committees, will receive the same salary Wescoe is currently receiving—$37,000 a year.
He said the screening committee had received about 160 applications for the position and that the faculty and student committee interviewed 28 applicants. He said the Board of Regents interviewed each of the
regimens interviewed each of the final six applicants a second time before making its selection.
Krebs said Chalmers had
Frederick A. Krebs, Shawnee graduate student and member of the student screening committee, called Chalmers "student oriented."
"Professor Chalmers indicated that he was concerned with student rights and more Negro involvement on campus," Krebs said. "Also," Krebs continued, "Prof. Chalmers was instrumental in developing the tutorial program at Florida State for underprivileged students. He is extremely progressive and vigorous in his attitude toward more student-faculty involvement."
developed the Florida State honors program and is currently involved in developing small colleges within-the-college at Florida State which has an enrollment of about 16,000.
Strong Hall says:
Chalmers visited the KU campus Jan. 15, 1969 in connection with his interview with the faculty and student screening committees. Cromb said he did not know when Chalmers would visit KU before he begins his duties July 1. Like Wescoe, Chalmers received a Danforth Foundation award in 1968 to study college administration.
Chalmers first became a member of the Florida State faculty in 1957
when he was hired as an assistant professor of psychology. Before that, Chalmers worked five years as a research psychologist with the U.S. Air Force. Three of those years he served as a 1st lieutenant in the Air Force. Before his work in the service, Chalmers was an instructor at Princeton University.
Before taking his present position as vice president for academic affairs in 1966, Chalmers, who was described as an administrator who moved up through the teaching ranks, was Dean of the Florida State College of Arts and Sciences and served as assistant dean of faculties.
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'No pistol-packing students - please'
KU Provost James Surface, acting on behalf of Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, issued a new University ruling over the weekend prohibiting persons not authorized by the "Chancellor or his designated representative" from carrying firearms on the KU campus.
The new ruling, which calls for the immediate dismissal of violators from the University, was drawn up. Surface said, when two unidentified KU students asked permission to carry firearms for their protection from, as they put it, "campus police pigs."
Yesterday, a member of the First Artaud Romantic Tautological Society issued a
leaflet saying that the two petitioning students were members of the society. The leaflet said the request to carry firearms was made after the ASC "attempt and failure to disarm the campus pigs."
Surface said the new ruling, which was put into effect late Friday afternoon, received the approval of the Senate Executive Council and officers of the All Student Council.
"In the interest of safety and order on the campus the request should be denied and the new rule enacted." Surface said Friday afternoon.
State and city laws do not prohibit citizens from carrying unconcealed weapons, Surface
Skech by Richard Mantz
said, "but it is in the authority and responsibility of the Chancellor to rule against the carrying of firearms on campus, by students."
The Society's leaflet urged "all black Americans, all Third World Students, and all potential John Brown's to arm themselves and figh: the present and coming oppression."
Surface's announcement included the full text of the ruling which read: "Effective February 7, 1969, only persons authorized to do so by the Chancellor or his designated representative shall carry firearms on the University of
Kansas campus. Violation of this rule will result in the immediate dismissal from the University."
BULLETIN
Walter Cronkite, CBS news commentator, postponed convocation and dinner speeches scheduled for today. Cronkite was to have accepted the 1969 William Allen White Foundation national citation.
The snowi storm battering the northeastern part of the United States washed out air travel and Cronkite was unable to leave New York.