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Summer Session Kansan
Friday. July 24,1964
52nd Year, No.14
Lawrence Kansas
Laird Wilcox
Minutemen's KU Target Is Partisan of Minority View
By Dan Austin
Robert DePugh, leader of the right wing para-military Minuteum organization, last week accused Laird Wilcox, a sophomore active in KU politics, of being a "professional . . . leftist agitator."
Wilcox was interviewed to discuss DePugh's charge, which was made in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch interview with DePugh and Wilcox.
In one of these statements DePugh said: "Wilcox came to the University and was given an apartment in the basement of the chancellor's home. He was given a good job in one of the offices of the university. Bear in mind that Laird Wilcox has his carbon copy on almost all college campuses in the United States."
WILCOX IMMEDIATELY REPLied to these charges. "I have never lived in the Chancellor's basement nor have I ever been granted any special favors by the University. Last year I managed the Office Supply Store for eight months. The job was a civil service position. I received an excellent recommendation. . . ."
As far as personal politics go, Wilcox says he is a Social Democrat. "That is the same party as Willy Brandt (mayor of West Berlin), Nehru of India and the Labour Party of Great Britain."
DePugh said he had no party affiliation, but has often called the John Birch Society "too liberal."
WILCOX HAS BEEN quite active in various phases of campus life During the 1963-1964 school year he was chairman of the Minority Opinions Forum, member of the Student Peace Union and editor of the Kansas Free Press. While chairman of the Opinions Forum, Wilcox brought George Lincoln Rockwell, head of the American Nazi Party, to speak before KU students.
"DePugh accused me of bringing only far left speakers to the forum. Last year . . . only one guest before the forum was a leftist, and he was not a Communist." DePugh had been a guest of the forum in May, 1963.
A $200 SCHOLARSHIP from the American School in Chicago helped Wilcox enter KU. Wilcox said last summer that he had a three-point grade average but this year only a one-point average. He attributed this
to time spent on the forum and the Kansas Free Press, as well as his family responsibilities.
The Kansas Free Press is a biweekly newsletter published by Wilcox and several friends. It is not subsidized by the University and operates solely on small contributions and subscriptions. Student subscription rates are $1 for 20 issues.
The Free Press has attacked both the extreme right and the extreme left, and is considered to be a liberal paper. At the moment, it is raising funds for Henry Haldeman, a book-seller who was convicted last year on a charge of sending allegedly obscene literature through the mail. To date more than $1,100 has been raised in his defense.
WILCOX PREVIOUSLY ran a national subscription agency which handled both leftist and rightist material, until he was forced to give it up for more pressing matters. One of these "pressing matters" is his family. He has a wife and a young son.
In his office, located in the basement of his home, Wilcox keeps a large collection of right-wing and left-wing propaganda material, including the taped speeches of George Lincoln Rockwell and Billy James Hargis, leader of the Christian Crusade. According to him, this collection is a hobby on which he hopes to write a book later.
"I think it's the largest collection of material between the University of Colorado and Iowa University." he said.
WILCOX HAS found that the easiest way to obtain this material is to join the organization which publishes it.
There are two organizations in which Wilcox does not claim membership—the John Birch Society and the Communist Party.
Life Science Research Is In New Era
"I must be a member of at least four dozen organizations on both the left and the right." Wilcox said.
"Extremist organizations play a more important part in politics than most people realize," Wilcox said. He then showed a pro-Goldwater pamphlet written by a former Nazi supporter.
Research at the University of Kansas is growing up.
The entrance by life scientists here into the computer age has been emphasized further by United States Public Health Service announcement of a $116,668 grant for computer support for health-related research.
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The announcement comes as the University is installing a new 7040-1401 computer complex to replace smaller computers no longer adequate for KU needs in research and other areas.
The new grant will provide $41,668 for an initial 16-month period. Grants of $35,000 and $40,000 are allocated for the second and third years, respectively.
THE FUNDS WILL support staff and other costs for computer services to handle research in life sciences at the KU Computation Center. William J. Argersinger Jr., associate dean of faculties for research and co-director of the grant, estimates research in these areas to comprise 20 per cent of computer usage in the next five years.
Robert R. Sokal, professor of statistical biology, is also a co-director of the grant. As such, he represents all faculty at Lawrence and the KU Medical Center in Kansas City who will undertake health-related projects using the expanded Computation Center.
Sokal, now completing a year of lecturing on ecology and biometry at Tel-Aviv and Hebrew universities in Israel, has emphasized a quantitative approach to biological problems in his studies. One of his interests is numerical taxonomy by computer methods, a new research area which he helped to develop.
BESIDES SOKAL, many KU scientists conducting health-related research will benefit from the new Public Health Service grant. It will allow them either to continue or to expand their studies, using the improved computation facilities.
Among initiated or anticipated health-related projects that will depend on computer support are the following located at the Lawrence campus:
Analysis of mark-recapture data used by scientists to determine the populations of organisms, by Frank Sonleitner, assistant professor of entomology.
Development of a numerical model of the human blood system, by Charles F. Weinaug, professor of petroleum engineering.
SYSTEMS ANALYSIS and water quality studies related to environmental health, by Ross E. McKinney, professor, and Raymond H. Loehr, associate professor, both of civil engineering.
Study of ground-water pumping and the rain recharge problem, by Weinaug and Floyd W. Preston, associate professor of petroleum engineering.
Population geography investigations, by Robert E. Nunley, associate professor of geography and associate chairman of Latin American area studies.
Development of the "Kansas Slavic Index," an alphabetical listing of key words-in-context of material published in current journals on social sciences and the humanities, by Earl Farley, KU library systems specialist.
Ground-water studies, by Jesse M. McNellis, geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey.
A combined list of serial publications for the Kansas institutions of higher education, also by Farley.
Three Films Tonight
Three travelogues will be shown north of Robinson Gymnasium at 8 p.m. today. The films are "See You in Peru," "A Wonderful World," and "Greece—The New Age."
De Gaulle Urges Viet Nam Meeting
PARIS—(UPI)—President Charles de Gaulle yesterday proposed an international conference be held to end the Vietnamese war and to agree on neutralization of Southeast Asia.
Last Kamper Kansan
Last Kamper Kansan This issue includes the last edition of the Kamper Kansan, edited and published by the journalism division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp.
English Pro List Announced
The following students passed the English Proficiency examination, which was given June 13:
Gwendolyn B. Altie, Gall Ann Andre,
Malloney M. Aher, Rex Baker, Carolyn
Sue Jateson, Patrick A. Bennett,
L. Bernstein, Patricia A. Bennett, Sheldon
L. Bernstein, Caroll Ann W. Bland, Dona
Marie Blank, Jimmi R. Boling, Merle
Ray Bolton, Robbie E. Coulson,
David Stephen P. Brandon,
David Charles Brill, Willis E. Brooks,
Steve Shadwick Brown, Cheryl Mac
Browne, Don Elmer Buckelb, Melinda
Cornellia Sue Cable, John Allan Cassell
David J. Christenson, Rosemary C. Clark,
Larry William Cole, Jack C. Connell,
Charles W. Dillon, John C. Connell,
T. Dantiforth, Phyllis S. Daniels,
Dunny E. Davidson, Constance E. Dean,
Richard C. Dearth, David Robert Dill.
Ancy L. Diller, David Robert Dill.
Cassie E. Dotson, Henry S. Dreher,
David Edward Dwyer, Susan M. Easterly.
Doris Beth Everhart, Helen W. Fair,
Famelia K. Fowler, Henry S. Dreher,
Jerry Edwin Freund, Karen
Adele Gilling, Ina Beth Gillland.
John Richard Goheen, Jennifer Sue Graves, Eduardo F. Gullen, Barry K. Gunderson, Carlo K. Kaplan, Gwennie Clarissa Hardy, Terry W. Harbaugh, Clarissa Hardy, Nanyek Kollogg Harper, Rita M. Harrington, William W. Hartman, Stephen B. Hill, Elizabeth Jacoe J. Score, H. Hallston, Joseph B. Henderson, John Lee Hendricks, Larry Joe Henletr, Kenneth N. Hensley, Millard F. Hickes, Michael K. McGrath, Lenora Kam Yuk He, Martha R. Hodges, Samuel M. Hodges III, James R. Hubbard
Elwyn R. Jefferson, Charles A. Killian,
Sandra S. Kingry, Ira R. Kirkendell,
Mary A. Kistner, Jerry F. Kobler,
Sharon Dietrich Koch, Cornella Ann
Kosfeld, James Arniel Ankristen,
James Ann Lawson, Paul E.
Lindquist, Susan L. Litzinger, Elma
Judith Lohrenz, Robert L. Magnuson,
Roman Thomas Magur, Judith Lynn
Maler, Alice Dell Mann, Melinda R.
Marmor, George G. McCreedy,
Harold R. Mason, Jon
Webb Matthews, Kaye E. McCready,
Larry Charles McKee.
Marvin C. McKee, Judith N. McKinney,
Sally Bea McMurray, Carol L. Meverden,
Rober Cols, Richard J. Meister,
Arianna Miller, Sharon Gail Miller,
Virginia L. Monroe, John Alden Montfort,
Mary K. Morton, Michelle Mosier,
James M. Murray, Junia Okkelen,
John A. Riggle, Marie Riggle,
Roger Walter Park, Mary Suzanne Patrick, Cheryl Diane Paul, Diane Lee Peters, Patricia Peterson, Jean D. Peterson, Augie Pritchett, Carolina Fusion Peters, Robert Alton Pitner.
Sharon Kay Popp, Patricia C. Rector, Roger Glenn Romro, Carolyn S. Rhoads, Philip S. Rhoads, Valera Jean Richmond, Roena Joy Roberts, Patricia Ann Robinson, Connie Jo Roeder, Phyllis Jean Romine, Pamela Jo Roski, Judith L. Sarazan,
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The French president also called on Europe to play its own independent role in world politics, free from "subordination" to the United States.
De Gaulle told a news conference Europe must remain allied to the United States "but the reasons which turned this alliance into subordination are fast disappearing."
DE GAULLE ASSERTED that a military victory against the Communist Viet Cong forces in South Viet Nam does not seem possible.
"Some people there think of carrying the fight to the north," he said. "But it is difficult to believe they would assume the responsibility of the enormous adventure of a generalized conflict."
He added that "since war can bring no decision, it is necessary to make peace—in other words, to ensure that no foreign power should intervene in South Viet Nam, North Vietnam, Cambodia or Laos."
"FRANCE, THEREFORE, proposes—and the sooner the better—that all those who desire peace should meet together," De Gaulle said. "One can see no other means that would lead to peace in Southeast Asia."
He proposed a two-stage program for peace in the area:
- First, the countries with a direct responsibility in Viet Nam—France, Communist China, the Soviet Union and the United States—should agree not to interfere there any more.
- Second, a massive international economic and technical aid program for all of Indochina should be started "in order that development may take the place of destruction."
DE GAULLE SPOKE at a crowded Elysee Palace news conference, his first since Jan. 31 and his 10th since he became president five and a half years ago.
The entire French cabinet and nearly 1,000 French and foreign newsmen, officials and invited guests were jammed into the orate gilded state reception room of the presidential palace.
De Gaulle looked well and spoke in a strong, energetic voice. He appeared to have overcome all after-effects of his prostate surgery last April.
AFTER A VERY brief opening statement of welcome, De Gaulle called for questions. Then he began answering by subiects.
De Gaulle called for a new effort aimed at European unity.
"As far as we French are concerned," he said, "the kind of Europe we must build must be a European Europe with its own independent policy."
Enthusiasm of Young Cast Keynotes 'Bye Bye Birdie'
By Margaret Ogilvie
It took a while to get the gist of the rhythm, but the enthusiasm of the Midwestern Music and Art dramacampers finally broke loose in the way Charles Stewart must have pictured the portrayal of "Bye Bye Birdie."
One just expects its music and comedy to bounce right off the downbeat, and in this last production of Side Door '64 summer series, the actors conveyed these elements best in their leaps and bounds around the arena.
The teen-agers only had to stir up every ounce of joy, and sweet
pain, that they had ever felt about living, and it automatically flowed out over the audience. Being glad is the most savory of emotions, and the spectators appreciated their taste of it.
THE SWIRL AROUND the brilliantly colored nucleus of the stage sets was sparkled with gay lighting and beautiful costuming which helped immensely to project the spirit even when the tempo slowed occasionally.
The only major disappointment came in constantly expecting something to bubble over, and a few of
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