Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday, May 8, 1963
60th Year, No. 137
Bowers, Hager Named to Head CRC Activities
Two temporary chairmen were elected last night at a Civil Rights Council (CRC) meeting. Over half of the 25 persons attending were Negroes.
Dennis Bowers, Kansas City junior, and Douglas Hager, Hutchinson junior, were elected to keep track of civil rights activity during the summer, and be responsible for seeing that the CRC is called together as an active group next fall.
THE MEETING TONIGHT is indicative of the potential support we may be able to expect next year," Bowers said. "It is a must that we do have support, for without it we have no purpose."
Bowers and Hager were elected by acclaimation.
Don Warner, Topela senior and past chairman of the CRC, said that although the real interest in the council this year had not been expressed in attendance, the meeting last night showed interest will continue and the Negroes at KU are actively supporting the CRC.
Warner also said that he felt next year, the nature of the CRC would probably be altered.
"The CRC could be more than just a pressure group that meets each week to deal with integration problems. It could be a good interracial group on what is still essentially a segregated campus." Warner said.
RICHARD L. BURKE, assistant professor of human relations and next year's CRC faculty advisor, emphasized the importance of Negro support. He said any group trying to work in the area of ending segregation and discrimination is hardly worth its salt if it is not an interracial group.
Such a group is a powerful witness to the ideals the group is working toward and tends to show groups like the Black Muslims that it is possible for the two races to work together, Burke said.
Weather
Kansas weather will continue to be fair and warm tonight and Thursday. The high Thursday will be from 85 to 95.
Cooling over the east and southeast parts of the state will not be noticeable for about two days.
The cold front accompanies a low pressure cell moving from Nevada across the Rockies and into the Northern Plains by tomorrow evening.
THE "BICYCLE BUILT FOR TWO" is an old way to travel, but a rare sight on the KU campus. This tandem bicycle is pedaled to classes by Tom Pugh and Dick Hartman, Kansas City, Mo., seniors. Pugh said he bought it for his younger sister but found it so much fun that he decided to keep it for awhile.
Birmingham Calls For More Police
Bulletin
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.,—(UPI)—A settlement to the racial strife that has plagued this city for more than a month appeared imminent today.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., leader of the massive protests that have resulted in more than 2,000 arrests, called a news conference for noon CST.
In Washington, Rep. Adam Clayton Powell said Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy had told him that "something very big" is due to break in the Birmingham situation.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — (UPI) — Additional police reinforcements were rushed in today to cope with Birmingham's mounting racial crisis.
All of the state's more than 500 highway patrolmen were alerted —250 trained in riot duty were already on the scene — and a group of deputies from Montgomery left early today to join the city and state officers in Birmingham.
NEGRO LEADERS promised new demonstrations while a bi-racial committee worked to reach some sort of truce in the protests that have resulted in at least 2,200 arrests. City jails were overflowing. In Nashville, Tenn., plans were announced for a downtown demonstration by 500 to 1,000 Negro students in support of the Birmingham demonstrations. Similar sympathy demonstrations were reported planned in other cities, Negro leaders here said.
Negroes were told at two mass meetings last night about $200,000 in donations from all over the nation had come to the Birmingham movement sponsoring the protests.
Negro leaders listed four goals in their drive better employment opportunities, desegregation of downtown lunch counters, release of the Negro demonstrators still in jail and creation of a bi-racial committee to plan for gradual desegregation of public schools.
SHORTLY AFTER 11 a.m. EDT, large forces of state troopers moved into the area around the 16th street Baptist church. They set up headquarters in a parking lot next door to the offices of the Birmingham integration movement.
Troopers were issued black helmets and long night sticks from a covered van that came with them.
Reorganization For KU Corps
The KU Peace Corps committee, now separated from the All Student Council, is reorganizing its structure and anticipating a more profitable year, said Robert Swan, Topeka junior and chairman of the committee.
"Although the committee was never officially a part of the ASC," Swan said, "it was in theory and practice."
The ASC appropriated the Peace Corps committee $1,098 this year. Next year, it will be financed directly by the University.
ONE ADVANTAGE of the separation, Swan said, will be that the present members and chairmen will be able to select the committee chairmen and members themselves.
"By making the selections ourselves, we can select the people we feel are the best qualified, and avoid any possibility of political favors." Swan said.
Interviews for the chairmanships and committee positions for next year will be held from 2-5 p.m. Sunday in the Kansas Union.
Students who will not be able to be interviewed at this time may telephone the Peace Corps office in the Union and arrange an appointment.
APPLICATIONS, which may be obtained at the Peace Corps office in the Kansas Union, should be completed and returned to the office by Saturday morning.
The reorganized committee will consist of two groups, he said. The on-campus committee will be concerned with forming the KU program, and the off-campus committee will work with other schools to develop campus committees similar to KU's.
Swan said plans for the on-campus program next year include another Peace Corps Week and convocation in the fall, and a program to encourage committee members to meet with foreign students and discuss their native countries.
"We are also attempting to set up a national Peace Corps convention at KU next year," Swan said. "We talked to Rockefeller (John D. Rockefeller IV, who was here last weekend for the statewide convention) about the possibility." Swan said, "and he was very receptive to the idea."
"IT'S VERY DEFINITE now," he said, "but we thought we might be able to set up a two- or three-day convention during spring vacation."
The state convention here last weekend was one of the two main projects in this year's program. About 150 Kansas high school and college students, parents of Kansas volunteers, and liaison officers attended.
"Not as many KU students attended as we had hoped," Swan said. "but we were pleased with the convention."
"We are printing a pamphlet about the convention which we plan to send to other schools," he said. "It will tell how we organized the convention, and how they, too, can plan one."
THE OTHER MAIN PROJECT of the KU Peace Corps this year was the national survey. Questionnaires were sent out to schools throughout the United States and bordering countries requesting information about their respective Peace Corps programs and the attitude of the student body concerning the program.
"We received about 400 replies. The results of the survey are being tabulated and will be sent to the Washington office," said Bob Guenthner, Augusta junior and chairman of the survey committee.
Enrolling10,000 Students Sounds Simple—
By Kay Jarvis
(The first of a two part series) Enrollment — fitting 10,000 students into 2,500 classes.
This definition by Registrar James K. Hitt sounds relatively simple and direct, but in practice the situation is complicated by closed classes, individual conflicts, requirements for a degree, congestion and clerical details.
With a growing University, enrollment problems grow too and change and improvement must take place.
"THESE IS NO question that substantial changes must occur with changes in enrollment. The present system will not stand up." Hitt said.
The present method of enrollment at KU may be divided into two processes: selection of those courses best suited to the individual and the sorting of students and classes.
It begins with the issuance of the tentative schedule of classes during the two or three month preceding registration. From this the student may plan what he would like to take.
The permanent schedule of classes Hitt explained that there are is not made available to the enrollee until the few weeks before registration.
THIS SCHEDULE lists the courses, their descriptions, instructors, times and usually identification and all instructions for the enrollment procedure.
Hitt said the schedule is an attempt to alleviate the reams of instructions and explanations employed at some universities.
"The student, equipped only with this composite schedule can complete the entire enrollment process," he said.
He may, however, visit his advisor any time he feels necessary and plan his program ahead of time, if he wishes.
A STUDENT IS encouraged to see his advisor during the half day preceding enrollment at the Kansas Union.
Incoming freshmen are mailed a card during the summer with the name, office location and appointment time of his adviser.
The adviser's purpose in most cases is to serve as a general educational counselor, according to Gilbert Ulmer, assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The counselor helps the student to be sure he is meeting his graduation requirements and discusses the general trend of his classes.
THE STUDENT, with the aid of his adviser, draws up a contract (enrollment card) for those courses that are best for him. Then, the second phase, that of sorting students and classes, begins. Most of this work is done by the Registrar and his machinery.
"However, part of this machinery is the student's picking up of class assignment cards at the Union.
"The situation at the Union is getting pretty messy." Hitt said.
CONGESTION ARISES as 10,000 students work their way through the check points on the ballroom floor and among the departmental tables in the pen. Closed courses, scheduling conflicts, and people unfamiliar with the process slow up progress.
Hitt explained that there are other systems which could be used. At some schools the completed enrollment card is given to a clerk who pulls all assignment cards from a series of pigeon holes. The student must then return later to pick up his class assignments.
Some universities use IBM machines to pull class cards.
Under KU's present system, where the individual picks up each card separately, the departments have direct control over class size.
"We feel they should have this individual control over their classes and regulate their sizes," Hitt said.
Hitt said this procedure is completed simply. He pointed out that to his knowledge KU has the shortest length of time between the end of registration and the beginning of classes.
"THERE ARE OTHER ways to reduce congestion by using a larger area or more time," he said.
The rest of the mechanics is completed by the Registrar's office during the period between the end of enrollment, Saturday noon, and Monday morning classes.
The last step, fee payment, takes place during the second week of classes.
HITT DESCRIBED the present system of fee payment in Strong Hall as "clumsy."
By that time students are busily engaged in a full schedule of classes. The present system of picking up cards and paying fees involves another situation of congestion and clerical details which take time.
Several proposals have been circulating on campus among the students and the administration to remedy the enrollment situation.
SOME PEOPLE have suggested pre-enrollment for seniors or a similar system for the entire student body. The indirect procedure for getting class assignment cards by mail or through a clerk has been discussed. Others advocate an improved use of IBM machines.
Few concrete conclusions, how- ever, have been derived.