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60th Year. No. 113
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, March 28. 1963
Proposed Debates Spark New Political Disputes
Bv Ralph Gage
A debate which did not take place, and one scheduled to take place Sunday, set off a dispute between University Party (UP) and Vox Populi (Vox) leaders last night.
Vox leaders said a debate between Reuben McCornack, Vox candidate for student body president, and Charles Whittman, UP candidate for the same office, was to take place at Corbin Hall last night.
THE CENTER of the controversy is whether Whitman had agreed to appear. "I said I'd be there, provided John Underwood (Vox candidate for vice-president of the student body)
Charles Whitman
was there along with Reuben," Whit man said.
Underwood had a class, and did not appear.
"I will debate whenever the proper courtesies are extended." Whitman said. "When people call me, this is fine. I arrange my own schedule and they (Vox) can't do it for me."
Nancy Lane, UP Independent cochairman, said at last night's UF meeting. "Vox announced the debate last Thursday, but didn't tell us the format until 5 o'clock tonight. We're willing to debate, if they'll extend us a few simple courtesies."
BOB STEWART. UP Greek cochairman, said, "I'm sorry we couldn't be there, but this (last night's) meeting has been arranged for a month. Vox can't arrange our schedule for us. I see no reason why we should drop everything because Vox decides to hold a debate."
Another debate has been arranged for 2 p.m. Sunday at Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall. McCormack, Whitman, Underwood and Douglas Hall, UP candidate for student body vice-president, will appear. Arrangements were completed last night, after a round of charge and counter-charge stemming from an apparent misunderstanding by Vox about the arrangements.
Whitman criticized several planks in the Vox platform at the UP meeting last night. He said the Student Poll Committee—proposed by Vox—demonstrates a lack of faith in their council members, since the duty of the council members is to survey the feelings of the groups they represent.
ROGER WILSON, Vox president said the poll committee would supplement the findings of the council members, and is necessitated by the size of KU's student body.
Weather
Clear to partly cloudy skies are expected tonight. Tomorrow will bring considerable cloudiness with scattered showers or thunderstorms, turning cooler northwest and north central by evening. Highs tomorrow will be in the 60's in the extreme northwest to 70's in the southeast. Strong, shifting winds are expected tomorrow.
Whitman charged that the idea for the committee was taken from the KU Young Republicans.
McCornack, speaking in an interview, agreed that the idea came from that group. He further agreed that council members should sample the feelings of their constituents, but said the poll committee would also conduct scientific surveys of student opinion for the benefit of any group.
THE VOX plank to keep the ASC office open during class hours also drew Whitman's criticism. "We should go to the students," he said. "If I am elected, I would like to make regular visits to organized groups on campus to let them know what the ASC is doing."
McCornack said the student body president obviously should let his constituents know what he is doing. Nevertheless, he said, the ASC office should be kept open so that students can come in for information, or to request services.
Whitman said the function of the Vox plank advocating the formation of an ASC Travel Committee is already being performed by an SUA committee.
The UP candidate charged the Vox plank lacked original thought.
McCORNACK SAID he did not mean to criticize the SUA, but the committee proposed in the Vox plank would be much broader in scope than the SUA committee.
The Vox plank proposing that all seats in the University Theatre be made available to students without additional charge, was also criticized by Whitman.
He said that, if enacted, the Vox plank would result either in poorer quality productions, because of reduced funds, or an increase in student fees.
Whitman also commented on the ASC Current Events Committee. One UP plank asks, in part, "What ever happened to the Current Events Committee of the ASC?
McCORNACK SAID he had talked with Raymond Nichols, Vice Chancellor in charge of finance, and had been told that the University is against the University Theatre's
policy of charging for seats, McCornack said he felt it was Vox's responsibility to protest the University Theatre policy.
"We've seen a flurry of activity from this committee lately," he said. "Maybe we should drag out a couple more (committees) and see what Roger Wilson says."
WILSON REPLied that if it was the first time UP had seen any activity from the committee, it was because it was the first time UP had looked.
Reuben McCornack
After criticizing the Vox platform, Whitman said, "Vox has had their chance. It's time for a change." He said it was time for new, enthusiastic leadership, with intelligence and ideals.
The agenda in the Model UN general assembly will begin at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow in the first plenary session with roll call followed by Boland's address.
Model UN Action Starts Tomorrow
At 10:30 a.m. the first resolution area proposing the admittance of Red China into the specialized agencies of the Model UN will be introduced to the assembly. Debating and voting on the resolution will follow.
AFTER LUNCH, at 2 p.m., the second plenary session will begin with the introduction of the second resolution area — regional disarmament. Debate and voting on this resolution area is expected to conclude at 5:30 p.m. when the assembly will recess for the dav.
Tonight marks the culmination of weeks of preparation by nearly 400 KU students who will represent 103 nations in the 1963 Model United Nations.
Thomas M. Noone, Jr., World Bank information officer, will speak on the "Role and Impact of the World Bank" at the Model UN dinner.
A continuous session will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday with action on the next resolution area, the internationalization of foreign aid.
Deliberation on the final resolution area, a solution to the Red China-India border dispute will start at 1 p.m. This fourth resolution area was announced to Model UN delegates last Thursday by the Steering Committee.
THE BANQUET will be followed by a diplomatic reception at 9 p.m. Frederick H. Boland, permanent representative from Eire (Ireland) to the United Nations and convocation speaker tomorrow, will attend the reception. The UN consuls
THE GENERAL assembly's closing remarks will follow the debating and voting on the final resolution area and the 1963 edition of the Model UN is expected to adjourn by 4 p.m. Saturday.
Model UN guards are the members of the KU Air Force ROTC Drill Team.
OFFICERS and other officials for the Model UN are:
Secretary-General: Betty Reynolds, Wellington senior.
Assembly President: Stanley Walton Jr. Kansas City senior.
Parliamentarian: Bob Strevey
Clavton junior.
Advisors: Prof. Roy Laird, Prof. Clifford Ketzel, and Tom Moore of the KU-Y.
Girls State Leads To Model UN
Bv Terry Ostmever
Five years ago Betty Reynolds attended Girls State where she first became acquainted with the workings of government and political science. Today she sits at the head of the KU Model United Nations as secretary-general of the General Assembly and chairman of the all-important Steering Committee.
The Model UN, which operates like the actual United Nations in New York, is an annual affair at KU and has been almost a way of life for Miss Reynolds during her four years at the University.
THIS YEAR'S Model UN conference convenes tomorrow and runs through Saturday.
En route to the Model UN podium, the tall, dark-haired Wellington senior has participated in many activities in both high school and college and has received over a half dozen scholarships along the way.
THE MODEL UN is the melting pot of all this for Miss Reynolds, though, with its opportunities to meet and work with other people and invaluable experience in international procedures.
Miss Reynolds, who is majoring in international relations, said the Model UN offers a closer acquaintance with the University administrators, and more important, it creates an association with foreign students.
"I think the Model UN makes you more tolerant toward people and customs," she said.
MISS REYNOLDS first came in contact with the Model UN in her freshman year at KU through a political science class taught by Roy Laird, associate professor of political science.
That year she participated in her first mock UN conference as a member of the Netherlands delegation.
THE NEXT YEAR she was chairman of the Iraq delegation and in her junior year she became student adviser to the Arab political bloc
"When it was over I thought it had been a very profitable experience and I looked forward to taking part in the conference again the next year," she said.
Betty Reynolds
and sat on the now-familiar Steering Committee.
Now Miss Reynolds heads that committee which controls the inner workings of the Model UN and it
has been a year-long job since she assumed her chairmanship duties last May.
IN HER EXPERIENCE with the Model UN, Miss Reynolds said she will always praise the interest shown by the KU students and the people around Lawrence toward the annual two-day conference.
"Here in the Midwest we don't have many opportunities to observe diplomatic relations," she said. "But when people become interested in something like this there is no limit to what can be done."
Miss Reynolds believes this is why the KU Model UN has grown so much each year.
"The contact with foreign students, everyone working together and trying to be diplomatic is a lot of work, but the interest, fun, and satisfaction of knowing what goes on behind the scenes are worth it," she said.
THE MODEL UN is not the only preoccupation for Miss Reynolds. She is a member of the KU Young Republicans, the KU-Y Cabinet, the Dean's Advisory Board, and the honorary political science fraternity, Pi Sigma Alpha.
SHE HAS BEEN awarded scholarships from the Greater University Fund, Wellington Elks Club, Residence Hall organization, National School of Service, New York Fund of Negro Students, and the Girls State Outstanding Woman in Political Science award.
Outside of college, Miss Reynolds furthered her education on politics and government last summer when she did stenographic and research work for the office of William Ferguson, Kansas attorney general.
Boland Will Launch Assembly Tomorrow
Boland will arrive in Lawrence today and attend the Model UN banquet and diplomatic reception tonight at the Eldridge Hotel.
Frederick H. Boland, head of the UN Security Council and permanent representative from Eire (Ireland) to the United Nations, will address the opening convocation of the Model UN at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow in Hoch Auditorium.
WU Bill Passes Kansas Senate
The vote was 24-8.
The Kansas Senate yesterday approved the House version of the controversial Wichita University bill and sent the bill on to Governor Anderson.
The bill is expected to be on the governor's desk late today or tomorrow.
Senate approval of the bill ends a long and bitter struggle in the Kansas Legislature over the proposal to admit Wichita University.
ANDERSON, who has favored the admission of Wichita University into the state school system, is expected to sign the bill. He said earlier the House version of the bill was acceptable.
As now written, Wichita University will enter the state school system as an "associate" of the University of Kansas. The KU chancellor will have authority to review and make recommendations on the Wichita University budget.
HE WILL also make recommendations, if the need arises, on the appointment of any new president of Wichita University.
Under the bill, WU will enter the state system as "Wichita State University" July 1, 1964. Wichita voters must approve the transfer of the university to the state.
As finally passed, the bill represents a compromise between two major factions in the legislature: Those who wanted to admit WU as a full state university, and those who wanted to admit WU as a "State Universities Center," as proposed by the Eurich report.
(The Eurich report is a study of Kansas higher education by a group of educators from outside the state. The State Board of Regents approved the report in November.)
THE BILL allows WU to retain most of its autonomy, although the Board of Regents will have complete authority over the school.
Those who feared competition between three state universities for state funds would result in wasteful duplication of facilities and programs are apparently satisfied by the provision which gives the KU chancellor some control over the Wichita University budget.
A third group, defeated by the other factions, did not want WU admitted to the state system at all.
THEY FEARED state support of three universities would spread the state's educational dollar too thin, and result in "creeping mediocrity" in Kansas higher education.
The bill also contains an amendment which gives the Board of Regents control over the WU curriculum.
The bill had earlier contained a provision allowing WU to continue all programs and courses listed in the school's official catalogue.