Young, aided in his arguments by Dennis Branstiter, Independence, Mo., senior, and Charles Marvin, Lawrence junior, said the amendment would cause needless trouble for anyone who might have a valid reason for wanting to see the records.
THE RESOLUTION, WHICH would make Student Court records available to the public only by the authorization of the Student Court Supreme Justice, was contested by John Young. Salina first-year law student. The resolution was defeated by a 10-8 vote, and the records are still available to the public.
YOUNG SAID the proposed resolution would create a roundabout method of obtaining what is already available under the bill, resulting in more bother for everyone.
The only warmly contested debate came on one of a number of resolutions which would provide minor amendments to present ASC bills.
Relative peace and serenity prevailed at the All Student Council (ASC) meeting last night, in contrast to the fiery debates of recent meetings.
Wednesday, March 27, 1963
VOX CANDIDATES—Reuben McCornack, Abilene junior, (right) is Vox Populi's candidate for student body president. His running mate is John Underwood, Parsons junior.
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Court Records Remain Open
"My main objection is that no one has offered a reason why the records should not be made immediately available to the public upon request," Young said.
"If anyone with a valid reason was refused access to the records by the Justice," Young said, "he would bring the case before the ASC and we would probably grant his access."
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BRANSTITER said after the meeting: "Those who supported this legislation said the records would be open anyway because anyone who was denied access by the justices could get permission from the ASC. Why all the red tape? The records should be open to anyone who it interested.
The supporter of the resolution, George Hahm, Scotch Plains, N. J., senior, said the objective of the resolution was to limit the possibilities of theft or misuse of the records.
In other action, the ASC unanimously passed a resolution which provides for the establishment of an ASC Advisory Board
"IT IS STRICTLY a preventive measure," he said
The duty of the Advisory Board will be to provide enrollment advice for incoming students during the enrollment period and one day prior. This service is to be in addition to the faculty adviser program.
THEREFORE, THE COUNCIL voted to amend the resolution so as to recommend to the University Senate that classes on Thursday be canceled. May 23, and establish it as a "stop day."
The board is to be comprised of 41 representatives from the various schools, all of whom have met the honor roll requirements of their school.
Larry Bast, Topeka freshman, was sworn in by Hahm as a member of the ASC. He takes the seat vacated by John Bumgarner, Tulsa, Okla., junior, who resigned.
"THIS WILL PROVIDE an opportunity for the student to get another student's opinion," Greg Turner, Seattle, Wash., junior, said.
"He can take advantage of the knowledge of a student who has already taken and done well in most of the courses offered," Turner added.
The other major resolution passed by the ASC last night was a proposal to provide a "stop day" before finals of this semester.
The final schedule has already been set up, with finals beginning on Friday, May 24. Because of the large number of finals to be given this semester, it is not possible to administer Friday's examinations during the next week and leave Friday as a "stop day." Charles Whitman, Shawnee Mission junior, said.
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House OK Expected On WU Compromise
The Kansas House of Representatives is expected to give final approval today to the compromise bill bringing Wichita University into the state system.
The Committee of the Whole recommended the bill for passage by a 72-39 vote yesterday.
IF THE HOUSE passes the measure, it will go to the Senate for a vote on the amendments inserted by the House Ways and Means Committee. Should the Senate fail to approve it, the bill will be thrown into a conference committee.
Approval by the Committee of the Whole ended two full days of debate on the measure. Proponents of the bill, led by Rep. John Conard, R-Greensburg, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and the man most responsible for the compromise, beat down 13 attempts to amend the bill.
Rep. Tom Crossan, R-Montgomery County, was defeated in ten attempts to amend the bill.
TWICE THE committee beat down attempts to force a statewide referendum on WU's admission to the state system.
Rep. Odd Williams, R-Lawrence,
Russians Protest 'Piratical Attack'
MOSCOW — (UPI) — The Soviet Union today protested to the United States the "piratical attack" March 17 against a Russian ship at a Cuban port, the official news agency Tass said.
The ship "Lgov" was at the Isabela de Sagua port. Tass charged that Cuban counter-revolutionaries in a launch approached the ship from the sea and fired a heavy machine gun several times at the Russian vessel.
The note to the U.S. embassy here said the U.S.S.R. expects the United States government "to take resolute measures for preventing similar provocative acts in the future," Tass said.
proposed a rider to the bill which would have provided an additional $96,000 in state aid to Washburn University. It was defeated.
The only amendment adopted changed the name of Wichita University to Wichita State University. The name change had been adopted Thursday, and the amendment yesterday was only a clarification of the earlier amendment.
UNDER THE BILL. Wichita University would come into the state system on July 1, 1964, provided Wichita voters approve the bill in a special referendum in June.
The compromise measure gives the State Board of Regents complete control over the programs and courses to be offered, and gives the Chancellor of KU a voice in budget and program matters.
The original bill passed by the Senate would have brought WU into the state system as a full university.
AFTER THE SENATE bill ran into trouble in the House Ways and Means Committee, Conard conferred with Dr. W. Clarke Wescoe, Chancellor of KU; Harry Corbin, president of WU; the State Board of Regents and the Wichita Board of Regents. All concerned parties expressed satisfaction with the compromise measure.
Rep. W. W. Steeples, R-Palco, predicted that the next session of the legislature will be pressured into giving Wichita U. full university status.
"We are being intimidated by people from Wichita," he said. "Tremendous pressures have been brought upon us and some of us have fallen by the wayside."
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Partial sunshine was expected to draw temperatures into the 70's over much of Kansas today and some 80-degree readings were anticipated in the southwest. Cloudy to partly cloudy skies
Cloudy to partly cloudy skies tomorrow. Little temperature change was expected.
said, "Education is being expanded where it should go—to the west. Our children shouldn't have to come up here 400 miles to go to school."
Proponents of the bill reminded the House that Wichita is giving the State a $20 million institution.
Wichita's position was improved by a change in attitude by two House leaders, Reps. Charles Arthur, R-Manhattan, and Jess Taylor, R-Tribune. Arthur is Speaker of the House, and Taylor is chairman of the House State Affairs Committee and former speaker.
ARTHUR, who had been an opponent of the bill, said he changed his vote because talks with educators had convinced him that the bill would benefit Kansas State University in the long run.
Taylor said the bill had been amended sufficiently to satisfy him.
Gov. John Anderson, who strongly advocates the admission of WU, said yesterday The House version of the bill is acceptable. He believes the House will pass the bill in some form.
Court Continues Vagrancy Case
The case against a KU student on charges of vagrancy and window-peeping was continued until April 26 in Police Court today.
Troilus C. Warren, Joliet, Ill., senior was scheduled to appear for arraignment today.
Warren was arrested about 1 p.m. Saturday after police allegedly saw him on a third floor fire escape of an apartment building at 1201 Oread Ave.
Officers said they called for Warren to come down. When he did, they said, he started to run. Officers fired three times over Warren's head before he would stop, the police report said.
He is free on $900 bond.
Warren's case is under investigation by KU officials, said Donald Alderson, Dean of Men.
Humanities Need Revitalizing; Wade Says Criticism the Key
By Roy Miller
A decline in humanities can be checked by an application of the criticism that is applied to the arts, a Princeton University professor said here last night.
Ira Wade, professor of French and director of the special program of European civilization at Princeton, said the humanities could be revitalized, like the arts, if they were viewed critically.
"It is the key which opens up all the aspects of the humanities," Prof. Wade said at a Humanities Series Lecture at Fraser Theater.
"ALL STUDY in the humanities is concerned with the creation of civilization. Man makes his civilization. And he makes it by studying man in all his aspects."
Prof. Wade concluded a three-day visit at KU this afternoon. He was scheduled to speak on "Reflections upon Literary History" at 11:30 a.m. in 111 Strong Hall.
The 66-year-old professor has been at Princeton since 1940.
HE SAID he had been aroused by three complaints concerning civilization in the 40 years he has been a professor. They are:
- "Humanities are no longer vital."
Man stands at the crossroads between nothingness and beingness"
- "Civilization is now threatened.
- "Man has become hollow, purposesless."
"I have contended, if such is the
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condition with which these complaints prevail," Prof. Wade said, "we should overcome the menace."
PROF. WADE'S special study interests are in the 18th century and Voltaire in particular.
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"We want to know what makes things progress and what makes them decline," he said. "These are 18th century problems. This is when the discussion of civilization began.
"No one seemed to realize how these things were organically united."
THE PRINCETON educator said the 18th century philosophers tended to stress one element too much, citing one philosopher's preoccupation with religion and another's with politics.
He said Europeans in the interim between World War I and World War II began to ask if civilization had already declined.
He criticized the studies of civilization from a single point of view, Prof. Wade also spoke against separating culture from civilization.
"To tell the plain truth, we've had little experience in the knowing of the inner reality of people," he said. "Peoples go in search of their souls. They try to know themselves."
Prof. Wade spoke of the shift of the intellectual center from Europe that he said was caused by industrialization and said:
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