Action On WU Bill Art Professor Set for Next Week To Speak Today
TOPEKA — (UPI) Movement of the Wichita University bill through the House was expected today to resume next week when the measure comes up for final decision by the House Committee of the Whole.
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The committee agreed on postponing the final decision yesterday after five hours of debate produced several amendments and pushed the House less than halfway through the reading of the measure.
The committee accepted compromise amendments of the House Ways and Means Committee and changed the name of the school from Wichita University to Wichita State University.
HOWEVER, A COMPROMISE proposal guaranteeing that Wichita University could continue all its present courses after entering the state system was eliminated by a two-vote margin.
An attempt to have a statewide referendum on whether Wichita
Visiting Professor To Discuss Orient
Karl Wittfogel, professor of history at the University of Washington in Seattle, will present his various theories on Oriental culture Friday evening.
His lecture, entitled, "Oriental Despotism — Problems in Macro and Micro-Analysis," will be given at 8 p.m. in Bailey Auditorium.
THIS LECTURE will provide Prof. Wittfogel with an opportunity to expand many of his theories from his book, "Oriental Despotism." He will focus attention on his theory of hydraulic or water control.
The hydraulic control theory is at the core of the desotic character of the traditional oriental societies with special emphasis being placed on China.
This theory and others will be considered in the problem of taking specific information and viewing it in relationship to the total factors involved.
Prof. Wittfogel, who is a member of the Far East and Russian Institute at the University of Washington, has done comparative studies in Chinese, Indian, Egyptian, Turkish, and the Roman Empire civilizations.
HIS BOOK, "Criental Despotism," is the culmination of 30 years of work in Asian societies. It was planned in 1957, and is now available in paperback.
Prof. Wittfogel's studies have lead him into extensive research of geography, agronomy, sociology, and anthropology as well as history. Although many colleagues disagree with Prof. Wittfogel's views, they rank him as an influential thinker to be compared with Arnold Toynbee.
PROF. WITTFOGEL was born in Germany and came to the United States in 1934. He studied at Columbia University before going to the University of Washington.
KU has tried for several years to obtain Wittfogel for a visit here. His appearance is a result of the combined efforts of the History Department, the History Club and the East-Asian Studies.
Wittogel will speak to several history classes Friday morning, and will be the featured guest at a History Club sponsored luncheon Saturday.
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should be allowed to come into the state system was defeated in a roll call vote, 55-49.
AN ATTEMPT by Rep. W. R. Brown Jr., R-Pottawatomie County, to amend the bill to provide that the state would pay Washburn University of Topeka about $300,000 a year in state support was shouted down.
Rep. Wayne Angell, R-Ottawa, in proposing the amendment to strike out guarantees that Wichita would keep its present scholastic programs, said he thought that decisions should be up to the State Board of Regents. Angell's amendment was approved 56-54.
Throughout yesterday's debate, Rep. Tom Crossan, R-Montgomery County, threw up legislative delaying maneuvers with amendments and parliamentary blocks. All his motions were beaten down
As the bill is now written, Wichita University would come into the state system in July of 1994 if Wichita voters approved the move in the referendum next June.
The city college would become an "associate" of the University of Kansas and be under the direct jurisdiction of the State Board of Regents.
SPU Field Speaker Defines Cold War
The origins of the cold war are not the same as the causes which perpetuate it today. The results have now become the causes, the field secretary for the Student Peace Union (SPU) said yesterday.
Peter Allen spoke to SPU members on "Causes of the Cold War" yesterday before leaving to continue his tour of the Midwest.
"THE COLD WAR did not begin because people were afraid of each other." Allen said, "It started in concrete conflicts."
Allen attributed the beginning to the different attitude that the two world blocs took after World War II toward Europe, especially Germany. The West began to rebuild under the Marshall Plan and the East conflicted with and interfered with the other.
Another original cause of the cold war, Allen said, was the situation in China and the support of different leaders by the two blocs. This eventually erupted into the Korean War.
"BUT TODAY these are no longer the factors that keep the conflict going. The cold war itself and the defense race it has caused are now its causes," Allen said.
He said the nature of the cold war has made one nation inside each bloc the center of power for the bloc. All other nations must look to that one for guidance.
"They need not be enthusiastic about the policies this one nation follows, but they can never maintain a policy opposed to it." Allen said.
Today it is this reliance on one nation, the power it creates within the nation and the economic situation created by the race for defense that causes the cold war, Allen said.
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Klaus Berger, professor of art history, will speak on "Rococo and Classical Revival" at 4:30 p.m. today in the Museum of Art lecture hall.
PROF. BERGER'S lecture will cover Russian art in the 18th and 19th centuries. "Rococo" refers to the 18th century art and "classical revival" concerns 19th century art.
Prof. Berger was in Russia last semester on a cultural exchange program sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies. He was the only humanities representative in the exchange.
There are no examples of Russian art in the KU museum, according to Marilyn Stokstad, director of the museum. Prof. Stokstad said examples of Russian art from the 18th century have an elegant and delicate structure.
"SOME PEOPLE consider the 18th century art as too frivolous." Prof. Stokstad said. "The 19th century work is more severe."
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Little is known about Russian art, according to Prof. Stokstad. Increased studying and research has been done recently because of the political relations between the United States and Russia, she said.
Prof. Berger spoke on medieval and religious aspects of Russian art March 19. His topic was "Cloisters and Icons."
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Prof. Berger's speciality is 19th century French painting. His project in Russia was to study French art in the collection at the Hermitage in Leningrad.
The 58-year-old KU professor received his Ph.D. from the University of Goettingen in Germany in 1935. He has been at KU since 1950.
PROF. BERGER plans to discuss Moscow as part of the Great Cities Museum of Art in April.
Prof. Berger taught at Northwestern University from 1943-1945
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Prof. Berger taught at the University of Kansas City from 1947-1950.
Prof. Berger taught at the Free German University in Paris and the Municipal University of Berlin before World War II.
HE LECTURED at the U.S. Army University in Eiarritz and was an assistant art archives officer in Bavaria with the U.S. military government during World War II.
He received a Fulbright grant to be visiting professor at the University of Cologne in Germany in 1953. He was selected as an official U.S. delegate to the 19th International Congress of Art History held in Paris in 1958.
HE HAS WRITTEN numerous articles for Art News, Gazette de Beaux-Arts and Collier's Encyclopedia.
Prof. Berger has written "Geri-cault, Drawings and Watercolors," "French Master Drawing of the Nineteenth Century," and "Geri-cault and His Work." 1952 German edition, and 1954 English edition by the University of Kansas Press.
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HOUSE SPEAKER Charles Arthur gave permission last Tuesday for WIBW radio and television of Topeka to broadcast the debate on whether the municipal university should be taken into the state system of higher education direct from the House chamber.
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"A fundamental error appears when anyone contends that the news camera and now also radio and television are accepted as reporters, different in method but equal in stature with the printed word," said Rep. Ross Doyen, R-Rice.
TOPEKA — (UPI) — A Kansas legislator said today that freedom of the press does not extend to live television and radio coverage of legislative debates.
Radio-TV Ordered Out of Legislature
Doyen's statement was touched off by controversy over plans for onthe-scene radio and television coverage of the Wichita University debate in the Kansas House.
"The issue is not the historic freedom of the press as several people so eloquently pleaded," said Doyen. "The issue is the right of the individual to a fair debate and the required insulation of our legislative processes from extraneous factors of influence.
But Arthur reversed his decision at the last minute yesterday because of objections by Doyen and Rep. Ed Boyd, R-Pawnee County. Arthur ordered removal of the radio and television equipment, which already had been set up in the House chamber.
"THE LENS AND the mike can never be equated with the printed word," he continued. "It is the reporter, not his tools, who is the agent of the free press."
Thad Sandstrom, general manager of WIBW, and the station's news director, Carl Sisskind, both protested Arthur's decision.
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