WU Amendments Pass; Bill Awaits Approval
The compromise amendments to the Wichita University bill were adopted today by the Kansas House, sitting as the Committee of the Whole.
The committee has not yet approved the bill for passage. It simply accepted the report of the Ways and Means Committee by a vote of 74-35.
THE HOUSE then recessed until 3 p.m. when it was to resume debate on the measure to bring Wichita University into the state system.
At the opening of the session Rep Tom Crossan, R-Montgomery County, attempted to throw several road-blocks in the path of the bill.
Crossan objected to House Speaker Charles Arthur passing over bills on third reading to take up the Wichita bill under the heading of general orders. His objections were then shouted down.
For the first time this session all 125 members of the House were in attendance.
Rep. Jerry Griffith, D-Detby, said he approved of the proposed amendments and said the bill, as drafted by the Ways and Means Committee, would be a "distinct advantage" to
Wichita and south central Kansas.
AMONG THOSE speaking against the Ways and Means amendments and in favor of the tougher amendments written by the House State Affairs committee were Reps. Robert Behee, R-Leavenworth; Jess Taylor, R-Greeley, and John J. Gardner, R-Johnson County.
The compromise measure was worked out largely through the efforts of Rep. John Conard, R-Greensburg, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.
When the Senate bill, which would have brought WU into the state system as an independent university, ran into trouble in his committee, Conard made trips to Parsons, to see Clyde Reed, chairman of the State Board of Regents, and to Lawrence to see Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe.
THE WEEKEND before last, Conard and Rep. Bill Fribley, R-Crestline, majority floor leader of the House, and Sen. Paul Wunsch, R-Kingman, president pro tem of the Senate, held discussions in Topela with Reed, Wescoe, Harry Corbin, president of Wichita U., and Sidney J. Brick and Robert V. Morton
of the Wichita Board of Regents. All of the men have acclaimed the bill.
The amended bill now provides that Wichita University be brought into the state system as an "associate" of the University of Kansas. Wichita would retain all of its present programs, except that all future growth would be supervised by KU.
WICHTA WOULD submit its budget to the Chancellor of KU for approval and comment, and the KU Chancellor would submit the bill to the State Board of Regents.
Corbin said the bill would provide "an appropriate coordination of any future Ph. D. programs and an assurance to the state of an orderly development of higher education in Kansas.
The bill is a compromise between the Eurich report, approved by the Board of Regents last November, which recommended that Wichita University be brought into the state system as a "State Universities Center" under the control of KU and K-State, and the position of Wichita supporters, who insisted that WU be brought into the state system as a separate state university.
Daily hansan
60th Year, No. 108
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
'Property Disputes Threaten World'
Bv Jackie Helstrom
A Colorado editor yesterday said that unless a general misunderstanding of the meaning of property rights is corrected, the world will destroy itself in ideological conflict.
He is Robert LeFevre, editor of the Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph and president of Freedom School, Inc. He spoke to about 20 persons at the Minority Opinions Forum; the subject was, "Private Property as a Total Concept."
Robert Lekevre
TWO THEORIES of "who gets what," capitalism and communism, divide the world today and they both make the same mistake, LeFevre
said. The mistake is that both look to the state for a solution of the conflict. He said it is in the hands of understanding property that the individual is going to win or lose.
LeFevre says he believes property ownership to be the basis of man's nature. He must own property to exist.
"To begin with, life is a property, the air we breathe and the food we consume are all properties," LeFevre continued. "They belong solely to the person who takes them into his body, and he maintains the right to destroy them."
THE RIGHT of destruction is the basis which LeFevre used to define ownership. He maintained that a man owns nothing he does not have the right to destroy, should he see fit, without question from another.
"All property has boundaries either in space as land or edges of the thing itself." LeFevre said. "These tell you what you own so that you will know the limit of your own powers of destruction, and they tell you what is beyond that you don't own, and can't be destroyed."
OWNERSHIP is a total concept, LeFevre said. You either own something or you don't—there are no gradations. And what you own you have the right to destroy, he said.
"Where society denies the right of destruction, it is still living under the tribal assumption that the tribe has an interest in the property," Le-Fevre said.
"There is a slim amount of private ownership today because we are still too soon out of the jungle," he said. "We have never analyzed the real meaning of private ownership."
Thursday, March 21, 1963
"MAN HAS discovered that the safest way to live is to make himself harmless," he said. "For men, like the beast, will fight for their property."
LeFevre said that property is safe because man has advanced enough intellectually to know that he cannot trespass property boundaries.
In controlling his property, man is always seeking profit, that which makes him happiest, LeFevre explained. He spends his whole life exchanging what he has for something he would rather have.
Weather
KU's first day of spring brought fair skies and mild temperatures with a high this afternoon in the lower 50's. The low tonight will be in the middle 30's and a high of 60 is forecast for tomorrow.
Officially arriving at 2:20 a.m. today, the first day of spring brought sunshine and brisk winds to other portions of the state. The fair weather of the past few days will continue through tomorrow.
Deferment Test Applications Due Thursday
Next Thursday is the deadline for applications to take the Selective Service College Qualification Test on April 18.
Application material can be obtained in the Registrar's Office in Strong Hall. Information concerning the test will be given to the applicant upon registration.
Results of the test will be used by the various local Selective Service boards in determining the eligibility of registrants for occupational deferment as students.
- He must be satisfactorily pursuing a full-time college course, undergraduate or graduate, leading to a degree. The applicant need not be in a four-year college, but his entire course of study must be satisfactory in order to transfer his credits to a degree-granting institution.
- The test, prepared and administered by Science Research Associates, is open to those persons who have begun and plan to continue their college studies, undergraduate or graduate.
- Applicant must be a Selective Service registrant who intends to request occupational deferment as a student.
- According to the test's information bulletin, eligibility for application depend upon the following:
- He must not previously have taken the test.
On the day of the test, the schedule will be as follows:
8:30 a.m.—Applicants report to the examination cepter.
9:00 a.m.—Examination begins
12:30 a.m.—End of examination
10 p.m.-End of examination.
1:00 p.m.-Close of examination.
Peter Allen
SPU Urges U.S. Arms Withdrawal
By Terry Ostmever
The objective of the Student Peace Union (SPU) is to achieve change in the current American foreign policy, the field secretary of the SPU said yesterday.
Leading a discussion session on "Causes of the Cold War," Peter Allen said the United States must get out of the arms race and give up its long term commitments to nuclear deterrents.
ALLEN, WHO IS making a SPU tour through the Midwest, said a power like Russia would gain much unpopularity throughout the world if it did not reciprocate such a disarmament move by the U.S.
"The value of reciprocating would be much greater than maintaining the arms race." he said.
He said there are two reasons for ending the arms race through reciprocation. First, it would release world tensions and reduce threats.
Abortion Bill Dies In Kansas House
The bill died on a motion to return the measure to the House with a recommendation that it be "not passed." Rep. Donald Smith, R-Dodge City, made the motion and it was seconded by Rep. Ernest L. Malone, D-Wichita.
TCPEKA — (UPI) — House Judiciary Committee members today unanimously voted to kill a Senate bill proposing drastic revision of Kansas abortion laws.
NO DEBATE preceded the voice vote and no mention of the word "abortion" was made in the brief discussion. Committee members reportedly had been under pressure by religious opposition to the bill.
The measure, passed by a wide majority in the Senate, would have given conservative Kansas the most liberal abortion laws in the United States.
It would have legalized abortions in pregnancies that threatened the physical or mental health of a mother, in cases of rape or incest, or when a possibility existed that a child might be born deformed.
Second, it would give reciprocation itself a positive value.
Allen said a peace movement such as the SPU should explore possibilities other than the long term commitments which confront the nuclear powers now.
"I THINK there is clear evidence that there are many other dynamics at work." he said.
Russia, he said, has proved this. He cited the present level of Russian influence around the world.
"It wasn't military force that did this," he said. "I think it is an expansion of the social services by the Russians . . . a sort of cultural alienation."
The SPU field secretary said the U.S. has not done this to the extent the Russians have. He cited U.S. policy in South Viet Nam, where American military pressures have torn the country apart and have made America unpopular.
HE SAID AID OF this sort actually works against any Alliance For Progress and certainly cannot end the arms race.
Action must be taken by the SPU, Allen said, and this action has a range of possibilities which can have an effect on American foreign policv.
"What is really necessary is to recognize the threat of Soviet foreign policy and also recognize the undesirable qualities of our own foreign policy," he said.
ALLEN SAID although a majority of Americans do not participate in peace movements, most of them do support such movements.
"I think this means the present peace movement must be built from our own culture," he said. "I don't think it can start from its own vocabulary. It must be American."
Fphases such as "Ban the Bomb." are not enough, he explained.
The student's role in a peace movement is a very unique one, Allen said, because in a university community there is more exchange of ideas and discussion.
ALLEN SAID the SPU must make it known that there are people who consider possibilities concerning the arms race other than the current ones taken by the U.S.