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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 13, 1963
Wright Reaffirms 'Low Grade' Tag
TOPEKA — (UPI) — Controversial C. O. Wright told the Senate Education Committee yesterday that he meant it when he said Kansas has a "low grade" educational standard.
Wright, head of the Kansas State Teachers Association (KSTA), denied only one statement he was quoted as making at a conference in Atlantic City, N.J. He denied that he said legislators west of U.S. Highway 81 were more backwards about education than others.
HE STUCK by the rest of his ideas about Kansas education as outlined to a Kansas City reporter who interviewed Wright at the convention.
Wright said legislative resolutions censuring him threatened his right to freedom of speech. He asked the committee if his right to speak up was being abridged.
"Such a question would not be appropriate in an iron curtain country," Wright said. "It should be in Democratic America with our guarantees of rights of freedom.
"DON'T you think I should have the same rights of free speech as any other citizen?"
one senator said the resolutions were the lawmakers' way of expressing freedom of speech.
"With a resolution," Wright exploded.
Among points Wright listed as weaknesses in the Kansas school systems were;
- Election of state and county school superintendents every two
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Christian Science Organization, 7:30 pm
Danforth Chapel. Everyone welcome.
Catholic Masses, 7:00 a.m., and, 11:40 a.m.
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If you are interested in a teaching position for September, 1963, in any of these areas, please sign up for an interview in 117 Balley Hall.
Japanese Film Slated For Tomorrow Night
The second picture of the Japanese film series will be shown at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Strong Auditorium.
The film, "Drunken Angel," was released in 1948. Its showing at KU is sponsored by the East Asian studies committee.
The picture has English subtitles.
Chase Amazes Crowds. Fails
NEWARK, N. J. — (UPI)—There may be an advantage in chasing suspicious characters on horseback but not in a crowded city at rush hour. Mounted Patrolman Jerry Sullivan clip-clopped after two suspects for several blocks yesterday through amazed crowds before he lost them and returned to his post directing traffic on horseback.
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years moving the jobs from professional to political standards.
- The large number of split decisions with separate boards for elementary and high schools.
- Excessive, ineffective and inefficient school district organization with 2,042 school districts while 583 were recommended in an educational survey.
- The high number of one and two-teacher schools.
The committee also heard Bernice Smith of Garden City, president of the KSTA, and Ray Heller, chairman of the boards of directors.
ONE PENDING resolution threatens an investigation of the KSTA and the other calls on Wright to retract his statements.
Wright said "records of the State Historical Society . . . indicate that I am the first private citizen who has been censured by the Kansas Legislature . . . since 1861."
Institute Speakers Include Toynbee
The 15th Annual Topeca Institute of International Relations will be March 17-19 at Washburn University.
Speaking at the institute will be Arnold J. Toynbee, British historian; Kenneth E. Boulding, professor of economics at the University of Michigan; Saul H. Mendlovitz, professor of law at the Rutgers School of Law, State University of New Jersey; and Maria Pfister, medical officer of the Mental Health Unit of the World Health Organization.
A panel which will discuss and answer questions on each speech includes Dr. Roy Menninger, staff psychiatrist at the Menninger Foundation; Lee Porter, of the Topeka Capitol-Journal; David Prager, Shawnee County district judge; and Harold Statler, executive secretary of the Kansas Council of Churches.
The institute of International Relations is an annual event sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization. Its purpose is to present and discuss ideas and viewpoints in international relations.
The committee feels the complexity of world problems today demands an alert and informed citizenry. Through programs such as this institute, it is trying to increase American citizens' understanding of international relations as the first step toward more rational and effective solutions.
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The Reading and Study Skills department of the School of Education is offering a special class this semester to develop skill in spelling through reading.
The second issue of the 1963 Jayhawker yearbook will go on sale Thursday morning at the information booth.
The class, under the direction and instruction of Charles Tegeler, teaching assistant, will begin today and will consist of a maximum of ten sessions. The class will be offered at 10:30 and 4:30 on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and at 11:30 on Tuesday and Thursday. There will be no charge and no KU credit will be given for the course.
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Jerry Pullins, Council Grove junior and Jayhawker business manager, said students must present their fall identification cards at the information booth to get the book. Students who do not have the fall I.D. card may pick up their second book by going to the Jayhawker office in the Kansas Union after next Monday.
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"We conducted a study of the course last fall," Tegeler said, "and we had pretty good results.
"We expect the benefits to come in a long-term gain," Tegeler said. "The class work will be based on a development of visual discrimination skill, with the aid of machines."
Interested students will be able to enroll in the class until Friday. Enrollment is in 102 Bailey Hall, and the classes will be in 103 Bailey.
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Richard Neutra, a leading international architect and designer, will speak at 8:15 in the ballroom of the Kansas Union.
Neutra will show slides of his designs at the lecture.
Eugene George, chairman of the Department of Architecture, said "Neutra is concerned with everything from psychiatric hospitals to houses."
He is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and has received 88 honorary degrees, memberships and awards.
Neutra's philosophy is a concern for human welfare in analyzing, planning and designing. Neutra attended a mental health conference yesterday and Monday in Topeka at the Menninger Foundation.
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Frosh Council Has Monev-Making Plans
The Freshman Council is making long range plans to boost the freshman class' monetary resources.
Larry Bast, freshman class president, said the council recently sponsored a doughnut sale which netted the freshman treasury $50.
Doughnuts have been sold in the various living groups each Sunday evening for the past three weeks.
Bast said the money will go either toward the freshman class party or toward money for the class gift. A car-wash is tentatively scheduled as the next freshman class money-raising project.
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