ASC Approves One Delegate In Each District
By Kay Jarvis
After lively discussion, the All Student Council last night approved a proposed constitutional amendment which would insure each district one representative on the council.
Wednesday. March 13, 1963
The amendment would eliminate the present minimum of 75 votes necessary for a district to have one representative.
Charles Marvin
THE PROPOSED amendment will be brought before the student body for approval or rejection in the April elections.
The rejected part provided that no district should have less than one representative per 1000 students living in the district.
The sponsors of the proposal walked out of the meeting, refusing further discussion on the rest of the bill. after one part of it was rejected. They are Charles Marvin, Lawrence junior, and Mike Miner, Lawrence sophomore; both represent unmarried-unorganized districts.
THE AMENDMENT would change the basis of representation from interest, as shown by the number who vote, to the actual number of students living in the district.
In earlier discussion, Marvin said he felt ASC representation should not be based on the number of persons who have voted. He said voting is not necessarily a measure of interest.
"I would question whether we really have an All Student Council, that is, one representing all the students on campus," he said.
difficult for them to get people to vote, is not sufficient cause to rewrite the constitution.
GREG TURNER, Seattle. Wash., junior, said to favor a living group such as the unorganized-unmarried group, because it is
He said they must talk in terms of either interest or number of people.
In other business, a bill to establish a student advisory board was introduced. A similar bill was before the ASC last week but, because of objections from the administration, it was withdrawn and revised.
THE NEW bill would provide for a committee of 41 juniors and seniors to act as a supplementary body to the faculty advisors in advising students on enrollment and class scheduling.
A resolution was passed to instruct a committee to work with the business office on a program for time payment of fees and tuition.
Mike Miner
It was announced that the Student Union Operating Board decided that the bookstore can buy back books for two extra days after final week.
AN AMENDMENT to eliminate the K-Book and place the Student Directory and State Book under one editor and business manager was introduced.
THE DEPARTMENT of sports, health and recreation suggested a new program co-ordinating the three present intramural programs into one special committee under the student government.
The K-Book Handbook will be replaced by a new student handbook now being prepared by the University, said Blaine King, Emporia senior and chairman of the ASC Publications Committee.
Daily Hansan
A bill on the qualifications of executive student appointments was withdrawn to be resubmitted as a constitutional amendment, and a resolution to recommend a "stop day" before final week this semester was tabled until a report by the calendar committee can be given next week.
The Human Rights Committee reported that a scientific sampling on the attitudes of the students on campus on civil rights is being made.
A resolution was passed canceling primary elections for any one office in the forthcoming elections unless contested by three or more candidates.
This is being done by the committee with the cooperation of the department of sociology.
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
60th Year. No. 102
House Plans Debate On WU Compromise
Compiled By Terry Ostmeyer
The Kansas Legislature reached a compromise yesterday on admitting Wichita University into the state school system.
The Ways and Means Committee yesterday voted 15-2 to accept the new compromise amendments and recommend passage.
THE TERMS STATE that WU's budget would be subject to the approval and recommendation of the KU Chancellor, who would present the budget to the State Board of Regents.
The compromise settled in Conard's committee makes WU an "associate" of KU and gives the state Board of Regents authority to fix curricula and standards of admission of the school after July 1, 1964.
In return, WU would retain all of its programs, degrees and schools it currently offers in its catalog. The Regents would have the power to determine future curriculum, degrees, fees and other aspects of the operation.
KU Grad Credited In WU Compromise
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The amendments also provide for the chancellor of KU to make recommendations on proposed WU budgets and on the hiring of future WU presidents. No change was made in the curriculum specified in the WU catalogue.
A KU 1943 journalism graduate and former political science instructor has been credited with setting the Wichita University issue.
Rep. John Conard is chairman of the Ways and Means Committee which approved the compromise Tuesday.
While a student at KU, Conard was the last student publisher of the University Daily Kansan. After school he entered the U.S. foreign service and then he returned to his home state to become publisher and editor of a group of weekly newspapers.
Tentative plans are that the bill will be brought up in the House for debate tomorrow, with possible emergency action the same day.
The statement "associate of the University of Kansas" was inserted in various sections of the bill, including the title and the proposition Wichita voters will decide on when they vote in a special referendum before June 15.
Committee Chairman Rep. John J. Conard, R-Kiowa County, said the term "associate" was, in his opinion, unique in American education.
A key provision in the compromise was a section which stated:
mise was a section which stated: "If said state university is so established the state board shall from and after July 1, 1964, have the power to prescribe the standards for admission of students and to fix student fees, the curriculum, the degrees and certificate programs, however, the University of Wichita shall be entitled to carry on, under present procedures, all academic programs now specified within its published catalog and graduate bulletin."
Legislators compared the compromise with the arrangement between KU and the KU Medical Center at Kansas City, Kan. It is also patterned after the recent agreement between the University of Missouri and the University of Kansas City.
ANOTHER section said: "Thereafter from year to year the president of the University of Wichita shall submit a budget for the ensuing fiscal year to the Chancellor of the University of Kansas, who shall forward the same with his comments and recommendations to the state board."
The compromise Ways and Means bill is one of two versions of the KU bill to come before the House tomorrow.
The State Affairs Committee.
which treated the WU bill much more harshly, also reported out its version of the bill yesterday.
HOWEVER, House rules call for action on the Ways and Means report first, said Rep. Charles Arthur, R-Manhattan and Speaker of the House.
Dr. Harry F. Corbin, president of Wichita University, said "I am thrilled and excited by the prospective incorporation of the University of Wichita into the state system of higher education as provided by the recommendation to the House today.
Amendments incorporated in the State Affairs bill would strike out all references to "university," leaving the status of WU in the hands of the State Board of Regents.
"The University would be established as a state university as an associate of the University of Kansas. This relationship . . . will be most advantageous and desirable," he said.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said KU would be pleased with such an association with the University of Wichita.
"WE ARE CONVINCED that such an association is in the best interests of higher education and of the young people of the state. We believe that each institution would provide strength to the other in a mutually advantageous way." he said.
Kansas legislative leaders also predicted that the compromise would break the current logjam of legislation in the Legislature.
Both House and Senate leaders believed the compromise, endorsed by the State Board of Regents and University of Wichita officials, would be approved by the Legislature and by Wichita voters when they vote on the proposal June 15.
Gov. John Anderson said the compromise accomplishes the goals ioward which the Kansas Legislature has been working for months.
Cincinnati, Texas Will Meet In NCAA Tournament Friday
The NCAA Midwest Regionals open here Friday when Cincinnati, defending national champion and the top-ranked team this year, meets Texas at 7:30 p.m.
Oklahoma City, the tallest team this season, plays Colorado, the Big Eights' representative, in a 9:30 p.m. contest.
FRIDAY'S losers will play each other at 7 p.m. Saturday and the winners will compete for a berth in the national playoffs to be held at Louisville, Ky., the next weekend.
Allen Field House, the second largest on-campus basketball arena in the country (in terms of seating capacity) hasn't been packed since Jan. 20, 1960, when Kansas defeated Kansas State 75-66.
THE BIGGEST crowd at a KU game this year was 10,000. Present indications are that even the best
Weather
Cloudy skies and a few snow flurries are forecast for parts of Kansas today before a sharp turn to colder temperatures tonight.
Clear skies after sundown tonight probably would send temperatures as low as 10 degrees in northern Kansas,weathermen said.
and tallest teams in collegiate basketball this season will not draw capacity crowds of 17,000.
Earl Falkenstein, athletic business manager, said Tuesday that "plenty" of tickets remain for both night's games.
Denzel Gibbons, assistant business manager, showed a newsman the pile of tickets left Monday and said:
"HOW MANY are there, I don't know. I will say that there are plenty left—for both nights."
However, in the three times the Wildcats have been here for the plavoffs (the regionals have been held here in 1956, 1958, 1959 and 1961), there has been a sellout in only one instance, according to Don Pierce, sports publicity director.
Falkenstein said that ticket sales for the regionals possibly would be going faster had Kansas State won the Big Eights' spot in the playoff instead of out-of-state Colorado.
Pierce said the biggest additional chore provided for him by the playoffs this year is the erection of two platforms for television crews.
PIERCE SAID the games will be televised on a regional basis in Cincinnati and Austin. Tex.
The sports publicity director said the number of teletypes in service would be tripled as would the amount of sports writers.
"Sometimes we have as many as 15 radio station representatives."
THE CINCINNATI BEARCATS,
seeking an unprecedented third straight national title, will be the featured attraction.
Pierce said, "but only seven have reserved booths this year."
IN THREE SEASONS under Coach Ed Jucker, the Bearcats have won 79 games and lost only six.
KU basketball fans watched Cincinnati's Ron Bonham (6-5), Dale Heidtning (6-8), Larry Shingleton (5-10), Ron Krick (6-8), Tom Thacker (6-2), George Wilson (6-8) and Tony Yates (6-1) defeat the Jayhawkers, 64-49, here in December.
The Bearcats, rated No.1 by both wire service polls, finished with a 23-1 record.
The Oklahoma City Chiefs starters will probably be Eddie Jackson (7-0), Jim Miller (6-6), Bill Johnston (6-9), Bud Koper (6-5) and Gary Hill (6-4).
Colorado, ranked 10th on the Associated Press poll and ninth by United Press International, will enter the tournament with a 19-6 record and a share of the Big Eight title.
THE BUFFS, led by 6-6 Ken Charilton, provided the biggest regular season crowd here of 10,000 when they battled the Jayhawks.
Texas, representing the Southwest Conference, will enter the playoffs with a 19-6 record.