ASC Refutes Inaction Charge
By Patti Behen
Members of the All Student Council reacted vigorously to charges made against the council on the Kansan editorial page yesterday.
Wednesday, Feb. 20, 1963
The general opinion of the ASC members interviewed last night is that the editorial was an "unfair and unjustified representation." and most said the editorial writer had not looked closely enough into the actual operations of the ASC.
JERRY DICKSON. Newton senior and student body president, and Dean Salter, Garden City senior and ASC chairman, both declined comment on the editorial.
The editorial asserted that the ASC does not concern itself enough with matters directly affecting KU students.
One council member, however, said she agrees with the editorial. Phyllis Wertzberger, Lawrence senior, said "It was a very good editorial. I am in agreement with many of its points, although I'll probably be the only one."
NANCY LANE. Hoisington senior and University Party co-chairman, said the ASC "has done a lot of things which apparently suit someone, although they may not suit the writer of this editorial."
Concerning the charge that the ASC has done nothing to smooth out the reserved seating plan for football. Miss Wertzberger said she feels the council has done as much as it can.
"I have yet to see the writer at an ASC meeting," she added.
Bob Tieszen, McPherson junior, said the editorial was written with an outside view.
"The writer should have looked a little more closely at the things the ASC has been doing," he said.
"KU students would not have many of the things they do if it were not for the ASC. It is a generalization to say we do nothing," Tieszen said.
Jim Thompson, Hugoton junior, called the editorial an "unfair representation."
HE ADDED THAT if the editorial had been written "by a person sitting in regularly on ASC meetings, the situation would have been presented differently."
"Since I have been a member of the ASC, all the resolutions passed have directly concerned KU students," he said.
Thompson said the editorial writer "did not fairly represent the type of legislation the ASC handles. I would urge him to investigate more closely and to use more examples."
Roger Wilson, Wichita senior and Vox president, said, "The writer said the ASC is inactive and not concerned with students at KU. It is apparent that he needs to study ASC actions a little closer."
"IT IS EASY for people to criticize the ASC, but we have one or the best student councils in the country. I would say the charges concerning the reserved seating plan will be looked into," Wilson said.
Pat Wilson, Kansas City senior, said the editorial "seems to attack only the athletic seating plan."
"I would suggest the writer look a little more closely into ASC records," Miss Wilson said.
"He should have based his case on something more definite than a program such as the reserved seating plan, which has been in operation for two years and has been working quite well," she added.
South Vietnamese Kill 50 Rebels
SOCTRANG AIRFIELD. South Viet Nam —(UPI) — An American-backed South Vietnamese Army attack routed a Communist rebel battalion from a village 140 miles south of Saigon today, killing at least 50 Reds.
The action took place at Xom Dinh village, where the Communist Viet Cong battalion took refuge after being spotted by an Army observation plane early in the day.
THE REDS HAD attacked two government militia posts in neighboring Chuong Thien province yesterday, killing three militiamen and destroying three blockhouses. They were withdrawing from the area when spotted.
The Vietnamese and Americans promptly moved into the attack, which this correspondent watched from an escorting U.S. Marine helicopter.
THEN, A BATTALION of Viet-
namese infantry and four companies
First. American-piloted World War II vintage B26 bombers and AD66 fighters hit the village with rockets and bombs in a softening-up move.
Two of the ranger companies were airlifted to the scene aboard 10 U.S. Army H21 helicopters escorted by six Marine Iroquois helicopters from Soctrang. The other two ranger companies and the infantry battalion closed in on the ground.
At one point, I watched 13 Red guerrillas break from cover and race across an open paddy field, with machine gun bullets slamming into the ground at their heels.
The Reds couldn't take it. They abandoned foxholes and trenches and took off.
of rangers were thrown into the action.
OTHER HELICOPTERS moved in to cover, blazing away at the Reds with machine guns and rockets.
One of the H21's flew through a hail of Communist ground fire as it approached the troop drop zone, but apparently was not hit.
ONE GUERRILLA TURNED, fired his rifle at the helicopters, then dropped it and ran for his life. He didn't make it. He was cut in half by rockets and machine gun fire before he had gone 15 yards.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Members of the ways and means committees of both houses of the Kansas legislature discussed the "University program" here yesterday in an afternoon meeting with Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe.
'Regents Opposed To Senate's WU Bill'
Raymond Nichols, vice chancellor for finance, said legislators and University officials talked about the University budget request and other legislation in which the University is interested.
Reed, noting statements that the university "can be operated in any manner the regents see fit," maintained "the language of the legislative vehicle . . . contains a moral, if not a legal commitment to the contrary."
This includes the bill to create a research center in the state and the "reciprocity bill." The reciprocity bill would allow agreements between Kansas and one states by which students from one state could attend a school in the other state without paying out-of-state tuition.
An example of this would be Missouri students attending a pharmacy school in Kansas and Kansas students attending a Missouri dentistry school, Nichols said.
THE PARSONS publisher charged there were "loop-holes" in the
"Whatever the current denials," Reed said, "the Senate bill contains the seeds of a third state university, operating in total independence of other established state institutions . . .."
TOPEKA — (UPI) — Charges of "political pressure" and "loop holes" which would sideline the Kansas Board of Regents today plagued the future of the Senate-approved bill to bring Wichita University into the state system.
The regents, through Board Chairman Clyde Reed Jr., yesterday declared it was "unalterably opposed" to the bill in hearings before the House State Affairs Committee.
Nichols said the university invites members of the ways and means committees to visit KU every two years.
Legislators Meet Wescoe at KU
bill big enough to push through a full-fledged, complex university without the approval of the Board of Regents.
He also charged that "the naked force of power politics has been applied to the solution of a question of higher education. At no time in the history of the state has higher education been subjected to the political pressures existing today on this issue."
Governor Anderson denied yesterday that any of the political pressure on the Wichita University matter was coming from his administration.
"If they (the Board of Regents) are feeling any pressure it's from somewhere else besides this office. There has been pressure from all over the state," Anderson said.
APPEARING WITH Reed at yesterday's house committee hearings were regents Whitley Austin of Salina, William Dannebarger of Concordia, Ray Evans of Prairie Village, Henry Bubb of Topeka, Clement Hall of Coffeyville and Charles Kincaid of Independence.
Reed told the hearing "we will not stand idly by and permit the 29,000 students now enrolled in our state universities and colleges, their competent faculties and administrators and indeed the institutions themselves to become unwilling pawns in a game of power politics".
Austin told the committee the difference between a college and a university as far as Wichita U. is concerned is a matter of $1.7 million per year of tax money.
The Salina publisher said Wichita U. could be operated as a college for $3 million per year but as a full university it would cost $4.7 million.
Weather
Snow began falling today about noon, several hours ahead of schedule. The Weather Bureau had predicted snow squalls tonight, with temperatures falling to 10 above. The temperature is not expected to rise much above 10 tomorrow.
Tonight's cold wave will be accompanied by still more snow and northerly winds of 25 to 40 miles per hour.
"These Senate bills by spreading thin the program, by dividing authority, by diluting the instruction, by creating a third costly university would reduce the quality of Kansas education and would exact from the taxpayers a price that is more than Kansas can afford," Austin said.
REGENT BUBB said the Wichita University matter had been dragged into the "political gutter." He maintained that "promises of new highways, turnpikes, local legislation, or threatened political demise" were some of the pressures brought to bear on individuals.
When asked to supply names and facts of any political promises of highways or local legislation in return for support for the bill, Bubb replied he did not recall all he had heard and would not want to start naming names.
The committee must now decide whether it wants to amend, kill or recommend for passage the Senate bills which would bring the municipal school into the system.
The bills will then go to the House Ways and Means Committee where they face a similar test before they can be sent to the House floor for final arguments and voting.
Actor Plans Campus Visit
Basil Rathbone, English Shakespearean actor, will appear here in the early part of March.
Student Union Activities (SUA) is planning to sponsor "An Evening with Basil Rathbone" in Hoch Auditorium, Dave Smith, Jackson, Michigan, junior and chairman of the Featured Speakers Committee, said.
Rathbone will present interpretive readings of the poetry of Poe, Browning, Nash and Shakespeare and read several scenes from Shakespeare's plays.
Rathbone will also speak at a forum if it can be scheduled, Smith said.
The Featured Speakers Committee is a new program in SUA and is planned to supplement the University speakers program and SUA entertainment, Smith concluded.
KU-Y Tutors To Be Offered Students with Scholastic Woes
By Kay Jaryis
Students who are having scholastic problems this semester will be given a chance to receive tutoring for 50c through a program sponsored by the KU-Y.
"Those who wish to use this service are invited to apply at the KU-Y office after next Monday," Carl Peck, Concordia senior and copresident of the KU-Y said.
INVITATIONS WERE sent out Saturday to 200 juniors and seniors on the Dean's Honor Roll to act as tutors.
"However, anyone who feels himself capable of tutoring and wants to is welcome to fill out an information card at the KU-Y office." Peck said.
He said many people who plan to be teachers act as tutors for the teaching experience. Others do it as a review of the course.
"This service is extended to those
who are really serious about bringing their grades up," Peck said.
They are asked to fill out applications listing their courses, the number of hours they are taking and a concise statement of what their trouble is.
The tutoring service includes only courses in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and has full support of Dean Waggoner and Dean Heller, Peck said.
Peck hopes the tutoring service will be in operation about two weeks before midsemester exams.
Dean Heller invited 40 students from the college to act as tutors and of these 21 accepted.
If the program continues next year it will probably be on a permanent honorary society basis, he said. A similar program is in effect at the University of Pennsylvania, which tutors 500 students.
Last semester was the first time a tutoring system has been tried here.
However, the supply did not meet the demand when 97 students applied for the service and the scholarship halls were contacted for more students.
Forty-two students and tutors were eventually matched. However, the initiative to contact the tutor and arrange appointments was left to the students.
All of the students had grades of D. F, or FF at midsemester in the course in which they requested help.
At the end of the semester, the KU-Y took a sampling of 57 per cent of the tutors to test the system's effectiveness.
Sixty-seven per cent of those reached had been contacted by their student and appointments made for study. Of these, 53 per cent had raised their grade one letter or more.
Last semester the tutoring service was free, however a 50 cent fee is now being charged the students.