Daily hansan
60th Year, No. 79
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Friday, Feb. 8, 1963
Senate Passes WU; Partisan Fronts Form
By Blaine King
The bill to bring Wichita University into the state school system goes to the Kansas House of Representatives today, where it faces stiff opposition.
The bill received final Senate approval yesterday, but only by the narrowest of margins, 21-19.
(PASSAGE-CAME on the second vote. The first vote ended in an inconclusive 20-14 split, with six senators abstaining. Twenty-one is required for passage.)
Sen. Alvin Bauman, D-Sabetha, who cast the deciding vote on the second ballot, said, "Somehow we have neglected education in South-Central Kansas while it has been growing to the largest population center.
But Sen. Howard Harper, R-Junction City, who represents the district which includes Kansas State University, said the bill endangers "the position of higher education in Kansas."
A prominent KU alumnus also charged last night that the bill was passed because of partisan votes.
"I AM FEAFUL THAT by the terms of this bill we are putting our higher education in the center of the political arena," he said.
Roy Edwards Jr., Kansas City businessman, said the Senators who voted for the bill did not consider the interests of the state as a whole, but were interested only in helping lighten the tax load on Wichita residents.
HE SAID THE senators who voted against the bill voted more in line with the true merits of the bill.
The Senate also passed a companion measure to the main bill which provides for the creation of a board of trustees to handle endowment properties at Wichita University.
The main Wichita bill provides that Wichita University enter the state system under "complete jurisdiction of the Board of Regents." Wichita would also enter the state system as a full university.
A Topeka newspaper publisher and KU alumnus, Stanley Stauffer, said in a telephone interview the bill might be watered down in the House to provide for the admission of Wichita University to the state system as a liberal arts college.
Stauffer, a member of the board of the University of Kansas Alumni Association, said he "would not object to the admission of Wichita University as a liberal arts college."
STAUFFER SAID he was opposed to any duplication of courses and fields in the state schools, and he did not think the present bill went as far as it could toward eliminating duplication.
He said he would favor eliminating all graduate programs at Wichita, with the possible exception of areonautical engineering.
He said he favored, for example, combining the state's law schools into a University of Kansas School of Law at Washburn in Topeka, and the engineering schools into the University of Kansas School of Engineering at Manhattan.
He thought the existing state schools would suffer somewhat if a sixth state school were admitted into the system, but he said that the admission of Wichita is inevitable.
ASKED ABOUT the probability of increased taxes if Wichita is admitted. Stauffer said "the Legislature might find it necessary to enact the controversial sevicien tax."
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ASC Committee Opposes WU Bill
By Patti Behen
A proposal recommending that a firm position be taken against the Wichita University bill will go before the All Student Council Tuesday. Student Body President Jerry Dickson said in an interview last night.
Dickson, Newton senior and chairman of a special ASC committee to study the Eurich Report, said his committee feels the bill now before the State Legislature does not provide "the reasonable and just solution for all universities concerned."
Dickson said the committee will ask the ASC to adopt the proposal, which contends that present state funds are not sufficient to handle additional teachers' salaries, classroom research and living facilities. The resolution, therefore, opposes the admission of the University of Wichita as a state university.
Dickson said the proposal is aimed at "informing the State Legislature about how the All Student Council feels."
"The legislature should know the students are interested in the quality of education they receive and that they want no program adopted which would deteriorate the reputation of their university," he said.
"Assuming that taxes will not be raised this year," Dickson said, "the admission of the University of Wichita as a full state university would be a further strain on the state's financial resources."
The question of possible organized KU alumni resistance to the bill was raised Wednesday when a member of the House said that KU has an organized majority of most of the political power of the state.
He said it is doubtful that either the sales tax or severence tax will be raised.
"SENATE BILL No. 151 was passed in the Senate yesterday with
Supporters of the Wichita bill maintain that Wichita can provide the necessary jobs, but Edwards said the admission of Wichita would cost too much for the benefits gained. He said the bill which now goes to the House for consideration would be detrimental to KU and K-State, and would lower the general level of education all across the state.
no provisions for any new sources of revenue," he said.
"I don't think, there is anyone who would deny that Wichita needs some help," he said. "The question is what kind of aid and what form it will take."
"Even if any provisions were to be made, the committee is not satisfied that the bill is the answer to the state's higher education problems.
"SINCE THIS seems to be unacceptable to Wichita, an alternative would be a larger grant in the form of a full-time per-credit-hour student quota, to relieve the tax burden."
Dickson said his committee considered the Eurich Report as the ideal solution. It would place the University of Wichita under the jurisdiction of the University of Kansas and Kansas State University.
Dickson also suggested making Wichita a four-year liberal arts college with several specialized graduate programs.
Dickson said the ASC and the KU Young Republicans are "informally working together" against the passage of the bill. The Young Republicans plan a student opinion poll on the issue.
Members of the committee are Jack Croughan, Novato, Calif., junior; Peggy Conner, Wichita sophomore; Jim Thompson, Hugoton junior, and Reuben McCornack, Abilene junior.
He said his committee's most direct action will be the proposal to the All Student Council.
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Bv Rov Miller
KU Wichitans Back Admission
Ten of 11 KU students from Wichita said last night they favor the establishment of the University of Wichita as a state university.
Six of the students contacted by telephone interviews had been enrolled formerly at the municipal university.
Frank Addis, graduate student, was the only Wichita student who did not immediately favor the entrance of WU into the state school system.
"A person can't really answer outright whether you favor it or not." Addis said. "I think you have to consider the conditions under which it becomes a university and how it affects the existing universities."
ROGER BROWN, junior, attended the Wichita school for three years. "I think they can really use the aid," Brown said. "I'm afraid if they don't get the aid they will have to go semi-private.
"The tuition has increased all the time. It has become more expensive for anyone outside the city limits."
Jim Moore, junior, spent his freshman and sophomore years at WU. "I see no reason why there shouldn't be a state school in the southern part of Kansas," he said.
"I'm fairly prejudiced because I went there two years." Marjorie Hamlett, a junior, said. "I think it very definitely should become a state school, but not as a subsidiary of KU.
Ragene Aldrich, sophomore, attended WU's summer session two years. "I think Wichita has a good speech and music department and I feel that there should be further development," Miss Aldrich said. "There would be more opportunities and it would be better known if it were a state school."
"THE ONLY argument I have heard up here is the expense. We will have to expand sometime, and I feel that they need it right now."
Richard M. Miller, junior, said, "It has a very fine school of fine arts and school of engineering. I think it is needed for the people of the south central part of the state. It should be put on the same level as KU and Kansas State.
"WICHITA'S staff is very highly qualified, it is outstanding in several fields and it is big enough that I feel it should become a state school," she said.
Other comments made by Wichita students at KU included the following:
Nancy Brainerd, freshman — "I would like to see WU become a state school because it would help it grow. Wichita is big enough to have its own state school. If the university is to grow too much more, it is going to need state aid."
Students Lose Free Smokes
Are you an underage cigarette smoker? Well, you will get no more free cigarettes or encouragement at KU.
By Kay Jarvis
According to a Kansas statute, it is unlawful to "sell or give away to any minor under 21 years of age any cigarettes."
THIS LAW was recently pointed out by Mrs. David Kester, wife o the Greenwood County county attorney in Eureka, in a letter to Attorney General William Ferguson.
She said she felt the practice of cigarette companies giving away sample packages of cigarettes to college students as an advertising promotion should be stopped, especially in view of the controversy over the effects of cigarettes on health.
Ferguson in turn pointed out the law to Clyde Reed, Parsons publisher and chairman of the State Board of Regents.
As the result of Mrs. Kester's letter, a directive was issued yesterday from the Board of Regents, sent under the direction of the attorney general, banning the free distribution of cigarettes by companies on the campuses of Kansas colleges and universities.
CHANCELLOR W. Clark Wescoe said the ban would go into effect immediately at KU.
But he said that the matter of cigarette machines is under consideration, and at the moment there are no plans to remove any of the machines, including those in the freshman dormitories.
He said he felt the ban was a good move. "The University had been considering it and was about to do the same thing itself. I am against encouraging young people to begin smoking because of the possible danger of lung cancer."
He said regulations have been in effect on the campus for some time that cigarettes are not to be sold to minors.
FRANK BURGE, director of the Kansas Union, said, "It's a matter of law that all cigarette vending machines have a sign attached that reads 'Minors are forbidden by law from making purchase from this machine.'"
The cigarette machines are not being taken out of the Union, he added.
He said that the signs are attached to the machines by the manufacturer but that it is the responsibility of the person who leases the machines to be sure the signs stay on and are legible.
IN REGARD to personal purchases of cigarettes, Burge said, "Our cashiers use normal good judgment
Weather
Partly cloudy weather and colder temperatures are forecast for the western part of Kansas and clouds with occasional drizzle for the eastern part this afternoon, tonight and Saturday. Drizzle changing to light snow is expected tonight in the northeast and Saturday in the extreme eastern parts of Kansas.
to determine whether a customer is a minor. We have declined to sell cigarettes to persons who were obviously minors."
Anyone who sells cigarettes to a person under 21-years-old is faced with possible conviction of a misdemeanor.
Although this law has been in effect for many years, it has been widely violated with increased smoking at a younger age.
Kassem Killed In Iraqi Revolt
TEHRAN, Iran — (UPI) — Army and air force units rebelled in Iraq last night, overthrew the government and announced that President Abdel Karim Kassem was slain.
The rebels apparently were sympathetic to the United Arab Republic, whose radio in Cairo hailed the revolt as "the dawn of a bright future for the Iraqi people and army."
Word of the revolt came from rebel radio broadcasts and diplomatic dispatches to capitals throughout the Middle East.
REPORTS REACHING Ankara, Turkey, said Kassam's headquarters in the Defense Ministry Building was bombed at (11:30 last night Lawrence time.) and the structure reduced to rubble, with Kassam possibly buried in the wreckage. But rebel broadcasts indicated his body may have been dragged into the streets for the public to see.
Brigadier Abdel Karim Mustafa was named leader of the new ruling Junta. He was identified as commander of the Erramadi garrison in the suburbs of Baghdad, but little else was known about him.
THE REVOLT APPARENTLY had its focal point in the capital of Baghdad. The rebels also claimed military support throughout the country. They indicated they were in control of the situation and that officers and officials loyal to Kasssem had been arrested or were in flight.
Diplomatic reports reaching London said both planes and tanks had moved against the Defense Ministry Building.
Communiques broadcast from Baghdad were made in the name of the "National Council of the Revolution Command."
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The reaction of Iraqi students at KU was hesitant.
Saud S. Mahmood, Iraqi graduate student, said that he knew little about the situation.
"There have been student strikes in Iraq for 6 weeks asking for a change in the present regime. They have tried this (the revolt) several times before but didn't succeed. Apparently they had some help this time from the U.A.R." Mahmood said.
Salman K. Ibrahim, Iraqi graduate student, took an optimistic viewpoint. "I hope maybe it's a good step but I should study the situation better." Ibrahim said.
New AP President To Speak Monday
From sports editor of the Oklahoma State University newspaper to president of the Associated Press is quite a journalistic jump.
But that's the career of Paul Miller, president of the Gannett newspaper group, who was recently elected president of the Associated Press.
MILLER WILL give the 14th annual William Allen White Foundation lecture here Monday. The Rochester, N. Y., citizen will speak on "Inside a Newspaper Group" at 3:30 p.m. in Fraser Hall.
Ernest W. Johnson, editor of the Olathe News and president of the
foundation honoring the famed Emporia Gazette editor, will present the foundation's National Citation for Journalistic Merit to Miller prior to his address.
A Kansas newspaper editor will be announced as recipient of the annual award for journalistic merit in the state at a luncheon at 12:30 p.m. in Kansas Union.
As president of the Gannett Co., Miller heads a firm which publishes 17 newspapers in four states, and operates four radio stations and two television stations. Miller is editor and publisher of the Rochester Times-Union and publisher of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.