Graduation ends tense year
By United Press International
An academic year wrought with tension ended last week with graduation ceremonies on campuses in many parts of the country. Speakers ranging from Cabinet level government officials to heads of corporate giants received varied welcomes.
Fifty of the 2,000 Fordham University graduates and a handful of professors walked out of commencement activities prior to the speech of presidential urban advisor Daniel P. Moynihan.
In his address, Moynihan said events of the past few months have produced "the unavoidable impression" that fear, some times expressed as fury, had "come to be a pervasive emotion among great elements of educated or educating youths."
"This condition is epidemic on American campuses at this moment," he said.
At the Camp David presidential retreat David and Julie Eisenhower were feted by members of
their families and close friends at a graduation dinner.
Eisenhower, and his wife, President Nixon's younger daughter, skipped their commencement ceremonies at Amherst College and Smith College respectively for fear of antiwar and anti Nixon demonstrations.
At Hoboken, N.J., Interior Secretary Walter Hickel told the 1707 class at Stevens Institute of Technology:
"Your task is nothing less than
the creation of a whole new civilized industrial technology to replace the brute machine that has raised so much ecological hell. Youth's great gift is creativity to possess minds and spirits free enough to view the world without preconceptions."
Scattered shouts of "polluter" and "war monger" from a few in the audience greeted United States Steel Co. board Chairman Edwin Hayes Gott as he received
an honorary degree from the University of Maryland.
Negro Georgia state legislator Julian Bond was applauded by the audience at Syracuse University commencement exercises when he referred to Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew as "a gate-mouthed Maryland farmer."
In referring to a controversial Nixon administration proposal to fight crime in Washington, D.C., Bond said, "One has a sneaking
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
80th Year, No.1
Photo by Gary Mason
Photo by Gary Mason
Fruit of the labor
Faculty in full color
Christopher Morgan receives his Juris Doctor degree in graduation ceremonies Sunday night. Graduate and professional degrees were awarded a day before baccalaureate degrees.
Professors bedecked in full academic regalia added color to the graduation proceedings Sunday and Monday, May 31-June 1.
Delegates register to plan model state
More than 1,650 outstanding Kansas high school seniors-to-be arrived at the University of Kansas Sunday to begin a week as participants in model state, county. and city governments.
Registration for the 442 girls attending Sunflower Girls' State, conducted by the Kansas Department of the American Legion Auxiliary, was held in Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall where they will live during the session.
The 1,220 boys attending American Legion Boys State registered at Lewis Hall where they will be assigned to model cities in Lewis, Templin, Hashinger and Ellsworth Halls.
Inauguration of the Boys' State
governor will be Wednesday evening. Governor Docking will address Boys Staters Thursday at 11 a.m. in Murphy Hall.
Highlights of Girls' State week include the inauguration of the 1970 Girls' State governor with an address by Governor Docking Thursday evening, Kent Frizzell, Kansas attorney general, will speak Wednesday on "Youth's Role in Democratic Society," and Thursday Sen. Glee S. Smith of Larned will discuss the organization and procedures of legislatures.
Girls' Staters will use the Kansas Union facilities for meals and meetings, holding general assemblies in the new Woodruff Auditorium. Dr. Earl Nehring, associate professor of political science, will serve as coordinator of instructors for Girls' State.
Elected officials of Girls' and Boys' States will meet their counterparts in Kansas government and visit actual meetings such as a session of the Lawrence city commission. For the first time, Girls' Staters elected to the mock legislature will travel to Topeka to meet in the chambers of the Kansas Legislature.
Because the two sessions are being held simultaneously for the first time, Girls' State representatives have been invited to attend the Boys' State Governor's Ball Friday evening. Boys' State will end Saturday and Girls' State Sunday.
Drugs concern Coloradans
Schools throughout Colorado—which ranks 12th among the 50 states in illegal use of drugs—are using everything from ex-drug addicts to movies to try to get youth to decide drugs are not the answer to growing pains.
DENVER (UPI) Colorado educators fearful of a growing "pill popping" generation that already is evidencing itself as early as the sixth grade in a few instances, are arming themselves with a variety of programs they hope will curb the problem.
In the forefront of officials who have encouraged schools to offer drug education programs has been a state senator from suburban Lakewood, Ruth Stockton.
"Schools are the first line of attack in the battle against drugs," Mrs. Stockton said in an interview. "They're the best place to get the most of the people."
The Republican, one of only two women in the state senate, helped guide a 253,000 drug and alcohol bill through the 1970 session of the Colorado legislature. The money will go to the state departments of public health and education in an effort to launch a program in every school district in the state.
Actually, Colorado had a law on its statute books even before the turn of the century, requiring that schools teach about the dangers of drugs and tobacco and alcohol. The law which some observers say has done little more than gather cobwebs provides that teachers
who do not comply "shall be removed."
"The law is not tremendous in its observance," said Dr. John Lampe, staff physician to the Denver city and county schools. "It's against the law to spit on the street too, but there are not many indictments for doing it. The problem is that I can say that I read a section on narcotics to my class and still be in compliance with the law."
The variety of school drug programs being offered is nearly as varied as the number of school
districts offering them. Programs range from little more than a slide presentation to full scale efforts covering several grades.
"We can't achieve our ends with texts," Dr. Lampe said. "It's simply not a matter of information. Most kids know that drugs are not good for them. It is no use going through the golden rule to say that they are not.
"But what is in question here is kids' behavior—their values, their acceptance of drugs. That's what we must change."
KU graduating class largest in history of the University
The 1970 Preliminary Commencement program of the University of Kansas lists the names of 4,129 persons as having earned degrees and certificates in medical specialties since the previous Commencement or having candidacies for a degree or certificate in the annual exercises which were held May 31 and June 1.
This potential number is the largest ever for a 12-month period. It surpasses last year's record of 3,971 candidacies.
Forty-eight states, the District of Columbia, and 51 foreign lands are represented by the current class.
The foreign countries represented are Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Białra, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Libya, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Okinawa, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Uganda, Venezuela, Yugoslavia, and Zambia.