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One will be '500' queen
Finalists for the Phi Psi "500" Queen are from left to right: Sandy McPherson, Emporia freshman, representing Corbin Hall; Sherry Fortenberry, Leawood sophomore, representing Delta Gamma sorority and Janis Laursen, Kansas City, Mo. freshman, representing Oliver Hall. The judges for the queen contest were William M. Ballour, dean of student affairs; Mrs. Priscilla Johnson, Phi Psi housemother and Richard Tomey, assistant football coach.
Big enemy post taken
SAIGON (UPI) American troops Thursday captured without resistance a major Communist communications center in the Fishhook area of Cambodia believed to contain the North Vietnamese "Pentagon" for the war zone.
For the second night in a row Communist gunners shelled Da Nang.
Military spokesmen said the communications center, housed in permanent structures, was found in an area 75 miles northwest of Saigon.
They said it was not known if the center was the headquarters of the Central Office for South Vietnam, the organization that directs Communist military operations in South Vietnam.
Also found in the complex were hundreds of weapons, stores of ammunition and medical supplies.
Thursday night and early today, Communist troops slammed eight large rockets into Da Nang, South Vietnam's second largest city, killing seven civilians and wounding 12. Less than 24 hours earlier the former imperial capital of Hue was shelled. Twelve persons were killed and 21 wounded.
The communications center in the Fishhook was nicknamed "The City" by its captors. Spokesmen said there were about 500 structures in the area, including bunkers and surface buildings.
It was located in a region about seven miles southwest of the Cambodian district town of Snuol, which American tanks and aircraft destroyed in a battle with North Vietnamese troops Tuesday.
Military sources said Thursday that at least 38 Americans were killed or wounded in helicopter losses in Vietnam and Cambodia.
U. S. helicopters Thursday ferried 2,800 more American infantrymen into an area of Cambodian farmlands laced with bunkers and described as a supply base for 10,000 Communist troops. One of the helicopters crashed and nine GIs were killed.
Last week, U.S. headquarters reported Thursday, 123 Americans were killed in Vietnam action—29 more than the previous week and the third highest toll for any seven-day period this
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year. The week included the first stages of the drives into Cambodia which moved into a second week Thursday.
Allied communiques, claiming great success in the Cambodian thrusts, reported more than 3,300 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong killed in the six-front campaign by an estimated 50,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops.
Hundreds of tons of munitions and food for Communist forces were reported destroyed or captured. The cost to the allies was described as light. Field reports listed 75 Americans killed and 300 wounded and 180 South Vietnamese killed and 840 wounded.
Cambodian commanders, fighting their own war against the Communists, sent tanks along the Mekong River south of the capital of Phnom Penh Thursday and reported recapture of the village of Koki Thom after a four-hour battle.
But other Phnom Penh dispatches said the provincial capitals of Kratie and Senmromom in east-central Cambodia fell to the Communists.
Battalions of GIs from the 4th Infantry Division were flown across the frontier into Cambodia by late afternoon in an assault on farmland laced with North Vietnamese bunkers.
A battalion usually numbers about 800 men. The operation also includes elements of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division and units of the 22nd Division of the South Vietnamese Army.
Lt. Gen. Lu Mong Lan, the South Vietnamese commander in charge of the push, said the mission was designed to crush a supply base for 10,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops.
"If it is successful in finding and destroying enemy caches, the effect could hamper or cripple the 10,000 troops for two years." Lan said in an interview at Pleiku on South Vietnam's Central Highlands about 50 miles east of the Cambodian front.
Phi Psi tykes' trikes duck eggs, creampuffs
The weather accommodating lovers of the sun and outdoor sport will get another chance to pursue their interests in the annual Phi Kappa Psi "500" this Sunday.
The activities will begin at noon Sunday when Phi Psi "500" queen finalists and four—girl relay teams will gather at the Phi Psi house.
The tricycle race will consist of five heats and a final race. During the race the participant may not leave her tricycle until she has reached the designated area where she relays her tricycle to a teammate.
As an added feature, 12 fraternity and sorority housemothers
will participate in the tricycle race.
The teams participating in the tricycle race will have to go through mud, over railroad ties and around barrels, al the while dodging eggs and whipped cream pies.
The winners of each heat will receive a team trophy. The winner of the final race will receive the sixth annual Phi Pi "500" trophy. This is a "traveling trophy," won last year by Delta Delta delta sorority. Also this year a trophy will be awarded to the living group with the most support in numbers and voices and a trophy will go to the housemother who has the best time for her competition.
Accounting course revamp intended to motivate students
A new approach in teaching accounting is being planned by the University of Kansas, according to George Staubus, visiting professor of business administration and chairman of the School of Business committee reviewing the accounting curriculum.
Staubus said Thursday that the change was needed to help motivate students in accounting.
"Students need to feel the excitement of accounting as the powerful influence it is on decision making," he said.
He said he hoped to shift the emphasis of the basic course in accounting to show the uses of accounting information. This approach he said, will tie accounting
more closely to courses representing management functions.
Clifford D. Clark, dean of the School of Business, said, "Although our accounting principles are taught well, the faculty in accounting is convinced that the subject can be made more exciting through experiments with different sequences of the material, through programed instruction, use of audiovisual aids, computer-based exercises, team teaching or some combination of these."
A proposal for an experimental project, probably starting with a group of master of business administration students taking the first course in accounting, will soon be submitted by the faculty committee.
Order served on students
NEW YORK (UPI) — New York University served a court order today on a group of militant students holding a government computer for $100,000 "ransom" to gain bail funds for a jailed Black Panther.
The computer, located in the Atomic Energy Commission Center here, reportedly is worth $6 million.
One of the 60 black and white students who "kidnaped" the computer had threatened to destroy the machine unless NYU came up with the bail money.
The computer is owned by the AEC as part of the commission's Applied Mathematics and Research Center.
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After its first year of operation, the University Planning Board gathered a solid amount of information to start working on in the fall, William M. Lucas, associate professor of architecture and urban design and co-chairman of the University Planning Board, said Thursday.
Lucas said the Planning Board had collected information on enrollment trends at the University to make plans for financial, academic and space needs in the next 10 years.
The University Planning Board was set up in September 1969 upon request of Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. Francis H. Heller, dean of faculties is chairman of the Board.
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The Planning Board has been divided into three subgroups: one for numerical data, one for facilities and one for future academic needs. Chairmen for the subgroups are George B. Smith, vice-chancellor of the University, for the numerical data group; Russell N. Bradt, associate professor of mathematics for the facilities group; and Roger E. Kanet, associate professor of political science, for the academic subgroup. Each of the subgroups has had a student representative.
Lucas said this was the first time an attempt has been made to collect information to determine future needs.
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