Strike Committee infers charge
Shultz denies pressuring Regents
Sen. Reynolds Shultz Sen. Shultz relaxes on courthouse steps Tuesday.
State Senator Reynolds Shultz (R-Lawrence) today denied the charge that he had threatened the Board of Regents with legislative pressure if promotions were granted to two University of Kansas professors.
The promotions for the two men, Lawrence Velvel, associate professor of law, and Fredric Litto, assistant professor of speech and drama, are pending with the Regents until additional information is furnished by KU Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr.
A bulletin released Monday night by the Strike Committee had inferred that Shultz had talked the regents into questioning the promotions of Velvel and Litto. The bulletin said that Shultz had a closed door session with the regents before Chalmers met with them to discuss promotions. Of the 110 names submitted by Chalmers, the bulletin said, only two were questioned and these two had "previously incurred the wrath of Shultz."
Shultz said that on March 20, the day Chalmers presented the candidates for promotion to the
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The guest speaker will be John Brooks, an employee of the Halliburton Services Company in Wichita, who will speak on new methods of fracturing in oil drilling.
The Petroleum Engineering Club at the University of Kansas is sponsoring a guest speaker at its meeting this evening at 7 p.m. in room 238, Lindley Hall.
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legislators will be disappointed if Velvel and Littto pass."
"If Velvel would tell the students not to strike, it would change the attitudes of a lot of people," Shultz said.
Regents, the names of Velvel and Litto were not discussed until late afternoon.
"I left before noon," Shultz explained.
Shultz added that prior to
March 20 he had no knowledge that Velvet and Litto were being considered for promotions.
"I don't think the legislature will take a stand one way or the other," Shultz said, "but many
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