Professorship funds donated by alumni
Accounting firm honors faculty member
Robert R. Sterling, professor of business administration at the University of Kansas, became the country's second Arthur Young and Co. Professor Monday.
The professorship is the first one to be awarded to a permanent KU professor. It has been twice awarded to visiting professors at KU. The University of Chicago holds the other Young professorship.
Sterling joined the KU business administration faculty in 1967. He earned his bachelor's degree in economics and his M.B.A. with an economic emphasis from the University of Denver. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Florida, Gainsville, Fla.
The Arthur Young and Co. Professorship funds are donated
by KU alumni through Arthur Young and Co. The choice of recipient is left to Clifford D. Clark, dean of the School of Business, in consultation with Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr.
"The University of Kansas is delighted to honor one of its own younger faculty members, and
one who has distinguished himself internationally in his field." Chalmers said.
Before coming to KU, Sterling was a Science Faculty Fellow at the Sloan Physics Laboratory of Yale University. While there, he worked on measurement theory with physicist Henry Margenau under an award made by the
National Science Foundation.
Sterling said his work was not in physics as such, but rather in applying the measurement theories of accounting to physics. However, he has long been interested in the philosophy of science and has done post-doctoral work in this area.
Reagan declares candidacy intent
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI)—Gov. Ronald Reagan announced his candidacy for a second term Tuesday, promising if re-elected to strive for a government "which adds soul to science, God to gold and quality to the purpose of life."
The former movie actor-turned-political-star, who contested Richard Nixon for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination, formally declared his long-anticipated candidacy during a 15-minute announcement taped for television.
Then, facing a room full of reporters, TV cameras and aides in a hotel across from the state capitol, the handsome 59-year-old governor of the nation's most populous state held his first news conference of the 1970 campaign.
In his prepared announcement, Reagan told California's 7.6 million voters "it will take common sense, hard work, and a constant commitment to law and order and justice" to attain his dream of a new "spirit of the 1970s."
"It will come when government gets off your back and out of our way so that every man is free to fly as high and as wide as his drive and his talents and his vision can take him," he said.
The conservative defeated former Democratic Gov. Edmund G. Brown by nearly a million votes during his first bid for elective office in 1966.
Reagan's opponent in the November general election is expected to be veteran Assembly Democratic leader Jess Unruh of Los Angeles County.
Detention facilities plan rejected by commission
A proposal for the remodeling of a frame house on county-owned property east of the Douglas County Courthouse for use as a temporary juvenile detention facility was rejected Monday by the Douglas County Commission.
Travis Glass, chairman of the commission board, said it would have cost several thousand dollars to remodel the house, and the short period of time the facility would have been used would not have justified the cost.
The house in question is one of several located on the proposed judicial-law enforcement building and parking facilities site bounded by New Hampshire, Rhode Island, 11th and 12th Streets.
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Glass said the county presently did not have a facility for detaining juvenile offenders.
"Offenders are sent to city, county or out-of-county jails on a temporary basis," Glass said. Douglas County pays a fee to have many of them kept in Johnson County.
Glass said he suggested to Charles Rankin, judge of the juvenile court, that he investigate the need for such a facility in Douglas County. If such a facility is deemed necessary and then approved by the commission, Glass said, a proposal for its construction must be presented to the voters in a general election.
Engineering exposition scheduled
"Profiles of Tomorrow," the theme of the Engineering Exposition scheduled for April 17 and 18, will be reflected in about 30 displays and exhibits which are being prepared by students, technical societies and area industry, the KU School of Engineering reported Tuesday.
The Engineering Exposition was established in 1920 after a year of feuding between engineering and law students. Since the turn of the century an engineering day had been held each spring on Mount Oread, featuring field events, parades and displays. These celebrations were used by the law students as an opportunity to bait their rivals in the School of Engineering.
In 1919 a group of law students destroyed several engineering floats which were to be paraded down Jayhawk Boulevard the next morning. In return, the engineering students marched on Green Hall and covered it with rotten eggs. A riot broke out, and the Chancellor ordered that no more engineering days be held, as they were too dangerous.
To make up for this loss, the engineers got the idea of an engineering exposition, which included many of the activities of the old engineering day, but which was also educational. The Chancellor okayed the affair, and the Expo was established as an annual event.
Chairmen for this year's Expo are: Robert Bibb, Mission senior and Expo chairman; Dave Dwyer, Mission senior, and Bob Russell, Prairie Village senior and publicity chairman; Terry Exsturm, Denver senior and finance chairman; Jay Stoker, Mission junior and judging chairman; John Heather, Prairie Village sophomore in charge of queen selection; Al Shumaker, Wetmore junior and banquet chairman; Stan Stegelman, Winfield senior in charge of the opening ceremony; and Larry Svoboda, Mission senior in charge of displays.
Hijacking foiled in East Germany
BERLIN (UPI)—Two men attempted to hijack an East German airliner at gunpoint Tuesday and killed themselves when they failed, the East German news service, ADN, reported.
ADN said the pair tried to force the crew of a government Interflug airliner to change course on an early flight from East Berlin to Leipzig.
Presumably the men wanted the aircraft to fly to West Berlin so they could ask for asylum as refugees.
ADN identified them only as "bandits."
ADN said the hijacking attempt failed because the crew adhered to security regulations, presumably special anti-hijacking safeguards. The men were said to have committed suicide as the crew was landing the aircraft.
It was not clear from the official East German news agency's brief report whether or not the hijackers had used their guns to threaten the crew or had opened fire.
"The bandits, whose reprehensible actions seriously endangered air safety and brought the passengers into extreme danger of their lives, committed suicide during the landing maneuver to escape their legal punishment in view of their failure," ADN reported.
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