KU debate squads place in tourney
Two University of Kansas debate squads coached by Donn W. Parson, professor of speech and drama, placed fifth in a tournament held in the Kansas Union last weekend.
The squad of Bob Prentice, Turon sophomore, and Dan Beek, Prairie Village junior, and the squad of Bob McCulloh, Prairie Village senior, and Dave Jeans, Independence, Mo. senior, took fifth place from a field of 48 teams.
The University of Houston won the tournament after defeating the University of Denver in the final round.
The KU squad will compete this weekend in the Kansas Debate League Championships at Manhattan.
Blind gain use of recorder
Blind and visually handicapped students may now use a tape recorder available in Watson Library.
The tape recorder was purchased by the Endowment Association and is available for the use by these students at the circulation desk of the library. It may be used in room 353 of the library by students who need to have books read to them and recorded for further study.
Political science speech tonight
The political science department will sponsor a colloquium at 7:30 tonight in the Centennial Room of the Kansas Union.
Wayne Francis, associate professor of political science at the University of Washington, will speak on "Statistical Models in Political Science."
John J. Conard, publisher of the Kiowa County Signal in Greensburg, has been appointed director of university relations and development at the University of Kansas. Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. announced Monday the appointment would become effective July 1.
his M.A. in political science here in 1947. He has a doctorate in international law from the University of Paris.
Conard was a Naval aviator in World War II and an instructor of political science at KU from 1946 to 1949 before going to France for his doctoral studies. Last fall Conard conducted a graduate seminar in political science here.
Faculty Forum to meet Thursday
Ronald Calgaard, KU associate professor of economics, will speak before the Faculty Forum at noon Thursday.
for ten years and served as Speaker of the House in the 1967 and 1968 sessions. He is married to the, former Virginia Powell of Olathe, a 1948 graduate of KU.
"There is a clear need at KU for an office to coordinate numerous development efforts, provide general assistance to the office of the Chancellor and develop better state and federal relations. I am delighted that a person of Dr. Conard's abalities and experience could be attracted to this position." Chalmers said.
"Leaving our home community is a painful process," Conard said, "yet I am delighted with the opportunity of serving the University once again. I hope that I can make a significant improvement in the educational opportunities for the young people of Kansas."
The Faculty Forum meets in the Westminster Center, 1204 Oread. A hot lunch will be served for a fee of $1.00. For reservations call 843-4933.
Publisher appointed to post
Danish professor to lecture
A professor from the University of Copenhagen will lecture at 8 p.m. Thursday in 112 Blake on "The First Greeks in Phoenicia and their Settlement at Sukas."
P. J. Ris, professor of classical archaeology in Copenhagen, Denmark, will include in his lecture the character, background and importance of the Greek settlement; earlier archaeological and mythological evidence of Greeks on the Phoenician coast in the Homeric Age and about the Danish excavations at Sukas.
KU residence hall board attends Texas convention
2 KANSAN Mar. 10 1970
The Association of University Residence Hall executive board plus two advisers from the Dean of Men's and the Dean of Women's offices leave tonight for Lubbock, Tex., where they will attend the National Association of College and University Residence Hall's national convention at Texas Technical University.
John J. Conard
A native of Coolidge, Conard graduated from KU in 1943 with a journalism major, and received
The students and advisers will be traveling by bus along with similar groups from Kansas State University, Kansas State Teachers' College, Fort Hays State College, Ottawa University and Wichita State University.
The group will present a slide show to the assembly depicting the functions and projects which AURH performs on the KU campus. The slide program will be a mixture of narration and slides of the AURH activities and facilities to show how AURH ties the residence halls to campus activities.
Two bowl appearances have been made by the Air Force Academy football team, the first in the 1959 Cotton Bowl and second in the 1964 Gator Bowl.
The convention begins Wednesday morning and lasts until Saturday. The students will be living in residence halls in Lubbock.
Fellowships to encourage foreign study
Conard was a member of the Kansas House of Representatives
The University of Kansas will be permitted to select 15 graduate students preparing for careers in teaching and public service to receive fellowships for the study of foreign languages and area studies during the 1970-71 academic year. The fellowships are financed by the National Defense Education Act.
The University has received a grant of $53,250 for the fellowships, to be awarded in East Asian studies, Latin American area studies, and Slavic and Soviet area studies. They will be awarded to students working for an M.A. degree in one of the area studies programs and for the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in any of the 14 academic departments which cooperate in offering area studies at KU.
The Modern Foreign Language Fellowship Program was initiated in 1959 as a response to the nation's critical need for specialists in foreign countries and languages. Bv next spring the program will have provided nearly 17,000 fellowships.
Yell leaders nab first
University of Kansas yell leaders tied for first and KU pompom girls were rated second in a survey conucted by the International Cheerleading Foundation, Randy Neil, executive director of the foundation, said Saturday.
Of the 250 university squads judged, the KU yell leaders tied for first place in the nation with the University of California at Los Angeles Song Girls. Each squad received 32 votes by the universities asked to rank major university cheerleading squads.
"A large number of ballots commented on the spirit of KU in 1969," Neil's office said in making the announcement.
Two other big eight schools also placed in the top ten. The University of Colorado pompon squad ranked fifth and Kansas State University cheerleaders ranked ninth.
Bob Hartman, Santa Ana senior and head of the yell leaders, said he thought the judging began when KU went to the Orange Bowl last year. Special recognition should go to Vince Billotta,
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