Chalmers questioned in open forum
By JOHN GOODRICK Kansan Staff Writer
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. answered questions in an open forum last night conducted by the Student Union Activities (SUA). Questions from 50 students ranged from language requirements, finances, discrimination, library funds, to planned parenthood.
When asked to comment about KU's funds cut Chalmers said the Legislature seems to say stop accepting students and solve your financial problems. Chalmers said curtailment would be unfair to anyone in a public University if he must he would "introduce a lottery system."
Chalmers said the fund cut for Watson Library was due to a cut in federal funds, but added the state gave the University a $10% increase in funds for the library to offset the federal cut. He added, this was the "first state increment in library funds and support in three years."
When asked what we as students and faculty of the University can do about the problem of finances, Chalmers said students and faculty must be active in
pointing our needs and accomplishments. He added students might form speaking groups to talk to various organizations about the problem. "Public higher education faces a crisis with other institutions," he said.
One student asked why if students pay for 25% of construction costs of the University, why can't the students have more to say on who is on the Board of Regents.
The Chancellor said he doesn't think the Regents exerted much control over the University administration, but there is a definite need for more communication between the Regents, students and faculty. He added, Gus Stuart, from the Board of Regents, will be visiting soon the University to talk with students and faculty.
To registration problems, Chalmers said next fall there will be pre-registration. Students will lose the ability to choose when and where they want their classes but at least they will get the classes they want, he said.
When asked about the possibility of KU going to a tri-semester or quarterly basis, he replied the "modified semester is one of
the most promising calenders I've heard of yet."
A student who said she had worked during enrollment said there were many demands for classes dealing with race relations and population.
"We can't afford to ignore the demands of the students financially or educationally, the Chancellor said. He said the student ratio has reduced within a decade from 1 to 15 to 1 to 22.
In response to a question on the current situation for beer on campus the Chancellor said the Legislature is still trying to decide whether beer is a malt beverage or liquor.
To a question about the language requirement, Chalmers answered, "I personally agree with the concern you express. It comes from two years of college German." He said a bachelor's degree should mean more than only "six hours of freshman English and 124 hours credit."
Another question concerned the stringent demands set by some schools for receiving the bachelor's degree.
The Chancellor answered the student should talk to the Student Advisory Committee.
Physicist helps Israeli commune
Sidney Flairman, resident associate of physics at the University of Kansas, is helping the Kibbutz Aliva Desk further its program.
The Kibbutz Aliya Desk is a national organization which supports and aides the Kibbutz way of life in Israel.
The kibbutz in Israel is a unique social experiment in cooperative living which strives for personal and community awareness. It has fulfilled important tasks in such areas as land reclamation, security, agriculture and industrial development. It has also provided leadership to different parts of Israeli society.
The kibbutz is a communal type of living for Hebrews. Fiarman said it dated back to the late nineteenth century. Then it was only communal living with the purpose of developing the deserts of Israel, he said. Today the kibbutz is also used for psychological experiments, educational study abroad and as a vacation plan.
The kibbutz is divided into three main programs, the kibbutz ulpan plan, a six month program of one half day work and one half day Hebrew studies; the temporary workers plan, living and working on the kibbutz, with a minimum stay of one month and the short summer ulpan plan, a nine week program, with five weeks of one half day of work, one half day of Hebrew studies
Rock Chalk tickets on sale
Block ticket drawings for the 20th edition of Rock Chalk Revue will be held Wednesday and tickets will go on public sale Feb. 17.
The block drawings can be made by any group with a minimum of 20 persons. Tom Moore, KU-Y adviser, said the drawings were open to all students, not just living groups. Moore also said each group should have a second choice of ticket prices in case the first choice was unavailable.
Tickets will go on sale Feb. 17 at the KU-Y office and at the Information Booth at Jayhawk Boulevard. Moore said students could get the best tickets for the Friday night performance because the Saturday night show is traditionally sold out.
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and one week of tours and one week free.
It costs nothing to live on the kibbutz. The only expense is your transportation to Israel. The only requirement is that members be 14 years old.
Fiarman said that children do not live with their parents on the kibboutz. They live with other children, four to a room, only seeing their parents at meal times or a few hours in the evening. Counselors raise the children.
The kibbutz is found all over Israel. It is an independent nonprofit-making organization, which receives some help from the government when needed.
A representative of Hillel, a Jewish organization, asked about the practice of certain fraternities
"I have been to Israel and have seen what they have done. They have made the desert bloom, Flairman said.
Fiarman feels that the kibbutz is particularly effective for both the individual and especially Israel.
Besides his concern in the kibbutz Aliya Desk, Fiarman is also involved in Hillel, which with the help of faculty and students, has been attempting to get KU to offer a modern hebrew language program.
Navy will form women's group
Navy ROTC at the University of Kansas is planning to sponsor a women's auxiliary unit.
The unit will be similar in form and purpose to Angel Flight, affiliated with Air Force ROTC and E. Company Beret, affiliated with Army ROTC.
Miss Cheryl M. McElhose, Kansas City, Mo., senior, will be the key organizer of the unit.
Capt. J. O. Marzluff, head of the Navy ROTC unit at KU, said the girls will decide the functions of the group.
Faculty adviser to the unit will be Lt. P. F. Mahoney, assistant professor of naval science. Student adviser and liaison between the men's and women's units will be Robert L. Shiffman, Prairie Village senior.
There will be a meeting of all interested coeds at Shiffman's apartment at 8 p.m. Tuesday.
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and sororites that are openly prejudiced. He said they openly support only certain faiths as demonstrated in the rush book. Chalms said the National Office of Sororities and Fraternities had been instructed to remove religious and racial discriminations.
When a student expressed a desire to learn Hebrew, because it was his "heritage, culture, and identity," the Chancellor said that he knew of the request and had sent a recommendation for the course to the College of Arts and Sciences.
In response to a question about
planned Parenthood Chalmers said students could get a complete health examination and prescription from the Watkins Memorial Hospital but the actual issuing of pills to unmarried students is done through the County Health Office.
Chalmers said Wescoe Hall is being designed to include two 300 seat lecture halls to compensate for the "poor facilities at Hoch." He added this would only put a "small dent" in the problem.
"Grades many times get in the way of learning," Chalmers said of the pass-no-credit system.
Pharmacy meeting slated
Pharmacists and prospective professionals from mid-western and eastern Kansas will attend the fourth annual Mid-Winter Pharmacy Extension Seminar in four Kansas cities on Sunday and Feb.15.
Two practicing pathologists and six faculty members of the KU School of Pharmacy will present eight 20-minute sessions on clinical testing for diagnosis of circulatory, glandular and organic diseases, and on available diagnostic products.
Pharmacists may sponsor guests, part-time employees or high school students interested in pharmacy careers.
The seminar is a project of KU, the Kansas Pharmaceutical Association, the Kansas Regional Medical Program and the State Board of Pharmacy. Robert M. Nelson
of University Extension is coordinator.
Colloquium set
KU faculty attending are J. Alan Sanders and Laurence W. Price, pathologists at the Lawrence Clinical Laboratory, Dean Howard E. Mossberg, assistant Dean Hugh A. Cotton and Morris D. Faiman, Frank G. Martin, Gary Lage and Carlton Erickson.
The KU departments of French and Italian will sponsor a graduate colloquium at 8 p.m. Feb. 12 in the Kansas Union Pine Room Eugene Falk will speak on "The Stylistic Forces in the Narrative."
The speech will be presented in English, and is open to all students and faculty.
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