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University Leader Archive. 182. https://scholars.fhsu.edu/university_leader/182 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives Online at FHSU Scholars Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in University Leader Archive by an authorized administrator of FHSU Scholars Repository. KS ST HISTORICAL SOCIETY KlRKE MECHEM SEC TOPEKA KANS L r VOLUME LIX FORT HAYS KANSAS STATE COLLEGE, HAYS, KANSAS 67601 THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1966 _NUMBER TWENTY-NINE Furloigh Will _Spotlight Bike Races, Crowning Bicycle races, an intrasquad um. Women's trophies will be pre- · 1 :15 p.m. - Faculty ... :nve nuc• football game and a varsity dance sented during halftime. tion, State Park will again be the main attractions 10 p.m. - Varsity dance, Me- 2 p.m. - l\len's 30-mile bicycle of the third annual Fort Hays morial Union Black and Gold Room race, State Park. ·Trophies will be Furlough. Saturday awarded after the race. Baseball, This year's weekend of fun, 10 a.m. - Baseball game, Larks second game. which will kicked off with the Park "Miss Furlough 1966" will reign crowning of the Furlough queen over the weekend's activities. The at 3:30 p.m. Friday, also will fea- queen was elected in an all-student ture baseball games with Kansas Believe in God? body election. Wesleyan University and Wichita . "churches are run by Candidates are: Janet Barnett, State University Saturday and n hypocrites and a person can Garden City freshman; Linda faculty slave auction . have faith in God without at. Beyer, Belleville junior; Karen Eldon Palmberg, Paleo senior tending them." Folkerts, Rush Center junior; .ri ;rnd Furlough chairman, said that ... "religion is an individual Sharon Kennedy, Plainville sopho- "the Furlough is planned as a time matter between yourself and more. for fun and rela:siltion for students God." . Doris Leiker, Hays junior; Joyce and Hays residents." .•• "students should be able Mead, Hays sophomore; Judy Mar- Palmberg noted that money to exercise religious freedom to cotte, Natoma sophomore; Sherry WHERE THE ACTION IS - ,vith \'isi~ns of draft -tests occupying raised · through admission is used accept or deny the existence of Thomas, Logan sophomore; Janet their . thoughts, two mr,le FHS students \'iew · a map ·of Viet Nam to grant work-scholarships for God." Walters, Hays sophomore. while two coeds show sympathy. Students are, from left, Don Hornung, FHS students. .•• "God has no place on an Ten women's and 13 men's bi- cycle teams are sponsored by Hays Carol Suppes, Carolyn Sander and Jack Wilson. Schedule of events: intellectual coilege campus.'' Friday The abo,·e ideas are but se\"- business firms this year. Admis- sion for the women's race is 50 3 :30 p.m. - Crowning of Fur- eral answers gathered in a lough queen, l\Iemorial Union · Leader sun·ey on religion and cents. A 75-cent charge will be ;~a %:i:i'.¾.\~:rnm;Jf=.=~'l~Wn En ro 11 men t Increase?. t:.&T~Y"'~.·W<':'::;:::::;e'::::::::::.::::::::::::::::::::::::::::if:(,.:.:; student beliefs in God, which made for the men's race and auc- · 6 p.m. - Women's 10-mile bi- tion. .. ... it cycle .race, State Park will be presented in next week's 7 :30 p.m. - Intrasquad varsity i!sue. Music for the dance Friday will IG/ B,11 Extends -Benef ,ts ij football game, Lewis Field Stadi- * See Page 4 f M IOf Higher Education to Vets~ Until This Summer . ID · 0 · By :Marion Tomson University, Wichita State, will at- Leader Reporter tract far more of the ,·eterans than '-. · The Korean War G. I. Bill, with smaller schools like FHS, Dalton ' ,·'1., its multitudinous benefits for vet- says. No Final Exams for Seniors erans, expired Jan. 31, 1965. Since Dalton says the continued high this date, new legislation has been draft calls, increased voluntary en- By Becky Bodenhamer than an integral part of the learning pro- advocated and .enacted to renew listments and stricter 2-S defer- Leader Reporter cess." these benefits for the nation's ex- ments ,-.~m tend to offset any ap- It was announced in the April 14 issue of EYans explained that some instructors, service men and women. preciable in~rease ·in enrollment the Leader that seniors would not be exempt under the present ruling where senior exam- Public Law 89-358, commonly from additional veterans. · from taking final examinations this semes- ination~ are left up to the instructor's dis- called "The New G. I. Bill," was The law covers those who have had active military service since ter as proposed by the Faculty Senate. cretion. will go ahead and give the senior enacted March 3, 1966. Purposes exam early. of this legislation, among others, Jan. 31, 1955. Those who served in The final decision of the Senate was that are ( 1) to extend benefits of a this period are now in their late " ... seniors will not take final exams this higher education to qualified and 20s and early 30s. It can be as- spring, but, starting with the summer ses- This is detrimental to the student be- deserving veterans who might not sumed that many of this age group sion, the Faculty Senate ,yill have seniors cause he' probably will be given a different otherwise be able to afford such are now married and settled in take final exams," Dr. John Garwood, dean exam than the other students. If the senior an education and (2) to restore business or employment. of the faculty, said. takes his final at the same time as everyone lost educational opportunities to Dalton sees little possibility of Dr. Garwood said that much thought and else in the class, then he will have the same service men and women whose ca- this group lea,·ing their busi~ss or employment to enter college. planning by the faculty took place before the test. .the same amount of time to studv for reers have been interrupted or it. and be able to have his grade ave;aged impeded by active military service The stipend paid under the bill after Jan. 31, 1955." would not make this feasible, the final derision was made. The subject of re- with the rest of the class. Sen. James B. Pearson, R.-Kan., registrar feels. instating senior finals was brought before "As a result of the problem presented has said that as many as 13,000 Full-time student veterans ( 14 the Senate from the division of social science. from the social science division, we made the Kansas Yeterans are expected to hours or more) who are married Charles EYans, assistant professor of po- survey/' Garwood said. The purpose of the receh·e educational benefits from are authorized to receive benefits litical :::cience, said, "If seniors are exempted study v:as to determine final examination- this law during the next fiye of $125-150 per month, depending from a final examination, the implication is commencement procedures used at other in- years. * See Page 3. that thP. exam is more of a hazing technique stitutions and to seek answers to questions An appropriation of $17.5 mil- ------.-..-.- ..- ----------- --------------------------- posed by members of the Senate. lion has been made available to The study was limited to three Kansas to finance the benefits of classes of institutions: (]) Col- this enactment for the firs t five ',. leges and universities supported years. This amount, however, cov- by the state of Kansas ; (2) Col- ers home l0ans, hospital a nd medi- leges comparable in size to FHS cal costs as well as educational situated in ;:. ta tl\s which border on costs. the state of Kansas; anrl (:3) A Standlee V. Oalton, re~istrar group of c:olleges cno:::en at random and director of admissions, does regardless of geographic locati on. foresee appreciahle in- not any College!- and univeri-itiei. that crease in enrollment at FIIS next participated in the ~tudy ,:11,ere: Call as a res ult of the hill. lie l'Sti- Central (Okla.) State Coll('~(', mates 75-100 additional l"eterans Colorado S talt' College at Greeley, enroll here in Septemher as a will Emporia State. HastinJ.?!, (:--.eh.) direct re!'lult. The lar~er i-chooh1, Colle5,!'e. Knnsas State L'niHri-itv, Kansas t'ninrsity, Kansas S tate ~loorehead (~linn.) State ColleJ:?(', Omaha (~eh.) Unh·t'rsity, Kan~as I . I Stat(' College of Pitt~burg, San * * * * Jose (Calif.) 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