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Many Political Parties Bow Before Pachacamac Power
(Editor's Note; This is the continuation of the second article in a four part series examining campus politics at KU. The third and third article appeared in yesterday's Kansas.)
Pachacamac still retained power after the 1831 collapse of the Oread Party and remained in power until 1954.
By Jerry Musil
Three parties followed the collapse of the independent coalition. The Cread Party was composed of anti-Pach fraternities while the Kayhawk Club consisted of anti-Pach independents. The KU Progressives were "pledged to the interests of the non-fraternity man."
THE GREAD party hinted that the KU Progressives were just another Fach trick to split the independent vote. Accusations were traded by both sides about the allegiance of the Kayhawk Club. During this time the Progressives' president remained aloof, saying this was his first semester at KU.
The Oread Party and Kayhawk Club later entered into a coalition and won the student body presidency and 15 of 24 council seats.
In 1934, a Kansas story said, "Political vandals using eggs as bombs and brown paint to spread 'terrorism' turned the MSC election Kansas Cityish today as they attacked the strongholds of the Oread-Kayhawk party.
"The houses of Delta Chi, Beta Theta Pi, Acacia and Sigma Alpha Epsilon, leaders of the coalition, were 'bombed' by rivals, who the members said were Pachacamac sympathizers."
BUT LIKE Black Mask and the Independent coalition, the Oread-Kayhawk machine had pushed across a victory its first year. The Oread-Kayhawk coalition won in 1931 and lost the next three elections.
In 1935, the Progressive Student Government League (PSGL) was formed and won the spring elections. It lost the next three to Pach, tied one and lost three after that.
Then the war came and the political situation quieted down. The women then saw an opportunity to overthrow the domination of the Men's Student Council.
They combined the two Councils in 1943 to form the All Student Council. The women's combines (coalitions were illegal for women) flowered into the WIGS which allied with Pach, and PWCL which allied with PSGL. The latter group won the spring election that year and split almost even with WIGS-Pach in 1944.
In 1945 the independent women pulled out of WIGS and PWCL and formed the Independent Women's Party. PSGL immediately split with PWCL and allied with the new party. They won eight council seats, WIGS-Pach won seven and the depleted PWCL won one.
IN 1946, the men returned. PWCL and WIGS were dissolved and NOW was formed and joined with Pach.
In December, 1946, a new progressive party was formed and achieved a large measure of cooperation with Pach. Even though the independent party won six council seats in 1947, Pach's five seats and the Progressive's four provided Pach control of the council.
Also in 1947, the League of Student Voters was organized. The group, according to Chairman Bruce Bathurst, was organized by disappointed office holders from several parties.
The group did not run their own candidates or endorse candidates from other parties. Lois Thompson said they should not endorse anyone, "but rather publicize the qualifications of each candidate."
Henry Werner, dean of student affairs, told the league to be a "continuing group," a gadfly, without party representation.
"Forget about your political parties," he said. "They don't amount to a hill of beans."
PACH WON five elections in a row after the war before the First Actually Constructive Ticket Society (FACTS) won in 1951. Pach never really recovered from this defeat although they won a slim majority in 1952.
The Allied Greek-Independent Party (AGI) and the Party of Greek Organizations (POGO) split Pach which went out of existence in 1954. The "Inner Circle" of the party went
POGO disbanded in 1957 after some ballot stuffing was discovered. The party was fined $75 in Student Court for the offense.
underground and even today continues its influence from behind the scene.
In 1958, Vox Populi was organized by Jim Austin, Bob Linn and Bob Wilson to bring two party politics back to KU. They swept the spring elections, winning the student body presidency and 17 council seats.
early in 1959, AGI disbanded. Later in the year, Vox changed the election bill so that elections are held twice a year. The representatives from the living districts were elected in the fall, with the school representatives, the student body president and vice president and class officers elected in the spring.
IN 1960, two party politics again returned to KU when the University Party was organized by Fred Morrison. Charles Menghini and Mike Thomas. In the 1960 fall elections, UP won ten council seats to Vox's six, but Vox still had a majority on the council.
In the spring elections, 1961, Vox won the presidency and eight of the ten seats on the council by a large majority. The fall elections saw UP winning ten seats out of the 19 elected.
The present leaders of the two parties are Jim Anderson, Lawrence senior and Greek co-chairman, and Tom Hardy, Hoisington junior and independent co-chairman of UP and Ted Childers, Wamego senior and president of Vox Populi.
Trujillo's Killing Teeters Republic
By Phil Newsom UPI Foreign News Analyst
When gunmen cut down Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo on the moonlit night of May 30, 1961, the country already was teetering on the verge of bankruptcy.
There were shortages of food and clothing, the tourist trade was at a standstill and of the country's luxurious hotels, all but one were closed. In that one, scarcely a dozen guests were registered.
THE DESPERATE straits in which Trujillo left his country by his enforced departure were the direct results of an economic and diplomatic quarantine imposed by the United States in company with its fellow members of the Organization of American States (OAS).
THE IMMEDIATE task is to fill the vacuum left by 30 years of Trujillo dictatorship and to prevent any Castro-type revolution which might attempt to upset the country's new middle-of-the-road government.
The action, taken on Aug. 20, 1960, was based on a charge that Trujillo master-minded an assassination attempt against President Romulo Betancourt of Venezuela.
Now, 16 months later and with the Dominican Republic restored to the American family of nations, the United States will try to help pick up the pieces.
Of benefit was the fact that the Dominican Republic now would be able to sell to the United States about 420,000 tons of sugar at premium prices over and above its normal allotment of 110,000 tons.
The return from this should run about $45 million.
To help the country set up a long-range policy were Teodoro Moscoso, recently named by President Kennedy to oversee the Alliance for Progress program in Latin America, and experts from Puerto Rico.
WHEN THE OAS voted sanctions against Trujillo it was the first such collective action in the history of the inter-American system.
These holdings included leading hotels, shipping, radio and television facilities, sugar mills, cement work, automobile agencies, banks, breweries and other ventures and were estimated to represent half to two-thirds of annual national income.
Of immediate concern is the Dominican Republic's widespread unemployment and the fact that political chaos already has put the sugar harvest a month behind schedule.
MOSCOSO PLAYED an important role in Puerto Rico's phenomenal economic development.
Also of concern is the future of
we have been taken over, by the state.
On Jan. 22, the OAS will meet again in Punta del Este, Uruguay, to consider what action, if any, to take against communist Cuba.
As of today, it seems possible there also will develop in the OAS that curious double standard of morality which the United Nations exhibited toward India's attack on Goa.
The organization which voted
sanctions against a right-wing dictatorship will refuse to vote sanctions against an equally bloody one on the left.
Their Business Better Grades
Bv Mike Miller
The Reading and Study Skills laboratory is a free service offered to students who wish to improve their reading ability and their general study habits. The clinic offers three types of services to the student.
The classes in reading and study methods are designed to review the aspects of good study habits for the students who have missed them in their previous education. The classes offer nothing new, but simply a review, explained Vernon E. Troxel, assistant professor of education and administrator for the reading and study methods.
SUCH TOPICS as preparing for examinations, reading for comprehension, taking notes, improving examination marks, developing vocabulary and preparing term projects are discussed in the classes. Groups of approximately 25 students meet for eighteen 50-minute sessions.
The rapid reading classes are aimed at increasing the students reading speed without sacrificing his comprehension. Prof. Troxel explained that the clinic attempts to correct "sloppy habits of reading." He said that the clinic can improve the students reading speed from 50 to 100 per cent.
Individual counseling on study methods is also offered. This technique is unique to KU, Prof. Troxel explained. The student is able to make appointments for weekly conferences to consider his individual problems.
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STUDENTS MAY ENROLL by picking up an enrollment card in the clinic's office, 102 Bailey, or by stopping at the desk located on the stairway outside the pen during enrollment. The student will be worked into the program as soon as room for him becomes available.
Prof. Troxel explained that the student remains enrolled in the program as long as he is benefitting from the clinic.
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Congressmen Probe Many Subjects
WASHINGTON — (UFI) — A full-dress inquiry into the alleged muzzling of military officers highlights a host of new congressional investigations this year, ranging from the beaches of Normandy to violence on TV screens.
Armed with fresh evidence after a four-month layoff, investigators already have staked out about a dozen inquiries for the new session of Congress.
Sen. John Stennis, D-Miss., chairman of a special Armed Services subcommittee, has announced that the first of three phases of the long-awaited hearings will start Jan. 23.
OTHERS MAY BE announced if committees see the need to expose evidence of deceit and wrong-doing in the affairs of government, business or labor.
The biggest show promises to be public hearings into charges that civilian Pentagon officials censored anti-Communist speeches, articles and seminars by military leaders.
THE MILITARY HEARINGS, which have domestic political overtones, promise to be long. A subcommittee aide said more than 100 witnesses might parade to the microphone before the record is closed.
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Legislation could result from any of the hearings. Here are some of the prospective committee inquiries:
HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEe-Chairman Emanuel Celler, D.N.Y., has promised to look at mergers and consolidations in the newspaper, TV and radio industries for possible anti-trust violations.
- The Senate antitrust and monopoly subcommittee opens hearings on five bills designed to tighten up laws against collusive bidding and market-sharing by big business.
- The Senate constitutional rights subcommittee plans an inquiry into complaints that soldiers were ordered to charge across the Normandy beaches for a movie about D-Day.
- The Senate juvenile delinquency subcommittee will continue its hearings on violence in television shows.
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