Monday, February 12, 1973
University Daily Kansan
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Kansan Staff Photo by DAN LAUING
Chancellor Raymond Nichols and Honoree Barry Bingham Sr.
Bingham was the recipient, on his birthday, of the William Allen White Foundation Award for service to journalism . . .
The oldest University of Kansas sorority and fraternity will celebrate their first centennial this year, according to officers from the Phi sorority and Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
Pi Phis, Betas Observe Centennial
Both local chapters sprang from the Degree of the Oread Society, a coeducational organization founded in the early days of KU.
Palmer said that the celebration would include a buffet dinner at the Pla Beta Phi house and a luncheon in the Kansas Union, but that the plans were not definite.
Neither Palmer nor John Brooks,
Leawood junior and historian of Beta Theta
Pi, knew of any combined celebration being
planned by the two organizations.
Both plan celebrations. Three hundred alumni are expected to attend PBI Beta Phi activities March 31 and April, according to the group's annual budget, junior and president of the local chanceler.
The national sorority treasurer will attend. Palmer said.
Brooks said Beta Theta Pi planned a celebration with no fewer than 200 of the local chapter's 600 to 800 aluml. He said his work was done by the Ima Im and the Ramada Ima in Lawrence.
The Alpha Nu chapter of Beta Theta Pi was founded January 8, 1873. In 1912 it became the first fraternity at KU to move into a house, he said.
Editor Supports News Council
By ZAHID IQBAL
Kansan Staff Writer
Barry Bingham Sr., national honoree of the William Allen White Foundation for distinguished services to journalism, made a strong plea Saturday to major news media for their endorsement of a national press council
Bingham spoke at a luncheon at which a William Allen White medallion was presented to him by Edward B. Bassett, an attorney in the county of Danaudation and dean of the School of Journalism.
Bingham, chairman of the board of directors of the Louisville Counter-Journal and a fellow at 150 guests that there had been a decline in the public's confidence in the news media. He quoted statistics from Harris Poll that, "The average age of a gate, that had widened in the past six years,"
This growing public skepticism about
Voice Recital
Maribeth Kirchhoff, instructor in voice at the University of Kansas, will present a recital at 8 p.m. today in Swarthout Recital Hall, as a part of the Faculty Recital Series. For her recital, Kirchhoff will sing works by Bach, Brahms, Humperdinck, Delibes, Puccini and Ives. The recital is open to the public.
Rights Hearing
Lawrence women's groups will provide transportation by car to Topeka Tuesday for a hearing before the House Federal and State Affairs Committee on a motion to repeal Kanas' ratification of the equal rights amendment. Cars will leave at 1 p.m. from the United Ministries Center, 12th and Oread. The hearing will be at 2:45 p.m.
The Lawrence Corvette Club will meet at 7 p.m. today at Towner Chevrolet店, 738 New Hampshire. Movies from the B. F. Goodrich Company will be shown.
Corvette Club
Music Therapy
The Music Therapy Club will meet at 8 p.m. today in 344 Haworth Hall. The purpose of the meeting will be to work on public relations information.
news disseminated by both print and broadcast media has to be counteracted by visible and dramatic steps to win a decent public trust," he said.
BINGHAM SAID HE rejected the idea that public disillusionment with the press was part of a general disillusionment with religion, government and education.
"Agnew didn't create anything new with his speech—he just sparked off a powder bag of public mistrust that was already on the way to him." Agnew's attacks on the press in 1969.
Stating the case for a national press council, Bingham, a member of the Twentieth Century Fund committee, which is working for the establishment of the council, was an ardent supporter of nationals who opposed the idea of a council were ignorant of how it would operate.
The proposed national press or "news" council would concern itself with complaints regarding fairness and accuracy in news reporting in the United States and would involve only the wholesalers of news, Bingham said.
HE NAMED SUCH national suppliers of news as the Associated Press, United Press International, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, the New York Times and major television networks. Bingham said that reactions to a national council had not been enthusiastic in all instances.
Decrying what he called "an instant defensiveness" on the part of some of the news media that would be reviewed, he said. He noted that the news examined complaints regarding news content, would have no power to compel the divulging of information and would not seek
All council hearings would be public, be said, and no punishment of any kind would be meted. The council would obtain a legal warrant to disorientant so media would be protected he said.
Bingham had be stressed that the council would accept no financial support from the government.
an independent and privacify body, seeking nothing from the media except a certain message.
THE COUNCIL would comprise 15 members, he said, six of whom would be newsmen and none of whom would be lawyers. He also appointed whose work the council would review
the proposed council a chance to prove itself. If it proved unworkable, the only loss would be to foundations sponsoring the council, be said.
Bingham called upon news media to give
If, on the other hand, the council restored public trust in the news media and brought about better journalism, "this is a historic historical breakthrough," Bingham said.
Watkins Museum Drive Exceeds Phase 1 Goal
The fund drive for the Elizabeth M. Watkins Museum has surpassed the goal for its first phase by collecting more than 50,000 items, the chairman of the drive, said Friday.
However, about 70 of the 350 pledge cards for phase one have not been turned in, Andrews said. In phase one, the drive was made up on people believed most able to contribute.
In phase two of the campaign, he said, the drive will be opened to the entire community. He said about 600 pledge cards naming persons thought to be possible contributors would serve as a core from which the solicitors would work.
No goal has been set for phase two of the campaign, Andrews said, because the total cost of the museum is not yet known. The first $200,000 was for the basic renovation of the building, he said. The building is situated at 11th and Massachusetts streets, which once served as the city hall. The cost estimate for the project, cost estimate have been made, will be funded by the second phase of the campaign, Andrews said.
After it is completed, the museum will contain the Douglas County Historical Society Museum and the Kansas All-Sports Hall of Fame.
County Heart Association Needs Campaign Volunteers
Curtis Biesinger, professor of architecture and urban design, is the architect for the project. The displays will be planned by Charles Eldredge, director of the KU Museum of Art, and Philip Humphrey, director of the Museum of Natural History,
Humphrey said that Watkins Museum would borrow displays from the KU Art Museum and the Museum of Natural History. Other displays would come from the Douglas County Historical Society Museum, which is now housed in the Lawrence Police Station, 745 Vermont, he said.
Engineering
Marcum said the Heart Fund volunteers will also distribute heart information in the city in an effort to help the death rate from heart attacks. He said that 53 percent of all deaths in the United States are caused by heart diseases.
The Douglas County Heart Association has set a goal of $12,000 for this year's fundraising effort.
Interviews
Marcum said that businesses would be contacted by mail and asked to donate. Mailers will also be sent to all University of Kansas professors.
The Heart Fund will be assisted by two
Larry Marcum, campaign chairman, said Sunday that the Heart Fund volunteers were still in the process of finding more donors for the campaign drive later this month.
Engineering students may sign up for interviews with any of the following companies in Room 113 Marvin H. Jackson (Xumbe Hill), Ofl, Ecxon, Harmark Carr Company
"Our drive will end on Feb. 25, which is National Heart Sunday," Marcuccar said "On Heart Sunday we will have a door-to-door campaign to solicit donations."
KU Greek houses, Marcum said. The Alpha Phi sorority and the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity have volunteered to help with the campaign.
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Brooks said that the present house, at 1425 Tennessee St., was built by John Palmer Usher, Secretary of the Interior under Abraham Lincoln. Before moving into the present house, the Betas lived at 1537 Tennessee. Brooks said.
The Alpha chapter of Pi Beta Phi, the third oldest chapter of the national sorority,
was founded on April 1, 1873, with eight members. The chapter met in the music room of old Fraser Hall until 1906 when it became the first sorority at KU to build a house. The house, situated at 1246 Oread, became the Continuing Education Center when the sorority moved to 1612 W. 15th Street, in 1962.
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February 12, 1973
SENATE TREASURERS OFFICE
ATTENTION!!
Organizations Funded by Student Senate Activities Fund
The President, Vice President and Treasurer of all organizations funded by the Student Senate Activities Fund MUST sign a Capital Disposition Contract in the Senate Treasurer's office (104 B Kansas Union) on February 13, 14, or 15, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Organizations which fail to meet the 5:00 p.m., February 15 deadline will have their funds FROZEN.