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University Daty Kansan Tuesday, Dec. 12, 1961
SHELTERED—Paul Hodges, Webster Groves, Mo., sophomore, sits under the prize-winning entry in the Marlboro cigarette contest. The entry was a double hyperbolic paraboloid, a unique architectural design used as roofs for modern houses and buildings. The entry took about 2,000 Marlboro boxes, 500 thumb tacks and 600 yards of string. Helping in the project were Robert Welch, Belton, Mo., junior, Don Eversmeyer, Wright City, Mo., sophomore, and Paul Kunde, Richardson, Texas, sophomore. Ironically, none of the four builders smoke. The entry was submitted by Joseph R. Pearson Hall which receives the $125 first prize. Second place went to Sigma Kappa sorority for its three piece mobile.
Mennonite Students Fast In Protest to Nuclear Tests
NEWTON, Kan. — Seventeen Bethel College students and an adult leader will leave this week for Washington to hold a three-day fast protesting the resumption of nuclear testing.
A spokesman for the group said representatives of the Mennonite College would carry signs past the White House, interview Congressmen and possibly visit the Soviet embassy during their Saturday, Sunday and Monday fast.
A simultaneous fast will be held
Former Professor Dies After Illness
Albert Bloch, professor emeritus of drawing and painting, died Sunday at his home at 1016 Alabama He was 79.
Bloch was born in St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 2, 1882. He attended art classes at Washington University and became a successful contributor of cartoons to newspapers and other periodicals. From 1909 to 1912 he was a free lance artist in New York City.
In 1923, he was appointed professor of drawing and painting and department chairman at KU. He held this position till poor health forced him to retire in 1947.
In 1955, the K.U. Museum of Art honored Prof. Bloch with a large retrospective exhibition of his work. He has had one-man shows in the Chicago Art Institute, the St. Louis Museum and in Berlin.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the Trinity Episcopal Church. Rev. John F. McLaughlin will officiate. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.
"We are concerned about the possible devastating effects of radioactive fallout on the health of all humanity," says the group's statement of purpose.
"We protest the assumption that our nation has the right to engage in activities which may endanger people all over the entire globe."
by students remaining on the Bethel campus.
The statement continues saying Christian love can be heard above the political concerns of military groups.
Plea for Caution Because of Snow
Campus security and traffic police have issued a plea for added caution from motorists during present hazardous driving conditions.
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No major traffic tie-ups have occurred so far as a result of icy and snow-covered campus streets, but four minor campus accidents had occurred by 10 this morning.
Maintenance crews worked last night and today to clear walks, and streets are being sanded.
Joe E. Skillman, chief of campus police, asked motorists to exercise added caution while driving. To avoid traffic snarls and accidents on ice and snow coated streets drivers should avoid the steeper hills unless their cars are equipped with chains, Chief Skillman said.
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He said the more potentially dangerous hills on 13th and 14th Streets will be closed if they become too slick. He urged drivers not to drive at existing speed limits, but to limit their speed to conditions.
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Oswald P. Backus, chairman of the Soviet Slavic area studies and professor of history said recently as part of the SUA "Last Lecture Series" that on his last day on earth he thought that he would berate himself for all the things he had not done during his life he should have done.
"At the very end, I'd be inclined to pray." he said.
He said he would ask himself if he had strived in his life to promote the values which he held important in his life. He said he held such things as the development of the mind, promotion of politics and religion and improvement of race relations important.
HE EXPLAINED that he would have two basic choices in his behavior for the last day. These choices would be thinking and acting. He explained that thinking could consist of private meditation or talking with others. He said that action could be pleasurable to himself or constructive to others.
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Backus Describes Last Day As One of Action, Meditation
HE BROKE THE THINGS which
he would privately meditate about into three subjects; culture, politics and religion.
Of culture, he said that the two works which best epitomize man's role in society are Dante's "Divine Comedy" and Tolstoi's "War and Peace." He explained that "War and Peace" pictured man as a pawn in the hands of destiny, Dante, on the other hand, feels that the individual is more important. He is punished or rewarded by his own actions.
He said that he would also think about politics. He stated that he would regret the failure of himself and his friends to put ideas for change into acceptable form.
O'Heron Affirms 3rd Party Plans
HE SAID THAT HE WOULD REGret that he had not been as strong in his faith as he felt it was desirable to be. Prof. Backus stated that he felt that it was possible to lose faith, and regain it, many times.
HE SAID THAT HE CONSIDERED action to be of equal importance with thinking. He said that his first actions would probably be centered around his own pleasure. He said
A spokesman for the organizers of the third campus political party says his party would not "simply gloss over issues, engage in bandwagon politics, or compromise at the expense of principle as Vox and University Party have done."
IN AN INTERVIEW following a meeting of the party organizers from which a Kansan reporter was barred, Brian O'Heron, Lawrence senior, said:
"There is definitely a movement underway to establish an alternative party which will explicitly present issues to the students instead of simply glossing over them. We do not intend to engage in 'bandwagon' politics or in compromising at the expense of our principles.
"Our candidates," he continued, "will be selected on the basis of merit and not on the basis of race or any other irrelevant consideration."
'OHERON SAID THAT there has been a tremendous response to the idea of a third party on campus.
"I am very glad to see that members of the existing parties are concerned about our organization," he added, "because, in my estimation, it is the first thing they have been concerned about in a long time."
He said, "Tremendous progress and enthusiasm has been gained in the relatively short period of time we have been working."
An ad hoc policy forming committee has been meeting regularly to establish the party. The 24 students at yesterday's meeting reportedly discussed the constitution and platform for the new party. A name for the party apparently has not yet been chosen.
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that he would like to be with his family and to make his children happy. He said that he felt it essential not to spend the entire day on an entirely serious level.
Prof. Backus said that this might make him feel guilty. The Puritan heritage might make him feel that it was bad to have a good time, he continued. He said that he would not spend most of the day on pleasure, however.
He continued that some of the day should be given to a purposeful activity. He said that this might be in the form of keeping order among the citizens who had lost control of themselves.
He said he would not be very frightened if he had time to accustom himself to the idea of the end of the world.
K's hudden weakness
Khrushchus is strong, says Stewart Alsop. But he has one great weakness. And he knows it. In this week's Saturday Evening Post, you'll read why the satellite nations are giving Kremlin big shots the jitters.
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