Daily hansan
59th Year, No. 34
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Wednesday, November 1, 1961
AWS and ASC Clash Over Appropriations
By Karl Koch
The All Student Council hesitantly doled out a little over $3000 to seven campus organizations last night.
Cuts in appropriation requests caused resolutions, points of order, questions of the motion, etc., and just plain debate to fly fast and furiously.
The ASC budget is $174.78. Recommended appropriations exactly equalled this amount. When the combined pep clubs were allowed $373, instead of the recommended $0, the ASC's figurative fist snapped shut. With their effort to gain back the $373 from other appropriations came the loud cry, "you can't do that to us."
The largest appropriation of the night—$1,905 for People-to-People—took the least time to discuss. People-to-People received the full amount of its request 10 minutes after it came up.
THE APPROPRIATION FOR AWS, as mentioned earlier, was tabled. It had requested $2,590. The ASC Finance and Auditing committee recommended $1,800 on the grounds that the AWS gave away $1,000 in scholarships each year, and the ASC is forbidden by their Constitution to provide funds for education or public relations. The organization must be primarily a social organization to receive ASC funds.
Representatives from the AWS took exception. They said the AWS is allowed only one money-making function each year, and that money from this must go for the scholarships. Therefore, they said, they would have no funds to operate if the ASC did not grant their appropriation request.
DEBATE RAGED UNTIL Jerry Palmer, El Dorado senior and chairman of the ASC, tabled the bill. He said it would come up at a special meeting this week or early next week.
The $2,395 budget for ASC expenses was also set back until that meeting.
The requests for either ASC or AWS will have to be cut down. At present, granting these appropriations in full would put the ASC's $7,000 plus budget $293 in the red. The ASC is set up now to expend $7,164.78, including a $208.45 contingency fund.
PALMER MENTIONED the possibility that the ASC may be able to obtain more funds from the University, since the "AWS budget was not fully understood when the appropriation recommendation was made."
In other appropriation grants, the request of the combined club clubs—KuKus, Jay Janes, and Froshawks—was cut from $823 to $373. The Finance and Auditing committee had recommended that they should receive nothing.
MICHAEL THOMAS, Kansas City,
Mo. senior, and treasurer of the
ASC, said the combined pep clubs
had spent $672 on parties, and $120
Battle Rages Locally As Gas Prices Drop
The local gas war has entered its second month with still another decrease in price.
Regular gasoline in Lawrence service stations ranges from 21.9 to 22.9 cents per gallon.
Asked the reason for the latest drop, one attendant said. "Just competition, I guess." Operators see no let-up in the war, saying it can go back to regular prices most any day.
Prices in Kansas City and Topeka have gone back to normal.
on gifts and flowers last year. He said he saw no reason why the ASC should pay for the pep club's supplies while they spend their own money on parties.
Pep Club representatives countered with statements that the supply expense was much greater than indicated because of a mix-up in itemizing their expenses. They said pep clubs benefited the whole student body and there was no reason why the members should pay for student spirit out of their own pockets.
IN THE END, they were cut down to $180 for Jayhawker displays instead of $250. Expenses of $75 for the planned K-State migration was deleted from the appropriation.
Mortar Board, national honor society for junior and senior women, was granted $103.82. The amount was questioned by some ASC members who wanted to know what Mortar Board did for students at KU.
CAROLYN ONTJES, Hutchinson senior, representing Mortar Board replied: "We wear our uniforms once a week. Every time we wear our uniforms, we perform a service for the University."
Also, she said that Mortar Board talked to girls in the freshman dormitories about scholarship, and that they sponsored a "Smarty Party" each year for students with a certain grade point average.
"WE DO NOT HAVE any little fun parties," she said. Another Mortar Board member said anything that encourages good scholarship is good for the University. Referring to the Smarty Party, she said, "It may have an undignified title, but it's worthwhile."
The pleas were evidently successful. The Mortar Board budget was passed without any cuts.
With somewhat less debate, the
rest of the appropriations were granted as follows:
THE STUDENT BAR ASSOCIATION of the School of Law was given $220. They had requested $350.
The Business School Council was granted $155, the amount they requested.
The Pharmaceutical Association was given $165. They requested $350.
The Engineering Student Council was given $55. They asked for $150.
ALPHA PHI OMEGA, a service fraternity, was given $47.51. They asked for $100.
The Mathematics Club request for $40 was denied.
Line World University Service, a long inactive committee of the ASC, was also denied its $40 request.
West Berlin Starts Soviet Checks
BERLIN — (UPI) — West Berlin police today began checking identity papers of all Soviet and other Communist Diplomats crossing from East to West Berlin in non-military cars.
Passengers in official Soviet vehicles, whether in civilian dress or uniform, were exempt from the new regulations and were waved through border checkpoints without delay.
It was learned West Berlin police took the action because they believe Communist diplomats have used private cars to bring undesirable East Germans into West Berlin.
Fog this morning. Partly cloudy this afternoon through tomorrow. Highs today and tomorrow in the 60s. Lows tonight around 50. Scattered showers and a few thunderstorms tomorrow.
NewPoliticalGroup Ridicules Platforms
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Bv Scott Pavne
Eight members of the now defunct National Student Association attacked the campaign platforms of Vox Populi and University Party yesterday while forming a new "committee for effective government."
THOUGH THEIR ORIGINAL organization may be down and out, several members of the late committee seem determined to stay in campus politics, though not through any formal party association.
"Both the Vox and UP platforms appalled me when I read them," said Arthur C. Miller, Pittsburgh junior and temporary chairman of the group. "They are nothing. UP's platform has nothing in it concerning civil rights and Vox's might as well not have anything." he added.
"I THINK THE KU STUDENT body should be informed of the situation," Miller said. "I propose that we form a sort of league for better student government to bring this matter to the direct attention of people here.
"If the new All Student Council's actions are to be based on platforms such as these," he said, "it will make student government at KU ridiculous."
"Such a group could be a real, actual evaluating force," he added.
Charles Menghini, Pittsburg senior, said, "Neither of these platforms takes a definite stand on anything of real importance. They are the worst platforms I've seen since I've been at KU and I've seen some bad ones.
"I think forming this committee or league is an excellent idea," he said.
CHARLES PATTERSON. Rock-ford, Ill., junior, said, "I think it took real nerve to publish these programs—real nerve! Wasting all of that paper."
He also said:
"I like the idea but I think it might hurt the chances for reaffiliation with NSA if the committee members are active privately trying to improve KU student government." "I don't want it to look like the NSA committee is an underground organization furtively slipping around the campus.
"I don't particularly want to be
investigated for subversive activities by the ASC Committee on Un-American Activities," he said. "Nord do I want to be on the list of the Jay Deane society," he added, referring to the ASC member who introduced the bill calling for disaffiliation of KU from NSA.
Miller broke into laughter saying, "This committee is not necessarily composed of NSA committee members. Anybody is welcome and urged to join." he added.
"WHAT ABOUT PLANS for an attempt at reaffiliation with NSA?" asked one of the group.
"Shall we," he asked, "as former NSA committee members, work together as a private group? Shall we start a political party of our own or wait and do nothing until the new ASC meets on the matter of reaffiliation with NSA?"
"All of this ties into why this meeting was called," Miller said.
"The purpose of the committee I am proposing," said Miller, "will be merely to investigate. There is a lot of campus concern as to how effective ASC is and how dedicated its members are.
"I DON'T THINK it's either one, personally," Miller said. "A group like the one I'm proposing could shed some light on the matter," he added.
"FOR THAT MATTER," Miller said, "this group could support the party platform and candidates that it feels are the best suited for the job."
There was no objection to the proposal. He asked Judy Gail Harman, Kansas City senior, Thomas Heitz, and Sandra Moore, Saskatchewan, Canada, sophomore, to draft a constitution and name the committee.
ASKED ABOUT THE REAFFILIation issue, Miller said. "We of the NSA committee have received word from the national headquarters of NSA that they will stay in touch with us and help us if possible. They will be sending us their regular information all the time."
Miller pointed out that the national office would send mail to them unofficially and that the committee members actually are not members of NSA since KU is disaffiliated.
Levine Thumps Through Miller Novel
By Dennis-Farney
More than 50 coffee-sipping KU students yesterday listened enthusiastically as a lecturn-thumping KU professor of English guided them through the intricacies of Henry Miller's controversial novel, "Tropic of Cancer."
At the Current Book Review Forum they heard the book—which had been banned from the United States until only recently—described as "not pornographic" by Stuart Levine, assistant professor of English.
THE FORUM WAS HELD at 4 p.m. in the Music and Browsing Room of the Kansas Union.
Quoting selected passages from the novel to "give you (the audience) an idea of what this book is actually like." Prof. Levine skirted ticklish four-letter words by utilizing a lectern-thumping device.
"I was wondering what to do about these four letter words," he told his audience. "I finally decided to fall back upon the old method of thumping the lectern every time I come to one. You'll be able to fill in for yourselves."
HE THEN READ A passage which averaged better than a thump a line, much to the delight of his audience.
"There was nothing (to do) but to make love to Elsa. She wanted it. And yet I felt a little sorry for her. She had only written the first line to her lover—I read it out of the corner of my eye as I bent over her. But it couldn't be helped. That damned German music, so melancholy, so sentimental. It un-
He read another passage to show how little explicit description of the sex act there is in the book:
derminded me. And then her beady little eyes, so hot and sorrowful at the same time. After it was over..." He looked up.
"YOU'VE ALL READ worse than that," he said. "This kind of passage isn't going to incite anyone to anything. 'Tropic of Cancer' contains less in the way of sexual athleticism than do Miller's other books. In fact, there is practically nothing in the way of explicit description of the sexual act here. The run-of-the-mill drugstore novel contains more.
"If this work lives," he continued, "it won't be because of its sexual side alone—it will be because the insights, the connections, and the wry juxtapositions remain always purgative and entertaining.
"THIS BOOK IS NOT as great as its enthusiastic supporters maintain, but it's a lot better than their 'correctors' will admit. Miller's gusto does come across, and his acceptance of life is refreshing."
In his talk, Prof. Levine examined the current definition of pornography.
"We find," he said, "that the judges are basing their decisions on two tests: (1) Is the book in question serious in artistic intention? (2) Does the book tend to arouse libidinous impulses?"
HE QUESTIONED the usefulness of these two tests.
"How do we distinguish between a worthwhile book and one produced by a bad writer who honestly believes he is producing serious art?" he asked.
"And before we can utilize the second test,we first have to find out
more about the social effects of pornography. Suppose we allowed publishers to print anything: what would happen? Nobody knows. Perhaps pornography would serve as a social safety valve, giving people who otherwise might commit social offenses that artificial stimulation which they are sick enough
to need, and thus prevent them from hurting others.
"ON THE OTHER HAND, perhaps the crime rate and the incidence of sexual offenses would go away up. We need an answer to this question, but right now, we don't know."
Stuart Levine