Daily hansan
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
59th Year, No. 28
Tuesday, October 24, 1961
WHO WILL IT BE?—Elaine Haines, Kansas City, Jane Dunlap, Lawrence, and Lois Ann Ragsdale, Kansas City, are finalists for Senior
Queen. The winner will be announced at the KU-OSU football game Saturday. Seniors voted at the senior coffee last week.
Somebody Goofed?
WASHINGTON — (UPI)
Enough_is_ enough!
Democratic National Committee headquarters sent to the UPI office here last night 44 copies of the same press release.
KU to Observe Picasso's Birth
Tomorrow marks the 80th birthday of a man always considered to be a revealing new artist: Pablo Picasso.
All over the world, people who love Picasso and his work will be celebrating his birthday. Prof. Klaus Berger of the Museum of Art and the art history department has announced a three-part celebration of Picasso's birthday to be called "Picasso Day" at the University.
PROF. BERGER will give a lecture at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the Museum of Art lecture room. He will speak on Picasso and his art.
The second part of the birthday celebration will be an exhibition of seven of Picasso's prints. The prints cover the last 20 years in the life of Picasso, and are all original prints by the artist himself.
AT 7:30 and 9 p.m. tomorrow, a film on Picasso will be shown in the museum lecture room. The film, in color, will run about 50 minutes. The public is invited.
(See page three for an interpretive article on Picasso's life)
A Rich One
CICERO, II—(UFI)—Army bomb disposal experts gingerly removed the fuse from a souvenir World War II Japanese motor shell yesterday.
They then cautiously pulled loose a small plate attached to its base—out rolled a quantity of foreign bills and coins.
Weather
Partly cloudy today and tonight,
A few showers likely tonight.
Wednesday fair. Highs today around 70. Lows tonight 35 to 40.
High Wednesdays 65 to 70.
Registrar Explains Class Alterations
The causes for the change to a 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. day next year are:
- Increased student enrollment.
- Increase in faculty (the increase will mean more offices are needed)
- **Fewer** classrooms (classrooms are converted into offices).
James K. Hitt, registrar, said yesterday the University has 138 general purpose classrooms which are used on an average of 35 hours a week.
Several faculty members have disagreed with the change because of increased work load on them and their wives, elimination of research time and the canceling of committee meetings usually held during the noon hour which will have to be held at other times. (See UDK Oct. 20 for faculty reaction.)
- Finding a classroom in which to conduct the class.
"This fall we had to turn to the noon hour and to classes at 4 and 5 p.m..." he said.
"CLASSES scheduled for 8-9-10- 11 a.m. and 1-2-3 p.m. are at the saturation point," Mr. Hitt said. "There are some openings, but not many."
The national average for classroom use is only 25 hours per week. Each classroom has a potential of 49 hours use, including noon classes, he said, but that leaves no time for building and grounds to sweep the rooms out.
There are 690 hours of potential classroom use for noon and the University is presently using a third or 226 hours of the total.
KU has scheduled 226 hours of classes at the noon hour and 53 hours after 5 p.m. this semester because of the classroom shortage.
Mr. Hitt said three things must be considered when scheduling classes:
MR. HITT SAID three alternative solutions were considered. First,
- Finding a faculty member to teach.
- Finding students to attend.
more students could be assigned to a class. But faculty members say they get better results with smaller classes, he added.
Second, combining some of the two and three hour courses into five hour courses and changing some of the three hour courses into two hour courses to better utilize Tuesday- Thursday class times. This idea was not popular with the faculty, he said.
Mr. Hitt said the classes that have been scheduled at odd times and places were not designed to solve the classroom problem.
Third, change the class schedule as proposed.
He was referring to the scheduling of some English classes in the scholarship halls late in the afternoon.
Soviet Explosion Upsets World
By United Press International
Most of the world today condemned in strongest terms the Soviet Union's detonation of history's biggest nuclear explosion yesterday.
India's Prime Minister Jawahar Nehru condemned it as a "horrible thing."
Australian Prime Minister Robert G. Menzies said the blast was "clearly designed to terrorize the people of the non-Communist world . . . whether it was done in a fashion which might injure the health of many thousands of people was apparently of no consequence."
In Tokyo, Japan's three major parties—the governing Liberal Democrats and two opposition Socialist factions—agreed on a joint resolution for submission to parliament expressing "deep regret" over Russia's nuclear testing.
The major Japanese newspaper Asahi said in Tokyo it was a "crime against mankind."
PARIS JOUR demanded that Russia "stop this diabolical game that risks the destruction of the planet."
The Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter said the big blast may produce "fatalism and an indignation that will make the world immune to further nuclear blackmail."
The premiers of Sweden and Denmark deplored the explosion, and the Norwegian parliament adopted a strong protest resolution.
The London Daily Telegraph accused Khrushchev of using "plain, crude terror" against "the world at large." Copenhagen's Berlingske Tidende predicted, however, the "big bomb certainly will not reduce aversion to aggressive Soviet policy."
BRITISH DEFENSE Minister Harold Watkinson told parliament the government is making arrangements to give babies less than a year old "alternative forms of milk" if Soviet fallout should contaminate the regular milk supply.
"It is not expected that the (fallout) level will be such that older children or adults would be endangered." Watkinson said.
Philosopher Lord Bertrand Russell delivered a personal protest to the Soviet Embassy in London, but left early in disgust over the same "old rigmarole and propaganda" he got in return from Soviet officials.
The latest major Soviet explosion probably was in the 30-megaton class exploded just below the tropopause—the area where the main portion of the earth's atmosphere ends and the stratosphere begins. It is about six miles above the earth in the Polar region where the Soviet test was conducted on the Arctic island of Novaya Zemlya.
LAST NIGHT, more than 12 hours after the Russians set off the biggest explosion ever engineered by man, eight nations failed in efforts to persuade the U.N. General Assembly's political Commit-
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'Twist Again'
Hip Movements Take Over
THE WOMEN SPEAK:
"As long as a person doesn't have an ulterior motive, I guess it's all right."
"The idea is, you turn your top opposite from your bottom."
"Well, you stand on your feet,
and then..."
"I like everything about it... it's cool."
"I think it's obnoxious!"
"Sometimes it's OK, then again sometimes it isn't."
AND THEN THE MEN tako
AND THEN THE MEN take over:
"I think it's quite inviting...if you like that sort of thing."
"I haven't seen enough of it to know."
"If everyone else wasn't doing it,
I wouldn't be doing it."
"Ennhh...who needs it, anyway?"
"It really takes a whole lot of intelligence and coordination."
They called it the Charleston in 1924, the Tango in 1936, the Jitterbug in 1944, the Dirty Bop in 1956.
and the TWIST in 1961. It all involveships and a lot of music with a beat.
A working definition of the new national dance craze is: "It's just like a shimmy, only you twist your hips, instead of your shoulders.
KU is not to be left out of the craze. The Twist arrived on campus with the returning students in September. Since that time small and large groups have gathered to practice in private so they could perform in public. Some hipsters now twist to class instead of walking. Twist lessons are being taught at the Kansas Union.
THE ORIGIN of the Twist is buried deep in the cultural heritage of America. The slow, rhythmic dances of the Negro slave were blended with the hip-swinging motions of the hula dancer. The smashing gyrations of a stripper in New Orleans met up with the vibrant swishing of skirts in a Can-Can.
twist, kiddies? A loud record player, a partner, and a lotta haunch action. Then you too, can make a hip of yourself in public.
"I thought this part up myself."