Daily hansan
59th Year, No.25
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Events of Note
Thursday, October 19, 1961
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Campus Elections
Campus elections will be held Nov. 14-15. The primaries are Nov. 7-8.
Petitions for All Student Council living district representatives and freshman class officers are due midnight, Oct. 24. After 5 p.m. on the 24th, petitions should be returned to Richard Harper, Prairie Village senior and chairman of the ASC elections committee.
Petitions for political party nominations for the living district representative to the ASC are available from VOX or UP party representatives only. Parties cannot endorse candidates for freshman class officers.
Inquiries about the elections should be directed to Harper, not the Dean of Students. Copies of the election bill explaining the election process are also available from Harper.
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The House un-American Activities Committee will be picked apart tonight at the KU Presidential Forum in an effort to determine if the controversial committee should be altered, abolished or strengthened.
Presidential Forum
The new campus student forum, designed for the expression of dissenting opinion on national and international issues, will meet at 6:45 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
Charles McIwaine, Wichita senior, will make the initial arguments in favor of encouraging the House un-American Committee's work. Jim Lawing, Okmulgee, Okla., graduate, will recommend altering the present function of the group, and Charles Menghini, Pittsburg senior, will argue for the committee's abolishment.
Each student will be allowed 10 minutes for an opening statement before the question is thrown open to debate from the floor. O. P. Backus, professor of history, will moderate.
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Events Forum
Reuben Frodin, American Universities Field Staff authority on West Africa and Nigeria, will speak at Current Events Forum at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Music and Browsing Room of the Kansas Union. His topic will be "Africa—Evolution or Revolution?"
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Observatory
N. W. Storer, associate professor of astronomy, has announced that the KU observatory will be open to visitors from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday.
He said that if the weather is clear, visitors will have the opportunity to see the planet Saturn in the early part of the evening.
Access to the observatory is made by going through 500 Lindley.
Weather
TOPEKA — (UPI) — A large high pressure cell with cool air of Canadian origin is centered over the plains today. Temperatures should take an upward jump, ranging 60 to 65 under sunny skies over most of the state, and will reach around 70 tomorrow. Lows tonight will be near 40.
OU Referendum Blackballs NSA
By Scott Payne
In a referendum vote of three to one, University of Oklahoma students yesterday favored rejecting affiliation with the National Student Association.
(The following information was obtained in Daily Kansan telephone interviews.)
Jerry Gamble, OU student body president, said that this vote does not decide the issue.
"The matter will be decided finally by the student senate here," he said. "The referendum was merely to determine student opinion of the matter."
ACCORDING TO Jody Smith, OU dean of men, the issue "Shall the University of Oklahoma Remain a Member of NSA" brought more students to the polls (2,233 of 11,700) than ever before, Dean Smith said the final vote was 1,760-563.
Asked his feelings of the vote, Gamble replied, "I cannot agree that disaffiliation is desired by the whole student body since only about 20 per cent of the students here voted on the matter."
"I PERSONALLY am very much in favor of affiliation," he said. "I am vice chairman of this NSA region (the Great Southwest region) and a member of NSA's National Executive Committee."
Gamble explained that the main opposition to NSA on the OU campus is centered on three issues:
- Opposition to the amount of money spent by the NSA Committee.
- NSA is not representative of national student opinion.
- NSA is called communistic by some elements of the OU student body.
"in my opinion none of these views are valid." Gamble said.
NSA is not communistic," he said. "I have been called an 'ultra-liberal' here and elsewhere. This is not true.
"I took a conservative stand at the NSA Congress in Wisconsin this summer when I voted against abolition of the House Committee on Un-American Activities," he added.
"FURTHERMORE," he said, "our NSA committee appropriating about two cents of each student's fees is not spending too much money," Gamble said.
UN Debate Block On Uses of Space
UNITED NATIONS — (UPI) Britain accused Russia today of seeking to block United Nations debate on peaceful uses of outer space and suggested it wanted to "make the moon a Soviet satellite."
Soviet Ambassador Valerian A. Zorin made objection to a high position on the agenda for the space question in a procedural debate which delayed the start of the General Assembly's political committee's discussion of nuclear weapons tests.
U. S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson was prepared to deliver a major speech demanding resumption of Soviet-British-American negotiations on an iron clad treaty outlawing nuclear weapons tests under international inspection and control.
The United States and Russia meanwhile remained deadlocked on procedure for naming an acting Secretary-General.
Prof. Smith said a memorial service would probably be held on Sunday. He said arrangements were being sought to hold the funeral in Swarthout Recital Hall.
Prof. Scheerer was a world authority on the psychological effects of brain damage, thinking and problem solving. He developed with Kurt Goldstein, the Goldstein-Scheerer test used to measure brain damage. Prof. Scheerer also specialized in clinical psychology.
Prof. Scheerer came to KU in 1943 as professor of psychology. Previously, he had been an associate professor at the New School for Social Research. He taught at
KU Psychologist M. Scheerer Dies
Prof. Scheerer is survived by his wife, Constance, and father, Herman Scheerer. He was 61.
A beloved KU psychologist died early this morning in Lawrence Memorial Hospital following a heart attack.
Martin Scheerer, professor of psychology, described by students and associates as "a brilliant and considerate教师," was rushed to the hospital after suffering a stroke. He died at 1:15 a.m.
"A tremendous loss to the department," Anthony Smith, chairman of the department of psychology said. "There's no possibility of our replacing him with a man of equal stature.
"He was one of the outstanding psychologists in the country," Prof. Smith said.
Columbia University, Wells College and the College of the City of New York.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Hamburg, Germany in 1927.
Prof. Scheerer wrote two books dealing with brain psychology: "Theory of Gestalt Psychology" and "Memory and Hypnotic Age
Regression" in collaboration with Robert Reiff.
Martin Scheerer
Prof. Scheerer had been serving as president of the Kansas Psychological Association. He was a diplomat in clinical psychology, an associate in the Society for Psychological Study of Social Issues and a fellow in the division of clinical psychology of the American Psychology Association.
MISS OCTOBER—Janice Sappenfield, Coffeyville junior, enjoys the balmy October weather—and the leaves.
Nationalist China Favored:
Kennedy Opposes Red China in UN
WASHINGTON — (UPI) —President Kennedy today reaffirmed strong U.S. opposition to admitting Red China to the United Nations or any U.N. components.
Kennedy in an unusual statement, also emphasized the American position that the Chinese Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek rightfully represents China in the United Nations.
Kennedy's statement was unusual in that he had it prepared for his news conference last week in the expectation he would be asked about this country's current position on Red China. The subject was not raised by reporters and Kennedy decided to say nothing for the moment.
SINCE THE NEWS conference, however, there have been reports and interpretations indicating a possible shift, however slight, in the American position, partly because of this government's exploration of the idea of recognizing Outer Mongolia with a view to ultimate U.N. admission.
In the light of these unofficial commentaries, Press Secretary Pierre Salinger was asked today whether there had been any policy change.
He started to answer the question himself, but instead related the circumstances of the prepared but undelivered Kennedy statement. He had a secretary get the statement from the files and read it to reporters as a current statement by the Chief Executive.
"The United States has always considered the government of the Republic of China the only rightful government representing China and has always given full support to the position and to all the rights of that government in the United Nations," the statement said.
"THEREFORE, THE United States firmly opposes the entry of the Chinese Communists into, the United Nations or into any of the components of the United Nations," it said.
Government sources pointed out that Kennedy's statement was a re-
iteration and did not represent any change in policy.
In the current meeting of the General Assembly, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and U. S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson supported the idea of a full debate on Chinese representation in the United Nations. The United States, however, did not go beyond supporting debate, the idea being to postpone a vote at least until next year.
Salinger declined to discuss the side issues of Chinese representation. But he said the U.S. position on debating the question had not changed.
The United States still regards any question involving change of U.N. representation as a matter of major importance which, if presented formally, would require a two-thirds vote of the General Assembly.
Speling Neaded By Englich Profs
Faces are red among those responsible for the English Proficiency Examination.
Correct spelling is one of the points stressed in the examination. The instruction sheet to graders states that because students are allowed to take a dictionary into the examination room, there should be no excuse for incorrect spelling.
Today, it was discovered that a form given to graders to report on unsatisfactory papers has, as a category to be discussed, syntax and "grammer."
"I don't know how it happened." said James E. Seaver, professor of history and director of the examination. "On the original form, the word 'grammar' was spelled correctly."
The form with the misspelling was a "ditto" form, probably run off to meet extra needs. The mimeographed form is correct, indicating an error in copying by a secretary or student assistant.
In any case, steps are being taken quickly- to correct the error.