Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
59th Year. No. 13
Tuesday, October 3, 1961
Students Vaque on NSA
KU students have only a hazy knowledge of the National Student Association. This was the indication in recent UDK interviews.
Of 37 students asked if they feel that the All Student Council should withdraw KU from the NSA, 22 said that they knew little about the NSA. Five students favored KU's withdrawal and 10 were opposed.
"IVE NEVER HEARD of the NSA," said Elizabeth Stoddard, Webster Groves, Mo., freshman. "Why doesn't the ASC inform us?"
ONE STUDENT preferred to leave the withdrawal question up to the ASC.
Janet White, Bartlesville, Okla., freshman, agreed with Miss Stoddard.
"If I knew how the withdrawal would affect me, I'd be more concerned," she said.
"I haven't read enough to express an opinion," said Joyce Leasure, LaCyge freshman.
"The ASC represents us," said Horton Wicket, Kansas City, Mo., senior. "If they choose to drop the NSA, OK. The whole issue is in their hands."
The most enthusiastic support for KU's withdrawal from NSA came from Joan Brunton, Perry senior.
"I'm for independence" she said.
"WE SHOULD disaffiliate if we're not getting
"Yeah, I know all about NSA."
enough benefits from the NSA," said Chuck Fisher, Prairie Village senior. "We can use the (dues and membership) funds for something else."
Opposing disaffiliation was Otis Mitchell, Parsons graduate student.
"The Mid-West has a historic tradition of isolationism," he said. "Separation from the NSA would only serve to further this tendency."
"I THINK the NSA is good because it widens the range of activities and gives the University more voice," said Sharon Ray, Joplin, Mo., freshman. "For this reason, I'm against disaffiliation."
Party Promises Indicate NSA to Survive at KU
Dorothy Hartbauer, Overland, Mo., senior said that she thinks the ASC should pay more attention to the possible benefits to be gained from NSA membership.
Two students favored remaining within NSA and criticized the ASC.
"The ASC should not use the NSA as a scapegoat for it's budget problems," she said.
"I feel that NSA's main function is that of an informative body," said Barbara Smith, Wichita freshman. "Why doesn't the ASC give NSA a chance to function as such, with full approbation and adequate funds?"
By Scott Payne
If the majority party in the All Student Council (ASC) carries out its campaign promises there should be no question as to the survival of NSA at KU.
So said Charles Menghi, Pittsburgh senior, at an impromptu press conference last night in which several NSA Committee members rapped the move in ASC to disaffiliate KU from NSA.
Menghini pointed out that Section Four of the Vox Populi platform last fall supported University of Kansas affiliation with NSA; it invited NSA to have its annual national congress at KU, and it proposed making KU a leader among midwestern schools in NSA policy formation.
"It SHOULD BE NOTED that the University Party also strongly endorsed NSA." Menghini said.
"If both parties carry out their obligations to their constituents," he added, "then KU will continue to affiliate with NSA."
Judi Jamison, Ottawa junior, said she felt that the concern of those favoring withdrawal from NSA is genuine.
"One of the charges being directed at NSA is that few benefits have been received for the money invested. The benefits the opponents in NSA are looking for, they say, most come from local NSA activities."
"However", she said, "in their zeal to save money, they are setting out to abolish many benefits derived from NSA, the most paramount being the arousing of interest at KU in national and international affairs.
"If it weren't for NSA there would be no campus body to fulfill this function," she added.
ARTHUR C. MILLER, Pittsburg junior, said;
Miller pointed out that the Committee has no budget and receives no appropriations and therefore cannot sponsor many local activities.
"For example," he said, "last spring we could have brought Fulton Lewis III, a conservative speaker, to the campus. But we didn't
have the money to pay his travel expenses and so he couldn't come.
Carol McMillen, Coldwater senior and chairman of the Committee, said that one of the important functions of NSA is that of creating campus awareness of current national and international issues.
"For example," she said, "last spring when the committee sponsored the showing of 'Operation Abolition' it made the campus aware of an issue debated all over the country. Up to this time, few KU students had heard of the movie, the House Un-American Activities Committee or the issues involved.
"IN YESTERDAY'S KANSAN Jerry Parmel (EI) Dorado senior and
KU-Y to Sponsor Freshman Retreat
The retreat will be held at Tonganoxie Lake Saturday. Freshmen attending will hear speakers discuss such topics as campus politics, rush activities, scholarship programs and general activities at KU. Freshman activities in the KU-Y for the coming year will also be discussed.
A "Freshman Planning Retreat" has been scheduled by the KU-Y organization.
Any interested freshman who has not filled out an application form for the event is invited to contact the KU-Y office in the Kansas Union building by tomorrow.
Weather
The charge for the affair will be $1. Included in this fee is transportation to and from the lake and a lunch, to be served at the Retreat. Cars will leave the Union at 12 noon Saturday, returning to Lawrence at 4:30 p.m.
Indian Summer continued over Kansas today and the weather bureau saw little change through tomorrow.
The outlook for tomorrow was for more fair and mild conditions with temperatures again in the 70s.
committee member) was quoted as saying that the Young Republicans would have shown the movie if the committee had not.
"But that isn't the issue," she said. "Charles McIlwaine, (Wichita senior) said when the showing of the movie was brought up in Committee that his group would show the film and that was all."
"Not only did the Committee show the film but it provided background material of opposing viewpoints concerning the film. The Committee also sponsored a debate following the showing," Miss McMillen said.
Chuck Patterson, Rockford, Ill., junior, said.
"THE ASC, IN MY OPINION, due to other campus responsibilities, hasn't the time to deliberate upon issues of this import. I think that NSA can inform the KU student of such issues and also of the feelings of students on other campuses in this regard.
"In view of rising national and international interest here it is my opinion that the position of NSA deserves reconsideration.
"Since I am a moderate I am in a position to observe objectively the issues discussed in Committee. It is my own feeling that both sides of the issues are ably and fairly represented," Patterson said.
Judy Gail Harman, Kansas City senior and secretary of the NSA Committee; Sandra Moore, Sasketchewan, Canada sophomore; Mike Thomas, Kansas City, Mo. senior and Robert Sherwood, Kansas City sophomore, concurred with these statements.
Alterations Made In Seating Program
The All Student Council student athletic seating board decided yesterday to make the following changes and additions in its reserved football seating plan.
- Married couples whose seats are separated may apply for ticket exchange Thursday and Friday at the South ticket window in Allen Field House.
- Starting tomorrow, new graduate students, and pep club members not sitting in the pep club section, may exchange tickets bought prior to the Wyoming game for tickets still available.
- All unclaimed student season tickets will be sold Monday through Wednesday of next week to any student who has not purchased a ticket. ID cards are necessary.
- Five hundred single game reserve tickets will be available for student sections for each of the remaining games. These tickets will be sold Monday through Wednesday of each week at Allen Field House, except for the Iowa State game. For this game tickets can be purchased Oct. 12-13.
- Student reserved seat tickets ordered last spring or this fall may be picked up at Allen Field House until 5 p.m. Friday.
Military Calls for 716 Doctors
Military Leaders
Sudy Berlin Crisis
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— President Kennedy met with the nation's top military leaders today for an intensive review of U.S. and NATO defense capabilities in the face of the Berlin crisis.
He first conferred with Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer, chairmor of the joint chiefs of staff.
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The Defense Department asked Selective Service today to call up 716 physicians, dentists and veterinarians for service in America's expanded military forces.
The call was for 495 physicians, 154 dentists and 67 veterinarians. They will be given 15 days to volunteer for officers' commissions instead of being subjected to actual draft.
Prior to June, no physicians had been drafted since 1957, no dentists since 1955 and no veterinarians since 1952.
Of the physicians, 275 were tagged for the Army, 150 for the Air Force and 70 for the Navy. Spurred by the Berlin situation, U.S. military forces are being increased from 2,500,000 to 2,743,227 men.
'Idiot's Delight Throws Light on World Tensions
Americans are trapped before the complex international situation confronting them.
This was the consensus of discussions by students and faculty regarding Robert E. Sherwood's play, "Idiot's Delight," which opens tomorrow at 8 p.m. and runs through Saturday.
The discussions were held because of the play's relevancy to today's cold war situation. Audiences who saw the play this past summer were amazed at the similarity of Sherwood's action to the drama taking place over Berlin.
"Idiot's Delight," set in an Italian ski resort prior to the outbreak of World War II, deals with contrasting characters resigning themselves to the inevitability of war.
MEETING AS A PANEL, Roy Laird, assistant professor of political science, Charles Sidman, instructor of history, and Jack Brooking, associate professor of speech, agreed that Sherwood's theme of mankind's helplessness before the events leading to war is similar to the small man's position in America today.
THE STUDENTS who are in the play were contacted by phone. The faculty met as a panel.
"He is unable to prevent what he doesn't want to happen," Mr. Sidman said.
"It's like a modern tragedy of mankind." Prof. Laird added.
SIDNEY BERGER, Brooklyn, N.Y. graduate student, compared his part to the shopkeeper around the corner.
"Harry has guts but he is powerless to do anything about the tragic situation," Berger said.
Bruce Thompson, Alliance, Ohio graduate student, who plays Donald Navadel, rates his part as a prissy athletic type who resents being thrust into the tensions of world crisis.
"Navadel is the type who builds himself up 3 or 4 feet higher than he is but runs when things get a little rough for him," Thompson said.