Big Ten Merger Taken Up by ASC
It is possible that KU will join Big Ten student government.
The All Student Council (ASC) discussed this possibility at its meeting last night.
Council members voted to organize a committee to investigate the work of Big Ten schools in student government, and to decide if KU would benefit as an observer or member.
The ASC is taking this action because of the rebuff that several KU student leaders received at the Big Eight Student Government Conference at the University of Missouri in December.
Reuben McCornack, Abilene junior, will head the Big Ten committee consisting of Sandra Garvey, St. Louis, Mo., junior; Michael Miner, Lawrence sophomore; Doug Hall, Raytown, Mo., sophomore, and Charles Marvin, Lawrence junior
Earlier in the Council session, Jerry Dickson, Newton senior and student body president, said he was "disappointed" in the results of the conference last month
- The establishment of a Big Eight Attractions Committee to provide better entertainment to the Big Eight schools through a syndicate.
- the creation of a Big Eight College Bowl.
He referred to the defeat of Greg Turner, Seattle junior and KU's candidate for Big Eight Student Government president.
In other Big Eight Conference reports, Turner, who was named coordinator of the College Bowl program, said he was confident of the success of the College Bowl at KU. He said:
The two resolutions presented at the Conference were instigated by the KU delegations. These resolutions called for:
"Out of the eight schools in the Conference, seven were for doing the work at KU. Only Oklahoma University rejected the KU proposal."
Turner added that KU would continue working on the College Bowl with the KU College Intermediary Board. He said he saw prospects of KU sponsoring "Big Seven" College Bowl competition.
Turning to other Council matters. Dickson expressed the administration's concern with the littering of Strong Basement.
John Stuckey, Pittsburg junior and former ASC member, outlined the administration's feelings. He reported the administration said it must close the coffee concession stand and remove snack bar machines if the students did not cooperate in keeping the basement clean.
The appointment of three students to the Human Rights Committee of the ASC was ratified. Marsha Dutton, Colby senior; Kenneth Coleman, Wichita junior, and Arthur Douville, Prairie Village freshman, will assume positions on the HRC after the passage of an amendment to expand the committee membership from five to seven.
In a Statewide Activities report, Steven Stevens, Fredonia senior, announced that five students would be traveling in Kansas as speakers for Statewide Activities. They are: John Neal, Hutchinson senior; Sue Worley, Salina senior; Pamela Stone, Wichita sophomore; Nancy Egy, Topeka sophomore, and Dianne Mullanne, Oklahoma City, Okla., senior.
Firemen Control Empire State Blaze
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Firemen battled a series of fires a quarter mile up today in the Empire State Building.
Six hours after the fire was discovered it still was burning, apparently in electric wiring in a pipe shaft which runs the entire height of the 1.472 foot structure.
No injuries were reported and by 10 a.m. most of the 16,000 persons who work in the building had been permitted to return to their jobs. Several hundred of them had been evacuated about 8 a.m.
Two television stations (WNEW-TV and WNEC-TV) opened their channels late when engineering workers were forced to leave the building. The FM operation of one radio station (WNEW) was off for several hours.
The fires, affecting about 10 floors of the building, climbed as high as the 84th floor, just below the level of the observation tower.
Students to Look At Eurich Report
Three months ago it was James Meredith and the University of Mississippi. Last night it was the Eurich report and the University of Wichita.
For the second time this semester, the All Student Council expanded its discussion beyond problems directly affecting KU students by forming a committee of five KU students to consider the Eurich report, which recommends the University of Wichita become a state-supported school.
Reuben McCornack, Abilene junior, who proposed the resolution, said he hoped the action would result in KU taking a stand on the widely-discussed WU issue.
McCormack suggested that the five-man committee poll KU and WU students to determine feelings within both schools. He said he has heard reports that WU students are strongly opposed to any action making the city university a state-supported college.
In an interview this morning Jerry Dickson, Newton senior and student body president, said that if KU takes a stand, a Student Council delegation would probably approach the state legislature.
"The state legislature should be interested in what the student body of this University thinks," he said, "because any action concerning Wichita University may have a direct effect on our school."
The ASC committee is headed by Dickson. Other committee members are: Jim Thompson, Hugoton junior; Peggy Connor, Wichita sophomore; Jerry Sue Trantum, Kansas City junior; and Jack Croughan, Novato, Calif., junior.
Daily hansan
60th Year, No. 67
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Wednesday, Jan. 9, 1963
This right is now recognized as common law in 24 states, including Kansas, Prof. Beth stated. It is a statutory status in four others. Only
Kennedy Given Edge In House Rules Fight
Weather
Unseasonably mild weather will continue today with highs expected to reach the middle 60's. The temperatures will dip to the lower 30's tonight, with colder weather expected tomorrow. Considerable cloudiness is also expected tonight and tomorrow.
New Right of Privacy Explained by Prof.Beth
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The 88th Congress convened today with Democrats confident of handing President Kennedy at least an opening round victory in what promises to be a bruising two-year battle over his New Frontier programs.
Congolese Minister of Interior Cleophas Kamitatu said in a radio broadcast last night that the "situation (in Kasai) is becoming more and more explosive."
Tshombe Says His War In Katanga is Finished
DEFINING THE RIGHT of privacy as the right of the individual to sue and recover damages for the publication of his name, his picture or private affairs without his consent, Prof. Beth told his listeners, "It is your right to live a private life and pursue happiness outside the glare of publicity and to recover damages for mental anguish, embarrassment, and humiliation such as would be suffered by any person of ordinary sensibilities as a result of an invasion of privacy."
ELISABETHVILLE, Katanga, The Congo — (UPI) — Katanga President Moise Tshombe announced an end to his war against the United Nations today and said he was ready to talk peace with the Congolese central government.
By Nilofer Ahmed
A discussion of one of the newest rights accorded an American citizen in a majority of states — the right to be left alone — kept a capacity audience in Fraser Hall theater engrossed for over an hour last night.
But even with the agreement in Katanga the turbulent Congo still was without peace as a full-scale tribal war was reported raging in diamond-rich Kasai Province. More than 370 Lulua tribesmen and two whites were reported killed in the fighting. Unofficial sources placed the death toll between 600 and 800.
The speaker was Elmer F. Beth, senior member of the faculty of the School of Journalism. The talk was the 100th in the KU Humanities Lecture series, and was the 16th *o* be given by a KU faculty member.
"To many the law is dry, dusty and dull." Professor Beth said. "Maybe it is so, but occasionally a case arises which does have a bit of humor in it." Accordingly, Prof. Beth's talk was interspersed with some of the livelier issues that have come up for decision before various courts in the country.
KENNEDY WAS TOLD at a breakfast meeting with top Democratic
There appeared to be no connect-
Western diplomatic sources at the United Nations in New York reported last night that Tshombe had issued a statement largely meeting several conditions prescribed by Secretary General Thant for settling the Katanga problem.
The sources said Tshombe was being urged to issue a further statement assuring full freedom of movement for U.N. forces and spelling out just how he would cooperate with the world organization.
Overshadowing opening day activities — most of them ceremonial — was a crucial battle in the House where the administration hoped to keep the Rules Committee at its enlarged total of 15 members and thereby assure more favorable treatment of the President's proposals.
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PROF. BETH listed six ways in which the defendant might be able to defend himself successfully. "If the defendant proves that you had waived your right to privacy, or is
four states — Texas, Nebraska, Rhode Island and Wisconsin — have refused to recognize the right until such time as it has been adopted by their respective state legislatures. Illustrating this, Prof. Beth cited the well-known Wisconsin case, Yoeckel v. Samongi, in which the plaintiff, while in the ladies rest room of a watering-place run by the defender, was photographed against her wishes by the detendent but could not recover for damages because the invasion of privacy is not a cause of action in Wisconsin.
DIFFERENTIATING between libel and slander on the one hand, and an invasion of privacy on the other. Prof. Beth noted that in the latter no defamation or injury to the reputation need be involved. Moreover, unlike cases of libel and slander, truth is no defense in a case of invasion of privacy and is actually immaterial. A case in point cited by Prof. Beth was that of a garage operator, in Kentucky, who put up a huge sign announcing a debt owed to him by one of his customers. The owner was successfully sued for invasion of privacy, since truth could not be offered as defense.
tion between the fighting in Kasai, the province just north of Katanga, and the recent battle between U.N. and Katangese forces in Tshombe's secessionist area. The only link appeared to be that the withdrawal of U.N. troops from Kasai to Katanga had given the Kasai tribes a chance to revive their perennial feuds.
In a statement prepared last night and issued this morning, Tshombe said:
"I have returned to Elisabethville with the sole purpose of restoring necessary calm and peace in Katanaga and its people. This consists essentially in swift application of (U.N. Secretary General) U Thant's plan without further bloodshed and without useless destruction.
"It follows from this I shall abstain in these circumstances from any declarations against the United Nations."
The Katangese leader had threatened to blow up mining and power installations in his copper-rich province and conduct a guerrilla war against the United Nations.
U.S. Asks Delay In Arms Talks
Informed sources said the United States wants to give the Russians time for reflection, which may enable them to make some move to bridge the comparatively narrow gap on on-site inspection which is all that now separates the positions of the two sides.
It was understood there was considerable opposition to the idea of a postponement, particularly among the eight neutral members of the conference, who feel there should be no let-up in efforts to bring about a nuclear test ban.
It also would give the West time to formulate any new move of its own, which could be presented by the new American negotiator on Feb. 12. Adrian Fisher, deputy head of the arms control and disarmament agency, has been mentioned as a likely candidate for the post as American Chief Negotiator.
GENEVA — (UPI) — The United States has asked for a postponement of the 17-nation disarmament conference from next Monday to Feb. 12 to give the Russians more time to consider how to end the nuclear test ban deadlock, it was learned today.
Conference Selects Duke as Director
Los Angeles — (UPI) — Wayne Duke, assistant to National College Athletic Association Executive Director Walter Beyers, today was named executive director of the Big Eight. Reaves Peters, who has held the Big Eight post since 1947, retires June 39. Duke's appointment was made at the 57th annual NCAA convention by the Big Eight.
were good for an administration victory in the rules fight.
This would be encouraging to the administration. But even so such key Kennedy proposals as a tax cut, social security-financed health care for the aged and federal aid to education still face a hard pull in the new Congress.
The Rules Committee controls the flow of legislation to the House floor. Kennedy has said his legislative program will be virtually dead if the committee returns to its previous 12-man status. This would return control of the group to conservative hands.
THE SHOWDOWN over the Rules Committee was scheduled for late afternoon.
Republican leaders indicated they had rounded up almost solid support against the administration efforts to keep three additional members on the committee. But apparently defections among Democrats in the South, who solidly voted against the expansion two years ago, prompted McCormack and other leaders to predict victory for an enlarged Rules Committee.
Here is the legislative outlook for President Kennedy in the New Congress:
- Taxes — Prospects are uncertain for Kennedy's No. 1 objective; passage this year of a top-to-bottom reduction in individual and corporation income tax rates.
- Medicare — Chances seem a little better than 50-50 that Congress will approve a compromise version of Kennedy's plan to expand social security benefits.
- Education — The outlook is bleak for Kennedy proposals to pump federal aid into elementary and high schools though he may get some of the aid he wants for construction of medical schools and building college classrooms.
- Commuter transportation — Kennedy has a good chance of getting a new program of federal grants to help cities subsidize faster, better rail and bus transportation for suburban commuters.
- Youth employment - Chances are at least 50-50 that Congress will approve some version of Kennedy's program of special job aid for youths.
- Farm — Kennedy will probably gain Congressional approval for a voluntary surplus-curbing plan modeled after the temporary programs enacted for 1961, 1962 and 1963 crops.
- Wilderness — Kennedy probably will not be able to push through his national system of wilderness areas programs.
- Military pay - The 2.6 million members of the nation's armed forces can count on a pay boost this year.
- Urban affairs — Kennedy would be defeated again if he tried to push a new cabinet-level department of urban affairs and housing.
- Foreign aid — The administration fears it will have a tougher battle this year staving off big cuts in the foreign aid program than last year.
- Defense — Kennedy is expected to have little trouble getting a record defense budget approved.