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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Dec. 13. 1962
'Socialist' Charges Voted Top Campus News Story
By Scott Payne and Margaret Cathcart
Most KU students still were resting up for spring semester when the biggest 1562 campus news story began to break in Topeka.
It was there, on Jan. 23, that state Sen. Ford Harbaugh, R-Wellington, told the Senate budget session that socialism was being taught at KU.
He cited as evidence:
The 1961 appearance of Edward Shaw, a "Fair Play for Cuba" speaker brought here by students.
- The University's 1961 censure of the showing of "Operation Abolition" - an anti-Communist film distributed by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
- Accusations in 1961 by two former students, Scott Stanley, Bethel, and Charles McIlwaine, Hutchinson, that economics and political science department faculty members were teaching socialism.
Then, shortly after the semester began, the KU Young Americans for Freedom chapter jammed its oar into the picture. YAF decided to clear the issue by polling the faculty of the two departments to determine their political leanings.
Most of the faculty refused to cooperate with the young conservatives. It was never learned how socialistic the economics and political science departments were.
LESS THAN a week after YAF announced the poll, students were able to confront a second man who had accused the University of socialistic practices. He was Kenneth Myers, John Birch member of the Patrick Henry American Legion Post, Wichita, who in December of 1862 demanded an investigation of KU's World Chrisis Day.
The second biggest campus story for the year was the racial discrimination issue. The controversial Civil Rights Council early last semester announced that it would fight for removal of discriminatory clauses from fraternity and sorority constitutions.
The existence of the clauses was
pointed up in a Daily Kansan investigative series of articles.
The CRC requested that Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe expel within three years fraternities or sororites that had such clauses in their national constitutions.
THE CHANCELLOR declined to take this action, saying that the initiative must come from within the groups. Tempers flared and exchanges over the issue became bitter.
The controversy, however, may not have been in vain. Sources indicate that at least two KU fraternities initiated action to remove the clauses at their summer national conventions. It is believed their efforts, in both cases, failed only by narrow margins.
Third on the list of big campus stories was the announcement that a KU landmark—its oldest building, Fraser Hall—will be replaced in the next three years by a $1,630,000 successor.
THE STORY that took fourth place for 1962 was the KU Young Democrats muddle. Barry Bennington, Cheney senior, was elected president Mar. 14, but Peter Aylward, Elsworth senior, his opponent, challenged the election. In a second election, the YD's elected Aylward. It was then Bennington's turn to cry "fraud."
The fifth biggest campus story was the reorganization of the University's administration. The Board of Regents in May changed the titles of four administrators and realigned some of their duties.
The new positions are: vice chancellor for institutional planning, George B. Smith, former dean of the University; vice chancellor of finance, Raymond Nichols, former executive secretary of the University; vice chancellor for operations, Keith Lawton, former administrative assistant to the Chancellor; and vice chancellor and dean of faculties, James R. Surface, former dean of the School of Business.
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(continued from page 2) the three TV networks to obtain the astronaut's future services. The result was "Sixty Hours to the Moon," in which Glenn went to bat for the U.S. space effort and its drive to recruit space scientists.
Another significant first in both space and TV came when the Telstar satellite was launched to become an instrument of international communication. Not only was Europe able to view U.S. news first-hand, but Americans were able to watch events taking place in Rome, Vienna, Paris, and Belgrade.
Moving from space achievements to sports, the network producers found that television golf occupied one of the hottest spots on the air. This, according to one golf expert, probably has been the biggest factor in the increasing popularity of the game.
The situation comedies, defined as programs in which no one sings and no one dies, again tried to live up to their supreme law which states that all characters must be believable. American TV entertainment did face some criticism from Tokyo, however, as the official communist newspaper there
analyzed the media programming in the following ways: crime shows such as "The Untouchables" were aimed at promoting anti-communist thinking, situation comedies like "Father Knows Best" strove to propagandize the American way of life, and "Rawhide," representing the westerns, was designed to exalt white supremacy.
REGARDLESS of foreign criticism, 50 million Americans seemed to enjoy not only the comedies and westerns but also the coverage of the Miss America pageant and Miss Universe beauty pageant. In fact, these two proved so successful that CBS added a Miss Teen-age America coronation.
As one of the large year-end projects, the three networks again made an effort to top one another in November when the elections meant headlines. All three spent more time and money than ever before attempting to beat each other to the screen with the returns.
ball stories ranked sixth on campus. Bert Coan's collegiate football career ended Feb. 28 when the KU Senate Committee on Eligibility for Student Activities ruled Coan ineligible to play for KU in the fall of '62. The committee ruling came as a result of Coan's trip to San Diego, Calif., to visit the Chargers, a professional football team. Gale Sayers made headlines when he came within four yards of tieing KU's season rushing record with 1,125 yards.
The final word as the fall season's programming took over was that the future calls for newseasts with greater immediacy, dramas that are more ambitious, and documentaries that are more enlightening.
Action was the seventh most important story, Action, the third political party proposed during the spring semester, never was recognized as a full-fledged campus political party.
The Rock Chalk skit scandal gained the eighth position, Kappa Sigma and Delta Delta Delta did not lose their trophy although their "Medium Rare" skit was partially plagiarized. The KU-Y cabinet did not penalize the first-place skit, because it decided at least half of the Kappa Sigma-Delta Delta Delta skit was original.
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When you think of Christmas gifts you naturally think of Marlboro cigarettes, leading seller in flip-top box in all fifty states—and if we annex Wales, in all fifty-one—and if we annex Lapland—in all fifty-two. This talk about annexing Wales and Lapland is, incidentally, not just idle speculation. Great Britain wants to trade Wales to the United States for a desert. Great Britain needs a desert desperately on account of the tourist trade. Tourists are always coming up to the Prime Minister or the Lord Privy Seal or like that and saying, "I'm not knocking your country, mind you. It's very quaint and picturesque, etc. what with Buckingham Palace and Bowril and Scotland Yard, etc., but where's your desert?" (Before I forget, let me point out that Scotland Yard, Britain's plain-clothes police branch, was named after Wally Scotland and Fred Yard who invented plain clothes. The American plain-clothes force is called the FBI after Frank B. Inchelcliff, who invented fingerprints. Before Mr. Inchelcliff's invention, everybody's fingers were absolutely glassy smooth. This, as you may imagine, played hob with the identification of newborn babies in hospitals. From 1791 until 1904 no American parent
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But I digress. England, I was saying, wants to trade Wales for a desert. Sweden wants to trade Lapland for Frank B. Incheliff. The reason is that Swedes to this day still don't have fingerprints. As a result, identification of babies in Swedish hospitals is so haphazard that Swedes flatly refuse to bring their babies home. There are, at present, nearly a half-billion unclaimed babies in Swedish hospitals—some of them well over eighty years old.
ever brought home the right baby from the hospital. This later became known as the Black Tom Explosion.)
There are, of course, other things you can give for Christmas besides Marlboro cigarettes. If, for example, you are looking for something to give a music lover, let me call to your attention a revolutionary new development in phonographs—the Low-fi phonograph. The Low-fi, product of years of patient research, has so little fidelity to the record you put on it that if, for instance, you put "Stardust" on the turntable, "Melancholy Baby" will come out. This is an especially welcome gift for people who have grown tired of "Stardust".
But I digress. We were speaking of Christmas gifts which naturally put us in mind of Marlboro cigarettes. What could be more welcome at Christmas time than Marlboro's flavor, Marlboro's soft pack, Marlboro's flip-top box? What indeed would be more welcome at any time of year—winter or summer, rain or shine, night or day? Any time, any season, when you light a Marlboro you can always be certain that you will get the same mild, flavorful, completely comfortable smoke.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.
© 1962 Max Shulman
The makers of Marlboro cigarettes, who take pleasure in bringing you this column throughout the school year, wish to join old Max in extending greetings of the Season.
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