Daily hansan
Thursday, Dec. 13, 1962
The announcement was another in a series of defeats for segregation in Louisiana education. In November 1960 the court-ordered integration of two New Orleans public schools, last September
NEW ORLEANS—(UPI)—Tulane University will begin admitting qualified Negro students in February, the board of administrators announced yesterday.
Court Rule Opens Tulane to Negroes
MERRY CHRISTMAS—Worries about hour exams and term papers were forgotten last night as Kappa Sigma and Delta Gamma held a party for Lawrence children. Here, Dick Jones, Lenexa sophomore, helps one of the youngsters open her gift. This is one of the many parties KU living groups hold for Lawrence children who might otherwise have no Christmas.
church authorities ordered integration of Roman Catholic schools in the 10 Paris New Orleans Diocese.
The decision yesterday drew immediate, outraged reaction from segregation leaders.
THE ANNOUNCEMENT BY the Tulane board of administrators was not unexpected. The board went on record in 1961 as saying qualified students would be admitted without regard for race or color if it was legally possible.
The board referred to an 1884 Louisiana law and the endowment of Paul Tulane, the University's principal benefactor, providing that only white students be admitted. The state law, in effect, merely embodied Tulane's provisions.
ARCH-SEGREGATIONIST leader H. Perez, political boss of Plaquemines Parish (county), was not available for comment last night.
The board's decision was prompted by U.S. district court Judge Frank B. Ellis, ruling on Dec. 5 that Tulane, as a private institution, could not be forced to admit Negro students, but could do so voluntarily on firm legal footing.
Ellis struck down the state law as unconstitutional and said that no court could enforce the provisions of the Tulane endowment.
Mrs. B. J. Gaillot of New Orleans, who with Perez, was excommunicated for opposing desegregation of Roman Catholic schools of the New Orleans Diocese last summer, said:
"It (the decision) makes me sick to my stomach."
Mrs. Gaillot said the effect of the Tulane action was to further deprive her of her constitutional right to equality before the law.
"Give Tulane five years; give New Orleans five years and it will be another Washington, D.C."
"IM BEING DISCRIMINATED against," she said. "I have no place to send my sons to college," referring to the fact that five state colleges and universities and at least one private school have been desegregated to some extent.
There is something sad about a humorist.
That's the impression Bill Vaughan, Kansas City Star humor columnist, conveys.
Ey Rose Osborne
Jokester's Job Is Sober Task
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
A wit who has become well-known for his clever quips on everything from wifes to kings, Vauchan said he produces about eight columns a week.
"My friends realize that the I in my columns isn't the I that is me," Vaughan said.
Being funny is serious business when praise takes the form of a paycheck. Or so one would believe after talking with this sad-faced little man.
LIKE THE ARTIST who must paint a picture to express himself, the Vaughan so fluent in print is reserved in public.
"OF COURSE, you will always find some newspaper up in Vermont who has carried the same column since 1810 written by the same person." he said sounding like one of his columns.
"Once I called King Farouk 'fatso.' Later I received a letter from a woman who said I had no right to criticize King Farouk who had done more for Egypt than I had ever done," he quipped.
VAUGHAN SAID he never makes it a practice to write about his own family. He prefers to poke fun at celeb- ties and political figures.
"You have to be thick-skinned in this business and you have to have a second wind. Anyone could write a column better than mine for two weeks."
"Wives are always a good topic." he explained. As long as you write about someone else's.
One of the most widely-read is "Starbeams" which he claims is one of the oldest columns in the United States. He explained that no one had ever doubted this statement.
He told how he had once began a column "many a wife." Through some error in the printshop it came out "my wife," he said.
He explained that the important thing is learning to grind out a column every day.
60th Year. No. 60
Top Stories of '62 Reviewed by Kansan
The Daily Kansan's annual yearend review appears in this issue. The top stories and personalities of 1662 are ranked and analyzed in articles appearing on pages 2 through 5.
Rights Council To Work Alone On Tavern Issue
The Civil Rights Council (CRC) decided last night it will work to resolve the tavern issue- with or without the assistance of the Law- erence Human Rights Commission.
WARNER SAID Lawrence Commission members would be asked to join CRC members in calls upon tavern owners, but if Commission members were not available then the CRC would proceed on its own.
Don Warner, Topeka senior and CRC chairman, said his Council would begin negotiating with tavern owners whom the CCR has found discriminating on racial grounds.
James E. Titus, assistant professor of political science and chairman of the Lawrence Commission, said in a telephone interview last night that
The Civil Rights Council will sponsor a film on freedom rides at 7:30 tonight in Fraser Hall. Gene Tournour, regional representative of the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE), will lead a discussion after the showing.
"The CRC is free to do what ever it wishes and we are interested in working with them." he added.
he would be "glad to participate" in the CRC effort.
"The Lawrence Human Rights Commission has always been interested in negotiating" Prof. Titus said.
The KU CRC and the Lawrence Commission—along with the All
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The biggest issues in the next Kansas legislature will be reapportionment, school district reorganization and unification, liquor laws, and the Eurich report.
This was the opinion of Alvin McCoy, Kansas correspondent and legislative specialist for the Kansas City Star, expressed yesterday at the Faculty Forum.
Reporter Forecasts Active Legislature
McCoy, a Pulitzer Prize winner, said the Kansas legislature will probably reapportion itself voluntarily, because of a district court ruling last year that the Senate was invalid. As a result, every act passed by the Senate could be declared illegal.
Rope vs. Chair Debate Short
Alvin McCoy, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Kansas City Star, said at a Faculty Forum yesterday he doubted the issue of capital punishment would come up in the legislature, despite some adverse sentiment over the execution of Lowell Lee Andrews.
"For years, through the 20's," McCoy said, "Kansas did not have a provision for capital punishment, for all practical purposes.
"The governor had to sign the execution order, and governors did not like to take such a step."
Then came the brutal slaying of a young girl in western Kansas, McCoy said, and the farmers marched on Topeka determined to get a statutory provision for capital punishment.
A member of a committee studying the bill providing for capital punishment advised that the committee made extensive studies, and decided the most humane way to take a human life was by electrocution.
"The NORMAL reaction to reapportionment by Kansas politicians would be to go bury it somewhere." McCoy said. But unless
But one farmer stood up and wrecked the committee's entire report with three words, McCoy said.
"Gentlemen," the farmer said, "hangin's cheaper."
Note From Grid Critic Have a Whisky, Fans
KU's critic-in-residence of intercollegiate athletics is still on the job.
Prof. L.R.C. Agnew's latest remarks were made yesterday at the Minority Opinion Forum. They included criticisms of athletic scholarships, which he described as "nonsensical and undemocratic," and of university chancellors who are "afraid to rock the boat."
And for those who were despondent after the KU football team's decisive loss to the University of Nebraska last month, he had this advice:
"FOR GOODNESS SAKES, go have a stiff whisky and forget about it."
Prof. Agnew, chairman of the medical history department, has been a persistent foe of KU's role in intercollegiate sports. During the football season two of his strongly worded letters on the subject were published in the Lawrence Journal-World.
At yesterday's meeting he said KU students should manage inter-collegiate athletics and that the University should stop awarding grants to promising high school athletes.
"Athletic scholarships should have no part in an institution of higher learning. I don't think athletes should be subsidized," he said.
"IT WORKS IN ENGLAND."
As justification for his suggestion that students should run col legiate athletics, Prof. Agnew remarked:
Describing athletes as "verbal buttons" the coach pushes into the game with instructions, Prof. Agnew said team captains—not coaches—should call the plays.
"This is where true leadership is built." he said.
Regarding his proposal that athletic grants be abolished, Prof. Agnew said the change could be made easily by a "gentlemen's agreement."
"Id like to see the chancellors of the Big Eight and Big Ten universities getting together" to do this, he said.
"BUT I THINK THEY are afraid to rock the boat."
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the Senate is reapportioned, "there will be a foot race to the courts to see who can file a complaint first."
As an example of Senate misapportionment, McCoy cited a senator from the Mitchell-Jewell county district, who represents 16,000 persons, while a senator from Wichita represents 330,000 people.
The proposal backed by the hotel owners, to allow serving liquor by the drink, should be interesting to watch, McCoy said.
"If the issue were submitted to the people, it might pass, since the cities would probably vote for it." But since the legislature is not properly apportioned now, he added, it is doubtful that the measure will pass.
"If there is too much trouble the bill will die."
McCOY PREDICTED that the controversy stirred up by the Eurich report will not be solved in the legislature. "The legislature does not like to settle quarrels," he said.
He said the legislative committee that rejected the much-debated report was afraid of the massive Wichita vote, and many members of the committee left the room when the vote was taken.
But he said he doubted WU would be taken into the state system as a competing university. It might be admitted on some compromise basis, he added.
IF WICHITA is admitted into the state system it will cost the state about three million dollars a year. That extra cost might keep Wichita out, McCoy said.
Another question that probably will take a lot of time at the next session of the legislature is that of education and state aid to schools, McCoy said.
He said the state provides about 25 per cent of the financial support for primary and secondary schools, but that some way to provide equitable distribution of state aid is yet to be worked out.
Boeing Engineers Visit K.U. Facilities
Chief engineer for the Boeing Company in Wichita, J. J. Clark and five engineers from his staff will visit the KU Center for Research in Engineering and Architecture tomorrow.
The Boeing engineers will confer with KU faculty and check on research and educational programs and facilities. Dean John S. McNown of the School of Engineering and Architecture will be host at an informal luncheon.
Weather
Kansas skies cleared early today and temperatures were 20 degrees warmer than yesterday morning. The warming trend developed in western Kansas yesterday, spread over the state during the night, and will continue through tonight. Tomorrow the warming is expected to level off, as another push of cold air is expected for the North Plains. The high today was expected around 40 with the low tonight expected around 20.