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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Nov. 30, 1962
Barn Party Boom Object Of Concern
The current bumper crop of KU barn parties may be getting out of hand.
That was the consensus of opinion at a Dean's Advisory Council meeting held yesterday. Present were the presidents of KU's organized living groups.
- Are giving the University a bad "image."
- The frequent barn parties, the group decided
- Are wearing out KU women.
More than 70 of the parties have been held so far this year—and more are scheduled to come, Richard Keeler, Bartlesville, Okla., senior and chairman of the All Student Council social committee, told the group.
He added that several Lawrence residents owning barns are busily readyving them for still more parties to be held this winter.
Some of the student leaders at the meeting said the parties are giving the University a bad name, and remarked that University officials look upon them with disfavor.
THEY REPORTED THAT letters of protest have been received by University officials from parents of high school seniors who attended the parties while visiting the campus, and from alumni members protesting excessive drinking at the parties.
members professing executive office. Ruth James, Kansas City, Mo., senior and vice-president of the Panhellenic Council, and Sherri Dobbins, Lawrence senior and president of Delta Gamma, brought up another point.
KU women are getting tired of the parties, they said. They reported that some women have attended as many as two barn parties a week during this semester.
ALTERNATIVES TO THE PARTIES were suggested during the meeting. One was that informal parties with the dress being school attire be substituted for the more informal barn parties.
"The mode of dress affects a girl's behavior," one sorority president said.
Another alternative, formals, was suggested. Dave Gough, Chanute senior, opposed this, saying that many men must rent tuxedoes at expensive rental fees.
He also explained that Lawrence is limited in establishments that offer entertainment. There are only three establishments where dancing is permitted and in each the area is limited.
Another form of entertainment, journeying to Kansas City, was deemed too expensive for the tab-bearing male. In the end, the council arrived at no specific solution to the problem.
The presidents did decide, however, to notify students of the severity of excessive drinking and to encourage the individual houses to hold different types of parties.
This must be done, the group decided, or the administration will step in, and in such case the penalties could be serious.
Goldwater Backs J.F.K. Tough Policy
JACKSON, Miss. — (UPI) — Sen.
Barry M. Goldwater, R-Ariz., said
last night he hopes President Kennedy
will not heed the advice of
"those weaklings around him" and
back down from his firm foreign
policy.
policy.
Now that Kennedy is "finally on the right track," said Goldwater, "I hope he will not slip with the errors that marked the first two years of his administration.
Goldwater told around 1,400 persons attending a $100-a-plate, Republican fund-raising dinner that the GOP is making tremendous gains in the South because of the "invasion of states rights by the New Deal, Fair Deal and New Frontier."
But he did not base his plea for a two-party system in Dixie on segregation. He said new Republican strength in the South could be attributed to the states' rights issue and not the integration controversy. At another point, he said the nation's survival transcends "any sectional issue."
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Architecture to be Debated
IMPRISONED LOVE—Members of Tau Sigma, honorary dance fraternity, rehearse for a dance drama, "Bird and Song or the Tragedy of Imprisoned Love," to be presented at 8 p.m. Dec. 11, 12 at Central Junior High School. Dancers are Benny Crawford, Wichita senior; Mary Messenheimer, Minneapolis, Minn., freshman; Ron Seney, Kansas City freshman; and Dee Wooldridge, Des Moines, Iowa, senior.
KU students will have the chance to hear two professors of architecture and a Kansas City architect discuss "campus architecture in general and KU architecture in particular" at the Humanities Forum at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
Eugene George, professor of architecture and new chairman of the department; Curtis Besinger, associate professor of architecture, and Ted Seligson, of Kansas City, will compose the panel. Prof. George and Mr. Seligson have prepared special pictures for the discussion
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Prof. George, who studied at Harvard, came to KU this year from the University of Texas. He had his own architectural office in Austin, Texas, in addition to his classes.
Prof. Besinger, who teaches architectural theory and design, worked with Frank Lloyd Wright for 16 years. He is consultant for "House Beautiful" magazine in addition to his classes.
Mr. Seligson recently completed a tour of campuses in the Northeast-particularly Harvard, Yale and MLT—where he studied the latest developments in campus architecture.
Anti-Castro Cuban Will Talk at KU
The former Cuban ambassador to Great Britain who was forced to defect after condemning the Castro regime will speak here January 23.
Serrie Rojas is being sponsored by the Current Events Committee of the All Student Council. The public is invited to the talk, which will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Fraser Theater.
Rojas' arrest was ordered after he declared he would not serve under a Communist government.
An economist by profession, Rojas is presently working on confidential matters in Washington.
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