Disciplinary Woes Vex KU Leaders
Social and disciplinary problems are getting out of hand at KU.
Social and disciplinary problems are getting out of hand at KU. Student leaders were told this yesterday at a special meeting of the Deans' Advisory Council, called to discuss the increase of campus drinking, theft and vandalism.
Jerry Dickson, Newton senior and student body president, said there is a feeling within the administration that social events are becoming unmanagable.
Dickson said later he wanted house leaders to discuss these problems openly, with the assumption they would in turn start discussions within their own living groups.
William Schaefer, Shawnee Mission senior, said the administration has received several letters from Kansas people criticizing excessive drinking and irresponsible behavior.
GEORGE HAHM, Scotch Plains, N.J., senior, added that there has been an increase over last year in practical pranks and damage to the campus and Lawrence.
The student leaders cited barn parties and apartment parties as activities which they feel foster disciplinary problems.
Richard Keller, Bartlesville senior and All Student Council social
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chairman, said 70 barn parties have been registered with the social committee this year.
Friday, Nov. 30, 1962
"Contrary to last year, however, there has been very few registration of woodsies," he added.
SCHAEFER SAID he did not think it was a question of passing moral judgment on barn parties as to whether they were "good or bad."
Several women students expressed concern about a few freshmen women who return intoxicated to their dormitories after harm parties.
"The freshman is unable to sensibly evaluate things like drinking," one student leader pointed out.
He indicated that perhaps because of this "image," the freshman class had 450 less students this year than last year.
STUDENT LEADERS AGREED there should be more positive leadership within the living groups.
"If we don't do something about this problem, the administration will step in," a residence hall president said.
He cited an example within his own hall, where six residents were placed on disciplinary probation.
Larry Borcherding, Kansas City, Mo., senior and Delta Chi president, suggested an educational approach
"THE WEEK BEFORE two large barn parties, we held house and executive meetings to inform members what it would mean to us if there were any problems," he said.
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YD Confusion Fogs Presidency
Things are really confused now. The president of the KU Young Democrats has said that the president of the KU Young Democrats is guilty of the same election irregularities with which the president of the KU Young Democrats has been charged.
Barry Bennington, Chenev senior, said last night that Pete Aylward, Ellsworth senior, also was implicated in the improper issuance of YD membership cards before the disputed Young Democrat election of March 14.
BENNINGTON AND some officers of the club have said it may be necessary for members to vote again to settle the issue.
Bennington was elected president at that time, but Aylward contends that he was elected president of the KU YD's at a special meeting March 28.
"I am not saying that I should be recognized as president, but Pete shouldn't," Bennington said last night.
"There should be a new election shortly to get this whole mess straightened up," he said.
An "arbitration" was held March 23 to determine if there had been improper conduct March 14 in connection with the issuance of credentials to vote for the state YD convention delegates.
CHARLES OLDFATHER, professor of law, was asked by Dan Hopson, Jr., associate professor of law and faculty adviser for the Young Democrats, to be the arbitrator.
Since Prof. Oldfather found irregularities, Prof. Hopson refused to approve the delegates elected to attend the state YD convention.
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Student Speaker Raps Apathy
"I admit many of the world's events will not
A Parsons junior last night urged KU students to form opinions and stand for something.
Alan Gribben, the student, won the 38th annual Campus Problems speaking contest with his speech. "Indifference Incorporated."
"WHEN WE CAME to the University," Gribben said, "we accepted an unwritten obligation, a code of responsibility. As we are educated, we are simultaneously becoming influential.
"The one word should not be confused with the other," he said.
"Apathy likes company. On our campus, it has many stockholders.
Gribben distinguished between apathy and security.
"This process carries with it the obligation that the educated must stand for something.
"I panic when I see indifference on this campus."
Gribben urged KU students to speak out on issues such as integration, nuclear testing and juvenile delinquency.
"SECURITY COMES WITH the peace of mind you have when you have made your position clear on ethical, moral, political and social questions of the day."
60th Year, No. 51
With a jaunty, almost jovial expression on his face, Lowell Lee Andrews, a condemned killer of three, is shown here en route to Leavenworth County District Court in November, 1961.
be decided on Jayhawk Boulevard," he said. "Thanks to our geography, the conflicts of integration do not spill blood around the statue of Jimmy Green."
Lowell Lee Andrews Meets Death on Gallows
"I, too, have graduated from high school into this veritable wonderland of fraternities, sororities, Cwens, AWS, campus elections and senior sweatshirts," he said.
Gribben added that the local Junior Jaycees have never hampered KU with a replica of the Berlin wall across campus.
"I HAVE EVEN BECOME ADJUSTED to the sight of gunny-sacked freshman dollies dancing absurdly atop our information booth about SUA Carnival time," he said.
"But KU cannot afford apathy. It remains for us to contribute strong impressions on our society. Sometimes, we will be wrong, but, we, at least, stand for something."
Analee Burns, Aurora, Colo., sophomore, placed second in the contest with her speech, "Western Civ—What Now?" James Fox, Lawrence senior, who spoke on the "Position of the Independent Student at KU" was third in the all-student competition.
"WHEN ALL OPINIONS are vigorously expressed, this builds strong and healthy civilizations. But the first step is for us to have opinions."
By Byron Klapper
EDITOR'S NOTE: Byron Klapper, Leavenworth sophomore, was one of several newsmen who were at the Kansas State Penitentiary between midnight and 1:45 a.m. today during the execution of Lowell Lee Andrews.
Lowell Lee Andrews was indifferent when he died this morning. At least he acted like it.
Ever since his conviction in December 1959 for murder of his father, mother and sister, Andrews was indifferent.
He was the same today as he died quickly and quietly on the Kansas Penitentiary gallows.
CLAD IN PRISON DENIMS, handcuffs, and a leather harness around his back and chest, the former KU sophomore made his last march from the death house, around the prison baseball field, and
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into a warehouse where the gallows stood ready. Flanked by guards and two clergymen, the condemned 22-year-old inhaled the fresh night air during his brief walk under a clear, dark sky.
The group, preceded by Deputy Warden Kenneth Harton, entered the large, unheated room as about 19 guards, newsmen, and witnesses watched. They halted in front of the wooden gallows. Warden Sherman Crouse read aloud the execution order and then asked Andrews if he had any last words.
"No, I don't believe so," came the answer.
"YOU HAVE NO last requests?" the warden said.
A slight smile crossed Andrews' lips, a hesitation, and then a final "No."
Andrews was escorted up the 13 steps onto the black trap door. The gallows stood below a naked lightbulb. Beneath the trap door a two-foot hole had been hollowed out of the concrete and lined with sawdust.
Andrews' feet were quickly bound with a strand of leather. The Rev. James Post, Protestant chaplain, removed Andrews' horn-rimmed glasses and a black face mask was slipped over his head.
With military precision the noose was tightened behind Andrews' left ear and at 12:21 a.m. the trap door was sprung.
THEN WITH a "thud" it appeared to be all over.
Dr. Robert Moore, prison physician, made five examinations of Andrews' heart with his stethoscope. At 12:39 a.m. he was pronounced dead.
Andrews was permitted to invite three witnesses but had waived that privilege. There were no members of his family present. Outside the warehouse, an ambulance waited to take the body to a Leavenworth funeral home where it would be claimed by unidentified relatives.
The penitentiary was dark and quiet as the witnesses filed out of the storage room toward the prison's main gate. A few inmates could be seen watching the procession from behind their barred windows in the cell blocks above.
ABOUT SEVEN HOURS EARLIER, Andrews sat in his death row cell eating his last meal: two fried chickens, french fried potatoes, ketchup, lettuce chunks, cokes and vanilla ice cream with strawberries. He smoked several cigars.
After the meal he was visited by Rev. Post, and was joined at about 10:30 p.m. by Father Dennis Sculley, Catholic prison chaplain. Both clergymen remained with the condemned man until the execution.
Andrews' execution, only the 29th in over a century in Kansas, ended a four-year battle in court which took his case twice to the U.S. Supreme Court, twice to the Kansas supreme court, once to a U.S. circuit judge, twice to U.S. district judges, twice to Gov. Anderson and once to a state district court.
Andrews was a pudgy 18-year-old zoology student here on Thanksgiving, 1958, when he killed his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William L. Andrews, and 20-year-old sister Jennie Marie who was also home from college for the holidays.
HE DROVE BACK to Lawrence, took in a movie and later returned to "discover" the ransacked home and the bodies of his family.
Shortly afterward the family minister coaxed the youth into confessing the killings, which he said he committed to gain an inheritance consisting of the 250-acre family farm and a savings account of $1,600.
In appeal after appeal Andrews' attorneys charged that the preacher's part in gaining the confession was coercion, and that Andrews was actually insane at the time of the killings and at the time he confessed.
But a three-man sanity commission judged the youth was legally sane at the time of the killings, and every court which granted a hearing rejected the contentions.
The file of the State of Kansas vs. Lowell Lee Andrews is closed.