Daily hansan
60th Year, No.41
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, Nov. 9, 1962
ANYTHING FOR PUBLICITY—Dressed in flapper-era dresses, three sophomores, Ka Estes, Lubbock, Tex., Dede Allen, Lawrence, and Jan Kayden, Ocean Springs, Miss., are part of a group
of girls 23-skiddooing around the campus on the theory that a bare knee and a sauce wink will draw KU males out for the Homecoming dance.
Students Forget Studies, Labor Over Decorations
Books, slide rules and typewriters were abandoned last night as homecoming decorations began to take shape on the KU campus.
Students were knuckling down last night, but the "midnight oil" was burning on the front lawns instead of through the windows.
At one house, a giant ear of corn and a giant box stood alone in the yard. A giant black and silver bowl sat apart from them. An hour later
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the giant bowl had joined the giant corn and box.
Hashinger women had to call "Help" when a co-operative agreement with Carruth-O'Leary fell through. Four construction workers from neighboring Ellsworth Hall loaned the women a scaffold to get a huge Jayhawk atop the dormitory's canopy.
Almost before the men were through giving advice, they were helping on the project while Hashinger women brought them food.
At Joseph R. Pearson, men curried about under a 20-foot green giant singing "welcome to the valley."
At a women's hall, women stood warming their hands on cocoa mugs while two or three men struggled with a large sign.
But at other houses, yards usually lit up with floodlights at this time, were only glowing from the light from many windows.
But then, with the many other activities offered, perhaps it is best the thousands of alums do not spend too much time looking at decorations.
Alums arriving early can hear a carillon recital at 6:30 tonight by Ronald Barnes.
Weather
It will be fair and warmer today, with highs expected to be in the 50s. The low tonight will be near 30. Temperatures tomorrow are expected to reach into the upper 50s.
A varsity-freshman basketball game will follow at 7 p.m. in Allen Field House. Hugh Miller, English actor, will present a dramatic recital, "Bare Boards and a Passion," also at 7 p.m. today in Swarthout Recital Hall.
The University Theatre will give alumni priority for tickets to "Paint Your Wagon" at 8:30 p.m. Saturday. The German movie "Rosemary" will be shown at the same time Saturday night in Hoch Auditorium.
Free bus tours of the campus will leave from the Kansas Union Saturday morning. A Union Homecoming reception will begin at 9:30 Saturday morning.
The Department of Home Economics in Fraser Hall, The School of Law in Green Hall, and the School of Business in Summerfield Hall will hold open house Saturday morning. Many living units will hold alumni teas after the game Saturday afternoon.
The Homecoming dance, featuring Warren Durret and his band, will also begin at 8 p.m. in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union.
At game halftime, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe will crown the Homecoming queen, Barbara Schmidt, Kansas City senior.
A concert by Miriam Makeba,
South African folk singer, will close
the evening with a concert at 11:30-
12:30 p.m. in Hoch Auditorium.
Roy Laird, assistant professor of political science, will discuss civil rights at today's SUA Current Events Forum in the Kansas Union.
Civil Rights Topic Of Forum in Union
The forum begins at 4 p.m. in the Music Room.
'Accented' Tragedy Comes Here Tonight
Greek tragedy with a British accent will be part of a one-man recital at 7 tonight in Swarthout Recital Hall.
Hugh Miller, distinguished British actor and senior director of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, will present a variety of readings ranging from Greek tragedy to modern comedy in a program entitled "Bare Boards and a Passion."
After early training in classical repertoires in England, Miller became a member of Sir Barry Jackson's Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company. He has played hundreds of roles, mainly in the London theatre, from Shakespeare to Sacha Guitry.
In addition to his acting fame, he has directed more than 20 plays, including several original works. He produced, for the first time in London, his own adaptation of Tolstoy's "The Fruits of Enlightenment," currently one of Moscow's great successes.
Regents Receive State School Plan
WICHITA—(UPI)-Sidney Brick, chairman of the University of Wichita Board of Regents, said today he never was consulted about the report which would reduce the institution's status from that of a University to a college.
The state Board of Regents adopted the report, prepared by a group of national educational experts by a unanimous vote today.
BULLETIN
TOPEKA—(UPI)The state Board of Regents today approved an educational report recommending a sweeping revision of the higher education system in Kansas.
The regents voted unanimously to accept the report submitted by a panel of leading national experts who have been studying Kansas colleges and universities for the past year.
In that statement, Malik charged P-t-P with "artificiality" in creating friendships among foreign and American students. He said he was speaking as a KU student, not a foreign student.
Last night, however, Malik modified his statement.
Foreign Student Modifies Stand On P-T-P Charge
Regents' chairman Clyde Reed of Parsons expressed the board's sincere appreciation to the educators for their report, and the regents passed a resolution that the report be accepted unanimously for
By Trudy Meserve
A Pakistani graduate student last night held out an olive branch to the KU People-to-People organization.
"PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE," he said, "should be commended rather than criticized for a tremendous job in creating international understanding on the campus."
Rab Malik, the student, said his statement in yesterday's Kansan reflects no ill will or hostility toward the P-t-P program.
Malik said many misunderstandings among American and foreign students have been lessened since P-t-P began at KU last year.
"However," he said, "I believe friendship cannot be created on an organizational basis. It must come from within."
Malik used the P-t-P brother-sister program as an example.
"A FOREIGN STUDENT is suddenly introduced to his American brother," he said. "They are told to be nice to each other. However, the two may be completely incompatible.
"But the American student and the foreign student continue the relationship simply out of duty.
"P-t-P is constantly seeking ways to be more effective. P-t-P at KU involves every student on the campus. It is open for students' ideas which would strengthen the program," he said.
Last night, Reuben McCornack. Abilene junior and co-chairman of KU P-t-P said his organization appreciates Malik's criticism.
People-to-People was created to promote increased understanding among international students and
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The panel, headed by Prof. Alvin C. Eurich, vice-president of the Fund for the Advancement of Education, was retained by the Board of Regents in January, 1962, to make a study of the state's higher education system and to present recommendations to the board.
implementation in the Kansas system.
ONE OF THE major recommendations was that the University of Wichita be taken into the state school system and reduced from university status. It would become a joint branch of the University of Kansas and Kansas State University.
Eurich said Wichita U. would be governed by a board composed of top administrators from KU and K-State and would draw on the faculties of the two universities. Wichita U. would have one representative on its governing board.
The Board of Regents would then have authority over the lesser board in turn.
A two-year technical school would be added to the curriculum at the proposed "state universities center at Wichita." Such a school would produce electricians, mechanical engineering assistants and other technical graduates for the benefit of Wichita's industries.
The universities center would not grant its own diplomas. The diplomas would be from the University of Kansas or Kansas State University, depending on what course the student followed.
ON ANOTHER SUBJECT, the panel recommended Kansas colleges switch to the 11-month tri-semester year in order to make full use of existing buildings and faculty.
Under the tri-semester plan an average student could be graduated with his bachelor's degree in three years.
And as the college population booms, Dr. Eurich and the panel recommend existing classrooms and labs be used from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. weekdays and from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays.
The panel recommended that a statewide educational television network be instituted.
Prof. Eurich said the panel was recommending such sweeping revisions based on an expected tripling of the college population in Kansas in the next 20 years.
THE EDUCATORS ALSO recommended considerable revision of the junior college system in hope that more students would take their first two years of college work closer to home.
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Templin Men Find Fire Break Fun
Bv Roy Miller
"Somebody said 'Hey, let's put it up on the curb.' So we did."
That, according to an onlooker, is how a mild epidemic of "car jostling" by Templin Hall residents in front of Lewis Hall started last night.
It all began about 8 p.m., when a minor fire in a Templin trash chute sent Templin men pouring into the street between the two dormitories.
Before the men finally returned to their rooms, a group of them had:
- Carried a compact car from a Lewis loading zone to the sidewalk in front of the women's dormitory.
- Stopped and jostled a car leaving the Lewis parking lot.
- Lifted a wheel of a Campus Police patrol car from the street onto the curb.
Amid the excitement, workers in front of Templin, Lewis and nearby Hashinger Hall calmly continued to work on Homecoming decorations.
AS THE TEMPLIN MEN evacuated their dormitory, some headed immediately toward Lewis, onlookers said. The group at one time totaled 150-200, according to some estimates by others. The men stopped in front of the compact car
in the loading zone.
"There were 100 or so guys over there," one participant told a reporter. "But only 15-20 girls picked it up."
"About tipped it over," another interjected.
As the group milled back toward Templin, they stopped a late-modsl car at the Lewis parking lot exit.
"THAT CAR just came through" the participant said. "Hey, let's lift it up," one guy said. Five or xx
"Then." the first man continued, "everybody turned and ran when they saw what they'd done."
guys started to grab it, pushing it up and down, when, all of a sudden, somebody suggested they leave it alone."
They did.
After the car left, the Campus Police patrol car arrived.
The men started toward the car but stopped short of it. When the patrolman walked away they attempted to put the automobile on the curb but stopped when he started to return.
A few minutes later, however, the group, then totaling 15-20 men, put the patrol vehicle's rear wheel on the curb — and left hurriedly.