Daily hansan
Let's face it. People just don't get too excited about Halloween anymore.
We're not suggesting that every witch on campus grab her broom and make a protest march up Jayhawk Boulevard. But remember the good old days when no respectable witch would risk missing the all-University Halloween costume party.
Wednesday, Oct. 31, 1962
By Rose Osborne
WHAT HAPPENS today? Modern Hazel simply steps over to her housemother's broom closet, selects the latest thing in broomery and trudges over to a private get-together where the only pumpkin she'll see will be in the pie.
SPYING ON SPOOKS—Kathy Elliott, Topeka sophomore, appears to be searching the traditional Halloween pumpkin for goblins as the night of black cats and witches approaches.
Spook Void Leaves KU Halloween Hollow
Remember when campus police had to bolt down everything but the Campanile? Things would turn up in the oddest place. Like one night in the forties when one sorority found a "men at work" sign on their door, while another house discovered that all the cars in the parking lot bore "For Sale" signs.
One student suggested the real reason might be economical. Because KU raised dormitory rates last fall, students can't afford to buy an extra bar to soak windows.
CAMPUS POLICE say there have been no incidents for years. An officer suggested that either student maturity was awfully high or grades terribly low.
A fellow could always borrow a buddy's bedsheet and join the general run of trick-or-treaters, he suggested. Stouffer residents complain the trick-or-treaters get bigger every year. One married student said he sometimes had difficulty telling father from son.
BUT DESPITE a lack of Halloween spirits, KU has always had its share of practical jokers.
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
A junior woman recalls the night a student wearing rabbit ears darted out from behind a bookshelf in Watson Library and jumped over the turnstile.
NEW DELHI - (UPI) - V. K. Krishna Menon lost his job as defense minister today because of Communist Chinese successes in the border war with India.
By Martha Kipp
Campus Talk Turns to Crisis
The general attitude toward the Cuban crisis is one of optimism among the students, however. Most feel that President Kennedy was wise in stating the position of the United States as firmly as he did.
Boys, clothes, and gossip have taken a back seat lately in the "after hours" discussions of KU women. Talk now centers on one main topic—the world situation.
William Phillips, Prairie Village sophomore said, "President Kennedy acted properly and with just force in dealing with the problem. He presented the facts and told what the U.S. will do.
Menon has been blamed for much of the ineffectiveness of the Indian Army in resisting the advances of the Communist invaders from the north.
"The boys all run to get their mail these days," stated one boy. "We're looking for draft notices," he explained, half jokingly.
As one girl quipped, "We used to talk about each other all the time at the house. Now, we talk about Cuba."
THE CHANGE, which had been anticipated, came as fighting simmered down to two exchanges of artillery and small arms fire in the last 24 hours for the quietest day since the border shooting intensified 11 days ago.
U.S. Officials Mark Time While Thant, Castro Talk
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru bowed to mounting criticism of Indian Army defeats and took over the defense ministry post himself. Nehru appointed Menon as minister of production in the shakeup which becomes effective tomorrow.
KU men are also spending their leisure hours discussing the Cuban situation. "What comes next?" they ask themselves.
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— President Kennedy arranged for a late afternoon meeting with his key Cuban advisers today to review developments in the dismantling of Russian missile bases as promised by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
KENNEDY and the special executive committee of the National Security Council planned to "review whatever events happened during the day" when they meet tonight. This would be the second conference of the day between Kennedy and the group which has been meeting daily during the Cuban crisis.
Strong indications reaching the U.S. government from a variety of sources suggested the Soviets were hurrying to carry out Khrushchev's pledge that eased the East-West tension this week.
However, there were reports from Havana that Cuban Premier Fidel Castro was trying to salvage a semblance of face-saving autonomy over the degree of United Nation's verification of the Soviet pull-out.
Press secretary Pierre Salinger said the President has not been in communication with acting U.N. Secretary-General Thant since the latter went to Havana to negotiate
Menon Is Out; Nehru Takes Job
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Critics charged Menon had not made adequate plans for defense and had not equipped the Indian Army with modern automatic arms since he became defense minister $ 5 ^ { \frac { 1 } { 2 }} $ years ago.
But he added, "We can't back down too quickly. This is the first real opportunity we have had to stop one of Russia's gains without taking an undue risk of bringing world censure upon ourselves."
Capturing the feeling held by many other students, Dorothy Olson, Dallas, Texas, senior, said, "I'm a little scared—I guess everyone is—but I don't think war will break up. After all, the Russians surely don't want to get blown up either."
"We should not withdraw the quarantine unless adequate guarantees are given that the offensive weapons in Cuba will be withdrawn. If these guarantees are not forthcoming, we should stick to our guns."
Susan McCalla, Lawrence junior, called for consideration of the problem by everyone. "I think every citizen should give the situation careful and deliberate thought," she said. "It is everyone's problem, not just President Kennedy's."
Now, we must back up the words with action of equal strength.
A prediction of a peaceful withdrawal of the U.S. quarantine after a disarmament agreement was made by Kent McCoin, Akron, Ohio, junior.
with Castro on U.N. observation of the dismantling.
Salinger refused to comment on any questions relating to the U.S. arms blockade against Cuba, the Soviet missile bases or U.S. surveillance plans. These questions included whether the blockade automatically would go back into effect upon the conclusion of Thant's visit to Cuba or at the expiration of the two-day period of its suspension.
MEANWHILE, it was learned in Moscow that first deputy premier Anastas Mikoyan is due to take off tomorrow on what appeared to be
The nitterto unannounced trip of Mikoyan was interpreted here as an attempt by the Soviet Union to tighten its coordination with Castro in the negotiations on settlement of the Cuban crisis and to bolster Soviet prestige in Cuba.
a trouble-shooting mission to Cuba.
From Cuba it was reported that Thant will leave on his return trip to New York late today.
UP: 'On the One Hand'; Vox:'But onthe Other...'
THANT MET with Castro for the second time today in an attempt to reach agreement on U.N. supervision of the dismantling of the Soviet rocket sites.
The chairman of the All Student Council (ASC) complained last night that parts of the University Party platform "certainly do not help the image of student government at KU."
The chairman is a member of Vox Populi.
When a co-chairman of the UP platform committee Charles Whitman Shawnee Mission junior, was informed of Salter's statements, he answered:
Dean Salter, Garden City junior, charged in an interview that the UP platform contains untruths and "casts a dubious shadow on the ASC."
SALTER WAS referring to a section of the platform which calls for creation of an ASC committee to "insure impartiality in the appointment of persons to ASC committees."
"ASC committees have some pretty incompetent chairmen. Some of them are people with low grade points, and some others wouldn't
US Complains To Ole Miss
Oxford, Mississippi — (UPI) — A U.S. Justice Department representative today criticized University of Mississippi officials for failing to discipline students taking part in demonstrations protesting the presence of Negro student James Meredith. He indicated the federal government might take action against demonstrators.
Deputy U.S. Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach made his comments after two nights of violent demonstrations by students. A U.S. Marshal guarding Meredith was cut by flying glass last night when a bottle shattered a window of the car in which the marshall and Meredith were riding. Demonstrations Monday night were the worst since rioting a month ago claimed two lives and injured hundreds.
KATZENBACH FLEW back to Oxford from Washington yesterday because of the Monday night outburst. He said he planned to fly back today but indicated he would talk with university officials about lack of discipline against student demonstrators.
The school yesterday announced it was putting eight students on probation for their part in the riots Sept. 30 and Oct. 1. But the disciplinary action was considered a wrist-slapping and did not include any students who have taken part in demonstrations since then.
be chairmen if it weren't for partial political appointments."
To this Salter had a quick reply:
Whitman's explanation:
"WHITMAN HIMSELF is chairman of the Calendar committee. If it isn't doing anything perhaps Charlie is falling down on the job."
"We can't do anything without the consent of James Hitt (KU registrar)."
"Last year's chairman of the Calendar committee told me it's a worthless committee because the students have little or no say about what is scheduled.
"In fact." Whitman continued, "the only two ASC committees that really function are the social committee and the disciplinary committee."
SALTER described that statement as "a hasty one with no investigation behind it."
Whitman and Salter also disagreed about a section of the UP platform calling for ASC locations to each class so "the duties of each of the class officers might be made more meaningful. . . "
Salter:
"None of the class officers have done anything in the last few years. Until they demonstrate a need for funds by accomplishing something I see no reason to allocate funds to them."
Whitman:
"I disagree with Salter.
"CLASS OFFICERS can't do anything without money. Dean Wood-ruff told me the last sophomore class president who functioned went in the hole and the debts had to be paid off two years later."
Dean of Students Laurence C. Woodruff told the Daily Kansan today he had never made such a statement.
On one point there was unanimity, however. Whitman and Salter agreed on a statement in the UP platform which says:
"We find it ironic that the ASC should spend its valuable and extremely limited time in comment upon or in condemnation of events beyond its responsibilities . . ."
THIS PART of the platform is an apparent reference to a recent decision of the ASC to send a resolution to the student council of the University of Mississippi in support of the admission to the University of James Meredith, a Negro.
"The ASC can't afford to deal with matters that don't benefit our campus." Salter said.
Weather
A surge of cold Canadian air will bring a cooling trend and some increased cloudiness. High temperatures today will range from the lower 60s east to the upper 60s west, with overnight lows from 40 to 45.