Daily hansan
Tuesday, Oct. 9, 1962
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
60th Year, No.18
Students Indifferent About Bloc Voting
By Linda Machin
"I don't know anything about campus politics, and I couldn't care less," replied a Kansas City, Mo., senior when asked whether he preferred individual or bloc membership in campus political parties.
"Don't ask me. Ask the party leader in our house, he can probably tell you how our house feels about membership," he continued.
This indifferent reply seemed to typify the majority of attitudes expressed by University of Kansas students in a survey by the University Daily Kansan.
THE QUESTION OF INDIVIDUAL or bloc membership was raised recently when two organized living groups, Douthart and Miller Halls, dropped their membership in Vox Populi and University Party.
Presidents of the halls said that the groups did not plan to join either party as blocs, but members could join as individuals if they wished.
Jay Rumberger, Prairie Village junior said, "I probably wouldn't know how to vote anyway if we had individual membership. I don't think the majority of students know that much about campus politics. Bloc membership is best because it informs the students."
ROBERT WILSON, HUTCHINSON freshman, said, "If we were living in a city permanently or for ten years or more and were voting in national elections, I think individual membership would be more important. But with the constant influx of students and the relatively short time—four years—that we'll be here, bloc voting is OK."
Some students feel that individual membership is a matter of democracy.
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Jerry Dickson Predicts ASC Will Defeat DOP
Student body president Jerry Dickson, Newton senior, predicted the defeat of the voting poll proposal at tonight's All Student Council general session.
Dickson indicated a compromise proposal on the decentralization of polls would be worked out by the council.
"Obviously, the voting poll proposal is unfair because it does not give every living group an equal opportunity to have polls in their own location." explained Dickson.
The bill presented to ASC last session by the University Party has been under consideration by the Committee on Committees. No decision had been made at press time.
GREGORY TURNER. SEATTLE, Wash., junior and College representative, will propose some action be taken on the Mississippi controversy. His recommendation will be in the form of a letter to the University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss, from the KU All Student Council.
Jack Metusak, Wellington senior, will be present for the meeting at the request of several ASC members. Metusak's appointment to the Human Rights committee was tabled at the last ASC session.
Jerry Dickson
Flag Theft Solved
Two University of Iowa students who took the KU flag, which flies above Fraser Hall, were apprehended Friday night by campus police.
The two men are here with 19 other students who are pledges of Sigma Alpha Epsilon at the University of Iowa.
Police said the two students climbed through a hole in one of the doors on the top floor of Fraser and forced the door open to the roof.
The students ran from the building, followed by the two suspicious teachers who took down the license
On the way down the stairs the pair was confronted by George Wedge, instructor in English, and Edward Ruhe, assistant professor of English, who were talking at the bottom of the stairs.
Later with the help of Mr. Wedge and Prof. Ruhe the two students were caught on campus and brought in for questioning. The pair said the prank was part of their fraternity initiation and that they would pay for any damage.
number of the car as they drove away.
In 1958 the KU flag was stolen from Fraser. The flag was later slipped through an open window in the Kansan office with this note attached.
"To whom it may concern: We are satisfied at last. The flag now flying on Fraser is equal to the superior quality of the University of Kansas. Please do not fly the ratty thing again. — The Frustrated Alpinists."
A group of KU students will be arraigned Saturday in Jefferson County Court on charges of vandalism.
KU Students Face Vandalism Charges
More than 19 KU students are suspected of wrecking a vacant house near Perry, Sept. 29.
James Fwoyer, Jefferson County attorney, said the exact number of persons involved in the vandalism has not been determined.
Fwoyer said this group of more than 19 students was at the house for a beer party. He said he believed part of the group left about 9 p.m. He said the remaining persons allegedly wrecked the house
The Jefferson County Sheriff's office reported posts were torn from the house porch and used to punch holes in the roof and walls. The report stated all windows and doors were broken.
YR Will Have Busy Schedule For This Year
By Joanne Prim
Activities for the University of Kansas Young Republicans will start Saturday with a beer party from 2 to 5 p.m. at Holcom Grove, 2 miles south of Lawrence. All members are invited to attend.
"There has been a criticism in the past that we haven't done too much," Reuben R. McCornack. Abilene junior and president of the KU group, said. "We hope to change this."
He outlined plans for a campaign caravan, a politician opinion poll, meetings, and conventions.
Two bus loads of students will participate in a campaign caravan Oct. 27 for James Pearson, candidate for U.S. Senator, and Robert Dole, candidate for U.S. House of Representatives, first district.
After starting in Lawrence, one bus will go through Topeka and Manhattan to pick up students at Washburn and K-State and the other will go to Emporia and Wichita, McCornack explained. Both buses will meet in Salina for a rally, Smaller rallies (about 15 minutes long) will be held in towns along the wav.
A luncheon will be served in Salina by the Saline County Republicans. After a dinner in Hutchinson, a major rally and addresses will be held in the evening.
Student delegations will return to their schools Sunday. The maximum cost is $5. McCormack said. Transportation is free.
Their major project will be a student opinion poll on political issues. Members of Froshawks, freshman women's pep club, will telephone around 200 students for "yes" or "no" answers to five political questions. The questions will be selected by a faculty committee. Results of the survey will be announced in the University Daily Kansan before Political Emphasis Week.
The Young Republicans will work with the Young Democrats and the political science department prior to the November election during Political Emphasis Week.
"We are working on plans for a debate between Dale Saffels (Democratic candidate for governor) and John Anderson Jr. (Republican candidate for governor), but there is nothing definite on this." McCornack commented.
After elections, the group will hear speakers as part of a political education program.
Conventions this year include the State Collegiate Young Republican meeting and the Midwest Federation of Young Republicans convention, both to be held next semester.
English Pro Committee Says:
One Out Of Five To Fail English Proficiency
At least one out of five students will fail the English proficiency examination.
This is based on figures from the last five examinations compiled by the English proficiency committee. Eighteen per cent of 177 students failed the exam last summer.
About 1200 juniors and seniors have enrolled for the essay examination given at 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
James E. Seaver, professor of history and chairman of the English proficiency examination committee said:
"The purpose of the two-hour exam is to make certain that students who graduate from the University of Kansas can write legible, intelligent and grammatical prose. It is insurance that our students can achieve a reasonable competence in written English before graduation."
Prof. Seaver said the need for a comparable test arose in the 1940's when employers complained that
300 Hear Reinhold Schmidt Give First Faculty Recital
some KU graduates could not spell or write simple English sentences.
If an instructor considers a paper satisfactory, the essay passes. If he is in doubt about the paper or if it is unsatisfactory, another grader will read the theme and make a final decision.
The examination is a prerequisite for graduation from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the School of Business, School of Education, School of Fine Arts, William Allen White School of Journalism, School of Medicine (nursing) and the department of architecture and architectural engineering.
Students who fail the examination are referred to the writing clinic to correct composition faults. To qualify for degrees, students must take the examination until they pass it satisfactorily.
He said about 100 faculty members will grade the essays on the basis of content, organization, paragraph and sentence structure, grammar, punctuation and spelling.
By Tom Winston
Reinhold Schmidt, bass baritone, presented the first recital of the Faculty Recital Series to over 300 persons last night in Swarthout Recital Hall.
Schmidt, professor of voice, presented three works: one classical, the Cantata 82, "Ich habe genug," by J. S. Bach, one romantic, "Dichterliebe" (Poet's Love) by Robert Schumann, and one modern, "Four Sacred Sonnets of John Donne," by William Wordsworth.
The program opened with one view of death and closed with another
The Faculty String Quartet, John McEldowney, oboe, instructor of wind and percussion; and Marian Jersild Lott, associate professor of piano, accompanied Prof. Schmidt in the cantata. The quartet members are Raymond Cerf, professor of strings, first violin; Theodore Johnson, assistant professor of organ and theory, second violin; Karel Blaas, associate professor of strings, viola, and Raymond Stuhl, associate professor of strings, cello.
The first view was the Bach cantata which begins with "It is enough" and concludes with a joyous shout that death has released the singer from all his earthly work and trouble.
Powerhouse Panic Is Presumptuous
The geysers of steam from the power station are the result of two new boilers now being tested.
There will be no explosion. Nothing is wrong.
Relax.
The boilers were purchased last October and installation has just been completed. Before they can be used full-time, they must be fired and the automatic equipment regulating them must be tested.
"They're like a new car," said Eldon Ulrich, foreman of the 11-man crew which operates the plant. "You have to check them out."
Ulrich said the plant supplies the University with one million pounds of steam pressure a day. It takes 175 pounds to blow the whistle at the end of each class, he said.
The whistle is automatically triggered by a time clock which is regularly adjusted to Arlington time.
U.S. Army Units Are Segregated, Meredith Says
OXFORD, Miss. — (UPI) — Negro James Meredith said today that Army units here have been resegregated.
In a three-page handwritten statement Meredith also denied that he had been "picked or selected" by Negro leaders to enter the school.
"Certainly no price is too high to pay for the rights of enjoying full American citizenship. Yet when it comes to forfeiting one particular right or privilege in order to receive another right or privilege, it is quite possible to get the bad end of the bargain," Meredith said.
"The first two days of my stay at the University of Mississippi, the military units looked like American units. Since that time the units have been re-segregated," he said. "Negroes have been purged from their position in the ranks. I brought this to the attention of the proper authorities."
Meredith also said in his statement that he resented charges "I was picked, selected or chosen" to integrate the school.
Weather
Fair skies will remain in the Kansas area throughout tomorrow. Not much change in temperature is expected this afternoon, tonight, and Wednesday. The low tonight will be in the 40s in the Northwest and in the 50s in the Southeast. Highs tomorrow will range from the mid 70s to the mid 80s.