Daily hansan
60th Year, No.16
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, Oct. 5, 1962
Gamma Phi Beta Joins Vox Forces
Vox Populi added Gamma Phi Beta sorority to its ranks last night, but party officials stressed that Vox is not an all-Greek party.
At a general assembly meeting, Vox representatives and office unanimously accepted Gamma Phi Beta after a motion by John E. Stuckey, Pittsburg junior. Stuckey reported that the sorority voted
Action Favors Moving Slowly
Action is still alive, but barely breathing.
Ten interested students met behind closed doors in the Kansas Union last night in hopes of pumping new life into the organization.
The lone holdover officer from last year Harold Johnson, Leavenworth graduate student, presided.
ACTION WILL MOVE slowly this year, Johnson said after the meeting.
"We are not going for broke," he said.
"Last year one of our primary objects was recognition by the All Student Council. This year we are not as much concerned with recognition as we are with issues.
"We are going to seek out persons sympathetic to our views and run them for office."
Next week there will be a steering committee meeting to discuss the organization's leadership problems.
Action, however, is not a political party, and its candidates will have to run as independents.
In two weeks there will be a general membership meeting and election of officers.
Membership totaled 200 last year. Action candidates received 471 votes. It takes 1000 students before it may become a campus political party sanctioned by the All Student Council.
Action faces a big barrier in that it does not have ASC sanction and Johnson knows this.
"We would be able to seek more membership if we had sanction. Our prime concern at the moment is still issues, not how many members we have.
Action plans to support the same issues it had last year. Included in these were a five-cent cup of coffee at the Union, reaffiliation with the National Student Association and the asking of fraternities to remove their white clauses by Feb. 1, 1965.
Johnson said the group was considering removing the date, but continuing its stand against segregation.
Johnson quelched rumors that the organization would be conservative.
"We are still left wing, but how far, I don't know."
at a Wednesday night house meeting to seek Vox membership.
"BY ADMITTING GAMMA Phi"
Roger Wilson, Wichita senior and Vox president, said, "we're afraid that we will add to the false image that Vox is an all-Greek party. This is not true. Vox is a Greek-Independent party interested in working for all students, not only Greeks."
"It would be hard to close our doors to Gamma Phi," he continued. "There is room for just as many independents in Vox. These girls sincerely want to work for Vox and that is what we want—workers."
James A. Cline, Rockford, Ill., sophomore and Vox Independent vice president, expressed concern about the party's "false image." He read excerpts from an article in the "Templin Observer," dormitory newsletter which he said misrepresented Vox as an all-Greek party.
Cline said the article, written by Greg Swartz, Overland Park sophomore and UP member, claims if UP's proposal, decentralization of the polls (DOP) is adopted, the Independents will be able to elect one more representative per large dormitory to the All Student Council.
"This is probably true," said Cline, "but the same thing is probably true if Vox's poll program is adopted."
UP HAS PROPOSED that polling districts be put in Lewis, Corbin and JRP dormitories and Fraser. Vox proposed Murphy Hall, the Kansas Union, and Strong Hall.
Wilson said UP's voting districts defeat the purpose of poll expansion which is accessibility of the polls. Under UP's proposal, he said, each student has only one place where he can vote.
"Under Vox's proposal," Wilson said, "a student can vote in any one of three polls on campus. They're going to pass places on their way to class, anyway."
Wilson said Fraser Hall as a polling district would be severely overcrowded. He said UP proposes that 4,500 unmanned and unorganized students, scholarship hall residents, members of professional fraternities and cooperative houses, and all Greeks living east of Missouri Street would vote in Fraser.
Thirdly, Wilson said UP's plan is too confusing and requires an extensive explanation informing students where they are required to vote.
"THIS WOULD CAUSE TOO much congestion." Wilson added.
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KU Professors Offer to Support Ole Miss Faculty
Seven KU professors today telegraphed an offer to help "Ole Miss" faculty members who have taken a stand against blaming U.S. marshals for the Mississippi riots.
The seven professors represent the executive committee of the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AA-UP).
"THEY HAVE TAKEN a pretty brave stand down there," Prof. Seaver said, "and Mississippi government officials may seek reprisals against them."
Dr. James E. Seaver, KU chapter president, said the offer of help was contained in a statement telegraphed to Oxford this morning.
He said the AAU statement undoubtedly will be approved later by the KU chapter membership, which is about 700.
The KU statement called for an open expression of ideas and said that unless a free society's educational institutions "stand at the battlements . . . to keep the society open, the experiment in democracy may fail."
THE STATEMENT said the Ole Miss resolution "reflects a resolve to accept its responsibilities for freedom, and its members must be commended for their great courage. . ."
Dr. Seaver said a copy of the KU statement also was sent to the national AAUP office in Washington, D.C.
The statement was in response to a resolution adopted by fifty members of the "Ole Miss" faculty yesterday.
Their resolution charged it is "unfair and reprehensible" to blame the start of the riots on U.S. marshals. Factions opposed to Meredith's admission have charged this was the case.
"IT IS OBVIOUS that errors in judgment were made by those in authority," on the campus Sunday night, the resolution maintained.
"We have evidence that the attempt of men in prominent positions to place the blame for the riots on the United States marshals is not only unfair and reprehensible but almost completely false.
"We encourage an investigation by the proper authorities," the professors added.
Weather
Fair today with increasing cloudiness tonight. Scattered thunderstorms are predicted for to-morrow. Highs today in the 70s. Low tonight in the 50s. High to-morrow in the 60s.
TOP SENIORS-Allan Wicker, Independence, and Gail Eberhardt, Wichita, received the Lawson award at the Watkins-Summerfield scholarship banquet last night. (See story lower left.)
UP President Denies Gerrymandering Label
The president of the University Party said last night UP will back its poll proposal all the way at the next All Student Council meeting.
Chuck Anderson, Osage City senior and UP President, disputed a claim by a member of Vox Populi that the "UP proposal was the greatest attempt at 'gerrymandering' in the history of the University." John Stuckey, Pittsburg junior, made the statement at a recent Vox meeting.
"OBVIOUSLY STUCKKEY has a misconception of the term 'gerry-mandering,'" commented Anderson in a Daily Kansan interview. "The standard definition refers to a geographical redistricting, not poll placement."
During a committee session preceding the UP meeting, Hollace Cross, Kansas City, Mo., senior and All Student Council member, suggested University Party circulate a petition if the decentralization bill
Lawson Award to Wicker. Eberhardt
Allan Wicker, Independence, and Cail Eberhardt, Wichita, received the Lawson award in honor of Paul E. Lawson, deceased dean of the college of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the annual fall Watkins and Summerfield banquet last night in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
One ten-thousandth of a grade point separates the University of Kansas' two top seniors scholastically.
BOTH HAD A 2.9 grade point average. The two grade averages differed by a ten-thousandth. Wicker is a transfer from Independence Junior College.
Six sophomore scholars with a 3.0 GPA received the Veta Lear award, instituted this year to honor
a deceased university secretary,
Recipients were Dudley Dean Allen,
Lawrence; George Barisas, Kansas
City, Mo.; Terry Mills Baxter
Springs; Sharon Nelson, Larned;
and Bob Olander, Salina.
The award is Kansas Union book store credits to enable students to build a personal library.
DR. ESTHER RAUSCENBUSH, former dean of Sara Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY., told the 115 Watkins and Summerfield scholars that there is a great deal of concern about the trend toward non-intellectual interest in college today.
"Do students ever really get educated in college," Mrs. Rauscenbush asked the scholars.
To answer her own question, Mrs. Rauscenbush said she had interviewed 150 students throughout the country.
MRS. RAUSCENBUSH discussed five main points which she felt contributed to non-intellectual interest.
1. To do his best work the student has to form an alliance with something; he has to belong. Many students find their place in athletics, a fraternity or on the school paper.
2. Good grades have been over-emphasized. Students have a tendency to steer towards courses in which they will do well and refrain from studying things that will help them.
"It irritates me when I have to take a course not in my field," one student remarked. "The thought of not being able to do well discourages me."
3. Students are more interested in personal advancement than in poli-
itics and the world. Some students seek a college degree for what it will mean in the business world, rather than for the intellectual pursuit.
Mrs. Rauscenbush said this is the time a student acquires direction to intellectual concern that may be lost if not gained then.
5. Colleges can solve the difficulties of numbers by giving opportunity to only the brightest people.
4. Students who have a really dynamic freshman year do better in later college life.
"Perhaps we should reconsider the decision of higher education for large numbers." Mrs. Rauscenbush said, because "non-intellectual interest would not prevail in such an atmosphere."
was defeated. No definite step was taken during the meeting.
Anderson commented that several UP Greek members told him they felt the party power was shifting to the independents. The UP president expressed no concern over the incident which he termed "normal dissention."
IN OTHER BUSINESS, UP announced it would not run a primary election this fall in any district except the scholarship halls. Anderson explained there was no competition within the houses.
A decision on whether to affiliate with a campus political party is pending at Miller, Douthart, Battenfeld and Sellards Scholarship Halls. Anderson said Miller Hall, which recently voted not to affiliate with any party, is planning to vote again this Monday.
In other business, William Stewart, Bartlesville, Okla. sophomore and campaign chairman, said University Party would stress unmarried, unorganized housing, co-operative groups and professional fraternities in the fall election campaign.
Meredith May Have Taken KU Courses
Records in the registrar's office show that a James H. Meredith was enrolled in extension classes here while serving with the 321st Bomb Squadron at Forbes Air Force Base, Topeka.
The name sounds familiar and now people wonder if Meredith is the same student who just enrolled at Oxford, Miss.
James K. Hitt, registrar and director of admissions, said Meredidih completed two courses, fundamentals of speech (in 1953) and composition and literature (in 1954).