OREAD HALL—Not new nor modern, but still home for 85 University of Kansas students.
Oread 'Barracks Are Home for 85
Daily hansan
Oread Hall—painted a flat, poorhouse gray—looks like sadness itself as it squats in the west shadow of Memorial Stadium.
By Bernard Henrie
There really isn't anything wrong with the frame, two-story mens residence—it just seems that way when you compare it to the newer, ultra-modern dormitories.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, Sept. 28, 1962
OREAD IS NOT a good many things, but it is home for 85 University of Kansas students.
Among their number are undergraduate and graduate students science majors and art majors high born and low born.
Oread is not new.
Oread is not ultra-modern
They have all elected to live in Oread, although not for the same reasons. Some, like Russel Grant, Wichita special student and dorm president, had little choice. Others chose Oread because rent there is $30 cheaper per year.
Oread, a former Army barracks,
was trucked here from Texas in
1946. Its single rooms, $7_{1/2}$ by 11
feet. have a Spartan-like quality.
"I came to Lawrence just at enrollment time," Grant explained.
"I didn't know the city and I didn t know where I was going to live. I checked the housing office and they told me that Oread was the only place left. I told them I'd take it."
"That first view almost changed my mind," Grant said. "But I took Oread and now I am glad I did.
that a prospective Oread resident view the structure—inside and out before signing a contract.
Grant debunks the old stereotype which pictures the Oread resident as an introvert.
THE HOUSING OFFICE requests
"OREAD ATTRACTS, perhaps, a few people who think they can hide there," he says. "But the great majority of the people at Oread are far from being anti-social. Most of them are all-around college Joes, real sharp kids."
"I think the notion that the Oread resident lives there because he's some sort of rugged individualist is just a myth," he says. Students live there because of the favorable location, individual rooms, and reduced rates."
J. J. Wilson, director of KU dorms, discredits a second commonly held idea about Oread residents.
Mike Calwell, Kansas City junior, likes Oread for a number of reasons.
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Meredith attended the hearing, accompanied by attorneys Constance Baker Motley and Jack Greenberg of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
60th Year, No. 11
Eight of the nine members of the circuit court were on the bench. The absent member was Judge Ben F. Cameron who was ill. Cameron also was the only member absent last week when the court ordered Meredith admitted to the university by school officials.
IN ADDITION TO Satterfield, the Mississippi governor was represented by William Goodman, Thomas H. Watkins, Garner Green Sr., and Josh Green.
BARNETT SENT a formidable battery of lawyers into court to represent him, headed by John C. Satterfield, former president of the American Bar Association.
The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals immediately began deliberations on what to do about the Mississippi governor who refused to enroll James H. Meredith, 29-year-old Negro, in the university.
There was a long silence.
NEW ORLEANS —(UPI) — Justice Department attorneys today asked the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to give Gov. Ross Barnett until Monday to purge himself of contempt of court charges. There was no immediate ruling on the request.
Barnett Absent From Federal Court Hearing
Bulletin
"It ithe a respondent present for Gov. Ross Barnett?"
NEW ORLEANS — (UPI)— Gov. Ross Barnett today again defied a federal court by refusing to appear and explain why he should not be held in contempt for blocking the admission of a Negro to the University of Mississippi.
But, after several witnesses had been heard, the court reversed itself and said the Mississippi governor could not be represented by counsel
Then Satterfield advised the court that he and his colleagues represented the governor who was not present.
Chief Judge Elbert P. Tuttle opened the proceedings by asking:
HE ASKED TO enter the case as a friend of the court and permission was granted.
Satterfield then moved to dismiss the case against Barnett.
"All the court has given is permission for the State of Mississippi to present its views." Tuttle replied.
KU Architecture Is a Flop
Cedric Price, British architect and lecturer, said that the "significance of the architecture at KU is its absence. It is a varied collection of buildings."
A noted British architect last night said University of Kansas buildings are like "boils on a pretty face."
Referring to a ceiling made of acoustical tile, he said. "No one quite knows how these things go together. They just keep on sticking them up there."
"The most difficult thing about being an architect is getting the trees and gardens to grow" he said.
"UNIVERSITY buildings everywhere are pretty poor—you should see some of ours."
In the series of lectures in Strong Auditorium, Price said that only the trees and roads at KU are of any real architectural importance.
British Expert Says:
"The housing for married students is really something. Similar building is just starting in England. Most students wait to marry until after they have finished school.
(One of his slides was a picture of an English dormitory. Commenting on its arrangement, with the dining room in a central area and galleries leading to the student rooms, Mr. Price said, "Prisons have been built like this for hundreds of year.")
"The English unions are not used by all the students like yours here," he observed. "One feels one is being regimented by eager beavers who organize jolly evenings."
"I AM IMPRESSED with the number of buildings," he conceded. "The stadium and field house are fantastic in scale.
He said the residence halls on Engel Road "look like a rapidly built army transit camp.
"THAT'S WHAT'S nice about your Union—it makes you feel grown up. I was in it and I felt quite grown up. It's terrible," he exuberated in his characteristic deadpan manner.
"It's interesting to see the scale of ownership in America. I think universal auto ownership will take some of the prestige and glamour off the style and year. This is good.
Price was also interested in the contrast between British and American transportation.
Someone mentioned the KU traffic stations. The speaker answered, "That's recent. There's sure to be reaction."
"IN ENGLAND, autos are banned from certain areas in new towns, solving the lethal aspects of the problem."
Vox Rips UP's Poll Proposal
"At Cambridge, everyone owns a bike."
Vox Populi last night slammed University Party's voting poll proposal and predicted its early defeat.
John Stuckey, Pittsburg junior and All Student Council representative, branded the proposal "the greatest attempt of gerry-mandering in the history of the University."
Roger Wilson, Wichita senior and Vox president, said "UP wants
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Proposal Lacks ASC Support
University Party officials gave little hope last night that their proposal for decentralized polls would be passed by the All Student Council.
At the party's first general assembly meeting in the Kansas Union Charles S. Anderson, Osage City graduate student and UP Greek cochairman said, "Vox will oppose it. But the change would increase the voting percentage considerably.
UP DOESN'T HAVE a majority on the All Student Council now, and the amendment won't be passed unless Vox gives us its support," he explained.
The ASC will vote on the amendment. Oct. 9.
Anderson said he had no idea whether a referendum would be initiated to pass the amendment. A petition to initiate a referendum requires the signatures of 20 per cent of the student body.
ANDERSON SAID HE hoped the party platform and the revised party constitution would be ready by the next general assembly meeting, Oct. 11.
"Speakers will be sent to the houses to explain the constitution so the students will know what we stand for." Anderson said.
Vox officials visited several houses on campus last week and conducted several informative meetings.
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Opinion Varies On Poll Sites
University of Kansas students apparently favor decentralization of election polls, but cannot agree on new poll locations.
This was the finding of a Daily Kansan poll conducted Thursday.
One Topeka senior suggested the Stables, the Purple Pig and the Wagon Wheel.
Marilyn Allen, Kansas City, Mo. junior, said "I think new voting districts will help, but I think one definitely should be in Hashinger, Lewis, or Templin, since we're so far from the campus."
Gaylene Williamson, Lawrence freshman, said, "Because of the traffic control problem connected with the car pools, I think it's best to have one district in a freshman dorm."
Judith Lister, Ottawa sophomore, agreed. "It's easiest to vote if you don't have to go anywhere," she said.
"I think UP's ideas are the best," he added. "I don't think Allen Field House is going to solve anything."
Harvey C. Martin, Salina senior, said, "The idea of decentralization is to get more people to vote, so ballot boxes should be put in places where there are the most people.
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Many students opposed Allen Field House. Tom Sego, Lawrence junior, said, "I wouldn't vote if I had to go all the way to the field house."
and Vox president, said "UP wants to place the polls where they received the most votes in the last election."
THE UP PROPOSAL places voting polls at Lewis, Joseph R. Pearson and Corbin dormitories and Fraser Hall.
He outlined four main Vox objections to the UP proposal:
Wilson predicted the defeat of the UP bill at the next ASC general assembly. When the bill is brought out of the committee on committees, he said Vox Populi will probably amend UP's motion.
- By restricting students to one poll, UP defeats the purpose of poll expansion.
- Their suggestion encourages unfair elections by giving a district advantage to the particular dorms in which the polls are placed.
- UP's plan is very confusing and requires an extensive explanation informing the student just where he must go to vote.
- UP is motivated by political reasons rather than by a logical, sincere desire to make the polls more accessible.
Wilson said that the basic difference on the issue lies within the philosophy of the two parties.
"We are just as much opposed to their proposal as they are to ours. I was quite disgusted that UP refused to get together to discuss a joint bill." Wilson said.
Within the limit of its own proposal, Vox changed the location of a poll previously suggested at Allen Field House to Murphy Hall. The other two polls were placed at the Kansas Union and Strong Hall.
"THE ONLY PEOPLE not accessible to these locations will be students who don't come to class," stated Wilson.
The remainder of the meeting was devoted to the appointment of members to seven Vox committees. Named to the executive committee were the following:
Brian Grace, Lawrence junior,
chairman; Mary Catherine Rudolph,
Wymore, Neb., senior; James Cline,
Rockford, Ill., sophomore; George
Barisas, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore;
John Pepper, Lenexa sophomore;
Fax Robertson, Atchison junior;
Julia Jarvis, Winfield junior;
Karen Sue McKinley, Lawrence senior;
Peggy Martin, Parsons senior;
and John Grothusen, Ellsworth junior.
Carlson Suggests Exile Government
WICHITA — (UPI) — U.S. Sen.
Frank Carlson, R-Kan., yesterday called for the creation of a Cuban government-in-exile to deal with Castro.
Carlson said in his opinion blockades or "half-measures" concerning Cuba could lead to all-out war. As an alternative, he suggested asking the Organization of American States to reaffirm the Monroe Doctrine and then issue notice that this country would recognize a Cuban government in exile.
"Then we must help this government supply itself with overwhelming force—not merely three old boats—but hundreds of the latest vessels, fighters and bombers," Carlson said.
Weather
Generally fair and warmer today and tonight. Continued mild Saturday. High today in the upper 70s. Low tonight in the 50s.