Daily hansan
Wednesday, Sept. 26, 1962
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
60th Year, No. 9
ASC OFFICERS—Getting ready to kick off a new political year are the new All Student Council officers. They are, left to right, Trudy Meserve, Abilene junior and vice chairman;
Jerry Dickson, Newton senior and president of the student body; Jo Anne Snyder, Bethesda, Md., senior and ASC secretary, and Dean Salter, Garden City senior and chairman of the ASC.
Action to Reconsider Discrimination Policy
Action, a campus political party begun last spring with a liberal student policy, may become more conservative this year last year's Action vice-president has indicated.
Harold K. Johnson, Leavenworth graduate student, announced that a group of last year's party members will meet Thursday to decide the party's fate.
"If there is enough favorable sentiment among the remainder of the members and if there is someone else to lead it this year, we might organize into a political party; otherwise Action will function as a pressure group," Johnson said.
"THIS DISCRIMINATION issue was carried much too far last spring, but most of those fellows with the radical ideas are gone now." Johnson said.
Johnson was referring to an Action platform plank that advocated the withdrawal of University recognition of fraternal groups which had constitutional discriminatory clauses.
"Don't get me wrong," Johnson continued, "I'm still against discrimination, fraternity clauses and all, but I don't think that the University should have the right to order these fraternities to remove their clauses by a certain date.
"I AGREE WITH CHANCELLOR Wescoe," he added, "that the removal of fraternity clauses are something they (the fraternities) should decide for themselves."
Chancellor Wescoe stated last spring that he was against discrimination of any kind including discriminatory fraternity clauses, but that the fraternities themselves should take the necessary action to remove the clauses.
"The main issue this year is not the party itself, but to get the party's issues instituted for the student body. We hope University Party and Vox Populi will represent some of our ideas." Johnson said.
JOHNSON OUTLINED three main issues he believes worthy of consideration:
- Individual membership in campus political parties.
- Restoration of membership in the National Student Association (NSA).
- Student+ participation in national or international affairs.
Johnson elaborated, "I think both UP and Vox will agree that individual membership instead of block membership by a dormitory or fraternity is more beneficial for the individual himself. It gives him a chance to speak for himself and make his own choice."
Johnson said that students spend too much time in campus affairs. "Students, especially the All Student Council, ought to involve themselves in national and international issues as well as campus affairs," he said.
Using the Cuban invasion as an example, Johnson suggested that perhaps student opinion polls could be taken of such a situation and the results submitted to a local councilman.
Jim Hardy Is KU's A.-00001 Student
Life is a little easier for James L. Hardy, Wichita graduate student.
Like many University of Kansas men, Hardy has a conglomeration of numbers to remember—his address, social security number, car license number, the birthdays and ages of his children, his wife's birthday and the Hardy wedding anniversary.
But this is no problem. Hardy's KU student number is 00001.
Hardy was a student here in 1955 when the University initiated the IBM system. He received his student number because he was the first student to enroll that year. Previously, student identification cards were hand-stamped with numbers.
He must also remember his student number.
Hardy, who received his master's degree in music education at KU in 1956, is working on his doctorate degree. The Hardy family, including three children, live near Lawrence.
Bigotry Condemned By Daily Kansan
The Daily Kansan has learned that anti-Roman Catholic printed material was stuffed into a number of copies of yesterday's and Monday's issues.
The person or persons who inserted this material were in no way connected with the Daily Kansan staff. The material was inserted after the newspapers had been placed in the distribution boxes on campus and without the knowledge or consent of the Daily Kansan.
The Daily Kansan condemns such practices and regrets that they have occurred at KU. Anyone having information which may be helpful in learning the source of this literature is urged to telephone the Daily Kansan, VI 3-2700, extension 711 or 376, or the KU police department, extension 701.
The Editors
ASC Considers Polls and Parking
The University Party introduced a bill to decentralize student election polls at last night's meeting of the All Student Council. Vox Populi and the UP have been juggling the issue this past week.
Hollace Cross, UP vice-chairman and Kansas City, Mo., senior, introduced the poll decentralization bill.
Entrance Still Denied Negro At Mississippi U.
(See related story on the constitutional crisis that has arisen in the Meredith case-page seven.)
OXFORD, Miss. — (UPI) — Negro James Meredith tried again today to enroll at the University of Mississippi but was turned away in the state's third deliberate defiance of the federal government.
BARNETT, WHO PERSONALLY had turned Meredith aside twice, tried to get here to defy the federal government again but couldn't make it in time. Bad weather prevented his flying and he drove, but was late.
It threatened a showdown between state and federal power that could be the gravest constitutional crisis of its kind since the Civil War.
Gov. Ross Barnett, who has twice turned away the 29-year-old Air Force veteran in his persistent attempt to break the color barrier at "Ole Miss," also flew to Oxford but sent Johnson to stop Meredith this time.
The confrontation started calmly but ended in a tense, almost eerily quiet, pushing-shoving contest.
Meredith was turned away at the gates of the school by Lt. Gov. Paul Johnson. The defiance of federal court orders was directed by Gov. Ross Barnett despite indications from Washington that use of federal troops might be imminent.
THE NEGRO was turned aside as the nation in general, and the federal government in particular, watched
Others in the east are Sharon Scoville, Kansas City senior; Dan Palmquist and Bill De Jarnett, KU graduates working for Centron
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Movie Filmed in Lawrence Will Open at Granada Tonight
A feature-length movie produced and directed in Lawrence by a University of Kansas graduate will premier tonight at the Granada Theater.
Supporting Miss Hilligoss is Sidney Berger, assistant instructor of speech and drama, whose experience includes a Broadway play and several University Theatre productions.
FILMED BOTH IN LAWRENCE and near Salt Lake City, the twilight-zone type feature casts many local residents. With the exception of the star, Candace Hilligoss, a North Dakotan, and members of a Salt Lake City dance group, the actors are Lawrence residents and KU students.
The director-producer Herk Harvey, also a former KU instructor of speech and drama for 11 years, called the production "the first step toward a Lawrence motion picture industry." For himself, "it is the realization of a childhood dream."
Corp. here; Larry Sneegas, a 1962 graduate, and Mrs. Frances Feist, a former Lawrence resident who has moved to San Francisco.
The director said the movie probably will be run as a second feature once it leaves Lawrence. He said that if the film, which will be made in several foreign versions, is received favorably, he will begin work on three more films—a comedy, a children's show and an epic.
LAWRENCE VIEWERS WILL recognize several Lawrence scenes such as the Reuter Organ factory, the interior of Trinity Episcopal Church, portions of Massachusetts Street and the Lecompton bridge as a motor car crashes through its guard rail.
Saltair, a huge, condemned once time amusement pavilion outside Salt Lake City, is the setting for the remainder of the film. Harvey said he first noticed the place when he was driving from Hollywood, Calif., last year.
He described it as ideal for the film because "it is the eeriest, most ghostly place I've ever seen."
which was immediately referred to the committee on committees. The bill provided that voting polls be placed at Fraser Hall, Corbin Hall, Joseph R. Pearson Hall and Lewis Hall. Cross said the proposed locations "would serve the needs of every house involved."
In other action a proposed bill on the liberalization of parking regulations was ammended and passed after several minutes of debate. Lauren Ward, Ottawa senior, stated the ammended proposal as follows:
John Stuckey, Pittsburg junior, objected to the original proposal's limiting the parking privilege to sorority and fraternity houses.
"FIVE PERSONS from each organized house having no available parking facilities would be issued permits for Zone O. The decision would be made by individual houses on the basis of need and be submitted to the Traffic and Safety Committee in a form letter issued by the council."
Gregory Turner, Seattle, Wash.
union, explained that the ammend-
ment would not include residents
of large dormitories because they
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already have permits to park in their adjoining parking lots. No student is allowed more than one permit. Turner introduced the bill.
UNDER THE PRESENT program, fraternity rush begins two weeks before the first day of classes.
In a committee report to the ASC, Hubert R. (Skip) Granger, Leawood junior and pre-orientation chairman, suggested a plan to shorten the pre-orientation period. He proposed that all students unable to attend previews during the summer take all tests (placement and proficiency) on one day.
Larry Borcherding, Kansas City, Mo., senior, opposed the proposal. He said it was unfair to out-of-state students who could not come to the summer previews.
John Young, Salina law student,
said the suggested plan was "unduly orientated toward the Greeks." No action was taken on the plan.
Other action taken by the orientation committee was the elimination of the Jayhawk Nibble, which the committee contended had not worked out successfully in the past.
ANOTHER ISSUE reviewed by the council was the availability of study facilities on campus. George Hahm, Scotch Plains, N.J., senior, reviewed last year's arguments against keeping the classrooms open for study purposes.
"The University is mainly concerned with the problems of petty larceny and theft," he said.
Hahm said the only alternative would be a student proctor system.
ASC ratification was postponed in the appointment of John Metusak, Wellington senior, to the Human Rights Committee. The move was suggested by John Young, Salina law student. Frank J. Thompson, Iola junior, was suggested for the chairmanship of the committee.
In other ASC action the appointments of Sharon Nelson, Larned sophomore, as ASC public relations secretary, and Helen Nott, Evanston, Ill., sophomore, as secretary of student activities were passed by the council.
Weather
Generally fair east and partly cloudy west this afternoon, tonight and tomorrow with a few thundershowers likely extreme southwest. Little change in temperature. Low tonight in the middle 50s. High to-morrow in the 70s.