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Four Foreign Students Meet Woman Whose Gift Aids Them
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The woman is Mrs. Margaret Hashinger of La Jolla, Calif. The foreign students are Walter Bgoya, Tanganyika, Africa, sophomore; Mosobalaje Labode, Abeokuta, Nigeria, junior; Ibraham Yilla, Freetown, Africa, sophomore, and Gregs Thomopulos, Benin City, Nigeria, sophomore.
Yesterday afternoon four foreign students first met the woman whose financial aid allows them to attend the University of Kansas.
THE MEETING was at an open house for a KU residence hall named for Mrs. Hashinger. An estimated 4000 guests attended the dedication for the $1,900,000 building, which houses 444 women. Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe introduced Mrs. Hashinger. Emily Taylor, Dean of
Women, reviewed the state of women's housing at KU.
In 1945, Mrs. Hashinger, then the wife of the late J. R. Battenfeld, initiated the foreign student scholarship in memory of her son, Dr. J. R. Battenfeld, Jr., a surgeon. Dr. Battenfield was killed in 1945 in a Navy airplane crash.
The scholarship pays tuition fees and some additional assistance.
THOMOPULOS explained the Battenfeld scholarship allowed the four students to apply for aid from the African-American Institute. The Institute was started in 1960, he said, when a group of U.S. ambassadors and Africans supported a program which sent 24 Nigerian students to American colleges and universities.
Wisconsin University May Ban Delta Gamma
MADISON, Wis. — (UPI) The University of Wisconsin Human Rights Council has asked that the local chapter of Delta Gamma sorority be banished from campus because rules of the national group violate "anti-bias" codes.
The council said an investigation revealed the national council exercised "interference with student groups educated at Wisconsin in their choice of fellows without discrimination on grounds of race, color or creed . . ."
The council, composed of three faculty members and two students, made the charges in a report yesterday to the university faculty. The faculty was scheduled to consider the report today and pass it on for possible action to the Board of Regents.
THE COUNCIL asked the banishment remain in effect "until Delta Gamma can demonstrate to the committee that the constitution of the national fraternity and the various rules and regulations are not administered so as to restrict selection of members on the basis of race or color."
Attorneys for the local sorority said the group had been denied a fair hearing and said the council would punish the local Omega chapter "to get at" the national organization.
The committee recommended the Omega chapter be told to stop pledging by Oct. 31, halt initiations by Dec. 31, and stop all activities by next June 30.
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Attorneys Edwin Pick and Frank Ross, Jr. who represented the local chapter in hearings before the council said the Negro girl pledged at Beloit was from Madison and had been favorably recommended by the Delta Gamma chapter at the UW.
THE COUNCIL said activities of Delta Gamma at Wisconsin had been under investigation since April when a Delta Gamma chapter at Beloit (IML College was put on probation by the national council allegedly for pledging a Negro).
"The committee may be very zealous in protection of human rights but it seems to us that it has been strangely neglectful of our civil rights," Pick said. Pick said the Omega chapter had pledged several "non-white."
Wisconsin in 1960 adopted "antibias" rules against discrimination on the basis of color, creed or race in any student organization.
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Jim Carr, president of the InterFraternity Council, said Thursday that spring rush might not be held this year. Several fraternity presidents were asked to comment on this idea. These were their answers:
OTHER BENEFACIIONS, established by Mrs. Hashinger and her first husband, the late J. R. Battenfeld, include Battenfield Hall. It is dedicated in memory of another son, John Curry Battenfeld, who died in an automobile accident in 1939 while a KU student.
The committee also asked the faculty to consider a resolution that would require all university fraternal groups to show they had a free choice in selecting their members.
The Institute requires that the American schools pay the foreign students' tuition fees, while the AMI finances transportation to America and campus board and room.
Fraternities Differ on Rush
Opinions are divided among the fraternities over the possible cancellation of the spring rush.
"I think it would be a mistake to cancel the spring rush this year. I know that quite a few freshmen are counting on it," said Michael Mead, Triangle.
Dan Caliendo of Acacia said, "I don't think it is worth the effort."
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Fred Green of Kappa Sigma said, "The spring rush was developed to strengthen the small houses and also it gives undecided students more of a chance to think a fraternity over. Therefore, I don't think it should be cancelled."
Commented Bill Patterson of Theta Chi: "Due to the small turn out and the lack of participation in last year's spring rush I am for cancellation."
Cordell Meeks of Alpha Phi Alpha said, "The spring rush doesn't effect us, because we don't participate. But I think quite a few of the fraternities are against it."
Funds were given to build an auditorium in the Continuation Center at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City. Mrs. Hashinger also established the Flower Fund through which memorial contributions from friends of the University provide short term emergency loans to students.
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WRITE? YOU'RE WRONG
The survey reveals an astonishing fact: that when students have completed their freshman year and are no longer required to take English, their writing skill progressively declines until we come to the fantastic situation where graduating seniors actually are poorer writers of English than incoming freshmen!
In the recent furor over the assassination of President McKinley, it may have escaped your notice that a nationwide study of the writing ability of American college students has just been published.
Many theories have been offered to account for this incredible fact. Some say that seniors know less English than freshmen because all seniors major in French. This is not true. No more than 94 percent of seniors major in French. How about the other six percent?
Well sir, of the other six percent, half-or three percent take physics, and it is not hard to understand how these poor souls grow rusty in English when all they ever say is "E equals MC squared."
Of the remaining three percent, two-thirds—or two percent—major in whaling, and their English too grows feeble with disuse. Whalers, as we all know, do not speak at all except to shout. "Thar she blows!" maybe twice a year.
Of the one percent remaining, it cannot be fairly said that they are poor writers. The fact is, we don't know what kind of writers they are. Why not? Because they never write. And why don't they ever write? Because this remaining one percent of American college students are enrolled at the University of Alaska, and never take their mittens off.
(Incidentally, I received quite a surprise upon first visiting Alaska two years ago when I was invited to Juneau to crown the Queen of the Annual Date Palm Festival. Frankly I expected to find a surly and morose populace. After all, going through life with your mittens on all the time is hardly calculated to make you merry as a cricket. Not only can't you write, but you miss out on all kinds of other fun things—like three card monte, making shadow pictures on the wall, and lint picking. However, to my astonishment, I discovered Alaskans to be a haile and gregarious group, mittens notwithstanding, and I soon found out why: because mittens notwithstanding, they could still smoke Marlboro Cigarettes, still enjoy that rich mellow flavor, that fine, clean Selectrate filter, that truly soft soft pack, that truly flip-top flip-top box—and that, friends, will make anybody happy, mittens notwithstanding. In fact, Alaskans are the happiest people I have ever met in the whole United States—except, of course, for the Alaskan vendors of Marlboro Cigarettes, who have not been paid in many years—indeed, never—because how can anybody dig out coins to pay for cigarettes when he is wearing mittens?)
But I digress. What are we going to do about this deplorable condition where college students, having completed Freshman English, become steadily less proficient in the use of the language? The answer is simple. We will make them take Freshman English all through college. In fact, we won't let them take anything else! This solution, besides producing a nation of graceful writers, will also solve another harrowing problem: where to park on campus. If everybody takes nothing but Freshman English, we can tear down all the schools of law, medicine, engineering, and whaling, and turn them into parking lots. Can't we? © 1962 Max Shulman
The makers of Martboro, who sponsor this column, plead guilty to being among those Americans whose writing skill is not all it might be. However, we like to think that as tobaccoists we know a thing or two. Won't you try us and see if you agree?