Daily hansan
60th Year, No. 2
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, Sept. 17, 1962
Wescoe Calls Students 'Driving Force' at KU
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said today that the University is on the move and that students here are the driving force behind it.
Speaking to an audience of several thousand at the annual opening convocation at Hoch Auditorium, the chancellor said KU has been made great by the loyalty it inspires in its members.
"YOUR SUCCESS will be determined by the dedication with which you pursue your goals," he said, "and your everyday application to the work at hand."
The chancellor said the meaning of a university rises from the invigoration which research generates.
"No class is immune to its invigorating influences-every student, from freshman to graduate, has an opportunity to share in it.
In a tribute to the faculty, Chancellor Wescoe said their devotion makes possible high scholastic standards.
"However achieved, we are grateful for the loyalty of the faculty which has kept it here to serve you, many in spite of more generous offers elsewhere."
"I AM CONFIDENT that this recognition of our needs (for a gifted faculty) will continue until we have reached adequate faculty salary levels.
"And I pledge to the faculty my continuing commitment to them and their welfare."
He said faculty salaries have increased 45 per cent over the past six years:
In other remarks, the chancellor said the fact that 50 per cent of Kansas' college-age population attends college is evidence that the state is aware of the University's value. He said the Kansas figure is 10 per cent above the national average.
In citing KU's growth, Chancellor Wescoe asked all persons on campus to be cautious around construction sites. He pointed out another campus need while warning of the construction dangers:
"Our student health center is overcrowded with more routine cases . . be alert." Wescoe is beginning his third year as chancellor of the University.
New Ambassador Tour Planned by P-T-P
The Brother-Sister plan for helping foreign students with enrollment and living arrangements is the big People-to-People (P-t-P) program now, but plans are already being made for next year's student ambassador program.
William Schaefer, Shawnee Mission junior and chairman of KU P-t-P, predicts that over three thousand American students will be "ambassadors" next year.
Plans are being made to send 1,500 American students to Europe next summer and another 2,000 to other parts of the world. Schaefer says that the travel costs next year will probably be less than they were last summer. Transportation costs last summer for the trip to and from Europe were around $250. Schaefer says that he thinks this will be reduced to about $200 next summer.
SCREENING FOR NEXT year's student ambassadors will begin this December, and indications are that the program will be more closely controlled than it was in the past. The national P-t-P office in Kansas City has divided the United States into regions and has appointed regional directors. This region includes the Big-8 schools.
Although the screening will be done by campus P-t-P executives, regional directors will sit in on screening sessions and will act in advisory capacities on the qualifications of those who wish to take the foreign tours.
Applicants will be questioned to determine their depth of interest in foreign affairs and their understanding of the internal affairs of this country.
ALTHOUGH LAST SUMMER'S tour members had little difficulty
Next Thursday, Sept. 20, there will be a membership meeting in the Kansas Union Ballroom from 7 until 8:30 p.m. Schaefer urges students interested in P-t-P to attend the meeting. Members of the P-t-P executive staff will be present to explain the program and to outline plans for the future.
with language, foreign language proficiency will be considered in the screening.
MOSCOW—(UPI) —The Soviet press finally disclosed yesterday what every Russian woman knows—"It's difficult to be pretty in the Soviet Union."
That's what Nedelya, the Sunday supplement of the government newspaper Izvestia, complained in an article berating government planners for the short supply of nylons, cosmetics and other items for the fair sex.
Soviet Press Views Homeliness at Home
"There is an old saying to the effect that if a woman wants to be beautiful she must suffer," the article said, "and this applies to our day."
Among other scarcities and indignities, the newspaper complained about Russian gloves. "How can a woman who wants to be pretty wear these ugly gloves made of leather that turn a pretty hand into a coarse paw?" it asked.
"Every woman craves pretty clothes, nice makeup and jewelry," Nedelya said. "What we point out is not a question of a woman's caprice but a demand of our time, a demand of increased culture."
Senior Women Learn Of 'No Closing' Plan
There will be a Senior Key orientation meeting for all interested senior women tonight in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
Senior women living in Lewis Hall, Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Alpha Omicron Pi, Alpha Phi, Chi Omega, Douthart Hall, Miller Hall and all residence hall counselors will meet at 8:30 p.m.
Women living in Hashinger Hall, Delta Delta Delta, Delta Gamma, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Pi Beta Phi, Sigma Kappa, Sellards Hall, Watkins Hall and out-in town housing at 9:30 p.m.
Indian Troops Rush to Border
NEW DELHI, India—(UPI)—The Indian government was reported rushing reinforcements today to a border outpost surrounded by Communist Chinese troops near the Tibetan border.
Informed sources said the Indians would take "the necessary measures" to drive the Chinese out if they do not withdraw.
No clashes have been reported from the area so far. The sources refused to say whether Indian troops would shoot if the Chinese Reds maintain their positions around the outpost at Thang La, in the Towang area of India's northeast frontier agency.
A FOREIGN OFFICE spokesman denied Peiping charges that Indian troops crossed the Kashmir border into Sinkiang Province and fired on a Red border outpost about 900 miles northwest of Towang.
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, currently in London for the Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference, was reported to have ordered Indian officials here to be particularly vigilant against further Communist advances in the northeast border area.
Defense Minister V. K. Krishna Menon conferred yesterday for the third consecutive day with military officials, including Gen. L. P. Sen, commander of India's eastern command. An official spokesman said later that the government "is satisfied that effective steps are being taken to keep the Chinese out of our territory."
THE LATEST incident in the steadily increasing friction between the two countries started when a force of about 200 Chinese Communist troops surrounded the Indian outpost high in the Himalaya Mountains early last week. The area is in the disputed region near the junction of Bhutan, Tibet and the northeast frontier agency.
Latest reports said the Chinese are not advancing from their original position and the Indian outpost is maintaining radio communications with Indian army headquarters. Heavy monsoon rains are falling in the area.
TO BE DEDICATED—Shown above is KU's nuclear reactor center. Although it has been in operation over a year, it will not be dedicated until Oct. 6.
Nuclear Reactor To Be Dedicated
Although already in operation over a year, KU's $567,000 Nuclear Reactor Center will be formally dedicated Oct. 6.
Principal speaker for the dedication will be Dr. Harry Hanson, assistant surgeon-general of the United States. Also participating in the ceremony, which begins at 10 a.m. in Swarthout Hall, will be Kansas' senior U.S. Senator Frank Carlson and KU Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe.
Following the dedication, an open house will be held at the Center, which houses the environmental health laboratory, teaching facilities for radiation biophysics and the nuclear reactor.
AMONG THOSE PRESENT at the dedication will be C. L. Burt, a 1908 graduate of the Engineering School, and Mrs. Burt of Hutchinson, longtime KU benefactors whose gifts helped build the center. The two-story structure was built with
Offer Reward For Painting
A reward has been offered for the safe return of the Edouard Manet painting, "A Portrait of Line Campineanu." The oil portrait of a little French girl was stolen from the KU Art Museum Aug. 31.
The reward is for $2000. W. G. Roberts, manager of the General Adjustment bureau in Lawrence, confirmed the establishment of the reward. It was set up by the insurance company which insured the portrait for $40,000. The reward offer expires Nov. 30, 1962.
One-half of the reward is payable for information resulting in the arrest and conviction of the thief or thieves or any person criminally receiving or withholding the painting. The remainder of the amount is offered for recovery of the painting. If the portrait is damaged beyond expectation, the amount will be reduced proportionately.
Gerald Bernstein, museum curator, said reward circulars were being mailed to 1200 art dealers, museums, universities and libraries.
Weather
Partly cloudy skies with a few thunderstorms possible are predicted for Northeast Kansas by the Topeka weather bureau. High temperatures today and tomorrow are expected to be between 80 and 85. The low tonight will be near 60.
approximately equal funds from private, federal and state sources. Additional private funds for the building came from the estate of the late Isaax R. Scammaborn of Wichita.
Construction of the Nuclear Reactor Center on the north side of 15th Street across from Allen Field House started late in the summer of 1959. The reactor, built in Detroit, Mich., by the Bendix Corp. and purchased with Atomic Energy Commission's funds, became "critical" or operational on June 23, 1961.
THE REACTOR operated until July 28, when licensed officers of the installing company left. It did not start operating again until February, 1962, when licenses for Russell Mesler, associate professor of chemical engineering and reactor supervisor, and Harold F. Rosson, assistant professor of chemical engineering, were approved.
The granting of the licenses allowed the University to offer Chemical Engineering Course No. 387 (Nuclear Reactor Laboratory). Five students enrolled in the course during the 1962 spring semester.
The low-power, 10 kilowatt reactor is the safe "pool" type. Besides serving as a teaching tool for the graduate curriculum in nuclear engineering, it is used to produce short-lived radioisotopes for KU research projects.
Eighteen aluminium cartridges three inches by three inches by two feet and containing Uranium 235 were acquired. They are valued at $47,124.
The "pool" is 27 feet tall and holds 6,500 gallons of de-ionized water. The tank is the upper part of a 350-ton concrete and steel structure.
AMONG BIG EIGHT Conference schools, Iowa State has a reactor about the same size. There are smaller ones at Oklahoma University and Oklahoma State University.
The reactor is used by several KU departments. While the Chemical Engineering Department controls the reactor, radiation biophysics staff members employ the reactor considerably, as do those in the other physical and biological sciences.
the sanitary engineering section of the Civil Engineering Department administers the environmental health laboratory which conducts studies on water purification, sewage treatment, industrial waste processing and treatment, re-use of water, stream sanitation, air-borne pollution, radiological health and problems of radioactive fallout.