Some Students Find Time to Play, Others Study
Bv Don Black
Ker-plunk, ker-plunk. K e r-
plunk, ker-plunk. Whamm!
"Wow! Did you see that 'slam'?
That thing really had English on it."
"He would probably 'skunk' me if I ever had to play him, he's sure good."
THE PING-PONG GAME ended and the players sat down for a minute of rest.
"There's a lot more work to ping-pong than there appears to be," Bill Roe, Atchison sophomore, said as he drove into a chair.
Five ping-pong tables were filled with action last night in the Kansas Union as the top players on campus battled it out in a round robin singles tournament. Each man would play about 18 to 21 games and needed all the strength he could muster.
"I'm not in as good shape as I ought to be."
The winner of the Student Union Activities tournament will go to a regional tournament sponsored by the area student unions sometime next month. The final
eight KU players were invited into the tournament from results of an campus open tournament held last fall.
KER-PLUNK, ker-plunk, ker-
plunk. "Oh, Damn."
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Frequently other questionable language was heard when the ball made a bad bounce or someone dove to the floor in an attempt to pick up a return that scooted over the net.
Some players were dressed in gym trunks and T-shirts, which give more freedom to move around
in, and were using expensive paddles. A couple other players wore oid blue jeans and utilized an old scuffed up sandpaper paddle.
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Ker-plunk, ker-plunk, k er-plunk,
"Oops, wished I'd practiced more.
It sure would have helped."
The players grouped into teams of doubles after playing the singles games and taking a short rest. The teams played for the best two games out of three. This made about nine more games for the men to play before quitting for the night.
THE MAJORITY OF the players were out of practice. They wanted to put in more time practicing but upcoming final examinations made the idea seem unrealistic.
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Ker-plunk, ker-plunk, k er-plunk. "Get out of my way."
The shout was a little late as the two players crashed hedon in an attempt to return the ball that hit in the middle of the table. And then there are some students who stay home, finishing term papers and reviewing for finals.
KU Budget Hinges Daily hansan On State Decision 61st Year, No.71
By Tom Coffman
An indication of the fate of KU's $13 million budget request to the Kansas Legislature will be given tomorrow when Gov. John Anderson Jr. announces his budget for the 1965 fiscal year.
The governor's budget announcement precedes the action of the combined House and Senate Ways and Means committee on Monday.
One of the items in the budget is a requested 12 per cent average increase in salary for professors and associate professors.
A 10 PER CENT salary increase is also requested for graduate student teachers.
Ray Nichols, vice chancellor in charge of finance, said the recommendations of the governor are generally followed relatively closely by the Ways and Means Committee.
The governor's budget is balanced, Nichols explained, and the Ways and Means Committee must find the revenue to cover expenses if it throws the governor's budget out of balance.
THE KANSAS BOARD OF Regents submitted the budget requests for state-supported institutions in September.
The requests were submitted to James Bibb, director of the Budget Division of the Kansas State Department.
Bibb challenges parts of the budget requests, Nichols said, such as requiring school administrators and the Board of Regents to defend their requests.
THE MEETING MONDAY before the Ways and Means group is for the purpose of budget defense.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe and Nichols will present KU requests and explain matters which are in doubt to the committee.
The entire operating budget here for the 1965 fiscal year beginning July 1 is $20,125,932, excluding physical plant improvements and auxiliary enterprises. This is an increase of about $1.5 million more than last year.
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Student fees and gifts make up most of the gap between the requests from the state and the operating budget total.
Solons Meet Today In Opening Session
TOPEKA—(UPI)—Kansas legislators were scheduled to open the 1964 budget session at noon today, but money matters will take a back seat to routine business.
The opening day was to be devoted to swearing in new legislators who replaced those who resigned or died since last April.
COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS and general organization were carried over from the 1963 general session.
The Legislators will meet Thursday morning and then adjourn until next week when a full schedule of meetings were on tap.
Kansas is expected to have an economy-minded legislature during this all-important election year. However, Anderson indicated he will seek increases in the cigarette and liquor taxes. He is not expected to ask for any major increases.
Gov. John Anderson will deliver his budget message to a joint session of the legislature tomorrow at 10 a.m.
Both house and senate committee heads already have recommended a starting date of Feb. 17, as the kickoff for solving the state's reapportionment problems. They have also recommended to Anderson that the session be limited to the reapportionment problem.
A SPECIAL SESSION, to deal with reapportionment, will follow on the heels of the 30-day budget session. Anderson said he will announce the official starting date of the special session sometime during the budget session.
Temperatures will become milder tonight and tomorrow. Skies will be partly cloudy tomorrow. The low tonight will be around 15 to 20. The high tomorrow will be around 40, the Weather Bureau said.
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Tuesday, Jan. 14, 1964
Lawrence, Kansas
Panamanian Student Denies U.S. Rights in Canal Zone
By Greg Swartz
A KU Panamanian student last night called the Panama Canal Zone "another country within my country."
"We don't have any rights in the Canal Zone," Ricardo Lajon, Panama graduate student, said as he discussed the flying of the Panamanian flag in the Canal Zone.
If only the American flag flies over the zone, Lajon said in an interview, then it makes it an American country which it is not.
JOHN P. AUGELLI, chairman of the Latin American Areas Studies, said there are more issues than just the flag issue which have caused the recent riots in Panama.
The main reasons for the strife, he said, are growing nationalism in Panama, pressures from Castro and other Communists, the Panamanian desire to receive a bigger share of the profits of the canal, and better treatment for Panamanians in the Canal Zone.
Prof. Augelli said the United States will probably begin offering conciliatory measures. But none of these measures will give up either the control or the defense of the canal as the British did in the Suez Canal crisis.
"Our position is not hard-nosed," he said. The United States is ready to give up certain things without giving up the essentials, he said.
Prof. Augelli predicted that the United States would grant the Panamanians the right to fly their flag in the Canal Zone. It is also possible the United States will increase its payments to Panama for rent, he said.
LAJON EMPHASIZED that the Panamanians don't really want the canal. Lajon suggested that the canal be considered a military zone controlled by both the United States and Panama.
Lajon also suggested that some of the territory of the Canal Zone be given back to the country of Panama.
"There is no reason for it to be as big as it is today," he said.
PROF. AUGELLI said there is some land in the Canal Zone which is not being used for the canal. This could be given back to the Panamanians as a concession, he said.
Prof. Augelli speculated that a Panamanian military unit might be used to help guard the zone. This would give an additional symbol of control to the Panamanians, he said.
Such conciliatory measures will stand in sharp contrast to actions of the government taken, for instance, in 1908, he said.
The trouble was not started by the Communists nor the politicians, Lajon said. Neither have the
It would be difficult for the United States to continue in a non-conciliatory manner in light of U.S. actions in the Suez Canal crisis when the United States backed Egyptian demands for control of that canal, Prof. Augelli said.
LAJON, HOWEVER, said the incident in Panama had nothing to do with Castro in the beginning. The flare-up stems from the students, he said.
U. S. actions in the establishment of Panama as a country has always been a sore spot, Prof. Augelli said. Castro and others have been "making hay" from this point, he said.
older people of the country taken much action, he said.
Lajon said Panama is one country which will never become communist. In fact, he claimed, Panamanians have more freedom than do Americans. Panamanians do what they want to as long as they don't break a law, he said.
"PANAMA HAS NEVER felt it has received the proper share of the income from the canal, although the amount has been increased considerably since the canal was opened," Prof. Augelli said.
Panamanian have not received the same amount of pay for the same jobs held by Americans, Prof. Augelli said.
Though the Panamanian share is roughly $2 million, he said, they do not feel this is enough.
The whole canal question has been pushed by the general feeling of nationalism and anti-American feeling, Prof. Augelli said.
The United States is vulnerable on two grounds, he said. First, historical events do not put the United States in a good light. And second, non-conciliation would provide a first-class piece of propaganda for Fidel Castro, Prof. Augelli said.
By Merriman Smith
U.S. to Defend Canal
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— The United States said today that it will fulfill its obligation to defend the Panama Canal but hopes to do it on a "good neighbor" basis with the Republic of Panama.
"The United States cannot allow the security of the Panama Canal to be imperiled," the White House said in a statement issued after a long, top-level conference which lasted until nearly midnight.
IN A LATER development, Secretary of State Dean Rusk said order is being restored in Panama and expressed optimism over prospects for a settlement of the tense situation.
Rusk also made it clear the United States is determined to keep control of the canal. He did not close the door on a possible revision of the 60+ year-old treaty with Panama governing the strategic waterway.
MANN SPENT almost three hours with Johnson, Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and others outlining the results of his emergency mission to Panama City last weekend following riots which left more than 20 persons dead.
Rusk attended the marathon White House meeting at which President Johnson received an exhaustive report from his Latin American trouble shooter, Thomas Mann.
Rusk said today in a television interview the United States and Panama are keeping in close contact, and that regardless of the "technical" question of whether diplomatic relations are maintained, these contacts will continue.
Restoration of order has been described as a prerequisite for any subsequent discussions of Panama's grievances. These include equal display of the Panama flag, better job opportunities for Panamanians in the American-controlled canal zone and more equitable pay.