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Audience to Judge Potpourri Finalists
A basic change in the Speech Potpourri, which begins tonight in Fraser Theater was designed to interest students and benefit instructors.
The change is in the selection of the three winners from the sixteen finalists. Eight will speak tonight and the other eight will speak tomorrow evening.
STUDENTS WILL cast ballots each night for those they think should win. Faculty members will also cast votes, but theirs will not be counted in the contest. They will be used as a means of comparison between student and faculty opinion.
The student audience, rather than a panel of instructors or guests, will select the winners this year. The change is related to a research project of a group of Speech I instructors who are trying to determine if students and teachers judge speakers on the same basis.
James Meikle, assistant instructor of speech and drama and one of the coordinators of the contest, said audience participation in judging is not a new thing. It is used in debate contests and in small class sit-
All Speech I students are required to attend parts of the potpourri and, in addition to voting for the winners, they will make out rating sheets for several speeches.
In the tryouts for the potpourri Monday night, the following students were chosen as finalists: Linda Gilna, Manhattan freshman; Joan Howard, Salina sophomore; Robert Stareck, Prairie Village freshman; Mary Tate, Prairie Village freshman; Linda Keller, St. Francis freshman; Rose Koo, Hong Kong junior; Robert Igo, Wichita freshman; James Pitts, Wichita sophomore.
uations, but is seldom used in such a large and diverse way as a speech contest, he said.
UPI Foreign News Analyst By Phil Newsom
Finalists chosen Tuesday night were: Rod Wilson, Paola freshman; Richard Hawkins, Chillicothe, Mo.; freshman; Richard Croissant, Prairie Village freshman; John Solomon, Lawrence freshman; Mike Grady, Colby freshman; Dan Crego, Wichita freshman; Karen Kemmerly, Kansas City, Mo., freshman; and Yvonne Sutter, Leafwood freshman.
Impossible to perceive at the time, there was tragic irony in President Kennedy's greeting upon the occasion last Feb. 19 of Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt's state visit to Washington.
Venezuelan Victory Seen in Free Voting
"You represent all that we admire in a political leader," Kennedy said.
He was addressing a man who had survived three assassination attempts and still was to survive a fourth in a nation which was the No. 1 target of Castor Communist's attempt to destroy democracy in Latin America.
YET 10 MONTHS later, it was President Kennedy, leader of the world's free nations, who was himself to fall victim to an assassin's bullet.
This week Venezuela turned an important corner.
Despite terrorist threats, more than three million Venezuelans turned out in free elections to name Eetancourt's successor. It was an important triumph for Betancourt who has been determined that first, free elections be held and second, that next March he should turn his office peacefully over to the man who won.
NOW A NEW TEST involving the whole of Latin America is at hand.
It was an important victory, too, for the Venezuelan people and for the Venezuelan military who successfully had resisted the temptation to seize the reins of government and thus provide the terrorists with proof that democracy in Latin American would not work.
Only a few weeks prior to Betancourt's Washington visit, Communist Cuba itself had made clear the importance it attached to Venein a Havana rally marking the fifth anniversary of the overthrow of Venezuelan dictator Perez Jimenez, Cuban communist leader Blas Roca declared that the Venezuelan rebels are not alone and that "we will continue giving them our backing every day." And he added:
"When they achieve their full independence and make themselves
Chancellor in Oregon For AMA Meeting
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoto has gone to Portland, Ore., to attend a meeting of the American Medical Association.
The chancellor, who was educated as a doctor of medicine, is chairman of the Council of Medical Education and Hospitals, a branch of the AMA.
Besides meeting with the council, Chancellor Wescoe will attend the AMA House of Delegates.
He will return to KU tonight by airplane.
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owners of the great riches in oil, aluminum and everything their earth imprisons, then all of America shall burn. The whole of America shall liberate itself once and for all from the ominous Yankee imperialist yoke."
The Castro regime itself denied vehemently that it has given other than moral support to the Venezuelan terrorists.
In Rocas, words were clear intent.
YET WITHIN the organization of American states, from whose councils Cuba already has been banned, there remained doubt. Words, they said, were not weapons.
This week, from a cache of arms discovered on a Venezuelan beach, Venezuela presents evidence to the contrary.
Venezuela, backed by the United States, will demand that the OAS unite against Cuba under the Treaty of Rio which also is known as the treaty of reciprocal assistance.
The answer should be overwhelming hemispherical solidarity. Unfortunately, past performance permits no such encouraging outcome.
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