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LAWRENCE. KANSAS
61st Year. No.40
Thursday, Nov. 7, 1963
UP Says Vox Platform Leaves Out Main Issue
A co-chairman of University Party last night charged that Vox Populi's platform does not recognize the main issue of the All Student Council election campaign.
Charles Marvin, Lawrence senior, said the central issue is whether reforms are needed in All Student Council machinery.
"The Vox platform says nothing about the need for reforms in student government." Marvin said. "This is in spite of the fact that the student body president, a Vox member, already has admitted that the ASC is organized along the wrong lines by forming a commission to investigate the council's committees."
Marvin's accusations, made following a UP general assembly meeting in the Kansas Union, were denied by Tom Bornholdt, Topeka senior and Vox president.
"REUBEN McCORNACK (student president) was not admitting that the ASC is in need for reform when he organized the committee."
Senator Morse To Speak Dec.11
Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon is coming to KU Dec. 11.
Sen. Morse is being brought to KU by the Current Events committee and the SUA Featured Speakers Bureau.
The topic of his speech has not been determined but it will be in the field of foreign relations, Underwood said.
John Underwood, Parsons senior and chairman of the ASC Current Events committee, said Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy may also come to KU.
"Atty. Gen. Kennedy has expressed a sincere interest in speaking at KU." Underwood, said.
No details have been arranged, but the Current Events Committee, SUA Featured Speakers Bureau, and the ASC Convocations and Lectures committee, are present attempting to set a date, possibly in February, Underwood said.
Bornholdt said. "He is only checking to see if this may be so. If the Little Hoover Commission feels the ASC committee system needs to be changed, then we will endorse these changes."
Bornholdt said Vox feels the main issue of the election is whether student government "should serve only to perpetuate itself or should exist to meet the needs of students."
"Our platform contains seven specific planks which would provide services to students," the Vox president said. "UP's platform has only two planks—on stadium seating and stop week—which would serve student needs."
Marvin criticized Vox for ignoring civil rights in its platform. He said UP feels racial discrimination is still a "grave issue" on campus which must be faced and that its importance is reflected by two civil rights resolutions passed by the ASC this week.
BORNHOLDT REPLied that Vox interest in civil rights has been demonstrated in past platforms and pointed out that both ASC resolutions approved this week were introduced by a Vox member.
Other parts of the Vox platform which Marvin criticized concerned:
- ASC-SUA cooperation in obtaining speakers. "This says in effect that there is no need for two committees," Marvin said. "If we're going to do this, the two committees should be completely combined. The SUA Featured Speakers Forum has been doing most of the work."
Bornholdt said Vox proposed the cooperation because often financial resources of both groups are needed to obtain well-known speakers. He added that they should continue to exist separately because they also serve different purposes.
$\bullet$ ANOTHER EXIT off Engel Road, Marvin said this proposal is impractical because the Kansas Legislature will not appropriate funds for construction of a second exit on Engel until 1965.
"Vox knows this cannot be done now," he said. "The student body vice-president told the ASC this fall
Bornholdt said that although Vox realizes construction of another permanent exit is not possible now, a temporary auxiliary exit "to serve as a safeguard in case of emergency" would be both practical and economically feasible this year.
- Kansas Union Bookstore counters in other buildings. "The book-store has already been contacted and is considering action," Marvin said. "Vox is merely proposing something which will go into effect anyway if it is needed."
- "Yes, the bookstore was contacted because we contacted them," Bornholdt said. "It is our policy to investigate whether or not our planks are feasible before including them in the platform."
- STADIUM SEATING changes.
"This looks like a weak reaction to the UP plank announced the night before, which calls for moving the junior section to the south of the senior section, and thus shifting the sophomore and new student sections two sections south." Marvin said.
"Vox has made a vague plank."
Bornholdt said Vox is not committing itself to one specific plan, since the student Athletic Seating Board might propose a better arrangement. He said that Vox primarily proposes to let the Athletic Seating Board be in charge of selecting student sections, a power which the group does not have now.
Weather
Skies will be partly cloudy to cloudy with occasional rain late tonight and Friday, the Weather Bureau said. Tonight's low temperatures are expected to be in the middle to upper 40s. Temperatures will turn colder Friday.
Cooler air is expected to move into the northwest section of the state, gradually moving eastward. A few light rain showers are forecast and skies will be partly cloudy.
CONTEST WINNER-Alvan Teragawachi, Honolulu senior, took first place in the 39th Annual Campus Problems Speaking contest last night. He spoke on English Proficiency Examination. To the right is Prof. E. C. Buehler, originator of the contest. On the left is Prof. Allan Crafton who introduced the eight speakers competing in the contest for first place.
Speech Winner Slams English Proficiency
Alvan Teragawachi, Honolulu Hawaii, senior, slammed the English Proficiency examination last night in his winning speech in the 39th annual Campus Problems Speaking contest.
Teragawachi attributed "poor instruction by inexperienced graduate students, difficulty in deciphering comments on papers and subjective grading" as the major reasons for so many students failing the exam.
HE SUGGESTED an increase in appropriations and salaries to the English Department to increase the staff and therefore produce better instruction. Teragawachi maintained this program would create less dependence on graduate assistants and would equalize the grading system.
The second place winner was Lacy Banks, Kansas City junior. He discussed racial discrimination in sororities and fraternities at KU, based on his experiences in trying to go through rush at KU.
THE LACK OF inquisitiveness of Kansans about places outside of Kansas was the topic of Wayne Macura, Bridgeport, Conn., junior, and third place winner.
Allen Crafton, professor emeritus of speech and drama was chairman for the contest. He introduced the
speakers so that E. C. Buehler, director of forensics and originator of the program, could sit in the audience. This is Prof. Buehler's last year at KU.
PROF. CRAFTON said the contest was founded to raise the status of public speaking to a place of eminence at KU.
"There have been many changes in the university and the University Daily Kansan because of this contest," he said.
Another speaker who participated in the contest was Jim Thompson, Hugoton senior. He attacked 'power politics' at KU and its effect on the death of the Student Liaison Committee.
IN "WE'VE RUN the Race" Bill Robinson, Great Bend, Ind., freshman said, "I am proud of KU." He listed several reasons why he thinks KU is the best University in the state.
"The image of KU" was debated by Robert Sears, Kansas City frechman, in his talk "Our Image." He spoke of the lack of communication the University has with the rest of the state and the nation. Sears said that KU has something to sell and should do it if the University image is to be perpetrated.
KU Japanese Professor Translates Sherlock Holmes
Prof. Toshhihiko Sato
By Lee Stone
The exploits of Sherlock Holmes were first translated into Japanese by a man now teaching at the University of Kansas.
"I am interested in persons who have strong individuality. In this sense I am interested in Henrik Ibsen. Both Lincoln and Ibsen are individualistic, but they are humanistic. They suffered for human beings, not just for themselves," Sato said.
He is Toshihiko Sato, acting associate professor of oriental languages. Sato said he was paid by a publisher to translate the Sir Arthur Conen Doyle mysteries. He is, however, more proud of being the Japanese biographer of Abraham Lincoln. His biography of Lincoln was published in Japan in 1599.
BENJAMIN WALLACKER. associate professor of oriental languages and literature, was asked why he hired Sato. "That's easy. He's a rarity. Look at what he's done. See how broad his interests are," Wallacker said.
Sato has taught himself the Icelandic, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish languages. He has penned about 24 publications on subjects as varied as Mark Twain and Danish folklore. He has made studies in comparative drama.
Sato could be mistaken for an exchange student. He is a small, goodlooking Japanese with intense, dark eyes.
His studies have kept him too busy for marriage.
TOSHIHIKO SATO was almost born a citizen of the United States. His parents were citizens of this country, and his relatives here are scattered from the eastern shore to Hawaii. Immigration authorities are now reviewing Sato's application for citizenship in the United States.
When his father wanted to know more Japanese history than he could learn in this country, his parents moved to Japan. They learned to like Japan and settled in Hiroshima.
The war came when Sato was in his teens. He escaped the atombomb only because his father took a job on the island of Kiushu and moved there before it was dropped.
Sato worked at night as bellboy, telephone operator, and elevator boy in various Tokyo businesses to earn the money to attend college.
"I CAME TO know that to earn a living is not as an easy matter," he said. But, more important, Sato came to know that "society is full of contradictions."
The "contradictors" were what led Sato to study literature. "Literature reveals what life means to us. In this sense, I agree with Aristotle: Poetry is something more than history and philosophy," he said.
In 1954 Sato received his M.A. in English Literature at Waseda University. He was awarded a Fulbright Travel Grant and came to study in the United States. He expects to receive his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1964.
THE JAPANESE were unhappy with the Mikado's changeless feudal society and when the opportunity came they responded quickly to We-tern influence.
The parallels in Scandinavian and Japanese literature are fascinating to Sato. The folklore of the two cultures is often identical though. The countries are separated by thousands of miles and are dissimilar in outward respects.
was when the Emperor regained control of the government and the Mikado was ousted.
SATO OFFERS the story "Why Seawater is Salty" as a maple of the mysterious parallelism.
"Well, it's because of an accident. A ship with a salt-grinding mill sailed out to sea one day and sank. It is still at the bottom of the sea, and the salt-grinding mill is still grinding salt," Sato said. There is no satisfactory explanation of why this folklate should be identical in Scandinavia and in Japan.
Japanese intellectuals have, for the most part, rejected Kabuki and Noh drama, the classical drama of Japan, since the Restoration of 1868. That
There are modern literary parallels, especially in Ibsen's plays. Sato said Ibsen had a powerful influence on Japanese drama, so in this instance the parallels can be explained. Sato delivered a paper on Ibsen's influence on Japanese drama at the University of Indiana in 1962.
"In traditional drama, the play becomes a beautiful genre painting." Sato said. "It has richness of motion and classical beauty. Modern drama searches out the truths of human life. It makes people think.
"While traditional Kabuki and Noh are rich in artistic beauty, they are externally too exaggerated, and in terms of substance, comparatively poor. The modern drama, in response to modern temper, is rich in plot substance." Sato said.
"In other words, the richness of the former is a richness in terms of physical action, while the richness of the latter is expressed in intellectualized action or changes of thought, expressed not so much through action as through dialogue."
THE "DOLL'S HOUSE." by ibsen, was one of the modern dramas that helped remake Japanese literature and thought, Sato said. The Japanese were so impressed that eventually all ibsen's plays were translated, produced, and then imitated.
Sato hopes to make a study of the
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