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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Oct. 29, 1963
Homecoming Decorations Falter-
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(Continued from page 1) Linda Gilna, special events chairman of Corbin Hall, said:
"We were not given the official theme until it was too late to start anything, consequently, we won't have any decorations."
THE THEME WAS a poor choice anyway, she added.
A tea for alumnae will replace homecoming decorations at the Delta Delta Delta house. The decision to forego decorations this year was made so that present members may become better acquainted with old members.
Another protest to the theme was raised by Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity which will not decorate this year because of the theme. Walter Wulf, Humboldt freshman, said "we will not decorate this year because of the poor choice of theme. If the type of theme is changed next year, then we will decorate again."
The house is located at the far west edge of the campus, thus making it hard for people to come to see decorations, a spokesman said.
THE HOUSES AND halls that have decided to decorate have had problems getting people to work on the project because of the theme.
Merry Moore, Raytown. Mo, senior and Carruth-O'Leary homecoming chairman, said:
"It is difficult to get people to work on a theme that is so dull. The traditional theme of defeating the other team was easy to work with. It brought out a lot of school
spirit to see the Jayhawk killing our opponent."
Although Alpha Tau Omega is constructing decorations this year, it has had a hard time coming up with many fresh ideas that would go along with the over-all theme. According to one house member, several themes were discarded before an idea was selected.
MIKE ELWELL, Wichita senior and president of Sigma Nu, said his house was putting up decorations but that "there is no enthusiasm because of the theme."
He said the reason so many houses and halls are dropping out of the competition is because they dislike the theme and want to show their disapproval by not participating. It is a type of passive resistance, he said.
There are still those groups that feel the theme is not bad and seem to have enthusiasm and drive for the decorations.
Hashinger Hall is continuing the tradition of decorations this year and the chairman of the decorations committee has had no problems getting people to help with preparations. She thought the theme was a bit "different" but not very difficult to work with.
ANOTHER GROUP that is going to keep the tradition is Sigma Chi fraternity. The pledge class is already at work putting the final touches on the decorations and their will to work has not been hampered by the theme, according to house members.
Joseph R. Pearson Hall, Chi Omega sorority, Alpha Phi sorority, Lewis Hall, Fred Ellsworth Hall and Templin Hall will all participate this weekend in showing
giant Jayhawks and their troubles in achieving a higher education.
The problem of the theme has hit almost all of the houses on campus in some way. General opinion seems to be that if next year's theme is not the traditional type, there may be an even sharper dwindling of decorations for alumni to see when they visit for homecoming.
The homecoming theme for 1963 may seem uninspiring to many campus groups, but to Bob Oyler, 13. son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Oyler, 700 Mass, it is another opportunity to show KU school spirit.
Bob, a student at West Junior High School, has made his own set of homecoming decorations every year since 1959.
HE WAITS UNTIL the KU theme is announced and then uses his own imagination to construct a decoration. He gets his materials for his display from sororities and fraternities at the end of each homecoming weekend to be used in the next year.
He has received assistance from Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity which has given him many materials in the last few years.
In recent years, Bob has recruited the help of several school friends to build the decoration. This year he plans to portray a KU professor teaching KU football players how to build a rocket to fly to the moon.
Since there will be a teachers conference for Lawrence school teachers Thursday and Friday. Bob will have those two days off to do additional work on his decoration. He should have it completed by Friday.
JFK Foes' Rights Bill Rejected
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — President Kennedy today won his battle to block a civil rights bill he felt was too strong to pass Congress when the House Judiciary Committee rejected the measure by a vote of 19-15.
The committee action climaxed strenuous personal intervention by Kennedy and other top administration officials in the civil rights fight.
After the long-delayed showdown vote, the committee turned to consideration of a less sweeping civil rights bill which, like the strong bill it replaces, would touch on nearly every area of racial tension.
THE VOTE ON the strong bill was the first order of committee business when it met behind closed doors. Members who left the room after the balloting disclosed the vote.
Democrats and Republicans who had been lined up for the stronger bill went into the judiciary meeting conceding that they probably had been beaten. Some of them already were calling the proposed compromise a good bill that they could support.
The showdown came less than an hour after President Kennedy called both Democratic and Republican House leaders together for one final effort to nail down agreement on the compromise. He obviously was successful.
"substantial progress" toward agreement on a bipartisan bill.
There had been reports following announcement yesterday of a possible compromise that Kennedy would pay tribute publicly to Republicans for giving the White House a hand if the move were successful in getting out of committee a bill the administration believes can pass.
SPEAKER JOHN W. McCormack had given somewhat of an advance tipoff to the committee action after the White House meeting of leaders of both parties with Kennedy. He was clearly optimistic in reporting
Kennedy called on Republican House leaders after his weekly session with the Democratic Congressional leadership.
McCORMACK SAID the compromise civil rights measure, which is substantially in the form originally proposed by Kennedy, would "go a long way toward guaranteeing first class citizenship for all Americans without regard to race or creed."
He added, "I am confident the bill will be passed because this is not a partisan political issue; it is a moral issue of the greatest magnitude."
Those attending the joint meeting after the regular legislature breakfast by Democrats with Kennedy included GOP leaders Leslie Arends, Ill.; Charles Halleck, Ind., and William McCullough, Ohio, the latter ranking GOP member of the Judiciary committee. On the Democratic side, the conferees included the speaker. House Democratic leader Carl Albert of Oklahoma, and judiciary chairman Emmanuel Celler, N.Y.
leader Mike Mansfield, Mont., was asked how the compromise civil rights bill might fare in the Senate.
He chose not to make an predictions on what will happen in the Senate, where a Southern filibuster is certain when the legislation comes over from the House.
WHEN THE Democratic leaders left the President's office, Senate
"We will, of course, wait for the House bill to reach us and then take a look at it." Mansfield replied.
to hear the reasoning as to why the request was cut completely."
MISS LANE SAID the Radio Production Center's appropriation should be doubled from the $400 recommended by the finance committee. The center—which has distributed an explanation of his requests to most ASC members — asked for $979.38.
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Jane Breckenridge, Louisburg junior and women's small residence hall representative, agreed with Swartz and Miss Lane.
"Right now the "Whathatchmacallis" are financed by the residence halls." Miss Breckenridge said "They should be financed through the ASC because they are open to the entire University."
Tom Woods, Arkansas City junior and fraternity district representative, said "Whatchamacallis" are, in reality, residence hall functions.
"THE AURH ITSELF is not representative of the entire student body." Woods said. "We should look at these requests from the standpoint of what the organizations do for the University as a whole."
Woods said he is satisfied with the finance committee's proposals.
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Dr. Wilhelm Wolfgang Schuetz, executive chairman of Council for Reunification — "Germany Indivisible" — will speak at 4 p.m., Nov. 5, in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union on "The European Community and the Atlantic Partnership."
Dr. Schuetz has lectured widely in Europe and North America as a representative of the West German government.
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A former Swiss newspaper correspondent and presently a radio political commentator in Stuttgart, Dr. Schuetz was elected to head the Council for Reunification in 1957 and again in 1961.
In 1963 he headed a West German delegation to the Commission on Human Rights of the United Nations which protested the erection of the Berlin wall.
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Charles Portwood, Shawnee Mission senior and ASC treasurer, said the AURH sponsors the "Whatchamacallits" mainly for the residence halls.
Dr. Schuetz received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Heidelberg in 1934.
"The fact that everyone is invited is fine," Portwood said. "But just because the AURH invites everyone on campus to attend these functions is no reason why the council should support them."
"I realize that few organizations get what they ask for." Crowther said. "But I am particularly interested in this appropriation since I am a representative of the School of Law. However, I have found nothing in the recommendations which appears particularly controversial to me."
Marshall Crowther, Salina second-year law student and School of Law representative, said he will ask tonight why the Student Bar Association is recommended only $159, compared to $250 granted it last year by the ASC.
JOHN STUCKEY, Pittsburg senior and ASC chairman, said he is "very satisfied" with the recommendations of the finance committee.
"A lot of careful planning went into the committee's report," Stuckey said.
Bob Tieszen, McPherson senior and fraternity district representative, would not comment on the financing committee's recommendations.
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