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Thursday, Oct. 17, 1963
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
61st Year, No.25
OVER FRIED CHICKEN and other box-lunch goodies, these sophomore women reminisce about the good old days on "4 East" or "3
South." The freshman floor reunions took place at the CWEN-sponsored sophomore picnic last night at Potter Lake.
Jayhawker Yearbook AURH Policy Settled
The Association of University Residence Halls (AURH) and the Jayhawker yearbook have reached agreement concerning pages in the book purchased by AURH member halls.
the procedure and policy of the yearbook and the AURH for the coming year was set forth in a joint statement made this week. The agreement replaces a special contract which the AURH sought and which was turned down by the Jawhawk Advisory Board.
The residence halls and the Jayhawker have been at odds for the past two years concerning complaints about text and pictures on the pages purchased by the halls in the annual.
According to the agreement,
AURH member halls and the year-
book will work through a special
Jayhawker liaison, Karen Shoop,
St. John junior. Miss Shoop was
appointed to the position last
spring.
The statement says, "upon her has been placed the responsibility of assuring that all members of the AURH are properly informed on matters concerning their halls and the Jayhawker. In the performance of her duties, she will work closely with Alan Stamper, the editor, who will at all times keep her informed of the responsibilities of the group she represents and what the Jayhawker is able to do to insure their satisfaction."
All but three or four of the contracts for the AURH members have been signed under the terms of the agreement, John Mays, Lyons junior and Jayhawker business manager. said.
the ones who have not signed have agreed to, but still have details to work out within their own halls, Mays said. He expects them to sign by the first of the week.
to Stamper, Plainville senior, said the AURH contract proposal was turned down because it took too much power from the Jayhawker. "It would have taken the power of censorship outside the Jayhawker," he said.
Mays said the contract was not
actually turned down. "Everything in the contract, which is feasible is in the joint statement," he said.
Mays says he didn't think the contract would have worked for either the AURH or the Jayhawker. He said it is impossible to foresee conditions which might not have been covered in the contract.
To aid in the communication, Miss Shoop has a committee consisting of one representative from each member hall who is responsible for relating information about the Javhawker directly to the halls.
As soon as Stamper informs her of anything the Jayhawker needs from any or all of the halls, she will contact the responsible person and pass the information to him. It is then up to the representative to cooperate with the Jayhawker
James Tschecheltel, Shawnee Mission junior, was re-elected chairman of the Association of University Residence Halls last night.
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AURH Re-elects Former Chairman
He was elected last fall and is the first chairman of the year-old organization which coordinates activities which involve all university housing for single students other than the freshman women's residence halls.
Tschechtelin announced the AURH has asked the All-Student Council for $400-$450 to help in the financing of the Whatchamacallits.
Tschechtelin presented plans to form an AURH housing board which would work with the University on the construction and design of future University housing. Ronald Rarden, Leawood junior, was appointed to look into the possibilities of such a board.
The Whatchamacallits are weekly Friday night dances open to the entire student body.
Other officers elected were vicechairman, John Underwood, Parsons senior, and secretary-treasurer, Jean Lewis, Overland Park junior.
The next meeting of the association will be Oct. 30.
Weather
It will be partly cloudy today through Friday with a good chance of thunderstorms this evening and Friday morning. The high temperature today will be near 80 and the low tonight in the 60's. The high temperature Friday will be in the 80's.
Civil War Play To Open Tonight
John Brown's Body, epic poem of the Civil War, will open the KU Experimental Theatre season on Thursday, October 17.
A dramatization of the poem will be a series of scenes dealing with many aspects of life set against the background of the Civil War.
The cast includes; Richard Kelton, Miami, Okla., junior; George Bradley, Pittsburgh graduate student; Marcia Dalen, Minneapolis, Minn., graduate student and Nancy Vunovich.
"John Brown's Body" is a dramatized, staged reading of Stephen Vincent Benet's epic poem, which views the events of the Civil War, beginning with Brown's attack on Harper's Ferry, through the eyes of two families, one southern and aristocratic, and the other, northern and pro-abolitionist.
The production will travel to Kansas City and will be given at Battenfeld Auditorium and KU Medical Center. Oct. 25-26.
Tickets are 50 cents with student activity card, and $1 for nonstudents.
Washington Ignores Mme. Nhu's Arrival
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—South Viet Nam's traveling first lady, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, appears to be peeved at the reception—or lack of it—accorded her visit by official Washington.
The capital debut of the sharp-tongued sister-in-law of Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem took place yesterday in a hotel only a few blocks from the White House, but there were only two administration officials in attendance.
SHE CRITICIZED the Kennedy Administration and said the "Vietnamese government looks much more anti-Communist than the American government." She claimed there were "distortions and blackouts" in news dispatches from Saigon.
Buddhists who commit public suicides are "all victims of incitement." Mme. Nhu said, and the Communists are exploiting them because they (the Reds) know they are losing the war.
The administration's studied coolness was not the only rebuff Mme. Nhu suffered yesterday. She sought in vain for a meeting with her father, Tran Van Chuong, who quit as Vietnamese ambassador to the United States this summer in protest against the actions of his daughter and his government in repressing the Buddhists.
SHE WENT to Chuong's home in northwest Washington last night but he was not home. He said he will not see her.
The cold shoulder from her father may have hurt South Viet Nam's first lady, but it was the chilly non-reception accorded her by official Washington that bothered her more.
SHE SAID SHE had evidence that some Kennedy administration officials have "no eagerness to win the war against Communists in South Viet Nam."
Mme. Nhu criticized as political pressure a recent withholding of U.S. commercial aid to Saigon. "I cannot see how such a thing can be done without reason against a government which is winning the war."
The State Department has ordered a delay in payment of a reported $12 million in grants this month which would help South Viet Nam finance commercial imports. The move was interpreted here as a mild form of pressure to remind the regime of Mme. Nuhu's brother-in-law, Ngo Dinh Diem, of the heavy support it gets from the United States.
MME, NIU SAID the aid restriction "shows real evidence there is no eagerness to win the war against the Communists." She said the Vietnamese government surely is more anti-Communist than a few members of the Kennedy administration," emphasizing the word few.
She also explained her much-criticized phrase, "Buddhist barbecue," which she used to describe Buddhist monk protest suicides-byfire. She said her 18-year-old daughter picked up the expression from Americans she overheard in a Saigon snack bar. Mme. Nhu said she herself used the expression hoping to prevent future suicides through ridicule, but that she meant no harm.
ASC To Define Exact Meaning Of Liaison Bill
The dispute between the student body president and the chairman of the Student Liaison Committee of the All Student Council over that committee's duties may be settled.
Reuben McCornack, Abilene senior and student body president, Jim Thompson, Hugoton senior and liaison committee chairman and Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, discussed the group's scope at a 90-minute meeting Wednesday afternoon.
"The problem is that the bill (creating the committee) is ambiguous in its wording." McCornack said last night. "As a result, people are reading different meanings into it."
McCORNACK announced that the members of the liaison committee, and John Stuckey, Pittsburg senior and ASC chairman, would write amendments to the bill to clarify its wording, and introduce them at the ASC meeting Tuesday night.
He explained that Wescoe was invited to discuss the committee's duties "because he is directly involved in its work, and is, therefore, interested in what it does."
The Student Liaison Committee began functioning last month, and was immediately involved in a disagreement about its scope. McCornack said the committee was to inform governmental bodies off campus—such as the Board of Regents and State Legislature—of student opinion on matters affecting KU, as directed by the ASC.
THOMPSON argued that his committee also was empowered to investigate problems on campus if existing ASC committees would not do so.
Several weeks ago, in connection with Thompson's views of the committee's functions, the group announced it would examine KU's health service, traffic control system, and a proposed installment payment of tuition fees.
"We felt that some actions of the liaison committee were beyond the original intent of the bill. This is not to say that the ideas of individual members of the committee should be dropped, but that they as individuals should present these problems to the ASC and to its committees for their consideration and action." McCornack said.
"EVERY MEMBER of the council should feel this responsibility. Some activities in which the liaison committee has been engaging are beyond the intent of the bill."
Loudspeakers Purchased as Senior Gift
Eight 15-inch loudspeakers will be installed in the KU football stadium as part of the Class of 1964's senior gift.
The speakers will be erected on 15 foot high poles on the track and used by the cheerleaders at home games. They will be permanently spaced along the student section of the east stadium.
Rebecca Williamson, Wichita senior and chairman of the senior gift committee, said the speakers will be first used on Senior Day, Oct. 26. The gift is being presented to the
school before graduation in order that it may be used this season.
The committee also discussed the senior coffee that will be held at 9:30 a.m. Oct. 23 in the Kansas Union. Sweatshirts will be given out to seniors and a program of speeches and folk singing will be presented.
The gift idea was presented to the living quarters committee in a meeting last night and approved.
The senior class will elect a Senior Queen at the closing of the coffee hour. Twenty candidates will be selected from the women's living houses and presented for the title.
The Queen will be the official hostess of the senior class.
The committee discussed the Senior Day Party to be held 5-11 a.m. at the Big Barn.
Jerry Cook, St. Louis, Mo., senior and special events committee chairman, presented ideas for a senior party during the second semester. Two ideas were a ski party or a train party.
Cook said the senior class has been discussing the possibility of bringing a comic, such as Bob Hope, Bob Newheart, or Mort Sahl, to the school as a project next semester.