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53rd Year, No. 108
Retire Or Not? Phog Expected To Tell Today
Wednesday, March 14, 1956.
Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, basketball coach for the past 39 years, is expected to reveal this afternoon whether or not he will retire in June according to mandatory retirement rules.
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Dr. Allen has scheduled a press conference for 4:30 p.m. today and all indications are that the 70-year-old coach will make known his future plans. The press conference, originally scheduled for tomorrow afternoon, was moved up to today after Dr. Allen had been contacted by several area papers and wire services, who pressed him for indications of what announcement he would make. The meeting will be held in the field house.
The question of whether Dr. Allen, the most noted basketball coach in the history of the game, would try to extend his coaching tenure despite the retirement policy of the University has been a question that has puzzled sports fans for the past two years. Last year, an effort was made in the Kansas legislature to give sanction to the extension, but no concrete results came out of the move. Recently, Dr. Allen's supporters have brought up the question again, but he has refused to give any definite answer as to what his plans are.
Dick Harp, 36-year-old assistant to Dr. Allen, is the logical choice to take over if the veteran coach does retire. Mr. Harp has been a freshman coach and assistant since 1949.
Allen has coached 1,044 games in his career, which extends over 46 years, winning 771 and losing 233, the greatest record of any coach. He coached his 1,007 game against Oklahoma Feb. 10 at Norman.
Hitchcock To Pick Javhawker Queen
Alfred Hitchcock, Hollywood movie director, will choose this year's Jayhawk queen, Henry Wittenberg, Kansas City, Mo. senior and editor of the Jayhawker, said Tuesday.
Any University woman may apply, and there is no limit on the number of candidates from any one house. A picture is the application, and all pictures must be in the Jayhawker office by noon Saturday, March 24. A local board will choose 10 finalists, whose pictures will be forwarded to Mr. Hitchcock for the final decision.
Five students and one faculty member will attend the state convention of the Kansas Young Democrats Friday and Saturday, March 23 and 24 at the Town House, Kansas City, Kan., where former President Harry S. Truman will speak.
Young Demos To Meet In K.C.
The University delegates are Prudence Rowles, Jenkintown, Pa., junior; Michael Randolph, Topeka sophomore; Eugene Gastl, third year law student of Shawnee; John Sullivan, Lawrence sophomore; John L. Worrall, second year law student of Kansas City, Kan., and Dan Hopson Jr., assistant professor of law.
Mr. Truman will speak at a banquet at 6 p.m. Saturday.
Lawrence Loftus, second year law student of Lenexa, and Young Democratic national committeeman, said any student may attend the banquet. He should be contacted for tickets, which are $5.
The forecast for Kansas is fair mostly cloudy west this afternoon with scattered light snow extreme west. Snow mixed with drizzle extreme southwest. Partly cloudy north, cloudy south tonight and Thursday with snow south tonight spreading across extreme south portion by Thursday morning. Colder east tonight. Warmer north-west portion Thursday.
Weather
NOT AGAIN!- The weatherman once again rolled out the white carpet. The wet snow that fell intermittently during the night gave campus trees an eerie softness. These pine trees east of Fraser hall were no exceptions.
—(Daily Kansan photo)
Parallel Thinking Of Arnold Today Cited By Lowry
"Matthew Arnold, as few of his time have, has retained meaning in the 20th century because of his acute sensitivity and his feeling of integrity and faith in man and mankind as a whole," said Dr. Howard F. Lowry, president of the College of Wooster, Ohio, Tuesday night in the fifth Humanities lecture in Fraser Theater. His subject was "Matthew Arnold—1956."
Dr. Lowry pointed to the similarity of thought in Arnold's time with present day ideas of faith and purpose. Arnold sensed the ineffectual spiritual feeling of his time, he said.
Arnold spent about the first half of his life as a poet. His aim in poetry was to create objects and not mere "wrapping paper for thought." To him poetry was not the process of thought but the result of thought.
"His poetry is lacking in any real philosophical strength and does not solve problems 20 years ago." Objectivity is his reason for poetry, said Dr. Lowry,
Arnold passed from poetry into criticism. His finest literary gifts are probably his criticisms that weren't just limited to literature but covered religion, politics, and science. He considered great as both poets and critics, among them Rryden, Coleridge, and T, S. Eliot.
"I think Arnold would have liked the way America tries to educate everybody. He disliked the English aristocracy and liked instead French efforts to establish equality. But the greatest charge he made against England and later the United States was the sense of doing and the feeling of religious obligation rather than an obligation toward equality of mind.
"He once stated that his hope was that some day the law would include light as well as honesty and would make light a moral cause.
"His thought toward relevance was that happiness lies in the ability to make a synthesis of reason, and imagination. 'Poetry is higher than logic, and the union of the two is philosophy,' he believed.
"The relevance and importance of Arnold isn't as much in his work as in his spiritual relationship with mankind."
AWS Voting Is Thursday
Polls will be located in Strong and Fraser Halls and in the Student Union and will be open from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Identification cards must be shown to vote.
Four women from every organized house will work at the polls for one hour. The women will meet at 5 p.m. today in Strong Auditorium to receive instructions for their work.
1. 500 ballots have been printed for the Associated Women Students election Thursday when University women will elect 12 of the 51 candidates to the AWS Senate.
Women will be elected to the positions of president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, Greek representative to the All Student Council.
The candidates were introduced to the freshmen women at the sophomore counselors' party for their counselees Tuesday in the Student Union Ballroom.
(Related editorial, Page 2)
Vacation Ride Bureau Planned By SUA
Student Union Activities has organized a travel bureau to arrange rides home for students for spring vacation and to provide riders for drivers who wish to lower driving costs.
Students driving or wanting rides may sign up between Wednesday and Friday, March 23 at the Information Booth in the Student Union.
POGO Forms Party Platform
The Party of Greek Organizations has formed its platform and will meet Thursday, March 29 to choose candidates for the coming elections.
The platform:
"In view of the present political situation on the campus, POGO feels that the necessity of party platforms has become obsolete. In viewing party platforms in the past years and realizing that they change little from year to year and party to party, we feel that the proper position of a political party should be to meet each problem as it arises, dealing with said problems in a manner that full benefit will accrue to the student body without regard to political affiliation or living district.
"Party platforms have not materially changed since the first student election on the campus. What one party promises one year is generally the platform for the other party the next year. Most of the time the platforms are identical and ridiculous. In looking over the past ten years, for instance, you will find such things as floating holidays and better student housing listed year after year on one or both parties' platforms, when in all reality these matters are decided by the Board of Regents and the University administration.
"In view of the above facts, the Party of Greek Organizations hereby pledges itself to meet each problem in such a way that the aforesaid benefits will accrue to all students, and at the same time bring to the attention of the All Student Council and the University as a whole, all problems which it feels merits their consideration."
Greek Week Honor Banquet At 6 p.m. Today
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University, will speak on "In Praise of Excellence." The president, honor initiate, senior IFC or Panhellenic member, and the scholarship chairman of each fraternity and sorority are invited.
Trophies and scholarships will be awarded at a scholarship banquet, sponsored by the Inter-fra-ternity and Panhellenic councils, at 6 p.m. today in the Student Union in connection with Greek Week.
Another Greek Week event will be the competition of 21 groups representing 10 fraternities and 9 sororites for trophies in the Interfraternity Sing at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Student Union Ballroom.
Professors To Judge
Trophies will be awarded to the three top sororites and fraternities, and to the two top small ensembles. Groups are asked to meet at the south end of the main lounge 15 minutes before they are to appear.
Professors 10 Judge
The groups will be judged by Jeannette Case, associate professor of music theory, Clayton Krehbiel, assistant professor of music education, and Austin Ledwish, assistant professor of music theory and band. Judging will be on the basis of selection, tone quality, balance, intonation, note accuracy, phrasing, interpretation, diction and rhythm.
The program will be taped and later broadcasted by KDGU. There is no admission and everyone is invited.
Chariot Race Saturday
A chariot race Saturday will chlmax Greek Week. Each fraternity entering the race, which begins at the west end of Strong Hall at 2 p.m., will provide a homemade "chariot" pulled by two fraternity members. The course from Strong Hall around the Chi Omega fountain and back is about three-tenths of a mile.
Fraternity scholarship and rushing procedures were the discussion topics at two Greek Week panels Tuesday.
Fraternities should emphasize that it is the responsibility of
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KU Officials, Students Sorry Miss Peterson Will Leave
"We are sorry to lose Dean Martha Peterson from the University family, and at the same time are pleased to see that her talents are recognized beyond our own campus," Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy said about Miss Peterson's becoming dean of women at the University of Wisconsin.
"She has participated importantly in major developments in the University over the past eight years both as assistant dean and dean of women. The sound development in matters relating to women on our campus is a tribute to her ability," Dr. Murphy said. "No successor has been chosen, although we have a search under way."
George B. Smith, dean of the University, said, "I will join everyone else in wishing Dean Peterson success in her new job, everything goes well for her. We will miss her at the University of Kansas."
Donald Alderson, dean of men,
said, "Those of us who have worked
with Miss Peterson will miss her
congenial and understanding
approach to the many responsibilities
related to her job, but join others in wishing her well as she prepares to take her new position at Wisconsin."
Dorothy Sheets, Topeka senior and president of Associated Women Students, who has worked with Miss Peterson on AWS affairs said, "We on the AWS Senate were very surprised, but pleased that Dean Peterson will go to Wisconsin. It is certainly going to be a loss to us. She has been a very big factor in the existence and success of AWS on the campus. We are sorry to see her leave."
Miss Peterson said. "I suspect I will be back often. I am sorry to go for I have been here quite a while and have many good friends, but when you are offered a job that looks good to you, you have to take it."