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Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
Monday, March 12, 1956.
53rd Year, No. 106
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Royalty Picked As Greek Week Activities Start
Dale Barham, Delta Delta Delta sorority, Topeka sophomore, and Scole Dole, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Pratt sophomore, were crowned Queen and King of Greek Week at the annual Greek Week Ball Saturday. Duke Ellington and his band played.
The queen's attendants are Sandra James, Pi Beta Phi sorority, Wichita, and Mary Belle Brown Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, Kansas City, Mo., both sophomores Jerry Cox, Delta Tau Delta, Lawrence, and Gerald Rosenlund, Phi Gamma Delta, Topeka, seniors, were escorts for the attendants.
Receive Trophies
The King and Queen received trophies as part of the honor of reigning over Greek Week. The Queen and her attendants received garlands, and the escorts to the Queen's attendants received cuff links.
To Hold Discussions
The regal party will reign over the Greek Week chariot race Saturday, March 17.
10 Hold Discussions
Fraternity rushing and scholarships will be the topics of two panel discussions to be held Tuesday as part of the Greek Week activities.
1. Should freshmen have study hall?
Aspects of scholarship to be discussed are:
2. Should active members be placed on probation for falling down?
3. Are requirements for initiation too low?
4. Are standards for pledging too low?
5. What is the fraternity's responsibility to the men it pledges?
Dean Alderson will give a short talk on freshman training before the discussion. The scholarship chairman and an alternate from each fraternity are invited to attend the discussion which will be held in Room 306 of the Student Union at 7:30 p.m.
Rushing Topics
Rushing Topics
Discussion topics for rushing are
Discussion topics for rushing area:
1. Are there any areas of the rushing environment that need more consideration by the IFC?
2. Suggestions concerning the IFC rush_book.
3. What constitutes a well rounded rush program?
4. Were last year's rushing rules adequate?
Emil L. Telfel, IFC adviser and associate professor of journalism, will be one of the discussion leaders. The discussion will be held in Room 305 of the Student Union at 7:30. n.m.
The rush chairman and an alternate from each house are invited.
(Editorial, Page 2; rela t picture, Page 8.)
DALE BARHAM
SCOTT DOLE
Lawyers, You've Been Challenged!
Wear old clothes and appear at the east bank of Potter Lake at 5 p.m. Thursday for a tug-of-war is the challenge issued to the lawyers by the engineers in a letter to the University Daily Kansan from W. E. Franklin, Topeka junior, Engineering Association president.
The engineers said they have a "stout wire cable which we feel certain can easily withstand the steel sinews of twice any number of stout men and true that the Green Hall faction can field."
Humanities Talks Scheduled
Topics from "Keats and Yates" to values in liberal education will be discussed by Dr. Howard F. Lowry, president of the College of Wooster, Ohio, and Humanities speaker, before classes and faculty discussion groups today, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
He will give the Humanities lecture at 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Students and faculty members may attend the class lectures.
The schedule:
topic, "Keats and Yates," 2 p.m.
Today*10 a.m. Fraser 213, English 14, Harvey Lyon, instructor, topic, "Keats and Yates"; 2 p.m., Fraser 207, English 187, Prof. John Hankins, topic, "The Paradox of Tragedy"; 3 p.m., Fraser 213, English 82, Prof. Hankins, topic, "Science, Technology, and Liberal Education."
Tuesday—10 a.m., Strong 229, informal discussion about objectives and values in liberal education with Dean George Waggoner and the administrative committee of the College; 11:15 a.m., visit with Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy; 2 p.m., KANU studios, recorded interview about "Argentine and Peron"; 6:15 p.m., Faculty Club, dinner with Humanities Committee; 8 p.m., Fraser Theater, Humanities lecture, topic, "Matthew Arnold—In 1956"; 9:15 p.m., Faculty Club, informal reception.
Wednesday—11 a.m., Green 105,
Speech and Drama 152, Prof. Lewin
Goff, topic, "Robert Sherwood";
noon, English Room of Student
Union, faculty forum luncheon, topic,
"The Mind's Adventure."
Student's Parents Killed
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kyner, parents of Joe L. Kyner, Wilson senior, were killed Sunday morning in a car accident near Lyons. The Kyners and three other persons were enroute to church when the car in which they were traveling and another car collided. Seven other persons were injured in the accident.
Dean Peterson To Leave KU For Similar Wisconsin Post
Miss Truman Is Engaged
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UP)—Former President and Mrs. Harry S. Truman today announced the engagement of their daughter, Margaret, 32, to Clifton Daniel Jr., a New York newspaperman.
"All I can say is that if you think this looks like something serious, you had better get in touch with my parents."
The wedding will be in Independence, Mo., in April. Mr. Truman said, adding that Mr. Daniel is employed as assistant to the foreign news editor of the New York Times.
Miss Truman and Mr. Daniel, 44,
returned to New York today, after
visiting his parents. When queried
by newsmen, Miss Truman quipped,
Mr. Truman's official announcement of the impending marriage of his daughter and Mr. Daniel came after the couple and Mr. Daniel's parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Daniel Sr. of Zebulon, N.C., hinted this morning that it "would have to come from Miss Truman's parents."
Newsmen also asked Mr. Daniel, a handsome white-haired man, if he asked Miss Truman to marry him.
"That is a rather personal question," he answered.
English Test Over Again
Pens were flying fast Saturday afternoon as 320 students worked on the spring semester English proficiency examination.
KU Model UN Assembly To Discuss World Problems
The papers will be graded as soon as possible, but no definite date has been set for the announcement of grades, Mrs. Natalie Calderwood, assistant professor of English, who was in charge of the examination, said.
All full time teachers in the English department will begin grading the papers this week. Each paper must be read at least twice.
Only two passing grades are required, while three F's are needed in order to flunk the examination.
The names of those passing the examination will be announced in the Daily Kansan. Those persons failing will be notified by the dean of their school.
College students from Kansas and Missouri will discuss current world problems during a model United Nations General Assembly to be held at the University April 13-14. Sponsors are the Collegiate Council for the U. N.
A library for pediatricians and physicians to children will be dedicated at the University of Kansas Medical Center at 3:00 p.m. tomorrow as a memorial to Dr. Frank C. Neff.
To Dedicate Library
"Colonialism" in such countries as French Morocco, Algeria, and Puerto
The delegations will come prepared to discuss the various issues from the perspective of the country that they represent.
Any campus organization or persons interested in participating in the assembly should call Phyllis Carter, president of CCUN, VI3-2050.
An international dinner will be held that evening in the Student Union. Foreign students at the University will provide the entertainment and a dance will follow in the Pine Room.
DEAN MARTHA PETERSON
The subject to be taken up the second day will be the "Control of Atomic Weapons and Disarmament." An open session will be held later that day.
Each college or university sending a delegation to the model session will represent a country. A total of 86 have been invited. If possible, a KU foreign student will consult the group representing his country
Rico will be the issue discussed during the first session in Green Hall Theater April 13.
Primary elections for the All-Student Council and class officers will be held April 11 and the general election on April 18.
Elections Set For April 11, 18
Applications of all persons seeking office must be filed with Jim Miller, Kansas City, Kan. senior and chairman of the ASC elections committee, by midnight Thursday, March 29. Class officer and non-partisan ASC candidates must pay a $1 filing fee.
A petition signed by 25 qualified voters is required of all class officer candidates. To be qualified to vote for these officers students must be in the same class as the person for whom they vote. Freshmen will vote for sophomore officers if they will be sophomores next year, and the same applies for sophomores and juniors. Graduating seniors will not vote for class officers.
Must File Petition
Persons seeking the office of ASC president or vice president but not associated with a campus political party must file a petition signed by 200 qualified voters.
For non partisan candidates for ASC Senate seats, a 100-name petition is required, or a petition of 40 per cent of the total qualified voters in Senate districts. The districts are the Schools of Education, Business, Engineering and Architecture, Fine Arts, Law, Medicine, and Pharmacy, the Graduate School, William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Non partisan House of Representatives candidates must file a petition signed by 60 qualified voters from their district. House districts are social fraternities, social sororites, and men's and women's dormitories, cooperative houses, professional fraternities maintaining houses, and students living in unorganized houses.
To Be Elected In Fall
TO BE Elected in Fall Freshman women's dormitory representatives and freshman class officers will be elected next fall.
All candidates who represent a political party do not need to file a petition. Their filing fee will be paid by the party.
All class officer and non partisan ASC caindicates must pay their own campaign expenses, but the political parties will pay campaign costs of their candidates.
For information regarding posting of campaign posters on the campus buildings, students should talk to Tom Yoe, public relations director, 222 A Strong Hall.
Miss Martha Peterson, dean of women the past four years, will fill the same position at the University of Wisconsin July 1, according to an announcement made in Madison today by Wisconsin U's president. Edward B. Fred.
Miss Peterson, a University alumna, will succeed another Jayhawk graduate, Mrs. Louise Fleming Troxell, class of 1913, who will retire after 25 years as dean of women at Wisconsin.
Miss Peterson is a native of Jamestown. She received the A.B. degree from the University in 1937 and the M.A. in 1943. After teaching mathematics at Stockton and Ellinwood, she returned to the University as an instructor in 1942. In 1945 she became active in women's affairs as secretary of the Panhellenic Association and two years later became assistant dean of women.
Miss Peterson was appointed to the student personnel commission of the American Council on Education last month. She is one of two National Association of Deans of Women representatives to the National Council of College Fraternities and Sororites and has been chairman of the NADW's committee on sorority affairs.
During her deanship, University students have been hosts to national conventions of both the Associated Women Students and the Independent Students Association.
As an undergraduate at the University, Miss Peterson was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Mortar Board, Pi Lambda Theta and Pi Mu Epsilon, honor societies in education and mathematics. As a graduate student she was elected to Sigma Xi, honorary research society. She is nearing completion of work for the doctorate degree in counseling and mathematics education from the University.
Debate Teams ToMeetAtKU
Mary Peg Hardman, assistant dean of women, said, "I think that it will be a great loss for KU, but I am very happy that Dean Peterson is pleased about her new position. It is indeed KU's loss."
Other members of the administration could not be reached for comment.
Debate teams from schools in nine states will meet at KU March 26-27 in the Fourth District Debate tournament.
The top five teams in this tournament will participate in the West Point National Tournament April 19-21. Winning team of this tournament will hold the title of National Scholastic Debate Champion.
Entrants in the district tournament held here is determined by the most outstanding records of individual teams. A committee from various schools in the district will compare the records and choose the teams. Ten teams will be chosen.
Colleges and universities from the following states are eligible depending upon their team records: Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
Weather
KANSAS—Partly cloudy south-
east, fair north and west this af-
ternoon. Partly cloudy tonight and
Tuesday. Warmer north tonight and
over state Tuesday. Low tonight 15
to 20. High Tuesday 40s east to 50s
west.