Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, December 5, 1955.
53rd Year, No. 56
Need For Central Hospital, Penal Authority Cited
A Larned State Hospital psychiatrist told the closing session of the Conference on Criminal Responsibility Friday that Kansas needs a unified authority for its state hospitals and penal institutions.
Dr. James Hartford of the Larned staff said this central authority would clarify the role of the existing institutions and aid in separating the classes of offenders.
A person who has been declared "criminally insane" has no motivation to get well, Dr. Hartford said. "Get well to do what? Go back to Lansing? Back to court for sentence?"
Psychiatry is concerned with human behavior, said Dr. Jerome Hall, while the law is concerned with passing ethical judgment on that behavior.
Issues between psychiatry and the law arise from differences in elementary philosophical perspectives, an Indiana University law professor said earlier.
"It is difficult for psychiatrists to help the patient, when they have no role in saying what is to become of him."
Dr. Hall said the legal view of insanity and criminal responsibility is the result of hundreds of years of social experience. According to psychiatrists, he said, punishment is an emotional reaction only, the vengeance of an angry group. The legal tradition, on the other hand, is that punishment is the expression of the community's disapproval of harm doing.
Debaters Win Top Rating
University debaters received "superior," the highest rating, at a 15 school tournament at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Friday and Saturday. KU was the only school from which both the negative and affirmative teams were given this rating.
John Eland, Topeka junior, tied with Allen, Overcash of Nebraska for top debater. They had perfect ratings, Robert Kimball, Kansas City, Kan., junior, and Ernest Gibbons of Boston University tied for top extemporaneous speaker.
top expert in Eland and Kimball, the affirmative team, defeated Iowa, Missouri, and Michigan State, and lost to Northwestern. The negative team, Jack Gorelick, Kansas City, Kan., and Kenneth Irby, Fort Scott, sophomores, defeated Minnesota and Marquette and lost to Nebraska and Iowa.
The debate topic is "Resolved, that the non-agricultural in d u s tries should guarantee their employees an annual wage."
Equipment Dedication Held At Med Center
New equipment for the cardiovascular laboratories at the University of Kansas Medical Center was dedicated yesterday.
DEEN W. Clarke Wescoe of the School of Medicine, and Dr. Grey Dimond, director of the laboratories, emphasized that the diagnostic, research, and teaching equipment strengthens the possibilities of the laboratories in the heart and blood vessel field.
The equipment was given by the Haynes family as a memorial to Lacy Haynes, former manager of the Kansas City, Kan., office of The Kansas City Star.
-(Daily Kansan Photo)
Military Ball Queen
The Military Ball was climaxed Saturday night by the crowning of Judy Howard, Salina junior, as its queen.
(In the picture above Miss Howard is dancing with her date, Mark Nardyz, Kansas City, Kan. first-year law.)
Miss Howard, nominated by Pi Beta Phi, was crowned by Capt. James M. Elliot, commander of the Olathe Naval Air Station. Her attendants were Marcia Goodwin, Columbus sophomore, Kappa Kappa Gamma, and Jo Ann Benton, Overland Park sophomore, Gamma Phi Beta.
Miss Howard's military escort was Ralph Kelley, Marysville senior, cadet commander of the AFROTC unit. Miss Goodwin was escorted by Donald Johnston, Pittsburg senior, and Miss Benton by Jay Ochs, Wichita junior. Johnston and Ochs are cadet commanders of the Navy and Army ROTC units, respectively.
450 Frosh Women Visit Open Houses
Men Get Back What Was Theirs
Foster was acquired by the Endowment Association in 1943 with funds given by the late Oliver Jolliffe of Peabody to provide a scholarship hall for men. The surplus from the purchase of Jolliffe Hall was used to buy Foster Hall.
Male students at the University slowly are getting back from the women what is rightfully theirs. Last night 43 men moved into Foster Hall.
About 450 freshman women attended the Panhellenic open houses yesterday afternoon and evening at the 12 sorority houses on the campus.
However, housing emergencies kept women in those halls. Foster has been "temporary" women's housing for more than a decade. Jolliffe was women's housing until about four years ago.
On Dec. 2 and 3, however, the 35 women in Foster moved down Louisiana Street to the new Gertrude Sellards Pearson dormitory on the north side of North College Hill. Last night the men from "temporary" Sterling and Oliver halls moved into Foster.
Foster Hall, named for George O. Foster, University registrar for 43 years (1899-1942), is not a stranger to men, though. Before the Endowment Association bought it, it had been occupied by the Pi Kappa Alba fraternity.
Sterling and Oliver halls were being closed today.
Panel To Debate M.D.'s Education
Three experts will discuss "What Scientific Background Should a Physician Have?" in a panel debate sponsored by Phi Sigma biological society at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Student Union Ballroom.
Phi Sigma president Leland Keller said it is a controversial question among clinicians and educators.
The panel will include Dr. Vernon Wilson, assistant dean at the Medical Center in Kansas City, Dr. Kenneth Jochim, assistant dean of the School of Medicine at Lawrence, and Dr. Paul Roofe, chairman of the department of anatomy.
About 100 persons are expected, including the Phi Sigma membership and the freshman medical class. The public is invited.
'Plain And Fancy Party To Cost $4
Students may join a theater party going to see the evening performance of "Plain and Fancy" at the Victoria Theater in Kansas City Dec. 19. The cost, $4, includes the ticket and transportation. Reservations can be made at the office of Nat Eek, instructor of speech and drama. 2 Green, by Wednesday.
"Plain and Fancy," a musical comedy about a New York couple who move into an Amish community, stars Alexis Smith and Craig Stevens. ___
Dean Harold G. B.arr of the School of Religion was released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital this morning. He was admitted after suffering a heart attack a week ago Friday. He is convalescing at his home.
Dean Barr Out Of Hospital
He Works To Plan For KU's Future
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy predicted earlier this year that by 1970 enrollment at the University would approach 17,000 students.
Raymond Nichols
Senior Calendar Is On Sale At Bookstore
The Senior Calendar, traditional project of the senior class, is now on sale.
The calendars, $1 each, may be purchased in the Student Union Bookstore, Rowlands Bookstore, and in downtown Lawrence stores. Features of the books are a cover illustration of the Jayhawk mascot, and a portrait of the class queen.
With this expected growth the need for additional buildings and greater university expenditures go hand in hand.
Key figure in the plan for a greater university is a KU alumnus, Raymond Nichols, who has served as a chief adviser to chancellors at the University since he became executive secretary of the University in 1929.
Among his many duties is that of secretary of the University budget committee, which is responsible for figuring what legislative funds will be needed to finance the long range program of expansion.
Plans include new buildings for both academic and housing purposes and improvements of present University buildings. Mr. Nichols says the ten year plan will exceed $10 million.
He is also in charge of clearing all appointments other than faculty appointments at the University. These jobs are given to civil service examination applicants.
Mr. Nichols describes his job as "a general executive who handles almost anything the chancellor might assign. This includes everything from the budget job to acting as an intermediary for the chancellor."
Mr. Nichols, who was graduated with a masters degree in journalism in 1929 earned many honors as a student. He was editor of the Javhawker and The Daily Kansan and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Jane Hornaman, Leawood senior and chairman of the day's activities, said that she was pleased with the excellent turnout.
"It was enlightening for the girls who came," she said. "They got a good idea of what sorority life is like."
The women were taken through the living quarters of most of the houses, and they seemed impressed, Miss Hornaman added. She said they met women they had known before and many friendships were re-established.
The Panhellenic Council plans to have another day of open houses next spring, Miss Hornman said. A definite date has not been set. Refreshments were served twice during the day.
(An editorial, "Tea Formation Used At Open Houses," Page 2.)
Aviation Pioneer Is Dead At 69
BALTIMORE. Md.-U(J.P.)-Aviation pioneer Glenn L. Martin, one of the nation's largest airplane builders, died last night of a cerebral hemorrhage. He was 69.
A bachelor, he was graduated from Kansas Wesleyan University. He held honorary degrees from several universities.
Mr. Martin was stricken at his farm home near Rock Hall, Md., where he had been recuperating from a heavy cold and virus infection, according to his physician, Dr. W. Kennedy Waller.
Mr. Martin, former head of the huge Glenn L. Martin Co., which he founded just outside of Baltimore, had largely relinquished active management of the firm.
Although he was born in Macksburg, Iowa. Mr. Martin spent most of his boyhood in Liberal and Sanlina. Kan. It was here that he became interested in the principles of flight.
8 Attend Meeting Of Alumni Council
Eight University staff members are attending a three-day meeting of the American Alumni Council and the American College Public Relations Association in Excelsior Springs, Mo. The meeting ends tomorrow.
Speakers are R. Edwin Browne, assistant professor of radio; Thomas Yoe, public relations director, and Maurice E. Barker, executive secretary of the Greater University Fund.
Others attending are Irvin Youngberg, executive secretary of the Endowment Association; Fred Ellsworth, executive secretary of the Alumni Association; Richard Wintermute, Alumni Association field secretary; James Gunn, managing editor of the Alumni Magazine, and Miss Mildred Clodfelter, assistant secretary of the Alumni Association.
Weather
Increasing cloudiness today and tonight with rain or snow beginning extreme southwest today spreading over west and south tonight. Warmer extreme northwest today and west and north central tonight. High today 20s northwest to 30s southeast. Low tonight around 15 northwest to 30 extreme southeast.