Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
53rd Year, No. 37
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday. Nov. 3, 1955.
Freshmen Elect Little President Of Class
shman, won the ninth election of his high when he was elected president of
Pat Little, Wichita freshman, school-college career yesterday he freshman class.
Little
Other class officers elected were: Richard Turpin, Kansas City, Mo. vice president; Kenneth Richardson, Overland Park, secretary, and Arthur Muegler, St. Louis, Mo., treasurer.
The men's representative to the ASC Senate is Rion Barta, Salina, a POGO candidate, and the two men's representatives to the House are Marshall Crowther, Salina, and Clayton Durr, Eudora, both POGO candidates.
representative to the Senate is Anne Hesse, Bartlesville, Okla., and to the House, Marcia Fink, Topeka, both AGI candidates. Representatives to the AWS Senate are Barbara Chadborn, Kansas City, Kan., and Eleanor Youngberg, Lawrence.
The women's
“There’s no secret,” he said.
“I merely enjoy people and hold my breath until that last vote is counted.”
Little, a political science major,
plans to make politics his career.
In all the political contests he has
entered, he has never lost.
As a Wichita East High School sophomore, he began his political career by being elected cheerleader and student council member. In his junior year, he was class president, cheerleader, and student council member. Senior offices included class president, it governor of Boys' State, and Boys' Nation secretary.
Chicago U. Dean To Lead KU Workshop
Mrs. Ruth O'Brien McCarn, assistant dean of students at the University of Chicago, will be leader of the annual Housemother's Workshop Monday through Wednesday.
She will speak at the all-women's day student convocation Wednesday afternoon on "Does It Matter?" The convocation will be at 4 p.m. in Fraser Theater.
The Housemothers' Workshop sessions will be in the Pine Room of the Student Union. Although the program is planned for KU house-mothers, guests will come from several other Kansas colleges, according to Miss Martha Peterson, dean of women.
Darby Lists Humphrey As GOP Possibility
DODGE CITY —(U.P.)— Republican national committeeman Harry Darby of Kansas today placed Treasury Secretary George Humphrey's name at the top of GOP presidential possibilities in case President Fisenhower does not run.
Mr. Darby, attending a Kansas GOP workshop here, also put Vice President Richard M. Nixon and State Secretary John Foster Dulles on his candidate list.
CORRECTION
Marjorie Fisher was listed erroneously as a queen candidate for the Lawyers' celebration in yesterday's Kansan. It should have been Mary Fischer, St. Louis junior, a member of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority.
Temperature Climbs Again
TOPEKA — (LF)— Temperatures dropped to low marks for the season in Kansas today, then promptly began to bounce back toward normal for early November.
The warming trend went into effect on a west-to-east basis after the mercury plunged to 15 degrees at Hill City, 18 at Russell, 19 at Salina and 20 at Goodland. The mildest minimum reported was 25 degrees at Pittsburgh and Concordia.
Afternoon readings in the 40's in the east and 40' s west are expected. Kansas highs Wednesday ranged from 36 at Goodland to 54 at Pittsburg.
It will be fair this afternoon, tonight and Friday. The weather will be warmer in the west this afternoon and over the state tonight and Friday. The low tonight will be in the 20's. The high Friday will be in the 60's in the east to around 70 in the extreme west.
3 Pep Rallies Due Tomorrow
Classes at 10 a.m. tomorrow are being dismissed early for a rally at 10:45 a.m. in front of Strong Hall. A car rally will begin at Strong Hall following the talks by two members of the football team.
At 6:30 p.m. a rally will be held at Carruth-O'Leary Halls before the team leaves to spend the night in Topeka. When the team returns Saturday, a car rally will meet it at the junction of Highway 40 and 6th Street.
MANHATTAN —(U.P.)— Kansas State College students will get a holiday next Monday if the Wildcats whip the Jayhawks Saturday. However, President James A. McCain said, if the Kansas football team wins, the holiday will be added to the Christmas vacation.
Far East Expert To Visit Campus Starting Monday
A. Doak Barnett, American Universities Field Staff Representative, will arrive Monday to speak to University classes and organizations about Far East and Chinese affairs. He will remain until Nov. 17.
Since he last visited the AUFS member colleges in 1952-53, Mr. Barnett has spent 21 months in the Far East and Southeast Asia writing a series of reports on economic, social, and political developments in Communist China.
Born in Shanghai, Mr. Barnett spent his first 15 years in China. He took his undergraduate studies at Yale University in the field of international relations and was graduated summa cum laudé in 1942. After wartime service in the United States and in the Pacific Islands as a Marine officer, he returned to Yale and took an M.A. in international relations.
Mr. Barnett joined the Institute of Current World Affairs in 1947 and spent two years in China. In 1948-49 he was in Peking during the Communist siege of that city, and he lived under Chinese Communist rule for about eight months.
Between 1950 and 1952 Mr. Barnett worked for the government in Washington and in Hong Kong. In Washington he was a consultant to the Economic Cooperation Administration, and in Hong Kong he evaluated the program of the United States Information Service.
In 1952 he joined the AUFS.
Career Panel Slated By Chemistry Club
A panel discussion, "So You Want to be a Chemist," will be held at 8 p.m. today at a meeting of the Chemistry Club in 233 Malott.
The panel will include Dr. Jacob Kleinberg, professor of chemistry; Dr. Calvin VanderWerf, professor of chemistry and Dr. Paul Gilles, associate professor of chemistry.
posed to be a fish of some sort.—(Daily Kansan Photo)
THIS IS A FISH?—Billie Bergen, Overland Park senior, ponders over the work of wrought iron art being displayed in the Union lounge as part of the Second Annual Craftsmans Show. The creation is sup-
Chancellors Issue Edict; Wildcat's A Problem
By JOHN McMILLION Daily Kansas Sports Editor
He's got a wildcat by the tail and doesn't know how to let loose. That's the sad predicament one University student finds himself in this morning. In his possession is the much sought Touchdown IV, mascot of Kansas State College, and his abductor is beginning to wish he had never heard of the wildcat.
"I don't know what to do with the thing," the catnapper said last night. "Pressure from school officials and the student council makes it such that I must return Touchdown IV. The cat will be returned but I'm not sure when I will be able to do it."
After a talk over the phone with L. C. Woodruff, dean of students, the catnapper decided against returning Touchdown IV at the game Saturday. He plans to return the cat but would not disclose when or how this will be accomplished.
"By giving it back prior to the game the whole purpose of bolstering the spirit at KU will be defeated. The team doesn't quit in the middle of a game so I feel that I shouldn't either. If I could be reasonably assured that the students would not misbehave I would still like to return it at the game. However, circumstances beyond my control prevent this.
Talks With Woodruff
When informed of the catnapers plans, Dean Woodruff said, "We're not about to deal with anyone through anybody and we can't guarantee amnesty to anyone until we know all the facts in the case."
When asked about the condition of the cat the catnapper said, "She's in great shape. As a matter of fact she's getting too frisky and we can't seem to handle her."
When asked about a story in the Kansas State Collegian which said the catnappers had called the zoo to inquire about what to feed Touch-down IV her abductor said, "It must have been someone else. We never called anyone to ask about feeding her."
K-State Attitude Congenial
The attitude at Kansas State seems to be one of congeniality. Neither President James A. McCain nor Dean of Students H. J. Wunderlich seems to be too worried about the situation. President McCain said basically a good spirit exists between two schools, which are such rivals.
Dean Wunderlich said. "We don't care whether we get the wildcat back or not but the zoo people would like to have it. The substitute cat we has is far more spirited and younger than Touch-down IV."
"I think our students expect the cat to be returned during the half," Dean Wunderlich said, "and as far as I know no great plot has been arranged which would cause trouble. The catnappers need not worry as far as we're concerned."
The catnapper still thinks the school spirit at the University needs bolstering and believes the abduction has raised spirit to the highest peak in years. He believes if it were anyway possible to go through with the original scheme and if the Kansas State students would recognize his motives, it would be a good thing for the spirit between the two schools.
By TED BLANKENSHIP Assistant Managing Editor. Daily Kansan
The chancellor said that the ruling is effective now and for the future.
Any University student caught in an act of vandalism will be immediately expelled. Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy told the University Daily Kansan today.
"We are through with overt dead endism," the chancellor said. "It's juvenile and it's delinquent."
The action came as the result of a three-day surge of vandalism on the University campus and at Kansas State College. Chancellor Murphy and James A. McCain, president of Kansas State College, issued a joint statement putting the edict into effect immediately.
The statement: "The raids on the two campuses prior to Saturday's game have caused serious destruction of property and have reached such proportions as to jeopardize the good relations that we cherish between our two institutions. A continuation of this vandalism simply cannot be tolerated.
"Any student identified as having participated in such actions on his own or any other campus, this year or in future years, will be automatically dismissed."
Action Applies From Now On "This action will apply from now on, not just for the game Saturday," Chancellor Murphy said. "This is an institution of higher education implying a degree of maturity, seriousness, and responsibility. We will not have this theft and defacement as manifest by the juvenile destruction of property."
The chancellor said anyone who resorts to the wanton destruction and defacement of property doesn't deserve the right to be in an institution of higher education.
"No one enjoys a good time any more than I do," Dr. Murphy said. "Healthy fun is a release that everybody needs. This should not be construed as a damper to good clean fun, but we simply will not tolerate the defacement and theft of property."
The chancellor stressed that the situation is not arguable, but is final.
All Types Of Vandalism Chancellor Murphy expanded the meaning of the statement to include all types of vandalism including the defacement of the statue of Jimmy Green by students on the campus. The ruling would also apply in downtown Lawrence he added.
"I don't feel (painting Jimmy Green) this is any great and noble tradition," Chancellor Murphy said. "And if the University apprehends persons, not students in the University, defacing or destroying property, it will prosecute them."
To emphasize the finality of dismissal, Chancellor Murphy said it means "you have attended your last class." The chancellor pointed out that anyone, by University rules, can petition for readmittance after one semester, and the petition may or may not be approved.
"Get That Cat Back"
On the subject of Touchdown IV,
the chancellor was equally emphatic.
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